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JOHN E. BACON & THOS. J. ADAM
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VOLUME
For the Advertiser.
RrE -OIR.T_
The Hospitality of Her Citizens.
ROW A' AT TUE BATTERY.
IN THE PHOSPHATE BEDS
AMONG TEE C0SVI3TS.
A Pair of Edgsfisid Trumps.
GUAP.I.FSTIN, Jtnly :?('?, ioSl. j
Tu the "up-country man", as they
call us, lom imagine no more pleas
urable reaorj in mid-summer than
Charleston uni Sullivans Island,
with their invigorating sea breeds,
* 3?Hgbtftrl sari and artesian baths,
magnificent drives aud promenades,
beauti?r.l ?!o'.ver garden*?, splendid
fountains, and. best of all, their cour
teou? and hospitable citizens; ' Wel
come'' is tHe greeting to the stronger
here; and ho is indeed a Granger to
every kimlly impulse whose . heart
does not respond in gratitude to the
open handed hospitality of our neigh
bors hy. th'' Sea.
Notwithstanding there i.-; nt pres
ent a scarcity of visitors, yet many
neop?c from the interior of 'he State
may be met ev-ry afternoon, leisurely
promenading the stregl?, or quietly
sitting ni ''?er the shady oaks at the
Battery; calmly contemplating old
oci KU'S wonders, as tire tidal waves
SSfi majestically on and play tamil-1
iarly in the lap ot' earth.
At this seaspu our landlord caters
'?noil to so many guests a? when the
leaves hud or when they ?ali, yet he
does ii with exceeding grace; and is
so solicitons for your welfare that he
invariably sees to it that you fare
..well. Indeed a glimpse at the e.irly
market will convince the most Skep
tical that no one goes hungry in
Charlea-i!. Fat beef, mutton, pork, J
neh stil-1 floundering on ice, fowls of j
various kinds, every variety of vege
table known to our favored clime, and
i?ffljryfKii?fcj.fw?m every part of the
world, line either side of the great
marktf iiotise. Whni ever eise is
needed to serve the inner man can, I
am informed, be found wli?re liquids
are usually dispensed, aud I am told
too thnt the distance between these
'v . ? -.-<.- BO errent .. iint opej. like- 1
?jj f V grow tn'.rs ty on the way "side-1
Thi ? muon for Charleston. And yet
? refer ra fi business point of view her
in?erest? are lagging. Notably the
large wholesale houses that adorn
Hayue Stree! arc mostly vacated, and
fcae tbrff iiig -tiadf that a few years
since g.-. ve this part pf the city auch
prominence has vanished/. Vacant
business houses are too pited found in
ot.ri.--r parts ol the city also. All this |
could be greatly remedied ii lier good
>citi/.2iis would only extend us a little
.more aid in the completion of the
.Edgefield, Trenton and Aiken flail
road, thereby throwing a great influx
of trade directly under her control, j
milich ? is by existing circumstance*
divested from its natural ehannel into
.other quarters.
The great backbone ol Charleston j
now, and th.: which affords employ- ?
3ii?nt to thousands ol her people, a ?
sife investment foi hi ;. capital, a roy-1
al ty to tiie .^tare, ,.:.d ? benefit to
mankind generally, is the phosphate J
indus;ry. which is simply immense, i
As ? description of the piocess oft
mining and preparing this ii iportant j
factor of oar fertilizers for market? I
any un new, p?rhaj H interesting |
t'lttftrrj" fri you: readers, i will ven- j
iure to- give a brief but impeifect
?ketch of The operation as coi.ducted
by our enterprising Trentou neigh- <
hors,MesarslCahill & Wise, who have I
haualed ia the last year over $100,-1
Ulli.? worth ol the raw material, an 1 :
have .now lying at their whorl over'
?J,?()0 tons, worth, ar tue present val- j
uation at least $30.000. Those are
no less personages than our genial
"Mon" of mercantile lame, ami jolly !
John Cahill, who has invested in rail- !
read-, and ;anr.?--, and jug?, and every '
manlier of thing ?rc:.; which his inde- j
fatigable energy anti thrift could
squeeze an honest penny-not for the j
love ol holding on to the iilthy lucre,
however, but merely for the fun of
making and circulating it, that the
bear's'ol others might be made glad
Three years ago he went to Charles,
ton with ' very littlp mon y-, if any
in Fact, none,'' but armed with an in
comparable will-.? never yielding
resolution-he ?.digged .nd digged,
sometimes up. somet?c down, ai
pendulumil were, "twixt, a smile
and a tear," but always hopeful, al- j
ways buoyant, and always workingA
lill now thc scales bf inri une turn de- :
ser ved i y in his favor.
