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^^^g ^^^^^^^^^ HEro^^p^y' - ;?;."-'.'*?_,_?_-?-?-?---?-? ?|r^ -11,-K_, -r^t " "Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at. be thy Country's, thy God's, and Truth's."_THE TRUE SOCTHROS, Established june, 1866. H-^_-? + ? teen ~~ SUMTER. S. C., TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1883. _New Series-Yol. II. No. 34. '^^^S^^?^eTaMtut, or roofer will .which irjbaecrep?rrate ; sr3l bc togtortfacpab r:*ftr?Atf&&tta|r ^V??i?nn -vinr ? Ktiiflii} wine), 9C_r "got dp as il Iq)?. S&e I. looked io :ooe ten ont of the ven tured to basiuess the ?JSBF* opei? ' Fl wooao wit was at out of silence ; re you / said May , if we ?wHf t?'*our silver bot yt? aiid I were&ig " w' Chris totas fur sly to Ifce ebarg?n sod because 1 _-a*er<* vXrwexxovM at i^ocy ^^were to my spoken to Lacy to jour wife jost ^^?g^m^l Wheaton; and r^e.r ; and I threw the vigor and the in bis. It tat Tom were ?Si friends ; and at at! waa no draw jug back looked e? me i*at?!*? for arno at bim; theo bis Bp the ire. 't&obT j "he, speaki ng to himself. . I won-] -^.??quickly taning back 'Bo yon suppose she minded f?6$ <Bd she ?et np and go oat for ttosts word in reply V 1 asked, get her sensors, I believe/ said I langhof at him. 'It is taking sr a long time to find them/ I re? ?r she did mind it. If the quick flush in ber rqrjick look, first at yon and the choking at and the . nervons move da you would not have that shea roded it. Suppose ito yo_'Nonse_ee P and again as explosively as would yon have liked ; his bead slowly ; be was rthe 5re. F mid said to her, 'Non lively as before), 'how flited ?r rsaid you were no ra?wMr: Wheaton; 'bot John, a fellow can't a? the time bow he'll w_e, you know. If at home, he can't be freeanywiere. She ought not io be She knows I didn't /': ??> .- ? sa*d I, 'if any one else sc Jpwcf saying something when 'ri? mean anything, you'd get urine Jane over H than abe ^Totrold meas some ??lJf?****** ?*<^y what you ?x J&m thought what your wife I, ?ed blurted Height ft,wj|s nonsense/ said Mr. i'but JBo you alway* weigh your \ wfc?n talking with your wife, yo? were m a witness box bel Philadelphia lawyerV. > 4No maller what I do/ sai 'Perhaps I have learned a lesson to-night that will make me more fol hereafter. Of one thing ) Birre, Tom : if we were as caref our wives after twenty-five yea married life as we are of oar gi: courtship-.* ; Bot I did not finish my senti for jftst at that moment the door t ed and Mrs. Wheaton came, ii had barely time to notice that enc forgotten what she went for ; foi had no scissors in her hand? when Wjfeaton, iii hie warm, impu way? reached ont his hand, ca hers; drew ber to him, and i 'Lacy, my dear, Mr. Laicos here been giving me a regular going for speaking to you as I did jost i It was nonsense, yo?-know ; bi had no business to tell you so least in that brutal style.' She flushed redder than bef then stooped down ; brushed the : black hair from off his forehead; alass upon it ; thanked me wi ti ?yes : and thea said, 'I declare J got my scissors after all/ and slij out of the rossa again. - 'John,' said Mr. Wheaton, gi ing me by the band, 'I am tr obliged to you. ? remember I always had a sensitive soul ; I 1 der if I nave been pricking, it ] sharp words without knowing it these years. 1 think 1 have leal a lesson to-night which I shall soon forget/ \ 'I think I have learned one, t I replied.-Christian Union. A White House State Dinr - * <;_? How a Prwridential Banquet is ( dueted-ISique?e Observed in J cing the Guesis. A Washington correspondent -8 that the state dinners at the WI House are somewhat changed up President Arthur. Formerly the gi east room was not much used on th occasions, the guests being recei by the President in the blue par and thence escorted to the state ning, room. Npw, however, guests are received in the east ro< and spend some time there Def going, to the state dining-rot promenading si ow ly down the bri hall as they pass from the recepti room to the tables. The details of these state eve are quite interesting, and as your c respondent ha? recently bad oppoi nity of witnessing fhem, it may i be inappi opriate to tell bow it is do The table in the state dining-room the White House will seat, by ch crowding, thirty-six people. Tc then, is the limit of the number in ted, and usually lhere are not l< than thirty on these occasioi Where it is convenient to do so, many ladies as gentlemen are i M vi ti "though at diplomatic dinners, wh< all the foreign ministers here are be present, it is found impossible seat as many at the table as this pl would require, so that the rule is o followed. The table is usually very hat soatesy ornamented with, flowers huge floral design of some sort s Dearing as a center-piece and small ones near the ends. Two large g den candelabra qr branching candi sticks, holding perhaps a dozen cs dies apiece-reminding one ve much of the; pictures of the 'gold' candlestick" in the old family Bible occupying places on the table, one eitler end of the. floral center-piee These contain the finest of wax ca dies, which are lighted jost before tl dinner begins. Near the end of tl table are smaller candelabra with pc haps a half dozen candles apiec each