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-issn.. TO THINE OWN SELF RE TRUE, AND IT MUST FOLLOW AS THE ^3N^H| SV, KEITH, SMITH & CO. 5? di ?iii ?. '..(.:." ., .;: ( . . .,. rTTr.r.1 -IM .II ? T II - a ? NIGHT THE DAY, THOU CANS'T NOT THEN BE FALSE TO ANY MAN-. THE FOR 1881. NOW IS THE TIME TO SUBSCRIBE. KEITH, SMITH As CO. PUBLISHERS. SUBSCRIPTION ONE YEAR, $1.50, IN ADVANCE. Church Directory for 1881. LUTHBRAN CBUROH-Preaching every Sunday moro inp; io Germon at 10} o'clock by Rev. Wm. Pili. Sunday Behool at 9 A. M. PuEsnvTEiuAN CHURCH-At Walhalla -Hov. 8. L. Morris, Pastor-First Sabbath at ll A M.; second Sabbath et 7 P M ; third Sabbath at ll A. M. and 7 1*. M.; fourth Sabbath at 7 P. M. Sabbath Sohool evory Sabbath at Qi A. M. Prayer weding evory Wednesday evening at 7 P. M. Richland Cburoh-Preaching every second and fourth Sabbaths at ll A. M. BAPTIST CHUROH-Preaching every Accord and fourth Sundays and on Saturday beforo tho second by the pastor, Rev. G. H. Carter. Sunday sohool overy Sunday morn ing at DJ A. M. Prayer mooting overy Thursday night, at 7} o'clock. SBNKOA CITY CIKCUIT-(Methodist) - Rev. W. A. Hodges, Preacher in Charge Preaohing at Old Piokens on tho first Sun day at ll A. M. Second Sunday ot Seneca City at ll A. M. and at Friendship at 8 P. M. Third Sunday at Rock Springs at ll A. M. Fourth Sunday at Fairview at ll A. M. Every fifth Sunday at Friendship at ll A. M. METIIOJ>I8T -. WALHALLA. CIRCUIT RCT. C. D. Mann, Preaoher in Chargo Preaching at Center Churoh on the first Sabbath at 10 A. M.; Westminster at 8 P. M. On tho second Sabbath at Jnoasaee at 10 A. M.; at Whitmiro's at 8 P. M. Third Sabbath at Double Springs at 10 A. M. Fourth Sabbath at Walhalla at ll A. M. and 7 P. M.; at Ooonee at 8 P. M. At Hopewell on Saturday before the- first Sabbath in eaoh month and on the fifth Sabbath. Prayer niectinjx at tho Walhalla Methodist Churoh every Wednesdoy evep ?np at 7 P. M. Sunday Sohool at 9} A. M. every Sabbath morning. ? Bachelor's Life. A bachelor's lifo is merry and free, His heart is oot shrouded with care; Ho liss no children climbing his kneo, And equalling and crying out ''Pa." But his deva roll on like a pleasant dre nm, And are calm as a summer's suy, , And serenely ho glides down timo's hasty stream 'Till thc springs of his lifo aro dry. He has no wife who uses sweet words, Who calls him "my dear" ?od "my hoopy," Who warbles her voice like the song of the birds, Whenever-she wants any money; Who kisses and hugs him aud says "my love, I wart a now bonnet and dio?s;" And thus it gnos on till tho benedict finds Ho has gut in a terrible mess. Dut a bachelor's lifo is untrammeled and freo, As the greatest of earthly kine.*, While the married mun must his wife obey, And pac1' up and bo off to tho springs. And while thc old bachelor's laughing in glee, And busking in pleasure's smile, Thc married .mao is called by a voice "My dear take oaro of this child." Then the bachelor's life is tho life for mo, Io this Sorrow clad sphere of ours; I wish to wander untrammeled and free And tasto eon h's bouutiful flowers. Let others neck to repose in bli?s 'Neath the shado of thu marriage tree; But give me, in a world like this, A bachelor's lifo so freo. "If We Knew." If we knew, when walking thoughtless, Through tho crowded, noisy woy, That some pearl of wondrous whiteness ClooO beside our pathway lay, We would pause, where now wo hasten, We would chou look around, Lest out careless feet should trumplo, . Somo raro jewel io thu ground. If we knew what forms wcro fainting, For the shadow we should fling. If wo knew whet lips woro parching For tho water we should bring, Wo would haste with eager foutftcps, We wruld work with willing hands, Bearing oups of cooling water, Planting rows of ?budy palms. If wo knew where genius struggled, Through the weary nights and days, Seeking for some word of comfort, Little word of hope or praise Doughs of balm and loaves of laurel Wo would placo within their hands: Little deeds, with