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4 - . . . v t - -.. . . . . . -- - . - .f. - - - - . . .. . . -...* . . .,,. . . jain -.--0-- - - - VOL. VI. PICKENS; 0.,TIU DAY 'NQVE BER 9 1876 * NO.10, Beared Oit of a Wife. The narative which I am about to *Hte wai told to me one bleak cold t4%g,An a country parlor. It was foue.of these cold nights in midwin, ter, when the wind swept over the land, making everything tingle with itsk ot:y b'reath, that I was seated before a blazing fire, surrounded by a jolly hit dozen boys and an old badicloi, a Peter Green, about forty and eight years old. It was jiust the nighit without to aike kmvse within erjoy good story, so each'of us had to tell his favorite !story, save Mr. Green, and as lie was a jolly story teller, we were somes what surprised to hear him say, "I iave no story tLat would interest you," so we had to fiid other enter taroments for awhile, when one of the boys told mne to ask hin how it happened that he never got married. So I did. "Well, gentLaten," he began, "it does not seem right tor me to tell how that happuned, but as it is about myself, I don't care much. You see when I was young we had to walk as far as five miles to church and singing school, which was our ciief enjoyment. Buit this don't have any. thing to do with my not getting a wife, but I just wanted to show % ou that we had some trouble them days in getting our sport John Smith and I were like broth ers, or like 'Mary and her lamb.' Where one went the other was sure to go. So we went t. see two sisters, and as we were not the best bu)s im magiiablo, the old gentleLmru took 11m1brage and would n t allow us to cuime iear he lihouse, so we would -* take the girls to the end ot the lane, an,1d thrU we would ha.ve to take the finld kiss We. 41 Lo tired of thjis sort of lun, arnd I told John, on our way to singinft plie nigilt. that I was Doting to t atdio b'ow, aln I that I 1 was goil.g il(o the b1-11:e too. 111 maid the old man would ruin mae if I did. I told hun I wias going to risk it anylihbw, let come w hat would. H1e said h -would risk it it I would. So hothe we went with the girls. When we got to the end of the lane -I told the girls we pro posed going allI the way.. -They looked at each other int a way I didn't like too well, but said they (the old folks) would be ini bed, so they didn't care if we did. Thev 1 wvere a little i..re surtprised when I told them we. thought of going in a little w hile, but all was quiiet when< we got to the house, as we had no trouble.in gettin)g into the kitchen. Then and there we had our first court, and I made ny my mind t'o as k Seidiet. bermy wite the next time I came ! It was nowv past~ the turn of the night, anid as we had four mniles to walk, I told John we had better be going. So we stepped out On tho porch, but just then the sky was lit up by lightmninug. and one tremendone. thunder p)eal rolled along the mou -- tain sides. Its echo had Riot died away in the far oli vales until the rain began to poutr fi om the garnered fullness of the clouds. We watited for it to stop until we were all sleepy when the girls said we could go to bed in the little room at the head of the stairs which led out of the kitchen, as their la her did did not get up early we could be at home before the old folks were astir. So after bidding the girls a sweet good night, -and bugging them a lit tle, and wish ing theitu pleasant dreams, and prom ising them to comle on the next Suan.. day pight, we started to bed. * ~ We didn't have fair to go, as the bed st od near the head u f' the stairs. Johmn.was soon in bed, but I was al way'i a little slow aid lull of curi * ~ osity, I was lookiung around the lit 4 Ie room. At latt I thought I would sit down >n eamt, wbich was,p d, To% er with a nice whi'te cloth,'while t arew ff my boots. So down Iat,! wl)en, itars of the east! I went plump iito.a %Mstard pie! - 1 thoughtJohn would die laughing, or he said I emashed that custard ill to thunder and plate IigiIj into. IToU see w had to be a4it huiet, so he old man would not hear. I was now ready to get into bvd, io I put the light out and picked up isy boots thinking to pnt them in a nore convenient place, when down IDe (if my l6gs went through a pipe wile, which