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- I I A|| i A Family Companion, Devoted to Literature, Miscellany, News, Agriculture, Markets, &c. Vol. XIX. NEWBERRY, S..C., THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1883. No. 16. 4' iRY THURSDAY MORNING, IS It eWber,, S. C. a /R '[IliOB. F. GRRN t IKBR, Editor and Proprietor. Iavariably in Advance. . he: is ed atthe expiration of girtis The M mark denotes cxpiration of mboition. .ffAscelanseox&g } fDKS COTTON ?LANTR And Distributor. We have been manufacturing the r 3thodes Cottoit Planter, Guano, Pea and'Corn Distributor for two years, and have sold over fifty -which have "i!en good satisfaction. = ;;: RI MACHINE, MICE AT YARUfAC , TORY =10-00 We have the right for Laurens, New berry, Abbeville, and Anderson, for the lacklidge Cotton Planter and Guano Distributor. S It w open and drop cotton seed, dis Siifiate o and cover at same time, - -and drop corn and peas in hills. It has been thoroughly tested for several yem' and gives satisfaction. Is a statadard machine; price $12.00. All ^ r ers should be sent to SLAWSON & CO., Silver Street, S. C. Mr. 20,12--8t*. Jmportant Notice ! y Buying and selling for 'CAS H ONLY I am enabled to offer to the public NRTED AND AKICAN :V~ ie ~,. tiquois Draodies, CIGARS, AND TOBACCO, ieo the "inest and best French ]$randles, the celebrated 1c? B.A1KER RYE ro famly use, at prices which defy I COMPETITION. az PQRTNER's- rivet, BEER for amily use, one dozen Pint Bottles Al orders will receive prompt atten tion. With thanks for former patron ageito this house, I respectfully solicit acemtinuance of the same. O. SLETTNER, Under Newberry Opera House. Feb. 22, 8-3m IRE 0LIO S ABE OMG. Bf NOW I8 TIE TIlE TO PELE PARl 10R TIEl. 'fESV VRIETY OF TROPICAL FRUIT Ii =ARKT. Orne Every Week. ANAeNAS, OOCOANUTS, ORANC~ES, MALACA CRAPES, Northern Fruits. Aples, Peanut, 1 aNts, * Citron, Currants. vOrders filled with dispatch. C. BART & CO., CHARLESTON, S. C. Nov. 30, 41-6. -OR -For the Seaside, Chimney * Side, Sunny Side, Shady - Side, Right Side, Left Side, or any other side. A large lot just received at the HERALD BOOK STORE. eb. 5, 6-4t AND HIS DISEASES. Containing an "Index of Diseases," which gives the symptoms, cause, and the best treatment of each; a table giving all the principal diugs used for the horse, with the ordinary dose, eftbcts, and antidote when a pison;~ a table with an engraving of the 'orse's teeth at dif'erent ages, wisha rules for telling the age of the horse; and other valuable information Call and get a copy. For sale at HERALD B0OK STORE. Aug. 18, 84--tf. not, life i sweepingf by, go and dare belore you die somthg mighty and sublime leave behind 1Eto conquer time. $66 a week in yorown town, $5 outit free. No risk. Uvrtignew. Capltalnot required. We will bns you everything. Many are *marn fortune. Ladies make as much as a and boys and gal make getpay. Ie~d If you want buiesat whc you can egreat pay all the time, write for na1Auto H. HaLr.rr & Co., Portland, ALSTN IBII llIJSB. l'assencers. on both the up and down trains have the usual time for DINNER at Alston, the junction of the G. & C. R. R., and the S. U. & C. B. R. Fare well prepared, and the cha1e rea wsnble. XRS. M. A. EFINS. OR. E. E. JACKSON, DU1iG18 AND IIBEIST, COLUMBIA, S. C. nemoved to store two doors next to Wheeler House. Orders promtly atoended to Ar. 1,5-4f. .nIzscelaneous. A SPECIALTY Is made by SWAFELD In Gentlemens' Suits, Which are CUT AND MADE BY FIRST CLASS HANDS. Fits gaaranteed. A fine stock of Gents Furnishing Goods, Always on hand. Write or when in city call on WAFFIELD, Feb12 tf COLMMBIA. Young men and maidens contem plating marriage, or who are about to enter into con nubial bliss in the near future, or Young men who correspond with maidens in reference to church going are cordially and af fectionately invited to examine a very handsome lot of Wedding and Invitation PAPER, CARDS AND ENVELOPES, AT THE HERALD STORE. I Can Tell You How to Be Your Own Doctor ! If you have a bad taste in your mouth, sallowness or yellow color of skin, feel de spondent. stupid and drowsy. appetite un steady, trequent headache or dizziness, you are "bilios.. Nothing