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DEVOTD TO POLITICS, MORALITY, EDUCATION AND TO TH NIEAL INTENT OF TE OUNTrY B, D. F. BRADLEY & CO. PICKENS. S. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1881 VOL. XI. NO. 14. NEWS GLEANINGS. Bear meat is selling in Little Rock i five ceits a uOund. The Bristol and North Carolina Na: row-guage railroad has been abandoned Real estate at Atlanta has advancei fifty per cent since the opening of th Exposition. 4 The Baltimore Packing company wil pack fish, oysters and turtle at Apalach 1ola, Fla. Decatur, Tenn., has given up its chai ter- of Incorporation td get rid of it whisky saloons. Seventy-five white persons l ft Green boro, Ga., recently to seek homes in Ai kansas. FThe' Union Passenger Depot at Atlar ta will be illuminated ;by an electri light. Twenty-five nuns of the order of thi Incarnate Word, from Fiance, are ei route to Texas to engage in educationa work in a convent of their order. Two live-oak trees are now growinj within seven miles of Palatka, Fla. which measure respectively thirty-si: feet in circumference. During the past fiscal year Savannal exported $30,000,000 more than Boston $31,000,000 more than Baltimore an $60,000,000 more than Philadelphia. The Little Rock'and Fort Smith rail road, in Arkansaq, makes no charge foi carrying seed wheat to all stations alonj its route. The orange crop of Florida rthis veai is now estimated at 85,000,000, all 0i which but about 5,000,000 will be ship ped out of the State. There is a monster orang e tree nea Fort Harley, Fla., that measures nin< feet one inch in circumference. It ii over fifty qears old, and some senisom has had over 9,000 oranges on it. A German'professor who is gathering materials for a history of this country is quoted as saying that he was s-rprised at the superior appearance and intelli. gence of the white laboring class of the South when compared with that of th( North or t' at of Europe. .In Union county, Ga., veins of mic: frorq. five to fifteen feet wide have beer found, which are intersected by innu merable smaller veins of tlhe puitrsi quality of this valuable mineral. A company has been organized o develop Mr. Ben Hilliard, of Washington county, Ga., is perhaps the greatest suf .ferer in the world. He has been thirty three years in his bed, enduring the most excrutiating agony from rheumatism. being unable to move any part of hi. body except his lower jaw, and to slight ly shrug his shoulders. For all those long years of suffering his joints have .been-as stiff as if grown together solid. Last week the Mexican Congress grant ed a pension of $150 a month to Mrs. Augustina Ramirez. Her claim upor the bounty of her country is the follow ing: When the French invaded Mexi ce, Mrs. Ramirez was the happy wife ol Severiano Rodriguex, and the proud P mother of thirteen children, all of -.hon were grown up men. Her husband andJ her sons all took up arms to repel the foreign invader, a d extraordinary as it may scem, they were all killed in a b~at tle durirng the intervention. New Or eans Times : To take a horsie back ride over each parish in this Stat one would be surprised to see thousands upo)n thousands of acres of the. most 7 fertile lands to be found on this conti nent, lying idle, bringirng in no revenuie, . doing no one any good, but burdens t< the owners, canker3 uipon their energieQ their labors and their 'pockets. You asi *if these lands are for sale ? Qh, yes; all for sale --can be boight almost at your own price. flut who is the owner Don't know. How Is a man to get it Don't know, and so on. Within the last two week a very large vein of pure lead has been found in the -Magruder mine. The first large piect taken out weighed 260 pounds, and wa' sent to the (Yotton Exposition as a finm specimen. But a day or two after an other solid piece was taken out whici weighed 3156 pounds. Thir was shipper to A ugusta to the President of the comn . pany. Since then another large piece which will weigh not les's than 800 lbs has been dug out, but has not beeni rais ed to the surface of the ground. Thi -is pure lead, withbout rocks or forei ditbstattee, and is ready for use an it come out of-the ground. -[Was-hington (Ga. Gazattin TOPICS OF THE DAY. REV. MR. BEECHER is in favor of tax. t ing churches. BRITIsH Parliament has been pro rogued to February 7. TaE country is flooded with unhung e murderers, Where is the remedy? OvER $252,000,000 are looked up in the United Statos Treasury at the pres ent time. - Fm insurance is said not to be a pay ing investment in Russia, owing to the numerous fires. - GUITEAU is about the only murderer wo know of