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' ; g 3 : - c> # | ___ ^ : ....___1___ i. " I J : ' |^ ' " f,B*" ?V. 4. LEE AND Ull(iH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 3.1873. " VOLUME XXI?NO. CUDDYt I . , WE HAVE added all of the new NETS to our MILLINERY handsomely trimmed by MRS. MAG fcs a Milliner is too welMcnown in thi room will bo under the charge of M be foarid to exhibit the Stock, as w at moderate prices. MILLER & I April 16) 1873.1-tf SPECIAL IF A LADY wants to bay a WD where, she would do well to go t WHITE B and look at their Extensive Stock of White Piques, Newport Strip Croquetts, Yosemites T.omns ond Mulls, Nansooks, &c., &c. April 16, 187.% 1-tf J. B. & W. WILL BE NO. 2 GRAN Are prepared to show to their friends a Staple Dry Goods, Hats, Shoes aid B Also a Select Stoc] la the Dry Goods Line will be fouud, CALICOES, BLEACH BROWN SHU TICKI? OSNABURGS, and many otli^r thi In the Grocery I BACON, FLOUR, MOLASSES, NEW ORLEANS SYRUP MACKEREL, 1 RICJ POWDER AND SHOT, and everythiui Also a complete Lot of C< ORANGES; LEMONS, JELLIES, BRr SARDINES, CRACKERS, SHEE both French and Common. We have on hands BAGGING and T1 Come one! Coineall!! we think we Sept. 18, 1372, 53-tf CARRIAGE MAfINI "lyOW offer a LARGE and SUPERIC jL^ price from $140 to $225, with all tli WAGONS OF ALL SIZES, made by ti MATERIAL IN THE COUNTRY, anc They also offer .or sale A LIGHT CRj LOW FOR CASH. They keep constantly on hand MET A NY and WALNUT COFFINS, and oth . Their hearse with one of the Firm wil ALL WORK WARRANTED. WALLER & MERCH^ GREENYVO ARE now offering to the public in th line of all the Goods generally net THEIR S . V'1 have been selected with great READY - MAI A FINE STOCK OF A good at Groceries, Hardware, Cj To which the attention of purchasers is WALLEJ Feb. 19,1873, 45-tf Board Reduced to $3 Per Day, Columbia Hotel COLUMBIA, & C. THE Proprietor of this well knowr first class Hotel would respect ully inform bis many menus ana ui travelling public generally, that h hu.H this day reduced his rates o Board from $4 p?*r day to 63 per day apd at ih& HQ.DW time pledges himsei \ fX) Bp are no pjiins in the managemen of the house to sustain its reputatioi as a first class hotel in every renpeei . WM. GORMAN, Proprietor. . i July 30,1873, 6t S. D. WILSON, D. D S. 6FFER8 his professional services t ?he citizens of Abbeville and surround tag country. All work done in firs class order, and satisfaction guaranteed OSkec QV4? ttye New Post Office. ,OOlai '-' i 10 ; DRESS MINE. shapes and styles of HATS AND BONDEPVRTMENT, which we have hud (GlE SASSARD, whose taste and skill ?community to say more. Our salesISS JANE RAMEY, who will always ell as make and fit dresses in the best ROBEDTSON. ,"NOTICE. [1TE DRESS, before purchasing else0 the store of ROTHERS es, , Striped Victoria, Organdies, White Grenadines, 1 Dfircoc ?; nvuftiiiwi FOUND AT iITE RANGE. select Stock of Fall Goods, consisting of oots, Crockery, Groceries & Provisions. k of Confectioneries. [ED AND tTINGS, COTTON PLAIDS, fGS, KERSEYS, JEANS AND ngs too numerous to mention. - ? ?m i? iiue win uc xuujulu) , sugar, l.ard, rio and java coffee, e, soap, candles, starch, soda, g in the Grocery line. mfectioneries, consisting of bananas, cocoa nuts, lndy peaces, oysters, :t cakes, candies, [ES, which we will sell low. can suit you. 1 ANT) REPAIRING. >R STOCK ot JitUouv.S, ranging in ie modern improvements in the business. ?e best MACHINISTS, and of the BEST I after the latest and best styles. IKE-KECK CARRIAGE, of good style, LIC BURIAL CASES, and MAHOGAt*rs of cheaper style. 1 attend all funerals. < [Nov. 3,1871,28BROTHER, !lNTS A.T 01), s. c., leir uew and handsome building, a full ided In this community. TOCK OF rt s care, and unusuaJly attractive. )E CLOTHING. BOOTS AND SHOES. ssortment of rockery, and Glassware. invited. Give us a call. I & BROTHER | Barnwell & Co. [ I At the New Post Office. HAVE in store and to arrive, 1,000 BusheJs Corn, j 10,000 lbs. Bacon, All grades of Flour, e Meat and Grist, Syrups and Molasses, ? Sugar and Coffee, i Fish, Salt, Nails, ', &c., &c., &c. f Feb. 16, 1872, 4o-tf .'NOTICE TO DEBTORS OF iB#MA AA Vf VAJI W Wl ALL persona indebted to the old firm of BARNWELL &, CO., are earnestly requested to come forward at once and Settle their accounts with the new. firm, who are authorised to receipt $he same for tfee old firm. JJarawsli & Co, t Feb, 20, 1873, 4d-tf i- Advice to Cigar Smokers. ,lt /*iO TO PENNEY'S to buy your ?y CXGAKS. I AM DYING. The following beautiful poem we copy from the Memphis Bullet.u. It is rarely we find such contributions in the columns of a newspaper. It is sweetly, beautifully sad: Raise my pillow, husband, dearest? Faint and fainter comes my breath ; And these shadows stealing slowly, Must, I know, be those of death. Sit down close beside me, darling, Let