The Newberry herald. (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, December 01, 1880, Image 1

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THE HRALDADVERTISING RATES. - THE HERALD Ad1 ertsem nts isertedoat te rate ci and 75 cen:P for e:ach subsequent insertiol ISPBSDouble column advertisemen ten per cent, EYNoe of eetings,obituariesandtribut, EVE~RY WEDNESDAY MOR'N,~onaoe - -o reset same rates per square as ordinai, It Newberry, S. C. S line BY THOS. F. GRENEKKEIR, ergse Editor and Proprietor. Si al s, ith Ternss, $2.00 per .nnumi, Te rms i s vne. A Family Companion, Devoted to Literature, Miscellany, News, Agricu re,Ma invariably in Advance. j-.The paper is stopped at the expiration of DONE WITH NEATNESS AND DISPATClZ ine for which it is paid. ING,No. 49. TERMS CASH. )-The 4 mark denotes expiration of sub Vol. XVI. W EDNESDAY MORNB eription. Dry Goods and .Motons. What Was the [xcitement? Where Was the Immense Crowd Rushing ? WHY, DON'T YOU KNOW? TO THE DRY 90DS EMPORIUM -OF B. H. CINE & W0. To examine the LARGE STOCK of Staple and Fancy Goods JUST RECEIVED. N OVELTIE DRESS GOODS! OVELTIES NOTIONS A few more pairs left of the job lot wo mens' Shoes for $1 .00. We will appreciate an opportunity to show you our Fall Goods without importu nity to purchase. B. H. CLINE & CO. Oct. 27, 44-tf. The Great Wonder of the Age. It is a mystery to manyi people how I can sell' .goods at such LOW PRICES. The secreti is, I buy my goods with re ference to the special wants of my customers, and with, an experience of twentyl 1years in the Dry Goods 'usi ness, I know exactly what to buy. I desire to call the! attention of the public gen erally to the fact thatI have! now on hand the most varied and best selected Stock of Goods ever exhib ited in the city of (.olumbia Grateful to the good people! of Newberry County or their liberal patronage here-, 1tofore, I trust, by fair deal ing, to receive acontinuance of their favors. I espe-1 cially invite the! ladies to examine my extensive stock of fine Silk Ribbons, raiging from 5 cents to $1.00 per yard, which are unsurpassed by any House in the South. Come one and all, exam ine my goods and buy them while the stock is complete in every department. Re member the place. C. F. JACKSON, 120 Main St., Columbia, S. C. LEADER OF LOW PRICES, L. C. SWYGERT respectfully informs his friends that he can be found at the above establishment. Sep. 22, 39-tf. NEW HOTEL. This commodious edifice, situated on MAIN ST REET, NEWBERRY, S. C., and known as the BLEASE HOTEL, is now open, and invites the people one and all to call and know what can be done at all hours, to wit: An Extra Good Breakfast, Dinner, or Supper, for TWENTY-FIVE CENTS. Forty or fifty regular boa'-ders will be taken at proportionately low rates. The convenience of location, excellent spring water, well furnished table, etc., commend this house to every one. Oct. 16, 42-tf. PROSPECTUS. To be published by subscription, a vol ume of short POEMS AND SKETCHES, -BY "MLAGGIE," The well known and Popular Correspon dent of "Tax~ NEwBERRY HERALD.' The Volume will cumprise from 100 to 150 pages, and not to e xceed in price $1.00. Subscribers' niames will be received by THOMAS F. GRENEEER, Editor "New. berry Herald," Newberry, S. C., or WHIT TET' & SHEPPERSON, Publishers, Rich mond, Va. Se p. 22, 39-tf. 0aborat)' Of State Assajer anI Chemist0, No. 1013 Broad Street, bet. Tenth and Eleventh, R1cuxo.sD, Vi-, Au.g. 22nd, 1877. I have m.ade a careful chem ical exammna tion or a samip!e ot "Summlerdenf, AR gusta, Co., Va." Rye W!