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N?MBEB:|. How to be a Gentleman? ??pkt ?W?rg. ANSWER ME, Love, have I cost your life one added pain Since I have known yon? I have sought to bless And light your steps lo paths of pleas antness: 0, have I sought in vain? I found you in an hour of fiercest strife, And did my presence bring you blessed calm? And did my words fall like rich drops of balm Upon your troubled life? Beloved! have I reached yourBoul's great need? Tell me if I ever yet possesed the power To bring your deserfrlife one happy hour And am I blessed indeed. The time has come when we, alas! onc? moro _-ax^mr^TT5uTQ^ Andfthro' the old time fc?^o sorrow strewn Seems harder than before. I cannot think our love is wholly lost,. Tho' all the sweetness of our love ia crushed, And bitter wails come where rich music gushed The gain exceeds the cost. We cannot quite shut out the golden past? Although our hearts must feel the cruel sting Of pain that ourdivided lives must bring As long as life shall last. Love! do you think because I rightly choose Here cn the verge of the lost paradise That I can feel no sense of sacrifice Come with the life I lost? Have ? deserved of you one thought of blame Because my sense of right must shut you out From my daik life? Oh! can you ever "t doubt My love is still the same? I cannot bear your censure. Do you think My heart so dead that it can feel no pain To see its chain of love lie rent in twain > And you its dearest chain? How gladly would I bear the weary ache Could I but take from you your share of pain, Tho'thrice the burden, I wou11 not com plain, But bear it for your sake. Will you ~beh^"* that the ni03t earnest prayers My soul haih dared, I offer up for you, That God may guide you all life's jour ney through, And shield you from its snares? May we not ho^e some brighter destiny? May not the tide that drifts our lives apart, Returning, bear me closer to your heart ' Beloved, answer me! May we not hope that far beyond the roar Of earthly winds and waves, we too shall sit Low at the. feet of the Great Infinite, Peace-crowned forevermore? [M. F. B cf ^ THE WARRIOR PRIEST. \ - AN INCIDENT OF THE CARLIST WAR. The reverend father was just con cluding the Mass he was solemnizing when the prisoners were brought be fore him. The scene was a wild nock in the Arichulegui mountains. A fallen r -ck, in which a gigantic fig tree had struck its fantastic roots and twisted trunk formed a sort of altar, covered, in lieu of a cloth, with a Carhst standard fringed with silver. Two notched "alcarazzas," or "water coolers," served the purpose of vases to hold the wine and water,-and when Miguel, the sexton who was assisting the priest at the Mass, would rise fro?-. Jil* L-neoo U -QA.arui r?k<?.*?ge the position of the Gospels, the ammuni tion could be heard rattling in his cartridge-box. Near by the Carlist soldiers were drawn up, and silently kneeled with one knee on their white berets or head-gear, and with their muskets slung over their shoulders. A bright sun-the sun is always in Navarre on Easter Sunday-concen trated his d ^zling heat in the hol low of this burning and sonorous rock, in which a blackbird from time to time mingled the beating of its wings with the priest's psalmody and the sing-song responses of his assis tant. Higher up, on the serrated peaks, the figures of the motionless sentinels were delivered by the sky in the background. It was a singular spectacle to see this priestly chieftain ofSciating in the midst of his soldiers every time he turned round with outstretched .arms to utter the invocation Deus vobiscum his uniform could be per ceived under his stole, and the butt end of a pistol, or the handle of a Catalonian dark would peep out from under his rumpled surplice. "What is he going to do with us?" the priso ners asked themselves, in wondering terror, as they called to mind so many deeds of barbarity that had obtained for the Oabecilla an excep tional renown in the Royalist ar ray. Fer a wonder, on that morning, the father was in a merciful mood. This Mass, solemnized in the open air, his military success on the preceding .day, the cheerfulness inspired by Easter Sunday, to the influence of which this singular priest had not yet grown quite insensible, eradiated his features with a gleam of joy and goodness. As soon as the religious ceremony was over, and while the sexton was cWing the altar and locking up the holy vases in a large cheat that waa transported from place to place commule-back, in the rear of the expedition may forces, the curate approached the prisoners. There they stood-a dozen Republican car bineers-worn out by a day's fight ing and by the anxieties of a night passed among