pleasant meaning, Hungry hearts can understand. If wo knew what feet wero weary, Climbing op tho bills of pain, By tho world cast out as evil, Poor, repentant Magdaloncs-< Nevermore with haughty gesturo Would wo drive them from our sido, Wrapping close our robes around us, With a Pharisaic pi ido. If wo know when frionds around ns, Closely press to say "Good-bye," Which, among tho lips that press us, * First should 'neath tho dasios Ho We Would olosp our armi around thom, Looking at thom through our toara; Teodor words, of love eternal, Wo would whisper in thoir ears. If wo knew what lives wore darkened By some thoughtless work of ours, Whioh had over lain upon them Liko the frost nunong the flowers Oh, with what sincere repentinus, With what anguish ot regret, Wbiio our eyes were overflowing, Wo would ory, "FORGIVE! FORGET!" Tho "Hard Shell" Sermon. "TUB HARP or A TIIOUSAND STRINGS." Tho following is the old "Hard-shell sermon, whioh first appeared somo 28 years ago in a New Orleans paper and had for years afterward tho run of tho press of tho conni ry. It has not been tho rounds, how-, ever, for a dozen years or so. The locality of tho sermon is supposed to bo at a village oo. trte bank of the Mississippi Uiver, to whioh tbe person who ddt in tho commodities of the country os well as preached to tho rural congregations, has brought his flatboat for purposes of trade: I may say to you, my brethriog, that I am not an edioated man, an' I am not ooo of them as believes thst. cd ?oution is neces I sury for a gospel minister, for I believe tho Lord edioutes his preachers just BB he wants ,cm to be odioatod; an' although I say it that oughtn't to say it, yot in the Stute of Indianoy, whero I live, thar's no man as gits bigger congregations nor what 1 gits. Thar may bo. somo hero to doy, my broth* ring, ss don't know what pesuasion ? om uv. Well, I must say to you, my broth ring, that I am a Hard Shell B>ptist. Thar's some folks as don't like tho Hard Shell Baptists, but Vd naher havo a hard shell than no shell at al!. You seo mo here to day, my brethriog, dressed up in floe doilies; you mout think I was proud, my brethriog, and although I've been a pro? oh cr of tho gospel for twenty years, an' though I'm cupting of thc flat boat that lies at your lauding, I'm not proud, my brethring. . I am not going to tell edziotly whar my tex may be found; suffice it to say it's in the leds of the Bible, and you'll find it somowhnr between tho first chapter of the book of Generations, an' tho last chapter of Revolutions, an' as you'U not only find mino thar, but n great many other texes, as will do you good to road, sud my tox, when you shill find it to read thus:. "An* ho played on n harp of a thou sand strings-sperits of jest mon mado perfeok. My tex, my brethriog, leads mo to speak of sperits. Now, thar's a great many kinds of sperits in the world-io tho fuss plooo, thar s tho Bperits as somo folks call ghosts, ond thur's tho sperits of turpentine, and thar's thc sperits as some folks call liquor, and I've go' ns good ?n mukle of them kind o' speri'8 on my flat boat us ever was fetched duwn tho Mississippi River; but thar's a great many other kinds of aporits, for tho tex puya, "Hophiyod on a harp of thousand strings, sperits of jest mou made perfeok " But I'll tell you the kind of spouts meant m tho tex is Gre. That's tho kind of sperits as is meant io ibo tex my breth ring. Now, thar's a groat uiimy kinds of fire in tho world. In thc fuss place, thor's common kind of fire you light your cigar or pipe with, un* thur's foxfire or eau,lire, fire before you're ready, and firo und full back, and many other kinds of fire, for the tex says, ''He played on a hurp uv a thou sand .strings, sperits of jest mun made pcr feck." But I'll tell you tho kind of firo as is meant in tho tex, my brethring-it's hell fire, an1 that's tho kind of fire you'll como to ef you, don't do better nor you have beon doiog'-fur ''Ho played on a hurp of a thousand strings, sperits of jest men