Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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?? m .1 , 1-1 1 1111 'i ' I "] I'l' i . . , Deootefr to Items, Polities, 3nteltifietiee, attir the ihnvrovmntt of the State aitb Country. ?,? ' T * *? , i 71/ 9 1 # * / V-. P ft ~ ^^^^^.^^iVVVVW^^VyVVVVLVllVtX ^ JOHN C. BAILEY, PRO'R, r> ^ * GREENVILLE. SOUTH CAROLINA, OCTOBER 18, 1871. VOLUME X^T^rTT*' MARSHALL & MAULDIN, SUCCESSORS IC Harrison & Marshall, INFORM THEIR FRIENDS AND PAPONS , THAT THEY WILL CONTIjMUE THE DRUG AND BOOK BUSINESS, AT THE WITHOUT INTERRUPTION. WILL KEEP A J* OIL S T ? m. OF RBUiBlB 6001)8, , AT FAIR PRICES, And will offer fur sale NO SPURIOUS GOODS. MANY ARTICLES ark now being offered AT Groatly Reduced Prices. 8. 8. Marshall- W. L. Maaldin. Sept 30 20 tf "financial. THE UNDERSIGNED WILI. BUY AND SELL GOLD AND SILVER. ALSO, BUY ANI) SELL E XC IlJlJYGE ON New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Charleston, AND OTHER CITIES. T. W. DAVIS. Orocnvillo, 8. C., Juno 6, 1871. Juno 7 6 tf cotton ties. WE ARE AGENTS FOR THE MANUFACTURERS FOR Eureka, Swett, Arrow, Anchor and Butter TIES ALSO OF THE PATENT LOCK TIE. JU*T larding. 4.000 lmn?lleo of the EU RF.KA and LOCK TIES. N? Tie can compare will, the Eureka f?r implicity and dm ability, and we offer it as a Tie that la unexcelled. The Arrow ia also well known. We ask vonr order*, guaranteeing aa low S rices aa ihry oan he purchased at in any ollihern port. We shall be pleased to handle consign* pient of your e?lton, end will give all ship ment* our closet attention. flVfi TXT UTTTTTATUrc A. nn VKUV ?f *? JiJJJUAaiUO UC VjKJi COTTON PACTORS*, Church St., CHARLESTON, S. C. 8ept J7 21 2m AC^ESISTOY BJlTESVILLE SHIRTING AND YARN. HAVING been appointed AGENT for the above GOODS, parties desiring lo purchase will find A supply on hnrid at all lime* at Factory prices SOLD ONLY BY THE FULL PACKAGE. JULIUS C. SMITH. Sep 0 J 8 tf 1871. Fn" Tradc 1871. GTCTHfS 3 fltfarS 3 GVM-3 1 TAOHIILK and Mingle Rarrol (taui, II reach\J loading and M.uasle-loading Hum, of Kngliah, French and Qerman manufacture, at all prioea. , Single Guns at $2.50, $4.00, $0.00, $8.00, $12.00 to $20.00 each ; Double Onna froui IT OA to 4500 00 Mch MSTO1LS t IPHSTPCDILS 21 Bmilh 6 We**on, Colt'*, Alien'*, Sharp'*, and all tb? popul?r and approved kind*. BPORTSMAW'fi flOODS of groat variety. AMMUNITION! For dan*, PUtoIa and Kite*. E8T QUALITY AND AT LOWEST PRICES. Country merchant* and *porUman are Invited to call and examine oar large and well Mloeted atoek of the a here good*, which we import direot aad bay from the manufaeld* rer*. Order* by mall filled promptly, aad cent by eipre**, 0. O. D. P0ULTNET, TRIMBLE & CO., 300 W. UALTIMOHKSTRKKT, BALTIMORE. MB. War 22 8 J8-0 40 ly For Snle. Dundee ?n<i qunny baogino. B?le* of ?l??# DUNDEE CLOTH. Bale# of GUNNY OLIVTH JULIUS O. SMITH. Sept. 20 20 * If ? Notice. All persons indebted to th#ute WILLIAM n. HOVKY, ore requested to come forward and make PAYMENTS to the Subscriber, and all those baring any DEMAN 1)6 agaiost bis Estate, are hereby notifled to proao&t tbem for settlement. M. M. nOYBY, Administrator with Wilt annaxed. Grcenrllle, 8. 0., September 20, 1871 20-tf ~grMy!llF" UNIMPROVED LOTS FOR SALE. OFFERED AT PRIVATE SALE, ft ntunber of Lots of Land on the Now Extension of WASHINGTON STREET Loading from Main Street to the AIR-LINE) RAILROAD jmim JH?2Mv?rK<,l Also LOTS on West Street and Johns Street, (the latter soon to bo opened) which run parallel to WA8H1XGTOX STREET. These LOTS variously range from a distance of about 300 YARDS OP MAIN STREET TO HALF MILE A ND UT-. WARDS. ALSO I NUMBER OF LOTS WEST OF THE RIVER, ADJACENT TO THE I LOTS OF B. Howard, Col. Ware AND JUDGE DOUTHIT. THE LOT8 OFFERED KMHRAOE SOME OF THE FINEST AND M OST B EAUTIFUL SITUATIONS FOR IN TUB CITY OF GREENVILLE, AND WILI. BIC DISPOSED OF 03XT TERMS THAT WILL JUtlTfllFY riici&siinnisTiu.' For further particulars apply JOHN WESTFIELD, or GEN. W. K. EASLEY. 