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VO. VIiP('~KE1NS, S. C., rFIIUI(SI)AY, NOVEMBER 1 86 V O L.ta1 t,1 N O. r(mnei tF1. r_ A VRON(GE) VO1AN. Till TIiUE 'TOIIV O' MI. I,.\\iV 1S . III.AIAP'Y1 lll I i.. 'cdded to n Sot Whom, It'r liounty S.t pirt. . Wounded by Uatiunmy, b,ut .t wnyl lrr . (torldon Correspo "le o3 N w Yo k ii h ) Just before Mrs. Langtry sailed for America a Supe)lCr wis given her by a few of those who knew her best to bid her good-bye and give he1+courage. Ainong those preselt was henry Irving, wlho said to her at parting, "(lod" speed you, Mrs. Langtry, and i ring you safe iii r turning. I hope we shall see you very soon again." ''Perhaps before you think," was the answer. "If they gleel me as they did before-I'm coming home and shall give it up." This little speech, with its half-healtcd laugh, was the most pathetic bit of her self and of her lile that Lillie Langtry has ever given to any one. It meant much, and it conveyed more, perllaps, to those present than it possibly could have to any ono else, for they knew her bettor and the life she has endured. With heightened interest, every word by cable and otherwise that foretold the reception to be given Mrs. Langtry by the American press has been watched for eagerly by ninny anxious friend, by one or two intimate friends in particular. To-day word has come which seems to prove beyond a ctoubt thut the mean at tacks of previous years have omlitted and that the unhappy woman is being for gotten in the actress. It is grateful news to Mrs. Langtry's friends, altlloiugh the cruelty of the past can never be torgiven. They wonder, aulJ with much reason, if the America'l prmss knew the woman whom they libi lied, even by sight. it does not seem ae if it were pos eible that they could know even as much of her as this and say, even for money, or for vengeance, or for petty professi:nal sac cess, the things some of th(ni-.d. One of \trs. Leegtry's closest and most intimate friends is a literary woman of position, of undoubted honesty and virtue, and of ulnerring insght into human nature. From her comes abso lute confirmation of these facts of \lrs. Langtry's life. I send them to the Graphic because I. believe you are the one of all the New York editors who never fails to recognize uad* give due credit to an honest woman. I want your readers to know\' a side 01 tone - woniani's nature as it is surely not kntlouIn in America. If I were to go ilto details the details might 1e disputed. 1 will state nothing but facts which bear witiess.to their own truth-simply those III solate necessary for coherence. Lillie Langtry was married at tihe age of ten. She had been brought up very quietly, but still, us many girls are, with the idea that sure happiness lay only where there is monley. When Mr. Lang try admired her and asked her hand i marriage the one main thought inl the child's mind was her brother. This lad -she was particularly fond of, anad when she become sure that it lay iii her power to educate the boy and have hii always with her she accepted thme olkered lmlar riage. From the day of her narriage to the present. time it is doubted if Mrs. Langtry ever saw her husband free for an hour from the ell'ects of liquor. For a time there was a compar'ativtly happy life, yachting and llying about, butt it was little llapliesiCs a1nd of Sma1ill dura tion. Soon caime the deaLth of her brother. He was killed by a fll4luring a huint. Then the facets lay before heor. Shle had made the sacrifice for nothing. To'( please her family, to have her brother with her, and to do for him what his p)e01l1 could niot do, this girl, this ailmoitt childl, had thrown herwelf away. Abso lutoly and in every wayi it was; a com1 plete sacrifice. Heir hulsban.ld wats a hlope less dIrunkard, a beastly druinkatrd. In tho three years that she had fthen1 beeni married lie had niever appronehed her with one word or action of the lover or of a4 husband. She simply bore the name of wvife, and the disgrace of beinig yoked to a man11 who wais a phlysical wireck and a4 confirmed (1run kard. What wonder is it that social t riump1hs b)ecamle dear; wVhat wonder thmat the staige and America seemed to oft'er a release to a wvoman acknowledgedh to bue thle most beautiful wvoman ini England? ' Small wonder, indeed. Bunt what did this unhappy womanl get for her endeaclvor to hionestly put her talents to account and to eain for herself an hionest living? What, indeed, but eahan nniaion, sean dali, lies, unhappiness, misery anid abso lute terror! Nothing from the world. From one main shue got aL quiet, earniest devotion, that in three years has niever failed to be a ecomfort to her, which she has neover failen to honor! iDid it bring any respect for her? in stead it brought uo'wn upon01 her head re doubled0( insuilt, more deterinedco out rage, and meaner, mioie conitempl1tile lies. She, whose only sin lay in thet fact that, being bound by law to an watuho had absolutely niove- elauied lher ats his wife, perlmitted thue dlevotioni oft aL mani who would gladly have given her' hiis name- -shLe, whose only siin was this, was treated as a Magdalen, as an outcnst would be treated. DJo Americans and AmerOli'.