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ch mee errh A Family Companion, Devoted to Literature, Miscellany, News, Agricui' Markets, &c. Vol. XII. WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBEI 6, 1876. No. 49. E~ H E RAL D, r*'VERY WEDNESDAY M011NING, At Newberry,, S. C. BY TH09. F* GRENDKER, Editor and Proprietor. 7erms, $2.50 per Junurnt, Invariably in Advance. la- The paper is stopped at the expiration of time for wic it is paid. Cr7' The >4 mark denotes expiration of sub scription. CDrp HOME.1 Ohb, not the smile of other lands, Though far and wide our feet may roam, Can e'er unite the genial bands Thait knit our beart to home. Remembrance still, like dews, returns, To cheer and cherish life's young Hower,. And friendship decks the sacred urns, That stand in memory's tower.( There stilt a sphrit, niglit and day, A sweet, but melancholy Care, :Perpetual -bomage loves to pay, And keeps each trophy f1r. It weas a7 look of olden time, And rich and well-remembered words, 'Fall from its lips in tones that chime With those'of childhood's birds. And childhood's birds are Hope and Truth. ti And tbeir's the pleasant notes that bring, rj To bless in age the thoughts of youth, And every glorious winDg. And sweet the TiSionS they restore, Of all the loved, the bright, the true, Until we tread each scene once more, And all the past renew. t The blessed past-the. memory's home, bI The home of buried hopes-th e urnb clean discouraged. qu "When Mr. Ormsby came, nigh Wi on three year ago, he seemed more go reasonable than the rest, though ~~ be asked if' we couldn't furnish hu part of the parsonage for him, as an, erestin' he was, and wbat a beau ,iful reader and singer too. Why, L declare I took real comfort goin' o church and sittin' under such r eachin'; and so we all did, I'm iure. "But I was tellin' you about vbac we gave him. Well, Deacon tiUles's daughter Sally made a irawin' of the chuzch, and framed L in pine cones, to hang in Mr. )rmsby's study, and the deacon te sent us a cookin' stove out of is own kitche.n. He'd just bought.1 new one for Miss Stiles, and he one over and put it up himself, ihicb I thought was uncommon ind. "Thxen we took up a contribution buy some furniture, but ready ioney was skur!e just then, so -e only raised enough to git a pair of chiny vases and an ink ,and. "But Silas Hart, that sold 'em >us, was one of our members, so a throw in a ctiny dog for the iby and a match-box for the irson's wite. "Miss Jones and Uucle Midian mnt -n a new painted bedstead I id a kitchen table, and so I told i alph I'd give 'em a couple of twhen chairs and oir cradle, the ic we was both rocked in. So I d, and I pieced a real handsome tle quilt for the cradle, a sun- I >wer pattern, all out of spick I d span new calico too. "Well, it's 'most too bad to tell, it Mandy Jones, who went i help Miss Ormsby git to Yhts, told me that she did act f eadful, and not a bit becomin' a inister's wife. S "She went all round the house C >kin' as if she was ready to cry, E d at !ast she sot down in the a r1or on her trunk, and began to t igti at the vases aRnd the ink- a Lnd. and then wound up by find- t fault with the stove, which she o id looked as if it came out of the r "I've always thought she made il r husband discontented, for Mr. s -misby was such a meek, quiet, I selfish ma.n that he never would ta ve made any trouble if she I dn't been always complainin' d d puttin' him up to grumble. v "Bu I'm wanderin' off from my iry-I started to tell you about b a donation. party. You see, the p st year we got along splendid c: th it, and .