Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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linAiii l^'iPcl(^ to ^fllknKurit, ^8rijqutturi|, gomi|8(iq ?nonomjj, |olitg |j^j^. ffoliiiqn, and thq <$urrtnt gjtuw o)f IRe Jaj. VOL. X.?New Series. UNION C. II., SOUTH CAROLINA; APRIL 25, 1S79. *=?= ------ . - J - ' ? , , * 5 \ THE JU8T DEMANDS OF WOMAN. , ^ ' ' r~ : : *~ "" ' ' ~ f >v nat women justly deuiaud iu this our day aud time is, first, the removal of tho restrictions and tho dissipation of tho prejudices that debar theui from a fair participation in such remunerative employments as they can engage in without any real iudclicacy, without overstepping tho proper limit of their sex, aud without n violation of the couditious that cuvirou the female nature; aud, secondly, that woman have provided for them as good educational ad wantages as men for prepariug themselves for woman's VJork iu the higher aud more remunerative departments of human iudus'try. * Wo are uo advocates of woman's rights ??? in the usual sense of tho term. Wo deprocate, as much as anybody, the folly that would turn women into men, and that ignores tho fact that wouinu's sphere is not -man's sphere; but we say that, uudcr a cpuv<iv/uo pi V/ wu\j\J \JK Mil U W 1IISil *C^U?l 1 Ub around the chastity, geutlencss and delicacy of wouacn,selfish men have for ccuturics monopolized the remunerative work of the world to an exteut that has been injurious to society and cruelly unjust to women. A wouiau who has to support herself can, without reproach, teach, sew or keep a millinery store, and perhaps a boardiug house, and that is about all. The contracted field, largely occupied by male rivals, is of course overrun with laborers, and the wages in consequent fall naturally to a point just sufficient to keep oft* starvation. Such is the situatiou. The uuhappy results are that the work of the world suffers from the abscuce of man's natural colaborer?suffers for the want of wouiuu's genius for details, ner patience, ner delicate touch, her finer perceptions and her exquisite taste ; that in a complex society marriages become infrequcut owing to the increasing difficulty of one supporting two and the children besides, and the very foundation of society becomes rotten ; and that millions of good women are driven to a shameful lifo or rendered morbid and unhappy, dwarfed in their natures and forced to cat the bitter bread of poverty or dependence by the cruel lack of congenial employment. We grow rick at heart when we think of the many true women of our acquaintance whose fiue talents are wasted, whose usefulness is curtailed, and whose hearts are made soro, by the prejudices that prevent them from doing the work that thoir hands find to do, and which God and nature intended them to do. In the learned professions, in mercantile pursuits, iu manufactures, in the fine arts, iu agriculture?iu short iu each aud every of the departments of human industry, there is high priced work which women could do with all due regard had to the proprieties of their nature, and do far better than men. Woman was tnado to be not the toy, the playfellow or the slave of man, but to be the helpmate of man?his helpmate not alouc in multiplying the raee, but bis helpmate in nil the work of the world, and each work is best done when a woman's hands unite with a man's hands iu its perfection We say then throw opcu employments to women. Let them help their husbands and brothers and fathers in tho work of tho world, and give them the education to be true helpmates in the highest as well as the lowest grades of employment. In France, beyond every other country of the world, women are permitted to share with men in every kind of work, and no country is as thrifty. After our civil war Franco was desolated by a destructive war. Iu a few years she was as prosperous as ever, while the South is still prostrate. The moral is apparent.?Darlington Ncics. Josti lln.mnrts on Hash.?Hash ha/ Doom nbuzed more than enny ov the legitimate nourishments, ami I guess it iz oz able to staud it az well az enuy ov the rest ov them. The l)uko ov Wellington used to call hash, "What's left over from tlie file yesterday." The Baron Rothschild scd ov hash, "Hash haz no pedigree." Tully, tho Roman orator, in ono ov hiz polished orashuns, speaks tlius butifully, and comprehensively, "Hash haz dun more to advance the human raco than enny kind ov mixt pliood." Sokrates, the divine philosopher, told ov hash, "That it waz an end without a means." Mark Twain, the inimitable, calls it "Mistery," nod Nashy, the koufederate autokrat ov the cross-roads, informs us that hash "Iz like faith, the substance ov tilings hoped for, and the evidence ov things unseen." Thomas Nast, the irrc prcssiblo man of hidden meanings, in n drawing prepared for too lato Vienna expose, represented hash nz a hydraheaded monster, in which pork, rooster, striped has, shejp, rosto hcef, pickled clams, celery, feold psrtatozc, broken napkin rings, and orange peel, and bent hairpuius and menny other kontribushens, siuk out in battle array. Thomas Hcnton, 40 years