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- e $ N'v :4 DEVOTED TO POLITICS, MORALITY, EDUCATION AND TO THE GENERAL INTEREST OF THE COUNTRY. Bv D. F. BRADLEY & 00. -PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY ,JANUTARY2t NEWS GLEANINGS. One tomato farm at Key West, Fla., has 12,00 plants. Four hundred inmates in the Alaba ma insane asylum. Now Year's day Georgia had 971, 488 24, in her treasury. donations to the Uifiversi ty of Virgina since 1865 foot up $440, 000. -This year's hay crop in Augusta county, Va., is estimated to be worth over $100,000. Maury county, Tenn., is out of debt, and her warrants are worth ninety-five cents on the dollar. The license to sell intoxicatiing spir its within the town of Jasper, Ga., has been raised to $1.000. One hundred thousand young -Cali fornia salmon have recently been placed in the waters of Georgia. Bets of $500 have been made at Au gusta, Ga., that tais y'ear's cotton crop will be at least 6,000,000 bales. Tle residence of Hon. Ben. Hill, at Athens, Ga , ias been isold to Prof. Speer, of the University. It originf.ly cost $80,000.. There are seventeen tobacco factories at Pe ersburg, Va., employing about 3,500 hands. The gross annual pro ducts amount to about $3,200,000. The St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern railway company pay $300,: 000 yearly for ties to the wood-choppers between Little Rock ald Texfkana. The Porter Guards, of Memphis, will wear swallow-tailed scarlet coats, trim med with buff and gold, buff pants with scarlet stripg, bordered by gold cord and buff helmets to correspond. At New Orleans all the cotton p reses are glutted, owing to the fact that great quantities of cotton is being held for future delivery and no-large shipments are being made to Europe. 'Ib 'K of Fayetteville, N. C., fol lowing the example of Memphis, has hfad its municipal existence tei minated by A state law in order to escape from the clutches of the candamus nmover. Chattanooga Times: As things are now going, the south will in the year 1900 support Irer own narkets with every grade of cotton goods, and with cows, 220,33 sheepo and 1,78,60 hogecut witr th inclludedvea. ale Hore,.73;rksdle, $70 89; oxegnia $7nati; gingum, a ret mhay oint in ego.u Itncs-i Tto hav belee frto bentoduce byetbrie oun e exe that of Oit mayeir i vrmeryosintl. ~aa' e qirng thesigippiter care to08,640i foms proposed canl, 273,25 -acoxn, Gab,330te wth the projectwisnot abagovalue: anys means 00; thep,-257ror tim the whol projecdto wave be firout rouce by toied roint es of that aspi maIt is veraly ostinate ays faa' lri dquiringe, greatsthcae brow ore rtyfo orAngentlemuch threl swnterstad inh bepogeranal, he bright fru, te that brow frojet is derete ibndorth-b . ny marean sol thaope tie thie oninalr ft. h rn.H so h pn onhttheonerpri.)Aetiser Thereos areu $,50,000.arso oermn ad tin gAlabamll sujctonentrsys underori hoesteaand pthattibon orws rusty oraneing fc land sweeast ne brike bein kept lone theanashe baish srutm but the cotunsa tervtaers fat' Te rotal freits otepcitd of Aot lant fmare al soresdurit ha8f8th pric Montgomery Th city. Advebtiser There6 ar20,00d res xediue govenmn aondt homesnteed and sinkimptiond *19,573, leveing of lan was,59 fovr ri-e nary5 ependiure. aThelal city some o thelontidebt of anta the state law0,518 97. inceae ity ii debt. 2,9, ofh atists nininger fRmnd,35, leviga aane 26,4,9tfrori nar exediues.h ct hnn floating debt, ~~~ancanoathsae law sands inceaseits dhde deb. Va., have resoluted against the bill be fore the legislature of that state, to re move the political disabilities of per sons who have, in recent years, violated the law against dueling. They say: "We look upon the proposed action as a violation of the spirit of the constitu tion and the laws of the state, as an in sult to heaven and an affront to the moral and Christian sentiment of the Virginia people." Fernandina, (Fla.) Mirror: A few days since we were on the north shore of Orange lake, in what is known as the island, once designated as Townsed Ter ritory, from its isolation. Five years ago, no public road passed through it, no rail- or water communication came within twenty miles of it. While we were there within twenty minutes' time, we heard the puffing of trains on the railways, the whistle of a steamer and of three steam saw mills, and realized the change