who e'njoys the luxury of two breakfasts a day. 85ECIAL prayer for the conversion of Bob ~ gersoll to the Christian religion is being suggested. THE iron manufacturing companies of St. Louis have consolidated. The total capital stock is $5,000,000. SENATOR JONIs, of Nevada, expresses the belief that there will be no change made in the New York Collectorship. THE proof-reader is the only person who reads a President's message entire, I and the proof-reader is to be pitied. SCOVILLE is trying to prove that he married into a family of lunatics. By what process he retained his own mental equilibrium is not explained. THE project of publishiug an official journal in Cincinnati is being discussed. Excessive charges for advertising by the city papers is the cause of it. ALTHOUGH Cincinnati is supposed to be consuming her own smoke now, the atmosphere is as heavily freighted as ever with minute atoms of coal. GUITEAU has a horror for the word "murder," but there is something mel lifluous to him in the expression " re moved." Let Guitean be "removed" then. THE fund for the establishment of a Garfield Professorship at Williams Col lege now reaches $18,000, of which more than one-half was contributed in Now York City. AFTER January 1 no (chilId under twelve years of age can be employed in any manufacturing establishment, in New Hampshire, except during the regular school vacations. SEVERArL accomplished females are conducting a systematic blackmailing scheme in Detroit, a niumber of the most prominent citizens having already fallen victims to their machinations. AND now it appears Sarah Bernhardt has been stoned because her ancestors were Jews. People are not careful enough about their ancestry anyhow. We all did wrong in letting Adam do as he did. ACCORDING to the testimony of Mrs. Christiancy's mother, in the Christiancy divorce case, Mr. Christiancy is profane, a drunkard and a wife-beater. It takes ia fellow's mother-in-law to lay him out when she makes up her mind to it. KATE OLAXTON, the actress whom the fire fiend a few years ago chased about the country, and whose presence in a theater was equal to a panic, is now per forming to an audience of one, and it's a wee tiny little girl, just the sweetest thing in the world. FoR a week after Thanksgiving Gui teau complained of not feeling well in consequenc, of over-indulgences. Is it not an outrage that persons charged with crime should be made to suffer by an excess of good things before he has been pronounced guilty ? SOuE statistical genius should compile a table showing what proportion of those who commit murder in this country are hanged. Wo are not in possessioln of sufioient kniowledge on the subject to stato with any accuracy, but venture to say that not over fivel por cent. of them feel the halter draw. .Juoua Cox, manager of the Guitea circus at Washington, was himself the counsel of Mrs. Surratt, one of the con Ispiratore convicted of plotting the assas sination of President Lincoln. Cox, we ~)hlieve, is charged with not fully apprei . ting the solemnity that should pervade - the proceedings in Guiteau's case. WHNa bank cashier defaults in the SEast, the people lionize him, but the Sbank cashier who defaults in the West is expected to make his peace with .Jesus just as quick as he can. Somehoiw or other they don't give an honorable citi zen a chauce, in the West to become prominent as a shrewd financier. As MUTILATED Coin doeh not now pas4 current, and the fact that the counitry was literally flooded with it, brings up the question, What has become of it all ? Evidently it is all in somebody's posses sion, and lucky was he who early in itr depreciation 1 began to refuse it. It is just probable, however, that the churoh contribution box can give some informa tion on this point. Aw WXAIUATION i t the boom of the city government of Philadelphia, al thoug'h just begun. indicates that the amounts of which that city has been de frauded is startling. The books indi cate, by raised figures and erasure, that the process of stealing was com pletoly systematized throughout tho Comptroller's and Tax Receiver's depart. ments. IHENRY WARD BEECIER says " he who is sane enough to organize the elements of crime and acoomplish it is sane enongh to be hanged," a kind of philosophy that Irritates Guitean immeasurably, and Gniteau takes occasion to reply in Court by proiouncing Beecher a lecherous old villian whoso life has been devoted to the ruin of women. By the way, is a wit, who is ready at repartee, a lunatic ? CINcINNATr Oninm reial: "The Com missioner of Pensions estimates that I100,.000.000 are to b. divided this vcar under pretense