~ W,, selected bv myself and repres,;ntin'g alot ,>f 2oe> barrels in the hands of Messrs. Jenkins & Stegal, and finmd it entirely free from adul teratioun. I can fully recommend it to those who desire an article of assured puri ty. Wx. H. TaYL.OR, M. D., State Assayer and Chemist. None Genuine unless bearing the Signa ture of E. Courtehney Jenkins & Co., WHOLESALE UQUOR MERCHANTS, 1n3 s. Fourteenth street, RICanOND, VA. For sale by Da. S. F. FANT, Sole Agent for New berry. Oct. 27, 44-6m. Yourselves by mkng money thereby always jkeeping povert - irom your door. Those who a ways take advantage of the good chaces for making money that are offered,gene rally become wealthy, while those who do Dot improve such chances remam in pover y. We want many men, women. boys and girls to work for us right in their own lo calities. The business will pay more than te times ordnay wages. We furnish an expensive outlit and all that you need, free. No one who engages fails to make money very rapidly. Y ou can devote your whole tie t he work. or only yor spar needed sent free. Address Stinson A Co., Portland, Maine. Oct. 13.&4-ly. Watches, Clocks, Jewelry. WTITES AND JEWELRY At the New Store on Hotel Lot. I have now on band a large and elegant assortment of WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY, Silver and Plated Ware, VIOLIN AND GUITAR STRINGS, SPECTACLES AND SPECTACLE CASES, WEDDING AND BIRTHDAY PRESENTS. IN ENDLESS VARIETY. All orders by mail promptly attended to. Watchmaking and Repairing Done Cheaply 4nd with Dispatch. Call and examine my stock and prices. EDUARD SCHOLTZ. Nov. 21, 47-tf. Drugs ' Faucy .irticles. DR. S. F. FANT, Wholesale and etail DRUGGIST, NEWBERRY, S. C., Offers Imported and Indigenous Drugs. Staple and Rare Chemicals. Foreign and Domestic Medical Prepara tions. Fine Essential Oils and Select Powders. New Pharmaceutical Remedies. Special attention is called to the follow ing Standard Preparations: FANT'S Liver Regulator. FANT'S Elixir o! Calisaya with Pyrophos phate of Iron. FANT'S Compound Fluid Extract of Buchu. FANT'S Compound Extract of Queen's De light and Sarsapar;lla, with Iodide of Potassium. FANT'S Soothing Syrup. FANT'S Essence of Jamaica Ginger. FANT'S Ague Gure-well known to every one in the County, having been thoroughly tested in fever and ague. FANT'S Cologne. Guratine and Iron Bitters-the great Blood Purifier. Sole Agent for Swift's Syphilitic Specific, the Great Eliminator of all limpurities of the Blood. The cure for Scrofula. Rheuma tism, Neuralgia and all Nervous Affections. Buckeye Pile Ointment, a specific for Piles. I al,o offer the largest assortment of Lamps, Soaps, Perfumery, Hair Brushes, 'Tooth Brushes, -ar Toilet Articles, of ev cry description, at the very lowest prices. Call and exami:ne for your.eives. Prescriptions carefully compounded at all hours of the day and night. Mar. :11, 14-tf. iron Works. PI'ItNA iRON WORK, COLUMBIA, S. C., MANUFACTURES STEAM ENGINES From five-horse power to any size, Boilers, Saw Mills, Grist and Cane Mills, Gearing fur Machinery, AGRICULTURAL IMPLE~MENTS Columns and Architectural Work for Buildings, Railings for Cemeteries and Balconies, and Iron and Brass Cast ings of all kinds. Having a large stock of Patterns for general work, castings can be made at short notice. Special attention given to RE PAIRING MACHINERY, of all kinds. All work done by the best mechanics, and prices as reasonable as can be had for good work anywhere North or South. Mr. PETER KIND, the founder and former owner of this establish ment, superintends the business, and will turn out nothing but good work. Address orders to G. IDIERCKS, Proprietor, Phce>ix Iron WVorks, Columbia, S. C. Oct. 13, 4?