The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, February 10, 1881, Image 1
DEVOTED TO POLITICS, MORALITY, EDUCATION AND TO TIE GENERAL INTERE3T OF THE UOUNTRY.
'By Do Fs BRADLEY & 00 PICKENS,S CTH, 1. VOL. X.--NO, 21.
ENGLISH KISSES.
estnmaounar to the Xweeteem ot Anglican
OaCtation.
The women of England (says Polydoro
Virgil), in the Parisia not only salute
their relations with e kiss, but all per
sons promiscuously 'and, this ceremony
they repeat, ge . ly touching them with
the lips, not or with gace, but without
the least im odesty. Such, however, as
are of tht) lood-royal do not kiss their
inferiors but offer the back of the hand,
as mer do by way of saluting each other.
Erafnus writes in raptures to one of his
fiends on this subject. "Did you but
9 now, my Faustus," says he, "the
pleasures which E ngland affords, you
would fly hero on wmged fet, and, if
.your gout wbuld not allow you, you'
would wish . self a Doadalus. To men
tion to you,6neamong many things, hero
are nymhAs of the loveliest looks, good
* humoreo,, easy of access, and whom you
would p .cfer even to your favorite muses.
Herea iso prevails a custom never enough'
to brA commended, that wherever yoa
cornm. everyone receives you with a kiss,
an.'1 when you take your leave everyone
g1ves you a kiss; wheu you return, kisses
'Again meet you. If anyone leaves ybu
4they leave you with a kiss; if you meet
anyone the first salutation is a kiss; in
short, wherever you go kisses everywhere
e about; which, my Faustius, did you once
taste how very sweet and how very
fragrant they are, you would not, like
Solon, wish for ton years' exile in Eng
land, but would desire there to spend the
vhole of your life." Antonio Perez
fSecretary to the Embassay from Philip
II. of Spain, writes thus to the Earl of
.Essex: "I have this day, accoiding to
the custom of your country, kigsed, at an
entertainment, seven females, all of them
accomplished in mind and beautiful in
person." Dr. Pierius Winsemius, his
toriographer to their Mightincesses the
States of Friozland, in his Chronijck van
Prieslandt, printed in 1662, informs us
that the pleasant custom was utterly un
practiced and unknown in England (just
as it is this day in New Zealhid, where
sweethearts only know how to touch
noses when they wish to be kind) until
the fair Princess Rouix, the daughter of
King Hongist of Friezland, "pressed the
beaker with her lipkins" (little lips) and
saluted the amorous Vortigern with a
husjon (little kiss.)
The Shopping 1ls8or Wives.
American shopkeepers and American
shoppers alike shQ'uld be interested in
the case of the l9.rge sillagoods firm of
Delgei am & Feobody i England
against Mr. Mllon for the recovery of
the cost of d(esses furnished to his wife
whom he .ad forbidden to incur bills.
The cas 'went from court to court up to
- the H rIe of Lords, where it was finally
decided by that august tribunal in favor
of Ar. Mellon. T1he Lords expressly
ri, ed that " Where a husband makes
is wife an allowance, and expressly for
ids her to run up accounts in his name,
lie cannot be held liable for any goods
she may obtain by drawing upon is
credit ; and, indeed, that, unless the
seller can show that special authority
hass been con~ferred by the husband on
th le wife, the soller cannot-recover judg
ment." In this case it was admitted
that the 4foods charged for were of a
kmnd suitable to Mrs. Mell on's rank and
conditican of life, but the presumption
usually- created by such an admission in
faivo2. of the seller 'n as held to be over
ruled by an absolute conjugal prohibi
t4an even where the seller was not ap
.rised of the prohibition. It was inti
mated during the argument that shop
keepers, before giving a wife credit,
might readily protect themselves by
makig inqifries of the husband, and
the court held that due care and caution
could not be considered to have been
exercised where this was not done.
No New Jokes.