-an n ewspa por men ever think of tlhis, out side of the stor '? D)o.tniey ever think fthat int all thoes< years they cannoIl(t put aL lgr 01n4 a person whot ever heard thi: womn say one w'ord( agamiat her besattedi hu s b)and? IDo they kno~w that her homit hupp)lorts him? Do t hey ever think tinut if was aL had thing to be 0one womn stand(ling lon)o iiudt be nig stoned by the entire populiLtionl of aL counttry like America? Ditd they ever think of the bravciry, of the womanilinlless andi of tihe unflinching courage~t of a woman tlhat could hear and1( see and( know iall thiese things saLid of her anid never, even to her friends, comp)Ilaini of the wounds in flicte3d? I)o you suppose that lany in significent p aralgrap~h writer' that at -' tAomplted to be funny aIt this poor womnan's exponse over thought of theO tears, thet shlaml and1( hieartsmek mlisery his wretched joke wouldi bring upJonL her' D)o you aulpposoe that any womian who floutel hr beamn sim oa no li-~a.i or child with her, ever thought of the longing that there might be in this poor a'tress woman's heart for a home and a husband and a baby of her own? In all mercy I cannot 'think these thuigs have ever been presented to these pe'oplo as some of us feel it here. 1 do not tliik those bitter lies will ever be brought iii) again, sine the victim is I,etter kiown at her real value. Still, if they are, I hope some one will bring to thc author's mind the Picture of this bravc, unhappy soul. A beautiful womitu still, at brave woman still, and a successful wom:an as well, we who know her b)est know she would gladly give it oil for the home, the love and, 'bove all, the peace, which she, above all others, cod11(1 5 pitifully apreciate. .\n 0 114 bcene a: a 1recept)II In the %SVhue livuw., \Vithl n % iviior i apIpoirteid. ( littnor A mu'ia.) As the ushers began to gather the crowd together in a semi-circle in the East. Boom, awaiting the President's en trar.ce for his regular Monday reception, they gave a little start when they looked toward the south window, for leaning against the pillar near the Green Room door was the fac-simile of the President. At first the ushers thought the President had come into the room beforo them, but a second glance showed their mis take, for besidO the living picture of President Cleveland stood a lady and a little baby boy about two years old. The ushers turned to a number of newspaper men who were standing by and laughed at the nmistake. Soon the President came in and took his place, but the man that looked like him still leaned against the pillar, and gave every one a chance to compare the two men and thus see the resemblance. The only difference was that the President weighed a hun dred more pounds than his double. But the President had not noticed the gen tleman, for there were a number of ladies among the first to speak to him, and he began at once to shako hands, "lfow'dy do? ]Iow'dy do?" he ex claimed, and finally, when two little girls came along, like Pooh-Bah in the ''Miklado," he said, ''How'dy do, little girls, low'dy do?" and some of the big ger girls laughed heartily. One gentle man brought his little son along and in troduced him as ''the future 'resident of the United States." The President looked at the little boy and said, ''Is thut so?" At last the President's fac simile gathered up his little boy in his trins and called his wife, and got in line, and in ..no taim reached the President. Everyonie hi h(o has seen Robson and Crane p)oy the '"'Two ])romios' has laughed heartily when the two meet face to face for the tirst time, and scc the resenblauice ho tween each other. Or again, a great ).Aany people have seen that ionseisieal farce, '' Th 'Iwo .ohns,' and perhaps the President and his fac-simile to-day are better described by this contrat. These two meet after innuuerable escapades, in which one is taken for the other. They, too, are sur prised when they meet face to face. When the President's double came up to shake hands with him to-day, every one expected to see the same scene:; enacted in the White House; but they were dis appointe(l. The President looked at the gentleman, smiled a little---perhaps at the likuness--patted the fat baby on the cheek, shook hands with the wife, and the crowd passed on. There was a dis alpointed party, who had waited to see what the IPresident would do when lie saw the man that looked like him. s+onuc \Viy(' P'oin1tH for IuItIMII'M M( .M n \ hso Trii,Ie nt -rong Hour. Moderate dirinkers erngaged in p)ursuiits calling for jud(gmient and acumen, and who use liquors during business hours, end, with searcely an exept-ion, as finian eiad wrecks, however successful they may be in withstanding the physical conse tiuecnces of their inidulgenice. Thousands who retain their health andl are never ranked as victims of inltemperance, lose their property, wreck their business and arc thrown into bankruptcy because of t.ipp~linlg habits (durinig business hours. These men are not dlrunikards, and only close ob)servers can detect the influence (if strong drink in their deportment; but nevertheless lignuor gives themi false nerve, makes them reckless, clouds the judgment, and( soon1 involves them in bad purchases, worse sales, anid ruinous cont racts. Sooner oi later it is shown that the habit of tippling during business hours is a forerunner of banikruptey. Let every such (drinker review his busi ness transactions f(ir a series of years and answer whether this