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) TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO. S. 0.. JANUARY 11.1883. ESTABLISHED 1847 ‘THB NIUHT UOMKTH OJf.' Deep down ’nionga the reedy hollowa, And away taro’ the meadows low, Swift o’er Its rtlnlng p*8b!m. Pansing not in Its ceaseless flew. The brook that comes down from the mountain To the ocean most speed Its flight, As the brightness that dawned with the morning Must die on the threshold of night. he ferns by the brookslde growing, And the reeds as they murmur and sigh, And the willows anu meadow grasses Keep time as the brook sweeps by, And the ocean is calmly waiting, Bnt never a ripple will tell, When the wavelets the brook la bringing Shall be merged in Its long, low swell. And there cometh a royal sunset That llghteth the funeral pyre Of the day as It glides down in the western sky And dies In Its crimson Ore; And night with Its swift wiag mounting, The brightness sweepeth away, And setteth the seal of darkuess On the tomb of the vanished day. And so It bnt little recketh How radiant it/e’s dawn may be; It as surely wears on to the g.oamtng As the brook floweth on to the sea. And however fair be Its evening Its brightness will soon be gone, And the waning light and the gathering gloctn Will whisper: “The night cometh on.” LOVJS’S SUSLIOirt. Sack a wedding ! “No bridesmaids, no music, no break fast! “I declare I should not feel as if I hod been married !” exclaimed Marion Willoughby, throwing herself down upon a low chair in her own elegantly- appointed drawing-room, and drawing ofi the delicately-tinted gloves which served as a finish to her exquisite Par- isian toilette. There was only one other occupant of the room, a man, tall and handsome, standing with one hand resting lightly on the back of her chair. She did not glance up as she spoke, or note that Chester Thorley’s face had lost its color. “You are speaking of Miss Marviue’s wedding ?’’ he said. “There is one essential to most mar riages you have not enumerated in your list of things lacking. “Was love wanting, too ?” “I believe she loves him. “She certainly most do so to an al most absurd extent. “They are to go housekeeping in a small fiat in an unfashionable locnlity where he must be away trom her from early morning until six o’clock. "He occupies some salaried position— clerk in a bank, I believe—and she is a girl who might have married anybody.” “Honest iibor degrades no man, Marion,’' was the firm, quiet answer. “Even a clerkship is not always to be found, and I wonld rather break stones in the street than live on money acquir ed dishonestly or doled out by charity, though in such a case I would ask no woman to share my lot. ” “This looks like breaking stones, docs it not}” she laughingly answered, letting her own jeweled lingers close over the man’s hand wnere it rested—a hand whose shape betokened its aristocracy, and which was white and suit as a wo man’s. At her light touch his strong frame quivered. He bent and let his lips rest an in stant caressingly on her hair, for this girl beside him was his afiianced wife. “It ooold break stones, though, dear: and I don’t know but that it wonld make of me a better man. “Suppose I lost my money, Marion? “Suppose it all were swept away from me in an hour, and I had a position of fered me, a position which would enable me to live but very humbly, very much as your friend is going to lire, tell me what you would do ?” “You are only talking to try me, Chester, and I hate snch questions. “Is the first place, it is entirely out of reason ; for even were it so, papa, you know, is very rich, and oar home could always be with him.” "T have said to yor, Marion, that I would rather starve than eat the bread of charity. “Therefore, putting this possibility aside, tell me still what you would do.” Her fingers relaxed their hold upon his hand. Was there significance in the action? - He smiled bitteiiy as ha saw it. His face was very pale now. Except that he still stood behind her chair, she most have noticed it “You are utterly absutd this after noon, Chester. “Have I not ju&t told you that Edith Marvine’s wedding was more like a funeral than a wedding ? “Have you nothing more agreeble you can find to say to me ?” The man shook off a certain some thing which seemed to envelope him in to an almost visible cloud, and answered with the old courteous grace which suited him so well, and had made his