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THE GREENVILLE ENTERPBISE.
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Pcoolefo to Xlroro, Politico, intelligence, nnfc tjje imptoocmenl of ll Stole Conntnj.
JOHN . BAILEY, PRO'fi. GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, JUNE 14 1871. VOLUME XVTH-Nrt. ?
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Jib Is (tool typo) or loss for tho first Insertion,
fly MM oaoh for tho sooond and third insortloao,
aad twonty.firo oenU for subsequent
insertions. Yoarly contracts will ho made.
All sdrortisoinents vast barn tho nonhor
?f insertions marked on them, or thoy will ho
inserted till ordered oat, ad charged (sr.
Unions ordorod otherwise, Advertisements
will invariably bo J* displayed."
Obituary notices, aad all matters Inuring to
to tho 'benefit of aay une, aro regarded as
Adrortlsomoats.
Report Of tho Prsaidsnt af ftlia H?
Line Bailroad.
To the Stockholder* of the Atlanta
and Richmond Air-Line Railway
Company:
Okstlduk?The President and
Directors respectfully submit their
t*e|>ort of the operations of the
Company during the past year as
follows:
Since the mooting of the Stock*
holders in June, 1870, the work
then in progress on the Western
Division, between Atlanta and
Gainesville, Ga., has bceu prosecuted
by the contractors engaged
in its execution with energv and
satisfactory despatch, completing
the excavation, masonry and bridgjng
op to the point but named
about the 80th April, ult.
The placing of tho superstructure,
under direction oi tne Engineer,
has been followed up as successive
sections were opened, as
actively as practicable. Ueavy
-and protracted rains have some
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wuM rmurueu operations; but a
tew bftndrod feet only of rails remain
to be placed at tbe Gaines
will? end of tbe Division to com*,
piete tli? continuous track to that
point. Tbis will be effected during
tbo present week, giving fiftythree
miles of line opened and operating.
Die track has beeu laid with a
first class T rail, 56 pounds to tbe
yard, coupled with tbo fisb bar
joint, making, as fast as surfaced
up, a substantial, safe and wellbuilt
roadway.
Depot buildings sufficient for the
C resent wants of the Company have
ecn provided at Atlanta and other
points on the line. Others will
soon be required at Gainesville
and at two other intermediate stations.
An equipment of four first class
locomotives, two passenger and
twenty-seven Burthen cars have
been purchased and pnt to work
on this part of the line. Ten other
fiats ana dump oars have been en-,
gaged to be delivered at an early
day. This outfit is deemed fully
eufiicient for the immediate wants
\>l the Company, and bos already
enabled it to open a profitable tratiic
on the line now operating tbat
(promises an early development of
operations unusually large for a
local road of limited extent.
Reference in made to the report
of the cbief engineer and superintendent,
herewith suubmitted, for
a detailed statement of the entire
-expenditures of this Division.?
From this it appears that the work
on this Division, deducting the
cost of equipment, amounts to less
- than an average of Nineteen thousand
dollars per mile.
The work on the Eastern Division,
under the contract with Mr.
jP. P. Dickinson, ot Now York, for
the construction of the line between
Charlotte, N. C., aud Gainesville,
Ga^ was put under way between
Charlotte aud Spartanburg .
during the summer of 18JQ, as
early as complete and satisfactory
surveys could dotermins definitely
the most eligible location, and has
been prosecuted with uniform activity
and in the most satisfactory
manner, entitling the-contractor to
'the -highest xontuleoee and respect
4 tlia a/vaunessav a
VI ?>M?I bVUiJHWJi a MtIjfC 1UICU I
Lm been kept constantly employ*
ed in ike construction, and a
large proportion of the line, of
.about seventy miles, between Charlotte
and Spartanburg completed.
The line of abont thirty miles
;*n extent, between 8partanburg
and Greenville, has also been put
under aotive work, with considerable
force during the lost sixty
days.
The continued proeeootion of
the work in like manner dnriog the
present year will secure the completion
of the line tor age to Spartanburg,
and probably much or
most ot that to Greenville, on or
before tbe 1st January, 1872.
