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* - - DE VOTED TO POLITICs, MORALITY, EDUCATION AND .fO THE GENERAL INTEREST OF TIlE COUNTRY - - VOL. VI. PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30. 1876. NO. ~ . The Young Partners. A STORY FOR BOYS. Tip was the older of the two. can't really say how old ho was, afn< w hat is more, Tip himself didn't know le wore a -man's coat and a pair o very small trousers, but neither fittet him. His hat was an old felt affair that he had picked up in a back alley and his head seemed very much as if might have been p)icked up with it. Top was the other partner. It wa Top who bought the melon, because he had sold all his papers but one, and had an uncommon handful of change. The melon was cheivp, too and only a trifle spoiled, so tho part nors set down on a stone and ate it. Then Tip wiped his mouth on his coat *flooves and looked at Top, who had sproad his last paper over his knees, and was slowly spolling out the news. - 'Thero's a row somewhere, but I can't make out which sido is lickin'; it's the Turkeys or the other fellers. What be the Turkeys, Tip?' '3asoball fellors, I reckon; them kind is greas at a scrimmage.' 'And a freshot carrted off a raProad bridge. Tar-nado in Dubbs c.>unty; blowed all the oats (own. Does oate grow on troes, Tip, or bushes?' 'Bushes, and kind o' limber.' 'Tairiblo catastrophe. Vhat would a% catastrophe bo, Tip?' 'It's a kind o' jitmpinl' animal. Don't yo mind the one we sco to the circus?' Top folded up hi; paper with a sigl Th Cir-CUS waS Lhe beginninig of the p1artnershIip, WhIen the two boys, ul, ed 1p togetlher ill a Croery erat e had been an akncled in the dusk of a May m- ring )y the ling train o iru wagonsI rumeblinig awVay into the Country. flalf asleep. they o lowed on, keeping k1e w i thek gre'.1 b,ruw In hl, k hat str o uith swayieru 1runk after the wagons :n1d glancilg hal feCarfully at the awkward camieIs thalt bar1 ' their great le.t g o vicioNsly ai it' tlhey wooll 11oit at al iin d m k inig a m14o11hi11 of the two litt e Va gabonds. Oince U (river. notioed t hem, and erneked his long whip'alt themin but they only fell back a few stepsu. 'I sa,Tp let's go on till it stops,' whispered Top; and with a nod the bargain wasI concluded. It was ten o'clock before thne circus ctopped, and the boys, footsoro and hunngd*y, hung around the wvagons, get tiang plentiful kicks and abuse, wichu was no0 morQo than they were accus, tomod to at hnome, b)ut rowvarded by ai glimpse of thoe animals as they wert fod, and making a rare breakfast on 11 loaf' of bread that a girl in a dirty spangled dross snatched from one 01 the wagons and tossed to them. Top had risco~ in the world sinc< then. lie had left rag picking and gone into the rnewvspaper' business, and even p)icked up a little learning at thnc night class in the newisboy's home. But lhe was loyal to his partner, and of ten shared his good fortune witt him. lie had a plan now for then: both. 'I say, Tip, lo's you and me go t< fi amin'.' Tip looked at Top, took off his hat turned it over as if looking for at idea in it, and then put it On agair and said nothing. 'There's a chatp comes dowvn to tln4 homo told us follers if you go out Wes a bit, the .guvmont would let ye havi a farm froe, jest for living on it. Bos kind o' ground, too. We would rais< things to sell, besides hav in' all thn Smelons and stuff you could swalle: every day.' 'C'm on,' said Tip, bin mouth wat ering at the thought. 'Is it fur, ou tWest, do ye reckon?' 'A good bit; but I've got som, ,mondy,'and we can walkc it easy. 4 Git yeor other shirt, and we'll start t< morrow mornin'.' That night Top dlrowv all his mono3 from the deposit at the newsboys home-three dollars and sixty fly, cents. The first thing he did was tm buy twvo clay pipes and a paper of to. 4 baco. Then ho laid in a store o provisions. in thmei -lu~ f hc stale buns, a triangle of cheese, and a dozen herrings. Tip was on hand promptly, with his other shirt in n wad under his arm, and the two part nors started 'out West.' 