-3m. Preserve Your Old Books ! E. R. STOKES, Blank Book Manufacturer AND GNElILE BOOKBINDElR, Has moved opposite the City Hall, where be is fully prepared, with first-class work men, to do all kinds of work in his line. BLANK BOOKS RULED to any pattern and bound in any style desired. My facilities and long aequointance with the business enable me to gnarantee satisfac tion on orders for Bank Books, Railroad Books, and Books for the use of Clerks of Court, Sheriffs, Probate Judges. Masters in Equity, and other County Officials. Pamphlets, Magazines, Music, Newspapers and Periodicals, and all kinds of publications bound on the most reasonable terms and in the best manner. All orders promptly attended to. E. R. STOKES, Main Street, opposite New City Hall, Oct. 8, 41-tf. Columbia, S. C. I1 AGENTS We.want a limited number of active, en ergetic canvassers to engage in a pleasant and profitable business. Good men will find tnis a rare chance TMAKE MONEY. Such Will please answer this advertise ment by letter, enclosing stamp for reply, stating what business they have been en gaged in. None but those who mean busi ness need apply. A ddress No. 7 FLNLEY, HAEVEY t CO.. alisceuaneous. R EAD. Have you Dyspepsia ? H. H. P. will relieve it. Have you a Headache? Take H. H. P. and cure it. Do you feel Bilious? Two doses of H. H. P. will re- V move all cause for it. Do you wish to cleanse your system of Malaria ? H. H. P. is peculiarly adapted to that purpose. N.H. P. HILL'S Put up in larger bottles than any other Liver Medicine, and SOLD FOR 50 CENTS! -AT W. E. PELHAM'S. Nov. 17, 47-1y. A New Lot of Nice BUGGIES, PHlpT0NS -AND CARRIAGES, Just received at J. Taylor's Repository, Below M. Foot & Son's, on opposite side. Call and look at then. For sale by TAYLOR & OLINE. Sep. 15, 38 4m. 1880. 1880. GRAD QJENTRIL HOTEL, (Formerly the Wheeler House,) COL UMI3XA, S. C. THOROUGHLY RENOVATED, REFURNISHED AND REFITTED. TERMS, $2.00 TO $3.00 PER DAY. JOHN T. WILLEY, Propriet'r. Nov. 10, 46-tf. FRED VON SANTEN, 279 KINS ST., CHARLESTON, S. C. Santa Elau's' Headjuah[s. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. NOW READY TO SUPPLY EVERYBODY. COME AND SEE ME. Nov. 17, 47-6m. HENRY BAYER, IMPORTER OF BANA=NAS COCOANUTS AND ORANGES, And Wholesale Dealer in Apples, Potatoes, Onions, &c., 215 EAST BAYS CHARLESTON, S. C. or .Prompt attention gven to country C. C. PLENGE, Corner Broad and Church Streets, CHARLESTON, S. C. AGENT FOR DUNLAP'S FIFTH AVENUE HATS. FALL STYLES NOW READY! FieSMen's Sof Hat,t 50c. to $5.00. Men's Stiff Hats. $1.00 to $3.50. NOBBY HATS FOR YOUNG MEN, A sP'ECIALTY. UMBRELLAS. -Silk Umbrellas, from $.00 upwards. Gingham " 75c., $1.00, $1.25, $1.50. Mourning Bads put on Hats 25 Cents. M- A call is respectfully solicited. Nov. 17, 47-6mu. PAVILION HOTEL, CHARLESTON, S. 0. This popular and centrally located House has been entirely renovated during the past smmer and was REOPENED to the travel ing public on August 16, 1880. Terms, $2 and $2.50 per Day, E. T. GAILL.TARD, Nov. 17, 47-t. PROPRE rOR. HERMANN BUJLWINKLE, Factor anid General Commission lerchant, CHARLESTON, S, C., DEALER I5 GERMAN KAINIT, or POTASH SALT, Peruvian Guano, No. 1 and No. 2, Pure Fish Guar.o, Nova Scotia Land Plas ter, Ground South Garolin4 Phosph.ite, and other FERTILIZERS. Also, Corn, Oats, Hay, &C. Orders filled with dispatch, and liberal advances made on consigauents of 'Cotton ad other Produce. ovr. 10, 46 --m. eMiscellaneous. PERRY HOUSTON CONXTY, GA. Jan. 28, 1880. In the year 1873, there were two negro risoners confined in the jail of this county, rho were very badly afflicted with that Dathsome disease Syphilis. In my official apacity as Ordinary, I employed Capt. C. T. wift, then a resident of this place, to cure hem, under a contract. "no cure, no pay. le administered to them his celebrated oyphilitic Specific, and in a few weeks I felt ound, under my contract, to pay him out o he county treasury, as he had effected a omplete and radical cure. n testimony I hereunto set my official sig SEAL.J nature and seal. A. S. GILES, Ordinary Houston County, Ga. CHATTAINooGA, TENx., Feb. 14, 1879. We take pleasure in saying that the S. S. . is giving good satisfaction. We have had; xcellent results from a number of cases. )ne gentlemen who had been confined to his er six weeks with Syphilitic Rheumatism as been cured entirely, and speaks in the ighest praise of it. It also acts as well in Iimary as in secondary and tertiary cases. 