Arrangements bare been tnade
for tbe delivery of about 2,000
tons of iron raits in tbe month of
J une, soon thereafter to be placed
upon the track; it being the purpose
and desire of the management
to open tbe line in sneesssive
divisions?first to Spartanburg,
thence to Greenvillei at eaoL* ?*
which polnU, M reach*, conui
buboes of business arp bspoctod '
valasblo nod important to'tBelncome
of tbe Company 1
?jui loro wiyUKUOUl 1110 llllU llflVQ
been prosecuted with id! the di!f- !
gcnce practicable and at oonaid^r- I
able exponse, with a view to tlie I
proper and neceaaarj economy in I
me cow ol construction and tbe
fnture maintenance and operation
of tbe Road. Much of tbe line
though practicable, has been found
difficult in affording such locations
as were dceuied judicious wi h
reference to tbe available means
of tbe Company and the important
considerations of grade, enrvatnre
and saving ofjdistance.
Especially in regard to the line
from Gainesville, eastwardly, reference
is made to tbe statements
of tbe Chief Engineer in bis report
herewith submitted, any disposition
of questions suggested or arising
thereon, trbicb the stockholders
may desiro or prefer, should
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oe inatcaica now 10 Uio manageineut.
In pursuauce of authority conferred
by the stockholders at their
last meeting, the Board of Directors
in Juno last authorized and instrutted
the President to have pre
pared and executed at an early
day a proper deed of trust or mortgage
convoying the Comneby^s entire
line, franchise and property, to
sccuro an i?*uo of bonds at the rate
of v^,00u per mile of the line to
be need for the necessary purposos
of the Company in the construction,
equipment and operation of
its line; said Bonds to run thirty
years from their date, bearing interest
at tho rate of 8 per cent, per
annum, payable semi-annually, and
Do in other respects in such form
and with such usual stipulation as
the President should prescribe, and
the President was instructed to
have said bonds prepared as soon
as'convenient. litis resolution has
been carried into effect as contemplated,
and the securities thereon
authorized securely provided for
by the due execution and recordation
of the proper deed therefor.
This plan of a single mortgage
having beon determined on as best
for the interest of the company,
of course it became necessary to
retire so manv of the bonds on.
dorsed by the State of Georgia at
tbe rateof ?12,000 per milo of the
Hue in that State, as had been
heretofore issued. This has been
done, and said endorsed bonds,
$210,000 in amount, have been
canceled in the hands of the Auditor
of the Company.
The fact of the present high credit
of the compauy's 1st mortgage
bonds, and their valuable uso in
aiding the company* to push forward
its work, fully vindicate the
wisdom of adopting the present
form of security in preference to
such as the company would have
been required to omploy in con
nection with the endorsed bonds
referred to. The encouraging prof;rcss
of the work, its assured eary
completion and its equal certuin
value as a public highway and carrier
when completed, having already
fixed the confidence of capital
in the safety and certainty of
the company's securities as an in
vestment.
In conclusion, the Board, in re- i
gnrd to the important and responsible
though difficult duties committed
to them in the care of the
groat work represented by the i
Company, will be allowed to con
gratulato the late stockholders up- j
on what has been accomplished
already, aad the encouragoraents
that are now afforded of the speedy
realization of their most cherished
hope* of successful completion.
The considerations that distinguish
your enterprise as one not
only of great local value and importance,
bnt also as a commandmound
ooftnntin) olomntil in Miaav
Knization of a great Piedmont Atitic
thorough fare, has at length
strongly impressed the intelligent
sentiment of the country north and
south of yonr lino.
All interests are looking with
marked attention to your progress,
<?nd hail with satisfaction the broad
clear dawn of your assured success,
recognizing, as it docs, the power
of your completed line when pro
pcrly organized aa a grand and
potent instrument in the restoration
aud development of the immouse
domain in which it penetrates
and serves by its connections
and influence, to that prosperity,
beauty and value which
nature has designed it to afford to
the present as the generations to
come.
Respectfully submitted on behalf
of the Board.
