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JOHN C. BAILEY, PRO'R. ___ . GREENVILLE. SOUTH CAROLINA, OCTOBER i 1871. VOLUME XVHI-NO. 22.
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??W?SCMUMSMW?1 ! l.-rVSTt^T. JBIT-C ?If J .Mtl >t
frlrrtcii ^nctrq.
The Little Mother.
Minding hally's cradle,
Rocking ns she si'iga,
Bits s lit 1 lc maiden
Pull oi busy tilings ;
.ri.ing she a slocking
Willi niosl Ktrioua mi en,
fecaretfly oev. n summers
lias little Pot } ?ccn.
&l ling liy the crudlc,
L"vii g w AI <j li to ko. |>,
\\"ond< n? g if broltier
Will erer go to s'e p;
While she aiitchee bnvely,
Stitches for her li.ro.
One <l?y the Utile mnidsn
Will moke a thrifty wife
F.itty'o liiir is goMen,
Polly's eyes ore blue.
Ami I scarce eon tell you
Ii:?If that she cat) do ;
But her liotid* \v?*k deftly
As she sings awhile.
And Itkeflish of aunaVue
To lior ir.AiPf
Silting by the erndle,
Uolh?r'? task to share,
\Vliile her playmate's soioes
Fill the (i nn> air ;
By*and-by she'll join ihent,
Shout willi might and n ain,
l'lity till tyrant b?l?v
Waul* bis nurse again.
Silling by lite c~ndle,
Full of dignity,
Marshalling on tiptoa
Liule sisters throe;
Tries to look like moth *r,
Villi a brow of c ire,
God grant darker shadow
Never rosy re-t there.
" The woman's Magazine."
REMINISCENCES
OP TIIB
CQUHTY QFQREEMVtLlEi
BY EX GOVERNOR B. F. PERKY.
[continued from last wkick ]
Dr. John Crittenden moved to
Greenville in 1817. I have frc
quently heard him speak of a ball
given in the village shortly after
lie came here. The managers had
employed a good woman to furnish
the supper. After arranging
the table to her satisfaction, at
an early hour in the evening, she
sent for Mrs. Crittenden to look at
the table and suggest anv improve
tneut she might think advisable in
the arrangement of dishes, &c.?
/ The first thing that attracted her
attention was a huge dish of bacon
and cabbage in tlio centre of the
table. Mrs. Oritte nden very gent?
1 it . ? it ??
V milieu unit buc (UOU^iit a owttur
to remove that dish, as 6hodid not
think it looked well on the table,
?nd the young ladies might make
"***%** iMitriiKr Poiiv.l I'L'ii 11 hi ill f
it. Then 11 ?*? '??hiomible, said
Dr. Crittenden, to open tut
Hit hour or two before sunset, and
dance all night. This must have
been a* bard task on the 4th of
July, when tho thcnnometor was
at ninety. The oi l Court House,
standing in the middle of tho 9trcct,
was the ball room, whero all danc
ing parties came off. And the
same room was used tor a church,
as well as a temple of justice. It
would soem, therefore, that the vil
lagers,'in those days, had an eye
{or this world and the next both.
They were not disposed to lose
pight of either; just ice pleasure and
I'efiglon were administered and
enjoyed in tho same temple.
Card play ng was universal at
that time ir. the community. There
were very fow who cared to read,
and this gatno was a pleasant wuy
of killing ti.ne; gambling for inon
oy was too common, hvery gain
mer there? was a faro hank opened
at night above the billiard room,
which wa9 called the war oflico,
and belonged to Col. Toney, and
stood on the ground now occupied
by lawyers oflices. Thero was a
set of gamblers who iodc the cir
cuit regula ly with the lawyers,
ginger-cake wagons, and lino stallions.
In this respect a great im
provmont has taken place, lbit
there is a vulgar habit, now uni
versa!, which was rarely known
then. I never saw a gentleman or
even a vuIvai-Shii ?m..b!nn. ??
r'Pv
in thoso days. Very seldom indeed
was a cigar smoked. Col*
^onoy was ?lie onlv habitual
smoker* that I saw. *Now evory
one has his pipo or his cigar.?
There is certainly much less drinking.
