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TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE, ANO IT MUST FOLLOW AS THE NIGHT TH E^ DAY, THOU CAN?'T NOT THEN BE FALSE TO ANY MAN' BY KEITH, SMITH & CO._ 7 WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH IO, 1881. VOLUME XXXII._NoTl7." The Country Boys. "The boya ?re omiting home to-morrow," Thus our rural hostess paid; Wliile Lou and I exohonged quiok glances, Full of mingled fear sod dread. Bad we hither come for quiet, Hither fled tho city's ooiso, But to chongo it for the riot Of those horrid country boys? Waking one with lond hallooing .... B ?r|y every summer's day, i?hooilug robins, tensing kittens, Frightening tho wrens awsy. * * * s> ? * * * I wrote these linea one happy summer; To-dHy 1 smilo to read them o'er, Remembering how with noxious faces Wo watched all day tho opening door. They como "tho boys," six feet in statue, Graceful, pasy, polished men; Ivowtd to Lou, behind my knitting, Do trust oo mol ber's word uga'o. For boyhood isa thing immortal, As each loud mother will agree; And sous are "boys" to her forever, Chungo as they may tu you and mc. Now by the window, still and sunny, Warmed by the rioh October glow, The dear old Indy waits and watches, Just as she waited years ago. For Lou and I uro now her daughters . We married ..those two country boys," In i-pito of nil our fiad foreboding About their uwuward wuya und noise. Lou pprirgs up to meet o footfall, 1 Hat no more for coming feet; Mother and I ure waiting longer .For steps oo Beulah's golden street. But when she blesses Lou's beloved, And seuls it with a tender siwa, I know that hiving word? go upward, Words to another world than this. Always she speuks in gentle fashion About '?my hoya"-?ho always will; Though ono is gray and one hus vanished Beyond tho reach of time or ill. Tho Wholesale Lynching in Ten nesseo* Of the lynching of tho sevco negroes in Tennessee on Friday, the following account ia given in u dispatch dated Suturduy: ..Tho 8herifl startid with his men, but wheo he reached tho door leading to the street he wus met by an armed mob of . bout two hundred tuen, who rushed upon him, presented pistols to l.is head, and seized thc colored prisoners. The sheriff wart ulioi ly powerless to prot?t them, and thu trembling wretches were surrouoded and f.eized almost before they roached tho door. Thc lights in iho court house were nil extinguished by order of tho lynchers, ?nd il,en tin y marched the negroes up the stairs to tho second s'nry, iu the front ol which thero ie u bu I coo y overlooking thc ftreci. The court room during this time Wits packed willi people who Iud been present al the trial, mid in order to intimi uate fn'i'W, thc lynchers find their pistols in the uir, makingu repon UK loud ai 'hough a regiment of iufuntiy hud shot off their rifled The mob hurried tho colored meu up tho stairs and out on the imlcouy. Nut a word was spulten except to give thu necessary ordern hy ilui leader of thc gang, When the balcony was reached ropes with nooses dtnehed were produced, ulid the nonces were qui. Hy thrown.over the heads of thu doomed ll.en und drawn tight enough lu prevent soy chunco of (heir slipping und released the victims. All tho negroes except Kider seem to have Leen paralyzed ihy the tiiht Mock of their enemies, und they submitted quietly end without a struct gio to thc Inhuman trtitmeut of th? lynchers Jume?, Elder fought hurd for hie life, bul he. was overpow< red in a mo ment. A do/en strung and determined Uicu pressed him down to tho floor, bound his hat du and his feet with ropes und then :8CiUr?d tho nta.se mound his neck Thc .five men were swung over tho bs loot? y nlmoat at thu sanie time, und left tu hung until lifo was extinct. The lynchers guur ?