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* :* I 5=====ss==_===^^ 0 . ' ^ ' VOL.XLIV. WINNSBORO, S. ., WEDNESDAY, MARCH'7, 1888. NO, 32. TALMAGE OX HEREDITY. ' ' WHAT ABE YOU DOING FOR YOUK FIFTY THOUSAND DESCENDANTS? L EveryMother's Influence Likely to Extend r* for Ages?How to Make Cliildren XJariC and How They May bo Made Truthful, ^ Benevolent and Good. In the eighth of his sermons to the women of America, which was delivered at the Brooklyn Tabernacle Sunday tn/vrmr.er fVifi "Rav_ Dr. Talmace Dreached on "Prolonged Influence of Mothers." J . He said: r * ) "Everybody talks about the dissipations of modern society and how womanly health goes down under it, but it was worse a hundred years ago, for the chaplain of a French regiment in our Kevof ' lutionary War wrote in 1782, in his book of American women, saying: 'They are tall and well proportioned, their features are generally regular, their complexions are generally fair and without color. At ^ twenty years of age the women have no nf Trrvr]fVl \ t.Hi rf. V iUU^UX iivuuxivjw V* ??.J / or forty they are decrepit' In 1812 a foreign consul wrote a book entitled 'A Sketch of the United States at the Commencement of the Present Century,' and - he says of the women of those times: At the age of thirty all their charms . have disappeared.' One glance at the" portraits of the women a hundred years ago and their style of dress makes us wonder how they ever got their breath. AH this makes me think that the express rail train is no more an improvement on the old canal boat, or the telegraph no more an improvement on the old-time saddlebags, than the women of our day - are an improvement on the women of the last century. minever knew the joy of having a grandmother; that is, the disadvantage" of being the youngest child of the family. The elder members only have that benediction. But though she went up i ' out of this life before I began it, I have beard of her faith in.God, that brought >. all her children into the kingdom and two of them into the ministry, and then brought all her grandchildren into the kingdom, myself the last and the least worthy. Tors FIFTT THOUSAND DESCENDANTS. "Here we have an untried, undiscussed *> and unexplored subject. Ton often hear about your influence upon your own childjren?I am not talking about that. What about your influence upon the _ twentieth century, upon the thirtieth century, upon the fortieth century, upon < the year 2000, upon the year 4000, if the V* UilU iOOOO OV 4,000 years before Christ came; it is cot unreasonable to suppose that it may stand 4,000 years after His arrival. Four thousand years the world swung off in sin, 4,000 years it may be swinging back A into righteousness. By the ordinary rate of multiplication of th9 world's .population, in a.century your descendwill be over 200. and by two cenat ieast over 50,000, and upon I^^HHB^ery one of them you, the mother of ^^^to-day, will have an influence for good s . or eviL And if in four centuries your ' descendants shall nave witn tnerr names filled a scroll of hundreds of thousands, will some angel from heaven to whom is given the capacity to calculate tho num' ber of the stars of-heaven and the sands of the seashores, step, down and tell us how many descendants you will have in " the four thousandth year of the world's possible continuance? "Do not let the grandmothers any longer think that they are retired, and *sit clear back out of sight from the wprld, feeling that they have no relait - 1 L tions to at. xne motners 01 me iast wu-tury are to-day in the Senates, the Parliaments, the palaces, the pulpits, the banking houses, the professional chairs, the prisons, the almshouses, the company of midnight brigands, the cellars, the ditches of this century. You have been thinking about the importance of having the right influence upon one nursery. You have been thinking of the importance of getting those two little feet on the right path. You have been thinking /of your child's destiny for the next . - eighty years, if it should pass on to be an octogenarian. That is well, but my subject sweeps a thousand years, a milJ" iion years, a quadrillion of years. I can not stop at one cradle; I am looking at . the cradles that reach all round the world and across all tima. j _ "Had not mothers better be intensifying their prayers? Had they not better be elevating their example? Had they not better be ronsicg themselves with the consideration that by their faithfulness -or neglect they are starting an influence which will be stupendous after the last mountain of .earth is flat and the last sea has been dried up, and the last flake of the ashes of a consumed world shall have been blown away, and all the teleV scopes of other worlds directed to the track around which our world once swung shall discover not so much as a _ cinder of the burned-down and swept-cjl planet. HOW TO MAKE CHILDREN" LIAES. "if a mother tell a child that if he is not good, some bugaboo will come and ^ catch him,- the fear excited may make nni'U Q i^/~>Tc-orrl anr} fhft fanfr. llfl finds that there is no bugaboo may make frira a liar, and the echo of that false ^ c alarm may be heard after fifteen generations have been born and have expired. .' If a mother promise a child a reward for - good behavior, and after the good behavior forgets to give the reward, the _ j" cheat may crop out in some faithlessness half a thousand years further on. If a mother culture a child's vanity and eulo<v gize his curls and extol the night-black or sky-blue or nut-brown of the child's eyes, and call out in his presence the ' admiration of spectators, pride and arrogance may be prolonged after half a " dozen family records have been obliterated. If a mother express doubt about ? x x-u. tt _ t?. niLl. some, statement ot^uie jaoiy x>iuie jji ? " child's presence, long after the gates of this historical era have closed and the gates of another era opened, the result ' / may be seen in a champion blasphemer. "But, on the other hand, if a mother .' - -walking "with a child see a suffering one by the wayside, and says: 'My child, give that ten cent piece to that lame ' boy,' the result may be seen on the other side oi the following century in some i " George Muller building a whole village 4 > of orphanages. If a mother sit almost * * every evening by tho trundle bed of a child, and teach it lessons of a Saviour's love and a Saviour's example, of the importance of truth and the horror of a lie, and the virtues of industry and kindness and sympathy and self-sacrifice, long after the mother has gone and the child has gone, and the lettering on both the tombstones shall have, been -washed out by the storms of innumerable win. ters, there may be standing, as a result of those trundle-bed lessons, flaming evangels, world-moving reformers, sera^ phic summer fields, weeping Paysons, K >< ttranaenng wmteneios, emancipating roBi "Washingfccus. jfe* "Parental influence, right and wrong, may jump over a generation, but it will, come down further on as sure as yon sit there and I stand here. This explains what we often see?some man or woman distinguished for benevolence when the father and mother were distinguished for penuriousness, or you see some young man or woman with a bad father and a. hard mother come out gloriously for Christ and make the church sob and shout and sing under their exhortations. We stand in corners of the vestry and whisper over the matter and say: 'How is tiiis, such great piety in sons and daughters of such parental worldliness and sin?' I will explain it to you if you will fetch me the old family Bible containing the full record. IT IS A HARD WORLD FOE WOilfK. "Mothers of America, consecrate yourselves to God and you will help to consecrate all the ages following.