Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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??? ? F*r the CtroUu SptrUn. by lodwib koob1mqut. Ib traveling round, I've always heard it said That oat" gougs," a Yankee keeps ahead, Bui there's a tale whloh proves?and it is true, Thai Dutch can sell their green-horn friends? a few. A Dutehman once, one of your 'hard old clams,' Went down to Charleston to sell some hams; 8om* to his sirs he sold, some to his oous'n, Bat "stuck" a Tavern-keeper with a dozen. One day it happened that a Yankee "blade" Was talking to this Dutchman host of trade, I Asserting that a Yankee?on the square? Could ohisel Dutchman out of hide and hair. The lager-bier man gave an angry scream; From his blue eyes, red lightning seemed to gleam, And oaths came rattling like a railroad car **Uoner wetter i eackerlot?da* ist not tcahr ! "Dat is s lie?I swhear by Sturm und Bitot ! De Dootch csn schect the Yankees all to fits. "You knows little Frits, vell-de odor day He sells me dutsen hair-?den clear afay; **I toll yon some dings rite afay, shoost now, Pom hams was made up shinkens, any how. "Put I ate six?he sheeted me soigood Pefore I finds that they was made of wood." Speak Gently. Gently, mother, gently, Chide thy little one, ^is a toilsome journey, It has just begun ; Many a rale of sorrow, Many a rugged steep, Lieth in its pathway, And fkill oft 'twill woep, Oh, then, gently, gently. Kindly, mother, kindly, Speak in tender tone; That dear child, remember, Echoes book thine own; Teach in gentle accents, Teach in words of lore. Let the softest brcexes Its young heart-airings movo? Kindly, mother, kindly. Wonld'st thou have the setting Of n gem most fair, In crown of beauty # It were thine to wear ? Mother 1 train with caution That dear little one ; Guide, reproro, and ever Let the work be done Gently, mother, kindly. GEMS. A nan should manifest and communicate his joy, but as much as possible coneoal and smother his grief. With time, everything vanishes and deeaya except the virtue of the true, which stands like a rock, and guards him unharmed forever. A rapid mind continually struggles, the feeble one limps, but a great mind selects the surest points, and upon these it stands. Yon ask me, "What is woman's heart ?" It is a flower garden of both noble und touuiuviu uvncia | uuw 11 gwu auu iriuuu hip beoome the gardeners, the renomous portion will be rated oat, and the woman's aeart will be the treasury of love?the fountain of the noblest feelings. Thou askest me, "What is hope 7" It is leading and flattering star of mankind, whioh obscures and disappears with the last besting of thy heart. Scienoe is a common and unappropriable property ot mankind?a ray of heaven ly light, which streams through the dark ness of the night. What is sweeter, and moro painful to the heart, than "forbidden lovo 7 ' Science and sound mind arc both gifts ; the former of study the latter of nature. Study is tho elevator ot mind and feeling, and the interpreter of these is tho tongue. Tho tonguo is a small point of a balance, and yot what miracles docs it perform. Wo are born in hope; wo pass our in lrano wo OVA ^-1 1 hope through the whole course of our lives, and in our last moments hope is flattering tons, and not till the beating of the heart shall cease, will its benign influence leave us. He who wishes to reap a harvest of the tears of ainoerity, must first sow true love in his bosom. The following characteristic case of aristocraoy is recorded as having come off at Staunton, Va: " One of the Northern 'school-marms' who is thoro employed in toaching the 'freedmen,' told a sprightly negro girl that she must not call tho woman with whom she lived mistress; that she was just as good as anybody. Pretty soon the girl asked her teacher what business sho followed before coming South to teach. <1 was a bonnet-maker,' was the reply. 