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T??OS. I ADAMS, 'PROFR.} EDGEFIELD, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1882. ? VOL. XL VII-NO. 8. Heurafgia, Sciatica, Lumbago. Backache, Soreness of the Cimet, Gout, Quinsy, Sore Throat, Snefl ings end -Sprains, Burns and Scalds, General Bodily Pains, Tooth, Ear and Headache, Frosted Feet and Ears, and ail other Pains and Aches. X? Preparation on cmrtli eqiMls <r. J icons 0-i ? - V'1'': "'"'e' si?*pl? and cheiip Externa] XtWy A trial entail, l,at tho cmpantt^* gg** ^ LaT and positiv? proof or i:< Uirections in Eleren Lanfruag^j. BOLD BY ALL DSUGG?STS AHD DEALERS IN X?EDICINE. A. V?G321ER & CO., Haltimore, 2Id.t V. 3. A. -THE -AT T, M.. H. 0. ?. S. PIANOS AND ORGANS ! The Best ami Most Celebrated Instruments m America. Ul PURCHASERS. RAVE FROM $10 TO |50 BY VISITING OR CORRES PONDING WITH GEO. 0c ROBIW & CO. 3 39 MUSICAL INSTRUM EN TS, SHEET A1USIC, MUSIC ROOKS. BEST ITALIAN SPRINGS. L. P. Q. S. TWENTY PER CENT. SAVED TO EYER Y PURCHASER, Timing ?nd Repairing By C. IL TAYLOR, the only author ised Tuner of the Mush South, Augusta, Ga. G. 0, ROBINSON & CO. Jan .24, !SSI. sei * . " Mm M The name of Hoslett?ir's' Stomach Bit ters is hoard in every dwelling, it ?iuds a place in "every household, and its prajswtare sounded throughout tbowhole Western Hemisphere, as :i general in vigorant, a eure for sink headache, a spe cific for flatulency and sour stomaeh, an appetizing stomachic, an excellent hlood d?purent and certain remedy l'or inter mittent fever am] kindred diseases. For ?ale hy ali Druggist* and Dealers generally. Oraugeburg Land for Sale. "i Q/"\iOk ACRES or fine Farming X OUU Lands in Orangeburg Co., on South Bdlsto River, six miles from Midway Station on tii^ S. C. Railroad, .loo nuder cultivation, the larger portion of Which is on the river. The upland portion is fine for cotton, and the river bottoms suit corn admirably. On the place is a tine Dwelling House, 54 ft. by 40, 6 rooms, 2 chimneys, 4 lire places, M toot passage way, piazza in front ami pil lars under the house, which is six feet of? the ground. A number of out-build iuga,?fin House, Gin Head, fine well of .water, <fec, A>: Will be sold cheap. Apply to It. G. M. DU NOYANT, Roai Estate A^-nt. feb. 3, 1880. tf9 GERMAN KAIMT," (Direct Importation, i PERUVIAN GUANO (Direct from the A trent of the Peruvian Government.) FISH GUANO, 6 and 8 per Ct Ammonia. NOYA SCOTIA LAND PLASTER SOUTH CAROLINA <*RO*Ji\D PHOSPHATE. (Fine Ground and high grade.) FOR SALE BY HERMAN BUL WINKLE, KERR'S WHARF, CHARLESTON, S. C. det! 22-3m Now is the time to pay for your AftVEBTIBBB. A ROMANCE ENDED. ?fcp? this is the end of tl all. It ronna's the year's completeness; Q?ly a walk to the stile,-through fields afoam with sweetness ; Only the sunstfc light, purple and red on the river, : And a lingering, low good night that mear.s good-bye forever. Sa be it ! ar>:l God be with you ! It had been perhaps more kind Had you sooner (pardon the word) been sure of knowing your mind. Who eahjbear so much in" youth-who cares for a swift, sharp pain ? And the.two-edged ?word of truth cuts deep, but it leaves no ?tam ! ! s1::.li just go back to my work, to roy little household cares, That never make any show. Ky time, perhaps in my prayers, ! may think of you ! For the rest, on this way we've trodden together liv foot shall fall as lightly as if my heart iv?e\a feather Aod not a woman's heart ! strong to have and to keep, Patient when children cry, soft to lull them to sleep ; Biding its secret close, glad when another's hand Kinds for itself a gera where it found only sand. . Go ?I-bye! The year has been bright aa oft as the blossoms come, The peach with its waxen pink, the wav ing snow of the plum. i shall think how I used to watch, so happy to see you pass, i could almost kiss the print of your foot on the dewy grass. J ara not ashamed of your love ! Yet I would not have yours now, Though you laid it down at my feet. I could not stoop so low, A love is but half a love that contents it self with less Than love's?utmost faith and truth and u ering tenderness. Only this walk to the stile, this parting word by the river, Thal Hows so quiet and old, going and ?owing forever. "Good-bye!'' Let me wait to hear tue last, ?:ist sound of his feet ! Ah .' but I think in this life of our? i .e bitter outweighs ?the sweet. OTc'CORiniCK. Augusta's Carolina Ally Quickening With New Lite-Railroad Nearing thc Town-Prospects and Possiblli- ! ties of an Enterprising People-- j What ls Delng' Done up the A. and j Iv. R. It. Co., S. C.,)BSSBtSSS??t?B? .