<)ed tho bodies until (hey were satisfied lhat every (nun wus dead, when tho leader gave the order, "Dinpcr?c men," und then, "deoendiog thc stairway in n solid column, tunde their way tu (heir horses, and gal loped oui of town in three different direc tions. When tho lynchers left Springfield they divided into three sections, going in differ ent directions. It is surmised that the wink of (benight hud not been computed, and thal Murphy and Duffy were to be added to the fivo O Tpses whioh wire swinging fio.ili the balcony of tho court house. Tili? Buruiiso was justified by (he r?v?lations of to duy. Ono of tho ponies rodo off iu tho direotlon of tho house where Laprsde was killed, near whioh it was known thst Mur phy and Duffy wcro roaming This, morn ing Duffy was found hanging to a troo on (he road to Laprado's house. A dctaoh incut of militia were supposed to bo on duty to gUutd tho lives of tho fivo men on Ulai, und this detachment gove a parado in front of tho court house just before dark lsst night. At sunset a heavy thunder storm set iu, and tho valiant troops, essum ing that tho lynchers wero as delicate as themselves, end would not risk a wetting, deserted their post w?) left tie pnsouors to their fate. I The crime, the aequol of which thus furnished wus OOO of tho roost brutal over perpetrated io this St*te, aud had its ' authors met their death vt the hands of tho law oo sympathy would have been | wasted on them. L. S. Laprade was a : woithv bachelor farmer, living on hi-? farm near Ssddlersvilio, about sovooteoo miles j from Springfield, and the impression wes j genet ul throughout the neighborhood that ho was very wealthy, Bud that ho kept a great deal of money < oncea led in bis house. UP lcd a sort of hermit life, ?nd tho report wus cur tent just before the murder that he sod bis brother had lallen heir to (9,000, his sliare of which he hud seoured und kept with him in his house. This rumor was the temptation to thc brutal murder which hus'just been expiated Oo thc nicht of September 8, 1880, oino negroes prowled around Ltpptde's house uotil they felt sure that uohudy but himself wus at home, ?od then approaching tho door oautiou*ly knocked. To Lt prado'sqnction ?s to who wanted him ono of tho negroes, imitating tho voioo of L ? prude's brother, surooeded in inducion thc farmer to open the door. Nu sooner had ho dime so ihtiu a rope wan thrown uround his neck and ho wus drugged out into the yard, where thc nine moo net upon him and kicked and pounded him without mercy demunding his money. He gave them 85 protecting that it wu H all the ninney which ho hud, but they refused tu tuku his word, und hanged him to a tree until ne?rU dtad. wheo they took him down uud ugaiu demanded money. Upon his eiving tho same unssvrr tiny hanged him again until lifo was nearly gone, and then failing togalo their purpose, they mutilated his budy in a shucking manner with knives, and dragged him about tho yard by the rope, which was fastened to his neck. Finally ono of thc brutes seized on un uxc in u fit of rago and -rushed thc skull of Laprude, thus mercifully putting au end to his misery Tho body was thc? hidden iii n thicket, but two duya after thc butchers removed it and threw it into u sink hole twenty feet d>-op. 1 .James, Is That You?" Women aro timid creatures, and hate to bu left in a house ulono nt night, so, wheo Mr (j a ll ag hot wi tit away from home, leaving his wife with oulv an iguor>i t servant, she was very uiueh worried, and readily hark eucd to the voice of an agent who culled just after Gallagher hud gone around the corner, sud wanted to sell her a machine which would.prevent burglars from gettiog ioto tim house. Shu bought three. Those placed ut tho front and huck doors were so arranged that, when thc door was opcucd, n hummer would strike down from above und knock dowu tho person trying to enter. A third contrivance of different pattern was placed on thc stuirs and another at thc trout window Gallagher unexpectedly re turned late that night, and, utleuiptiug to enter tho front dour, got a blow on the nose that knocked 'dm down the nteps into thc street. Ho was both surprised and annoyed at thc circumstance, and, utterly unable tc understand it, tried tho door itguin. Sume re.