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*>'",^ .?^ ---V -. . ' Established April, IS50. "Be Just and Fear not?Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's, and Truth's." SUMTER, S. C, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1883. TBE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established June, 1866. New Series?Vol. III. No. 9. Publishing tion -~.$1 od ta- for a>! yertisinjr. or *?P- I ** as akt an4 i:4??^^'4w? one in aoy ^u?^5? .?Wted, to ;g>t -bargains. -vrare'w complete, embrac - general use. Special in to ptm&ftsefs. ZSe KUcU ?<trnsiSds consist of tat /aft useful articles, for oae xrttb paleat fire-proof bottoms, joi Wleak. ^Giewio- Tobacco, of Cigars, of va Be?&AJt Che thousand or single it of Pipes. w& WlHow Ware. IfoT^j^Bfcekets, Well Buckets, sb springs. ^ _ ?w'Twin Bed Springs, theatat the exceedingly low price is sofncieut to f *Se?j thesesprings to give sails* flous ' err Hand. for Stock. - * t do well to call nnd examine ^jKtioes. -*3toncg saved is money fite ef ^Aarge to any ^ATES. Sdotkb, S. G. Opposile^oo. 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Also io kegs .25 and about 4 gal Ssmoo, Sarsaparilla and r assorted, dozen hi ease. Botties, ease and finest quality and to at?.o<> perdozeo, for bottles if re 3m A ROMANCE IN THREE CHAPTERS. CHAPTER I. Although lie has been very cruel, her strong sense of justice wiU not allow his name traduced. [From the Colombia Register.] ?'KOT A BIPPUE." The Chester correspondent of the Charlotte Journal- Obs rver says: *4Politics are as quiet as a dead lobster in this State. There was a ripple some time ago over the manly declaration of Bon. S. Dibble that he intended to sup port Sam Kandall for the Speakersbtp. That- was easily seeu through. Dibble had consented to make the fight for Congress in the Charleston District when it was not even a forlorn hope. He was elected?how it is not necessa ry to say. Sinee that time the Legis lature has re-organized the districts so that it is an easy thing now to elect a Democrat. Mr. Dibble's services are no longer needed. He most stand aside and let some Charlestonian have the place. The News and Courier raised the very devil about Dibble's position, and all the country press that jeiy upon the News and Courier for uk? material to fill up their columns witb^ joined in the cry. The air was full, of the most sulphurous expletives. It really looked as if Dibble was about to betaken and lynched; when sud denly GedrgeJ). Till man, the old hero of Bdgcfieid, qulc^aunouced that be agreed with Dibbie/Suid intended to to vote for Randall too. Since then not a chirp has been heard. I ck't ex plain it. Can yen f Jy"~^ The true explanation of all this is that it is sot true either as to the motive assigned or the faet of "cot a chirp being heard." George D_ Till mao, however large and however true to the New England township system and the protection pc vy, is not a big enough man to squelch any South Car olina freeman in maintaining South Carolina doctrine and the life-long doc trine of the Democracy. This "want my-place" argument may suit Dibble and his abettors, but it won't take worth a cent with manly freemen. Be sides this, suppose anybody else does want to runrfor Congress in Mr. Dib ble's District. Has Mr. Dibble a life estate in the office ? Why, these people talk as if it is a personal grievance for any one to call a representative's vote to book ! How long* have South Caroli na freemen surrendered that rig i t, es pecially when that vote involves, io their opinion, a desertion of cardinal principles both of party and State ? Nor is it true that the Netcs and Courier *fagged" on this movement on Mr. Dibble which was followed by the country exchanges. If we are not mis taken, the: News and Courier, the Reg ister and the Greenville News moved together on this Dibbletry. If our memory serves us right, the Register moved off first, but we bad not the first idea that our contemporaries were not expressing their own independent views in whatever they chose to say in the premises: This thing is a mean fling at our weekly exchanges, who have too often differed with our Charleston con temporary to have the charge attributed to them of taking their cue from the News and Courier. The truth is our Charleston contemporary is of the same household of faith with the other jour nals of the State, is one of the leadiog papers of the country, and, as such, de serves the consideration of its country exchanges It receives this, and, as a rule, nothing more. The trick is to get up a cry io the country on Charles ton aspirants and the News and Cour ier as their exponent. It is an ignoble effort which will fail of its mark before the country constituents. Besides this, it was not Dibble who led the forlorn hope; but that gallant Charlestooian, Mike O'Conner.' And Major Barker nobly offered himself in the nominating con ven tion to make the race attheespense of his extensive practice, but