'HE SWIFT SPECIFIC COMPANY, Pro prietors, Atlanta, Ga. Sold by DR S. F. FANT. Call for a copy of "Young Men's Friend." Nov. 10, 46-1m. Election is Over. Now go and hear the votes counted at L ARK'S GALLERY, where the fluest Art Vorki that have ever been exhibited in ewberry, are on exhibition. And while here sit for your picture, and take to your omes some of their superior photographs. We warn you that delays are dangerous: o ere it is too late. Mr. W. H. Clark feels confident, after an xperience of fifteen years, that he can roduce a class of work that will please nd give perfect satisfaction. Copying old pictures and enlarging to ny desired side, also - reducing to the inallest, a specialty. For style and quality of work, refers to be editor of this paper. CL ARK BRO'S. Nov. 10, 46-tf. RONB RON, RON BIRER, eases requiring acertain A Great Tonic. and effcient TONIC; especially In IndcUgw RON BITTERS, Vepe,Wan Of - A Sure Appetizer. Se oe hnr tp,ete. It en riche the blood, strengthens the inns RON BITTERS, cles and gives new life A completstrengthener. - n To the lde.and chil dreg'requiring recuper atin ths vaual re=a;&y can not be vi RON BITTERS, -- -m Saluable Medi e- t aeZ e a charm on the digestive organs. -A tespnf11 before RON BITTERS, d ee sy ms" NotSoldaaseverage. TRY IT. RON BITERS, Sold by all Druggists, For Delicate Female'. BA LT IMOR E, Md. Wholesale by DoWIE & MoIsE, Wholesale )ruggists, Charleston, S. C. 15-1y. Poor House Keeper. Physician to Poor House and Jail. Sealed bids will be received by the un lersigned until 10 o'clock A. M., on Mon lay, December 13th next, for a Keeper to he County Poor House, aud a Physician to he Poor House and Jail, each tocomm"nce n January 1st, 1881. Bids for the Poor ouse may be offered either to keep the oor House at a stated salary or to supply he paupers with food, clothing. &c., at so uch per bead per month ; applicants for his pceition will also please star e how much and will be cultivated for the County free >f cost. By order of the County Commissioners of sewberry County. .F. WERBER, Ja., Clerk Co. Corn's., New berry Co. Nov. 10, 46-5t. Newberry News copy 3 times e ao w. Poor House Farm to Rent. Sealed Bids will be received by the un ersigned until 10 o'clock A. M., on Mon lay, December 13th next, for the Rent of o much of the Poor House Farm as lies at. ,be North side of the Public Road leading brough the same. By order of tIle Board of County Comn nissioners for Newberry County. F. WERBER, Ja., Nov. 10, 46-5t Clerk C. C. N. C. N'ews copy 3 times e a '. JUST RECEIVED! A LARGE VARIETY OF SEASIDE NOVELS. RED LINE POEMS, Tendson, Wordsworth, Cowper, Hood, Hoore, Hemans, Gems from the Poets, Fa iliar Quotations. Beautiful variety of BOOKS FOR CHILDREN. HERALD BOOK STORE. Nov. 24, 4$-t. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE WEEKLY PALMETTO YEOMAN, COLUMBIA, S. C. It is an 8 page paper, designed for the peo ple, filled with interesting matter--Fanr.ily Reading, News, Markets, &c. Subscription: One Year, $1.50; Seyen Months, $1.00; Three Months, 50 Cents-payable in ad vance. For Six Names and Nine Dollars an Extra Copy for one year. Specimens far nished. The DAILY YEOMAN, an after noon paper, is $4 a year. 40-tf Editor and Publisher. Clt.,bed with the HERALT.T at $3.5 THE CUP OF TEA. First you take and warm the teapot, Let the water boiling be, That's a most important secret, And see you do not spare the tea. Put it on the hob to draw it For some minutes-two or three Then fill up and shake and pour it, And bless the man who found out tea Lovely woman is the sugar, Spoons the poor man seems to be, Matrimony Is hot water, Love is like a cup of tea. The Two Miss Amberleys. -0 Within the vine-clad window two charming girls, in the severe. ly ample attire that fashion pre scribes for traveling. Without, a long, well-knit, masculine figure lies perdu in the grase, face invisi ble, being covered by the owner's hat. To him theresaunters another gentleman, dark, stylish, wide awake. 