'Well,' said the girl, gathering up her books, and ma king for tho door, 'I'm not goin to sociatc wid you any longor; you say I is ekcl to i my mistress, and sho don't sooiato wid bonnet makers. Health Promoted by Family Music. ?Mnsio, liko paintings and statuary, refines, and elevates, and sanctifies. Song is the languago of gladness, and it is the Utterance of devotion. But coming lower down, it is physically beneficial: it rouses the circulation, wakes up bodily energies, and diffuses life and animation around Does a lazy man ever Bing? Does a milk and water character ever strike a stirring note? Never. Song is the outlet of mental and physioal aotivity, and increases both by its exercises. No child has completed a religious education who has not been taught to sin? tho songs of Zion. No part of our religious worship is sweeter than this. In David's day it was a practice and a study. ^ A pin has as much head as a goed many authors, and a great deal more point. SBBSB9BS99B9C9S9BB5SE9BS99SS WIT AND HUMOR. %obably the reason why ao little was written in the dark ages, wee that people couldn't see to write. What ia the first thing a young lady looks for in churoh 1 The hims. A young Irishman who had married when he was nineteen years of age, complaining of the difficulties to which early marriage subjected him, said he would never marry so young again, if he lived to be as old as Mcthusalem. A nhort man became attached to a tall woman, and somebody said that he had fallen in love with her. " Do you call it Jailing in love f" said the suitor; " it's more like climbing up to it ouuua j tuitbj uunnxij 19 lUUUJttlCljr CUU uected with tho last business. There is an old baehelor in New York so confirmed that he won't read the war news, because so much is said about iufantry. Pitty his iacher had not been like him. * Au old lady combated the idea of the moon being iuhubitcd, by remarking with emphasis, that the idea was incredible, tor said she, what becomes ol the people in the old moon when there is nothing left it but a little streuk. In looking over the proceedings of the Ohio Sunday School Convention, we find tho iollowing resolution, offered by Mr. Smith, a pious and promising young lawyer : Resolved, That a Committee of ludics and gentlemen be appointed to raise children for the Sabbath School. A young lady who affected a disinclination towards matrimony, wrote on a pane of glass some verses expressive of her determination never to enter into the holy state. A gentleman, who doubted the lady's resolve, wrote uuderneath : "The fair whose vow these scratch linos bebetoken. Wrote them on glass?she kucw it would be broken." The devil entangles youth with beauty, the miser with gold, the ambitious witli power, the learned by false doctrine. Cupid can get .over a snub nose, though it has no bridge, and jumps through a wnll ava IiL-a o h nvla/v utn Extremes meet. Civilization and barbarism come togcthor. Savage Indians and fashionable ladies paint their laces. Shukspearu says, " thero is a divinity which shapes our ends," but unfortunately the sherill has to be called in to shape some people's. We should labor to treat with case of things which arc difficult; with fumiliarity of things that arc novel; and with per spicuity of things that aro profound. The naino of the first und only young lady that is supposed never to have hr.d a flirtation, was Eve. She was entitled to the first and foremost man oi all the world lor a husband. It was once said of the young ladies of I'aris, that they loved with their heads, and thought with their heurts. Thcro arc mauy young gentlemen of our day, who do neither with either. Many fold their hands in petitions when they ought to be using them in toil. They never learn that a useful, toiling life may be a perpetual prayer, as it is a perpetual hymn.? One of the miseries of human life is going to dine with your friend upon the strength of a general invitation, and find ing by tho countenance of his wife, that you had bettor have waited for a particular ono. The latest stylo of hoop skirt is the grand self-adjusting, double hack-action bustle, otruscan lace expansion, spiral Pio colomini attachment,gossamer indestructible ! It is a "lovo of a thing." A loan had better advertise himself than | wait and let the sheriff do it for him. mr. nunt, in nis lectaro on common law, remarked, " that a lady when she married lost her persoual identity?her distinctive character j and was like a dewdrop swallowed by a sunbeam." " Pa," said a little seven-year old follow, " I guess our man, llalph, is u good christian." " How so, my boy ?" queried the parent. " Why, pa, 1 read in tho Bible that the wicked shall not lire out half his days? and llalph says ho has lived out ever since he was a little boy." " My brethren," said a