statement is not true. Liquor acts on t.he brain in the same manner as5 chloroform or ether, pirodlue ing a stimulation which affects cool thought, followed by a deplression1 corre spion<ding to the amount of the (lose. What man would exp)ect to succeed in business if he were accustomed to taike, while at work, even very slight whifis of ether, chloroform, or lauighinig-gas and keep) himself all the time, more or less, under siieh hecloudling influences? Such' a man, eveni if able to prieserve his heailth, would gitow reckless, logniacious, and1( soon prove lAo match for a clear headed riv'al. Liquor is an indispensable ial ay wherever victims are systemuatically Ilh-ced, and its ell'ects are seen also ini the rivalries of legitimate biusiness. TIhe profe.ssioinal gamblhler' keeps a free bar, btt never dlrmksl hiimself wheni at the table; and i, while a sober, clear -headed, liquor(i, lit v.uild gain great ad(vanltalges froma thei lat ter's -elf-sotught indulgence. Liquotar shotws~ it.s vicltims not. only in saloonis and,t giblinig (tells but about boards of tradei and stock exchaiiges and1( in (eery linie of butsiness retquiin1g a el:anr, ct ot head. Moderate dirin Ikers whoi II atemipt to (d0 butsiniess wit-h eveni slight 'excited brainis are the menCi wVho are all1 th~e time making losses and1( going to, lhe wall, , Th e I ostoni ( e 5:aV5 ih: I le I ev. Mr*. McClure, of Muahtleii, rteteni y n-a frotni the pulpit a1 notice for a1 mieeling ttf e lidhes tx(:luisively in thI; e very, IthuI ( n Wedniesday afternoon aill Ite old henis an this c ngregation will meet for the purhi pose af a "eneral cackle; no a'c>;er wil be a mlittedh. .lie wst promptly invitetd to din( In his relignation and walk. Ad til Le"t ifas (onrres Tah n ay Off. Type writers of the best class will, in the han(ls of an expert, transfer to pa per, space and punctuate from seventy to eighty words a minute. In Copying matter, or writing from dictation, even bett('r enln b,e done; lnt the operator who depends upon his own brain to supply his lingers muist be very expert,, and 1'ave a constant mental flow to reach that 5.tu(ald. The fastest peunman rarely exceeds forty-five words a minute, so it will be seen that the little machin. has greatly the advantage. But the saving of labor is also a great blessing. Nobody better than newspaper men realizes the drudgery of the pen or pencil. Let a man write continuously for two or three hours with the spcd that most news paper men acquire and his wrist and his arm and his eyes all ache alike. lie must stop and rest or his nervous and over wrought hand will soon begin to make ''spider marks." To lawyers' clerks who used to lave to copy with labored pen the awful and uniitelligablo verbiage made necessary by centuries of tradition, tho type writer has indeed beenl a bless mg. ie can now rattle o11 a little coin plaint in a suit to recover the price of a cow killed on a railroad-a little matter of 600 or 700 pages of cap--in a day at most.. It used to take hiun a week to do it with the pen. The merchant can now dictate a hundred letters in the same time ho once took to write twenty, and have them all ready for his signature when the dictation is over. Many persons refrain from the use of the type writer, and especially those matured in years, from the fear that they could never learn to operate it proficient ly, but that is a false idea. It is very simple. Indeed, those accustomed to compose and who are at all apt, can learn in a short while to (rivo the ma chine at its best. 'Tlhe -braid writer knows of an editor who had never touch ed a key until the other day. Then somebody got him to buy a type writer. lie hunted up his toPics for discussion, mostly newspaper scraps and clippings, laid then beside the machine, got out his oil can and oiled her up, took oil' his coat anld 111t on his cul' protcctors, and then, with a kind of hard and nggressive let-ller-go-Gallagher look on liis face, squared himself for business. Th1e key worked a little hesitatingly at first, and the "clicks'' were infrequent, lut the editor toiled away. P'retty soon it was observed that the chestnut bell on the end of the nachine struck a little of tener than it had done for an hour or so. Evi dently the triumphilt editor was getting the hang of things. By night he hadI many sheets of ''copy'' p (iled up, and his face wore a gleam of triiumnph . Tuie, some of the copy was a little rickety int .aignment, and a few of the capitals were out of plulb , but these fatult were easily correete(d with the pen. The next day the editor was at the machine bright and early. lie told the rest of the stall'they might take a v-ta tion that day, as lie was going to fill the paper--he wanted to see just how mIluclh there was in a type writer, anyhow. He turned on the steam about 9 1. m,., and now the chestnut bell was going at. the rate of ten strokes to the minute. Sheet after sheet of ''copy" ilew oft; and the machine fairly quivered, bumt the editor Iever stopped except twice to\ wipe his brow and three times to cool oli' a hot box. By 2 o'clock the supply of sub jects began to get low and the mach1iiie cooled down, but toward night, when the editor turned loose on his column of jokes, the strain was too much. lie hiad just whizzed oi' the fourteentl funny paratgraph, the bell was mlakinlg twenty strokes to the minute, the smoke Wats risig from the heated eyliner, when sniap! went anl eccentr'ie, thec crank-in flew into the ash-pan, and tihe poor litt!e miachline lay prlonle and lifeless. Let 1m1 fell you1 a little story about an early pastor of this Cedar Griove Churcb --he R.ev. Mr. Babbitt. In thlose early tunecs p)rehers wor'ked hiarder than they (10 now. Mir. IBabbiitt possibly filled the pullpit of thrlee churchL'les--Pie(jua, Lea cock and Cedar' Gr1ove. lIn those days hunting of course was a gr'eat sport. 