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Dmolcb to jletos, politics, intelligence, ont tlje impcooement of ij)e State ar& Country.
JOHN C. & EDWARD BAILEY, PRO'BS. x GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, FEBRUARY 8, 1871. - VOLUME XVII-NO. 38.
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HOBSCBtrTioji Two Dollars per annum.
Ao^ariaaurisTs inserted at the rate a of
one dollar per aquare of twelre Minion line* I
(Ihle sited type) or less for the fir at insertion, i
fifty cent* each for the second and third inscrf
lions, nnJ twenty-live rente for subsequent
Irrertlons. Yearly contract* will be mnde.
AM advertisements must have the number
of insertions marked on them, or they will be
Inserted till ordered out, and charged for.
Unless ordered otherwise, Advertisements
wil| invariably be " displayed."
Obituary notices, and all matters inuring to
to the benefit of any one. are regarded as
Advertisement*.
frlrrtrii |fartrtj.
Good Night
i.
Soft glimmers tbe moon through tho trellisetl
-vines, <
I)ut a softer splendor quiver* and *hinr*
In eyes tear-wet, yet bright ;
I.ike the criuison flush of tbe coining dawn,
Tho rose on her check blooms quick, and Is
gone?
" Good night, dear Y<ove, good night!"
it.
fiwnycd in the wind, the rose buds ponr
Their perfuoie at the cottaun door,
' From petals pu(ple and wbito ;
liut their honeyed sweets are mixed with
pain,
Fur lovers who part to moot again?
V " Good night, sweet Flower, good night !"
lit. '
Sod is tlie touch of tlio wave oft tho sands,
But rodder tho pressure of trembling bunds,
Tho brown one clasping tho white ;
And boart?throb* are wilder than wares on
the shore,
As those sud, sweet words are (altered once
more?
" Good night, pole Trembler, good night!'
iv.
From loaf to loaf, from flower to flower,
The new spirits dance in the midnight hour,
With slippers of silver bedight;
But perfecter pearls are the tears that shine
On the fair young check 'ne^h the eglantine .
" Good night, bright \V?oj>er, good night!"
T.
But the moon must wane in an hour more,
And the flowers that swing at tho cottage
door
Must dream of tho morning light :
So lovo must slumber, so love's sleep beam
With the trust and the truth of a morning
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- uuuu uigm, iimris bearcat, good niglll!"
A Western Claude Duval-Bemark
able CBf.er cf a Young Thiet
Tito Kat.sa* City Bulletin, of
the 21st lilt.. relates the following:
There airbed at the Union Depot,
yesterdiy morning, from Cheyenne,
eve.rely ironed, and under
care of r. United States detective,
named T. S. Gleuden, ??f Cincinnati,
one of tlie mod daring boy
ini|*ostors ever caught by the authorities.
His name is said to be
Dennis Harrison, and lie is the
* youngest soli of a machinist living
in Columbus, Ohio. At an early
age. the boy developed a vicious
disposition, and was detected in
an attempt to rob the United States
mail car on the Pan Handle Road.
For this offence lie was sent to the
House of Refuge.
Finding tlio accommodations of
this establishment unsuitable to his
fas'.idous taste, be made sncli earn
est protestations of piety and repentance,
that be was allowed to
return to i?is parents at Columbus.
Here be again developed bis vj.
cions instincts by beating his
mother, setting fire to the bouse
and running, away. The next
heard of him lie is enlisted as a
bugler in a cavalry regiment, en
route to the Rocky tVoiintnins.?
-Ilere he proved himself such an inCorrigible
young thief, that after one
year's service in the guard house,
lie was drummed out of the army
at Fort Laramie. lie was 8<>on
afterward taken, disguised ss an
Indian, in an attack upon a supply
train, together with another uldte
renegade, who was forthwith hung
to a tree. Harrison was spaiedon
account of his youth, and taken
to Fort Halleck, whence he soon
Afterward escajied.