having a little pink-lined shae at the top supported by a silver ro which clasps ?lie candle near the. bc tom. I The plates are placed 'right sic op with care/ about thirty iricln apart around the table. On each pla) the napkiu is laid, and on the napki the boquet of rosebudsand sometime lillies of the valley ; for the gentleme usually a single, half opened rose bu < j Beside loose are laid a card, one o each plate, and on it the name of th person who is to sit at this place. The head of the table on these o< casions is not at the end, but in th middle. The seat occupied by th President is half way up the side c the table, at which Ute guests entei The lady whom he escorts to dione sits at his right, and the honore guest on the eccasion sits directly oj posits the President, with his lad; on bis right. Those who arrange th table, and the ot der in which tb guests sit, of course, arraoge so tha gentleman and wife do not sit side b; side under any circumstances Fo instance, if Count Lewenhaupt shonh be delegated to escort Mrs. Secretar Candler to dinner it would be an un pardonable error to designate to Se eretary Chandler the second seat a the right of that occupied by Coon Lewenhaupt, for, as the count's part ner, Mrs. Chandler would occupy th< seat st his right, that arrangemen would bring Mrs. Chandler- and Mr Chandler neighbors. So that thc i person who arranges these features o the dinners often finds his task qnitt as puzzling as the 'fifteen-fourteen i brain-racker of a year or two ago. I When the arrangement for seating is completed, and each person ha? been assigned to his place, a card is prepared for each gentleman and placed in an envelope bearing his name. On one side of this card is a plan of the table, with each seat num? bered. On the other side is the name i of the lady whom he is to escort to ' the table, and the numbers of the seats ! they are to occupy. These en velopes are banded to the gentlemen as they enter by a gentlemanly usher named Allen, and as soon as the gentleman bas 'shed' bis outer garments he ex? amines his cards, curses or blesses the fates which have consigned him to an uncongenial partner for the evening, i and nies bim to the east room, where, i after paying bia respects to the Presi dent, he hunts up bis lady, and pre? pares for the evening. Meantime the Marine.band has taken its place In the vestibule. After a half-hour spent in conversa? tion iu the east room, the President gives the signal to an attendant, who passes it on to the band, which strikes up some appropriate selection, and the President giving his right arm to the lady whom be is to escort to din? ner, leads the way to the dining room. The others follow, each gentle? man giving his arm to the lady desig? nated by his card. The Piesident usually takes to the tal i the wife of the secretary of state. The promenade down the long hall to the dining-room is very slow, and is a striking and beautiful spectacle. The ladies, of coarse, are in evening costume-the handsomest that money and ingenuiety can provide-and the gentlemen in dress snits; the lights bril? liant, the ball Hned with flowers and tropical plants and the music entranc? ing. Arriving at the table the guests are seated in their order, and the dinner, which is n8unlly in twelve or fourteen courses, with a half dozen different wines, occupies fully three hours, and, it may be added, is good. That Bad Boy TELLS HOW BXS MA'S PERROTT BREAKS UP A PRAYER MEETING-HIS PA A PUGILIST. 'Too don't want to buy a good par? rot, do you V said the bad boy to the grocery man, as he put his wet mit? tens on top of the stove to dry, and kept his back to the stove so he could watch the grocery man and be pre? pared for a kick if the man should re? member the rotten egg sign that the boy put in front of the grocery last week. 'Naw, I don't want no parrot. I had rather have a boy fool around than a parrot. But what's the mat? ter with yonr ma's parrot ? I thought she would not part with him for any? thing.' [ 'Well, she wouldn't until Wednes? day night, but "how she says she won't have him around, ?nd I may have half l ean get for him, and I thought maybe he would about suit you/ and the boy broke open a bunch of celery and took out a few. tender stalks and rubbed them on a codfish to salt them, and began to bite the stalks, while beheld the sole of one wet boot against the stove to dry it, making a smell of burned leather that came near turning the stomach of the cigar sign. 