[ must say I never tl e' a better tea-table spread than b set that night for Miss Ormsby. o 'But tbat woman never could t< satisfied, and sbe said after rd that it wouldn't take more ti in two such parties to ruin any a ily ! b 'It seems she found fault be. xe we all staid to tea with 'em, as t 4s if we hadn't a right to out- h Safter send in' in all the victuals h -it. ft -But I don't know as Aunt Bet- u did do exac'ly right, for she ti >k M=ss Ormsby's preserves to ti t on the iable, and they was all si that night, ae~d I s'pose that fl t her out some. s ~Well, as I was sayin', the see- w d year come round. and it was el Ld out in meetin' that the donia- d n party would b.e given the at Friday.e 'Mr. Ormsby read the notice, 11 i then he looked all around and ti ared his throat two or three. n tes, as if be had someth in' per- it kler to say, but after waitin' a tU nute lhe changed his mind and a down. n 'I thought he acted kinder ser, but I was quite taken up Lh noticin' Miss Ormsby. She 4 5 as red as could be, an.d when d etin' was dismissed she jest h rried out as if she didn't wantb 7 one to speak to her. 'Well, Friday came, and by t -ee o'clock we was most all at s parsonage. Mr. Ormsby looked b iadfully sober, more as if it .afuneral than a merry-makin', aust say ; but his wife was aw .She was jest as huffy and >rt as she could be withr every fb~ e, and she went and locked the W idy door and put the key in herk eket rigbt before us all, as if Swas afraid we'd touch some ofh .Ormsby's papers or books. ~ b 'Birneby we began to thinki nu e in' the table : so A unt 1 - out in the kitchen to unpack the contributions. There was some pertaters and turnips (them we put in the suller), a piece of corned beef, two or three biled hams, a pot of butter, some apple sass, a big cheese, and such a lot of bis cuits it would bave taken all night to count 'em. "I began to be scart when we took out panful after panful of biscuit, and no cake to speak of. At last we come to Miss Jones's basket, and there we found 'lec tion cake, as well as a great batch of molasses cookies. "I was glad enough I'd sent pound-cake and. crullers; but somehow when the table was ready, there was more biscuits cn it than any thing else, though we did the best we could. "Mr. Johnson sent tea and cof fee from his store, besides sugar ind crackers; and Amos Hull he 3rought a bag of nuts and some ipples for the young folks after supper, he said. "There was so many there that xe had to divide 'em into three ots, the dinin'-room bein' small; tnd it was 'most seven o'clo-k vhen they got through eatin'. "Aunt Betsy stail with me to ,lear up some; and I thought I ever should get all the biscuits )ut away, for they 'most filled the >antry. "For all there had been so many aten, yet there was piles and >iles left, arid, as Aunt Betsy aid, theyRvouldn't need to bake or a montb to come. "It happened so that I didn't :o out much the week after the onation party, but, the second unday after, I started off good nd early for church, and as I urned the corner by the parson ge, t saw Wa6-mS 4u" :ok my breath away. Every ne of them sharp-pointed pickets und the house and garden had good biscuit stuck right atop of ,I Yes, Miss Harwood, jest as are as you live, there was Aunt ietsy's nice raised biscuits---I could all bern by the shape-and Miss [ull's rasks, and Miss Stiles's so a biscuit, and every one of 'em -asted! in that shameful way. "Well, I stood and looked-I adn't the strength to move-and retty soon some of the ladies ime along and jined me; and iere we all stood till the last bell egan to ring, talkin' the matter ver, and feelin' pretty mad, I can >Il you. "Mr. Ormsby had a-good sermon iat day, but I could hardly bear word, my mind was so fullof the iscu-its. "Miss Ormsby w arn't there, and< i soon as the last hymn was sung, e got up and ,said that be had ad a cail from a church in the r- West, and that he bad madei p his mind that it was his duty >accept it. He went on to say iat he would like to go that ~me week. and then, without so 1 uch as tellin' us that he was >rry to leave us, or offerin' to ait until we could get some one J se, he gave the benediction and a smssed us.1 "I can tell you tLere was talk 1 >ough when we got out that E orni', and some of the folks , iought we ought to 'p'int a comn ittee to ask Miss Ormisby about ,but brother Ralph said, 'No ; if icy was goin', let 'em go peace >e;' so they all agreed to say Atbin' at all. "We heard afterward from little 1 >bnny Hall, who was playin' aar the parsonage late on Satur ry afternoon, tbat