DEVOTED TO POL[TICS, MORALITY, EDUCATION AND TO TIE GENERAL INTEREST OF IE COUNTRY. v D. F. BRADLEY & 00. PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, IS81. VOL. XI. NO..7 NEWS GLEANINGS. Corn is selling in East Tennessee at sixty cents per bushel. Sofnile400,000 feet of cross ties will be shipped from Kentucky to Mexico. The levee-at New Orleans is to be illu minated with the electric light. 'Professor Cather, of Alabama; predicts u hard winter. Immigration and capital are steadily flowing into Tennessee. A fine vin o1 O al ai i . Nored ln'Jhbksoii cdunj, M abar d a. Albany, Ga., is going to spenld $900 for 4 an artesian well. There are 634 convicts in the Soutli Carolina penitentiary. The average produc t of the cotton cror 'in the Memphis district is fifty-one per cent. less tla!i last year's yield. Tyler James, colored, was given twent3 Atripe8 by a Richmond, VII., court for stealing an overcoat. 10 Three thousand snappers were carried to Pensacola, Florida, in one day lasi week. At the Florida state fair a premium of six. ollars was offered for the beat darned stocking. All over the south telegraphic inquiries have been received from New York + bankers about.Con federate coupon bonds. A few F orida farmers who have plant W arrow--oot make as much as $1,000 on an acre. , Accomac and Northnmpton counties. *irginta, have peach trees now living anud bearing which were planted in 1816. " I For the year ending September 1 the citizvens of Brownsvijle, Tenn., consulled 44 barrels of whisky. A. Pemisylvaniaiin has leamed 10,000 acres of land near Woodbury, Ca'nnon (otnty, Tennessee, and will bore for oil. Colonel E. W. Cole, the "railroad .Oking," has purebased the old Bank of Tenuessee building at Nashville for $42, - 000. Rev. Father A. J. Ryan, the sweetest Soet.'tn the'.South, bis. taIren charge of the, Catholic chunch at Eufausa, Ala Sama.. Last year J. E. Yates, of Rappahan nock county, Virginia, i'urcliascd 275 sheep, for which lie paid $3.50 apiece The lambs ant wool thki year brought him $1,700. One firm in .Virginia. with 37 acres of land, has produced 3,500 ernllon' of wine in a season.. Two ccun ties in that state this season will make 60,000 gallons. ?. Mees'rs. Stuart & McDowell, of the Rudisill mine in Nort~h Carolina, have sent to 'th. Atlanta exposition asolid 1,iece of go~ld suiphuret ore weighing 900 Posddand is assaayed at a'bouit $80 per The tobaicco trade of Richmond, Vir ginia, have decided to appoint an in spector of tobadco, who shall have charge of the entire market- This will eepara te the business of warehousing and of in spectiou. James Phillips, twelve years old, was eoft at h >mie by himself in Robeson coanty, North Carolina. During the - night 'some devilish. boys visited the house and 'tried to gain an ensrance for .abe purpose of frightening the boy. The littte fellow was scared so badly that lie was thrown into spatsme, from which lie died shortly af ter ward. Rome (Ga ) Courier: Two sisters, * fissea Emnina aridl Susie, daughters of Widow Cornwell, of Rocky creek, Gordon county, picked out with their own hand , last week, a bale of cotton, hazd it ginned, and sentL it to Rome, Mr. H. H. Smith bought it at twvelve andl a half cents, and sent it'to the Atlanta Exposition as a sample of of North Georgia cotton. *THEt Bote, of Inowrazlawv, Prussia, 'ives the following tabl~e of wages for * orkinen in that city, a p~lace of somei 8,000 or 10,000) population. The wages aWre for'a week's work of six days of four teen hours each. A mark is equasl to ant English shilling, 'or about twetnty-fontr cents : B~rfoklayers, best.....................s BrickIayers, Commrou .. . ......... . ... .. .' _ Odariers.........................., Joiners ... ........................ 'Cabmnet-mrakers (icludiung b~oard).. ...... A Xtookemiths (inchluin board )............. Tallois (incltuding bon rd ).. