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E-4 B'31 R-, 1" Vol. VIII. WEN}4 v MONIG -NOVISE 10 ISXjo THEHERALD IS PUBLISnED EVERY WEDNESDAY M011NING, it Newberry C. 11., By Thos. F. & R. H. Greneker, Editors and Proprietors. Trasl,%0 PIKS dex, Invariably in Advauce. Z Th4 paper is stopped at the expiration of time for w1ich it is paid. 7' The M mark denotes expiration of sub scriptiou. A PRAYER. Oh, my Father! Take we, Make ue Pure and holy, all thine own, May each cbanging moment find me At thr footstool, \ear thy throne ! Oh, my Saviir! Cleanse me, Fill me With thy precious love divine, May no edrthly idol lure me From that sacred Cross of thine, Holy Spirit! Woo me, Draw me By thy gentle cords of love, Guide me, guard me, safely lead me To my heavenly Home above! The Best Wife in the World. - :0: "The best little wife in the world!" said Herbert Ainscourt. 'Of course-I dare say," re sponded Mr. Porteross. " But what's your exact idea of the best wife in tbe world! Jones says he's got the best wife in the world, because she keeps his stockings darned, takes him to church three times of a Sunday, and never lets him have an idea of his own. Jen kins says he's got the same iden tical article, but Jenkins' wife keeps all the money, draws his salary for him, and makes him live in the kitchen because the parlor is too good for the family to use." "Oh ! but Daisy isn't a bit ogre ih-a little submn issive, soft-voiced thing that hasn't an idea except ,hat is reflected frm me. I tell you what, old fellow, I'm the mas ter of my own house ; I come when I please, and go when I please, Daisy never ventures on a word of reproach." "Thon, youi ought to be ashamed of yourself, larking around at the clubs as you do, dissipated bachel or fashion." "Ashamed ! what of ?" -Wy I uppose you owe some duties to your- wife ?" "Where's the harm? My wife doesn't care." "Probably you think so because she is quiet and subiaissivc ; but it she were to object-" "Object ! I'd like to hear her rtry it." "Now look here. Ainseourt. yotur V wife may be a model wife, but you certainly are not a model husb)and. People are beginning to talk about the way you neglect that pretty little blue-eyed girl." "I'll thank people to mind their own business. Neglect her indeed ! Why, man, I love her as I1 love my own soul." "Then, why don't you treat her as if you did ?" "O'h, come, Portcross, that ques tion just shows what regular old bachelor you are. It won't do to make too much of your wife un less you want to spoil her." Mr. Porteross shook his head. "That sounds selfish. I don't like the ring of that metal." And he went away, leaving Mr. Ainscourt to finish the game of' billiards at leisure. "W hat a regular old fuss-bud get Portcross is"' laughed the latter. "Always poking his nose into somebody else's business. There's one comfort-I never pay any at ten tion to what he says." Meanwhile Mrs. Ainscourt was sitting alone in her drawing room, her two little white hands tightly locked in one another, and her fair head slightly drooping-a delicate lttle sple-bh,ssom of a woman. .ith blue, wistft! eyes and curly flaxen hair, looking more like a grown-up child than a wife of twenty-One summers. "0 dear !" sighed Daisy. "It is so dull here. I wish Herbert would come home. He never spends any time with me now-a. days. and I practice all his faivorite songs, and read the newspapers, so) 1 can talk about the things he's interested in ,and try so hard to be entertaining. It's very strange." And then her oval face br-ight ened into sudden brilliance, and the sparkles stole into ber eyes, for the quick ear had detected her husband's footstep on the stairs. Trhe next moment he came in. "Well, pet, how are you ?" with a playful pinch of her cheek. There are sonme bon-bons for you. Where are my light gloves ?" "0 Herbert you are not going away again ?" "I1 must, Daisy. There are a lot of fellows going to drive to High Bridge, and I'm one of the party. You can go over to my mother's for~ dinner, or send for one of your friends or someth'ing. There, good-bye puss, I'm in a deuce of a hurry." And wit h one careless kiss press ed on the quivering damask