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AN ST., BALTIMORE, MD. A copy of the Great Industries of the in for to name to te .AD if goeta. THE BALL ROOM I ELLE. Our love was like most other loves; A little glow, a little shiver, A rose-bad, and a pair of gloves, And '-Fly not yet" upon the river: Some jealousy of some one's heir, Some hopes of dying broken-hearted, i A miniature, a lock of hair, The usual vows-and then we parted. We parted; months and years rolled by; We met again four summers after: Our parting was all sob and sigh; Our meeting was all mirth and laugblcr; For in my heart's most sccre: cell There had been many other lodger.,; And she was not the ball-room's belle, But only-Mrs Something Rogers. ciuUautr S. HOW BUTLER LOST HIS LEI. THE STORY OF THE STEPHENSBURG FIGHT AS TOLD BY A PARTICI PANT-A SFIEJL WIICH DIS ABLED TWO OFFICERS. In an account of the cavalry fight at Stephensburg, Virginia, June 9th, 1863, in the Edgefield Chronicle, Dr. T. E. Bessellien, of Savannah, says : In the meantime the enemy had advanced in such heavy force as to cause the detached squadron of our single regiment to abandon the woods and take up position in the open, level fields, where cavalry could manoeuvre and we could keep our communication open with Gen eral Stuart, then fighting at Brandy Station, and cover the movements of a heavy infantry force then in the neighborhood of Culpeper Court House. Along the margin of a pond, then, the regiment was posted, when the enemy appeared on the hills in our front before mentioned and placed their artillery near the brick church and opened fire upon us. We had no artillery to respond and the distance was too great for small arms, so we waited for devel opments. Colonel Butler and Cap tain Farley, of Gen. Stuart's staff. were in the road a few rods distant from us, when the discarge of a field peace in our rear drew the attention. We saw that it was a Confederate gun, but too far from the enemy to be of any service, as the shells it discharged were exploding fully one hundred yards short of the enemy's position. The Colonel told me to ride up the hill and tell the officer com manding that gun to bring it down to where we were, as his firing was doing no good. T1he enemy's bat teries were now firing very fast, and I narrowly escaped being struck while galloping up the hill. I rode up to the lieutenant in charge of the gun, which I think belonged to a Virginia battery, and told him, "Colonel Butler says ;bring your gun down to where the troops are stationed, as you are wasting your fire in present position." He asked : "Who in the hell is Colonel Butler?" I told him he was the colonel of the Second South Caro lina Cavalry, in command of the troops then in view engaged with the enemy. He ordered the gun to be limbered up and started to de scend the hill. I turned to ride back to my command when, what was my surprise to find our artillery friend had again put his piece "en battery" and had opened on the en emy's artillery. I returned to him again and repeated my order. "Colonel Butler says bring your artillery down to tue pond." "D-d if I am going to carry my men there to be killed," said he. "Very well, sir," I said, "I shall inform Colonel Butler of your re mark," and galloped towards the spot where I left Colonel Butler and Captain Farley standing. I rode parallel to the main road and within fifty yards of it for some little distance, and just before I reached the Colonel I saw quite a dust in the road and considerable excitement, and Colonel Butler's horse trotted by me with what I took to. be the saddle hanging un der him. I flastened up to the road to get a better view and saw that the poor animal's intestines were hanging oat from a fearful wound in the lower portion of the stomach. I knew then that some terrible disaster had occurred, so I leaped the fence into the road and qickly arried at the scene. There lay both Colonel Butler and Capt. Farley in the road, the former, with a silk hankerchief trying to tie it around his leg to stop the blood. The shell, which was a small coni cal pointed Parrott, first struck t Captain Farley just above the knee, cutting off the leg and killing his horse, then striking Colonel Butler ] an inch above the ankle, leaving the foot suspended by a piece of skin only and disemboweled his horse. t Almost the same moment that I arrived Dr. Watt Taylor, our regi mental surgeon, and Captain John 1 Chesnut reached the scene, and the i doctor asked me to try and procure t some stimulants immediately, sug gesting that if I could find Dr. Moore our assistant surgeon, to i bring him with me, as he had a t canteen of whiskey and Captain f Farley was in need of his services t immediately. Fortunately Dr.'