me clasp your warm, strong hand, Yours that ever has sustained me. To the borders of this land. For your God and mine?our Father Then shall ever lead uie on? While upon a throne eternal, Bits His loved and holy Sou ; I've .had visions and been dreaming O'er the past of joy aud pain, Year by year I've wandered backward, 'Till I was a child again. Dreams of girlhood and the moment When I stood your wife and bride, How my heart thrilled with Love's triumph, In that hour of woman's pride. Dreams of thee and all the earth-chords Firmly twined about my heart? Oh! the bitter, burning anguish, When I first knew that we must part. It has passed?and God has promised All thy footsteps to attend! He that's more than friend or brother, He'll be with you to the end. There's no shadow o'er the portals, Leading to my heavenly home? Christ has promised life immortal, And 'tis lie that bids me come. When life's trials wait around thee, And its chilling billows swell; Thou'It thank Heaven that I am spared then Tl.o t'lt then feel that 'all is well.* Bring our boys unto my bedside; My last blessing let them keepBut they're sleeping?do not wake them; They'll learn soon enough to weep. Tell them often of their mother, Kiss them for me when they wake; Lead them gently in life's pathway, Love them doubly for my sake. Clasp my hand still closer, darling, This, the last night of my life, For to-morrow I shall never* Answer when you <tall me "wife.' Fare thee well, my noble husband, Faint not'neatn the chast'ning rod: Throw your strong arm 'round oui children; Ktep them close to thee and God. ADDRESS At the Laying of the Corner-Stone of the New College Building of the Wil liamston Female College, on the 27th August, 1873, by W. Christie Benet, President of Cokesbury Female College. We have had the pleasure of examining the manuscript of this able and eloquent address, which fully sustains the reputation of the author as a gentleman of fine tal- 1 i I. l 1 .1 ents ana scnoiarsmp, auu regrei that we can find room only for the , conclusion, in which he discusser the popular fallacies which prove to be obstacles in the way of female eJucatioii: 1. One fallacy is a too limited conception of woman's capacity tor acquiring a literary education. Is ] there one man in a hundied that , does woman justice in his estimate | of her mental parts? Ladies, it , behooves us of the sterner sex all ( to cry, "Peccavimus, peccavimus/" ( and to crave forgiveness; and surely you will readily grant it, for thr { truth must be told that woman has \ not done herself justice either, and , man has valued woman . in this . respect by just that standard of , value put upou woman by herself. , The generally received opinion?if ] not actually expressed,-at least-vir- . tually acquiesced in?is that woman's ( intellectual powers are inferior to those ot man. Such an opinion \ rimrht have been admirable seventv 1 ?0? - 4 # V . years ago, but m view of what wo- j man has done in that interval, j without having entered the courtB | of a University, and in spite of un- | ceasing and bitter opposition, he iB , a bold mau who would dare to en- , endorse such an opinion now;?not , a bold man?rather let me call him ( bv his proper name, an ignoramus, j There is no tield in the world of , literature, science, and art, in which ' weman's fair hand has not labored and gathered goodly fruit; nay, more, she has beautified and improved uot a few of these fields. In letter-writing, woman has proved herselt the superior of man. In poetry, in song, and in drama, woman has left shining proofs that not on manly shoulders only does the mantle of the muses fall. In history and travels woman has earned a distinguished place. When Sir Samuel Baker dared the dangers of the African desert and jun gle his faithful wife went with him. Among writers on divinity, too, Mrs. Hannah More occupies an honorable rank, while the name is legion of those pious women who have gone to distant lands as missionaries. Even the giddy heights and abysmal depths of science have been gauged by woman, and only a few months ago a lady died leaving behind her few men that were her equals in astronomy. Then every one knows that the field of fiction has as many female laborers as male. And the laurel that universal consent placed on the brow j of Sir Walter Scott was never in danger being removed until a George Elliott showed that she, too, was among the prophets. Surely, if woman has done so much in ! spite of all her educational disadvantages, we should see greater thiugs than these, were we to give her the same facilities so plentifully afforded to' man. We believe woman to be of the same flesh and blood as ourselves; let us, with a good grace, and before we be forced to do it, let us acknowledge that she is of the same brain and mental i force, 2. Another fallacy