Il<e became acquainted in Denver
with a desperate gang of stage
robbers, and took part in their attacks
npon the overland mails in
1804-5. lie soon after left the
West and returned home to Ohio,
and joined the Methodist Church. |
lie became acquainted with a
voung country girl and married
lier, but deserted bor soon after.?
lie became a brgkemati on the
Central Ohio Railroad, but was
discharged for laziness, lie was
marri.fd again in Zanesville, and
was arrested in Newafk forsednc
tioii, but managed to escape the
deluded victim, with some ot $900
In money. ;
tie came to Kansas City in tbe
winter of 1867, and, assuming the
pharactcr of a wayward son of a
wealthy banker East, and made his
way into good society* both here
and'at Wyandotte. Being goodlooking
and free with money, he
44 took well," ami became engaged
to two of Kansas City's fair daughters.
lie remained here a brief
period, and lett tbe city and a respectable
family in Wyandotte;
cursing liim and bis deception.?
11 is next scene ot rascality was at
a counterfeiter's den in Houston
street. Now Yofk. Here he became
acquainted with the thieves,
gamblers and counterfeiters, and
being naturally smart and intelligent,
soon becamo a leader of his
fellow-criminals. He established
a saloon, which became the headquarters
of all the counterfeiters
and "shovers ot .the queer" in
the country, and in duo time be
came an,expert in the business".?
When the counterfeit $50 Treasury
notes first mads tl*ir appearance,
he " shoved " seventeen of them in
one day, purchasing a sufficient
ntriftlltlt /.f oliUl.illrt tn aimnlu liim
fc ""yyj
Keif and mistress Tor over two
years. Shortly after this, lie became
one of the leaders of qnc of
the worst gangs of counterfeiters
in the United States, and was connected
with tho stealing of certain
pla'es from the United States Trea
sury office. Iti 1866, the gang to
which he belonged went, into the
fractional currnncy business, and
to them the country is indebted for
the innumerable fifty and tweutvfive
cent notes with which every
community, Enfit and Went,
were flooded, and it was while in
this business that he was detected.
In Nov em Ivor,, 1869. his gang had
agents in all parts of tho country,
to who they sent their worthless
currency tor circulation. His boldness
getting the better of bis discretion,
he was detected and arrested
by Colonel Wood, Chief
Detective of the Treasury Department.
escaped from a train from
the Now York and Albany Railroad,
and tnade the best of bin
time and started West, lie has
made some successful hauls, and
scattered 'Mho queer" in Omaha
and St. Joseph, and was traced up
and arrested a few days ago upon
a train between Cheyenne and
Denver.
A Sudden Marriage.
T-. . I!..l . .1 - '
iu u nine iowd in mo coumv 01
Marion, Missouri, a few duys ago,
a curious Wedding took place, and
tTTTJ pTCttntlntirf^v ^ n I
important event are thus described
: Mr. Joseph Chipmun anil
Miss Nann'C llutcliison engaged
in a game of forfeits?that is \o
say, they agreed to do certain
things which, it not copied by the
other party, was to subject the one
refusing, to the payment of a
specified forfeit. Doth, by the
way, were engaged for marriage
to other parties. Joseph declared
that ho ooiild hont. Ndiinv ilioi
very day by getting married.?
Nanny retorted, that he could not
run into greater danger on the matrimonial
track than she was willing
to do. Neither was willing to
give in, or retreat an inch, and
each vowed that there would be a
wedding that night unless the other
withdrew.
It happened that no clergyman
lived nearer than Emerson, a
town four miles away. The
young man proposed to go after
this minister, and have the nuptials
solemized, then and there ?
The young ludy, with a shrewdness,
not to say a suspiciousness,
that does her honor, said that she
would go along too. Ilence, they
started together in a buggy, with
no real purpose, it is said, even
then, of figuring as principals in a
weddimr, and leaving their ac
quninfnnccs laughing at what they
deemed a first-rate joke. They
arrived at the clergyman's house,
encn armed with the indomitable
resolution not to give in ; each,
however, secretly believing that
when matters came to a decisive
imint the other would hack down,
hit Nanny was full of piuck, and
so was Joe, and the pair were
married in the buggy as it stood
befote the parson's door, and returned
to their friends a9 Mr. and
M's. Joseph Chipman. Whether
this marrying in hnsfo may produco
the proverbial leisurely repentance,
or whether two actions
of breach of nromice may grow
out of the affair, time must reD,
.1 aL? n.arl r? ?mam
0?l?c j IllCitlll III1W, IIJU ?U'I?S" IIIKI "
riage lias created a great local
sensation, a? the parties, up to the
tiuie tiro knot was tied, did not
want to marry each other, had
never intended doing a- >, and had
i o idea ot being until their union
was a tact.
?