which has been made and which is going on all over Florida. An amusing incident occurred at F in castle, Va., during the last term of the Rotetourt county court. A jury was empannelled to try one Bolen, charged with an assault on J. G. Sperry, the latter testifying in the case. After two days deliberation the jury returned into court with a verdict of manslaugher. It would be hard to picture the scene that followed. The bar was convulsed, the "dead man" smiled audibly, Judge Palmer looked on for a moment in mute astonishment and then hid behind his newspaper. Richmond, (Va.) State: It is impos sible for the south unaided to educate all within her borders. While she asks no exemption from all just obligations, this duty of f. ce education does not rest on her exclusively. Dr. Sears in 1879, said there were 2,000,000 of children in the Southern St'ates, without the means of instruction. Increasing -efli ciency of school system is daily furn ishing additional means, but the latest reports of state superintendents siow a wide difference between the number of educatable children and those in actual attendance at schools. 'A writer describes a Christmas din ncr at a country house near Richmond, Va., during the war: The four gentle men were in uniform,. and the three ladies were in homesp.m. They had for dinner a $300 ham, and the last turkey on the plaintation, value $175, with $100 worth of cahibage, potatoes and homiuf. Corn Broad wrs served, naade of meal at $80 per bushel and salt at $1 a pound The dessert was black molasses at tt60 a gallon, and after one cup) of tea--real tc~a, worth *100 a pound, treasured for the occasion as a surprise, and not sas safras--there was coffee at discretion, made from sweet potatoes cut intq little squares toasted andl ground downi. Memnhis A ppeal: Mr. May , a young Shelby county farmer, has been success fuil in the manufacture of ensilage, a species of food for cattle, that in winter takes the place of the clover of summer and is more nutritious. The method adopted byM\r. May was simply to cut the uea-vine down, chop it and press it into a pit for ty feet long, ten feet broad, and ten keet deep. Ini this pit he made fifty tons of ensilage, with which he p)roposes to fatten f~teen head of cattle for three months. Mr. May's example should stimulate every farmer in this section of the country. Immense quan, tities of hay and corn are sold1 in this market every winter, the money paid for which might be put to some othier use, if only ensilage were made for cat tle, The best stockraisers recommend it, and the practical farmers at the west are loud in its prai se. . F'ace Dlillcultles, Have the courage to face the difficulty, lest it kick you harder than you bar gained for. Difficulties, like thieves, often disappear at a glance. Have the courage to leave a convivial party at the proper hour for doing so, however great the sacrifice ; and to stay away from one upon the slightest grounds for objection, however great the temptation to go. Have the courage to do without that which you do not need, however muchi you admire it. Have the courage to speak your mind when it is necessary that you should do so, and hold your tongue whendit is better that you should be silent. Have the courage to speak to a poor friend in a seedy coat, even in the street, nd when a rich one is nigh. The effort is less than many people think it to be, and the act is worthy of a king. Have the courage to admit you have been in the wtong, and you will remove the fact in the mind of others, putting a desirable impression in place of an unfavorable one. Have the comn age to adhere to e . first resolutio~n when you can not c nge it for a better, and to abandon it even at the eleventh hour upon conviction. TOPICS OF THE DAY, OscAm WInDE writes for a guinea a line for Our Continent. Tan "boy preacher," Thomas Harri son, is saving souls in Cincinnati. Tn jails are full of convicted mur derers, and hangings are a rarity. VENNOR does not like to be classed with Mother Shipton, but it can't be helped. -___6% ___ To sErLE the Cannon-Campbell con test, Utah will probably hold anothei election. GUITEAU says public opinion is chang ing. He puts it wrong. It wants a ch an g e. :110 TaE iron-producing interests of the South are shaping themselves into a monopoly. A GREAT boom has struck Richmond, Indiana. She is