power with women almost a proverb. Mcney always seemed to belong to him by an inherent right It was so very natural t lat he should be rich. He knew so well how to expend his wealth. He gave it so generously, yet without ostentation, that no man envied him it Yet he knew a half-hour later, when he ieii his iareweii kiss on Manon Willoughby’s beautiful lips, that it was farewell to all his hopes and happiness. The blow had already fallen. He was a ruined man, with scarce a dollar he oouid call his own—he who had had no wish ungratified money might procure in all Lis thirty years of life. It had fallen, too, through no fault of his own, though tnere was feeble com fort in that. There waa comfort, however, in the knowledge that he owed no man, and that he might start afresh in the world, with no burden on his broad shoulders or oonscienoe. True, there was a deep wound in his hearh ■a had loved Marion ro well that to give her up wee to veluntarily renounce heaven’s sunlight But all her lifejbad been spent amid luxury. It was to her a necessity. Deprived of it she would fade and droop ; and better any lot than to watch her struggle, and know that he hud brought it upon her. Besides, she had made her choice. To her a wedding meant flowers, music, friends, the toilette of the bride. The future, the communion of two hearts, the solemn responsibilities in curred, were but secondary considera tions. “Uood-bye. my darliug 1” he said, as they parted. But when she added, “Until to-mor row,” be answered neither yea nor nay. “To-norrow” the world* knew that Chester Thorley’s ship had gone upon the rocks. Many of his business associates would have held out to him a helping hand, but firmly and kindly lie rolused every offer. He wrote Marion a few lines, recalling to her mind the conversation of the day before, and releasing her from her vows to him. Two years passed, and the little world which had known Chester Thorley so well, knew him no more. He had entirely disappeard. Manon Willoughby was Marion Wil loughby still. If she suffered she made no sign ; but those who had seen the one sparkling stone, which had been the pledge of her engagement to Chester Thorley, noticed that she wore it still ; and others, yet more narrow watchers, observed that always, when she entered a crow ded room, she wonld take a hasty glance about, as though expecting ro find some one not there. She was as yet but twenty-two, a belle and a beauty still, The third winter of his absence she went to spend several weeks with an aunt. “I cannot spare you,'’ her father had said when the invitation had come. But she, going close to him, and lay ing her bead a moment on his breast, had said— “I think, papa, it would be best." They were simple words, but he in terpreted them aright. The old wound would not cease its bleeding. Sue wanted to go amid new scenes, so he only kissed her, and bade her re member that the old father awaited her return. “You have not been through the steel works, ” some one said to her, one day. “It really is a most interesting sight. “Will you join a party, if we make one to visit them, Miss Willoughby ?” “With pleasure,” she answerdlightly. And her aunt, charmed with the bril liant success of her beautiful uiece, smiled at Olay Clayton s numerous de vices to en-iiare Marion’s society. He was (ho great ‘catch’ of the place, She had heard something of some early disappointment in Marion's life. It would be a splendid triumph thus to obliterate it, and already she felt quite sure that the fiat lay in * the girl’s own hands. The morning appointed for the expe dition dawned beautiful and bright. They seemed indeed like drones, in truding upon some busy hives of work ers. as they entered the great building and looked about them. Department alter department they visited, watching with interest the deli cate, subtle machinery and its wonder ful workings. Marion’s cheeks flashed with interest, and Clayion, notiaing it, thought he bad never seen her look more beautiful. To-day he determined he must speak, when suddenly he heard a little cry, and glancing up, saw her standing quite apart from the group, her eyes ablaze, her lips quivering. At a little distance f rom her, adjust ing some piece of machinery, waa a man in a working blouse. Her cry also attracted him, and he looked up. Their eyes met. His face grew deathly pule, but he gave no other sign of recognition. She went straight towards him, obli vious