rose of a mouth that was lifted up to him, he was gone. Daisy Ainscourt neither wvent to her mother-in-law, nor sent for oeof her girl-friends. She spent the eveninir all ak-ne, ponriden! on the shadow which was fas overgowingher. lif. "What shll I do ?"' thought IhI little limjid. Shinkingo wife. -..;h what shall I do?" But, child as she was. Daisy ha( a stronz resolute woman's hear within her, nor was she long coming to a decision. "Daisv " said her husband t< her next day, "you haven't ani objections to my attending th Orion Bal Maasque ?" "Are masked balls nice places Herbert ?" ."0 yes, everybody goes; only thought i'd pay you the conp[ merit of asking whether you dis approved or not." "Can I go with you?" "Well-ahem-not very well this time, Daisy. You see, Mrs Fenchurch really hin ted so strong ly for me to take her, that couldn't help it." "Very weli," assented Daisy meekly, and Herbert repeate( within himself the paean of prais< he had chanted in Mr. Porteross ears: "The best little wife in th< world !" But, notwithstanding all this Mr. Ainscourt was not exactl3 pleuased, when, at the self-sam' Bal Masque, during the gay perioL of unmasking, he saw his wife'i innocent face crowning the pic turesque costume of a Bavariar peasant girl. "Hallo ?" he ejaculated rat hei graciously, "you here !" "Yes, lisped Daisy, with a girl ish smile. "You said everybody went! And oh, Herbert, isn't il nice ?" Mr. Ainscourt said nothing more but Mrs. Fenehureb found him t very stupid companion for the re nainder of the evening. He was late at dinner the nex1 day; but late as lie was, lie fourn himself more punclual than hi: wife, and the solitary meal wa half over before Mrs. Daisy trippec in, her eashmere shawl trailinj over her shoulders, and her dini pled cheeks all pink with the fresA wind. "Am I behind time ? I am st sorry ! But we have been drivin, in the park and-" "We! Who are we?" growlec :ier husband. "Why, Colonel Adair and I the Colonel Adair that you go on1 with so facb." "Now, look here, Daisy !' ejau lated Mr. Ainscourt, rising fr'n the table and pushing back hih chair. "Adair isn't exactly thk man I want you to drive with !" "But you go every where wiLl him !" "I dare say-but you and I ar( two different persons." ".Now,dear Ieirbert," interpose Daisy, willfully misunderstandin him, "youi know I never was a bi prud, and the associates that ar" ood enough for my husband art ood enough for me. Let me giv< you a few more oysters. Ainsco)urt looked sharply at hi: wife. Was she really in earnest or was there a mocking undercur re'nt of satire in her tone? Bu b e could not decide, so artless wa: ber countenance. I'll talk to her about it some time, was his internal decision. "Daisy," he said. carelessly when dinner wvas over, "I've ask ed old Mrs. Barbary to come ant spend the day with you to-mor row." "Ob, have you? I'm sorry, fol I am engaged out to-morrow." "You ! W here ?" "Oh, at Delmonico's. I've join y a Woman's .Rights Club, an' we methere to organize." "The d e uee take woman' rights !" ejaculated the irate hius band. "Of course I don't believei them, it's the fashion to belong t< a club, and such a nice place to g< Ito of evenings. I am drill heri evenings, Herbert." "I beg you will give up this ri diclous idea. What do womec want of clubs ?" "What men do I suppose." "But I don't approve of it a all." " You belong to three clubs, Hier bert.." "TChat's altogether a differen tratter." "But why is it different ?" "Hem. wvhy ? because-of cours< anybody can see why-it'e sell evident." "I must be very blind," sai< Mrs. Ainsecurt, dem urely. "but. confess I can't diseriminate the es setial difference." Herbert Ainscourt said no more but he did not at all relish thi chng~e that had lately come ove he spirit of Daisy's dream. She did] chnange somehow. Sh went out driving, here, there, an< everywhere. He never knew whe! he was certain of a quiet everiin; with her; she joined not only th 'club, but innumerable societies fo a thousand and one purpose: which took her away from bomn almost continually. Mr. Ainseour chafed against the bit, but it wa useless. Daisy 'always had an ex nnusa tn plead. Presently