'May as well ride ton conts' worth, said Top, paying fare for the two on an mnibus that ran to the city limits Afterward, they walked on toward the open prairie, breakfasting as they wont, and adding to their stores a turnip and a couple of tomatoes that hadjolted from some laden market wagon. Miles after iniles of market gardens, where women and children were hoeing and weeding and gath ering vogotables. They stopped at one house and asked for water, and a woman in a brown stuff petticoat and white short gown offered them sonic milk in a big yellow bowl, and a piece of black broad. A boy was washing long yellow carrots by the pump. Tip bit one, and liked it. Tip was always hungry. Then they went oil, and by and byo cane to the end of the gardens. There were great stubbly fields and a stack of Yellow straw. The)y @at down by tlhi stack to rest, and then Top thought of the pipes. The -wen whom he knew always sinoked when they reisted at noon, and so he and 1'ip tried it. They had tried it before wit i cnda of cigars they had picked lup, and one~6 Top had bought a few cigar, a firtcen center, and sm11(pkeld it all, though it made himn tearfiIly, sick. Tie pipes did no: sem toI algree w%it them. Tip' feh p-1r.1ienhullly mlI.. mfIor6tablo, anld .. i..hlid lie iiad ni%t ea:ken thiat e-tri'ta. Fhev di iot itke anv rennehu; ;Jb.)t it, b1-t p esen ly h y.u a n )h i ipe A W(Ilit 10 e in t suon. W hen 'h1'y waked it vas sun St a1 gIroi iig chilly. " use to go any for1ler to Iig T.id -T. ; an Id the h3 orr II'I IIWLd i II L e straw aid uere as iugi 's I %w 1iCd Im ice. InI t he I.ornoin1g theil re w%ere olv a lier ing anI(d t 1 0 ver3 dry huins for beaktas); but the partnert; had seen mu11clh smnalle r rat ions t han t hat ini heir day. They asked for water aga in when t hey cane to ai hense, but 'lhe l lady who opened the door must h.ave been deaf. She onuly shio( k her head and shoo-ed themi away as if they' had been tw'o stray chickens. Next ttie they had bet ter luck. A fat little womaizn withI r*osy red cheeks gave them a big has ket to fill with chips, and when ii w as full she brought t horn each' ar thick slice of bread and butter and a great p)uffy' brown donghnnt. Af terward, the~y drank at the well ont of a sweet tasting dipper made (of m cocoannt shell, and the woman look ed up fi om the bread she was knead ing to nod and smile as they wen' out of the gate. Next can.e a long strip) of wood, without aniy honses any) haonees, and beyond that ope prairie again. 'I think this is about fur 'notgh, said lop, sitting down on a loig, '] should kind o' like to have our farn nigh to the woman that gave us thu dlaughnnite. She's a good one, sh Iis.' "Well,' said Tip, 'seems to be Iot of land and mighty searce of bonses Let's take it halt an' half, woodLi an'. perary. Now that the farm was located, th< next thini g to be done w as to build a house. Never did the Westert) em igrants find things moic Ce l cneiett for near the roadside lav' a pile o rnails that had once beeni a fence abou a haystack. These they dragged in to the woods, and p)roceedeL to buik. a lint against the trunk of a grea tree. The r esult was not exactly palace, but at least it was clean an<( airy, and they had slept in muel worse quarters. They made a bed " green boughs and spread Tip's othe: shirt over' it. Everything went we' - until Tip nndertook to climb a trne U after some wild grapes. A countr ~ bo woud hao knwn bttertha to trust the old dead limb from which they dan ded; but Tip never exspec ted that a tree conld wear out, until he found himself crashing headlong through the branches to the ground. Ile lay there so quiet that poor Top might as well have had no partner at all, Top was frightened, but he did't give it up. He shook tip and slap, ped him on the back; he even light. ed a pipo and blew tobaoco smoke in his face, all of which remedies lie had seen used with success, though not upoin people who had fallen out of tree. After a while, Tip begun to breathe again in a jerky fashion, and then lie sot strengthh enough to groan dismally. 'Is it yer head' asked Top anx iously. 'Are ye all right in yer bonw-' 'Its me laigs, and me spines is all smashed to flinders,' moaned Tip. Top managed to drag his unlucky partner into the lut; but the bed was aINy1hing but luxurionq, and Tip was no hero to suffer in silence. 'is it as bad as a whalinl' asked Top, icaning to be sympathizing. 'W U s6,' groaned Tip, but after all the stggestion had some comfort in it. 'Tip,' said his partner, presently, 'he ye sorrow ye come out West?' 