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L.L VOL.XPKENS, . C., H , A 6, 0rte for the Motor. hiterutible, consolidated liar, And secret mystery of wloe: and things, Tint 'unkes our monthly bills for gas mount 'uigher, And into every housohold trouble bringsl ier wonId you now be loaded with the curs e8 of anery inen who in revilement vie, Could these poor, human, weak, and halting verses Oct over words as fast as you enn lie. How mock and open-faced your dire dolu sion! How secret and insatIablo your sinI Hlmw quietly you work in safe seolusion, I),tily and nightly dragging dollars in! E1xptl:in your vast and wondrous powers of suction; The secrets of your prison-houso declare1 Ilow (1o00 It happen that the rato's redluo tiont lIeeoius a mockery, a fraud, a snare? r" w%'hat Is thor in your cormoratntlst naturo, Your mncohanisn wierd and int ricate, That wakes you swallow u p a Legislaturo And hold and bind the people of a state? Sono tito the rule of law will be completer, A n1 by an honest Legislature then Strict justice will be meted to the meter, And peace at last possess the souls of men. - Now York World. A MORTAL "TACWIN." flow a Newspaper Roportor Became Ac quainted Witlh lls Future Wife. If I may trust the flattering truth of slep, My dreams presage some joyful news at hand: My boson's lord sits lightly on his throne, Anl. all this <lay, an unncctustoned spirit Lilts me abiove the world with cheerful Ioughts. -Shakspeare. Edward Manchester and I wero boys together. We lished in teho same brooks, occupied the samne desks at school, and cl inbed the old New En lamtli hills in company. The current of our vouthful lives ran in the same channel, until, when standing at the portals of early manhood. our paths widely diverged. Following the guidance of his am bition he became a printer's appren tice, drifted into editorial work, and linully crosel the continent. It was then that I lost all trace of hum. I en tered college, in duo timo completed the prescribed course of study, and after graduation becamo attached to the United States coast survey. So it. happiencd that after fifteen years sep aration we met again at Los Angeles, Cal., whither I had been ordered on duty. Of course our boyhood's friend ship was renewed. lie was now the editor and publisher of a prosperous iournal and the same hale and hearty 'giod fellow of my early association. To his 'ospitable home I was invited and it was the happiest, cheeriest fireside at which I was ever privileged to sit. Ilis wife, who was at least ten years his junior, tyas a woman of rare men tal qualilicatiens, and her assistance to him in his profession, and likeness of spirit, had brought the pair into per fect harmony which it was most pleas ing to observe. Sitting in his library one evening, just at the beginning of the ra.iny sea son, when the cheerful wood-fire in the open grate is an actual necessity, our conversation turned upon the subject of dreams. I doubted whether they were in any degree prophetic, and maintained with ardor the opinion that dreams were simply due to a disorder ed nervous system, citing many learn ed psychologists in support of my the ory. "You may not believe me," said my friend, "but, nevertheless; I know that dreams are sometimes forecasts of things to occur. I say I know this to be truo because the most important event of my life was brought to pass through the influ ence of a dIream. It is perhaps true that coarse natulres dc not 'entertain angels unawares' when .slecp hovers over theni and enchains their senses but there are line or gan izations possessed of a sixthi sense and that extraordinary attribute ih only awvakened when all the others art in repose." "'I hat is a novel idea,'' I ro"' '"and I do not care to nec without defin it . IIowever. I hiav (.ri she inquired. "'In truth I do not know,' was my response. 'Puty sOOms to domand 1 the t I ahould cross the desert waste be- 1 foi e me, but my way is not plain, neither do I believe I shall survive the I trials and fatigue of the journey. In- c clination uimpels In toward the city, whore all is repose, and whore the I most luscious fruits tempt my eyes and t the perfume of rare exotics is grateful a to my senses.' t "1'ouch them not. The fruit is the I apple of Sodom, and is as ashes upon the tongue. The odors which som so v delicious and entrancing are deadly y poisons; whoever breathes them is con- a denined to forever wear a heart of s stone. Follow me; and I will lead you to a haven of safety, for has not Allah i intrusted you to my care? Doubt not t my sincerity, for if you do so you will t fall and faint by the way.' "'And who are you, good lady? I How can you resist the deadly p'rils of r the trackless desert? If I trust you, I what assuranco have I that you 'will not lead Ime forth to die and be forever f lost in the ever-shifting sands?' a 'Ask your own heart, and