ago, in a great, political speech made in Louisville, Kentucky, deklaired that hash "Waz the true circulating medium." (Jen Jackson, the author ov "Ky the Eternal," pronounced hash to he "The right bower ov ckoncmy." (icorgc Washington, the father ov us nil, and the guardian ov the little ax. in one ov hi/, testivc moments, spoke ov hash as ''the landlndys best bolls." Hash i/, a great fertilizer, and tho i often have seen hash that i had mi doubts about if, i eat nimfully, mid still liv. xannruL umu ut&ltl. A touching story is narrated iu connection with the cxccutiou of Walter Watson, at Highland, Indiana, oa Friday last, for the murder of Ezra Compton. The parties had quarrelled about the charge of a quarter dollar for some soap made by Comptou, who was a storekeeper. The wife of Watson, to whom he had been but a year married, endeavored to restrain him from the quarrel, but her entreaties failed. A week before the execution Mrs. Watson visited the Governor, with her babe in her arms, aud made a strong personal appeal for mercy, but that official declined to intcrfcro because the scutcjice had bceu confirmed by the Suprotno Court. Tho faithful wife was a daily visitor to hpr h'usband's cell, and joined him in fervent prayers for forgiveness.? During the last night most of the time she sat ou his knee breathiuir words oflovo nnd encouragement, or at his feet, caressing his hands. lie was truly a pcuitcnt, ana expressed himself as haviug made pcaco with God. As the time approached for the execution she was for a moment overcomo, and fell on her husband's neck in uncontrollable anguish, but suddculy she raised her flaxcu head and assisted in arraying him for his doom. She had contributed a necktie and a pair of slippers, and put them ou him with a licrco determination that overmastered her agony. She combed his hair, and seeing all was ready, said she would go with him. All present remonstrated with her, in which the minister joined. Her reply was a rcbuko that few woiueu would have ventured. UI should uot have expected this from a minister.? When I was married 1 promised to cleave to my husband for better or for worse. I promised this to a minister, aud I am going to keep my word as far as God will let me." Ou reaching the gullows tho pair soou to be sundered mounted tho steps hand in hand. They were seated side by side over the fatal iiiuiuauu, a uieatv Hiaiion scvcu nines iroin this point, it was deposited on the barren ground, and as the train moved on only one other person beside the widow was in charge. The face that broken-hearted woman turned up to the occupants oi' the passing train, men of whom had seen the hanging, will hauut many in their dreams. How to PnoDLCE "Prolific"Coun.? The American Farmer says : We lately wrote the lion. Win. L'orchcr Miles, of Nelson County, Virginia, inquiring whether the "Hudson Corn," which had so much celebrity a few years ago, had maintained in the region of its origin its prolific character. His reply is as loll >ws, corresponding to the experience with it in other quarters where we distributed a consideinble quantity of the seed to our readers : The "lludsou Corn," like so many other "celebrated" kinds of grain, constantly coining into notice?all of them wonderfully prolific," &?., &C., seems to have disappeared i'rom view and been relegated to the limbo of forgotten things. I found that on high land and ordinary soil it did not yield any better than ordinary corn. And, indeed, 1 niu less ami loss disposed to lay any groat stress upon "improved varieties" of corn for seed. Any good corn, thoroughly well worked, (there's tho secret, and, "aye! there's the rub !" likewise,) will, on good soil, yield plentifully, if not interfered with by drought Of course, seed corn ought to be selected from tho best ears, taking the middle, because the largest grains, and from the stalks bearing tho most and the best ears. That corn can be improved in this way no farmer can doubt, but i? will soon degenerate if not planted in good soil, naturally rich or liberally manured, and not properly aud thoroughly worked. For depend upon it, for this crop of all others thoroughly worked is more than half the buttle. W. PonciiER Miles. . Ask an assuming man to "assume a little matter" for you, and you suddenly discover li! is the most unassuming person in the world. Proper Security for Advances.? Wc (tho people of South Carolina) arc too poor to set aside one thousaud dollars worth of real estate aud five hundred dollars worth of personal property to be excluded from our basis of credit. Capital?cash capital? is what wo need to employ labor on our farms. The use of this capital at reasonable rates canuot be obtained in quantities sufficient for our necessities while wc reserve fifteen hundred dollars from our available collaterals, for the head of each family possessing that amount of real and personal property. The only security wc can offer for the loan of this capital is diminished to the extent of fifteen huudrcd dollars to the head of each family,, fieuco wc substitute an intangible security (the lion ou crops