'No, nlot if I die," moaned Tip. 'I seen a feller die oncu't, fallin' down a elevator.' Tip tried to get up but he fell back with fi esli groans. Dmn y<m give up the farm, 1T1.; a'l you can have all my clothes and ily other shir:.' T-Op WoUld have cried if he had knovrn how, but just then a man comling down thre Wood road stopped a mioweit. to Ito)k and listen, aind :henl ttrode 11l) to the (111 er little liut, *What in cre-a-tion.' 'He's hurt,' said Top, briefly nod ding his head at his partner. 'N.ri! I should think so! W ho a -re yo.? and what are you d ing hier.e?' 'We're pardners, anid wc'Ne took up this farm,' begun To1'; but the man looked at the pair of beggars anid laughed in a fashion that threat ened to bring the rails down over his hiead. 'Well,1 well,' he said at last wipin.g hris eyes on his shirt sleeve, 'if that ain't the biggest joke.' Then lie sobered down a little, and felt of Tips bones-and, ini fact Tip was not much else but bohes. 'No more ment'n a ladder! W ell, well, well!' And he picked up poor Tip.and marched away with him while Top followed meekly. It seem-~ ed to him the man had on seven Ileague boots, he got over the ground so fast, while he could only limp af ter, for 101) was getting sore and stiff from tampering. B3y,and bye, they turned into a green lane anid camne to the hack door of a house. The mian laid TIip on a' bench, arid a Blhnggy dog came and sniflfed at him. 'Molly Andersonl' called tihe mran, and somebody came trotting briskly to the door, saying, 'Well, John?' long before i-he camre ini sight. It was the woman who had given themn thre dlonghrnutts TipJ cried when lie saw her thouitgh hre didnr't know wvhy, for Ihe felt wonderfully glad. T'hinr gs were mixed 11p after thIiat for a good many,) days;, amnd Tipi had queoer fancies of going on anid on, tr'yinrg to find the best kind of a farm to settle down upon01, uintil at hast hre waked upl to find himself on aL clean h)ed in a great br'eezy garr'et, with a p)leasanlt little womahi darning stock ings beCside him. rThe man was thierec too, anid he said, in a cheer'ful voice: 'hey'r'e made of cast steel arnd whip cord's, thorn youngster. Hle'll be right as a top) in a day or two.' 'Thre ot her 01ne is Top,' Tip tried to say, burt Ihis voice wats SO gneer he cdi ot know it, and wondredrm who had spoken. In the end, the partners concluded to give up the farm; but the man who had befriended them gave them both work for a few weeks, and when one day they rode back to the city in a great loaded market wagon they felt very grand. It was grander yet riding back again at night, with the new delight of returning to a home and a we] come. 'Tip,' said Top, as they crept into bed, 'I ain't never goin' back to the city. When they won't keep us no more, and nobody won't keep us, I'm goin' to start along the road, and keep on till I come to somewieres. Roads is better'n etreets; they always goto somewheres that they didn't come from.' Top's voice died away, and Tip only answered with a snore, The partners were asleep..-St. Nicholas. While the time for the reasscnb ling of Congresa is only about two weeks'off, says the New York Her-' ald, the President, so far as known, has done nothing toward the prepa ration of his ann ual message beyond reflecting upon it, food for wbich mental exercise has been furnished him abunidantly of late. Doubtless the necessity of a deliberatte conside ration o the presel't critical bituation of political affairs, and the import an1ce of recolitnedil(ing a wise and intelligent policy to nress ill cause hin to vait for the very latest levelopi ents in the problen of the Presidential election. Iudeed, it ha,, fallen to the lot of Presidt.1t Grant to prepare at the close of his eight years' admi.istration periips the most iiportlint Pr"esidential message in our history, to grave are the m1a teis of wtichi he will be r(q-iired to (reat. Tu i. DEORATrS 1AV11 ONLY -r WArr.