^P^^Wj^?opeTiioreve?>c is so 1 \ ?early accomplished that we cannot j onger forbear opening at least intel- < ectual communication with the en- < erprising people of the beautiful E lity of Augusta, through the medium < if your valuable paper. i Ir; a very few days more the lor-o- 1 notive whistle within the limits of'j ?ur new town will proclaim the glad i idiugs that we are at last connected s >y the iron band of enterprise with 1 he markets of the continent. Thea ] be cotton now bete awaiting ship nent will be neat lo your factories, 1 md the inexhaustible mass of our < ?ch manganese will begin to go lor- 1 ward by way of your city to the fur- J naces, bleaching establishments and ] Dther consumera of this valuable min- | ?ral. Your people will have given. < ts a new hope and a new life, for ' vhich we sincerely thank you. You viii send us machinery and supplies, or which we have so long been in teed, to develop our rich gold deposi ts, and improved implements to cul .ivate theBe neglected fields, and fer- , .iii/.ers from the coast to enrich them, ind, in return, we will send you yel ow eagles, and such piles of cotton urdes as were never seen before iu pour ancient and honored market. Mow soon enterprise is followed by industry, economy and prosperity ! j ( Man, when aroused by it, appropri- j ties to Iiis purposes the soil, climate iud advantages of location. He who i-ide.s over this new road a few years hence will be gratiiiedwith evidences af thrift, where now he sees neglect and desolation. Here, near the great markets, in the (iuest climate of the world, industry will lind her home the cart it "blossom like tho rose, and cities to spring up, ae it were, in a night. These; cotton State3 j cuinut. remain as they are. They must become as prosperous, wealthy and influential as any pcrtion of the ; Union. j TUE PEOTi.E OP MCCORMICK, And the large section of country tributary to it, intend to do their part in working this change. Already Captain Nesbit, who was manager j when Dorn took a.million from 'the i mine, is preparlug to erect new ma chinery at the shaft on the r.ch vein which he discovered and opened up laEt year; and says he will soon bring another million to the surface. Mr. McCormick is making arrangements to put an adequate force in the man ganese mines, which have been here tofore neglected for want of trans portation. These two enterprises, within hall a mile of our depot, with fae mill and reduction works alor , will give UH an assurance of . oess in our efforts to boil " -/ possess ed by few if any inland towns in this State. Then the Savannah Valley Road, terminating here, will proba bly be completed before Christmas next and give us a fresh impetus. We fear no competition in this part of ' the State. A large city is needed rigid here, and we .propose lo build it. We are nothing yet bat location, enterprise and facilities. . RESULTS MUST FOLLOW. Mr McCormick-a Virginian by birth and education, a cosmopolitan in en terprise, the greatest of the builders and rebuilders of Chicago, the most ?successful inventor and nianulacturer even this country has yet produced, a prominent director in lue first Pa I cific Railroad,"wii'->: it required men j of strong hearts to occupy the posi tion and back it by. their means, prominenten the politics of hid coun try; -many years a -member -:,L tbs National Democratic Committee, and at the St. Louis Convention' the fa vorite candidate of the Southern del egates for the Vice-Presidency, a promoter of learning and Christian literature, a libera shdta?n?r ot char itable institutions, as the orphans of this county have long been able to ! testify; a gentleman now past seven ty, but still in the ha. ness and as full of purposes as in middle life; j who is probably better known through the world than any living American citizen, and who has done more thau any man, living or dead, to lighten the labors and increase tbe prosperi ty of the agriculturist-takes an in terest in us, and we doubt not will i assist us