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VOLUMOLIV. I,",,',,,.,,.!,...,!.,.'.'..Hu EDGEFIELD, S. G, i?GUST 28, 1879. ?_'UM! NUMBER 38. mom ?effrg. Tilt: I.1TTI.T3 RKOH X WREN. . 1 //: i - *: A hui? brown wren, wij.h a pretty white breast, . Peeped from the door of her little round nest, And said lo hen Losband, " The wind's Iron) the west." ".So I perceive," was tho ready reply, " And there isn't a cloud to be seen in the sky ; I think you'd better go out by and by, And I'll keep your eggs warm till you come back again." " O, I hank you, my ?lear," said the little brown wren, With a chirp of delight, "you're the kindest of men. Of course I adore thc dear little things, Still, niling on eggs steadily, brings A kind of a stillness lo one's legs and wings. I would like lo streich them, since you're ?0 kind, I'm only distressed, dear, lo leave you be hind.'' "0, that is no maller," said he, "never mind." So (In-good lidie mother flew o.T to the West, Aiul (he father sat down in her place in the nest, Delight ed lo give the wee wiley a rest. X was rallie, slow work and he soon fell \ asleep, Bujj lie woke with a jump, for he heard a -faint rheep, And something beneath hun beginning to creep. Now here -vasa crisis, " Aa sure as the sun," ^fhe father-bud eries " Tis tho Imlching beglUl, ^And -hollier is gadding,-now what's to. be done ?" fie Antlered about in his fidgety fear, , He hopped np and down, and he twitter Jt eil, " 0, dear ! + . \?iirat wouldn't I give if that woman Avas here/' Jlis sense of relief can only lie guessed, For cul ol'l.ird language it can "I be ex pressed, T ?When he saw her, atlast flying backte t he nest. And she, when she saw such a wonderful sight, Three little baby wrens hatching all right, She couldn't contain her pride and delight, She hopped and she chirped, and she cud dled them Well ; And each litlli ''-ogling that peeped from ? the shell, He loved it, how dearly, I never can tell. fr i A'?I-?MI? ..ni' "??"-I t-..*M>y r|)aiu)encd early j " in May. I chanced lo peep into thc wrens' nest to day, Audio! it was empty, the hirds flown awav. A STORY FOR THE BOYS. -0 The ?Sed Morniiigslar Locomotiie. WALT. KAY'S FOURTH OK JULY. Uncle Jeff-he wasn't my uncle or anybody's in particular that I know of, but. everybody called him "uncle" ?O I did too-was as deaf as a post though why a post should be any dealer than <. door, or any ol her wooden thing I c.:"'' see, but that's what people say, so I say it, too. He'd only been deaf about two years when he came to live in Green ville -lost his hearing at some great explosion in New York where they're a'ways exploding something or other, and he'd tried all the great au what-d'ye-call-'ems-no matter, I'll call 'em ear doctors-and they couldnt cure him-said the tin pan drums of bia ears were all out of order and he'd never hear anything again. So lie bade farewell to his native shore aol bough I. Mrs. Billerwell's big, old fashioned house just back of Chest nut drove and became aGreenvillian. Ile lived all alone by himself 'cept an old woman who did the house work, an old man who did the gar. den work, and he hail lots of money, though he scarcely ever gave any away, but if he wasn't free with his (iimes, he was a jolly, good fellow with bia apples and pears, and any boy might go into his orchard and eat. enough to give himself the stotn ach-itche if he'd only take off his hat and ask politely. I don't mean in words, cause uncle Jeff couldn't hear, no maller how loud you shouted, but pointing at the trees ami then at yourself, and smiling all the time. And he'd U t our club-the "Nim ble Sqnin els," we are-play bail?n tV; green I aek of his house two or three times a week, which used to m ike the " Kangaroos"-that's the other club-as mad as hornets, for it was thc A. No. l-est piece of green for ball playing anywhere around. The reason he was mud at tia Kangaroos was because tluir cap ttin, Bob Mudge, made faces at him once. "Oh crackey, I forgot. I thought it was near-eye-sighted he was," said B >\>. But it was a bad forget for him a id his fellows, for on that green tho kangaroos did not jump again for a bng, long time. Catch the Nimble Squirrels making fices at thc old man ! They were too smart for that. They'd say all sorts of queer .'lungs to him,.looking right at him, just for fun, you know, but they took good care to say them with their hats in their hands and a pleas ant smile. Thought I should die a-laughing the day Rc^ Wheeler Ul ai bi o\ fa W te I" di b< *! it ut Ol ai A: tt 'c fl j? et d ni d Ii li ii d a I fu a B w tl tl o a a t. P ei tl S h tl h g said to hlmf " Good morning, Egyp tian Mommy, Esquire," you see un cle Jeff was awful brown, n?ver'd got the scorch off since he was