_ Moore was not far off, and we re- t turned to the scene of the disaster f without delay. My attention being 1 given to assisting Dr. Taylor with c Colonel Butler, who was already l muth prostrated from loss of blood, I lost sight of Captain Farley, who was taken in charge by Dr. Moore t and conveyed towards Culpeper I Court House, but died from ex haustion before reaching that place, l as from the nature of his wound the hemorrhage could not be stem- 1 med in time to save his life. After i cutting away the boot from the ] Colonel's foot and applying a tour niquet at the knee to stop the bleed ing, we kept the foot in position by splints made of bark from the rail fence by us, with bandages to keep them in place. No ambulance could be found, and the enemy, seeing from the ex citement that some one of conse quence had been killed or wounded, concentrated All their fire upon our immiediately locality, -so it became necessary to remove Colonel But ler out of reach of this storm of shells. Four of us took him in a blanket and started. No one knows till they have tried it the fearful task of carry'ng a man in that way, on a hot June day, in the terrible dust of the battle-field, with the tramping of five hundred horses around-for almost at the moment we started a force of the enemy were reported to be crossing the road between us and Brandy Station and1 threatening our flank and rear, and our whole force was got together to1 repel the danger. All was excite ment and anxiety, and our chances of getting safely off with our bur den seemed very slim. Colonel Butler said to us: "Don't let them take me, boys," and we all vowed we would die first. Having traversed the whole length of the field with our burden we reached a piece of woods where the First South Carolina Cavalry had formerly encamped, and there procured an old horse trough, or long box that had been used as -such, into which we placed the Colo nel, with the blankets tucked under him. We then cut two sticks suffi ciently long to pass under and across the box and to hold by, and re sumed our way through fields and woods by the shortest route towards Culpeper Court House. We finally reached a farm house, where it was determined that our Colonel should remain till his wounded limb could be attended to, and as a reaction had taken place under the judicious administration of brandy, Dr. Tay lor determined to loose no time in removing the foot and shattered bones; so as soon as the messenger dispatched to Culpeper for the chloroform returned I was instruct ed by the doctor to administer the anasthetic, the Colonel having been placed upon a suitable table for the purpose and all necessary arti cles being placed to facilitate the operation. After the surgical treat ment had been satisfactorily gone through with, Dr. Taylor requested me to remain with Colonel Butler till he aroused from sleep, so as to give nourishment and stimulents if necessary,, he being sent for hur riedly to see our Lieutenant Colo nel Frank Hampton, who was re ported mortally wounded. The difference between what is called in this world happiness or unhappiness is so little that we ought siever to envy or pity any WASHINGTON LETTER. Fiom Our Regular Correspondent. EVAsHINGTON, D. C., July 2, 1883. - Politics seem to be warming up 1 o correspond with the weather. E rhere is much interest here in the < Dhio situation, and to say that the i Republicans are exceedingly ner vous but faintly expresses their a eelings. Key-notes for '84 are be- C ng sounded in all directions, and he fine preliminary work of that I ampaign so far as the candidates r 'or nomination are concerned, is C )eing quietly done. George Bliss, ,ho has retired from the star -oute cases with a handsome pile n fees, is still about here and it is ;aid wili alternate between Wash ngton and New York as the lieu enant of President Arthur in his ight for the Republican nomina ion. When Bliss was private sec etary to Governor Morgan, he was t he chief magistrate of the State to v ill intents and purposes, and it may i >e noticed that in conventions, in r onsultations and in all other r )laces Macgregor Bliss is generally t 'ound at the head of the table, as it were. As the manipulator of Ar- d hur's campaign he is a good deal b nore likely to succeed than he was t it the head of the star route trial. 