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^jBas ' > " *_ - ; ." , ' VOL.XLII. x-.f WINXSBORO, s" C., WEDNESDAY. JULY H, 1886. NO.50. k OLD TIME JERSEY .MOifflOXS. BIT TWO LEFT OF THE AMiE\T ?LI E ItlDGE COLOW. ww How a Salt Lake Missionary Senrticd a (iuh-t j? Country Community mid MaJr Mormons ol V Thein Thirty Y?*or? A^o. ' (From the Xe"S" York St:r ; Tlie death of old Tom Pern-, the greatest Mormon elder east of Utah and x' - 1 ? J?i?* ? /-vnr..-. o cAff]cm<-nt I XIIjLUJiUW Ill *>> 11*1 L \U(0 WXiV\> ?V ? of 250 of the Latter Day Saints, which r occurred at Perryville, X. J., last week, virtually closes the history of Mormonism in New Jersey. Of all the old settlement but two. people now remain? one, Adeline Meyers, an old maid, now residing in Hainesville; and the other, ' . Martin Recton, an old bachelor, living away back in the Blue Ridge Mountains, f mflAs from Deckertown. The history of this community, as obtained from Silas Suyclam, or "TVhoii-boy Sile" as he is more commonly called, is an interesting one. In fact, old Sile himself is in an interesting story. Sile is one of ^ oldest settlers in the Blue Ridge 3Ioun?L tains, and lives in what was once the V very heart of the .eastern Utah. Early one morning last week a Star reporter started frum Deckertown to hear Sile's story of Mormonism. He found the old I man suffering from rheumatism, con^ . i -i ?;J W tracxeu u.unug iuc \> uj. , uul .mi ?uivu uv rnow draws a pension. After the usual remarks about the weather and the value of the horseflesh which the reporter had been driving, the latter said: "Say, Sile, did you ever hear of a Mormon settlement up in tliis neighl-orbood?" "Did I ever hear of it? Do I rememberit? Well, I guess I do. I come pritty near bein' a Mormon myself them ^ davs. 'Long in the spring of '50,1 think it was, wnen an oiu, ioug-iiiuucw jjuoxnu come marchin' Into town one niornin'. He said his name was Lane, Elder Lane, from Salt Lake City. He had a pack of paper-covered books under Ms arm, and lie left one at even* house. I think I got the one he left here yet. Just wait till I go in and see." ?. The old man walked into the house and returned in a few minutes with a yellow-covered book containing about fifty pages, entitled "The Christian Way; A History of the Rise and Progress of xi.. m.?,.i, 1.,. r?l-:?<T.ono " IUU MVlUlVll \^iuutu, . 'Thet ere book," said Sile, resuming i his story, "is what did it. The wimmin I . folks got a hold on it an' read it over an' ^4 over, ""an' they'd get together an' talk p about atween themselves. Old Lane didn't stop thet time, but he eame back in about a week an' writ out notices thet he was agoin' to stay an' preach on Sunday. Thet was 'long about the middle of the week, I think, an' he spent the rest of the week goin' around nuilin'; tlipsft notices ud on trees. Well, Sunday | come, an* the whole mountain turned j out to hear what the old man had to say. ! r I was there 'long with my sister, SaLb'e i . Ann, an' I hed a lot of paper an* a piece j of charcoal, an' I put down the Scrip-! ture notes thet the* old fejiow read. I > kinder thought he might lie a little, cr j read 'em wrong or sutliin', don't you; know, an' when I got htm I got down i the old Bible, an' hunted up every one of the texts what he had read, an' by gosh, they were there, an'just like he'd said 'em, too. I thought I was a pritty good scriptorian myself, but some how 1 didn't recommember of ever bavin' read ; ^ * !? <?? +v>inorc lipfore. There they was, j ^ though, in black and white, an' I j couldn't go back on the Bible. It was j the most devilishesfc holt* I ever got into. ^ I talked with some of the neighbors about it, and at last we decided to held a meetin' unbeknownst to Lane to talk j it over and see what to do about it. We j didn't just like the idea of goin' back on j our Methodist brethren down to Sfindis- j ton, but we was agoin' to be right, brefch. ren or no brethren. The night for the meetin' come, an' about thirty-five of us gathered in my house, this same old house right here," pointing to the house. "I thought we'd best open tne mvtuu ; W with prayer for help to decide the que?* ^ tion, anJ so I got up an' prayed the good y Lord to tell us which was light. Well, sir, maybe you won't believe it, but suthin' said to me, 'Sile, you'd best leave that galoot alone.' I heard it just as plain as day. It come so suddint, by - - i?/l r\r> gosh, mat 1 maac up iii v mum ?>. f spot to stick to the Methodists. It didn't seem to strike the others that way, though, for even* mother's soil of them 1m voted to have the old sinner stay and ggr v preach. "Well, course one couldn't do nuthin' agin thirty-four, an' so they hed their n ay, an' Lane was invited to preach. He was more than willin' to, you bet, an' he kept right on Sunday after Sunday makin' new converts all the time. By an' by, I guess 'twas after he hed been here 'bout six months, he got up in J meetin' one Sunday, an' said: 'Brethren, j " 1 +irr>a haw ololwnn' i we oeen juere xnuc together, an' tlae church of God has grooved up to be a big one. Tart of our religion is to baptize, an all of you must be baptized afore you can git to heaven.' Then he said he would be ustandin' on the shore of Lake Shipcong at 12 o'clock thet night, an' he would baptize all who hed jined the faith. Everybody wanted ^ _ to see how it was done, an' so everybody was there. At exactly 12 o'clock old Lane stepped into the lake, an' about a minute aiter Ann Harrison, a young girl Bp about 20 years old, followed him. He W commenced to sing a song, and then he f douced her down into the water. He done this three times, an' then he asked for anybody else that wanted to be baptized, and young Tom Haggermann 3 iros fnllnwwl ^ StrCpjKXl JLLLtV LlXU JkJtv/ ft by twenty-one more, an' then they all ? went home. After this baptism they ?|J^ had one every week, and if there was I .jflnybody what wasn't baptized he warn't fr *rcbody. The church kept a-growin' an' a-growin' until '55, when Lane said good-bv an' left for Utah. We heard afterward that lie died on the roau?anyway, we never saw hiin agin. "For 'bout three years there wasn't no ^ head an' the church died down. Then in '58 a fellow calling himself Ed Dockp:% erty an' claiming to hail from Xew York 1? came an' took charge. He bruiig with him two of the purtiest gals you ever see an' said they was both iiis wives. He was a dandy feller an* all the girls herein abouts was clean gone on him. He " hadn't been here no mure than three months before he married Sally Beebus, ra nicc young gaL The church growed while Dockerty was here, an' when he left there was about 150 members. Along in '60. iust before the war broke out, he | went to Texas, takin' his three wives J witli him. I hear he died shortly affrr ' he got there. k "I went to the war just after that, and what they done while I was gone I don't * woo 171C+ oft/n- r ci vm 0 1 in kqo?. ?