Earthly Hopes.
BY VESTA If. crDWUBTIt.
One by one, as stars set at night,
Earth's brightest hopes depart,
Though long they linger, uueaife their light,
l'ainting life's landscape all too bright
For the peace of the trusting heart.
Thus one by one the-drops of bliss
Leak oat from the silver oup.
Leaving the stricken its emptiness,
Or worse, the dregs of bitterness,
Aa ? pledge for their trust and hope.
Bored ones are leaving one by ono ;
Youth and its gladness flee ;
What is the nest when the birds have flown?
When the fruit is gathered, the harvest done?
What is the refuse to thee ?
Thy days are passing one by one,
For thy life-work what shall thou win ?
For earth hast labored, for earth hast sown,
Its flowers are withered, its beauty gone,
And death is the wages of sin.
Miscegenation in Wisconsin.?Last
Friday the usual quietness of our Maiu treet
was suddenly disturbed by the arrival
of two oolorcd gentlemen from Lake I
Mills, with a ?h iU tromnn liAn/v<M?w ?? i
9 ? .(?..?v ? VIMOII Itii^lllp KJIt lliu
arm of each. One couple was married,
and accompanied the other for the purpose
of being prcseut at their bridal. Judging
from the appearance of the unmarried couple,
as they marehed up through the streets
wo should think, on this occasion at least,
true love really tan smooth. They at once
Srocecdcd to the justice's office, followed
y a crowd anxious to witness the ceremony,
at which the woman seemed surprised,
and inquired the reason of it, saying that
when she married her first husband there
were not so many present. Squire l)ueasso
gave them n few words of advice, and
declined th6 honor of tying the knot, when
the woman declared she would not marry
a white man ifsho had to travel 1,000 miles.
4 at the same time tapping the ebony cheek of
her betrothed, and he approvingly uncovered
his ivories. After several attempts
to procure the services of some proper individual,
they left, saying something about
this being a copperhead town.? Wafer town
( Witcc ?uin) Republican.
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An army friend has given us an anecdote,
in connection with tho capture of
President Davis, which we havo not seen
io print, and which is characteristic of the
roady wit of the Irishman. Of its truth,
(we mean tjie occurrence of tho anecdote, ;
of course) there is said to ho do doubt.
Here it is:
"A member of a Yankee Regiment,
which had captuicd President Davis,
marching along, with his command, amid
great oxultations, and enjoying a high dc
gree of personal cxhileration, incident to
tho occasion, camo across au Irishman,
leaning on his spado.
'Well," said tho Yankee, "wo'vo got
your President."
"Well," said tho Irishman, "then we're
even?the dovil lias yours." Sumter
'Watchman.
New Kind of Collateral.?Imagine
one of those ragged little mudlarks,
who sweep the crossings, (and spatter all
vrho don't pay, accosting a gentleman
dressed in the height of fashion :
Mudlavk?'Please, sir, give me a cent 7
Swell?'Sixpence is the smallest money ;
I have, mv little lad.'
Mudlark?'Vol, sir, I'll got yer change; I
and if yer doubts my honor, bold my
broom !'?[Punch, improved.
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Sweet.?A lady said to a geutlcman ;
who accompanied her and her sister from
church, 'Why, it rains?scud and get an
umbrella.
'Why said the beau, 'you are neither
sugar nor salt, rain will not hurt you.'
'No,' said the lady, 'but we arc losses,
lie sent for 0110 immediately.
"The Maiden's Prayer," written by Mr.
N. P. Willis, begins thus:
"She arose from her delicious sleep.
And put away her soft browu hair."
This maiden must have lived prior to
tho advent of the waterfall. At present,
the maidens put away "their soft brown
hair" before going to their 'delicious sleep.'
A lady once declared that she oould not
understand how gentlemen could sinoke.
"It absolutely shortens their lives," said
she. "I don't know that," replied a gen
tleiuan. "There's my lather who smokes
every day, and he is now seventy years
old." "YVell," was the reply, "if he had
never smoked, ho might have been eighty."