the straw of a sheep fold in which they had been confined after the engagement. Wan with fear, emaciated by hunger, thrist and fa tigue, they huddlad together like a herd d? cattle in the slaughter-pen, of thelhambles. With their uniforms covered with hay and straw, their equipments in disorder and displaced during their flight and their sleep; the dust that covered them, from the top of their pompons to the tips of their yellow shoes-all this imparted to their appearance that sinister ex pression of the vanquished, whose moral disconragement is attested by physical prostration. The Cabecilla looked at them for a moment with an ironical sneer, ile was not sorry to see the. Republican soldiers humbled, __,-?-U>T-. w^gcu, ia ?\?? 'UTkiT-jmr^liyo " ' well-fed' well-equipped CarlistsVand of the Navarrest, who were brown as berries and dry as locust staffes. " Viva Dios! my children," said he good humoredly, ,:the Republic feeds her dofenders very sparingly." You are all as lean a9 the wolves of the Pyrenees when the mountains are covered with snow. That is not the way wc treat the soldiers of the Good Cause. Would you like to judge for yourselves, hermanos? Doff those infamus caps and put on the white ones. As sure as this is Easter Sun day, to all those who will cry "Long live the King!" their lives shall be spared, and they shall receive the same rations that I give to my other soldiers." Before the priest had fairly uttered the word all the caps were tossed in the air, and the shouts, "Ling live the King!" "Long life to th Cabe cilla!" were echoed by the mountains. Poor fellows! they had been in such mortal dread of death ; and it was so tempting to smell the dainty viands that were brciling nnder the shadow of the rocks by the camp-fires that >, looked so rosy in the sunlight. I doubt whether the Pretender was eve- hailed with such hearty ac- ' claims. "Make haste and feed them," said ' t1 ! pr'' t, laughing. "When wolves ' c./ .astily as that it shows that ' their teeth are long and shard." The primera moved off, but one of them, the youngest, stood before '' the chieftain, in a proud and resolute ' attitude that formed a striking con trast with his youthful features and ' the slight down, scarcely tinted, that covered his cheek. There was some thing feverish in his large, lustrous 1 A ?nh gyan lrifwji*??jji?iiiifei?-.Sf>a^? j ISn fi ix cn o.-S-L iv.;/n.w^ oooukod to disconcert the Cabecilla. "What do you want?" said he. "Nothing; I am waiting for you to decide upon my fate." "Why, your fate shall be the same ' as that of the others. I naced no one in particular. The pardon is a , general one." "But the others are a pack of trait- 1 ors and cowards. I alune did not : ?oin in their shouts." The Cabecilla gave a start and looked the boy full in the faoe. "Your name?" "Tonio Vidal." "Where from?" "Purcerda." "Your age?" j "Seventeen." "The Republic must be hard-push ?d to find men when she has to enlist mildren." "But I am not an enlisted soldier ; padre, I ara a volunteer." "You know, you scamp, that I xmld find more than one way to j make you shout "Long live the . King!' " ! "Try me." 1 "Whould you rather di??" "A hundred times rather." "So be it, you shall die!" The curate then made a sign to the ! platoon that had been detailed for 1 punishment parade, to draw nearer c to the doomed prisoner, who never J so much as winced. At sight of th?3 ,l genuine courage the soldier-priest felt a touch of pity. "Have you no ( request to make of me? Would you like to eat, to drink?" "Neither," returned the youth; 1 'but I am a good Catholic, and I 1 would not wish to appear in the pres* J ence of JaoA wltu-^t having confess- J ed my 3ins." -- The Cabecilla still wore his sur- ! pliee and his 6tole. "Kneel down," ! said he, at the Same time seating J himself on a rock. The soldiers mov- 1 ed off a little, and the prisoner, in j a low voice, begaD his confession. "Bless me, father, because I have sinned." ' But in the mi-lst of his confes sion a terrible discharge of mus ketry resounded at the entrance to the pass. ? "To arms!" cried the sentinels. The Cabecilla jumps up. gives his 1 orders, assigns positions, deploys his ? men and seizes hold of a blunder- ' buss, without waiting to disrobe him- , self of his surplice, when, on turn lng round, he perceives the youth still kneeling. "What are you doing there, you?" , "I am waiting for you to give me absolution." "True enough," said the priest; "I ; had entirely forgotten you." With all solemnity then, he raised one hand and blessed that young head, still bent toward the ground, and looking around for the punish ment platoon, that had been dispers ed in the confusion caused by the at tack, he drew back one step, so