gave way willingly as soon as it was understood that O'Conuer would consent to take the field. It was a Charleston man then who went in and won and Charles did her whole dnty in achieving the result. We are disgusted with these flings at Charleston on all occasions as if it was a crime to be a Charlestooian. But there is no man who can be elected in the district without the warm sup port of Charleston, and don't you for get it. CHAPTER II. He relents and smiles. f From the News and Courier.] The Columbia Register says the right thing, in reply to the insinuations of the Chester correspondent of the Charlotte Observer, and says it forcibly and well. It gives the News and Courier great pleasure to be in complete accord with the large majority of the Press of the State on the Tariff question, and none knows better than the News and Cou rier how entirely independent, in opin ion and utterance, the country newspa pers are. We thank the Register for the kindly way in which it speaks of the News and Courier, and for the re take it gives an evidently mischievous tod ill-informed writer. CHAPTER III. Denoument [From the Greenville News.] WHITE-WINGED PEACE. Achilles and Hector Marching with Locked Shields?A Love Story in One Chapter. During a recent truce in the some what bitter war of several years dura tion between our esteemed contempo raries at Charleston and Columbia they segan to regard each other with soften ed glinces. The lurid light of ferocity laded gradually from their eyes and was succeeded by the beautiful brightness >f dawning affection. They approached each other with ner increasing celerity and ardor, and ritbin the last few days rushed into ?ach other's arms in an impulse of on joBtrollable, deathless passion. Our | { esteemed Charleston contemporary has pressed our esteemed Columbia contem porary to its heaving bosom with deliri ous emotion; the voluptuous form of our esteemed Columbia contemporarj is thrilled with the ecstacy of perfect love; their eyes are fixed together, exchang ing love's sweet recompense of still in creasing love; their bands are amor ously and softly toying with each other's locks?the same hands that so recently reached among the same locks for the scalps to which they are attach ed. Our esteemed Charleston contem porary bends gently down and seeks the ripo and fragrant lips of our esteemed Columbia contemporary from which the last vestige 6f chewing tobacco has been carefully removed Those lips being spread in a fond smile, offer our esteem ed Charleston contemporary the delight of a kiss wide as the portals of the beau tiful hereafter and somewhere in the neighborhood of eighteen inches long. Vows of never dying devotion are being softly exchanged in black faced bead letter; gentle, pleasing dalliance is being indulged in with leaded long primer and minion type; soft caresses are being swapped on even terms in solid matter. The Daily News has softly stepped to the side of the long estranged, happily restored, lovers, and with one hand clasped in the Hand of each silently invokes a blessing upon the consummation of its hopes. While the brazen doors of the journalistic tem ple of the Janus softly swing shut with a gentle, musical claBg ; while the hush ed: and awe-stricken populace stand and gaze with uncovered heads, and hearts beating peace and love respon sive to the influences of the hallowed hour; while the darkness slowly falls about us in the golden haze of the In ojaTfrJ^ujnjmer twilight, and the band plays slow music on a very low key, we stand, we three, united and knit togeth er indissolubly by the pure and holy blood of a tariff for revenne only. Per sons desiring to weep will please step around behind the house and not disturb tho ceremonies. But, esteemed contemporaries, we must not linger now to exchange kisses and passionate embraces and vows. The' mature, deep, permanent devotiou of our Charleston esteemed must be folded up and placed in its rear coat pocket for the present; the youthful ardor of our Columbia esteemed will have to be soak ed if it cannot be suppressed otherwise. The victorious wreaths must be remov ed from the bruised armor and the Reg ister must cease for a time to caper nimbly to the lascivious pleasings of the News and Courier leadiog editorial ar ticles. You must add many wrinkles to your fronts, for the foe is wily, iuso lent and strong. Go forth gloriously, 3s tee med contemporaries. Euter the ;anip of the reluctant Tillman and bring bim forth bound hand and foot and sworn against protecting anything ex sept bis own character. Pluck the un wholesome Dibble from our political tree, where he hangs like immature and infit fruit, and cast bim to the political winds, which conoot by any possibility be regarded as the winds of heaven. Smith the Randalite press hip and thigh ffith the keen swords of your wit; crush hem with the weight of your ponderous ogic and bury tbem deeply beneath nasses of United States census statis tics. Ours