Mr. Ormsby a brought the biscuits out in a g basket, arnd then Miss Ormsby ie helped him to stick them on e pickets, and she laughed allC ~e time as if it was a good joke. "I don't want to judge any >dy, but I never did think that oman was fit for a minister's ife, and I don't think so now. "Well, they moved off, bag and iggage, on Wednesday of that eek, and we've never heard from r. Ormsby since, and I don't aow~ as we want to, seein' he ~ rt our feelin's so, though we've ~ver f>und as good a preacher asF was, and never will." And this was Miss Melissa'sL A-CLERGYMAN AND A BUR GLAR. THE REV- DE. PRICE'S REMARKA AD VENTURE WITH AN IMPRESSION A=L EMER~ The Rev. Dr. Price, formerly rector of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, lived until' recently at 109 West twenty second street, New York. Early in the summer be went to Hempstead, leaving his furniture and silver locked id his dwelling. A short -time ago the doctor came to .Now York, unlocked the front door, and en tered the parlor... Soon he heard footsteps coming sottly down stairs. He went into the hall, and there he discovered a burglar. 'What are you doing here ?' asked the doctor. The burglar pointed a pistol at the clergyman's head and said: 'If you move I will blow your brains out,' and dragged him into the parlor and told him to sit down. 'I began to talk to him,' said the doctor to a reporter. 'My good fellow,' said L, 'what in duces you to commit this crime upon crime ? You have commit ted burglary, and now you are about to commit murder. It will do you no good to kil an old man like me. You have .already ran the risk of twenty years in State prison and to little purpose. If you kill me you will-be found out, fo.r I have -many friends in the city and am well known here. The murder will cause great ex citement, and you will be hanged For it. As a mere matter of policy it is folly to kill me. And then why do you want to add crime to ::rime?' 'Well, you take the mat Who are yo'u, anyhow?' 'I'm the Rev. Dr. Price, and have spent a portion of my time laboring among your class of people.' The bur lar's manner changed when. I laid tbis, and he took the pistol t tway from my head. Taking the1 :rglar's left hand in mine (the I -ight band held the pistol), 1 add- a ad : 'My good fellow, what has II nduced you to lead this life of~ 1 3rimne? Why do you do so ?' The 3 3and containing the pistol dropped L >y the burglar's side. '1 am suf- n 'ering,' he said, 'for food to eat d Lndam without work and nobody df ities me. You are -the Arst man, b iir, that has spoken a kind word i9 ,o me in a long time. 1 shall not b iarm you. I am surprised at your )tl :oolness. You are the most re-- : narkable man I ever saw.' v *The doctor had a heavy gold P hain hanging from his vest, and: el gold watch attached to it. H t LIso had money in his pockets I' ['he burglar- did not at.tempL teb -ob him. He said: -You havy ' Iestroyed my desire to steal, ane W s for harming you, you need nott ear that. But I must escape, anc t ow to do it I don't know. I an tI Lfraid to go out, for you will give 8 n alarm and I shall be arrested tli cannot stay here, that's certain W nod I cannot harm you, fo ryoi gr alk so kindly to me. I haven' al he heart to injure you. I don' to ee any other -way than to ti, ur 'ou. .is there a closet handy t< gi >ut you in ?' Vi 'That is unnecessary,' said th Loctor. 'I will allow you to e ape I will give you all the tim o -ou want. I will not make an. larm until you are out, of dange ~Iy life is in danger, and I pron se you that you shall have all ti ime you want.' 