**?? j""v ^ _ ? '63 a feller come along named Sparks, an* he preached an' bossed the parish lintil '69, when lie disappeared one day prf notion' was lieard of him until about a month after, when his dead body was found up here in the woods near Fiddler's Elbow. He was buried in great style. It was during Sparks' term when Tom Perry was converted. Tom was pretty well along in years?around the T /viiflfc l\nf 1 \1 rMAtJLCf*} litXUj J~ jjlic.-w A1V MVy came a red hot Mormon, an' lie used to get up in the old school-house an' say the spirit moved him; then he'd talk an hour at a time, real smart, too. It was on account of this talking power that old Perry took charge when Sparks was gone, and I think he had 'bout 150 wimmin and seventy-five men in liis congregation. The old school-house wasn't big enough to hold them, an' they held their meetin's outside. Old Tom had one wife when he lined the church, an' afore lie got through he had eight. I hear they's all dead now. The old wo-! man war 84 when she died, an' the youngest, a gal named Minnie, war about 22. 'Long in '72 or '73 Tom made up his mind to convert the whole country an' he made up a meetin' to discuss the question with the Methodists down to Sundiston. Hie meetin' lasted eight days an' both sides claimed they got the 1- i. .J' x -.4- ??ap mfn -fVw-i rtf UCM t'i Itj It ? j^U.C AJUCV U1V iltiuuu VX a committee to decide, hut somehow they never reported how it come out. In '7-i the thing commenced to dwindle, an' it kept gittin' lesser an' lesser until now, I guess, there's only two left. One of 'em is a cousin of mine, Miss Meyers, down in Havnesville, an' t'other one is old Mart Kecton, who lives up here a piece in the mountain o-i the road to ? rm hi ? j. nowhere. ?ne settlement just ueiow at Shaytown, which was ran by Charlie Abers, never 'mounted to much anyway, an', I guess, they're all gone now. Well, I must go to work. Much obleeged for you fellers stoppin'. I don't see much of life up here." After thanking Sile for his*storv the scribe drove on to the old sehool-liouse where the meetings were held. It is a little old hut, not much larger than a good-sized dry goods box. At present it is occupied by Martin Cole and his family, consisting of a wife and eight children. It has but two rooms, and these arc xised for cooking, eating and sleeping purposes. Half a mile further nn ic Tnm Pprrv's old On a little clearing by the road is tlie house where he was bom and lived all his life. It is an unpainted wooden building containing four rooms. There is a little .shed in the rear. Tom ^as quite a character. He was born poor, and by drudging and saving he succeeded in buying the land around hi:' homestead, amounting to about 650 acres. Twenty years before he joined the Mormon Church he quarreled with his wife about a trillinc: thing, and they never ?1_- i 1. SpUivU CUCJLX UtiiUJL UJLLLJU. LXAC jUJL^XXL ??x; was baptized. All that tirue they lived iu the same liousc, cooked, ate and slept together, yet they never spoke a word to each other. Ho was the father of fourteen children by the woman. How many he had by his later wives is not known. He had eighty-two grandchildren when he died. All are scattered in different pjlJ-TS pi (.11C uyuiltiv, liUJUCUi UlCiXJIJLl > lxty j near the old place. About half a mile north from Perry's place is Lake Shipoong, where all the converts were baptized. It is quite a large body of water, considering the fact j that olx liigliost point o? tlio Bluo ! Ridse range, over 1,900 feet above the level of iiic sea. The view from the l*ke | is one of the grandest in world. Standing on the roadside near by one can see fifteen villages with the naked eye, the nearest one ten miles away. Four miles froi:: the lake, on the old stage line turnpike, is Shaytown, which was also once ? ^ Ar?+ P A Tl'Oe ci -tAiJlUJLHl Vj JL-/. ??**o the leading elder in tliis place. He became converted "while attending the meetings at Perryville while Elder Lane was in charge of them. Upon his return home he gathered around him a band of a dozen, and every Sunday during the summer they would go on in the woods and hold their meetings, while in the winter they would be held in his house. Abers had but one wife. He had eight children, six of them girls, all of whom joined the Mormon Church, aud married voting Mormon converts. Xoge of them are living now. A few miles back of Shaytown there was a settlement of Mormon women. The leaders were a Mrs. Ray and a Mrs. Fox.. Ko n)an was allowed "to join this community, but if w&ftted come and get a wife he was welcome, provided he agreed to go away with her. At one time there were as many as fifteen mem bers in this settlement.. A drive of three miles over a stony, rocky road and you are in Brick House, the only town v: the neighborhood that did not have at least one convert to Mormonism when it was prevalent. Why it was called Brick House is a mystery, as a brick is something probably never seen by the inhabitants of that village. Here is where the weary traveler eats, however, and if there is any one thing more than another that the proprietor of the Brick House Hotel knows about, it is feeding hungry people a good, square meal, giving a horse six cuxarts of oats, and asking the traveler when he lias finished liis meal whether he would like a little "chain : lightning." or would prefer to "biiok a I stone fence." If he prefers "chain I lightning," he gets apple whiskey straight, two drinks of which is warranted to take the lining off the stomach of I a cast-iron man. If he prefers to "buck i the stone fence," he gets a big bowl of | hard cider. All this is done for fifty j cents. | Three miles from Brick House is Haynesville, the home of Miss Meyers, the only living female Mormon in Jersey. She is about 80 years old, and is a remarkably sharp old lady, When asked about the old settlements in the mountains she told substantially the same story as "Whoa-boy Sile." She said that marriage in those days according to the rites of the church was simply an agreement on the part of the woman to obey the man. There was no written contract, simply a shake of the hand. In reply to tiie question it polygamy was practiced to r.uy extent she shook her head and said: "Some did it, but I never tried it." After "bucking a stone fence" the scribe started on his weary way of thirty odd miles back over the hills to Deckertown, having learned more about eastern Mormonism in twelve short hours than he had ever learned before in iiis life. I Is there not a moral lurking somewhere in tlie f;ict that tho only two living Mormons of the two or tliree hundred who once lived there are an old maid and an old bachelor? He Was Punished. A bright little boy was looking over lii.s geography the other day, and came across the word Rotterdam. He asked his good Christian mother if it would be a sin for him to pronounce that ugly word, and when his mother assured him that it would not be wrong, he startled her by saying: "If Sissy don't s;op eating so much candy it will" Rotterdam teeth out." And right then and there that good mother took "oft her slippc-r. :md the boy tried to slip her, i?ut he couldn't, aud so the is sue wa# drawn right there., and that boy i* now realizing the terrors of punishment, and is l saddest when he sits. T1IK WHITE.'IIOl'?K HR1DE. Making the Mansion .