'Hallo, Kingston! Wake up. Got something t6 tel! you.' And be unkindly draws away the shel tering hat disclosing a handsome, angry face. 'Confound vou! What makes you pester a fellow so in this warm weather?' says the victim, sitting up disconsolately. 'Did I spoil your nap? Have a cigar, instead. I wanted to tell you of the new arrival, Aggie Am berley, the great heiress, with her cousin and companion. There's a chance for you to get a rich wife, my boy!' 'Don't want one. Hang this cigar, it don't draw! A poor man like myself can't afford to marry a rich wife.' '1 should say that he couldn't afford to marry anything else,' laughed the other, 'and Aggie Amberley is a beauty as well as an heiress. You don't often meet such -a prize!' 'You had better make up to her yourself,' said Kingston, dryly. 'Perhaps I shall, and leave you the cousin, who is also a beauty in another style. Hanged if I'll tell you which is which, though I And you'll never find it out from the manner of our hosts toward them. There are no worshipers of the golden calf in this house.' 'Humph !' said Kingston, and smoked a few minutes in silence; then he broke out: 'the man that marries a woman for her money is the meanest creature that crawls on this earth! You have money enough of your own, Pres ton, for your motives to be above suspicion, but as for me-by Jove ! I would not marry a rich woman if I loved her ever so wvell ! I've no fancy for the name of fortune hunter.. 'Bravo, Don Quixote!' laughed his friend. 'Now, suppose we go and take a swim. You need some cooling off.' They strolled away, unconscious of fair eyes watching them. Then said one young lady to the other: 'If that fellow does not marry a rich woman my name's not Aggie Amberley !' A few days later Mrs. Court ney and her guests were grouped on the lawn-the ladies wit.h some dainty needle-work, Mr. Preston reading aloud to them; Harry Kingston in his favorite position, flat on bis back in the grass, work ing at a certain problem which had been troubling him for some days-which was Aggie Amber. ley ? T hat tall, stylish blonde in lilac silk, with pond lilies on her bosom, or this graceful, dark-hair ed fairy in fluttering white mus lin ? 'Tlie fair-haired one for money ! She looks more like a fashionable beauty, as Jim Preston said the heiress was. Yot that charming little gypsy. Providence would never bestow a fortune on a girl with such a bewitching face. It would be too much partiality. But she don't look much like a poor relation either. I'd give a good deal to hear one of those young ladies call the ither by her Christian name.' Said the fair Miss Amberley : 'Aggie, have you a needleful of violet silk ?' Said tbe dark Miss Amberley. 'No, Aggie; but I can get you some from upstairs.' flax ry rairny gasped. Later he learned that the blonde was called Agnes and the brunette Agatha. Then he began to notice that Miss Agatha dressed more simply than her cousin and that she was always ready to offer small ser vices which the other accepted calmly. And one day the young lady expressed it as her opiniLn that ricnes must be a great bur den, although, to be sure, Cousin Aggrie bad such a. mind for finan ces! But for her part, she hoped no one would save her a fortune. This was said in a confidential way, with her great eyes looking earnestly into his. 'And what eyes the little thing has,' thought Kingston, 'they lock a fellow's heart right out of his body.' After that Kingston considered his first problem very happily solved. Another had taken its place. How mush money was ne cessary for the luxury of mar riage ? Jim Preston was courting Miss Agnes Amberley without any attempt at disguise. Per haps his example was a little bit infectious. At all events King. ston and Miss Agatha were thrown much togetber, and their confi dential talks increased in number and interest. On the last day of Kingston's visit be took a farewell stroll with Agatha. They stop ped on a little rustic bridge thrown over a hollow. They were tell ing each other their first im pressions. 