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BY KEITH, SMITH & CO. WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JULY 1, I SSO. VOLUME XXXI. .NO. 33. Pleasant Words. No matter how tho world may go, How dark its shadows bo, Or whothor JUOO'B ewcot roses blow To gladden you nod mo, 'There always is a timo of day Our voices may bo heard, Wheo wo omi pauso beside tho way To Bay a pleasant word. Tho littlo barefoot girl wo meet, Tho maid whoso lovo was vain, *Tho restless boy upon tho street, And blind mnn with his cane, When they rcocivo tho humble mito Will feel their bosoms Btirrcd; If, with tho coin of value light, Wo pass a pleasant word. And hearts that now with sorrow aoho Bonoath 8"?no heavy blow, Will from tho shadows riso and break Thc spell of nil their woo, And fool that lifo hath sunshino new, Aud songs as sweet as birds', If wo but hnmano and truo, And givo them pleasant words. Another Groat Railroad Combi nation* [New York Times, lOth^j A vast railroad combination, with thc Itiohtuoud and Danville and thu Richmond ond York Uiver Hoads as tho basis, bau been formed iu the South, negotiations for ?whioh have boon in progress for 18 months. A number of prominent capitalists aro in terested in tho enterprise, and have em barked in it moro than 820,000,000. Among these aro Mr. Thomas Clyde, of Philadelphia; John and Daniel K. Stewart, of Richmond, Virginia; tho Messrs. Wal ters and Newcomer, of Baltimore, Maryland; Mr. II. H. Plant, of New York; Messrs. ll. T. Wilson & Co., also of New York; Mr. Charles M. McGhco, of Tennessee; Mr. W. I?. Clydo, of New Yolk; Mr. William. II. Palmer, T. M.' Logan, .Tames T. Gray, A. Y. SlokoB and Thomas Bra ?oh Co.; of ikichniond, Virginia, and other well known gentlemen io tho South and Southwestern States. Thia combination will Beck to conti ol all tho through trafilo to nnd from tho seaboard, io the Sentes of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, .Georgia, Teunesiee, Northern Alabama, ?nd Mmiissippi, striking deep water ou tho .Chesapeake Bay nt West Point and Nor folk. This immense system of railroads is thc counterpart of tho Louisville and Nash ville syslcni, which reuchcH thc seacoast nt Charleston und Savannah, and covers ti largo extent of country. Tho purohnRO, some 18 months s go, of thc Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta llailrood by* th o Pennsylvania Rotlroad Company, the lliohmoud und Dunville Railroad Company, ?nd Thomas and William P. Clyde, was tho beginning of this movement. Tito soo ond stop was tho formation of a syndionte oomposed of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Richmond capitalists con trolling muong them tho Richmond mid York IUvoi liui'.road, and tho Selma, Homo and Dalton liai I road, with numerous brando's, extensions and connections. This syndioato was formed to purchase all tho railroad interests of tho Pennsylvania Company Coutil of Richmond, which g.tv.0 to it the control of tho Rich mend, and Danville Railroad, with ita leased roads in North Carolina, running from Richmond to j Danville, embracing tho Piedmont Hoad ! from Danville to Greensborough, North .Carolina, and tho North Carolina Railroad from Goldsborough to Charlotto, ns a trunk lino, thus affording nn outlet through Riohmcud to dcop water for tho entire system. This was followed by tho purchase ?of tho controlling interest in thc Greenville and Columhiu Railroad Company of Bout h und by nrrangmcuts for securing tho ?inme diato completion of tho Western North <lnrolinn Railroad, from Asheville, N. C., to Puint Hock, Tenn., whioh makes another link connecting thc roads lying West of tho .Blue Ridge mountains with those Bust of tho Blue Midge, and at tho same time affording tho shortest practical routo be tween ibo Northwest and tho States of Ike Southern seaboard. Tho Richmond nod York River Railroad, composing a section of tho trunk lino of this combination, ex tends fri m Richmond, Va,, to West Point, Va., on tho Chesapeake Buy, a distauoo of ?18 miles. This road is operated in e->!.