>Iore of a Home and Leu of a C'!ul? House. (From the Xew York San. The d ily routine of life at the White House has not been altered much since a bride came to preside there. A -writer in the New York Sun says that the Presi cients naoits nave not yiemeu to me change in his domestic affairs. There is one more servant, a German girl, whom Mrs. Hoyt brought from Fayettcville ; with her, "who will remain as Mrs. Clevc- < land's maid. But the presence of a mis- , tress at the Executive Mansion would ' not be perceived by the casual visitor. * A close inspection of the private portion 1 of the house, however, shows that a woman's dainty hand and reline-d taste have passed over it, and the rooms look less like a club house and more like a home. Mrs. Cleveland and her friend < have been overhauling the antique furniture, pulling one piece out of this room J and pushing another into that, and at * the west end of the private corridor they ] have fitted up a little snuggery, where , they sit sometimes and exchange con- < fidences. A j>i-no has been taken up " -mi*f unv; tjuc syuui ^iiauiucii uuu txitit j part of tlie house, which lias so long been , gloomy and forbidding, lias now become <, musical and merry under the touch of * their fingers. Visitors who are shown into , the President's library nowadays hear i unaccustomed sounds, a snatch of song ' disclosed by an open door, or an echo of laughter, or a few notes of a piano gayly c played. ; s 5 I i When the President hears these sounds ^ he often looks surprised and many: fir < time leaves a pile of official papers on j his desk, looks into the adjoining room to see what the girls, as he calls them, c are up to and then returns to his work a f happier and more contented man. A Cabinet meeting was interrupted the , other day and grave matters of statecraft were laid aside by a little confusion in I which two girlish voices were apparent, j i but the interruption passed suddenly ^ away and diverte l attention was restored j to the consideration of the fisheries ques- ^ tion. ' i Breakfast was*formerly served at the ^ White House at eight o'clock and the President was often at his desk an hour j or so before. Now the breakfast horn- z is nine o'clock, and only once or twice c since his marriage has 5lr. Cleveland at- ^ tended to any official duties before going 5 downstairs. He usually 'passes into the ( library on his way to the dining room to tt**1 iof -f.nl cvrrvnmc 1 of fotc orn Ixrinnr | I1UMII VA C*-L JL^y j upon his desk and runs through them j while waiting for breakfast to be served.' He gets into the official harness about an hour later than he used to do, and it is j. generally ten o'clock nowadays before he !. begins work, when nine was the hour j formerly. He pulls steadily along until half-past one, when, on every alternate j day, he receives the public and then goes ( to luncheon, and afterward chats with ( the ladies for a few minutes as he smokes v a cigur. j During the morning hours Mrs. Cleve- \ land sees notumc of her husoand, but j spends her time in reading, sewing, ar- ( ranging things about the house, wander- , ing in the conservatory and gossiping with the gardener about the flowers, of ( which she is very fond. In the attic of ( the White House is a wonderful store of } vl<l trliiugs, Himtln? y vttng - vcvrntjii- t been overhauling them, dragging to j light relics of Jefi'ersonian simplicity and ^ Jacksonian severity and throwing them j into contrast with the artistic modern- j ness that has prevailed since General j Arthur and the Tiffanys renewed the , mm W1 Ave W lnin 4*1^ ovii IC TIA JL X O V.J[ l?4.Ci-X TT XXJ.X v_/ L Uti V_, AO UU necessity for Mrs. Cleveland exercising any supervision, over the domestic affairs of the 'place, as the servants are well trained and numerous, scarcely a day passes without a consultation with the steward or a \isit to the cook, who, with the rest of the household, admire {heir young mistress as nmch as the public do. Bachelors Xever Die. The New York Herald quotes from its Jacksonville namesake to prove tliat bachelors never die, thus: John Kelly thought Tilden too old and frail to run a second time as President. John Kelly is dead. The stalwart Chandler wrested the Presidency from Tilden.? Chandler is dead. * Grant, it is said,-would have arrested and imprisoned Tilden if he had attempted to claim the office he had been elected to. Grant is dead. Hancock was chosen as a rnore likely man to live through the Presidency tlian Tilden. Hancock is de?vd. H^u dncK-s seemeci to laave a long lite aneaa : of him as compared with the man at the head of the ticket. Hendricks is dead. Seymour, McClellan, all the old candidates are dead. Meanwhile Tilden thinks there is nothing so invigorating as -working away before the mast on his yacht. Cleveland's Kenouiination Talked Of. "Mr. Cleveland will beat everybody in \SS," said Representative Miller," of? Texas, to a Star reporter the other day. "Public opinion is in his favor and no one can beat him. If the election oc- ] cnrred this fall he would be elected by 1 an immense majority." < s'Will he be strong in the convention-?" < asked the Star. j "Yes. Machine politicians can't sue- i ceed in a fight against well defined pub- j lir> spnf.imftnf. With Mr. flarlislp, second 4 on tlie ticket they would get tlie largest ] majority ever given to any ticket." ' '} There is considerable talk of this sort < among Democrats in the House. It seems to be acknowledged on all sides < that the turn of the tide is towards Mr, ; Cleveland's renomination, and that al- } ready it has got out of the control of the < pohtlcians.?Washington Star. How Mrs. Pullman Travels. , Pittsburg, Pa., July 9.?Mrs. Geo. M. Pullman, wife of the palace car inventor, her four children, twelve servants, five horses, family carriage and dog cart, took up the room in two large Pullman cars on the Fort Wavne road yesterday mtnrn'nr. Tlio "Pnlfmon foTYtllv 1C ^-n I route to Long Branch for the summer. The car for the horses and carriage lias six stalls and rooms for three carriages, besides the berths, lockers and sitting rooms of the grooms and hostlers. The stalls are models of convenience and equine comfort. .Separate compartments are also arranged for the foed~' hay, lamps and other articles required for the horses and carriages. Tli6 private car in which Mrs. Pullman travels is in imitation of a modern dwelling. Divans of morfi tlian Turkish luxuriousness occut>v tlie corners and sides of t-lie main room in tlie centre of the car, -while reclining chairs, ottomans and easy chairs are scattered around. A magnificent cabinet organ is one of the handsomest ornaments of the drawing room. The dining room