1 Sept 27 21 tt The only Reliable Gift Dirtrilution in the Country. $60,000.00 1 IN VALU A It LB GIFTS To be distributed in ?? ?as3a>? 162nd Regular Monthly GIFT ENTERPRISE, To be drawn Monday, Not, 27tb, 1871. TWO GRAND CAPITALS OP $5,000 Each in GreenbacksI Two Prliea of $1,000 ; Fire Price* of $600; Ten Prliea of $100 t eaeb in Greenback* I Whole nnmberof eaeb gift*, 1,000. One Uor*e and Buggy, with silver mounted Harness, worth $000; one One.toned Rosewood Piano, worth $600 ; ten family Sewing Machine*, worth $100 eaeb ; Ore heavy cased Gold Hunting Watcher and heavy Gold Chains, worth $.100 eaeb ; fire Gold American Hunting Watches, worth $126 each; ten Ladle*' Gold Huntiog Watches, worth $100 each ; 800 Gold and Silver Lever Hunting Watches, (in all) worth from $20 to $300 each ; Ladles' Gold Loontine Chains, Gaot's Gold Vest Chains, Silver-plated Castors, Solid Silver and Double-plated Tablo and Teaspoons, Ivoryhandled Dinner Knives, Silver-plated Dinner Porks, Silver Vest Chains, Photograph Albums, Lndies' Gold Rrea?tpin* and Ear-rings, Gmts' Gold Dreastplas, Shirt Studs and Rleevo Buttons, Finger rings, Gold Pens, (sllvat itvlnnsl/in \ ala Whole number Gift*, 6,000. TiokeU limit <JL to fih.OOO. Agent* uiaiit'd to fit Tickott, to iekom Kbfal wiU br paid. Single ticket*, $1; all ticket*, $5 ; twelve ticket*, $10 | Twenty-five ticket*, $30. Circular* containing e fall list of prilM, e description of tb* manner of drawing, end otber information hi refkrenoe to the diitribtilion, will be tent to any one ordering them. All letter* tnmt be nddre*??d to 1. D. illTl, Box $6. Cflloe, 101 W. 5th St. Clnolneati, O. Oe?$ 33 t HuaaoBipnoiv Two Dollar* p?r anton. | ADTBBTIBBBBBTa ln*ort*d at the ntw of on* dollar par aquar* of twplro Minion llp?a Jtbla aim* \ typo) or lea* for tbo flrat toMrnob, . I fly ooota each for tho aooond and tbfrd iqaar- j tlona, aad twantr-flr* eonta for *Obee<fMht inaortlona. Yoarly contract* will ba wad*. AM advortla?Bi*nta matt bar* tbo aaaabor '| of liaortiona markod on tham, or tbo? will ba Inaerted till ordorod oat, and char fed for. Unloas ordorod otherwlaa, AdrarUaemonta I will invariably bo " dioplayod." Obituary notice*, and all mattora Inuring to to tho bonofit of any on*, ara regarded a* I Advartiaemanta. I ^uttrtj. ! ?- ... .. - I Under the Violets. Har banda ara eold, bar face ia white, No mora hor pulaea coma and go j ' lfcr oyaa ara abut to Ufa and llaht t < Fold the white vestures, anow on aiow And lay her where the riolata blow. But not beneeth a graven atone, To plead for tears with altbn eyes f A slender cross of wood alone Shall say that here a maiden lies, In peace beneath the skies. For her the morning choir will sing Its matins from the branches high, And every minstrel voice of spring That thrills beneath the April sky, Shall greet her with its earliest cry. When turning round that dial track, Eastward the lengthened shadows pass, Her little mourners, clad do black, The oricket, sliding through the grass, Shall pipe for her ua evening mass, At last the root lets of the trees Shall ind the prison where she lies, And bear the buried dust they seise In leaves and blossoms to the skies ; So may the soul that warmed it rise. If any, born of kindlier blood, Should ask what maiden lies below, Say only this: "A tender bud. That tried to blossom in the snow, Lies withered where the violets blow/" REMINISCENCES OP THE COUNTY CFGREERmLEb BT EX GOVERNOR B. F. PERRY. 11 [Continued from last week.] < Until the Greenville Railroad I * was built, corn never eold for more than fortv or fifty cent* a bushel in Greenville. It has since been 1 worth one dollar, and one dollar 1 and fifty cents a bushel. Wheat was formerly worth one dollar per bushel, it now sells readily for two , dollars a bushel. Pork was worth five and six cents, and now it sells 1 for ten and twelve cents per pound. 