One vico succeed* another,
like disease in the medical world
In looking over the criminal
docket, it is amazing to see how
iii<j[u?ii( me crime 01 noree stealing
was in tho latter part ot ti>u
eighteenth and beginning of tho
nineteenth centuries. Judge Clayton
said lie could always mark the
progress of civilization in tho upper
Counties of Georgia, by the
records of the courts: First, t hero
were cases of horse stealing, homicides
nod assault and batteries,
thon < a no perjuries, forgeries
and counterfeiting, which indicated
a stop in the progress ot civil
ization and refinement ! In tho
early history of the tipper country,
hotse stealing was not confined to
common rogues of low degree, but
men of position nnd property wore
engaged in it. I remember bearing
of a conversation between lawyer
Hja'v and a Colonel who lived
on Tugaloo liiver. Air. Shaw, enquired
of the Colonel, bow be
came to bo so deaf. The Col. replied,
44 by lying out of cold nights
to s'cal horses." 44 Great God,"
said Air. Shaw, 41 you never stole
;Thorse, Colonel?" 44 Yes, I have
stolen more horses than you arc
worth, Air. Shaw," was the frank
reply of t^e Colonel.
It is very exti aordinary that
Greenville, the third town in the
State, lor population, wealth, commerce
and prosperity, should newer
have had a batik established in
the Community, whilst many of tho
adj ining Counties and towns have
one or two. At an ea:!y period
of our village history, there wore
wealthy men who kept a large capital
to loan on long and easy terms.
This supplied the means of procuring
money without a bank.?
Captain Cleveland was nno of our
lirst bankers. He withdrew his
capital from c inmercc nnd was
unwilling to invest it in manufactures
or in negroes, llis lands
wore cultivated by tenants, and lie
thought more profitably than they
could be^y slave labor. The money
which almost every'"other person
would have invested in negroes to
cultivate his lands, he proposed
l.tliil liter t\t\ nri wul e/./?it elf ? of
V/II ' 'V* OV-V-ll i llj ? U? OV/ ? Cll
per cent. The amount which ho
had loaned out was very lmge.?
The eainc practice was adopted afterwards
hy Captain Choice, Coi.
Ilokc, William' Jacobs and Mr.
Norton. This supplied the wants
of tln-sc who wished to borrow
money, and removed the necessity
of a bank. Exchange, for many
years past, could always be bad ot
Messrs. Heat tie. Ilcnce* if you
wanted to borrow money, or wished
funds iu New York or Charleston,
you could bo accommodated
without going to a hank.' I3ut wo
rather think tli.it the wants of this
Community will soon demand a
change in this particular.
For a great many \*cars Greenville
County was exclusively a
grain growing District. Very little
cotton was cultivated, and the
Western stock furnished a ready
market for all the surplus corn.?
In tliis respect, there has been a
groat change. Tho driving of live
stock tbroncrli the o.mntv lino !??
o ' - V? '"~t
, a grout r"on*nrc. roused, and ilic
tarinoio liJWQ turned tlioir attcntion
to the cultivation of col ton.?
For thirty years I never 6a\v a bag
of olton brought bore f?r sale.?
Hut thousands of bags have been
""hi during the past tew years. Hv
means ??i >?tv (|ue cr0p9
are made annually.
In the early settlement of Greenville,
a large portion of the lauds
was covered with reed and cane
b akes. They havo now entirely
d ^appeared. .The soil on the
creeks, rivers and branches is still
fertile,-but the lip-lands are very
much exhausted. Until recently
no farmer thought of manuring
bis lands. Ileclearod tl cm, wore
them out, and cleared again or
moved off to a new country.
[CONTINUKD NKXr WKKK ]
FOR TUB GRERNVILLE ENTERPRISE.
Incidents of a Trip to the West.
Fort Kearney, Nebraska, )
n ?. ? a. i ? a? ? r
oepi. loin, lo/i. )
Dear Enterprise?I was con tin
nally hearing ho. much from settlors
and travelers about the great
Valley of the Platte, that I determined
to visit and make a some
what examination of this beautiful
ana tortile country. The ValIpy
on the main river extetids
about 600 miles, due west, from
Oinatia. There are north and
south forks, having their source
several hundred miles in t h o
Ilocky Mountains. How mighty
must have been the Plutonic and
aqueous agencies that produced
these grand snow-cappod e 1ovationsl
The history of tho
cosmogony tells us, that there
was a time, when tho 4.4 mountains
skipped liko rams, and the little
hills like lain!)*." What a grand
sight it wonld be to you or I to
has thoftn n'd mnnnfn!r>? pnrf.?>?
such antics. At I tit here at a
great distance and look at them, I
am half disposed to thiok tbat the
writer in the above descriptive
simile, availed himself of the poetical
license, unless liis rnnis and
lambs belong to that class of huge
extinct animals, that we read about.