'So you thought my cousin looked as if she was born in the purple. And pray what did you think of me?' 'You'll be angry.' 'Oh, no, I won't. 'Well, then, I said to myself, 'What a dear little gypsy.'' Of course Miss Amberley was not angry. She had said she would not be, but she struck her hand hard against the rough wood work. 'Take care, you will hurt your self. And now, may I ask your first opinion of me?' 'I thought-that is, I said to my self-'Tbere is a man I shall just enjoy making a fool of, '' she an swered, spitefully. 'Oh!' She had run a great splinter in to her hand. It was very pain ful. Harry worked forgivingly to get it out. Just as he succeeded, Miss Amberley turned alarmingly white and murmnred: 'Don't be frightened-how fool ish I um-I feel like-' And but for his arm she would have fallen. Kingston was too much be wildered to do anything but hold her tight and cover the wounded hand with kisses. Strange to say, this peculiar method of reviving a young lady succeeded. She opened her eyes and the color returned to her face. - 'Mr. Kingstonl' pulling her hand away. Oh, if you wanted to make a fool of me,' he said, gloomily, 'you have entirely succeeded. I love you!' He expected her to draw her self coldly from his hold, but she did not. She seemed quite con tented where she was, only a rosy glow overspread her face, and she whispered: 'Are you sure-very sure ?' '1 wish I was as sure of my eternal salvation !' 'Oh, Harry ! No, you must not do that! Do you love me enough not to care whetber I am rich or poor ?' 'Ten thousand times Yes I' 'And-and you want me for your wife anyhow ?' 'Of' course I do.' 'Then take me ! You may kiss me now, Harry.' And he did. 'Of' course it makes no difference to you,' said the young lady, pre sently ; 'but y ou have offered your. self to the rich Miss Amberley. You needn't start so. You can't throw me over now, sir.' For a moment that was just what Harr-y thought of doing, but the quick tears in his com panion's eyes brought him to his senses. Voices belo w. Mr. Preston pass ed through the ravine in com pany with the other Miss Amber ley. He was holding the young lady's hand, and her stately com posure seemed for once romew hat ruffled. 'No more of this, Mr. Preston,' she exclaimed, in an agitated voice. 'It is right I should tell you it was my cousin's whim to confuse our identity. You doubt less think you are addressing Miss Amberley, the heiress-' 'Not at all,' interrupted Preston. 'I have known the truth all along. It is only Kingston who is de ceived, and if that is all the de fence you can make-' The pair passed out of sight. 'It is too funny !' declared Aga. tha leaning on her lover's shoul der to laugh. 'That will be a match, too.' And it was. And the following winter the two Miss Amberley's passed out of existence, but Mrs. Harry Kingston and Mrs. James Preston became the belles of the season. In 1874 the entire Florida orange crop amounted to only 2.500 half-barrel cases. In 1879 ii reached 200,000. The man who knows more about your business than you d yourself, always has leisure to en t,eoan you. THE WAY THEY DO UP NORTH. A Detroit man who was bunt ing land in Antrim County, came across a settler who was doing some logging with a yoke of oxen. The two sat down together on a log and had a talk during which it transpired that the settler had i been a deacon in a village in the southern part of the State, and bad lately moved in there. By and by the Detroiter moved on, but after traveling for half a mile had to retrace his steps to secure closer particulars regarding the lay of a surveyed highway. While he was yet eighty rods away he heard shouts, and the nearer he drew the more the shouts sounded like cass words. When he reach ed the clearing the settler was jumping up and down and pound in, the oxen, which refused to pull on a log. Every word ut tered by the settler required three exclamation points to punctuate it, and were ground out like wheat from a hopper. 