Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Aw'. ago -rET~D TO POLmUS E( y, EDUATION AND TO TU OWNERAL INTERUT OF THE COUNTRY. D. F. BRADLEY & 00. PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1881 NLW5 ULEANINU. North Carolina ores will be a feature in the Atlanta Exposition. Local option was generally defeated in Texas at the recent elections. The Louisiana sugar industry will pan out handsomely this season for the pelican State. And now they are talking of making an excellent substitute for butter out of cotton-seed oil. The crops of Marshall county, Ala., are reported in good condition, the drouth to the contrary' notwithstand. ing.. Silk culture in Alabama is being agi-. tated by many of the papers. They seem to think that it would handsomely. Louisiana is a well timbered State. .I The New Orleans papers claim that there are millions to be made in the wooded lands ofrthe State. The health of Jeff. Davis rince he ar rived in Europe has been wretched. He will probably return to America sooner than expec ted. The two ice-manufacturing establish. merrts at New Orleans are making big # money this season. They charge $20 a ton, and can't supply the demand. The tenant farmers in many places of the South are asking a reduction of rent. Owing to the drouth they have raised little or nothing on their places. The Virginia Historical Society is be ing built up. It is an ancient and honorable institution, and its friensls everywhere will be glad to know that its prestige will be sustained. Pensacola old bonds are now in re quest since the compromise of the city's debts. Twenty-five per cent. has been offered for $20,000 of the old bonds, and declined. Colonel R. F. Maddox, the big cotton man of Atlanta, estimates that the cot ton crop will be short about 1,000,000 bales. But, with all this, there will be an abundance of cotton in the land. Marietta (Ga.) Journal: Some of our most sensible farmers, notably the larger and more thrifty ones, have dis covered their mistake, and will hereafter sow down their rands in wheat, oats, cloiver aid grasses, and increase their herds of cattle, sheep, hogs and horses. Arkansas Democrat; Cotton-seed oil is being generally used here for cooking * purposes, and is liked about as well, if not better, -than the atufr brought here i n buckets and sold as leaf lard; besides, t is ?0 much cheaper. Georgia is not to have a prohibition campaign, after all. The bill to submit the question to the people was defeated S in the Senate by a- vote of twenty to nineteen, and reconsideration failed. b The House will probably let the bill die on the calendar, and thus avoid committing members. Charleston had a trade last year of $71,211,100. It receipts of cotton were 528,287 bales ; of rice, 58,871 tierces; of spirits of terpentine, 51,386 cakes; rosin, 281,417 barrels ; of crude phos phate, 108,183 tons ; lumber, 18,610, 757 fet of commercial fertilizers, 100, - tons--the whole of the value of $86,216, 000. The New Orleans Democrat states that not a drop of the water of the Red .river now runs into the Mississippi, but all goes to swell the Atchafalaya, "which, re enforced by a large percent ,4i. age Zof Mississippi water, is daily in - creasing in size, and constitutes a direct menace to the future of New Orleans.'' The Legislature of Georgia has killed the bill to appropriate $1,000,000 to build a new capitol by a large majority. The present capitol building was origi nally intended for an opera house, and is not only unsuitable for a State house, abut' is unsafe. The dead'bill providedl for the expenditure of $200,000 per an num until the whole amount was paid, at the end of the five years time set apart to construct the new edifice. .Senator Butler, of South Carolina, has a correct appreciation of the news a paper, and adds his testimony to its value as an educator. "Journalism," he says, "has become as much a seperate andl distinct profession as medicine, or law, or engineering, or agriculture, or archi tecture, or mining, and every family should have a newspaper -if they expect or care to keep pace with the current of events in this fast-moving age. Books are not always accessible, but papers Aare, and at a price that places them within the reach of the poor as well as the rich,"* An Indian river correspondent writN this to the Florida Agriculturist; "0 anges, lemons, guavos, mangoes, pines ples, fish and oysters are all doin nicely, an-I promising heavy Aield There has been such a run for labore to clear lands and set out pineapple that the price runs