The kind of work done by these
gentlemen may !?. denominated' sur- ;
Ince mining, aa contradistinguished ,
from another large branch of the same j
industry operate:! by dredge l>o>ds j
with appliances by which the rock is
taken Iront the river bed. Xor do j
they p.iy u royalty t? the State, ae do j
the river miners, for, as the property
opon which they work is owned by ;
private parries, the royalty of course j
got* to Lem.
Their work? are situated directly
on the Ashley, arni about fi treen miles
from the city. We reached thei
taking the morning train on tl
C. P.. R., to a station ju.stopposit
works, and four miles distant. 1
four miles were quickly driven
splendid double buggy, behind a
of spanking trotters. Our fr
John "controlled the ribbons,"
as we sped like lightning througl
beautiful forest, the tall trees, dr
in dark moss, saluted ns grace!
John prides himself on his drr
he does drive feat and aB he loi
sour that morning, and is larger
either the Major or myself.through
alone we loudly praised him, but
distance we do not" hesitate to
that as a driver Blind Tom wi
outrank him, as every stone
stump in three feet of the road
testify.
"The works," with its vast mac
ery, four miles of iron railroad, st
houses, stockade, and other neceei
outbuildings, presents the appear?
of a busy and prosperous viii
The "pits" extend out for sev
miles, and an it is here the work c
menees, we will go there at unce,
follow it up. The phosphates, <
sisting of phosphate rock and pi
plmte hones, are found in strata wi
extend outward from the river
some distance and are situated f:
two to five feet, and often at a grei
distance from the surface of
ground, while occasionally they
found immeciately on the surf*
They are from a few inches to sev<
feet in thickness. To ascertain whf
er the rock exi?ts in conveni
depths from the surface, and in st
cient quantities to juetily mining,
soil is probed by a sounding r
The locality for operations being i
termined upon, the work commen
by assigning each miner a pit five
twelve feet in extent. Where ?
laborers are employed, they rece:
for mining each pit from 20 to
cents perpendicular loot, earning e
i ly from $3 tc $1 25 per day. ?p
one side of the pic the earth ie thnr
out until the rock is reached, whi
is thrown upon the opposite side,
much voil adheres to the rock that
a casual glance it seems to be clods
dirt, without any apparent yali
This roflk is now thrown into ti
dumps, and conveyed by horse pow
along the railroad until it reaches tl
washer, when it is dumped .into a bc
some twenty feet in \ len^tk--throng
wmcflH?" l??g^ cylindically shape
shaft revolves horizontally. Th
shaft is set with a great number
immense tl at iron teeth, which are i
ai ranged-siter the manner of threa<
on a screw-as to Le constantly mo
mg the mass of rock slowly towan
their place of it. In the meantin
the same steam engine which Bery
to keep this part of the machinery i
rnotiou, also operates a powerful fon
{itimp which distributes the wat(
through various apertures in the pij
ing, and at points equally dietar
along the shaft, at the rate nf fiftee
hundred gallons per minute, so thf
the rock receiving this tremendon
force and volume of water is, by th
time it leave1 the washer, as clean a
if each piece had been boiled am
saud papered. Tt is now thrown int
the common pile, and awaits the ai
rival of some boat, which landing a
the company's private wharf, no
more than one hundred yards din
tant, is quickly loaded by dumps ran
ning upon an inclined tram road re
cently built by Captain Bellinger, o
your town. The boat delivers tin
rock to the grinding mills, which liki
the mills of the gods "grind slowly
but exceedingly small." Here wi
lose sight of it uni.il spring, when i
comes to our farmers in the shape o
guano, creating the biggest rush am
the greatest stench on earth.
Besides the irea laborers employed
Messrs. Cahill tv Wise have nearly i
hundred State convicts., who, it mn^i
be said injustice io these gentlemen
are well treated, well fed and clothed
well physiced, and moderately work
ed. They look fat and hearty. There
is no sickness amongst them, and ac
eommodations lor their wants and se"
curity are most ample. A stockade
constructed by plank and pickets
eighteen feet high, encloses a build
ing of sufficient capacity f .omiorta
b!y accommodate more than two hun
dred persons. It is well ventilated
with t wenty-four large windows filled
with sash, and, in winter, is heated
by A large heating stove. A cooking
stove, of dimensions sufficient ior 2-r)0
people, cooks their rations, and a
stream of water, issuing from a well
through the force pump, runs contin
ually ia a trough through the nclo
sure. A five acre garden, under the
personal supervision of Msjor Wise,
has been well seeded and thoroughly
cultivated, and despite the drouth
that has pievailed in that section, has
been made to yield an abundance of
substantial vegetables. Peas, greensf
bacon and corn-bread formed the con
victs bill of fare when I was there
i
with beef every other day; and all
this is given in quantities that would
seemingly satiate the most ravenous
appetite. These fellows are lucky
indeed to have fallen into hands so
generous and humane. Some of them
are "trusties," aud are free from
shackles id other painful ?vidences
of crime. One of them is chief engi
neer, another supervises the washing
machine, and still another drives :
double buggy,-?nd that too in a rn,
ner that betokens' less jeopardy to '.
and limb than when his big maa
holds the reins.