-. ?fiction with tho Richmond nt!'1 ? Uiver line of steamers It was ,03 during tho military operations of ...and was rebuilt in I8G7. Tho Bast Tcnncs3co, Virginia and Georgia Railroad ox tonde from Bristol, Tenn., lo Dalton, Git., with n branch fiom Cleveland, Toon., to Chatta nooga, Tenn., a distanoo of 270 mile*, with nbout 2d miles of side tracks. Tilla lino was formed by tho consolidation in 18G0 of tho Bast Tunncsnco and Virginia Railroad chartered March 6, 1840, and opened Juno 10, 1805, with thc Bast Teuncssco and Georgia Railroad, chartered February 4, 1848, und oponed Octobor 18, 186(3. Tho branch road to Chattanooga, 29 mites in length, waa originally a sep?ralo road, but it was acquirod by tho linst Tennessee and Georgia on its completion. Tho Hog cravillu und Jefferson nnd tho Cincinnati, Cumberland Gap nnd Charleston Railroads wore purchnsod nt n foroolosuro salo for tho noupuymentof interest on tho Stats mort gago lion in 1871. This lino inoludes tho Western North Carolina Railroad to Paint Rook. Tho lino of thu Memphis ?nd Charleston Roud extends from Memphis, Toni)., to Stovonson, Ali? , n distanoo of 271 miles. It hus branches to Somervilio, Tonn., ?nd to Florence1, Ah?., milking 868 niiloH of rea 1 it? tho oggYogato, ThoSolnui, Rome and Dallon liond, ?Iso a part of this systotu extends from Selma, Ala., to Dalton, Ga., a distanoo of 237 miles. Thc capital ?took of this corporation wus reported ia tho financial statement of 1872 at $5,000, 000. Thcroaro many othu bveuohca nod leased lines radiating throughout tho terri tory heretofore mentioned. The effect of this combination will bo to give greater economy of operation end increased o flt oicnoy of service thun has hcrotoforo boen possible under the old couditiou of things v. here tho roads wore independent nnd dis connected. While it ?coures to tho owuors greater protection from competition, it also affords tho publia better nud cheaper fu I cilities. j Among tho parties interested in thin en terprise nre those controlling tho coast lino system of railroads, including tho new and I short railway liucs running from Charleston I and Savannah to Florida, aud IIIBO a num - ber of steamship lines trading between Philadelphia, Now York, Baltimore and Southern ooast ports. It also connects at ltiohmond aud nt Dnnvillo with tho railway lipo-i from those points to tho Northern and Eastern States for through passenger and ;prcM? 'rn?io, and nt Norfolk aud West oint with thc atoatuboot lines to tho North j em nod Kantern ports for through and way trafile. In another column will bo found full particulars of a ruilroad combination that would bo very astonishing in any oilier year than this. Thc new combination bids fair tobeoomo ono of ibo greatest in tho coun try, and to cover nearly every important point in tho South. To reach Brunswick it will necessarily have to build a line from thc Selma Hoad to Atlanta nud Macon, and to reach New Orleans, nn extension of some existing lino will bo necessary. Tho new combination, consisting ns it does o? long purses, gives additional usMtranoo that the South need have no four that she will not have plenty of railroads. Four preal corporation.'] ure nov/ enlisted in tho work the Illinois Control, tho Louisville om] Nashville, tho city of Cinoinonli, and th< ltioh mo u d tty nd ?ca to.