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41PPI 4 DEVOTED TO POLITICS, MORALITY, EDUCATION AND rO THE GENERAL INTEREST OF THE COUNTRY. BY D. F. BRADLEY & CO. PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1877. VOL. VI.-NO. 2 S10, ]ilj's Great Speech in Favor of the Electoral Bill. WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.-The feature, to day, in the House was the ton. minute speeches of members on the Edmunds bill, and there could have been given no better ovidenco of the truth of Mr. Conkliug's parodox when he apologized the other day, iri tho Senato, for the loigth of his spcoch "becauso he had not had timo to shorten it." Noarly every speech was a model in its way of taking Judgo Black's celebrated plan of "coming at once to the middlo of things," of tersonoss and directness to the point desired, and in several instances open applause from both sidos of the Houso greeted the momber as the Speaker's hammer fell. BEN HILL's BRILLIANT SPEECIH. Especially was this so in the case of "Ben" Hill, of Georgia-ho who has 0 always been known as representing the fire.eating elemont of the South. When ho started off the noisy House calmed down to listen as they thought to a repetition of last year's intompe iate madness-to call it by a mild name--but no, the man whose aspira.. tion to the higher scat in the Senate of the United States was at that very moment in tho prosence of realization or defeat, uttered the most patriotic sentiments in a few of the most thril lingly beautiful periods that probably ever were spoken in that chamber. Before he sat down overybody was convinced, even the most partisan do-. magogno loward whom lie was look. ing on the oLher sid3 of tho houso, that he was b dding for no votos, though the snarling pefsimist might say so, but simply giving in a few burning words his adhesion to the measure. His eentonces describing the condition of the South, speaking as, he did of hiiself as the product of Southern institutions, created an "of fusion," to uso a French word, among the listonros of a full house and crowd ed galiet, wbich bruko out in ap plauso so sincere .nd so wcll noriw(e that Randall had not the boart to enrb it with generally industrious gMval. *PEACE I PEACE!I PEACE!I '"The South." cried lhe, ini a splendid burst of genuine oratory, "the South stands neck dccp in the ashes of her poverty," alluding to the results of the civil war-"and her cry is Peace! Peace! Peace! with ono voice-civil war redressos no wrong, preserves no right-if you doubt it look here and be convinced!" and then he came to listperoration, the whole House by this.timne standing mentally a-tip too to hear his words--"My country, my whole country. * * * Iloessed is * ho that blossothi thee, and cursed be be that cursoth thee!" Hero h.o oloscd amitd solid applauso and made a mo, tjon .to siL down, but a little telegraph boy hand him a dispatChi. Hie broke the seal and read what had that mo ment boon received, for it bore the * private mark of "1.30" showing the diinuto it had boen rooeivod: ATLANTA, Ga.-IIon. 13. II, lull You are elected Senator. UILL, KEN NON. '.'o that literally while he0 was ut tering his patriotio words, the ballots 1ygre falling which would give him as a reward the object of his highest atxbition-a scat in the United States .Probably every man in the House ir,the.next hour, Republicans and Deomocrats alike, shook his hand in dotigratulation both for his sliochb and for his .success over Norwood, the prepe'nt Senator. F?rye, of Maine, One of the most Radical members, express. ed thegeneral feeling when he said: 'i give y ou my most Sincere congra. tulatiga," Hill was as pleased with his telegram as a child with a flew toy; smiles flooded his somewhat rug., god face, which, say what you please, ie not the Ideal face or head of an able man, but rather suggest a L erow sonl and a soured life. But his words do not thus slander his heart, if from the heart the mouth speakoth. Hie .remarked to a questioner, alluding to i,s, election, "1 thought it was ps mmU. thi8 mornmin.. bu .o pr .al)o, Keeping tho Door 8hu6 Old man Thompson took on a fresh snpply of cold yesterday, and when he reached his office he determined to keep the door shut and thus keep aloof from cold currents of air that might enter. When the fire in the room had about boated up the room, and Thompson was fairly sunk into the dispatches in the morning paper, some one entered and as usual left the door open. 'Shut the door, you idiot; were you born in a saw mill!' he yelled. The fellow went back and gave the door a slain that astonished the key hole. By an<.by the boy came in with wood for the fire. Of course he left the door open. 'Shut that door!' The boy dropped his wood and obeyed the summons. The next coner was an old man, whose hair was silvered and his form bent. He was on a begging expe dition, and when he came in he left the door open wide enough to let in an ox. 'Shut the door!' bowled Thompson. The old man paused, and kept the door open and said slowly: 'Pin a poor old man without a crumb to eat.' 'Don't care who the devil you are -shut the douorl' 'Don't speak so harsh to an old man-I'll go out in a mnite.' 