blown up, " and would you ibe kind enough to give me one homered np.d forly ?ine dollars and five cents? If you can't spare the rest I'll take the five cents and call it square. And oh ! may we burn down your house and barn? we haven't had a bonfire for ever so long?" " Yes, yea," said nncle JefT. He always said "yes, yes," or "no, no," and onco in awhile he hit, but often er he didn't. Ned Morningstar he was our cap tain. We'd always sing "I feel, I feel, I feel like a morning star," when we saw him criming and when he got there he'd join in-he could sing louder than any boy in school-and then we'd all take hands and dance 'round like mad. He was a splendid fellow, there couldn't be a bullier boy-captain in all the world and the Nimble Squirrels wouldn't have had any other not if he'd treated them b soda water every day of their lives. The Kangaroos' captain-his folks seep the drug store-treated hid ;rowd-there wasn't many of 'em ;o soda water once a week. His fath er let 1pm 'cause his mother said ie must. His mother is a great big vornan and his father isn't much big ger than I am. "They shan't go ahead of ns." aid Ned Morningstar when he he'jaid f it. " We'll have lemonade twice a reek." And we did. Ned brought the ?mons, and every boy sugared him alf, except little Al. Smith, who idn't any mother, and his aunt lock d up the sugar-bowl, so- I took a ouble allowance and went halves. Our captain w?g the Binar test boy i Green vii le. v-JIe was always in outing sQrj^etjSng, like. Sir Benjamin ?anklin and Isaac Newton, and lem-I "mean those other fellows, ho invented steam and lightning ad made apples fall when they want I 'em. ? never had any science into my ead. I'm good at ball-playing, run ing, swimming and skating, but I on't know much about " cranks," ad " valves,"and " feed-boxes," and levers," and " buffers" and "boil 's}'and all ti; \? sort ol thing, not d just like to have you mention ?mething in the way of machinery Ted don't know all about. He invented a telegram to run all ound the schoolroom. The four ?mer desks were the stations, and look messages first-rate, till one ty Young Jack-his real name's ick Young-was asking Short Jim -his real name's Jim Short-to give in a Madeira nut for a garter of i orange, when little Al. Smith, who ,t between the two last stations, fell F hiH seat, and Mr. Merrit, the acher, coming in a great hurry lo e what was the matter, stumbled rer the wire and came precioue near liing flat on his face. Jimmy ! dsn't he mad ? And as we couldn't II who got up the telegraph he sus jcted Ned, but Ned was home that iy-had the toothache, and that id enough, I hope-and we waau't joingtogive him away. We all ad our jackets dusted. But I guess hurt the teacher more than it did s, for there were eighteen boys in ar class, and he was a little man nyhow-almost as small as Dr. [udge-and not very strong, and it lok him nearly the whole afternoon, ept 'rithmetic, and the dust didn't y much from the last five or six .diets, either. Then Captain Morningstar invent 1 something to talk out of the will ow iu a whisper with a boy whose i ithei kept a pie and cake and can- j y and apple Blore 'round the corner, t was made out of two patty pans, tile tin things, you know, about six iches around and an inch and a-half eep, with the bottoms knocked out, nd oiled silk putin, and a fine strong ndia rubber string fastening them )gether, and-I forget what else, nd I suppose that's the whole secret ut, anyhow, Ned-he sat next the indow in summer time-used to rop one of these patty pans ont of ie window, when it was near ]2 clock, and the boy he'd come ainag nd ketch ahold of it and walk off few steps, so as to make the string tut, and then Ned'd whisper in his an, aud the boy M hold his to his *r and hear what Ned said, and then ie boy'd whisper back again, and fed'd hold his pan to his ear and ear what the boy said. But one day "Lemon Drops," lat's what we called the boy 'cause e always had one in his mouth-for ot to whisper. The captain had asked him, "What -have-yon-got-goori-to-day ? ^e didn't want to go out that noon, nd Ned meant to order some goodies i be brought to the gate. And he booted back as loud as he could-he lid afterwards he was looking at a ?onkey that was riding on a dogs' ack, with an organ grinder, coming p the road-just as Mr. Merrit; who ras hearing the history class said, What were the dying words ol ?ardi?al Wolsey ?"