The Abbeville press and banner. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, July 21, 1875, Image 1
"byTa^SHS AND ilt'iiil WIl.^ON'. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1875. YOLTTME^XIIl?KO 15. ^
i CONGAREE
i innivr wtiw
2 lllUi! W trail U
jjj ^ ^ Oolumt>ia; JST
i Proprietor.
I ^Manufacturer of Steam En
gines ana Jioiiers.
f Iron and Brass Castings of al
v Descriptions made to Order
"T was awarded tho first premiun
J[ on castings at the State Agrirtul
f ttural and Mechanical Society Fairs
" ** ~ *T 1 iom
held in uoiumuia, novemuer, ?om
*72, '73.
MANUFACTURE
| Cricular Saw Mills of all sizes
ALSO
Took tho First Premium at Stat<
Fairs held November, 1S71, '72, '7<
Manufacturer of
Grist Mills Irons of all sizes
I For Sale.
P Gin Gearing: of the following sizes.
t 8 feet wheel and piniou $30 0(
I - 10 .? 44 4. 32 5(
E 'NV li " " " " 35 O<
I 12 " " " " 45 0<
f 14 " " " " 50 0C
I With Bolts $6.50 Extra for each set.
6 Anti-friction plates and Balls for Cotj
ton Press $10.00 and $12.00 per set.
; D. B. SMITH, Agent,
H Abbeville S. C.
Dec. 10, 1873, 3o-tf
I New Store!
NEW GOODS!!
tfMlHE undersigned have just opnc*
B an entire new stock of
GROCERIES,
Provision and Liquors,
t- As well as Other Goods ir
their Line.
| At the Old Stand of A. M. HTLL, re
p cently TROWBRIDGE & CO., when
we will be pleased to serve the public
| CHEAP FOR CASH.
I A. M. HILL.
B Jan. 29,1873, 42-tf
I ~~C." WEST & SONS,
I ALADDIN soil"
I THE BEST OIL IN USE.
WARRANTED 150 DEGREES FIRE TEST
"Water white in color. Fully deoderized
And it will not explode.
It burns in all Coal Oil and Kgrosem
Lamps. TRY IT. Ask for "Aladdic
Security," and take no other.
C. WEST &5 SON?.
113 and 115 W. Lombard St., Bait. Md
Nov. 7, 1874- g0-6m
SBNORRELL
Harness and Saddle Maker,
A T his Old Stand over Parker & PeriM.
rln'n Dniir Store, has a sunnlv ol
? Northern" HARNESS LEATHER
pi and other material for Making and ReK
pairing Saddles and Harness.
| Dec. 2, 1874, 34, tf
I FRESH COUNRY MEAL,
At $1.40 per bushel, received every
week, by
? Cunningham & Templeton.
Nov. 11 31-tf
ESTATE OF
J as. u. uax, aec a.
SssSM' 7~
Sgy.-v|
A LL persons indebted to James C.
l\ Ilay at the time of his death
;iiro requested to make payment to us,
and those having demands against
him to render them in properly verit
.fied to us.
WILLIAM ANDERSON,
ANDREW ANDERSON,
I Executors.
Abbeville, March 13,1875, 40-6m
l^CLE BRUCE
.Boot and Shoe Maker,
| Over Parker & Perrin's Store.'
.Abbeville3 S. C.
DESIRES to say that he is fully pre
9 pared to meet all demands tlx
public may make in his line. He keeps
constantly on hand a large lot of tn<
best material and employs only the finesi
workmen. He keeps a full stock o
custom-made Boots and Shoes, and
I guarantees the most entire satisiactioi;
in every instance.
Sept. 1, 1874, 21-tf
Mark the Spot of Your Peceased
Friends.
Marble Works,
| A t ULL line of stock on hand anc
? /%. all work sold at the lowest price
| -anti work done iu thebest workman-lik<
a 'manner. Several hundred new anc
s| handsome designs on hand to mak<
|| selections from. We will duplicate cit\
1 price in all monumental work, by wbicr
K you can save freight.
Mr: * Very respectfully,
I J. D. CHALMEBS,
?i^??????p??mc????????m
STEAM j
.PUB ILL
Columbia, S. C.
t ' ' . . ^
iF. W. WING,
Proprietor.
MANUFACTURER OF
I
. Sash, Blinds, Doors,
J WINDOW
' AND DOOR FRAMES,
Tlliniln nn/? dinlfnnn
. MM riVl/l JDliilUS flUU 0J1ULID1A
COLUMNS,
! Pilasters,
MANTEL PIECES,
Mouldings, Brackets,
Hand-Raj Is,
> NFWFI.S. BALUSTRES.
)
i Scroll Wort of all Description.
All Work Guaranteed A No. 1.
May 28, 1874, 7-ly.
JTD. CHALMERS & GO.
DEALERS IN
I Chairs, Parlor Suits, Chamber Suits,
, I Walnut & Mahogany Bareaus,
Washstands, Tables, Bedsteads,
Window Shades, &c. Looking
Glasses, Oil Chromos, &c.
Abbeville, S. C.
Also agents for the sale of tho celebrated
Philadelphia Improved Rustic
Window Shade, which for di'.raf
bility, cheapness, convenience and
I beauty, cannot be surpassed. Each
shade is furnished with all the fixtures
complete, and only requires two
- lath nails or small screws to fasten it
? up with. Should they become soiled
by flies, they can be spread on a table,
washed and mudc as bright as new,
and wiH last for )*cars. This style of
shade is much superior to cloib
shades. In warm weather, when the
window is raised, the shade admits
the air but prevents flies and mosquitoes
entering the room. The simplicity
of their fixtures is much in their
j favor, as they require no rollers, each
shade being complete, and any one
can drive two nails by which to hang
them. They are low in price, dura.
ble, convenient, and never get out of
order. Call at store arid seo samples.
