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:-. ' . . .. .. ' | ' ' ' ' ''''''' '"'^ '''' "'''r' ' ''' ~~*-~r^--*~r-; - rj*j ry - NIGHT THE DAY, frlfiU ??N0T NOT THEN BE FALSE TO ANY MAN ? v M BV KEITH, SMITH & CO. AV A LH ALL A, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1877. .'i }.i i . . frit">i >r .Mitf-i " ,?w.'.M ! S):!. VOLUME XII-NO. 29. LIM ? H?H*imd?Ji?i Tho P?osont. Oh slight not tho present, tho past ia ar rayed In a dim and indefinito mantle of shade; Disturb not tho oahu of ils mist covered plains, Where glido thc pale ghosi? of lost pleas ures and pains. Tho future! what mortal may pierce its thick cloud? Thc- futuro is wrapped in uncertainty's ?shroud; Dark trials, keon oaros, from that shroud moy urise, Or its Bccrcts muy ue'er bc disclosed to thy oyes. Tho present! Oh wish not its moments away; A talisman dwells in tho might of to-day; Post seasons arc buried, tho future unknown, But tho bright sunny present nt least ia th ino own; Aud fain would I bid theo fruin knowledge . implore, Each day some new treasure to inM lo thy store, Aud gently eomo Bcrvioe or kindness im part, To gladden tho worn feature or eoolho tho bud heart. Each day may thy home and its fondly loved ties Acquire frosh attraction and worth in thine eyes, Yet with strengthened devotion on Clod mayest thou call, And feel that for Him thou could?t putt with them all. Thus live, und thou wilt not in weariness OilBt Thy glance from the present lo pietuto the peet, Nor marvel what earth's mysliu future may bo, Since Heaven hath in Blore u bright future for thee. Tho Chief Justiceship. Tho controversy between Gov. Simpson, . thc Chief JuBiiee of tho Supremo Court, unaor on election bel.I last September, and Chief Justice Willard, who was elected lu May 1877, aud 01 iii m ft that bia terni ol office has not expired, will bo submitted lo the Supremo Court ol the Stato lot decision under Section ?ly.) of tho Code ol' Proc?d ure. This section provides that barties to u question in difference, which might bo tho subject of a civil action, may, without action, agree upon a euee OOUtsiuii'g tho fuels upon which tho controversy depcuda, and prcseul a submission of tho SUMO to any court which would have jurisdiction ii uu action hud been brought. Tho facto are as follows: I. F, J . Moses, Sr., was elected Clnol .Justice of tho Supremo Court by the Gouerul Assembly on July ii!), 1808, and was rc-elcetud on tho 80lh of January, 1874, for a term of six year:!, commencing from tho expiration of tho then ruuuing term of ofliee. Judge MOPOS hold the office until bia death, in 1877. Cu May 11th, 1877, the General A?.ficiubly agreed togo into joint ballot on May 15, 1877, for tito purpouo pf electing a Chief Justice of thc Supremo Court ol' thio Stato, to fill tho vacancy created by tin- death of Judge Moses. In acoovduueo with this resolution Judgo A. J. Willard, who waa then Asso ciate Jnstree, wat? oloctod Chief Justice. Ho duly qualified and intered upon the diflohovgo of his duties and baa contitiucd to hold the office. Judge Willard claims that ho is entitled to hold tho office of duel Justice for thc full terni ol' six yeara fruin tho dato of hi.H eicetiou. H. On September 18, 187!). the Goners I Assembly, under a resolution passed on thc 7th of tho samo mouth, elected the lion. AV. 1). Simpson, who wan then Governor, to be Chic! Justice of tho Supromo Court. Ho claims that the election of A J. V/ illa iii on May 15, 1870, entitled Willard lo hold tho offioo for tho unexpired term of Chic! Justico Moses only, that this has now expired and that ho (Simpson) is entitled to tho office. Tho whole question, i!, will bo seen, ip whethor tho General Assombly did and could elect ?Judge Willard for a full term of fiix years, or for merely the unexpired term of Judge, Moses, whoso term ended en July '.'