her moher-ind-aw Wre t don upon her an austere old ia dy in black satin and a che:,tnut Ibrown wig. Dhisy. y-Ou are. ma.,king my13 -on W tioViX Arm I ?" cried Dai:v. " r t me, I hadI' t Zn idea i it! V it C 0he t- ) ;I ' '-Yo must ask himself." ai the mo.0ther.in.Ila whoA- belie 1 ve sensible old lwly-in yoNng mar 3 ried people sellling their own diTi lenl- . --Al I know is the fact. So Daisy went liome to the [ drawiig room, whICre IL-rbert h:y - on the voa pretending to read, but in reality brooding over him trouhies. What's the matter IHerbert?" snid Doisv. kneeling on the fluor bes.ide hiin Ptting her soft., cool Shands on his fevered brow. [ "The matter? Nothing muc only I :iserabie, he saileny , answered. But why ?" she persisted. "B"eause you are so chanred Daisy." "How am I changed V' 'You are never at home you have lost the domesticity which was, in my eyes, y mr greatest -charm. I never have you to my self any more. Daisy, don't you see how this is emibittering my life ?" "Does it make you unhappy e" she asked, softly. "You know that it does, Daisy "And do you suppose I liked it, Herbert ?" "What do you niean. ?' he ask ed. "I mean that I passed the first year of my married lif e in just such a lonesone way ; y,ou had no "do iesticity." Clubs, drives, billiard playing, and ebinampagne suppers engrossed yunr whole time. I, your wife, pined at home lo!e. -But Why didint yOU tell i you Were unihaPP ?" ";Because you wonil have laugh ed at the idez and called it a* Wo mauis whim. I rolved when -vc were fiirst mUarritd, to fritter awVaY neither timne nor breath in idle acomplans I tcophin "d ; I have sipnly followed Your ex ai.ple. If i was not La plumd one, whose fault was that ? Not m1ine, sturv!Y." 'No,Dai-y. noL yo,urs." I don't like this kinilI of ij * went on Daisy. -It is a SW e: ;iteont- l IMOlo diversh. bUt I persist in it ' the samne re)?n. I SUPIOe that you di i ft was the fashion. Niw teil n. Herbert, w hether you prefer a Fashionable wife, or Dai-v ?" "Daisy-a thousand imes Dai SyA ! 'Bit Daisy can't get along with 1 theatre-going, lub-living hus "Then Shle shall have a husband who tinds hlis grea test happiness at his own hearthistonie; who wife is his dearest treasure ;who has tr-ied the experience of surItee Sanid finds it usatisfactory. D a%by. ,shall we begin our matrimtoia! - eareer an ew ?" SAnd Daisy's whisper-ed answver Swas, "Yes." "But what must yo have thought of' me all this time?" - she asked him, after- a little while. "I [know what I think noe." ."Aid what is that'?'' - "I thin k," said Mr-. Ainscurt Swith emphasis, "that you areth - best wife in the world." Do not kiss a friend on the Istreet. it is highly imroper,. and( aggrravating to those who witness -such interchange of swveetness. jIf an accident occurs, treat it as such, arid keep cool. No mnatter if a cup of coffee is spilled into -your lap andl your best dIress there by spoiled, keep cool. Theni is the time to show good breediing. If a gent lemnan steps on your jdr-ess-skirt, do not scowl and act impatient. iIe is not the one at faulto yur dress ought not to be sweepngo under peop)le's feet. A lady really ought to be the one to apologize, if she sub-jects a gentlemai n t.o the ungraceful moo tion of stumnbling ov-er her skirts. not to mention the risk he suffers of I alliung anid breaking his bones. Keep) cool wheni directing those twho work for you, they are toe truiest souires. for infjormnation conl cernin your ebli caracter A V. S. MAalnAan AT TfS CorCci oF T F "iE Ih G..-- *" metu;lCi'ly circumsltance inlC cieek ith te rcenit ut- of hi le Mr. C pe':a i =:ig ~ t.:MarJ hahve ti'' (he thseof.t C. to'y art'iO i him. li ' He nas not i tae away, r! owev r, a the~u tme 'and 'tecod visit wasd Ea.ieor a ior., i he m eani~med ins C.nhannatied a wd the sai i3t( Dea n cr ie d testee faih A irlces s Jw.