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Miners..............................l Fpotory laborern............. Gardeners................ .........9 Field hant'................... ....... 'Is it ?tay wonder in view of these liv. ures, r ad they are to a cer~Itaint cxtenta wr.Qitdon'O~* ~injdgethe wages all on-rI (lermnany, that the sturdy y ,omanry andtu artisanIS of that conutry are~ coming to~ the United State. by thousanda'.> TOPICS OF THE DAY. BoSTON women gamble in railroad stocks. MARK TwAIN has written anothel book. CHINESz are becoming plentiful in Chicago. TOBACCO in Virginia will be only half a crop this year. GEORGE iBANCROFT, the historian, is eighty-one years old. Tu.nEu will be a scarcity of coal in the Weat the coming winter. BosTON now boasts of one female lawyer, Miss Lelia J. Robinson. A MONUMENT to DoaV Stanley will be erected in Westminster Abbey. Tiu.- students at Harvard are com pelled to attend prayer meeting. AN EQUESTRIAN statue will be erected to Gen. Burnside in Rhode Island. Ex-Gov. SH EPHERD (" Boss ") is about I>'return to Washington from Mexico. ILLINOIS' oldest citizen is hd-Mrs. Mlargaret Noughton, aged 1 7ears. Mns. GARjELD 's income will be $20, 000 a year. Mrs. Lincoln's is $3,000. IT Is thought the Indianapolis Journal has an eye own to a Cabinet position. MR. WINDOM will retire from the Cab inet and return to the United States Senate. PREsIDENT GARFIELD'S picture is to be placed upon. the five cent international postal letter stamp. A RECENT frost in the vicinity of B-.i ton is said to have done damage to the extent of $1,000,000. GEoRGE FRANCIS TinAIN says he has made his last speech and written his last letter. We knew there was a silver lining somewhere. THEz Czar of Russia is resigned to any fate that may-overtake him. He is said to often declare, " I am quite ready to meet death when it comes." --do TiE mummy of the daughter of King Rameses is said to be among the discov 3ries at Thebes-the woman who found Moses in the bulrushes. SARAH BERNHARDT was hissed at Amions, and stepping to the footlights, remarked: "I am not accustomed to play to geese." Ready wit. Tim Afodnions take great consolation at trie present political status. .They feel that their polygamous institution is scoure, and tha6 the Lord is with them. TmE expense of Garfield's illness is Bstimated at $100,000, of which the doctors' bills will be $53,000. Dr. Bliss is accredited with a claim of $25,000. TulE Pall Mfalt GaZetto acknowledges the Unitod States to be the most power ful nation on the globe. This confession is a great one, coming from an English Souecc. ELLEN 1NELSON, a Swedish womri commiitted suicide in Philadelphia the othier day becanso she coul not get aL husband. She must have been horrid ugly. THE~ President's brother, William Ar thur, who is Major and Paymaster in mne army, was marriedl a few days ago a% Governor's Island, to Miss Laura Blou. vier. JUDGING from results, the Ohio voter is a scratcher. That comes of getting poor men on the regular ticket-a fact that the lato election has forcibly pre sented to party managers. THrE Cincinnati (knmecrciai says the situation in Ireland is quite too utter. WVe suppose this means that it is in a stooping posture. Nations, like individ aals, are nothing if not fashionable. GL~ADaroJa is held responsible for the arrest of Parnell, and Gladstone is of the opinion that the arrest, is for the vindication of law andl order, and " the first elemenits of civilization." UN1r1n the 01(1 French law, being in toxicated three times deprived men of their right to vote. Such a law in this counitry, it is to be ap~prehended, would prevent the holding of an election in some sections. SmNCE~ " information " has beenI filed, we have failed to hear that Urady, of Star Route notoriety, is still iatingii rond, dnmanding an early trial hi ador for justice has 0ooled down some what. AN AGENT