'Lookahere, boy, don't you call this a disreputable place. Some of the best people in this towu come here,' said the grocery man, as he held up the cheese knife and grated his teeth as thoogh he would like to jab it into the youth. '0, that's ail right. They come here 'cause you trust. But you make up what yon lose by charging it to other people. Pa will make it hot for you the last of the week. He bas -been looking over your bill and com? paring it with the hired girl, and she says we havn't ever bad a prune, or a dried apple, or a raisin, or any cin? namon or crackers and cheese out of your store, and he says you are worse than the James brothers, and that you used to be a three-card monte man, and be will have you ar? rested for highway robbery. Bat you can settle that with pa. I like you because yon. are no ordinary sneak thief. You are a high-toned, gentlemanly sort of a bilk, and wouldn't take anything you couldn't lift. O, you keep your seat, and don't get excited. It does a man good to hear the truth from one who has got the nerve to tell it. But about the parrot. Ma has been away from borne for a week, having a high old time in Chicago, going to the tbrcatres and things, and while she was gone I guess the hired girl or somebody learned the parrot some newthiug to say. A parrot that can only say 'Folly wants a cracker' don't amount to anything. What we need is new style parrots that can converse on the topics of the day, and say things original. Well, when ma got back I guess her conscience hurt for the way she had been carrying on in Chicago, and so when she heard the basement of the church was being frescoed she invited the committee to bold the Wednesday evening pray? er meeting at our house. First, there were four people came, and ma asked pa to stay to make a quorum, and pa said seeing he had two pair, he guessed be would stay in, and if ma would deal him a queeu he would have a full band. I don't know what pa meant, bot he plays draw poker sometimes. Anyway, there were eleven people came including the minister, and after they had talked about the neighbors a spell, and ma had showed the women a new tidy she had worked for the heathen, with a motto on it which pa had taught her, 'A contrite heart beats a bub tailed flush/ and pa had talked to the men about a religious silver mine he was selling stock iu, which he advised them as a friend to buy for the glory of the church, they all went into the back parlor and the minister led in prayer. He got down on his knees right under the parrot's cage, and you'd a dide to see polly hang onto the wires of the cage with one foot and drop an apple core on the minis? ter's head. Ma shook her handker? chief at Polly, and looked sassy, and Polly got up on the perch and as the j minister got warmed up, and began to raise the roof, Polly said, *0 dry up.' The minister had his eyes shut, bot he opened one a little and looked at pa. Pa was tickled at the parrot, but when the minister looked at pa, as though it was him making irreve? rent remarks, pa was mad. The min? ister got to'Amen' and then Polly shook himself and said, ' What yon giv? ing as/ and the minister got up and brushed the bird seed off his knees, and he looked mad. I thought ma would sink with mortification, and I was sitting on a piano stool, looking as pious as a Sunday school superin? tendant before he skips out with the i bank funds, and ma looked at me as ' though she thought it was me that had been tampering with the parrot. Gosh, I never said a word to that par ? rot, and I can prove it by my chum. Well, the minister asked one of the sisters if she would pray, and she wasn't engaged, so she said with pleasure, and she kneeled down, but she corked herself cause she got one knee on a cast-iron dumb bell that I had been practicing with. She said '0 ray,' in a disgusted sort of a way, and then she begau to pray ' for the reformation of the youth of the land, and asked for the spirit to descend on the household, and particularly on the boy that was such a care and anxiety to his parents, and just then Polly said, 0, pull down your vest.' Well, you'd a dide to see chat womau look at me. She looked at ma as though she was wondering why she didn't hit me with a poker, but she went on, and Polly said7 'Wipe off your chin/ and then the lady got through and got up, and told ma it must be a great trial to have an idiotic child, and then ma was mad and said it wasn't half so bad as it was to be a kleptomaniac, and then the woman got up and sai d she wouldn't stay no longer, and pa said to me to take that parrot out doors, and that seemed to make them all good natured again. Ma said to take the parrot and give it to the poor. 1 took the cage and pointed my finger at the parrot and it looked at the woman and said 'old catara maran/ and the woman tried to look pious and resigned, but she couldn't. As I was going out the door the par? rot ruffled up his feathers and said, 'Dammit, set 'em up/ and I hurried out with the cage for fear he would say something bad, and the folks all held up their hands and said it was scandalous. Say, J wonder if a par? rot can go to hell with the rest of th e community ? Well, I put the parrot in the wood shed, and after they bad all had their innings, except pa, who acted as umpire, the meeting broke up, and ma says it is the last time she will have that gang at her house.' 'That most have been where > your pa got his black eye/ said the gro? cery man, as he charged the bunch of celery to the boy's pa. 'Did the minister hit him, or was it one of the sisters ?' '0, he didn't get his black eye at prayer meeting 1' said the boy, as he took the. mittens off the ste ve and rubbed them to take the stiffening out. 