as have room enough to take aim, then, leveling his piece, he shot the boy dead. -I I l?H-? "Come, pa." said a youngster just home from school, "how many peas are there in a pint?" "How can any body tell that, you foolish boy?" "I can every time. If you don't believe it, try me." "Well, how many are there, then?" "Just one p in every j pint, pa." ' A TALK WITH -TOOMS. THE LEONINE GEORGIAN UNBOSOMS HIMSELF AS TO THE SITU ATION. . WASHINGTON, December 20. Gea?flt? Robert Toomba, of G?or'gi?, nationally known as the Southern fire-eater, and the gentleman who swore he would never yield until he called his slave-roll at the foot of Bunker Hill, is in the city, attending to important business before the Su preme Court. For the last, three years he has been visiting Washing ton frequently, called hither to argue cases before the Supreme Tribunal. His law7 practice is very extensive, and is Raid, to be more lucrative than any other private practice in the South. He never touches a case for a less consideration than $5. Aa a brilliant advocate and an able and calculating jurist his reputation is as great now as in his palmy political days when he fired the Senate by his burning rhetoric and inflamed th Southern heart string by his impa -ion. M non. yT7e roet him he left the Supreme aud on presenting our card as a pre liminary for a little talk we took a survey of the illustrious character while he was consideriug our claima for an audience. He is a man of five feet and ten inches in height, with a full 170 pounds mathematically dis tributed over his several limbs; his physique is not imposing, but it is impressing to one on the firdt meet ing that within the casting is an iron soul, a steel heart and a golden brain; his face is broad and clearly cut; his eyes are ?till gray,.and ?dune with but little dimness, though sixty-five years have passed since they first saw light; his hair shows the pencilings of time and the approach of the grave; it is not snowy white, but thoroughly gray; in quantity it is abundant, and hangs in long, straight locks almost to his collar; it is roughly kept, showing that comb and brush are not the most favorite utensils of his household. His head is unusually large; the fore head is broad and almost excessive'y bigh; it is not a retreating but a pro jecting and overhanging one; the cere bellum is full and roundly developed, making the intellectual portion of the gentleman symmetrical and well fashioned. Age has shown its mark in another particular by stooping the shoulders that were once so straight md strong. His clothes are quite common and fi? rather loosely. His shirt waa not the cleanest we have seen, and his tie could certainly have 3U3tained a better Chesterfield twist. 'Well," says he, after glancing at our ;ard, with a very polite bow and a warm grasp of the hand, "I am glad to see you, but I do not want to ba isked any questions of a personal or strong pQIitical^,-You must. hi? country, so I should not oe u.aed 13 the oracle of the views of any sect )r organization." After giving as surances that no personal questions should be introduced, we ventured on ?xe broad question as to the condition if the South. "The South," said he, 'is poor, not on the verge of bank .uptcy, but clear down in the abyss )f poverty; not one decade, but two, t will take to restore the South to 1er pristine glory and position. The var left us in a horrible condition, ,ut by perseverence, economy, edu ction and the roetoration of local joverutnent, we will in time fully Te mperate." "Who is the South in avor of for President in 1SS0 on the Democratic ticket; bnd if the Repub licans are to have an executive who vould the South prefer?" "Well, I will answer your last question first. If, by the ?lecrees ol' Omnipotence, we are not to be free or four years more from Radical )ower, then I should say give us a 'ull lion, not a suckling sheep. Grant s a lion. I have respect for the man, )ecause he kills or wins. I have lever forgotten how gracefully he reated Lee and our soldiers at Ap pomattox. No. Grant. is better, a iou though he is, for the South than s a sheep who strives to make a bear >f himself." "I don't understand 'our figures, general." "Oh, well, ,hen, I will not explain further." 