to have a $200,000 opera-house. TRE author of "Fool's Errand" has started a paper in Philadelphia, called Our Continent. THE census shows Paris to have a population of 2,225,900, an increase of 237,000 since 1876. A Nnw law in Kansas forbids any per son to marry within six. mouths after p-ocuring a divorce. Now THAT smallpox is rife, it is but reasonably precautionary on the part of every one to be vaccinated. Tas report of finding a boat of the Jeannette containing corpses is dis credited in official quarters at St. Peters burg. JUDGE PORTER has been a power in the Guiteau trial, and for that will be deservedly remembered by a grateful republic. THE National Temperance Society is vocating the appointment of a com: mission to inquire into the liquor traffic of the United States. OF THE population of London, 3,620,. 000 are vaccinated and 190,000 are not. There were 1,532 deaths from smallpo3 in that city the past year. Mn. LAwEs, a prominent Englisb agriculturist, has set aside $500,000, the interest of which is to be used in carry.. ing out agricultural experiments. AiraG members of the Lower House of the Tennessee Legislature are a white man and a negro who held the relation of master and slave before the war. SOMETHING is always being laid at B~eecher's door. Last week it was an infant only two days' old, and he very properly and promptly had it sent to the City Nursery. MANtUPAcTURING paper from palmetto is one of the new enterprises in Florida. Twenty mills in all are shortly to be erected by a company in sections of the State where palmetto is abundant. PRoF. WILJLIAIsI of, Yale College, re cently received a dispatch from the in terior of China which had been sent the day before, traveling within twenty-foum hours the distance of 19,000 miles. THE rage in circus circles the coming season is to be " the handsomest woman in the world." Every circus will -have her. Barnum has already published his offer of $20,000 for a famous beauty. THE members of the new Chines( Legation at Washington wear their na tive costumes on all occasions, and at. tract consiglerable attention on the street. and elsewhere, by their startling corn bination of colors. JomN '1tAmOR, President of the Mor mon Church, has taken up his abode irn the Gardo House, at Salt Lake City, the magnificent structure which Brighani Young built for his favorite, Amelia. II has been luxuriously furnished through out. THrE tWO heaviest taxpayers of BOstoi are Moses Williams and Joshua M Sears, the first name being assessed fo: $3,300,000, and the other for 03,244,000 And yet we never heard of these mei befgre, Riches and fame don't alway go hand in hand.. A-'rroRNEY GNEArau BREwwTr is Sail to put on more style than any othe Oabinet Minister who ever courted th smiles of fash'onable society. Hi "turn out " is as gorgeous as that o PaonrITnION has igoved on Congres in a body. On the 11th inst. every mom ber of the Senate had a memorial t4 present from his constituency, asking for a law to prohibit the manufnfstre sale or importation of alcoholic liquor throughout the national dornaiu. Jus'ou is always expensive wher there is a high state of qivilization. & the frontier, where churches and court are unknown, murder trials are of shor duration avdto the point. and crime lesi frequent, to the population, than wher the oguntry Is dotted with courts of law GEnMANY has 3,250 co-operative asso ciations, of which 1.895 are loan or credi. societies, people's banks, etc., 674 in dustrial societieb, 645 stores for the saL of goods, and 36 building societies And yet Germany is reputed to be abou the hardest country on the poor ther it in the world. Wm the weather in the Middle an( Western States is very moderate, mer cury in Dakota Territory is generalla below zero, but up to the middle of Jan uary the present season it seems tha they have had nothing up there bu " continuously warm weather"-not evei an ordinary snow. OsCIA WMDID seems to be the boon for the present, and it is singular ho the ibsthetic crowns his every move. Hi arrival in this country was January 2 or 1882-2. He talks in rhythmic chant accenting every fourth syllable, thus 'I came bom England because I houghk America was the best ptace to see." A COn1EsPoNnNrT of the No* Yor Post says that the removal of the dut, on quinine has cheapened the dru6 seventy-eight cents an ounce, and tha more