- Do not dwell so much on your hardships that you miss your chance of wielding an influence that shall look down upon you from the towers of an endless future. I know Martin Luther was right when he consoled his wife over the death of their daughter by saying: 'Don't take on so, wife; remember that this is a hard world for .girls.' Yes I go further and say: It is a hard world for women. Aye, I go further and say: It is a hard world for men. But for all women and men who trust their bodies and souls in the hands of Christ, the shining gates will soon swing open. 4 Don't Vou see the sickly pallor on the sky? That is the pallor on the cold cheek of the dying night, Don't yon see the brightening of. the clonds? That is the flush on .the warm forehead of the morning. Cheer up; you are coming -within sight of the Celestial City. Cotton and Corn. Under this heading, we find the fol- i lowing in the New Orleans Times-Democrat: The Southern press seems to have finally persuaded the farmers to aban- , don the all cotton idea, and to grow more grain. It has been calling their attention to this matter for some years, with little effect, but the farmers appear to , Viaxro finolltr Tin fn TArtf. f.hat, < there is more money to be made by cultivating cotton and food products together' than by devoting themselves to the great Southern staple alone. Diversified crops prevented an over-production of cotton and low prices; and it freed the farmers from too great a dependence on the "West. Formerly, nearly all the profit from the cotton crops went for food products. Now that the latter are being raised on the place, the cotton becomes a surplus crop, with which the farmer can buy his clothing, sugar, coffee and such other articles as he cannot raise. The change in agricultural methods in the South is shown in the fact that last season's corn crop was of nearly the same value as the cotton produced, the two standing, cotton $264,852,000, corn 8213,662,920. Adding the oats, wheat, etc., it is probable that the cereals raised in 1SS7 were emi&l. if thev did not excel in value, "King Cotton."" i We are not among those "who are ai- c_ ways crying out against "the great ? Southern staple," ~as ii it was actually \ an enemy of this section, but it does not require much consideration of the subject to see that there is far more profit in growing cotton as our farmers did last year, than in raising it as the South ^ has generally done in the past, selling at 1 a low figure and buying all our supplies j from the West. The profit of the. cot- * ton crop formerly found its way to Ulinois, Iowa and Ohio; under the changed : system the South will keep most of it. t The newspapers have made a great g outcry against the all-cotcon theory, and ( they have done some good in this direc- x tion, but the fact remains, and' will con- i tinue to remain, that cotton is the cash crop or the South, and the farmers -will continue to grow it because every pound represents so much money. As to corn, tiiat is another matter. It can be grown to greater advantage in the West than in the South, even under the most favorable conditions. As food for stock oats and rye are infinitely superior, and these can be raised much more cheaply. This is a matter that every farmer ought to consider. Corn is not the best feed for stock. It is never used in Europe, and it is not necessary in the West and South. In our opinion, wheat, oats and rye f are much more profitable in the South ( than corn,- and the wonder is that our j farmers do not sow a larger acreage of i these cereals.?Atlanta Constitution. The Discoverer of Bill Nye. J Bill Nye's real* name, strange to re- i late, is William Nye. That may not ] seem surprising, and yet it is, for the < adoption of a false name is a trait that 1 literary men and burglars bear in com- i mon. The man who is responsible for J this discovery is E. D. Cowan, who is 1 now in Europe in the interest of the 1 Chicago Daily News. Cowan was con- i nected with the Denver Tribune at the same time that the crimson-crested poet of the "Wild West, Eugene Eield, was also illuminating it pages. In looking ; '/%TToi. -Hio oT/?lwn?rpR Hnwan's attention i , was frequently atiracted by splitting paragraphs which appeared in a distressed looking sheet called the Laramie Boomerang. Investigation resulted in th9 discovery that they were the contribution of a Boomerang compositor named Bill Nye. O. H. Bothacker, the 1 editor of the Denver Tribune, so dazed 1 the newly discovered humorist with a magnificent offer of a salary of $25 a 1 week, that Nye left the printing case and : plunged into the maddening whirl of : literature. . . ! Now the World is his oyster, and he is only a little more than 50 years of : age, and bald-headed at that. "JUe Sabre De Mod Pere." London, February 20.?A dark eyed daughter of the Confederacy has been giving testimony for four days before Consul General Waller and a commissioner sent from Washington, to prove that Ben ' Butler is a rascal. She is Rowcna Guadella, now the wife of a prominent London lawyer, but during the Rebellion she was a Miss Florence, of New Orleans, and a cousin of JudahP. Benjamin. She claims that General Twiggs, of Louisiana, gave her three valuable swords, one presented to him by the State of Texas, another by the city of Augusta, Ga., and the third by Congress for services in the Mexican war. When General Butler took possession of New Orleans he made Miss Florence give up the swords and sent them to President Lincoln at Washington. Since then she has been fighting to recover them in the courts even going so far as to have General Butler prosecuted in New York in 1871. The case, however, got shelved somewhere in the Supreme Court, and has just been unearthed again in the consul general's office here by the appearance of the commissioner from Washington. General Butler would have been interested today to hear Mis. Guadella tell what she knew"about him in New Orleans.? New York World. A long-suffering editor makes this rennet "for the oresent. correspondents | will please write on neither side of the paper." ^ ' \ "> m \ y * SOME FACTS ABOUT ADVERTISING. There is Great Art in Knowing How to Advertise Judiciously. We are gratified to observe that the Secretary of the Navy applies just business principles to the dealings of his