Nov. 18, 1874 32-tf
' DENTISTRY! DENTISTRY!!
Dr. H. D. WILSON
.
OFFERS his professional services to
the people of Abbeville County
and of upper South Carolina. Having
just finished a course of study in the
Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery.
he feels fully competent to attend
to ail cases requiring the exe.cise oj
skilled Dental Surgery that may be
f brought to him. he asks the patronage
i of the people, and guarantees full and
complete satisfaction. He has procured
a full set of first-class Dental Instruments,
and is prepared to do first-class
work at most reasonable rates.
JBST" OFFICE jnst over Post Office.
M. GOLDSMITH. P. KIND.
Groldsmith & "Kind,
FOUNDERS & MACHINISTS,
(PHCENIX IRON WOKKS,
COLUMBIA, S. C.
Manufacturers of steam Engines
of all sizes; Horse powers,
Circular and Muley Saw Mills, Grist
and Sugar Cane Mills, Flour Mills, Or
namental, House ana fctore Jbronts, Iron
Railings, Agricultural Implements, etc.
Brass and Iron Castings of all kinds
, made to order on short notice, and on
the most reasonable terms. Also, manufacturers
of Cotton Presses.
' May 28,1873, 7-12m
thomas' saw Mill
is
Closed for Repairs.
PARTIES who have contracted
for LUMBER will call on ALLEN
McCANTY at Mr. Edwards.
I have some lumber on hand which
' will be disposed of for the cash.
J. W. THOMAS.
March 24, 1875, 50-tf
j DR. JOHN S. THOMPSON,
tj DENTIST,
Pi l?I^T?DCJ 1? J/I tMtnfnooiAnnl oavtrmoo f A
J" Kr I' J'jXVO Ills Jlluicsaiunoi ogi IIVVO w
I the citizens of Abbeville, and the
1 surrounding country.
Office over Citizens' Savings
Bank, Abbeville, S. C.
Oct. 2, 1873,^otf I
Thresher and Fan,
I ALSO
iBailway Horse Power,
For sale by
Barnwell & Co. i
U April 19, 1875,6-tf
81 umber Dung,
rr-rSlster
Slmplicitc,
Sing, glng'afisong to me, Sing
me to sleep. ~i**: .
Some legend low and long, ~'Lf> ' *
Slow as the summer song
* Of the dull deep. vi&l
Some legend, long ?nd low, *?^7
Whose equal ebb and flow,
To and fro creep.
On the deep marge of gray, $-95
Tween the soul's night and day,
Washing awake away . '
Into sleep.
Some legend, low and long; i*
Never so weak or strong
Aa to let go
While it can holil this heart, ^
Without a sigh or smart,
Or as to hold this heart *'
When it sighs "No."
Some long, low, swaying soag^.: .
a th? swaved shrtUuwMewr.
Whore^tliro* the crowing cocka,
And by the swinging c &ck?,
Some weary mother rocks,
Some weary woe.
Sing up and down to me,
Like a dream-boat at aea,
So and still so.
Float thro* the "then" and "when,
Rising from when to then,
Sinking from then to when,
While the waves go.
Low and high, high and low,
Kow and then, then and now,
Now, now,
And when the now is then, and when
the then is now,
And when the low is high and when
the high is low,
Low, low,
Let me float, let the boat,
UO, go,
Let me glide, let mc slide,
Slow, slow;
Gliding boat, sliding boat,
Slow, slow,
Glide away, slide away,
So, bo.
THE SQUIBE'S PROPOSAL.
"No, Salmantha Jane Peal tody, you won't
stir one step to the singin'-echool! I ain'1
goin' to have you gaddin' about the huU
blessed time. You'll stay to hum on?
evenin', jest to see how it seems!
"You h'ain't been out a single evenin' thu
week? Wal, what of it ? If you should stay
in another week, 'twouldn't hurt you nonej
I guess. ' |
"No, I h'ain't forgot when I was young,
nuther. J'Tain't 60 long ago that I should
forget it. "When I was at your age, I staid
to hum, and made myself useful; I didn't
spend the heft of. my time spiunin' streetyarn,
as the girls do now-a-days. I used
to spin flax an' wool, an' make buttor an'
cheese, an' wash, an* iron, an' bake. An1
all I did was done as it ortcr be. But at
fur you, you jest flurry round, half doin'
what you purtend to dew, so's to bo a-kitiu
off some'eres, an' I'm goin' tew put a stop
to't. I knew how 'twould be when youi
gardeen sent you to the 'caderny.
"What's that? Tott told Sain Skinner thai
you'd go to the sinyin'-school, tin' he's comin'
fur ye ? Lot him come here ou sich an arrant
as that, an* I'll tell him suthin' lie
won't want to hear agin! I've had as mud
as I want of the Skinneiu aence your father
who never had no more judgment than ?
baby, 'minted the df..con tew be your gar>
deen. He's for ever meddlin' with thingi
that don't consarn 1 in, an' 'Lijah, Sam'f
father, is off the same i-ace. It was 'nougb
tew put me out of conceit of him tew se?
him sidlin' up tew the Widder Peters las
Sabbath-day evenin', an' his wife not in hei
grave eix months yit."
"Miss Peters is his wife's brother's widow f
What's that to dew with it? I like to sec
folks Bhow some respect to their deceased
pardners. Your father lata been dead eight
years come March, an' Miere ain't none oi
of the male sect dared tew hint at sich a
thintr as my takin' anybody in his place.