'It was from boxing. Pa told my chum and me it was no harm to learn to box, cause we could defend our? selves, and he said he used to be a holy terror with the boxing glove? when he was a boy, and he has been giving us lessons. Well, he is no slouch now I tell you, aud bandies himself pretty well for a church mem? ber. I read in the paper how Zach Chandler played it on Conkling by getting Jem Mace, the prize-fighter to knock him silly, and I asked pa if be wouldn't let me bring a poor boy who had no father to teach him box? ing, to our house to learn to box, and pa said certainly, fetch him along. He said he would be glad to do any? thing for a poor orphan. So I went down in the third ward and got an Irish boy by the name of Duffy, who can knock the socks off of any boy in the ward. He fit a prize fight once. It would make you laugh to see pa tell him how to hold his hands and how to guard his face. He told Duffy not to be afraid, but strike right out and hit for keeps. He was afraid pa would get mad if he hit him, and pa said, 'Nonsense, boy, knock me down if you can, and I will laugh ha ! ha V Well, Duffy he hauled back and gave pa one in the nose and another in both eyes, and cuffed him on the ear and punched him iu the stomach, and lam? med him in the mouth, and made bis teeth bleed, and then he gave him a side-winder in both eyes, and pa pull? ed off the boxing-gloves and grabbed a chair, and we adjourned and went down stairs as though there was a panic. I haven't seen pa since. Was bis eye very black?' 'Black, I should say so/ said the grocery man. 'And his nose seems to be trying to look into his left ear. He was at the market buying beef to put on it." '0, beefsteak is no account. I must go and see him and tell him that an oyster is the best thing for a black eye. Well, I must go. A boy bas a pretty hard time running a house the way it should be run/ and the boy went out and hung up a sign in front of the grocery : 'Frowy Butler a Speshulty.' Oldest Tree in the World. The ol J est tree in the world, so far as any one knows, is the Bo tree of the sacred city of Amarapoora, in Burmah. It was planted 288 B C., and is there? fore 2170 years old. Sir James Emer? son Tenuet gives reasons for believing that the tree is really of this wonderful age, and refers to historic documents in which it is mentioned at different dates, as 182 A. D., 223 A. D , and so on to the present day. 'To it,' says Sir James, 'kings have even dedicated their dominions, in testimony uf belief that it is a branch of the identical tree under which Buddah reclined at Unrumelya when be underwent his apothesis.' Its leaves are carried away as si reamers by pilgrims, but it is too sacred to touch with a knife, and therefore they are only gathered when they fall. The king oak in Windsor Forest, England, is 1,000 years old. Brotherly Love. A few days ago a stranger came to oar city from Aiken sick and emaciated wittf consumption. He made himself known as D. A. Wagner, from Jersey City, N.J. ?and asa member of Lincoln Lodge, Knights of Pythias. His brothers of Vigilant Lodge, this city, provided a place for bim in our excellent City Hospital, where he died and was buried by his order on Tuesday. Thc Knights gave him every attention, fur? nishing bim with necessaries and luxu? ries and visited bim daily during his sickness and bore the expense of his fojieral services. 'Tis pleasant to note tlfese acts of brotherly love coming fri>m those who bad never before met in life.-Augusta News, [Written for the Watchman and Southron.] A Chapter on Bees. PART THIRD. TRANSFERRING. Wben to transfer ? How to transfer ? are questions often asked bj those who have bees in the old box hives. The method is very simple. As to the time : a practical aparian may transfer with success at any period of the year ; but it is generally conceded that the period of fruit blossoms is the best, as in the early spring there are bat com paratively few bees, and little honey in the hives. When you have the new hive and all other appliances ready everythiog that you think will be need? ed-we will say : a fine saw ; a ham? mer ; a chisel to cat the nails io the old hive ; some thia strips of soft wood, a little longer than the depth of the frames; some transferring clasps, which are made of narrow strips of tin bent ioto shape over a frame, about an inch and a half on each side of it ; a wide board to lay the combs on, and some old table cloth or sheeting folded to place under the brood, to prevent their heads from being mashed. Now on so me warm, still day, when the bees are very busy, go to the en? trance of the old hive, and blow in some smoke. After the bees are arous? ed, which will cause them to fill with hooey sod become quiet, toro the hive up-side down and carry it a few feet away from the old stand, place a box over it that fits, as nearly as you can get, the tcp of the hive-any cracks that may be, yon can stop with what? ever is most handy at the time. Now with a stick or hammer, rap OD the lower hive for 15 or 20 minutes. The bees will fill themselves with hon? ey, and, with the queen migrate to the upper box, where they will closter. You may take an occasiooai look ioto tbe hive to see if they are all oat. Sometimes a handful or so may remaio oo the combs, maoy of which will be young bees, aod perfectly harmless, . oole8s pioched io some way. Theo they may remind yon that they don't like to be pioched. After they are io, set the box OD the old stand, leaving the edge raised for ventilation, as well as to let the bees that are