'EiteLt r come in or go out-but shut the door.' The old ma; studied a little but made no effort to shut the door. Thompsoii could stand it no long er. Jirmping up from bis seat, he gave the door a gentle aliove which broke the lock and shook the glass out of the window. Then he nailed up the door, sat down and felt like he had conquered a nation. The old man then wanted to go out. De said lie didu't want to stay with a man who was so particular. Tlhompsen asked hinm wvhy the dick ens lhe didn't go out when the door 'See here,' said the begger, as he clasised both hands on the head of his stick and leaned forward, 'sup pose some day you are put in a room and that room has iron bars for a window; you hear merry voices from Nithout; you feel the damp, gloomy air of night stealing on, and know that the door is shut and in that dlamp air you will sleep during the night. D- you think you will be eternally yelling, shut the door,' and endeavoring to fasten it more securel)?' Thompson laid down his paper and began to weakeh. 'Suppose,' resumed the old man, 'that the door was locked with a pantent key; that you receive a mes sage from your family, saying one of your children is dying; that your wife is sinking beneath the grief and needed your presence at her bed side! Would you cry out, 'shut the door' when the jailor comnos around.' Thompson arose, p)rized open the door, and when he pressed a dollar bill in the old nian's hand as he was going out, was too deeply affected to hear the old villain say: TIve never known that dodge to fail.' Thlomps)onk is negotiatig for a set of springs, by which he expects to keep his door hermetically sealed. The mountain about Innsbuck in the Tyrol, as well as other parts of the Alps, present, the singular pheno moenon of a climate more moderate at a considerable elevation than in the valleys. Prof. Kerner finds that there is a warm region midway up the mountain, lying between two colder zones above and below it. We have heretofore referred to similar phenommnon in Tndiana. The School Boy's Apple. DIsaAT OF Hs TEAOIIER AT TuE AP PALLING REsuLms ov HER WELL MEANT PUNISHMENT. A South Uill school marm, the other day, whilo working an exam ple on the board, detected an urchin directly behind her in the awful act of devouring an apple. She said to him, "Tim, what are you doing?" "No'hin," said Tim, with his mouth so full that his cheeks stuck out on either bide of his head like an alder man's stomach. "Yes, you are," paradoxically insisted the teacher. "What have you in your handf" "Napple,"said Tim, with some sur prise, as he looked at the fragment of the apple in his hand and wonder ed who had bit it while he was studying. "What has become of the rest of itt" "Dunno," said Tim, looking around in an amazed effort to discover who had the rest of it. "Somebody's been eatin' it." "Have you any more?" demanded the teach. er. "Yes'm," said Tim, dolefully, "Got 'nother." "Where is it?" re lenly pursued the teacher. "'n my desk," sighed Tim, as he began to suspect that the teacner was going to demandl it of him. "Well, take it out and go stand on the platform and cat it." "Eat 'em both?" queried Tim "Yes, eat them both." "Eat all I got" demanded Tim in a subdued tone of countenance. "Yes eat all you have." impatiently responded the teacher, and turning to the board continued, "and don't you leave that platForm while you have any apple left un eaten." Silence reigned in the school room. The paper pellet pursued its tranquil transit unobserved. The busy bum of the studious made more noid than the cautious smile of the indolut. Tim stood at his post. Munch, much, much. The fragment in his hand soon disappeared, and be fell upon the other apple silently btit determin edly. QuickIy it follows the first. Then he put his right haind into his pantaloons pocket, and took out an apple, and after a cautious recon. noitre, during which he wiped it on his trowsers, he -began the attack. Hle carried the fort. Down went that hand again, and another apple was brought to light, It was quickly dispatched. A third followed. Then he changed his position, and, resting the weight of his body on his left leg, sighed as he drew from his left breeches pocket another apple. When it was gone he d.tew on the commisary for another, and by the time he produced the eighth apple le was silently being observed by two thirds of the boys in the room The teacher turned and saw the hoy still standing in the attitude of one who was reaching for something in his coat p)ocket. 'Aren't you through yet?" she querried in some astonishment. "Got another," stoically responded Tim, producing it and falling to work on it. In surprise the teacher saw him reach for still another; and when that was gone, surprise grew to amaze ment as his unwavering hand again sought the mouth of that gaping pocket. As the boy ate he grew in ditnensions, and the teacher became alarmed. There seemed to be no end( to the apples in his clothes. "im, for mercy's sake, have you any more apple?" "Got 'nother," said Tim, in differently. "How many more ap. p1es have you?" "Donno," said Tim "guess I got two or' three more." The teacher did not dare to let him pro ceed, and appointed herself an in vee. tigating committee to look after thme back counties. The boy never chan ged a muscle of his countenance nor moved an inch while