.9, 1880. It is a legal question, and will bo decided according to tho law, but it cannot bo denied that thc intention ol tho momboT of tho General Assembly was to elect Judgo Willard for the unexpired term that they would not have elected him if they knew it, for a term of six years, and thot Judge Willard knew, and, indeed wu? plainly tobt, thai ho wno relinquishing thc otlioo of AflBOoiato Justico, which lie might continue to bold, for a brief term of of 11 CC ns Chief Justice with no hopo of re-elco tion. Judgo Willard cm not sit, of courso, upon tho hearing of thc Oose, nov eui Judgo Simpson, who, it is understood, will oontiuuo to aot no Governor until Septem ber. There in a doubt, too, whether Judge McGowan can sit, no ho was elected for an unoxpired torin, and tho issuo ii tho pend ding diso effects him for that reason. Thc vaoanoica on the betioh, caused by inability to sit, will bo filled by Governor Joter, the present President of tho Se?alo, who will become Governor when Gov. Simpson qualifies ap Chief Justice.- Charleston ?cws and Courier. CiiAHT.'ESTO.Nr, August 12.-Tho first balo of new cotton of South Carolina growth which hos reached Charleston thia season was reoeived to-day from Bamberg, Gurus yolj fhuviy. It wod classed inferior. Judgo Henry Hilton mid Mrs. Stewart, i in administering tho estate ot* t!?e late Alexander T. .Stewart, iiave caused endow I monts to be nindo that will aggregate prob I ably ?:j,000,000, to be d?yotod lo' building, i equipping and furnishing a collegiate build I lug at Gardon City, \J I., whore it in in I I' tided to educate both sexes tor a charge. less thon ?100 per year. Tho cost for in ! s'ruc', ion and traveling expenses from New j York or H roo!; lyn will not average that i mim. One building for I h if hurposO i-5 now nearly completed, which is "said to bo tho finest structure ol' the hind in America, m.el will aeoommodoto fivo hundred students. Two other buildings of equal dimensions will bo erected be-side it. Sixty aeres of bod have been set apart for the buildings and tho grounds, wallis, groves or parks that will surround thom. A building for female's, to accommodate throe, hundred, occupying twenty five aeres, with annexes and surrounding grounds, will abo be com pleted very soon. A divinity school, to educate young men for tho ministry in thu Mpiscop-il Church, will bo located in Carden City, whore tho remains of .Mr. Stewart will bo placed lifter i he cathedral is finished. Ail these buildings, when completed, will hw furnished by M vs. fi? lo wiri, dedicated to tho mcuiory of her husband, sullioiotitly endowed to guaranty their useful ness and perpetuity, and thou transferred t;? tho su pervision of tho Kpiscopal district of Long Island through the bishop, upon tho hitter signing II contract to cundoot tho edifice ac cording lo tho intents and suggestions uf tho late A. T. Stewart. Cor.UMllVS, O., August 12.-Speaking at tho rcnUuion ol cx-soldiors and enilorh ycaterdoy President Hayes referred to the How of immigration tu America n'i an in dication (d' our increasing prosperity, Ho alluded to the fact th ht few immigrants go South, doplorod tho luck of educational facilities in t Un t section, referred lo tho iVct that tho South lost >.o much by thc war that at its end, tho people of the- Southern Stute?! were loll in no condition to provide lor universal popular education, ami said ti.e principle applied by general consent to works of public improvement h in point - '.h it the principle is that whouovo/, public improvement is of national importance mid tbe. local and private enterprises are itiado ? quatc to its prosecution tho Condal Gov um mont should undertake it. "On this principle," bo said, I ''would doai widi the question of education by thc aid of the National Government. When-over in tin United States tho local systems of popttlai education