- A tia ti ta Go n xt itv. t io n [Richmond Vu., State.] The extract from tho Now York Timci entitled, "New Railroad Syndicate,' whilo ii, presents :? bird's oyo view of tin general font ti reit of the now railroad oombi nation which is destined in tho near futun to bring through Richmond to West Point thu great bulk of tho Southern nud South western tradie, omits nome nf tho most im portant features of tho enterprise. Twont; millions of dollars, the sum winch is men. tioucd as having been embarked by capital ists. would bc very far lens than tho oggro ?iatc value of thc railroad properties form, ing tho combination. Twice the aiuoun mentioned would bo below tho oggregnt vuliu cf thc magnificent properties repre sented in?whot tho Times colls thc ltioh mond titid Danville ttunk rtV; system Hut ooo of ti? most important tentures o the eotnbinniiou which is not alluded te ii tho Times'uvticlo is thc promised connectioi with ibo Cincinnati Southern ll Uro-d h way of tho East Toonnosscc and Virjgini Railroad, connecting ut Point Bork wit; thc \\r03torn North Carolin?, and ofiorditij a new nod easy lino fur tho distribution c thc products of tho groot Wost among th Southon; and Southeastern States. Value of Oatmeal. Oatmeal i?. a food of great st.rongth an nutrition, having oluinin to ho better know and moro widely v.: cd than it is nt presen Of much service M brutii food, ir, co?tait! phosphorus enough to keon a man ?.'oin an ordinary amount o! ..?'m work in goo health and vigor. All medical aulhoritic unite in i!io opiniott that, calen with mill it is perfect food, and, having nil requisite I for tho development of the system, it is I pre-eminently useful food for growing ehil I dien and tho young genet nil '/. Out mei requirer) much oookiug to cfhotuilly bur: j tin- starch cells, but when it is well cooke i it will tliiokou liquid muoh more then eqn its weight in wheaton Hour. Thc o-ita c thia country are superior to thone grown o thc (.'outinent und Southern part of I?nglom ' but certainly inferior lo tho fteotih, v/lui considerable pains uro taken to cultivai theo), mid it is needless to point out th tho Scotch ure an example of a strong nu thoroughly robust nation, whioh rcftu is justly set down as bci:'? derived fro tho plentiful usn of oatmeal. Guthrie h ussert 'd that in hiu country, men have tl I largest heads of tiny nation in thc world - hoi oven thc English have such largo hoads whioh he attributes to tho universal uso < oatmeal, au universal it is, being four ii?ko on tho t:iblc3 of tho rich and t! tables of tho poor-iu tho morning po ridge, and in tho evening thc tradition coko. Tho two principal ways of cookii oatmeal uro porridgo and oako (bunnoo! which I will describo. First, then, wc \v coinmenoo with a rcoipo for porridge: '. 8 pints of boiling water nnd n level tenspoo fu! of salt und a pint of course meal, stiri ii whilo it is belog slowly poured in; contin stirring until tho meal is diffused l li von ? tho wntcr-nbout eight or ten minuit Cover it closely then, rind placo it who it will simmer for an hour; avoid stirri during tho whole of Hint timo. Servo lu with as little messing as possible, aocou panicd with mille, tnaplo syrup or su<? and oronro. To moko ontmcnl onko, pin in a bowl a quart of meal, add to it much cold water ar will form it into a B< light dough, covor it with n cloth ftftc i.,mules to allow it to swell, thou dust t pasteboard with men), turn out thc don and givo it a vigorous kneading, Cover with H cloth fifteen minutes nod prece nt once to roll it to au eighth of tm in thickness; cut it in -five piecer nod pan nook them on n griddle, then finish th< by toasting iu front of tho lire. Thc ?calli of ShcB'ilTIlowcM. Although it waa known that Sherill Rowen was in precarious honlth, tho nu- I uouoccmcnt, yesterday, of his sudden death etnrllcd everybody in Charleston. During tho last fovy years ho Ii ad iu great mcusuro withdrawn from politics, and time had somewhat softened tho bitterness of fooling agiuust him aroused by Iiis long, bold and c^coessfu! antagonism of nil tho interests of penco, order and civilization in Charleston County. Yet it is tho simple truth tbnt tho newi? tht?t ho i? no moro w is received ty tho commuuity \?iih a feeling of deep relief. Rowen was a man of singular foroo and determination, l?o wai- poor, uneducated, without social advantages of any kiud; yet the indomitable energy displayed in Iiis career for thc last fifteen ycart,, nod thc boldness aud persistence with which ho faced and, wc might almost 6ny, lived down a storm of popular indignation which would havo overwhelmed and crumbed al most any other mun, marked him ns one of tho most extraordinary characters whom tho social upheaval which followed tho war threw to tho surfnoo. Happily for Charles ton nnd South Carolina, it is uot likely that wo shall soon once triter another political agitator at once ::o bold, sn unscrupulous, and^so influential.