'My friend, didn't I understand you to say,' observed the De troiter, 'that you were a deacon of the church ?' 'Whoa, there, you - infernal -, you, or I'll knock your horns off! Yes, that's what I told you.' 'And you expressed the hope that you might become a shining light in this wilderness?' '1 did. Back up there, you old hyena with horns on! Yes, that's my hope.' 'But the language you have, and are, making use of is utterly inconsistent with your asserted faith and profession.' 'Stranger-whoa,you old imp! stranger-stand up there, or I'll chaw your ear off - stranger, there's only one way for a Chris tian to work alongside of a yoke of straw-colored steers. I've tried all other ways, and I've had to come to this. -See that - infer nal idiot-headed steer trying to turn his voke! Hold on till I cut the hide off of his ribs!' 'What way is that?' asked the Detroiter, after the settler had worn up his gad and thrown the stump of it away. 'You've got to holler and yell, and swear and sweat, during the day, and sing 'Old fundred' all the evening! The general opinion around here is that one sort o' balances the other, especially as none of us zo fishing on Sunday; but if it don't balance, and there's anything extra laid up agin me, I've got to get even by pounding that mule hitched over there with one hand, and holding the other over my mouthb. Whoa, there-back up, or I'll cut your hides to shoe strings !'-.Detroit Free Press. NnAROW EsCAPEs.-Sometimes, when I look back over my life, I am amazed to see how the pages of its record are dotted with hair breadth escapes. I escaped the dangers and hardships of the Revo lutionary war by waiting until the war had been over -about six ty years before I got born. When the Brooklyn Theater burn ed I was in Burlinigton. When the yellow fever broke out in New Orleans I was in Minnesota, and immediately skipped out for Canada. Whben I w as a boy, at school, one day all the boys in school n ere flogged all 'round for robbing an apple orchard. and the flogging didn't do a bit of good, for every beggar of them had the cholera morbus all that night, just the same. And 1? I was attending another school, twen ty-three miles distant. When all of my brothers and sisters were down with the scarlet fever 1 was down South in the army, and when I read the letters from home I laughed alound to think of my great good fortune, and that .1 would only have to be shot at once or twice a week instead of having to take medicine three times a day. Whben a man comes to the office with a little bill, nine times out of ten I am out. And if, by some astonishing blunder, I am in, then indeed I am more unfortu nate, but the man is in no betterf luck tha~n before.-Burdette, in the Batok Eye. The farmer's wife was out in her front yard, watering her thirsty flowers, when a young man, walking hastily along the street, came up to the gate, and inquired if she had seen a man pass on a bicycle. She dropped her watering-pot, and said she had not, adding : 'But I'll tell you what I did see. I don't know as you'll bdlieve it. I'm sure I wouldn't have believed it, if I hadn't seen it myself. It was one wheel of a wagon running away, with a man ; and I never was so frightened in my life.' A bout 3,100 electric lights are said to be in use in the United THE GREENVILLE AND COL. UMBJA RAILROAD. Abbeville Press and Banner.. There seems to be still more -troauble about the management of the Green ville and Columbia Railroad and the South Carolina Railroad, and our esteemed contemporary, the Charleston News and Courier, loses its temper and uses sonic strong expressions in reference to a letter which it publishes from the mangers of the G. & C. Road. We have always felt a