Svi.vkhtku Swrrn was lately
wedded to L>dia A. Sinit i, by the
Rov. It, A. Smith, , at Jhcoh
Smith's, in Smithville,Smith County,
Iowa. Twenty-five persons
were present, all Smiths but ohe,
and he was a widow wlm inH ma*.
l ied a Smith, and w?? looking out
for another*
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ThkGovernor, yesterday, vetoed
the joint resolution tor the levying
of an additional tax of one
mill on the dollar for eoonty purposes
In Georgetown county,- gig*
ing as his reasons therefor, that
the tax is already sufficiently
heavy to meet -all requirements.
[Columbia Union} 31 st.
Farming by Sale.
If fanning is a science, and a
trade as we believe, then it ought
to bo done by rnle. It has a sjs
tern in principle, and it ought to
have in practice. There is a time,
a place and a way for everything
connected with the business?anu
the best success is to be iound in
practicing the best system. Farm
mir is like house-keeping, or shool*
teaciiing, or manufacturing, in this
:> :? ?. J
r?j;cvv?*ii lb id nut uuno system- |
iiticftllv it is done to a great disadvantage.
Tliere is a waste and
loss at all ends and corners?the
waste in time is very great ; the
waste in produce is not a little.
How many farmers there are
who do verthiug by guess or at
random. They plow all soils alike
for all fcrops; thev sow when they
happen to get ready, whether the
season, the soil or the weather is
right or not; they have no idea of
the 6ize of their fields nor the
quantity ot seed they put on to
the aei o. Tliflv iniioai it ia ulvmt
right. Tiiey have no system of
rotation of crops ; no plan for eaving
manures or fertilizing their
soil; no way of draining ; or feeding
to their stock the most good
with the least feed ; the road is
their cow yard and pasture; the
door-yard is their hog-pen ; a rail
fence is their only gate; their
fowls are everywhere, where they
ought not to be, destroying and
wasting ; their tools, carriages and
harness are always out of order,
and generally exposed to the sun
and rain ; their stock is wandering
they no not where; their fences
are fast going down or fast going
to ruin ; unruly horses, hogs and
cattle, are often breaking in where
they ought not to be; fence corners
and headlands are growing
up with briars and brush ; orchards
imtrimmed : rardctiH ar?
neglected; weeds grow.; crops
tail ; stock die ; tends break ; family
gets eick ; expenses* multiply ;
protifs diminish; spirits
l]l|int? L... ...w~ -?rrO?ppy?? WHO call
tell wlmt does not follow that is
miserable ? All this may be
avoided by systematic farming.?
Every merchant knows, that it his
business is not done in order and
in time, he is the loser, 'llie
farmer ought to know' it. In no
business is system more requisite
than in farming. Tho fanner has
to do with fixed laws?they innst
be obeyed or ho or his crops suffer.
Order is heaven's first law
so it should be the farmer's.
I flu. ml XVnvJtl
? ?The
Poll Tax.
The effort now making in the
Legislature, by some of the heat
members, to devise some means by
which men can be made to pay
their poll tax, is a praiseworthy
one, and ought to succeed. What
can be done to bring that about, is
not so clear. No doubt, if a law
could be made that deprived a
man of the right to sit as a juior
so long as his poll tax remained
unpaid, it would stimulate many
persons to discharge this obliga
lion, which they owe to the State;
but. whether it would prove the
panacea for all our troubles in this
line, is liy no means certain.
With a provision in the constitution,
which prevents the denial
of the right to vote, on account of
the non-payment of this tax, it becomes
a dithcult question to settle.
That the tax ought to be paid by
every uitui in me otate, cannot be
questioned, and probably there is
no class in the State, who would
derive so much benefit from a full
collection of the poll tax, as the ve
ry men who now refuse to pay it.
Paying taxea is not a pleasant duty,
at least to those who have the
pay part to do. We have made
an examination into (Tie poll tax
business, and find that only about
every other man pays this tax.
If we desire to derive the utmost
benefit from our school system, we
innst take stops at once to secure
this, the larger portion of the revenue
to that fund. This isa inatter
in which not a few, but all men
aie imerestea, ior me less we collect
by poll tax, the more we must
collect from property. Ii is something
that appeals to the pockets
ot us all, ana we desire to see that
those who derive the benetir, help
pay the bills.
An amendment to the constitution,
striking out the clause that
for hide the denial of the right of
suffrage, on account of non-pay
mcnt of noli tax. would accomplish
this result. Whr cannot this be
done f?Daily tlnion.