made perfeok" Now, thc different sorts of firo in the world m y bo likened unto tho different persuasions of Chmthios in the world. In tho first pince wo have Pisospuliona, on' they aro a high sailin'an' high falutin'set, an' they may bo likened unto a turkey buzzard that flics up into tho air, and he g -es up und up till he looks no bigger than your finger nail, und the fust thins: you know he comes down and down and is M - fi 111 J ' himself on tho ourkiss of a dead boss ty tho side of the road, and "He played on a harp of a thousand strings, sperits of jost mon made perfeok." And thar's tho Methodists, at d they may bo likened unto a squirrel running up into H tree, for the Methodist believes in gwine on from ono degree of grano to woollier, ?nd dually lo perfection, and the squirrel goes up and up and up und.up and ho jumps i rom limb to limb, and from brm eli to brandi, and tho fust thing you know be fulls an' down ho comes kerflumix, an' that's liku tho Methodic, for they is allers fallin' from grnco, ah, and "Ile played on a hurp uv a thousand strings, spcritr of jest men mado porfeok." Aod then, my brethren, thar's tho Bap tist, ah, and thoy huvo boon likened unto a possum on a eimmon trco, and thunders may roll and the earth may quake, but that possum clings thar still, ah, and you moy shake ono foot loose, and tho other's thar, and you may shako all feet looso and he lops his tail around the limb, and olinga forever, for "He played on a harp uv a thousand strings, sperits of jest men mado porfeok." Tho coercion bill is being applied in Ireland,'mid sovoral additional arrests have been mado. ? ?. -W- ? Mm. v . a.. . ^, j .Tg= A Disheartened Inventor? It Tras io a smoking osr ou tho Hudson Ki vor road, t New Yorker was ox Iii bi tin g su in vontion t > sovorul ge.otlomsp, when SO old farmer, with a Bettlcd look of sadoessoo his foco, heaved.a sigh aod said: ?[ never soo such tilings without wanting to weop." "Nothing nbout the invention to weep ovor that I cnn seo," replied tho inventor. "Wall, it ?ort o' oalls up old recollections. Twenty yearS ego this mooth I thought I hod a fortuue io my grasp. Yos, sir; X believed I had struok the biggest thing nineo steam was brought toto uso." "What was it?" "One day whoo the old woman was flat dowo with her lome leg I had to cook my own dinner. After I'd got tho pancake batter all fixed up I oouldo't find the groused rag tho old woman used to rab ovor the spider. Sort of absent-miodod Uko, I picked up a pioco of raw turnip aod usad it instead. It worked to a oharm; DO stool), no Smoke, DO stick." He paused here to wipo away a tear, and thoo continued: "There.was a fortune.. I figured that 9,000,000 greased rags were io uso in this country nioo months iu the yoor. Fifty thousand barrels of grease were used up greasing bpiders. Ovor $100,000 wasted aod gone. One turnip would make six greasers-1,000 bushels would moko ooough to supply the oouotry. All that was needed was to out them out io fancy style, affix a handle, and go to supplying tho demand at tcu cents each." "Thef? was money io it?*' "No, thero wasn't. I bought 100 bush els of turuips, $06 worth of wire, and hired two mon to go to work, and thoo I took 8omo greasers aod went over into .Vermont to seo how it would take. They wouldn't have it. They had something more simplo and muoh oheapor." "WhBt oould it have been?" "They spit on the spider," replied the old utan, aa a tear tnado a break down his nose and was swallowed up in tho dust on tho floor.