-ult. lie thou thought somebody was behind the door trying to assassinate him, und, getting up very mud, run around to the back door to get ia (hut wuy. Then ho got u thump that sent him back into the swi'l- Dariel, uud.he was terribly oross when ho got Up. ile grabbed un NX,! and, as bc opened tho door again struck with it. Hui he hit nobody, und gut another knocl; down. Then be went und got. a police mun KO that ono could lae lt le ouch door, sod one bu sure to get in; but ufter both had en joyed three knock-downs they met sud compared notes, nod decided that two dieri must t o m the house. They then tried the front wintlow, and, raising if, u deluge ol ioy watfr from a hose arranged to bring it flew upon them. Hm they braved thai and got in Then they runnucked tho lowei patt of the house, but could lind nobody and meantime Mrs. G., up stuirs, hear' them, and nearly diid of fright. Thej stinted up - stairs, G 11 higher first, mid cou tho top n alair, fixed ou H pivot, rolHd undo Gallagher and hurled him backward, and hi went to the bottom, taking the policemut with him. Tliey loth yelled, hut Gal lng he yelled tho loudest, und his wife recognize? Iiis voice and his fuvotite oath Her cour age returned She wont to thc head o tho stairs nod cr'n d: '-James, is that you?' ."lames was painfully hurt und awful ina? then, and the policeman was trying! to L'?'> hack tho breath Gallagher hud ?qonalu-t out of him. ..Nu," cried James. ''UV no tue; it's sumo other fellow. Jim G illa..'he wus never knocked down -?venteen time in one night!" Hut she knew it wus ho, uni explained matters. And then Gullaghc gavo thc policeman 810 to say mithin) about tho matter, ?nd thc officer retired and then Gallagher jawed his wife for twi houri), and the next day went seven utile to ovcrtalto the mut) who sold her tho ma chines and'kicked the life nearly out of him Ile admits that tho t hines would bc dtcud tully discouraging to a burglar though. [Botson Post. Bradstreet's Chnrlstnn corresponden writes "That cotton factories will pay ir tho South can scarcely bo doubted, wboi the monagomont IR skillfull and eoonomieu and tho situation favorable Thar, it ii .oheapor to bring tho mills lo the eottoi than to sood tho cotton to tho mill, i proven by tho foot that tho cotton mill now in oporatioo in this Ststo and Georgi will pay from twelve to fifty por cont, divi (lends Moreover, tho wholo of tho oapi tal investcted io manufactures io this ot it ia exempted from State, oouoty sud maota ipsl hntioa for ten yeir?." Poor Pay, Poor Teach. [From ibo Columbia Regis tor-J Pay for good toaohora and you'll get them. Starvo out your touchera ?vito thrco mouths' salary to support thom for twelve months in tho year aod what right has a roo8enablo being to ezpeot first class servioo? It is like eomo business houses that turn off their dorks whon business is dull, and expect to whistlo up cfiiuient service whoo it is wnuted. All this sort of means do feats itself io tho long run, for tho mao who has not tho huck bon o to do the clover thing in a rn ooh will bemoan as tho mouin est with opportunity, aod it don't tako tho people long to track him by his known footprints. But tho meanest of all things is to cheat tho poor children of tho Stute out of the means of getting an eduoatiou whilst we are going through tho motion of a grand school system. Wo Buy to tue people of tho State, if you i want these children educated havo the manliness to toot tho bill. Aod if not, at hoist hsvo the pluck to say so. \V? be licvo there is but ouo wish in tho Stute as to this mutter, and that thc people aro per fectly willioe to pay for good, well managed Keim?ls. There aru u plenty of good touchers in the S'uto who om give our children tho best of eduoation, without a single monkey show in it. That ts what we want Mid will Inve, and what th" Register proposes to fight for to tho end of tho chapter, or go dnWn with tho motto at its masthead: Education to all, in tito best and most enduring interest of alli ? Cold Blooded Murder. In Abbeville county, iu thc night of February 18, Caroline Farrow, a colored wjuim. was shot through a crick of a house hy, says tho verdict of the Coroner's jury, Win. Ree Martin. Tho accused and his brother, J Cambell Martin, assert his innocence. Speaking of tho murder, the Abbeville Press and Banner, suya: . If the Governor will let people who muy be contemplating cold blooded murder, know that tho power of the State would bc brought against, them it is fuir to presumo that crime? of this kind would be fewer. In uo county have wc had a greater nutn. ocr of cold blooded murders than in Abbe ville. Thc Harmons, tho Fmnklius, Wm. Maddux, and now Caroline Farrow-uti murdered in cold blood, whilo in their owu houses. J For years thc juries of Abbeville have been cxo'cdinglv lenient toward persons charged with climes agaiust tho person, and wo ore now reaping tho evils of that sickly sentimentality whioh shrinks from mooting out a just pualihiucnt for oriruo." DON'T UK EDITORS.