"You should think 'twould take consider^lU
courage? You'd had a now father long
afore this if I'd given some folks anj
encouragement.
"There's Sain Skinner comin' cross lotsi
Yes, an' male in' a straight bee-line fur the
door. That's what you've slicked yourseli
up so ecrumtious fur, with that red ribboD
in your hair, an' Sunday go-tew-meetin1
dress on. I've as gooa a mind as ever I had
tew eat to make you go an' take it off."
In walked Sam, a tall, strapping fellow,
with curly black hair and eyes of the same
color, with a sly, roguish gleam in them,
which reminded one of his uncle, the deacon.
"Good-arternooii, Mrs. Peabody. How
a ye aof"
"I ain't any tew well, nor any tew glac
to see you, Mister Sam, to speak politely,
I see you over tew the elder's t'other night,
an' you seemed tew be very merry. Yei
uncle thought he'd got a good joke on me,
but he ain't quite so smart as he thinVt
himself."
"Oh, pshaw ! Mrs. Peabody; there don'1
nobody mind what Uncle Ike says. H<
will have his joke, you know; it's jest as
nat'ral to him as to breathe; but he don'1
bear no malice. Good-arternoon, Miss Sal
mantha, I calc'late we'll have a nice cleai
evenin' fur the singin'-school. I callec
to say that I'd come fur ye a leetla artei
6even."
"You needn't trouble yourself, Mistei
Sam,; Sahnantha ain't goin' tew the sing
in'-school. So if that's all the arrant yoi
have, you'd better be goin'."
"'Twon't be no troublo, not loasi
mite, as I'm goin' the same way myself
That ain't all my arrant, nuther. Da<
sen* a message co ye, though I don't s'posi
you "are to hear it."
"i t yer father sent me a message, San
Skinner, I'll thank you tew deliver it."
"Wal, he told me to tell ye that he wai
ccmin' over to see ye [this evenin'. But ]
don't suppose you'll enre to see him, bo I'l
tell him not tew come."
' Why, hew you iltw run on, Sam! I nev
er see the beat on't?never1 Strange you
can't take a joke. Of course I'll bo 'glad
tew see yer father. Him an' me used to be
great cronies when we was at your age, an'
there ain't no knowin' what might have
harmoned if Johnathan Peabody hadn't
rjc ?
come along."
"I s'pose the old man thought the coast
would be clear this evenin', eh, Salmantha P
On his account I'm really sorry you are tew
busy tew go." P'raps you'd better consider
on't a spell."
"~VVal, I don't know as there's anything
tew hinder her goin'," said the widow, as
her daughter made no reply. "There'll be
nothin' but the supper diahestew wash, an'
f can d?w them. Tell yor father that I'll
be glad tew see him, Sam. I remember
when he was as straight as an arrer, an' his
hair as black an' curly as your'n. Not but
what he's a nice personable man, now.
What air you gigglin' fur, Salmantha ? Is
\ it anythin' strange fur the squire, in his
' lonely sitivation, tow call on a neighbor an'
old schoolmate ? 'Pears tew me I'd try tew
? show some manners. A body would think
r you was brung up in the woodB. Tou
h'ain't told Sam whether you was goin1 tew
singin'-school. Yes, Sam, she'll go. You'd
- A- I
better come airly, as it's quite a pieu? w mo
gchool-'us."
With another wink to Salmantha, whose
t. whose cheeks were as red as the apples she ;
r was paring, Sam took himself off, whistling j
_ merrily as he retmced his way across the }
' fields.
"I wonder what tho squire wants tew I
see me so partic'ler 'bout, Salmantha ? j
IT ain't the least idee ? Wal, all I know is
that he never was in no sich takin' afore
his wife died. I rutlier gueBS that oldmaid
sister of his don't make things none
tew comf'table fur him. She's a dretful
poor housekeeper, so I've heerd say.
Fetch me a clean cap out of the bureaudrawer.
Not that; the one with the
crimped border an' laylock ribbin. What
?? rrnn mfrtrlin' at ? 'Pears to vou Fmfixin? |
?* ? ? *
up eonsider'ble ? How ridic'lous you dew
talk ! as tho' I didn't want tew bo clean.
There's Sam comin1 through the gate;
don't keep him waitin'."
?
"How dew, Squire Skinner ? Walk in,
an' take a cheer by the stove, dew."
"Wal, I don't care if I do widder; its
a bitter cold night, a good deal colder than
I calc'lated on when I started." .
"True enough, squire; there are nights
that middle-aged folks, liko we be, find a
warm corner by a rousing fire like this
better'n the jolliest cleigh ridin' that can ;
be got up. Salmantha she's gone tew the
singin' school, ao I'm all alone this even- ;
; : in'. I'm proper glad you happened in; ;
; - them that's in our lonely sitivation orter (
1 bo neighborly." i
i "I s'pose Sam told you my arrant?"
said the squire. ,
t "Wal, yes, he sorter hinted?te, he, he! i
-1 Bovs will be boys, you know, an' Sam is i
, as full of mischief as an egg is full of i
J meat. Try a pieco of mince-pie, squire ? i
, 11 didn't eat much supper, so I put one in (
[ the oven tew warm. My poor dead-an'- j
[ ! gone husband used to say that nobody
;: could beat mo matin' mince-pies. Take a
. I piece, dew." ]
I "Thank'ee, widder, I don't care if I do. j
' I'm mightily glad you're so favorable to my
I propersition. I told Sum that you was \
i alius so pertic'lar 'bout keopin' everythin*
! jest as 'twas in Mr. Peabody's time, that ,
[ I was most afeared you mighnt't like it." ,
, ' "Dear me, squire ! how curi'us that you <
. should have thought that, when you know ,
l how much I alius sot by you ever sence we .