Tb.'ere is absolutely nothing new in
40es They never die. The jokes that
are familar to us are those which our
.-ancestors enjoyed. They are found in
the most ancient litersature that remains,
and in hieroglyphics of the ruined monu-.
ments of dead emp~ires. Their unchang(ed
existence through these ages does not al
low that these, like the earth and man,
may have been created by a process of
development; they must have been
created absolutely. At some stage of
the work of creation the jokes were
launched into being, and they have con
tinued to revolve by their own gravity,
the same as the Planets. None of themE
can be annihilated any more than matter,
*nor can anlother be added. No person who
attempta originality can get recognized
as a wit, but any man can, who has
talent for memorizing the old stock
jokes and funny stories, and for working
them over on all occasions.g
How Three Debts Were Paid.
A singular coincidence, showing how
. much can be done by die payment of
even a small debt, happened at Bangor,
Me. A gentleman was at the wharf, in
tending to purchase some lobsters, when
two gentlemen came up and engaged
with him in conversation. The first gen
tleman said to the second: "I believe I
owe you a dollar." "Yes," replied the
second, "I believe vou do." The second
*man then spoke to Lhe third: "I believe
I also owe you a dollar," which fact the
third man acknowledged, and he also
said that he owed the firat man a dollar,
which he desired to pay. In this trans
action tho three men each paid their in
debtedness to each other, and they did so
without passing any money between
them. _________
DuiNYER has a policeman Who writes
,poetry and the editor who (refuse~s to
publs it is m labl to gtoe sok-n
SIGNS OF FOUL WEATHER.
BY DB. JENNEB.
The hollow winds begin to blow
The clouds look black, the glass Is low;
The soot falls down the spaniels sleep,
And spiders from their cobwebs poei
Last night the sun went pale to bed;
Tho moon in halos hid her head.
The boding shepherd heaves a sigh,
For, see a rainbow spans the sky.
The walls are damp, the ditches smell;
Closed Is th, pink-eyed pimpernel.
Hark I how the chairs and tables crack.*
Old notty's Joints are on the rack
Her oorns with shooting pains torment her,
And to her bed untimely sent her.
Loud quack the ducks; the sa-fowl cry;
The distant hills are looking nigh.
How restless are the snorting swine I
The busy flies disturb the kine.
Low o'er the grass the swallow wings;
The cricket, too, how sharp lie sings I
Puss on the hearth, with velvet paws,
Sits wiping o'er her whiskered jaws.
The smoke from chimneys right asceids,
Then, spreading, book to earth it bends.
The wind, unstewly, veers around,
Or settling in the south is found.
Through the clear stream th filshes rise
And nimbly catch the incautions flies.
The glowworms numerous, clear and bright,
Illumed the dewy hill last night.
At dusk the squalid toad was seen,
Like quadruped, stalk o'er the green.
The whirling wind the dust obeys,
.And in the rapid eddy plays.
The frog has changed his yellow vest
And in a russet coat is dressed.
The sky is green, the air is still,
The mellow blackbird's voice is shrill.
The dog, so altered in his taste,
Qiits mutton-bones on grass to feast.
iehold tho rooks--how odd their flight I
They imitate tho gliding kite,
And seen procipitato to fall,
As if they felt the piercing balL
T'ho tender colts on back do lie,
Nor hoed the traveler passing by.
In fiery red the sun doth rise,
Then wades through clouds to mount the skies.
'Twill surely rain, we sco't with sorrow
No working in the flolds to-morrow.
'The Une, "Hark! how the chairs and tables
crak," is incorrect, as the cracking-that is, contrac
tion-indicates fair weather, from the diminution of
moisture.-Steinnwtz.
THE RIGHT MAN AFTER ALL.
Viola had found a lover; or at least
John Ellsworth aspired to that dis
tinction.
Two years ago, the paternal Ellsworth
had given John on his twenty-third
birthday a deed of a small, gooA farm
near his own. John set aboift making a
home for himself, with one of his half
dozen sisters to manage it, and went at
his farming in earnest. And the younger
female portion thought him rather a de
sirable object to maneuver for.
Perhaps that was one reason why
Viola had been so gracious to him. It
was something to secure, without an ef
fort, attentions that all the other girls
schemed for. But John Ellsworth did
not realize her ideal. Under her calm
exterior, she dreaded romances of the
mdst vivid rose-pink.
One June night, driving over to see
his3 lady, Jolmi found her w-ith an unu
sual flush on her fair young face. She
rode with him-accepting his invitation
in a matter-of-courso way that was dread
fully discouraging.