to bo produced) to make up the deficiency.? This intangible collateral is subject to many contingencies, such as failure of labor, unfavorable seasous, low prices, depredation of quadrupeds and bipeds, shrinkage, stealage, &c. Consequently, a largo margin is required to make investments secure with such collaterals. In fact, so great is the margin that no possible profit is left for the "Lien" Farmer. The remedy I would suggest, is the repeal of the "lieu law" uud an amendtnont of the Stato Constitution, so as to make all property liable for individual contracts. This would transfer the basis of credit from the ignorant, to the intelligent, from muscle to property. ?Vho can doubt the beneficial result of such a trausfor of the capital invested iu the production of cutton. Intelligence would then control trap. She again took his hand and subbed with her little head resting upon his shoulder, while the minister made the closing prayers. Meanwhile the culprit sat in his chair unmoved. A heart-broken wife was sobbing on his bosom, strong men sobbed, but the man about to be hanged seemed au uninterested spectator of the absorbing scene of which he was the central figure. For fully live minutes lie sat there without the bast perceptible twitch of a muscle. There was no bravado in this composure; it was the calmness of resignation. At the close of the religious exercises the two stood up, and for the last timo she embraced her husband, kissed him passionately, and, with Good-bye, Walter," stepped back and fell into the arms of the good Christian ladies who were thcro to receive her. The last words of the unhappy utan were a-fervent prayer for mercy and for heavenly aid to his poor wife. At the sheriff's house she saw the remains of the husband in his coffin, and kissing his lips and arranging the hair, turned away with a look of woe and said, "I can cry uo more ; I have no more tears. God have uicrcy on me air! my little baby." An hour later the coffin was in an eastbound train, accompanied by the wife. At UM.I 1 - l- - l- -? ? '* labor, and property would be responsible for the cash capital employed in agriculture. A lack of industry and economy iu tho farmer or planter entrusted with this cash capital would be spccJily punished by a sacrifice or loss of his property. The knowledge of this fact would stimulate him iu the exercise of those necessary ingredients of success.?J. 11. M. m Camden Journal. Garden Fruits.?Zoroaster says : ''lie that plantcth a tree watcreth the earth"? I and we agree with him and further say, that, besides the "watering," if he plauts many of them, and the right sorts, he also fccdcth and cotnfortcth the people of the earth. We want more attentiou to fruit culture. There is health, uiouey and comfort in raising delicious fruits. "Farmers should use more pippius and less pork."? It would be bettor Tor both their licajth and their purse, and the many advantages of a well kept fruit gardcu is apparent to all. For small suburban lots and farms, especially those near cities, a garden, with a proper selection of small fruits and a few standard large sorts of " goodly trees" here aud there ou tho borders, is the thing needed; and the facilities for such culture are within the reach of ali thus situated. The fruit garden is a desirable appendage to all small farms. The large farmers of tho country, tho wheat, corn and potato fraternity, may, if they choose, havo their lor.rrt ......It 1 - * ? * qv, ui ciiiuii uiliUUIUS, UUIUVUIU ior (IODIC use or for market, and find that there is utility in fruits and flowers as well as iu cereal crops, flocks and herds. An ancient writer says: *'No man can live among music and flowers without being made better." lie might have added fruits, which, in addition, would promote health and better his physical condition. Tub Insanity Dodcie.?At a meeting of the bar of Louisville, Ky., March 28th, to express sorrow at the killing of Judge Klliott, by liuford, Judge T. T. Alexander, in the course of his remarks, said : I deprecate the toleration of any defense based upon the plea of insanity. If one nurtures and cherishes a malignant, devilish passion iu his heart, until, bearing its legitimate fruit in an overpowering passion for uiurdsr, lie takes the life of his fellow man, lie is as guilty of crime as a highwayman who lies in wait for his victim, and kills iu order that he may rob. A somewhat extended experience, both in administering and practicing law, has led tnc to conclude that our highest interest and greatest security are onlv attained by a vip..J.,.I? f i;a^uiiiiuij ?h (/lid iiuvh (?l the land. Wlicro crime is committed, it should receive a speedy ;;ml condign punisliu.-. id. 