de- ? partment with the newspapers m the matter of advertisements. The issue involved was a very simple one, but it actually called a ruling by the Secretary himself, and as it is an issue which not t infrequently arises between newspapers e and their patrons, it is worthy of notice. Mr. Whitney has decided that where P of i-iial advertisements are published ex- a actly in accordance with the copy that is c furnished by the department, the newspapers shall be entitled to pay for all space and lines used at their sworn rates. P The decision arose from a controversy il with the Second Comptroller, who has c, heretofore held that pay should not be allowed for lines and spacing which he sj held to be unnecessary. There is great art in advertising, and 0 he will be most successful in the use of ^ the newspapers who applies the best ^ rules to the art. Of course the man who a uses space generously will reap his re- ^ ward in greater measure than he who ^ confines himself to a line or two poorly v, expressed and hid away in the many a] columns of the average daily. Bnt even ^ a small advertisement can be made very $ attractive if the adAertiser will take the c, time and pains to make it so. And it ^ not Seldom occurs that an advertisement which brings no results would have been 0j very satisfactory had it been attractively aj written and properly displayed. But all fr advertisers should remember that space ct costs, because it is the newspaper's capi- U] tal, just as the individual who enters a ^ store must bear in mind that the cost jjof three yards of silk is exactly three ^ times as much as the ' cost of one yard. ^ The application is easy. - $ Progre.na In the State. The Baltimore Manufacturer^ Record of st Lhis week contains the following statement st of new enterprises in this State for the past tu week: at Beaufort.?The Oak Point Mines Co., w: capital stock ?100,000, has been chartered ^ to mine phosphates, &c., by John F. Gordon, of London, England, and David , Roberts, W. D. Hard and Charles Inglesby, p jf Charleston. The capital stock will be ?100,000. ~ - nc Charleston.?L. Parsons has" started tool m. work on Queen street, to be known as the m: Charleston Tool Works." He will have J?' ibout $20,000 invested in the plant. th Greenville ?The contract to grade the lif Carolina, Knoxville & Western Railroad th :rom Greenville to the North Carolina he State line has been let to Tanner & Co., of re Cowpfens, S. C. . w< Laurens.?Thomas II. Workman, re- 0D x?rted last week as purchasing machinery re, :or a sawmill, has purchased a new engine yo 'or his saw mill, and may add a grist mill. ja] Piedmont.?The contract for building he new mill for the Piedmont Manufactur- f , ng Co., has been let to W. T. Davis and i. w. uagie 01 weenvme. ii is 10 oe :ompleted by October 1. The company Y1 viH build about fifty cottages. *e< Spartanburg.?Jos. Walker, C. E. Flem- a2 ng and others, previously reported as pur- fo: :hasing a site near Spartanburg to build a sh 1,000 spindle cotton mill, have, with others, th ncoiporated the Whitney Manufacturing wl }o. Capital stock $100,000."" * ~ ch wl President Cleveland In Charleston. The presence of the President of the ad Jnited States in Charleston yesterday was wc lot the first time in the history of this city no hat so distinguished an official has been lere. Several Presidents of the United to States have been here since the-days of the co a?w on/^ Vw^c-5/l^rtfo monr mon nf / %. * /UIVUJ , auu l/OOAUV/U U?->, UiMUJ V4. ?v?v V , ii the various departments of life; hence g| he community was not exceptionally ^ itirred by President Cleveland's very brief :onsiderati?n of our municipality. This city Pa lever forgets herself in the matter of good :e< nanners, and, as was her duty, if not her Measure, received the chief magistrate as Pr >ecame them as a sensible people. There vas no noisy demonstration, although the th itreets were filled with curious people, so rhe militar}* and prominent citizens met ex rim, and, under a military and civic escort, th le was ridden through the city, which was co narked with bunting and legends of good in: .vill along the route of the drive. The re- fr( ;eption was a very conservative eyidence >f the people's respect for the head of the co jation. pj. Mr. Cleveland is a short, thick-set man )f uninviting appearance when standing. "rTHis broad, open face and massive head , ivince firm character. His recognition of ,he courtesies shown him along the-streets, md when from the platform of the car he nterchanged adieus, was respectful, but 1^s lot demonstrative. ' ?* His wife charmed everybody, although (1 aot a very handsome lady. She is tall, of with a somewhat shaded'complexion, but be she has a face which she constantly pt wreathed in the most irresistible smiles, gi Eler habit was tasteful, and her manners to elastic and democratic. She is evidently a trs iovely woman. Just as the cars were rj< moving out of the depot, a centleman pre ;ented"her. as she stood on"the platform, , pcith a choice flower. She stooped before ^ :he President could reach it, and took it ?c from the gallant giver's hand with a grace ^ reiy bewitching. ' be In a few minutes the Presidential party TJ were on their way to Washington, to for- th *et perhaps, io the demands of high official th ind social life, the incidental trip to Charles- yc ton.?Sunday Dispatch. la: New-Trusts Springing Up. m The New York Senate committee in- j? restigating trusts Saturday examined J". O ProWfl o. fmst.PA rvr +,h? fmvelnue trust, known as the Standard Envelope P1 Company. He said that nine companies form a part of the concern. Each pays ^ twenty cents to the Standard Company 10 for every 1,000 envelopes sold. The as market price per 1,000 is $1.05. The ?! company now controls in the neighbor- ^ hood of one-half of the envelopes made n' in this country. They have made as n' many as one hundred and twenty and one hundred and forty millions a month, which increases the treasury account by P( about $24,000 or $28,000 per month. Franklin Woodruff of the Empire Sj Storage Company, showed that a storage 0 trust has been established by which it was intended to control virtually the storage business in Brooklyn. There , are nine companies in this combination. rm r? tl XIIti COlmmilWP JLU 111 U&JLIJ xc^cipo Ui i-LLformation of innumerable kinds of ^ trusts, the latest of -which appears to be ?. in the giass and watch trade. - ^ ? C Deap. Mb. Editor:?Won't you please o tell your male readers that $3 will buy a y, fine, strong and serviceable pair of si pants, made to order by the N. Y. Stan- ti dard Pants Co., of 66 University Place, ii New York city? By sending 6 cents in n postage stamps to the above firm, they p will send to any address 25 samples of o cloth to choose from, a fine linen tape n measure, a full set of scientinc measure- r meat blanks and other valuable information. All goods are delivered by them t] through the U. S. Mails. A novel and <3 practical idea. Advise your readers to o try the firm. They are thoroughly reliable. Yours