Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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A CONVENTION of the short-hand writers of the United States and Canada is to be held at Chicago during September. ., PEOPLE who talk a good deal occasion ally get misrepresented by the press, and that seems to be the fate of Dr. Bliss. THE Northwest is a great country. The Minnesota wheat crop is in excess of that of 1880 more than 10,000,(10 bushels. KANSAS farmers have agreed to sus pend the cultivation of wheat for a time, in order to eradicate the chinch bug pest. I NINETE=N preachers and one editor departed oh a steamer for Europe the other day.' The thing was pretty evenly balanced. THERE have been twenty-two murders in Chicago since New Year's Day. How ever, it is thought that the business will look up a little this fall. DAN RIcE'S third wife, a bride of three weeks, is suing for a divorce. There is evidently something wtrong with the old showman. SrrTNG BULL has two wives. He says that thus he is enabled to show more children on the ground at the payment a of annuities and can dlraw more mnorey. CINCINNATI is looking forward to her Exposition with considerable pride. The demands for space are greater than 'the Bpard of Commissioners will be able to ~meet, SOUTHL~AND, Ncw Zealand, rep~ortsi eighty b~ushels of oats and wheat to the acre, and in on district, one huured and seventeen bushels to the acre. Reports, we say. ______ GREAT numbeiN of draught horses, English and Norman breeds, have boen imported into this country. The breed ing of these animals has beconic an important industry in Illinois. TaE Tndianopolis Herald holds that the word " mean" can be most? tppro priately applied to the temperature of - the past month. It can. The mean temn perature was contemptible. 'A HOnSE-CAR driver of Toronto was once a Jesuit priest well-known in Eng land and Ireland, and he says that a late eoniductor was a Dominican friar and in macred orders. Thus do we asoend the ladder of fame. *ArTuovorn guilty of one hundred and thirty seductions, Spotted Tail was re garded as a pretty good sort of an In dian. From this the reader can draw his own conclusion as to what would con. etitute a bad Indian. Tnx Czar is provoked beyond en dur ance. He has lately receiVedl models of different weapons and engines of assass 3 ination, accompanied by a polite request to select the one he chooses to be used upon his own person. AMONG the pyrotechnio exibitions at the Yorktown Centennial will be a representation of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis, forty feet sqnrare. Eight set pieces will be displayed from~ rafts oi canal boats in the river. T H Dallas Gazette asks this easy one. \ "Can a man, with his hide full of bad bappenings in the dtW of Dallas for 2 fl Wpaper ?" Well, e S 'la say not. Godwhisky is bad ennh That or nohing. IT rs estiniatod that e loss to the corn crop of Ohio for 1 , on account of bad seed, will not b less than 40,. 000,000 bushels, and in 'nois, 60,000 000. It would seem fro such alarming totals that in future it uld pay well to make more careful se tions of seed. ADEnINA PA'T, the lmca donna of the Iyric stage, in her erican tour, will not visit Cincinn Why, does not appear. This fact rather aston ishing when we conside hat Cincinnati people claim to be pect rly of a mu sical disposition, and ssessed of an exquisite musical taste. A BALTIMORE million named David Carroll left a sensible w In it he set aside $100,000 with whi to defend the will against possible liti tion. In case there is no litigation, t $100,000 is to be divided equally amo the heirs. It may be depended upon, tere will be no litigation under the circ stances. THERE is a man in No York who sig nifies a desire to be me Guiteau's bondsman, provided tl when he is released he will be se perfectly free, undisguised and not pro ted by guards or the military. We do -iot think that any one will object to th . It is a protty good scheme. WHAT a blessing it i hat we can al ways grumble at the w ther, and yet, not without reason. I is too hot, too cold, too wet or too hangeable. It never is just right, and never will be. But we have a right to mble, and as long asIt don't cost a thing, we are going to do it. THE electric lights a acted so many flies to the hotels in St. Louis that they had to be disc itinued. Now then you can figure o what we mean, whether it was the flies, otels, or lights that were discontinued; nd inst about half the paragraphers in lie country put things in this ambiguoui shape. THE "Mellennium rings," in Ar kansas, makes those o drink of its waters, hug, and kiss d frisk about. It also makes them drun. People have been doing these things oo much since the time of Adam and w can not for the life of us see what good 'u come of the discovery. 