be mind- I ful of its dictates. I cannot deceive I you if I would, for Allah has created I me to keep watch and guard over you.' ' "I was convmeed that the maiden i spoke truly. Turning to my veiled companion, after one last glance to- s ward the city, .1 said: c " 'Lead on. I will follow you with- c out reserve. .I put mIy trust in you, al- a though the way appears diflicult and the end is as closely veiled in obscurity I and doubt as are your features hidden s from my sight.' "She turned and walked fleetly across the desert, and soon the blissful city was lost from view below the hor izon, and all around us lay the silent, merciless sands. "Day nfter day and night after night we plodded on. Sometimes an awful sense of weariness oppressed me; my feet sunk to the ankles in the re- 1 morseless, yielding sands; the intense I heat shriveled my skin and parched my lips. But my companion was never weary and Paused not. If I turned laggard she prompted me to greater exertion with the words: 'Even the desert has an end. Yonder lies your way. The troubles you now endure are but blessints in (lisguise. At the I end there is eternal peace and a laurel t wreath for your brow. Would you 1 fall now, after you have suffered so much?" "At each sound of her voice my faith was renewed as if by magic and my strength came back to me. "It seemed to me th;4t months had been consumed in our journey, when at last we attained the banks of a limpid I stream. Beyond it was a stretch of palms and cedars, intermingled with luxurious plants and the most exquis ite of flowers. "'You have attained the reward of your suff'erings,' said my guide. 'IIere at last, is rest and peace. All your journeyings are at an end and now comes your reward. Henceforth you will never know a want, but pass your remaining days on earth in doing good I to your fillows. Our paths lie a Fittle apart from this time, but I will watch over you. A sense of my presence will always be vouchsafed to you, and in Paradise we shall be reunited.' "'But,' I implored, 'why must you leave me? You have been my good angel, my guide, my savior in all the trials which have bero.t my path. Re main over at my side. for I may yet fail without your aid.' 'I would that it might be so; but I fear it cannot. 1Be patient. In anoth er state of existence we cannot be p)art "'Then let mnc see y'ouri face once before we~ pat Your' voice has sus tained mue-to look upon your features w1ouhl( bu- far grenter bliss' 10 >xn oseaped lunatie. "You have a picture in your case bo >w-whose is it?' I inquired nervous "'A picture! Why, there are two undred! How should I know which no you mean?' "'Very true; I did not think of that. lut, pardon me, sir, one of those pho Dgraphs reminds me most forcibly of in absent friend whom I greatly desire Sflp d. Will you be kind enough to and~me your aid in the matter?' " 'Certainly, sir. Your manner lion you first came in led me to doubt our sanity. liowever, I am now re ssured, and shall be most happy to orve you.' His kindness availed little. 'I'he hotographer could not tell to whom Ie picture belonged. lie concluded hat it must be the order of a transient, isitor to the city; the negative had eon destroyed--and so I departed in a ior1e disturbed condition of mind than efore. "I had intended to pursue my pro 3ssion in Southern California, as close ttention to work had induced a pul [onary complaint from which in this ild climate I hoped to obtain relief, ut all my energies were directed to vards finding the original of the haunt ng evusive photograph. ''I secured an engagement upon the taff of an evening newspapor. Wher ver I went--in church, theater, or up n the streets-my whole soul was ab orbed in searching for what a major ty of persons would call an illusion. i the fulfillment of my duties I was cnt to furnish a report of the com onecement exercises of a woman's ollege at Oakland, just across the bay. omo strange impulse moved mo to end down my report and to accept an uvitation from the president of the aculty to attend an evening reception t the college hall. This was not in onsonance with my ordinary habits, or a peculiar and sometimes most un >ieasant diflidteiice led mhe to avoid ather than seek public assemlblagc, :f he kind. The night was warm, and he ladies sot'glit the pleasant balco lies overlooki i the bay to enjoy the -efreshing breeze from the Pacific. As sauntered up to one of the windows I >bserved a young woman, who in some nlysterious way did not impress me as t stranger, gazili abstractedly into he starry depths overheai. Thinking hat it was soie one to whomi I had eien introduced during the evening, I troused her from her reverie by a coin uonplace remuark. As she turned her ace towards mino our eyes met. I tarted back in astonisiment. 