-Tho following is from Cul. P. Don?n's address befnro tho Arkansas Press Association: ''Roys of my audienco, bright-faced, aspiring youth, hingiug for tho shortest und quickest road to fume cud fortune, hear a autumn adjura tion, and lo famed in time. Never bo editors-everybody's pecking blocks, orea til?n'0 Roapegouts uud sway bucked mules. Deadhead tieke.ru lo circuses, dog shows und festivals [paid for ut tho ruto of a twenty fivo dollar notice to a twenty five cent ticket J-all very will in their way; und daily boqueta from the girls who want to i?et their iiuinos in the papers, with thc* ?beautiful and sooomnlishcd' formula swung to them ure 'just toooharming lor anything.' Rut do not let them lead you into that dingy den ot inky horror, tl ead mill labor and squandered opportunities, burlesquingly known ai tho editorial fanciUUl. Stand back. Keep ont. Re toiotbbioks. ohimncy sweeps, penitentiary birds, or members of thu umuiao menagerie that meets in thu gorgeous white *i-polohrc of a Capitol at Washington, Ru mud clerk on a emil burge, deck hands iu a tripe foolery, brake man no a ennui boat, engineers of a one donkey power canal boat, dairyman with riged ox and two he goats ns your stock io trade, servant girl in a poor house or orphan asylum. Ro stock gmnbteis, railroad di rectors, presidents nf a sausage studing machine, rag venders, charcoal haw loin, or policy spuming Sennior8-but never, nu never, bo editors. Nevor bo oven one edi tor, for half u ono is three quarters too much for soy well regulated family to have about tho house." TREATMENT OF DIPHTHERIA, Tako from two tn live |M tins of chlorate ot potash, put it fur hack ? ti th? tongue, allow it to melt gradually, and repent ?'very hour until n decided impiovitinent lukes place, which is usually in a few hours. One of 'ho best plans of treatment ?H the following: Chlo rate of pota.s-i i, 2 drachms; hot water, 6 ounces; alcohol, 4 drachm^ crcofioto, 8 drops; murintio uoid, 30 drops. This is to bc used HS a ?arglo every thirty min utes Internally using the following: Chlorate nf POIHBHO, 8 drachms; water, ? onuses; sugar, 1 ounce; tinctum of tn uri alio uoid, 2 drachms Dose-a teaspoonful every four hours. It is claimed that tho obove treatment will ourj ninetcon oases out of twenty. PORT ROYAL, S C., Mardi 1.-The Man* ton House at this plnoo was burn 3d at 2 o'clock this morning. Loss $10,000, cov ered hy insurance. The tiro originated nooidcntully. Tho wind being westerly at tho time saved tho town from destruc tion Tho court house at Beaufort, S: O , WAS d OM troy o-I by Aro this nioroiug. The records wore saved. Tbo loss is estimated st $5,000. ?dvice at Random. lief uro that borrowed buok or umbrella straightway, aod don't attempt to tell why you havo not done it before. Tbero is oo moral obligation biodiog you to lot everybody you talk with know wheo you were 'iu college;' in fuot thore is DO need of saying anything about yourself beyond what is strictly accessary tn be civil or potito. Piesse don't throw iuto tho ohuroh treasury timi piece of money you know people aro unwilling to take-put iu some thing current. Take spoci.il core of that borrowed horao and buggy-but this you will do without tolling, unless you aro a shabby fellow. Moot that business man at tho timo and place you promised, end don't como up be hind time pu th og and blowing with an exouso whioh you know is not all tho truth. if you must spit on tito floor, spit right down by your own feet or* hut-nob off yonder io soother's neighborhood. Don't do all thc talking; let eomo others hove a ohaiico to toll how muoh-or how little they know. Don't liok that borrowed lead pcnotl, nor put it in your pocket after using it, or you will bo almost sure to forget to give it hnok. It's a dirty habit to liok a lead ponoil st all, whether it belongs to a friend or to yourself. Don't look so ? our and frowny bcoauso that child erica, while you endure so res pectfully that bluekguurd and profane fellow on tho next seat to you. Be us polite to the pnnr pcoplo os to the rieb, and tho rich people that hove good 8CDS0 will think moro of you-if that's what you uro aftor.