of paying arrearc of pen sions, and that $250,000,000 will be re quired for the sime rat hole; and the next thing no doubt will be another swindle which the demagogues and scheners will attempt to charge to the account of the soldiers." MAR. ABBEY, who pays Patti something over $4,000 a night, knows how to get cheap advertising. In Brooklyn, a few nights ago, the horses were taken from Patti's carriage and she was pulled through the streets by the supes. Of course such little freaks as that get telegraphed all over creation and keeps Patti prominent in the minds of the people. IT Is published that Victoria Wood hull has returned to this country and is going to lecture. When we remember that it has b'en but a short time since tnat she was reported to o almost in the act of marrying a British Lord, it is a little hard to understand why it is she Lomes over here on a lecturing tour, but we suppose it is because Victoria finds amore real solid enioyment in lecturing than she does playing second fiddlle,to a man. THE Star Route fellows are on the air gressive. Thykow which side of their bread is buttered. Instead of defendling themse'lves as~ the only means of fighting their battle, they are making an assault on1 A. M. 4Gibson's right to call himself an Assistatnt Attorney General, and this because A. M. Gibson was specially em ployed to p~rosecnto them. It stems that thme question of their guilt is to be entirely heft out of the cas;e and event uially forgotten. Pros of suiicidal inltent should be iniforned as to thme latest, quickest and surest method of shuffling off. It does nmot seemli to be0 generally knowvn thmat ai nowv route to the hereafter has been opene~d liy by tihe adoption of tihe electric light. By connecting himself with the 'lectric wire the suicidest (can receive a clarmge of electricity egnal to a stroke of lighiting which will hurl him into the4 ididle of the next century so suddenmly that he will nmot be aware of time trans nmorgrificamtion. (That word is a little l'mg biut wo laid to use it or h~e sltumpedc~.) A LAw she' uld he enacted muakinig it a crime pulnishamble by imprisonment for either lawyer or judge to dilly-dailly in crimiinali cases. If there is any one thing on tile face of the globe that is becoming contemptible in tihe eyes of the people, it is the manner in which justice is ob structed1 in our Courts of law, and a rev olution must come sooner or later. As now conducted Criminal Courts na e,we a mockery, and the fact is painfully ob servable to the most obtuse mind. Nunous lynchings, that are called disgraceful proceedlings, are the out growth of tihe law's delay. Criminal trials that are based upon legal techni calitied without regard to C'he atrocity of the crime under consideration must necessarily be a farce, and the frequency of such trials is wearing out the patience of the people. Public opinion does not stop to inquire into the legal verbiage upon whiclh lawyers and judge stum ble and squabblo over, and will have none of it. Whether the pris. oner is guilty or not, as charged, is all they ask, and i guilty, they want to see him punished ; if not, then he should be dischtsrged ait onice. Inquiry should be to thn point and puim ent prompt. The plea of insanity as a de fense should require the symptoms to be so marked that experts would not be re quired. A man who is so sane that an ordinary person cannot deoern a mental deangement in sane enough to hang. ovERNO-io kricKBR, of Kentucky, against whom the eharge of outrageously abusing the pardoning power has been so widely published, and for which charges there seemed to be some ground, has made the following reply in his annual message. It vividly portrays the horrors which criminals in Kentucky have been compelled to endure: " When I came into the Executi' office there were nine hundred. and sixty-nin convicts in the penitentiary, and only seven hundred and eighty (780) cells, and these cells were but three feet nine inches wide, six feet three inches high and six feet eight inches long. In a word, there were 189 more prisoners than Aells: and when you put these -into cells with others you had 878 men, two in a cell only three feet nine inches wide. They were dying at a fear ful rate, and I determined that the State Peni tentiary should not be a charnel hoase. Yes, I was determined that this should not be. It was a disgrace to the State. Again, many men are fined for slight offenses, even some for trivial amusements, where nominal wagers are laid, without any intention of violating law. This ought not to be; but these annoyances will occur so iong as our Commonwealth's At torneys