from $20 to '$26 an board per month. Some hands ai realizing $3 to $4 per day in doing od jobs of work. We want men and mone to make this the garden spot of ti State." Richmond Dispatch: Miefoitun never comes single. The drouth is nc only ruining the crops, but the choler is killing the hogs in snne of the Souti ern counties. In portions of Nottowa and Brunswick counties it is stated large number of hogs have recently die of this disease, and others are dying One farmer in Nottoway county write that within the past ten days lie h lost thirty hogs, and that he has not bee able to check the spread of the diseas< Savannah News: Mention has severa times been made of the reported dis covery of dead bodies floating in th river near the shore, below and in th vicinity of Fort Jackson. The matte having been brought to the attention o the mayor, he yesterday addressed a let ter to the buard of county commission ers, referring to these reports and stat ing that as the points where these bodie are said to be exposed are beyond th jurisdictional limits of the city, it wa important that the county commission ers, in the interest of the public health should take official action, and askinj that their prompt attention be given t< the subject. It can not be denied tha it is very important these. bodies be se cured and interred as soon as possible TOPICS OF TIE DAY. VEIon predicted rain in September. It came. WEDDING cards are out of dato in En gland. -W HIGH prices seei to be rulinE stronger. . PARNELL'S influnce is said to be or the wane. A NEw City Hall in San Francisco if to cost $5,000,000. THE Ohio State election occurs on th< 11th of October. CINCINNATI 15s triving for the estah lishment of a Union Depot. Wu- no not like to see people suiffer but,-Giteau has neurailgia. FnANCE is not bothering much abou Egypt. Tunis keeps her pretty busy. GOVERNOR WILTZ, of Louisiana, ii said to be dying of consumption. DELAwARE turns out 800,000 basketl of peaches this year, against 4,000,00( last year. _______ KING KALAxA is en route for Amer ica. Undoubtedly he enjoyed himsel while here before. Gov. ROBERTS, of Texas, is aged siXt; years, wears a very plain sut an< smokes- a clay pipe. - A DISPATOH from New Mexico say that the Indians are not all dead yet This is bad for the white man. Onow Doe has been indicted at Dead wood for the murder of Spotted Tail but will not be tried until January. Tirxntow WEEDo gave $500 to th Michigan Bufferers. Fanny Davenpor gave $100. That wvas kind of Fanny MRs. MARY OLsMuEn, the well know) Washington correspondent, is compelled by order of her physician, to rest fron all literary labor. THE destitute in the burnt district 0 Michigan should be remembered b; those who have a surplus and kre abI to give. Here's a chance to do good THE Egyptian troubles are over. Tht Khedive has reconstructed his Cabinf and the dissatisfied army officers hav relinquished all ideas of rebellion an accepted the situation. TRE Kanisas Oity Times mentions tht birth of a " baby mule " on the publi square in that city and adds that it a tracted a large crowd of spectators. society event, we suppose. IT Is a fact that Rev. Henry Wart Beecher recently jumped seven feet-a4 tive man, you know-but now every pr per in the land is wanting to know froi what window he jumped. It's a dirt fling. s A ?ORM 1 Oeltmbms has be*% r discovered ia the Spanish Colonial Of p foe at Nadr4 It was painted when ho g was forty yeas of ago, showing a face - devoid of wrinides, a brilliant eye and rS dark luxuriant hair. d PET dogs occupy reserved seats at e places of amusement in New York by Sthe -side of their owners. They applaud by barking, and then the critics' go into Y ecstacies about the enthusiasm shown e by the " intelligent audience." e Tau Califo-nia Tichborne claimant t loath to learn from others' exoerinnen. i an his way to Englaud to claim the Tich borne estate. He will possibly land in ;he same receptacle occupied by Orton, Y the English Tichborue claimant, for the a past several years. TrE various lines of steamers carried s to London and Liverpool during the a months of April, May, June and July, a 12,065 cabin' passengers. These, for most part, were pleasure-seekers, and I the number is greater than for the same period any previous year. THE result of the recent Fronoh elec 3 tion will constitute the 'new Chamber of r Deputies as follows: 459 Republicans, f 47 Bonapartists, and' 41 Monarchists. - The Republicans comprise the Left Cen - ter, 39; the Left, 168; Republican - Union, 206, and Extreme Left, 46. 