- Christian Neighbor. MEN, WOMEN AND SUICIDE-MOD are everywhere becoming moro woary of the burdens of lifo. Authorities on sani tation and vital statistics tell us thut of lato years life, thc average human lifo, has been considerably prolonged by grouter attention to the tucutiR of preserving health; yet, coueurrcnt with this improvement, there ore u greater impatience of lifo itself and a greater desiro to esoupc its burden. Wo men aro less prone to commit suicide in Europe thnu men, and extensive investiga tion ot) tho subject hus convinced Signor Morsclli that tho tcrdenoy to suicide in creuses with ago moro strongly among the unmarried and widowed than among the married of both sexes. Tho following table curiously illustrates this fiot: Among u million of persons of each cluss ia Eu rope, uencrully, in so far as tho returns fumbled him lo com puro them, tho fellow ing numbers committed suicide: Mnrried moo with children 205 M irried men without children 470 Widowers'with children 526 Widowers without ohi'drcn 1,004 Married women with children 45 Married women without children 158 Widows with children 104 'A idows without childron 238 Women cling to lifo muoh moro strongly thuu men, und that under the most wretch ed conditions. A childless widow would uppeurto bo far moro desolate in tho world thun a widower similarly situated; yet she bears her loneliness better-doubtless from her religious restraints, or from possessing a n larger mcasuro of thut hopo which springs eternal in thc human brennt. i Contemporary Review. C. J. STOLBKAND VERSUS D. WYATT AIKEN-Oe), Orville T Calhoun, a promi? neut member of the Abbeville bur, w is iu thc city yesterday on his return home from ut tend-inee in Coonee aud Pickens coun ties us counsel for tho defendant in the above case Col Calhoun gives tho follow ing statement of the stutus quo: lo Rich land und Newberry counties tho examina non of witnesses proved unsatisfactory to thc Stoibrand sido aud a reexamination ut both these points is to be held. Col. Cal bot?n has, however, no apprehension that this second attempt will prove any moro Mi'-oc.'stul than the former The testimony taken in Piokens and Oconco Counties amounted to nothing In Abbeville county the testimony dicked was more satisfactory lo tho Stolbrand p<rty, but its rebuttal under- the fire of cross examination very heavily di-o<>untcd its value. Col. Calhoun has information from u trustworthy source lint Stulbnind'a main uflort ti w IR to obtain sufficient evidence to secure more lime, his ultimaiu purpuso being to get uHid <vits from every individual voter in tim cuugrcsaiun9l district how he voted. No apprehension is entertained of thc unsuating of Col. Aiken. Col Evins has no ooo test* nt, but tho opinion generally, says Col Calhoun, is that Messrs. Richardson, ninan aod O'Connor will ?ose their pents, [Greenville News, Hd. Grant's name, and all tho oppliunoes thus far unod to induce subscriptions to thc prepared world's fair in N?w York, appoar to bo insufficient to Roonro "tho needful." Only ono-third of tho SI,000,000 required for a legal begining has thus f r been obtained. At lea-it 84,000 000, it is said, will bo required for tho buildings alono. TUB BANK UOBBE?Y CASE.-Mr. G. Frazer Wilson, tho man who robbed tho First National Bank of Charleston last week of something over ten thousand dollars in bonds, has had his bond reduoed from ?10 000 to $200. This was dono by JudgO Mickey, mainly on tho enrtifionto of his attending physician that ho not boon io bis right mind forsomo tinto bofovo tho robbory was comtttsd. A TRUTHFUL MAN.