'Thie ring of tile rifle and1( the bay (of the fox hounlidS wer'e familiar sounds(1. On 0one occasion Mir. Babbitt had to borriow a horse0 from aL paishmionier to fill a distant alppoimnmnt. lie s irted 0one beautiful Sunday mornling, hut had1( not gone limany miles before lie hiear'd the muilsical bay of the deep ilhromated hiound, ana d hiorseimn following. .1incense5d at thle suppl(iod Siundaly dlesecr'ationl hel staritedl for'war'd to r'epriove the 1bold r'iders~ f'or their spor't. Unfor'tuinately his haorse w~as an old fox hlunter., The bounds bay excited hiim. HeI smielled the hbattle afair. irfis neck was clothett with thuindier. ] n vain dlid the preacher' appl r11'1ein anid iut. ThIe o1li orse wasil atmaong the hiounIds, and so over' lill, fenice and( ditc'h went the would-ho den'Iounerl of Sundaay sport. 'lThe hlorse nleer stop)ped till the fox was hloled.- --Liancaster' E'xamliner, .Many years ago, before thle intirodiie. tioni of frictioin matchies, all old( fairmer used( to light his tind(ri 101' t.he morn1'lig fire biy the use oif an olad flint-lock mnus ket. One dIay ini is ab)sence the wife loanIed the musiiket to a mieighibor, who returnaed it loaded, and umientioned the fact to thme woma as lie hanided it to lieur. But hieir husband (lid anot reOturn'I haomae unitil pa(st midnmighat, beinag on a( rousing spr'ee. lie cr'ept into bed wit h out wnkinag is wife to enjoy a lecturme. Next miornmug hie rose in goodl seaon with the usual thirst and1( a ifnneriner he-adanehe; after' irabbing a few cobhweb (olt oif his eyes Ilad takinag a '"wee adrop"' from the remainls of fle over night, Jn eom imenlced pr'epar-ationls foral star 1tinmg thea fire. The spliniters were c!ollected anad the ti nder plalced ini the pan of the hook elick! went t he hammieir, andu the( exp lo sionl thlat .follo'wed shook thet houiise, (is pelling the fumes of liquor01 from the old man(1's faculties andt rousinag his wife withl a suiddeni alarm. (Guessiung alt the tr'ou ble she exclimed. while not fully awake, "'Th-th-that gun~ is loaded5l!" L ookinag with ani emlpty) staro at the 1111011ing gunl and1( at thle builet hole iln tl he(estead, juist aboait two, inchaes abIove. his wife's hiead, then fondt hulsbanld relied: " N, I'll- bea darneld if it is!''- Th'lomlas ,J. I ow.mv ditch ini Fact ainl '.'ancy. 'Thle waty Ito do good is to li- goodi. TL, a aimt bie lighat : 1,ben It wil ,albin. ES'TIONS ABOUI' WHEAT. A I)IsCt't+sION OF 'I'lllt (.ItAIN .\S l;lilN A A\ I i)ely .AricIe Irot an i (p eeriecee( I and Miccef'ul Forueer. (wV. 1.. Jont' i' Atlanta Constitution.) Is wheat it profitable crop in the cot ton belt? Except in limestone and high, iountauous regions, it is not. The yield is too uncertain, the cost of raising too great. Wheat is probably farther remnoved from its original wild (and, tiherefore, hardy) state than any plant we cultivate. It has )ecen domesticated so long, and so changed by donestica tioi, that botanists have failed to identi fy the plant or plants from which it originally came. It has been so changed, it has become so artificial in its nature and habits, that it gives way under com p)etition, and cannot 1101(1 its place, in the struggle for existence, with the hardier and more vigorous platlnt3 that it encounters. But for man's aid, wheat would die out and disappear in one, or at most two or three years. It inmst have a thoroughly prepared soil and an aluldance of food, especially nitrogen ous food, the coatliest of all. It has very little root power, and cannot set free and alppropriate the locked up food im the soil. Everything must h ready prepared and fully within its reach. As a consequence of these peculiarities, it yields readily to adverse influences, whether of climate, seasons or soils. It withstands moderate colU (uite well; but this said, all is said. As a matter of long experience and cx tenled observation, we know that wheat thrives best in cool climates. The north ern United States and northern Europe is the home of the wheat crop. In those regions wheat is successfully grown, even when sowi in the spring. At the South, wheat sown at that season would not bring back the seed to the sower. A southern climate then does not seel to be adapte(d to the constitutioi of the wheat plant. But in addition to this, or possibly as a consequence of this, wheat is greatly more liable to be dcstroyed1 by rust at the Southl thian at the North. 