truly, * William Vaxdebbilt. "Did you ever linger on the old man's irate when you were courting?" "On the ? contrary, I always flew from his gait when J ^ 11 heard it/' la . . - i "DON'T GIVE UP THE SHIT." ' A. PRESIDENT NORRIS'S APPEAL TC THE FARMERS OF THE STATE. CT3 AJ ''he Situation Reviewed and the Fai mers "i Urged to Keep Up their Fight for a Sepa- ]ej rate Agricultural College. th To the Farmers of South Carolria: I Pr telieve that the lively interest man iest- pj d by you for the past two years ii the tic ress, in public meetings, in the by-i rays, t home and abroad, and in three .State ^ onve'ntions held in Columbia, atteided an nth loss of time and a considerable ex- na enditure of means, which many could ^ Ojr gal 1 afford, meant something more tl an a ^ apriciousness of purpose. . W The first of these conventions con- rns tdered many things. pr< The second, more clearly perceiving thi ur necessities, narrowed its delibera- th< ons materially, specially recommend- pa: ig a separate-agricultural college, . the mi stablishment of an experimental station 1 connection with the said college, that am le board of agriculture should b?i di- poorced as far as possible from pontics oni ad its members chosen by thfipParners' fra ssociation, and that the law organizing be: le board should be so amended as to in- sel rease its members from five to ten, with le power of electing its own secretary, sic; he last convention, held after the lapse r I twenty months from the first, and a f< !ter the recommendations emanating clu om the second had been earnestly dis- a g issed both publicly and privately, am aanimously closed its session by affirm- fro ig the above recommendations, ' al- to: tough, before the vote was ordered, an for irnest exemplification had been made Bo tem of the plan afterwards followed by njg ie Legislature. pei It is for you to say whether or no jour Cy: ishes have been met. Instead of one per rong, well equipped experimental I ation, in connection with the agricul- dei jral college, we have three weak ones, def which a large per cent, of their income p0i ill bo annuaUy expended in "dupli- tire ?orV' nfih'oaTa'" Tno+^firl nf n. rpn.1 aim". IVWVfc ViUVViW. ? ??CU Lltural college, separate and apart from jur e influences of the South. Carolina >llege, where it was hoped boys would ion >t only be educated and trained in the syn ysteries of successful agriculture and re& ade acquainted with the powerful and rers of progressive fanning, but where her e allurements and inspirations of farm ma e would be constantly instilled into eir minds and from which we might >pe to have a fair percentage of t'iiem 4 turn to the avocations of their fathers, ciet ) have an enlargement of the ar-.nex bir< ily. Instead of a board of agriculture ent organized on the plan outlined by ? >ux convention, the Legislature has en- sta rged the present board, denying it the es_< wer to elect its own secretary, thus 0ar flllr orinnlincr if,fi pffirtlfiTlftV. . 1 J '"" "X'jC" O ?w ~ # UiOi Without claiming that ali wisdom is th the farmers, it appears to me, as I il it must to you, that in these matters my 'ecting us and jpr interests first and thei remost, our judgment and wishes the ould have been concurred in, not in ^, e grudging and half-way manner in aiij lich we have been recognized, but eerfulfyhnd heartily. The more so oft len the enactment of these measures was fco laws would have entailed little or no Yfh ditional tax, as their maintenance he < >uld have chiefly come from money at a iw appropriated by law for similar but [satisfactory use. Congress has given the farmers of South Carolina, in but mm on with those of other States, for 5,000, and has secured to us besides tak< 1,500, both sums to be paid annually, aides this the farmers of the1 State are ove ying about ?25,000, a year's inspection _tru< 28 on fertilizers, to furnish a ftrnd to thai used in their interest and for their C(m otection. tonj Who gainsays their right to say how m01 is $51,000 should be expended, or who bold as to deny that it would not be 0f pended as it should be? It is largely try rough your labor that the State has ^ \ llected its taxes during the five years mediately following our redemption >m Radical rule, not counting the q ove annual tax on fertilizers, nor the cost nstantly increasing income from phos- ] late royalties, the poll tax, the ordina- on i and special county taxes, nor the con- sefe tutibnal two-mill school tax, from Cre lich sources many millions have been 3M torted from us since 1S76. I repeat, mis; these years the State has collected for fusi i ordinary purposes the enormous sum her $2,857,000, and in the past five years, 887 not made up,) the increased sum sa-a ?3,626,500. These vast sums have lhe en freely given to every variety of so" Lrpose, from ice ticket": to canal dig- aUj Qg, from soap and ic wels and matches t gilding the State House, and from exi clerical services to $136,000 in sala- ancj y And yet we are told that the State is and o poor to give the meagre sum of ing >0,000 to commence to build up this tim stitution upon which the farmers were iginning to look as to their Mecca, le advocates of the scheme adopted by \ e List Legislature made no issue with OT'n( e justness of the demands made by knC v-m* oc Trrifr?ckca f.ViA IftW.Q &T\- a?a ,UA VyiiTVMViViiJ ? 0*c rglng the board of agriculture and the 0r 1 mex, and the establishment of experi- lap, ental stations. They diverted the coi( eeze yon had stirred to the sailing of aft< eir boat. You are called upon to say ^ei the Legislature, which has just ex- the xed, voiced the sentiment of the ma- Tlr rity of the people of the State on these not lestions. These measures were not be- the >re the people when it was elected, and the i a consequence it was voted for with- di? it reference to them. Will you, once ne^ ^regarding the taunt that farmers will rac }t stic? together, tuaite in your strengin hac imerically, financially and politically, p0? id secure to yourselves that measure of pe te State's fostering care which your imDrtance deserves? If you decide to right yourselves and lin that consideration in the councils 3 l the State to which you are entitled in! id which is graciously extended to the to jmers in many of our sister States, Yo: aders will be found who are the peers Ch E any who may onpose you. Consider she lese matters as settled and a generation La ill live and die without seeing them pat langed. I would not impugn the mo- He ves of the friends of the recent legisla- tat on on these matter?. They are South as arolinians, equally interested with any ba? f us is the State'a prosperity and adsr/wmorif Wit. T rtanv in tntr. t.hpiT aperior wisdom in dealing with ques ^ ons pert lining so nearly to the farmers' an iterest, for I am persuaded many, if j01 ot most, of the supporters of the bills ^' assed relating to these things are not f our profession and necessarily do not, or cannot, think and feel' as we do in ^ eference to them. I would respectfully ask the press of qt he State to give publicity to this ad- , ress, that it may be considered by all { f the farmers of the State. _r D. K. Nobbis, President Farmers' Association S. C. Hickory Flat, February 23. "^1 tta ????