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Inhuman.?A human fiend who
resides in Marblehead, Mass., went
home a tew weeks ago in a tit of in*
toxieation and threw his wife out
of doors and broke her leg. It
was set and doing well when a
night or two ago he returned
again nnder the influence of liquor,
and* deliberately broke tbe
limb again to two places.
Two other remarkable instances
of accurate dreaming are chronicled
in our exchanges. In the first
place an American clairvoyant
physician in the Mexican city of
'Mazatlan, had a vision on the night
the steamer Continental (olying
between that city and San Francis
co) was wrecked oft' St. Lucas,
which informed him of the disaster,
the time and the locality. Next
day he reported what he had
dreamed. The story quickly tnade
its way through the city and spread |
consternation among the superstitions
friends and relatives of the
steamer's'passengers, and the anthoritjes
had the doctor arrested
and fined $35 as a disturber of the
public peace. Precisely eight days
afterwards news arrived from
Cape St. Lucas, via La Paz, of the
wreck of the Continent a), and confirmed
in every particular the story
of the clairvoyant. The second
instance was that of an old negro
woman who live9 in a kitchen attached
to an ancient house in Norfolk,
Ya., and who dreamed on sev
eral successive nights of finding
concealed treasure about the house.
One afternoon her recollection of
the dream caused her to btgin a
search ; and, soon after removing
several loose bricks in the kitchen
hearth, she was rewarded by find
ing a decayed Wooden Ik>x. This
contained a quantity of paper money?supposed
to be some of the
old u Continental " currency ? a
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nnitn, IIIC nuiKSHI >\ IIIUII illlll
been totally destroyed by met, and
a number .of gold ancTsilver pieces
of English and Spanish coinage.
The old woman thus dreamed herself
into the poeession of a fortune
of several hundred dollars.
Dkep ok Shallow Culture.?
A correspondent of the Germantown
Telegraph writing from Iowa,
concerning the short ciop in that
section resulting from the drought
i which prevailed there during the
past BiufiBuuv account of
an experiment having for its object
the determination ot the question
whether deep or shallow cnl
tnre is best for corn. The soil, as
is common in that State, was of
great fertility and depth. The
land being prepared as usual, a
portion ot it was plowed deep during
the growing season, which was
extremely dry ; ami another portion
was plowed shallow. The latter
turned out much the best. If
land be deeply pulverized prepar
tory to planting,it dues not require
deep culture for corn or any other
crop. Shallow culture, sufficient
to keep down weeds and grass is
sufficient.
Cnahlkston IIakuok.?Mr. Sawyer
submitted the following resolution
in the Senate on the 19th
ult., which was considered by'
unanimous consent and agreed to :
li'etolved, That the Secretary of
War be directed to inform the
Senate whether surveys of Charleston
harbor have been completed in
accordance with the provisions of
the second section ol the act of
Congress of July 11,1>70; and, if
so, to submit estimates of the
amount needful to complete the
improvements shown by said surveys
to be desirable.
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Tiik persistency with which rich
men don't die is discouraging to
deserving heirs. The Tribune re
marks that the wealthiest citizens
of New York are all at an age
when most men are loo infirm for
business, and yet they arc not only
hale and vigorous, but actively
engaged in conducting their pursuits.
William 13. A*tor is neatly
78; Alexander T. Stewart, 70;
Cornelius Vanderbilt, 76 ; Daniel
Drew, T1 ; Peter Cooper, 79;
George Law, 73, while the majority
ot the millionaires are over 60.
[.Morning Star.
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Givk mb a Husband, orGivk mb
Dkatii !?The old maids at Sioux
Oity enjoyed a hannuct at a hotel
recently. A Miss Kennedy made
the concluding speech, and created
a furor by snying : 44 Let others
do as they please; as for me, I ant
determined to have a husband as
soon as I can got ono. A nd let U6
all see to it, so that when another
thanksgiving day rolls around,
there will not be an old maid in j
Sioux Uity." The banquet closed
with the song, ,k No one to love."
?
A music teacher once wrote, that
" the art oPplaying on a violin requires
tlie nicest perception and
sensibility of any art in the known
world " Upon which an editor
comments in the following manner:
" The art of publishing a newspaper
and making it pay, at the same
time making it please everybody,
beats fiddling higher than a kite."