3 TE French began their picnic in q Northern Africa with 16,000 men, but . now they want 100,000 more before they can straighten matters out. They have been meeting with reverses. The wild . Arab cavalry have beaten their opponents In the field and out off the water supply of the city of Tunis. GRAoE GRXENwooD (Mrs. Lippinoott) writes from London that she is a sad invalid, suffering severely and very fre quently from attacks of acute bronchitis. She says she can bear pain, prostration, danger, everything, better than inability to write in her old way ; that grieves her. MASON, who shot at Guite:1u, may have been emotionally insane, and his trial by court-martial will result in light punishment as a consequence, but if Guiteau was permitted to come in con tact with the people generally, there is no doubt but that thousands would prove themselves emotionally insane. A COLORED preacher In .bouisville, Ky., has found in his church a daughter from whom he had been separated at the auction-block twenty-odd years ago. He was much rejoiced, but was a prey to conflicting emotions when he learned from her that her mother is still 1H'ing, he having been legally married to an other woman, after becoming a freedman. TuERE is a prospect of a duel without a collision between Buffalo Bill (the Hon. Mr. Cody) and Wild Harry, an In Sdian scout, who is starring it with a dramatic troupe. Buffalo Bill calls this particular Wild Harry a fraud and a liar, (to use mild language) and Wild Harry is keeping silent, but there is an awful glitter in his eye. They travel in differ ent directions. IT Is stated that there are a hundred or more men in jail at Chicago on the charge of murder. A third of them have S been - incarcerated in the last nine months. What do the authorities of that city propose to do with these fel lows ? In the far West they hang men for murder, and are not very long ab~out it. either. Five mnn were bnumi in a bunch at Fort Smith, Ark., the other ;day, and the country feels the safer for it. Chicago seems to be trying to get a good crop on hand before they begin to -harvest. THERE is trouble about Pharoah of >old. Among the mummies discovered 1 in the cave near Thebes, in Egypt, one of them is said to be the identical I Pharoah who oppressed the ohildren of yv Israel. Doctors of Divinity have a preached for centuries that Pharoahi and .his host were drowned in the Red Sea. A t the word of commandl Moses stretohodl a forth his hand over the sea, the waters 't returned and overwhelmed all the e Egyptians, so that " there remained not 80n much ase one of them." Those are the Scripture words. Christians and others will wait with some anxiety for 6 further revelations concerning the iden 0 tity of the mummies discovered. hF THTERE is any one thing on the faco of the globe that is despicable, it is a thief. It is now suspected that the cof fins of seven at least of the royal per sonag~es lately dliscovered near Thehes have been robbed of their royatl occui placed ini tIbm'r Mtte In. Thei' aleged~ corpso of Tho. aos~ is said to be that of a Ohild or dwarf. Ruch ohanges are not uncommon in Egypt, but if they have taken place in the present instance, the iscriptions on the coffins, and still more the long rolls of papyri still remain t-) reward the investigations of scholars. IF Trns remaining three months of the year are fraught with as great disasters, comparatively, as have the nine months past, truly the year 1881 will long be remembered as an epoch of calamities in the history of the world. So far this year the enumeration Is as follows: A great earthquake in the Greek Archi pelago; floods in various countries of Egurope; tornadoes in the Northwest; fearful storms in the South ; the appear ance of two comets; an exceptionally cold winter and an equally exceptionally hQt summer, with its attendant drouth ; the assassination of the Czar of Russia and the attempted murder of the Presi dent; the yellow day in New England, and the terrible forest fires in Michigan. His reputed birth place is Preble County, where, as a boy, he was known atmong his associates as overbearing and brutal in his ways. The story goes that, gro# ing older, he became unmanageable, and possessed of a spirit of daring, he ran away from home, boarded a ship putting to sea, was wrecked, picked up by a passing vessel bound for the Indies, and fnally landed in that country. The then King having lost his only son, who very much resembled David (that was the boy's name) adopted him, and in time he fell heir to the throne. This is the whole