'Well, I guess I'll trust you.' He started for the door. As I was about to go out, the doct' da ailed to him: 'My good fello, m -on say that you are in wai. lere, take this dollar (bandig he im a silver dollar.) I am willi; th o help you further if you ni erite me when you get aw*. ou need not fear to do so, forI tb4 r'ill not trouble you, if' you rear be esire to reform.' The burglar stood lea~nir. tin gainst the front door of a pic ouse with one hand on the kn<, >oking pensgely at the flo . )rawing a lorrg breath, he rai4 ese imself fall lerigth, and, cha ngit pr< is position to ret himsna, i m ing: 'Ab, thank you, sir, thank you, sir. I expected to .have a fight with yot when I heard you come in tbe door. You have con quered me without fighting. You sball hear from me again, sir; I will never forget this occurrence. I believe that there is one kind hearted man left in the world. Gloa-bye.' The burglar, casting a glance behind him, slid 6ut upon the stoop, and sh-attin tfie door after bitn, walked rapidly away. TnE PENALTY OF MARRYING A REPQRTE.-Last week, young Paddington, 'a reporter on the Meatex,, got married. Tfie next morning his bride availed herself of a wife's dearest privilege and went through his pockets. She found some interesting letters from tailors, boarding mistresses, and washwomen, but these re Ceived only a passing glance. She scorned the writers. But what fascinated her atten tion was his private memorandum book. She read there a number of items which revealed to her pure mind a degree of degrada tion a6d duplicity which racked' her innocent breast. This is what she read, 'Molly Maguire deserted September 9th;' 'Annie Eversham jealous of Ida EIwood, drew pistol 14,h, missed, exposure prevented by compromise, no information;' 'William Mauler promises revela tion of secrets of counterfelting;' 19th mem-'How to Make Money Easy - splendid article;' Miss Hartha Medytater-back gate 11. 30 p. m.-arrangements for elope ment---paren-w discovered plot, 'rue love crushed in bud;' 'Mi >hael Manahow, murderer threat- I mne to confess to-morrow afternoon Am ;' and of such harrowing deeds nd assignations with the wicked 1 lid she read till tears blinded her I yes, and, broken hearted, she si- < ently slipped from the house,and, 1 aking the first car to Alleghany, t Vas soon sobbing on the bosom of 2 ter father. She could only Bay t he had been betrayed by the brute i 'addington, who associated only i rit,h counterfeiters, bloodthirsty t utlaws, and other awful people, hie worst of her.sex; and the old '1 han patting her on the head, took own his double-barreled gun. " [e reached Paddington's room e sfore the unsuspecting monster a 'as out of bed. He Was aroused 0 y the entrance of his frantic fa- Li ier-in-law, who filled the calves it both legs with bird shot as the h >nng man spi-ang to an upright bi ysition, and blew a hundred bush- 0 s of corn-husks out of tbe mat ass, and set the bed clothing on 'I -e, when he rushed out, followed hi r the mangled reporter, crying sI [urder !' The two women who ez ere scrubbing the stairs knew e bride had been murdered by er c two maniacs, and they threw e buckets of water, chunks of ap, and scrubbing brushes after fa em, and yelling for the police, 0r owere dozing against the tele. ot aph pole on the corner. It has 5i4 been.explained ; but Padding- in n, who had a 'sub' on, and is laid til with both legs bandaged, has hi Ven out that he has gone on a co sit to Philadelphia.-Exchange. A gentleman, on walking out e Sunday evening, met a young th otch peasant girl, whose parents tu ed near his house. 'Where are bn u going, ,Tenny ?' said he- ba >Oking for a son-in-law for my >ther, sir.' -+* *- - ^--in rhe spirit of Lord Byron was Ct ervie wed in Ne w York the other foi k". He didn't appear so much Sa erested in the progress of. his 'nument as in Mrs. Stowe's: alth. He's waiting for her on plk Sshining shore. B ***----ret 'Send me a kiss in a letter," is seg title of a new song. It is to followed by "Send me a Roar ~, Old-Fashioned, Corset-Split- fot: g Hug by Telegraph, if you dei ase." eb, L. Boston man has written an ay on "Bustles." Some hustles dew >ject sufficiently to enable a n to write an essay on them] -THE OLD, OLD f6ot It was late. The leaden scep terofthe r so 'Rddswaieoll ed above the slumbering world, and yet they stood at the old front gate, and-he wound a protecting arm around her lithe form to shield her from the falling dews. Her exquisite head drooped upon his -shoulder and the love.light shone in her lustrous. eyes. It was- now or never. He would know his fate, be it bliss or mis ery. He pointed to a star-not one of the terrible shooting stars that crowd the cemeteries of Bar. ling'on with their unburied slaip, oh, no, not one of those destroy irg angels, but one of those fixed, glittering orbs that know their places and stay in them-and sroke: 'Darling, by yon bright orb I swear 'Oh, don't say that,'. she mur mured, and her voice was like the sound of flutes upon the water; 'Leander Smith said that, and he ran away and married his uncle's kitchen-girl the very next week.' 