1 Beet was three and six cents, and now eight and twelve cents.? ( Chickens were ten and twelve 1 cents, and at present they sell for twenty and tuirty cents. Butter 1 was twelve cents, and now twenty- 1 five and thirty cents. Eggs were 1 worth only eight cents per dozen, 1 and they now soil for fitteen, twen- 1 ty and thirty c-ents a dozen. A1 ' most every article of food has don- ' bled in price since the Greenville 1 Railroad has been built. Cheap \ and ready transportation equalizes the prices of every thing all over ' the country. ' For many years past the crops in Greenville have been short. It is estimated that four or fivo thousand barrells of flour from the 1 North and North Carolina, have been sold in Greenville during the past year. More than ono hnn- I dred thousp ' pounds of bacon 1 have been bo ught hero and sold this year. This seems almost incred- : ible, but it is thought to becorrect. 1 Tllfl flirmopa r\t fi .. J11- L1 ' .......viavi ui COII VIIIClMlglll IlOt to perniittheseiinportatioiisof flour and bacon to go on. They should 1 certainly be able to supply the 1 hotne market. Instead of planting * cotton tbey should turn their at- ' tention to the culture of wheat, and raising hogs, horses, cattle and sheep. In this way they would be able to make manure, ' and improve their lands. The number ot horses brought here from the West, and sold toonr cit- | izens (s very large, and drains the County of its money. Every farm ' er ought to raise his own horses ! and mules, and have a surplus for sale. They wonld find it greatly j to their interest. The quantity of , ii ish potatoes, apples, and cabbage, brought to Greenville for sale from 1 North Carolina, is very large*? This ought not to be, as they can c be raised here almost as well as ( tbey can be in Buncoknbe. ! The grape has been Successfully g cultivated by several persons in t Greenville, and might no made a j source of great profit. Mr. Poin- g sett succeeded m a - ? * ? -?-wJ mm xm wuivu j be planted four miles from the city , of Greenville. His grapes grew j finely, and tbey all matured and . were very delicious. Captain # Choice has also been successful in > cultivating the grape, and made g last year one or two<bnndred gal- , Ions of wine, which I have heard % spoken of in high terms of com- _ mendation. It was worth four or , five dollars a gallon. Paris Mountain is said to be well adapted to 1 the growth of the vine, both as to li soil and climate. Fruit is never ti killed on Paris Mountain, aad d . General ThtJmpson Wa# very successful with hit orchard there.? Bid grape* were very large and Chick's Salphnr Springs, nine miles from the city ot Greenville, must not be omitted in a notice of Qreenvilte County. It has been a fashionable resort for years past, during tbe summer and autumn months, and a great many persons bave been benefitted by the use of the water. Un fortunately the hotel was burnt down a tew years i lince, and Las not been rebuilt? D~t .1 >- - - wut mere IS A WUOHO Village Of cabins aronnd the springs, which sre rented to persons, and where every one may live as he pleases. The Air Line Railroad rnns within a half mile of the springs, and it will no doubt, when this road is completed, be once more a place i ot fashionable resort for visitors snd travelers through the upper l>art ot the State. We have great expectations from this Air-Line Railroad, which will pnt us in direct communication with New York and New Or ieans. We think that this roud will carry a great deal of produce North, and that the city ot Green-mi.. mm, wuicn is at me western terminus ot the Greenville and Co Inmbia Railroad, will be the place >f shipment for a largo portion of his ptodace. In anticipation of he advantages of this road, real estate around the city has increase ?d very mnch in value. Captain Westfield is opening new streets n the