'We shall be. a pack of fools somo day. WE AnE shocked at the Cincinnati Gazette. It says: " is a sqrrowful fact that the barrooms re more honest with their lemons than he temperance pibnics." This is a S commentary. We knew that tile chu chi had hlad a *imilar charge set over a inst it, but we never thought it would o any further. A CCORIDING to a pape read by Dr. y. B. Billings, of Washin on, at the In ternlational Medical Ooi erence in Lon don, there are 180,000 iysicians in the world, of whom 11,600 re pruducers of mledical literature or c tributors to it. In scientific medical lite ituro Germany leads ; in p~racticaL me 'cal literature France is foremost. THE mystery sulrroulnding tile death of Jennie Cramer, at New Haven, Ct.., is attracting considerale a tt ention. The Mallery brothers, the sobs of a rich mer chant, one of whom wahi Jennie 's suitor anld eeducer, anid Miss Clements alias Blanche Douglass, a fast womani from Newv York, suspicion strnngly points to as 11cr mrderers. Miss Cramer was the belle of New Haven. WonK on De Lessep's canal is not progressing satisfactorily. Four em ployes have died, M. Etienne, sub-con tractor, at Aspinwall, of softening of the brain ; Mr. Bertrand, his Secretary, of malaria, and Messrs. Barrier and Di lembowski, from overwork. The cli mate is malarions, the roiling stock anti quated, and the engineering poor with work unsystematized, Americans will have to do that job yet. Tais Salt Lake I~eratel tails a remark alo story. Amorig thie many pros peet '~ mAl u * ear ago were four young men, who were 'ewarded by the discovery of a valuable miak near Hailey. One of the young men had ' lady friend, and it was decided to name the mine after her, and to so fix the title that, in cas6 of their death, it should be hors. Last winter, while working upon their claim, the whole party was buried be neath a snow-slide ; and now the young lady is planning what good she will do with the $65,000 that has been offered her for her neat little legacy. THE hip pocket is having things all its own) way in Chicago. They don't consider it mach of a day now when there isn't at leaist, one murder in that city, and in most of the cases they never seem to find tihe fellow. Whten now and then some one decliines to mtake his escape, and is locked up in jail, the ladies in Chicago overwhalm him with bouquets and go on so about him that the average Chicago man goes around with a well-loaded hip pocket for no otht purpose in the world, seemingly, than to improve the first opportunity to make himself a pet of the ladies who, in Chicago, just dote on murder ers. Up to (late no law has been made to prevent people making fools of them selves. THE miscellaneous collection of articles at the White House, consistigg of beds, medicines and nearly every'thing else under the sun, sent from all over the country forthe benefit of the President and his family, is a nost ridi6ulous one, including as it does two white miq, a stuffed humming bird, " to relieve --he monotony of the sick-room," and'the Jblood of a black cat. But it would be unkind to laughtt it, as, notwithstand big the absurd character of many con tributions, it represents the outpouring of the national heart. Doubtless the lady who sent the stuffed bird did what she thought was the best thing she could do. Just exactly what the oat's blood was sent for is not clear, but there are many people in this country who believe in the working of charms, and as it was doubtless intended to promote some good to the patient, we should give the sender credit for carrying out the dicta tions of an honest opinion. As to the white mice, they may amuse the chil dren. Tm days of miracles, magiq waters, etc., are returning. Hot Springs County, Arkansas, reports the existence, fifteen miles northeast of Witherspoon, of a spring that promises to bring about the millennium almost before we get ready for it. John R. Yeatts, a Baptist minis ter of some celebrity, who has visited the spring, says the spring flows from a mountain about four hundred feet high, comes out of the ground about one hundred feet from the top of the mountain on the north side, and flows at the rate of about forty gallois per min ute, and tastes just like apple brandy, and has the same effect. Those under the influence of the water are perfectly ecstatic, and hugging and loving every thing they meet. He says : "I never saw the like, children and boys and girls hugging ind kissing every one they meet. Old men and old women, young men and young ladies, embracing each other by hugging and kissing. I met an old, white.haired man and woman-I suppose about eighty years old-and