Tnir <*Anini taker in Utimo aalrort
a woman the age of her ol?Jt*t
child, and the reply was, " You
have couoo round a month too
ood i"
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The Hew Apportionment
The House Judiciary Commit*
tee, to which was referred the subject
of a mow Congressional Appointment,
has made a report, accompanied
by a Bill based npon
the census just completed, which
proposes that from and after the
3d of March, 1873, the House of
Representatives shall be composed
of 280 members, to be apportioned
among the several States us Follows
:
Vermont ...21Kentuckjr ...10 I
New Hainehire 2ITenne??ee # I
Main .6 Indiana 12
MMiicliiiutti ..11 Illinois .....18
Kudo Island 2 Mi?i>uuri..... 12.
Connecticut 4 Arkansas 1 .4
Now York 82 Michigan 0
New Jersey 7 Florida ** ?* a..l I
1'unniylvauia 2V Texas ...6
Delaware t Ions 9
Maryland A Wisconsin 8
Virginia V California......... 4
North Carolina _.S Minnesota 4
South Carolina.........t> Oregon 1
Alabama 7 Kansas 8
Georgia : 9 West Virginia 3
Mississippi. A Nevada 1
Lou isiana M Nebraska 1
Ohio 1?|
A proviso is inserted that after
such apportionment shall have
been made, when any new State
shall he admitted into the Union,
tho Representative or Representatives
of such new State, shall be
additional to the number .of 280,
herein limited.
Upon this basis, the only States
whose representation will be reduced
will bo New Hampshire and
Vermont, each of which will lose
one Representative. The States ot
Maine, Rhode Island, Connecticut,
Delft>vatc, Louisiana, Ohio, Florida,
Oregon, West Virginia, Novada
and Nebrask, will each retain
their present representation. The
Statesof Massachusetts,New York,
Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Alabama,
Mississippi. California and Minno
sola, will each gain one over their
present representation. The States
of New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Georgia, Texas, Wisconsin and
Jv...ionfc, will each gain two. The
States of Missouri, Michigan and
Iowa, will each gain three, and ttie
State ot Illinois will gain four.
Mf.n Wiio Makk Farming Pay.
Mr. J. I?. Lyman read an interesting
paper, stating several in
stances id men who had begun a
few years ago with nothing, ant^
had already accumulated fortunes
by farming alone, concluded jwith
tl.'c following advice:
u Li tiiues like these, when
valubles decline and merchants
tremble, it behooves every man
who knows bow to grow beans or
food cows, to 6ct forty acres of
tirm earth beneath Ins feet."
J. W. Gregory mentioned one
or two similar cases, to which
were added two or three corrobrating
tacts by other gentlemen,
the remark of the case being pertinently
closed, Mr. A. S. Fuller,saying
:
44 1 was not aware that anybody
conceived the possibility of failure
in farming or other business, if
the motto, 4 work and save,' be
adopted at the outside and lived
up to faithfully."
Tiik disruption of tbo Imperial
Court has caused the exile of all
of the Emperor's friends, many of
whom are just now settled in
Switzerland. Geneva fairly over
Hows with titled exiles. Isabella,
of Spain, and Henry V., of France,
lead Che royalties?the latter nndcr
the modest tittle of M. Aubry.?
Prince Plon and his wife, Princess
Clotilde, lead the minor notables.
Having sold their Inxurious villa,
Prangi, they live quite plainly in
an hotel. A number of ladies
and gentlemen of the court cluster
about these Imperial relics, and
two or three ex-Prefects keep up
the illusion of the old days of
riotous festivity. There are seve
ral editors of the laie regime.?
Mr. Vileniessant, of the JPtjaro^
among them.
In the Louisville Courier-Jour
nal, rf the 19th, we find the following:
44 A letter from Mrs.
Lee says that It is her intention to
have the General's remains removed
to Richmond should she
ever leavo Ixjxington, and if not,
she wishes them at her death, to be
placed in Hollywood, and that she
ho buried beside him there."?
j ni8 settles rue question that
Richmond is to l>e their final resting
place, and makes It appropri
ate that tlicro his grateful and loving
countrymen should rear their
greatest monument to his memory.
The Whittemore cadet at West
I'oint Military Academy, whose
appointment cost the South Carolina
Congressman his scat in the
House or represent ah ves. tins
just been discharged fr&m the
Academy for non proficiency.?