-The New Yurk Herald, in a 'leader, after describinig tle char acter of the returning boar'ds in Loui - sian:a and Sou th Carolina, and d -- claring that it is almost impossible fur the Republicans to obtain a ver' dict favorable to their candidate whieb shall not hear the fatal taint of fraud, Bays: Under the circumscances the De mocrats have oily to wait. They occupy a position of advantage whbich only their own folly can deprive them of. But the Republican pesi tion is p)ainful1 in the hiighiest degree. Tro sat isfy the public miind that no wrong is done, where so many cir cumnstances point to a deliberate in. tention of wrong, is very dilIlicult for them. To count their canididate in without so satisfying the public minld and disarming Suspicion is to court disg race, and at the next election to meet an irrepressible burst of popu11 lar indignat ion. They may, b)y the methods which they are usiniig and which we have described, legaily return Mr. Uayes, atnd there will be no0 legal miethod0( of setting aside thie result. The nation must peaicefully accep)t such a legal result. But the RepublhIican let der's will, in t L e act, dig deep thiir own graves, and two years henco t hey will 1)be buried without hiope of resurei'ction. A phsiia iregon gi 'e's te following as a certain euro for rattle snake bite or a sl.ider sting: ' TFake the yolk of a wood egg, put in atea. cup and( stir ini as imuch salt as will make it thick enough not to rin oil', and spread a plaster' and appldy to the wound. Do this when bitten or stung and1 I will insure yourI life fort a six penfl I have triidt thiiis remedy in a number of cases, and have never known it to fail. The sugar cr'op) of Louisiania is es timated at 200,000 hiogsheads, and1( this is saidl to be equal to only one eighth of the amount c,>nsu i:ed in the United Stts - Governor Hampton's Addreag. C To the )eopl)e of South Carolina: The Board of Canvassers have, by their unprecedented action to day, i shown not only their contempt and h defiance of the Supreme Court of the 8' State, but their -utter - <UeWajdj of " their own official 4ibkgrity, w4ilathe c grave question3 determining the re- E sult of the recent election were pend-. 0 ing befbre the Supreme Court, coM-- ti posed of three Judges belongitg to - the Republican party, and in direct ti violation of the orders of this tribu, 0 nal, the board havo issued certificates 1) of election to the Relpublican Presi. 0 dential Electors, and to the Repub- l !icavn Statn oflieors. and havo refused P to give certificates to Democratic t members of the Lvgislature, shown O by the returns of this same board, to have lbeen elected in the counties of Edgefield and Laurens. This high a handed outra_,e is well calculated to P arouse the indignation of our long suffering eopl; but I assure themi ti a this diiring and * revolutionary ' act of thle board cal have no legal C effect whatever. I appeal to you, therefore, in the full confidence that 0 the appeal will not be unheeded; thmat L you %,\ill maintain even under these r provocations, your character as an orderly and law abiding people. Dring tihe past excited political r canvass, you have prudently avoided even the semblance of a purpose to disturb the p-eace or to transgress I the law. YuIIr cause, and it is the cause of c.nstituti(nal government, an1d of civilization, has been carried to the high"est court of the State, and we are willing to abide by the de cision, feeling assured that this tri hutnal will see that the laws shall be enforced and justice secured. ' AADE 11AMPTON. Columbia, S. C., Nov. 22, 1870. S11OCT1No AFFAIR.-Mr. Thomas Dent Son (if the Shierill'of this County, was shot and pIrIobalfly fatally w,.oIold ed at a late honur last nighut by John i R. Cochr an, thle Senator from An- I derson . Tio two men were standing I at tihe bar ol Fine's saloon, when I some dispute arose, which resulted< in the lie being passed. Mr. Dent I st ruck l\lr. Coch ran in tile face, and I both m n tinnnl ediately backed andi drewv their p)istolIs. Some one snatch- I ed Mr. Dent's p)istol away. Mr. I Cochian fired three shote, one of I wvhich struck Mi'. Dent in the arm and anot lher' in the abdomen. Theo lastI shot will alnost certainly; pove'fa tal. Mr. Cochran wais aurested and taken to jail .-Colum:bia Register. A TrauLl A ~rra[ ECNSFIN.