have parts and portions of the fines assessed. Most of our Prosecuting Attorneys are honorable men, but occa sionally one may be found, who at all times is prying into the most trivial matters to find out the trifing nffenses of some fellow-citizens, that he may put a little money in his pocket. I earnestly '-ecommend that our Commonwealth's Attor neys be paid fair salaries out of the Public Treasury ; that they be not driven to the miser able necessity of hunting out the small pecadil loes of their follow-men, that they may profit by their fines and forfeitures. I mav, perhaps, havo used the nardoninr power somewhat too freely; but many men who blame me would, perchance, have done just as I did if they had all the evidence before them on which I acted. The fee system should be abolished as far as possible. I do not believe that any State Prosecutor should be pecuniarily interested in the result of any suit on behalf of the State." The Attitude of Canada. The Pall Mall Gazette, whose utter ances are almost official, is of the op inion that Canada will be annexed to the United States within the next ten years. Such is the popular feeling of Can-ada to-day. A few years ago it was quite different. The Canadians were superloyal and the annexatiolmsts, even then a large body, were the objects of popular hatred and contempt, but during the past two de cades, the trade relations between the United States and the Dominion have grown closer and closer until the two countries are now commercially one. The grand trunk of railway of Canada lies half in the United States and half in Canada. Portland, Me., during the greater portion of the year is the ship pimg p~ort for Canadian produce, and the Caumdian telegraph system is now but a branch of the Western Union. All these circumstances work injuriously to the interests of the Cannoaians. They see that they would be greatly benefited by annexation and, as a consequence, are becoming anxious f~ the umon, What has hitherto prevented this movement from taking some regular shape are the politicians and offieeholders. Canada has more politics to the square mile than any other country on the face of the globe. It has an elaborate judiciary and all ,the government of a large empire. Union, with this country would sweep away all these oflicials, and, as a consequence, they oppose it. T he Pall Malt Gazette does not say how Great Britain would regard the secession of its A merican domain, but the coot and careless manner in which it treats the subject is good evidence that the British .lion would not roar very loud should the Kanucks see fit to sever their allegiance with the mother country. Who Was NemnIsis I In Grecian mythology Nemesis was a female divinity who appears to have been regarded as the personification of the righteous anger of the godls. She is represented as inflexibly severe to the proudl and insolent. According to He siod, she was the daughter of Night, though she is sometimes called a daugh ter of Erebus or of Oceanus. The Greeks believed that the gods were ene mies of excessive human happiness, and that there was a power that preserved a proper compensation in human affairs from which it was impossible for the sinner to escape. This power was em bodied in Nemesis, and she was in an especial manner the avenger of family crimes and the humbler of the overbear ing. There was a celebrated temple sacred to her at Rhamnus, one of the horoughs of Attica, about sixty stadia distant from Marathon ; i~he inhabitants of that place considered her the daugh ter of Oceanus. According to a myth preserved by Pausanias, Nemesis was the mother of Helen by Jupiter, and Leda, the reputed mother of Helen by Jupiter, was only in fact, her nurse, but this myth seems to have been invented in later times to represent the dlivinle vengeauce which was inflicted on the Greeks and Trojans through the instru mentality of Helen. DON'T thinh~ you can with impunity adop)t the follies of other folks ; your constitution may not be equally well able to hear abuse. Niew ORtLEAws Iadies are said to have the prettiest feet of any ladies in the lam1l The Man at the Junete. Six railway paneges were put down at a junction to wait for a oross-line train. The little depot was the only build. ing in sight and the man in charge of it was not a telegraph operator. He simply kept the station-house and flagged the trams, and he was no more responsible for the runing of trains than the Tyoqon of Japan. Every ono of the six realized this, and yet it wasn't over two minutes before one of the passengara approached him and asked: "Is that train on time?" "II guess so.", "You