^^?? j, *^w If the Czar of Russia had the United ^ States surplus in his treasury his cannon vould open up their music without asking 1 .nybody for the privilege. * do . ,.;.L ia,?of course we will. Evidently you vejpevermade a leap year proposal d you naturally feet nervous; but, ver-fear, it's nothing when you get ed to it In the first place, you'must tch,your man. From thetoneef your ter we infer that you have? got him. ell, the next thing is to surround the in yita favorable conditions. Never Dp^se in the morning. It is worse m^tseless. Tro nine people" out of ten are is no more romance ia the ,earlier., rf <2 she day than there is surtflfmte at dnight. The evening is a good time, hen the young man is alone with you i his face assumes a sentimental look, p the question. Force an answer at rifl. Thft averacA man needs time to me excuses and equivocations. The < 3t plan is to make him commit him- ; f, and after he does this get him to ; ite a few sickly love letters. The klier the better. ' Chen, Miss Cynthia, you must make 1 ew presents to the yotmg man. A ster diamond ring is quite acceptable; < old watch and chain would not be. ] iss, and almost anything that costs 1 m $500 to $2,000 would not be likely 1 freeze his love. You must also pay 1 tickets to the drama and opera, i oth tickets at $7 for the two for six : ;hts in one week would be slightly ex- < isive, but you must remember, Miss 1 _ i_T_ . 11. . i l.l * ? QTiaia, man courcsmps are very exisive, especially leap year courtships, bid, after all, if his love should wan Away from you and he should try to matrimony by innumerable postifcrnente, your course would be enij clear. You would merely have to those sickly love letters before a y and the verdict would follow, rty-five thousand dollars is the fashable figure, but as Baltimore is more ipathetic than New York there is no son why you shouldn't get $50,000, i any young l&dy who has ?50,000 in own name need not remain untried long. Tlie Duty of Every Patriot. i.t the reunion of the Confederate so ijKt if, /vn Wo eTnr> ork/vn7 a * ;hday Gen. Wade Hampton was pres, The Baltimore American says: Loud calls were made for United fce Senator Wade Hampton, who, with Governor Hugh Thompson, of South olina, had seats on the stage. One i; called for the rebel yell, and a great uting followed. Senator Hampton I: 'It was the greatest misfortune of army life that I was not present at 3e sad scenes. I had fought through whole war, and was in North Caroli(7hen Lee surrendered. I felt as we felt?that the South had failed, and Lit was better to have died on some ne battlefields, where the rebel yell sounding and our flags were flying, en I saw General Lee after the war kid it would have been easy for him ny time to have been relieved of his if TPsnnnRfbilitv bv ridinsr alone the r ! and letting a friendly buSet end him, that he lived and did what he did [ duty's sake only. 'I could have sn no other course with honor,' he I, 'and if the same thing were to do r^JE" would do as I did then.' Every i old Confederate ought to feel in b way. I make no apology for my rse during the war. X could wish my Sue would cleave to the roof of my ith if I attempted to call my old irades in arms traitors. It is the duty svery patriot and old Confederate to to make this country fit for freemen ive in for all time to come.'" M rs. Langtry'n Goods Seized. hicago, March 1.?The scenery and c ,umes at McVicker's Theatre belonging \ Ti.' a. JULlU^tiJ- ?CiC 5lCi/iCu. CUiO UiUiuiu^ ^ ;he suit of Mile. Doree, and her car was ed this afternoon on the suit of James ighton, an Edinburgh jeweler. tile. Doree is the actress who was dissed from the Langtry Company for reng to play a role she considered beneath ability. Mile. Doree brought suit inst Mrs. Langtry to recover $420 ry which she claimed was due her for unexpired fourteen weeks of the seafor which she had a contract. The s chment is the result of the suit. e ames Creighion claims that Mrs. Lang- 1 owes ?49 iGs. 6. for merchandise pursed of him between October 18, 1S84, r lO -IOO-7 x A/CUUUI UC1 1U, iW I . L Irs. Langtry has closed her season here, it is reported that she intends disband her company, as she is too ill to conle playing. The Experience of Exoduses. ^ 7e have had several negro exoduses ^ ;e slavery was abolished, and we ] >w how they have turned out. In ( ry case, whether to Texas, to Kansas, . ;o the North, the result has been col- ( se and misery. The whites who' ? Dnized Central America and Brazil j ir the war starved, and the remnants ? :e bronght home as paupers. It takes } best of timber to make colonists, j is sort tne negroes ot tne oouin are ( i. If they have not the fibre to meet , difficulties of their present situation, y cannot meet the more -complicated icolties of a new climate, new crops, c diseases, and, what is worse to such . es, home sickness. The movement , ; a rascal in it somewhere, or an im tter, or a fraud.?St. Louis Globe mocrafc. . , m m 1 Slandering a Woman. 1 klrs. Langtry has instructed lawyers ' New York?Messrs. Piatt & Bowers? Virinor n. lihpl tmit against the New . rk Sua for printing a dispatch from icago descriptive of a banquet that i alleges never took place. Mrs. ngtry is in receipt of letters of symhy from many parts of the country. : r friends are indignant at the course ; :en by some newspapers in publishing true certain rumors which had no i ds in fact.?Chicago Special. rohn L. Sullivan once drove a street in New York for ?2 a day, and wore overcoat tbat looked a good deal like seph's. The only man who would go see him then was the conductor, who reatened twenty times a day to have n "fired" for warming his fingers in ad of watching his horses. Now he is :king a football around under the teen's nose. Die secret oI success is not to undertake >re than you can perform faithfully and 01. The ingenious and quick-witted hostess len she wishes to stop the flow of conrsation along a particularly undesirable ie gracefully passes r6und the molasses ady, and it is done. The question of the day?"What shall we tonight? i r EVJKKY MAS HIS OWS MIND HEADER. The Astonishing Discovery of a Georgia Amateur Scientist. (From the Lexington, Ga., Echo ) Just at present there is no small amount of talk and excitement in Lexington over what may prove to be one of the greatest discoveries of the nineteenth century. It is nothing less than the fact that everybody is gifted more or less with the heretofore wonderful power of mind-reading. Oar readers will remember that last week we locally mentioned that a Lexington young TTiftn had discovered that he was gifted in that way. The yoaag man alluded to was Mr. Z. H. Clark, and, while he did not. want his name made public just then, promised to let us see his power that ^e might the better judge it. We did not have to wait long. Friday he invited us to witness a private seance that