In order to see the Valley, you
must tnko the (Jnion Pacific rail
way at Omaha, ami atop about
every one hundred miles, and
take a ride on an Iudiuu pony
over the prairie. If you merely
pass over at the rate of twenty-five
| miles per hour, on the cars, you
! will have a very imperfect idea of
I the extent and character of the
| Valley. You can find some kind
of a train passing almost any hour,
upon which you can ride to different
stations. The Union Pacific,
the great transcontinental railway,
is equally as great an attraction
as the Valley itself. It is itn
possible to estimate tho present
and tuturo influence of this r.?ml
in developing our West mid in
J fusing the Euet with American
ideas, and Christian civilization.?
It lias certainly settled the Indian
question. There will be no more
p:otracted Indian wars ; with the
facilities afforded by this road, any
number of men can be transported
and subsisted an}' where on
the frontier. Formerly a small
tribe of Indians could successfully
defy the Government?now ovcry
ranchc is protected ; and there is
scarcely a train leaving San Francisco
that does not bring Japanese
and Chinese, traveling ' exclusively
for information. The
only way for nations and individ
uals to advance in knowledge, and
to be emancipated from igno
ranee, local ideas, prejudicics, and
absurd superstitions, is to .nix
with each other, see with their
own eyes in what respect thev
may be deficient, and see the
great superiority of a people they
may probably consider inferiors.?
All islanders arc generally ex
elusive, and they are proverbially
stupid. In crossing the Missouri
River, I was amused at a young
ladv fiom Savannah, Ga., asking
her brother if it was salt water.?
Upon told no, she said, " Yon
lllliat tin inia?iil-n.i il.?? I ? - - ~
>.<ii?MnbM| IUI Iiu-Jf IHkt U
f'rcsli oysters here."
The Union Pacific and other
corporations, are building roads
to connect at ditFerent points
along the main line running
north and south into Montana,
Oregon, &c. The building ol
this road has also spoiled lb ighain's
grand, ambitious idea of establishing
and perpetuating the
great Mormon' Church and Government,
H'hieh ho. and his children
after him, would rule over.
14 1 ho best laid plans of men and
mico," &c. Brigham is now. unhappy.
The United States au
thuritics suppieased him on the
forth ot July last, and took possession
of his beautiful city, and
the Godbeitcs litis caused a schism
in the Church, hy opposing polygamy.
For my own part, I don't
believe that when men and wo
j men were commanded to go
i forth, multiply and replenish the
earth, that it was either the object
or intention of this divine
command, that one man should be
compelled or expected to do more
than the work of one man, and I
find that both Clark and Scott
???a with me in this opinion. I
wonuer wu<?v j i.n ?im onin
ion of the Editor ?
On going aboard the train, I
did not seat myself, but walked
inore than once through the four
first-class and two second class
coaches, and gorgeous sleeping
and palatial drawing room ears?
all crowded ; about half of the passengers
being from Europe, Asia
and Africa, traveling for pleas
are. I could bear all talking
about the Pi at to and Yoeemite
Valleys; and the English patois,
which von hear Ritukmi r>n ?ll
, ^ ? v" t
sides by t!>o foreigners, afford
considerable amusement.
Twelve months ngo there was
only one claim taken in llumilton
county, Nebraska! now it has
150) settlers. On the sixth of
April hist, there was not u single
settler twenty miles north of
Grand Island. A county was
laid out at that time, and now
there are 500 settlers. The first
settlers aro principally Danes,
Norwegians and Swedes. The
impression of persons a: a dis
tanco, is that the country botween
the Missouri river and the
Rocky Mountains is a great arid
desert \ and it was named the
( real American uootrt by those
who crowed the plaint, limiting
for tho rich valleys of the monntains,
and the gold of tho Pacific
slope. Such au idea u entirely
orroueous. The Platte Valley is
now considered as the to-be great
garden of the Went. The Valley
is (ruin twenty-five to fifty miles
~~u "" rrtV? OAUtip immediately
on tbe river, $nd utter you
get ont one hundred miles west,
the grass is generally too short fo^
mowing, being tlio buffalo grass,
which is sweeter and more nutritious
than tho vuiy tall grass. I
consider tho lands on tho Loup
Fork, one of the principal tributaries
o f tho Platte, as bettor
adapted 'both to farming and
grazing, than the lands nearer the
river. Though this section litis
not jet bcon Surveyed by the
Government, tho surveyors are
there now. No c?ul has as yet
been tound in tliis Valley, though
there is abundance immediately
east in Iowa,.and west on the lino
of road.