good old backwoods preacher, " I'm gwino to preach you a plain sermant, that even wiuimen can understand. You can Qnd my text in the five verses of the two-eyed John." It was some time before it was perceived that I ? t T ? V - i r ue nicani 1. uonu, cnapter 11. When Dr. Johnson courted Mrs. Totter, whom he afterwards married, he told her "that he was of mean extraction ; that he had no money, and that he ha i a uncle hanged 1" The lady, by way of reducing herselt to an equality with the doctor, ro plied, " that she had no more money than himself; and that, though she had not a relation hanged, she had fifty who deserved hanging!" Why is a minister like a locomotive ? Because we have to look for hiui when the bell rings. Why would ladies make better traders and peddlers than men ? Because they never get shaved. The first business of Lynn is to make altAAA ? Burning of Columbia. "Ikontok, Oiuo, May 9, 1896. "Editors Herald: On reading your article in the Commercial of the 8th,as to whether Sherman or Hampton burned Columbia, South Carolina, brings to mind an incident that occurred here at the time Sherman waa resting his grand army at Savannah. It was understood that he was to march through 8outh Carolina. A petition was drawn up, addressed to him, (and it was signed by nearly all who saw it,) requesting him, in case he marched through South Carolina, to desolate the whole Siato by fire and sword, as far as the rules of war would allow him. I know not whether the petition ever reached the gallant soldier or not, but it shows that he need shrink from nothing he did on the march. 1 heard the ODinion ?inrp>?it n K.iulrod lim?a .1 (list lime, that South Carolina should be reduced to aahea, and Iter chivalry compelled to wander beggars over the face of the earth. Yours, etc." This, from the Cincinnati Commercial, calls to our mind a little circumstance. On thereturn of Sherman's army, two regiments of it camped n day and a niglit, ou the commons near our residence. The soldiers engaged in free conversation, and, as was natural, made their grand march under Sherman, through the South, a?d particularly the part of it through South Carolina, the theme of narration. They stated that our soldiers burned Columbia; that they desolated, as far as conveniently could be done, where they marched; and, whether Columbia was burned by Sher man's order or not, they could not further say than that it was burned by our soldiers, un aer tuc orders of their immediate commandei . but whether they had orders from Sherman or not, ?u only with them a matter of inference. [fnditinapolu Herald. What America is Aboct.?The London Times is not entirely blind when America is the subject to be looked at. It says: "The Southerners are prepared to shake hands, but the Northerners will not have it. They are resolved to keep their late enemies out of the pale of the Constitution, to disarm them by the infliction of civil disabilities, to punish thein for their recent malignancy by political outlawry, to restrain them by penal statutes, to introduce among them obnoxious principles supported by force, and thus in the heart of the South to establish Northern ascendancy. Of course they do not profess to be doing all this in perpetuity. They intend, as soon as Southerners nnd Democrats have been made good Northerners and radicals, to remove the political fetters by the abolition of tests and by measures of emancipation. That is the programme of the party now in collision with the rresmcni, ana no Englishman will have nnv difficulty in recognizing tlie parallel. Wente exactly what America is about. It it Ireland over again." A Beautiful Idea.?Away among the Alleghanies, there is a spring so smull that a single ox, in a summer's day, could drain it dry. It steals its unobtrusive way among the hills until it spreads out into the beautiful Ohio. Thence it stretches out a thousand miles, leaving on its banks more than a hundred villages and cities, and many a cultivated farm, and bearing on its bosom mere than a halt a thousand steamboats. Then joining the Mississippi, it stretches away and away some twelve hundred miles more, till it falls into the great emblem of eternity. It is one of the great tributaries of the ocan, which obedient only to God, shall roll and roar till the angel, with one foot on the sea and the other on the laud, shall lift up his hands to heaven, and swear that time shall be no longer. So with mor _ i : _ H I . * ?f? * - - iii liuiiicnco. 