by his means and by h?3 counsels. We gave it his name be- ! cause he, at the time of ita greatest need, gave substantial aid io this railroad which so greatly delights us now, and is to bring prosperity to so large a portion of So?th Carolina. On Tuesday last a few lots were sold ; to persons who were anxious to erect j business houses at once, but our sale j was adjourned to the 7th ol Februa- | ry, on account of the rainy weather and the non-completion of the rail road to this point. Then we expect our Augusta friends to visit us and J get acquainted, as we intend to do business with you hereafter. Come early and take time to look around. Capt/Nesbit will show y?u as fine a true fissure vein of rich free ? gold quartz as can be seen anywhere I .on the Pacific Biope. Do not forget ! to look at our spring;; and the beau ti- j ful park surrounding them, li you desire to see minerals, walk over .to j manganese hill and follow the vein j for a mile. We are making a greater ? is thar, to sell many lots. We,want j :eal '"Lucers," not "Hasheem?." Some ! )f our best corners have been resery id for a hotel, banking ciii'v, ding! itore and office building. A good- j ?xperienced hotel man, with some neans, can get the best lots in town j 'or that purpose, on time to suit, and i perhaps a little assistance if he needs j t. We prefer to determine for our- ? ielves whether we will take our cul- j fee hot or cold-all "real coffee-or i part peas or all peas. Por Augusta people going lo Wash- j ngton or the East by the "Air Line," >r when making us a visit on bnsi- ; jess, for pleasure or recreation, will j ?ike our hotel ; so will the through ! passengers for Chicago via the Au-1 gusta and Knoxville, and so will the j conductors who hiing trains of cheap > uacon, Hour, com and coal from 1 he ! West to our enterprising merchants. You will hear from us again. Smallpox at Richmond. RieiraoNr?, January 18.-The re port of the Board of Health of Rich mond gives the number of deaths from smallpox last week ns six white j and four colored. Thirteen new cases i -seven colored and six white-are j reported fer the three days this week. The number o'' deaths, ?rom the dis- j ease is on the decrease, while thc j number of nev/ oases occurring daily ? is about the same. Tue excitement in the Legislature seems to be eubsi- j ding. The resolution adopted in the ? House yesterday looking t'- seeking I accommodations forthat body in some j other city did not come up in the ! Senate to-day. The presiding officers of thc City Council have been re quested to cail a meeting to make some arrangement by which auy mem ber of the General Assembly w io may bestricken with the disease snail be properly cared for. A CROSS Ba CV.-'Nothing is sr con ducive to a man's remaining a .wm elor as stopping for one? nigh? al the house ol' a married friend and being kept awake lor five or six bonis by the crying ci a cross baby. All cross and crying babies need oiily Hop Bitters to make thsm well and smi' ling. Youngman, remember this. ! Traveller. \ Wo FKORD CoLLEfl E.-- I would make : one more appeal to those who have I given bonds to the "Enilowment ! Fund" of Wofford College. Ever) ' cent, friends and brethren, which j; I due, both principal and interest, i j greatly needed. j Please respond at. once as you maj I be able. If you cannot pay ail, pa] ! as much as you can. I would not make this call if I .lit not feel that it was absolutely nuces earv. W. W. DUNCAN. Fin. Sec'y. Cottee drinkers should road tho advei tlsement lu another column hoade Uood ?ojJVt. For the Advertiser. Barawell loudly Respond; MESSRS. EDITORS.-Tn your of January 12th instant, I notic article of L. A. PL., ol'Columbi C., contributed to Chronicle and stitutionalist, teeming with stat about the stock law. ? His figures may all be correct, J yet worthless as arguments in i j of the law, as I shall try to sho\ the satisfaction of all impartial th ing men. The stock law originated wit certain class, is defended by a cei .'lass, .and is .opposed by ano class, because it opresees them. 1 large landholders may be enablei plant with little or no fencing, sc landholders must build from 50 7.5'per cent more, or else bedepri of pasturing their grain and pea fie Aniersoa aud my owa Coan Barri7,-eJi, *t^*driTp?Tetbr-oj^^ ! improved