shall be the glorious pri fliege and duty of abiding with the imbulance and baggage trains and singing your glorious deeds. With Gog and Magog united who can ?ithstand them ? With; Achilles and Eleotor marching with locked shields * hat need we fear? With Sullivan and rug Wilson standing together what broken nosed protectionist can stand be ere them without being knocked out in .he first round ? With tears of mutual iffection coursing down their rugged iheeks, and the fires of mutual love and levotion burning within their manly bosoms, are not our two esteemed con temporaries terrible as an army with manners; more to be feared, even, than i legion of inhabitants of tue State Souse armed with stove fixtures and general hardware? Voting Bonds. A town up in New Hampshire which wanted to build a highway bridge had heard so much of issuing bonds to pay for such improvements that a representative was sent to Bos ton to inquire how it could bo done, rod to arrange for it. He visited a broker and stated his case, and the broker rubbed his hands and replied : 'You did quite right to come tome, [n the first place, you must vote to bond the township or county. If you think there iB any danger of the pro ject being defeated I can mn in 150 or 500 railroad laborers to help carry it/ 'If you want a $3,000, bridge vote bonds to the amount of $6,000. You and I can manage to gobble up any thing left over/ 'Well, ideclare!' 'I'll place the bonds for you for a commission. Then I'll recommend a brilge builder, and make him come down. Then he will sublet for a bonus, and by dodging specification in odds and ends, and using putty to iiide the cracks, I think? 7 'I swar I but I won't listen?I won't?1 won't?I won't'shouted the representative, and he rushed out and took the train for home to report that Lhey had better patch up the old bridge and make it do for a year or two more.'?Wall Street News. mm * * ' ? - A Naughty Parrot Makes Mis chief.?A parrot has been the means if presenting a young lady who lives lear Boston in a very peculiar light, i his young lady sits on the lower [rout piazza with her work or book a arge part of the time, but was out of :ovm for a week, during which time a carrot had been hung up iu the up >er piazza, a fact of which she was ; gnorant, as she is a little hard of learing. Resuming her old seat on ler return, she became very much i innoyed at the attention of the pas- ; ;ers by, especially the young gentle- i neu, and is astonished to learn that : he parrot hidden from her, has been i tddressing every body in the street i vith the free and easy invitation, j Kiss me, kiss me quick V given in \ >crfect imitation of the human voice, ; BTemarkable Families. About twenty years ago the spec tator in the gallery of the national House of Representatives might have seen, sitting side by side, three mem bers who bore a decided, though not close, resemblance to each other. They were three brothers?Israel, Elihu and Cadwallader Washburn. It was noteworthy, too, that the three represented different States in the Union. Israel came from Maine, the parent State of all the brothers. Elihu was sent by Illinois. Cadwallader was a member from the younger and more western State of Wisconsin. All three of these men afterward achieved yet higher distinctions in public life. Israel became governor of Maine. Elihu, who had secured General Grant bis opportunity for fame, was made that President's first secretary of state, and during the pe riod of the Franco-German war was our minister at Paris. If we mistake not Cadwallader, before his death, was governor of his adopted State. These were uot all the members of this noteworthy family of Maine-bred boys. A still younger brother was afterward a member of Congress from another Western State, and yet other brothers occupied positions of im portance and trust. Our free republic has witnessed more than one family in which talent and eminence were hereditary. We do not believe in those hereditary distinctions and privileges which per tain to the nobilities in Europe. Jf the son of a famous father becomes himself famous in this country, he must do so by superior qualities of his own, and not. by a reflection of the paternal greatness or by right of birth alone. The most remarkable instance of the display of high mental qua1 ilies in an American family through seve ral generations is that of the Adams es. The elder John Adams and his 6on, John Quincy Adams, occupied the presidential chair, in each case, of very conspicuous personal ability. Charles Francis Adams, in the third generation, was long a prominent candidate for the presidency, and was one of the ablest statesmen this coun try ever sent to represeut it at the British court. In the fourth generation three sons of Charles Francis Adams have made a national reputation by brilliant in tellectual qualities of their own, and one of them has already been serious ly thought of by his party as a caudi date for the