would be given at Mr. J. T. Arnold's that evening after tea. We had before seen what purport$3 to be mind-reading, ant| bad no reasba to doubt that Mr. Clark had the J gift. But we were wholly unprepared for the developments that were to be made that evening. The night's performance was made up | of tests given different ones (tor it was found that all present possessed more or . Less the gift) of finding the objects that were thought of by some other person. < These teste were conducted in this wiser 1 The medium or mind-reader would be brought into the room blindfolded; one or two persons would firmly grasp their ( fiands and place their fingers upon the , back of their neck over the spinal cord, , thinking intensely of whatever object j was selected while the mf.nd-reader would ] ilmost abandon all thought from his < mind. Qnieklv there would be an in- 1 situation upon the pari; of the person i blindfolded to move, and following his I nelination they would go directly to the < object thought of. It it was willed by 1 ;he parses who had them in charge to 5 pick np the object, their hands would ' meningly go to it and grasp it, seem- 1 agly without any effort whatever on the part of the mind-reader. It is wonder;ul to see what difficult feats were thus t performed. i One test was that Mr. Clark should ] ipon entering the room, go to the man- i ;le, take therefrom a plaqu<?, go to a cer- t C?1T\ +1%/% *AATM +f> \r A fw*TYI llflr f K?J_LA ^JLOVJl JLU VUG xvvui) buaw A4.VMA M> J? lands a corkscrew, place it in the plaque ? md carry both the plaque and contents o another person in the; room. He was ,ken to a get a small basket that had < >een placed in another part of the room, s ind a key that had been hidden else- j vhere, place the key in the. basket and e hen deposit the basket on a foot of a v >ed. All this was done as^well as it s soutd have been done by any one in the , UUUi >YltliUUl bLLC ULUIU1UXU ouu anymiig ixactly of what the test consisted. Equally as difficult tests were given * almost every one in the room, and were J jone through with about as much f >ronfptness and correctness, which goes !o prove that every one is possessed, * nore or less, with the gift, or sixth * tense as it might be termed. We tried j t ourself, and though we could* not as . veil perform such feats as did Messrs. t )live and Clark, we were convinced that j ve were not witfioufrth's sense;'" c The sensation that or e feels while be- r ng thus under the contaol of the mind c >r will power of another is peculiar, s rVhile you are fully conscious, there a :omes over one a somewhat comatose a oolinor aa if i^ar+.W aslpp-a and vet awake, a [here comes upon the subject an ineli- s lation to move in whatever direction the s ninds of those beside him direct. With c hose who are the best subjects this in- r :lination is almost uncontrollable; they ^ je carried along by it as by force. c Whatever enters the mind of the con- g luctor is immediately taken up by the E aedium and his inclina tions guide him ( o whatever is thought of. t Friday night every tent that could be j. hought of was tried, the most wonder- i ul being to give the name of a person L hought of by the ones who had hold of s he reader's hands. Though failures o -I -1 11-^ *1. T? o vexe maae at xnis, it was tiuuccaaiu-uj t Ic'ne several times, one of these times >elng with Mr. Olive. Not knowing of y rhat the test would consist, he was ? >roughtinto the room and led before 1 ?ne os the guests. It was planned that F hose who had him in charge would v hink of the features of the person. This hey did. After some time Mr. Olive t aid that he felt no inclination to do any- a liing; that he had nothing in his mind t >ut the features of this person. He did E iot know before whom he stood, which f howed plainly that his mind was gov- s irned by the thoughts of those beside t urn. t All these tests were made with the ut- a Qost fairness and with no other object F han to fully ascertain who had the pow- P ir and in how far they would be gov UJ V g Huge Trees'. In a private letter to a gentleman in c his city, from Col. Jno. D. Whitford, here is an account of some forest giants c ately measured in Greene and Wilson j jo unties on Contentnea Creek, One sine tree measured 22 feet in circumfer- ? ince and would make a stick of timber, t solid heart, 5 feet square and 35 feet c ong, or straight-edge plant 6 feet wide ? md 35 feet long. Another pine meas- 1 ired 18 feet in circumference and 100 i :eet to the first branch. Some white t 3aks were measured and would make 1 plank 2 feet -wide and 60 feet long. A ] pine which was felled for making shin- ; gles measured feet in diameter and L42 feet long. These immense trees are : PrtT.TK-1 olMinrlan'fl'c in t.liaf. spfttion and 1 will some day command a goodf price. The party of engineers under Colonel Whitford is eugaged in clearing out obstructions from the channel of Confcentnea Creek and will soon have the stream open for steamers to a point within six miles of the Wilmington & Weldon Railroad, 63 miles above the month of the Creek, and 100 miles above New Berne.?Raleigh News-Observer. Upland Terracing. G. L. King informs us that he terraced about forty acres of upland last year with the most satisfactory results. The terraces stood the floods of last summer with very slight injury, and his Tn-nrt fynm TCQ cVlTTl CT TT ft TO ' louu rroo oarcu uvm sure that twice as much water was held in the fields as would have remained but j for the terraces, and believes that not more than one-fifth of the water escaped , from them that would have escaped if there had been no terraces. It follows, therefore, that not more than one-half, or perhaps more than one-fifth of the water, mud and sand reached the streams from his plantation that would have reached them but for the terraces. Can't any sensible man see that if all the uplands were terraced in like manner be sides standing aroutn. Deuer, me overflows would not be so destructive, and the streams would soon be cleared of the sand and mud??CartersviHe (Ga.) Begister. The more heated the discussion between friends the cooler their subsequent relations. - * THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. IT MEETS AXD ACTS VP OS SEVERAL IMPORTANT MATTERS. The Matter of South Carolina Being Rrprr- ] named i.f the An puma National Exposition ' Held In Abeyance?A Scheme for Farmers' ^ Institutes?Oiher Matters of latere-1. j (From the Columbia Daily Record, March 2.) ] T* U? A /vMAnlti^a oecrtm'h!