\c! !.I . res: i n a r .,r.. r . n m "C b zzliu h- u t han; a mw:'s Mud nil, with in anothertiri oat rton; ut nh. eincra%il amI unw ma.. i as large a. geo;s thgs -there are a aeck l:com, e:rr K,- S eaz znlidants orn+-..:!ta o the hcad. eo. Aaoaegd thoe s wlas a large W~itaLirn wVith a dn iamon lLld Plwn dan" Whi th h Ions 10-r,wss AthIaHnie gaive to a lWixatinsky 'reat i'-t e: at h bapt6ni. A rude iaeet o diannonds, very ancienth atetra:nd .m aent.1tio it is -e P r riian e n as the soies are is nd 1.1d arlAished, ."'t ill betn "c'! d. Th,,rc is a lace pendaint beveral pu it o. A1ncut and tpolished jianolds .ost whrarih th I ca ious mrea ll ilt aIlso. :1 nui (luce firomi Gjem g i.'' al ():. 1 "ca asi al l lcof1)1arl Chiii-ian lavs, with a ritin 1rAathdhr aII'LIt hit was of iek ude~ ' ra lat ;,O diamndis, r full J"Irulrc' j:di. ck etc., boe"etI. atawl my1 a1:ttntion tones! arrwetan_ up.sshd A )t i beati ri . T.- h vis of lnku and1 munled J iamounds, iiCT t,1 Liwl'O2Li.~ mest harbore :,ci' ; uiu ra Snt i) (ii. aI S, c liice fvo Ge r ier. a ; SldpCa em r e oferiy br- Ia dy, ith a~~ rkL~ue-en n andi"v1h A jee1uode c . u T .ni etc, reat bouquetI. an thIL ste wer miin~ort; xi Lrge U c auncLe aa ha- bee thei Y*:1 fr.m tam -~L IL h r~ et !inS ab' bt ' - U. n:.V mul te mu-l i10 fromc Ih instumet ; it .vas nor. lik som OI.,utle electrie: finEId (Coron iUma n Is.-SL'me( veryV m~;usingi an cedoItes are reinta ed re >e'.ti n mi sakes that D)al tonjins are miadle. A. 1o1use-painriter in .El in Iurogh was obligecd to trust his wife fori the ix:in of his c- olors ; bt once, when she was absent. he was >biged~2 topan a publ ieJbui ldingr. work. B3v and by some onie caime an anid asked why heC was >)ainting the outside wall *'sky blue ?" A p)hysic;in, D)r. K -, Cays that f rom hol,vhIood lie has been uni able to distingnishi red chierries from the leaves on the tree, unless he eould see thiri form, lie ho ugh t rdl trousers inistead of brown, and a red capLl inistead of a gzreen one. MIany of the men who serve in shops ~are foni partially color blindi . and (on that account are oblge to~2L go) to the mourning Cs. tablishmeintas. Somne peolce can dist.ingiuisx co! orV by daliht, and not by lamp lighLt, and others just the conitra ryv. On e ru geieman bougjht a ta bie-(o-:rI(1 aL' green,x but unifor to light thug ageale~ hand dull. .3. n'P -.r w bLIh ii. Ie CC. .- Vt ' R "W i tet A .a r et of heb I :-av e ought : < i l.:i z: .Oc-w:Viter.. A l :Y .vI*. - [- m Ia- . I wo ;. tik W : :.n1 sv r f h m a o mut l %V Soonl the tra In v inu-. bpase through before o:1e can satisfy the cravings of ap p tIe. After 1Ondieri I food1 1i eni languages and wv:tng S0ono0 tim'-1e, a for1k will be placed befotre you. You iave ipl,_, time to ex am ine the f'k illitev-also to ele: i.At the plroper time a knif e is broght and you begin to cieer up, Then the waiters as sbc!mle in convention. hold several pize deblates. anu disens5 Various topics, social and political, after which it may occur to them that yonl have ordered food; if so, and You understand the order, you may 'ret it in the course of time. Any traveller will endorse that de scription. Sometimes it is even worte than this. If one is regard. JOSs of his reputation, the best way is to act like tle SO-(CAlild nobility -look fierce and make ail the noise you can. We tried this plan once and it worked well. As soon as We saw the notel we stood up in the (arriage and shouted at the to!) of our. voiees: Food, rood, the fauquet t prdepare' W hen we reached te hotel we found the wlhole establimein armi ready to reccive is. They probably mis. took us for 'queen duwa-gr-,.' or tering. tie house we took each wair t.Si-1e and told him confi dentially that we were sufferinlg i. r fomi-)r loud Oil a plate. I oI 14)oked more fierce and m11iiade m1Ore noie. ,..o SeIrVaut escatpeId us. an;d tile JIanl was succs u. I ra1her. prii1 nli' on this de vice. Bv spetking to each one conide tiair.von will obs'-rIVe tlat we led him to think he was the fLVOIred 10ne .nd WOUld receive the tee. whe reas they were ali IVIe :ns of mi- aed conidt-iee. The Number Nine. - Ihe mit a of a; 11n'1 b S. Ia a wmV i u,i, Cham I's .s the fi-ll e n1li-e, hca e I wo 'tb multiplivd awayt ()r -#t i 0 i VoW. V hatever you do, t srliie to tulI up tfalin as was ih, bodV of ;ene A ram's victim 0 ):,.e reIaikLIe ro1rity of this 11t re sairi to have becil disCov (re b Wai. Loren, who died in i7 isth:a al thlrough! the imul ti. iention tat!e the prin:lt of ha you like and it gives the -:ai redut. begin wiith twice nin 18; add the djti;.is tog-ether. :md' 1:unl 8 make 9. ThreeL timls ine arue 27 : and 2 and 7 make 9. 