of all, with hand outstretched. “Chester !” she said, in a voice scarce louder than a whisper. “At last 1” | Ho bowed low in response, and took no notice of her hand ; but the old, daunt less bride was in the uplifted head and fearless glance. “Did you know that I was here ? “she questioned. — “No,” he replied. “I am no longer in your world.” “You will come to see me ?” "I cannot.” Here Lis voice broke a little. “Mr, Clayton,” she said, “let me present my iriend, Mr. Thorley. •’ Spite ot the innate breeding of the man, some ot the instictive surprise at healing a steel-worker addressed by Miss Willoughby as frieud made itself apparent in the maun-.r he yet strove to conceal. - Then the party passed on, He wondered, however, why Marion lingered a moment in the office to ad dress the superintendent some question as they came out into the air. He had meant, too, to ask her on the way home the question which ail the day, and for many days, had been tremb ling on his lips, but there was a new ex pression in her eyes and about her mouth which instinctively told him that this was not the time to plead his cause.- Had that fellow inside, who bowed so like a gentleman, been any other than a workman, he might have suspected iiim as in some way responsible. It was quite singular enough as it wat> that Miss W illoughby should have ad dressed him as friend. Doubtless some man who had seen better days, ana for whom she felt a womanly sympathy. “Can I seo Mr. Thorley ?” The mistress of the humble little cot tage looked up. cmaaed, at the beauti ful young lady who asked the question. “Indeed 1 suppose yon may, miss. “He’s gone up to hu room where he spends all hia evenings, and not a bit of sapper to-night has he touched, i “ahall I eall him down ?” “No, let me go to him.” “It's the first room to the right of the stairs, miss. “He’s the only lodgr-r I have, nnd you are his first visitor.” But the girl heeded not the words. A at ran go vision she surely was as she stood an instant outside his doors, clad in costly Velvet and rich furs. Then she softly turned the handle and entered. Ho did not hear her. He had thrown himself upon his sofa and buried his head in its cushions. He was so still, so motionless, she thought he must be sleeping. She swiftly crossed the room, and laying her iiand gently upon his shoul der, called his name. “Heavens!” he cried, and would have started to his feet but that she held him back, falling on her kneea be side him. “Cheater,” she pleaded, “you wonld not come to me. “My pride ia less than yours—my love greater. “I have ocme to you. “Did you think that my heart uttered the unworthy words for which you have punished me all these years ? “I have tried so long to find you—so long and so hopelessly- And she bowed her beautiful head and sobbed outright. “Hush, dear, hush. “You should not have come here, Marion. “It might compromise you.” “Compromise me with my future husband? “See, Chester,” and she held up the hand on which gleamed the ring. “I have never had my freedom.” “My own brave girl,” he said, his voice softening even while he girded himself up to the strength of whioh he stood in such need. “But the heaven yon haye opened to me cannot be. “I am foreman in the works where you saw me to-day, Marion, “My knowledge and love of mach inery stood me in good stead. “1 hpard of this opening and secured it. “To-day I was adjusting some diffi cult piece of work I dared not trust to the workmen. “1 am in receipt of a liberal salary, which I am laying aside, dear, living as poorly as I can, hoping one day to buy an interest in the business. “One or two improvements I have made are rapidly advancing me towards this gaol : but it is still far off. I can not ask you to wait, nor to forget the years of labor which have helped me reach it.” “1 have waited already too long, Ches ter,” she whispered. “I am ready now to oecome your wile.” His lace grew deadly white. “Do not tempt me,” he said hoarsely. “Oh, Chester,” she said. “When I have so much money, why are you so cruel and so proud t” “I cannot go hack to a life of ease and dependence,” he answered—“even with yon, dear love, to brighten it. Bioas you for coming to me Marion. Bless you for showing me all that a no ble woman may be. The memory oi this hour will lighten all my iuture years.” ‘ ‘Chester, ^-ou do not understand me.” she persisted. “I ask you to return to no life of dependence. “I will forget that I