'lis is the weak point in wheat culture with us. This is the chief thing that renders the wheat crop so uncertain and unreliable. ]low to guard against rust is then the foremost consideration in the Pielparation for the crop. As a matter 01 universal experielee, it is well known aint dampness, 1)0th of soil and air, and a sneeilent, saipy growth of the plant are both favorable to the developm eint o rud. A dry May and a good wheaterol audy go together. Now so far as th< auouit of ram and the geileral liimmidit of the atml(sphere is Contcerne, tti farmer is hlll)less; lie cannot contro these. But lie can ward oil' in lart th eltl'ects of excessive rain by s'lcecting for lis wheat flds high knols or knolls 1'romin wllichi water runs off' rapidly, an the soils of which1 are, tlerefort", com. lai'atively dry. lie can select thost soils, also, which are least retentive of moisture. As a rule, such as have coi paiii.vely little humus, are dryer thn those whllicll albon111(1 in that sal .stailce. The soils of low lands are danmlpr thain those of ulllands, and the air whieh rests upon the former is generally damper than that over the latter. This is showin by the heavy dews which prevail on hot ton lands. It is obvious, therefore, that a farmers jiudgment becomes a decided factor ill the raising of a wheat crop. Again, we have said, that a sncculent sapp11 y growVth oi(f whleat, favor's the devel. opmenOIt of rust. Can a farmner conttol this? Yes; toI a cerhnin degree hc can 1st bly a prloper selectioni of soil as dis cussedi abIove; 1and( 2d1 by a p)rope(r rega latin (If the mlaniure applied to the cropI1. sesive doses of nmost fertilizers, but particular-ly of' 11itr'ogenous mnainuies tend to devehg luxur-ient growvth of' stalk and leaves. Tveriy One. has nioticedl the teni dey ot wheat thus manutred to fall downu or ''lodge.'" Thle stein is soft and unable to hold( upI the heads. hence, whilst whea_t nmust have mniure, and must hlave nitrogenous manur'e too(, thlese shoukl1( not be alpplied iln ex\cessive amliounits, anld the nlitrogen shoculd be: wvell propor'tioned to the other inlgredi. enlts, so that a well b)ailcedl dlevelopm1ent .>f the planit r'esult. To sum up, ther'e jlr', wheat should be0 sown on high diry land, with a rather thirsty soil anld with ia soil inather~ devoid (If humus. Such ai soil is uiually poor'. Wheat will not1 grow oin poorh s(oils ---hlence it miust bet mnanuried. Wheat nieeds mlore nitrogen than most other' platt.hence it mluist be Imanured1 i'1With nitrotgenlous m ainures but a medium mauini'ig-thle eqjuiv'alent of, saty live hlunidreds bus5hls of cotton seed1 to the aere- - would lbe better thanLI a mucih larger amnounit. Cotton seed is ia golod n111utnre for whelat, especially on v'ery poor lanhiod. And p)oor land1( is best for wheat when prloperly imanuired. .But ('ottonl seed may be~ impr'oved bly the adl dlition of a litle phiosplhate. F"ifty bush els of (cottoil seed and 100t to 150) pIounds( of acid pho4 sphaite per' acre is ia safe andi rel iablet mianiurmlg for' wheat .1h1t wvhy (hiscuiss tile groIwin)g of ,a neat whien it is admjitted to he ani uniprolfitah crop1. Iec(auise, a ecrop which inigh t not paily as. aL martiket, ori mloney crop,, mayi' pay veriy handsomely wvhien growan foi 11h1me use. Th.1is is most generally true. .t her?! are verny few things a far'etr can buly, checaper' than lhe can rae ( m p 'oolde have fal len inito thet terrible belief t.hat they can buy almost ever'ything chitaptr'thian they can raise it. IlTey o nol(t tlunik they ('ani buly (cotti ('ilii than they do4 riose it, hut probaiy that it does ii the ease tf alniost any otheri c!rop gro(wnI. lBy al means5 et every' fanitr sow~ tnough wvhiet for- home uist t'or' tue smll ('rop nec('tessitly Itien lie ('nn hind entuugh land well suited to it lit cnn spIare the needed('( mnainure, aid lie can take timie to give it thtorough prep araitioni. Plouoig, roll and barrowl until brolughit imto finest tilth; sow ai (111e, andlt SOW tt varliety wv hi hla si eceeded b est iin your own ltocality. I'rocur'e seetd a little south rather-i thai frir north of you. A variey whichi in11 hglcoelaccuistoimedo to a wiarml climlat< will succeed better' thain01 on ecuistomedt to iicldchate. .IOItK IKAUP4 TO "\ lit 0 c1:L. Aidrtw .intknun and WnlgittNilI A t?r Flrc at Eatt Olh-r at Jonc"wboro- A\ lbudit-rous icenie In Court. (Fromn Ihe 1'1ia d 51)lpi i <iU 4.1 James Parton, in his biography of Andrew Jackson, makes mention of a duel fotght b (Geneial .Jlacksoi with Waiglitstill Avery at .lotesboro, 'l'enn., in the last century. ills accoIt, how ever, is very ncagre and does not tccord with the version of the attair as told by descendants and relatives of Colonel Avery, many of whoit still live in Burke county, N. C. In a foot note to page 1( 2, chapter 11, volume 1, Parton says: '"'There was a comic incident connected with this duel that General Jackson would not tell. A gentleman once mentioned the dtul to him. 'Who told you about it ?' asked the President, laughingly. 'GeneraI Adair.' 'Did he tell you what lmppeited on the ground?' 'No.' Well, then, 1. shant,' ro>liel the General, still laughing." 