'o 5goe on. lip to eleven timelis nine, wvhiebi dives 99. Ver-y good; add the iit.9ad9 are 18, and 8 and( 1 are 9.Going' oni to any extent, it is impossiblec to gct rid of ti h fiie ninel..Take at coup)le of instances at random. Thiree bandired and( thirty-niine 'imes P ine are 3,051, add up the digit.s aiid they give 9. Five thiousand and seventy-one times nine are 45,639; the sum of these digits is 27. and 2 and- 7 are 9. M. de Maivan found out anlother queer thing about this nmbeir, namely, that if you iake an y row of figures, and reversing' their order to make a soubtiraction sumltr of it. the total is sure to be 9. For- ex-ample: Take 5,081 Reverse digits 1.8S05 .3.276-18, and land 8ar-c9. TYPrOrD FEvER.-In regardI to the actual cost in money of the neg'ligence exhibited in the pre vention of typhoid fever- in Gireat Br-itain, the Londoi Ti,nes~ makes thle following curious calculation: '-If we suIppose." it says, "that its victims. tduringa ten years, were p)ersons carmagl?.. Oil an aver-age, onlIy cne pound weekly (85~). thlat six week-s was tile average durla tionI of eachl iness. that mach paf tient wvas miaintainied by othieis alt ani expenUse otf a poutnd a week linttil deail:b or r-covery, andh that ehn lojst lie wa V~s worthI one hu n - dred })olindS to tlherncomiunity 350.we arive. by a Simple, fo~u. mnill in, Iouri lndred thiou Ian Ipoiiud steralig (t172.000, 00"). a tIlhbarrein cos.t 0in moier of typihOlid lever for thlat bjrief pe riod inaud-:lihistItv. o F 7... .-rE iHM. -+ A wr.i. 1o cm hau in 'e i Popular Physiology. "Tuch imjportance has been jtst ly anieed to the subJect of tem ,r:us. th as re - Iets the irdnnaofc Ibiren- and the, ed-11 i:' cin f iIII.n. :jnd the section : in or i in t he ma ri .sical :ri I: a tainCti ther jis ;:oit oi!" in oUr SyS tin c i-n ,)a -shool oiuation'O. al i vetions and hiabits of (nildren who are weak !,i y v onenl takepcoiously to h,) -. .11n the eariy indi-ations of me1a lent are often treated XV th a !'orcing or hot-house cul t ure. to the tte ruin ;I the bodi Iv Conit:11ion :vhl hi1dre:n who n:an)'. . X ' i'S!fel ru musLces ar'p t i to th;.,:1;ei $ Or busi nes purs::. C whi chl ag:avate theC disrooCi)tn. betweeni nind a.d body, and !roduce n adult with a s.traong hay c nmbe:ile mind. The proer aicta,t'on 'f the doe trime of te-mperuments reverses this (-stom. The feebler parts of thu orgaiiim should be most as siduously trained. A harmonious or-aniation should alvays be aim ed at in the rearing of children ad edueat;on of youth. There will always be unbalanced condi tion)S enoug,i; and wben the child has attained the vigorous develop ment of full-rounded manhood or womanhood, there will be time enough to cultivate special talents. In this manner only can genius be placed on an enduring basis, aid extraoridinarv original caiaci ty be rendered safe to its possessor aid moi;t useful to mankind. In theselection of conjugal part nt1S. Some authors advocate the rfle of imi liarity, and others that of diversity of temperaments ; and it has been most absurdly pretend ed by some writers on human tem permaents. t hat two perffetly har moniiois tenperaments are consti tutionaliv incompatible, indeed. "phIysio'roi(aily incestuous." The teacehings of nature, however, as initofested in the history of all the races of mrlen, and as illustra ted throuihout the whole animal kigdilom, are not difficult to una dstLand.-'jhe "I nue of Realt11. Sunday. 