1 had not the lady of my dream! " 'tardonI me, but we have met be ore I believe,' I said h:lf-apologetical y, as soon as I could collect mxy scat ered senses. "'I do not know. sir; there is certain y a familiar tone in your voice.' She poke in the same sweet and bewitch n1g tones so dtelfy fixed in my meu >ry. In my confusion, I quickly ad led: " 'It must have been in Arabia.' "The eyebrows wero arched in sur )rise. 'I think not, sir,--I have never trav led in the East.' "Well, to cut my story short, a last ng friendship was forsied thenl and here. You have met Al Mrs. Alanches er. She ias proved all that my dream oretold. It is true that she has no 'collections of haviig been iy com )anion in the desert sands of Alrica, >ut I am inone the less convinced that he is the 'taewin' from whose lovely ace I snatched the veil. "--Edwin Rus c/l Norse, in ,-h.ic '/i ' Trim nei . What a Writer TIhinks ol' Society. ''Society recgulatles collectively the morals of its membeihrs."' "Ini society thler'e is no firiendsh ip. These peCople aie an aid to you so long * ' ' face an. let t inom turn their A Rambling but Truthful Commet on the Most Wondorful of all insects. The thirteen-year locust has made his appearanco in Arkansaw. The lo cust always wears his shirt open in the back, and a recent article in the &Scin tific Insecteferist, declares that the lo cust led to the discoverv that shirts which open in the back are the most convenient. Thoro are two species of locusts. One class is seventeen years old at tho time of birth, the other class only shows a registration of thirteen years. There is very little dlifleronco between the two classes, that is, human investigation developes but little differ ence, but the locusts themselves main tait a social breach which years havo failed to bridge over. A 17 locust and a 13 locust, although their clothes are cut in very much the same fashion, do not linger in each other's society. The locust does not cat corn, e;&bba ges or cucumbers, but goes into the woods and splits rail timber. How he can split a piece of wood that would launt the courage of the professional rail-maker has not been explained. Ho may have an improved maul and wedge which he keeps carefully con cealed from the meddlesome eye of the curious. While at work he sings a low, droning song, never attempting to change his tune, but with his un winking eye on the business in hand, he does his best to prevent his neigh bor from singing more discordantly than he himself is doing. One time, in Tennessee, locusts were so numerous that the farmers turned them under with a plow to fertilize the ground with them. The farmers con gratulated themselves on the richness of their coming crops, but, when in the spring, they plowed the fertilized land, they were astonished to find, not a sign of increased- richness, but six teen round holes to the square inch. Since that time the land has produced nothing but holes. This has rendered the land practically worthless as no rn'irkct for the prodt t can be found. Thc greate; dtalage done by the lo cust results from the ;ttention which lie pays to young applo trees. Ile would rather split a young apple tree than to lead the festivities at a german, and although this illustrates a perni cious nature, yet sensible people do not blame him. As an article of diet, the locust has found but.little favor in America, but in central Australia, the Bushmen cat them with great relish. If locusts must be eaten, it is said that they do best in boarding-house soup, for then you get so few of them. TIhere is no affinity between the grasshopper and the locust. The grass hopper is, in the broadest sense, a vegetarian. lIe illustrates the fallacy of the vegetarian principle for every onc who has studied entomology knows that the grasshopper is not so vigorous as the musqnuite or the wood-tick. The ,keige tion of the locust is won. derful. Although havihg filled him. self with hard oak timber, lie is not irritable, like Carlyle used to be, but sings as merrily as though his mwiv were as empty as the stomach of a man who has partaken of refreshments at the lunch counter of a church fair. The locust can be traced back to the days of John the Baptist. John, it is said, ate locusts and wild honey. At. one time it was thought that it you planted a locut, a locust tree would spring up, but a recent paper, published in the Xorh . -criecn Re. view, exploded this idea. What the future of the locust will be, no muan can tell. P'rof. D)onnelly-, whc confiims the rumor that Bacon wrott the plays attributed to Shiakspeare, says that lie locust, with his gzreat idei ot mnathictiatic-s, will, du irinig years tc cotme, coniiiiue to multiply iunder the face of te earthI. lie ehim iis to havi dlis(overedt a eyphder b y whIiich lie cam plinly de monstramte lthis thIeory. iIe i: at present1 enigaged in a hook devotec I he .ales of the worl, -lbirg(, but the as The Itartli.idi ht.ntue. When Patrick Henry put his old cast iron speetacles back on