1'he 'comic incident'' to which Geier al Jackson alluded, and which he refused to relate, is what is understood to have caused the duel and is said never to have beei made public. What it w as and how it occurred has been related to mne several times, as follow.: In August., 1788, Colonel Waighitstill Avery and Andrew ,Jackson were attend ing court in .1 onesboro in what is now East ''ennessee. At that. time '1'eines see was still a part of North Carolina, and Jonesboro was the seat of one of the three district courts held for the then Western District of orthi Carolina. The town is no'v the county seat of Washing toii county, leninessee. .Jackson lad but recently been called to the 1har at the time of the duel, and was abottt 21 years of age. Colonel Avery was much older. The two geitlemeit were Opposing coun sel in a case under trial, in which Jack son, it is said, felt that he had but little chance for success. .In a spirit of mis. chief, probnbly, he determined to at tempt a little diversion rather unusual in a court of law. Colonel'Avery sometnmes rode th. cir cuit of his courts-which cmn-aced most of Western North Carolina and a hi>r tion of East Tennessee--- on liorselack, carrying in a pair of Capacious saddle bags such articles as were necessary to his more immediate wants. ( )ne thing always carried therein was a copy of ''Bacon's Abridgment,' one of the stand ard law books of those days. lackson, was aware that Colonel Avery was in the habit of carrying this book, and on the day for trial, before their case was caulled he went to Colonel Avery's saddle bags, took out the copy of ''acon's Abridg mont'' and substituted for it. a pii'e of bacon of about the same size, wrapping! it up as the book had been to preven at suspicion. In the cour -,tl t he trial Colonel Avery, having occasion to quote an authorii' Met fa r his bo l,'h. Th a package was UrolIought. to hin, and w hen uinwrapped, l.! a ''11 itch of bac it" totit revealed to court and jury. Avery was a man of great dignity of character and bearing, who could ill brook a liberty of any kind, least of all an attempt to make him appuer ridict lous. Turning to Jackson he charged him with what had been dlone, and de nounuced htitt or his act itt moat un measured ternis. Jaciksont was sttng to the tmek, bt aapparntiil.ly Cntrolled himself sufliciently nto t. to att ract at ten tion to what lie did ii resp tonse to the rebuke. Tearing a Ily leaf fromt a law book ie wrote a challenge which, utnolb served, lie pasted aCross the tal tIe a Colonel Avery, and which was prmputlv acceptep. 'The following is antl exact copy of the original eballeige, which is still in the possession of a ieithe r of the Avery family, and fron tihe wording of its first senitenice antherIt conttntttnia tion would seeln to have ptrecedled it: Art.iT, Ilth, 1788. St: Whn- a tians feelings nad chtar acter arec injuri ed lie ottght ti seek a speedy redress: yout rsec I a fewt lines froni mte ye'ster-day and unidoiubtedly yott uinder stand nme 3y chmaecir y' have L' injured: and further you have' I tsulhted me in the presenice of a court andii a lar'. audhience I therefore call upon you is ti genitleman to give me satisfacti for the same: andt I furtilter call upon~i youi to give me ain answer immednai iately withott Equivocationi tand I hopI e y't enn tho without dinnter utilI tIebuisi ness done; for it is coitsistent with the character of a L'entlematn whlen lie itnjutres atant to make ai speedy reparattiotn, thterefo re J ho~pe you will not full ini meetinig met this day. fromt yi- ob t st Cotin' AvEtur \x,w J'Atsons. journued - Thew style otf the ehllenget~, its itrthlo8 raiphy tand its p)uncituat ion ori thle wanitt oif it-are equally remuar-kablet, hmt the demand is utnistaikable, andt( the litt:e ''P. S.'' at one side deniot-e- gre-at tirgent cy. It was evidently writteni under gret excitemenit, thtough with a sttrong eiYot at self control, andt the whole dociumett -to use the slang of to-idany "means butsiniessi. 'Thie chmallenige is add r-ssed iin thle batck: I1t wvas fotti amonig (Colonel A vt-t'. panpers aifter lis dea-tth, enrifltlhy ill-h away and( (docketedl in~ very lbusinitss likt style: "daJickson, I). P'. lI'tiel, I p<1." ''The dutel wits fought abint dlush ii the daly the- eblthlengi.e wits givn, inta iravmte ni-ar the ( 'trtt. Ilouse- ini Jones bot~ro. SIhot- werne echaiged , buitt fotu- i ntatet neither- party wits Itturt. J.1 n declaredi htimselfC satisfied-t, and tl1-. twot genttlemten aifte rwardl li b-camt varmit frienids. Indeed, long bfore thn- dultI, whten .htekson first idecide<t tot gi to~ ih WaViightstill Avery, whoi( was vi-ry ii i gutished ini hi- profisin and:tii was theii Nor5t Carolina. At the a time(ti if Jack Westt-it Di)trict otf Noth~ iCarolina aiftertwards the Stte of i LI 'l si( heIi, n his waty to settl hin i Naihvilh-, ha' latte'r thieti an extre-mti Cfrontier townt ttf thet challIentgi-, Autgiust I , 1758, is mt motnthis prievittus to) that of tht e-ar-liet. whaih \lr. Iitrtont sayi lie 'wa: abile to in y Gnernal of Norith Carolina. Aly tlnit wais mniiit of theit State aft er it lime I irown it (tll t(tta o $o the lirit ish t - - rmineut. ColonelA vm y was it nan' tf g it capaceitiand thle loftiest integrity, ants worthy of suttl a silo; but there were \ttorneys-(aoneral before him in the plre-revolutionary days of the 'Pro Vinct' of Carolina,'' and some of them, too, seei to have beei meu of high character. Sutlicieintly so in 011e CUie at least to have the fact. recorded on his tombh "'withoult t tttivocation." Iin the old coloniial chu11relbyard of Christ Churcl I':irisi, Newlern, N. ('., is a grave-stone beniing the follow ing quttainit inseription C.i n ii:..: .tl ot.......... I.al .\t1oiney-( :eneriil fot this lrov ince Woll( Id)ic'i Anno I75Cm. An 1tonit Ii?awyer. indeedt' -..