cows that must eat proved feed, the other has seri that rough it as best they can. . derson makes the most butter, who makes it-the small farmers 50 to 100 acres ? Perhaps so, if tl let cotton alone. In my cot cursed county, such a farmer M\ ing colton and keeping huge^c< and hogs, when he can scarce gi enough forage for his plow horse I a myth; and I very much suspect will turn ont to be a mythical n e very where. But there are thousands of pom or butler and cheese produced in I dsrson County ! What of that, if < ly a certain class produces them, a another has to purchase or do wi ont; any price is a dear one wh paid, tor what should be raised home, lt ia not" fair to contras high, broken, clay soil adapted gr iii ns and grasses, with the Hat S? dy soil of Barnwell, bourn! --band-a foot to the tyrant cotton, where t natural grass o? the pine barrens a the cane pf the branches and swam fa the best and cheapest grazing. If I am not greatly mistaken, shall produce a little earthqna amougst L. A. R's figures and poon when I ask him to prov0 by his st fist irs that the small farmers of ti stock law counties pet as much hi meat, beef and butter to ear, or bu termrTk to/irink, as of yore. if he wi- pour over his statist ii hold in the aggregate more acres c the Sl at e's area, than Hie planters so called, and that-they pay in the ag gregate more taxes into the Stat Treasury, than do the large land holders. It K; a truth lie and all ob servant men must admit, that sinai farmers grow most to eat at home live uyou il, und pay ont lees of the! cotton money for provisions than tin piaulera. These nu n grow most (neat at home, ATV! therefore should tic '.<.( alone. Turn again, Mr. L. A. li., lo you: figures and pounds, and tell us whj ?ho grain crop of the State has ?le (?'.eased steadily since the war, whili the col lon crop has increased. Th< stimulus of phosphates in the Pied mont region cannot explain all this it is the curse of colton. Well, teai down ail the fencing, and plant every fence line, will that ina ease th? grai'i crop ? My guess is that it will increase the yield of cotton, as some oi the stock law counties have proved already. But Ii. A. R. hid these figures under a bushel. If grain ii planted in the cottou belt, it is tc feed Ike hands and the mule: U make cotton. Jt will be cotton, cot* iou, everywhere, on the highways, by ways and mill paths-grown too with scarcely any profit, and the last dollar paid ont for something to eat, we.tr or ride. And here, let me ask, who of thc planters has grown licl making cotton, since thf;-rJtftW>e*?-haF made any money. My observation if where l.wo*have done so, eight llave become bankrupts. Was this canted by ;i;e tax of fencing their cropsV i !,il or their hirelings, or tcniinUahoiVb have done, and will do now, il eyi' forced in th* bargain, with no cofei ?ave the wear oi iii? implements i Ko, such planting it was. j Which gave them blues and nervous chills And many wakeful mental thrill?, j The aro!I ahead they plainly saw, i Anti refuge took 'hum homestead law. : i ir else io ferd a pelted life ; They tixed '.hen- chattels on tlie wile. ! Before the gambling crops they grew . : That bound them to thc Shylock .lew. j Now I believe the position is ai ! impregnable ono-that small taimen j are saving more money than larg' j ouetf, and enriching the State faetei : in lixed property. The stock lav v.iil cramp and bear hardest on then ! and therefore will result in a genera i ? diminution of taxable wealth, j j Tue popularity ol the stock law : ! where it has been tried is heard con r ! tinually, ana like most of Madau ; I Rumor's arrant lies, spreads faster al H a distance than near at home. Will ? those townships and counties win j j openly and fairly voted the law npoi themselves, 1 have no quarrel. Bu come up Mr. L. A. R. with your ta 1 bles again and tell us where am - ; where not a free and open poll wa had ? Tell us where it was that peti tiona were u-ied, ss an excuse for th Legislature to snap the stock lav - suddenly upon an unprepared popn lation, and then stifle all grumbling by ifae cn " Why, my God, sir, arc you gohi'i it divide the Dpnocratic party?" .