of it is manufactured in this coun try now than when it was " protected. We are getting to be almost as invoterat users of quinine as we are of tobacco. Dn. MAinY WAnRnn, who has a singu lar way of dressing, narrowly escape< arrest a few days ago in Washington She walked through the President' grounds, pursued by a newly appointe, colored policeman, who had been tol, " it was a woman," and would have bee: taken to the station-house had not thos at the White House identified her. BusINmss seems to be pushing i Nevada. Says a Nevada paper: Nol withstanding the absence of bonanzaE nearly 1,800 miners are at work on th Comstock at present, representing monthly payment of nearly a quarter c a million dollars. The miners in tur give employment to many in the mill on the Carson River, in Gold Hill an Silver Citya THE Cincinnati Gaicife states the case briefly as follows : If Congress will ad mit to seat in that body a delegate froix Utah who admits that he has several wives and believes in and practices thE doctrines of the Mormon Church, il might as well stop talking and legislat ing against polygamy. A man who de fles law shouild not have a seat among law-makers. Miss IDA UnLMAN, a New York belli who, a few days ago, recovered damage in the breach of promise suit againp Mr. Henry H. Meyers for $1,750, ha. married Mr. Cohen, one of the witnessel in the case. Ida is charged with darinj everybody to kiss her on New Year' day, and that was one of Mr. Meyer reasons for not wanting her for a bride Her kisses were too abundant.' IDAllo contains 35,000 inhabitants Its gentiles or anti-Mormon residents ar frontiersmen of the better class. Un fortunately the Territory lies immedliatol; north of Salt Lake City, and the Mor mons, finding themselves rather crampe in Utah, have marked out Idaho fo their own. This is an imperative reaso used by the Denver Tribune why Con gress should not delay the Morno question. DR. BnasS thiinks $50,000 would b about right for his services as physicia to President Garfield. The servicesc Drs. Agnew and Hamilton ho reckons ie #25,000 each, and Reyburn,- he thinku ought to be satisfied with $8,000. Di Boynton and Mrs. Dr. Edson he consil erately allows $1,000 each, although pel haps Mrs. Fdson did more real ser,vi and suffered more anxiety than the iho] lot. Yes, Dr. Bliss is a great man. Txis printers in the Government Prin ing Office are being meanly treate< Notwitlastanding they get a higher pri< r for their labor than is paid for simib work In any office in the civilized work they still ask for more. So long as the are so modest about it, we do not 84 -why the Government should not I willing to divide the prpofits with them or it might turn thistitution over1 them and make it a stook concern for that matter, and thou allow them an anjhal appropriation besides. The boys C should be treated on the square. HuuN nature is hard to understand. The wife of Henry Kirk, of Madison, Indiana, a virtuous and handsome wo man of thirty years, was recently called upon by a young Pennsylvania jewelry mender, of good address and oily tongue. Mr. Kirk was absent at the time. The young man was so excessively po li,to and irresistibly fascinating that Mrs. Kirk was completely captivated. A few days after the event she became wildly deranged, constantly repeating the substance of the conversation, and her husband has been compelled to mend her to the Insane Asylum. Tun are incidents which, -when we read them, seem really to be so exhiler ating that one almost becomes intoxi cated with the "spirit of approval," if that were possible. A young lady in Now York City, who was accosted by a well-drossed man in an insulting man nor, accepted the offer of an old woman, who was grabbing in an ash barrel close by, to " cover him with ashes for ten cents." The man was pelted with hand fuls of ashes, covering him from head to foot, before he could escape. The old dame was rewarded with a quarter. She should have had, at least, a dollar for such appropriate sQrvices. GLASS ROUSES. rho Brittle Nubstance Better for Build. lssa Purposes than Stone. [Pittaburg Dispatch.] Perhaps not on builder or contractor b in ten, if told that the common grades of glass made at the glass factories in this city have a crushing strength nearly four times as great as that credited by Bkperienced ongineers to the strongest quality of