^ 1 liC JLK'&IU U1 ocovuiviw J yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock. J)r. J. H. Alexander and Gen. M. A. Stbvall, representing tlie National Kxpo sition Compan}-, of Augusta, were heard i in advocacy of the board causing the Stats of South Carolina to be represented by an exhibit at the exposition in October next. The board stated that considering the ex- -> pense of such a display and not being sufficiently Informed of the extent and magni- * tude of the proposed exposition they wpre 1 not prepared to act definitely just now, but will hold the matter in abeyance. ^ SO "DEFINITE ACTION" HERE. ( Messrs. R. M. Anderson "aisri George K. * Wright appeared before the boartWrom the Columbia Board of Trade. Mr. Ander 71 son's suggestions that the two boards co-1 ~ operate in the matter of advertising the * State in general and Columbia in particular, v were referred to the Committee on Immi- ^ gration for future consideration. . ? After adjournment the board met again ^ at night and continued in session until o midnight. ti OUR MECHANICAL INDUSTRIES. Colonel James McCutchen, from ihe e Committee on Mechanics submitted a re- j port recommending the collection of stamistical information relating to the medianical industries of the countiy to be published for the information of that class of citizens and also information relating to the srice of agricultural machinery, and to lotify'all manufacturers of such machinery " Un* An /^Ano^vnont lr?lj rWftiril Mmnlw f( <uau (ug u^/ai tuioiib ir m )f the various implements manufactured tl )y them and test them on the experimental a: stations. The Commissioner was requested 1* ;o carry out the recommendations as far as o: possible. 1 WILL ENFORCE THE LAW. o; b, Mr. W. A. Ancrum, from the Commitee on Fish Culture, to whom various com- , nunications from the fish wardens and ~ rntrols at Georgetown had been referred, ecommended that the Commission be au- ^ horized to take immediate steps to enforce s] * ? '' ? a. OM ^ lie law at mat point, me icpvii, was idopted. n SWORN WEIGHERS .REQUIRED. K Mr. J. S. Porch sr, from the Committee ^ >n Phosphate Department, reported favoribly ?n certain recommendations of Special Assistant Roche regarding th'e rules gov- w irning phosphate mining, the-substance of ^ vhich is that svrorn weighers be required it all shipping points. "J , * n FARMERS INSTITUTES AND CONVENTIONS, jj Mr. T. J. Moore, from the Committee on w farmers' Institutes a:.d Conventions, who r? J A OAkiimn /ii vere reque&u*u iaj auuusu, & ucumtu ovuvuiv wj or farmers' institutes which shall embrace al me farmers' State institute and auch other a< ocal institutes as may be practicable, re- ti >orted, in substance, as follows: fc There shall be held one State farmers' ^ nstitute in each year at such time and j >lace as may be agreed upon by the ExecCiive Committee of the Board; that for this , rear the same shall be held in Spartanburg ?! :ounty, in -donnectimi with the sMasier neeting of .the State Agricultural and Me- r1 ihanical Society and State Grange, if the *a ame be oracticable; if not, at such time 31 ,nd place as the Executive Committee shall w gree upon; that the Executive Committee- ti .rrange such subjects of discussion and elect such speakers as may suit the occaioD; that the Executive Committee be barged with the duty of securing proper epresentation from each county in accord- a nee with the law creating the Board of w; Agriculture; that in addition to the above gi State Farmers' Institute there shall be held & uch other county or local institutes as in nay be found practicable by the Executive tc Committee in each county of the State, C1 ?hpn ren nested so to do by any County Agricultural Society, Grange, or other C( Agricultural Society; that ;hese county or ^ ocal insti'utes be held in connection with +_ ome County Agricultural Society, Grange cj >r other Agricultural Society, wnich shall , ;ive sufficient evidence of interest as to ead to the conclusion that said institution 121 rill be successful; that it will be expected n< if all Iccal societies desiring to hold a ei armers' institute to pay all the local ex- 80 tenses attending the holding of such meet- & Qgs, which shall include rent of hal!, ad: cl ertising and the entertainment of speak- A T3 from a distance white: with them; that R he Executive Committee .1 e authorized to "M dopt such other rules and regulations and to o do such advertising and printing as they n< nay find necessary to carry out success- (j ully this scheme; that in the selection of ^ peakers, both for State and local institutes, q he Executive Committee will not feel hemselves bound by State lines, but are p nthorized to employ such talent as can be ? >rocured, having due regard to a wise ex- &( >enditure of our funds. 7i The report was adopted with an amendcent to the effect that in all the duties as igned to the Executive Committee the )ommis;ioner of Agriculture be added. _ i> lONDITIOX OP TIIE EXPERIMENTAL FARMS. d< - I lu "The following is lanen iroin me report . >f the special Committee on E^peiiru.-ntal u Tarms and Stations: Out of the Hatch fund, the Trustees will * tpply $10,000 for the salaries of the direc or ana scientific staff for station, tor cost v >f scientific investigations, chemicals, post ige, office, service, fuel, publication of u julletins, reports, etc., and will lump the emainder, $5,000, with an equal amouct fr o be advanced by the Board of Agricul- . ,ure. This $10,000 to be equally divided jetwccn' the three experimental farms at h Spartanburg, Darlington and Columbia. 1 rhese all to be under one control, direction * md management, and the results of the ex- f, xjriments, tests, etc., at each, to be included ,. n one annual report. This proposition * * 11? ?? 4-Vt.xv Cfrtf.k ffftl nf f Q Tjnuaiiy rcucvcs u*c outuvuo vi mv> payment of salary of director, and cost of ' publication, <fcc., gives them all the advantages of a large scientific staff, consist- * ng of a director, assistant director, secre ^ &ry, chemist, two assistant chemists, a nineralogist and photographer, a botanist , ind entomologist, a microscopis*; and bac^riologist, and a veterinarian, and turns ? )ver absolutely to the State farms the sum r~ 3f $1,666.66. The $5,000 advanced by " :he Department of Agriculture will be spent j Dn the State farms, which would each therefore enjoy an income of $3,333.33 ($S00 for salary of superintendent and $2,533.33 ? flvnat>coo\ LUX lUUUIUg j. This report was received and made the action of the Board with instructions to the & committee to call for the balance due which F bad been subscribed by the citizens of Spar- c tanburg and "Darlington for expenses. I On motion of iir. Porcher, it was voted c that the $5,000 necessary to carry out the c plan of the stations be appropriated from c the funds of the Department. b MINOR MATTERS. a t The Committee on Phosphate Depart- c ment were authorized and directed to make l an annual inspection of the phosphate ter- r ritory. No date was fixed for the inspec- t tion. , The proposition of the Cotton Plant, of Greenville, to print 3,000 copies of the monthly report of the Department for $53 a month, to be issued free to persons not ; subscribers to the Cotton Plant, was accepted. The Committee on Publications submit- * ted a report authorizing the publication at once in pamphlet form 5,000 copies of such parts of the special exposition report us are appropriate, to be accompanied by recent statistics and a map of the State, for general distribution. Adopted. This committee also reported unfavorably on the proposition from Dc^ D. P. Robbins for the Board to subscribe-for a number of copies of his forthcoming book 3f Columbia. This report was adopted, Uo was afeo the unfavorable reports on tfie propositions of Mr. John 8. Reynolds md Mr. C. A. Calvo, Jr., to pubiish tlie monthly reports of the Department. The Board adjourned to meet again on * ,he first Wednesday in May at lo A. M. THE FLO WEB Y KINGDOMk. Timely and Appropriate Letter from General John D. Kennedy. (From*tbe Charleston Snn ) V A friend in tliis city of General John 3. Kennedy, United States consul gensral to China, has just received a letter rom that, gentleman dated Shanghai, anuary 6. It contains a lively descripion of some of the features of the largest in the sense of the most populous) Eoilire in the world, and a running r?