Yonrs truly, ERE*. FOX
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For the Advertiser.
Ali Artie Ie Which Deserves Not Ol
Heading, Bet Careful study am
heriots Befiection.
EDITORS ADVERT?SEP..-lu thi
times of awakeniu|*fwhen the Sot
is said to be assuming her new ga
and consequently the grest questi
of education ia beconirigof such wi
importance, there certainly is o
thing that ought to be brought pror
nently before the minds of our co
munity, and especially the you
men and boy? who live in and abc
oui village; and that is the evidt
and indisputable need of a Tub
"Reading Roora and Library in o
town.
Let every observant person re
j the signs of the times, and he w
i find that with all our boasted pat:
j otism and spirit in the fierce politic
campaigns that have swept over o
State, we are beyond a don ht in t
rear guard of the rapidly advanci:
civilization around us, as regar
public tone, sentiment end esprit
corm. And those of ns who are o
enough can recall the days whi
Edgeiield had the finest bar in t]
State, when ehe led society, and se
forth some of the very best represe
tative men of South Carolina. Co
trast those days with the state of h
affairs now. See her citizens divid?
into cliques and '.lana, the inevitab
consequence of the absence of cnltur
the restless and degrading characl
of her young men; and her youth ai
boys growing up in absolute ign
rance. Where such facts force then
selves upon us, it is time ropause an
to freebie for the future. This is r
croaking.
The beauties and benefits of a Rear
ing Room in a little town, every hon
est and fair minded man trill ad m i
Eut the possibilities of establish in
one lie not in talking and writin
about these, but in going about in th
right way and succeeding. There
fore the appeal comes directly to th
young men to put their shoulders f
it, for it is very much to be feare<
mat o?r'oideT" mt?zen?f "liave' falle!
into ft lethargy as it were, and hav
drilled into themselves certain effet
and decomposed ideas which must no
be appealed to. For speak to then
on the subject, and every one wil
say: "What an excellent thing i
would be, but then you can*! get. u]
such a thing in Edgefield." Well
how are we to ever do anything i
such notions are pr?valent '.' It. is ?
noted fact in the history of our town
sinee the war, that it is almost nex
to an impossibility to keep up a goof
school more than one. year, at the ni
most two. Right hore too when
there ought to be one of the very hesi
academiea in the State.
The i.attirai consequenee ol sricl
management, ia that most of our boy?
get. an extremely meagre srhool edu
cation. Then they go to work, and
argue that if they can make enough
to live on and have good time, that ii
sufficient Hence the indifference 01
the clerks, merchants, farmers and
others to such a movement as we pro
pose. To say that they can't derive
any benefit from it, is simply an ab
surdity. To say that they havn't
money or time, is equally absurd and
foolish, for the time and money which
the majority of the young fellows in
the village throw away playing pool
billiards, gassing, etc., &c.t could be
far more profitably employed in keep
ing up with the current and leading
ideas and issues, as found in the best
newspapers and magazines. And
then too, they would get moie of the
real essence o? life, more real enjoy
ment in an hour's reading every day
tthau all of the excitement and so
called pleasures which they go there
with.
li, therefore, education is the great
est blessing, and the great essential to
human existence, as well as true en
joyment, and ii. furthermore, a pub
lic Reading Room furnishes wonder
ful facilities at comparatively little
expense, for men of all ages and the
humblest mind, what can be possibly
argued against it, and why in the
name of common sense can't we es
tablish one in our village-' If we
cant, then we are bound to believe|
although it is a deep refection upon
us, that it ie purely from general
"cussedness."
The plan is simple and easy, if ten
or a dozen persons wili go at it in the
right spirit, viz: Organize, have an
Executive Committee, a Secretary
and Treasurer (both in one) and a
Reading Room Officer, who shall at
tend to all mail matter, and be alone
and to all correspondence. One of
the empty room;- in the Advertiser
building could be eaeily procured.
Snbecribe to many of the leading pa
pers aud magazines and have them
on file. The subscription list would
gradually increase, and a library be
gun. Perhaps two or three of onr
rich fellow citizens would give a neat
amount to start with. It would only
rost each member, at the outside. $?
n year, and surely we could all afford
that for the benefit we would derive.
Right in our sister town Abbeville,
only a little larger than Edgeiield,
the young men have besides au ex
cellent Reading Room and Library, a
Literary Society, and what is the re
luit ? The admitted fact that Charles
ton and Abbeville lead the State in
.society, culture and intelligence?
This was the position- of our own an
cestors; then
"Why not the self-same mould
Bring forth the self-same man?"
It remains with us; we must keep
abreast with the timee; ?nd to do this
we must, every boy ann man, read
and digest the current ideas, &c., ?fcc.