-" Currant tarts, blackberry pie, bully doughnuts, cin amon taffy, and gingerbeer!" As soon ashe'd hollered this, Lem on Drops was awful scared and ran oft' as fast aa his legs'd carry him, and his patty pan flew up when he] let go cf it aud smastfeu a pane off glass. But Ned hauled it in quick before the teacher got there, and Mr. Merrit thinks to this day that some rude boy, " out of malicious mis chief"-that's what he called it threw a stone and broke the window and made up a new Cardinal Wol sey's dying speech. And now I'm coming to the loco motive. I'd been lhere before only I th'.i'ght you fellows here in Wood bury would like to hear aomelhing about us fellows in Greenville, and that's the reason I stopped on the way. Well, the glorious Fourth was near and the Nimble Squirrels had boen saying like everything so as to have plenty of fireworks and a big new flag, we had lots of small ones, and Capt. Edward Morningstar had been busy on an invention that was to go Ahead-and you bet it did go ahead -of anything he'd ever in/ented be fore, and it was to make its trial trip it 2 p. m., July the Fourth, on Un ?le Jeff's green-we'd asked him on date and he'd said " Yes,", ami the Kangaroos wasn't to know an)thing iboutit for fear they'd stand outside md hoot. And if they had stood mtside and hooted the Nimbia Squir ela would have had to lick 'em, and hat wouldn't have been a nice way if apending " The anniversary of the lirthday of American independence." That's from Dr. Mudge's speech. They say Mrs. Mudge wrote it for tim. At last the day came and after ;o'd had our din'er and let o/f a sw firecracker4 and torpedoes just o get our hands in, we mel. on the reen. We'd Bent the drum and ags and fireworks down there the ay before. And Uncle Jen", he was lone-the old man and woman had one to their daughter's-and he tys, speaking in a voice like a bear's oice wrapped up iii a handkerchief : Boya, don't you hurt that young .e?," pointing to a little tree near legate. "That tree ia very val?a le and was sent to me from France ; nd don't go near the chicken coo] ir i nave^STJTTre-wry-rm? .^m iwla that ain't quite used lo the lace yet." We all filiook our heads as though e'd shake them off in sign we ouldn't, and then he went away nd sat down under an old apple tree nd lighted his pipe and began to ;ad the newspaper. In a few moments Ned Morning ar and Roy Wheeler came pulling p the road, wheeling something in a heelbarrow. It was all covered irer with brown paper, but. the N un ie Squirrels soon tore that oil' and lere was a locomntive. " The Ned [orning8tar Locomotive" was paint 1 on the flag which floated from it. It was a queer-looking thing >oked as though it might have been lade out of an old iron furnace, some >mato cans, two or three pokers and piece ol' stove-pipe. There was a ouble car behind it, a soap-box cut l two and then nailed together again mgthways, and in this car was a ozen packs of firecrackers. " Will she go ?" I asked the cap iin. " Go?" said he. " 1 guess you'll link so in a minute. A.tention ! jrapany. The Gie is now started, ie firecrackers are lit, and when I iv ready, be at the drum, wave the ags, send off some blue lighLs, and ell like wild Indians. Heady !" " Rub-a-dub dub" went the druin fiz z z" went the blue lights-bang ent the firecrackers. " Hurrah?" elled the boys, and oil' started the fed Morningstar locomotive. St raight ito the valuable young tree from rance abe w mt first, knocking it at; then over the finest game roos ir, who had run ont, thinking lhere as a tight, smashing him Hat ; then rider the chair on which Uncle elf. was sitting, taking the legs clean IF, and making the old man sit down ard on the back of his head, with is legs kicking wildly in the air, nd then through the kitchen will ow on to the kitchen Moor, where ne exploded with a noise like 750 rinnon. We boys started to run away, when be captain called out, " Nimble qnirrels, don't be cowards; ; come ack and face the music like men." ind we all came back 'cept little k.l. Smith, who was ru ming so hard hat he wouldn't stop himself until :e brought np against some black ber y bushes. Ami when we'd got back here stood'Uncle Jeff rubbing the tack of bia head and looking as though le'd woke up. " What was that noise ?" said he. " Noise ?" said Roy Wheeler, who lad more cheek than all the rest of ia put together ; "why, you queer dd man of t he aea, how did you know here was a noise?" And then he ihoook his head and said "there ladn't been a sound except thc game hickeiis crowing." "Oh! what a whisper!" said J." '^A whopper ! J should think so* j 1 aid^ncle Jeff; " aud young fellow," ef P< 0 lu cl *i ol m is SI fll tl: m ci is is tl w tc rc Ol ll? lb a lu tl r( hi fo fa in tl w t? N ii in tl ai S k S ai ii h fi u a taking Roy by - the ear, " don't you call me old man of the Beaagain." ' " Good gracious !" we all shouted, " he hears." "Yes, he hears," said Uncle Jeff-: " one shock took his ears away ami 'tether ^brings, fh^'m back 't?gaii?f when all the thTitore in the land couldn't." "The