have a single shilling in the world except what yon give me. I will share whatever home you offer me—even this. “For better, for worse, darling, we pledged ourselves, as sacredly as though already we had stood before God’s alter. In God’s sight I am your wife. “I claim my right to share your dark days, as well as those on which the sun of prosperity may shine.” He strove to answer her, but his yoice broke. She had conquered; but woman-like, she gave to him the glory of her victory as she sobbed ont her happiness upon his heart. A month later there was a quiet wed ding, at which were neither flowers, nor bridesmaids, nor music; but Marion Willoughby missed nothing. It was after the ceremony had been performed that Chester showed her a document which had been his wedding gift from the firm he had served so faith fully, and whioh admitted him as 9 junior partuer from that date. But she smiled half-«adiy as she look ed at it through a mist of tears. “You said once, dear,’’she whispered, “that flowers, to live, needed sunlight. “My darling, I had not then made the wonderful discovery that loved makes sunlight everywhere. “With your heart my home, be its outward adornmeuts what they will, I envy no king his palace, no queen her throne. ” Bnaalo Bill ana Caster. Dead Articles. The Post-Office Department has or dered the sale at auction of •articles ac cumulated in the Dead-Letter Office, and a catalogu is published whioh is in its way a curiosity. There are 12,000 lots, and probably not less than 40,000 articles ; and such a variety can rarely before have beea seen together. Be sides several thousand book", and sos'ie hundreds of articles of ' jewelry, there is a list of miscellaneous articles whioh seems to include almost everything un der the sun that could be put into a mail-bag. For instance, there are cor sets, files, 15-pnzzlee, carpet-stretchers, stockings, spatulas, trousers, hypoder mic syringes, ham mars, fishing tackle, ostrich-feathers, door-knobs, fiddle- strings, oil-stones, liver-pads, pipes, hats, padlocks, pistols, mouse-traps, galvanio batteries, garters, tobacco, tea spoons, garden-sprinklers, screws, stir rups, rugs,'shirts, courts hip-cards, nurs ing bottles, otrengckenisg plaster, arti ficial flowers, campaign-torches, boots and shoes, harmonicas, bullet-molds, walking sticks, and even washing ma chines. In 1£67, says Baffilo Bill, I was pout guide and scout at Fort Hays, Kansas. Before that time I had met C -aeral Custer when he was stationed at old Fort Fletcher but 1 was not well acquainted with him. One evening early In June he came into Hays with only a light escort and was on a forced march to Fort Lamed, which is sixty five miles froth the former place. At that time there were, cl course, no railroad connections. When the General expressed a wish for some guide to accompany him, the commanding officer detailed me, aBfl orders were given to atsrt at daylight lac follow ing'mprning, . AUhe time mo besk long-distance horse was a big, mouse-col ored mule, and as 1 had heard what a litthtniag traveler Custea was I knew that only my best runner would do to keep ahead of the ‘Whirl• led,’ as the Indians vailed him. I thought 1 would be prompt Tbe Sive-Away aam«, “ Do you know, ' said a man who waa eelling jewelry from a dry goods box to a reporter, “that the Aniericans are the easiest humbugged of any in the world f It is true, and 1 have helped to humbug them*about as much as the average man.” Somebody Lad just been reading an ac count of the Louisville lottery drawing, which brought for.h this speech. “Can’t you tell us some of your ex per lence in that line ?” asked a man near. “Well, you ifft^ld laugh to know what fools ptople'mafce of themselves some times. ALxtni two weeks ago 1 was down In Brunswick, wflere 1 saw a fellow run ning a perfectly* square game, but which was the most out-and-out steal I ever beard of. His plam was Simple, and hundreds of the vesy best people of the town flock ed ta give him a trial. He rented a store and put a show case across the counter in and ahead of the General at daylight, MU' the center. In tli6 show case be bad, 1 when 1 arrived he was already on' tbe ground with his staff and orderlies. When. 1 rode up I noticed him eyeing the animal 1 was riding and when 1 announced that I was to be bis guide he assented, but said 1 would have to get a better horse. It would I would find, take something better than an old mule