-A flat footed, old fashioned Weotero merchant, hailing from a country storo io Michigan, was buying stock in Now ?ork, aod the Arm took advantoge of tho oooasioo to make inquiries concerning some of their oustomers around him. Wheu tho; asked about Smith, of Ganhville, he replied: "Smith ! Yes, ho's in trade yet, but he's just married a second wife, and she's going through bis woalth Uko saltpeter. Ho'll fuil in less'o six mouths. "How about Jones, of your town?" "Jones! Well, Jooes is pegging along ofter tho old style, aod ho's bought him a bioyole, aod everybody soys ho'll go to tho wall in a year." j "And Brown & Sou-aro they all j right?" "Brown & Soo? Wall, they may keep till spriog, but I doubt it. Old Brown has got so near-sighted that ho can't tell a sheep pelt from ? cooa skia, and tho boy is dead stuok oo a widow woman who never wears anything less than 86 BtookiDgs." . ''But Davis is doing a good trade, isn't he?" "Davis! Wall, pooty fair, but ho won't last. He rooted the uppor part of his store to a Chicago milliner, and abo broke up two families and caned a preacher. Everybody blutucs Davis, and his sales last week only footed up a pound of saloratus and a wash board." "Well, you aro tho only customer out there, and of course, you are all right?" "Me! Wall, I'm all right just now, but things may change. My wife belongs to three literary societies and is tho big toad at church festivals, while I've bought a 2:40 trotter and learned to play old sledge You needn't bo surprised any day to hoar that 1'vo been bunted from garret to cellar; so clean that creditors oan't find enough dry goods to wipo a baby's nose OD." - - ? m - IMPORTANCE OF WATERING STOCK.-For thc purpose of de termining the capacity of a horse to undergo the privations incident to a state of seige, a series of ex periments lias been made in Paris. The results show that a horse may hold out for twenty-five days with out any solid nourishment, provid ed it is supplied with good drinking water; that a horse can subsist for barely live days without water; and thirdly,, if a horse is well fed for ton days, but insufficiently supplied with water throughout this period, it will not outlive the eleventh day. A horse which had received no solid nourishment for twelve days was nevertheless in a condition to draw a load of 600 pounds on the twelvth day of its fast. The House of Representatives o? Arkansas has adopted a joint resolution, by a vote of 66 to 17, proposing an amendment to the Constitution prohibiting tho sale of liquor in thc State. Thc Senate of that Stato has adopted a joint resolution, by 18 to 5, settling tho proper pronunciation of the name of tho State-they say it is Arkansaw. The recent heavy storms in the stock regions of the wost havo caused the death by cold or starva tion of thousands of cattle. An observer in ono case counted 500 dead cattle in sight of the railroad track for a distance of only nine teen miles. A sensible writer, who knows how it is, says: "How often it is tho "wet spell and the "dry spell" get thc credit of bringing about short crops; when tho "lazy spolP ' and the "extravagant spell'' had as much to do with the short crop ns the weather did. Apply tho rem edy this year. Begin to econo mise-bul don't begin by stopping your paper and feeding your preacher on "husks." Before tho Legislature of West Virginia aro tho signatures of about 19,000 people, representing every part of tho State and every variety of religious creed and faith, appended to petitions praying for the submission to the people of an amendment to tho State constitu tion forovor prohibiting the manu facture and sale of intoxicating liquors except for medicinal, me chanical and scientific purposes. An old oolorcd preaohcr was leoturiog a youth of his fold on tho sin of danoing. when tho latter protested that tho Biblo said ? that there was s time to danoo. "Yen, dsr I ar s timo to danoo," said the dusky theolo J cito, "sn it's whoo a boy get6 a wMprli' i for goto' to a bail." -. agaa. a t. -mae B. F. Crayton, a State Senator of South Carolina, about five years ago got a man and his wife froni Castle Garden to work on his farms in Anderson