1101W All SIN KEE7Ps THE DAY. The San Fraisco Bulki says it is theenstom:unon the Chinee bri -Wrvanits to stilplato w !b unr mpoyrsf,)r a 01tin Sn:lv. on whichl dzi thev vi:,it h coutmneni i'. in the Cin1ese ( aaIrer. t,lI ' .eI, tle n w s from hoMIe. have their heads shaved. ,o hru i With lheir Lenuflections anid .ah-:n in js-houases. smoke opiu!n. &ke.. siv of them closing upn the day i's pierfo'rmn eS by gt ting- ri I of their week's wvates in t b. e Ce gamlbling;~-h'ouse-s. wh- ae- thickly located2 along Doot stre'.et T'he sidlewXalks s warm w~ it h t:hese gregarious he in,'- .hce Ia:' are it is to ht'ddl!e infIl: on ihe surface and bur row X i in ads beneath. Their dens are hives of industry on week riays. aind rooms reeking with smok e on Sun ay s. A. visitor who ventures inside has to step over the prostrate bod ies of ompium smokers, and feel his wa thr ough clouds of smoke, meanti me holdi ng. his nose againmst a siekenin.g stench of fetid breath. debayed fish-in short a conglo meration of odors nowhere to be found ontside of a cellar reeking with the fumes of a crowd of Chi niese. For the sake of the deleet -able pleasure to be ftound in such place, Joh'n frequ.ently refuses to take izood situations in the r:oua try ; like Bridget. he must be in town, where he can at least once a week see his -cousin.' The Chii nese have hosts of relatives; un eles and cousins-especially the latter-are counted by the score. They re'.ard as cousins those seve rail removes further than a white Iman es-er thinks it worth his while to inrqui.re. These 'cousins' are enCfei ally friends, all belonging to the same comm iercial company, and whenCi they meet on Sunday, 'the jaibbering is energetic beyond descripction. All day, and late in thle nig'ht, .John keeps uip his round of vi-its amoing his cousins. bat mnagices to be on hand Monday morn 'i;in' readly to work. which he ti gen'erailly performs cheerfully. and Mr:\:(Gcr Til, r onTY TllulHD CoN m:rss - T foty-xthcirdi Con-lgre.0i not --e't un til the first .\mondav of De. eemr. 187I" , uinles-. sooner calledt t'ze thcer in e.r:cordina'rv se,si.' Ti. beim-'. preion; prevails amongt. 'm IL rson1 that . ii th e t of .Januiary 22 187 re* auig: new Congress to -s,emn" on ch 1. iinmediately con the a j ourn m tofits .1 pr.teeesors, i c i li f Co : -e in p 12 ef the lis.VS p:merti at the -i. iin of the~ f.,rtv-sc-cond Con ;:re--. T ta repea&i~g section is con tained ina deli 'iency appropriation Act, and thce enir sta:ute is~ weil worth exuain'. a su masures~ that acre crowded inte (one b' il rin the expiing hours of V iin and Fiddle. H::!11a century ago, or les-. the iew Xlha! 'wtins Dr. Pond.iw it . h g t -.l tf e ayo. n11*1nyl Ok his con)u'*rgatiun: e * he l he kept on the even I his wZar. lie had a son nnid Ench. ~who) .i.t an eari Sm:a:i Ited a remi akable talent Nrn.u- wi-h the fatheIr uher ih.i o c-iitivated w.ith ei:ae. In the iam viijae resided an an tnu:e aiden la'iy. who. having nares of her ow to occupy he <o the and1 at tention. mn-gnaniimously: I hersell to thlose of her :eig.hbors, One nirning she < .5 (.led at the doctor's and requested I see him. When he enteried the i rom he-. she was seated. he I per-cived it a tlance ha: sone- t thing was amis. and before he had inc to extend her the usuai .how d've do ?" she added: I think. Dr. Pond, that a man of your age and profession might f have had something better to do, < when you were in New London, < last week, than to buy Enoch a r fiddle ; all the neople are ashamed i that our minister should buy bin f own son a fiddle! Oh ! dear, what t is the world coming to, when iin i ters will do such things!" "Who tohl you I had a fiddle?" I inquired the Doctor. "Who told me ? Why, every- f body says so, and some people t have heard him l)lay on it as they I passed the door. But ain't it true, C Doetor ?" 1I bought Enoch a violin when I went to New London." f "A violin!" what's that ?" t Did vou ever see one ?" Nee. t Enoehb !" said the Doctor, step ping to the door, b"bring your vio- S li) here." E7noch observed the command, but no sooner had he entered with his instruinent than the old wo man exclained : La! now, there, why, it is a Iiddle !' -Do not judge rashly." said the Doetor. giving his son a wink ,wait till von hear it." t TikAin, the hint, Enoch played I 0ld Hundrod. The lad wa, com- I piletely mvstifiel ; it looked like a .iddle. but who had ever heard Hundred plzi* yed on a fiddle ?i It (ould Imt be. So. rising to de- i art..he excLaimd, 'I am so tlad t I (-ane in to satisfy my-et La 1 ! jlst- think how%V Some people 11C-0m is MrmAN, MISS. qTie.ton as to tint is the neining popuir work in concirt. whech has CnSe;i so much di,cus.sion among musi 