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The Wedding March. | ' The wedding march from ' Lohengrin " i the organ loudly (days, , Kniom ant* His supporters greet the i T gathered public's gaze. , ^llie swelling music trembles as are touch- , ed the polished keys, llut the tremble isn't in it with the shake in Kredy's kneezes. Down the aisle the blushing maids proceed with stately tread. And each regrets the day is not the day for her to wed, hut there's a silver lining to the cloud that hovers o'er? They know they never looked so sweet in all their lives before. And now the organ thunders forth a wcl come loud and clear, A hundred heads are turned to sec the blushing bride appear, Her father, who supports her down the long and dizzy aisle. Will support her and her husband, too, in just a little while. ON THE DOWN GRADE. I held a permit from the master mechanic (without which it is no use to vonturo) and a pockotful of good cigars; so before I had been riding on the ioooDootive thirty miiee i wee on n?u? w?iu m'?u uii iiiwmiut wiu en hands numbering a gray-haired driver, a regular old-timer, by whoso side I sat as he stood at his ievers, and a young slip of a fellow, very handy with his fire. i Whon wo were well up in the moun- | tains, and just after the old man had pulled tho whistl-elever well down, and ( sent out a blast which resounded i r.mono- the hills like a roar from a fosr born, be turned, bado me look from the cab windi w out and down upon the track. We wero crossing the j Frankenstein.trestle, 150 feet high?by tho guide-book?and it looks all of that i from the cab window as you cross. Then he told this story : i " 'F you look sharp down in th' bottom of th' gulch there, young fellow, you'll see, piled up, a heap of wrecked i flat cars, pretty well covered now by tho growth of young trees, but still to be seen 'f you've got good eyos. I " Well! why my old bones ain't lying i down there under that wreck, 'stead of my sailing' up here liko a bird, 's a miracle dono by a woman, th' smartest woman and th' bravest in the whole mountains. "There ain't another bit of track like this on th' whole* Maine Central, d'yer see, and there's precious few in this whole country 1 tell yer. i "You see me hittin' nor hard as I can along nore, and eno stranglin tit i to buret, up these grades, with the i lever way dowu in tho corner, the i whole machine rod-hot and cryiug for more 8team, and at the same time; we < movin' so slow that you'd swear if one of the brakeys (brakemen) were :ter get out behind and drag his feet he'd stop her dead, or another pound of freight would throw the machine down, stall her, see? ' Then ugain you see us coming back, down the hill, liend up and tail over the dasher, so to speak; just : droppin' thro' space th'out a pound of steuin boin' used, llro-l>ox wide open, liremun singin' " Rock Mo to S'eep, Mother," and admiring the scenery. '* There's nothin' like your llatfootcd Mogul (the central pair of drivers on tho Mogul pattern locomotive have no llange) for this mountain business; a four-foot-eight wheel, ; six drivers, built right onto the rails, gives such a space for friction thut you can't help slip 'em. Many's the time, when, if you was handlin' a highsteppin'ordinary, six-foot driver, you'd be fumin'v and frettin,' and she av ~ JuuclQ u'llu oiumunu, una you lucky , if you could slack 'ein over the top of th' divide and not have to doubler"; if t'was a Mogul she'd bo churning her steam, culm as a June morning, and ^ walking that procession up tho hill, Blow, mobbe', but with no signs of a spasm. "When I blew that whistle back there for tho trestle, my memory slacked back to that incident I started to tell you of, and now, purdner, being as this story will go into print, I will begin at the first, when my boy and I were newly come into the White i Mountains. I as an engineer of the mountain freight, und ho telegraph operator and agent at the little station just under thb cliffs there at th' end of , the trestln. "I dislike to speak of what followed, but it's past and forgotten. The boy went wild. You'd think ho'd have 1 had hard work to find boon companions k in tho regions, but I've noticed a man 1 l can find fellows to help him spend his 1 money a'most anywhere country or city. 1 "1 was about to ask the super' to transfer him to some other station and . n get him away from his tempters when ' 1 noticed a change in tho boy himself, and you can bet 'twa'n't long 'fore I got onto the reason. There was a 1 woman's gentle face leading h'm from ^ ruin. ] 44 Although ho had none of the usual ' chkbces for his courting, way up here in tho hills, ho kept the odd times and ' evenings between the monntains and the seaward plains, until finally he . brought the plains to the mountains for keeps, and then, one mornin', when j I steamed up to the station, thero was tho boy and TMncess Alice,' so ho , named her, and so tho boys always called her. ''Though I say it, you may believe she deserved tho tittle and it did mo proud to know tho boy had won for his wife. ] "Well! This relieved my mind of i most of its load concerning tho boy ; ) twice each day as I passed up and , down tho line 1 saw them, this happy i pair, keeping house among these i peaks, high abovo the valley, happy, t on the modest salary of $T>0 a month. i ' Next on tho programme camo the > hahy, a little mountaineer. In a short t time a lusty littlo follow toddled about th' station platform