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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. ?
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-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.
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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.