is our conception of what constitutes a liberal education for a woman. Are not the daughters of the civilized world brought up more to be ornaments in society than than to be powers therein ? Hence the preponderance in female education of the merely ornamental, to the exclusion of the more substantial. It is expected ot every young lady that she should perform music creditably on the piano or guitar, but whether or not she is well versed in the Jiterature of her own language, few care to inquire. Who ever heard of a well selected library formingpart of the trousseau of a bride ? We do not say that sound learning would mar the marriage prospects of a young lady, but have we any more right to say that it would be an attraction in the eyes of young men. Examine for yourselves the full extent of meaning convened by the phrase, "an accomplished lady/' and you will confess that limited, flimsy, and unsubstantial, indeed,j is the curriculum thought sufficient! ,'">i 10 O f ll? ! 1W1 IVUIUilll. VUllllg lllb won IV" years, however, a reaction has set in?a strong desire has been growingstill stronger, that woman should learn everything, should traverse the whole field of learning, and schools and seminaries publish in iheir yearly circulars an appalling roll of studies. "The languges?especially the dead, j TJtie sciences?and most of all the .abstruse, The .arts?at least all such as could be &ud To.be the xnost remote from common <uee." The array of studies is enough to make the stoutest tremble. One is almost forced to believe that we are ! -* /> A n.Mf Af /1AH1. I I bVUlBLUg LUC V^llIJl^OU III L \Jl V,VI*Ipressing ladies' feet, applying the pressure to the brain. Of the two systems now in vogue?the too limited and the too comprehensive ?it is hard to say which is the worse. Iu the former, to know one thing completely, pupils must remnin wholly ignorant of all the rest; in the latter, the pupils get a smattering of Everything, and end by knowing nothing jvell. The safe middle-way is to combine a minute knowledge of a few things with a general knowledge of many things. 3. And this brings us to the third fallacy?that of supposing that a girl's education completed at an when her brother is just entering the university. The too prevalent nustom of exposing girls to a hothouse, training and pushing them an to premature young-ladyhood, is one of the greatest obstacles in the way of good female education. At the age when her brother is con A., si I V a /tnl I A/1 a XPhaaU rA.iM n iunleu lu uc cancu a x' i csuiuaij, a Ljirl is supposed to able to scale the cliffs of science and dive into the depths of philosophy. The education of woman will^iever be thorough until as long time is afforded them tor the compietingtheircourse studies as is allowed to men. 4. The next" popular fallacy I shall refer to is one which happily is not so wide-spread as it formerly ivas. I refer to the idea that once ivas the ruling one?that large jchoola might do for boys, but girls must be taught in small schools. [11 Britain, and Europe generally.it the present time, girls aro educated at select schools and private boarding houses, and America has| taken the lead in their reform at [east. And a great' reform it is, for be assured that, important as it I* ^nnnl^nra if ia nf no lb IU 11I1U gUUU LUUVU^lOj *V AO V* UV | less importance to find gobd school-1 fellows. I doubt if the best ofi teachers be able to make a really ?ood school without having a large number of scholars. The number of pupils at a school ought always to be large enough to allow tne growth of a healthy public opinion among the girls?say from 100 up-1 wards. A small school breeds narrow-mindedness, and encourages selfishness and all the pettier feelings; while in a large school public opinion will put down and destroy everything mean and selfish, and exalt and encourage all the nobler traits of character. Two bad girls can do more harm among twenty, than twenty can among two hundred. 5. Another popular fallacy that needs to be eradicated b one, allusion to which in his assembly will, ? i u ?. i trust, oitena no one. onouiu do so, however, it will only confirm and endorse what I am about to say. It is wrong to suppose that girls can be properly educated only at those schools identified with the religious denomination to which their parents belong. Sectarian schools and colleges belong to a system that is dead, and ought to be buried. The time haa passed, even in the old countries of Europe, tth mi the churches were looked on as the heredtiary instructors of the young; and America surely will not long sufter sectarianism in schools, to drag out a superannuated existeuce. The time j has come when, in the true spirit | of enlightenment, we must be sut.isfiedwith placing Christian men and women as teachers in our schools, forgetting to what particular* sect they may belong. For after all there is but one religiou and one morality, which are one and iudivisible; and it is this, or sc much of it as has been revealed tc his mortal sight, which the Christian teacher strives to teach, leaving it to his pupils or their parents to choose the special set of aogmas upon which they may think it necessary to pin their faith. 