locomotive knocked down the tree," said Ned Morningstar, " Tm awful sorry, sir,','. " And it killed the biggest rooster," said I. " And it smashed the kitchen win- j dow and burst np in the kitchen, old man-nncle-I mean Mr. Jeff., said Wheeler. " And it gave me my hearin again," said the obi man, "which if worth all the French trees and game fowls in America. And now be oif,1, you young scamps, and come back iu^? two hours, bringing all your friends', md relations-" " The Kangaroos, too, sir ?" asked ?tile Al. Smith, who had got away rom the blackberry bushes, lea.ingi' i big piece of his trousers behind-gj|l mt we draped the big fl. g around mn 'till he got to my mother's, an ihe made it all riglit. " Yes, the Kangaroos, too, and I'll jive you a-Fourth of July party sucR us you never had before-scatter!" And he did. Jc^. cream d' it; lemonade--gallonsm it ; -pounds of it; bananas-hundre if 'ein ; oranges-hundreds of the oo. And OI'd Pop Van Lew to play he fiddle for ws, and the grandes? *. M' li.splay of lire-works at. 0 iii the evegF rig ever seen in Greenville, or uni ther " ville," to wind up with. li SOUTH AND WEST. Colored Man's Views Regarding ihh Negro Movement Westward. /" Mr. Jere. llaralson, (.he colored ea-, ongressman from Alabama, is ju? Washington, and has been interview* 1 by thc correspondent of tho Balti lore Gazelle, lu answer to a quej ?n as to whether the Kaunas ?xodos ?ver had reached his Slate as an lidemic, he said : ' No; it has not. There was^T rong feeling at one time among tho ilored people of Alabama to partied tte in the movement., but the white ?ople and especially the farmer&J i th that pledge good faith on thepaiU the whites they have become moi? ?teilied and determined to remain in leir native country, if they can be rot.ee ted before tho law and main .in their political rights. I am op jsed lo my race leaving the South. . is the proper place for the colored an. It. is the land of his nativity, id the mild climate of the South is ipecially adapted In his present iin weriahed and ignorant condition. ur race in I lie South are poor, and iven't the money to buy sufficient ofhitig and fuel to protect, them -ainsi, the cold and rigorous climate the Northwest. The negro will it thrive in a country where there no woods or timber. Even in the :nilh there is plenty of timber and iel. A colored man can can go into ie woods, cut down a few poles, itch him np a log cabin, daub the acks with mud, and in a week he as comfortable as a beaver. Here another thing that favors him in ie South : The long growing .sgasoiis e have enables him, if ho will work, i raise something to eat the year mud. [f a colored mini isindustri ls in the South and can be fairly ialt with by those who employ him r his labor he can manage to make living. On the other hand, when 3 enters the cold, bald prairies of ie Northwest he linds he has a hard ?ad to travel, with his color against ira. Il lakes the hardy and thrifty feigner, who has everything in his .vor, a long time to get a foothold i that country, with every advautage ie white race can give him. I think bile Congress is raising committees i investigate labor troubles in thc orth, it would bc well to extend the ivesligation lo tho Southern exodus ovement, and let the country know ie true caine of the disiat.islact.iou nong the colored people of the ontli. If it is political, lut it bj uown; if il is on account of local late rule then let it be corrected nd allow the colored race to rem tin i the. South on the soil where they ave been for the last hundred and fly years. I have opposed tue move lent, and warned my people^o look" nd think well before they acted." A GOOD LIV I'll s always known hy his appearance. A ian who lives comfortably at home, lins nod dinners, eb-., will always show it in is poison. Hut Uiore is another liver lore important to man-it is tho bad Iver-tho liver that should regulato the ,-hole system. If that is mit ol' lix, man < good for nothing -can enjoy nothing ?restore il. to health, use Dr. Gilder's aver Pills. A few ?loses will relievo nu. " Poverty is thc load ol' some," aid Augustine, " and wealth is the oad nf others, perhaps the grenier load if the two. II. may weigh them to lerdition. Pear the load of thy leighbor'fl poverty and let him bear rfth theo the load of thy wealth. Phou lichtenest thy load by) lighten DEBT. gp . I " ?ie nearest synonym for debt deah. Debt has some streaks !Jj/.;"i around ?ts dark mantle, loath. Debt represents the iructer. It may be a past fact ?rtheless, at the time when it was Jarred its victim hail character fins debt stands for something. It ^/he lowest possible condition to be jvjpoor to get in debt. The neit lasest, is to get in debt. The ?ighest ?ia?o be able to get in deb t and not Eft ii. It is like the ability to sin trh i ch argues great confidence on the partof the Creator, and which, u nae tu ali zed, argues great exaltation on the part of the creature. The happiest condition is, having been in debt to get out ?again-so you can feel that rib mar. has any claim against you ??at no man can justly' say, "I own a part of his life." Many a j dor soul ip these days of bad settlements, look lipon heiven as endowed with new Attractions in that there will be no debt there. The hirdest efrain on character is to be so incased in debt that which ever wat one turns he strikes against wine impassable wall. To beat about in such a cage, and be forever strug ?ling to do j ustice, and honor God, ind preserve integrity, is the highest o*"* of character. Brother, if you i?e overboard in mid-ocfai, it will ry your quality to swim your best -but God is developing you. Swim is long as you can, and God may ?ither send a ship or a whale to take rou up. If any land appears along he horizon anywhere, swim towards hat. It is not absolutely necessary hat you should reach it. It is ne* :es8ary that you should swim your jest. That will save character. It s not necessary for you to die, leay ng a good estate. But it is necessa ry that you should preserve perfect ntegrity. Poverty is not the worst hing in (he world ; sin is the worst ,hing in the universe. Make a dead ?ght to pay your debts, and keep ?our integrity. Don't lie' down. If 'ou are knocked down, that. is not rour fault. Don't dodge. If you are tit, accept it as a part of Providence. No man comes to his best develop nent of manliness till he has looked he wolf out of countenance. It is a ?oavy strain on your nerve, but it is u-e,of God's processes. n God's University, to whom is com rutted the perfecting of the Senior 31ass. The lessons are long and hardi mt that is the way ability is ma ureil. To live on short rations and habitu illy deny one's wife and children the usuries and comforts of life, because me's earnings justly belong to some tody who has had the confidence to end a helping hand ; to poise every ii vestment over the point of obliga ion to a creditor; to carefully study me's endurance as so much due to .nother, use it as trust fund in such a tray as te get the most out of it for mother ; to make a sixpence do the voile of a shilling; to explore every lenny for its last and utmost capaci ty ; to study how to do without binga; to learn how not to want binga-all these are the lessons in he h ghorclaases of God's University, brother, stand firm. The outer man nay shiver and tremble under these oads, but the inner man-the real nan-can grow strong and acquire a teauty that will break- out of the tard bud in the genial light of the irorld to come. Stand up to his raining, and when you have gradu ,ted, whatever men mav read on this ide of it saints and angels will read: Graduated with honor."-Exchange MRS. SPRAOUE'S APPEARANCE. Mrs. Sprague is by no means the ?eau ti l u I woman she used to be. She nu.st be now not far from forty-five rears old, although she looks much -ounger. She is medium height, say ?vc feet four or five inches, and of rery regular features. Her Lair is a lark auburn, waves a little and is rery abundant. Her complexion is? >f course, fair, and her eyes dark. 1er features are very regular, and 1er mouth pretty and full of white, ?egulur teeth. She used to be rather bin, but age is filling her up a little. [1er weight, I should think, about a lund red and forty. Her hands are rery symmetrical, and in public are il ways encased in white kids, fault ess in muke and fit-and about six mittons. She is always neatly, scru pulously and richly dressec?.-New York ?'un. IMPEACHMENT.-Goldsmith, the Comptroller General of Georgia, has been impeached by the Georgia House of Repr?sentatives for various crimes in his office, defalcation hoing one of them. H? is to be put on trial be fore the Senate and has employed a strong ari ay of counsel to defend him. The Legislature has also au thorized a sweeping investigation of all the State officials, as it is rumored that certain irregularities exist in some if not all of them. This seems to be a bad year for Democratic offi cials in the Empire State of the South. (Jo to Penn's for pure Satin Oloss Starch sud Turpentine Soap. Large lot always on hand. 24 THE FUTURE OP NEW YORK. Sanguine Americans confidently look forward to the day when New York will take the place of London as the centre of the world's commerce and exchanges. England, the London;. Times declared a dozen years ago> "totters at the apex of her greatness ;" and however that may he there is no doubt that we on this side of the water have so immensely