< The tretfrnent practice upon some localities being so successful, .the whole StaVbds been treated to a t'iste of it:..people by the thousands are heavin; and spitting at its nau seousness, "ut like a sick child, the mother, j^btsand grannies, tr-H the lii^T on e ?flP eTt d arl i ng it will cure you.'! STIOW, Messrs. Editors, .cor respondent; on the ktoif and ofi' the staff, are -?[b? doing a wounded and maitreai^^T : le with "Placebo's," ''JuzUbcsiffi-j'it drops," ard ' sooth begging them "to please 1*neits a little bitter, but cet when it gets into your.intenso; ?t will make you fat, rich, put. everybody, in a good hu mor and bjf"g about, the 'millennium in a lew ryears." Confound such guackjdi^rs ! ' i?rss0R^r**^_ L. AT ?!tyTTliaT\vKe'n the stock law has bin tried he doubts if five per cent ?apposition can be found Well, if j.lad been the secret means of the deal: of a thousand men, I might Bay*truthfully not five per cent of my^neighbore hated me, as a murderer, '-..kid.- hight here the tyr anny ^nd tic audacity of the stock law come? u. - Snap it upon the peo ple in quic order,force its execution before anqjier election, tear down the fences^ojerse the enclosures, de stroy tiie-Mkapd then the people will snbmifl ??fchiuk~ ye of this, freeborn mSr*?"3iead men tell no talea" epr-ter from this kind of logic. Disarm a lan and be can't resist you. IfdJk are fighting ovar a bone destro-the bone and the con tention wiFcease. So our Legisla tors hftVh^kgoned-little do they knovf of bown nature. Never wjTthere a bigger "bubble Lelled upmj'.n the aseertiou^oiteJ1. ??t?T peo- j pie are "in Jfl |^ihe stock law." Its all aseeJEul I will prick the att?nu?t/? so muc}V; the issuii gro,.the|e seven tee "1 when wi bigge??? ion of Bal'fwei]> ,sam})0 fiaBas high in appr?cia tion 0r hig cow8 am| hogs md low reif<8 a8 the white man. "It will \ ev?ve the Republican par ,y, or pave <.ne wa7 ?or Mahoneism." Kow I firm \y believe that if this is me is kept out 0r politics, there is irery great (|anLrer ol these things, jut if true an(i tr:ej white Democrats will lead 01 j the iaw iesue only, legroeH an? j soine w},jt.e meiJ| finding there is a Jemedy within the Demo cratic. I?O^I ty.rwill bave no induce ment to ?o jow an j W?jsl?p false ?ind wicked Go]8i "An ounce 0f preven tive is bett er t-han u pound of cure" ?hould be .?meinbered here. Finally,? tD_el.e j8 a view to be tak en of the ? lof,j. jaw from two Maud points-lb e npp6r and the lower country, or iae pjne belt, to be more particular; \'0 black exodus occurs from thia Lty ?? receives a quota from ever . overilowing ol' the upper and midd <e counties. The truth ?B> with the ? tock jaw to help, it dooms us to slow iui snre Africani/.atior ; it drives ? iff our small farmers, not the negro ( arj(i This class ijf men doth now protest 'Gainst DM feing lands a roosting nest, For idle ^ nants will llock whence Cott? n gri Wd wit|10ut a lonee And lins \ .ju starve provision crops Will go in l0 tjK. CRM8 road shopa Ami deal I)UJ rations by the week And all tl e proina cleanly sweep; White me a can't five 'mongst the black clan, They'll se,k a uelter favored land Where th jy- a"j ft|| ftave oa" dwell, AmX leav( mf-?^Tm^their rixil Am eorry my article is so loug, but could no tmake it aborter and toutb UP0D tll( beading points in this un fortunate iggne BAnxwFdd.. /Ration was made oompul?ory in Irela,idin 18(13, and all children ho*nT & January 1, 1804, were re quired t ,e vaccinatej within sb I months rf birth TLe effecfc ol> lhil law upiou Hinall-pox mortality wai 1 Btri^,n,3 and unmistakable. Durinf 11830- wlien Yftcciuation was Hear cely P>cticed at all in Ireland, tia. j averaR(i annual deaths from small ' Pox w?e 5,800; during 1840-50.tb. ' annnali.deatba were ,1,827: durini ^85? ' ?50, they averaged 1,272. I ?pmpnl8ory vaccination reduc tha mQ.rtality to 854; in 1805, to 34"; inJf]i. to l87; in 1807, to 20; i ?Jo 19. ana in the first quarte 01 ,9 only thro ) deaths occurrei Whlle ju the second quarter wilie closes ?tlie recor(j |)ej-ore us t?ere wei none. \ " hat shall ? get you to romin you ?: me while I am away ?" askt a la8bjionable Austin young gentl f his intended. mau <| make at it i me a Do you wa me something that will alwa; me think of you when I lot I' "Yes darling." "Then bl monkey to play with." h. Fike, a prominent merchai of 5?fangeburg, S. C., has failed. Il pities are $100,000, and bis ? Mtlt9 H75.000. MEMORIAL TABLET. [usrrlbed hy