-News and Courier. Maj, Earlc'o Opinion. A reporter of thc Greenville Daily News has had on interview with Maj. Wm. E. Earle on National and Stuto politico and gives his views ut length. Tho Major thinks tim Chicago nomination u strong ono, nod that it will ho elected. Coming down to StittO politics, Major liarlo ftpouks candidly and cvifiontly ex presses tho views of evory honest man tu tho State, he ho white or bltiok, Democrat or Republican. Being asked by tho repor ter if tho Republicans would run a ?Stale, ticket, replied that he did not think so. An active campaign, ho said, would not likely induce u re-enactment of Hamburg and Ellenton, but it would destroy tho prose ut harmonious eolations of tho races, und lead to more or les violence. Ile u tided: *' Thc .s*?rev.-:.! of any ticket which voulu' porr'!.!'/ ftc nominated by tho Republican party under its present organization u-ould be a calamity too fearful Jot' calm ion'".'ti tration. Whilst it is trite that tho '..allot ^3 but desert fruit in tho hands of tho neuro aud ho has ceased absolutely to bo ? factor in polities, yoi it in equally trna that ' oforo tho courts he is treated with n cort of chivalric tenderness, and dat justice is administered to him with mueh :;:nre mercy than to the nco pf ! trgor opportun i~ tics, To this tho next mest important thing lo tho negro is Ihttt tho school money shall not only bo honestly, but justly and wisely expended. Hagood's election otu'it to, and will givo general satisfaction, nnd if. will bo fur bettor for tho colored people lb a this election should pass over without acrimony. Tho welfare of society, as well es thc material interests of the .State, do? mond bsolutcly that, (his campaign should to us free as possible from agitation." Tho Sin of Extravagance. Kpui'geon's plain talk ou ''Economy and Debt" ought to bc pasted inside tho hat of every spring householder: "Eeing be yond their incomes is il:o ruin of many of roy neighbors; l! ey can hardly afford to keep a rabbit, oud must needs drive a pony nv.? chaise. I ot? afraid oxtiavagunoo ia thu common disease of tho times, and many professing Christians Inve caught it, to their shanie and sorrow. Goou cotton or stuff gor/Iis ave not good enough nowadays, gills mutt have s?ks and satins, and then ibero's a bill at tho dressmaker's ns iotig os a winter'.! night and quite ns disinnl. Show and stv'.o an? smartness mu a wa j with a miii/a moons, keep ibo family poor und the fa Iii er's nose on thc grindstone. Erogs try to loik as big as bulb; and buist them selves. Ho is both a fool and a kuave who has a shilling coming in und on the strength ot' it ?ponds u pound which docs not belong to bim. Cut your cont according to your cloth is sound advice; but cutting other people's cloth by running into debt U us like thieving as fourpence is Uko a groat. Debtor.! cnn hardly help being liars, for they promue to pay when they know they cannot, nnd when they havo inado up o !ot of falso excuses they proniiso Again, uud yo they lie us fast as a horse can trot. Now, if owing louds lo lying, who shall 6ay that it is not a most evil thing? Of course ibero aro exceptions, and I do not wont to bern hard upon an honest man who ?9 brought down by sickness or heavy losses; but take thc rule as a rule, and you will lind debt to bea great dismal swamp, a hugo mudhole, a dirty ditch; happy is tlio mun who gets out of it after once tumbling in, but hap piest of oil is ho who has been, by God's goodness, kept out of tho miro altogether. If you 0000 fisk tho devil to dinner, ii will bo hard to get him out of the hoUso again. Retter to havo nothing to do with him. Whero ti hen hus layod ono ogg sho is very likely to lay another; when a mun is 0000 in debt ho is likely to get into it again; bolter keep clear of it from tho first. Ho who gets in for a penny will Roon bo in for a pound, and whim a men is over shoes Ito is very liable to bo over boots. Never owe a farthing, and you will uover owo a guinea." .