neighborhood of the depot, &nd is selling lots at high prices. Old Charley Bruce, one of the earliest settlers of Greenville, and the ancestor of all the Bruces' and Qilreath's in the County, was a 4 character," well known in bis day and time, to all the pood people of Greenvjlle. He lived to a very advanced age, and I remember him well when I came to Glreeuville to read law. He frequently came into the office where l* was studying, and got tne to write letters for him. He always dictated them himself, and would not permit me to alter or change his expressions in the slightest particular. He was known as 44 lawyer Bruce," from the fact, that he was constantly in litigation, and sometimes managed his own cases in court in propria persona. He was once asked whom he would employ in a case of considerable importance in court, when he replied, 44 Mr. Duffle if he comes, otherwise I shall manage the case niyBelf, as I think I am better able to do so than any other lawyer at the bar." He was uneducated, and I think could not write. But by nature, he had a great deal of talent. His chief concern in life teemed to be to ferret out rascality, and bring offenders to justice, [f a bad man or one against whom there were evil reports, left the County, to live elsewhere, Bruce would always 6end a letter to his new neighbors, informing them what manner of ma t had come At 11 * HiuuugBb mem. no pursued a rogue, a cheat or swindler, with fiendish malignity. 1Jis chief pleasure seemed to be to expose guilt in anv and every shape. He was indeed a terror to evil doers. Bis appearance was very striking. Small of atatnre, with a large tiead, Roman nose, thin features, and a trame which could endure any fatigue. lie had been a gallant loldier oi the Revolution ; but his [liepoeition to interfere with every one lost him the respect ot most of his acquaintances. He eared, however, precious little for that.? By nature he was a born Ishmaslit e. In speaking or writing, his language was terse and vigorous lie was a poet, too, and composed a great many doggerel lines.? There wss a Northern roan by the name of 1 lant, once residing in the village, who offended Bruce in some way, and thereupon Bruce undertook to write his iife and character in verse. The first lines were " amidst frost ?nd snow, this Plant did grow.*1 Be once brought an action for dander, and obtained a verdict of me dollar. lie tt*?k great pleasire in a suit with Chancellor rhompson for a very small sum, ind worried the Chancellor very I nueh. Old Charley was border* ng on ninety when I knew hiin, I tud yet he would walk down to 1 he village, a distance of fourteen niles from bis residence on Tyger ilver. He would never let me, in i vriting letters tor biro, addresi koyr. one as Ihatr Sir." He said t was too familliar an expression. .nil did not always express the rath. He commenced his letters rit?i simple I think he an once tor Congress and got a loasn votes, may-be. I admired be old man's independence and lis scorn of filatterj and decep- \ ion \ and I did not dislike his in- , ostry and perseverance in ferret* ] ting ont all manner of roguery and rascality, and exposing those who bad behared badly. If there was more of old Brace's spirit alive nowadays it woald be better for society. [CONTINUED NEXT WERE.] Death in the Air. TEEXIBUC SCENES AT THE TALL 07 AN AC BON ACT. A correspondent of the New York World furnishes an acooont of the terrible accident wbich re _ i?