The Sioux Indians, who occupy
the country extending north into
Minesota, are the only tribe that
are etill troublesome. They liavo
deposed Red Cloud 6ince his return
from Washington, and Spotted
Tail is now their principal
chief. When Red Cloud returned
and told them of the wonderful
promises of the great white man
iu the East, and how many people
lived there, and the kindness of
the pale faces, tlioy " 110 believo " a
single word. " Red Cloud got fine j
gun ; got fine presents ; he got gold
and silver plenty?wo will choose
Spotted Tail to sit in our councils "
4i Such is the late fate of place."
Flow like white men ! The Pawnees
arc now 011 a reservation, near
Pawnee Station, 011 the railroad.?
They and t ho Winnebagoea, wh
were once very hostile, now
sit and smuko the calumet with
the Danes and Swedes. There
is not the same antipathy existing
between t o Indians and foreign
ci8 as there is between our own
people. It is very seldom you ever
hear one of the old Indian frontiersmen
speak kindly of the red
giving. incse irontiermcn anil
women, who had been crowding
and fighting the Indian for the
past thirty years?, are, in many res
pectu, the most remarkable people
you will 6eo, travel where you
may. (Jut here in Nebraska, you
I sec them living in their cabins,
made of sod, all out of doors;
nothing but the great wild prairie
around and the heavens above.?
They have to keep their powder
dry, and both eyes skinned, full of
resource, more sense than a horse,
rather taciturn ? always hopeful.
All ?f the towns on the railway
are laid out as if the owners expected
them to grow to cities.?
This cutting out largo cities reminds
ino how my dear mother
used to fret me, when I was young
and growing vcry.fast. by cutting
my trowsera a littlo too large. Every
one of these frontlormen are
profuuud philosophers. 1 was
talking about the Eiblc with one of
these sager, when he astonished
me with the remark, that if Elijah
ascended to heaven in a chariot of
fire, then the laws of gravitation
must have been suspended, or
Newton's theory was false." You
meet one hero who is the life of
this post, the pot ot the officers,
and tho delight of all. 1 mean
Prairie Rose, who is a half-breed
Indian maiden, ?cported to be
nearly related t o old General
Harney, She rcceivod a finished
education in the East, which, with
out having tamed her, enabled her
to wield a most despotic influence.
Fluent, fascinating, graceful, ac
complishod, beautiful as a liouri,
chaste a3 a vestal, wild as an Indian,
6he presides here the tin
disputed iitji. j this
great temple of nature's Wonders.
I remarked to her that I
thnui/lit slut would tip. Imitiiior in
the East. With a voice sweeter
than melody itself, she said, " Ah,
sir, I would bo miserable there.?
The wild prairie rose of the West
would soon languish and <iio in
the atmosphere of the East." She
continued, f* Yonr Government
does not seem to understand the
fact that my people are /era nat
iirm\ and making this tundnmen
tu! mistake, their policy toward
my people has always been a miserable
failure." She elaborated
this idea with great force and truth,
proving that her people would be
restless and dissatisfied under the
most benign form of civilized gov
eminent that could be established.
She talked much and long. I listened,
entranced by the pearls of
wisdom and diamonds of wit, that
sparkled in every sentence. Ltofore
sho commenced to talk, I expected
to hear one, ' rude in
spcocli, and little blutisod with the
oft phrase of-peace." " Iler story
being done, and I being ready to
g?i
" She gar* me for my palm a world o(
light "
' The golden hoar*, on angel* wing*, flow.?
flew, flew "
" liar* with me,"
For I on oat of breath, door reader,
" And I maet pauee till it eomo back again."