'Dear one,' he resumed, 'by the blue arching dome that bends above, I-' 'Oh, no,' she sighed, rubbing a prescription of Laird's Bloom of Youth upon his cassimere shoul ier,'don't say that please; Ores tus Johnson said that, and just Lhink, pa found out, before the af fair went very far, that he had two wives in Indiana.' 'My own,' he once more tried, 'by every whispering breeze that ouche with its. bahrwy: kias the dleeping flowers, I '0, please, please, don't say ;hat,' she said, in pleading tones. Mr. Trevelyan La Rouke said rbw&,,w-ar6Y__k_nW.i .-turned )t that he was a waiter in a Wa ,er street restaurant, and he came ip one evening dreadfully intoxi ated, when we had company, and t uorst into the parlor and shouted o pa toset out 'Large plate beef ncabbage welldonannogravy po-t atoesmnashed oneplate liverano2n ns, COrnbeefaSh COffeetwo and C lackberry both 1' '0, don't say bat ; it sounds: dreadful to me.' 'Day star of my life,' he tried, >right gem of-' 'Oh, no, nlO, no,' she sighed 0 rearily''not that, Mr. Van TresSe- g ick said that, and the next week si 'e saw himi at the circus in a suit a 'red. and white stuff, sitting in ti e middle of a sawdust ring, ty- s g his legs in a bow-knot around * s neck and crawling through a" o~p not balf big enough for him. b h, anything but that I' e 'Well, then,' h% said, in despair, a1 L'il be nothing, for I'll be dad cC nged if I've had time to learn ty more. I ain't a walkin' loy- '3 's dictionary.' a 'Sir-r-r I' she said, assuming a li' eeL posture.' 'Madam,' he said', stiffly, 'adieu.' As She went into the house with a tb ee like the shield that was white hi one side and brown on the a her, and he strode down thd 51n eiewalk with one shoulder look- sti g like a whitewasher's adver- ap ement, and a long curl of raven ti! e hanging to the col1ar of his 0on at. They never met again. tel (Burlington Hawk-Eye. A boy has written an essay on H a turtle, in which he says: A au rtle is not so frisky as a man, thi t he can stand a hot coal on his wi ek longer without sq'lalling. tlV A. San Francisco paper reports Mi one issue the baptism of ten ye inam-en-three in Sacramento, bri ir in Los Angelos, and three in qu4 u Francisco. pr< Dr. Isaac Hayes, the Arctic ex rer, regards the British Pobar ma pedition as a failure, and still ma ains his belief in the open Polar h tor ____ ___ ___ ___ ___wh or nineteen years a timid, ha<( liRh wife waited in agony for VeI Lth to divorce her from a drunk- cla brutal husband. wil -- - -ee -----prc rhe wise neither grieve for the (ba d nor for the living. a v low sweetly rests the brain J 'a iavv sumiw ohw amma d P"OTOGRAPHING T HE BABY. They came at ten A.w. The ba by, his grandmother, his papa and mamma and two aunties. Thei wanted to have his picture taken. The obliging artist.got everything in rea4inesw,brought out the lit tie volvet- lined. chair, in which the babies are usually photograph ed, and then the trouble began. The baby's papa wanted to take off its sack, because.it had- such a pretty fat arm, but its mamma was afraid that it might take cold. Then one aunt thought it would- be so sweetto1:fke-,tff his little stockings-and sit him in a big arm chair, but his otberaunty thought that such a performance would be very immodest indeed, and a conflict seemed imminent. Finally it was agreed that they should take the artist's advice and strap him up la the high chair. After mtrcli ringing of bel.s the baby was induced. to look with favor on the new ette of affairs. The artist prepared to take theC negative; but jast at the critical moment the infant doubled him. elt across the strap and screamed lustily. His papa jingled the bells %new, the artist set the music box going, while the* malpha drew bim ou of the chair and hisaunty ,alled him a "pqtam uizy ittke sing." Peace being restored, another 2egaLive was taken, this time t with tolerable success. But one tunty did not like the expression )f the face and the mamma t-hought t did not do justice to his eyes. 