the Cou federate Survivors ou the Obelisk Chimney. A visit lo the^Obeliek Chimney on j the site of the old Confederate Pow ; der Mills, now th'j .site of the Sibley j Mills, will show that .the memorial j tablet ordered by the Confederate j Survivors ia being placed in position? J and that scaffolding is surrounding the base ol lie obeiu-.k, and only waiting for open weat JJ er to assist in cementing the whole of the parallel* ogramic base of the chimney or the tower from which the obelisk rises. This cement will be colored and pen ciled off, and appear as if the tower was ol granite. In the upper part of the face looking out upon the canal is a dead window beneath the battle ments about seven feet by four and a half in .easurement, and in this window is placed the memorial tablet "of pure Carrara marble, cut to fit the window, and three inches thick. The letters on the tablet are raised, and are about two inches long by one half an inch high, and are clearly visible to those who pass along the road way or on the canal. The inscription upon the tablet is consist and fitting, and its phrase and sentiment point unerringly to the worthy President of the Survi vor's Association for its inspired au thorship. As the means of the As sociation permit, the other three faces will be appropriately inscribed, but the tablet now in position bears the following inscription : Tins OBELISK CHIMNEY-Sole rem nant of the extensive Powder Works here erected under the aus pices of the Confederate Govern ment, is, by the Confederate Sur vivors' Association, of Augusta, with the consent of the City Coun-\i eil, conserved in honor of a fallen, p Nation, and if^Pl)?'?\^?kihwmHnf \ o. l??SST^?T?Oiecl in the South ern Armies during the war between the States. known by the generic name of Ald?r ney cattle. Alderney 13 three and a half miles long and one mile broad, containing 1,902 acres. Guernsey is nine indes by seven, and han a popu lation of thirty thousand; Jersey is eleven miles by five and a half, hav iug-10,000 acres and 57,000 inhabi tants. Small and unimportant, as these islands are, they are working a great improvement in cattle breed ing in this country. The origin of tue Jerseys have been by most wri ters ti aced back to France, and to that part called Brittany. The orig inal colors were black and mulberry. For two centuries these cattle have baen famous, and great care has been taken ta k?ep the breed pure. The island of Jersey passed stringent laws m Dre than a hundred y eur.-, ago to prevent the importation of cattle from France, and more recently from the island of Guernsey, England and elsewhere. The Royal Jersey Agri cultural and Horticultural Society was organized in 1833, and in 1834 a scale of points was established, which has since been altered some what. In 1S38 it was required that the pedigree on both sides should be stated, and this led to the formation of the Herd book. In 184-1 the Chan nel Island cattle became popular in England and were called "Crumple Horn*." by many. The earliest re corded importation to America was in 1815. In 1853 a new impulse was given to the importation and rearing of Jerseys, and in 1869 the American Jersey Cattle Club was originated, and the first volume of the Herd Register was published in 1871, with a record of 539 bulls, and 1,427 COWB, The Register now increased to nine volumes. In the Island of Jersey th? cowa are milked three times a day in summer and twice in winter. Ar extra cow will give 20 quarte or liv? gallons, but the general daily yielt H 10 to l l quarts. The farms ar< very small and there are no larg? herds of Jerseys on the Island, ttl or twelve being the usual number In Jersey there are about 12,000 an< in Guernsey 0,000. They keep thes numbers about the same by sellin off. America takes the bestand pay the highest prices. The Guerose; cattle are supposed by some to b equal, if not superior, to the Jerseyi She is larger and the yield of mil is greater. Her butter ia self colore even in winter. Mr. E. G. Gartman, the bti9?ne manager of the Evening Dispatch, York, Pa., was cured of neuralgia I three applications of St. Jacobs O Boston Mass. Saturday Evening E press. "Lives of great men always i mind us that we are all subject I die," says an exchange but nev cough yourself away aa long as y can