story in a nut shell, and may, during the King's visit here, be more fully investigated. GurrEAU, who some time ago thought of making anplication for a writ of habeas corpus, has changed his mind about the matter. He has been told by District Attorney Corkhill that he can not be protected on his way to court by the soldiers. Why he is protected in the jail and could not be protected by soldiers when out of it is explained as follows by Corkhill : " ho jail belongs to the Government, and is built on Government land, and the troops are ostensibly employed in guarding Govern. ment property. When it comes to guarding Guiteau from the jail to the court-house when the time for his exami nation arrives, that will be another thing. The inference was that the care of Guiteau would then be left to the civil authorities, and that they would be powerless to prevent the people wreak ing summary vengeance on the assassin." This talk, coming as it does from an army officer of high rank, shows the utter detestation in which Guiteau is held by those who are compelled by hard Satie torbo his defenders. THE Cincinnati CJOmm6eroc4 says that one of the churches of that city. after praying ror wne recovery o! thie Presi dent, offered up prayers for Guiteau also. The advisability of praying for Guiteau, to the Christian mind, seems to be a difficult problem. The Bible teaches them to pray for their enemies, andi many or tnem ao not see why they should not pray for Guiteau, whose soul is on the brink of perdition. On this same point Rev. N. Summerbell, a min ister of the Gospel, writes as follows : " Moses and Miriam did not turn to the port side of the sea to hold prayer meet ing for the souls of the pursuing host, but a jubilee over their destruction, (Exodus, xv.) Jesus prayed for Peter, but not for Judas. Jesus said of soe they 'have never forgiveness,' and S3ainit John said ' Thei'e is a sin unto death, I do not say that he shall pray for it.' Thel truth is that both nature and grace techLl that there are some things which should he destroyed; and God saw thait the destruction of such was best for, them as$ well as for the universe. Saint Peter said1 of this class of persions :'These. as natuiral bruto h~easts, made to be0 taken andi destroyedl, speak evil (f the things they undlerstand unot. and shall utterly perish in their own co rrupt ion.' Thus it will he seen that there seems to be room for an argiument on both '4ides. A Distinction with a Diflference. A very dhilapidated-loonking tramp en tered the counting-room (of one of Jersey City's wvealthijest storerkee pers, and, coml lmg up to the desk, asked: "Ain't yjour folks from P~osey county, Indiany ?' " And your name is John Smith ?' " Shake ! You have at last found your long-lost brother Bill. I am in need~ of mionley." "HIere is a quarter. Take it and go." The long-lost b~rothier turnedl over the quarter a time or so, and then said: " Is a quarter all you can spare your iong-lost brother ?" " That's all. Go now, or I'll call a po liceman," said the merchant. "I'll accept the quarter on account of our reltionshiip. TIhat is a family mat ter; but, beside being your brother, I'm a tramp andl( ai dlnd-heat. NoW T apply to you professionally, (Give me another quarter." A Tory Needfal Inventen, The facts were these : Mr. Skid's neighbor kept a goat and that goat had often got at Mr. Skid and butted him two rods, end over end, and he hated the at profusely. But the neighbor WO dn't keep th goat shut up and so Skid invented a machine to slay the goat. It was in the form of a man bending down to pick up his hat, but In the body was a sprimg of tremendous power. From the hip pocket of the figure waved a red handkerchief that was the target to draw on the goat. When he butted it the spring would fty and throw the goat a big distanee. The machine was gotten u in very elaborate style and looked just . a man. It was perfect enough to de. eeive an goat. And it cost Skid 874 But he didut begrudge the money so long as it fetched the goat. And he took the machine and put It out in his front yard where the goat eould see it, and then he retired to his house and waited to see the fun. He waited about two hours, and then his son came in and told him that the goat had swallowed an old hoop skirt the night before and it had got tangled in his bowels and slain him. And of course Skid was terribly ma& But the machine was not wholly wasted for the boy took it and put it on the outside of ie circus tent so it looked like a man just starting to crawl under and a policeman ran up and hit it with his club and was surprised to see his club fly forty feet into the air, while his arm ached like fury, and then a stalwart cir cus man ran up and kioked the king and was picked up twenty feet away with his leg broken in two places. And when he got over his surprise he'said he'd give that man a season ticket if he'd tell how he did it, as he'd like to work the same racket on the old man of the girl he was courting. But the machine couldn't be found, the boy having, in the eynitement, taken it home. He is going to sell it to a country editor, to be pointed out as "the man who wrote the article you object to. You can proceed to kick him."