-Exclutnge. Co naci?n co Makes Cowards. An amusing story has just been published by a contemporary, concerning an iooideot which ooourred not long ago in ono of thc mountain counties of Northern Georgia. It should bo premised that tho State of Geor gia hos a vory stringent law forbidding its citizens' to carry pistols upon nain of for* felting tho weapon and paying a fine of fil ty dollars or beiog imprisoned for thirty days. Shortly after tho passage of this enactment, Judge Lester was holding court in u little towo, when suddenly ho suspended tho trial ot tho case by or-iering tho sheriff to lock tho doors of tho court-houso, so that no ono could m ?.he his egress from it. "Gentlemen," said tho judge, when thc door was ulosed, "I luve just seen a pistol on a mau in this room, und ? cannot recon cile it with my senso of duty as a peace officer to let such u violation of tho law pass un nollucd. I ought, perhaps, to go before tho grand jury and indict thc man; but, if that mun wiil walk up to thin stand and lay his pistol and a Hoc of ono dollar down herc, I will let him off this timo." Tho judge paused; aud au attorney, sitting just beforo him, got up, Blipped his hand into a hip-pocket, drew out u cent ivory huudlcd six shooter, uod ?aid it and a dollar down upon tho stand. "This is all right," baid thc judge, "but you aro not tho man that I saw with tho pistol." Upon this another attorney rose and laid down a Colt's revolver and a dollar bill before the judgo, who repeated his former observation. Thc process went on, until nineteen pistols of ult kinds, and sizes, nnd shapes lay upon tho stund, together with nineteen dollars hy their side. Tho judge luughed as ho com plimented tho nineteen delinquents upon being mon of business, but added that the tuan whom he had seen with tho pistol had not yet como up, and, glancing to tho far sido of tho oourt, he continued, "1 will give him ono minuto to accept my proposi on, und if ho fails I will hand him ovor to tho sheriff." Immediately two men from tho buck part of thc court roso nnd began to roovo towards tho judge's stand. Onco they stopped to look ut each other; nnd then, coming slowly forward laid down their pistols and their dollars. As they turned their books tho judgo said, "This man with tho black whiskers is tho ono that I originally saw." CONCERNING AN ADVERTISEMENT.-The Early County News has this tosuy. Cotn tuoul is unnecessary: We hiivo often sug gested to merchants tho importance, of keeping a business card standing io their loon I papor all tho limo. Such a curd they ?houlJ no moro think of taking out of their piiper than they would think of toking down a sign ia froutof their Store, or allowing their insurance policy to ruo out. This idea was brught to mind by spending some time, tho other evening, in looking in tho Telegraph and Messenger for tho oard of one of tho leading dry goods houses in M ocr, n and failing to got tho stylo of tho firm from o singlo sontcnoo io the papor. R'ATj?TdH, March 10.-At lost night's session of tho North Carolina Legislature st 12 45 A. M., tho IIouso passed the Sen ate bill prohibiting tho sale or purohr.se of any spiritous liquors except wino under heavy penalties. Tho oct ooforocs total abstinence. It is to bo submitted to tho pooplo for ratification io August, tod if adopted by a popular voto will go into offcot on tho first day of October. Texas has poised a prohibition bil! HERKDITAUY DESCENT Ov BEAUTY. j Mr. Darwin believes that the gen oral beaut? of tho English tipper olaas, tod espeo?ally of the tittod arl*tooraoy, ii probably. dno to their constant aolcotion of the mott beautiful women of ali daeae* (peeresses, aetrsstoi or wealthy bourgeoise) as wi vea through an itntneuoe numbor of g?n?rations. Tbe re? gular features ?od toe complexion of the mothers ero naturally .bended down by horeditaty to their descendants. Similarly, it would seem that wo must nooount for the high average of personal beauty among the eooiont Qreeks and the modern Italians by thc high averogo of general taste, the strong love for the beautiful diffused among all classes of both those races. The prettier women and tho handsomer men would stand a better ohanoo of marrying, other things equal, and of handing down their own re flood type of faeo and figure- to their obit droo. If this be so-and evolutionists, at least, oan hardly doubt it-thon we should expect ovorywhoro to fiod tho general level of pereonal beauty highest whero thore was tho widest diffusion of