raise 25 cents for a little of 1 j Boll's Cough Syrup. On Picket. The relief is going ont from the re aerve picket. Between the reserve and the camp, where 10,000 men are slumbering, is half a mile of woods, fields and broken ground. Between the reserve and the enemy is a thin I line of pickets-a man stationed here j and there to give advance warning of any movement. Follow the relief and you will notice, how cautiously the raen tread. The dark line winds around through the trees, flits across open spaces, and halts here and there for a moment to relieve the old picket; A musket eL t away are the' pickets of the one my, and a loud word may bring a volley of bullets. The line might pass twenty feet away and you would hardly catch a sound. Sit you here on this bank where you can look down upon the picket aye, almost touch him. A little creek runa between you. There is an open space of thirty feet, and all around it are trees, stumps, logs and brush. It would be a lonely place in which to pass two long hours even in times of peace. There is a warning in the midnight breeze as it rustles the branches, and the waters of the creek have more than once been col ored with blood. The lone picket takes his station under a tree In the dark shadow you can hardly make him ont. As he finds himself alone his eyes are constantly searching the darkness in front, and his ears catch every sound.. They tell bf men asleep on picket. It must be a strange man who could close his eyes in sleep with the nignt wind whispering m his tars: "Be ware! beware! In the bushes to the left is a foe 1" and the waters of the creek are plainly . saying: "K<jfiIL' pitch 10 righTT right!, right-! 2tThat man ha* been in a do^n" bat tles and has been wopafotd three ;iht?^ Don't calli^ua coward, and fe* h^trejoWec^nd turns pale before knife in his teeth and he is coming to assassinate you If the creek did not say so, and if | the picket did not understand, why' did he give that sudden stan and change his position ? Why does he kneel to get a clearer look around him ? Why does he keep his eyes fas tened upon that stump until thc very intensity of his gaze brings out every knot and splinter ? If fifty men were asleep in that space and one other were awake he would feel the loneli ness and danger. By daylight a school girl might weave a romance from the babble of the waters. Hark ! is there any romance in this? 'Beware ! beware ! That man with tangled hair, fierce eye and savage face is still advancing ! Be on your guard, watch, listen ! Coward ! Count the scars on his body, look up his record ! No, not a cowan!; and yet his pale face comos to you from the darkness almost like a candle's light. If it wa.s cowardice he would hide, or deaeit his post. No, it is not fear, and yet he thiuks it a feeling unworthy of him, and he braces against it. He turns a deal ear to the whispers of the creek. He refuses the warning bushes. You can almost see him ss he shuts his teeth hard together and tries to force his thoughts into another channel. "Lookout! look out!" whisperi the creek, but he refuses 4o hear. Something is moving over the ground behind him. You can sec i from where you sit. It is sonietbiui darker than the dark ground beneath Now it moves-now it halts-now it fierce eyes almost light up the dark ness, as it makes out the murilee form of the picket leaning agains the tree. .'Murder ! murder ! murder !" gur glee the creek. You hear it, but the picket i thinking of home. A thousand mile away in a quiet farm house. If th same night wind blows there it kisse the apple blossoms and lulls the wil and children to deeper slumbers. You see the darker soraetkin coming nearer. It is creeping up bi hind him. A tiger would rustle tl leaves or snap a twig, and his victii would have time to call God's nan before the spring. This is a hume tiger. God put mercy in his hea but it was driven out by hate. "Save him! Save him!', cried tl creek. You start at the call, but he dc not move. He is thinkiug of the w whose tears wet his cheek-of t curly heads who cluug to his arm of the miles and the dangers betwe him and them. The terrible knife is transfen from mouth to hand. "Murder ! Murder! Mur-" 1 it was done. Nut a cry-not eve: groan. The head sank down w only a sigh. The picture of wife_ ? 