of the Land League in Ire land has been arrested for mvivtingr 1n0. dies in potatoes to be fed to the cattle of a farmer guilty of paying his rent. That is partaking of a very low kind of fiendishness. GUITEAU seems determined to have Ben. Butler to defend him. Ingersoll he doesn't want. His discrimination is base(l upon religious principles. Butler, how ever, does not crave the service, and will endeavor to-excuse himself. " THE Mormons are held together, says the Mormon organ, " by an in fluences that is beyond the power of men or nations to prevent, destroy or con trol." That "influence " is a plurality of wives, certainly not divine. THE St. Louis Globc-Democrat says that the hog crop of the territory tribu tary to St. Louis will be very inferior in quality and less in quantity than for many years past. The high price of corn is given as a reason for this condi tion of things. Tais is a sad comment on the insur ance question: One insurance Presi dent, whose company loses $12,000 by the fire in Morrell's Building, in New York, himself had $20,000 worth of property stored there and only $3,000 insurance on it. EIGRT members of the last House of Representatives are now Unitd. States Senators : Messrs. Frye and Hale, of Maine; Aldrich, of Rhode Island; Haw ley, of Connecticut; Lapham and Mil ler, of New York; Mitchell, of Peunsyl. vania, and Conger, of Michigan. Jo1rN BATrEnsBY, for twenty years the chief of living skeletons in the side shows, has of late been missed from the ranks of the human curiosities. The reason is that, from a weight of fifty ieven pounds he has rapidly grown to 125, and he has considerately gone to blacksmithing. WRANGLE LAND, which Canalla claims under the old boundary treaty, and which claim the United States disputes, is on the north coast of Siberia and over a thousand miles from the American coast. There will be no fighting over its possession. It ain't worth it. MASSA0HUSETTS has a ynago who e dently enjoys his morning naps. He has rendered a decision that the ri gin of a church bl~cl at 5 o'clock in the mocrni ing is a public nuisance, and if pecl. must worship at thait hour they slt,nll do so without disturbinig their neighi bors. SINCE David Davis is President of the~ Senate, the public generally are anxious t~o knowv to which party he belongs. Mr. Davis, we believe, is not much annoyed on the subject. He is where he feels at liberty to take a plum from either party, and lums he is very fond of. Tui; conviets of the Ohio Penitentiary sent $100 to the Michigan suifferers. They raised1 the amount by. denying themselves the luxury of tobacco and the sale of trinkets which they had made. Really, this exp~ression of sym p~athly from such a source is touching. Taiii father of Mrs. Christraucy testi fied in Washington the other day that provous to accepting the Senator his dlauighter had refused twenty-five offers of matrimony. This, we supipose, is an instance of passing by all the straighit and taking a ch-ooked stick in the end. Anouv' the meanest thing woe are able to call to mind just now is the action of the steamboat companies whose crafts ply betweeni the National Capital and Yorktown. For the b~enefit of those at tending the Yorktown celebration they put the fare up to five times the usual price, What noble patriots those fel lows are. GENERAL GAunmT wrote in answer to a friend who had congratualated him upon his election to the Senate : "As to the hope you express that I shall be called higher, I can only say that my idea of the highest ambition of a pulhic mnan ought to be to disoharge fully the duties .of the position to which he is al ready called. A man is not in position to discharge his duties fully and without bias1 if he is aspiring to higher places and laboring to scure them. The post of greatest usefulness ought to be the place of the highest honor." Lova was t.t the bottom of the