will arouse your Liver to act on and strengthen up your sys tem equal to SIMMONS' HEPATIC COMPOUND Or Liver and Kidney Cute. REMOVES CONSTIPATION. RELIEVES DIZZINESS. DISPELS SICK HEADACHE BURS JAUNDICE$S. CSCURES LIVEBCOMPLAINT. OVECOMS MALARIAL BLOD POIBONING. REGULATES THE STOMACH. WILL REGULATE THE LIVER. WILL REGULATE THE BOWELS. THE LIVER AND KIDNEYS Can be kept pfecl y healthy in any cli matoe by taking nocsoa oeo SIMMONS' HEPATIC COMPOUND, THE GREAT VEGET&BLE - LIVER AND KIDNEY MEDICINE. DOWIE & MOISE, rOPamons, WHOLESALE DRUCCISTS CHARLESTON, S. C. as-FOR SALE EVERYWHERE.40' nd .i, .eberry by Dr. S. F. FANT. Books and Stationery. ke6p it Before the PublC, The largest and best stock of I BOOKS, STATIONERY FANCY ARTICLES Ever shown in Newberry, at the Comprising in part Bank ooks Meora nre Boks Poke, BooHstechoo Bos, I ue B os, cellaneousn Boks,a or Phto. and Auto. Alus Vsting Cards, PaCads, ChistmCrs Rerd A B C Blocks. Legl ap BllPapr widee adr-p Envelope, all sizes, Led and Slae Penc ils, Card Cases. noes. hecks,Games, Toy Paints. Slates, toy and plan Rubbr R ,gs Era Fancy Ptriand SColored Paper Tise Desks, Work Boxes. Noah's Arks, Pens, Tags, McGill's Fasteners. CAn any eotther articlcs not enumerated CHERA P FOR CAS!!H. Thos. F. GRENEKER, PROPRIETOR RERALD BOOK STORE. Nov. 30, 48-tf. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE WEEKLY PALMETTO YEOMAN, COLUMBIA, S. C. It is au S page paper, designed for the peo pe, filled with interesting matter-Jauily Reading, News, Markets, &c. Subscription: One Year, $15~0; Seven Months, $1.00: Three Months,- 50 Cents-payable in .ad vance. For Six Names and Ni~ne Dollars an Extra Copy for one year. peIens fur nished. The DAILY YEOA, an after noon paper, is $4 a year. C. M. McJUTNKIN. THE GOOD OLD WAY. Johh: Mann had a wife who was kind and tre A wife who loved him well; She cared for the house and their only child; But if I the truth must tell, She fretted and pined because John was poor, And his business was slow to pay; But he only said, when she talked of change, "We'll stick to the good old way !" She saw her neighbors were growing rich And dwelling in houses grand; That she was living in poverty, With wealth upon every hand; And she urged her husband to speculate, To risk his earnings at play; But he only said, "My dearest wife, We'll stick to the good old way." For he knew that the money that's quickly ly got Is the money that's quickly lost: And the money that stays is the money earned At honest endeavor's cost. So be plodded along in his honest style, And he bettered himself each day, And he only said to his fretful wife, "We'll stick to the good old way." And at last there came a terrible crash, When beggary, want and shame Came down on the homes of their wealthy friends, While.John's remained the same: For he had no debts and he gave no trust, "My motto is this," he'd say "It's a charm against panics of every kind 'Tis stick to the good old way I" And his wife looked round on the little house That was every nail their own, And she asked forgiveness of honest John For the peevish mistrust she had shown; But he only said, as her tearful face - Upon his shoulder lay: "The good old way is the best way, wife; We'll stick to the good old way." THAT BAD BOY. TELLS HOW HIS MA'S PARROT BREAKS UP A PRAYER MEET ING-HIS PA A PUGILIST. "You don't want to buy a good parrot, do you?" said the bad boy to the grocery man, as he put his wet mittens on top of the stove to dry, and kept his back to the stove so he could watch the grocery man and be prepared for a kick if the man should remember the rotten egg sign that the boy put in front of the grocery last week. "Naw, I don't~ want no parrot, I had rather have a boy fool around than a parrot. But what's the matter with your ma's parrot? I thought she would not part with him for anything." "Well, she wouldn't until Wed nesday night, but now she says she won't have him around, and I may have half I can get for him, and I thought maybe he would about suit you," and the boy broke open a bunch of celery and took out a few tender stalks and rubbed them on a codfish to saJlt them, an'd began to bite the stalks, while he held