aro inad?quate, they should Ix supplemented hythe General Govcrnmnnl by devoting to that purpose by suitable legislation and with proper safeguards, pub . lie bindi! or if necessary, appropriations from tho Treasury of thc United Stute.;." A Washington dispatch to tho I3iUimore San says: A Republican of much promi nente, who was present, at thc Rcpublioai conference iu Now York last week, was in tho city to day. Mid told some of bis politi cal friends that ibo National Kxccutivi Committee had decided t:> send a libera niau ot' money lo North Carolina and Klori da. Thu tenders have become convince! that both States eau bc carried for Cr!!, h with a proper effort, and to this cod mono} and t pea'.ors. ...til bo .sent lo both Slate; carly lie'st month, Representative Lorin] j ;i;i.'; Mr. Cabot, ftodgOj n J'OUng Rep?blica: of much eloquence in Massachusetts, have it ?a said, volunteered lo go into ibo Soutl and mulct speeches for Garfield. The-feel ing herc among Democrats i-: that the mon speaker:] ibo Republican.! send South liv ? bolter it will bc for tl..: Democratic nomi neo:;, und t hut nothing will so quickly bea up thc differences in ibo Democratic rank ;;<. tho presence ot' n nu tn ber of L?udion spt il:ors, appealing lo tho colored voir..; (. como out and vote tho Kopublioon ticket and try to obtain control of the Stato ma chinery again." ATLANTA, GA., August IC-Tho Gu . bornatorial Convention adjourned to-day nfior making ibo following nominations oi tho Stnto ticket! M. C. Karnet, ol Bald wi i County, for Secretary of State; \V. A Wright, of Richmond, ?or Oomptrollc 1 Contra!; I). N. Speer, of Troup, for Troas urer; by acclamation, and Clifford Anriet sou, nf Iiibb County, fur Attorney (Jone ra!, on tho fourth ballot by Oolquitl's ful vote ci 22-t. Thooi)ti-Col(|uitt men will holdtt tiicctint : to night aud will issue au address to th pcoplo of the Stale, lt i;; thought that tb opponents of Colquitt will entre on ON Congrcmnan Milton A. Candler, of DeKalb The Republicans have called a Stat Convention to nominate a State ticket o September 7. It ?3 Utldor.ttood that the ale ws'ting for overtures from ono of th winn's of thc Democraoy. Tho Republicans have notuinotod fo Presidential olootors half white sud hal colored men, and alternates in tho emu way. CAMDEN, August 10.-Sheriff nob Inst night received, from Darlington Count} warrants for tho arrcBt of W. 10, Join sm J. M. Canley, T. >I. A nor um, jr,, A. X Goodwyn o fid II, (!. lil I or boo, on obarges e violating (lui Statutes in relation , to duel ling by participating in various ways i tho recent Cosh Shannon duel. Tho war ranis oro baned upon tho affidavits of D. f Dul?oso, of Ru Rise's Rridgo, Cypn ? lownehip, Darlington County, aAd wei issued by Trial Jualico W. S. King, c Darlington County. Sheriff Doby has no tilled thc parties that ho lins warrants fe their arrests, and it is expected that thc will appear and give bond for their appeal tinco at tho October tenn of thc court fe J).irliiio*on County. PitWpf?W l ? AYKS J??JL?y?l?TK8 Til J! .S Ker I o .NA J, Issuib- President iiuyos pours a refreshing stream of cold water, in liss Columbus speech, on tho "sectional ?S?UO" which has hoon adopted by tho inanngors of General Garfield's canvass, lie do Boribpa thc condition of public feeling in j tho Southern States in almost tis hopeful ? terms of approbation as General Grant did I in bis speeches ulong tho Mississippi River ? last {.pring ou his return from Mexico. ; ''Mauna! pivspotiiy,'' 1,? saVs, "is iiicroas? . ing there, raco prejudices und nu tagon isms I have dimiuitibod. ti.o p^>.M.>,>o ?...A th? u?? j mo; kies of tho war aro subsidipg eiid tho j ancient harmony and concord and patriotic i national sentiments aro roturuing." Lrttto) I in his viow, is lacking to efface tho vestiges of civil war iu tho South excopt belier to - cilitios for popular education. This docs not correspond with tho speeches nt tho rccctit Fifth Avenue Hotel eoufercuco or those from thc balcotty of thu headquarters of thy Itopublioau National Committee thc next evening.