and sleeping and kitchen apartments are fitted np on the same magnifi-: cent scale. Tliere is more cholera,, says the Spring field i nion. in a pint, ot peanuts man m: a, dozen good, ripe watermelons. The editor ; of the Cniun must be a colored Brother.' A man of no other race would have, dared to ; experiment with a pint'of peanuts ancf twelye watermelons at the same time. IMl'HESSKtfS OF THE SOUTH. WHAT A MILWAUKEE MA\ TIIIXKis OF this; section. Ail Intelligent Statement of tin* Condition of Affair*. Viewed Tlironch t!ie Spectacles of an impartial Correspondent. (Mobile Letter to the Milwaukee Journalist.) The long, lanky editor of a Northern paper, who went to Canada to dodge the iraft, insists that the rebel brigadiers ire aerain in the saddle, ready for anoth w ,/. ; ? it; ^ 2r assault on the- Union. He whispers to those who will listen that the Southern man still hates his Northern brother tvitli all the ardor of liis sunbred nature, is usual, the organ editor lies. I have spent six weeks looking for unconstructcd citizens, without finding one. 3n the contrary, the visitor from the STorth is impressed with the cordiality vhicli marks his reception here, and the r\f "Vo+i/vrinl -?-\Tn/ln ic m<1n 1 f iU VA ,A tt^A1V*.V "ilVU A.J MHMU .VWV^ id. A "spectacle not?'ufefrequeatlv beleld is tliat of an ex-Confederate soldier, ,vho gave one of his legs to feed Uncle Sam's bullets, steadying himself with a irutcli while ho. praises with generous gesticulation this great and glorious naion. I liave not heard the late unpleasmtness spoken of except when the sub ect was broached by a Northerner. Of iourse ther^ are Bourbons liere wlio can lot under6taj*d.i-hat Yfehave passed frojn, he GO's' to 'the SO's,'15uf tile average southerner would fight for the Union o-day: ' " tf.lli The story of the business life of the South is a siid ore. It may have been a ruest at the Rip Tan Winkle banquet; t has certainly slept for twenty years, ind is now straightening out" its legs )repartoiy to going forth to learn what md where it is. It will find as much .appiness and ijrosperity as Kip did at he end of the journey. There is no iniit to its resources; to the right and ihe left one can see fortunes; but there 1. 1 ,1, ??,1 b ulu uuu \ ncic tu icav;ii um 111a jiaiiu. <xu.n ake them. j One rides through miles of iplendid country that bears no sign of ife. Immigration is the first great^ leed; no'effort 'has let been' made' to* secure new citizens. Is it likely people vould go into-such aJfraiitic scramble to settle on Dakota blizzards if they knew >f the advantages this section of country >ffers to men of small' capital and day aborers? But the Northwest will be exlausted sooner or later, and the tide of TH,OT-. f Ulllll^XciUiWlX >T -HI XX\y >? UO.14. _?. O-L^XAj md not till tlien. shall we know the New South. It is not probable tliis metamorphosis will be completed early enough to jenefit the'present generation._ \' The belief quite .generally entertained jy Northern people, that the negro is lestined to act an important part in the ievelopment of the South, is fallacious, [hey do not appear to progress. I have ;een colored children at school, and it is mrd to rt^alize that a human beinsr can dc so stupid as they are, with rare ex:eptions. The older negroes have not a ;park of ambition. They live on a few lollars a year, and are lazy, shiftless and ;ontented. I could learn of but few :olored employers. We drove three nilf-s lilt/) t.liH eonntry, in "Mississippi, to >ee a specimen of negro thrift. The felow had rented ground and planted cotton. He picked enough to pay hislandord and merchant, the latter being the nan from whom he buys meal and moasses. About one-third of the crop he lid not harvest, leaving it as it grew in ;he field; he is sure of food and lodging ? - -lt _ ~ n t :i-~ ^11 ;or uie year, uiia is sutisueu. juiac; ;ii? ;lie darkeys, lie lives in a small cabin :liat has one room, a -big chimney and 10 windows. He spends no money for ;lothing; in fact a decently dressed legro'is not'a common sight. Where 6ii jarth they get the rags that partly cover ;heir bodies is a mystery. It is fair to say I have seen 5,000 negroes, andcvery)ne of them wore a hat which words can iot describe, and no two of them were ilike. In foot:gear, particularly- among ;he curly-headed denizens of Tennessee ind Mississippi, they display fearful and wonderful ingenuity. The majority wrap rags around their feet, and do not renove or change them until warm weath;r is guaranteed. The relation of the whites and blacks .s misrepresented. The negroes are exaremely respectful and frequently affecar.nla IatitowI ,1W-Lia to JLLL I.U01J, VVUVVUVV w HW1VV mo cvliite people. They have trouble with ;he uneducated whites, "whom they consider beneath them. It was from this ilass the overseers were selected in the lays of slavery. The stories of bnlllozing and shot-gun rule are gross exaggerations. When the carpet-baggers' vere driven out stormy scenes were witnessed, but now elections are peaceable. Ihe negroes do not exhibit the slightest nterest in affairs of State. Thousands if thc-ni rlo not even know wlien an elec ;ion will be held..,, "When a* JDemocrat ^begging the Bourbons' "pardon for calling Mr. Cleveland sucli) became President some of them v:ere excited by pictures drawn by demagogues, but now ;key seem to regard the administration iyith favor- Alexander, the colored m?, who delivered Blaine campaign speeches in Wisconsin last year, died here this sveek. He was a hard character, accord-' ing to the general verdict, and openly trafficked on his influence with his pec-' pie. If the negroes could be intelligent-; [y directed they might do much toward developing the South, but it is doubtful if they can, do anything for ihen\selves Liming tiie present generation, at least. I am not prepared to say they have not Advanced since the war, as I know little of their condition when they were in bondage. In judging them the reader must Keep in mind the fact that for generations they have been oppressed. It is therefore not reasonable to expect that they will at once raise themselves to a position which humanitarians wish and expect- them to occupy.; * * ' 'i flip Smith sln'nAc Onp cart not _ imagine moire. charming people. Tlieir liomes were built for " entertaining on a grand scale.. The rporns are always large anu. die ceilings Lpgli. Eachjbouse cost a fortune originally, now vou could buy it for a song. The handsomest place I have seen could be had for ?15,000 or $20,000. As evidence of its departed glorv, paintings that represented an expenditure of $100,000 cover the walls. The grounds are acres wide and deep, finely wooded and watered. Now there is nothing to support such establishments. The architecture of all the houses is severely plain; there is so little variation that the prospect soon becomes monotonous. A feature is the bread galleries, witli their immense pillars; nearly every building has then;. In these Great houses