It came out, after a little while, that
Mrs. Mornington, a great-aunt, had sent
for her photograph a month ago, not
having seen her since she was a child.
Two days ago had come an invitation to
spend a couple of months with her (the
great-aunt) in New York, and she was
goimg to-morrow.
"It's no use denying," the young
fellow said, his voice growing husky,
" that I'm sorry for this. I don't know
what will come to you from this. You
are not contented here ; you never will
be until you have had an experience
beyond it --perhaps not then.1I am not
wise enough to toll you now, I sup
pose ; but I love you, Viola. Mind, I
do not ask you now for any return. I
shall wait for what~ the future may put
in your heart to say."
"Indeed I do care for you,
John ; and you can't blame me for
wanting to go. Aunt needs me, you
see ; and no one does here, particularly.
And I've never seen anything of so
ciety."
" I know, dear
" And I shall not forget you," inter
rupting hum. " I shall always think of
you "--giving hinm her hand.
"For two whole months," a little
sadly. "Good-by, then." kissing tho
hand he held. And then Viola found
herself alone, and then went to finish
her packing.
Viola's next two months were delight
f ul. She was always prettily dressed,
and Frank Thorpe passed his valuable
time beside her.
John Ellsworth called on her tho
night after her return.
" You look well and happy," ho said,
scanning her face.
" I am," she said ; and she told him all
about her delightful visit.
" And are you going to settle with
us n0w?7"
" Oh, no!i I stay here only a few
days. My aunt is comning for me as she
roturns from a visit she is paying."
" Poor fellow I" -Viola said, as ne
went down the moonlit road. And then
Frank Thrn' dreamily sad gray eyes
came up before her, and she forgot John
Ellsworth's shady brown ones.
Mrs. Mornington came and took the
young lady away, and Frank Thorpe
was once again hanging around her-a
mosit desirable matrimonial prize.
Thie Christmas holidays came and
went. Frank Thorpe lounged in on
Christmas day, and was paler and more
listless than ever.
Mrs. Mornington gave her first bit of
advice to her young charge that night.
."Frank Thorpe is not a man to trifle
with, my dear. I think he is in love
withjyou. You oould hardly do better."
"1Do better ?" raising her b~road lids
-for a full, steady look. "I hadn't
thought there was to ho any calculation.
No, Frank does not care for me, aunt."
" If he is in love with vou. so much
tIhe better. Rut comeo; Mrs. Grove's
ball must be attended."
Viola went to that ball, and froze
Frank Thorpe. who. unconscious of of
fense, languidly assumed his usual sta
tion near her.
Among Mrs. Grove's guests that night
was a rather good-looking man, who
certainly was no longer young. Having
lost one wife. he was now looking for an
other. When he was presented to Viola
she was barely civil. Mr. Nicolson
seemed to like it.
Frank Thorpe had ceased being
frozen. To tell the truth, Viola made
the advances. There was a shado more
of languor in his manner, and his sad
gray eyes had an added shadow; but he
sought no explanation from her.
One frosty, sparkling mornin Viola
had been out for a walk. On the way
she met Frank Thorpe, as she was very
apt to do. He accompanied her home
and entered the house with her. Then
Viola, feeling bright herself, began lect
uring him on his purposeless life.
"If I were a man-"emphatically.
"Thank hleaven you are not I How
ever, go on."
" You put me out, Mr. Thorpe ; why
don't you do something?'"
" Do somethina? Don't I? I am
your devoted attendant three-fourths of
my waking life."
" Yes, and get yourself and me talked
about by everybody. Not that I care,
certainly," hurriedly to recover her
blunder. "I shall choose my friends
where I please," making matters worse,
of course.
" You see," lie said, leaning forward
and laying his hand confidentially on
her armji, "I cannot bear to see a clear
hearted, honest girl lowering herself to
the ways of these artificial, brainless
girls, who have been bred up all their
lives in the business of catching a hus
band. You don't need any paltry ambi
tion. Wait until you find a man worth
falling in love with, and then marry him.
Wait forever, if you don't find him."