the ad vant ?ge of every European State, in natu ral and undeveloped wealth, in cheap lands, in security from foreign wars ind complications, in nearness to the Central and South American and the Chines ' and Japanese markets, that if we do not fall a prey to the ignorance md ambition o? our political class we ?an scarcely fail with the return of a lew era of "good times" to gaina ouch greater hold on the commerce if the world than we have ever had. But it is not necessary to the growth if New York ?hat London and Liv irpool should decay. Our proper hare of the increased commerce of j f he world-that which will fall to us laturally if we only prepare for it md seize it-will make onr port one if the great centres of exchange, and o vastly increase its wealth and lopulation that even the most san ?uine present anticipations of its in labiUnta will be exceeded. But to ichieve that we need to do and to indo certain things, and it is to some f these that we propos.) to call pub ic attention. In the first place, if' we compare jondon and New York, considered a commercial ports, we shall see that few York is for the present mainly a fay station on the way to Europe. It B hardly a commercial or shipping entre at all. London is a very dli ?rent place; there are found not aerely the products of Great Britain tored for shipment to other conutries, ?ut the products of other countries ntered for consumption in^ Great Britain: so far New York is on a evel with London ; hut thal great ,nd real commercial port goes far^be pond this. In the miles on miles of warehouses, with conveniently ar anged docks, which constitute thc ?ort of Bondon, are stored for safe ceeping immense quantities of foreign iroducts from all the countries on fie ;lobe, waiting not for the mere de nand, but for reshipment to any *ui nf ry ffhiu^ihevare needed. There s no ?lay Hi . uleyinn-wm-n-?ren tan not find in London an assorted :argo, suited to the demand of any leople in tha world-a cargo consist ng not of British goods alone, hut. of he goods and products of all the principal nations. It is in this that jondon has so great and incalculable id vantages ever New York ; it is be cause in her warehouies are stored he products of all the world, that hips and merchants and capital and interprise are drawn to her, rather han to New York. In oar port a merchant or adven urer may gather, with some pains, a argo of some kind; in London he is ertain always of collecting with ase, cheaply and quickly, a cargo of ny kind he needs. The port of Lon lon is the gathering place for the .roducts of all climes and countries ; b ia their depot and distributing cen re ; they ship there, not to a market mt for a market; they store ?heir iroducts there becaae there they can ;etadvances; there is the chief be <tuse the widest market; because cean commerce needs such a central lepot, and London has arranged heap and safe storage for the whole rorld. Compared with the port of condon the port of New York is no etter than a retail place ; yet it has nany natural advantages for the es ablishment of a world-wide whole ale business. New York will not legin to be a rival of London until a aerchant or a trader in any part of he world may send his ship here, onfident that whatever he may want, nd no matter how varied his wants, hey will be filled from our ware houses, in quantities and qualities to aeet his wishes. That is the ideal of a really great eaport, and we are still far enough rom it. When we have begun to at ain it we shall be able to force the hips and the capital of all nations to :ome to us, as they are. now forced to 50 to London. But we are fortunate >ver our European rivals in the fact ve slull never need such solid and :ostly docks as London, Liverpool, Elavre and other European seaports require. Our water front needs no jreac outlay to fit it to receive great leets. What weare still without is an ?xtensive and well arranged system )f- warehouses adequate to the wanta )f a great seaport. But what we need in reality is the permission of the government to build such storehouses. There is a little section in the Revised Statutes, section 2,971, which ought to be en titled. " An act to prevent the growth of the port of Ne* York and force it to remain perpetually a fourth rale seaport." This act, slipped through Congrets in 18G2, in the midst of the war, by men who knew perfectly well what it mean', declares that "any goods remaining in public store or bonded warehouse beyond three 1 years shall be regarded as abandoned I to the government and sold under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may provide." Take notice that this little law ab solutely prevents New York from becoming a really great seaport. It