A. 8. BUFORD, Preset.
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An Alabama Internal Revenue
Collector, being afraid of Ku-Klux
in the mountains of that State, asks
the Commissioner at Washington
for authority to toll out property
of delinquent* at the oounty courtly**
instead of ou the promises
^ .l^'^nnaii!;. to which the ComfisSurer
low no suoh'ttfiogt that uw
collect the taxes Tn ATetama as
he does in Massachusetts, and if
there is resistance he Drill ask for l
troops to insuro the execution of !
the laws. * 1
I [From (bo August* OoMtltotioouli* ]
I . The Twentieth Century
What a grand field, for imagination
and conjecture doee this
theme suggest! It is quite be
wildering, in view of the great
achievements of tho nineteenth
century in scientific discovery, in
invents n, and the arts, and in material
progress. A writer in the
June number of tl?? f4olo**?
has plunged into the vast field of
speculation, recognizee as the difficulty
of conceiviug results in the
future that will bear favorable
comparison with the accomplished
facts of the past, lie thus impressively
groope together the achievements
of scieuce, invention, and
art during the present century, and
more especially of the last forty
years:
<k Fulton's steamboat, opening
the nineteenth ceutury, furnished
a new point of departure to modern
comr.iercc and the art of navigation
; Davy's lamp gave ne>y
possibilities to mining, and bonce
to thn onnitK' "f ,1'~
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products of all manufactures; then,
fort/ years ago, the first locomotive
ran on the Liverpool and
Manchester Railroad, revolutionizing
travel and the carrying trade,
and making it possible for mankind
to plant the wilderness with
cities and to take possession of the
globe. Soon after, in 1838, a new
era began in ocean navigation,
when tlie Qrcat Western steamed
across the Atlantic, from Bristol to
New York, and on this followed
Ericsson's screw propeller, that
boon to commerce and to naval
warfare. Morse gave us the elecs
trie telegraph, Jackson and Morton
the inestimable ether to deadon
pain. The wondrous machinery
of the forges and spindles in the
iiops, mills and factories ofr the
Shefiields and the Lowells began
to work; ere long came mowers
and reapers, iron Lulls, rifled cannon,
revolving carbines, cbasso
pots, nitro glycerine for blasting,
monitors for sea fights, mitrailleuses,
20-ton, 80 ton guns, the ocean
telegraph, new apcothctics or soothers
of pain. The travelere meanwhile
were spreading over the face
of the earth. As Parry and Ross
had oponed the Arctic Sea, so
Wilkes unveiled the Antarctic
Continent; Champollion found a
key to tho hieroglyphics, unlocking
Egyptian history, aud Layard
unearthed Nineveh; travelers from
Clapperton and Belzoni to Spekc
and Livingstone penetrated the
heats of Africa. Into domestic
life came a swarm vi' ?k??u?al and
mechanical appliances, substances
interchanging their uses and tunc
tions as if by necromancy?paper
or ^rass ground to pulp and shop
ed into whatever can bo made ot
wood, even into wash tubs or race
boats; india-rubber, by a " presto,
change 1" doing the miracle ot half
the metals; starch and sulphuric
acid turned to syrups, beet roots
to brandies, petroleum to cham
pagne. Ten thousand labor saving
devices, from the steam ^>low to
the sewing tnachiue, crowd the Patent
Office: our age has photography,
with all its kiudrea arts,
a new name fot each fresh ingoni
ous process; we have the caloric
engine, practical ballooning, the
pneumatic dispatch ; we have coal
oil, submarine armor, torpedoes.
Wilson gave us gas light, which
throws the eighteenth century, by
contrast, among the "Dark Ages ;'
Hoe gave us the cylinder press,
making this aa distinctively the
newspaper age as it is the iron
age; and through some part of almost
all our contrivances works
leam, doing whatever and moro
than ever mnsclo of man or beast
has done these five thousand years,
and making the table ot the Oyclops
a dim foreshadowing of the
mechanical common (daces of our
day."
The hnmble task is rcsorvod for
the future of adapting, applying
and perfecting inventions. For
these the resources of mechanics
and chemistry are yet to bo in
yoked to their full possibilities. In
tho sciences of surgery and modi
cinc, much may yet be done for
humanity, for these aro indefinitely
progressive; but nothing can
pale the glory of etlier, chloroform,
caloral, and other anodynes.