the teacher plledO ap)ple after apple out of his coat and stacked them upon the desk, until there was sor'thing le than a oceck j)iled up, with DadO caanty to bear from. The school room was a scene of hilarity which wasn't so 'much sub, dued asit has been. Tim had laid in apples for the winter, and the pocket of his coat havining no bot tom, the coat Was thus an immense bag, which would hold as many ap.. pies as he could carry. The inatter hasn't been laid before the School Board yet, but the exbausted Behool ma'am declares that the next time she will learn how nich of a crop of apples a boy has about him before she issues any orders. Many years ago, before the time of railways, the Oxford coach was full of undergraduates returning to their respective colleges. The day was cold, wet and miserable, when a well-appointed carriage drove up to the White Horse Cellar, Piccadilly. 'Have you room for one inside to Oxfordt' asked as pretty a girl as one would wish to see on a summer day. 'What a beauty!' exclaimed one. 'Quite lovely!' said another. 'Per fect!' lisped a third. 'Quite full, miss,' replied the coachman, 'inside and out.' 'Surely you could make room for one,' persevered the fair applicant. 'Quite impossible, miss, without the gentlemen's consen t.' 'Lots of room,' cries the insiders. 'We are not very large; we canl man ago to take one more.' 'If the young gentlemen consent,' said the driver, who was one of the bost-tempered fellows on earth, and as honest as Aristides, 'I have no objection.' 'We agree,' said the driver. The tare was paid, and the guard proceeded to open the door and let down the stOpS. 'NoW, miss, if you please we are behind our time.' 'Cone along, grandfather,' cricd 1he dam gel, addressing a most respectabIc looking, portly, elderly geitloman; 'the money is paid-get in, and bc sure to thank the gentlemeni, at the same time suiting the action to th< word, and with a wicked smile as, sisting her respected gr'andfathiei into the coach. 'lIero's sot o mis take; you'll squeeze us to deathbl' crie< the astonished under-graduates. Ba at that mom~ent 'All right,' 'Sit fast, was heard, and away rattled thi coach at its best pace, drowning thi~ voices of the crestfallen Oxconians. A Bov's EXPERIMENT.--WO hear< a good joke on a Lexington boy las night. Mr. Sam Ingrahamn, expros agent and North Missouri ticket agon at that town, has two pr'omising sons aged about 5 and 7 years. A day o two since ho found thorn putting nail in their mouths, IIe cautionod then against it, and told thomn of a story 0 a boy who stuck his tongue on an iroi lamp post on a co!d morning. Th boys remembered th at story, an d ycs torday one of thorn resolved to test i to soo whether the ''old man" liod o not. This morning was intonsol; cold, and the boy wont up) to a lam1 post, in front of C2ol. iRoidl's reosidence and stuck his tongue to it. .l1e foun< it was just as the "old man" said. Finally he gavo a jork and loft a big piece of his tongue adhering to th4 post. Ho wont down town to hii father witb his mouth full of blood whmen the "old man" asked him wha was the matter. SpiLting out I mouthful of blood, he answered: "Oh nothing much--I've been trying ye dorned old lamp post gag, and it's dead ner, sure. I loft half my tengui on it.'" And, sure eneugh, ho di< leave a liberal share there, where i was aeon by a great many during th< day.--Sedalla Baz~oo. "What's in ihat satchol?" Said t New York police justico to a bloar' eyed prisoner brought up beforo hirr the other day. "That," said the vie tim, "contains tho0 returns of all tIn Stateos including Dade coun ty, Florida and tho 'bulldozed' pais~h of Louisi ana, and they show that II am pr'esi. don t-oloot of the United Statos." "T w< months," said tho justioc, an)d th< prisonor was uscor ted out. Raising Provisions for Laborers The laborers on every farm should raise the food they consume. If the farmers does not wish to take the risk let him arrange with the hands to cultivate for themselves, under his direction and control, sufficient crops of corn and wheat (not cotton) to sup. ply themselves and families with bread. The farmer can secure for himself the rent of land thus planted and receive pay in work for the use of teams and implements, and thus lose nothing. On the other hand the laborer will secure his bread much cheaper than he can in any other manner. As to meat it would be better-to avoid complication-for the farmer to take the whole of that matter into his own bands, and furN nish his laborers. As heretofore shown, hogs can be raised very cheaply by utilizing wild fruit bearing trees, and planting crops of potatoes, chufas, etc. It will be observed that the course reccommended above, if carried out, would utilize a large portion of our abundant lands now idle. Instead of the negro population being fed from lands cultivated in the Northwestern States, and his money passing through the merchant into the pockets of Northwestern farmers, be would be supported from the lands of the Southern farmers, and they (the farm. ers,) receive practically the rent of a vast quantity of laud now entirely unproductive. We do not hesitate to say that if the Republican party should from any cause be brought to believe that the representation of the colored peo ple can no longer be directed by them in the manner that their heart and consciencts would dictate, the very object of granting that representa tion would be beat promoted by sup. pressing a power captured and turn* ed against its defonders.