#-i < ? vtjui.iv ueiei (do Aeronaut, JFrofes or Wilbur, at Paoli, Orange County, Indiana, of which tele* graphic mention hae been made ut our columns. Saturday, September 80, was the last day of the Agricultural Fair ot the county, and a large crowd had collected from the country around, by the announcement that Professor Wilbur would there make one of his balloon ascensions. The correspondent writes : At about 4 o'clock in the afternoon the inflation of the balloon was commenced, and as the bag < welled out almost to bursting ana ( struggled to bo free, everybody was on the qui vive, thoee remote from ( the spot straining their necks, 1 climbing into carriages, and even 1 upon the the fences, to see the car. It had been announced that the 1 editor ot the Orange County Union would accompany Professor Wilbur in his ascent, and great things wore expected from the report which hie well known ability as a descriptive writer gave every reason to believe would be forthcoming in the next issue of bis newspaper. I was standing beside the professor, laughing, and holding a necesssarily disjointed conversation with him, for lie was busy with preparations for his flight. He had just nodded his head, and said, laughingly, " Well, good bye, old fellow; I'll see you again soon." Then Mr. Knapp stepped into the car, and the Professor, who had hold of the rope fastening the car to the body of the balloon, shouted ' Let go." But he had spoken too soon and was nnable to reach the car, but still unwisely kept the rope in his hand and endeavored to climb to his place, succeeding only so far as to get one arm over tho rim of the basket, where he hung dangling and struggling. His motions and the fuct that the basket came in contact with a rope which had fastened the balloon to the earth while it was being inflated, upset the car when it was about twentyfive feet from the ground.? and Mr. Knapp fe 11 stunned to the ground. But there was no time for caring for him, for terror held everybody 1 spell bound. A shout of admira 1 tion went up from those who were too far distant from the scene to know that an accident had befallen the adventurers, and who supposed that tho ascent was being made sana contreUmpts. But to those in tho immediate vicinity of the car the sight was an awful one, and for a moment everybody seemed paralyzed with torror, and i stood rooted to the spot without 1 uttering cry or word. < The balloon, lightened by the 1 fall of Mr. Knap;*, shot upwards 1 with dreadfully increased velocity, and a scream of terror, which I chilled the blood of the hearers, < came down from tho upper air, i where the doomed aeronaut hung utterly hopeless of escaping death. At my side stood a woman, who, as i afterwards heard, was the professor's wife. Her eyes were bursting from tbeir sockets, and her face pallid and [ghastly with i fear. She elatohed toe air as if for snpport, and with one hand * grasped my arm, still looking up* wards at the balloon, which, swift er than an arrow, shot through < the air. Up, up, and then growing 1 smaller ana smaller in its flight, and then, with increased velocity, i it gave a sniden s art and shot yet 1 faster towards the clouds. Than a speck was seen far np 1 in the air, growing larger and lar- 1 ger as it fell. M O my God."? cried the woman, who clung < to me with iron grasp, " he ' will die?he will be killed I" Yet i her eyes remained hxed upon that I tilling body. At first it seemed ' like the stick of a rocket coming ' down with the speed ot light; I then it was doubled up like a ball, then seemed to nnfbld, and whirling about w?th a gyratory motion, ( with hands and legs spread out.? j It seemed an age while the man was falling, for before he loosened bis grasp the balloon must have c ItiAA al lonat as mi 1a I>*a?w tl>a UVUK ?V 1V(MB H IIMIO HVIII 1UO OOf l 11 ?And what an age to that poor t wife who watohed her husband rushing towards bcr and death, with the epeod of light. When s about half a mile from the ground t lii* hody eeaeed its gyratory ino- 1 tion, assumed a perpendicular position, came down bead first. It struck toe eartb some distance from us, and tben rebounded, falling again within a few feet ot where it struck. Then, from paralyzed fear, the crowd broke forth into shrieks of terror, women ran widely about screaming and actually tearing tbeir hair, and a rush was made