Tho great problem of transportation?44
transportation of material,
of messages, ol men " is almost
worked out to its highest
practical triumph. We who write
and read this have seen the post
boy giving way to tbe telegraph,
tkn 4*. 4!- 4 A .
kuu VWMVI W ItUO mi?QIOAUC iaoe>
the oUm coach to the locomotive^
the Mil to the screw; and when
eren the air is a highway, with
balloouships imitating the birds
aod beating the ocean of ether
~'''h the oraoe of their piuions:
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gyror.*,tord:
hoats traverso the wator^ w.
the earth, jit looks very much as
the next hundred years would play
tbe lees noble part of enlarging
upon our ideas, and putting them to
more commodious use." But in
one item, at least, the acme ot improvement
is reached?telegraphy
?and our imagination cannot ask
for more. The putting "a girdle
round the earth in forty minutes "
is already surpassed, for now mes
sages aro sent from London to ,
Bombay, a distance of six thousand
miles bv tho IndoEurora?An lino
Messages pass diicct from New
York to San Francisco, over thirty
live hundred miles of wire.
Navigation through the air and
under tho water still invites enterprise
to strive for more practical
results; but already balloons
have become useful machines, and
torpedo beats have been guided
Unuer water. Tf tlnwo ?r? over to (
be made of great practical value,
in peace or in war, it will wait for
tho twentieth t??ntnrv I
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strate tho fact. Two-thirds of the '
nineteenth has scarcely more than 1
transpired. The remaining twen- \
ty-nine years will develop all that !
is valuable in either.
But if little should bo loft tor
development ot tho physical sciences,
and for invention and art, 1
to the twentieth century, there is
much to bo done iu the grander '
fields of social science, of politics <
and government. It has become <
axiomatic with how little wisdom
mankind is governed. When we
contemplate the inequalities in the <
conditions of men?the burthens
of taxation on tho man)', the bounties
of special legislation to tho
few, the horrors of bloody war?
the craft of sycophants, the perse- i
cations of bigotry, the insolence of 1
official power, the delays and do <
nials ot justice, the thousand op- i
pressions of the strong over the 1
weak, tho mind looks hopeially 1
yet anxiously to the reforms an l
other gencratior and another ccn- I
tury may achieve. It acknowl- i
edges that the science ot govern- 1
meut is yet in its infancy, at least
as to practical results. (
The dreams of the optimist may j
rcquiro more than the next con- j
tury to realize?more than may ,
over be^alized. The bloody con- i
testa of the ninnfAnnfh
have caused oceans ol blood to j
flow. Yet, though human rights t
are perhaps better understood now t
than during the French rcvolu
tion and the wars of tho great
Napoleon, there is scarcely a spot
on earth where they receive a
fair recognition and practical enforcement.
Even in England, tho
freest nation on earth, the rights
of tho people are overlaid i>y n.
tnass of autiquated usages at war
with the principles of equal justice
and with a Cumbrous form of government
which pampers a few favored
families at tho expense of
tho people. Wo do not look for
tho Universal Republic in the
twentieth century. Rut it is not
improbable that it will be inaugurated
with v/ist reforms in governments,
and that though monarchies
and crowns should not by ?
that timo become obsolete, the}* ,
will bo shorn of much of their ,
false glitter and their corrupt ten \
deucies. *j
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A Bear Story.
At a station near""Fort Bridger j
wo took on the train Jesse Bell.? (
Ho was carriod from the platform ,
and placed in tho baggage car, a ,
helpless and frightuMooking object,
begrimed as ho was with {
blood and dirt, lie was a miner, (
and, some miles north of the road ,
(in Nevada,> had wandered from
the camp, when he unexpectedly
caine upon a large cinnamon hour,
and they stood/face to face, oily
fiftoen t'eot apart, llo raised his
rifle and tired, wonndii.g the animal.
They mutally advanced to
the attack?tho bear with its arms
and teeth, he with a revolver having
five loads. They grappled,
the bear embracing and rolling
over him?it biting, and he firing
as opportunity offered. Bed was
bitten through tho foot; his thigh
was torn, his arm lacerated, his
shonlder bitton through. Both
jaws were crushed by tno teeth of
the beast, and tho scalp was cn- 1
tirely torn from tho back of his i
bead. During this time be firwd i
bis live loads, and on receiving I
the last, the bear fell back, as be
supposed, dead. A worse mutilut- i
ed inan I never saw. After bis
fearful encounter, bo told us ho i
walked or dragged himself five
tuiles into camn, leaving bis rifle,
as be was Uoaolo to carry it.~
Wuon wo saw him bo bad boon i
fivo days \youndeii. lie was on
uw wiijr iv 41 wi ii i_>i Uigur ?vr i^r>
gical treatment, a disianco of 70
mile*. He wm hopeful, and con*
ftdently expected to recover, and
for some kindnoss shown him, he
promised to write uie a letter
when he was able,?Letter from
California in the Wheeling lieg
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A Had Blown to Pieces?The Fearful
Effects of Driving a Load of
Vitro-Olyoenne on a Sough Road.