out, coter. If other bees do not trouble, as they are not apt to, if busily engaged oo the flowers, you cao go oo with the work io the opeo air. If they do, you must go into some room where they cao't get io easily. Now, with the chisel cut the nails io one side of the hive, aod after loosening the comb take it off Take out the brood comb ; have your frames laid oo the cloth aod ready to receive it ; cut the pieces as near as possible to fit the frame ; fasten them io with your thin strips, by layiog one ou each side of the comb opposite each other, aod either tack them to the top aod bottom of the frame, or tie them to each other across the top aod bottom bar of same. You may wrap pieces of twine around them, or use your tin traosferriog clasps-in short, whatever plan your own genius may devise to get as much as possible of the brood comb, (that with small cells,) fastened in the frames. Have that containing brood kept to? gether. As each frame is filled, hang it in the new hive to get it out of the way of the next, aod so oo until you have all the worker comb fasteoed io. Now be sure aod place ali the frames containing brood, together-all thc empty frames to one side. Of coarse do not forget to pat io some comb with hooey io it to keep the colony from starving. Theo place the hive oo the old staod, raisiog the front a little ; lay a wide board, or a newspaper, (Watchman and Southron,) right io front of it, theo shake all the bees from the box, oo it. They will go in at once, and shortly he at work. Be sore aod clean up all honey that may have dropped around, aod do not leave aoything with hooey where the bees can get at it, as this will induce robbers, and perhaps cause the loss of your colony. Io a few days all the combs will be fasteoed to the frames. You may theo blow io some smoke, opeo the hive aod remove all the fastenings you had placed oo the frames, wheo the work will be done BEE-KEEPER. The Freckle-Paced Giri How She Entertained a Visitor while Her Ma was Dressing. 'Ma's ap stairs changing her dress,' said the freckle-faced little girl, tying her doll's bonnet strings and casting her eye about for a tidy large enough to serve as a shawl for that double-joint? ed young persoo. .Oh, your mother needn't dress up for me,' replied the female agent of the missionary society, taking a self-satis? fied view of herself in the mirror. 'Run up and tell her to come down just as she is io her every-day clothes, aod Dot staod oo ceremony.' *0h, but she baso't got on her every? day clothes. Ma was all dressed up in her new brown silk, 'cause she expected Miss Dimond to-day. Miss Dimond always comes over here to show off her nice things, and ma don't mean to get left. Wheo ma saw you coming she said 'The Dickens.' and I guess she was mad about something. Ma said if you saw her new dress she'd have to hear all about the poor heathen, who don't have silk, and you'd ask her for more money to buy hyam books tosend to 'em. Say, do the nigger ladies use hymn book leaves to do their hair up in and make it frizzy? Ma says she guess? es that's all the good the books do 'em, if they ever get any books. I wish my doll was a heathen.' 'Why, you wicked little girl, what do you want of a heathen doll?' inquir? ed the missionary lady, taking a men? tal inventory of the new things io the parlor to get material for a homily OD worldly extravagaoce. .So folks would send her lots of nice things to wear and feel sorry to have her going about naked. Then she'd have hair to frizz, aod I want a doll with truly hair, and eyes that roll up HkWDeacoo Sliderback's when he says amen oo Sooday. I ain't a wicked girl, either, 'cause Uncle Dick-you know uncle Dick, be's been out West and swears awful and smokes in the house-he says I'm a holy terror and he hopes I'll be an angel pretty soon. Ma'll be down in a minute, so you needn't take off your cloak. She said she said she'd box my ears if I asked you to. Ma's putting cs that old dress she had last year, 'cause she said she didn't want you to think she was able to give much this time, and she needed a new muff worse than the queen of the cannon ball islands needed religion. Uncle Dick says you oughter go to the islands, 'cause you'd be safe there, and the natifs'd be sorry they was such sin? ners if anybody would send you to 'em. He says be never seen a heathen hun? gry enough to eat you, 'less 'twas a blind one, an' you'd set a blind pagan's teeth on edge so he'd never banker after any more missionary. Uncle Dick's awful funny, and makes pa and ma die laughing sometimes.' .Your Uncle Richard is a bad de? praved wretch, and ought to have re? mained out West, where bis style is appreciated. He sets a horrible exam? ple for little girls like you.