vice-presidency. Another noteworthy American family is that of the Bayards, of Dela ware. Three generations of Bayards have sat successively as United States senators from their little State ; and the present senator, perhaps an abler man than either bis father or grand father, is a couspicuous candidate for the presidency. It is a somewhat striking fact that usually, in these cases of inherited ability, the sons have been children not only of talented fathers, but of mothers of sterling and superior char acter ; and sometimes the brilliant son has shown qualities inherited rather from the mother than from the father. The elder Adams' wife Abigail Adams, was a noble type of the New England matron in the days of the Revolution. The wife of his son, John Quincy Adams, was one of the most brilliant and amiable women who ever presided over the social amenities of the White Iluuse. In each of these cases the sou certainly derived much of his talent from his mother.?Youth's Companion. The Dignified Family. Mr. Crowder, Mrs. Crowder and four little Crowders went off on the excursion to Sugar Island yesterday. It had been the talk of the family for a week. Each child had been taken into the bath-room and washed, scour ed and sand-papered down. Each one had received twelve lectures on the art of behaving himself or herself after getting aboard the boat. - Each one had been told about 5 fly times what to reply if old Mrs. Clamshell felt gracious enough to ask after their health, or if that bad Brown boy had one of his streaks on and made up faces at them. Every time the subject came up Mrs. Crowder called for silence and said: 'Now you children pay strict at- i tention to what 1 say. You can't have any ice cream or lemonade or peanuts. You can't run up and down on the boat. You must not make a racket. Yon must not ask your . father for pennies. You must not I keep talking to me: If Henry or ; William asks to go fishing or in swim- < ming they will get a whipping. If Lucy or Jennie sits down on the grass I shall punish them.' The six sat in a uolemn row as the boat started out. Mr. Crowder had one eye on his two hoys and the oth er squinted down the river. Mrs. I Crowder had one eye on the two girls i and the other flashing at a boy who I had harvest apples to sell, and who i was trying to get near them. Crow- i der had his mind made up that if one , of his boys attempted to find out what a steamboat was like, or hinted at fruits or refreshments, or desired to . mingle with other boys, he would i squelch him on the spot; and Mrs. i Crowder was fully determined to let I her pinches be felt the very instant either of the girls forgot her dignity and wrinkled her stiffly starched dress. Two or three hundred children romped over the island, played 'tag,' picked up pebbles, climbed trees i and raced alter grasshoppers, but Crowder sat on a log and talked poli tics ; Mrs. Crowder sat on a camp- i stool and talked of the poor heathen, ; and the young Crowders sat on the edge ofa plank seat and kept their j mouths in proper pucker to reply 'yes I ma'am' to every old grub-hoe who i asked if they were having an awful < good time. When they returned last 1 evening, not a hat had been lost?not \ % button gone?not a shoe-string broken?not a particle of starch miss ing. They had that same solemn pucker, and Crowder and his wife had that same awful parental dignity. Not one had even the faintest trace of a smile when a newsboy standing at the gang plank shouted out : 'Here's a family who've been off to bury their dead grandmother?make way for the mourners.'?Exchange. Getting Rid of Stumps. Southern Cultivator No plan of general application and not expensive has been yet perfected. Several have been recommended and used with paitial8uccest?. Stump pul lers of sufficient power to deal with large stumps are expensive, heavy and hard to handle, and not 6uited to the average farm. We have never known a stump-puller used at the south which gave satisfaction. One of the sim plest (and therefore best) contrivan ces for the purpose is a long stout lever and a heavy chain, like a 'log chain,' but stouter. The hook is hung to a stout root or other conve nient point ot the stump, and the big end of the lever fastened to the ring of the chain ; a strong, f '.eady team at the other end of the lever pulls it round aud thus twists the stump out of the ground. The longer the lever the greater the power, and the longer it is the stouter it must be. For con venience of carrying it from gtump to stump the two ends are made spin dle shaped and two wagon wheels fitted on these. A mule at each end can readily move it from point to point.. A time should be chosen for this work when the ground is wet, as the roots pull out more easily then. Small stumps are twisted out pretty easily. In case of large ones, as mai>3' of the big roots as can be got ten at 6hould be cut before working the lever. Another method which has been recommended and claimed by some to be