top of his head and whooped for liberty he did not know that some day we would have more of it than we knew what to do with. HIe little dreamed that the time would come when we would have more liberty than we could pay for. When Mr. IHenry sawed the air and shouted for liberty or death I do not believe that ho know that the time would conic when Liberty would stand kne-deop in the mud of Bedloc's Island and yearn for a solid place to stand upon. It seems to me that we have too much liberty in this country in sonic ways. We have more liberty than we have money. We guarantee that every man in America shall fill himself up full of liberty at our expense, and the less of an American he is the more lib erty ho can have. If he desires to en joy himself all ho needs is a slight for ei;n accent andi a willingness to mix up with politics as soon as he can get his baggage off the steamer. The more I study American institutions the more I regret that I was not born a foreign er, so that I could have something to say about the management of our great land. If I could not be a foreigner, I believe I would prefer to be a 1formion or an Indian, not taxed. I am often led to ask, in the lan guage of the poet, "Is the Caucasian played out?' Most everybody can have a good deal of fun in this country except the American. lie seems to be so busy paying his taxes- all the time that lhe has very little time to mingle in the giddy whirl of the alien. That is the reason that the alien who rides across the United States on the ''limit ed mail" and writes a book about us before breakfast wonders why we are always in a hurry. That is the reason we have to throw our meals into our selves with a dull thud and have no time to maintain a warm personal friend shi with our families. \Ue do not care much for wealth, but we must have freedom, and free dom costs money. We have adver tised to furnish a bunch of freedom to every man, woman, or child who comes to our shores, and we are going to de liver the goods whether we have any left for ourselves or not. What would the great world beyond the sons say to us if some day the blue-eyed Mormon, l with his heart full of love for our female seminaries and our old women's homes, should land upon our shores and find that we were using all the liberty ourselves? What do we want of liberty, any how? What could we do with it if we had it? It takes a man of leisure to enjoy liberty, and we have no leisure whatever. It is a good thing to keep in the house "for the use of guests only," but we don't need it ourselves. Therefore I aui in favor of a statue of Liberty Enlightening the World, be cause it will show that we keep it on tap winter and suimer. We want the whole broad world to remember that when it gets tired of oppression it can come here to America and oppress us. We are used to it, and we rather like it. If we don't like it we can get on the steamer and go abroad, where We may visit the effete monarchies and have a high old time. The sight of the Goddess of Liberty standing there in New York Harbor night and day, bathing her feet in the rippling sea, will be a good tiing. It will be first-rate. It may al.o be pro ductive of good in a direction that many have not thought of. As she stands there day after day bathing her feet in the broad Atlantic, perhaps some imoss-growvn Mormoni mingVii to wvard the far West, a coulirmed victim of thle miiatrimonial habit, inay Iix th le bright picture in hiis so-callfed imnd, and remembler ig hiow, on hiis arriv at inNwYork, he sawv Liberty bathuine in after years to try it, oni hiimself. But Npe, in Boston Ulobe - hmarpl Callit'rn ia A short tinmo sinec ladies were discu it transplired1 tb hoema:iker, I tb,' TIE NEWS OF THE STATE. Sohie o' the Lateit Sayings and Doings lta South Carolina. -Tbc Edisto River is repported to be in good fishing condition. -Lancaster want, a steatt fire en gine, and Charleston ofl'ers her one, with ahose reel, for $1,200. -Over ,10 carloads of waternielons have been shipped from Williston, Barnwell county, so far this year. -Mrs. Eveline Wilson, a pensioner of the war of 1812, died last Saturday near Reidville, Spartanburg county. -The Bank at Johnston, Edgelield county, is now an assured fact. Almost enough money has been subscribed already. -There are many fields of cotton near Greceville, from vhich the pro prietors ex pect to gather over a bale to the acre. -Fannie Harris, a pretty seventeen year-old white girl, has been lodged in Greenville jail on the charge of breach of trust. -Billy Roper, of the Trenton sec tion, has twenty acres of corn from which he will certainly gather six hundred bushels. Mrs. James Smith, of Aiken coun fy, had her collar-bone and three ribs broken, on the 23rd ilt., by being thrown out of a wagon. -The hands on the Savannah Valley Railroad are working energetically, rud in two months' time the track will be