- ? ? . HONDON, .J uno .A Rellin disputait to tho Times says thal, lalo severe fallut and floods in tho district nf London near Rie&lau, .1'russia, destroyed 105 houses aud caused tho death of fifty-six persons, Tho Cotton CIT:> of 1880-61. From tho best information wo can gather, wo cstiuinlo tho growing crop at 0,113,000 bulee. Ono basin ot' our cnloulatiou ia un increaao o? norcugo over lost season tlint amounts to 8 por cont. Tho inoroase in tiio states ot',North ?ind South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, token tcgother, is about iivo per cont; in Ten nessee and Texas, ubout ten,and in Arkansas about twelve per cont. For live yours past tho American cotton crop, with thc exception of that of 1877, bun. h<?on considerably nbovo an tworngo. A yield from lG? to 1G8 pounds to tho nero for tho on tire crop of tho Southern St,urn is considered n fuir average. As wo htivo ?iv-t'-dt tho estimated norcugo in cotton in 1S8U IR 8 per cent nbovo thc crop of 1870. This will wat rant tho conclusion thal 0,113,? 000 halos will ho mada Tho prospect of tho present growing crop is exceedingly favorable-moro so than wa? timi of tho crop of 1879 ut this scasou of tho year. As a matter of cours?, cotton, frota tho tinto tho seed goos into thc ground, until it ia more than fully one-half gathered, in subject to many climatic influonccs. Tho two great requisites to mako cotton oro, nu carly coming up and n. good stand. After theso ero secured, thero must bo a good growth of ptalk and an abundaut fruitage of squares aud bolls, aud n lato, opon fnll. All those ave required to make n largo yield. IJ,> tu '.his tinto wo havo, in addition to nu immense aoreago in cotton, good stands with favorable prospecta from nil tho colton grow ing r-colioua.-Al. Constitution. A ?RAND ENTKIUHUSK.-Tho Air Lino Railroad Company is arranging fur au ex cursion that promises to bo a grand ono. Realising tho fact that many South Caro linians who fled from tho political and ma terial ruin that impended a few years a?o nro scattered about thc Stato of Toxns, whore they sought homes, and knowing that many of thom Ind been disappointed in their expcotat?OM und long to return to their o'd homes and help to build up their nuthc Stale, Col. lloustoo, the iodefntiga ldc passenger agent of tho road, has beet) for months Booking to effeot a grand rc uns ion ?ind hiing thc wanderers back. The ocoasion lor this is found in tho Centennial of King's Mountain, which will bo cele brated on thc Tilt of October. Arrange meul8 havo beeu made with connecting linc!? to mako remarkably low rates from poins.? iu Ti Kan Lo Atlanta. From thor* thc Air Line Road will mako r ites such a.i will put it within tho power of tho poorcot to return. Coco back, with an opportunity lo iii'.tiglo among their old friends and soc tho improvement* und prosperity of tim country, it is confidently expected that many of theso exiles will bo readily induced to return permanently. Tho excursion ticket) will bc good for thirty days. Tho plan ?s fl grand one, otu! thero is every in dication that it will bring about many happy moot.)ogs of friends long parted and regain tho Slate many valuablo citizens. [ Green ville .-Yen s. Tho Now (Orleans 'linus, rejoicing that tho State elections iii Louisiana aro now separated from tho I'rosidcntiul elootious, says: "Whatever iuiy ho ibo result of tho general elections in November, tho title of our State Goyornmont is beyond dispute. Sin :e l?