quite useful and not very ex pensive, is to bore a hole or holes in the stump and insert some combusti ble substance, as saltpetre, or kero sene, which will readily diffuse itself through the stump, and make the lat ter itself so combustible that it may be readily burnt up. We doul^not the practicability of this method, whether the expense is small is ques tionable. It is not an easy matter to bore deep, large holes in solid stumps. Another method which has been talked of a good deal recently, is to blow them to piecies with dyna mite. This, we think promises well ; but we are not sufficiently familiar with the methods of procedure to ex press any very decided opinion or give modes of working. In time, possibly those who manufacture and work the dynamite may contract to blow up stumps for one or more farms. * A Mexican Adventure. I wanted to get a box of liver pills, as the climate of Vera Cruz is slightly tinctured with malaua at all seasons of the year, aud I was anxious to car ry home as good a liver as I had with me when I left the white settlements. We found a drug store with little difficulty, and upon going iu the first object which attracted our attention, aside from the distinct odor of 19,000 different smells, was the apperance of the drug clerk. He was a long necked young man, with resplendent ly oiled hair, and eyes like a docile gazelle's. 'How am I to make the Mexican heathen understand what I want V I asked Capt. Wicks; 'and, by the way, what a telegraph pole of a neck he has got on him. Looks like a giraffe.' 'Or a swan, suggested Wicks. 'See how he is greased,' 1 obser ved, 'just as though he was ready to be swallowed by an anaconda.' 'He does that,' said Wicks, 'and what a magnificient sign he makes for an apothecary shop.' 'What champion he would m;ikc to run a sausage stuffer,' I continued, 'but how am I going to get the pills?' 'Ask for pildores,1 said Wicks; 'that is Spanish for pills.' I kuew that hombre meant man, so I waltzed right up to him aud said : 'Hombre pildores V 'All right!'said that blessed drug clerk, with a neck like a barber's pole; 'what kind will you have? Ayers', Jayne's, Brown's liver pills, compound cathartic, or Tutt's great and only liver pills on earth? We have them all, and you can sample them if you like; and if I ever get you off by yourself, you tallow-faced, kuock kneed galoot from the United States I'll hammer more manners into i you in five minutes than you have ac quired in all the rest of your previous life. I know what kind of pills you j need,' ho howled, being thoroughly j aroused, and before I knew what he j was going to do, he flourished a re- ! volver over his head. lie was mistaken, however, as to j that ^eing the kind of pill I wanted,! so we strolled out so rapidly, in order i to prevent his forcing his wares on 08, that yon might have played | checkers on our coat tails.? Texas j Sifhnrjs. He Had Au, the Qualifications for j a Drummer ?A well-known young j man of this city applied to a promi nent wholesale firm for a situation as travelling salesman. 'Have you ever had any experience ! in thebusincsK V asked the merchant, j: 'Well, not exactly.' 'Have you ever travelled much V J i 'No, sir.' 11 'Do you intend to follow this for a j i 3teady businos V i 'I can't tell, sir.' 'Then why do you wish to become j; i drummr-r, and why do you think you would be a success as one ?' Because I've more 'check' than a ?overnment muie. I am the biggest liar on earth, 1 am on the 'mash,' I am chuck full of smutty yarns and 1 uan play poker and compare a cata logue of crime with the worst of them.' He got the sit. The Best Way to Jump Prom a Railroad Car. A writer iu the Scientific American recommends the practice of jumping forward from railway cars, in the di rection the car is goiug, when one has occasion to get off a car while it is in motion. His theory is that a mau's legs and arms should act the part of the spokes in a wheel; iu oth er words, it is the theory of turning a summersault; or as the boys used to call it, turning one's self into a cart wheel. He says, moreover, that rail way men always jump forward, which is a very great mistake. Now, then, let me tell our friend how to jump from a car. First, we will suppose it to be the ordinaiy horse car, going at the rate of six miles an hour. Stand on the lower step, on one foot, holding the rail by the left hand, the right foot swinging clear, facing forward of course.. When the car reaches the spot you wish to get off, let go with the hand, give a quick spring backwards, and you come down with both feet, standing stock still. This same result would be achieved on a steam car, runuing thirty miles an hour, providing one could spring backward with force enough to overcome the forward mo tion. Years ago I knew a man who made it a practice to jump from a passenger train running at a speed of twenty-five miles an hour. He lived in Hyde Park, near Chicago, and never cared whether the train he was on stopped or not. He . would go to the rear end of the rear car, gather himself up on the buffer like a coiled spring, and shoot himself off back ward. Better than any theorising is the actual experiment. Let any person obey the directions given here for jumping from the horse cars and he will never try any other method.? Democratic Watchman. No Show for Him. All hands had been telling long stories of what they had done and would do in the event of a smash-up on the road, with the exception of one little man, who had listened attentive ly to the narratives, and taken them all nrwrthetrt a-word. 