A pious negro, somewhere in this region,
whilst invoking Divine blessings in impassioned
strains, prayed with great fervor,
that vies and morality might "cover the
earth as tho waters cover th? nmnt "
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This is true.
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A person was boasting that ho was
sprung from a high family in Ireland.?
"Yes," said a bystander, "1 have seen some
of the sarno family so high that their feet
could not touch the ground.
The Petersburg mine "crater" is now in
tho midst of a luxuriant cornfield, and is
itself planted in melons and fru t trees. A
correspondent who has been there writes :
"The immense excavation made by the ex
plosion is now nearly closed to the surface,
as it was oonvcrted to the uses of sepulture,
and contains, as I was assured,about 2,500
dead bodies."
Nineteen individuals who formerly held
positions in the rebel army, left Chattanooga
recently, en rooto to Austria, to join
the Imperial army.
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Am Uneasy Predicament.
We were the witness of a ludicrous in. cident
which ocourred in this oity a few *
days since, for relating which we crave the
indulgence of tho gentleman directly concerned?deeming
it too good a joke to be II
lost.
While Bitting at our desk, and laboring
assiduously, with pen, scissors and paste,
to make out a readable paper for our pat
rons, we were suddenly 'frightened from
our propriety,' by the hasty eucrnncc of a
gentleman, exclaiming, 'For God's sake, ^
help mo to see what's the matter ! I've
got some dreadful thing?scorpion or tarantula?in
the leg of my pautaloons ! Quick
?quick?help me !' n
We instantly roso from our chair, half
frighteued ourselves. Our friend had bro
ken in so suddenly and unexpectedly upon
us, and was so wonderiully agitated that
wc knew not whether he was indeed in his
seuses or not. We looked at him with a
sort of surprise mixed with dread, and 8
hardly knew whether to speak with, or seize
and conSne him for a inadj.an The
latter wo curao near attempting. Thcro
he stood, quivering and pale, with one
hand tightly grasped upon a part of his
pantaloons just in tho hollow of the knee.
'What's the matter?' asked we, at last.
'Tho matter !' he exclaimed: oh. heln
mc ! I've pot something here, which just
ran up niy leg ! i?ome infernal scorpion
or lizard, 1 expect! Oh, I can't let go;
I must hold it. Oh, thcro !' he shrieked,
I l'elt it move just then ! Oh, these pants
without straps! I'll never wear another *
pair open at the bottom as long as I live.
Ah ! I feel it again.'
'reel what ?' we inquired, standing at
the sauio time, at a respectable distanco
from the gentleman ; lor we had just been
reading our Corpus Chrisli correspondent's
letter about snakes, lizurds, and tarantulas,
and oegan to imagine some deadly insect '
or reptile in the leg ol our friends unmentionables,
as they are sometimes called.
I don't know what it is,' answered the
gentleman; help mc to sec what it is. I
was just passing that pile of rubbish there,
in front of your office, and felt it dart up c
my logs as quick as lightning'?and he 0
clenched his fist more tightly. If it had ?
been the neck of an anaconda, wc believe
ho would have squeezed it to a jelly.
By this time two or three of the news- (
boys had come in; the clerks and packing
boys hearing the outcry; stopped working
and editors and all hands stood around the .
sufferer with looks of m.ngled sympathy
and alarm.
'Bring a chair, Fritz,' said we, 'and let
the gentleman he seated.' r
'Oh, I can't sit,' said tlio gentleman; 'I
can't bend my knee!?if I do, it will bite
or sting me; no, 1 can't sit.'
'Certainly you can sit,' said wc ; 'keep
your leg straight out, and we'll sec what it j <
is you have got.' I '
4 Well, let nie give it one more hard j
squeeze; I'll crush it to death,' said he,' ?
ami again he put the force of au iron vice i a
upon the thing. If it had any life left, I
this last effort must have killed it.' lie
then cautiously seated himself, holding out
his leg as stiff and as straight as a poker.