-Afc to York Ifcruld. WASHINGTON, i) G., August 12.-Goo. Walker, tho Superintendent of Ibo census, ridicule:? tho claim of tho Republican organs Hitit tin re h?vo hoon wliolcaalo lYuuds in tho count ut tho South. "As far as honesty and a truo count goes," hu says, "I have yet to discover any causo ol oom plaint." Tho roiurus aro yet tod in? complota to form auy close ostiiuntea^ bu! he has thus far ??con no reasons lo doubl that tho work has been done honestly in tin .South, ile rebukes tho Republican organ! which havo been making such nu unjusti fiable howl, by tho quiet remark: I wouk not oburgo uu entire section with conspira cy uga i nst ilio laws und constitution with ou knowing that there h ld boen such a con spiracy. Tho General says that if ho dis covers any sign of fraud unywboro he v/ii order a recount und prosecute thc origina enumerator;? if they tu in pored willi returns but ho does not expect to soo tho peniten tiaries crowded with peri m ed census official from ibo South or any other part of th country. ' -----. ll really seems that the barbarous prao tipo of dueling has received, ita death bbc hore in .South Carolina. Publia teatime: is strongly opposed to it. Thc secul: press manfully and sturdily expresses i condensation of it. Tho Southern Vr?shy terian mentions by name ti goodly array i our Stato papers, commencing with tl S'ews and Courier, and suyas This is formidable phalanx. Not ono ol' these bi speak.' out decidedly und ?Ivaiply i:i con detonation ol dueling. Not ono of thci but reliccts the sober, intelligent, thou?ht ful public sentiment of tho State. Soul Carolina is oommitted hcnoofoith to tl prosecution ?ind punishment of this mut dr.rous pi notice Tbc law of God and tl l.nv of tho Stato will no longer bo sacrifi?e to :i code olitimiiig to bc lionoriiblo, bi re illy possessed of not one feature deserv?c our respect.--Southern Christian Adrccui Tho Republicans of this State ha: called .1 convention to moot in Columbi:! t thu li-i of Sept .niber. Thu supposition that they will nominate an entire Stu ticket, from Governor down nod o ?cc their iitosl Ktretiuonu efforts to e??uro i election. This ia about tho best thing th oould ha prion for (ho Democrats, It w have thc >.eec:, of restoring uuion in tl party, whore it ru nj liuW bo wanting ai .".iii arouse ibo Pciuocrnoy to such a soe of the importation of victory that iudopei dentista will bc swept nway liku chaff hole thu wind, Tiie Hopublicunu will make o n.oio t n.e. ; io regain power i;i thia Sire und thou they will "yield up tho gho3t," [ Cfcory* town 'i'imcs. NBW YOhK, August It).-A man v arrested yesterday in Wall street for oin in1.', for stile 'j m e thousand dollar Sou Carolina bond, bearing dato beforn tho v. He refused lo give bb? name. Thc bo is .*eiiJ ft) havo been tho property of Southern gentleman who abandoned I homestead ;:t tho limo of Sherman's mai to tho Bea, Anio.!;; tho valuables tal: from his homo waa thia ono thousand ?lol bond. Tho owner fubqucntly bled, luff matioii of thc theft, of tho bond with I State authorities and alter tho war inft ination was sont to tho North. R TOI! MOND, August 12. -In Hour County Court to-day^ J. \V. 1 locnnii!^ who had been summoned ns a j ii roi' to tr care of horst) stealing, upon going to cleric's desk to bo sworn, refused to s because Ibero waa a negro 0:1 tho ju Tho Judge thereupon ordered n fine of 1 hundred and fifty dollars to bo imposed Ifocn'ninger with ton days imprisonment jail for con tom pt. lloonitingor Biibsoquer purged himself of contempt and consett lo soryo and his punishment was romitt UNION, S. C., August 12.