granite, would accept the statement as true. Yet it is a fact, and - being so, the query as to why glass has not received more atte:tion from archi tects as a structural material nnturally suggests itself. A reporter had a talk a with several prominent glass manufac I turers on the subject, and in answer to an interrogatory as to whether blocks of a glass could be made in suitable lengths 1 1Wd sizes and so-annoaled as to be util ized in the construction of a building in place of stone, they Eaid it could be done. Said one of these gentlemen : SI "This question has been considered by myself a number of times, and, although , I do not want to advocate the absolute 3 abolition of brick and stono, yet in the orction of art galleries, me' oArial build mngs, etc., a structure conmposedl of blocks of glass in p~rismatic colors wouldl S1)0 a unique, beautiful and lasting a structure. With the numerous inven 1 tions which have como into use of late years in connection with the production of glass, the cost has been gradually going down, while the qjuality of the fabric is steadily b~ecpming better. " One objection which would be raised to the durability of a glass house, in the literal sense of the words, might be that the blocks wouild not take a bind, or ad here together with common mortar. This objection can be0 readily set aside by the use of a good cement, anid when compl~eted the structure will stand for ago:, b~arring extraordinary accidentsi. As to the cast of a glass house, it can be kept (down to a small percentage abIovo the pico of our cut granite. In build ing with stone you have to pay the stono masons, anid when it comes to elaborate examples of carving in CJorinthuiain pil lars, collars, capitals, etc., why the work is rather costly as complared with glass, s when the latter can be molded into) any a shape or form, and the work accom Splish ed in much less time. I am con vinced that the time will come when we will see such a building crectedl. Scarcely a day passes but what the sphero of glass as an artichf of use becomes wide~ned. In parts of Germany and on one line in a England glass tics are being Used on . railroads, and thus far have given satis faction, combining all of the requisites of wooden ties with the virtue of being - susceptile to usage at least twenty-five I por cent, longer than wood. Then by r the Bastra process glass ar'ticles are now a b)eing made for common use which can .- be thrown on thme floor and will reboundl ~like a rubber ball. Progress is also 1 being made towards rendering glass, which mhas ever been characterized as the brittle fabric, ductile, and to-day threads B of glass can be made that can be tied in a knots and wovon into cloth. Were onie fdipossa to give play to fancy and fuse it into fact, a house eutirely composed *t of glass could be built with walls and roof and floors fashioned from melted sand. Carpets of glass could cover the floors. Thme most ultra asthete, sitting on glass chairs or reclining on glass couches, arrayed in glass garments, cat e ing and drinking from glass dishes, such e a one could realhze that the age of glass had come. Yet nearly all of this fifty years ago would have been classed with~ the then impossible telephone and cloc 5- tric light, and this statement wouldl have I. likely found its place in the 'Catalogue e Expurgatoros.'" I, TJimRE seems to be no occupation s0 y dangerous as that of brakeman on freighi e trains, and many insurance companie refuse to take the risk of inaiuring their lives. It is said that only twenty-fivE ~ er cent, of freight brakemen die excepi V UJL. Al. INU. 1. HUMORS OF THE DAY. "JunIUs, seize her I" said Sambo, as fulius was contemplating a fat pullet in iho moonlight. DOMESTIO troubles come bunched, like selery. TiE only thing in this country that i iot injured by bursting, is applause. WnEN you see an not committed are rou not necessarily an nigh witness ? " HUSBAND and wife," says some sage aerson, " should no more struggle to get ihe last word than they should stfuggle !or the possession of a lighted bomb." rlhoy don't. Tho wife gets it without a dtrugglo.-The Judge. "SAVE One Little Kiss for Papa," is ,ho title of the latest song. If this re nark is aimed at a Chicago girl with ,our steady beaux the old man's chances Lre pretty slim.