they were hopping and skipping like lambs. I saw hundreds lying around the spring so drunk that they could not stand up, and they were lying and laugh ing and trying to slap their hands. The people call thorn the ' Millenium Springs.' " All we ask of John is, just to please send us a barrel. Writing for the Public. There is no work done in the world which expends vitality so fast as writing for the public. It is a work which is never done. It accompanies a man upon his walks, goes with him to the theater, gets into bed with him, and possesses him in his dreams. If he stoops to kiss the baby, beforo he has reached the requisite angle a point oc curs to him, and he hangs in mid-air, with vacant face and mind distraught. "What's the matter ?" says Mrs. Emer son, in the middle of the night, hearing her husband groping about the room. "Nothing, my dear, only an idea 1" -Jamzes Parton, in North American Recviewv. __ Marrying in Ill-Health. A prominent Eastern physician has related that he was consulted by two consumptives as to the propriety of mar rying. They were b'oth weakly in con stitution, but intellectually brilliant, and their tastes were harmonious. They loved each other ardently, and could not be happy apart. He counseled them to marry, and they did so. They lived to gether most pleasantly for about a dozen years, and died at about the same time. According to the physical school of thinkers, they should have remained single, each draging out the tweclvo years ini solitary di scon tent. Of course there can be no general rule for cases in which disease exists; each instance must be judged on its own merits.-incin nati Gazette. A New Way to Kill Stage Robbers. As there is no reason to suppose the stage robbers intend to retire voluntarily to the shades of private life very soon, and as there is not much dan ger of their being compelled to do so, we, ourselves, have determined to put a stop to the business. We have written to persons in Western Texas whom we suspect of designing to send us original poetry, to forward the nmanuscrip t in a registered package by sta~ge. The stage robbers are in the habit of opening and examining regis teredl packages. After this, when a stage is robbed, and any of our original poetry is stolen, all the authorities will have to do will be to send out a wagon to the scene of the robbery, and bring in the bodies of the highwaymen who have been bored to death. They deserve all they get.- Texaa Niftinga. Taums is no reanson why an eldeOrly woman shouldn't be wellI preserveil. The young ones have so much sugar in their comnosition, you know. Lunatics at Washington. Recent events at Washington cannot have failed to call geneial attention to the v number of queer bkds that habitually roost about the Capital City. All the distorted mental action of this country a ears to gravitate to Wash ingn. iht-witted characters seem to be 'y thrown into that oity on the to' a wave, like so many corks, and 1 there. No one who has spent any at the Capital ean have failed to noteithem. They appear at every turn. The strangpr who takes in the city " during the season " will see varieties of human nature enough to astonish him. He will wish there were not so many varie ties.4 Perhaps he drops in at a meeting of ladies, to hear the woman suffragvts plead their cause. Nothing, apparently, could be more conducive to repose and quiet thp9n that. But it will not be surprising at any moment to be startled from his somnolency by the ap parition of a female fury flourishing a .istol in the face of the fair vpeag ihakers, and declaring that she is a m munist, and means to kill Abfetody, so she could get her rights. Such a cir cumstance happened not many winters ago. The Washington lunatic with a pistol is not confined to the masculine sex alone. Quack doctors, women in pantaloons, long-haired pl)ronologists, spiritualist lecturers, bewilder the visitor at every ho tel and street corner, till he begins to cast an anxious eye towards Congress men, and to wonder privately whether they are not going crazy too. 