[ usod tew go tew school together. The
> j Lord knows I h'ain't been in no hurry far :
, I any change, an' if it had been any one but
, you that hinted at sich a thing I'd ha' j
. i showed 'em tew the door in quick metre, j
t an' they would't have been long in j
k taking it1 neither. Them that's had the
. padner that I had ain't in no hurry tew get
,' another Jon'than used to speak of you
, often; he thought there wasn't nobody i
L j like Bquire Skinner. An' when I see you 1
, in the cheer that he so often sot in, it re'ly ]
seems as if 'twas him a settin' there." <
"I'm obleeged to you, widder, fur youi i
good opinion. But to return to business t ]
i Mine is a leetle the lightest, but 'twouldn't i
,! hardly be noticed, an' if bo be we can i
I strike a bargin, there won't be a better ]
. I match in the hull township, I'll bet." i
> I "Lawful sakes, squire ! how you fluster a (
k; body ! It is so sudding. But, then, t'ain't ]
i as though wo hadn't knowed each other i
,! ever sence we was knee-high to a grasshop- <
,! per. Wal, no, I can't siy as there would i
f be abetter match, takin' [it all in all, than i
[ our'n woufd be. An' we ain't obleeged tew i
}' wait or ask nobody, but can suit ourselves ]
, in marryin'. So, if you're agreeable I i
>! am." (
, j Squire Skinner Btared at the speaker in
?j blank amazement.
[ I "Good gracious, Mrs Peabodj ! what be
| you talkin'on ? Ih'ain't said nothin' 'bout
(' marryin'. I was Bpeakin' 'bout swappin
,: my bay horse fur your gray one. Yuu
11 see?" '
The widow Peabody arose to her tfeefc,
' the ^very brows upon her cap assuming a '
,, belligernent aspect. '
I "Dew you mean to insult me, Squire 1
[ | Skinner ?" ' '
(j "By no manner o' means. Your gray '
horse an' mine is sich a nice match as to '
., size an' color so I thought " 1
(j "Dew you see that air door, sir ? The
, sooner you march out on't the better it (
will be fur you!" 1
. "But, widder " 1
, "Start yourself, I tell ye ! an' don't you 1
' * ?? .i?t" | 1
j never aaricen iuy uwj ?.j; .
11 Exit the squire, in a great hurry.
An hour later, Salmantha came in, her '
r' cheeks all aglow and her eyes as bright as
[' the stars that looked down upon the whia- 1
r pering and lingering parting at the gate.
She found her mother in no very amiable
humor.
"So you've come at last, miss ? A pretty j
time o' night fur you tew be coinin' home! ]
i Thought I had sich good company that you <
j.! wouldn't hurry eh ? Who told you that I ]
consider old 'Lijah Skinner good comp'ny ? i
j He's the most tiresone fellow I ever did t
31 see! There he sot an* sot, an' wouldn't ,
. take no kind of a hint, till I fairly had tew ]
j' tell him tow go. I wonder what good he ^
j thinks it'B goiijg tew dew him to come here j
3: to see me ? Now, Salruantha Jane Peabody, j
[ I want you tow jest remember one thing, ]
j that this is the last time you go out with <
Sam Skinner!" i
DOUS. i
A Missouri farmer, after a long calcula*
' *fi.llniiMm* fortfa MnCAPn- I
| lion, prtrouiii/o wm ivuvixug ? ,
I ing dogs:?In thirty-two counties 10,602,
Bheep have been killed by dogs. He esti- j
mates the number of dogs in tljpse thirty- j '
two counties to be 4(52,000; that a hog will j'
thrive on the food nccessary to support an ,'
able-boaied dog, and at the end of a yeat '<1
weigh ,200 pounds; therefore if the food; '
for these 462,000 dogs went to the hogs, it
would make 92,000,000 pounds of pork, j
worth, at buc cents a pound, $4,550,000? i 1
nearly twice the value of all the Bchool-!
houses in the State, and more than twice
the amount used by the State for school.
purposes. '
XDE IKUUaXKIAL CONDITION O* T!
GUIOIANY. d
g
The delusive prosperity which Germany ti
enjoyed while the French indemnity waa a.
passing into the country has resulted aa if
disastrously as the similar condition of ij
things consequent to our war did with us. e,
At the close of hostilities there was much y
to be done, money was plentiful, and wages &
high. Everybody believed that a new era
had dawned for Germany, and that the \
tmnaAv florfllnmnprit of ita roROurces could I ii
^v,~vr ? ? , -- | tLA
receive no check. A feverish energy of t]
achievement took the place of sober calcu- M
lation, and wild extravagance in every form t]
of enterprise was mistaken for substantial y
busineiiJ growth. The stolid German bo- a
came as specolative as if he had been ?
transported to Ameriea, and with precisely 0
the same result, so far as national prosperity
went.