01! vitics, is a hughear. Artists can re p1t the most cas,i-al inorceaux until, in Ly,teir audie:nces will be educate-d uto the highest standard of art, and the- mos~ intriC-ate themes will Decome as p 'uara "Shoo Fly" r"ati diik-. These introductory remarks ae suggested by the eminevit success whichi has ittended the nightly concerts nf M;adauie Pussycatian mia and Signor T'homnaso Catt, in this city. They are accorpanied by an orchestra, but their abser.ce is not fe!t. Their "Moonlight doaa"Csharip minor, which opens the conciert, cnnlot soon) be forgotten by those who hear it. The initiative adagio -o4tenuto, by the Mac~ame, is well calcu ~ated to touch every heart, and brings diown the house in a shower of bootjacks and empty bottles. She brings out every light and shade, every nuance of expres. sion, and is warmly responded to in a rich barytone by Signor Thiomaso, whose recitative "Sornata Appassionata in F Mi no, in 34 time allegretto, especially the expressive introductory presto agi tato, i- sure to bring dotrn another show er of complimentary missives. The paws-the eloquent silence-which en sues, is broken by Madame's tender ara, "Eow, eow, voce, pshew," ending in a cherzo of irregular measures, which blends deligh tfully i' ith Signor Thomaso's base obligato, and would wake Rip Van Wxinkle himself. The concert of Saturday it whih ' ill not he the last given hv' these finished artists, closed with Monsieur . isepuppv's fugue, in stac.cat to style, and an old negro woman in the gallery cried out "s'cat !" We rather like it.-Meridian (Miss.) Gazette. Tus DEATH or MR~s. GREELEY-The teleg"raph announces the death of the wife of the Hon. Horace Greeley, in New York city on the 30th ult., of con-. -.umption. Mrs. Greeley was a native >l New York, where she became acquaint. ed with Mr. Greeley while he was the editor of the New Yorker, and boarding at the Graham Hlouse in that city, at *whic-h plaice she first met him. She * nortly~ afterwards removed to Warren ton, North Garolina, to teach school. 11er maiden name was Mary Y. Cheney. II)ratce Gzreeley and Miss Cheney were narried in Emanuel Church, Warrenton, N..th C~arolina, on the 5th of .Juiv. 15b by the R.-v. Win. Nor wood, accord Lig to the Episcopal form rXor some m.nths Mrs. Greeley's health has bee rd u ally dechiaing, and for a week t -' her death ha- been hourly expected. Sne has been in Madeira and~ Europe for r-year past, attemputing to restore he r h-alto, and returned within the Iast taree months. Mis. Grecelev was W 'nan: of intellectua cul e ture, and - v >td her ihnei lar!.- to the acqismiin A Boston pape-r says: "Tis an ill wind that blows nobody any gooid, and the horse disease now pr-evalent will, at least, abate the: fitty hack funeral nuisance for a ADVERTISINC RATES. Ad vertisements inserted at the rate of $1.50 per square--one inch-for first insertion, and 1 tor each subsequent insertion. Double co:w:nn advertisements ten per cent on above. Notices of meetings, obituaries and tributes o respecr, same rates per square as ordinary advertisements. Special notices in local column 20 cents per line. Advertisements not marked with the num br of insertions will be kept in till forbid and charged accordingly. Special contracts made with large adver tisers, %;:th liberal deductions on above rates ON'R Paramw Done with NeUness and Dispatch. Terms Cash. A AN AsCIENT Tow. Dis COV:--:.-- iTc Portland (Oregon) //ha/d of the 26t1 ult. says: vT from Mo!nticeilotoOlym a ':e noticed the singu!ar m ''t' ground it what is M"und Irairie. There :.rmonnd-say 300 feet h : 7" yards in diameter at hl ' -t the Southern end of re. about twentv.five n* 1>m Olympia. and scattered r the prairie for a distance of iten mniles are ma:y smaller n!".1.s not norie thant flurIT feet ;igh 1nd twenty, or thirty iil liamter. Many conjectures have >een made for the la-t twenty 'ez:rs as to what could have -au.!t so singuI)r a formation, >ut o one Was ever curious enough ill within the lIst few days to nake any examination of the in. rio' of these moun<is. A fev lays ago One of the engineers of he NoI i Pacific railroad opened mne of them and found remains of )ottery. and