holding up his g hands to me to take him into th' cab i and many's .th' time the pair of 'em, i tl?' i'rinee and the Princess Alice, t left th' mountains and sped away to N th' plains but always to return next day. [ "It was on one of these I got tho t secret. Things were going wrong at t th' clifTs. The gay Summer hotels s below in th' valley, and farther on r Summer company, were alluring, and, j as the Princess was an export opera- c tor, full many a day she was left alone with the wires while th' boy was chas- H ing pleasures l>elow, unmindful of r home c " Not that th' boy was vicious, for t he wasn't tiiat: he had a rollicking disposition, too easily led, perhaps, \ which needed just the check it got to c show him the worth'of what he held t above th' shadows he was chasing. i "Of course I tried to brace up the 1 Princess, and 1 talked to th' hoy, hut neither did much good. At last he c was relieved from duty at tho cliffs by i my own request and camo with me v upon th' engine, whore I figured hard v work would show him his folly. n " He made a great balk at this, a!- s though th' boy wouldn't wilfully di>- a obey me, boin' as I'd raised him from t tli' n.ibo his poor mother left, hut what t mined me most of all was his unkind less to Princess Alico. The boy was sore. Ho would have i !.hat the Princess had turned bin lown, and I'gave him some might, vigorous language that didu't seem t help the case a bit. though it relieve my mind. Alice still held the statio ?she and the baby with the wife c the section boss, who lived in the ol station and boarded the section crew her on'y society. So I'd always try t cheer her up a bit whenever we passci and I did try to get her to go to he folks below, but she was too prom and preferred to continue to hold th fort, hoping against hope. " Hut the boy used her menu. I ca see him uow on the very morn in' < the day wo tried her love so kcenh I can SCO him turn from them both i they came out to greet us as we passe the little station at the cliffs, Alii with tho baby in her arms, and I ca see the look of pain that crossed h?: face, though she called, ' Bo kind 1 him, father,' as we wheeled slowl past ud the grade. "Ho didn't waste many won between that and our arrival at tl terminus, you may be sure. I was t white heat with passion, 1 throttle my tongue, for I etlll loved th' boy an traruu pttt tniyt t'linur ?i hb' w BWi'Hi " Woll, somehow, we got to th' en of th' run, and for a return load ooup ed 01 to some lifteen (lata loaded wit rough logs from th' head water of tl Connecticut, ovei St. Johusbury waj going to Conway. They are a nast load to haul, let alone hold down thee steep grades, especially when, as wu the case with this lot, th' log was s long that it took two flats to carr thorn. Before we'd start from th terminus I'd look tho load over, as general thing, and figure how she' haul, but this trip I didn't seem to hav much mind to business, kind o' rattlec you seo, by my feelings. So when th uonductor, Fatty Daff, gave us th' wor we pulled out for th' main line. "Now, between the terminus an the top of the divide is a mattor < fivo miles gentle up grade ; then who we pitch over the summit tho dow grades commence and continue fc nino straight-away miles, falling 11 feet to the mile. "Hundreds of times had I tipped line of ears over that divide without break, but my bund and head wore ou that day, and the first I knew th train parted right ou top of the hili Relieved of the load behind the ol Mogul leaped liko a hound ahead an a second link gave way. The engin was clear of its load now, and behin us followed six llats linked togethe ftnd loaded with sixty foot-logs. Th remainoder of the train remaine with 'Fatty' on the other side of th divide. " It didn't take but a moment o that grade for us to get a gait on, tell yer, nor for tho runaways to fo low. 'Fore I'd got tho machine i hand they was rolling so I didn't dar to try and couple running, tho' a mi inent or two later i wished I had : bn ...i t i~ a \ i. ? t 4 i wuun 1 IUUKUU UttCK. ttt tMU, 1 SttW l/I shock of parting- had broken a stak which hold th' logs and I expectc every minuto they'd take a tumble an derail the wholo outtit, and we'd h safer ahead. So I just kept out c their way and let things bile. " My, how wo did sail ! It was nil an'-tuck between th' Mogul and th' lo train, an' was close for a mile T)r tw< and thon I tried working steam t make, if I eould, somewhere below, siding. Beforo I pulled th' throtti she was rocking like a cradle and tl bell was a-tolling and a-tolling wit the motion, tit to break it; so you ca judge how she moved when I pt steaiu into her. " At livo miles from the break-wa the speed was awful; for u fact I hadn th' nerve to keep her steaming, an' didn't seom to do any good either, ft that blamed log-loaded wreck wr camping hot on our trail. " As for th' boy ho simply couldu stand on th' floor o' that cab, was i rocking-and a-curving so in an' ou following that mountain trail of stee an' as 1 looked across and saw hit slinging to his seat, I pitied him froi th' bottom o' my heart, but th' raem'r o' what he'd done that very day 'ros in my mihd, and, tho' I oughter nc done it, I called to him: 'You'd bo tor speak to your wife an' baby, hadn yer, when you go by the station; your last chunco, for your goin' plum to hell fastern' any gait you ever ru before,' and just theu we rounded tl shoulder of Mount Willeo and ther was th' Saco Valley