had been converted by a per ' t my bip. Now one part of me was up stairs while the longest part of ine was in lie kitchen. As my leg was very ong, it reached a shelf wiicb was >ccuIPied by dishes, pans, coffe pots, itc., and turning it over with a tro nendous crash. The girls badqnot retired, and we :ould hear them laugh fit to split heir tides. I felt awful ashamed, m1d was scared until my heart was n my thront, for I expected the old nan every moment. I extricated my leg from the 'cou, OUn11ded hole juat in time, for the old ady looked into the'kitcien from the 01om door and asked w% hat all that ioiie was about. The girls put her iff as best they could and I went to >ed, while John was stranglilkg hia. elf under the cover to keep trom aughing aloud. W eioon we.t off into the land of lreatms with the htope of wakeing arly. I wish I could tell you my Ireamis, but it wild be too loug. ie momeat I wo4ld fancy mn self )y the side of my Sadie, eipping nec ar from her heaveiii-bedewed lips, mnd the next I would be flying from lie old ian, while lie would be flour shing his cane above:my head. This ame to an end by John giving,tne kick In waking up and looking around, saw John's eyes as big as mny fist, vhile the sun was beansing inm at the vinduow. WV hat to do we couldn't toll, for we acard the old man having family pray ir in the kitchen. John looked out of the window irnd said we couald get down~ over the >orch. Get[out and dress as soon as pos, ible, said he. So in*'my hurry my foot got fas ,cned in the bed clothes, and out I umb'led, heoad foremost, turned over, and down the steps until [ struck the loor, which was fastened by a wood,. mn button, and iG gave way, Out I 'oiled in front of the old man. LIe brew up his hands and cried, "Lord save us!". for be thought i.t ~as thle devil. The old lady screameod until you ~ould have beard ther a mile, I was o scared and bewildered that I could lot get up at once. It was warm ,veather anid I didn't have on ary ,hing but a-well, one garment. When I heard the girls snickering t made me mad, aund jpipped up and -ushed out of the door, leaving the greater part of my only garment on hie old door latch. Off I started for the barn, anid w'hen malt way thlrough the yard the dogs set up a howl and went for me. When I got into the barn yard I lad to run through a flvok of sheep, and among them was ana old ram who macked off a little and started for me. Witua one bound 1 escaped hie blow, iprang into the barn, and began to slimb up the logs inito tile miow, when an old mother hen pounced 2pon my legs, pioking them until ~hey bled. 1 threw myself upon the hay, and after John hamd slid down the porch nlto a hogshlead of rain water, ho came yo me with one of my boo ts, my coat, and one of' tile legs of' my pants. Hie tound me completely prostrated. Part )f my shirt, nay, hat, oneo leg of my pants, my vest, stoo!'ings, nock tie and 2ne boot, were left behind. I vowed then and there t.hat I would niever go to see another girf, and I'll lin befo I will. J, :I 1 I I 1i J1. 1 ITyr A Texas Gourt S"no.: A BATTLE 1'TWiEN LAWYERS-Tai JUDO* R=FOVa ORDER Wrr A Six The court a in sesion; the pre siding judge occupied thel Chair of state with all becoming dignity; the prisoner at the bar, arraigned for al leged cruely to aunimals, sat with bowed head while the prosecuting attorney hurled his thunderbolte, and gave to the case and the prisoner the darkest,aoloring. The jury nodded until the opeaker commenced beraI ing the counsel for defeise1-using exprosions not over -omplimentary, and then the six pricked -up their ears and listened. The counsel fi)r the d6fenge reminded the speaker that he was not in the habit ot re ceiving such high compliments in open court. But the prosecutio, not noticing the interruption, contin ue( to send his shafts of satcasm and abuse with a liberal hand. A table stood between these two loving disci ples (t Keat, and the much abused counsel mounting it, b giu to lay his cane about the broad shoulders of the spealer with a touch which showed how tutch he was in earnest. bLay on, Mac," cried a voice from the crowd. "Whatioever thy hands find to do, do It with all thy might" shouted another. The belaboled at torney, seizing a chair, hurled it at his opponent, but it nitsed its mark and went crashragainst the wall op posile. The cries of the judge on the bench for "Ordei! orderl" were dr wned i . the contusion. 