The father of the young man considers
the purchase of the cadetniiip
a very bad investment on his
part.
. The Tkial or Hon. R. R. Butleri.?In
the Crjlninal Conrt of, 1
Washington Cfty, before Judge
Wylie, Yesterday morning, the i
case of lion. R. R. Butler, of Tennessee,
n nn indictment tor iorge- <
ry, was called, and tho witnesses
from North Carolina having arrived,
the Government, represented i
by Judgo Fisher and Mr. ilarrincr
ton, said -they were ready, and the
trial was proceeded with. Mr.
Butler appeared with liie counsel,
Mews. Davidge, Kiddle and N.
11. Miller, and waved arraignment,
pleading not gnilty to the
first Indictment, wnich charges
him with forging the name of Mrs.
Berthcmy Farmer on a draft for
the payment of a pension. Mrs.
Farmer was the only witness examined
fbr the prosecution, and the
facts, as sworn to by her, were directly
controverted by several witnesses.
The Court, at the cIobo of
4)6 examination, stated that thcro
was not the slightest ground
the prosecution, and the case was
given to the jury, who promptly
brought in a verdict of not guilty.
[ Washington Chroniels.
We learn from our telegraph
dispatches, that there is great prob
ability of Congress taking np the
Southern Pacific 1 tail road Bill
during the present week. Wo
sincerely trust this may bo true,
and that when once up, it will bo
pressed to a successful conclusion.
There is no reason why Congress
should not aid this enterprise to
thfe same extent, and in the same
manner, that it did the Union and
Central Pacific roads. Justice to
a section of the country that needs
assistance in this line, demands
that Congress bo not partial in the
distribution of its lavor6.
, With a Southern Pacific Pail
road open to the goKien gates of
California, a now future would.be
open to the South, and we hope
our delegation in Congress realize
this fact, and will useiheir united
efforts to seciiro favorable action
by tlie National legislature.
[Columbia Union,
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Br.usura.?Goethe was in CQtnnnitvt
Itrillt O IHAflinH o??rl
?..*? ( IIIVIIIUI IMIU UUII^IIICI v
when the latter being reproved
tor something, blushed ana buret
into tears. lie said to the motlier :
" How beautiful your reproach
lias made your daughter. The
crimson hue'and those silvery
tears become her much better than
an ornament of gold or pearls;
those may be hung on the neck ot
any woman; these arc ever seen
connected with moral purity. A
full-blown flower sprinkled with
purest hue is not so beautiful as
tiiis child blushing beneath her
parent's displeasure, and sheading
tears of sorrow for her tan It. A
blush is the sign which nature
hangs out to show where chastity
and honor dwell."
Young men who go to sec young
ladies* have adopted a novel method
of obtaining kisses. Tliey assert
that, on the autli(yity of scientific
Writers, that the concussion
produced by n kiss, will cause the
fliltllfi of ft orna Vil flinl-ni- nn/t
- ? f,"" J ?' ivnw ) "IIU
easily induce the damsel to expe^
n'ment in the interest of science.
The first ki6s or two tho parties
watch the flame to see it nicker,
hut soon become 60 interested in
the experiment as to let it flicker
when it wants to.
A youno man- at Davenport,
Iowa, nntned Van Evra, nineteen
years old, committed suicide by
jumping in tho river. His girl
had got her Grecian bend elevated
about something, and lie
thought to show her that there
were as good fish in the river as
over were caught. He is fishing
for them yet.
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In the Illinois Legislature, on the
13th, a joint resolution, instructing
Senators and Representatives in
congress irom Illinois, to use tlioir
inflncnco for the removal of the
Federal capital to a more westernly
location, was passed.
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Bhiokam Y otwo's fortune is es
tinmted to be not far from $fl,000,*
000 or $9,000,000, and to bo rapidly
increasing. He is evidently
desirous of leaving, when he
dies, $2,000 a piece to his numerous
widows.
Tijrkk hundred and seven women,
ot Ohio, have sent in a remonstrance
to Congress against
fxinul r? lilflVana T?- ! I
<?gv* M.% ?0 VWUIIUI 1 I ?
to know that even that many have
got all the rights they think they
ought to have.
China 19 rapidly undergoing the
process of civilization. Beer is
made at Shanghai, a whisky distillery
is going ?p at Canton, and
the first hanging recently came off
in that city with great eclat.