stretehin' awa clear to th' lewor gateway of tl notch, with tho station and trestle a in plain view live miles ahead. " You call it beautiful to day, bu just think what it is to a man who Jead sure he's goin' down into ths valley, in that shadow of death. " Five miles at that speed means los than live minutes ; mighty short tim to mako your peace with God. thought, bettor begin with the l>oi So I softened, and turned to sneak t him again, when I sec him give start, as a iiguru in skirts appeare jpon th' littlo station plutform ahead You soe there's not much vegetatio lo obstruct the view ; it's mostly hal rock, and the station stands well on nto the valley from where wo wa ikirtin' the mountain walls, so who wo caught sight of Alice at the statio ihe also saw us Hying down til' valie;y tnd understood our plight. "If I'd been standin' beside her I*< lever asked her to cross that 300 fee >f trestle, between the clitfs and in !L ace o' that Hying machine, to save ou ives. Likewise 'f I'd had any ide ie'd speak to her with the whistle I\ lover allowed th' boy to touch th ever. As it was, however, first thin) knew ho was by my side and jcrkinj iway at the whistle with a series o ong and short blasts, which I after vard learned was the Morse; some .hinglike: Save us, the switch! "This ho kept repeating while w> iwept down noon the trestle, althougl think 'twas but a moment before tin Yincoss caught on, for we saw lie lisappear in tho house for a moment vhich was necessary to get th' switel cey, then came hurriedly out agaii md start boldly to cross tho trestle, t< he switch just at tho further end vhich led a short pur track from tin nain-line, to the section-boss's too louse placed just on th' brink of th< ihuam. "As she advanced, cautiously ye iwiftly, across that narrow footpath, cached and held the arm that wa -ailing her, and silenced tho whistle .hen forgot our own peril in her. ' Madly she Mow across the ties, am vhen 1 saw that she had an evei diance to reach the switch in time, .urncd my attention toward the wrccl >ohind, determined to do my part U lelp her. ' Von know what a railroad mai alls a runnin' switch ? It's a com non thing and just what th' Princess vas bent on performin'; I knew as vuM's if she'd told me. To do it she nust reach tho switch, unlock it, and tand by its side ready to pull th* pir ,fter the engine had passed, and throw h' switch points on U> the short spui rack lieforo the 1 unaway could follow - us on tho trestle. Now, for the time. i I begun to tliink we had a chance and t to get a move on. I had m' hand on ! H< a the roversin' lever, for I was bound if | y the l'rinccts didn't cross in time, to o reverse the machine, oven if th' act at r! il that spued should throw us off th' iron, j u for I couldn't and wouldn't run her , >f down without u move to save her, and d all this time there she wns crossin' r, tho trestle, wo not more than half a . o milo away, and that wreck sprinting 'a 1, along about 100 yards behind. . r "Then I made a brace and stood up, ), with one hand graspin' th' throttle, ~ o tho other grippiu' liko a vico the re- 1,1 vorsinMover, and, thus supported, n took a lookout ahead. There she )f stood at the switch. She'd wound hor c| /. skirts tightly around her and held is them between her knees. Oh, she rl d was a cool one, an' I knew when 1 w :o saw hor there, that she'd made the 8C ,n ruunin'switch O. K.?and sure enough. >r " Th' timo was ripe for actin' an' I X) give olo Mogul tho steam, kicked the FJ y dampers open, aud jammed tho revers- 18 ing gear way down in tho corner. My ! CJ Is how she did jump, an' tho uext instant lJ h' wo passed ttio switch an' slid out onto H it tho trestle. C1 la P. 1B3TT WR9, TflCPfl WnnTTHTT cbbu&h u> d see th' wreck run onto tho spur, and, 1- taking th' tool-houso at th' end with ?J h it, make th' leap ittfo th' gulch. ol i' ' Thei*o ain't dver going to be a w f, sight like that again, at least to us. ?' y Six llats, linked together and doubly Cl >o linked by giant logs, takin' a plunge 8t ks of 250 feet, when going at sixty-five ?c 0 miles-an-hour gait, just makes a show ln y that is awful, and when you figure e' e that them same cars was beut on 8l a crushing tho life out of yer, it adds to al d the display. e " If I should tell yer how far wo run 1 T .1 ...... lu i, uviuiu J tun iu IIUIU uiu iuu^ui, jrui e would't believe it, but hold her I did, d after a time, and we run back to find y the Frincess. She .still stood beside Ju d th' switch as we hove in sight, and I la )f noticed by th' target that sho'd thrown aI n it back on the main line and locked it, aI n according' to rulo. Then wo run up >r alongside, and bofore I could bring th' j*3 fi machine to a standstill, th' boy was on 8)1 the ground by her side, and had th' "J a Frincess in his arms. Then 'twant a long before I was otT tho engine, too, it and we was mighty tender handing P1 e her up into the cab between us, I tell I. yer, an' back we rolled to th' station " d to let out the baby. We was just rc d bavin'a general boo-boo and love feast, w e al' round, when Alice answered a call 08 d on the'wire an'there was ' Fatty ' Duff, & ir still on tb' top of th'divide eallln'for ft e his engineer. d "So Alice reported th' break and 1D e th' wreck to tho dispatcher, and the w boy and i went back up th' grade. n Bless yer ! s railroad man can't stop 'f I for anything of that sort, his time's th' " 1- enmrtnnv'n ovorv livin' minute. w n " Well, we'll sidetrack horo soon to hi e let th' express go by ; then you'll see w >- th' boy : he's ruanin' her, and lie'll ul- w it ways wave bis hand out th' eab to 1' hisoloinan. And tho Princess ? She's e in a Queen Anne of her own down in d Portland, with a whole.brood of little w d ones. Thank God, I'll bo with 'in all to- w o tonight, if everything holds together." j41 A FEARFUL WARNING. . )- hi g Is Temperate Drinking Safe??The 3, Sail Story of a Wretched Woman. 