for the spot where the man bad strnck the ground.? There was an indentation not lees than eight or ten inches deep, and filled with blood and brains which had burst from the skull when, like a cannon ball let dron from an immense height, it crushed into the earth. The dead man was then taken up and carried to the Albert House, where the poor wife, who had often sately traversed the air with her husband, cared for it. The excitement in the town was of the most fearful and intense de scription as may readily be believed. Those who had come out for pleasure returned home in sorrow, and the town wore the aspect of a place which bad been visited by some awful calamity in which its awn interests bad suffered. There was no more of the fair tor that day, and the remcmberance ol the dreadful occurrence will long be a story told by the inhabitants when those who witnessed it shall long Bince have died. A Bids on tho Harrow Gauge. Grace Greenwood writes a* follows to the New York Times : 1 should have chronicled some time ago an excursion on the Denver and Rio Grande Narrow Gauge Railway. We weni out about fifteen miles?as far as the rails were then laid. It was a charming day. We had a pleas ant company of citizens and tourists, and all went 44 merry as a marriage oeu" in the old days, when marriages were of some account. On this railway you are struck at once with the reduced proportions of everything, from the locomotive, which seems like a small variety ot the 44 iron horso" ?a very little mustang?to the windows and lamps in the cars.? The cars themselves are bright, pretty, diminutive affairs, cosy and comfortable. It seems like playing at railroading, specially as there is marvellously little noise or motion. Never have I known a train glide along so smoothly and quietly. The little engine 44 buckled right down to hej work," like Chiquita, and made no ado about it for several miles, when, I grieve to say, she suddenly balked, and bad to be 44 switched." We took another horse and went on merrily to the end of the road. Here we all alighted, and watched the men laying rails and driving spikes. The remorseless officers of tue road insisted on your correspondent paying her way by driving a spike. It was a cruel tax on my 44 muscular Christianity." The newspaper report said that 1 44 drove the spike home triumphantly." But I really thought it wouldn't 44 go home till morning." This narrow gauge road, when finished to ?1 Paso, will be a wonderful route?for pleasure as well as commerce?as it will be almost unrivalled for variety and gran* denr of scenery. The ipountain views, the picture of river, and park, and plain, between Denver snd Colorado City, are especially magnificent. Eioirr Hundred Potatoes from unr.? mo Wilmington (N. C.) Journal thinks North Carolina soil will beat tho world in potatogrowing, and tells the following story of how a Mr. Sailing, of Masonboro', North Carolina grew eight hundred potatoes from one potato. The Journal says: 44 The original potato was bedded last March, 15ih. On tho 20th of April it had twelve sprouts which were clipped and set out the same day, making twenty two hills of sprouts. On July 5th, twelve vines were cut from the first twelve sprouts; and on the 28th of July, from the last ten sprouts. These vines were divided up and ?et out in hills, which in all amounted to two hnndred. They all matured well, yielding four large potatoes to the hill, besides a half bushel of slips for bedding the next year, And a qnantity of hog feed. Who can beat this? Tiiicre are from 10.000 to 12,)00 colored voters in the State of Pennsylvania. Toe taxable property of tho State >f Goorgia, for the current year, stated to be two hundred and brty millions. iNorarnvc people are the funer lis of conversation ; they do not ake in anything for their own use, >ut merely to pass it to another. i Abbeville wants a Na*ooa\ Ban. The State Board of