the sole of one wet boot against the stove to dry it, making a smell of burned leather that came near turning the stomach of the cigar sign. "Lookahere, boy, don't you call this a disreputable place. Some of the best people i.n this town come here," said the grocery man, as he held up the cheese knife and grated his teeth as though he would like to jab it into the youth. "0, that's all right. They come here 'cause you trust. But you make up what you lose by charging it to other people. Pa will make it hot for you the last of the week. He has been looking over your bill and comparing it with the hired girl, and she says we havn't ever had a prune, or a dried apple, or a raisin, or any cinnamon or crackers and cheese out of your store, and he says you are worse than the James brothers, and that you used to bea three-card monte man, and he will have you arrested for high way robbery. But you dan settle that with- pa. I like you because you are no ordinary sneak thief. You are a high-toned, gentlemanly sort of a bilk, and wouldn't take anything you couldn't lift. 0, you keep your seat, and. don't get ex cited. It does a man good to hear the truth from one who has got the nerve to. tell it. But about the parrot. Ma ,haJAen away from home fo aweea high old time in Chicao going to the theo atres and things, and while she was gone I guess the hired girl or some body learned the parrot some new thing to say. A parrot that can only say "Polly wants a cracker" don't amount to anything. What we need is new style parrots that can- converse on the topics of the day, and say things original. Well. when ma got back I guess her con science hurt for the way she had been carrying on in Chicago, and' so when she heard the basement of the church was being frescoed she in. vited the committee to hold the Wednesday evening prayer meeting at our house. First, there were four people came, and ma asked pa to stay to make a quorum, au,l pa said. seeing he had two pair, he guessed he would stay in, and if ma would deal him a queen he would have a full hand. I don't know what pa meant, but he plays draw poker sometimes. Anyway' there were eleven people came in cluding the minister, and after they had talked about the neighbors a spell, and ma had showed the wo men a new tidy she had worked for the heathen, with a motto on it which pa had taught her, "A con trite heart beats a bob-tailed flush," and pa had talked to the men about a religious silver mine he was selling stock in, which he ad vised them as a friend to buy for the glory of the church, they all went into the back parlor and the minister led in prayer. He got down on his knees right under the parrot's cage, and you'd a dide to see polly hang onto the wires of the cage with one foot and drop an apple core on the minister's head. Ma, shook ber handkerchief at Polly, and looked sassy, and Polly got up on one perch and as the minis ter got warm.d up, and began to raise the roof, Polly said, "O dry up." The minister had his eyes shut, but he opened one a little and lool: ed at pa. 'a was tickled at tie parrot, but when the minister loo'i ed at pa, as though it was him making irreverent remarks, pa was mad. The minister got to "Amen" and then Polly shook himself And said, "What you giving us," and the minister got up and brushed the bird seed off his knees, and he looked mkd. I thought ma would sink with mortification, and I was sitting on a piano stool, looking as pious as a funday school superin tendant before he skips out with the bank funds, and ma looked at me as though she thought it was me that- had been tampering with the parrot. Gosh, I never said a word to that parrot, and I can prove it by my chum. Well, the minister asked one of the sisters if she would pray, and she wasn't en gaged, - so she said with pleasure, and she kneeled down, but she corked herself cause she got one knee on a cast-iron dumb bell that I had been practicing with. She said "C) my," in a disgusted sort of a way, and then she began to pray for the reformiation of the youth of the land, and asked for the spirit to descend on the hornsehold, and particularly on the boy that was such a care and anxiety to his parents. and