Arkan saa8 train robbery. The three~boyish fel lows who committed the crime were moneyless and desperately in love, and' readling how easy it waS for- 1ih ,Ian:i: boys to rob a train, resolved to) imitate them to bridge over the obistacle standing between themselves, theirgirls and matri mony. They obtained the money, bilt thinking they would not be pursned, they made no effort to escape. Their girls, no doubt, feel bad to think that for their sake they wero led to the com mission of a crime that has culinnated in a seventy-years' sentence in the pnii tentiary. MR. VENNOR says in the preface of his almanao for 1882: "I lay no claim to tho discovery of an infallibl , system of foretelling weather. The cieonce of practical meteorology is yet in its in fancy, and is being studied by 111011 whose abilities are far greater than any I could endeavor to lay claim to. There will be many mistikes before a right understanding or interpretation of its principles is arrived nt. Based, as my system of predictions must be, on records of weather as yet incompleto and very faulty, the results can not he entirely satisfactory, more especially in respect to new ground; yet I believe the key to the solution of the problem has been found. and that all errors will but aid in more correctly discovering the aecreta of coming mouths." Stock.Raisinge in the West. The foreedom to pasture cattle on ex cellent grazing land, together with an accessible market, are the main reasons why at present si-oek-farming is pal tien arly profitable. The first of these con ditionsi is precariols, aid it is evid'it that in ten years there will not bn much good free range left cast of the Missonri river. Wlien immigration ito i hat extnt. 1111 IaVO shut h1 lI fl' from freo pastur ag, flie stock nuin can either selliti farin ut probably four timel(s its p lit value, and 1 move to Da,kot.a or Montanal or else i-n his attention to Iatt(Iin stork on grain for ot her parties. Flior instance, aIs 1 practical ;Iso, t Icr is a cattle nii of CO(uncil Plhtfl's w)l> is s:il to own 100,000 head ot cattle iII btlah1. H( has a range of sixty squ:n-.. miles of laiid not worti a cen't to ti:. acre for aLricli uture. vet atori' exe< ! Ilent psIstlire for cattle. He has ten 1?1il emiployeIed at 'agI va.ryig from $21 i4() per month to look after the :4wk. These mleni require '200 polies to handltie the cattle. An overseer is hired at F1 ,200 [ yer. Diring the winter, ho - ever, four menI en1 (10 all II tl(e v' rk r (Iirdl, whlihi is ii Ily bre::kiig the ice in lith- sI reamvs tlat tho (attle may lo water. Sireams serv*e as the greal (.I1 uiipon the cattle straying away, for tb-y niever will go fAr from water. Il i spring of thle year the e1i e m n of ihl 1laiis have a grnid "romal 11 (as P is called), the stock is picked it 1h meanIIs of theo branld. and thos 01"m. that are meant for the F.aiv teri irlolt are-0 started for O(nalta. They tun l abouit ten m1iles at day, :md( pe-1 eralhy t1ke' the whole seon i , the jouirney from the winntor: roun'l1d to the Missouri b~ot (tom. .\t Omahda thle cattle are put oni thbe t rin anid shiiped niombmalvy to Ch liengoj, hn: really to dift'ercent po' ints ailong the rol , to b~e haindedl over $)to famers for fattenu mng. Mr. Stewart deliveredl over 1,900 nead to farmers hlst fallI, anmd of thes:' only eight were lost, during I' ve iter. The parties who receive the ca:ttle' agree to, fatten them at the inute of 5 cents for every extra pound of weight they' a :ohl t o the animal. This seems smnall atI. first sighlt, but when cat tie put on 250) extra pounds(1 (luring aL wiunter, andit wvhere two hu'gs aore fed from the refuse of each'I ox, the tfrmner finds tlimt thle result to htimi is etfilvalent to selling is corn at 100 per centt. profit. The11 large cattle-raisers, of course, haive' their inspectors, who travel from farm to farm to look after their pr'opeorty, and gather it together in the~ spring for shiment to Chicago, where they are either slaughitered or shiipped to Europe. The cattlei men have at great adlvantage over mere famers;, in that they are t~o a great extent inidepenidei. of railways. If they aire badLl~y t reated by one corporation, they have at simp1 le remedy in driving their stock at few miles to the next road.