A very remarkable tact it is,
that there is a of eoanti;,
about 250 miles wide, extending
north through Colorado, Utah,
Wyoming and Montana, in which
the wiuters are much milder than
in any of the States east. The
gia.-s in this section cures standing
before frost, and thousands ot cat- i I
tie aro wintered here without shel- m
ter. Millions ot buffalo need to tl
congregate bero for their winter tl
quarters. Finis. o
TOURIST. n
_ r
Anoturu "Truly Good" Dka >c
con S.?Deacon S was an aus- ?
tore ma-1, who followed ovstering. v
and was ot the hard shell )>crsua c
6ion. The Deacon "alluz made it
a pint" to tell his customers that
the fnonov which ho f?.r 44 ia.
t "?/ w "v"# *v
ters" did not belong to liiin.? t
' Tlio good Father inado tho is- j
ters." said tiio Deacon, 44 and tlie f
money is Ilis'n, 1'in only n stoo- t
art." Tbcy do say the Deacon g
liad a way of getting about ten j
cent* more 011 n hundred in his g
peculiar method of do.ng business e
for somebody elso. One Sunday 11101
ning the old fellow was tearing
around from house to house,
wiih a suspicions bit of currency ]
in his hand. Sjiuo one hud givon
itiid a bad fifty cent note, and iie
44 wasn't g"ing to migrate till that
air was fixed up." 4* Why, Deacon,"
eaid one of his customers,
whom he had tackled M>out it;
41 what's the odds? What need
you carc ? Tisn't yours, 3011
know ; 3*011 aro only 6towart ; it
isn't your loss." Tho Deacon
shifted his shoulder, walked to the
door, unshipped his quid, and
said: 41 Yaas, that's #>; but if
you think that I'm goin' to stan*
b}* an see tlie Lord cheated out ol
lift)* cents, )*ou're mistaken. 1
don't foster 110 such leelin'."
????
Questions for the Skxks.?For
me gins :?i>ouiu }'on love a man I
who wore false hair on his head
when lie had enough ot his own ? i
Who paints his face and improves
his form as you improve (?) yours ?
Who pinches his feet with small
s.ioes, his hands with small gloves,
his waist with corsets ; and then,
as if he had not deformed himself
enough, ties a huge bustle to his
back, and thrusts tiny mountains
of wire into his bosom ?
For the boys :?Could you love
a girl who defiled her mouth with
tobacco, and loaded tho air with
fumes of cigars? Who staggered
homo several times a week the
worse tor liquor? Who indulges
iu fast horses, bets high at races
and swaggers around tho streets
with questionable companions?
Thr Mammoth Cave property,
which embraces a largo tract, of
wild land heavily wooded for the
most part, is lei^sed for the term
of ten years at $5,000 per year.?
The heirs to the property have no
disposition to improve tho facili
ties for visiting tho cave, and the
lessee pretends that the lease
is too short to warrant out*
lay upon his part. The conse
quenco is that getting to and from
the railroad and in and out of the
cave is more of a task than n person
of delicate health would care
to attempt, although the ambitious
guide b >olc expiates on the 44 bench's
to invalids/'
Ciuticisi.no Nkwsfai'BRS.?It is
a very easy matter to criticise a
newspaper ; but to publish a live
one, so as to interest, amuse, and
wish net tbo public, is no small nn(lerraktug.
Those in this community
who are so prone to find inn It
with every little item which dt>e8
not suit their critical and exalted
ideas, should buy type, ink, and
paper, and publish an organ of
their own. Let them try it tor
three months only, and if it don't
give them some new ideas of the
newspaper business, then wo ar<f
no judge of human nature. The
conceit would be tukcu out of such
individuals so quickly that they
woiild hardly "know what was the
matter with the n, or whether
they stood 011 thoir heads or feet.
[Exhoangt.
0 ??
Aruanokmknts linvo been perfeete
J with the New York and Sa
vauiiah Steamship Company and
tlio Central Railroad .Hanking
Company, whereby special excur
sion tickets will no issued from
New York to Augusta and return,
for $25 the round trip, to visitors
to the grand annual exhibition of
the Cotton Stato.' Fair Associa
tion, which opens in Augusta on
the 3lst of Oetoby. Tickets good
. until December i. llalf rates allowed
for freight on articles for
exhibition.