W* are-informed, by good an
thority, that tlte railroad, novr in
prooe* of ?onatruction between
this city and Sninnter, will be
pushed forward with all possible
dispatch, and that it is the inton
tion of those controling it, to have
traius on tho road before midBummer.
This is good news, if
only true, as we trust it is. Colonel
Bridget's is a thorough railroad
man, and when he once fixes
upon a thing, he generally aecom
pushes-it. litis road will bring
Sninpter within two hours* rido
of the State cipital, and will open
up for settlors much good land,
now comparatively worthless, on
account of its inaccessibility.*? m
Property in that section ought to
increase in valne very materially,
just its soon as the first evidence is
manifested that trains will be put
upon the road. It is along, round*
about way to Sumpter by the
present route, and we a< e not surprised
at the small amount of
travel from that quarter.
A Miss Isabklla Smith, who
claimed that she had been injured
in her feelings to tho extent of
$20,000 through the failure of one
John T. Campbell to marry her,
was awarded a sum of $18,000
last week by a jury at Wavorly,
Iowa.
" Boy, why did you take art
armful of my shingles on Suu?
day ?" " W by, sir, mother want
1.;?ji! < -
cva huihu xinuung wood, and 1
didn't want to split wood on a
Sunday/1
A lady in Birmingham conlfilains
that during the Bret year of
ter married lite her husband called
her c' my dear*" the second*
Mrs. A.," and the third year,
"old sorrell top," which was too
much for her to betff."
Lifb is a book ot which we
have but one editon.- Let each
day's actions, as they add their
pugcs to the indestructablo volume,
be 8uc11 as wo shall be willing
to have an assembled world to
read.
Jacob S. Golliday, member of
Congress from Kentucky, once
gave the following toast: "Champagne
for true friends, and true
pains for sham friends.
r>:~ m? - * ?
,*...? <> ? Aicu is on exultation
in Cincinnati. It is twenty live
feet in diameter. It was 250 lcct
high, and 2,000 years old.
It is always in our power to
makeJfci friend by smiles ; what a
folly, then, to make an enemy by
frowns.
It is one of the worst of errors
to suppose that there is any other
path ot safely except that of duty.
Governor 11 olden, of North
Carolina, is to become associate
editor ot a religious paper.
A, Cactjox to Ladikh.?A correspondent
from Liberty, Pa., write* that a physician of
that place hns discovered a species of microscopic
insects which Infests the mnterial used
for chignon*, called mohair. There insect*
enter ttie scalp, and causes immediate death;
He state* that a young lady, who had been
wearing the article in question, now lies in a
critical condition, ber scalp being filled with
these insects, and her recovery is considered
hopeless by tho host physicians of the lccal
vjn
The Columbia Union ssys that Gonoral
And01 son ha* f.tio-n.s ? o- :?? ? ?
VIII isso IllVCPlIgn'
lion of die troubles in Union county, and
from what it o?n "glean, matters bare quieted
down very much there, and a teeming
disposition prevails, to prevent a recurrence
of the fearful outrages, that have disJ
graced a portion o( the county, ou several
occasions.
On the 20lli or 2trt ult., says the K.lgefi>*ld
Adverin the neighborhood of Mr;
Tiilmun Clsik's on the C. C. <t A. Ii. It., H
negro man, whose name we have not learn
ed leaped from the platform of a Car, struck
his head against something, was run overs
fearfully mangled, and died on Sunday. It.
is only people perfectly ready and willing
to exchange this world for a better one, who
ought to essay such leaps.
The Union Timet of the 27'h eeys llial'tliC
dwelling- imnln- Kaiik '"t ~t *t_
Andrew fcUl?a, livingn?*ar Cross Keys, were
entirely consumed, with nearly all their
content*, on Saturday night last, It was
the work of an incendiary, by the name of
Mike Bobo, a hegfo, who hue been arrested
and confessed the crime.
Mr. Bryant. Bailey ?who formerly kept a
livery stable in Columbia, but for Sevc a>
years has been living on a farm about two
miles |mm that city, on the Wirinsboro
road, was brutally murdefed, In open d?ybght.on
Weduced ty, by Some person unknown.
Oeneral F. P Blair, a Democrat of th*
strictest si?ct, has be?*n elected United States
Avnilnr f? -*
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e<t ?l>m fli-Hfinl Blwir wft? the can f>r
Vic President on the T).m"er?t'.e ticket in*
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