Describing the industrial and financial
experience of the post five years in Ger- 5
many, a Tribune correspondent pictures a n
condition of things very easily understood ^
In this country: a
"The abundance of capital gave rise to a g
reckless prodigality in all sorts of private
enterprises. New railways were under-: ^
taken, great manufacturing companies ' y
wero established to rival Krupp, and ship- 8l
yards to compete with the Lairds were or- j u
ganized. Above all, new and costly housos e,
sprang up in all parts of Berlin, and almost c
every other city. The most popular sort of y
investment was in stock companies, and y
the multiplication of stock companies in e
1871 and 1872 waa marvelous. Monoy was 1 ti
plenty, wages were high, and hod carriers jj
drank champagne at their daily work. But: o:
this did not last. First the stock compa-1 0i
nies began to. totter, and at length there ! t]
was a general crash. Thon wages began to e:
fall, while the necessaries of life were sta- u
UlUlIilJTjr* XUO iui wcoouo ntiv wiu^^owv*, i u
and thousands of workmen thrown upon the 1 g
market. People began to leave Berlin on ! &
iccount of high prices until the evil spread f]
md distributed itself throughout the coun- j
try. The stock companies went to pieces i ^
one after another in all the chief cities un- j ^
til that sort of organization became another
name for everything unstable and treach-! w
erous. The new palaces of Berlin stood ft
unoccupied, and fewer new ones wore of! ^
course begun. In short, a complete trans- ^
Formation has taken place; and in spite of y
the five milliards, it is to-day very difficult y
to raise money, and Btill more difficult to p
realize it on investments. Now it will help ^
no emigrant's fortune to return to Ger- J
many, even if he escape impressment into b,
the military service." j w
Multitudes of 'great manufactories are gj
unable to keep up operations, and wholoBale
discharges of hands are the result.
The reduction in wages has been twice as
severe as in this country, with a proportionally
larger inumber out of employment.
is an instance, the fact is mentioned that, ffl
in Berlin, in 1873, jit was difficult to get tl
jtreet laborers at two dollars a day, while ;
last winter an indefinite number could be b
bad at one third that price. ai
b
A FI? ELKSS STOVE. "
; C<
A flroless stove, as it is called, is now be- . jjmg
tried bya street-car company in Colum- fa
bus, Ohio. It is doscribed as a small iron y
box, placed under tho car seat. Tho box i
jontains tho necessary pipes and vaTves, ^
ind is filled with water. The heat is sup- a]
plied at the depot. A small upright boiler, ^
not higher than a man of ordinary stature ' ej
ind consuming no more coal than a large <j(
beating stove, supplies tho steam. By w
means of rubber hose, the steam is intro-1 ^
laced into tho stove through a pipe which1 fr
projects from the outside of the car. In a !
short time the condensed steam heats the
water to 212 degrees, and the car is heated
ind ready for travel. In a trip of one mile
- . ! 1
md return, occupying about forty minutes, j
the stove only loses about thirty degrees of j Ql
txeat. Then another charge of steam is t ti
steam is given, and the temperature of the to
:ar is kept pleasant constantly. ei
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WHO WILL GET IT f
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On Easter Monday, 18G3, thirty vigorous ! w
young men of New York City formed the j t
'Annual Club," whose object is the enrich- w
ment of the longest lived of its members.' ^
rhey put out ?10,000 at interest; in- p
sured the life of Dr. John Lynch, the a]
wealthiest; of their number, for the Bame
amount, and resolved to reunite on every
mniversary of their union. Since that occasion,
although the varying tides of life'
Irnve separated them, they have annually
met, and two of their number, Thomas J. j
Flynn and John J. Murphy have died. The
;hairs of the dead were draped with crape,j 8
md their covers were laid amid those of:
their surviving associates on the evening of I 0
hheir late dinner in the dining-room of the j
'Woodbine." The clubmen, fresh colored
md well groomed, assembled at half past
3ight, and with the exemplary impartiality: 11
tvent straight through the comprehensive
menu, printed on yellow satin.
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PATIENCE. c0
bi
Of all virtues patience is the easiest to gj
jractice. Or will the reader say it is the jr
lardest ? It is only waiting; is it not ^
iaey enough to wait ? It is not doing with ' ^
aborious and wearisome exertions. It is j pt
aot a resolution spurring on the weak or
reluctant mind. It is not courage in the tl:
nidst of dangers which the common mind ' se
night fear. It is keep still; and is it a ti:
irirtue to keep still ? It is much needod jn
,n domestic life, and in many private and a|
public relationships. Can we not have p?
nore of it? And is it some delusion that
jnablea us to say it is only through mo-1
roentary thoughtlessness that we ever
violate its important requisitions ? It iB
so great an excellence that, upon thought, n<
we shall find it the prime element of all
ithers, at least of which partake in any
way of self-denial. It is not exercised P1
ilone in waiting for a dilatory friend to cc
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ride or walk with us; in Buffering in our | ?
poverty the long delay of the debtor's
promise; in endurance of the tedious cun- 111
ning of the suit-at-law. The vices and aI
crimes of individuals are eminently owing aI
to a want of patience. The Blave of in- *r
temperance thinks he cannot wait till his
appetite shall have passed. He cannot ^
wait till Bleep shall over take him, and be 1
Y
forgets it. He cannot wait till he can
reach better company than his own soli- ju
tudo or his common companions, and ho
ill be ashamed of indulgence, and find
enial easy in the society of the pure and
ood. He cannot wait, waking and alone,
ill the fire is consumed and his nature is
11 calm again; and impatience, doubtless,
i the cause of a large proportion of the
itemperance of the land. The child in
arly years was never taught to wait.
Fhat it wanted it wanted at the moment;
ad at the moment the parent always
nafflnod orrAfifv itfl imnerioua desires.