there is room for hospitality. Tbe people haven't as much money-as we have in the North, "but they know how to"spend "shat they have heir ter A, New 0;-leass gentleman said: A greut many people live comfortably on nothing." If they have but a dollar they spend it like a king. Society seems to be their life. Breakfasts, luncheons, dinners, balls and receptions! They never tire of the crush, the chatter, the music. They work as we play. The women are beautiful and well educated ii? ibm'hi.u! ii.l.mi, ?? tirt[t ?f . pi < generally. Men idealize tliem. Their sway is absolute. Tlie result is doubtless beneficial. They try to live up to the standard which their nude friends have set up for them?mortals that are but one step koni heaven, "a linkjbe tween a woman and an angel." Perhaps too great a part of tlieir lives is spent in society; the stream of insincerity and flattery which is poured into their ears year in and year out is apt to wash awa}' the freshness and simplicity which constitute woman's greatest charm. They read good books, and consequently are broad-minded. They have practical ideas, and make the best of wives. Their pale faces will not compare favorably with the rosy cheeks of Northern girls, in the eyes of Northern men at least. They ruin their complexions by using powcier; ax, a very eariy aye iuuh faces are colorless. Congress might pass an anti-face powder act, on the ground that beauty is a gift from the gods for the benefit of mankind, and she who ruthlessly destroys it is a fit subject for fine and imprisonment. The men do not average as well as the women. They are able, but do not know how to make their talents serve them. They lack energy and application, and possibly opportunity, although men ought to make-opportunities. Very few of them still cling to the idea that work is degrading, that a gentleman must be a loafer. Amusements are liberally patronized. Tuesday was the Mardi Gras festival. There is 210 holiday-in the North like it. Business is suspended, and the whole population appears on the streets. Fully half the people wear masks and highly 'fnn+ocfi/i /?Ac4nmoc nnrl orp rrivPTI flnfi license in speech and manners. From early morning until late at night they blow horns, dance, sing and play the fool generally. They are better citizens for the frolic; it revives their interest in sober', things, and convinces them that a little nonsense goes a long ways. Mobile has about 40,000 inhabitants, and is better off than many other Southern cities. It is a delightful place for winter tourists, and as its fame spreads tlirougnout tne West it win turnisn winter homes for people who object to severe weather. : AX EXILED XAPOLEOX. Prince Plon-Plou Tells a Truth or Two About the Expulsion. (From the London Spectator.) On the understanding that the Chamber will expel the Comte de Paris and his son and Prince Napoleon and his son and leave the other Princes within France, Prince Napoleon has published a protest, in which he makes mincemeat of the supporters of the scheme. An VOrleans Prince," he says, "marries his daughter, and invites his friends to celebrate that event." That is not a crime. "I had no connection with it; yet it is this which has suddenly transformed me into a Pretender, though I was not one the day before." The perils of the Kepublic do not spring from the Princes, but from a Constitution drawn up by Royalistsj but shaped into an instrument of Jacobin oppression. "By what social : improvements have you jiistilied your ride? You have neither been able to respect the Concordat nor to abolish it, to ec^iirne free traders nor to become protectionists, to reform taxation nor to defend it, to soften international unfriendliness nor to procure an alliance." Proscription has commenced, and confiscation will come; then the partisans of the Princes will be expelled, and then the Chamber will be driven to the 'Loi des Suspects.'" It is all true, and Prince Napoleon might, had he chosen, have proved ins case by a tmai illustration. His cousin, the Emperor, was driven ou that precise declivity beginning with the proscription of the Orleanist Princes, continuing with the confiscation of their property, and ending with the terrible Law of Public Safety, under which thousands of tile best men in France were sent untried to Cayenne. El'ROPE REVISITED. The Change* of Half a Century Which Dr. Holmes Is Seeing. (From the Atlantic Monthly.) After an interval of more than fiftv T X . 1_ ,1 years x propose miviuy a. sucu-uu iuoii. at some parts of Europe, lliis will give my readers of the Atlantic, as well as the writer, a vacation to which we both seem entitled. It is a Eip Van Winkle experiment which I am promising myself. The changes wrought by half a century in the countries I visited amount almost to a transformation. I left the England of William the Fourth, of the Duke of Wellington, of Sir JRobert Peel; the France of Louis Phillipe, of Marshal Soult, of Theirs, of Giiizot. I went from Manchester to Liverpool by the -il/I 4-r?/ynl v r?no T cotv in JLU3W J.OUUUL V<>Vl) ViiV um r vuv ?? *** Europe. I looked upon England from the box of a stage; coach, : > p. France from the coupe of a ^diligence, upon Italy from tlie chariot of vetturino. Tlie broken windows of Apsiey House were still boarded up wlien I was in London. The asphalt pavement was not laid in Paris. The Obelisk of Luxor was lying in its great boat in the Seine, as 1 remember it. I did not see it erected; it must have been a sensation to have looked on, the engineer standing underneath, so as to be crushed by it if it disgraced him by falling in the" process. As for the dynasties which overlaid each other like Dr. Schlieraann's Trojan cities, there is no need of moralizing over a histoiy which, instead of Finis, is constantly ending with What next? A Stable Fortified Againxt Witchcraft. While Jefferson Grimley, a carpenter, was engaged last week in" tearing down the cornice of a house near Schwenksville, he found a piece of 2>ine wood six and a fourth inches long, whittled roughly into the form of a cylinder. Six holes were bored into the wood, three going entirely through, tn;t having different! diameters. In the largest hole stuck a I .pin cut from the same kind of wood. This instrument, it is explained, was used to prevent certain supposed wizards from carrying on their mysterious arts. The pin was placed in the "different sized holes to impose upon the wizard different degrees of torture, and when placed in the largest hole it would infallibly kill. It was found sticking in tliat hole when the .affair was discovered. A wooden pin was also driven into into the door jara of the horse stable. Behind the pin was a lot of horse hair and a piece of p^>er covered with calwilistia marks. This was designed tc prevent spells being put upon the horses while plowing.?Norristown Herald. A Certain Cure ror prnnKiient-sv. Valued at $3, aud cortainly -worth it if . efficient, is the "Certain Cure for Drunkenness, Sulphate of