- V cent on political matters, both in tjiis ity ana national, that, paraaoxieai as iz aayseem, are timely, notwithstanding lie length of time elapsed since it was rritten and wliich was necessary for it o have accomplished the great distance etween this and the Celestial Empire. Ve give some extracts which will prove f especial interest to our readers at this . ime. "I had a trip up the Yang-tse-kiangin )ecember, jast before Christmas, and njoyed it very much. I went as far as [an-Kow, 600 miles, where I stayed iree tlavs. and then two davs at Chin aang. They are both large cities and we have onsulates at them. It is a mighty river, ie third or fourth in the world, and for le volume oc water that pours down it jr so many Hundreds of miles probably ie first. Then, too, .it is tlie main rtery that -drains a country in wiiicii jO,000,000 of people live. Some pares f it are quite picturesque in its scenery. 'he river boats that piy on it - remind ne of the fail liiver and Hudson Eiver oats. "We have had a remarkably line fail, ie beat one ever known, and the winter . , lus far is comparatively mild. There as been no rain for four montli3 Worth peaking of. tiTQc of -f sws. It indicates the renomination and selection of Cleveland. He has certaint given the country clean, business iministration and has the confidence of* le people to a greater degree than any ian who has filled the chair since Lin)lh. He is emphatically a people's man ad seems to have a great deal of hard orse sense and the knack, of saying the ght thing at the right time and- in the ght place. His wife, too, for a joua^ ATrtow V>oo o-n/3 4n rlcrrrsanf f VUUUij Uft?3 glVMV wavu UUU J uu^LUViitf. A ladthe accounts of his tour through ghteen States, and was struck with the jsence of ill-timed speeches and foolish ;tions on. the part of both of tliem. If le Democratic party commits no acts of >liy at this session'of Congress, I don't se how they are to be put out of power, am not a civil service reformer to the itent. possibly, that the President is, at as he is charged with the responsiilities of the office he probably knows sfcter than outsiders, and as i nave sucn .ith in his judgment and good sense, -> id political sagacity, that for one I am illing to trust his doing the proper dng even in this particular, too." A New Cotton Seed Cleaner. At Washington, D. C., the other day, new machine for cleaning cotton seed ^ as tested '"in the presence of a distinaished crowd." A lot of ginned cotton sed had been provided, each enclosed i its hull of lint just as it is usually sent > the oil milL It was run through thj^ eaner ana came out at tne Dotcom as ^ . ean and bright, almost, as grains of \ jffee, while the lint hulls, which are \ rgely wasted under the old methods of v eating the seed, were carried into a osed bin, where they fell in a shower : lint. The inventor explained the achinery and demonstrated its usefuliss to the planter as not only greatly lhancing the value of the seed, but ,ving irom 175 200 pounds of lint from rery ton of seed. The spectators in udeda number of well known men. mong them were General Koseerans; epresentative Davidson, of Alabama; !ajor Jones, of Mississippi; M. de Kouwsky, a technical agent of the Engi ; T\ 4-V. "O?. string x/epzuLuxeiiij ui wc XKLLSOJU?JU overnment, now in this country ravesgating the cotton industry; Colonel reen, an oil mill man, and T. W. Coc>ran, a cotton planter of Arkansas. erliaps this machine is the one the rath has been waiting for all these sars.?Dixie. Hanged at Four Score. Hudson, N. Y., March 1.?Oscar F. eckwith, who butchered Simon A. Vanircook in the Ansterlitz Mountains, Combia county, in January, 1SS2, was m?ed at the Hudson jail this morning. e was 79 years old, the oldest man ever ^ cecutod in this State. For the first time since his four years' aprisonment the murderer this morning leu leurs. ne oecame nervous a^u weas. i the knees while lie was being dressed, e sent word to Governor Hill that he.forive him for not commuting bis sentence \ imprisonment for life. He left $30.47 i pennies and nickels for his daughter, [rs. E. M. Sparks, who is an inmate of a Dspital at Albany. Beckwith recently expressed a desire to 3 taken into the Catholic Church, and lis morning he was baptized in that faith y Father Smith. The or*. " tative who called for the turdere w -s .ucius Griswold. a nephew ; Austt Griswold 3sked Beckwith he murdered his wife, who disappeared sveral years ago. The murderer replied i the negative,IlihI said he died in peace. Beckwith always bore a "bad repuiPtioa. .bout fifteen years ago an old woman amed Becky Peck went out among Oe lountains to pick berries. She never reirned, and, although Beckwith was never Taigned on the charge of having mursred her, it has been given out that he illed and robbed her. ?? 1 The Sumter Murder Case Potitponed.-. Sumter, S. C., February 27.?The cases ;aiDSt John C. Keels, Jv. Pennington, 'eytou G. Bowman and Walter I. Harby, barged with the murder of Justice George . _ I. Haynesworth in a shooting affray in his ourt on the 30th of last December, were ailed in the Court of Sessions for Sumter ounty today. Judge Fraser presiding. ifter about five hours of argument, by oth counsel for the defence and the State, 11 the cases were postponed until the May erm of the Court. The continuances were ;ranted on account of the absence of maerial witnesses for the defence. All the >arties were admitted to bail to appear for rial in May. The court-house was packed rith spectators during the whole day. The Senate committee on the District of Columbia has rejected the bill prohibiting .1 be sale of liquor in the district, and by a rote of eight to one adopted the measure to ubmit the question of prohibition to a vote if the diizens of the district. . Ground hogs?Western land-grabbers. LEAP YEAR PROPOSALS. -? ivice to Yonng Ladies "Who Dare to Exercise Their Privileges in 18SS. A young lady comes to us with a very triors request, says the Baltimore neacan. "I want you,J' she writes, <o t#Q me how to proceed to make a ip #ear proposal. I do not mean anyinj|> farcical, but a real matrimonial opcsition, and I desire to do it in such frarfcthat the effort will not be a failure, ease give me a few practical direeOf^ourse we will, dear^Miss "Cyn