'Arrest the comtbataima," cried the judicial functionary. O,e of the at tendait officeis started for the horo Af the gaine, but hadn't;quite rmnched him wvhen a friend of that lawyer knocked the officer dowi. Tiho judge seeing the turn tf affairs, descended from his lofty seat, and taking a six shooter from the floored officer, said that he would restore order in the court, at the same .time wariung .the deadly w eampon over his head. The crowd knewv the judge too well to doubt for a moment that he meant what lhe said, ad stood no.t upon the order of their going, but weit at once. When the clouda)(created by the passageoft musty law books, etc., through the air during the confbect) begun to clear up, and somnewhat of the dignity of the court restored, the judge said that he regretted such a thing should have happened in a TLxas court, and regretted it the more that liis court should be the scene of -such a disgraceful affair; that in the future when lawy ers could not conutrol their tempers in his court lie would give them an upp.'rtunity to repair to a more suitable field where they might satiate their blood. The attirneys were find twenty five dollars each, and the gentleman a lho floored the officer was called on to pay $100 as his share in the enter tainmiifent. The prosecution of the Mountain Meadow murderers will not end wit,h the con'. iction of Joh n D). Lee. In passing sentence of death on the pris. nror on October 10th, at Beaver, Utab, Tudge Blorcman stated that the witnec es, whose mouths had been unsealed, would be ready to testify against the other loaders who had plotted the wholesale slaughtcr of the emigrants nineteen years ago. If the Mormons, by consenting t,o his death fancied that publec indignation would be appeased by his conviction, they would be mistaken. Those who had planneod and executed the awful deed would all be brought before the bar ol ju'tic. The dread crime would not down. A quack doctor advert,ises to thie effect: Cough when you can, for after you have taken ono bottle of my met. dieine you can't. All classes in Belgrade want nnacn. "Be;you ,dw boss man ob die abop, sari" - "Yes, I'm thbe. priopietort wbat ban"I do for 'yo" "Well, yer see, tiants a letter writ,'an' if 3 ot kih ife it-fur me 'doubt much trouble, ItH be moie'u; obtiged to 'yer'. XYet oee, "Ne 'gtzed to a cullud lady dowr herebo t teen mil' an' le's writ me a migh'ty sweet leiier, an' ob course, wants to .nswqr it; but bin' 'aS .I Ca't write, I spec I nust git swe seqlar4 to write it fur me." Business being dull, Thompson drew ont a sheet of paper,,omiled as he winked tot binuelf, and antounu ced that he was ready. % "Fust you say, boss; tell her dat I Was happy to receive het sweist let ter', and make it sorter highfalutin, boss-you knows how to fix it up." Thompson wrt te: "The delectable recipient of you r epistulary effusion was transported from the turblent elements of this mundane sphere to the realms of etherial bliss when the tactp dawi*d r ,on hin that your lovely digits h I penned him a few angelic lines. Emanatini as it did from the most lovely and beautiful of her sex, it kindled in his bosom emotious of the wildest and greatest pleasure." "Well," said Thompson, as he dot. ted the i's and crossed the t's of the first paragraph, "what nextIt" "Now tell her dat I tiuks of her all de time an' dat I'se mighty 'aux ions to see her once m1ore." Thompson wtote: "From"the first dim tint of morn, when the oriental sun dips his arrow..rays in liqnid gold and scnds them fron Lis silver stringed bow bright and burnished athwart the drowsy- earth, till the yawning hour of midnight, when na ture is bushed and naught is heard but the sad wail of the whip-poor will afar in the forest, does thy beau tiful image liuYer in my vilsion. I long for the moment whenI the Fates shall decree our union-when your Romeo cani whisper in the attending ears of his Juliet the soft, sweet tale of undying love." "Now tell her. boss, if I had'nter been tooken down wid chii 'n fever, I'der been downt dar' 'fore dis; ani' den say: "De rose am