Aristotle has well said; thousands
of years ago, that "all who have med
itated on the act of governing man
kind, they realized that the fate o?
empires depende on the education of
the youth." We are living in a
Democracy, and the great beauty of
our government ?fl that learning and
Democracy are coupled together as
twin sisters. The rudest soil is? soft
ened by learning and enthroned by
Democracy. We can all aim high?
and take hope and encouragement,
for learning makes the humblest
mind worthy to sit on a throne. De
mocracy places if there. Learning
would elevate man through Democ
racy. Democracy would elevate man
by learning. This their noble emu
lation we must all recognize, and
above all believe that nothing in the
heaven above or the earth beneath is
of real value that doe? not contribute
to the welfare oi and elevation of
man. We must away with that per
nicious doctrine that can be seen
creeping into our very midst: "Every
man for himself and the devil take
the hindermost." What an existence.
We must help others and thus help
ourselves. People will talk a great
deal abont such things, l?ut a lick
must be hit somewhere and thia ?B
done. PHO BONO PUBLICO.
The Gary Memorial Committee*
The second meeting of the Gary
Memorial Executive Committee waa
held in the Court house on Monday,
the 1st instant. Hon. Geo. D. Till
man called the committee to order,
and the Secretary, Capt. L. Charlton,
r. ad the proceedings o? the last meel
injU?fc?sb-jff**' .. '.d.v.-.'.--i.. -
Reports o? Committee? wer? iden
called for, und Capt. ?'harlton, Chair
man oi the Commit tee on Photograph^
road a number of letters from artiste
in Augusta, Columbia and Aiken.
Mr. Peete, of Aiken proposed to fur
nish 500 life size photographs, 20 by
24 inches, at ?n.2? apiece. This
proposition WHR favorably considered
and the Secretary wan instructed to
invite that gentleman io meet the
committee at its next session on the
first Monday in September.
The committee on the publication
of a memorial ?olnme asked for fur
ther time to report which was gran teil.
The following named gentlemen
were then appointed as canvassers for
their respective townships to solicit,
and collect funds:
Washington-W. lt. Merri wether
Evan Morgan.
Talbert-John !.'. Talbert, NV. P.
Martin.
Cooper-W. 1?. King. M. A. Wat*
pon.
Wards- B. E. Nicholson, Mark
To ney.
Wise--I. C. Swearengin, 0. F.
Cheat ham.
Colliers-W. E. Prescott, W. L.
McDaniel.
Merri wether-Dr. H. A. Shaw, J. j
W. Bunch.
Norrie-.r.C. VVJUHOU, F. F. Wise.
Mobl.-v-H. F. Watson, Thomas
Whittle.'
Huiet?-lohn B. Davis, Belton
Davenport, A. P. West.
Blocker-Capt. helix Lake, Jr., J.
R. Beall.
Rinehart-J. G. Etheridge, F. M
Trotter.
Collin? - O. F. Ciilbreath, A. J.
White.
Mo?:-A. li. Nicholson, H. Hill.
Pine Grove-J. S. Srnyly, J. A.
Holland.
Coleman-Gary Coleman, Charles
Carson.
The following r?solution wan then
unanimously adopted:
Rewired, That each member of the
Executive Committee o? the Garv j
? Memorial Fund in Edgeiield County, ?
: be earnestly requested at once either :
to appoint two canvassers for his j
Township and report their uames to I
Capt. Charlton, Secretary ol the Com
mittee, or to decline the position o?:
member of the Executive Committee
i to which he has been appointed in or
j der that the organization may be per- i
; fected.
: The Committee then adjourned to '.
meet again on the tirst Monday in
i " . ' _ - -- - - 1
September, at D'? o'clock in the fore
noon.
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So Good Preaching.
? No man ctn do a goori job ol work,
! preach a good sermon, tty a law snit
I well, doctor a patient, or write a good
? article when he feels miserable and
j dull, with sluggish brain and unsteady
j nerves, and none should make the
I attempt iii such a condition when it
j can he flo easily and cheaply removed
j by fl little Hop Ritters.- Alham?
limen
For the Advertiser.
The Peterson Memorial Kum!.
MR???. EMTOR.S-Will you pleas?
allow i$j a small space lu your col
umns, fe give a synopsis ol our last
Confeitfce Meeting at lied Bank
Baptia?C'hurch, on lfdh of .Inly, the
object tf which was to take into con
sid?r?t! >n the erection of some suita
ble moonal to our departed and
highlyjjesteeraed Brother, the Rev
das. FfPeterson.
At ^previous meeting a committee
had b#n asked from the churches to
whicl;|Bro. Peterson had ministered
in theja.?t, to join with us. lu re"
.sponeefo this invitation, the follow
ing woe present: From flood Hope,
Bro. (?Lewis; Chestnut. Hill, Bro.