6. But, ladies aud gentlemen, while indulging in desultory reflections on these topics one evening lately, I was curried away in the spirit, or in the clouds of my tobacco-pipe, into theyear 1973, and 1 t ! T flfuv ft viftirm i\f tin* - ? ? '"V.VM W4 VUV (/7I/Uf(y scAoo/, the coming teacher, the coming woman. In a spacious enclosure surrounding a beautiful group of college buildings, played 250 healthy girls from 15 to 20 years of age. Apparatus for gymnastic exercise met my eye in various directions and many a silvery laugh !and ringing cheer sounded through ground. As I reached the main (entrance, a bell tolled, and al its summons the merry groups left off their play and passed into the class rooms. I was introduced to the Principal, and saw in him the coming teacher?a ripe scholar, he had graduated with high honors at the University, bland, courteous aud manly. VTho' -modest, on his unembarassed brow Nature had written 'Gentleman." A Christian in walk and conversation,?for without the spirit of Christian geutleness. his Latin were a sounding brass and his Greek a tinkling cymbal. With cordial welcome he ushered me into his private room and kindly gave me all the information I deaired about the College. The Faculty consisted of ten teachers, six male and tour females, all University graduates. The course of study extended over five years, and included a thorough philological study of English, Latin, Greek, German, French and Italian, geometry, arithmetic, a little algebra, writing, drawing and music, history, philosophy, science, poetry. After a pleasant conversation together, he invited me to come to his house land meet some friends ot his. I | went, and in bis elegaut parlor I met the best people ot the country, distinguished statesmen, wealthy land-owners, learned divines, law vers, doctors, aud 1 could not neip wondering to see how much higher was the good teacher's social position, than was the statuslof hia profession one huudred years before, tie was a iuan of wealih too?the wolf never stood at his door. And then his wife?in her I saw the coming woman. She was young and fuir and learned?a graduate of the same University with her husband ?she apoke to m^ in simple, sweet, jiomely English; aud X heard a French gentleman present praise ber choice Freneh and Prussian accent. She held spirited discussion with a German on the poetry of Uoetne; Homer and Dante, aud made him confess tha Horace and Kobert Burns were sweeter singers than the oilier three. And yet iier voice was ever soft, gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman. And her lair lingers were quick at needlework, and nimble in all a housewife's cunning. And she could draw sweet music from the ivory key-board,. and sweeter strange music from the life of her husband; and she slow ot heart to understand mischief, but her feet ran swift to do good. And she was simple with the simplicity of girlhood and wise with the wisdom that cometh only of the Lord?like Mary she had chosen the better part. During the evening I asked my friend the Principal, to what Church belonged the honor ot building and supporting the College. The antiquated idea amused hiin, and smiling he informed me that the Free Masons had built and richly endowed it; that a Board of Trustees composed of Free Masons wisely controlled the appointment of teachers, to whom they gave large fixed salaMes. Waxing familiar I ventured to say, my dear sir, excuse the impertinence, but kindly inform me what ^your salary is,''?Before he had time to ani swer, I awoke, and behold it was a dream. Thus faded my scholc in nubibus? my school in the clouds. And here too must end my address. I do not forget that "Brevity is very good When we are, or are not understood." And I must take care not to do what Goldsmith's hero did, who no wnnf nn I JlU<J uccp iui UAO uvui^iOj onii >rcub uu refilling, Aiid thought of convincing, while they thought <?f dining," finish my address appropriately by | acting as the mouthpiece of this jlarge assembly in conferring our blessing on the College whose cor!ner-stone we have laid this dny with solemn ceremonial and under favorable auspices. May this Female College of Williamstou begin to-day a prosperous career. May its influence be felt as a mighty power throughout the State in bringing nearer the brighter day for Female Education of which we have been speaking. May its teachers be in thpir (ypnnratmn otritrii^v fA ft Awv ?1* V* I faVMV* Hflij