'he man who attempted to assassinate President Jackson, in 1835, was an un loubted lunatic. Many of them pester he Patent Office. They come with tales of miraculousinventions they have made. Men with wild eyes, and slimy hair and clothing go about fancying they are the President of the United States. In some cases they go to the Executive Mansion itself, ana demand that its occupant be turned out, and that they be given their rightful place. umbled-up looking women, with wild hair standing out like quills upon the fretful porcupine, and crazy bonnets, haunt the departments with messages from the spirits to the Treasurer, or President, or General of the Aimy. They are usually controlled by the spirit of George Washington, and he is anxi. ous to show us through them how t< boss this country. Newspaper corre, spondents have often alluded to thi strange horde of lunes about Washing ton. They have been allowed to com< and go everywhere, as they pleased, be ing merely laughed at and pitied. It hai never been thought necessary heretofor< to shut them up, not even as far as theii tongues are concerned. But there ough1 to be a change in that respect now There is always a pressure of excitemen at the Caial. Sometimes it breaks ou in scandals, sometimes in craziness. Ii a city where t1here is always more or les mental strain of the kind that is fel there, nobody can tell when a harmless lunatic may develop into a dangerous one. In fact, entirely harmless luniatic: are very rare. Hereafter, it will un doubtedly be the part of wisdom t< thrust behind the bars persons with kink in their brains. Individufals with i mission and a roll of manuscript shouk( be strictly watched. .In one respect the pulpy-brained idiots who drift to the Capital unani mously :agree. They all have bound lessly exalted ideas of their own import ance. It is the leading characteristic of lunatics the world over. Perhaps, in deed, one may safely conclude that per sons who think great things of their own abilities and merit, are always more or less cracked. -Cincinnati CJommenr cial. Cigar Stumps in Paris. The market for cigar stumps, which I looked in upon in the Place Mauhert y'esterday, is a veritable Parisian curios. itv. The place is full of life and activ ity from 8 until 11 o'clock in the fore noon. A kilagram of stumps is worth 1 franc 50 cenitnmes to 2 fr. 50 c., accord ing to the length of the stump. Cheap. er cigar stumps bring lower p~rices. There are four or five wholesale dealers in cigar stumps who have their head quarters in the nine saloons in the vicin ity of the market, and there deal with the old men and women, and ragged lit tle boys and girls, who go about the streets picking up these stumps. Much of the tobacco thus scraped together is sold to exporters, who make it up in fine cigarettes. Trhere was once an 01(1 fellowv who bought cigar stumps for a living, who died worth 15,000 francs a year. These pickers-up of ends and half smoked cigarettes are quite a nuisance to those people who frequent the boulevard cafrs. They are forever getting in one's way, hurrowing about one's legs, hunt ing for the coveted stump. From the heights of the Rue Mou iftard andl the Rue Montmartre swarms of these laza roni swoop down upon Paris and make us miserable with their intolerable pres ence.-Paria Letter. Immense Power. "Do you know," said the Captain, " that a fathom of steel-wire rope, little thicker than your cane, and weighing half a pound a foot, will pull as much as a hemp rope half a foot thick and weigh ing a pound and a half a foot ?" " I have known a piece of wire, Cap," said 1, " no thicker than a straw, te draw a man weighing 200 pounds the whole length of Broad way." " Oh, come, now I" exclaimed the ob tuse Briton. " Ye, sir ; it was a hair-pin." HoLMAN HU N-T says: "I have always found that peo'ple who dlelayed dloing their work till atter a certain period did nothimr at all." Something About Kissing. This subject has recently attracted mor attention than has usually boon no oofileto it, t may be that a dearth of spfbg pogby has loft the editorial repertoiy without a suitable supply of sentimental material, and it may be the weather had something to do with it, but whatever the cause, the fact remains that the subject of kissing has been given unusual prominence by both the pro vincial and metropoltan press. It may not have been a wise thing to do, for several very apparent reasons, chiefest of which has been the tendency to lower one's estimate of the real value of the transaction by having too much said about it, and thereby bringing it into general use. One can readily understand how a pastime, sufficiently pleasant with reasonable indulgence, may lose half its sweetness by being allowed too much freedom of expression. We object to being told that "kissing does not require an act of Congress to make it legal." So long as we can fool that some restraining power is neces sary, that the inclination does require, if not congrossinnal enactmc it, at least some prohibitory measures, kissing will be kept up to the standard of genuine enjoyment. Nothing enhances the pleas ures of som..things more than a feeling that their indulgence is prohibted,' or at least opposed by objections suffioiently strong to impart just a little flavor of naughtiness to the proceeding. Ever since the transaction in the garden of Eden forbidden pleasure have always been