-At a bar! cue. at Goudoynvillo, in thc North portion of this county to-day, a diflloi ocoiurod between a man by thc nunn Bullock and his son, tho father ?tabb his son six limes, from which ho will p h ildy dio. Tho old utan is now in awaiting thc result of his Ron's injin Tho cause of tho difficulty was wliiskoj too many candidates. Commissioner Muller han received letter from tho gcficrnl manager of American lOxchangc, in Eil rope, ask for information in roforonoo to tho i climate, otc, of South Carolina, for pnrposo of answering questions asked tl by emigrants. .Statistics arc being ct piled, ?iud vhpn done they will bo dis buted rill over Kurupo. . A Memorable Document. Tho following i:> a copy of tho most | inouiorablo judicial aentonoo which has over been pronounced in tho annals of tho world .nan.cly, that of death against tho Saviour, with thc remarks which tl.o journal Lc Trott has collected, and tho knowledge of which must bo interesting to ovory Chris ti m. Until novy wo aro not nwaro that it hus ever nppourcd in thu Uer mun papers. It is word fur word as follows: Sentence pronounced by Pontius Pilato, !uU.??io??t ?i' ?i.o.l,owov Pi'oviuen nf (lalilco, timi ?Jesus ol Nazareth .shall huller death by thc ci'o?s. In thc seventeenth youri? tho roign of tho I1! to per or Tiberius, und on the tweuty fuuith dav of thc month of March, in tho tho holy city of Jciusulotn, during tho pou ti flea lb ol' Anna? und Caiupbus. Pontius l'iluto, tho intendant of tho lower Galileo, sitting to judgment in tho presidential seat of tho Pi to tor, sentenced ?lo^us of Nazareth to death on a cross, betWOOU robbers, as tho nutnerous and no torious ti ?! ilituouies nf ibo people prove: 1. Jesus is u tuisluudor. 2. Ho hus exoitod tho people to Hcdilion. 3. lie is no enemy to thc laws. 4. Hu calls hitusolf falsely tho King of Israel. ?3. II ; went into tho templo followed by a multitude carrying palina in their hands. Orders from tho iiist centurion, Quirrilus Cornelius to bring him to thc piuco of exe cntiou: forbid nil poisons, rieb or poor, lo pre vent tho osccutiou of Jesus. Tho witnesses who bavo signed tho exe cution of Jesus ure: 1. Daniel itobanij Pharisee. 2. John Korobobel. 3. lluphucl Henani. 4. Capet. Jesus to bc talton out of Jerusalem; th ion? h tho gates of Tournes. Thia sentence is engraved on o pinto of brass, in tho Hebrew language, and ou its ?ido ?re thc following wurde: "A similur plate has been sont to each tribo " It WI-H discovered in tho year 1280, in tho city of Aquilla, iu tho kingdom ol' Nuplea, by a search made fer thc Kowan antiquities, und remained there until it was fouud by tho commissioner of arts, in tho Ptonoh army of Italy. Up to tho time of thc campaign iu Southern Italy it was preserved in tho sacristy of tho Carthusians, near Nuplea, where ll wns kept in ii box ot ebony. Sinoo then tho relic has boco kept iu tho chapel at Casorta. Tho Carthusians obtained by their petitions, that tho pince might bc kept by them, which waa au acknowledge ment of tho sacrifices which they made for ihn Kreuch army. Tho French uaiishition was inado literally by tho meinbors of uris. Donor, had u fae ?niile of tho plato un graved, by Lord Howell, on tho aale of his cibinet, for 2,SOO frau cs. There sectus to bo no historical doubt as to tho authenticity of this. Tho reason of tho Bontcnoo oorrospond exactly with tho!>o .in thc gospel.