to keep ahead of him, 1 vig orously maintained that tne mule would get over the sixty-flve miles as quick as any horse he had, and he seemed to be satisfied when the post commander spoke np and confirmed what 1 bad said For the first ten miles I had to use the spurs lively to keep the fieneral from riding over me, but after crossing the bmoky Hill river and getting on into tbe sand-bills tbe mule got bis second wind. He commenc ed to leave Custer’s Kentucky tnorough- bred.snd tbe soldier in time acknowledged that I was riding a pretty good horse. For a long time we kept up this rapid mrvel- ing,' bis escort being scattered, out for miles behind, and as tbe country was dangerous the General called h halt, to let his men close up acd become less convenient tar gets for vagrant bauds of Indians. When' we started again 1 made up my mind to show him what a good mule could do,and I struck a gait which astonished him so much that bo did pot call for anotheP bait, We lett the escort to follow as best they could, and before noon the General and myself rode into Fort Lamed. Tha escort straggled in for hours during the day.*The next day 1 returned to Hays, while hq took command of hie regiment and sooii after had his big fight at i'awnee Fork creek. I met him frequently after that and guided him in several expeditions. Poor Gustei 1 l was thirty-five miles from him when'he killed himself. Yes. killed himselt! The Indians .who were u the fight of the Little Big Hern say Luster killed himself, and from the Indian religion 1 am convinced that they are right. Ho was the only one who was not mutilated on the bl'xxly field, and the red warrior will not mutilate the body of a man who t'^kes his own life. 1 think that Custer fought till all his brother officers died, and, no Reno to support him he died by his own hand and ended the career of as brave & man ns ever wore spurs.” They Can't b« Beat. At Charleston 1 met a man trom Bing- tumpten, N. Y., who was agent for some sort of cotton machinery, and almost the first thing he said to me was: “flow do you manage with the hotel waiters?” “Why, 1 have to fee them, of course.” “That shows how green you are. I am going to stop here four days, and I won’t pay ’em a cent.’’ “Then you won't get much service.” “I won’t, eh! Well, yon just watch me and learn a thing or two. Bee that?” It was a lead half dollar, neatly covered with gold foil, and at first glance it seem ed to be a twenty dullar gold piece. W ben the New Yorker’s trunk came up stairs and the two darkies lingered around for a quarter apiece, that “twenty” appeared to view, and he said: “Smallest I’ve got to-day. I’ll see you before I go.” The same thing was worked on the table waiter, on the waiter who brought up ice water, and on several other colc*ed indi viduals, and when we were all ready to take the train for Savannah, the trunks went down oa the wagon and we walked to the depot. Two minutes before the train pulled out the New Yorker turned to the African with his gripsack and said: “James, will you take this coin and sqpare up with the boys for me!” “Yes, sab.” “Place it carelully in your pocket and don’t lose it.” “She's dar, sab. Ize millyuns o’ times obleeged to you.” “Never mind that Well, we are off.” All the way down to Savannah that eve ning my companion chuckled over his keenness in beating the colored population but when we reached the latter city his ohm took a drop. We were not dear of the depot when he was arrested for pass ing counterfeit money, and all his explan ations did not prevent his return to Char leston by the next train. I met him after ward In Alabama, and he told me the adair cost him $60. A London Tonaortal Saloon. According to a correspondent, London barber shop are queer in conveniences. I went into one the other day and nearly broke my book trying to p5sc for a boir cut and and a shave in an ordinary wood en chair. The barber is proverlially loquacious everywhere, and very much concerned about tbe absoluteneeds of your head and hair. Mine informed me that that my hair was very thin, acd needed singeing. I demured. Just as 1 was abont to rise, however, he said: “You won’t be satisflee unless you have Hint hair singed.” Determined to get as much ex perience as I could in a short time aud tor a hule money, 1 resumed my back-aching attidude and the phages lighted his taper, graspedjihe comb, applied bis torch, and in an instant my head was covered, like