* 'Oh, I think he's nice. He showed me how to slide down the bannisters, and he's teaching me bow to whistle when ma ain't around. That's a pretty cloak you've got, ain't it ? Do you buy all your good clothes with missionary money ? Ma says you do.' Just then the freckle-faced little girl's ma came into the parlor and kiss? ed the missionary lady on the cheek and said she was delighted to see her, and they proceeded to bave a real soci? able chat. The little girl's ma can't understand why a person who professes to be so charitable as the missionary agent does should go over to Miss Dimond's and say such ill-natured things as she did, and she thinks the missionary is a double-faced gossip. The cotton manufacturers of New England have acknowledged their ina? bility to compete with the Southern cotton mills, and have appealed to the I railroads for help. ? committee of New York dry goods merchants, deal? ing in New England cotton manufac? tures, have presented a formal petition for a re-classification of domestics, which are now shipped as first class freight, on the ground that they were unable to compete in Cincinnati, Louis? ville, St Louis, and other centres of Western trade with the Sduthern man? ufacturers engaged in the production of certain classes of coarse cotton goods. The committee claimed that, because of their transportation facilities, and es? pecially because of tbe cheapness of transportation, the Southerntmanufac? turers of sheetings, and other like fabrics, are in a position to undersell the New England mills, and drive their products out of the market. In order to meet the competition of the South? ern mills, they want the railroads to give them lower rates, thinking that if the freight rates oo their goods now charged by the East and West trunk lines are lowered, they may be able to regain the trade they have already lost, and prevent further enroachment of the Southern manufacturers upon the terri? tory heretofore supplied almost exclu? sively from New England. The last issue of the Barnwell Peo? ple describes W. B. Cash's recent ex? ploit in Columbia, as follows * Mr. W. B. Cash of Chesterfield, the son of his father, the duelist and de? feated Independent candidate for Con? gress from the Sixth District, went to Columbia last Tuesday week in search of notoriety wbich he speedily found. I Filled, as to his gigantic person, with much whiskey, and as to his pockets, with two big pistols, he inaugurated a free lecture on election frauds, ic the office of the Grand Central Hotel. His auditors were the persecuted Fairfield Democrats who were standing their preliminary examinations before Com? missioner Bauskett on the charge of conspiracy to prevent the exercise of the elective franchise by sundry citizens of African extraction. Mr. James Herron, an Irishman, from Monticello, feeble and fifty-seven years old, took offence at the conduct of Cash and rather rough language followed. Her ron's friends informed Cash that Her? ron was under the influence of liquor and the proprietor requested Cash to change bis quarters. He started away but some one 'snickered' and Cash re? turned, renewed the quarrel with Her? ron, was called a liar and retaliated by striking the old man several severe blows. They were separated. Cash drew a pistol and called for another an? tagonist, and peace was not restored until a positive policeman captured and carried off the combatants. They were released and appeared before Mayor Rhett the next morning, Cash being represented by Messrs. Snyder and Willard. Cash and Herron were each fined $20 for fighting and an additional fine o? ?10 was imposed on Cash for carrying concealed weapons. From this sentence he appealed, and Willard and Snyder claimed that as a United States Marshal he had the right to bear arms and that they bad instructed him to carry pistols for bis own pro? tection. Cash flatly denied this and they claimed then that such instruc? tions were general. An interesting case will grow out. of this occurrence as to the powers and privileges of marshalls and their superiority over State and municipal laws. Cash was bound over by Trial Justice Marshall for trial at the next term of the court of Sessions, on the charge of carrying concealed weapons, E. M. Brayton becoming his surety. The officials refused to return the pistols to the son of the sand hills, and he went home, accompanied by an? other deputy marshal and armed with a lot of warrants for the democrats of Chesterfield. After getting into trouble Cash expressed regret for the attack on Mr. Herron, but his repentance came too late. A Taunton, Mass., woman relates that she recently sat beside another, a stranger to her, in an Old Colony car. As the train passed Quincy the stranger pointed to thc crowded burial place near the track and remarked in a complacent tone : 'I've got three of the best husband layin' there that ever woman bad*' A gen-ogian did fin? Upon a new mine? pie. : He swore that all th:* night Waa but within bin eye. That night he tumbled into bcd, Amid hie household gods, When lo!, across the counterpane S Crept fourteen decapods. ; 14 Crustacesn curses !" cried the sage, 44 Have I been taking tods ? " But, as he spoke, his pillow swarmed \ With tetradecapods. Poor man! the perspiration poos (The kind one never far.