-- //arper's Mag uazimt . G'oughi. After all his life-long work upon flhe pilat form1, and withu imhe high fees his tfamni 11nd( alities justly 'omnin~d, ,Johni 1. G mIgh is not a r:(ch man. His privat e 'I bait ies a re m a arge nnid nuimetrdus as ti he y' ar~e unosit atmt ionls, for1 this great-heart e'd onm ii dioes not let his left h and know whaut his right hand does. He hast met with frequ(ent and heavy losses on account (f the tender-hearted willingness with wihich lie puts his vahuale autograph on the back of au friend's album for njinety days, and the almost infalhile certaint'y with which lie is conmpelled to get it hatch again for himself when the three short months have flowni. M.Gough ought to be worth $500,000, but like most muen whose hearts are wvrapped up in, and whose lives are consecrated,to some great work oif ref itm, he is not a good busi ness man, and impecunious friends and suffering humanity have got most of the money the great apostle of temperance has earned by hard platform work. "HAtv1 you sp~oken to pal about tht yet'?" anuxionsly inq~juired the olest daughter of her indulgent mother. '"No, my chil, not yet. Your father is too bitsy with his creditors to thinik of pony phaetons and russet harnessm to miatchi just no0w." "'Bother the creditors, was ile HmlLppisli rely. "Ti t' wllat youmr father is doing, my dear. After hie has 'ompi)romied you shaill have your It- war~N of sense the worat kind of pimerty, we know som'fe people who eigh t to have bteeni '' t-ho pooriho us hin1ct t hii *f bildhood... -1Iaml)On. "Aflidavits Are Not Lobsters.'' Gen. James rant. Wilson furnih1e Ie (tpo Aunn A dverti.cr witI the fol ig pletiant gossi p abou t old Admiral Joflini-one of the Collins, by the way imnd the grevat variety about Cape Cod o ('bstern- weighing exactly ninety poinids. Sir fainc Coflint, a British Admirid am' t 11nombl)or of tho flmily whieli Iebd a fa. nuls reuilion at Natliutlelt, August 16 ras rn at Boston, and when a chi ive.1 for some years on Cape Cod. Sii [st:'c (.tii1o to this couitrY soon after flit saIr of( I ,1 , a1n(d during the voyage ht Oated to the oflicers of his flag-ship thai vb ieni they rea--hed Capei i Cod lie woul vlow them Alobs -rAs that weigIed niiety >)nn~ls ! The rulesi of ;t unarter, Iek dL] It-t p'miIiit vol to flativ tii I It ar \d Iiirl, 1-11b. still somie douIbt 1111( di+ r-11t was visIble- on thle Counlltenant lces ol b mani ,1.fa :--nmnt 1 wh stood a'.! - . . I '," r iI Sir Isaae, ii n ou dnhItIi1t it, I wil inn11ke YOU I Wagfet hat when we rceIch Cape Cud I wIll )ro,tu0 Ia lobster that weigh1: ninety MImnns.'' 'Tie wo'ger wis made m r!c I' a-eous permission of the Adiiiiral, IId when they lrrived tler Sii- 1 ala i1261r%'d the C.ilm, but hi could 1n14t find ully hI t., t hat weied ninety oundo , n 11ir .r just Iiow, but I wvill ob tainua 1w iilar it4 of the old lishermen to irove that there are such lobst'rs. \il he Iao))1duceA at pile of afliidIvits, hoi'.ing itnat when fle were fis. rmel 11 1. iv times lobsters fluit; weigIed 11l <-l . . a '11Is w' r ix s ; n es 'inuj 'ii i nie~e - ri.,onthle C 1pw. Thenl it was eft to al lmpr ti de-ile, w'h ich had ost ndwll wionii bA V. II, :n1d IbY him st onsie 2 IL jidgiiieit. 