W. W'hidom; Mt Zion, (Newberry)
Bro. I C. Stewart: Rocky Creek,
Bro. t. S. Allen; Ridge Spring, Bio.
--jj-; Salem, Bro. H. A. WU.
liamflll'ine Pleasant, Bro. N. N. Bur
ton.
Bra Ihren Lewis, Owdom, Allen and
Williaps marlo feeling remarks as to
the pppriety of erecting a suitable
monufceni over the remains ol this
true 'Soldier of the Cross."
Br<?J>nrJLOu moved and it was car
riedj^fint we a?k the chnrclies here
repre&nted to join with us in trying
to raife $100, with which io carry out
our ofject.
Mellon, by Bro. W. S. Allen, that
a co.f?pittee of live be appointed in
thieil-jurch, to ne known as the "Pe
terairWemorial Committee:" carried.
Afton, by Brother Burton, thal, a
comrjrttee be appoint ed in each of the
eevell chu relies here represented ro
repc?tu the ..Peterson Memorial
ComhlHee" at this church on our
Confluence Meeting day in October
nex?^
Ciamitlee ol' five, iu accordance
witlyaotiou ot Bro. Allen: James A.
Cantu, Chairman; Jos. H Edwards,
Tretiarer; Jas. H. Watson: John F.
Darjel, Secretary; Benj. F. Lewis?
Cor|y--.ponding Secretary. Sub-corn
mitffe ol' ladie.s lo co-operate with ns.
MrfirLouifla Watson, Mr?. Belle Pad.
getters. Octavia Wright, Miss Fan
nie ?ennings.
I?s understood that this Commit
tee gois forth to collect what money
they on towards the "Peterson Me
moriH?FunJ.
i Aja^ribution, however gvi-?t?
T?Trff^^small, nom a ri y brother or
si?:> ? our own, ot ot other denom
inaran, or from friends, member? ol
no c ch, who ?eei a kindly interest
ino; objet t, will he thankfully re
ceiv. 1 J.vo. F. DANIEL, Sec'y.
M sr. Ci;Julv i?-~>, 1.9S1.
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THK M K?IH\<; KIN ii.
X
VI hy tilt- S)iubolir .Marriage Hon il Hu
PaA?c?! Into Disuse in the West,
M I .Vi ". Yovl; 'i'hih**. ;
Th er* is manifested in .-onie parta
of the West a desire to abolish the
wedding ring. This is not strange.
The wedding ring has been a lr nit lu J
sonre? ol woe? unnumbered, which j
any heavenly goddess might sing with |
great applause should she ?eel sn dis- ;
posed. Tales ol i he inmost honor j
have been told ni the bridegrooms,
who, AI. the moment when^tha cler
gyman pannes for ilie ring to be pro
duced,-cannot find it. Nothing has
ever shown half so much skill in self- j
concealment as the wedding ring, lt i
will hide in the corner of a waist- j
coat pocket in such a manner aa to
defy discovery, and il will I tans]?ort
itself from one neckei to another*
thus compelling the bridegroom to
ransack.every one of thirteen distinct ;
pocket-. Nervous men-and who is j
not nervous when personally under- i
going the marriage ceremony?-Ire- j
nuently drop the wedding ring on
the church floor, where it will roll ?
the entitjr length of the building to
conceal 'itself in some inaccessible
crack. Sometimes it. finds or makes
a hole in'the pocket, by means of
which it penetrates into the interior '
of the bridegroom's clothing, and ;
even in tomlin boots; so that ii is .-juite j
a common occurrence for a wedding j
to be interrupted while the bride- \
groom retires behind the pulpit and
devotes hitit an hour to searching for .
the ring and to getting his boots on
again. Aft men are t^ !y mar
ried :n new hoots, ? .1 new hoof
when once remo'' ..-innot always '
he dragged on iii without boot- :
hooks, the wedding guests are some
times treated to the spectacle of a
bridegroom going through the last
half of tita ceremony with une boot
in its projet- place ami the other held
in his iel'uhand. There was a time
when the careful Western man al
ways kept1 the wedding ring in his
mouth iinUj the clergyman railed for
it, but thij custom has now fallen in
to dianne. Fastidious clergymen and
brides, who had conliacted the con
ventional ajeas of the ISast, objected
to the nselcpi a warm, nioiat ling.
Moreover, ia hie embarrassment the
bridegrootfyoften failed lodisUngniab
between tta ring and his tobacco,
and lound, when it waa loo late, 'hut
he had-thai is, to say, that the nug
wa* missing. Thou, too, theie were
several unfortunate bridegrooms who
unintentionally swallowed wedding
rings, and thus laid themselves open
to miecoustiuctiou. Theie was one
! man, reported to he of miserly hal
! who, doubtless inadvertently s^
I lowed a wedding ring known to b
considerable value, and choked
death in the process. This wc
naturally have seriously inconvi
enced the bride had not her broth
-two practical men-been pres?