iron, live grains; magnesia, ten grains; peppermint water, eleven drachams; spirit of nutmeg, on? drachm; t-.rir-p n rf.av " Th:< mvMia ration acts as a 1 tonic ami stimulant., and so partially supplies the piace of the accustomed liquor, and prevents- that absolute physical and > moral prostration that follows, a sudden s breaking oil from the use of stimulating I drinks.?Chicago Herald, ? % X IH SIXKSS IX THE SOI TH. How It is s?aid to lie I'ickin; Up~A Xoted Colored Man. New York is full of business just now. A big merchant says that trade is much better this month than it has been for a long time. An interesting incident of ii :- ; v i.? a:? ? LUIS UlUit'IlM" ut irarai >'j u. gentleman of large affairs. "Much of our trade," said he, "at this time of year comes from the South. You would be surprised at the number of Southern merchants who come \orth on a combination tour of pleasure and business about this time. 3Iost of them are shrewd buyers and are leaving good orders. Therefore at this season of the year, when we generally expect to be dull, we are having a good, brisk trade. I can account for it upon no other theory than this is the time of year when Southem men find it most convenient and profitable to come North to purchase TTiic vr.i'ivi 1 At Snn+.liprn trarlA shows tlie prosperity of that region. Witlr'n the past tvro years it seems to have picked up wonderfully and there is a substance and fidelity about this trade that makes it profitable. The class of goods that go South has also changed wonderfully. They are buying more substantial goods than formerly, but at the same time of richer materials. Formerly the Southern trade demanded costly fabrics of a showy character?red, orange and ligured goods predominating. Now they are talcing more durable materials of substantial colors. In fact, no trade in this country has shifted so radically within tlie past five years as the Southem. The change lias also given us an index to the reforms freedom has brought about in the economic condition of that section. The way it looks now the South will in a very few years be among our choicest customers. But the goods they buy will be a reliex of the broader life that has come to that people, since the manv are better off and the few are per liaps suffering or have suffered seriously from the disasters of war." This business man had hardly stopped discoursing upon the past and present of Southern trade and Southern elements when a singular character appeared. It was Pincliback, of Louisiana. He was drifting around the corridors of the St. James Hotel, occasionally speaking to a man, but most of the time walking about as if in a half brown study. He is looking much older than ten years ago, when lie had been elected united states senator from Louisiana and was trying to get liis seat, to which, by the way, he was as much entitled as was his colleague, Pitt Kellogg, or John Patterson, of South Carolina. But he is interesting now only as a reminder of the curiosities of reconstruction. You would nes^r take him for a colored man as he walks about among the throng which drifts about the place where he stops. He is of about medium size and' very well formed. He is stouter than he used to be while mingling in politics, but does TYiolrr* liim IIU L \> UU IXV^OJ.JL V,\j uiuuu AAAAj JL gross. Kis full beard is growing very gray, and his hair is following suit. His whitening whiskers and locks make his olive complexion seem much lighter than it really is, and he would readily be taken taken for a well-to-do business man of the "West or Southwest. He is r.ppivrnTitly ?.ill tn do 'financially. lie stops at a swell hotel, "wears good clothes, plenty of jewelry and eats and drinks of the best. If lie had not been a colored man with a reputation for gambling he would probably have secured a seat in the United States Senate, for in point of looks, manners and ability he was the superior of many of tiic Soutliern men who appeared in Congress during reconstniction. Wine Recipe. The following is Mr. A. F. Broadwater's recipe for making an excellent table wine froxn blackberries, grapes, muscadines or apples: Fruit, 2 bushels; sugar (best white) 80 pounds; mash the fruit, put into a 40 gallon barrel, then put in the sugar. Add water until th i barrel is filled to within 6 inches of the bung, and siiake tne barrel until the ingredients are thoroughly mixed. Then cover the bung with some thin cloth to keep out insects. Let it stand ten days to ferment, then add water to within 2 inches of the bung. Now stop the barrel perfectly air tight. Introduce a syphon?being careful that it docs not dip into the liquid?and let the outer end dip into a vial filled with water. The gas will escape through the syphon into the water and not allow any air to enter the barrel. Let the barrel remain in tliis condition unmolested 4. months, and the wine is ready to draw off. After the wine is drawn off, leave the pumniace in the barrel and add a few pounds of common sugar or molasses and till the barrel with water; let stand to make vinegar. Moved to Tears. "John!"' "Yes, dear." "Do you remember coming home last night and asking me to tiirow yon an assorted lot of key-holes out of the window so that you might find one large and steady enough to get tout latch-key in?" "Yes, dear." "And do remember the night "before how you asked me to come down and hold the stone steps still enough for you to step on?" "Yes, dear." "And the night before that, how you tried to jump into the bed as it passed your comer of tiic room?" "Yes, dear." "And still another night, when you carefully explained to mo that 110 man was intoxicated as long as he could lie down without holding on, and then attempted to go to bed on a perpendicular wall?" "Yesu dear." ".To'-11. do vou realize that you have come home sober but two nights in tlie past week?" "Havel, dear?" "That's all, and you ought to be ashamed of yourself, too. The idea of a man of your age?. But, John?why, you're crying. There, there, dear, I didn't mean to be too severe. After all, you did come home sober two nights." 