>70 party feeling, iu thc lower sense of tho brm, i.a.? to a gre.it extent passed away ia this Stale. Largo crops ti ul high prices hu ve given a mighty impulse to tho pros pority of thc agricultural districts. Rail ways which four year}} ugo vero regarded us hut "tho baseless fabric of a dream," ai?, now either accomplished foots ov oer* tu int ICM of tho near future. Tho vesourcos of Lc.jillana's soil aro exhaustions. Mid nothing savo peace has boon wanting to their development. Pooca has como nt last. Louis)utia will, of courso, continue to be divided on party Hues, bat tho time is past wbou elections meant a slate of revolution." Memphis ia jut>t rejoicing ill tho practi cal completion and efficiency of tho system of drainage from whioh so much has been oxpeoted fdnoo tho v/ork was begun limo and a half months ago. Within that, timo twenty and onoholf milea of sewerage pipes have boon put down und thirty miks of subsoil drain pipes. Already it is ascer tained that tho soil of streets in low pinces thus drained is dry and freo from disenso brooding impurities, tho death rato of tho city is remarkably low, and it ii behoved that thc taxpayers, hy a considerable pe cuniary sacrifice, have esoaped tho danger of all preventable epidemics. Henry Clay was traveling somcwhero "out West," and put up for a night nt n country tavern. "Mino ho-t," io looking over thc regiatcr, discovered tho nunc " Llen ry Clay." There was but ooo "Clny." Could it bo possible that ho had this dis tinguished mon nuder his roofi* lie was astonished, dolighted. Next morning, ns soon r.s the great man uppOfcrod. Ronifaoo bustled forward) ?nd, making hi3 nido ho.Y, said, "Mr. Oluy, 1 believe, slr?" "That is my naino," Baid tho gentleman, in his affable tonu, "Mr. (Jltiy, tho Congress man?" ^.Yfos, sir." "Woll, sir, I've heard of yon; and 1 thought Fd just osk if you wouldn't givo mound my old wointiu u littlo speech before you go." 11?T.ES VOW. GoiNO TO OnUROII.-1? Lot nothing but an impossibility prevent you from going to tho houso of Ood on tho Sabbath. 2. Oo curly to take your family and friand with you. 8. Go onco every Sabbath, if passible. 4. Go in a prayorful stato of mind. f>. (?ive respectful und prayerful attention to tho normen. 15. j (ioiu in all songs of praise, and think of whit you fing. 7- Groot ono nnether pleasantly, and kindly spunk to tho.stranger. 8. Think and speak of all the good in tho services, and forgot all tho vcst.*-ii?. .wm. ,11111 tu omi) linv?i HO pc^u, j (,p Q YioX Our Vorb. "I begin to understand your language butter," said roy Frenoh friond, Mr. Dubois, to uio, "but your VO? bs troublo mo still; you mix thom up so with propositions." "I otu sorry you nod them so trouble some," was all I could say. "I saw pour friend Mrs. Murkosou juBt now/' ho conti ii nod. "Sho says sho in tends to break down housekeeping} am i right there?" "Brook up housekeeping, sho must havo said." "Oh! yes, I roraombor; break up house keeping." "Why docs sho do thal?" I asked. "Bocnuao her boaltb is broken into." "Broken dowu." "Broken down? Oh, yoe! And, indeed, sinoo thc small pox has broken up iu our city-" "Broken out." "She thinks sho will Icavo it for a few weeks." "Will sho loavo her house alone?" ."No, she is afraid it will bo broken brokeu-how do 1 say that?" "Broken into." "Certainly, it is what I mean to sny." "Is her son lo bo married soon?" "No, that engagement is broken broken-" "Brokou ufT?" "Yes, broken off." "Ah, I had not heard of that." "Sho is very sorry about it. Her son only hroko tho news down to her last wook. Ara I right? I um anxious to Bpcak Eng-< lish well." "Ho morely broko thc nows; no prepo sition this time." "lt is hard to understand. That young man, her son, is a linc young follow; a a breaker, I think." "A broker, and a very fino young follow. Good duy." So muoh for tho verb "to break." Qu KEN OP ALL.