01 At a certain town meeting in Peona sylvania, the question came up j* o whethor any person should bo licensed l)' to sell ruin. Tho clergyman, the h deacon and tho physician, strange as n it may appear, all favored it. Only ^ it one man spoke against, it, because of , the mischief it did. Tho question was IlJ y about to be put, when, all at once, t there arose from one corner of tho it room, a miserable woman. She was i1 >r thinly elad, and he- appeurance in- w is dicated the utmost wretchedness, and 0( that her mortal career was almost n< 't closod. ^ t- After a moment's silence, and all 8' t, oyes being Hxed upon her, see. stretch- al 1, ed her attenuated body to its utmost P' n height, and then her long arms their {1! a length, and raising her voice to a y shrill pitch, she called to all to look cs ic upon hor. "Yes,'' said she "look * )t upon me, and then hear mo. All that 1C t- the last speaker has said, rolativo to tc 't temperate drinking as a beverage, as c( 's the father of drunkeness, is true. All l{: b practice, all experience, declares its j:1 n truth. All drinking of alcoholic 4' poison, as a beverage in health, is w 0 excess. Look upon me. You all know ?' y mo, or once did. You all know that I T was once the mistress of tho best farm 11 in tho town ; you all know, too, I had K1 ono of the best, tho most devoted, pi |t of husbands. You all know I had 's live, noble-hearted, industrious l>oys. & it Whore are they now ? Doctor, where 10 are they now? You all know. You w. s all know they lie in a row, side, by 01 e side, in yonder church-yard ; all, every 1 ono of them, filling the drunkard's u! r. grave. o " Tboy were all taught that temp- 84 a crate drinking was safo?that exeoss d alone ought to be avoided, and they I. never acknowledged exeess. They n quoted you, and you, and you (pointing Vl d with a shred of a linger to the minister, n( it deacon and doctors), as authority. .8 They thought themselves safo under 1-5' n such teachers. But 1 saw tho gradual ^ n ehange coming over my family aud its .v.ww.ww.to .uith /I 5 ^ t% ?r <> n/1 Ko..h/xm I l>\ ? [/i n ii/ii uinuuvj uuu uui I v'l 1 felt that wo were all to be overwhelmed al d in ono common ruin. I tried to ward n< it off the blow. Wl i' "I tried to break the spoil, tho do- )v r lusive spell in which tho idea of tho ,n a benefits of temperate drinking had il involved my husband and sons. I Hr e bogged, I prayed, but the odds wore 'u g against mo. Tho minister said tho g poison that was destroying my husband 1,1 f and boys was a good creature of God ; N '- the deacon, who sits undol* tho pulpit - there, and took one farm to pay his th rum bills, sold them the poison ; the ha c doctor said u little wus good, and tho st :i excess only ought to be avoided. My in 0 poor husband and dear hoys fell into at1 r the snare, and they could not escape, ga , and one after anothor was conveyed tc J to the sorrowful grave of tho drunk- ra 1 ard. wi [? ' Now, look at me again ; you prob- Isl , ably see mo for the, last time. My cs sands have almost run. 1 have dragged w< 1 my exhausted framo from my present th a homo, tho poorhouse, to warn you all; th to warn you, deacon; to warn you, falso an t teacher of God's word." th I And with her arms Hung high, and wl - her tall frame stretched to its utmost, fr< ; and her voieo raised to an unearthly lii pitch, she exclaimed; " I shall soon sa 1 stand before tho judgment seat of God. wl i 1 shall meet you there, you false guides, th I | and be a witness against you all. Tho m c | miserable woman vanished. A dead qt > j silcnee pervaded the assombly: tho ou minister, the deacon and tho physician d? l hung their heads; and, w hen tho I're- la - sldent put the question. "Shall any <f * license be granted for the salo of spirit- o i i nous Iieuors?" tho unanimous rcsp >nsc bs was " No !" w I ?? an i ?The lied Cross Society of Germany th ' will send 10,OH) marks to the lied fin ' Cross Soeeity of Japan to aid in its m< ' present work in the Held. * "V OLD CUSTOMS IN CHARLESTON. ba th DW OUR 'GRAND-MOTHKItS ra LIVED. of fo: lie Style and Manner in Which They 8e Were Christened, Married and Hurled?Knjoymeiit at Social Functions. Irs. Hartwell M. Ayer in Sunday News. ) in In all the longth and breadth jf our 8t nd there is no city whoso early hisry, both social and political, is moro ?] torosting than that of our own m harleston. In Antc-ltevolutionary p, lys, almost from the time the first e: dony was planted, Charleston was ^ ic centre of Southern literature and Pt ilturo. and down to the tiino of the jg vll war Charleston was one of the chest cities in tho Union and nohero was moro refined and elegant ej iciety to be mot with. tt, Thero is much that is interesting in p. ic history of our colonial and munici- jp il government, but for us women it probable that most of tho interest cj, mtres in the personality of the people KC lemselves. How they lived; how p| ley enjoyed themselves at thoir soal functions; how they were chris- w >ned, how married ; how they buried r ieir dead; and ih what manner thev uunimi mum.?ah iiiwnny u living1 ,lt iterest for us, whoso ancestors those ^ d Charlestonians wero. Their quaint ^ d tombstones are enough to set us ct onderingj as wo stroll through the raveyards of St. Phillip's und the Cir- ^ liar Church. And though their ^ atoly marble virtues may be in sharp p, mtrast to their pitiful human foelgs, we will bo contented to lot the K{ ril bo interred with thoir bones, and d< >eak of only what is good*and pleas- jn it. in In the first place bo it UDilorstood tj( lis paper does noli tell of Ante-Itevo- Gi tionary Charleston. The customs of w liich 1 write are those of the 20's and >'s? in fact they aro written down bi ist as thoy were told the writer by a ^ dv who is, herself, a most lovely w id charming bit of old Charleston OI id a truo type of her kind. She has y\ ved more than her three-score and hi n years, and" yet preserves her q ightnoss, her oleganco and charm of %nner, and tolls of the departed days ;G her youth with an animation and in- ^ rest that makes it a pleasure and a ai -ivilogo to listen to her. To begin with, tho Charlestpnian of ol tat day was, upon entcringfrhe world, icoivod with rejoicing, anu all visitors ra ere offered cake and wine when they t,i died at the house which the tiny new- g, >mer had condescended to honor with g, s presence. Then, while yet a tender g, >fant, it made its triumphant entree h< ito society at its christening, which -p as a very imposing and elaborate m sremony. On that grand day all w lends of the parents were bidden to fa le church, where the precious mite rc as the cynosure of all eyes, and the 8 iptismal coremony was gone through pj ith. Upon returning homo cako and ino were again offered to the invited ol uests who had assembled, or, in some hi ises, a dinner party was given in 6c enor of the infant, especially if it (c ore a son. Or, if neither of these ^ ere done, cako was sent to friends gj ad relatives, much as wedding cako w now. The toilet of the infant upon the fr iptisrual day was vory elegant?a Gj ing robo, usually of imported, hand- tl nbroidored French muslin, with [liuty shoulder knots of colored rib>n and confined at the waist by a Q| md of embroidery, under which lowed ribbon of the samo color as the Cl louldor knots. Upon its head was a -p ny cap close fitting, (the closer the 8t etter,) and having around the face a w ill ruehTlhg of real thread lace. V1 Probably the most imi>oxing feature ' the occasion was the " maumer," he " dah" was of later origin) in G| hose arms the hero or heroine of the ^ icasion was borne. This individual jeds especial mention. Her frock as, of course, immaculatoly neat, and 8t 10 wore a great checked gingham s( sron. She would have scorned to ap- ^ jar without a large and vory white w indkorchlof tucked in her bolt. Hut ,,, ar head-dress ! In those days sugar ai imo always in largo loaves, over D) hich was litted a pasteboard cover- w ig, very high and round, for the bet- w ?r protection of the sugar. These jtJ >verings were eagerly seized upon by f0 10 old maumas (over whose heads p, ley oxactly fitted) and wore used as undations for their head dresses, hich were bandanna handkerchiefs the most gorgoous colors obtainable. 11 was often the case that the mau- y a into whoso care the little one was iven had nursed its father or mother iforo it?maybe been maid for one of Ql s grandmotherp, when both were ta iris. And never wore children more 1U vingly cared for, more willingly u uited upon, than by the black hands ' these same maumas. < And now, supposing the Charleston,n of that day to havo to have been a ai irl, when she reached the proper uge .)( 10 was sent to an aristocratic school ir young ladies. There woro two of iese, and between them oxisted a yH -cat rivalry. One was Madame Tal- t mde's, and was situated at tho cor- * ?r of Tradd and Logare streets in the jp juso which is now tho home of Judge ^ iraonton. The other was Miss Dat- (jt 's, and was kept at one time in Le- ), ire street, in the house now occupied r Major Augustino Smytho, and at ju lothor in the house in Globo street ^ )xt but one to the corner of Wontorth. While at the latter place it y, as a hoarding school, and one morn- ^ g there was consternation among ju ache is and pupils alike for when thoy ou ose they found that some miscreant id during the night fastened over tho ar ite a sign, upon which was painted largo and conspicuous letters, "Tho unnery of St. Datty." n*. To this school eamo girls from all th o Southern States and ovon from Cu- th i. Ono pupil, a lovoly Cuban, was br rioken with typhoid fevor and died w] a short time. Miss Datty was so T1 fected by her sad death that she ive up her school and joined the Sisrs of Mercy. While cholera was ha gitig in Cluirleston she wan taken te ith the disease and died while min- th boring to the sick and distreesqd. tw The marriage customs of thoso days co [3re very much like our own, except ne at church weddings were unknown, th o marriage taking placo at home, %r nidst general rejoicings and festivi- 0v 38. Tiio brido's costumo was not, of WJ hite silk, as in our time, but more T1 equently of whito embroidered in us- ke i, worn over an lindorslip of whito th tin. Nor' was the voil a long ono of th liito tulle, but instead scarcely more nil an a yard and u half in length, and j0j ado of thread laco of the vorjr best lin lality, and the prieo of the voil