'But you have not answered my first ?uestiori." "No, sir; I must beg not ;o do so, for there are so many admi -able gentlemen, both in the North md in tLe South, that are so erai lently calculated to become tue De nocratic standard-bearer that I must brbear to speak of them by name." -Wbat-croyou tnmx- "c. Timrrnan... general?' "I think Judge Thurmaa s a great man, a man of wonderful udicial capacity, a gentleman of fine nanner3, of polished education and i statesman of extraordinary charac ter and foresight." "Who is the choice of Georgia, general, for the nomination?" "Georgia wants the man who can win-the strongest man in the whole field-a man who can weild enough strength to demolish at one stroke the whole system of rotten Republican ism. But will you excuse me, as I see my friend, Representative Hooker, ind I desire to see him?" And so the old, but still vigilant and invinci ble defender of State rights, the ultra leader of the South, the last con spicuous surviver of decaded Calhoun Confederacy, slowly, but majestically, moved away, and was soon lost in the great hall, where he so often pleaded lor his principles with an eloqueuce like unto McDuffie, Prentice,'Choate md Webster. A young lady, after passing the Cambridge local examination, sudden ly broke off her engagement with her sweetheart. A friend expostula ted r,-.ih her, but she replied : "I must merely say that his views on the theosophic doctrine of cosmogo ny are loose, and you must at once understand how impossible it is for any yue woman to risk her happi ness vith such a person." A ni\e little girl in Clinton, 111., was learning her little brother the Lord's thayer the other night, and when she had said, "Give us this day our daily hread," he suddenly called ont : "Pray\for syrup, too, sister." A PRINCELY HUNTER. .... Some of (he \?Y~~ ~~ ter, the Spor Judith Messiter, the' sportsman, lef? Bi tbe day after Chri He has gone direc Pa., to spend the .He lives near that wealth fromEoglai prietor of 12,000 i three small villagi princely. He has from an elephant He was three yea band of Arabs in ject was adventure of the people. He accomplished gent ever traveled this \ His rough life sim He is an artist in hu When Messiter ai -i>tb,--of Kentucky, sta dith Basin, on their first experience was . -ly, wLo-ou*iUt&?Iy--clLa ' a woods. The hun tera ? guides were all on hor horses were frightened a unable to take aim. Th charge one horse and t: .Volley after volley wa dom. The horses pitch' the bear entered into thc the spirit of his great natl of the rifle amused hin ran back into the wc bounce out again, tak' . nearest horse. A rifle , side or rear would mt and charge in the dir enemy. Ihe fight was four hours when dark t??d the unsatisfactory bear was safe. Huntei Messiter 3aw a fine ?. to a very heavy thicket, del his pointer dog to thicket by throwing a The dog went in to ret? but came out with his his legs, and on a cl never stopped until he The bear followed him the thicket, wheeled a. disappeared. Just as ters were passing out o ter discharged both bai press rifle. They wer explosive bullets. The They hurt him, but dit Messitfr was now in The shell of one ban removed and the bear tiing to make fight. a cart-load of stones i hoping the bear wo ul and come out. The enough. He would t ' af being hit by the s ?muliLHlioot straighte throw. ?. Hn ighLaha in about the following Lleman, I am sorry 1 iel i berated an hour a [ decided to go in af knew that be was 1 ill probability w< morning and his me fiting late in the .. . must decide. Hav barrel of my rifle ill the more inter?s >n my hands and . i tito the thicket af . ivhen I saw soinel )f me moving up ;he lower jaw o' ,vas wetting his i I ny rifle to my si jegan to raise ui me of us. I fir- . weir. Tho bull , h rough the ball The Stock ria ilitj The Stock Li nass meeting o : n any w ?y a?fec presen! ion or continu : 1: )eeu ratified hy . general Assem' iv ed - jovernor, and i jook as much nurder. No r imonnt of pub ?. . . )f resentment -it has passi hese agencies nust be respected an< T io way to des" rot )f Legislature . >f this kind . : 4 ifter its pass i . ' TU f ess will bea > up many -?i mr people bul in lae en i ii will i>rftr'n r cr**-*'' .. >i 2 ? "-. ill, both gre loss and lia. !fibipC'?uld .I . prevented in ti sac law-DO revolution has "ft. jb'c- .? iccomplish - ' ri c hu body, and . OJ . ; ?ne syrapat I by this lav 1 Hf. misfactioi sut into tl . nd perOUS fut, : ii iv - 0! . Lhe diflion B2:?i & bad bar. -. ??: ?. . (ipi rh - si Lion in go rbi i won philosoph BLINE ' . jaws s ??o?Rsi . Having . si Uv ' i spondent u ur disease umong bor?es ind ni' .. known as . ..> w w ?fi in ble, I beg leave to oiler tHi remedy, .. ht'qn I haya ii i in si bad case- with complete ->"<%<- ss in each cast that the in can read . sppearai iu a eire ' .. jects that t . piously fro ately pou; of Spirit? as much Ti as possib small br h. only for . ! effected - ^ i?valor. -.-? At a o' . '.