county. The ne*ct season ho brought out their chil dren, and eight other immigrants from Germany. The following season lie brought out fifteen or twenty othor families. He has at Kresent about twenty of them in is employment, and there are, perhaps, as many moro working for his neighbors. He says they are tho very class needed in South Carolina, and there is room for thousands of them. If in asserted that noter from 1809 to 18.80 has Illinois had a Governor, oithor elected or appointed, who was born in that State. While tho vor j young daughter of a courin try clergyman was playing in the garden one day a stranger came along and inquired if her father was at homo. -'No," she replied, "but my motlier is ia the boase, and she will pray with you, you poor, miserable sinner." Cardinal Manning forbids the Catholic priests of Eoglsnd to oat pudding at dion nor, and to smoko cigars after it, and tollt thom that bread, meat aod vegetables er? alt they need; aod whatsoever is more tbto these teodoth to gluttony There aro two ways that will oure the worst memory. Ooo of them is to read a subject whoo interested; the other is no? only to road, but to think. Whoo you hayo road a paragraph or a pago, stop, oloso th? book aod try to remember the ideas of the page, aod not only call them vaguely to mind, but put them io words aod speak them out.. Faithfully follow these two rules nod you will have tho golden keys of knowledge. Tho Oregon systom of liquor lioeneca ta being urged for trial io Boston. Under ic the bayer, not the seller, is obliged to pro euro a license. Objection is msde to the. plan OD account of tho groat number of licenses that would hove to be issued sod lookod aftor, while friends of the measure think it would debar from tho Baloons many chronic drinkers, who have got the money and respectability requisite to seonre a license. There ?re como very straightforward, peoplo in Galveston. Ooo of thom went up ioto the News office, and sauntering up to the desk, asked; "I heir that tho Biblo has been revised; Do you koow of soy important changes' that hove boco made?" , "A good many, I believe." "Then, thero is DO mistako about Ana nina being struck dead for lying?" .?No, I believe oot." "Well, if I was you I would find ont about it," aod be strolled out as unoon ooroedly ss you please. The following anecdote is told of .Tudgo Abbott, ooo of the uicmders of the House s Investigating Cammitteo which wont to South Carolioa: 41 Wheo ho was ib Charles ton he asked the old darky at work io his room what mado him so slow about build ing tho fire. Tho reply was: Fact is Judge, dar is no coal dowo stairs, l'se been up' and dowo tho alloy, and itolo all the wood I could find, and in tho present demoralized, condition of foctety 1 can't do no better.' '* Io ao oration Oo "Fools" a celebrated wit onco delivered himself as followe: In a gutter I saw a pig; io the other a somblaooo of a mon. Tho pig was sober, tho mao was drunk* The pig had a ring io his oose, tho the Other animal had ono OD his finger. The pig grunted, so did tho mao; end I said aloud, "wo arc known by the company we keep," aod tho pig hoard me sod walkod away, ashamed to be seen in th? company of a drunk man. ARITHMETIC BY INVERSE RATIO. "John, tako this slato, you rssoal, aod work out this sum: If a oat falls in into a woll sixty foet deep and crawls out six. feot each day, falling baok eight feet every night, how muoh time would the oat require to got out of tho well? John sot to ciphering and covered both sides of his slate with figures; then, plac ing ooo edge of the slate on his knees sod resting his ohio oo tho othor, ho gazed into vacancy* "Welt, Jobo, how about the oat? "Father, I ain't got no more room ob my slate, but if I hsd soother square I'd have that oat io h-1 io throe minuto?." ? Test suits have boen brought I against tho city of New Orleans for damages to private property by reason of tho late overflow . Wo wondor that none of tho InLnZ haditants of tho antediluvian worlj- N^ ever brought suit against NoiCots for tho destruction of their prof.T* erty. ^?r. A tidal wave of tempero nco enthusiasm is passing over Norifcv Carolina* /"