A Titusvillo paper gives full
detailcs of the awful death of
Charles Clark, by nitro glycerine.
It 6a3*8:
Ho left Titusvillo for Tidionte,
Laving in his wagon 400 i>ounds
of uitro glyoerine, which lie was
conveying across the country to
till orders for torpedoes iu his
district.
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no was descending ft bill and 1
was passing a sluce in the road, I
over which wer? laid some logs
and a plank, in such a manner as
to be uneven, and bis liorBes being
on the fast trot, the jar as bo
passed over tlio bridge caused an
explosion of tho glycerine in bis
wagon, and be was burled into
eternity in an instant.
The shock was terrific, and his
body was blown to atoms, parts of
it being scattered over the fields
and in tho road for sixty rods
around. The explosion was heard
in Tidioutc, 12 miles away, and at
iMitoriyri jo tl*/> t\A^?.l.?
u...v j/i IUU n>v puvpio wcro severely
stunned by the concussion.
All the windows for 6ome distance
around were broken.
The house of Daniel Arnawine,
which was further down on tho
apposite side of the road, was also
greatly damaged by having tho
windows knocked out and Mrs.
Arnawine received a blow from
tho butt of the whip, which was
blown lrom Clarke's wagon
through tho window into hothouse,
striking her in the breast
The body was blown to shreds,
and men soon after commended
looking in tho vicinity for pieces
of the same, and were successful
in finding portions of it, but the
largest portion must have been
blown to atoms, and can never be
traced. Tho face was found in
the road near the old Reed well,
about forty rods below where the
explosion occurred.
Strange as it may seem, he
could be identified by it,-although
it was the mere outside? but the
mouth, nose and eyes were preserved,
also the moustache and a portion
of his front hair tho eyes
were open, the mouth wore a
pleasant look, and the features predated
an air of dignity as if absorbed
in a deep study.
A Sea Captain's Humane Act
Punished.
The Liberal Christian has the
allowing anecdote from a gentlenan
who was an eye-witness of
he circumstance narrated:
Tho thermometer often etands
'or days at from 109 to 117 decrees
in the Red Sea, and when |
lie vessel is with the wind, and
raveling at about the speed ot the
iiri tho lack of any breeze or ventilation
makes life on the 6teamer
ilm<>st insupportable. On this occasion
four men and two women
unong tho passengers were 8 o
>vercomo with tho heat that the
ihip's doctor reported that they
nust die if the shin's course was
lot changed and a breezo created
>y traveling against tho wind.?
Lhe captain very reluctantly, and
n dire fear of his company's orlers,
yielded to the cry of humanty,
and steamed 100 miles back
m his course. lie thus reduced
ibe oppressive temperature twen*
ty degrees, ventilated his ship,
!iud saved the lives (probably) ot
>ix passengers. Tho Government
tinea tho company, (who excused
tho captain, although not without
n warning not to do it again.) ?1,[)00for
going out of tho proscribed
routo with hor Majesty's mails.
A Sad Domksiio Tragedy.?A
peculiarly and profoundedly sad
rngedy has just occurred in
RiplimAn^ lv V A Atl-O T.i.n~>
L'errill was taken bcforo the
County Court, discovered to be a
lunatic, and ordered to be sent to
the Lexington Asylum, ller actions
were so dangerous to herself
and others that it was necessary
to have her closely bound.?
Whilo in this condition, she was
lying on the bed awaiting the arrival
of the conveyance that was
to take her to the asylum, her
husband, who appears to have
been strongly attached to her.
and wlioeo heart had been pierced
by tho irreinediableness ot his
aMictiou, rushed up to where sho
lay, cried out that his anguish
was mpn? than ho coulvl a?d
cutting his throat from car to ear ;
t . i a ^ ?? c * a .
Bank nioieesiy ai me loot ot tho
bed. For an instant tbo lunatic
ceased her ravings and a faint
f;loatn ot intelligence shot across
tor disoidered fcatuies. Then
that last spark of reason died out,
probably forovor, and, shrieking
imprecations, she was borne to
hor living tomb. This is indoed a
domestic tragedy, the horror of
which is not often equaled.