1 children was "hardly hidden between j earth and Heaven. "One lesa !" hiesed the human fi j ger, aa he peered, finto the blanched face, and with a gurgle in his throat, as if he had lapped at the ho t blood llowin& toward the creek, he crept ; away to seek another victim. "This ia war!'" whispered the creek ;' a? it shrunk away from the blood, i "and .war is murder ! ' Napoleon's Anecdote* Madame Junot relates that the Empress Josephine, having chided her husband for erasing some of her bills, the great Napoleon told the fol lowing anecdote : "There lived at Marseilles a rich merchant, who received one morning through the hands of a youngman of good family and fortune, a lefter strongly recommending the bearer to : his notice. The merchant, afterhatr ing read the letter, inatead of throw ing ii aside as waste paper, when he ? found that it .covered one only of the four aidea of the'sheet, tore it in two, placed (he written half in a leaf of his portfolio, and the other half that would serve for writing a note upon into another portfolio, which already contained a number of similar pa pers. Having attended to thia act of economy, he turned towards the young man and invited him to din ner that very day. The youth, ec cuatomed to a life of luxury, felt bot little inclination to dine with a man. apparently so mean. He accepted the invitation, however, and promis- ' ed to return at four o'clock. Bat as he descended the narrow counting house staircase, his mind rapidly re verted to the observations he had made upon that small gloomy room, wi .h the two ]on?j ?ffinpo i Fri ii li in1 i? ~~~ tojt, encuml^e?^ithlffe*^ and where a dozen young men were" working in melancholy silence; he then repented of having accepted the invitation. The duties of the who presented tfH ??nfLwue, who' waa young and p^^^." elegantly attired. He himeflf f_ o longer the unattractive personage bia guest had seen in the morning, while the manners and conversation of fifteen or twenty visitors who were assembled in the drawing room led to the infer ence that this house was one of the most refined in the city. The viands were excellent, the wines exquisite, the table covered with an abundance of massive silver plate; in short, the young traveller was obliged mentally to admit that he had never partaken of more delicate fare or seen a great er display of magnificence; and he was more than ever confounded upon ascertaining from one of the persons near him that the banker gave a sim ilar entertainment twice a week. While coffee waa serving he rumina ted on all tb.pt he had witneesed. The banker, observing his fit of abstrac tion, soon succeeded by drawing him into conversation, in finding out the cause of hts perplexity, and observed, emphatically, 'You are too young to understand how masses are formed, the true and only power; whether composed of money, water or men, it is all alike. A mass is an immense centre of motion; but it must be be gun-it must be kept up. Yoong mau, the little bits of paper which excited your derision this morning are one among the many means I em ploy for a'faining it. But especially does this principle como into piay ia the accumulation of earnings, and therefore you should masa your sav ings and deposit in the Augusta Sav ings Institution; and when once begun, you will find that it is eaeily kept up.' " JO BEAN. An Historic Residence Burne** NEWBERRY, January 14.-"Spring field," the late residence of Judge John Belton O'Neal, two miles from the courthouse, was burned down j this morning between one and two o'clock. The house was built by Judge O'Neall in 1S28, and was oc cupied by him from that time until 1rs death in December, 1863. Since his death the property has patted through several hands, it now belongs rt j to Mr. Thomas F. Harmon, of New berry. The house had been occupied 'ie i by tenants for the past week or two. lt was a large and handsome resi dence, and, notwithstanding its age, waa in a good condition. It was in j sured in the Georgia Home and the - I Watertown laurance Companies, ien i Mesara. Mower & Jones, agents, for ' $3,500. The origin of the fire is on? ed known.-News & Courier. . I A Maryland exchange refers to Mr. Thos. G. Forward, of Belair, that " a State, who was cured by St. Jacobs ith Oil of rheumatism.-Rochester N. Y, .nd Sunday Morning Tribune.