probibita.' uniler penalty of confisca tion, the storage of goods in bond for longer than three years. It warns producers and traders all over the world that they must not make a de pot for their goods in New York, or in any other American port. " Bring your things here to sell if you like," it says to them ; " but you ehall not keep them on our premises waiting for a demand." The repeal of this absurd and ini quitous law would give opportunity to our merchants engaged in foregn trade to bring here return cargoes ind store them in bond to await a favoiable market. Now that Ameri ?ans begin once more to pay atten tion to ocean commerce it would open ;he way to them to make our port a lepot and warehousing place for goods rom all parts of the world, and this vould draw ships here, because they vould be sure of return cargoes. New York ought, of course, also to. femand some changes in the tariff, .t is of the utmost importance to our ?ty's future that the customs duties ihould be fewer iu number and lower n scale, and that the whole interfer mce of the government with foreign lommerce should be simplified. Only vhen this is done can New York be :ome the great seaport and commer ?ai centre which it ought to be. The ?levated railroad system is extremely mportanr, because it enables a great nultitude of people to Kv? on thia;, sland comfortably; but we ought lot to forget that back of that we nust provide inducements, in the vay of business, to draw these mul itudes to us.-Nao York Herald. A LOX DO IV BEECHER. The Rev, Newman Halla disgrace jucceeds Henry Ward Beecher's. ;At ;he age of G3, after a Christian min sky of 37 years, the London minis ter has brought a suit for divorce igain8t his wife ?oi\ adultery ; and Mrs. nail retorts with evidence,ac jusing her husband of the same crime. The course of the trial, now in pro gress in London, is beslimed with the same indecent testimony which dis graced the Brooklyn - scandal. The graphic summaries i's t h at ^e charges] nf both husband and wife have truth at the bottom. Newman Hall stood, is Henry Ward Beecher did in thia country, the best known clergyman )f the independent denomination, at lome or abroad. Ile came to this ?ountry ten years ago, and gathered money to build, as a part of a new ?difice, a " Lincoln Tower," the visi ble sign in London of American sym pathy in his work.-Springfield Re mblican. A BO? KILLED Bl HORNETS, A special dispatch from Poughkeep u'e, N. Y., says : An extraordinary and fatal event >ccurred at Hyde Park, Dutchess bounty, about 10 o'clock this morn ng. Charles E. Jewell is a New i'ork policeman, who moved from his city to New York, and resides tt No. 224 East Twenty-fifth street. [Iis family consisted of himself and vile and one child, a boy ten years >f age, named Tillson Jewell. The utter has been spending his vaca ion with his grandmother, near 3yde Park. This morning, while he men were pressing hay in the >arn, he climbed a small tree in the rard to pick apples. He had been n the tree only a few minutes when ie was heard to utter a terrible cry, md was seen to jump to the ground ind ru>h toward the house holding loth hands on the top of his head, md littering pierceing shrieks. His grandfather hurried from the barn, ind, catching him, asked what the natter was. His shrieks could; be leard a long distance, and between mern lie shouted in the most agon zing manner, "Oh! I'm stung ! I'm jtuug!" The boy was taken into the douse and laid upon a lounge. His attendants had much trouble in tear ing bis hands from his head, but they finally succeeded, when it was dis covered that he had been terribly stung by hornets. He died in hali un hour. The affair created much excitement in the neighborhood. The lad's father reached here from New York this afternoon, and the mother arrived this evening. DATES.-The South tells us that the Savannah (Ga.,) papers of last season reported dates in the market successfully raised in that State. If the South has not Hecn swallowing a "fish story" from these Savannah pa pers the tiates were evidently raised in a green house, for the date palm is not hardy in any part of Georgia. We have it growing, but not fruiting, in the latitude of Mobile, and in or der that it may do even this much for us we are laid under the necessi ty of taking it in every winter. The jujube, which would be hardy in southern Georgia, bears a fruit that ?B some times, though improperly, called "dates"-possibly it was to this that the Savannah papers had reference. THE HYPODERMIC SYRINGE. MORPHINE UNDER TUE SKIN. Experience or a Victim of the Needle Nosed Syriuge. "How didi ever cure myself of the opium habit?" said aman a little more than thirty years of age to a News reporter this