-Honor tho doar old mother. Timo ha3 soattcrcd tho snowy H ikes on her brow, plowed deep furrows ou her cheek, but is sho not sweet and beauti ful now? Tho lips ure thin end shrunken, but those arc tho lips whieii have kissed many u hot tear from thc childish cheeks, und they uro tho sweetest lips in tho world. The 05 o is dim, yot it glows with the scft rsdiancu of holy lovo which can oover fado. Ah, yes, sho is a dnur old mother. Tho sands of lifo uro nearly iun out, but fccblo us she is, will go further and reach down lower for you than nuy othor upon earth. \'<>u cannot walk in a midnight where sho cannot soo you. You cannot enter n prison whoso b.Ts keep her out. You cuunot mount n soaffold too high for her to reach that sho may'kiss and bless you in evidence of her deathless lovo. When tho world shall despiso and forsnko you, when it leaves you hy tho wayside to dio unnoticed, tho dear old mother will gather yon in her feeble arius am. carry you homo aud tell you of all your virtues until you ulmost forgot that your soul is disfigured by vioo. Lovo her tenderly, and ohcer her declining years with holy devotion. "FKER YOUR MIND."-Potienoo is a good thing if pcoplo will only loam how to moko 0 propor uso of it. A Quaker, on hearing a man swearing, said, ''That's right, friend! Get ali that bad HUI li out of thou as quickly as possible." Tho following; anecdote of Horaco Grcoley shows that if Mr. Greeley did not sympa-< th i zo with thu (?'raker, yet ho could keep cool under provocation: Ono-day a stranger carno into the office looking angry, ?nd inquired for Grocloy. I pointed to tho littlo den whor.. Greeley waa aoratohing away for dear life, and ho made for it. As ho went in I heard him say, "You old hypocrite!" using an oath at tho samo time. Greeley did not look up or oven pauso, but kept driving his pou madly on, his noso within a couplo of inches of tho paper, and his lips whispering tho words after tho pou, ns was his wont. Tho follow oontinuod, calling Greeley's attention to un article that hud offended him, and denounoing him usa villain and a coward nnd a liar, with on oath after about every other word, meantime threatening to ?'knock his head off." Grcoley didn't stop for a moment, but wroto on unruffled by tho blasphemy. At Ia<>t tho intruder exhausted his voca bulary and turned to loavo tho room, when Groeloy jumped up ond squeaked out to him: "Say, neighbor, don't gol Stay hero uud froc your mind!" ONIONS.-From our own oxperionoo, and tho observation of others, wo con fully indorse tho testimony of tho St. Louis M?ht *, on tho healthful properties of tho above esculent. Lung and liver complaints aro certainly bencfitod, often ourod, by a freo consumption of ouions, cither cooked or raw. Colds yield to them like magia. Don't bo afraid of them. Taken at night all offenso will bo wanting by morning, and tho good effects will amply coraponsuto for tho trifling annoyance. Taken regularly they greatly jromoto tho health of tho lungs ?nd tho digestivo organs. An ox tract ruado by boiling down tho juioo of onions to 0 syrup, and taken as a medicino answers tho pulposo vory well, but fried, roasted or boiled onions aro bettor. Onions aro a very cheap medicine, within everybody's roaoh, and they are not by any mcuno as "bad to tako" ns the costly nos trums a neglect of thoir uso may neocB tnto. ^6Oj ^Wj^jl^^^J or^ nftor | . morlt a shit CALL ON HANS.-llore ia no account of a little census noone which ornoo oil in Ewen street, botwecu tho Enumerator and a gentleman from Germany: ??Who KVOB herc?" "Yaw." "What's your nome?" '?Shormany, ou dor Hinno." "What*8 your father's namo?" "Nix for Straw." "When did you orrivo iu this city?" "Mit a btoamboat." "Got any childron?" "Yow-two barrels mit kraut." "How long havo you resided in this house?" "Two rooms and der bosomeoto." "Who owns tho building?" "I pays not'iog. Ilaus pays der samo twioo a mont." "Where did you live last year?" "AcroBS der rod storo you como mit der market iu your right