With great presence of mind
brothers removed the choked bri
groom to thc rear of the chin
where they recovered the ring w
with their hunting knives, and pr<
ing au eligible, young man into
service, enabled their sorrowing
i ter co be happily married, after a
! lay of only ten minutes. Still, c
? instance like this does not comp
?sate for the many cases in wh
swallowed rings have produced s
I feting and inconvenience, and it
j no wonder that the custom ol" ho
: ing the ring in the month has beco
obsolete.
! The freedom of divorce which p
vails in many of our States must
evitably render the wedding ring t:
p'pular. Every time a wife is ?
vorced she naturally wishes to ta
oil' her ring. If it is made .-rn
enough to rsniain safely on the il
ger, it is very apt to become so tig
at the end of tr;o or three months
matrimonial felicity that it cannot
removed. Hence, with a view
contingencies, the Illinois wife alwa
Ima her ring made several si/es t
large for her, and keeps it in pla
with a smaller riug, technically knov
as the guard-ring. It. iv evideti
hov,ever, that that guard-ring is li
ble to beco m 3 permanently lived <
the linger, so that this device, .sp
cious as it may appear, is really ne
lees. The only remedy ia to abo]if
wedding rings altogether, and
omit from the marriage ceremony ?1
allusion to the ring.
The wedding ring is a survival
the period when marriage was hel
to be a sacrament, and was suppost
to be of eternal duration. Now thi
we have rejected ?his belief, an
hold that marriage is a business a
fair, a temporary partnership, tl
impropriety of clinging to the syn
bolic ring is manifest. In the plat
of it, the Western reformers now pn
pone to substitute a neat and inc:
pensive bracelet, made so as to at
mit of a do/.eu modifications of pal
tern, and thus suited io be used ha
a dozen different limes. It is to I
placed 011 the bride's wrist the da
belore i he wedding, so as to avoi
all chance of its being mislaid, an
the wedding service is to be change
iu sucii a way that, in-lead of men
Mouing a l ing, the clergyman wi I
merely refer to ''the bracelet annex
ed to the bride, and marked 'Exhibi
A." Being provided with s clasp
the bride cnn take the bracelet of? ai
any time, and as ir not very vnlnfl
bio intrinsically, the husband is sav
e>! ?rom th? temptation of melting i
down ami selling ii the week ?tfte
marriage. Ii seems as it this ad mir
able substitute for the wedding rin;
would meei all reasonable demand;
Hint we may expect to see it uni ver
sally adopted throughout the Wes
a? R very early day.
"Let'" strip the light fantastic toe,
said the chiropodist to his patient.
Two heads are better than one 01
a letter thru weighs over hali ai
oun e.
Conundrum fiends should be sen
to the remote lecesaes ol Ihe Why-i
Mountains.
The lion is generally regarded ai
the king 01 beasts, but the Romani
call the ox i he laos.
The feet 0! mo-r persons swell more
or less on warm days; hence the tern:
good corn weather.
The quickest way lor s man tc
prove himself insane is to make a will
that doesn't suit hie relatives.
The man who went to see the boan!
fence retired when he heard the fpnc
rail and saw the plank walk.
There is a tme .saying thal thc
bnng-holc of an unthrifty man's bar
rel is where the spigot ought to be.
When a thiel steals five cents he
doest! t think half the dime that some
day perhaps old nickel get him.
From the prices that, some physi
cians charge ono can readily imagine
har high heal? are fashionable.
Girls, don't think a fellow is a gen.
tleman because lie gives you a polite
bow. Rowers are always knaves, so
ti euoher player informs iwr.
A niau who asserted last week that
; the world owes him a living was cor
rect. Ile is now pulverizing stone in
; the work'hou?? ten hotit> a day to
' collect the hill.
Now the chowder's in the pot, and
i the day? ara gelling hot, and weall
begin to swelter with a s Welt, .-weir,
J swelt. While the crimflQU, lemonade
through a straw enchants the maid,
who displays il bunch ol ?lowers at
: her bell, bell, belt.
I: you want tu get the reputation
ot ki owing a heap, do as Prof. Troc
tor does. He guesse? what happened
: three ui lour million years ago, and
j predicts what is lohappcu 15,000,000
; years hence. It i^ only a lew years
since he commenced, and now hs can
ijet credit at any grocery,
SE.\TE.\f BD TO BK HANGED.
*'our Mea Condemned tor Burning tue
Greenville Academy nf Munie.
[O'i'f?cn eilte (6f. C. ) AVi/v?.]