4-1-info -rt-liof rrsa fnnl ca IUUI o It Ul, V XUV AVVi bad." ! And then the meeting adjourned.? Chicago Rambler. SiHportnot Dcci^iou. At the late term of the Court in Marion County, His Honor .Judge Prcssley made the following order in ah important ease. A citizen had b(-en indicted for erecting and keeping a mill-dam, which it was alledged" was a nuisance, in the neighbor- , hood where it is located. The decision is one of general interest, so far as the powers of County Commissioners extend: "It appearing to >be Court tbat there is an indictment for a nuisance alleged to be created and maintained by erecting and maintaining a mill-dam in Marion County, and it being the judgment or the Court tbat sole jurtsdh tion to abate such a nuisance is by law vested in the County Commissioners of said County: this Court has, therefore, no original jurisdiction iu the matter and the indictment is ordered to be Quashed." "MAIDEN'S CREEK." THE INTERESTING STORY OF AN OLD ENGINEER. He Tells How He Crossed the Stream Running Fifty Miles an Hour to Keep Out of the Way of a Detached Box Car?A Place Dreaded by Engineer*?His Narrow Escape. "Yes," said an old engineer yesterday, talking to an interested group of listeners, "I liave liad some novel experiences, and some narrow escapes, too, since I began to pull the dirottle of an engine. I stand Detore you, though, "without a scratch, except a patched up arm." Rolling up his sleeve he exposed to view an arm that looked, judging from the scar that remained, that it was at one time a very useful factor in pulling the lever of a locomotive. "That was nearer a serious accident than any I've ever been in," continued the narrator, "but that ain't what I was going to tell you about." After the lis u^uuio J-Ltfcvi vov7\-\u. ^ w M\A??, his story, he refilled his pipe, and after deliberating a few minutes, said: 5'It was on the Baltimore and Ohio, about forty miles out of Toledo, Ohio, that the accident, or to be more correct as to the nature of it, I will say, incident, occurred, for I can't say'that it was an accident at all. It was the most novel, funny, and at the same time most dangerous experience that I ever witnessed. The place I speak of was called 1 ? ?. -X - .3 ^ u"\ r. J ?let me see?jti was uaueu. me -t.LUiu.cu a Creek," and was a very beautiful place to the tourist ana pleasure seeker, but a very formidable place to the engineer who had as many as forty cars to pull. The "Maiden's Creek" was spanned by a, trestle about one hundred yards in length, and it was approached from the north by a grade of one hundred and ten feet, about two and a half miles in length, and one of about the same length, and steep in proportion, to ascend on leaving the creek. To an en gineer with a moderately loaded train following him, it was necessary that he got a good start on his descent, in order to be able to clear the grade on the other side. "We had orders from headquarters not to approach any trestle in general, and this one in particular, at a greater speed than twenty miles an hour. Well, now, it would have been utterly impossible to go over that hill with an impetus of twenty miles per hour from the other side. As we were approacing this place, one night, my firemen said to mo ^TPrvrwv voii'll liavft to civfi :cv J ~ ? O" ~ steam, or we'll camp over yonder on that hill, as sure as preachin.' 'I know that,' said I. 'and I'm going to let her roll.' And I did let her roil, as sure as you're born. We went down that grade at the rate of forty miles an hour, or we didn't go a foot. We just fairly slid down. I hardly knew when the trestle was reached, we went over so quickly. The first thing I remember was, we were about half way up the grade on the other side going about fifty miles an hour. I thought we were climbing mighty easy, but I had a. trand;ncw iwolvo-wliceler, and I attributed "it to that. Finally I made the top of the grade, and started down another. Something told me that something was wrong, but I couldn't see anything. I was letting her roll down the grade at about fifteen or twenty an hour, and as that 'something' kept telling me that something was the matter, I sent my fireman back over the cars to see if anything was the matter, sure enough. When he crossed twelve boxes he came to a halt. "We had been disconnected. By this time we were at a standstill This was a predicament! About half way to the bottom of a steep grade, in the dark, disconnected, not knowing whether the other part of the train was coming down on us, or whether it had failed to come over and had gone back the other way! We hadn't long to wait, however, for all at once we heard a terrible rattling, and then I knew that was the detached part of the train that had managed to get over the crmr?P ftnrl -was rvimino- down on 7is! Wliat must I do? It would not do to stand still and let the -wild train in its mad rush run over my engine, which would have meant certain destruction! In the meantime, my trusty fireman had gotten off and was going back to discover if he could see or hear anything. So it was he who yelled to me: 'Fly! Out run it! It is a box car!' I caught bis meaning, and took in the situation in a second, and in another one was going down at a fearful rush, pursued by thai empty box car. While going down I thought of a plan by which I could stop the car without serious damage. I would run just a little slower than it, and by il.-i rn?v Li-tttu lUCUildiCl 1L UYC1UUXC JJ-LVJ. JLXXXO worked admirably. The car caught up with me just before I reached the foot of the grade, and the connection was so slight that it was scarcely perceptible. After checking up, and coming to a standstill, I found that I was still in a lix. Where was the remainder of the tram? For it was plain that we were in three sections instead of two. After waiting there about ten minutes I saw the balance of the train coming slowly down the grade with two or three of the crew holding their lights, not knowing what minute they would run into thn box car, or my engine. They came on down, however, and we coupled up agaie and finished our trip without any more accidents. "But I have always thought," continued the old engineer, "that was the most novel, as well as the most dangerous way of getting over a grade that I ever heard of. I could not do it again in a thousand years without smashing up property, and probably sacrifice life. Could 1, boys?" The unanimous answer was: "You are right, you couldn't/' A Plucky Little Girl. Bf.i.moxt, Mass., July 7.?The dwelling house and stable of Edward Barn,-, a day laborer on the Fitchburg Railroad, was burned to the ground early yesterday morning. "When the fire broke forth Mr. Barry was walking upon the railroad track in the direction of home somewhat under the influence of liquor. In the house sleeping quietly v.-ere five children, the eldest of whom, NeUie, had just reached her tenth year. Ever since the death of her mother, which happened a short time ago, the little girl has served as housekeeper for liesfather and taken care of her smaller brothers and sisters. When the rear part of the house was nearly consumed Nellie was awakened by a falling timber. Without waiting to dress she caught up the baby, two years old, and ran through the thick smoke with it out upon the green sward. She then hastened back to carry forth another, and so continued until she had tho whole four securely nestled together in front of the burning building. Just ao the fire department arrived the room in which the children had teen sleeping fell through with a crash, sending a shower of sparks far into the heavens. Awfully bored?Artesian wells. Ck A DISGRACEFUL PICTURE. llow the Initiates of tlic St. Louis Workhouse are Treated. An afternoon paper in St. Louis, Mo. publishes a. long sensational article which claims to be a faithful report of the inside management of the St. Louis