'be next time he stuck both fists nto his mouth and shut one eye, Lnd the nexi. nimJiis grandma, vho had been watching him in- -d * b &ntly, an-:bastiy forward and >egan shaking him and slppi fim on the back. It was twelve o'clock and the hermometer stood at nicety-eight legrees in the shade, and that ar ist ground his teeth and looked o see how far it was from the I rindoy to the sidewalk. Three r r four- more unsatisfactory at emipts were made, and ai stthe b aby, wbo had b.een taken out ofa be chair so many times and was ot prope.rly secured, slipped down n the ffoor with a thump. A fe rand hubbnb followed; every body fa 3reamed, the timid aunty fainted Ii ad the papa swo'e, while the w -emblin~g artist, fearing for his Wi Fe, secreted himself behind -a ad ~reen in the corner, where he "i aited until he was sure that no 2nes were broken and then he su ame. forth, saying that he- had CO dden-ly been called down stairs Lb see a man. m He was so much relieved on be. WI g told that they would not try an sin that day that he forgot to WC e up to his rules and demand W, ay when the negative is taken." me i they started down the stairs aoi e head of the family informed ah~ m that they would call.again in. eai few days, and he has hired a " tall boy to sit at the foot of the lan ips and bring hini word at their sh preach, so that he may have be) ie to lock the door and hang to: t a notice : "Gone to the Ceri. bei mnial." -lini ____ ____ ____ ____wa :iWHAT SOR or A LAJ Couin mo BE ?"-Mr. Richardson, "-a far the ay cousin" of Lord Broughain, her is describes the lad Brougham, No om he tells us was. then about er, olve years old. "The first time one was introduced to him," says wh .R., "he was about twelve ha[ irs old, and -was en one of the dges at Edinburgh; with a huge arto under his arm, which rep >ved to be a volume of the fore rk of La Place, in the original, can ondered what sort of a lad this et be who not only studied thematics for pleasure, but P1y ough the medium of a foreign Det gue." This was the boy of om it was remarked, when he ' I been four years at the Uni- kno sity, attending almost all the ~ses, that if shut up in a tower ' bout books, he would have not duced at the end of the year rring a few ludicrous blunders) A sry tolerable eneyclopedia. qua: Minnesota photographer has, T I 50 0 itre bw banite. ti've ADVERTISINC RATIES. Advertisements fnwxrled at thomemta.09 per square-one inch-fbrirma0" maUact 75c. for eacb subseqmeth itimd. Dimbb columnadverUzsemmns tqp. WeWtoabove Notices ot meeting,obitunkomsad fmWU nf rec:Peer. ".mne ram per squam. as ftwiy advertdseaman. Special aotices in local ca'Is awlsn Perliue, AdverU-Qemnf~t, * n,ire1 .b& - her of insertiv-. u-~:1ig-111'p IbWliftid and charged acoia&,iiI Special etmtr*ets in-doi t%t I*rgj adMe. isers, with liberal tddwl ioms *a above rawu Done with Neatueas ae dkp A ScioiOOGP.LS 'PilML.,. - Louis-exchange reiateft"_'ii~q Xf the pride of a chitd. iokqq",ua appearances . in & Wqy that irm ouebing td W-itnes.. 'The bp. lessness of the eDdeaor wapim iaully.made masiON-to twty--Ova well-meanot action &- her tar Lhie facts are these: J-08V before theo.,loe of t66e lait s,ession 'of 4 puli bQ'1~, Lbat City,2 an -WWG t6ok phac which, as.in illas"Wa1966, 'is 'm"~ Lba.q touching. Attm .a# fI ;ebools nuamboes of- IbW u were, in the h#b4:o iLig~~ i0on thqy.6te, fogetber. A",% .hose v bo did no ~ for Iin Der, the teach4r in a scla -oom raoticed.a little Zir apa Way8s~ wlooking V tffAWAW0 )lAymaUts when they WM~-ou vith their laneo%. 6&_4AW, if "~r brought &or' _h*gsd%r fte Ifid -was always neatly b4.p-.hin Fd :c,8aona of te -, d'saa~ 4W