--..... oh ';I \ VI-:.jL'iIl %i:(1. iES. I .ilured lien 1 fi ainte Aniio,eted 'onNidirnb,Ie ,Johin W. Cromwell, a negro journalist ii .tiladelpliia, has compiled an inter esting exhiiit of the binI1less condition of his race in America. 'The Carolinas take the lend in the nuinhcr of well-to-do negroes. North Carolina has twenty who are worth from $10,001) to $:l1,000 ellh. .111 South Car olini the negros own $10,000,000 worth of property. .1In Charleston fourteen 11e11 relresent 20)), 000. Thomas lt. m11111! is is worith $ 18,010), and Charles C. Leslie is worth s12,000. The family of Noisettes, truck farmers, are worth :1~>0,000. In the city savings banks the negroes have 121,;:i6. ol deposit. One man hals over t.o,t1)0. lie recently hloughtt a 810,000 p)lataltionl and pai'd S7,010 in cash. Iin .lhilalelphia ,J oh1n McKee is worth half it niillioll. lie owns four hundred houses. Several aIC worth tell tuittslnd dollais eac' h. 1'he liegroes of New York own from live to six million dollars worth of real estat:. 1. A. White, a wholesale drug gist, is worth a quarter of it mtillion and has an annual, business of two hundred thousand. Catherine Black is worth one luidred and fifty thousand. In New 1 ersey the negroes own two million dollrs worth of real estate. Bal t.iiorte his more negro hoine-owlers thaln il' y other large city. Nineteen men ar11 worth a t btal of eight luind red thou 51111l. 'Johl Tlnas, the weallthliest, is worth about one lunired and lifty thou sn ld a Iunii a hlundred negroes ini Vtshiingtou are worth a total of one lillion. In LouisianI the negroes pay taxes on fifteen1 nillion dollars in New Orieans, and tlirt ; milion ini the State. lonie Iait il, a Freich tnadroon, is wortIi one millon on1e1 hundred thltousand. The llercr Irothlars, clothiers, carry i stock of tlhrec htidrt'd thlmsiumd. Missouri has t wenut y-, tVen citizens wsortht it 1 illionl dollar. in aloinits ranging 110111 t welty thulsiultl io two lltuuitrt tl and fifty thou Th 7:lciche1ir. cvolrd wtomalli' of lilm Suth, Amladliula t.l,iauks, mtle so ,y WIll ofiher while father, is w%orhlI n' illun!d1ed tholsnd dollars. and lives near Augutst,a, ( ha. ('licago, the homue of eightaein thousand colored people, las three colored lirlns ini business, whose p,roprietor 1t rtepreselt tw'nty thousand 'thillirs eachl, oe lifteen touii Isand 1 and nic itn tihonuutl. Tho laistlake t'urni iiiic c(o ilyill) is wothi twent v tiousald. A. ,J. 'ott lit,; tlhirly-five th ousi l in vild ill ilie liver'y lbuisines+, mnd is wtortht ont l;litdredl thotutn, iludinhg a well st-oel. 1 1111111 ill Michigani. 's. Joh m Jone"',otml iiehardt (1iate wortlh st"tily thousanltd each. A. (1. \Wlhite, of 51. l,onis, fornerly piurvteyor to the Ant"bori linle of st(tnlrr, ufter fihmucial reverstls, has, Sinct the age of forty-five, letmieveld his tortnes ant at"ciumula led thirty. thi. u l ~ r . , . ( .-e t r Sial l-'liitsco cohiedt w fnnul, 1has - a1 hiunk a1(nililt ofl lilty thousand110,11and Mr's. ary1 Pt, .leasMIIits 11uis an1 inin1 e from eight, hr1uses iln 8:an Franlcisco, a1 11meh1 v1l1, (al., twvelve indiivitbiljs are- the gae 'it 1141 ro ione Jilundred and4 Ii fty thou suail h>on h11 i41a1lredl utal1 eighty' thou .lred:ui,i 1n beides0 ia bank11 a1counlt o1 Jnt stiatisties sill, tha 11 he1 br0 iotheri in1 lac is, inaklinlg sf41ne1 hieadwaly in the world, lie is learinlg to "t.ote 'his ownl skillet.' T 1i 11 o h iIen &i,1 lr ied -Tin- 41'lnm Ci ilo r l hiu~ng ait Nio. :I, EL,t highit -SIX street, luad los: SI nl Miltoi, sixteeni years1 old, arreSstedl for sI (pin IIg a1way frolin h10111 oer 1nighlt, Th'le 1h14 waIs arra11igned4 inl 1tle Iarlei I our1 t yestrda m'l13 lornling. A rosy little girl, IifIteeni years old, watchled hilin throuIlgh teful4i 034s from thii spec(tah>rs': seats. ,Jutic Pi owier aIskedl the 11lad lwat he: stid awlay' frontl an1 icorr'1igibhlolbo>y," he li sidi, sev'irel y. 1111 a 141n1t 1f boy, Sir1,' was1 theit r('slect 1fu1l'responsi.e, '"but1 a1 lawfullly married man11, m4al4 1 he.lieve it is myi dutly to1 livo with 2y3 wi!'. 'T1ni1 is why I staid away iIeau tfo till Ii im you1 1)1 1are marrl'lied1'" "Y'e4:, j4Iie," relied4 the U114, "I wvas 111arIed) Alolay i) ogh.lt , a411(1 there is my w ift, )inantiiig Io) a4gil ill thie spect1ator's' .sLli, "h bh gto with is wife if he wants o." TheIl) litt le gill bounided from her sfit, kissedI tIh' jilvenile: huisband Irly of thei younge if 31rMi. I rown w-il a1 ioh,' niotw. N e w Yorlk World. Il. \ fy 1 .\s11. ()ii ll I'Il, () Viib " j. i . This 1'n-4i44 XII the I t wolI yearil' hin tauher aIIli, by a hlir. Thlitl 4-4n4eI w4), thilng Iill. I r \ lilt 14 i 't h u' 114 tlS 1i'''t A.N IMMORTAL VICTORY. HO0V I' WA VON AT MABINE PAi B1" AN 11E11 LIIBUTHNANT. F"orly-Inu /'unfederate sioldiera 'Itted Against Ten 'Ihousand Federal Moldier,, Beside" (un. boats. '1'h New Orleans Picayune, in. view of recent events, reminds its readers that Sabine Pass is invested with an hiBtofi cal importance of which oven many Southernors are ignorant. Ex-President D)avis, in TLe Rise and Fall of the Con federate GJovernmueut says that "the cir 'umustances are properly to be considered umarlvelous. In September, 186Z the strategic inlortalce to the Union fo 'ces of the possession of Sabino river ca d the organization of a large expedition o \ land and naval forces to enter and ascend the