? ?
Up in Boston, where they have
a pronioitory liquor law, nna so
many good people aro total abstinent*,
they are very fond of u teapuncb."
I ho ingredients tberof
are one bottle of cliampagno, one
of whisky, one of min, two of
claret, a lemon, and a?tableopoonful
of black tea.
Letter from General Hampton
[In tlio foil..wing letter, General
Iamptun advocates a policy that ?
:? lully approve. It is a plan for n
lie Soul hern democracy in effect
lie same as that we have taken
ccnsion to recommend months
go. The South had butter have ?
lothing to do at present with
'residental nominations ; it would fi
e worse than useless. Let us 6ay g
lothing. but vote for the candidate
re most prefer when the time _
omes. Ei>s. En i krprisk.] ^
Tl?e Southern Jume of the 19th g
ust.iut says :
We give below a letter from
>no whom every truo man places *
n the front rank of Southern sol- 11
Hers and statesmen. We hope *
hat his views will receive that reipccttul
attention which his intel c
ect, high character and eminent v
icrvices demand from those he has t
erved so well and faithfully :
To General D. II. Hill.
Columbia, Sept. 9, 1S71.
My Dear &ir: The Southern ?
dome of the 5lh instant, contain 1
ng your editorial on the policy to 11
je pursued by the Southern States
n reference to the next national (
Democratic- convention, reached y
no a day or two ago, and along i
ivith it, the letter in which you g
ivorc kind enough to ask my opin <
ion on this question. Though I
mnnot flatter myself that any (
>pinions 1 may entertain can have {
;he weight your partiality would (
induce you to attach to them, I j
most cheerfully comply with the
request contained in your letter :
because it is only by consultation '
and discussion among ourselves '
that we can hope to act judicious- '
Ij' and harmoniously. '
It would, perhaps, be sufficient 1
to say that 1 concur fully iu the
views you have expressed, as to
the impropriety of the South tak
ing any part in the approaching
convention ; but, in deterence to
your wishes, I give, briefly, the
reasons which have induced this
conviction in my mind.
1. The Southern delegates in a
national convention could exercise
no influence iu shaping the policy,
making up the issues or selecting
the candidates for the next contest,
without seriously injuring the
prospect of a Democratic triumph.
That this would inevitably bo the
case, is proven by the result of
tho last Democratic convention,
where the very presence of Southerners
was used to prejudice the
n.r*tioll nrwt ilufnnt tlx. nonfliitotno
of our party.
2. If the Southern delegates
could not with propriety exert
nil}' influence in the convention,
while their mere attendence in it
might result in inflnite mischief
to the Democratic part)', it is surely
the part of wisdom to refiain
from participating in the deliber~ f
atious of the convention.
3. The Northern Democracy
will have to bear the burthen of
the fight in the next Presidential
contest, and it is only right that
they should choose the field and
select the standard hearers.
These, in brief, are the reasons,
in conjunction with those yon
have already so ably advanced,
that have convinced mo that our
true policy is to abstain altogether
from all participation iu the next
national Democratic convention.?
Of course, in pursuing thU policy,
we should take care to have our
conduct and our motives fully nn
dcrsto',d by our Northorn friends.
NVc Simula 8hj t?> them that we
are actuated solely by the desire
to promote tho success of Democratic
principles and Democratic
candidates; that we wish to leave
them free to act as the best interests
of our party demand; and
that we pledge them in the contest
all the aid we can give, only
asking.thein to givo us as good a
platform and ns acceptable candidates
as they can. When the
platform and is announced, and
the candidates selected, tho Peni
ocrncy of the South can ratify the
action of toe national convention,
and they can use every effort to
sccuro the success of tho party :
for on its success depends tho existence
of the Southern States.
If our people concur in this
policy, arrangements should be
im.de in each Stato to carry it out
tully and cifeotuaily. Should they
../.4 ... /v *rx.?n? III nn? Moi.f
IlUt UU1IUUI, Y$ %J UIU?I| lft? <111J u ^ VIII,
act in perfect accord and with entire
harmony.
Too much is at stake for us to
differ amongst ourselves, and I,
for one, Ain willing to yield my
own opinions for the success of
any plan which will tend to save
the bouth frotn ruin.
I am, vory respectfully and truly,
yours,
WADE HAMPTON.