red. de vi'lets blue, Sugar's sweet, an'so ago yot." Thompson wrote: "My failure to visit you is attributable to the fact that a p)reponderanLce of certain ills that flesh, is heir to has so enveloped my corporeal frame that to follow my inclinatiorns has been a task too arduous to essay. In the language of thtypoet: "The rose is of a carmine hunes The violet is anI azure blue, Sachiarine substance is tr eacly sweet, Anid likewise you." "Dar now, boss,'' when Thompson read over the letter, "dere ain't no nigger in de world dat conld a writ a letter like dat. It dat Slon't fetch de dishumiary an' make dat gal tink im o ine to the comuershul collidge, deni I ain't talk in." lie dlropped that letter in the box as it it had been a stick of pepperCl nmmit candy and didn't want to p)art withI it, and the last seen of him he was buying a white cravat for the coinig occasion. B. RooEs. A Chicatgo school girl of tender y'ears thus writes to her bosomr friend: 'Dear Susie-I shan't attend school, agin until i Get soine knew cnffs, kol hers and Jewehuy--dear mamma a grees with me that It is my Duty to take the shinie out of that Upstart Muammy Jones, and I'll do it it i never learn nothing. The Big Horn namnaign hms ended A Story$.it. a XoraL A geDtleman of. middle age, who b*d always bQe a farmer, lpad cler pd up ind improved one of the bet ratme in Maine, erected near and conveniant buildings, reared a family, and was enjoying the blessings with which he was surroutndud, became osessd with the idea of selling his Friends told him he could lie so much easier to go into the village, where he coild have a nice houe, a gaedeii', keep a cow, atd, if lie chose, o horse, And live like a gentleman on the' interest o his money, that he advertised his farm for sale. .le found no want of purchasers, and the farin was soon disposed of for a hand Bome sum. Tisn the stock, farming to0s, etc.,.ere sold, and the place that he had wrought w%ith his own hands, the buildinga he had built for his own convenience, and, accordiig to his OWn1 n1otions, the spot whOre he had raised nis family, and around which clustered so many associations, passed into the hands of strangers. For a time the geutleman did not locate, as lie desired to look aronnd, find a place to suit him, and tee where he could be happy for the remainder,of his days. At last he fouid a place that suited him, pur chased it, and settled down to lite again. But things did not go right. He miased his old fari and hous;e, the silept but delighted company of his cattle, sheep, and other domestic animals, the scenes where he had passed so many happy years, and the society of his old neighbors, tried and true. He grew discontented, and was well nigh sick. His wife and datighters, also, %kere not pleaied with their new home; it was halt a mile from town, wi.h a little laud, and was what many would have called a de?irable place. Having remained long enough in his new place-he could not be said to have lived at all-to become satisfied lie should never be contented, bo ree' solved to have the old farm back again. Hie 'went to the old man who owned it, paid him five hunidied dol lars more thani w at he got, took p)ossession again of his familiar fields and groves, and, having learnied a wholesome leasion from his transac tion, is rAow at work again upon his old farm, a happier, wiser anid bet ter' contented, it' not a richer man. Its moral to farmers and other's is, that when they get discontented and sell out, they should be sure they are able to buy back their old homes and business, when they find the'y have not bettered themselves by the chanwge. ___ WATrxame HIuRsas.