river. If successful it gave them short lines for operation against the in torior of '1'exas and relievod thon of the discomtiture resulting from their expul sion from Galveston harbor. Tho floot of the enemy nuibored twenty-three vessels. The forces wcro ostimated to bo 10,000 men, under Major General Wmn. 13. Franklin and Brigadier W. H. Emory, Godfrey Weitzol and Frank Niolcerson. No adequato provision had been made to resist such a force, andun ier the circumstances nonO might have been promptly made on which reliance ould have been reasonably placed. A lev miles above the entrance into the Sabine river a small earthwork had been onstructed, garrisoned at the time of the action by fort -two men and two lieutenants, with an armament of six guns. The oflicers and men were all Irishmen, and the company was called the Davis Guards. The captain, F. H. Odlum, was temporarily absent, so that the command devolved on Lieutenant lt. W. Dowliug. Like Moultrio. in the Ilevolutionary war, they were advised and refused to leave the fort. Comino dore Leon Smith, commanding the Ma rine Department of Texas, says in his otlici,L report of September 9, 1863: 'I arrived at the Pass at 3 o'clock p. m. I found the enemy offI and inside the bar with nineteen gunlboats and steamships and other ships of war, carrying, as well as I coull judge, 15,000 men. I pro ceeded with CJaptai! Odium to the fort and found Lieut. N. lH. Smith, of the entmiecr corls, with forty-tw.. men, de fendgin the fort. Until 3 o'clock p. m. our men did not op,en tire upon the enemy, as the range was too far. rhe otlicers of the fort coolly held their fire until the enemy had approached Iiear enough to reach them. 1nt" when the enemy arrived in good range, our batte -ries we"re olenled and gallantly replied to a galling and most terrific fire from the enmy. As I entered the fort the gun boats (lifton, Arizona, Sachem and iramite State, with several others, camo llly up to within 1,000 yards and opened their batteries, which were gal lantly and efliectively replied to by the )avia Guards. For one hourI and a half a most terrific bombardment of grapo, canister and shell was lirected against our heroic and dievoted little band within the fort. The shot st sruck in every di rectionl, but thanks be to God, not ono of the nole I)tvis Guards was hurt. Every man stoodl at his post, regrlless of the urderous firo that was pourecl upoxnt them fron every direction. 'ltc result of the !attle, which laated from 3.30 to 5 o'clock p. In., was the ca pture of the Clifton andC Sachem, eighteen heavy guns, 150 prisoners, and the kill mng andl wouindig of fifty men, and driving outside the bar of twenty-three vessels in all.' TIhe inquiry may natur adly arise, howv this small number of men [co~uld take charge of so large a body of prisofiers. This required that to their valor they should add strategemn. A few men were placed on the p)arapets as son tiniels, thme rest were mnarchoc( IOut as guard to receive the p)risoners and their airms. Thus was coincealed thme fact that the fort was empty. T1he report of the Rains I onmbarding theo fort }had been hieard1, and sooni after thme close of the b)attle reinforcements arriv~ed, which re lieved the little garrison fromi its embar-* rassment. ''A few days after the battle each man that pairticipated in the light was pro sented with a silver medal, inscribed as followd, on one sido;: 'D). G1.,' which wasL for 'DIavis Guards,' and on the reverse sidle, 'SAn'NE 1 Ass, The, MothiIer's utlgit to, Her (hiEld. .1To thme quiestioni, Uns am mother any right to the babe whom she has borne at the peoril of her own life? tihe heart of humanity,ean give b)ut one answer. By it law (of h umian nature, alike natural and irreversib)le, her claim in this respect is superior to that of any other, not cx eeptinig that of the father. It is from her b)osom that the child draws its sus tenance, and she is its God-appointed eare-take,r, at least in its earliest years, and her right cannot b)0 overborne with out cruelty amounting to outrage. And yet, strange es it may seem, thme laws in nearly every State in tho Union give the power of custody of the child, niot to thme wife and mother, bmut to the husband and father. TIhie mother may ho a paragon of moral excellence, and exceptionally well fitted to nlurse and train her cildI, but the father, though a man utterly vile, hras a legal right to snmatch tho babe from its mother's arms andi dIspose of it as Ihe pleases. TIo the credit of human naiture let it be conifessed that this right ini our dlay is not often exercisedl butt it is a ireproach to) our civilization that such a law shiouhld be permlittedI to stand for a single hour upon01 any of our statute books.* Frank Leslie's Weekly. A~ Hutter F'nmuine, 1,ook out for' it. for it is coiuming as soon as thle oheonnirgarinte I w goes into 1perait.ionIi on the first. A s the lauw now Is y'ou cani step to the telephone anud ordier "io pond o(5(f Jersey buittter'. The grocer hoe; you uip two pountds of beautiful , yel 1w Il'(omhargaIrinte tIat lo oks like but ter' nem!NI like biutteru and really tastis like but er, ad you are sitislied- fnde'ed, .so little oitter has beetn sold for two years tha4 own people forget it. taise and when they et It in t he count-ry puio id Mhmple they biliik ''it lacks body.