more thoroncrh ex .mination of others revealed other 'urious relies, evidently the work f' human hands, in fact, in every nound that has been opened there s some curious relic of a long orgotten race discovered. The heory now is that this prairie vas the cemetery of the people to inhabited the country in anti istoric times. Specimens of the ottery have been sent to Pro essor Agass'z, and it is expected hat he will make a visit to the lace and make a thorough xaminauon personally. A person wh > for years had suf -red excruciating torture from ooth.achbe, and yet feared the mo lentary agony occasioned b y ooth-drawing, resolved to extract is back tooth himself, but to take teps when doing so, to guard gainst his feeling the sharpness f the pang. For this purpose he iounted upon a stool placed upon b- kitchen dresser, and attached IS tooth by a long piece of' string o a rafter overhead. When all vas ready, he struck himself' a iolent blow upon the left temple e'ith a mallet he had provided for he purp'lose, and fell senseless on is back on the stone flor. When ke recovered consciousness, he ound that the str'ing had given cay, and the tooth was as firmly ixed in his head as it ever was. Ic then took poison and cut his biroat. KEv W EST. Oct.ber 30.-The steamer inna, which arrived here at 3 30 o'clck his P. M., from Nassau, brought ir telli eof the burnihg of the steamer Mis oui, en route from New York for Ilavana. )f all the persons she had on board on twelve are known to oe saved. The aptain and crew of the illfated vessel re said to be amnong those who have erished.. The stormship Missouri, Captain Cur is, ehichi left New York, October l'ith, or Havana and Nassau was burned off' abaco. It is reported that over 80 live's rere lost. A steamer arrived here from assau this P. M., at 3.3?0, bringing the ')ove intelligence. Nn:w Liur Os TIns HOLY WORD.-Mr. ~elt, of this city, who has, as he claims, e discovered the "caballa," the key of n~any mv'teries in a.rt and nature, is Lbout to lay his work before the Comn nittee of English Bile Revisers as a val iable aid in solving many of the ques ions which have always puzzled the ranslators and interpreturs of both the )ld and New Testament. His discovery mas been very fully examnined by several f the rectors of our city churches, who peak of it in high terms as throwing ight on the puzzles of Scripture. PASTORAL CAtt.-The Anderson Bap ist Church has extentded an invitation to ~ev. James K. Mendenhall, of Columbia, o assume its pastoral charge the ensuing 'ear. Bro. Mendenhall has been en ~aged f->r several yecars past as Agent of lhe Furman University, in raising sub criptions for the endowment o1 that nstitution, and is well known through ut the State. He is an able and inte estinig preacher, aYd will prove a val able acquisition to our community, if e concludes to accept the call tendered tim. -Anderson Intelligencer. Ami LINE RAILRCOAD.-The work of ~rading the Air-Line Railroad in this ohunty, says the Pickens Sentinel, is cariy completed. Col. Ames and Capt. ei.tty, the two la:gest contractors in the Jounty, have been pushing their work, ;igorously, and will soon have their con racts ready for the Ties and Iron. rhese we believe are the last contracts :' be finished up. when the entire road, n th' County. will be ready for laying the tract.-Keoaee Courier. One Collins, a Wisconsin man, r'eecntly shot himself, arranging it so that he would fall into the fire and be burned up, to escape Falhtng into the doctors' hands. The present style of a lady's hat is describ eri as a i;ind or movable tower of Babel, with a deep trench around the base, de vised purely for offensive warfare. A revenue assessor in Ohio, asking the usual questions, inquired: "Did your wife ha-.. an incomue last year ?" "Yes, sir," repiled the assessed, "both girls." Miss Drummrond, the quaker preacher, was ask.-d whethe'r the spirit ever inspired her witi the thouTht of gettinz married. 'No, friend." said she. "but the flesh has." Discove~ring that her lover was a mar ried mar, a Springfield, Ill., girl attempted suicide by em:ing two boxes of lucifer matbeh. This comes of match-making.