A sharp kuifc was procured; the pun's
were cut open carefully, making a hole
large enough to aduiit a hand; the gentle- r,
man put on a thick glovo and slowly iu- J
sertcd his hand, but he discovered nothing.
We were all looking on in almost breathless
silence to sec the monstrous thing?
whatever it might be; each ready to scamper
out of harm's wuy should it be alive; J
when suddenly the gentleman bccamo, it
passible, more agitated than ever.
By heavens !' he exclaimed, 'it's inside
my drawers. It's alive, too 1 feel it!?
quick ! quick !?give me the knife again !' s
Another incision was made?in went the
gentleman's gloved hand once tnure, and :
lo ! out Came?fiis wife's stocking! | ^
How the stocking ever got there we are !
unable to say; hut there it certainly was;!
and such a laugh as followed, we haven't '
heard for tunny a day. Our friend, we! \
know, has told the joke hiiuself, and must !
pardon us for doing so. Though this is j
all about a stocking, we assure our readers j j
it is no yarn.?A. O. Picayune.
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An Incident.?A "reb," who had long
languished on the sweets of a forced idleness,
consequent upon his occupation having
terminated with Lee's surrender, began j
to look about him for something to be, to j
do, or to suffer. Thinking himself sufficiently
reconstructed, ho applied lor work i
atone of the I >opnrtmcnts, presided over
by a Federal officer. j v
"Have you been in the rebel service ?" , '
he was asked.
"Yes, sir," was the reply. c
"In any buttles?" I
"About eighteen pitched battles, sir." 0
"Kvcr killed any Yankees?" ,
"No sir: never ki'led any."
"How do you know that?"
"Well, I couldn't kill uny of them."
"Why was that ?"
"Because they were all in thorear spec- j i
ulaiing; but 1 guess 1 slayed uboutathous j
unci uutcn ana Irish."
We did not learn 1*110(1107 the candor
of tliis "rob'' scoured him a place or not,
hut it certainly wa9 deserving of some reo ,
ognition.?Norfolk Virginian. | t\
Tho rose of Florida, the most beautiful
of flowers, emits no fragrance; the bird of j
Paradise, the handsomest of birds, gives 110 ^
song; tho cypress of Greece, the finest of trees,
yields no Fruit.
A Clyde, New York widower, with scv- u
en children, was recently married to a ^
Rochester widow with five. Both parties
were ipnonnt of the other's having chil ,r
dren.
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IANGES, FIRE BRICKS &c.
ADAMS, DAMON tc C?.,
AVE REOPENED BUSINESS AT THEIR
OLD STAND,
16, Broad Street, Charlestou, S. C..
And kerp Constant!>/ on Hand
JOOKINO STOVES
or niK
Latest Improved Patterns,
lunge's Gratos, Marblo Mauilcs, Tinners'
Machines ami Tools, Plumbers' Materials,
Iron ami I$r ??, ?locp well Force ami
Light Pumps. Sheet Lead, Lead
and Iron Piping, llailroad
Force Pumps. Also the
Great Labor-Saving Washing
Much i no and Wringer.
.1II Order* attended to with Dispatch.
Mch 1 5 ly
PHILIP FOGARTY <fc CO.
Wholesale Grocers
a*i>
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
Corner of 'Atlantic Wharf & East Bay,
P. FOGARTY, > , . a n
8. FOGARTY, / Charleston, 8 C.
lynft for BOYD lillOS. $ CO'S Cream Ale.
Mch 1 5 ly
n. Ploming
WILLIAMS & COVERT,
(Formerly D. 11. Williams & Co.,)
WHOLESALE PEALLRS IN
lats, lap*, Straw and Millinery
GOODS,
NO. 122 MEETING STREET.
Next door to Charleston Hotel.
CHARLESTON, S. C.
We also have a branch of our house in
'hurlottc, N. C., where we have a large stock
f Hats, Caps, Straw and Millinery Goods.