morning. " First, I'll tell you how I got into the way of using the drug. I didn't use opium itself, mind you, but mor phine, the active principles of opicm. I took it hypodermically, under the skin-that is, morphine in polution was injected into my arm. You never had inflammatory rheumatism, per haps? Well, I have, and when a man has that he'll jnmp at anything for'relief. Five years ago I began the use of morphine by sub-cutaneous injection. I never used the little needle-nose-1 syringe, myself, but the soothing fluid was always injected by my physician. At first it was given me two or three times a week under the skin of my arm, bot ic was no great while nntil the syringe came to be used that soften each day, and I became a slave to the drug. I was gloomy, despondent, worthless, except when under the influence-V. the opiate, and when charged with it waa quite as worthless, as the. rosy visions that followed its use were accompa nied by a languor and listlessness that.; made me utterly averse to all exer tion. My right arm (for that matter my left arm also) has been so closely punctured with holes from thesyringe point that you couldn't lay a quarter down_on_m?_arm anywhere without touching twn oFTrTfn-iin ji r,B the morphine inflamed the flesh wherever incision was made. " Women who use morphine hypo dermically have th J fluid injected under the knee-cap. This is for the reason lHal they do not like to dis figure their arms. Two months ago I determined to go to Hot Springs, Arkansas, to see if I couldn't boil the morphine out of my system, and . undertake some treatment that would cure me of the habit. I was a slave to morphine. It had completely enerv ed me, and ruined me for everything, Cured of rheumatism, I had acquired in its stead the opium disease, opio phagy, Dr. Charles E. Wright calls it, which was infinitely worse. When T left here for the Hot Springs my "**ftMrBV^ iftuY?a<>^ me to take a BO?U Xl?n di m?Vpliiue uiuug a hypodermical syringe. I did so, but resolved not to use it until the last extremity. Do you know that the craving for liquor is not to be compared with the insatiate desire that a moiphine-vser has for his nep enthe ? On the cars, on my way to the springs, I suffered terribly, I re solved not to use the opiate, but as I neared my destination my sufferings increased. People on the cars who saw my writhing (for my limbs be came contorted and my teeth grated together) thought me a madman. Finally I could hold out no longer. With great difficulty I bal ed my arm, and with unsteady hand jobbed the syringe into it. I stuck a vein, or an artery, I don't know which. The blood spurted across the car, three or four women fainted, and several men rushed forward, thinking it suicide. You have no idea of the shock that went through me as the fluid entered the vein. Flash after flash of sear ing, blinding light shot across my eyes, and from1 my heels to the top of my spinal column went an electric like current that seemed to burn as it ran. In five minutes I felt myself again-that is, my old morphine self -but I once more res jived to rid my self of the bondage even if my life went out in the effort. When I got to the springs I put my hypodermic solution and the instrument aside and began taking baths. I don't know if they did me any good or not. I don't know anything that occurred during the next ten days, except that I suffered a thousand deaths. I had every pain and ache that almanac ever told of. Morphine is a drug that the entire system grows to and as. similate8 with. If you deprive your self of it after it has become necessa to you, you suffer the tortures of the damned. I had but one thought in my mind in all those terrible days to free myself from the drug. I did it, and thank God for it. Do you see my hair, bow gray it is ? Not one man in a thousand, I've been toidi could do what I have do. Sev eral physicians to whom I have told my experience look on me in wonder. They say my nerve is unequalled. That may be, I only know $50,000 wouldn't hire me to undertake the experience of those ten days again." -Indianapolis News. Cured of Drinking. " ? young triend ef mine wa* cured of an insatiable thirst for Liquor, which had so prostrated him that he was una ble to do any business. Ho was entirely cured by the use of Hop Bitters, lt allayed all that buming thirst; took away the appetite for liquor ; mad? his nerves steady, and he has remained a sober and steady man for more than two years, and has no desire to re tu rn to bis cups; I know of a number of others that have been cured of drinking by it."-From ? loading R. Iv Official Chicago, Ills. 2t 37 A fresh lost of pure Virginia Leaf To bacco, just received, price reduced, at 2* PENN'S DRUG STORE. .