DU&YlUg IV 'keep themselves acquainted with the btst thoughts of the age?remembering that it is their duty j and iheir high prerogative to wel11 come, encourage ana help forward ! the future intellectual triumphs of Female Education. May they be wise also in the wisdom that com jing from above, whence alone true I wisdom cometh. May its Trustees i be?what shall I say of them ? Oni ly this?may they be Free Masons, worthy and well-qualified?working together in that brotherly love and unity which is so good and pleasant; may they emulate too the example set them by the Masonic Trustees of the school I saw in a vision. May that vision be prophetic of the future of this school? ot its Faculty, its Trustees, arid its sweet girl graduates. Then, when \v? shall have gone the way of all the earth, and a hundred years shall have passed, there will perchance? the 27th August, 1973, be congre gated here, a large assembly to celebrate the centenary of the College, and to bless us who are here to-day tor having according to the. little light we have, and so becoming solemnity laid this corner-stone. A LEHND OF MAMMOTH CAVE. BY MARY KYLE DALLAS. "Come closer, Stewart." The man went closer to the bed on which the woman who &poke lay, propped by p'.llows. "1 am listening, Maria," he said; "I am listening my dear." uArn I your dear?" she gasped. "Really, truly, you loved me, StewV'J ui i: "Haven't I behaved as if I did ?" said he softly. "Have I ever given you any reason to think I did not?" "No," she said, "no; but I was rich and you poor, and I was old and you young, and so I can't help thinking." * "Don't think that way any more. Try to be calm, my dear," said the man. "Calm !" said she. "I am going to leave you. I am going to die. Don't you know that, Stewart ?" "No," said he. " While there is life there is hope*" "I'm dying," she said"but we'll meet in heaveD. You'll be mine there, and I shall be young and beautiful again. Steward promise me that you'll come to me as I leave you, no other woman's husband." "Don't think of euch a thing, Maria," said he; "it's horrible." "But swear," said she. '.'Here is the Bible; swear. Lawyer Grey is in the other room yet. He has made mj will iu )Our tavor, but vou know, Stewart, I could call him back in a moment No other woman shall have my money to spend. It" you think of marrying, I'll make inv will over." "How could I think of marrying with my wife dying?" said the busband. "I'm not a brute." "Then swear," said she; "here, put your hand off* the Bible?say this after me: "I swear before heaven Dever to marry again while I remain upon earth." The man she spoke to was young and ardent. lie had married a woman fifteen years his senior for the sake of her fortune, but they had been happy together?she had been even personally agreeable to him. Now, she was dying, and he had nothing but grief in his heart. He believed he should never wish to have another wife, and he desired to make the anxious woman happy. "Maria," he said, "surely I will do it, it you think it will comfort *' Vionfl nnnn J 1/U , UUU JJt iaiu Ulu uuuu the holy book. "I swear never to marry again while I remain upon earth," he said. Then his wife put her arms about his neck and kissed him. "In heaven, dearest," she whispered. These were her last words. After she was dead, the widower lived alone in his handsome house for some time, and grieved sincerely for the poor lady whose generosity had only been equalled by her love for him. It was not uutil a year had passed that he began to si,end liia laro-e fortuue as though ~l O w be were its exclusive master. Then, however, he decided upon a trip to Europe, and, upon his resolution, spent many months abroad. Rich, a widower, and very handsome, he was not allowed to remain without friends during his travels. People soon discovered that he was a very agreeable person and ladies luvished their smiles upon hirn. None of them, however, tempted him to wish his vow unuttered. He was not to be won by any of the arts which belledom so well understands. If he ever loved, it would be because love came unsought. Long before he had coolly decided that he could be happy with all agreeable women with whom he had no thought of falling in love, and he did not belong to the susceptible order of mankind. He had taken an oath never to | marry while he remained on earth, land he had no intention of perjuring himself. So he flirted coldly i enough with the pretty women, ;and each time dropped the amusement quite unscathed himself. I He returned to America as he lhad left it, and, with the fever for 'travel still strong upon him, determined to make a tour of the United ! States. Where he went, and what he saw, we leave the guide-books to tell our reader*. Enough that, after marw days, our hero found himself in Kentucky; and in the quiet ol a Kentucky