just then Polly said, "0, pull dow.n your vest." Well, you'd a dido to see that woman look at me. She looked at ma as though she was wondering why she didn't hit me with a poker, but she went on, and Polly said, "Wipe off your chin," and then the lady got through and got up, and told ma it must be a great trial to have an idiotic child, and then ma was mad and said it v:asn't half so bad as it was to be a kleptomaniac, and then the woman got up and said she wouldn't stay no longer, and pa said to me to take that parrot out doors, and that seemed to make them all good natured again. Ma said to take the parot and give it to the poor. I took the cage and pointed my finger at the parrot.and it looked at the woman and said "old cataramaran," and the woman tried to look pious and resigned, but she couldn't. As I was goin1g out the door the parrot ruffied up his feathers and said, "Dammit, set 'em up," and I hurried out with the cage for fear he would say some thing bad, arnd the folks all held up their hands and said it was scanda lous. Say, I wonder if a .parrot can go to hell with the rest of the community? We11 I put the par rot in the wood shed, and after they had all had their innings, ex cept pa, who acted as umpire, the meeting broke up, and ma says it is the last time she willl have that gang at her house." - "That must have been where your pa got his black eye," said the grocery man, as he charged the bunch of celery to the boy's pa. "Did the minister hit him, or was it one of the sisters?" "0, he didn't get his black eye at prayer meeting !" said the boy, as he took the. mittens off the stove and rubbed them to take the stiffen Ing out. "It was from boxing." Pa old my chum and me it was no harm to learn to box, cause we :ould defend ourselves, and he said he used to be a holy terror with the boxing gloves when he was a boy, mnd he has been giving us lessons. Well, heis no slouch now I tell you, mnd handles himself pretty well for a church member. I read in the maper how Zach Chandler played it, )n Conkling by getting Jem Mace' ;he prize-fighter to knock him silly, and I asked pa if he wouldn't let ne bring a poor boy who had no rather to teach him boxing, to our house to learn to box, and pa said 3ertainly, fetch him along. He said he would be glad to do any thing for a poor orphan. So I went dowi in the third ward and got an Irish boy by the name of Duffy, who can knock the socks off )f anybody in our ward. He fit a prize light once. It would make Fou laugh to see pa tell him how to hold his hands and how to guard his face. He told Duffy not to be fraid, but strike right out and hit for keeps. He was afraid pa would ;et mad if he hit him, and pa said, "Nonsense, boy, knock me lowri if you can, and I will laugh ha! ha !" Well, Duffy he hauled back and gave pa one in the nose and another'' in both eyes, and cuffed him on the ear and punched him in the stomach, and lammed him in the mouth, and made his teeth bleed, and then he gave him a side-winder in both eyes, and pa pulled off the boxing-gloves and grabbed a chair, and we adjourned and went down stairs as though there was a panic. I haven't seen pa since. Was his eye very black?" -Black, I should say so," said the grocery man. "And his nose seems to be trying to ook in his eft ear. He was at the market buying beef to put on it." "0, beefsteak is no account. I cnust go and see him and tell him an )yster is the best thing for a black eye. Well, Imust go. A boy has a pretty hard time running a house the way it should be run," and the boy went out and hung up a sign in rront of the grocery: "PFrowy But ter a Spesktdty." Find fault with him. Keep an untidy house. Always have the last word. Be extra cross on wash days. Quarrel with him over trifles. Vow vengeance on all his rela tives. Let him sew on his own shirt but tons. Pay no attention to household ex penses. Give as much as he can earn in a month for a new bonnet. Tell him as plain1y as possible you married him for a living. Raise a row if he dare to bow pleasantly to an old lady friend. Tell him the children inherit all their mean traits of character from his side of the family. Keep the parlor for company and do