Viola sat motionless with astonish
ment. If any dumb thing had found
voice she would not have been more
amazed. And she felt so fully called to
administer advice. While she sat, his
hand still on her arm, and his eyes still
on her face, the door opened, and John
E1lsworth was ushered in. Viola swept
towarci in with eager, outstretchd
hands.
Frank Thorpe, being disturbed by this
new-comer, who was called John, and re
ceived with such an outbreak of enthusi
asm, gathered himself up and lounged
away.
John Ellsworth was in town for a fort
night. Viola always accepted his invi
tations, and when the time came -for
their fulfillment there was some unavoid
able obstacle in the way.
Then Lent came and there was a sud
den cessation of gayety. John was
called away by his father's illness, and
Viola felt the inevitable reaction.
It was alike everywhere. In the nar
row circle out of which she had come
there were jealousies and heart-burnings,
and petty schening-no better and no
worse than she had come to know in the
past weeks, though possibly less dis
guised by smooth, conventional polish of
manner. Wait till she met a man she
loved ! She might wait until shre was
gray and blind. There had never ap
peared one to whom sire could give a
second thought, unless it was-well, per
haps, John Eilsworth, if the life that
wvould follow with him were not too niar
row to breathe in ; or Frank Thorpe, if
lie were niot too lazy to speak. Arid
then, by contrast, there came a vision of
Mr. Nicolson and all his wealth.
If she had shown the first symptoms
of her nmoodls to Mr. Nicolson lie would
have desisted from his attentions at once.
Here was youth and beauty in a statu
esque state of perfection. That was
what he wanted-the statuesqueness,
and everybody considered it a settled
I think Viola began to consider it her
self. Sire had just one letter from John
Ellsworth after his return, anid lie said:
" I love you,Viola, and am waiting for
you."
Sire did niot even answer thre letter.
But sihe was cross, even with Mrs. Morn
inigton, for two days after it.
Theu she was seized with a fit of
homesickness, anid, had her friend not
b~een taken very suddenly ill, nothing
would have kept her there. Mr. Nic
olson cameo more frequently than esor;
in his way, very kiim and considerate.
One night in early spring Frank
Thorpe came and took Viola out for a
drive.
" You are looking tired. We may not
have another such night for a month,"
Frank said(.
In th)e half hour they did not speak
half a dozen sentences, andl yet when ho
set her down at her own door, andl hold
her hand for a minute as lie said "Fare
well," Viola felt that they were nearer
each other than ever before.
Viola was one morning summoned to
the drawing-room to meet Mr. Nicolson.
In the occupation of the past weeks she
had had very little opportunity to thrinik
ab~out him or his pnurposes. No
girl ever went to meet the final question
with less determination as to her answer.
She knew his errand~ the moment she
entered the room. Not that he was con
fused or hesitating, or in any wvay dis
concerted. -
"My dear young lady," he said, "I
wa'nt your permission to ask you a per,~
sonal question."
" You have it, sir," she said.
And then, in a spechb which was more
like a set oration than anything elso
Viola had ever heard, he offered her his
hand and fortune.
Shre went up-stairs to Mrs. Morning
ton, saying:
" And I've done it I And I am so
surprisead!"
" At what ?"
" I refused Mr. Nicolson."
" Perhaps you will be sorry that you
"Perhaps. I shall never be sur
prised at anything again."
A servant announced Frank Thorpe.
" Aunt, shall I-" and paused. Even
in her reckless, over-excited mood she
could not complete her sentence.
" all you be kinder to him than
you have been to Mr. Nicolson?"
" Don't ask me."
So Viola went down to see her visitor
who was at the full tido of his languid,
tired indifference.
"How very entertaining you are to
day. Your conversational powers are
something to be wondered at," Viola
said at last, impatiently.
"Entertainin ?" opening his oyes
with mild woner.I " I supposedi thiat
your share of the interview. However,
if you like, I'll begin. You are not
looking as well as usual this morning..'
" Thank you. What a very promis
ing begnming."
" But you havo infinitely the advan
tage of Mr. Nicolson, whom i met just
now. He seemed laboring under the
impression that there had been an carth
qualike."
"And so there has been. Thero: talk
about something else. You needn't be
entertaining any more."
" Miss Rawdon," the servant an
nounced, and that put an end to it all.