sweetest to the daughters and sons of men, and the great majority of peo ple would prefer some jurisdiction on the sub'ect that would insure a continuance of the pleasurable emotions experienced by a kiss. We offer a few quotations to show how much pleasure some people derive from this source and deprecate anything which has a tendency to detract from such ex quisite enjoyment. "You kissed mel My soul, ia a bliss no divine, Reeled and swooned, like a drunken man foolish with wine And I thought 'Lwere deeli-*ous to die there, if death Should come while my lips wero yet moiht with youi breathl And these are the questions I ask day and night: Mistay lips taste but once the exquisite delight Which thrilled by whole soul with rapture an bliss As your lips clung to mine in that passionate kiss. Would you care if your breast wore my shelter, ou then, And if you were here would you kiss me again?" We are inclined to think we would even while not recommending just tii style for general use, as the reactioi from such exhilaration would not be de sirable. We think it would have a tend ency to shorten life, as our lives ir measured by heart beath, not by year and anything that so stirs the blood au maddens the pulse should be held i reasonable subjection. Once or twice i a life-time would be all that ordinar mortals might hope to endure. Tennyson seems to have an apprecia tion of what a kiss should be when h makes one of his heroines say: "0 Love, 0 fire! Once he drew With one long kiss in ywholo sottul trough My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew." t And Byron, also must have had somf y such experience in view when he wrote I "' One remunast of Paradtise still is on eath,. For Idn revIves in the sweet kisa of love." Perhaps Joaquin Miller more full, undlerstanids the inspiration I orn of kiss when he gives utterauce to the fol lowing: "iLet red lips lift, proud curled to kiss In love too pasionato for speech, Too full of blessediness and blits For anything but this, and this." And again: " Since man must die for some dark sin, Let my death-calme le one deep ki's." lRnt poets are not the only ones wh< understand and appreciate the- pleasur< of a kiss. It is one of the luxuries o life which all well-organized people hav< more or less inclination, and peoph usually follow their inclinations. Thei may not be able to express their sent ments and experiences either in poetry or prose, but thin is not at all necessarn for absolute and perfect enjoyment. Temperament, surrounding circum stances, time and place, have, probably, more to do with it than poetry; though2 we do niot pretend to deny that there is a great doeal of poetry in a kiss.--Kansasi Cit~y Times. Ihow It Feels~ to Drown. It is not often that yon hear of nni edito1t with a curiosity. M~ost of themi fires and flo(d ' s IS15Iver1y dayl o(eurrltences, andl evenI a nitroglycerine (x plu sionl next door would niot inlterruplt the rouitinc work of theO saniet'ii v(r lonbg. But French editor, anid th es dit or of a Lo paper at that, had aL curiiosit~y to lnowA how a person feels when dlrowninllt. ill thercfore put up a job on hiumiself. ii arranged to ('01me within a hair's breati of drowning, l'ait was to be pulled out in~ the nick of time, rolled on a barrel, hauled over thet uiands, thuimp~ed on1 till stomallch and other wise rettuscitated. All went welJ dIurinig the first act. He leaped into thme water, refusedl to strugglo anl grad~ually sank from sight. A t the propei nmmenmt lie was hauled up by1 a ropt( andl act second comnmened. T'his was an occasion where an editor was to( smart. They rolled him accordling te p~rogramme, and seven or eighmt meln tire( themiselves out with rubbling him ai hanging up head downlward1s, hnut lie war a dead manl. He may know hlow it feeh to dirown, but he'll never trouble th4 pulic with a dlescriptionl of his feelings Ield with 1118 flat On. William Weller, a p~rominenht cit izm of Hinkletown, died suddenly on Thturs .day morning, about 10 o'clock, of con sulmption. He a~rse inl the morning hut ilmmnediately fell over and expired He was 42, unnutsirried, a-nd (eent~rio He would neuver take off his hat to eat and1 died1 with it on..