- Aln in fidel said: 'There is one thing that ma:rs all the pleasure of my li fe."' "IndeeC'd," I r'epl ied , "'what is that?' lie answeed "I amIf afr'aid thme IBible is true. If I could kn1ow for' certaiin th at death is eterinal sleep, I could be happy!I My joy would be coIluplete ciBut here is thle thorn) that stings me; it' tie ible is true, then I am lost foee. The lible1 is trueI(, tremendl(ously dlAity my bec, howese bi hrazen its' cot ienan!ce, t here is anl in ward trembLling whieb distmi bs the IiindC's 'luiie end no'rs n2l tho leasurles of life, inIto whate'ver ('xcu-S of r'iot the dIevItee of bIaek infidel ity Inaf turn, t lhe t(;rlIinen inig though t wvill fllow. Thie thoughit that the Bible is true the revealings of past ages attest, an:d the prc sent fur n ishes the grand es;t demonst rat ion*. MrIl. O, WV. A ppf, uf Alanita, Ga has' julst finished( a remnarkab!e pair of shoes(. Tihei r len 2th is seCventen and thi'ee f'ourth:s inches andI they are six ineh es ac'ross th sole30!. The(y were who is over s!ven flet in height an:d Iweighs* 400 PoJund1. pinions of the Northern Press.ta South Carolina.. :. NEw YoR, Nov. 26.-The ork Times says: The South C(a:o na Board of Catvassera recognia;d >mewhat hite their mistake in 8ub( litting their aetio'n to the revioaid Zitr.W of the SupreW Court". T11 suing the orders to a judicial body f entirely independent juiisdi6tiopi .at court was guilty of a mA*st surpation. In consenting to a'4 jecmse before tle court, the boaW t canvassers gave their orders al" carance of validity which could not tlerwise be claimed, for tle clear iteution4 of lhe m.Ijority of reme .Couur t was io doI i. Wrtgf 1e Democrate at whatever sacrieico f control, rights and common justice The New York World says: The oard of Canvassers stole the elec )ral vote of that State openly, nt1 artly from thic Supreme Courf, with ic open object ' of fferin' it to [ayes. Its publicity was brazen aud mimeless. It rests witi the Amirim [n people to decide w1htlhAr they ill Eurre)der control o tlich- goy.* rnmient to such hands, or whether icy will maintain liberty, self res" ect and prosperity by enforcing TC iedios of law mgrinst lawless con6pi, ttors, without parallkI in ont ans als. Tie New York Herahl says: Thi 3 Very sharp practice. It the Su-: )remne Court cannot sup)ort its and horitv which has been dLIled v he boar d, the State mut. be col'Ilte0 or Iayes. The audacity of thi act betrays great desperation, a'd i not undone in court of justice, it will stand as a monument of infamy. The New York Post izays: The best thing the South Carolina 3nard of Canvassers can do, is to reasmblc. flo.country vill not be satisfied witi lhe proceedinigs, which look like 31harp practice. Wo admtit tiat t1ho Supreme Court itselt ii not free fir6t i suspicion of' sh p ract ice. No i ppearance of Jurdicial sharp) pr:c ice, whatever can exenseC the el:iry >ralctice of the canvYasser's. Ini thre irst p)lace, the conservative opinion >f t he country demands respect four he judgmont of the ecust itutional ribunals. It is better that a decis on, which is wrong, shall be obeyed han that it shall be0 disobeyed, even. o secure a right end. The proceed nge of yesterday in South Carolina, vill not convince thre conuntry that he canfvass5 is honeost and fair. One of the lien tenanits wVho( was on Juty> in South Carolina dourig the ~lectioni was arrested imm red iately on is ret u rn to Atlanta, and susp~O(ede rom) du ty until chrarges againsit himi or being a Democrat can be inive,t i" aruted. Thre Spm tanbur g and( Ashoville Ra ilroad is mak inrg rap id progress, md its compldetioni may be lonoked fori it an early day. Whlen finisahed it wvil 1b1) an imy~ortanut link beCtween1 Jhiarleston and the great WVest. Th~le Georgia papers ieport s;everal lista~uces of tihe mobb)inug of cdoored Iinocratsa by th~e R~ad ical roingh s. 1his oughtL not to be lo)nger permlIit ted. ./ c~.Oijp:Ily of 1(i lloneS Inavo S atei sold iers, anid sent to join Croolt's commrnandl. The are a tina~ b,ody~ of fighting mien, anid will give the Sioux a good limit oft their prow (o8s when they' meet themgv. A man by) thre niamie of James I1. Jo;h,nston living niear' Uearia Vrd, Northi Carolina, has muysterionsly d isappeared. IHe took part ini a t orch light procQession in Ch.rluUe, a few evenings ago, sin1ce when brWmsi been nreithier seen nor heard from. Systemnatic tebmperanco ini enting aind dIri nking is enpablo of shjielding th o h umoan body fromr thle postIlieneco f all claimnes, and from thc fd at dis ~asc of all hat itud(es.