laid to Mt. Carmel. -The upland corn is booming in Spartanburg, and the prospect- is that not much corn will be shipped there from the West next year. -It is now proposed to build an other railroad through Edgefield, from the Charlotte, Columbia & Augusta Railroad, at or near Johnston, to McCormick. -Mir. F. M. Stephenson, of Lancas ter, lost his dwelling, kitchen and the contents of both buildings by fire, on the 17th ult. Loss about $1,601); in surance $800. -A detachment of the colored National Guard of Charleston expect to attend the funeral of Gen. Grant. The citizens will be asked for funds to liect the expense. -A corresponident of the Keowec Courier says the Blue Ridge Railroad is an unseemly carcass standing in the way of live enterprises, and demands the repeal of the c'iarter. --Mr. Thomas Reid, of Abbeville, was so badly hurt by being struck in tie eye with a piece of rock, which he broke off while hoeing, that he went to Atlanta for surgical relief. -Mr. Will Sapps was struck by lightning, on the 26thti ult., in Lancas te: county, and Lum Vaughan, colored, on the 27th, in the same section. Both men were paralyzed for a time. -The citizens of Walhalla are very angry because the result of their pri mary election for postmaster has been ignored and somebody has induced the Postmaster General to appoint ailother main. --Tom McCardell and Lee Clinton, colored, had a difliculty and shooting matc'i in Lancaster, owing to indecent remnarks made by one relative to the wife of the other. The case was con promised. -A mad dog in the nieghborhood of Ty'ersville, Greenville county, last week, attempted to bite a child, but only tore her dress. lie bit several animals, however, before he was over hauled and shot (lead. -Senator Wingard anid Represeita tives Br'ooker and( Gnlignardt att ' the farmers' meetiing at Ley' Saturday aiid aidled ini the of' thie ILothwroni 1 OCo, GENERAL NEWS ITEKR L-atts of Interest, Ga.hered from Various Quarters. -The postmaster at Mariana, Fla., las absconded, leaving a deficit in his tccounts of $1,000. -Excitement in England over the lisclosuros of the Pall Mall Gazette ontinues unabated. -Mand S. one day last week went t mile over the Glenville track near Uleveland, 0., in 2.08i. -There are now sixteen camps of pelitentiary convicts in Georgia. The aw says there shall only be two. --The counsel of Roil, the Canada itebel, have practically given up the light, and rest their entire de'ence on busanity. -The Springfield Republican thinks that Roscoe Conkling will be invited to deliver a national oration on the life of Grant. -The decree entered a short time ago in the Chicago University case, finding Stephen A. )orglas's heirs entitled to the property, has been set aside. -The Paris ''elcgraphe has a sensa tional dispatch from St. Petersburg saying that war between Russia and England is certa,n directly after the elections in England. -The rate of immigrant fare from Baltimore to Chicago has been reduc ed from $7 50 to $7, bacause, it is alleged, the latter charge has for see time past been made by the Pennsyl Valit Road. -It is said that three hundred and fIfty-eight criminals, who have escaped from Georgia in the course of the last thirteen Years, are ''wanted" in that State. The rewards offered for them aggregate $100,000. -Special reports from all the South western countics of Pennsylvania s'iow that the growing crops are more adv.nccd and in a better state than for ye.. 's past. Corn, oats, grass and all fruits are reported especially fine. -The Norfolk Landmark recon men, s Postmaster General Vilas as the m- .I to ma! e the oration on the occa sioii of the mt3morial services over Ge.icral G.ant, to be held in the House of Representatives at Wamhington. -Willie Sprague, son of theex-Gov error of Rhode Island, has married his step-mothers' sister. This makes himt his fither's brother-in-law and snarls up the family connection in a most singular manner. But if he and the old man are content, it is all right. -Mr. J. 1B. Fanning, who lives in Newton county, Miss., ten miles we:t of' Enterprise, was wounded it the face at Mine tui, in November, 1863, the ball lodgin; just above the ror t of his monuth, taking twenty-two year to work dowvnward the space of about an inch. -The fever epidemic at Plymouth, Pa., has at last abated. Time hospital has been abandoned and the nurses have left. About 160 people have died from the fever in Plymouth since its first outbreak. The highest number sick at one time was 69. About $10,. 000 has been spent in relief measures. -Mr. J. I. Clark, of Shirley, Cov ingtoi conity, Alabama, is tic strong est man, physically, in the State. I)e can take a 250 potind anvil, and, by placing his thumb in the mason. hole, throw it ofl like a marble, and to handle two stout imien at a time is child's play. Mr. Clark weighs about 250 pounds. - in order(M to nreve ' of'