Viola reasoned herself into the con
victioti that she was in love with Frank
Thorpe, and, if not actually in that con
dition, she might easily find herself
there.
The crisis was not far off. Coming in
irom an erran(, that night, she found
all the dimly-lighted house empty, and
went on from room to room till, in the
library, she opened the door on Frank
Thorpe.
" Since you were not at home, I came
to find for myself a volume Mrs. Morn
ington had promised me," he explained.
But he closed the door as he gave her a
chair, as if the tete-a-tete were a part of
his plan.
" We might as well begin with a clean
record," he said, with a great deal of
hard earnestness in his voice. " You are
not my first love, Viola. Not quite two
years ago she jilted me. I was in an aw
f III spoony condition-there's no denying
it-and for a few weeks thought it
would ho the death of me. One morn
ing my letters and trinkets came back
to me. There was not a word of ex
planation, and I did not choose to ask
any."
" And the young lady's name?"
"Emily Prescott."
" Emily Prescott? Why, that is the
young lady I met this afternoon. Just
home from abroad-in Paris mourning.
Her father and mother both died some
whero in France in the springr, and she
came home with the Mertons.
" Viola," staring at her with eager
eyes, " I can't believe it," dropping into
a chair. " My poor darling---"
" It seeins to me, Frank, that the lit
tie arrangement we entered into ten
minutes ago might as well be quietly
annulled. Your 'poor darlinm' is at
present with the Mortons. Hafin't you
better go up there at once and rear
range the programme ?"
"I dlon't know. Viola, you will think
me a scoundrel, but I believe I love her
yet."
" Of course you do. Who doubts it ?
There, don't say a woman can't be gen
erous."
After that nothing could keel) her in
New York, and three (lays after reaching
home, driving her old-fashioned pony
chaise over the green country road, she
came upon ,John Ellsworth wvalking, anid
he necepted her invitation to ride.
" It is good to he hero again. I was
thoroughly homesiok."
" When are you to be married? "
"Never ! " with a burst of vehemence:
"unless you-oh, John!" with a hys
terical sob.
At home a telegram awaited her. Mrs.
Mornington was dead.
Mrs. Mornington died poor. She had
spent all her money. So Viola was not
an heiress afte~r all.
Old-Time Epizootics.
Thanks to the general use of steam in
traveling, it is comforting to reflect that
in spit~e of thme very great anniovance and
inconvenijence caused by the horseodis
eases in recent years, particularly by the
epizootic which prev'ailed in thme year
18S72, the inconvemiences to which peo
pie are subjected nowadays in the lack
of horses are really much less grave than
those which our ancestors had to conl
tend with, in similar cirumnstances. For
our forefathers, the p~revalenco of a so
veoro epizootie meant the cessation of all
traveling and transortation, wheth~er
for long or for short distances; except
ing, of course, such service as may be
done by oxen and by men on foot. Some
idea of thme gravity of the situation is
suggested by the following extracts from
an old Birmingham newspaper : On
February 4, 1760, notice was published
that " the hmorses belonging to the Bir
mniinghiam stage coach are so much af
fected by the present distemper that pro
vatils among them, that its journios are
obligedl to he (discontinued until their
recovery." And in the week followving
another notice appears under that ol
F'ebruary 11, 1760, "the horses belong.
in g to the Birmingham stago coach are
still so bad that it wvould be dangerous kc
attemplt their going with the coach this
weok; but on Monday next, the 18th,
Mr. Peyton proposes that the coach shall
set out to go from hence as usual ; aftem
which he hopes it will meet with nc
other interruption."
WirmN a man asks a favor at a newspa
per office, gnd states that ho has been a
subscriber for a number of years, a de
nial becomes an impossihility. Theo ar
gamnest is clinched, and he can have the
entire0 establishment for the asking.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
At Brownville, Texas, the recent snow
storm was the first in fourteen years.
Farm hands are said to be more scarce
in Thomas county, Ga., than they have
been since the war.
Three hundred German carp have been
piaced at various points uip the St. John
river in Florida.
A Louisiana planter says that lie con
siders twenty geese in a cotton field equal
to one hoc-hand.