1 Ie is just about tricky enough f tnd unscrupulous enough to run a Republican campaign in these lat- t er days of that once respectable t >arty. It is said that President Arthur's s iatural disposition to avoid trouble, 8 :o live quietly and- to ignore the i ;trifes of the day, would disincline c iim from the excessive labor en- r ailed by a fight for the nomination. c Don't let the other candidates make i my such mistake. Arthur is a s luiet, taciturn, self-contained, self -aring. man, undoubtedly, but there 1 s,a grpat deal of human nature in 1 rthur. He wasn't elected Presi- E lent, and it would be a very proud i 'eather in his cap if. at the expira tion of a three years and a half ad- i ninistration, he could be honored < )y his party with a nomination. l rhat of itself would be an intensely < ratifying circumstance. The elec- f ,ion is another thing. It doesn't t rollow that if nominated he would f be elected. The chances are pretty < strong the other way. But as mat bers now stand he has the inside of < he pole in the race for the nomina-1 bion. Blaine is cor <dered out of bhe way. Logan is very ambitious 1 but Dorsey says he can kill Logan afl'. There is not a strong man in the cabinet except Folger, and the latters' defeat. last fall dug the pit into which his presidential aspira tions necessarily fell. In the next Republican convention there will be 818 delegates, It will be necessa ry to secure, for a nomination, 410. As things look now, there is hardly any doubt that Arthur will go into that convention with the solid South at his back, and a solid South means that mysterious and significant numzber 306. That leaves 104 only to be obtained, with New England, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and the boundless West to glean from. Let all the ambitious Republican statesmen look out for Arthur. On the Democratic side there is a greater quantity of available tim ber, and the probabilities cannot be so closely narrowed down. -The Re publican organs are indulging in considerable chaff about the possi bility of the old ticket of Tilden and Hendricks, but they would not1 laugh so loud if there really was a certainty of Tilden being again in] the field. To show the real feeling among honest Republicans I will quote the language of a well-known: Republican correspondent in the Philadelphia Press, which though: Republican is, under its present1 management, honest and outspoken. "Remember all that urged in favor1 of Mr. Tilden when he was elected before. He is now older, but he is stronger-and richer. In addition to all that was said of him during his first campaign, comes that vast sentiment which lodges in the inds of Republicans as well as Democrats. Estimable as Mr. Hayes may be in his private char haracter, it would be supremest fol ly to argue, in the light of the Louisiana frauds, that there is not a very general conviction through ant the country that Tilden was not1 infairly dealt with and, whether .s desirable to elect a Republic andidate at the next time or r -which is in no sense the questi iere-there is no doubt that th( iands and thousands of Repub :ans felt at the last election that vould be their duty, in case Tild vere renominated, to vote for hi Lnd give- the old man anoth hance. I know I felt so. and ieard very, very many pronounc lepublicans, who had never vot( nything but the straight Repub an ticket, say the same thing. PHONO. rIlE DIFFEILENCE IN GIRL BY GEO. W. PECK. When the world is so full 'oung people who are too smai and who are continually asserti hemnselves and showing that th< rant to have something to say, s pleasant to occasionally meet eal modest young person who hs ather suffer inconvenience an orture even than to make any fus [his was noticed more particular luring the last rainy day, when tl eavens seemed to be weeping ov he loss of the sun, which had n teen seen at its acenstomed haun or over a month. An old ms ot into a street-car with his un rella as wet as it is possible for s umbrella to be. The seats were s ull, and he closed his umbrel 6nd put the point down on the flo< s he supposed, but in fact he p t right into the low shoe ne of these sweet, modest gir ight on to her stocking, and t lirty water more than poured doa nto the shoe. At first she look4 is though she would move her fo Lnd call his attention to what : ras doing; but she seemed to ent, and with a resigned expr( ion, as though she hoped he wa iot going to ride many blocks, >erhaps somebody would get c tnd give him a seat, sho looked o )f the window. Once she mov ier head as though she would lo own at her shoe to see how ne ull of water it was, but again s hought better of it and looki cross the car at a man with a wi )n his nose. After a few minut the began to shiver, which was cc lusive evidence to some that t rater was coming up around her tep and gradually overflowing t anks. She looked as though a 'eared that if she spoke to the m bout it he would think her ye orward and that she was