parsonage, whither chance had led him, met, for the first time in his life, a girl against * ' whose charms he found no weapons of defense. She was the pastor's daughter?a young brnnette, with crimson cheeks, and eyes soft as black velvet. He looked at her, and loved her, and in an instant his oath recurred to him. "He had vowed never to marry while he remained apon earth." The thought soon became tortore ?bat for that vow heaven seemed to open itseit Deiore mm. why had he taken it? Why had his dead wife demanded it ? He almost hated her for the act. He despised himself for his cowardice. Yet he dared not break an oath. Meanwhile he hannted the steps of the young beauty and made mad love to her. Soon he discovered that she returned his love, and then he told her all his miserable story. She wept, but the dread of the oath was upon her also. Love they might, but they could never marry. Here was a tragedy indeed. The daughter 8 cheek paled; the lover wore a look of misery; papa, the pastor, noticed nothing, and sruiled upon them as usual; and suns arose aud set, and summer flew by on airy wings, and the dead woman lay in her grave at Greenwood; and her widower hated her memory because of the promise she had forced from him. You all know what and where the Mammoth Cave is?the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky?where the guides keep travelers from losing their way; carry blazing torches which reveal strange stalactite-hnn? r o 9 . ? chambers aud mysterious corridors that seem to have been cut by some giant 8 tools from the firm rock. Hither it pleased the Rev. Mr. Bray one day to take his guest, and with them went Rhoda, his daughter. The girl had never visited the cave, bhe was full of curiosity. The guides, with their torches, walked before. The three visitors followed. Rhoda clung to Stewart's arm. Sometimes, in the obscurity, he placed his hand upon the hand that rested there. They paused in great chambers, where their voices sounded strangely hollow. They crept through, narrow passages into grand aud wonderful places that sparkled as though hung with jewels. At last they paused. "No lady has ever been any farther," said the principal guide. "Indeed, few of the guides know the way beyond this spot. "We are very far below the earth." He mentioned the ! distance. It was something astounding* It struck Mr. Bray as a text for a sermon. I '"My dear children," he began, "think of that. We are no longer upon earth ; none of us are any longer upon earth. Awful thought! No longer upon earth!" Then Stewart seized Rhoda's hand. "My darling," be said; "listen; do you hear? My vow holds me no longer. I am free here. I only swore not to marry as long as I was upon earth. We are as much be neath it as though we were in our graves." "It is true," said Rhoda. Then they both clasped the old pastor's arms and besought him to marry them. He had no idea of the motive, but he rather liked the sensational. He had m irried people in odd places before?in a boat, a steeple, in a graveyard. He agreed The guides stood by as witnesses, and the words were soon said. Rhoda was Stewart's wife. "And I have kept my oath," he whispered, and he kissed her. "I never married upon earth." As he uttered these words one of the guides shrieked aloud and fled, dropping the torch. The other, witu anoatn, loJiowea snit. There stood amidst the group a tall, ghostly figure?a woman in her shroud. She stretched forth her bony finger and pointed to the bridegroom. "You never married upon earth,"" she said, "aud you shall never live there. Follow me;" and she vanished in the shadows of the cave. Au hour after the guides, attended by a strong body of believers and misbelievers, and fortified by plenty of whisky, ventured into the cave again. They found the Rev. Silas Bray, more dead than alive, aud took him home; but Rhoda and Stewart were never seen on earih again. And there are Mammoth Ca^e guides to this hour who believe that sometimes, at a certain day of the year, there is likelihood of meeting two ghostly figures wandering hand in hand, who ask you the way to earth in | tearful voices, and before you can answer vanish with a shriek.?N. Y. Ledger. A wretched little hoy, ten years old, ragged and almost barefooted, drifting along the streets of Detroit one day recently, was asked where his father was. "Dead." "Where's your mother?" "Run flwflv.'' His interlocutor exnressed sympathy, and observed that he muBt feel lonesome. "Not a bit of it; there's going to be the biggest circus here next month yerset eyes on J" A minister took for his text, '"The flesh, the world and the devil.' He informed his astonished audi' ence that he would dwell briefly in " the flesh, pass rapidly over the 1 world, and hasten as fast as he : could to the devil.