guess so! Don't you know ?" " No, sir. "You don't, eh? Then bow do you know it isn't an hour late?" " I don't." "Don't, eh? Well, if that train's late, yo'll-" Here lie was elbowed away by the old woman who made up the six, and who wanted to know : " Will I git home to-day ?" " I guess so." " The train stops here, does it?" " Yes'om."t "Sttops long enough for me to git on ?' "01, yes." " Well, in -bbe it does, but if it don't y(u 11 hear frvim us !" She gave place to a man who had looked at his watci three times in six mfit N, fitand who sternly asked : "id I understand that we were to wait here two hours?" Yes, sir." Is it two hours before that train crosses here ?" " Yes, sir.'' "Wheroabouts on the line is the train "I don't know." Why don't you telegraph ?" ''We have no instrtument here." " Haven't, eh ! That's a pretty state of affairs ! . Two long hours, and perhlaps four ! Now, Iht en, if-" Here lie was calb-d away by the blow ing of ia saw-mill whistle, and the u iost peacef ul-looking man in the crowd edged up and inquired : " Train on time ?" " Yes, sir." "Does it cross here?" "Yes, sir." "Always stop?" "Always." "If 1 should get left here to-night it would cost somebody a good round sum." In the course of the next ten miumues the other two men approached and in duilged in about tie same style of oti versation, and after an interval of ten minutes he was asked what time it was, why lie was not an operator, why thi traimis didn't make close connection, and and why on earth he didn't hiav3 an eatig-house in conuoetio1n with the stan t. He had a civil answer for eiveryv question, and his patience never waverd until just four minutes before train tiao. Then the old woman said to him for tie twentieth time : "JDo you 'spose I'll miss the train ?" "'I hope not," lie quietly relied1 "'for if you do I shall take to thie woods !" And at that the six passengers gathered on the end of the platform, went into) convention, and it was unanimously .J" eso/vcd, That the arrogance and( impudence of puliic servantsi must be 'and is hereb~y sternly rebuked."--Dfctroit Frec Prjess. Cruelly to Fish. Talking with a gentleman of 84 years -a man of great experience in practical life, and withal one of humane instincts and principles--we gathered inany in teresting suggestions and ideas, that wouldl be worth repeating. Among oth er things, lhe referred to a lifelong prac ticea he had always observed. In cateh ing fish, he never failed to kill them im mediately upon drawing them out of the water, which is their natural element. Every boy knows this fact, yet hardly one in a hundred stops to think that a living fish, deprived of the p~ecluliar means of resp~iration that the water fur nishies, must suffer similarly to a human being cut off from its usual supply of atmnospherie air. Death by sufiocation is regardIed as terrible, and a fish out of water, being deprived of the oxygen that sustains its blood, doubtless suffers intensely. It is the easiest thing to kill ai fish, either by striking it a slight blow upon the head or cutting its throat. It is well known that the flesh of ani mnahs wounded and then left to die is unfit for food, and experi enced fishermen say that a fish should be killed immediately on being caught in order to render it fit for the table. But, asidbe from the question of food, the subject should be considered as oeof prineinhe. We know by the fierce struggles ol the captive tish it is in severe pain, and humanity dictates that it should be speedily put out of misery. We have no right to inflict needlessq suffering upon any creature, adl the torture of a fish is quite as bad as the torture of a dog or a horse. Nearly every day during the fishing season may be observed boys carrying large strings of fish through the streets, the move ments of which show that they are alive and in great pain and misery. In most cases this is the result of thoughtless-. ness or ignorance. Most boys would dislike to be thought cruel, and, if they were instructed by their parents and others on this subject, would probably follow the rule of humanity in the treat mont of fishes, as they do in the care of domoestic animals. We trust our young friends who read this article will not only follow these suggestions themselves, but will try to induce their companions to do likewiseHumane Journal. THmaoDORE remarked, when Angelina'i fathier shoved him off the doorstep, thai the old ,entleman had considerable pusi HUMORS OF TIM1 DAT. A mA&N may have ten-ants and yet have no pay-rents. TrE concern that always makes money -the mint. THEnE is a divorceity of opinion be tween many men and their wives. Tu H child never sees the necessity~ o tatrict obedience until it becomes ap parent. A MAN can possibly have no affetgos - for rheumatism, and yet he will ~ do al most anything for it. A mAN never feels poor when he has a ten-dollar bill to wrap on the outsidq of his roll of ones.