'Ever been in an accident V asked the patriarch of the party, noticing the little man's silence. 'No,' replied the little man quietly. 'Then you have no idea what you would do in the fracas V continued the patriarch. 'No ; I don't replied the little man, sadly. 'With all you big heroes blocking up the doors and windows in your hurry to get out, I don't ex actly know what show a man of my size would have I' And then there was a deep silence, so deep you might have heard a cough drop, and the little man was troubled no more about the possibility of acci dents.? Wall Street Neics. Cure for Consumption. A correspondent writes to an ex change as follows, about the leaves of a well-known plant, and a prominent physician recommends its publica tion : I have discovered a remedy for consumption. It has cured a number of cases after they began bleeding at the lungs, and the hectic flush was already upon the cheek. A *?r try ing this remedy to my own satisfac tion, I have thought philanthropy re quired that I should let it be kuown to the world. It is the common mul lein steeped strongly and sweetened with coffee sugar, and drank freely. Young or old plants are good, dried in the shade, and kept iu a clean bag. The medicine must be coctinued from three to six mouths, according to the nature of the disease. It is very good for the blood vessels also. It builds up and strengthens the system, in stead of taking away the strength. It makes good blood, and takes In flam oiation away from the lungs. It is the wish of the writer that every periodical in the United States and Europe should publish this recipe for the benefit of the human family. The derivation of the Word Texas is involved in a great deal of obscurity. There are three or four different ac counts of how the word originated, but they are all more or less improbable. Au old Texan imparted to us an entire new legeued last week. The legened is surrounded, so to speak, with such a halo of probability that we think the mystery is solved at last. Many of the old settlers of Texas came to this, then unnamed, regiou because they had to leave home or be hung. They loved their former homes, nevertheless, and were oftcu homesick. On such occa sions, imitating the children of Israel, they were wont to hang their harps on a mcsquite tree, und warble a plaintive ditty to the etVect that When erery .land forsakes us, This is the land that takes ng, From "takes us" to Texas is an easy flight of the imagination.?Texas S'ft ings. -?- . ^ - 'How does a man keep warm at the North Pole ? asked one of the little Sandpipers, as he came home from school the other night. 'I suppose,' said his father, grimly glancing to ward the kitchen, 'that he marries one of your grandfather's daughters before he starts up there.' 'Aud even then,' said a shrill female voice from the kitchen, 'he doesn't always have sense enough to go there.' The boy didn't exactly understand the explanation aud its commentary, and he wasn't old enough to know just what happened, but somehow he felt, it, would be plcas anter and safer for him to play on top of the roof of the house for a little while. By the use of a Brush electric uia [ .hiue and the use of two blocks of car bon to be inserted into a cask of liquor, it has been discovered how age can be given to whiskey in a few hours. It is a California discovery and is being fully tested at San Francisco. News and Gossip. The Panama Canal has cost ?20,- j 000,000 of the ?30,000,000 subscribed. De Lessens promises to complete it by 1888. The King of Siam beats New York brokers in trade dollar speculation. He is buyiug tbem at ninety in Singa pore, and uiakiug each dollar into two Siamese ticals, which pass at sixty cents each. The alleged 'planting* of distilleries in Pickens county has been investigated by.Revenue Agent, Powers, sent from Washington for that purpose. He as certained that some of the deputies had been guilty of setting up these stills in order to get the reward. Dr. Ensor is in no way conuected with the frauds There were ouly three iustances where frauds were attempted. Two gentlemen from the North, whose names we have not learnt, says the Georgetown Times, arrived by the steamer Planter on Wdenesday, the purpose of whose visit here, we under stand, is to make arrangements for start ing a paper factory. This is an en terprise that would be sure to prove successful here, and we hope it will be started. 