* AUDITORS. It is well known that about a month ago C o m p trol ler-Gen eral Hoge called a meeting, or convention, of all the county auditors bf i the State. The object of that meeting was, by mutual consultation, counsel, arid comparing notes, to itltrnrlllPP a atm^m in v? VMMW ?? UUI&VI IU OJ Otviil MJV business of the various county auditors. Heretofore, there had existed a great variety of styles dadoing business in these ^offices. .In many cases there was not tyutfc close raents of the law that'there slioutd be, and some of the" auditors lind .::ade r o report to the comptoll#*general. There were many other things which needed revision and iffr correction, to secure the most effective discipline, if we may use ; the word, and administration. Tfie convention was called, and was attended by all the auditors of the State, except two, who were ilUt the time. Sufficient time has now elapsed to show the wisdom of such mi . j - a, movement, ine auditors were :>enefitte<l by consultation. A uni- ,* form sytem has been introduced, a W? brief, simple and complete style of ^ reports has been adopted, ana the methods ot gettiug at the taxable, property has been greatly improved. The result is, that all the county auditors have given in reports to the comptroller-general, except, two; they are far better reports than were formerly made; besides, the auditors of most counties are reportiug a considerabJe increase jn property. In some counties the ill- . crease in the landed property returned this year is fully twenty per cent. on the last assessment. This is a very important matter. There * is no good reason why every fifth man should escape bearing his share of tbe burden 01 tne (government. Another thing will result from this* finding of such large quantities of . , ' property which has remained untaxed for several years. The unpaid taxes on that property will be due, and will in good measure restore the deficiencies from the previous tax levies.? Union-Herald. Cows and Calves. s Much has been said and written about the best treatment of calves, and so many have advised their im** . mediate removal, that we thia spring ventured to try it Out of four so treated (all. h?iferst wojfth " .' ?100 eacli when they Were dropped.) one died before it was a week old, another is scouring so badly that we have but little hope of its recovery, and a third is ailing and weakly. "We have had quite enough of this treatment, and shall return to the custom o? leaving all calves with their mothers, until they are at least three days old, and longer * if necessary to start them fairly and vigorously on the road of life, a practice which has hitherto produced the most satisfactory results. I have also experimented?until I have regretted it?on another theory of some modern breeders of Jersey, that is, to milk the cows quite li'mo r\4 nalninn if nrtftQl UU IAS tuw tlUiVy VI vu&f * ble. In every case, I am convinced . that real probably permanent injury has resulted. The idea advanced was that. & Jersey cow baa no other purpose but to bring calves and to produce milk, aua that she should be trained to the - . fullest and most persistent exercise af the lacteal function. The subject has been presented to' me so long and so persuasively, and by men whose opinion seemed so well worthy of respect, that I had come to more than half believe it, and have tried the experiment this * spring with several animals. In every case there has been trouble with the udder, und thus far the flow of milk is less than it was after the previous calving. The calves have not been materially affected by it, but the mothers have been in every inbtance. Hereafter, we shall endeavor to dry off all the cows a moDth before calving. Up +<-v fliof imu it ia U7?ill t/v IfflPTl the i mi Ik flowing (if only a pint a day),fc and with Jerseys it is almost always |easy to do this; but after that the ! milking should cease, and the odder I should be allowed to become entirejly empty of milk preparatory to | the commencement of its new pejriod of activity? "springing" regu, larly and naturally, and haviug no trace of the old love when it begins with the new.?American Agriculi turist. < > ? The Courier-Journal furnishes the following "answer to correspondent;" A youthful correspondent desires to know how we would like-to sail with Professor Wise on his balloon voyage to Europe? If you will go my dear boy, and climb the least of the many gold pieces | that would be required to hire us to take such a voyage, you will find that its sunfcrit is wrapped in perpetual snow, An Oregon paper states that the rage for the "ie" termination has come to a disastrous conclusion in one family in Portland. A farmer named Ake christened his eldest 'girl Belle. She had some cards 'printed in the "ie" fashion, and? . well, after looking at the result, she : concluded Bell was pretty pretty A for her, and burned them.