was toi tough to make us of these degenerate tys gasp breath, since a hundred dolr.i wi till boarcosuffice to purchase ono |y evenitho most ordinary quality. Up- foi her first appouranco at a ball the wj ide wore her weduiug dress, anil, if it ]qj re but were few days after tho core- nil liny, her veil also. The 1 rides of w| oso days were younger than now?in |)0 ct a bride of 111 or 17 was by no sans unusual. th< For tho young people there woro f0i I ,11s and dances tbon as now, but all o year everybody looked forward to b ce week. This came during tbo last s| February, and was tbo climax of 1< stivities before the solemn Lenten ason. Everybody bad new clothes, o erybody made merry, everybody t< ant mad over horses for that week, h bo races were held at the old Wash- k gton Race Course, aud to the grand li and were admitted ladies, but no gen- v amen save the members of the Race lub and strangers in the city. Each ii ember of the club who entered his i jrso?(the very rreme do la crome of c luine aristocracy, one and all), had ? tsettcs upon its bridio of his own es- t 3cial color, and the costume of the s ckey was of the s on color. 1 The father of Gen. Wade Hampton f ways dressod in coats aud caps of 1 egant mazarine blue vclvot, while s jother gentleman, equally aristocrat- t but less liberal, dressed his in red 1 inucl. Amid the wildest enthusiasm t to races were lost and won. Society a jrlng race week was very ga3', often r ivoral balls at private houses taking |_ lace in a single evening. Rut Tues- c iy, Wednesday and Friday nights I ere set aside us aleadv engaged. Ou g alcateT*toTtuT'anumii^qpp^ 1 ace Club. At this function the pros- I lent of the club was. whether he I >uld or not, compelled to sing a song, t The Iligh Mettlo Racer," for the c me lit of the assembled company, a nd on Friday night came the race t ill, tho crowning ovent of the season, t Each matrou and maid hud a now c md for the occasion, and the presi- \ 3nt of tho club tooit tho newest bride 1 ito supper. Tho floor was marked off 1 ito cireles, large enough to admit of v incing a cotillion, and in these were t rawn pictures of tho favorite racers, ith the winner at tho head. All c lose and all the other grand balls and v hero were no funerals at home, the j >lemn burial service being held al- t ays in a church and never at a pri- f ito residence. i: And now wo of the end of the con- 5 iry have followed the Charlestonian 1 [ the beginning of the century from <j \o cradle to the grave, taking a peep r l all the important events of life. ow far off and quaint those times joms ! Aud yet time does not statu) ill. Only a little while it wiil seem t > us, and the years will rush by, and e will bo the grandmothers and greatrand-mothers of the young people oi j aother day and times that will seem y aw and strange. They will look with , ondor upon'our silvered hair and faces * hero Tirno has left his iinger-priuts ^ 1 sad lines and wrinkles, and, oagor ^ ir a romance of real lifo in days long j 1st, will plead. "Grandmother, tell , t about when you wore young." THK CAPTAIN'S WAR STORIES. o oth WondorTuI, Especially the One ^ About Firing at u PutT of Smoke. a "When I was commanding a cavalry 11 ltpostduriug tho war, " said the cap- " tin, a former Confederate officer, faous for his reruarkablo war stories, 1 wo were camped near Salem, Va., id it was the only time before, or 0 nee, that Virginia has hud such ^ Bavy rains. Wo wore wot through c id through, and almost dead from ex- 11 >sure. I had received for my own 10 a five-gallon keg of priino old Ken- 11 icky whiskey from an old friend, hut a iforo 1 had a chance to sumplo the 11- Sr lor I was obliged to ride out on scout. " All during that rido 1 was ehuck- 4 ng to myself at tho treat I'd give the " >ys when wo got baek, and, incl- 0 jntally, how I would enjoy some of v> 10 contents of that keg myself. Well, b r, when we came buck after a livo- Ul >urs' ride in that rain, soaked ? irough, hungry un l disgusted, I told ie men about that keg of old John ( firleyeorn. Did they smile ? It was 10 nearest approach to a laugh that * id been heard in that section of the untry for many a day. a " Upon dismounting, all gathorod 8' ound my tent. I entered, grabbed ^ tin eup, smiled and turned tho 0 igot. But hot a drop ran out. I ^ died tho air-plug from the top, but V' ore wai only the tunUili/.ing odor of " e good old rod eye Kentucky alone ews. Tho meu were muttering at 8t tiat they called my ill-timed joko. P ie disappointment was greater than ^ ieved humanity could bear. "Suddenly I turned, saw a soldier " ippy in his steadiness, in front of a ^ nt about fifty feet from 1110. In all at outpost the only whiskey soon in ^ ro weeks was that which 1 had reivod. 'Twas hut a moment to con- ^ ct tho elTect and cause. I found K rce heavy sleepers in that tent, tho vuuu v???s ??t5i wii/ii rare, soil liquor, "' cry tin wash-basin, cup and vessel ni is filled witii tliat heavenly liquor. 111 io socrot was out, so was tho whisiy. I investigated and found that sl eso men had learned of my having u' e keg. had cut some long rico straws, 90 ude a conduit fifty feet in length by ining them together, tapped tho kog ^ d run tho whiskey into their own ^ ut that long' distance away. " ^1 Tho captain stopped, lighted his ei- 111 >r anew, while his auditors nervousshifted their posit ions. Nono spoke 111 r a full minute. Then the little man ?' 