Negroes are said to be leaving adsden
county, Fil., in such numbers that it
anounts to an excdus.
Toccoa, Ga., liaving l existence of
eight years, has acquiredi a thrifty popu
lation approximating i thousaind souls.
Thousanids of robins roost in a cane
brake about fifteen miles from Homer,
LU. They are taken to Homer by the
sackfull.
A clipper ship, brought into Port
Royal, S. C., loaded With guano, came
up to the (lock at half-tide, drawiing
twenty-one feet.
In Louisiana the census exhibits -173
Chinese, 819 In-i 'ans and halfbreeds,
eight half-Chinese, one West Indian and
one East Indian.
N. Garbini has been electe(d President
of the New Orleans Fruit ai(n Produce
Associattion, a new and permanent organi
zation of wholesale fruit dealers.
In the list four months of 1880 col
portuers of the American Bible- Society
supplie( 1,913 destitute families and 955
destitite in(lividuals with the Bible.
Harry Stephens, the well-known col
ored body-servant of H on. Alex. U.
Stephens, who died last week, at Craw
fordville, was the owner of perhaps $20,
000 worth of property.
The St.. Augustine (Fa.) Press says
that the majority of the farmers there
albouts, instead of raising their own corn,
buy it at the city stores. A cotton plantel
could scaircely do worse thai that.
An amendment of the constituticn o
Arkansas has been proposed in the Leg
islature, providing that the general elec
tions shall occur every fourth year, Stat<
Representatives be elected for four vearn
and the Legislatur' meet every fourth
years.
The Perry, Ga., Home Journli sauy
that the o0d plantation system, almost
universail inl Houston county before thec
war, has gone to) its dleathI, and small
farmi; now conisti tute the order of augri
cultural Work. There are very few ten
nule farms in Ifloustoni.
he(re2 is a p~ropositioni to form a newi
North Carolina county ou
of parts of Sampson, .Johm.
ston, Wayne. Cumberland andl lar
niett counlties. There are several propo
sitions to cut off portions of Wake county
ior the formation of ncew counties, but
Raleigh is averse.
At Scarb~oro, Ga., John F. Toole ib
President, Warreii R. Wood, Treasurer,
and1 .Janes A. Fulchier, Secretary, of the(
"First National Non-cursing Society,
Scarbero D ivision No. 1.", The object
of thme organization is to discontinule the
practice of p)rofanet swearing.
By a clerical error, in making up the
list of cities for census blle~tin No. 45,
the p)opullationi of one enumeration dis
ract of A thinta was omitted. 'The true
enlt of the Census, says, is 37,121, not
34,:398, as p~rev'iously announced.
Rteal e'state in the business part of Or
angeburg, S. C., is as high as ini Charles.
tnn. A cottoni factory with four 1Cem.
cut attachments is established. Theo crof
of upland rice raised ini the (coun1ty wvil
prob~aly reach abuit 410,000 bushels
Thec cotton crop is betweeni 30,000 am
40,000 bales.
The answer of the citizens of Memphi
to the petition of bondhiolders or credi
tors of the 01(1 corporation of Memphi
alleges thmat the compromise proposedl b:
thc taxing (listrict, twenty-five cents om
the dollar, and in add~lition, the taxe
due the 01(d city, say $1,248,982, is fair
just and honlorable.
Knloxville, Tfenn., wats laidl out in 1791
and named ini honor of General Knox
of Revolutionary fame. 'The first Tfer
ritorial Leg(islat ure asse'umledC the(re ii
1791, the conisti tutioa cOI'I(onIventionl i
1795, and the first State Legislatuire ir
1796. T1hue scat of government was~ re
moved to Nashville in 1810.
Ricbmond l)ispatch :t AIr. Jieffersom
lla v i does no4 t make il nmerouls chan~ge.
inI his proflb-sheets, lie is unot thme umanu l
was in 1 850. 'hen hc ile luuI a 1 hbit a
chaniginmg the r-porter's notes to 'uch ai
extent that his speeches seemed almost
to be new ones, or rather not the same
which he had delivered in the Senate.
A bill is pending before the Florida
Legislature providing for four examining
medical boards-at Pensacola,Tallahamsee,
Jacksonville and Key West-which shall
examine applicants and grant certifloates
to those only who are qualified to dis
charge the functions of a medical expert.