- Translated from thc Kotri valle Zcllmi'j. Tho Losy of. a Wife? In comparison with tho loss of n wife nil other bereavements uro trilling. Tho wife! she who lili:: so huge a ?p ico in tho domes tic heavon-?ho who h busied, so unwea liv, for tho precious ones ?round her hitter, bitter is ?ho tear that fulls upon her cold clay! You stand beside her collin aud think of tho past, lt st ems an amber ool ored pathway, where tho sun shone upon beautiful Howers, or tho Blurs hung glitter in;:; overhead. Fain would the soul linger them. No thorns aro remembered above that swoet oby, save those your hand may unwillingly have plautod. Her noble, tuilier heurt lies opon to your inmost eight. \ ou think ol' her now as nil gentleness, all beauly, nil purity. Hut she is dead! Thc dear bead that laid upon your bosom rests in tho still darkness, upon a pillow of clay. Tho hands that bavo administered so un tiringly, ure folded, white und cold, beneath thc gloomy portals. Thc heart whose every beut measured an eternity ol' love, lieu under your foot. Tho Howers sho bent ..?vcr with smiles, bund now above hor with tears, shaking tho dew from their petals, that the verdure uround hor may be kept green mid beautiful. There is no whitu arm over your shoulder; no speaking luco to look up into thc oyo of Love; no trembling Hps to murmur, "0, it is i ? tsad." There is nr. st range a hush in every room! no light footstep passing around. No smile lo groot you tit nightfall. And tho old eloek ticks u/id .' triked, and Strikes and licks-it ?ivas such music when she could he ir it! Now it scorns to knoll only tho hours through which you watched tho shadows of do ah gal hering upon her sweet lace. And every day tho clock repeats tho old story. Many another tule it tcllcth too of joys past, of Sorrows shored, of beautiful words and ilei tis that aro registered ubovo. You feel! O, how often do you feel that tho grave omi not keep lier. A totegram from Acion reports that tho steamer jod.dub, from Singnporo, foundered off Qunrdoui on the 8th with 053 pilgrims for Jcdduh. All on board perished, exocpt tho onptnin, bia wife, tho chief engineer, chief olllcor, an engineer and sixteen un lived, who were picked up and brought to Aden by tho sicamor Soindia. AlKlUSTA, August 12.-Tho first halo of new bolton was received hero to-day. U was raised nour .Silverton, S. C., by A. li, Barned uutl classed good middling. ?t Don't Pay. lt don't pay to havo fifty working men poor und ragged, in order to huvo ouc saloon keeper dressed in broadcloth and Hush of money. It don't pay to have tboso fifty working men live on bono soup mid half rations, in order that ono SJ.IOOU keeper may flourish on roust tut key and champagne. Iii don't pay to have tho mothers and children of twenty families dressed in rags, starved into the semblance of cumulated scarecrows, and livo in hovels, in order t li ut the saloon keeper's wile may dress in satin and ber children grow fat and hearty and live in a bow window parlor. lt don't puy to have ouc oitizon in the county jail because another citizen soils him liquor. it dou't pny to havo ono citizeu in tito lu o ut io asylum because another citizen sells bim liquor. lt don't puy to hung one cilizeu because QUOthor citizen sold him liquor. lt dou'c pay to huvo ten smart, active, on intelligent boys transformed iuto thieves to otmb'.o ouo mun to lead an easy lile by selling them liquor. lt dou't pay to give ouc mau, for $60 n quarter, liconse to sell liquor; nod then spoud $20,000 on triul of nnothor mau for buying that liquor and committing murder uuder its iufluonce. It don't pay to have one thousand homes blasted, ruined, defiled, and turned into hells, disoord uud misery, in order that one wholcsalo liquor dcalor may amass a lurgo fortune. lt dou't pay to keep men iu tho peniten tiaries and prisous ?nd hospitals, und in tho lunatic asylum, at thu expense of thc hon est, industrious taxpayers, in order that a few capitalists may grow lieber by tho manufacturo ot whiskey, and by swindling tho Government out pf th roo fourths of tho revenue tax ou liquor that thoy make, lt don't pay to permit tho oxistcnoo of a trutlio which only results in crime, povorty, misery and death and which ucver did, never does, never eau, aud never will do any good. It novar pays to do wrong; your siu will lind you