Workhouse. /*.r ic oc frtllATre. X IIU i;icl Ui IUL WUUUUH1VU AO 1*0 AVUVJ ??o. Nominally a prisoner is allowed 50 cents a day for iiis work, but by arbitrary and mean deductions this is reduced to 39 or 40 j cents. For instance, no pay is given for ^^4. Sunday, and one half of Saturday's pay is J. deducted to sustain the "expense of the alleged superior food which is furnished on that day. Once a week all of the white prisoners, numbering about 200, are re- ^jjg quired to bathe in one tank 65 feet long, from which the water is never drawn until the whole number have washed themselves in it. .Not, a lew ol them are afflicted with. disgusting diseases, while others are covered with ulcers and running sores, which are by means of the baths communicated to the unaitlicted. The oO negroes are required to bathe in the same manner, though . in a fresh supply of water, and the whole \ 2-30 are furnished with but four towels. The cells in which they are confined when not at work are 12 l>y 15 feet in size, and into each arc Crowded eight men. In a case of sickness the patient is placed in a cell of inferior accommodations, in which me aiau uuuuucu iuu nidiuiu ijaticuio uuu. those of the newcomers for whom room cannot be found or made in other cells. The food at the workhouse is inferior in quality and insufficient, the bread being too hard to eat and the coffee too weak to taste. The water given to the men to drink while at their work is dipped from the cattle trough, and the stone workers in the quarries drink from the same bucket as At.. i i. r\ r i.1. _ <. uk: muiea auu iiuim?. vjuu 01 me worst, features of the management is the laxity of discipline and the indifference of the warden and suards as to what the prisoners say and do while unemployed. At the noon hour, instead of the men being returned to their cells, they are hustled"promiscuously into the corridors, where they remain until called to their work. Here, huddled together, they cat that portion of ) their dinner which they have been unable to consume while at the table, throw the ;? refuse at each other, play cards, smoke, swear, light and indulge in the use of dis- * guSting language, all unrestrained by any guard. In regard to the punishment of offenders against the workhouse rules the writer says the prisoners may lxi either confined in the bull pen or dark cell or "strung . up. IJie latter punishment consists of hanging the offender up by the wrists and _ keeping him in this position until obedience to the rules is promised. READY TO FIGHT SULLIYAff. Doiniujck McCaffrey .Says :he Champion Cannot Whip Him. In answer io John L. Sullivan's offer to box three men in one evening, Dominick F. McCaffrey says: "What I want know first is, liow can Sullivan beat three men in one night when he could not beat me in one day, for lie had all day to do it? The whole country knows when we met at Cincinnati that he refused to keep on ^ter seven rounds. Sullivan knows he cM not defeat me, and if he thiaks he ci| now the opportunity is at his pleasure at any time within four weeks from signing articles. If Sullivan really . means to do any good for home rule let Sullivan and myself come together tor a go to a finish fojgite three -worlds' C^iiSi^ionsLij) ancl whole pro- _j ceeds go to the parliamentary fund. Mr. Sullivan is continually 'cracking5 about his having to give so much percentage to every man he has to meet. That may be true in nearly every case, but not so in my case. I fought Mr. Sullivan seven rounds, which is the longest fight and hardest he ever had, and 1 say distinctly that I fought him for all or nothing, Mr. Sullivan got the money, but it took three days for the so-called referee to decide which was the winner." How General Lee Conrted Death. Mr. Reagan gives me a new fact hi General Lee's history which is not generally known in the >"orth. He said that towards the close of the downfall of the Confederate Government there was a very general impression among the high officials of tlie Confederacy that General Lee intended to lose his life on the field of battle. This impression was shared by officers of Lee's army. General Lee never lost an opportunity of placing himself in a position of danger. Mr. Eeagan says that he drove out from Richmond to see Lee upon the day the principal battle of Cold Harbor was fought. As he came up near where he could see Lee's headquarters, he saw the shells bursting continually around his tent and ploughing up the ground in front of lnm. iSome of the officers asked Mr. Keagan to try and persuade General Lee to move liis headquarters behind a piecc of timber near by. All felt that he was exposing his life" too much. Mr. Kcagon said to General Lee: "I do not presume to fdvise any general in the midst of a battle, but are .you not exposing yourself, too much? Ought you not to go back nearer your reserve?" (tATIAtoI f CO 1 (1 lio llorl Tin rocr.n-a "PTa had OLly one line of men. He did uct dare to shorten liis line for fear it would be turned, and did not dare to thin it for fear it would be broken. General Lee evidently sought death many times during the closing days of the war. That was tlie view of the Southern leaders then and is still believed by many.? Washington Letter. ? o? IIow Texas Convicts are Treated. The costume worn by the Texas convict is a disgrace to civilization. Convicts arc dressed in coarse plaid cloth with their names printed on their backs in larrc letters. Every few days we sec them c a the railroad cars, chained around their oecks with heavy irons, going out to some farm or wood camp, and very often we se< ihem coming into the walls from these outside camps pale and sick, but invariably they are adorned with heavy chains locked securely around their necks, in n.any instances they arc required to sl<-ep with chains around their legs for veeks, and even months. The convicts widiin the walls are treated kindly enough, ^nd stand a chance to return to their families as "ood men as wlienconvict-.d, if not better.?liusk (Texas) Strajidart. \ntional Poultry?**4. Scoch Awxiatioii. Breeders of Fascy J'oullry and Blooded Dogs in South. Carolina, take notice. The next annual exhibition, and bench show will take place ai Atlanta, Ga., January 15-22nd, lr>87. ' hose desiring to compete for prizes at this show or to have their fowls scored by the most noted poultry judge in the United States. (15. X. Pierce,) will please send in their names to \V. A. Sehrock, Camden, S. (J.. Vice President of the Association for this Stntp Smith Carolina should make a creditable exhibit at this show, and we trust that the breeders there will not disappoint our expectations. The interest in fancy poultry culture is rapidiy increasing, and the South must rail into line. Premiun lists ot the show will bo furnished in due time. li. J. Fish Kit, Secy., Athens, Tcnii. The only thing that can make money without. :i(lvcrfisin<T? !./% Do be reticent; the world at hrg= lias n<j interest in your private 'dilairs,