-r- . lowing have all Q shoe, an I How a Hornau Splits Woad. J-on-was notified by his better other day, that thc wood been reduced" to one chunk, night the panic down town, d Vse-uJ np^-^fr-i^ wf???Toro. noon, Mrs. John id up the axe and went for cb mik. She knew that a ubi split wood as well as a had read and heard about wkwardness, but she knew >n=ense. ' , on her hands, and raised - her lefr. shoulder, right down on the handle. She rible blow, and the axr dje ground and she fel nie. Sh . got np. lo.iker to see- if anybody AV* rubbed her dbw?, , auc . ,),the axe the other way. .6 to strike the stick plum] . . ;ot 'll'- cl?feh?b lilli i ui-course it wasn't Mrs She might have moved th< ' bl?, but she didn't. She .nd sot a chair and stood O it* take down the clothes line oiled it up and hung it ir ud came back andmryeved ; turned it over auk wail ked ihes line was to/blame, and was nothing to interfere, the axe, raised it once or 1 finally gave an awful blow, hoff a sliver and was buried j'ind, and the knob on the ocked the breath out of her. id and couched and jumped lown, and the boys heard say, "If I had that man mop the ground with him, I iwhile sh s grew ca!nier and p the axe to see if she had it. She hadn't, and phe I down the handle, spit on , and finally went in and got and greased it, suddenly ;ring'that no axe was worth ?thout greasing. . By and by ready. She sat the chunk put a stone behind it, and .veyed from all sides. She ow just where she wanted it. ced all around to see if any he meddling neighbors were and then she raised the xe. lld hit the slick just i i the md lay it open at one blow. 5 out one foot, drew a lon;: and then brought down the 7 .h a "Ha!" just as she had seen i do. The axe wrent olf tl ?? thc handle struck the sti did Mrs. Johnson. She housand stars r\ the s ? .rjfiovp v.-a g ^b?fkeq" and hall au inch tooJinnr. .n she rose up she de'?' ?ter Johns m the mo:?. ed. Then she concluded sbe . tot kill hi Ji at once, but ioi tn to death and be two day.-: it. After getting into the and putting a sticking-plaster ktiee and some lard on her she concluded to only wound .?n in the shoulder willi the .r knife. ir pinning un the tear in her and getting a piece of court r for her nose, she went and bor sotne wood, and hearing, while r way home, that Mrs. 1'lindie .ted that Miss Spindle was going .tr her last year's cloak through er winter, the goo l worn in con I to let .'Jonnson off entirely, jj him that she hurt her rio>e 4 down the cellar. Uoii? George Johnston?. wherry miy well be proud of Representatives in the Legisla .. as all fire men of fine minds and ' ug worth; but during a recent to the Capital just belora the I jiirnnient of the Legislature, we ..?re particularly impressed with the ;hes and position taken by the iii .George Joh istone, her junior iber in point of years only, in :ence to the fraudulent Bonds by the State. He was a member . e Committee on Ways and Means, ; to him perhaps, more than any .r member, are the people of this e indebted for not having this ; to paya burdensome and unjust S of $150,000, the interest on spu v ,;s and lorged Bonds. He diam ted this matter successfully in hts . rnittee and before the House, ying on the.floor of the House one '.he most powerful and ?r?answera spcechss of the session, .le also stood by the Bond Court an an effort was made to repeal it, nd the decision of that Court de nbnstratcd the wisdom ol' his post ; ?n, fo: they decided in favor of the "'..nd Committee's Report," thus - ing the State millions. This gives . a good excuse for not paying tho^e uris, for a State can never be sued; . Sou? h Carolina waived this right: 'nt into Court as a private citizen j took her chances, proved con sively that the Bonds were fraud nt and ought, not to be paid-and a decree in her.favor. Mr. John tie had voled to establish this Court ? the last Session, and advocated priestly the continuance of it. With .^talents as ho has, aud his just -\ and judgment in all matters, wo ;duct for him a grand future. low TO PREVENT CATTLE FROM ' iiPiNG FENCES.-The following igular statement was made at a e meeting of the American Iusli e Farmer's Club at New York: "To prevent steers from jumping ces, clip oil' the eyelashes of the . lerlids with a pair of scissors, and ability or disposition to jump is effectually destroyed as Sampson's .ver was by the loss of his locks, i aiiimal will not attempt a fence dil,the eyelashes are grown out Of this we are iniorVaed by ^?ujiei Thorne, the breeder ol' Dil ..