*), For now the head-board's hideous with Kine entomontracan*. He leaps, that geologian He strike? the cold, bare floor: Hia dream is gone, his mind restored He eats mince pie no more. UNIIAPPX JURDS. Poets may weep to learn from an or? nithologist who writes in the London Globe that bird life is far from idle hap? piness. Birds have all the "bad qualities of mankind. They are deficient in love for their offspring, and have no more conjugal affection than the traditional rover. Their moral nature is frequently depraved. They hiss and scold and swear, and exhibit terrible pugnacity. The majority of singing birds have the temper of wasps, and are apparently never so happy as when they are quar? reling. A fourth of their lives is spent in scolding and fighting. In their sing? ing season, which is also their time for mating and contention, severe pitched battles, fought between candidates for matrimonial life, are of continual occur? rence. The females fight furiously for the males, and when the contest is over the conquerors march on with the objects ci their choice, unless they should be met on the road by other viragoes and compelled to givo up their husbands by force. A male bird ?rill allow two hens to fight for him until one or the other of them is killed, and then with due humil? ity accompany the victor. At this period of the year the woods and the fields are the ecenes of desperate battles. Shrieks of triumph or defeat mingle with the love notes of the newly-mated. The very songs we hear at dawn of day are more the result of rivalry and ambition than of joyous thanksgiving, the feath? ered songsters being desirous of drown? ing the voice of others or of excelling them in vocal power in presence of the females. A CIRCUITOUS ROUTE. The Vermont boy who went down cel? lar for a pitcher of cider by way of Dea? con Perkins' trout-pond is not a circum? stance, as an illustration of the circuit? ous method, to the telegraph messages which were sent last winter from Peter? head to Aberdeen by way of Scandina? via. It bas always been supposed that the Vermont boy acted from choice, but the Scotch telegram took the rounda? bout course from necessity, for the hur? ricane and snow-drif ts had cut off all di? rect communication. From Peterhead the messages were first sent under the North sea to Egersund, where they were translated into Norwegian by seme of the polyglot clerks, of whom every con? tinental telegraph office of any import? ance can boast Thence they were dis? patched by Arendal to Christiana, and from the Norwegian capital to Gothen? burg, in Sweden. From Gothenburg they were forwarded to Newcastle, where they were "Englished," and then re? turned to Aberdeen by way of Edin? burgh, six hours after leaving Peter I head. IT was in the campaign of 1860, when Stephen A Douglas was running for President, and Beverly Tucker was one of his ardent supporters. They had dined in company, and the wine had flowed freely. Having changed Iiis seat near the close of the feast,- Douglas threw his arm affectionately around Tucker, and said, "Bev., when T am elected President, what shall I do for youf ' * 'Dong., " replied Tucker, "when you are elected President, all I shall ask of you will be to put your arm around me, and call mc Be v." WRITE PLAIS LT. The rejection of the manuscript of OD unfamiliar author is perhaps oftener ou account of illegible handwriting than ol lack of merit. There is. no greater tor? ture for an editor than to have to de? cipher a bad manuscript and the sense, especially of a poem, is frequently en? tirely lost in the tangled mass of wretched penmanship. Sir Francis Jeffrey knew so well the diiHculty oi forming a correct judgment of an article by a reading in manuscript, that, when lie sent in his first article after he had retired from the Edinburgh Review, he liad au understanding with Napier, his successor, that it should not l>e read till it appeared in the proof. A few years ago the editor of the Saturday Ii*:view . was accustomed to have every article which appeared as if it might be worthy acceptance put into type before deciding upon it, for, as Ciarles Lamb says, there is no such raw and unsatisfactory read? ing as an article iu manuscript The 5uu:e practice is followed bv the editor of Harper s Manazinv, it in said. Even authors of wide experience, like Thomae Moore and Macauley, were seldom able U? form a judgment of their own works until they had seen how they looked in j print. - Huston lin a ld. THE MAS' MU O HAS A I) Al LT. j Enough is as good as a feast for some ! men. A mau in Hartford, Ct.-prob- i ably a relative of Mark Twain-yearned I to run a daily. His yearning was satis- I ned. He run it three days, the last ruc j being into the ground In its obituary it says: "Our ambition to run a daih paper has been satisfied for the present. I We have b*d the experience. ? * * | If anybody on the Hill hears to-nighi any particularly sonorous snoring, thej may know thai it is an ex-editor of a de [ fun<-t .nty daily potting in a squari ! niHit's ?Wp once more." - ^^^BHMBHSMWi|HM!HBBBa9MaBB A NEW YORK paper says that thai j city lacks good water and good societj j raak* f??irlv nnmfnrtfthlo. j News and Gossip. Judge Aldrich congratulated the Georgetown Grand Jury last week upon the fact that there is less crime, partie*-, ulariy of an atrocious character, in that County than in any other County in the State. A fashion writer says :. 