11 is a riu?a rivuieu?an ocean, boundless and fathomless as eternity. All the liijuor sellers in Ne\? York have to come before the Hoard of Kzcise for a license, nnd Borne queer facts are brought out. One young man kept a bar, mostly patronized by stage drivers, who were kopt in order by a sign board, conspicuously posted, with the following legend : " No profane language allowed hero; any person who cannot read this inquire of the barkeeper." This applicant was licensed, of course. CHARLES BELLOISE & CO.. AMD DBA I. F. US IS flams Sides, Shoulders, Smoked Reef 'l\iii<rnew """J * ""O"*"? FLO Lit, Ji UTTER, L11EESE, LAUD, EGGS, SOAP, STAUCII, CANDLES, Ac., Ac. 1-20 tfc 122 EAST BAY STEET, Consignments Solicited. U. BELL01S, } CHARLESTON, S. C. :o: We would respectfully notify Merclinntstli.it we nro strictly in the I'rovision Business, and nre enatdcd to supply the trade at lowest prices. Mch 1 6 ly IIOMNSON & NELSON," rjrj ^Vl K?l?>MltlC IIIKl Detail Dealer* lu 3I}D23> TmWAS* TRAVELLING HAGS, Ac. ?O0 KING STREET, Ssarly opposite Victoria Hotel, f:iiitrlfNfon, Soiitli taroiinn. J. U. ROBINSON, A. NELSON. March 1 5 ly 1IAUT & CO., (Successor* to S. N HART & CO.) South East Corner King A Market Streets, CHARLESTON, S. C.t IMPORTERS OF Foreign & Domostic Hardware, CUTLERY, GUNS, BAR IRON, TIN AND PLATED WARES, Will receive orders for It. HOE & CO'S Circular Saws, and GEO. PAGE A CO'S Portable Saw Machines. D. D. Com* D S. Hart. T. Moroa*. March 1 6 ly W. D. Milster Respectfully announces to the public, that he has again commenced the Tinning Business, and feels himself well prepared and qualified to do all kinds of work in hie lino, with neatness and dispatch, lie has a large ttotk on hand, of every thing usually found in an establishment of this kind. AH artioles of TIN WARE, will be kept on band, thereby rendering himself able to supply the wants of any who may call on him. He is prepared to do such work as ROOFISO. GUTTERING AND REPAIRING. He will work and sell, wholesale or retail, LOW FOR CASH. All work warranted. 81lor NEAR THE SPARTAN OFFICE. Feb 1 1 tf Mill TVotw" "V .VOULD give notice to the public tb.it I I have purchased the entire interest of M. i I\\DG ETT in the Mills, known as the Patterson Mills, on l'eterson's Creek five miles East of Spartanburg C. II. The Mill is now undergoing a thorough repair, and in a short time 1 will be prepared to give perfect satisfaction and to feel myself meriting a part of the public patronnge. The improvements I am making are such as warrant me in promising good turnouts of dour and meal. I have also a Saw Mill which is in good order. JOHN BROOKS. NOTICE. THE Copartnership of BROOKS & PADGETT in the Patterson Mill is this day dissolved. Persons having claims against or owing us are requested to nettle. BROOKS & PADGETT. April 12 11 4t "hpartanburg FEMALE COLLEGE. THE TRUSTEES are happy to announce that thev have secured the service* of REV A W CUMMINGS, D D , long and favorably known to the ciliiens of South Carolina an the President of the Female College at Ashcville, N. C. His groat success there is a sufficient guarantee for his skilful management at Spartanburg. -rut: \i:\t session a will open MAY Dili, and continue 80 weeks. The President will be aided by an able Corps of Expert- tWa/ diced Teachers. All bills payable in advance, in specie or its equivalent in currency. BOARD and TUITION per Session, $150.00 TUITION to Day Scholars 40.00 MUSIC, including use of Instrument, 45.00 The other Ornamental Branches at the usual rates. Contingent Fee, ?11.00, and Washing 75 cents per dozcu. Each Boarder will furnish a Tea-spoon, Drinking Cup, a Blanket, a pair of Sheets, a pair of Pillow-cases, her Toilet Soap and Towels. SIMPSON BOBO, President Hoard of Trustee*. March 22 8 tf gla5"~ Edgefield Advertiser, Darlington Southerner, Columbia Phoenix and Charleston Weekly Record will plen?o insert to amount of the jl.(H) und forwaril bills to this office. J A HENNEMAN iTAirun aiAisaji AM) JEWE1XER. Spartanburg C. II., So. Ca. HAS JUST RECEIVED A SELECT ASSORTMENT OF WATCHES, JEWELRY, PLATED WA&l AND I^aucy Goods. ALSO A NEW LOT OF EIGHT DAY AND TWENTYFOUR HOUR CLOCKS. X FIRST-RATE ARTICLE. WARRENTED TWO YIDAHS. Spectacles for all Eyes and Asces. 