-Lowell Citizen. FA'R upnpiro at lawn tennis-"Only keep your head, Mr. Jones, and you are sure to have a soft thing." AN OBSERVING laundrynan has dis- - covered that the time for him to catch soft water is when it is raining hard. Tus Philadelphia Chronicle-Herald n thinks that Eve was a giddy young thing beeauso she got marr.ied when she was a day old. " AN' TH AT's the pidar of Hercules ?" she said, adjusting her silver spectacles. " Gricione, what's the rest of his bod clothes like c?" " BD up my wounds, bring me an other piece of stovepipe and let the bat tle proceed ! Charge, tinker, charge I On, stovepipe, Onl I" " WnAT is right in the concrete may be left in the abstract," remarked senior Alley as he pulled his foot out of his shoe and left that article sticking to .the new-made pavement." TnE worst "spell " of the season comes from a Dakota postmaster, who ac knowledged the receipt of a package of postal cards from the Holyoke factory, in these words: "Received the pac akichitch." " No man was ever elected President who wias born in a city. And yet, de spite this fact, boys continue to be born in cities. They evidently don't aspire to the Presidency. They prefer to be comine members of base-ball clubs." A FENCHLMAN learning the English lauguage complained of the irregularity of the verb " to go," the present tense of which some wag had written out for him as follows: " I go ; thou startest; li' departs ; we lay tracks; you cut stieks; thou absquatulate or skedad (d1e." "VELL, mein front," said an old Jew in London who, after having recovered from a fit which, it was thought, would teriiinate in death, saw a crucifix that had been thrust in his face by a pious Catholic summoned to assist him home, "I can lend you only two shillings on it.," A WESTERN Coroner's jury returned a verdict that the deceased came to his deatli from exposure. "What do you menu by that ?" asked a relative of the deaid mani. " There are two bullet holes ini his skull." " Just so," replied the Coroner, "lie died from exposure to bullets." HE wAs wealthy but penurious, and this is what he said to the suitor for his daughter's hand: " Yes, you can have her. But you must elope with her. I can1 t athord the expense of a swell wed duiig, anid the romiance of tihe elopement will miake up for the lack of show and we'll save $500 on expenses. G*o it." Boston P~ost. " I MAINTAI," cried Mr. Quillhopper, excitedly, "that no man has been in such a horrible predicament that he could ntot be in a worse one." " That's. all nonsense," answered the blonde young man ; " a relative of mine was once oni thle sea in an open boat for ten days with nothing to eat ; on the eleven1th day he was so hungry lhe had to) eat his own shoes ; what could be wvorse than that?" " Well," said Mr. Q., slowly, "lie might have had to eat somoe one else's I" The blonde young mian wilted. HIow to Tell good Eggs. A good egg will sink in water. A boiled egg which is done will dry qunicly on the shell whoh taken from the kettle. The boiled eggs which adhere to the shell are fresh laid. After an egg is laid a day or more, the shell comeos off easily when boiled. A fresh egg has a lime-like surface to its shell. Stale eggs are glossy and smooth oft Eggs which have been packed in lime look stalined, aind show the action of the lime on the surface. Eggs packed in bran for a long time smell1 and taste musty. With the aid of the hands or a piece of pa'per rolledl in funnel-shapo and held toward the light, the human eye can look through an egg, shell and all. It' the egg is clear andi golden in ap pearance wh en held to the light, Itis goiod ; if dark or spotted, it is bad. Theli hiadness of an egg can sometimes be0 told by shaking it near the holder's ear. AN IOwA paper telds of two lovers who were permanently separated by the in terposition of a "cold cloud of realism." Bleing freely interpreted this means prob ably that they were not kindred sonls. Tile circumstance recags the instance of a romantic young lady who had ai very fine head of hair. One oven-. ing, when her affianced stood gazing very inquisitively at it in the midnight, she said, -with much feeling, "John, are you thinking that each one of these haire is like a golden c. rd hinding you to hap. inles ?" " Well, no0," he answered m iechaic~ally, "I was thinking what a naicn moxquito not they would make,"