Win. Dodson, Piensan f. Adame,
Richard Bates and Joseph Barton
were next called. They arose to their
feet as they were called, all of them
except Dobson riveting their atten
tion upon the presiding Judge. Dod
son glanced about th? room, looked
up and down, and tinaliy became
till, with his (-.yee looking blandly
downward and his head drooping
slightly forward. Barton, Adams
and Bate*-; had each a palmetto fan,
which they used almost all the time
d -ring the Judge's remarks, but each
ol' them skeined to pay earnest atten
tion to what he waa saying. They
were cairn while Dodson was testlees?
with bis eyes occasionally wandering.
Adams and Burton held their heade
erect, the former leaning forward, aa
if to catch every syllable of the sen
tence. Bates hung his head to one
side, while a hland expression per
vaded his face.:
Judge Hudson's remarks to the
prisoners before pronouncing the sen
tence were extended. He spoke of j
the law makiug arson a capital o**
tense, the cause of its enactment hav
ing been the frequency of incendiary
burning in the State. A jury had
twice convicted them of the crime
with which they were charged, and j
in this instauce certainly the jury j
was one against which uo charge
contd be made on account of race
prejudice. The prisoners had been
defended with commendable zeal,
and nothing had been left undone, no
stone ?eft unturned to satisfy the jury
that they were innocent. The ver
dict of the jory could not have been
otherwise than it was. Their coun
sel might make an effort for a third
trial, but in hie humble opiuion in
vestigation in their case was at an
end. Referring to the crime of which
they were convicted, he said the cir
cumstances were utterly destitute "of
mitigating circumstances. Judge
Hudson exhorted the felons to pre
pare to meet death-to meet their
God. While there, WM? lite there was
room for repentance, and what time
they had on earth they should spend
in repenting ol" the dark deed they
had dune! Co"ucitiding, Jauge'Hud
eon said: "The sentence of the Court
ie that you, William Dodson, Plea?
ant Adams, Bichaitl Bates and Jos
eph Burton, be taken from the plac*
where you now are to the pince
whence you last came, there lo ' e
kept in dose custody until Friday,
the 9th day of September, A. D. ISSI,
and on that day yon be taken from
the prisou to * convenient place ol
execution, where yon ne hanged ly
ike necks until your bodies be deau,
and may Cod have mercy on your
souls."
When the sentence was being pro
nounced ri breathle.-a stillness pre.
vailed in the densely jammed Court
room. Ai it? conclusion, 1:45 p. i_v
Dodson fainted down, and lay ior
some lime in ar: unconscious tremb
ling condition. lie Subsequently re
covered consciousness ?nd had to be
carried to the jail, being unable to
walk. A reporter for the Daily
Hfcwfi visited him late in the after
noon. He was found sitting on a
slool in the passage by the front win
dow, languidly fanning himself. He
is rather a "fancy looking" boy, his
hair being elabora!ely greased and
combed, but his head hung on his
breast, and when spoken to his eyes
moved about vacantly, while he seem
ed nuable to force words through his
lips, and hi? hands trembled contin
ually. He said in answer to all
fjnestio?P, "I don't know, sir,'' or ''1
don't know, I can't t ell nothing about
it, sir," without regard to the rele
vancy of the answers. He spoke ir.
a husky whisper, almost inaudible.
The other three were sitting around
i the dcor o? their CP?? at ibe southwest
j coi ner ol' the jail. Bates WUP dili
gently reading psalms from _ Bible
! on his knees, Burton was leaning
back in his chair fanning himself, and
! Adams sat opposite Bate* with his j
bare feet resting on u bar of the cell
doon Burton epoke. first;, protesting j
innoeencM, and declaring his belief
that they were in the hands of God,
...i that if it was His will they
: should die for the lies told on themt j
he, Burton, was ready to go right j
now. He -.vas quite voluble and dis- j
posed to goover the story of his move- j
ment* and Whereabouts at the time oj j
, the fire, and theoperatious ol Curtin, j
I the detective. Fletcher Maddox, he j
j said, had mid him that he, Maddox, j
j had lied. Bates looked up from his ;
Bilde reading to give his experience
I with Curtin, and Adorns lollowed, '
I smiling mean while, with a similar
terjr. All three aSid i ney didn't
j blain * ti ie jct v, ?xc?jH ior believing |
. Maddox. They said they did not j
suppose their appeal would help them i
' much, but declared their belief that1
; sooner or later the guilty parties:
j would be discovered, eveu i! it was1
j not until after their death. All said
' they were preparing tor the worst.
A scientific editor exclaims, "What
shall we drink''" He might wait nr.
il somebody *ik? him up.