^County, who a-sures us that lie pasted it. ipon a pair ol' very ;echy o: .ii. . As it was of great me to,.him, he hopes it will be tried Vr'others.1' Lord Iiiairs vauguicr? TITE F?CT3 OP TUE CASE SET FORT Ii IS lU^LE^^)j?J^. d--^" oh ie f..i in to tlie highlands bound : erie?, '.Ho;ttin;in:tfo'iir-t tarry, and I'll j give tlief a dollar and a lialf to row . us across the lake."' "Now, who be ye would cross Lich t Gyle this dark and stormy night?" ; asked the ferryman with much curi Lc?sity>:,i . ; . . . : "... i "What is-, that to you, you bald headi'd snipe of rh* valley?" replied the chieftain, .rowing pale about the gills "If I pay you a giod round sum for . your services it appear? to me your interest in.the matter should , ? end there. D) you require the p di l j gree of every man,'wom:tn aud child you* take across in your infern tl scow? If it wasn't that I amln a hurrv-T" sir>ack voiir , u.a.? tis here in Q.^n it would go bard with us?" Out . spoke the hardy Highland wig'lit, while he unlocked his boat aha told them to rret in, .'I'll go, my [ I chief, I'm ready; hut, considering the terrible storm, I hope you will mike it two dollars, although as a matter of fact, I do not venture forth for a mere money consideration, but.-for your winsome lady. I have been there to some extent myself and c<m appreci ate the situation; so, by my word, the bonny bird in dangar shall not tarry. Sit a littlemore in the middle to trim the boat, plea.se, and here we got! By this the storm grew loud apace, the water wraith was shrieking, and things looked most almighty dark. But still as wilder grew the storm, and a9 the night grew drearer adown the glen rode at least a dozen men wi I h old Ullan at the head on a cream colored mule. "Oh baste thee, hostel" the lady : cried; "though tempests round us gather, I'll meet the raging of the storm, but not my angry pa." Soon they rowed amid the roar of waters t st pievailing.and when Lord Ullan jr? tched the shore his wrath was dreadful to behold. And no wonder. For, s)redism ?yeti, through storm anti shade, he discovered his daughter out in their boat with a smile on her lip and salt spray in her eye, und both arms around her lover. For a while it seemed that he would take it out of his hired men and the cream colored mule;-as he declared he would have the former beheaded i as soon as he got home, and the latter he was hammering over the ears with a club. Presently he took another tack: "Coins back? Come back!" he in grief, "across the stormy ' Il forgive youtf Highland .J'not be~ ^*couhI the the ferryman cu ruing around in t!i<; -'ping one arm iibouc hi- sweet.. , to prevent her falling out, called to the old gentle man: "Much obliged for your kind invi tation, ??y ..lear sir, but we will not come back at pr?sent. You ctn ex pect us however, in tim course of a week or ten days. Till then, adieu!" Lord Ullan called again. 'Twas vain; lite loud waves lashed tho .-hores, re turn! they wouldn't think of it. In fifteen minutes they-were on the other sidej:i the,/err/man -.VHS wondering what hs would do wi th .a, twenty dol lar gold piece, and tue young couple were inquiring the way to the nearest justice of the peace. !0 I Mr. Julian Hartritlffc. In full possession of his faculties, and almost without warning, Mr. Julian Hartridge, for lour years a Representative in Congi ess from the Savannah District of Georgia, was yesterday morning stricken down by death. Not to a half of his associ ates had the information come that he was ill, and it may therefore be faintly imagined how painful was the shock mide by tue annouuee .nent that he was dead. It. would be difficult to name a member more gen erally esteemed and beloved than Mr. Hair ridge. His firmness as a party man was unaccompanied by rancor, while his fervor and skill as au orator, his learning as a lawyer, his courtesy and address as a deba ter, won for him the admiiation and respect of both political friend and opponent. Few men can boast of a more snccessful past, or had reason t ) hope for Hr Lughter future. ,Had he chosen to remaia in political iife, the highest houors awaited him. These, however, he voluntarily re signed, intending to devote himself wholly to his profession, the law. Thc loss of such a man is a public calam ity. He was the very soul of honor, as gentle and modest as a child, as ! courageous as Richard of the Lion I Heart, steadfast to his convictions and true as steel to his friends. Such men are as one in ten thousand. Washington Post. Latest xWarket Iteport, Honoi. Scarce, old stock ex hausted and the new will be a fail ure. Virtue.-Old growth nearly con sumed, young growth prospect very nnpromistng. Honesty.-None in the market. Prudence.-All in the bauds of old stock-holders and held close. Modesty.-Stock badly managed; cone for s de to street speculators. Vice.-Market overstocked. Pride.-Market glutted. Politeness.- Cheap hoblers un able to dispose of any at present rates. Scandal.-None at wnolosale, dealt in chiefly by peddlers at re bil. - Religion.-Very little of the gen uine article on hand : stock general ly aduUerat ed. Love.