'Two, gallons of good whisky were poured down the throat of a captured young alligator in Mississippi to see how it w< uid affect its orgauization. He uttered a 'hie' or two, wanted to fight aud old scow, giggled in a silly manner, aud finally rolled over and weDt to sleep. Over 100 tramps' and citizens stood about aud euvied him." Prof. II. Warner made a balloon ascensiou at Pittsburgh ou Thursday. When the balloon reached 7,000 feet it collapsed with the man still clinging to it descended with frightful velocity. Suddenly the balloon turued over aod a parachute was formed. This checked its descent aud the professor was deposited on a small frame dwelling from which he fell to a yard. He was slighily bruised but much overcome by the escaped gas. The thrilling scene was witnessed by*L0,000 people. The growth of population, at least in this country, is no measure of the growth of the activity aud the business of the country. Fifty years ago New York was as large as Cincinnati, aud more chan half as large agaiu as Detroit Cleveland or Louisville. But only one clerk v?as needed in the post o?<flMta| that city to distribute 'the great Se|^H em mail,' the Northern mail and R?e Eastern mail as fast they came in. in 1836 there was talk of hiring two assis tants to this clerk. The population of the city, like that of the whole coun try, has increased five or six times but its activity aud enterprise, its com munication, its transportation aud business, have increased a hundred fold. The Northern Pacific Railway, just completed, runs from Lake Superior in the east to Puget Sound in the West? from the twin pioneer cities of the Northwest up through the dense forest of Northern Minnesota, across the won drous wheat farms and fertile plains of Northern Dakota, over the boundless prairies and bonanza mines of Montana, past the landscape glories of the Yellow stone, spanning the gulches and canons and scaling the rugged snow-clad peaks of Idaho, Washington and Oregon, on to the Willamette river and the Pacific Ocean?stretches the great unbroken line of steel aud iron, a 2,000 mile highway, which, after many years, throws open the terra iucognita of the great northwest as the world's largest and most promising field for settlement and cultivation. From a learned and dignified ex change the following is taken : A rib measuring three and one-half feet in length was found recently on . Stepto Butte, Idaho. It is doubtless from the body of one of an extinct species of gi gantic herbivorous mammalia that roamed the hills thousands, and, per haps, tens of thousands, of years ago.' Now, this is nothing wonderful. It was only a year ago that a plain, every day sort of a Pittsburger took unto him self a rib five feet eight inches long, and with red hair. But he kuows bet ter than to call her an 'herbivorous mammalia,' or to intimate that she roamed over these hills even fifty years ago.?Bismaick Tribune. Text Books. The following list of text books for the use of the public schools of the State have been decided upon by the State Board of Examiners, and which will re main in force for the next five years : Readers?Reynolds, Appleton, Swin ton, McGuffey. History?j)avidson's South Carolina, Swiuton's Primary and Condensed Uni ted States, Deny's United States, Swin ton's Outline of Universal History in two parts. Geography?Maury's Scries, Apple ton's Series. Arithmetic?Robinson's Series, San ford's Primary, Sauford's Intermediate, Sanford's Common School Analytical, Venable's Practical. Grammars?Sill's Practical Lessons in English with Whitney's Essentials for highest classes, Reed aud Kcllogg's j Series Dictionaries?Webster, Worcester. Writing Books?Spenceriau, Rey nolds. Spellers?Swinton's Piimcr, Word Primer, Word Book and Wrord Anal ysis. Drawing?Krusi's, Bartholomew's Music?Soug Bells, Song Wave, I Wavelet. Agriculture?Supton's Elementary j Principles of Scientific Agriculture. Supplemental?Monteith's Popular \ Science Readci, Shepherd's Historical! Reader, Johonnot's Get-graphical Head er. Opening Court Witii Prayer. After the jury had been drawn in Trial Justice Blease's Court last Friday, and the lawyers and witnesses were all ready to proceed with the case, the Trial Justice asked parties to stand up, and when they did so, he offered up a fervent prayer, asking, amoug other things that the witnesses to be sworn in the case would remember their oaths 'to speak j the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.' It was a novel proceed ing.?Neicbcrry Observer. THE "ifoa'a" SYSTEM AMONG BSQ.UI' MAUX DOOS. There is always one bully in every team, who gets all the choice bits thwt are stolen by the others, and generally manages to keep fat, no matter how short they are of provisions. He waits for the others to make the raid, and ?bten stands on the outside to take it away from them. These bullies are in several grades. There is the chiei, of whom all are afraid, and then there