Judge ?lacs? ana BO? rogerson**
Never since its inception has the
'North American Review contained
any articles as notable SB those in
this month's number, by Robert In
gersoll and Judge Black The for
mer in a much more dignified tone
than his. ribald lectures, gives his rea
sons for disbelieving in God and
Christianity, while the latter, chal
lenged to do so, replies in defence of
the faith. Ingersoll's article is spe
cious, ilorid, spicy and a popular r?
hash of the great masters of infideli
ty. To the ordinary and unthinking,
not to say sensual, mind, the objec
tions made by the doughty Colonel
are forcible and unanswerable. Hith
erto, the ministers have advanced
against this adversary in a metaphy
Bical, polemical and technical style,
that dui not altogether satisfy the
garlie-eatinginultitu.de. Judge Black,
with a clear concep'ion of the fraud
before him, and a perfect understand
ing of his methods, and with a superior
arsenal r>{ tacts, backed by the most
luminous logic and style estant, takes
Ingersoll fairly by the throat and
holds him up a* a political charlatan
and a sordid skeptic, who has neither
principle nor profundity. Artistical
ly, the great Judge, who confronted
Stanton, Wilson and Garfield, in the
arena of discussion, and struck them
dumb, has performed the same surgi
cal operation upon Ingersoll. There
is not a point made made by Inger
soll that he evades, and not one that
he does not annihilate and turn
against his opponent. For the wise
and otherwise, but especially for the
thousands poisoned by Ingersoll's wit
and satire, this article of Jndge
Black's will prove a saving antidote.
It is learned, but it is within the
meanest comprehension. It ie syste
matic in statement, but. as pellucid as
crystal. Besides the tawdry tinsel of
Ingersoll's Chinese pagoda, the
mighty pageant ol' Judge Black's ar
gument towers like the Parthenon or
the dome of St. Peter. Somebody
once exemplified the defeat of one
statesman by another as the tread of
an elepent on a mouse. This thought
and image will occur to all who, after
reading Ingersoll's ?creed, peruse the
eviscerating process of Judge Black's
ce? ly. But for its length and the
Existing heat, we could cordially rec
ommend that our ministers to-day ,
would read it from their pulpits in
lieu of other sermons. We at first,
determined to pi Int copious extracts,
but forebore at last, because uothing
could be omitted in justice to the au
thor and hip. masterpiece. If Col.
Ingersoll had any real conscience or
decency, he would retire from the
cont est, ae Henry Wilson or James A.
Garfield did, on other memorable oe
casious. They at least knew that the
bad e?usTM~i??tvy advoeateci .".ad'""no ''
longer a leg to stand upon when
fudge Black had finished with them.
And so, honestly discomfitad and as a
tribute to superior truth, they were
significantly silent. But "Bob" In- '
gersoll will revel in the new public
ity given him and continue to rail at
his Creator because be. iga mom.
tehank and huckster, he know?
that in the infinite multitude of fools
there will always be a sufficient num
ber to pay fifty cents a head to bear
him blaspheme like a Loudon fish
monger and ?Jay anhev ?ike one of
Darwin's apes. That he will ever
make a serious eiibrt to answer Judge
Black we think improbable; but
should he do eo, it will only be to
sink himself lower in perdition and
tempt a thunder-stroke that will atop
his mockery. The c;oldman eloquent1
very seldom has to deliver a second
biow. B it it may be necessary in
this case, since nothing ?B eo hard to
?lenee as a monstrous egotist who
thinks nothing of arraying his micro
scopic personalitv against the L?rd
of All that Is.
-Ohror?cU iL- Constitu?fatalist.
"Hi! where did you get them
trousers '?" asked au Irishman of a
man who happened to be passing with
a remarkably short pair of trouseis.
"I got them whore they grow," was
the indignant reply. "Thin, by my
conscience," said Pat. "you've pulled
them a year too soon !"
Green cucumbers aie not connected
with any secret society, but they can
tef.ch yon many grips and sigh'nV
Gumarabic dissolved in whiskey
will keep the hair curled in damp
vontlier. A lillie sugar dipsolv->d in
nJiAH the same ciiect on tuc legh.
Clara-"On ! Charley, you naughty
boy.' 1 saw you throw your cigar
away just as I came around the cor
ner." Charley--" Why didn't you
say you. w< ited it ! How was 1 to
The New York Herald says an es
tate of f2,000,C?j?, left by one Brown,
is awaiting claimants in England.
.'Brown: Brown!" seems to us we
had an Aunt Bill Brown over iu Kug.
laud once.
No remedy has beeu iouod for le
ver and ague which provea so uni
formly successful H? Ayer'?' Agu*
Cure.
You may not be able to teil exactly
how far the comet ?H from the earth,
but you may be reasonably certain
that. U is too far oil to interfere with
your telling the truth once in a while.
lt ts the pride of America that she
oL?ei* au opportunity to the humbles? -
to become great. We know a boy
who wan so poor ye.irs ago that he
had io secretly borrow * loaf of cake
from a passiug baker's cart to keep
himself from starving, while, now ha
j is one oi the best shoemakers in Sing
i Sing.
1 .i
"A Daniel come to judgment.?
; "Prisoner, have you ever been eon
; vioted ?" "No, your honor." "WeJJ.
you're going to he. Sit down till the
cose has, btjea decided."