-Boston Post. Practical Information. "What is rack rent dad ?" inquired a young Comstocker who had been read, ong the news from Ireland. The patient parent laid down the stock list and replied; "Do you know how much I charge Mr. Boggarty for his room up-stairi ?" 0 " Yessir; $12 a month." "Well, now, suppose Mr. Boggarty should tako it iuto his head to have, at his own expen8c, new paper put on the wall, the ceiling whitened, and all the furniture mended, the room would look a heap sight prettier, wouldn't it ?" " Lor'!' murnmurod the intelligent boy. " Well, if. the minute Boggarty had got all these improvements made I should go up, and look around, and smile, and jingle my money in my poeket, and re mark, 'This is a pretty good sort of a layout for a single man, Boggarty, and you have altogether too sof a thing your rent will be #20 a month hereafter, what would you think of it?"' The innocent child giggled and said, " That would be cheek, wouldn't it, dad ?" " Bet your money on It, my boy," re plied the father, beaming kandly upon his Oftspring. " That would be rack renting Mr. Bloggarty, and if he kicked and claimed that all the improvements had been made by him without costing me a cent, and I should Bre him out, that would be eviction. I will now, continued the parent, warming up " briefly review thle history of Ireland for the east 700 years. When Brian Borhu-' But his son had fled.- Virginia Oity Ohronicle. ______ How the Government Pays Bills. A great part of the work in the de partment is necessarily in the line of keeping accounts, and present. little in terest to people who are not exceptional ly fond of figuring. The general principle which governs the whole system of auditing and set tling accounts against the Government is to provide every safeguard against fraud, and this is so successfully accom plhished that a dollar could not be got out of the treasury illegitimately with -ut the collusion of so many persons that it may be set down as a practical imnpos sibil'ty. Suppose a man has a bill against the Government. The head of the depart ment or bureau to which the matter properly belongs makes a requisition for the amount upon the Secretary of the Treasury, using a prepared blank which seks him to cause a warrant for the amount in question to be issued in favor of the party, the same to be charged to the particular appropriation by Congress out of which the sum ought to come. But before this requisition reaches the Secretary it must pass under the eye of the proper Auditor and Comptroller and receive their countersign, the Audi tor at the same time charging the amount to the account of the disbursing officer in whose favor it is issued. If all goes well so far, the Secretary issues a warrant to the Treasurer, directing him to pay over the money, which he does by issuing a draft for the amount in favor of the Government's creditor but not until after the warrant has IE en countersigned by the proper Comnptroller and registered by the ' giterIndeed, the draft itself must go te Register for comparison and registry before it is finally passed over. There seems to be a good deal of red tape in all this pro cess, but it is a sort of red tape that saves the country money in the long run..-Goodi (ompany. Trnnu~ is a story current, and not without a semblance of truth about it, that Ki Kalakaua is a native of Ohio. GERuS OP TROUGHRV. Omw.Iw is old nt twenty. A TALRXT is perfected in solitude; a character in the streams of the world. 