I. n. WILLIAMS, It. C. CALVERT.
May 24 17 3m
3H ARLES BELLOISE & CO.,
(Da>Z2Z2L2223m, IIoJTOlhllin'iS,
AND liL.VLK. 1<S IN
lam*, Sides, Shoulders, Smoked
Beef, Tongues,
FLOUR, BUTT Fit, CHEESE,
j A 111), EGGS, SOAP, ST AllCH, CANDLES,
&c., Ac.
120 &- 122 EAST RAY STF.ET,
Comtythneula Solicitt J.
1. DELL013*, } CHARLESTON, 8. C.
:o:
We would respectfully notify Merchants tlurt
re are strictly in the Provision Murines*, and
re enabled to supply the trade at lowest prices.
Mch 1 5 ly
ROBINSON & NELSON,
g*jn Wholcmulc i?n?l
^0^8 llclail Dcalt rs In
3HD13>
TRAVELLING RAGS, A<>.
VJOC. KING STlJKF/r,
Xenrly oj>f>oaite Victoria U?(rl%
Climlcstoii, South Ctirollna.
. I>. KOBISSON, A. NELSON.
March 1 > ly
~ HART & CO.,
(Sneoe -or-t to S. N IIAKT CO.)
iouth List Corner King Muiket Streets,
CJI.l/tUJSTUX, >\ C ,
1 Ml'ORTKKS OF
foreign & Domestic Hardware,
Cr i'LEKV, GUNS,
$Alt IKON, TIN AND PLATED WAKES,
Vi 11 receive order* for K. 1IOE & COTS Circular
Saw*, and (iEO. PAGE \ CD'S Portable
Saw Machines.
>. I). Coiikx. D. S. 11AitT. P. Morgan.
March 1 6 ly
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
William Bennett, Applicant,
v*.
'ohn E. Casey, wife Mary, ami others, Bef's.
'ciition for sale of Ileal Estate of James Kennet
t, deceased.
I T appearing to my satisfaction that John E
Case}', nil'I wife Mary, Mansol Moore, ami
rife Sarah, tlefentlants in tliis case, reside
without litis Suite : it is therefore ovilcred that
hey do appear and object to the division or
ale of the Ileal Estate of James Bennett, dc
eased, on or before the 'J 1st day of Septew
ier next, or their consent to the same will be
ntcred of record.
(iiven under my hand this 18th day of June,
i. d., 18g0.
J NO. EARLK nOMAR, o. s. i?.
June 21 21
l)i:. W.T. KUSSEL,
continue the practice of Medicine.
IT Surgery, and (at his office) Dentistry
OFFICE?over iif.ixitsii nuvo htork.
Feb 15 ?'{ if
SULLIVAN & WINSMITH,
iTTOllNEYS AT LAW AND SOLICITORS
IN EQUITY, SPARTANBURG, S. C.
OFFICE NEXT TO POST OFFICE.
. P. St'LI.IVAN. J. C. WlSHMITII.
W. MAGILL FLEMING,
Attoi'iioy nt Law,
[T"P1LL attend to nil business with wh ch
W the citizens of SpnrlRnburg District
ay favor him.
office-oyer bookstore.
Jnric 21 21 12m
HUNT Ac BRO. (
Shipping, Commission & Forwarding
Merchants,
Acooiumodalion M'liarf,
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J. U. UUST, Jn. } Charleston, S. C. '
(Formrrh/ of \E W/f ERR S. C.) \
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Promptly forward nil Merchandise consigned to
us arriving in the City from v
' ini'iY O FOElfrS POTS
11V trill <five strict attention to Sale and I'urchate. ^
of Cotton, Iiicr, Ft oar, ,j-c.
Liberal Advances on Consignments. i
i
KRPKRBKCC8.??*. ?. Williams \ U0>( CMT* J
lesion, S. ltnssel & Ellis, Wilniinglon, N.