Sqbnstomk, an artist in kind
scape-gardening, said he knew the
turn in his lite which led to unhappiness?it
was when he made
pleasure his aim.
Chloroform cure* ?en sicknes*.
Tiiickk were manufactured in the
bitted Stated la^t year over a halt'
lilliou sewing machines.
If sin is turned out of our hearts
y grace, it will be turned out of
u r houses too.
Tub only way to avoid evil, is to>
11 up every passing hour to the
lory of God.
Tub liberty logo higher than we
re, is given only when wo have
ultilled the duty of our present
phere.
Swot? ? 1 * 1 %
omiiicd Willi a UOUOIC 1U8ro
when it is cot in humility. An
iblo And yet humble man is a jow;1
worth a kingdom.
A loving heart and a pleasant
tountei anco are commodities
vliich a man should never fail to
ake home with him.
With love, the heart becomes a
air and iertile garden, with sunhine
and warm hues, and oxhalng
sweet odors; but without, it is
i black desert covered with ashes.
The only way for a man to estape
being found out, is to pasaloc
what he is. The only way to
naintain a good character is to deserve
it. It is easier to correct
:>ur faults than to conceal them.
Parents, keep your word 6acred
:o your children ; they will notice
\ broken promise sooner than any
me else, nud its effect will be as
asting as life.
It is said that if a tree is fulled
while in leaf, and allowed to lio
until the foliago withers, the wood
will be the soonest seasoned, as the
leaves will draw all the sap before
they die.
Tub Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows
of the United States have
adopted on amendment to the Con>stitution
confining the privileges
to free white men.
Tiie Springfield Republican
says : M Hie women's cau6o is sufferir.g
more today from the connection
of Butler's name with it,
than it could from a dozen Mrs.
Woodhulls with their four andtwenty
husbands."
Torre is a cheese on exhibition
at Buffalo, weighing 3,000 pounds,
the product ot one day'6 milking
of 2,200 cow6, yielding 30,105
pounds of milk.
It is 6aid that there are eight
young American girls abroad
who aro engaged to bo married to
English and French uoblemcn.
A DuncQUK farmer put out a fire
in his barn with a deluge of milk.
Dubuquo is not the only placo
where milk differs but little from
water.
A man aimed only with a double
barreled shot gun loaded1 with
butshot, encountered an infuriated
grizzly bear in a ravine in Los AnSolos
county, California, one day
lef i- ? 'i 41 - ? *? '
K?jv iiiv/uiii) nuu 11 nu II1U blllguiar
and exceeding good fortune to come
out of the light first best. The*
beast weig ed 1,200 pound?.
A DisrATcn from Salt Lake states
that the Mormon Adjutant-General
of Militia has bought from the
United Stae? a thousand stand of
arms, and one hundred and fifty
thousand cartridges. It is rumored
that the grand jury will indict
several members of the Mormon
priesthood, including Brigham
Young, f. r adultery.
On aecount of the prolonged ah*
senoo of the Governor of Georgia
for nearly three months, the S ato
Treasurer gives notice that he will
pay no warrants on the Treasury
without a resident Governor to ?{>
prove thetn, except on the civil establishment
and special appropriations,
whero the law specifics the
amount.
A'l Tlidimftnil Virmnte
? ?? |Liuint tug ui U er
day, workmen wlio were engaged
in digging out tho foundation
on the lot where the Spottswood
Hotel lately stood, caino
acros# a side of leathor. Moro
than forty yaara ago on this lot had
bean a lanyard, and the leather
waa found in 0110 of tho vats. Tho
leather waa in a perfect state oft
pros >r vat ion, and must have beou
thero ever since 1820 or 1825.
Tub King of Bnrmah has informed
Professor Max Midler,
through his Prime Minister, tho
Pflkhan Af ?nrt*nn I l.n? ' -
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printing ? complote edition of tiipThree
Beedaghnts (the Tiipitnka
? i. e., the iloly Scriptures of the
Buddhists) in Bali, the sacred language
of Buddhism, with a view
to hftving it afterward translated
into Burmese and English, 44 so as
to spread the hnowle 'go of the
Buddhist religion both in Europe
and America, and that the Eng- .
lish people may income acquainted
with the principles of the Bndd
lust tailh, and thus cause this.
kingdom to become famous in tliQ;
world's history."