-Now Or leans Republican. This strange and threatening lan guage is found in the ablest Republican paper ini the South. Stranger still, the Democratic papers of the same city are found standing nip for the rights of the negro in the premises. These things are significant there can be no better proof of the growing good feeling between the Sraces, and that they drew nearer to Sgether, politically, in the recent ele Stion than ever before. 8.>uthren Re publicans threatening to disfranchise tke negro and 8onthren Democrats ethreatening to fight rather than allow a him to be disfranchised. Well, well! i Time does work changes.-Phila I delphia Times. -- John Qutincy Adams wvas in his ninetieth yoar when Charles Mackey 1. grat visited this country. iIe was in e' excellent health, the cause of which r Ia explained by Dr. Mackay. "Mcen )and women;" he said, -'scarcely ever' allow the freshi air of heaven to touch any part of their bod ies except their -hands and face, and eveni to those the ladies are systematicaliy unjust by wearing gloves and veils. The sur face of the beautiful human form requires to be for a certain period of every day exposed to the action of the atmnospher. I take my air-bath regularly every morning, and walk in my bedroom in p)uris naturalibuis with all theowindows open, for a full half hour. I also take a water bath daily. I read and write for eight hours a day. I sleep eight hours, and devote another eight to exercis, con-~ versation and meals. I feel within mnyeAlf a reservoir of bodily strength wbich, I think, will carry me to a hundred years, unless I die by acci dent or am shot or hanged." Many do with opportunities as children do at the seash,ore--flll their little hands with sand and then let the graiins fall through their fingers til they are gone. Waitiug for the Street Cas. The 4tber night, when- the oold was at its coldest, and the freeme at Its freozest, there was a shivering itdi vidnal hugging the corner of Ala bama and Whitehall streets. His hands were thrust Into his pockets as f there was a diamond at the bot toni of each, and his thin coat was buttoned so tightly around him that the print of his ribe stood out boldly but coldly. 'What's the matter with you Jake why don'tyou go home?' inquired a passing friend. 'vell, I goes right away quick if der street gar cums 'long' People passed and repassed, but the familiar jihgle of the street car bell was not heard. Hour after hour dragged slowly by, and our Dutch friend shivered on. Growing impatient be hailed. a man and asked: 'Vot's de madder mit does adreet gars enny howl' 'They are not running now-they are taken off till the freeze Is up,' re plied the man. Gootnese oraebhis, Ish dot so? yelled the astonished. German, who, by this time was abqnt the same thing as a snow-figure, 'Vell py sliiny, dot ieh tem padet vot for day doose dott 'Because . Hayes is elected and Grant has sold the country to Xing William., 'Mein Got in hiemel)l I en py tam I valks. Done sole 'em to Keeng Wile helmI Tam der adreet gars- vud valk now if it vas gold ash der tuy vel und der adreet gars ride me for nud dings. Rueraw for Sheneral Grant enny how-he vas do pulliest gkind of a a'ir-bin dat I effer knowed abond.' And the Teutonic gentlenan struck out for home in a trot that would have astonished the nimblest street car mule in the city. A CURE FOR DIPBITUERIA.--Dr. Ohenery, of Boston, has lately dis covered that hypoeulphate of soda is the specific remedy against diphthe" ria-that so much dreaded ailment, which of late years has carried off many valuable live.. He reports a very large numb*er of cases (158 within his own .practice) saved by the use of this remedy. The dose of the hyposulphate is from 5 to 15 grains or more in syrup, every two or four hours, according to age and circumstance. It can do no harm, but if too much is given it will purge; as much as the patient can bear withs out purgin)g is a good rule in the ses verer cases. The solution or mixture cani be used in doses of five drops to half drachmnn in milk. The amount for thorough stimulation is greater than can be taken in water. The doctor usually gives it in such dose. as can be easily taken in milk, using milk besides as food for small chil dIren?. One fact, however, needs to be borne in mind, namely, the hypo4 8u11phate prevents the digestion of milk, an~d it should not be given in less than an hour af ter taking~~tie medicine. They may be used alter--. nately, however, without interference in sufficient frequent doses. BA Doos.-While tho Spitz dog is attracting the attention due to his viciousness, the Siberian bloodhound should not be neglected. Ho comes from as oold a locality as his white robed relative, he is just as depraved In disposition, and his size makes him ten times as useful in a lbone dust factory, a sausage mill or man ure heap. Governor ilampton declined to furnish money for the sustenwece of the State Colored Orphan's AByIum, on the ground that its trustees and other officers refuised *o recognize hia governmenCIt.