out, whether others lind it out or not; tho Btu knows whore you aro, aud will ulwuya koop you posted of that toot. AN ARKANSAS) EXAMINATION. "Cap'n," said u colored man entering tho ollioe of a school examiner whoso skin was so blaok that to soo bim you would think bo had spent his lifo in boiling orowa for dissatisfied politicians-"Oap'u," repeatod thc visitor, lightly tupping ou tho door ousing. "Well, bah, what is hit?" "I has called arouud fur to ho eatnmonod. I ?3 u fobsessional teacher." "Did you know dat it is o mighty hot cross dat ia fit to stand uudor do range ob do batteries ob my knowlcge?" "Yns, Cap'n," said tho npplioant, "and being proud ob my 'oomplisbmont, I hez sought you instead ob goiu' afore do oticd dyeatcd whito 'f essor." "Yer action is dat of a wiso man and fur such wisdom I zibited in do very bud ob dc eddyoashun roses. Oh, I'zo flowery; I'll struct my secretary to tnako yer ono ob dc sheepskin uti tilt it ov knowledge. Dia am figurative. Wo'so all out ob sheepskins, ond hub subtit?ted coonskins, tanned by a Arkansas uiggor un ketohed by o fu mous justice ob de peace. Do hit stick you in tho stomach ob rooognaliou?" "Yas, Cap'n." "Wall, now to de zammination. Secretary, git down dat brass pen wid a dogwood holder an' fetch bit heall, for I, in do cor dunoo wid dem struotious, is gwiuc ter tote dis mun thro' tho new ground ob know ledge what do briaivi am thick and Who* dur's many u toe nail laying 'mung dc grubs. Now for do fust. Doea yer under stand jogufy?" "Oh, yossah, (lat's my holt." "What does yer know ob grammar? Keep your mouf opon for I is do eddycashun dentist zamminin' de teef ob yer larnin' "I cat up grammar liko a man hanlin greens." "What about do soiouoo ob phlegboto my?" "I ken walk all over dat seiooco on stilts." " What does yer know about metaphysics?" "De quilt ob my bod am patched with it." "Mister Secretary/' said tho oxauiiner, turning tu that functionary, "gin dis ?nan a double Btilikit. ltccommend him ter do people ns do ablest mun I has zammined dis yeah. Dar's yer papers, sab; an' re member dat do cloud ob eddyycashun am a black ono. A mau dat shows such famili arity wid science as you duz in bound ono day to put bis foot on a whito man's shoul? der, roach np and take do gown ob superi ority from de peg in do wo rd robo of life's great competition. Lot's soe, fivo dollars for do singlo endorsement aud fivo dollars and a half for do doublo endorsement. (Jimmy ten dollars." Thc money was cheerfully paid, and tho man with his blottod coonskin went out into tho world to cugngo in tho tournn mout of letter?. Judge Cooke declines being n candidate fora sont in tho Legislature, and gives as n rou9on for declining that ho finds there is a strong opposition to him in tho Democratic party in Grccnvillo and his oontinuiog in thc field may interioro with its unity. Tho Judge docs not say that ho will ooutinuo in tho Domooratic party, but only promises to work in tho futuro for what ho considers to bo tho interests of tho people. To us ho appears to bo occupying an indeliuito or doubtful position.-Union Tima. Tho Family Cow. Sho'a broad iu ber bips and lung ia ber rump, A straight and Hut back without even a hump. SIIO'B Wido in her lips and calm iu her eyes, She's lino itt her shoulder and thiu iu her thighs; Tho'a blight iu her neel; and small in her tail. She's wide in her breast uud good nt tho pail; She's lino in her bono and silky of skin, ?hu'o u graaiut without and a butohor with in. Tho ?State University ot Athens, Oa.f has received a singular endowment. Au cocontric geutlcman-non residout and not ott alumnus-bestowed by deed the sum of .37,OOO on tho University, coupling thc gift with tho condition that tho money should bc invested for and during tho lives of twenty ono persons, ail children, whoso names are given in tho deed, the interest to bo