- fCancaser (Pa. Intelioencer. SCRAPS OF SCIElOI. TEm deepest known worked mine i f. Australia-a shaft having been, sk 8,200 feet. A mnirrD of the French Aoadem of Sciences has discovered well marke ual differences in eels. PECIMENs of fossil woods and lignite are reported to have been brought to the surface from the depth of 191 feet while boring an artesian well at Galveston, Texas. EXPEnRMERNTS at Woolwich have dem onstrated that the transmission of deto nation from one mass of gun cotton to another not in contact is so rapid that a row of gun cotton reaching from London to Edinburg could be fired. in two minutes. R EPLYING to the question whether or not our ancestors were acquainted with the peculiar physical condition known to Us as somniambulism, Dr. Reynard, of Paris, said in a recent lecture that one of the most accurato descriptions of somnambulism In existenco was the sleep-walking scene of Macbeth. FOUR Jourdan glycerine barometers are now in use in or near London. One is at Kew, in the musoum of practical geology, one at South Kensington. and one in the oflice of the London Pimes. The enormous scale of the barometer enables changes scarcely visible in the mercurial instrument to be detected with ease. Rossiarr has found that the tempera ture of the positive carbon of the elect rio are is between 2,400 degrees and 3,000 degrees centrigrade, and that of the negative carbon between 2,500 de grees and 3,900 degreds, making, there fore, the temperatures of the extreme points of the electrodes not below 2,500 degrees and 3,900 degrees. EXPERIMENTS have been made on ani mals with pure hydrocianic acid by M. Bramo. The bodies of those killed with it remained unaffeoted by decomposition for about a month. During that time the acid remained in the tissues, and especially in the stomach. It could be easily settled to distillation, but much more readily from the tissues of herbiv orous than of carniverous animals. IN A communication to the St. Peters burg Technical Society, Prof. Beilstein recommends the use of sulphate of alumnia as the best practical disinfec tant. He states that the best method of making the salt for disinfecting pur poses is to mix red clay with four per cent. of sulphuric acid and to add to the mixture some carbolic acid for destroy ing the smell of the matter to be disin. fected. A sorrPTiST in the Magazine of Phar macy asserts that the usual physico chemical methods for determining the potable nature of water have proved themselves to be quite insufficient, and he says that "recourse must be had to the microscope and to the culture-glasses used by physiologists in their inocula tion expecrimenlts, becfore any really sound and valuable knowledge can be gained by the examination of waters" as to their purity or impurity. AnaRM with indignation has arisen it Halle regarding tarletans rendered. pois onous by the introduction of opper arsenite in their prodneltionl. Dr. Ri, -man has attempted to allay the general outcry by stating that copper arsenite is not asplendid green color, and as for such goods as tarlebrans, Guignet's green, which contains no arseliie, has quite dis placed the poisonous Schweinfurt green. THE~ authority for the statement that after the extraction of the niter from gunpowdIer the residue caunot be dried at 200 degrees,.,without a slight loss o the sulphur. is Fresenius. Herr A. SWagner, oli the contrary, rises from his experiments with the conviction that no such loss has ever b~een observed at or below the teloperr~ure given. Above that temperature 'he residue suffers a notable diminution in weight. Was iloothi Insane I Probably the only~ history which gives color to the theo~ry that Booth was insane is that by J1. S. Blackburn, ~principal of an1 academy at Alexandria, Va., and W. N. M cDonald;' prlincipafl of a male high school at Louisville, Ky. In their his tory, which is being extensively used in Southern schools, they say :" Booth comnmittedl the aict under the fanatical idea that the war would terminate and the Month gain her freedom if Lincoln were killed." This same history ad vns, among tecauses of the failure ofthe rebels, the following: " The p~rimal~ry cause of the failure of the Con.. feey was that the people of the South were not unanimous in their efforts to gaini their liberty. In the history of the world1 a united people, struggling for liberty, have neer been subjugated." Th'fe i/alics are tho wvork of Messrs. ilackh brrn and Mc~iDonald. Booth was ~sho~t ini a b~arn ;4t Garrett's farm, near Bowling Green, and dlied soon after. Tha t was April 26, 1865.-Chicago Nk Evanigellne. L1ongfellow said " Evangeline" was suggested to him by a gentleman with whom lhe and Hawthorne were dining, anud who urged the novelist to wate a novel oni the theme of the exiled, youn SAcadian girl who spent the remainder 6 her life searching for her lover. "I * cauiglt the thought at once," the poe said, " that it would make a str'i ' picture if p~ut in verse, and said, ' Haw thjorne, give it to me for a pom, and promise meT you will not wrIt about it until I have written the poem.' Haw thornie readily assented to my request, ando it was' agreed that I should use his friend's story~ for verse whenever 'I had the time andl inclinationl to write it" Philadelphia 1f6W#.