7e need have no laws for the suppression of
itemperance, none to prohibit or license!
be sale of liquor, if we could only in some
ray teach men to wain. And the passion I
bat demands relief in the use of. intoxicat-j
ig drinks is tho^type of aH-oihe* passions,
11 to And their tSmedy ih the same way.
ievenge would stay its hand if it would
nly consider. The grosser vices that detroy
the )x>dy and the soul would change
3 health and purity if the guilty would
ut wait to know what they are about.
he irritations of domestio life and comion
relationships that impel to unkind
rords, unkind deeds, and to alienations
ad hatreds would never be allowed indul
ence if people would but wait before they
poke, or thought, or felt. And the disiato
that some have for the society of
iieir fellowmen, which they think themelveB
comes from a sense they have of the
nworthiness of other people, might find its
isy remedy in patience?a patience that
in look for the origin of people's evil and
iie way to the end of it, and can overlook
lie pressing view and take knowledge of
noting virtues also. (Impatience is eomeiines
a sort of derangoment, From belg
a habit of thought it gets to be a habit
f body. It is a derangement of ideas come
at of their proper order; derangement of
lie nervous system also the blood quickoing
along it currents, habitually rushing
p to overfill the brain. And their habital
derangement, though it may not be
reat enough to send its victim to an inine
asylum, but only enough to make
ienda and family wish that he would
old his tongue, or stop his crossness, is,
uring its seeming uncontrollablenesa as
3 much an insanity, though not as great a
egree of it, as the ravings of the maniac
men also are sometimes cureu uy conmued
efforts of self-control. The irritable,
npatient, passionate man, what ever form
oat his passion ma; assume, for in spirit
ley are all the same, only the manifestaon
being different?needs often the comosing
draught to quiet liia nerves as much
3 the crazy man docs. Happy if he has
[lowed his impatience so to get the
etter of himself that ho cannot alayB
control it by just a moment's conderation.
ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.
Frank H. Mayer's attempt to kill himslf
in San Francisco failed through no
iolt of his. Defective cartridges caused
10 disappointment. He loved a girl who
ived not him, and he wanted to die. He
ought a revolver and a box of ammunition
ad engaged a room in a hotel opposite the
ouse in which the young lady lived. Takig
a position at the open window where she
>uld see him, he pointed the weapon at
is head and pulled the trigger. The girl
rinted at once, without waiting to observe
ist there was no discharge. The car
idge would not explode, and Mr. Mayer
i his own great astonishment, was yet
Live. Ho tried another and anotfce-, but
ley would not go off. Before a fourth
Tort at self-destruction could be made the
aor was burst open and the young man
as disarmed. The cold girl, however,
warming now, and says she will marry
im.
SELF-WATERING LOCOMOTIVE.
The self-supplying water apparatus for
'Comotives is coming into very extensive
se in this country. It consists of a water
ough from 800 to 1,200 feet long, laid beveen
the tracks of the railway. As the
igine passes along at a velocity of, Bay,
D miles an hour over the trough, tSe
reman, by means of a lever, lowers one
id of a pipe into the trough, and the
ater is carried up into tho tender,
he water is prevented from freezing in
inter by means of steam pipes. The use
: this device, by saving time in stoppages,
armite a moro moderate average of speed,I
id ao results in economy.
I
A Steikino Sun Dial.?a sun-dial that
rikes the hours has been invented by
bbe Allegret It is simply a modifica-;
jn of what is termed the solar counter, j
r registering the times which the sun!
lines or is obscured. To effect this there j
e two balls, one black and the other yel-!
w, fixed at opposite ends of a lever sua-1
ined by a c enter pivot. When the sun j
lines the black ball absorbs more heat!
lan the yellow one, and the vapor of a|
quid contained in the former ia elevated j
i i higher temperature than in the latter. |
9 a result the vapor kaves the one ball,'
id being condensed in tho other, this beimes
tho heavier, overbalances the equili.
ium, and in doing bo sets free a weight,
ving motion to the requisite clock-worki
the sun-dial referred to a pair of these
ills is fixed at every hour mark. Vlifen
ie shadow of the gnomon reaches any
irticular hour-mark one of the balls is
laded, a prepoderance of liquid enters,
ie ball, the lever tilts, the mechanism is
t going, and a gong sounded as many
ines as tho number of the hour to be in-,
dicated. Of course the sun must shine
; the time of the hour-marks being
issed by the shadow, or the time will not
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) struck. j
Bacteria and Putrefaction.?Dr. Ar)ld
Hiller, of Berlin, has made a series of I
aborato experiments with the view of
itermining the relations of bacteria to j
ltrefective changes, and has come to the!
inclusion that the whole subject needs to j
> re-examined from the beginning. He
is demonstrated that active putrefaction j
ay take place in the absence of bacteria,
id that bacteria may bo present in abund"
ice without giving rise to putrefaction.
1 short it seems quite possible that
feet may have been mistaken for cause. j
o?Hint-, linrnv onfoebles
JJ? ounivAXA owe wo .... w
ie spontaneous mo vein cuts of all living j
igetables tissues and kills Microscopic!
limalculffi. In this" country, tho use of
>rax as a preservative of wood has beenj
itcntecl
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AN INTERVIEW WITH A *OKTCN13TELI.Kll.
Jay Charlton, of tho Danbury Newt, reports
an interview with a New York fortune|
teller as follows:
The other day I saw on the sign of a
j small brick house in one of the unpretenj
tioua avenues, these words: "Madame Le
j Blanc, Clairavoyant and Aatrologist." In
; the fan of the moment I went in, and wax
j ushered into a back sitting-room. A young
[ countryman was soon my companion, and I
1 cheekily asked him what He was alter.
Said he: "I want to 2nd <mt whether I'm
goin' to win in >'l?i??ttin a justice's'*
tail. " I come from do* you
come from? This here w&nan kjn.sep
right through an oak planlr." Presently
the door opened, and a tall/ distinguished
woman, with silver-gray hat, threw open
wide the door. You know how Poe did it
when he wanted to see out where old Nevermore
was. That's the way she did it
j She looked as dignified as a big sun-flower.