compounded annually till tho last ono dies, and twenty one years and nine months thereafter. Jt is culculuted that tho gift will not bo available for ninety six year?, ot which lime tho fund will amount to somo $1,700,000, Oakes Ames left th reo sons. They hovo published a letter in defence of their father, and insist that he was a purer and more honest than GurQold or any of tho seven or eight Cou grossman who received Credit Mobilier stools and thou lied aboutit. They show up tho meanness and cowardice of Garfield it) trying to save himself at tho expenso of tho mun who befriended him; Thoy oro all llepub?onns. It is no Demo cratic funeral. From returns received at thc census oOloo it is learned positively that no State iu tho Union shows a doorcaso in population. Throo counties in Vermont show a decrcaso which gave risc to tho report that the Stato had fallen bohiud; but full returns show tho population to bo 301,155, an incrcuscof about 4,000 since 1870. This is tho amulloat per cent, of iuorcosc reported from any Stnto. ST. LOUIS, August ll.-Charles ll. Tandy, president of tho colored relief board of this city, has advices that ten thousand ncgroca will emigrate from Mississippi nud Louisiana within thc next two months and will orri YO boro cu routo to Kansas and other Northorn States. About forty per day for tho past month have been cared for by tho rcliof board aud forwarded to their various destinations. NKW YORK, August ll.-Dr. T. Edgar Hunt, of Glengardon, N. J?, was robbed of $35,000 worth of St. Joseph Denver City lluilroad bomb last night by burglars, who broko into his houso and blew open a safe whero thc securities were kept, Ho was aroused by thc explosion, but beforo ho could reach tho safe room tho burglars had disappeared with their booty. Ono thou sand dollars reward offered for their appre hension. Instead of shut door.-; in liquor saloons on Sundays, tho new Massachusetts law now orders open windows nil day long. All ourtains, wooden soroons, stained glass, or ground glass doers and windows UlUSl uoiuu down or stand aside, so that everybody can seo what is going ou or what ?3 going down within. If Garfield's integrity is questioned, tho papers and leaders of his own party oro responsible lor it. It was a Republican Investigating Committee whioh branded him aa a perjurer; it was a liepublican County Committoo in his own Dir.irict, which asked him lo resigo and give placo to au honest man; and it was tho liepubli can press which detnauded his expulsion from Congress. Tho Southern negroes aro very much in tho dark as to who Garfield is anyhow. They know all about Grant and would havo rallied to him; but they knew nothing of Greeley or Sumner, and Garfield is tho worst conundrum they have ever had lo taeklo. They cannot cn th uso on him and will not vote for him. Ho is not ovou to them a wooden fetish. Tho National Dcmocrntio Committoo hus cheering reports from co many Statos that thc Republicans havo nothing left to theta but tho excuse for oonsideroblo desponding profanity-unloss their owu committee can nnnouuco themselves suro of tho samo Statos.-NctO York Herald. Tho Windsor cotton factory; N. C., uses two Clement Attnchmouts with a total working forco of seventeen hands. Itcosts $12.10 a day to run thc machines; whioh oarn &(H 20, loaviog a not daily profit of 822.10. _^_ You any thc Hancock boom is weakening, do you? Bloss your soul it has just bogun to gather momentum. At Waynesburg, Pa., thcro aro twonty-two old time, straight out Republicans who hove joined tho Hon oook Club. Rah! thrco times Rah! Tho now consus, it is thought, will givo South Carolina a total population of 950, 000, a gain in ton yonrs of noarly a quarter ' of n million. From tho composition of a young Japa ? nose utudent of English: "Tho oat ia ? small cattlo. Whvu ho sccs a rat ho lumi I natus his eyes."