117ATCHES, CLOCKS AND JEWELRY \\ neatly repaired, nu?l warranted. J. A. HKNNEMAN, At the Old I'htee oh Main-Street. Feb 4 tf I Sll'&l'y&Sy (SlfrklfJSS* RANGES, FIRE BRICKS &c. ADAMS, DI.MO.V A Co , I1AYB RKOI'OKD Bl'SIXKSS AT T11KIR OLD STAND, 16, Broad Street, Charleston, 8. C.. And keep Constantly on Hand COOKING STOVES or tiik Lutesit Improved Patterns, Range's Grates, Marble Mantles, Tinners' Machines and Tools, numbers' Materials, Iron und Br.ss, deep well Force and Light Pumps, Sheet Lead, Lead and Iron Piping, Railroad Force Pnmps. Also the Great Labor-Saving Washing Machine and Wringer. SpOX_ l// Order* attended to wti/t Dispatch..jptf Moh 1 6 ly n T? n TT N f! A V ATTORNEY AT LAW AND SOLICITOR IN EQUITY. OFFICE ON rUBLIC SQUARE, four doors East from (he Court House. April 12 11 tf JOIITV KING A CO. WHOLESALE CillOUERfl, Wines and Spirits Dealers, 88 MEETING STREET, CHARLESTON, 8. C. J UST rfecired a consignment of HOLLOW WARE, TRACE CHAINS, and a full as aortment ofCROCKERY and QUEEN'S WARE. March 15 7 3n? I A I ? HACK Lillys: ^ PROM SPARTANBURG TO GREENVILLE rpHB Subocribtr will rmm ft LOO Of I HACKS to ?U from At ftfrrro mott placet, leaving Orooo<rillo C. H- every MOK> 1 DAT, WEDNESDAY ftsd PKID AT, at m. m. Leave Spartanburg. TUK8DAY8, T1Q1A 5l ASA 1 O >uu 9A1VBVAIO, Ol O 0. ft., MUl arris# ftt Greensille ftad Sportanbnrg, at 4 p. m. This Lift* will form eoanoetion with tho Spartnnbnrg and Union RiBrni both ways. 1 will bass good teams and oarsfal drlsots. Persons wishing to Monro seats sea do m by applying to my Agents, JAB. A. ALLST. Spertftnburg. who will bo found ti He t, Brick Range on Chureh-Btreet, opposite tho Palmetto House, and SAllUKL DONTHARD, at Greensille. Persons wishing to take soots nt Bps i Ian burg, will apply to my Agent there the night ^ before. C. C. MONTGOMERY. Peb 1 1 tf WILLIS &CHI80LM, ~ COMMISSION MERCHANTS AND sMitm.xa Jtc eat ra, Will attend to the purcheeo, eale and shipment J to Foreign and Amntic Porte, of Cotton, Bioo,. J Lumoer ana naval stores. } Atlantic Wharf, Charleston, 8. C. 1 e. willis, ALEX, R, CHISOLM. Mch 1 5 tf PHILIP FOGARTY A CO. Wholesale Grocers AXD J COMMISSION MERCHANTS Corner of Atlantic Wharf & East Bay. P. FOGABTl, 1 fTurliatnn a (* s. poo arty, ; vmbmmm, r c. Ajftntt for ItO YD BROS. J- CO'S Cream At*. Mch 1 3 1 y IIUNT Ac BRO.f Shipping, Commission & Forwardiner Merehaah. o ?? Accommodation Wharf, J. H. HUNT, Ja. } l C( Formerly of NEWBERRY, S. C.) I :o: Promptly forward all Merchandise coaoigaod to us arriving in the Citj from NORTHERN OR FOREIGN PORTS 7V? trill give Uriel attention to Salt and PurcJkate. of Cotton, Rtee, Flour, ?e. Libera! Advances on Consignments. RirtaiscKi.?O. W. Williams A Co., Char- ^ lesion. S. C-; Russel & Kilt*. Wilmington. N. j C.; Biglow A Sargent, Baltimore.; Latkbury. W'ickersliam A Co., Philadelphia.. N. L. MeCready St Co.. New York ; Ray St Walter, Boston; ti. VS. Uarmany, Savannah, Qa., Q. R Wilson, esq-, Norfolk, Va. Mob 1 5 6m IV?w Eiitei*prisc ! SOUTHERN IMPORTING AND MANUFACTURING DRUG ROUSE, PRATT, WILSON & BROS., No. %238 It In Sreot, CHARLESTON, S C. The Proprietors are Native Southerners* .\'o tuck enterprise South of Philadelphia. D'i/1 Soutkrrn Homct give ut their Patrunuge t WE OFFER AT RATES Til AT COMFARE FAYORABLYWIT1I NEW YORK PRICES. ALL DRUGS, ' CHEMICALS, MEDICINES, SPICES, Ac., THAT LEGITIMATELY BELONG TO OL'U LINE OF BUSINESS. ANH KEEP'ON" HAND OKTLY THE) BE2ST tar Packages put up to suit Country Trade."** N. A.Pit ATT. Chemist to late C. 8., Nitir u<l Mining Bureau, L. W. WILSON, P. B. WILSON. Chemist to late C. 8., Or Department. April 11 5 1 y Merchants Hotel. So (D? Cheapest and best Hotel in the State. Trannient Board $3.00 V day. Weekly " 14.00 VwhI March 1 5 If A. I LLINGe Millinery and Fancy Gssds, AT NEW YORX PRICES. 262 KINO STREET, Opposite Bufain 8treet, CHARLESTON, SO. CA. 1 * TAILORINGI HAVING furnished myself with ?U the facilities for > pood'and neatness, I announce to my Patron* that I am prepared to fill order* for SPRING and SUMMER Clocking at short notice, and in the beat style. A first class TAILOR wanted. I also hare (at my residence) a lady faros, conducted by an experienced Taller, where I can hare gotten up Coats, Pants, Vests. Shirts, Ac., for prioes to correspond with material. April 19 12 tf M. R. BEECO.