not let him put his foot in it. .Get everything the woman next door gets, whether you can afford it or not. Let it out sometimes when you are good and mad that yon wish you had married some other fellow you used to go with. When he gives you $10 to lay aside for a "'rainy day" give it to the first peddler that comes along for a pair of ten-cent plaster vases. The world would be a dreadfully silent place if people talked as little as they thought. A failure establishes only this, that pur determination ta succeed wasno stongm enongiL OUR YEW YORK LETTER. From our own Correspondent. BARNUM AND HIS SO-CALLED "CRUEL TY TO CHILDREN,"-WHAT CAUSES PNEUMONIA IN NEW YORK.--A NEW DISEASE THAT SUITS THE SWELL AND THE SNOB.-SPRING AT LAST. NEW YORK OUT SHOPPING.-THE TELEPHONE TOYS ONCE MORE. BOOTH'S THEATRE. NEW YORK April 6. Barnum, the prince of showmen, has been hauled up before the courts by "the President of the So ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children," because of the per formances on the bycicle by the Elliott children, which said society claimed was cruel. Barnum, of course, was only glad of the oppor tunity to advertise himself; he more than any living man has a keen eye to that, and hence not on ly spread himself in Court, but also in the newspapers. The result has been favorable to Barnum, the Court taking his view of the case and declaring that there was no cruelty. With all of his natural goodness which eschews anything like injustice or cruelty to children on his part, it must remain an open question whether ' these constant performances on the bycicle are not physically injurious to the rung ones. Pneumonia is still stalking abroad among us, picking up its victims in considerable numbers. The idea, however, that itis epidemic has been fully exploded. There is always more or less of it at this season of the year, and its great increase this year must be attributed to the long, tedious winter we have had, and the extraordinary gay season. New York's population, not only the rich, but the masses are reckles in their amdsements. They will go to the balls and parties in light and thin clothing,' expose themselves meanwhile to the damp night air, and without taking a long rest the next day, be once more at their business early in the morning. Hence most of those who fall victims to that disease will be found among the active men and women of our city. Speaking of diseases, a promi nent physician called upon to testify as to the soundness of mind on the part of a testator whose will is now being contested, has coined a new name for unsoundness of mind. He calls it senile dem~entia, and in giving a definition of same says it is a partial loss of memory, though the party suffering from the same may actually play a good game of chess or whist. One of our jour nals says that if the nature of the disease becomes generally known in this city, every fellow who owes a tailor's bill or a board bill will claim that he suffers from senile dementia. Yesterday we had the first bal my spring day of the year. Fires were neglected, windows were open ed, overcoats carried over the arm, and our avenues and business streets crowded with ladies bent on shopping. It is such a day like this, perfect in all its respects, that makes the New York, shop keeper happy and causes pater famniltas to scratch his ear when he~ sees the drygoods bundles come home at supper time. But then the good women of New York have had a dreary long winter of it, when out-door exercise was anything but pleasant, and hence "shopping," a peculiarity of their good nature, was greatly neglected. Now they are making up for it, and the lead ing retail stores are being assaulted by a regular phalanx of the best looking, best-dressed women in the world. One would imagine that by this time the telephone is pretty well known all over the land, and isno longer a novelty to any one; and yet the street venders have once more, and that, too, with consid erable success, begun to trot out their long strings with a tin box at each end, and there they once more stand, taking to one another from one end of the block to-the other, watched by crowds of men ad boys, the