hand, behind der pump vat pelongs to der plaoksraith shopes." Ouo sometimes receives consolation from n source wholly unoxpooted. Two men were iu a boat and trying to cross tho rapids. Tho travolcr was timid iu presence of tue turbulent waters, and, dinging to both sides of thc little cockle shell, said to tho boatman in trembling tones, "Arn't pcoplo sometimes lost hero? It seems to mo to bo very dangerous." Tho sturdy ferryman gavo an oxtra tug at tho oars, und then replied cheerily, "Lor' bless you, sir, I never know a man to bo lost herc, though I've bcou ou this rivor off and on for nigh forty years. Why, only last month my brother John was drowned right on this vory spot that we aro going over now, but ho wasn't lost, for wo found his body two days afterward, iu tho creek below there." Of tho lato Bishop Ames tho following anecdote is related: While presiding over a certain conferonco in tho West, a mcmbor bogan a tirado p.gninst tho universities and education, thanking God that ho had never been corrupted by contact with a oollogo. After proceeding thus for a few miuutcsj tho Bishop interrupted with tho question, "Do I understand that the brother thanks God for his ignoranoo?" "Well, yes," was tim answer, "you can put it that way if you want to." "Woll all I have to say, said tho Bishop in his sweet musical tones, all I havo to say is that tho brother has a groat deni to thank God for." Recently a well knovm barrister was con cerned iu a case where thc question involv ed was as to tho mental condition of tho testatrix. Tho witness under examination, hersolf an aged lady, had testified to find ing her friend falling, childish, and that when sho told her something she looked as though sho did not understand. Counsel, cross examining, tried to get her to describo this look, but she did not cucoeod vory woll in doing co. At lost, gottiug a little impa tient, bc asked, "Woll, how did sho look? Did sho look nt you ns [ om looking at you now, for instance?" Tho witness vory demurely replied, "Well, yes-kind of vacant Uko." Tho following resolution hos boen adop ted by tho State Educational Board of Examiners: Resolved, That thc Stato Board of Ex aminers rsoommond to tho County Boards of Exnmiuors throughout tho Stato to hold examinations on tho first Friday and Satur day in January and July each year. Tho object of this resolution is to provont applicants from obtaining possession of tho questions in advance of the examination. In some instanocs, applicants havo obtained copies of tho questions from friends in other counties, but this arrangement will put a stop to ail such evasions. An invetorato Ynnkeo tobacco chowor wos io tho habit of dedaring about once a montis that ho would "never ohew another piece," but broke his pledge as ofton os ho mado it. Oo one occasion shortly after ho had ??broko off for good," ho was seen taking nuothor chew. "Why, said his friend, you told mo that you had given up that habit; but I seo you aro at it again." "I havo ?ooo to ohowing and left off lying." COLUMWA, Juno 23.-Mr. Jcsso B. Anderson, of Abbeville County, was killed by being thrown from his wagon on Satur 3ay last while returning homo from Grocn ivood. Tho wheels passed across his nook, loath ensuing ahno.it instantaneously. Elegance of language may not bo iu ?ho power of us all; but simplicity and straight forwardness nro. IC ti man would koop both iii--? togrity and indopondonce free from tomptation, lot him koop out o?* ilcbt. Franklin said, "It is hard for an empty hag to stand upright." Thc grontest fault is to bo consoious of none. Duties fufillcd oro always ploasurcs to inomory. Chester County has seven brass bands .vithin Ifs bordera. Every man who has decision of ohnrac? tor will havo onomios. Those who put thoir money into telephone ?took moko n sound investment. If wo oould soo others as wo seo oursolves Lhere would bo moro good-looking people in tho world. o of tho patron ago of tho nublta.