guilty mn impropriety, in speaking to stranger without an introductic Finally she became nervous, a when a girl begins to get nerve something has got to be done. S Aushed and touched him on t and that held the umbrella-han< with her little fluttering finger a said: "May I ask you, sir, with< seeming to be impolite, to do m< ravor?" "Why, certainly, miss," said i ald man, as he looked down at h "What is it?" "Will you please take your u brella out of my shoe for a mom< nd let me take the shoe off a mpty it?" "For Heaven's sake, miss, y my umbrella in your shoe? I 1: pardon," and he took it out. "It's of no consequence at al said the little lady, as she turn up her shoe on the side aud let i black cambric water out. "The you can put it right back, or if y prefer a dry shoe for your umbre you can put it in this one." But the old man blushed a moved off to the other end of I car, and stepped on another gii foot. The other girl was not t! kind of a retiring child of nato and she looked up at the < blunderbuss with fire in ' her e ad every red hair on her he meaning business, and said: "Can't you keep off of peopl reet. You better ride in a sprii ing cart when you go anywhe Why don't you look where you walking? I don't see what I ity: bought a stone-crusher f~ when you could walk on a sto luarry, and furnish cobblestor or pavement:' The old man pulled the bell-roj ad, putting his umbrella uni is arm, he walked the wh~ it length of the car, knocking off an several hats with the umbrella, but ot he didn't mash any feet, for all the Mn passengers put their feet under the u- seat. It beats all what a difference li- there is in girls. it - n i HOW THEY PUT THE COW mnj IN THE YARD. I There is nothing that demands ,d statesmanship of a high order as d much as the driving of-a cow with li- a young calf to any particular place. Two Galvestons colored men under took a job of this character, and, although they gave the matter their careful attention, the result was very far from satisfactory to any body except the cow, which seemed to enjoy it very much. Sam and Bill were to get a dollar to take the cow and calf and put them in the yard of the owner, Mr. Thomas lg Carlyle, who lives at the south end -7 of Galveston avenue. After trying it in vain to get the cow to under a stand in what direction they pre d ferred she should go, Sam and Bill d called a cabinet meeting, at which s- the following campaign plan was ly agreed upon: Sam was to take up ie the calf in his arms and go ahead, er while Bill was to hold the cow )t back by the rope which was fastened to her horns. in "Ef she goes too fast," said Bill - "'ll jest hold her back." L "And ef she don't foller fast l enough "I'll jest twist de calf's tail, la and den she will come right along," r, said Sam. it Sam took up the calf and went of ahead, while Bill, in order to get a s, real good hold, tied the rope around ie his wrist. The procession proceed rn ed slowly in the desired direction, i and would have reached its destin ot ation in safely had 'not Satan ie tempted Bill to get off a joke on e- Sam, so he called out: - '"Sam, jess twist de calf's tail." is Sam did so, and the calf bleated or as if it was opposed to an encore ut to the performance. ut The old cow began to trot. So zd did Sam, holding on to the calf as >k if he had stolen it. Then the fun ar began, for every once in a while be the cow would polish her horns on 'd the ceiling of Sam's pants. Bill rt could not get his hands out of the es rope, and, as he had short legs, he n- had hard work keeping up with the be procession, or rather in not letting "go. He ran so fast that the kinks he of his wo.ol straightened out. Fi be nally he grasped : m "Sam ontwist dat cat's tail." ry, Sam's legs mcved so rapidly of that they looked like the spokes of a a buggy, but he called back; n- "Foah God's sake ! niggah, don't alet go dat rope; de cow's againin' us on me." he le Bill, whose arm was coming out of ad its, socket. "Drap de caf, for I can't keep up wid de cow. Go slow, niggah, or I'l turn de cow Ut loose on you," which, however, awas more than he was able to do. Bill made the next fifty yards on he his back, he still most unwillingly er- retaining his hold on the rope. Fortunately, the cow overtook Sam, m- and, in return for his kindness in nt picking up the calf, she picked him ud up on her horns and threw him over into Mr. Carlyle's yard. Bill, 'as who was rather tired of chasing the eg cow, thought he would climb over anid see what Sam was doing. The ,cow appeared to understand his ed wishes in that direction, so she he started on arun tohelp himout or re; rather over. She was a little late, ou but he went about ten feet further la into the field than he would have done without her assistance. id There was neither of them so he badly hurt as they were when old l's Carlyle came and told them that (at the contract was that they should re, put the cow in the yard. Instead ld of that the cow had put them in the ye yard, so the dollar belonged to ad himself as the owner of the cow. It is thought a lawsuit will grow s's out of the matter.