little lulus’s, with a lambent flame. Y ou should have heard that untortnuate barber squeal I You see he had spread tue bay rum and tome pretty ihitkly before 1 made up my mind to undergo the singeing, with out washing Us hands, and hair and hands were victims of a grand pyrotechnic dis play. I rose with some haste and greet Indignation, and trusted that the young man was satisfied. Hereafter I shall have my own way In that shop, rod that young man won’t bo so profuse totb hW recom- know, my hat full of $20 gold coins, piled in one corner, and m the other about the same sized pile of silver dollars. A dice box and six dice conqi^ted nis outfit. By paying fifty cents a man had one throw with the dice. If he threw six sues be took the entire pile of gold; if he threw six aces he was entitled to all the silver. Uf bourse Tie knew no one ever threw all the sixes, neither was it possible to get the sixes to come all in a bunch. A man might as well expect ts get struck by lightning from a cloudless sky at noonday as to throw six aces; it Is almost an im possibility, that’* all. Well, the fellow made several hundred dollars end left. ‘iDid y*u eves hear how easy it wes to foal a man with soap?” continued the speaker. “We street men know that as an old story, of course. I was down to Troy several tffWiths ago, when a fellow came alang almost strapped. Hs went to a grocery store, bought a few bars of this transparent soap, cut it into small pieces about tbe size of one'a thumb, wrapped it in tissue paper vcry“n‘catly, and then cov ered the package with tin foil, sprinkling the whole with a bottle of cologne to give it a good smell. Weil, sir, that fellow got on a box and soon gathered a crowd by some nice talking, and proposed to take out all the grease from hats, coats, etc., that could be brought In. The first case presented was that of the city Marshal, who walked up with a great spot on his ooat which he wanted taken out. The fellow earned a sponge well saturated with benzine and arnica, winch of itself will take out almost anything, and by using a bit of the soap soon bad the Mar shal’s coat free from grease. That started the soap sales, and m two or three hours, it being Saturday and a crowd in town, the sojip man had sold '$86 wotth, nearly alloi which was clear profit.” * Stopping to draw a breath tbe jewelry man contint^d his interesting store. “1 tell you you can huifitfug ant body. I am not unlike the rest of ttm world. 1 be lieve T would bite at my own trioks if I oouid get in the crowd While I was at Brunswick, Ga., 1 took revenee on the t&wn by^tyffig “trtmt wc term a ‘give away racket.’ it is a mighty fine thing to play, but a very dangerous one in some localities. 1 had been using a big umbrella targe enough to cover fifty people, when one night on the street a crowd of sailors, led on by some ot the town boys, threw rotten eggs at the umbrella aud broke up the crowd. Then I resolved on the ‘give away racket.’ A fellow has to be mighty careful about working it, or he .will get caught out. It can only be played once in a town. “The way to dolf is this : Get a lot of fine gold rings, which cost about $1 a dozen, and propose to be advertising some big gold concern in New York. 1 called mine the brazen gold of San Fran cisco, stated that I would show the crowd a thing or two, and soon got them inter ested. First, 1 made a speech in which I stated ray business, then I commenced to offer the rings at any price from two cents up, telling them that they conld not be bought for less than $4 apiece at a jewel er s. I let out about twenty rings at two cents, and then asked everybody who had bought rings to hold them up. Instantly every ring was in the air. ’Now,’ said 1, addressing the crowd, ‘this is your money, is it?’ ‘Yes,’ said a dozen. ‘And you give it freely for the rings ?’ ‘Yes,’ cseme again in chorus. ‘Very well, here’s twenty cents for you, sir, and twenty cents for you, sir,’ and so on around the crowd. They commenced to wander what in the world 1 meant; said I was crazy, aud a lot of other things, but I only told them I was advertising goods for n.y house, and had plenty more things to give away. Next I took up some ot my handsome diamond studs, which I explained were Lake George diamonds, equal to any on earth, etc., and that I was going to sell them for twenty-five cents up, the more one paid the better it would be, of course, for him. Twenty studs were soon out and the same speech made. Then I made the crowd hold up the diamonds, and each man got fitly cents back who had bought. “The thing began to get very interest ing. and the crowd numbered 800 or 400. Then I got out some beautiful gold-plated sleeve buttons, whicn I explained conld natbe bought for less than $12. These I proposed to sell for fifty cents each, giving to a‘l who bought a dollar additional as before, each time doubling the money gift. The buttons soon went off, as had the other things, and I was ready for the final ‘bite’ at the crowd. The twenty nairs ot sleeve buttons had been sold for half a dollar, and I had given back twenty silver dollars. ‘That fellow's a darned fool,’ I heard all around me, but I replied to this by saying that last week, in Macon, I had given away $1,600, and that I was ready to do it again. “The crowd was perfectly crazy to see what came next. It was watch chains. The chains were sold at any price from $2.40 to anything above that one warned to give, I telling them the while that the more they paid the better it would be for them. 1 Mnted that the watches would- come next, and this led them off like a lot of madmen. The trick now was to seU as many chains as possible at $2.50 1 had a devil of a lot ot chains, and 901 sent them out right and lett. The dollars came rushing blindly at me and I raked them in like chaff. Then I got out of chains.: , , “Previously I bad prepared tvto big red silk handkerchiefs, exactly alike, and as soon as the chains were All sold out I took the money, and, in the presence of .he crowd, tied It all up together, and after making a speech, propOk«d to throw the bundle ittb tho‘crowd for the best man to take, Wklle talking I purposely dreppsd the bundle into my box by my side, in which I bad the other handkerchief. In this was $10 in silver and some paper to make it Mand out like the one 1 bad drop ped. All this had been arranged before hand, of coune! With a whoop I swung the bag around my head after stopping to pick it up where i first dropped it. and up it went into the air. Great heavens i you should havo seen the mob f 1 never saw anything like it. They fought like tigers over (he handkerchief, while I took occa sion to leave the spot. 1 had also arrang ed to bring the thing to a climax about the time the Albany train left, so I was driven at once to the depot. I was ins; $280 ahead. But I got very weak in the knees while waiting at the depot. I was a little too soon, and about a dozen young men came up. raising the very mischief of a noise, which 1 thought was for me, and it proved to be true. They saw me and came around me, laughing and knocking each other like crazy men. 1 didn’t know what on earth was tbe matter until they finally told me it was tne best joke that bad ever been played on Brunswick, and although they had been victimized, they wanted to assure me It was all right. “1 bad sold tbe chains to nearly all tbe best men of Brnnswiuk, some of them pa> ing me as high as $5 for them. I was satisfied to leave, and had my revenge. You may put it down for a fact that any average American crowd can be hum bugged the same way every day to the year.” A Blind Colorado Man. There is, in Selma, Alabama, as hostler, gardener aud general workman a negro named Dick, twenty-four years old, who, since his fifth birthday has been as blind as the proverbial bat. The amount of work he does and the neatness, accuracy and dispatch with which all his chorea and odd jobs are done are simply marvelous. He attends to several horses, feeds them, washes their harness, and, when occasion demands, can hitch up a team as well as well as any one. His stable yard is a model ot cleanliness, and the garden is well worked. He washes the carriages, hoiecp and w&gons, oils vehicles and sees that they are all right before allowing them to be taken out of the lot. He is as light hearted as most Africans, and can en joy a joke and laugh at it, though he wastes but few moments in idlenesa of any vauety, his old variety, his whole mind seemingly being bent upon a careful discharge of his various duties. He is as stout as an ox, and is a bad man to tease, as a bantering loafer found out to his sor row not long since. He bad been tormen ting Dick until the latter’s stock of patience gave out, when he turned furiously on his tormentor, and the first thing that individ ual knew he was landed, all bruised up, in a heap some jards