'I IB path among the roses Esth soft Bun-kisied and radiant under youtIhfil feet But on a wintry way true bande more of t., Do meet and cling inl pressure soft and sweet. BAD men hate sin through fear of punishment. (ood men hate sin through very love of virtue. A OHIEnFUL temper, joined with in. nocence, will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful and wit good natured. THE best way to apologize is to do such a kindness to the offended one that he will forget that you ever attempted to injure him. IF TUOU shalt be in heart a chl , Forgiving, tender, meek and ma I, Though with fight Mtains of earth defied, 0! soul, it shalt be well. -Moerfs. Tim first ingredient in good conversa tion is truth, the next good sense the third good humor and the fourth wit. SomE diys must needs be full of gloom, Yet ntmust we ue then asn we may, Talk lem about the years to come - Live, love and labor more to-lay. -Allee Cb. TnE plaintive wvailing of the minor mingles itself witih.every earthly melody - and it is only by-and-by that the veil shall be lifted, and the full chords of harmony peal on our ear unmarred by that undertone of pain. Yet, though thou fade, From thy dead leaves let fragrance rise, And teach the qmaid That goodnees Timwe's rude band dedes That winter lives when beauty dies -irk Whie. WHEN one thoughtfully considers the. part which love has in the destiny and oharacter of women, the issues that come out of it for her weal or misery, her ruin or perfoetion, nothing is more pathetic and death itself is not mare solemn. Pipping Off a Miner. During one of his intermittent visits to the Comstock Mr. Mackay accom panied a party of Eastern tourists to the lower levels of the California inine, one of which carefully selected collection of Massachusettq blue blood being a young lady from Boston who was refined to the top notch of culturo. On arriving at oe of the lower levels the gisping re pir ing, wilted crew paused and Mr. eakay cled the young girl's attention to a speaking tube which connected with the level above. " Is this hollow metal cylinder a son duit of iound ?" a?sked the well-eduoated Bostonienne. "Yes'm," said Mackay - " try it." The young lady applied her mouth to its opening and piped out a bremulous "' Hill-a-a." "Aye, aye," shouted a hearty miner a hun(red feet above. " What shall I ask him?" said the girl to Mr. Mackay. "Ask him how ho is geting along. " How are you gett ing long, sir ?" whistled the maiden. "'Aw-w--pretty we'll," rumbled the reply. " And nowv what shall I say," continued the girl. " Ask him if it's hot." " Is it hot up) there ?" ''Hotter'n li-I," was the plain answer. The damnsel gasped, bu t continued: " What else shall say ?" " Oh, ask him how his family are," repliod Mr. Mach av, who began to tire of the " pipping .off " interview. " How are all your family ?" asked the girl. " To h-- wid ye ; what are ye givin' us," thundered the minor who thought some one was " joshing " fim. Collapse and a call fo.: ice water. Virginia (Nev.) Chronicle. A Thousand Dollars a Minute. Mr. Eddy, the veteran p~atenlt solicitor of Boston, is a regular encyclopedia of incidlents referring to inventors. He tolls of a man named Hurd who be longed in Stoneham, who realized #80, 000, andl gave to the world one of the most valuable inventions ever produced -all the result of only about half an. hour's thought. His invention was the machine now everywhere used for ex extracting miohuises from sugar. When the idea occurredl to him he sketched it down and gave it to Mr. Eddy, and au thorized him to take out a patent. Re turning home, lie forgot all about the matter and applied himself to other afl'airs. Subsequently a gentleman en gaged in the sugamr business saw tho in vention in Mr. Eddl(y's office, and at once ap~preciated its value. Tfhe solicitor was in~structed to pulrch~ase the patent, which he sulposed heo could (10 for at moderate sum. The first ofler of $1,000 was re fused, and1( not until the figure of $30, 000 was reachedl did Mi'. Tlurd surren der. The machine is used in all the sugar countries of tihe world. Mr. Rob-' ertson, who was time American Consul at. Hague, and1 the Aspinwvalls, of News York, made millions out of the inven tion). -Roston HecralId. MAnY C is a very popular little girl, and is invited to all of the chil dren's birthday parties, where she never forgets to wish " Many happy returns of the day." ftecently she overheard her father telling her mother that Mrs. J-, the mother of seven children, had just had a birthday party, the said " party " being nine pounds, very live weight. Mary at once asked her hor rifled( mamma : " Shall I trot over and wish her many happy returns of the day ?" H ATrERS say that the size of the hu man head in England and Scotland has been gradually diminiishing in size with in the last quarter of a century. Ttis rarely that sA sevenand-three-eighths inch hat is asked for now. Ta that the (ase ini this cmmu.ry ial?