'was giveln that it 1 uI IVi .1! it would eiltitle him to thIt * ..r(' I., ii i vh l M 5I il;" IhIett.Si - li - 1.i i lhl:; ssi hu e t u2*a Li t, ii allhis de:~tcis'ins weie a d go . Ills dcisi(ons wasI! Oio-t n:IiLvitA arV Iot l)strs." Th'le d st illguIished membller of the Co(f lin faiiily, w ritim. to his frieid C..iaino lore Isaac 1Hull, inl 1816, says : "Man thatihs for your kind exertion- : thOw pmid lobiter when you caln. Mly r. o 'Witn will bw aved, alt1inmeh mY .ie, ad in anotlihir let. ter i, x inii.g bfor-1 11, the Ad 11ral ir, nI e lol bster vOnl conjin b te, tA) ( v.t. -Trriv- in '(and condit om m i i- ' id d ia 1 1m :, I ll s o n1e I r - Still imy friieml Sir Joseph Banks longf for one of ninety pounda," Whethei Ihull ,u IaleJ'(Itbd ins(lvinJ g Sir lIsaaeil polnd lob.ter I very iuel regret I an lii-lble 1) staito, biut Ia VeIIeTabI (Gloue0 tor fisherianl 'wlman the writer c InsuI te oi the subject- said There ain't h) 'm Ito sich 10 s1'ras~een on Capo Annl dur11in tho List si.y years, anl' [ don't lwlievt lIy ticih were tVeer cauight oil Caj Co].' '1111 h lNailu's SluL'lfrestlions to a Fi-etifl Wife. fster ' exclaime Ani Susan, :esin", her r Doking and oitting, and ingtot right. " D)o you knowv what rolli li.h~tuid will (10 wlieni you are lemly"' "\ Wlit (1o you mean ?" was the start til ri '.1y "1 ' lwill marr 1: thVie sweet'fest-.t ilpered( "(i, aunmtie 1!" Hester begani. "Doni't interrupl1t m le 1111tiI 've hin-' iilh1(d," .aid( A unt Susiian , leaintg bach unolI takin u p her kinit tinig. " 'She mas :'t h0 as goodc at ihusekeep~er 1as you arl' 11 S't, I thinik not, but she will be good' :iured't. She moay not even Jovo lilmi asu well ats yotu do, butt she will lbe goodI-a ilreth. "i~i~ Why, :mutr lima t--" 1:~ \ t i'1 1. '' liv r (1t y I tuvla le v ut - (' t . ether night o, thI only r'einarkl lim mmk iiabout ihlem wasL : 'She1 i a sweet wom.i .mii nedt, Aui Suimtj. " To-tday. your huts hanit wats hudl way [across the kitee floor i, brin11gin g you1 tIhe fIrst ipe po eh. l's, aliiI Ia you did wats to look oni anll :y :. ' Thlier'e, WV'i , j ut see youar Inwha on1 ny e'lenn iboor ! 1 w4on't hav. mc Ihoor all traiel;ed op.' Somec men ' wonuh irowni thle pachelis out of thle w1ini whoi lhe ki-ssed you, herau~ise his inus3 tirbio wa' ibimp~, alalc said, ' I nleer wan1 you t o kiss ineaogainm.' Wheni lie empltii anytvlhljinr you tell hin not to :pill it wheni h1e lifts anlything you tell hauim io to break it. From morning until iiighu your sharp voice is hteard1 comlaiinl antd fault-findiung. And last. w~inter when you w~ere sick, you scolded hin1 about his allowing the pump to freeze and toiok no0 notice when lie said . ' L wau so ai~~ousi abouit you that I did no think of the pump.''" "But, auntie-" muost intellIigenit tof them alhl c'are mfort for awoman'lis tenlderness5 than~l for anmy thinig else in the world, and with~out thi lie elevor'est andi( mtost perfeIctt house keepeor is sureO to loso her husbandll~'s af feetionl in I ime10. TIhere& may be a fev imore ruen like Will-a~s gentle, ans lov ing, na chivalrous, asM fo rgetfl 'f self andi &so sattisfiedu with loving thaut theci aftfect ionis will die a 1long, s tugglni decath ; butt ini most cases it tak(es but few years of fret fuilness' anid fault-lindi ng to tiurnu a hiusb anld's love inito irita~te< itinli fice110. "' Iut, auntie-" t"t Yes well~ 1yu are not deaid y,iai fund~ :4 so ou hiave timl to) be com1o1 so sIereneI aluid sweet that your hum hand can~l never imagine that there is betteur-te mpered woman in existence." Tmrmon~ isi red andgreen as well a hlickebohny. HUMORS OF THE DAY. WAs Eve's first dress made of bear s i? . U NA-rUiCALTv look P Qliar if U R C - anl going to 1) K.--Bil Nye. IN SOM: hats the cabbage leaf must fee1 petfectly at home.-Quincy Modern A ip>. Jf1 in.: :l'The most horrible suicide 0!n r s s tlat of the mai who took a diik of Chiicago water.--Boston Post. .1y fal her wis Irish, My mother wits Irish, And I am Irish Ptew. - --onker-'s Statesman. P'r wa1s pr)balbly al Irish missionary wIo, wlien about to be inaticated by the caninibals, originated that beautiful WimN you lose a needle on the floor, the