tosthetio taste. Now, our own squalid poor aro notiooablo, as a rule, for their absoluto and repulsive ugliness, evon whoo oomparod with those of other European countries. Guant hard wood women, low-browed, bull dog looking mon, sickly, shapeless children, people tho book slums of our manufacturing towna. Thoir painful ugliness cannot all be duo to their physical circumstances alone, for the lazaroni who hang about tho streets of Naples must lead lives of about equal hard ship and discomfort-yet many of thom, both men and women, aro beautiful onough to sit as models for a Leonardo. On the other hand, every traveler speaks of tho beauty and gracefulness displayed by young and old among tho tosthetio Polynesians; whilo in many like cases I note that Euro poans who have onco becotuo nooustomed to tho local typo, find decidedly pretty faces extremely common in auroral savage races whoso primativo works of art show them in other ways to possess consid?rable tosthetio tasto. In India, whore artistio fcoliog is universa!, almost every man or woman is handsome. On tho whoio, it seems fairly proved that tho avorago personal beauty everywhere corresponds to tho avorago general love for beauty io thc ab stract. TRAINING CIRCUS ELEPHANTS. -"How do you train your ele phants to do their funny business, standing on their hoads and all that sort of tiling'?" a Now Haven reporter queried. "Usc the mechanic," explained Mr. Hutchinson. "We put a band about the hind legs of an elephant when wo want to teach him to stand on his head. Then wc put a pillow under his head. At the other end of tho tackle is another elephant, and when the word of command is given off goes the elephant on tho outside of tho ring and the fellow on the inside is obliged to stand on his hoad whether or no. This is repeated until finally the beast knows what's wanted and then at thc word of command up ho goes on his head. And it's so with all other tricks. It's persistency that docs it." He explained further that when onco they received instructions and were chained back in thoir places they would work at their tricks apparently trying to perfect themselves in thom. It is, Mr. Hutchinson says, much more amusing to seo them then than at any other time. . .-? ? -- CLEVELAND, Ohio, March 8.-The Cl volo nd Herald publishes to doy, by au thority, the fodowiug conocmiug ex Presi dent Hayes* salary and savings: ''Tho whole truth concerning the alleged savings of ex President Hayes from hie salary can bo told io a few words. The eggrogato of that salary for tho four years was 8200,000. Tho expenses of tho position during that timo was 8184.000. Had Congress refund ed tho 8-1.000 ho paid for the ex pon ses of tho "visiting stutesrnen" to Louia son, his savings would havo been about $70,000. As it is, ho went out of office with 8G6,? 000 fo bo carried from his account as President to tho benefit of his account as a privato citizen. When ho became Presi dent ho was burdened with debts to the amount of 800,000, mostly on account of bequests ohargod upon the Birohard estate. Of this amount ho has paid 860,000 ont of his savings from the Presidential salary, so that tho not availablo result in oash of his Presidential term is $0,000." NEW ORLEANS, Maroh 10.-The Na* tional Cotton Exohongo statement, issued to-day, shows the following movement for tho six months ending with the olose of February: Total roil movement, overland 707,061 bales; overland shipments diroot to tho mills, 874,026 bales, a falling off of 58,805 bales. Tho total of Northern spinners' taking? from all nooreen amount tu 1,204,500 balos. Tho total amount of this year's eton at tho ports end ovorlnnd points of orossing during tho six months, was 4,070,881 bales, en inorenso over lent yoar of 811,721 bnles, THE Ant LINE AfFAing AND FINANCES. -A meeting of the B tock h oidora and registered mortgage bondholders of tho At lanta and Charlotte Air Lino Railway Company was held oo Wednesday aftoroooo In New York City. The following Board? of Directora wes sleeted for tho onsaing; ?per? Messrs. Eugene Kelly, Wm. H. '0f<f?