The bill is not retroactive, and will not
disqualify physicians now practicing.
President Haygood, of Emory College,
Georgia, says that in 1876 the improved
lands in Georgia amounted to 28,787,539
acres. In 1880 the aggregate had grown
to 29,815,581 acres, the increase of four
years being sufficient to provide farms of
100 acres cach for nearly 11,000 families.
le says the colored people are buying
farms of from twenty to fifty acres, and
getting excellent returns from them.
Evidently lie does not believe in the
decadanice of Georgia.
Charleston (S. C.) News and Courier:
To-day the leading men of Mississippi
Arkansas and Texas are Georgians, and
in every county and neighborhood, al
mort, in those States the controlling
spirit is a Georgian. The Governor of
Texas is a Georgian, so are both the Sen
ators from Mississippi. She has given
three( Governors to Texas, two to Mis
isippli, a G'overnor and Senator to Ala
baina, and her ablest and best men to
Arkansas.
The mUannfacture of brick is one of the
most important industries of Macon, Ga.
The material furnished by the land be
low Macon, in the Ocmulgee swamp, and
a tract extending across the Brunswick
railroad is said to be unexcelled in the
world for purity and firmness. The Ka
con . Telegraph and Messenger thinks
there is no reason why the number of
manufactories should not be increased,
and the production of pottery, pipes,
drains, etc., for the whole State entered
upon.
An old negro near Stockton, Clinch
county, Ga., has invented for himself a
new plan for planting orange trees, and
has planted several hundred. He plants
them among the green pines, and leaves
the pines standing to protect the orange
trees. le clears up a space twelve feet
square and plants an orange tree. Two
gentlemen in Clinch county propose to
plant a grove on an island in the Su
wanooche, near Dupont. A gentleman
in anl adljoininmg county c intemplates set
ting out several thousand~ trees..
A Charlottesville, Va., correspondent
of the Richmond Dispatch says that
George Rogers Clarke "lived within
sight of Charlottesville, though two
miles and a half away. I have been to
the old house-place. There is not a ves
tige of the buildings left, but the situa
amtion commalnds a umost beautiful view
of a large extent of country, looking
wvestwardl and northward, and southward
down the Rivanna valley, and is on the
Southwest mountains, on the farm now
owned lby Mr. Redfield. The Clarke
famuily owned thousands of acres of land
in that section, embracing even Edge
1l1ll, the residence of the late Thomas J.
Randolph, fivn miles away.''
Sedentary habits.
The alarming increase of late years in
the proportion of sudden deaths is be
ginmng to attract the attention of statist
icians. It is largely due, no doubt, to
more general mental activity without a
proportionate increase in bodily exercise.
The busy life of the age demands a con
stant hurry and excitement, and taxes
the physical powers to the utnmost to
keep up in the race for money-ge'tting.
One of the disadvantages of introducing
facilities of transp~ortation is the tempta
tion to cut short time and distance by
the habitual use of steam cars and horse
cars even in the daily transit from the
dwelling to the office. A sedentary oc
cupation begets an almost unconquera-.
blo0 aversion to regular exercise, and the
result of yielding to the indisposition is
that the mental powers, kept at a steady
tension for years, will some day suddenly
relax and leave their abuser either life
- less or a helpless paralytic. To literary
mand professional men is vigorous and
regular exorcise especially needful, and
the example of its effects in a hale old
age will suggest themselves to every one.
Trhe exercise needed to keep the mmd in
tone and the physical force unabated, up
to the three score years and ten, is not a
dafily spinl behind a fast stepping horse,
but the long swinging gait which puts
the walker over a coutry road at the
rate of three or five miles an hour, and
send1s the blood pusling with invigorat
ing life to every .portion of the system.
Two hours exercise a day, so far from
being a positive waste of time, is a posi
tive economy, supplying the nervous
force for more and better work In ten
hours than the man of street oars and
carriages can get out of twelve. -New
London Telegqram.
SOne passenger Is killed by the rail
roads foy every 41,778 775 miles traveled,
and one Is either killeA or wounded for
everv 11.874.888 miles.