C.; Biglow & Sargent, Baltimore,; Lath bury. t
Wiokci'slinm & 0<>., Philadelphia,, N. I,. Mo- (
Crcady ?V Co., New York ; Buy iV Walter, Boston
; I!. W. Garinany, Savannah, Ga.; G. R 1
Wilson, esq-, Norfolk, Va. '
Melt 1 5 Cm t
WILLIS "<feCHISOLM,
FACTORS ,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS |
AND
Sf#/PPI. V? JMGE.VTS,
Will attend totlio purchase, sale and shipment
to Foreign and Domestic Ports, of Cotton, Kicc, 1
Lumber and Naval Stores.
Atlantic Wharf, Charleston, S. C.
E. WILLIS, ALEX. It, CIIISOLM.
Mcli 1 5 tf
J. A. HENN EMAN !
T/AWil SHAIEBIB
AND JEWELLER.
Spai'lanbiirg C. II., So. Ca.
HAS JUST RECEIVED
A SELECT ASSORTMENT OF
WATCHES, JEWELRY,
PLATED WAll
AND
I^aucy Goods.
ALSO
A NEW LOT OF EIGHT-DAY AND TWENTYFOUR
HOUR CLOCKS, A FIRST-RAT.- 1
ARTICLE.
W Alt KENT KD
TWO Y EAH.S.
Spectacles lor all Eyes and Ages,
WATCHES. CLOCKS AND JEWELRY
neatly repaired, and warranted.
J. A. 11 EN NEMAN,
1/ thr CH.l rinr, .... 1
Feb 22 I "" i f
W. I>. Milster
RESPECTFULLY aniiMiinrcs to the public,
, tint lie lias again commence*! (lie
MTi lining*' Husinoss,
and feels himself well prepared and qualified
10 do all kinds of Work in his line, with neat11
ess and dispatch, lie has a alork on
luind, of evcrv tiling inn i.ly found in an establishment
of this kind All articles of TIN
1\ AltK, will ho kept on hand, thereby rendering
himself able to supply the wants of any who
may call <>n him.
lie is prepared to do such work as ROOK1M1.
GUTTERING AND REPAIRING, lie
will work and sell, wholesale or retail, LOU'
FOR CASH All work warranted.
SHOP NEAR THE SPARTAN 0FF1? E.
Feb 1 1 tf
C. C." HUG GINS
T A I LO IX.
I TTAV,N(J RET I* UN ED TO THE TOWN of
I J-j[ Spartnnhnrg, lie takes occasion to inform
! h - triend-that 1 lie is prepared lo do work with
I neatness and dispateli. lie respectfully a.-ks
a share <>l puhli patronage, and pledges h s
I best endeavors to give satisfaction to his cus1
toiners.
| He may he found at his Shop in rear of J.
l? \lt? III ill'S S'lORE, w here his customers
w ill tind plate- of the latest fashions.
Feb I 1 tf
rI\Y 11 sORINO.
?j?:o:
HAVING just returned from atrip North
and W est, takes this method of informing
I lit- former Patrons and Friends, that he is now
prepared to fill till ordor- with neatness and <
dispatch in the ?ery LATEST STYLES, as
cheap as any one for Cash or Darter.
My -hop is over the store of FOSTER &
JIIDD'S, opposite the Court House. ,
The latest SPRING FASHIONS have just '
been received. WM. LOCK WOOD. .
Feb 1 1 tf 1
FARROW & DUNCAN.
A T T O K X K Y S AT L A W
AND
Solicitors in Equity,
Jf?-iT Otlice in Prick Ruihling, upstairs, over ,
former (Mice of James Farrow. I ,
\Mlfl FAKUOW. 1). U. lU'NCAN.
April 15 11 ly
WILLI! MS~EVTNS & CHOICE,
ATTORNEY'S AT LAW,
SPARTANBURG, S. C.
Geo. IV. Williams, York villa, S. C.
J.Vrt. II. Evins,
William Choice.
June 14 20 f>n?
LAW COPARTNERSHIP.