is the next in rank, of whom all are afraid but the chief; a third, of whom all are afraid but two, and so on down. Sometimes the food is cut into small pieces and thrown out upon the ice for all to help them selves, and then there is a rough-and tumble fight, and snarling and growling, as if a whole cage of hyenas had broken loose. But here the bullies have no ad vantage; indeed, the advantage is with the small, lively fellows that slip in and get the meat while the big ones-are fighting. When a dog manages to steal a piece of meat he has a lively time of it, for soon every other dog in camp is after him, and he has to eat it on the run, if at all, headed off at every turn by one of the bullies, aud whining and choking at the same time. It certainly is one of the most comical exhibitions ever witnessed.?"Among the Esqui maux." SINGULAR COINCIDENCE. Quite a sensation was created in the Galveston itecordersCourt by a notori ous colored cliicken-thief accusing hi* Honor, by implication at least, of being in with him in stealing chickens. Tho charge is not regarded as reliable by tho friends of the official. On Jim Webster being brought up, the Recorder asked him: " If you did not intend to steal those chickens, what was your motive in tak ing them ? " '* Jedge, I has been up here befo/e you so often that I has come to lub and respec' you, and foah God, Jedge, I in tended to make you a present of dat pa'r ob pullets. *' " I don't believe anything of the kind. Policeman-, what did this man say when he was arrested ?" Policeman?"Your Honor, when I caught him he told me that he had a ^partner, but I did not know who it was t^tinie.-"-, His Honor fined the policeman for contempt, and had Jim Webster locked up for ninety days.?GalvestonNzws. TOO VAT FOR THE CHARACTER* Sir Julius*Benedict, writing in Scrib ner of Jenny Lind, says of the produc tion of an operatic adaptation of Schil ler's " Bobbers" in which she took pari: 'A whimsical circumstance quite marred what was to be one of the most striking scenes of the drama. Old Moor, who, like King Lear, has discarded his younger and devoted son for the elder, Franz, a deman in human form, is pun ished for his credulity by being thrust into a dungeon by this villain, there to starve. Carl, tho rejected son, who hus become the chief of a band of outcast*, discovers the whereabouts of his un happy father, whose prison-doors ke forces open. The old man, on appear ing on the stage, half crazy by his suffer ing a:.d famine, exclaims, 'I am starv ing l' Now pere Lablaoke, having the circumference cf twoFaistacs rolled into one, looked anything but a picture of starvation, and, when he made the pite ous appeal, naturally set the whole house roaring." THE LONGEST SPAN OF WIRE, The longest span of telegraph wire in the world is stretched across the Kist n ah river from hill to hill, each hill be ing 1,200 feet high, between Bezorah and Sectanagrum, in India. The span is a littlo over 6,000 feet in length. The only mechanical contrivance used in stretching this cable across the rive* was a common windlass. The Grecian ladies counted their age from their marriage, not from their birth. A farmer in Preston, Ct., who was troubled by rats, purchased a cat with a reputation as a monser, and rats were soon among the tilings that were. But, on going into the cellar one day, he saw rate sharing the noonday meal of the eat The cat appeared to bo charmed by them. The farmer allowed the strange friendship to exist for several days, the rats coming regularly to par take of nieals with the cat Finally the farmer decided to put an end to the singu lar friendship, and, taking a gun, went to the cellar. No sooner, however, had ho fired at and missed the rat than the cat jumped upon it and killed it Now tho farmer v. ;ints to know why tho cat did not kill the rat before. We are told that Cato, at 80 years of age, began to study the Greek language; Socrates, when past middle age, learned to play on musical instruments; Piu tarch commenced to study Latin when nearly SO; Dr. Johnson learned the Dutch language shortly before his death ; ami our Benjamin Franklin didn't amount to anything as a philosopher un til he was past 50. But a Connecticut boy of 13 beam tho language of love last week with a girl of 12; they ran away from home, were caught and brought back, aud both suffered an ig nominious " spanking " from their angry mothers?all in a single day. Tha.1? beats your classical days all hollow. 2x the breach-of-promise suit of Mc Pherson agt. Waruic, at ShelbyvilJe, Ind., the defendant's counsel took the broad ground that uo woman of 57, which was the plaintiffs ago, could pos sibly form a toinantio lore for any man. Two jury sustained that theory bv thear verdict. m_ Visitor?" How long ha* your master been away?" li'Lh footman?"Well, sor, ev he'd cum home yisterday, he'd a bin gon a weake tu-morrer; but ev ho duzn't return the dayofther,fchuie, hell a bin away a fortnight nixt Thorsdav ]"