away, I'erhaps the most remaikable gift the man h&s is bis ability to tell within a few moments the time of day. Day or night, when asked what time it is, he replies without, hemt*- tion, aud is rarely timber off from the ek- act marking ot the dial than ten minutes. To test this gift, after having talked with him about his work the reporter quickly asked: “What tiinG is it, Dick?” “Half-past ten,” came the immediate response. A look at the wa'ch showed that at that instant it w s 10.1-6, within four minutes of the time guessed by the man, who probably knows not the appearance of either watch or clock. He goes to bis home nome blocks distant to remain during the night, but is always on hand bright and early as the morning sun to begin his day’s work. In all sorts of weather he never fails to be on time. He is seldom sick, and then only slightly indisposed. The Fushlo'i iu Flower*. The decrees of fashion in flowers are almost as inexorable as those respecting dress—particularly in’the manner of wear ing them. A young man who should now appuar m wide trousers, instead of those which clung to the I % would be subject to ridicule; so would he be frowned on it he wore a red rose when it was the proper thing to wear a white one. Just now men wear large white rosebuds in their button holes on evening occasions. This fashion lacks originality. The men are wearing large white rosebuds in London. Last season the man of fashion here wore the smallest white flowers he could find. The flower most in use at present is the rose, either of a delicate pink shade or white. When a bride does not wear the tradi tional orange blossoms she adorns herself with white loses and half opened buds. The bridesmaids carry colored roses, most of a pink tint. The groom wears a white rosebud when the bride carries white roses, and the groomsmen have flowers in in their coats corresponding to the bouquet carried by the ladies they escort. Corsage bouquets for evening parties or street wear consist simply of pink or white roses tied in a loose bunch. If more than one kind of buds are used those of the same Color are grouped together. All flowers must havo their own stems, which,. Afeonld be long. At diQnm. instead ot bouquets at itach- plate, small baskets of flowers are placed in front ot each guest. At lunch eon parties there is usually a bunch of roses for each guest, which is fastened on the corsage after luncheon is over and worn on the street. Capitol Painting* Damans*. One of the great paintings in the Capitol which is nineteen feet by fifteen in dimen sions, was very badly scorched during the Garfield fair and the riRinenta seem to have been on the point of taking fire. A close wall of pine boards was erected inside the rotunda in order to protect the nict.nr* from mutilation during the fair. Near the paioliug of the Baptism of Pocahontas was a large register, through which heat comae up from the furnaces to warm the vast area. The board wall above alluded to was set jnst outside of the register, so that the heat was Carried up by means of tins impromptu flue directly over the canvas, instead of being diffused throughout the room. The consequence is, that by this steady application ot intense heat the painting has changed color and cracked iu a thousand places. It is valued at $10, • OO0 acd will have to be taken down and retouched, which wilt be the work of months, to repair tbe damage. Another painting was fcorched a little, upon the otner side of the rotunda, and tbe canvas of still another, which represents the dis covery of the Mississippi by De Beto, had a hole punched through the sky by the carpefftefs iff* taking'’ttotal the woMWMt which had been erected in front of it. 1876. 1882 F. W. HABENICHT, .. - Proprietor of the # • . • I respectfully call the attention of the public to my superior facilities for sup plying everything Li my line, of superior quality. Starting business In Winns- boro in 1876, I have in all this time given tbe closet attention to my busi ness and endeavored to make my estab lishment FIBST-CLASS in every par ticular. I shall in the future, as in the past, hold myself ready to serve my customers with the best articles that can be procured in any market I shall stand ready, also, to guarantee every article I sell. I invite an inspection of my stock of Wines, Liquors, Tobacco, Cigars, etc. , F. W. HABENICHT. IMPORTED. 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