-None offered except for greenbacks, N / "Vi - - .". J : . ? .*?'*". 7 IH MIO VM aaa ?vi ~ ! Suitable apartment for a castle m ( the air-A brown study ' : Hiv. Astor, o! New York, has an in come of. $000 an hour. Boots are made on the Pacific coast with pockets in their tops. Tea was used in China long before it was cultivated, several varieties of the bush growing wild. We pass our lives in regretting the past, complaining of the present, and indulging false hopes of the future. Every person has two educations, one which he receive} from others, and one, more important, which he gives to himself. Every one is the poorer in propor tion as he has more wants.jjgd. co*nf not what he. has, but -: ' ^. x-' sp noan is made bettet by the possession Oi a good picture, if it is only a Und^jipe on the--bick, of a hundred-dollar IHnm- , ~\ "Always pay as you go," said an old min to his nephew. "Bat,.uncle, suppose I haven't anything to pay With?" "Then don't go.*' There is no great difference between man and man. Superiority dependa ?n the manner in which we profit by the lessons of necessity. There are 777 potteries in the United States, paying annually $2^17,731 wage*, and turning out pro I nets to the value of $0,01:5,530. Little joys refresh us constantly, like house-bread, an 1 never bring dis gast; and great ones, like sugar bread, briefly, and then satiety. By the side of the Valle theatre, in Rome, Iuly, a church, built by the American Biptist? at a cost of $20, 000. has just been opened. In less thin thirty years, 72,000 miles of r-dlroid have been con structed in the United States. The value of property in this coutitry ha in the same period increned from $3,000,000,000 to $30.000,000,000. A patent-me licine man posted hand-bills in every available spot in a neighboring village the other morn ing, and before night fifteen goats had enough medicine information in them to run an eclectic college. Said a mother to her little son: "There! Your toes are out of youi stockings again. Seems to me they wear out iu a hurrv." Giving a com ical leer, he said: "Do you know why stockings wear out first at the toes?"' "No." "Because toes wiggles, and heels don't." Western swindlers happen into sa loons, make bets on future events and yiyq th g. flt*kes-tn tho l* ndlqriia.-?fl iiokl; then, a few days later, nappen back, and agreeing to draw the Ijet, ..Obblirj -j^JU'l .UJULJ I ma-?Lo_a.i l"f)n keeper, their base counterfeits having meanwhile been mixed up with 'his cash. A Portland (Me.) man has a mock ing bird and parrot which are on very good terms with each other. Occa sionally their cages are placed to gether that tney may enjoy a little social intercourse. The parrot will then thrust its poll through the bars and say, "Scratch my head," where upon the mocking bini will peck the parrot's head with its bill with an air of great gravity. When Prof. Watson, or some other professor, discovers a new star, it ii telegraphed all over the country, But when au unscientific gent steps on the slippery side of a pool of fro zen water,caresses thepavemsnt with the back of his head, and sees mil lions of new meteors traveling at tai rate of two million miles a second and a whole firmament of new star; shooting hither and thither, he ktepi the wonderful discovery a secret Ile doesn't hanker for newspaper no toriety.-Not rislown Herald. "I have opened and read your fra grant epiftle, dated the fourtecntl: day of th? third month of the yeai 187S, according to your honored reck oning,'* writes Kusumoto Masataka prefect of Yeddo, to his excellency Charles S. Grundy, prefect of the city of Manchester, acknowledging tht receipt of some desired infor: as to municipal management in Britain. The communication clo?ed in a beautiful Japanese adorned with gold and silver and other ohjects iu relie;". The Mother-In-Law. This paper is the only one that hi ever taken up the cause of the "moth er-in-law. /ind yet there are de mented persons who say we make game of women. The mother in-law feels herself under everlasting obli g?tions to the "on-in-law for mary i n" fr daughter. This having been thc object of her life, and she havinr. been racked with hopes and fear. ever since her daughter came into hei teens, lest the marketable time might slip by, she feels that she can neve, repay the man who came to her de liverance. She becomes a devote tc him. She cod J les him with warm slippers and wadded dressing gown and with'hot drinks when he has a cold. She multiplies her tender at tentions when "important business' has kept him out late at night, and fears that his devotion to business will wear upon him. She finds oui the dishes that tickle his appetite, and makes them with her own hands With her, he has two worshippers al home. She encourages him to smoke She smiles on his bachelor friends When his breath smells of spirits oe his late returns, she know.s that il was to brace himself up after the fa tigue of business. She makes hei daughter cheerful while he is at tb? club or other places. She minds th? baby while they go to entertainments and never wants to go. She praise! him to all as the best of husbands She continually enjoins upon hoi daughter that she can never be thant ful enough. She is a constant sun beam iu the household, which makei marriage without a moth-in-law bu half what it should be.