10 had tramped the region abont Sa- 111 m under "Old Glory" asked in a 9' ild and apologetic voieo, "Captain's cs lat does tiie rice crop amount to w w around tho Salem oountry ?" m " No rico was ever raised there or l)l ereahouts, " said tho doughty luit iiy rgetful warrior. ^ inqviets wore neid at St. Andrew s t all, in Broad street. This building t us burned long years ago. It stood 1 1 the lot now owned by Capt. P. W. c fagener, where now is only a small t ick building, just east of St. Finbar's e athedral. And now that wo havo heard of the ys of those ancestors of ours, what of leir sorrows ? Alas, their funerals id their mournings secin quaint to i, but were as sadly real to them as irs are now. Immediately upon the death of a ember of tho family formal invitaons were sent out to friends. A feat number of these were invited leeially us mourners, and for these reat hoods of black silk, covering aaa and shoulders, wore provide d. ho invited guests, iucluding the ourners, (the chief only of whom ere admitted into the rooin with the unily), ranged themselves around tho Kims in silence, and ut last a maidirvant entered bearing a silver tray iled with sprigs of rosemary. These le passed around to the mourners, ich of whom took a sprig. Tho pall3arers were all furnished with silken iarfs?white f^r young persons, black ?r those of more advanced age?uud lose were worn passed over one loulder and tied in a knot at tho aist on the other side. There were no carriages hired, the lends of the bereaved family always ffering the use of their vehicles for le occasion. In tho funeral procoson the slaves followed close boliind ic cofbn, the men with long banners f crapo streaming from their hats, 10 women with great head dresses of ape, obtained from their societies. lunufaeturiug Company, $30,000, tl .angly {^Manufacturing Company, $3: 00; iliversido mills, $12,000. Tot or seven mills, $200,400. ?The Iluntsvillo Female Collog no of the largest institutions of tl ;ind in the South, was burned 'l'uesdi fternoon. There were 100 boarde n the building, all of whom eoc;ip< ,-ithout serious injury, sofar as know 'lie managers oi tiio college hai cntod tho military aeadomy luntsville, and will open school nee. Tne eitizons have taken tl iris to their homes. Work will I om me need ou a new building ir lediately. ?T. L. Coburn, a prominent cotti lerehant of Pino Bluff, Ark., at leading member of tho Presbyteriu liurch, was cowhided in his otlice jw days ago by Miss Mabel Huggar i few days before Miss Huggar hough tho medium of a neighbor, r oived an insulting proposition whit as alleged to have been made by C urn. Tne young woman's brother, i orapuny with his sister, went to C urn's olliee atul held a shotgun ov< he latter while his sister cowhidi 'oburn. ?A. L. Walsh, who was sent tot! orkhouso in St. Louis last Novcmbi >r carrying burglars' tools, thro way a gold watch on his way to tl latum. It has been identified by ( V. Brethauer, a Chieago jeweler, i no which was stolen from his pi u etober 30, when throe robbors carrii IT $10,IKK) worth of jewelrv after loci >g him in the safe. Walsh'confess > taking part in tho robbery. H ?rved seven years in tho Columbi eniteutiary for assisting in a $40,( ( /abash flail road express robbery. ?Living in a log cabin close to Whit [all, the homo of General Cassii larcellus Clav. Kentucky's diinliBt.nn Uolitionist. i? the oldest woman i >ntucky, who is known all ovc ayetto and Madison counties as "Ol unt Hannah White. " She is a n< co woman, and in the best of health jing her own house work at the ai inced ago of IIS years. Aunt Iiai nh is the mother of fourteen childre id has 121 grand and great gran lildren. She was one of the fir* aves in Kentucky, having been sol , auction four times. Her younge >11, now au old man, resides with hei ?The Springtiold Republican make ic amende honorable, as follows : " 11 . Holin of Charleston, S. C., dispute in claim that the Southern cott > ills cannot or do not make the lin >ods manufactured in New England id ho sends Tho Republican a samp' cloth made by a South Carol in ill in proof of his contention. W tall have to give up to him in t il iso at least. Nor is there any roaso; hy tho Southern mills should n > uko lino goods with machinery so fa irfoctod as it is, and skilled labor s mailable as it is or must scon be i iat section, " Tho painful silence was final! roken by tho captain himself, wli pun another yarn, which was as fo >ws: ' When J was commanding a cayalt utpost during Hie war i had oceask i> make a personal examination of tli nod. I rode with my orderly to noil some half mile from camp, an L'isurely began to study my positic nth the aid of a field glass. " Suddenly 1 jerked my head bac nvoluntarily, and whizz went a wiii| ng rifle ball so close to my ear that ould feel the wind of its flight. mlY of smoke was tho only evidence < ho sharpshooter. Not one, but live < ix times, did this iuvoiuulary muse at* action take my head backwai rom the line of tho shot and saved ir ifo. I never could explain or unde tand that Providential muscular a ion. Turning to my orderly, I sei/.i lis carbine, aimed at that smoke nilo away, fired, and all was sti tgain. No more shots came aud v 'oturned to camp, in the afternoon larty of us rode over the country, at omiug to the spot where tho sho lad come from in the morning, koui groans. * wuuud* ie said ho had fired several shots at Confederate officer on yonder kuo >ut hud not been able to hit hit bough he had good