I I stammered "Missis ?" You see I wasn't
I going to give myself away by being too
sharp. Said she, as her head followed my
movements as the aforesaid sunflower follows
the sun (if it does), "Madame, if you
please." What little human pride was in
me waltzed out of my being as I gazed
upon this elegant female woman. I 'umbly
began:
I "'Prophet!'" said I, '"thing of?whom
the angels call Lenore."
| Here I saw I'd put my foot into it, and I
broke down. But I had to go it madly because
I didn't want to burst out laughing
at my learned colleague from Goshon, with
the dock-tailed mare. She saved me, by
sweeping grandly into the parlor, putting
oa T?trfli4o -rvnfa Vno im
I up UCt , ?.a JUTVfcMi j/uvu ?r
in the Beecher case. So I walked, somewhat
bltween laughter and timidity,
into the Night's Plutonian Shore. She
motioned me to a chair which stood before
a small table. She grandly sat in one opposite.
Then drawing Bix thicknesses of
something like a black crape iron-holder
over her eyes, she said in a grandly sepul- 1
chral monotone: "Your life will bo long?
with some cares. An enemy boseta your
path. Beware of a false friend who will
try to do you a wrong. You will come out
of it all right, one dollar is |my charge." I
put one dollar upon tho table, thinking
that there were ten sodas gone. But I
said, "Madame, I would liko to know what
kind of a girl I'm going to have?" Here
she rose, went behind my back to a sideboard,
and brought back one empty tumbler.
Holding it before my eyes, she
grandly said, "You are satisfied, I hope,
that there is nothing in it." I said I was
satisfied. Whereupon she went behind me
again, and brought the tumbler past me
with a parallelogram of paper in it. I saw
the paper was dimly white, with a little yellow
smearing on it. From a half-pint bottle
she poured a reddish liquid into a little
water, and then poured the mixture into
the tumbler. After a moment, her fingers
went into the tumbler, drew out the paper
and tore it up. I had it on the end of my
tongue to say, "The acid didn't bring the
I I AntVmf fknf. wnnld havn '
LIIO ?JUUlAS?X~t*?ru vyt*u , v?m?v uvm.?. w
spoiled everything'. So I meekly bored
wlien she said, "The face is not" perfect yet,
but it is very, very beautiful. I congratulate
you." she tried again, and waved a
a stick over the mixture. This time the
picture came out, and she laid my wet and
yellow lover upon the table with an air of
Persian triumph. Her austere magnanimity
lowered itself to. the earth as she said,
"It is very, very beautiful. One dollar for
the picture." I laid ono dollar in my sadness
beside my blonde, but drying, lover
thinking, "Ten more sodas gone." "Two,"
she said. "Two?" I repeated meekly.
"Yes," said she, "two." "But you saidi
one." "Oh! one was for the picture, last j
one for the condition I was in. It hurts me
to produce so beautiful a picture of the girl j
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you are to iove. "dui, uivumc, juu uuu <,.
tell me about her." Thou she spoke up, in !
her wrinkled grandeur, with a tone of vine-!
gar gurgling out of a bung hole. "You
will marry her within a month. She will
come to you." I rose to leave, and she
said, "A dollar!r' "What for?" "The
fortune." "But that goes with the picture."
"For the first advice." "I paid a
dollar for that." "I meant two dollars.
Let that go. I hope you two will be happy
together. The first one will be a little
girl." I left her to my friend from Goshen
The process by which she produced the
picture is a simple one. The prints are!
those of photographs, unvarnished, and
bought by the dozen. A little chemical
mixture brings out the features. One face j
will serve for a dozen lovers. The one I'
got was that of a prominent actress, mar-1
ried, as I am, to "another." I have a pho-1
tograph of the lady exactly like that pro-j
ducedbythe incantation of the grand gam-j
moner. Yet this woman probably makes a:
plenty of money.
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Cotton Mills in the bouth.?^ui- >
tliern spinners feel the general dullness!
of trade. Some of them have closed
their doors, aud many are working on
short time. The Southern mills continue
steadily at work, but have declared re-'
duced dividends. The Augusta factory i
and the Graniteville will pay, for instant,
only two per cent, for the quarter
ending July 1st. Beyond the depression
of business, of which mention has been
made, the Northern Mills are aflecied
more seriously than ever by Southern
competition. They are being driven'
out of the market by the Southern spin-1,'
ners of heavy goods, and the time is fast t
approaching when they must close up
or come South. In the meanwhile the'
cost of machinery has fallen considerably,
the price, of labor and material is1
low, and, therefore, no more favorable:
season for building new mills, in the;*
South, could be had. This is under-,
stood, we are glad to see, by the gentle- J1
? 1 tln? nmu mill 111 I
men ?iiu?io6ch,i..6 ....v. ..w? ~
Atlanta. They will be ready or work !
next fall, by which time business will!
be brisk again, and they will be in con- f:
dition to float on the top of the tide.:
There is millions in it.
"Commencement."?Quito a contro-J
vcrsy has been going on in tho columns
of the .Richmond Dispatch as to the origin
and use of the word "commence-1
mont" asopplied to colleges. Tho up-;
6hot of tho whole motter seems to bo
theis: "A coflege commencement is not
the anniversary of tho day when the
college commenced its existence; nor is
it so called because the graduate then
''commences life" or onters upon its active
duties; but because tho student
then cnwmenccs to 63 Bachelor af Arts'
ox Afastor of Arfs,"
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Song of th9 B'll.
Many a year in the tower I've swung"; - j|
Many a Bong of joy I've sung; .
Many a tale of sorrow told,
Ringing here in the belfry old. /Aft
And over the walls, fast crumbling
away. lwgi
Before the hand'of srrim decav:
In winter and summer the ivy Climbs ,
Up where my music daily chnnes.