same as some few years ago, when the world wa. dirst made acquainted wijh the telephonke. The sale of these toy carriers of sound continues even at this late date with an extraordinary rapidity, and the street peddlers who are blocking up Wall, Broad street, and Ex change Place are still reaping a rich harvest therefrom. Booth's Theater, well known all over the country, and the best con structed inathe land, will, after all, not be torn down after May 1, not withstanding its sale to a capitalist who intends to make money out of the building. Its massive walls will remain, and only the imy con structed offices and stores undea= neath will be enlarged and re modelled, somewhat on the plan of the Grand Opera House, which is an excellent theater, and at the same time has underneath large and extensive stores, and also well regulated offices upstairs. -RADIL FEATS OF AN ATHLETE. Abner C. Mclrath, who kept a famous hotel for thirty-sIxeyurs six miles from Cleveland on Enad avenue, has been gathered to his stalwart fathers. He was a mighty fox hunter and a remarkable ath lete. Six feet six. inches and a half tall, his average weight was about 264 pounds, but yet he is said to have frequently on foot ran down foxes. He once lifted-with his hands from the griound an iron shaft weighing 1,700 pounds, which would be equal to liftiig double that weight were he harnessed with straps to weights and allowed to lift under the best advantage. Two men would hold a string two inches above his head, and he would step back two or three steps and jump over it without touching it, making the leap ab6ut.sixfeet nine. inches in height.. He i been known, rather thaleidli horses around to the other side of the barn, to put his long'arms under a horse and>lift it up to the floor of the barn, which happened to be three or four feet above the ground. In Buffalo he once wrestled with and threw with ease Charlie Freeman, the "American giant," who afterward in England defeated the "Tipton Slasher," in a prize fight. Another feat of the old tavern-keeper was , his chase on horseback of a fox one Deeembet over frozen Lake Erie far Ifom sight of land. He lived to the age of seventy years, having been a paralytic for the last four year of life as a result of exposure during a fox hunt. He was borne to his grave by six of his tall sons; foqr of whom are six feet four and a half inches high and the other two just six feet, and whose combined weight is 1,805 pounds. A CLOSE sIELATI@E. There was a .disageeable scene last night over at the Palmer man sion, between Colonel Floyd Pal mer and his son William. Bll Pal mer is an Austin boy of the most modern type, who always tells his parents just what he thinks about them, regardless -of their feelings. Not long since, he wanted to cele brate his birthday with some of'his youthful companions, so he applied to his father for an adequate appro priation. Colonel Palmer, who is a close relation of Williamn,being his penurious father, responded with a quarter of a dollar, which bore about the same- proportion to the need and expectations of Bil-as did Galveston's Congressional ap propriation to the one she applied for. - Billy looked at the quarter, sneered at it, and finally said to~ the author of his existence: "That's a mighty slim appropria tion to celebrate the thirteenth birthday of an Austin boy on, but still I don't reproach you. You are not to blame for my birthday." "What do you man, sir?" whooped the now thoroughly arous ed father." "I mean just what I say.:- If mother hadn't married mich ados relation as- you are, I wouldn't never had any birthday to celebrate, and I would .11 the better otf She woundhare married as maaer more liberal iiewntand then my father wd-hhave .mfered uneih meas of elebrating my biirthday in acondanoe with A r .Nodem ad eeW TER a an , " de miRyu - night asL~ neck, am? low squawk ob aw yine am ' g Buttai de moon ORiB war, alacoim 4o.I 7J J wid more o bed ef de mNon .m re oF Yom-g -P hour n a ie~a im , aDuke t r ede oY: or te *~k4 -Hepna nhor Ii h a~~g luronpeadt Duke tavs man Ol pived,the ' bpac. Tb. sToequire. sak of a e noe .lk9l & nhs ad Sa ofhe a des guae T 'SIuaO&u - porsntowia)sb