-Chicago Tribune. " Wu'AT a contradiction a watch is I"' mid Timmins. "How so ?" asked Mrs. I'immins. " Why, because it always koops perfectly dry, although it con stantly has a running spring inside." WIL the "coming man " shut.the loor after him ?" He will in this office, :>r the going man will go out of the Window.--Lowell Citizcn. BLONDE-" They say Carrie is en gaged." Brunette - "Engaged ! why, 3he married a month ago and has just med for a divorce." Blonde-' How romantic! Isn't it splendid ?"-Boste Tran8cript. " YEs," said the Denver editor, "I think I must have got out a very reada ble paper this morniug. I've been licked by three prominent citizens to-day, an other chased me with dogs and a gun and the police had hard work to keep a mob from wrecking my office."-Chi cago ribune. Du. D- has a bright little girl about four years of ago, who is very fond of dolls and ho buys a new one for her nearly every day. He brought her a new one the other evening, but it did not appear to take her fancy at all. " What, don't you like the new doll ?" he asked, after watching her a few mo ments. " No; I's tired of stuff dolls. I want a real meat baby," she replied, earnestly.-The Judge. "I CAN well remember the time," said Mrs. Marrowfat, leaning over the fence rail, in confidential conversation with her neighbor next door, " when Simp son's wife was glad enough to get a plain woolen shawl to wear. Now she always appears in a sealskin sacque." " Ah, you forget," was the reply, " that Mr. Simpson's brother has become a bank cashier." A DETRnoI man calls his wife Vesu vius, because she is a holy terror. - Chaff. A Burlington man calls his wif4 Coto paxi, because she spits fire and won't lava the neighbors alone. -Burlington N. .J. Efntcrprisc. A Jamestown man calls his wife a fool because she has not Etna thing since the winter bonnets have made their appearance.--Leader. A Stubonvillo man calls his wife after lie gets up and builds a fire, for she won't get up in the cold.-Stubcnvitll Ilcrald. DARWIN acknowledged himself match ed when his little niece asked him, seriously, what a cat has that no oth~er animal hias. He gave it up after mature deliberation, and then the sly puss answered " kittens." SAUHAoE Fivz, of this city, is an masthete. He says he now has a " good quality of home mate sossichies, with der dog collars all p)Ickerl owid. Doy vash (100 utterly py gosh a goople of dimes, ant you pet my life if I dold you so I bite mine hot oiT."-Larmie Bill .Nye. Leave-taking. Not all have learned the art of leave taking in an appropriate manner. When you are about to depart, do so at once, gracefully and politely, and with no dallying. D)on't say " It's about time I was going," and then settle back and talk on aimlessly for another ten minutes. Some people have just such a tiresome habit. They will even rise and stand about the room in various at tituides, keeping their hosts also stand ing, aund then by an effort succeed in getting as far as the hall, when a new thougzht strikes them. Tfhef brighten up visibly and stand for some minutes longer, Haying nothing of importance, but keeping everybody in a reatless, nervous sttate. After the door is opened the proloniged leave-taking begins, and everybiody ini general and particular is invited to call. Very likely a last thought strikes tihe departing visitor, whichi his friend must risk a cold to hear to the end. What a relief when the door is finally closed I There is no need of being offensively abrupt, but when you are ready to go-go. AN OLD darkey who was asked if in his experience prayer was answered, re plied : "XWell, salh, some pra'ers is an suid an' some ain't-' pends on w'at yon axes fo'. Jest arter do wah, w'en it was mighty hiard scratchiin' fo' do culled breddern, I 'bsarved dat w'enbber I p ray do Lord to son' one o' Marse Peyton's fat turkeys fo' do ole man, dere was no notice took of do partition ; but w'en I pray dat he svould sen' de ole man fo' do turkey, do matter was 'tended to be fo' sun-up nex' mornin', dead sartin." " I DmlN'T call, because when I passed the house I noticed there was no 'light in the parlor and I thought you were, out," a >ologetic~dly observed the simple minde Chicago man who had an ap pointmient with a Cincinnati merchant. " Never be such a fool as that a ain," angrily responded the disappoind pork packer " you ought to have known It was only one of my gals receiving com pany."