Having associated c. J. hi,ford, o
Greenville, S. C , wiili me in the practice (
| otlaw for Spartanburg District, under the name ! 1
nn<i stylo ot KLFORU & Kl.FOKD ; nil business [ i
entrusted to my care will receive the prompt 1
ami faithful attcutiun of said firm. <
J. M. ELFORI>. t !
April;? 10 thnoi j
DRY GOODS STORE 1
Toj?i?e & Smyth I
WOULD respectfully inform the LADIES- T
that (hey are now receiving their 1
SPRING STOCK, I
CONSISTING OF
Vhitc Long Cloth, Ilrowu Shirtings ami Sheetugs,
Wliiio and Brown Linens, Merrimack*,
tinoskciig, Schwttbcand American CALIC08,
rarrniited fast colors. Jaconets, Cambrics ami
'ictoria Lawns.
A complete and choice assortment of NeedleiVOKK
and Linen Setts, Needles, Spool Cotton*.
Yorking Cotton and Thread In every rariety _ j
ALSO, a great assortment of ^
)RY GOODS, FANCY GOODS, Liens audi
hosiery, Bonnet and Lute-String. Ribbons,.
I'll rend and Cotton LACKS and EDGINGS.
Having been connected for a long time with>
he Dry Goods business, we are confident ofi
giving satisfaction
ALSO, on hand a general assortment 08"
iOOTS and SHOES. Tin Ware, Hate andCapev.
ind a general assortment of GROCERIES, afe
he UP TOWN SIX) ltK. I
rTlEDK. TEI'PE, ALEX. n. SMYTHN.
B. State Money Bought.
April 2G 13 tf_ J
NEW SPRING GOODS.
0
AE U.V.VE just received from Charleston, a
rcsh supply of
BOOTS, SHOES, PRINTS, ^
ind many other articles too numerous to aenion,
which we offer at cheap rates.
CALL AND SEE US.
IS. It J. I* WOFFORD,
No 4 opposite Court llouse.
April 5 10 tt
NEW GOODS.
o
Vl^E are now receiving a capital assortment
II of GOODS, selected by a member of our
irm in the Northern market.
GENTLEMEN'S AND LADIES
DRESSGOODS,
LATEST STYLES OF
1
LADIES' HATS,
S H O 3D S,
TRIMMINGS, NOTIONS,
fcarCALL AND KNOW OUR PRICKS..?*
VAN DIVER, BLAKE & CO.,
May 21 17 it
]\ew Enterprise !
southkknImporting
AND
MANUFACTURING DIUJG ROUSE,
PRATT, WILSON & BROS.,
IN <>. V2518 Kinp Srcct,
CHARLESTON, S C.
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The Proprietors are Native
Southerners'
.Vi< turh enterprise South of Philadelphia. Will
Southern Houses give us their Patronage t
WE OFFER AT RATES THAT COMPARK
FAVORABLYWITH NEW
YORK PRICKS. ALL DRUGS,
CH KM1CALS, M K DICIN KS,
Sl'K'KS.Ac., THAT LKGITIMATKLY
BELONG TO
OUR LINK OF BUSINESS,
AND
KEEP ON
HAND
ONLY TUB BBST
fer Packagos put up to suit
Country Trade.
K. A.PRATT, Chemist to late C. S., Niter and
Mining Bureau, L. W. WILSON,
P. B. WILSON, Chemist to late C. S., Or
Department.
April 11 5 1 y
3Ioreliants Hotel.
(EUhasflfioltoni, ?
Cheapest and best Hotel u. the State.
Transient Board, S3.00 day.
Weekly " 14.00*$ week.
March 1 6 tf
^V. ILLING,
Millinert and Fanev ftnnda.
AT NEW YORK PRICES.
262 KING STREET,
Opposite llufain Street,
CHARLESTON, SO. CA.
March 1 6 If
DRS. B. & J. L. WOFFORD
OKF8ft TIIF.IU PROFESSIONAL SERVICKS
to the citizens of the Village and
surrounding country. One or both of us will
t>e found constantly in the office at the STORE,
luring the day, and at our Residence, opposite
Wofford College (Church Street) at night.
Feb 13 3 tf