'Queen Vic? toria still wears the- same fashion of hoopskirt that was in vougue twenty years ago.' lt suits her, and she has a right to wear it. She is a Queen and rich, and can afford to wear any old thing that pleases her. Only the poor and weak-minded are slaves to fashion. A compositor who was puzzling over one of Horace Greeley's manuscripts sagely and savagely observed : 'If Belshazzar had seen this handwriting on the wall be would have been more terrified than be was.' The President will not consider the question of appointing a successor to the late Postmaster General until the lapse of a proper time after the funeral. The statute provides that a vacancy caused by the death of the bead of any department may be filled for a period of ten days by the officer next in rank in that department or by some other officer whom the President may especially des? ignate. If, however, at the expiration of that time the President is not ready to permanently fill the vacancy, he may, under the law as it is constructed, redesignate the same officer to act as head of the department for a further period of ten days. During the bombardment of Alexan? dria, an English gunner picked np a lighted shell that had landed on the deck of the vessel and dropped it into a tub of water. For this act of heroism he has just been presented with the Victoria Cross on a blue ribbon, worth about two-bits. We should think he might have been given a dol? lar. It is worth more than that to pick up lighted shells and throw them into wash tubs.-CJieek. The Mormons are persevering in their scheme to acquire political as? cendancy in Arizona as they have al? ready done in Idaho Five hundred families in Utah have just received orders to march to the Arizona set? tlements. This moving to Arizona has been progressing for years. Utah . is merely the Mormon oven, into which raw European converts are placed to be cooked into genuine ! saints. As the oven is filled up, the cooked saints are pushed out along the Kocky Mountains, north and south, and the vacant room in Utah is utilized for the cooking of more saints. Senator Van Wyck, shortly before adjournment of Congress, had passed . a resolution calling upon the Secretary * of the Treasury for copies of the vouch-?. . ers audited by the department of justice for special attorneys' fees since January 1, 1882. The principal object which Mr. Van. Wyck was understood to have in view was to ascertain the amounts that have been paid to the attorneys in the star route cases. The document ! containing this information has just been printed, showing an aggregate amount of fees paid to special counsel since that date of ?115,854. This does ? not include expenditures for fees of witnesses or other court expenses. The total amount to George Bliss is ?59, 069 ; total to Merrick, ?20,000 ; total to Ker, ?23.912 ; amounts paid Wells, Gibson, and Cook made up the ?115,854. Once upon a time a certain farmer god mad at the editor and stopped his paper. The next week he sold corn at 4 cents below the marked price. Then bis property was sold for taxes because he didn't read the Sheriff's sales. He was arrested and fined ?300 for going hunting on Sun? day, because he didn't know it was Sunday ; and he paid ?300 for a lot of forged notes that bad been adver? tised two weeks and the public cau? tioned not to negotiate them. He then paid a big Irishman, with a foot like a forge hammer, to kick bim all the way to the newspaper office, and there he paid four year's supscription in advance, and made tbe editor sign an agreement to knock him down and rob him if he ever ordered his paper " stopped again. Such is life without a newspaper. It is rumored that thc standard of admission to the South Carolina Uni? versity is to be raised to five feet ten inches next term. The Examining Board, consisting of Profs. M. J., and D., will admit no one to the Freshman Class who weighs less than 150 pounds or more than 20J pounds, and who cannot eat four square meals at Mess No. 3, and jump fifteen hours a day. Last year, owing to the laxity of the examiners, two young men were admit? ted to the Freshman Class, one of whom had studied Algebra;.the other of whom actually read one book of Ciesar It is needless to say that neith i er of these men can jump ; and the j scandal which their admission has ! caused, has led to a demand on the j part of the Trustees for greater j thoroughness in examining candidates in future.-?5. C. Collegian. The oldest and largest wine vault in London, that of a dealer, employs a man who is said to be thc most expert judge of beverages in the world. Ile is fond of exhibiting his skill for the amuse? ment of visitors. He blindfolds him? self, and four different kinds of sherry are poured into the same glass. He takes a mouthful and declares the com? ponent parts of the mixture, usually without a mistake. Then he experi ? ments with port, and is wonderfully ! successful. He identifies numerous champagnes, even to the year of vin? tage. When a glass of an American brand was submitted, however, he hes? itated, never having tasted it before, but said it was pretty good wine, with more brandy in it than it ought to have, and probably made from some northern grown grape. A sample of apple-jack completely nonpulssed him. 'Mamma, is the old hen going to be seutaway this summer?' 'No, Char? lie, but why do you ask ? 'Well, I heard papa tell thc new governess that they would Lav? a fine time when be sent the old ben away for the sum- ? mer.' Mamma put little Charlie to bed.