I sing ^for the bride, Ja her robes -apj^
And gloomi# toll o'er'the filent'dead,
Peace to 'the soul forever Hodi ^ (
^nd I shall ring in tower here
?or the fair young bride;and; fl?e quiet
Of the earthly forma that pass" awqy. , .V
The Biack Hill Repor'is.?Tho ' i
reports of rich discoveries of gold te. _. ^
the Black Hills need confirmation.
There is no doubt that Prof. Jenney ?hd -'
his associates found gold?gold is found Jifc'
in small quantities in nearly all parts of
me western territories. But when ''' />C*'->:?
are told that miners are taking it out at
the rate of twenty dollars to the pari,
there Is evidently great exaggeration.'
Such diggings would be ranked among
the very richest ever found in the coutitry,
and a man would make his fortone
in a few days. We apprehend there are 4
110 such deposits, of any great extent, ^ ^
if even at all, in the Black Hills coun- - '
try. Then, as if to modify or take back this
statement, we are told that the
"color" has been found in numerous < . '
places. As "color" means the merest *
speck of gold than can be seen by the
naked eye, it is nothing for the prospec- - * - r'M
tors to find it in the gulches of the ..
Black Hills. But the report from the , -
geological parcy is HKeiy to De seized
upon by certain parties to get up a rush
to tiie distant country. It will De well, >. -a
however, to await further develope- .
ineuts. It is a hazardous and expen- .
sive trip at bast, and all those who at- :
tempt to enter those regions, from the .
East especially, must expect to encoun- . ter
a force of United States soldiers that '
will turn them back. It is best, then, not
to get excited over these first reports ' $
from the Black Hills.
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Funny Cukes.?Caesar held .thfct lo ' * > -f ^
die quickly was to die happily; so, too ' ;
thought one whose case was cited by . - '
Montaigne as an instance of fortune * , : /
playing the physician. Jason Pherens. - . * 04
troubled with an incurable imposthumatlon,
resolved to end his pain oy dy- V
ing in battle: and, throwing himself m
the thickest of the fight, was run *'/< ;i
through the body, which caused the iirt- .; ' Jj
posthumation to break, and his wound
nealing, he found life enjoyable after alL
This lucky hero, who could brave death
better than he could endure pain, owed " i
his cure to a foe. A quinsy-afflicted
Cardinal had to thank a monkey for a
like good turn. The physicians had
left him to die, and as he lay hopelessly
waiting for the end, the dying Cardinal
saw his servants carry oft* every thing
that was moveable, without being able
even to expostulate with the thieves, -t ' '
At length bis pet ape came into the room
and, taking the hint from the provident
lackeys, looked around for something
ho could appreciate. Nothing was left
but the Cardinal's hat; this the ape donned,
and, proud of his novel jaeadgear, * .
indulged in such odd antics that bis all
but dead master burst into a hearty fit
of laughter. The quinsy broke, ana the
Cardinal recovered, as mudyto his own
astonishment as to the 401aay of his
plundering services.
General Preston's Address Censured.?Many
of the Southern papers
condemn the bitter and ill-timed utterances
of General John S. Preston, delivered
before thg alumnijoi the University
of Virginia, last week. The anriAvn/]
nvf l?n/tf ffAm Vi r\ T.TTt>AKl*in*/?
UVACU VAW UVU 11 Vill tllU JJJUV/UUUIg
Virginian represents the general expression
of the press:
"We are glad to learn that the sentiments
of General Preston, though
elegantly expressed, were not received
with favor by those to whom they
were addressed, and do not indicate
the opinions of th* sound-thinking
people of Virginia and the Sonth. Let
the Northern journals make a note of
this when they undertake to hold us
responsible for the imprudent utterances
of a retired old gentleman, who
lived in South Carolina when it was
customary there to denounce every- *
thing North of a certain lino
The correspondent of the Baltimore
Sun, in giving an account of the proceedings
at the University of Virginia,'
fitnfprl- ivhfln rennrf.ino- tho ftno<?r>h
7 r o - '>* >
tbat its extreme sentiments were condemned
bv those present.
O-*-*?
The Washington correspondent of
the Baltimore /Sun writes: "It is very
gratifying to record that for the
first time in the long period of the ten
years which have elapsed since the
close of the war those who sit in high
places exibit no disposition to stir up
political feeling against the South.
This is the first Summer since 1865
that this city has not boon made the
headquarters for the dissemination all
over the country of the most malign *
slanders upon tho Southern people.
It sceems safe to say that this unhappy
business is at last at an end. The
Southern people mnst have some feel.
ing of this kind, for all the intelligence .
which comes here from tbat pection
represents the aspect of business affairs
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UO lllUCb UV|/CXUI|
An unsophisticated raagaziuo writer
says: "When a young girl reaches the
age ot'tiftceu or sixtoen yean1, she begins
to think of the mysterious subject
of matrimony, a state tho delights of
which her yonthflul imagination shad
ows fourth in tho most captivating
forms." If this writer were to sit
down on the curb-stone and listen,
just after school is dismissed, ho would
not only hoar girls less than ninoyeai'S
of age talking about marriage, but ho
would actually hear them discussing
the day of the week most auspicious
for putting their absurd little heads
into the yoke. There never was a
timo in tho history of tho world when
well conducted convents were so nee-,
eesary as now, and a very large pro,
portion of all tho female babies should
uc put lt.to them three weeks after
birth,
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The Washington correspondent of .
the Baltimore '-Sun" writes:
very graifying to record that for
first tirao in the loug period of tenyears
which have olapfie sinco tho
closo of tho war thoso who sit iu high
places exhibit no disposition to stir
tip political feeling against the SoulK