Education met u Columbia, on the 4th. The hotel* In Columbia are being well patronised and travel increasing. The Lexington Ditpaiek enter* upon its second volume increased in aiae. The M heathen Chinese" in this country number 49,000. A number of citizens of Spartanburg have been arrested, a few days since,- ' charged or suspicion *d as Ku Klux. Tbe Spartanburg Spartan it republUbing tba M Reminiscences" of Green* villa County by Ex-Gov. Parry, aa ap* paaring in tha Enterprise. Wofford College opened the first sea*' aion of ita eighteenth Collegiate year 2d inst., under the moat encouraging prospect. Victoria baa b^en in Ireland but tan* days in a reign of thirty four veers, but baa spent one-third of bar life in Scot* land. A fire originated in tbe Helena, Moo* tana, Herald office, destroyed that and the post office, and several adjoining building*. Loss, $70,000. Tbe new international money order' system for facilitating the remittance of money to tbe United Kingdom, went into effect Wednesday 4th. Colonel D. M. Nelson, who killed General Clanton, at Kooxville, surrendered on the 30lb ultimo, and was bailed in tbe sum of $25,000. Secetary S?ward, wbo baa been absent for sereral months traveling in the East and in Europe, returned to Ibis country on tbe 3d insL Tbe Republicans of Massachusetts, have nominated W. 13. Washburn. as tbeircandidate for Governor; (bus defeating Bon Butler, by a vote of 643 to 404 The Batb mills, which were recently compelled to stop because of the breaking of tbe dam when that of Langley mills gave way, will soon be in operation again. Daniel II. Wells, Mayor of Sell Lake, and third President of tbe Mormon Church, has been arrested for lewdness, and bailed in tbe sum of five thousand dollars. General Robert Anderson receives $4,200 per annum from the United States, as the half pay of a retired Biig adier General. Tbe story of his pover ty-stricken condition in Switzerland is fictitious. Thk San Francieco Alta 6aya tbat the crime of jerking the hair out of yonr wife's head is not so sintul as it formerly was. It ia just as ungentleraanly as ever, but it doesn't hurt as it used to. Two youths at Lexington, Miss., were toying with a pistol. One of thein slipped in a cartridgo unknown to the other, who innocently snapped the pistol at him and shot him dead. In the Pope's last Encyclical, the following occurs in substance r That in the unity ot the faith and supplication of the faithful everywhere, will come the full and absolute triumph of the Church, and the destruction of all the earthly allies of hell. We learn, says the Spartanburg Spar' tan, from tlie School Commissioner that there bare been in operation in the County, during the year closing 30th of June, 100 public schools ; 86 for whites, 15 for colored. 8,057 white children attended the schools, 725 colored. Total pupils in attendance 8,782. The Abbeville Press, of the 5th in*t.t atate* : The crops Are turning out rath* er better than wa* expected tome lime since. The corn crop* are better than they were last year, and probably will be sufficient for our necessities The cotton a ill be abort, but with the pro*peet of good prices, and with the le#~ eoned expenditure of the past year promisee to give us a better financial atatua in the future. Ample preparation* are making in Columbia for the third annual fair.? The State Agricultural and Mechanical Society Fair will own ",k ? ? -1 ? "/ November next, And close on tbe 11th following. About $7,000 in premiums will be distributed. A ladies' bazaar on the ground and n grand tournament will be tbe fealurea of the fair. The Survivor's Association will meet during fair week aod will be addressed by Gen* erableJubal A, Early, a distinguished cz?Oonfederate. There will !?? - _ _ -nry tnj 1% grand ball during tha week ur.der tha nuapicea of the South Carolina Club.? It ia axptctad that Columbia will ba crowded with viaitora.