great interest in Charleston, and have time and again urged the necessity-of being put in proper railroad connection with that city, but owing to the manage. ment of the South Carolina-Railroad which bad controlled the Greenvillg and Columbia Railroad for several years previous to the appointmteut of a Receiver, this part of the country is pretty well convinced that we have been most shamefully treated, 'and when the Greenville and Columbia Railroad was advertised for saie we hoped for a change of some. kind. Our respected neighbor the News and Courier, speaks something of'the South Carolina cars being used by the Greenville and Columbia- Road. In reply to that we might say that if the South Carolina Rafiroad bad not absorbed a large part of the gross earnings of this road for years it might have been able to buy a suffi ciency of cars for any business which this road may be called upon to do. It looks a little like the South Caroli lina Railroad has at last met its match, and there is jast enough of the old Adam left in some of us to cause us to have very few regrets at the early discomfiture of a corpora tion which has in the past exercised its power so arbitrarily. FENCING IN THEIR RAIL ROAD. Greenville News. The Clyde line,' running the Col umbia and Greenville Railroad, seem determined to force traffic on their line. In pursuance of this policy they have broken connection with the Air-Line Railroad -at Seneca and Greenville, necessitating the issuing of the following order: ATLANTA AND CHARLOTTE Ara-LINE RAILWAY, GENERAL FREIGHT OMCE, ATLANTA, GA., Nov. 17,1880. Commencing this date the Atlanta and Charlotte Air-Line Railway will decline to receive any freight destined for Stations on the Columbia and Greenville Railroad, Blue Ridge Rail road, Columbia, S. C., and points on Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta Railroad. This action is forced upon us by the roads named refusing to pay ebarges and receive such freights from this Company at Greenville and Seneca. R. D. CARPENTER, General Freight Agent. ONLY A PENNY.-The following -anecdote, says an English paper, illustrates how money, by chang ing hands, accomplishes so much. A singular financial transaction occurred lately in an office. By some means or other it happened that the office boy owed one of the clerks 3 pence, the clerk owed the cashier 2 pence, and the cashier owed the office boy 2 pence. One day last week the office boy, having a penny in his pocket, concluded to diminish his debt, and therefore handed it over to the clerk, who, in.turn, paid half h is debt by giving it to the cashier. The latter gave it back to the boy, saying that he .only owed him 1 penny. The office boy again passed the penny to the clerk, who passed it to the cashier, who passed it back to the boy, and the boy discharged the entire debt by handing it to the clerk, thereby sonaring all ac counts. Thus it ty be seen how :.reat is the benefit to be derived from a single penny. HE DIDN'T GET MIXED.-The Lewistown (Me.) Journal says: -A cross-eyed old fellow, with his chin and throat muffled in a lux urious crop of hair, got off a Cen tral train in Auburn a fe w days ago. He deliberately fished a chunk of chalk from his breeches pocket and marked a good-sized white cross on one of the cars. He then asked thbe way to the 'pump' and took a drink. When he got back to the train he was asked why he put the chalk-mark on the car. 'My wife told me,' said he, 'not to git off the train at all, for fear I might git in the wrong keers. I thought I'd put a mark on the train so I should know if it was the right one.'' "How time changes !" mur mured the pickpocket. as he ad roitly hooked another man's wvatch. More than six thousand patents will expire in the United States this year,. many of them being very important. What is the difference between a watch and a bankrupt ? One you wind up to make go, and the other to make ston.