-Galvestons News. re. A woman has been sending .re bananas to her husband who is con he fined in jail in St. Louis. They >r, were of a very peculiar kind, and ne are deserving of the attention of es horticulturists. On exminatin they were found to contain saws >e, and files within their pulpy bosoms; ter The imprisoned criniial will here le aftr be known by his fruit. ADVETTISIHG S Adverk.ua inserted at e $1.0 (oae inch) o Doablis colum= adTr Iements tean per on above. Notices ofmeetings,obltsariaad - of respect, same rates per seastMOa57; adver'ememts. pecial Nodees in Localcias perfine. Advertisement not marked with i - ber of insertioni wig be kept intMR and charged aeouhgl. Special contracts made with IP adv. tisers, with liberal deduetonson -ratsS JOB PRIATMl'" DONE WITH NEATNESS AND DSP TERMS CASH. SINGLE WOMEN. A clever old maid once said th it was far better to be lagghed because you were not married - to be able to laugh because:. were. There is sound logic inta. It is well for woman to marrftf she meets a good true ma, w loves her and whom she loveu if she be not suited better.re , ; single. The majority of old-akb are lovable, helpful and swet tempered, and fill their allottedni- = ches as acceptably as dotheiri - ried sisters. Are they not ai: be honored than they woul- , been had they married merelyfr' home or posiion? Our young le dies have erronous ideas upon subject. They feel altnoe graced, if they have arriied t mature age, and are not ye# ".: write Mrs. before their. ni Their whole ambition is to.g husband, by hook or crook, him somehow they must. quently they take the first nna offers himself, whether hereagym them or not. Now, girls, do marry in haste. Get the bep-i cation possible, help about di tic affairs, and enter. upon -soe trade or profession for whidi have a taste and master it. labor is always well paid. spend your tirne-repining beoas you cannot see the coming m If you never see him, you cW life useful, happy lives. You. you had a husband,you woN a strong arm on whin to lean, sharer of sorrow and trouble. .Alast many a slender woman has had only to stand alone, but also t serve as a prop for childrae husband, and very few 'i~ in their husbands all the s M and companionship they desn you are good for anythinlg,yqwS not be hurt by remainiag i , neither will you be eleiaslld ' coming "John's wi e." Do yu duty in life and you wil.lot at something in the world, hte, married or single. HE DIDN'T IE IT.--One of eur acquaintances from the Del VB settlement does not come to A~~r very often, but not long Einois'h attended a theatrical ~f ej for the second time in hfis 1 He was very indignant next and we asked him what' was tie7 matter. "il11never go to another-tk~ as long as I live" "Why, what's occurred toprets dice you ap ainst the theatres?" "Well, I liked the first aet ' rate, but w,hen it was nearly through I read or. the pThky bill taut the next see would take place in Ne* York andlI just got up and lef Do tre fools think I am going to Ner' York to hear them spout:whim I need all the moneylIcan rake and serape for other things. They " playeC pretty much that same game on me down at .Galveston five years ago. I had already paid myarimission when I foetic out by the play bill that the l4st" act came off ten years afterwards , and when I kicked they refased to 4 pay me my money back, and fred! me out."-Siftintgs. At a dinner party the little and~ of the host andhostess was allo. ed to come down todeedt Hay ing had what his mother con sidered a sufficiency of fruit, he was told he muss not have any more, when, to the surpriss ei the guest, he exlaimed: "If you don't give me some more TIl tellf" whereup:m he was paddenly ad swiftly removed froma the room, bat he had just time to convulse the dompany by exclaiming: "My newr trouses are made out of ma's old bed-room curtains I" LOOKIKG FOR A eJoB-"Can you give me a bite o'something?"sed, a tramp as he stopped af WIther' spoon's f'armhouse. "I'm a-poor fel low trying to find work at my trade.!" "What is your trade?" asked Witherspoon as he set out a bg bowl of bread ahd milk and a -e ple of doughnuts. ,* "Oh, I'm assilor."-Maurdhons 13 A mnan's-irat cure abould be to avoid the riprnne of his.ow heart; his nektto esape th eL aset othewvorld.