-Cincinnal Gazette, P.) not -betray "the "confidence cf any r.ne. Never laugh a.. tlie misfortunes of others. Never give a rromise thaV yon, ?lo not intend to fulfill. Never give a present, hoping for one in return. Never fail to be punctual at the time appointed*. Never make yourself the hero of your own fltory; Never pick the teeth or clean , the nails in company. . ; flfever fail to give a polite ani?ver tp a civil question. j Never qne6tion^a-*".r about U,so*^~~~ m of any one prewi J^JL^iitJ^.r^to a gift yoi; ^"or a favor younave. render Never associate with lui Have good company, or m ^?ever appear to notice i t for?Xitv- or defect of any 01 NWer looir.^oyer the sh another who isrfetiingor * Never <:all a new acqua, the first name, unless reque s ). Never answer questions, i comp my, that have be?c o h irs. - . Never pass between tw. who are talking together w apology. Never lend an article y borrowed, unless you h-we'pi to do so. Never enter the room noisi fail to close the door after never slam it. Never lui to tell the ti truthful, you get your rewar will get your punishment if ceive. Never enter a room filh people without slight bow general compmy when first ci Never fail to answer an inv either personally or by letter, a wtelc after the inv tation isre Never accept of favors or h ities without rendering aa ex of civilities when opportunity; Never borrow money and ' to pay. If you do you will known as a person of no buait tegrity. Never cross the leg or put over the other in the stree' places where it will trouble when pissing by. Never refuse to receive an . You may not receive friends courtesy will require, when an gy is oif-;red, that you accept y. .??e.var. .examine the canis posed in the drawing ro>m, jtbv not expected to turn them ove. ii "I"Invited to Ji> a?*-__-. Never, when walking arm ' with a young lady, be cont changing and going round: oilier side, because of chang?e ners. It showa too much atter.*: form. A South Carolina Fisherm . The South Carolina Legislature pointed CJI.A. P.Butler, the talc::-..: . State Senator from Aiken, COD:.;. siouer to look after the fish cultu: Gi the State, but neglected lo furni.s' salary. Notwithstanding this li draw-back, or impediment to rn?:-.j people's way of work, Col. Baller b . done good service in this much r. . lected method of keeping up the sources of a State. The Gene Government supplies the reqn-a number of fish, and it is only i State's duty to see that they properly planted and cared for. i . Butler has superintended the plac ? of 25,000 California salmon in waters of Carolina. Of this nu? about thirty were lost. This is quite successful,'and ? Butler deaerves great "credit f performance of an unpaid-for To some it may appear a thing, but fish culture in itsel: great interest, and one that sin. ba well guarded by keeping the w.. T*i is is the only way ?jt la His Stocking. They shoved along on a windVv sill in the postofiice to give W:r Jack room to sit down, and ther. sumed their conversation about ta Ciauj gifts. One boy gota ii- . another a pair of skate-, and liw third stammered a little as he'.;.: "that he received a diamond pin. "And you traded it f?jr a <v inquired one. "Well, no; I ' gave it to f?Jr. .... to play with and he swallowad it/' "Diamonds is good 'nari' for com mon bute-blacks," observed Jack a* he cleaned his nails with a fr.vth-picky "but you orter seen the goM watch 1 ,' got ! I tell you the fourteen lirtmoo te and twenty-one pearls in ?& cusca made rae scream right out -l\>n I hauled it from the stocking I : v:j* eo weak in the knees I could h^diy git down town." "Andis rb- up- liome?"_ inquired a boy with a frost bitten ear. "Up home!" Do you thi ;:, [ ta 'lassas candy!" scornfully replied Jackas begot down. "Not :s bj I rented it to a member of the Legis lature at two dollars a day.'*- lio? ir o.t. Free Press. For whooping cough: Tworuy grains salt tartar, ten grains cochineal mixed in a gill of water and sweet?a with honey. For a child, one I spoonful three times a day, or ol'. if the case is bad. Why is a bald head like heaver Because there is no parting there ah no more dyeing.