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Galveston, June 6.
A TcrribU Storm:?A terrible storm
prevailed here? commencing Saturday
at noon. The wind was southeast, and
forced the waters of the Gulf on the island,
covering to several feet deep the
Southern part of the city. About two
miles of the Q. II. II. Railroad is war lied
away two miles above the city. Tbe
bridge across the bay is safe. The
steamship Alabama, of the Morgan
Line, wiih a cargo of cattle and sheep
from Uockport to New Orleans, went
ashore twenty mites west of here on
Sunday, and will probably be a wreck.
Tbe bark Virginia Dare, from Cardiff
to Galveston, wilb a cargo of railroad
iron, went down about six miles east of
here on Sunday night.
The crew, consisting of fourteen men,
ware rescued yesteiday from the masts,
where they had been lathed since three
o'clock Sunday tnorning. Many build
ings have been washed away from the
lower part of the city. On the Gulf
Ueach no lives were Io*t. The vtloci'y
o( the wiud Sunday night at ten o'clock
was thirty-nine miles per hour. Six
inches of rain fell since Saturday, 2 P. M.
The storm also prevailed to a great exlent
at IIou;tou, doing much damago.
Brutal Murpkr in Darlington.?We
lenrti from the Darlington
Index, that on Saturday or
Sunday last, near Cartersville, in
that county, William Sims woe
brutally murdered, and his son
and daughter?the latter the wife
of the murderer?badly wounded
by one Sanders. It appears that
in consequence of a complaint
made to him (Sims) by the wife of
Sanders, that she did not have enough
to eat, Sims and his son came to see
her, iuteuding to take her home with
the m. Nnitti K?l?nitin /I 5 |I?
? ? ?uc
threats of Sanders, all three started for
Sims' bouse. When they had enter
ed a field not far from the house Sanders
came up. behind them and ordered
them to halt. Upou their refusing to
do so he fired at them, instantly kill*
ing Sims, and badly wounding his
wife and brother in-law. A second
shot was fiied, but it is not known
whether it took effect or not. San
ders has not yet been arrested at lost
accounts.
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Important Decision?Newspaper
Supplements.?In a late Virginia ex*
change we find the following:
Newspaper Supplements.?A decision
of some importance to newspapers
has just been rendered in the United
States District Court at Cleveland,Ohio.
Many newspaper publishers have a fash
ion of folding in their papers advertising
sheets, circulars or nnilon oc.i. ~
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(bat by printing " supplement " at the
head they evade the United States statute
made and provided for such practices.
Mr. A. K. Brown of the Alliance
(Ohio) Monitor, labored under this illusion,
and was indicted and convictea.
In this connection we would state
thai we have had an interview with
Postmaster Trolt, in which his opinion
on the subject of the transmission of
those Supplements by mail was asked.
Without having seen the paragraph
above, Mr. Postmaster Trott expressed
the same views as are contained in the
decision alluded to above. That a
bona fide supplement might be sent out
folded in the paper, but that a single
advertisement which accompanies a pa
per is not*a supplement or extra in contemplation
cf law.
[Charleston Courier.
1IJK IN EW UOUNTY OF AlKEN.
On Saturday, May 27th, the commissioners
appointed to select the
6ite for the Court llouee and jail
of Aiken County, held a meeting.