-The Weekly Gazette says : A full drink of water', immediately after being fed, shi)nld never be al lowed to horses. When water is drank by them the bulk of it go~es directly to the large intestines, and little of' it is r'etainied in the stomach. Ini passing through the stomach, how.. ever, the w'ater' carries considerable quantities of the contents to where it lodges ini the iintestine. If, the,, the food ot the stomach is washed out befor'e it is digest ed, no 11ouraish ment is derived fr'omn the food. A small quantity of fluid swallowed along with, or immaediately after, dry food, beneficially softens it, and as sists ini its division. Au inordinate supply of water, of wartmter'y fluid, on the other hand, proves injurious. It dilutes unduly the digestive secr'e, tione; it mech an ically c arries onw ar d the imperfectly digested food, and thus interiers with the proper func cions of the canal, and excites digos, tion and diarrhoa. These untoward effects are opecially apt to occur' where horses freely fed and too libe~r ally watered ar'e shortly put to tol erably quick work. There is nio mre. infallible method of producing cQlmc iarrhoa, and iaation-tko bowels. . Tne horse is not pdtifir in this efoct1 d's, and even t1i "r "ds ters, similiry suffer from .6 P){1s Iraughts of water immediately after sating much milid fiod. Georgia--South CaroliPa;,, In another articlo,.eays the .Brook lyn Eagle, we have stated and-diddtis. sed the prog#ess of the Rofoninvo' ment in South Carolina ijto des. porat excos_ses to which, in flgltiqg %gainst the retributive.recoil of thoir Dwn crimes, the political thieves of that, State bavo prooeedod. Now, next to the Ropublicaniam of South CArliga it,thq ConsorvaListo1eor. gia. .boih States present oond,iins worthy of study. We believe they are being studied by rllective ,men. Soqph Darolina's bo'nds are ft,worth.a dol., 4ar a thousand. Gcorgia's 'credit is itable and excellent. South Caroliha is the theatre of turbulence. Geordia is completely at peace. Tho n.egro in 3outh Carolina is a tramp, a lighway man, a beggar, an idiot, oL a "soldior" unless he, has protected himself Against the carpot-baggers by proclrs ing protection from the whito natives f the State, and exposing thom t'o arrests for protecting him. The . ne gro in Georgia is buying land, pursu ing all tho trades, schooling himself and his childron,. and choosing his politics as freely as any man hero choosea-what he will eat. Agrienitturo, manufactures, and exchange thrive oi Georgia. The only fully cm,plo?4d and overworked .men in South Ca00 lina aro the Bankruptcy Registers and the auct,ioncers at Slieriff" sis or under foreclosuro procoediigs. Taxes in Georgia aro 1ss8 than tn Queen's county. Taxos in South Carolina are seventeen por tet. Goorgia sells and buys lavishly 4n every Northern market. South Utr olina is sLretched on the Procust6s bed of poverty, anarchy, and outragL. South Carolina is ruled by tlhieVes, GorgilL by honest men, and the North is asked to warrant the diversion of the ar,ny by the Administration to the purpose of p)Orpetuating, tio thieVee.of'Southi Carojina in power4 Sowing Wheat.. Thre season is at hiand when wheat should be sown, and wye advise every farmer who has "wheat land".to s,w en<tnghm to secure him his yearly snpa~ p!y of flour' at least..- Three years ago we dotermined to quit 'sowiWg wheat. We reasoned thtas: the wi eAt crop is uncertain because ot the fre quent recurrence of rumst; in these days, too, of luxuLrious freedom whaa shocks are stolen from the field, and even if they are not, the flour milla are second raLte, and invariably dia appoint in quantity or quality; oats, too, will pay better than wheat, for whe'at has to beeunned and handigd, and is al.ways wasted. Thus we argued, anid maturely considered the~ question, and finally determined to sow no0 more wheat. For three years we have lived i this way, anid dur inig that timie have bought good flour at from $7 to $9 per barrel. Experience teaches ust ltis not al ways within thme ptwver of the farmnar to raise sev en dollars' toi paiy for a barrel of flour, and for mer ex per*iece taught us we could always have a fresh anid tull barrel of flour on hand by exchaningi m labor at the proper time for wheat. Labor weo can al ways su pply; green backs we can not always get. So we have come back to tirst principley, anod intend never to buy another bur i of flour as long as we can sumpply t he labori, and land up' n which to sOW wheat enough to make our f-mur, and we urge upon our fellow farmers to dho as we have done. To prIopare to soWv wheat wead v ise deep pl ughing, sur face manur ing, anid t horongh pul veri.-atiou of the soil, eit her by dragging or biar r'owinlg. Sow b)efore a raini, rather thant after it, and, if p.ossible, when tihe land is drVy: anid mellow.-In Rural Carol iniaun for Oco bor.