> ^Vm- B. Ishom, Franois Smith, Wchard Irvin, Jr.. P. P. Dookicson, B. Mo Alpine, James II. Young, II. W. Sibley , Hiram Sibley, Skipworth Wilmer, and R. A. Lancaster, ' The Directors Subse ?uontly electo J the following officers: ?resident, H. W. Sibloyj Sectotary and Treasuror, C. H. Pieroey and General Manager? G. J. Poresore. Tho annual report showed that the gross earnings of the rood during the past year were $951,? 688.48; inercase o vor Jest year of $174, 889.95; expenses of the road lost year were 9082,118.21, sod the asl earnings amounted to 8319,570.22, ANOTHER HAID ON REDMONDS-LSBC week a party of revenue raiders bf the sixth district made another a'.tempt tai oopturo Redmond in Western North'Caro? lina. Thoy nearly succeeded in their plans, pushing him so oloscly ? as.to capture his boots and coat. Only a few dava bofoio Redmond was arrested by tho civil authori ties and tried for carrying concealed , ,wesp oDs, but was occjuittod, although ot tho timo of the trial he had two largo pistols oo his porson and a large knife IQ hts boot leg; Thero is no assertion on tho part of some revcouo officials, by whom tho latter statcmont is made, that tho civil authori ties wore awaro of tho faots that ho Was BO armed at the timo, but on the contrary thoy think they did not know -iU-^Char* lotte Observer. SUSPENDEO.-Wo understand that Wilt* Holden, the Doputy United States Mar shal, who was with Gary when that official was shot by Kally, and who exhibited so uftfch bravery by staying outside of tho houso and shooting at Kelly through s> craok, has been suspened by R. M. Wal lace, United States Marshal for the State. Holden is a oitizon of Ooonee county, and was, ot ono time, wo aro informed, oho of the most oxtensive "blockaders" in any? section of the mountains. When caught up with by the revenue officials, ho turned spy, went into the service to saVo himself, and soon became the most obnoxious rcvo QUO officer io this seotion. [Piekent Sentinel. Little six year old was taking his first lesson in addition,! and when tho teacher asked him: "If I were to give you two eats, and another nice young lady give you two moro, how many cats would you have?" Ho quickly replied: "Why, pretty soon I wouldn't have any, for my mamma would break their heads with the broom. She don't liko cats." ? NASHVILLE, Mardi 10.-Tho American has information that tho Governor hus re ceived a proposition from tho bondholders to settle the State debt at par and issuo three per cent, interest bonds to ron ninety nino years, thc coupons to be made receiva ble for taxes. Tho proposition will proba bly be sent to the Legislature within a day or two? lie said he was bashful and blushed painfully, and asked her if she could spell bashful. She said sho might on a pinch, and spelled it b-a-s-h-f o-o-l. Then ho looked uneasily at her and began lo wonder if she were unutterably ignorant or superlative sarcastic* ? watchmaker in Copenhagen invented a watch which never re quires to bo wound up, as it per forms that work itself by means j? an electric current. Au elee rie magnet inside keeps the spring in perpetual tension, Women physicians practiced heir profession in Egypt over i,000 years ago, and then, as now, hore were medical schools that uloptcd tho coeducation plan. Nothing boats lightning for speed, unless it bo the way a boy umps out of bed in tho morning, .vhen, ador his mother has shouted lerself hoarse, ho noars tho tread >f tho old man's boots upon the ?airway as he stealthily creeps to ho top. Tho King of Ashantee now declares that io does'nt intend to fight England. Mulborries sro lo greet demand for nourning bonnets. Crushed roses of pink sod crimson will m worn upon spring hats. lt is said that whole villages in Prussia ire preparing to emigrate to this country. Tho Tennessee Brokerage Association* trganised st Memphis in September, ht* luit, owing $80,000 in oonsoquenoe of th? ccont cotton tumble.