Senator F. Arnun presiding. After
silencing Prince Rivera, and
one or two of his friendsi who
were dispoeed to delay matter and
occasion discord, the coinmiUion*
era examined plans and estimates
submitted for the erection of the
contemplated buildings, and were
convinced that suitable ones could
not be erected tor less than fifty
thousand dollars. Not wishing to
tax tho citizens tor this purpose,
it was resolved to petition the
I cgislaturc for lea\ e to issuo bonds
for the amount required, upon the
credit ot tue county. iiiu eu? w
the buildings Was not determined
upon, but a committee was ap*
pointed for that purpose. It is
believed that a place about mid*
way bcwVTQon tbe *wo hotels will
be selected. It is rue opinion that
if the Legislature grant the peti*
tion for the issuo of bonds, tne^j,
will be no" difficulty iu Die
required sum,
A naan was killed and the ci?.v
hall fired by lightning in Fall lfcivcr,
Massachusetts, on the 5th \n
Ir Dr. Livingston returns from
this, his third tour of exploration
by way of the north, as was his
purpose,-he will have traversed'
ooth the length and breadth of Africa,
and the world may expect at>
account of his discoveries, adventures,
etc., more intensely interesting
and exciting to an any that
have ever been priuted. From the
communications wo had from him
in 1868, it is evident that the chain
of lakes he has discovered are the
source ot the Nile. If this be true,
it is a remarkable confirmation of
Ptolooiy's theory, giveu nearly IT
centuries ago, respecting the rise
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?uv ai n\}? AUO JLAA/lUr bBJ'b til45*
country in the vicinity of theselukes
is not a desert as is popularly
supposed, but abounds in vegetation,
and in tbe language of the
natives, is a land of " rivers upon
rivers, and plains of fertility.'*
In his travels, Dr. Livingston met
with a new race of men called
" Rua," who dwell in caves, and
possess a singular physical organization.
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Liquid Manlkk.?A barrel or
hogshead, for liquid manure,
should be kept in a convenient
place in all gaidens. Plants can
only avail themselves of manure
in a liquid form, and valuable fertilizers
are often lost by remaining
undissolved in the gi-ound too long.
Dissolve at tho rate of one pound
of pure Peruvian guano, or two
pounds of dry hen manure in ten
gallons of rain water, and apply
to your plants, say once a week,
just at night fall or before a shower.
The liquid manure should not
fall upon the leaves or stems of
plants, but should be evenly sprin
Kica over tue roots, the ground
having boeu previously stirred a
little with a pronged hoe. If tho
plants are mulched, this stirring
will uot be necessary, aud the
benefits of the liquid manure will
be more certainly secured.
Give the Boys a Patch.?One
of the surest methods of attaching
a boy to the farm is to lot hitn have
something upon it for his own.?
Give him a small plat of ground
to cultivate, allowing him the proceeds
for his own use. Lot him
have his steers to break or his
sheep to care for. The ownership
of even a fruit tree planted, pruned
and brought to bearing bj' his own
hands, will inspire him with an
interest that no mere reward or
wages can give. In addition to
the cultivation of taste for farm
life which such a course will cultivate,
the practical knowledge
gained by a boy will be ot the
highest value. Being interested,
he will be more observant, and
will thoroughly learn whatever is
necessary for his success. Another
and equally important ndvant
age will be the accustoming him
early to feel responsibility.
?
Wiio is Youit Fkiend f?Who is
your friend? Nut the boy, or giif,
man or woman, who tries to lead you
astray, tempt you to do wroDg, roocka.
at sacred things, or gives you bad a(N
vice or bad example. Such a person
is your enemy. Listen not to them.
Who is jour fiiend? The person
who tells you to do light, to walk in?
truth, to be failhfvi in good words; theperson
w ho urges you to pray, to studyGod's
Word, to be always at churchy
to look forward to full membershipwith
his people, to grow in grace, and'
in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus
Christ. Such a person is your true*
fiiend. Listen to him.
Vakieties.?Fowls that show
symptoms of diarrhoea should havo;
alum put into their drinking water
: a dose of castor oil given as
a physic say a tablespoon Jul at a
time.
Fowls that have a touch of tho
cold should bo fod with wild onioDS.
Garlic and onions fed to youug,
chicks will prevent the gapes.
The best feed for young chicks
is corn and wheat "cracked, add
beef cracklins ground fine and feck
with the corn and wheat.
Sparrows are the farmers' friends..
It is said that a paii will carry to
their nest four thousand caterpillars
in a week.
llenryeCaLnou and Taylor Palmer,
the two colored men sentenced to La
hung at Union on the 21sl ult., for ibe
???d?r of G. M. Stevens, on the night
of the 31st day 01 t>v.nnt)er last, suffered
the penalty of the law as ordered
We learn that breaking open meat
houses and stealing generally, preva ils
an alarming extent in the Lynches
Creek neighborhood, says the Marion
i Cresent.
Wm. E. CuAMitKits, undoubted
!y IhQtienror menibor of tke Independent
Order of Odd Fellows in.
i ^Luvrmu, and probably in t li o
. world, died lately^ in Brooklyn,,
"New York.