range aud w :onsidered a wonderful sharpshoote tnd the reb had fired but one shot lim and that with direful results. T1 >all buried itself in his leg, euttii nio of tho main arteries. The mi vas beyond human help. Wo ga> lim water and he soon loot all signs ife. Wo rode away and left all th vas mortal of the poor follow bohii hat fence." This talo was too much. One 1 >no tho smokers arose and moved t varus the door in silence deep at hinkative. Tho first man to rem he door turned, aud in a rich Ne England twaug, shouted, "I've bei :alied a liar for telling that story. c.a ain, but I'm the sharpshooter you ki id that day." GKN KItAli NKWS 8UMMARV. julcst Items and Curious Notes froi Our UxcIiuiikcs. ?Miss Winnie Davis, the daughter he Confederacy, has written a uov intitled " The Veiled Doctor, " the pi >f whieh is said to bo remarkabi As'do from any intrinsic merit tl >uok will probatily seii well on aecou >f tho distinguished position of the fa mttioress. ?The Paris edition of the Now Yoi iiorald prints a dispatch from Shan lai, saying that China's peace euvo, u uupau nave uueu mtli uCU'd I1UL lurrcuder any territory. China nerely williug to concede the itid jcndenco of Corea and to pay au i lemnity. The failure of the uogoti ions its regarded in Shuughai us a for ?ouo conclusion. ? Representative Phillips, of Peuns^ ania, stands out in bold belief us ti inly individual who has yet offered nake a dir ect cash donation to the go irnmcnt to perform a duty which d rolves upon it. Mr. Phillips has intr luced a bill in Congress for the ere ion of a labor commission, and 1 dters to pay $2.">0,000 out of his ov >ocket to meet the expenses. Ue ioveral times a millionhre. ?A frog farm with about 1,000,0 lqjtd of stock is carried on successful >y a man in Contra Costa County, Ci ie started ranching iu frogs a fo nouths ago with a herd of about 2,0 rogs and is already making lots noney. He supplies the markets >an L'Yaucisco, Oaklaud and oth< urge cities 011 the coast. It costs litt >r uothiug to raise the frogs, and tl anchor is not anxious to trade h anch even for a gold mine, so he say ?Cotton manufacturing in August irhich is the largest cotton mauufa uring city in the South, is a decide uccess. The following dividends wei laid during the past year : The Jot J. King Manufacturing Company, $1H 00 ; tlie Augusta factory, $.'10,000; ti Jraniteville Manufacturing Compun 00,000; the Sibley Manufacture 3omnanv. $3().(K)0: tlm Kniin.ii?i, u id 5hort Breath, Palpitation. it 'a Mr. G. W. McKinsey, postmasterof Kokomo.Ind., and a bravo ex-soldier. ?d aays: "I had been severely troubled HM ? wiwimuiuuiwwwffvwi Binuj'H'BTmy * ? the army at the close of the late war. H> 1 was troubled with palpitation and n. shortness of breath. I could not a* sleep on my left side and had pain r. around my heart. I became so ill at that I was much alarmed, and for10 tunately my attention was called to i ir _ ? Dr. Miles' Heart Cure of I decided to try it. The first bottle , made a decided improvement in my ,u condition, and five bottles have com* pletely cured me." [l G. W. McKINSEY. P. M.. Rokomo. Ind. id Dr. Miles* Heart Care Is sold on a positive .1, guarantee that tLio first bottle will benefit. All druggists sell It at 91, 0 bottles (or 95, or it will bo sent, prepaid, on receipt o( price jn by the Dr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, lnd. p. v^rsi '1* For sale by B. F. Posey, Union, S. C. GROVES s ""tasteless ICHILL TUNIC li. IS JUST AS COOD FOR ADULTS. >. w WARRANTED. PRICE GOcts. 00 GAI.ATIA, It.LS., Nov. 18, 1803. of Paris Medicine Co., St. Eouls, Mo. ?f (iontlemon:?Wo sold last year, 600 bottles of 01 QItOVK'8 TASTKI.ES8 CHILE TONIC and have SI* Sought three gross already this year. In all our exi0 perleneo of 14 years. In the drug business, have lt- lever sold nn nrtlelo that gave audi universal satis IG 'aetlon as your Tonic. Yours tnily, Aiinkv, Caur &CO 6. For sale by B. F Poioy, Union, S. C'.. i III taili d Si, ie * y? 'tf su On the corner, is the place to buv ie > . t Fancv and Family Groceries. i e t (J w rs i(1 Tlioy are rrc iving fresh'goods every n- week. Canned tToods of all kinds and beat brands. New crop Baisina, cleanof ed Currants, Citron, Nuta of all kinds, III Malaga Grapetf, Apples, Oranges, Ba10 nanas, Cocoa nuts, Lemons, Figs, PotaJe tooa, Cabbages, Odions, C ran berries. Bust Pork Saitsaob Twick a Week. )D _ nl Fkksh Fish Evkry Saturday. ktl Fresh Bread Twice a Week. Frosli j Oatmeal anl Buckwheat. T C^TAll Cooda Delivered Frco.jjJJi G" I CANDIDATES 31* 'd ? FOR THE ? ? drug trade: Of Union county, and this ia IV THEIR PLATFORM: !(1 k* tj 1. Pure Drujrs. [e 2. Lowest prices consistent with tlio ,8 quality of our goods. )0 2. Accuracy and Competency compounding Proscriptions. y 4. Wo carry tho largest Hue of Pufcl;. ent Medicines in the county. (j 5. O.ir stock of Medicines, Chemin oals and l'liarinaoentieals is immense, ,r and is purchased from the largest mantj ufactnring and importing houses in tho 3. country. , .*>. YVo carry a full stock of tho best jl Paints. Oils, Putty, Whitewash au\l j. Paint Paint lii ushes. n 7. Wo carry the flnost line of Specq taeles and Eye Classes ii\ the county. } Union Drug Co. <?, S WALL PAPERS 0 Prom n to 5<) Cents. 1. ? Paper Hanging a Specialty. o Si'i-fartion guaranteed for tho s H >t Artistic Work. n W. A. KRAUS, r Spartanburg, S. C. o !'.?; further information, apply at, . .1. It Math is' store or address at Spar tanburg. .