'i his cannot be accun.pi.olictl cither by the Judge or the jury, alone, nor by both combined, but their efforts must be in - mined and u .held by a healthv. just, moral public sentiment, rewarding and commending virtue and good conduct, and putting dmvu and punishsng violence and crime. A serious obstacle to the due execution ol" our criminal hnvs is that exploded humbug known in legal parlance as "reasonable doubt." This cannot be avoided by the courts or juries, as it is incorporated in our criminal code, and the prisoner is entitled t<? the benefit thereof. Why not try questions of guilt or inuoccuro as wo do every other question?upon the weieht of test imouy'{ Did you ever notico the poor eh p that stands in the first picture of the almanac with a tish, and sheep, and scorpions, and bulls and twins, etc., around him? Did you ever notice that he was naked and had nothiug in his stomach? Well, that poor fellow used to edit a country paper and lake his pay out in I'll pay my subscription next week." A New Secret Order.?The other day after a strapping young man had sold a load of corn and potatoes on the market aud had taken his team to a hotel barn to 'feed/ it became knowu to the men around the barn that he was very desirous of joining some secret society iu town. When questioned he admitted that such was .lie ease, and the boys at once offered to initiate hiui into a new order called the 'Cavaliers of Coveo.' He was told that it was twice os secret as Frecmasoury, much nicer than Odd Fellowship, and the cost was only $2. In case he had the toothache he could draw 85 per week from the relief fund, aud ho was cutithd to receive ?10 for every headache aud $25 for a sore throat. The youug man thought ho had struck a big thing, and after eating a hearty diuner he was takcu iulo a store-room to be initiated. The boys poured cold water down lr.s back, put flour on his hair, swore him to kill his mother if commanded, aud rushed him around for au hour without a siuglc complaiut from his lips. When they had finished, lie imjuircd: Now I'm one of tho Cavaliers of Covco, am I ?' 'You are,' they answered. 'Nothing more to loarn, is there ?' 'Nothing.' 'Well, then, I'm going to lick tho wholo crowd,' continued the candidate, and he went at it, and before he got through he had his $2 initiation fee back, aud $3 more to boot, and had knocked every body down two or three times apiece. He didn't seem greatly disturbed iu mind as he drove out of the barn. On the con irary, ins nut was slanted over, ho hod a fresh tivo cent cigar in his teeth, and he mildly said to one of the barn boys : 'Say, boy, if you hear of any Cavaliers asking for a Covco about my size, tell 'oui I'll be in on the full of the moon to take the Royal Skyfuglo degrees.'?Detroit Free Press. One's Mother.?Around the idea of one's mother the uiiud of man clings with fond affection. It is the first dear thought stamped upon our infant hearts, when yet sol't or capable of receiving the most profound impressions, and all the after feelings are more or less light in comparison. Our passions and our willfulness may lead us from the object of our filial love,; we may become wild, headstrong and angry at her counsels or opposition, but when death has stilled her monitory voice, and nothing but calm memory remains to recapitulate her virtues and good deeds, affection, like a flower beaten to the ground by a rude storm, raises up her head and smiles amidst her tears. Round that idea, as we have said, the mind clings with fond affection ; and even when the earlier period of our loss forces memory to bo silout, fancy takes the place of remembrance, and twines the image of our deparicd parent with a garland of graces, and beauties, and virtues, which we doubt not that she possessed. A son of Maine who went West in early youth and has there attaiued wealth and au honorable positiou, returned last summer to visit his old home. At the village store lie saw on old mau whom he had known in his younger days. lie accosted him, but was not rceoguized. "So you don't remember me," he said; "I am John 11?." "You !" exclaimed the old man ; "you don't mean to tell me you arc John 11??" "I certainly am," said the visitor, shaking him by the hand ; "and I am very glad to see jou again." "Well," persisted the old man, "I never did. To think that this is you. They tell me you've grown awful rich, John." John admitted that he had "saved something." "And they say you're the President of a railroad and get a big salary." Again John had to admit that rumor spoke truth. "I'm glad on it, John ! I'm glad on it, my boy ! It beats all what sarcumstances and cheek will do for a man." Ills PltEFEUENCE.?A sanitary policeman who had business on Division street yesterday had bis attention attracted to the conduct of a tow-headed boy of ten who dodged out of a house, crossed the utreot. and went over the same rout several times. T/ie officer asked if his mother was sick, and the lad chuckled and replied : "Not very sick ! S/ze's mad at the woman over there, and I'm carrying telegrams between 'em. Mother first asked her to take it back, but sho would't; then mother dared her out, but sho wouldn't come ; then she called mother names; and now I'm going over to tell her that mother says that her sister is in the workhouse. I think that will start her." "Are you anxious for peace between them asked the officer. "Well, kinder ; but as long as ma has got her man up and a towel tied ovor her hair, I'd a lectio rather 6eo the show open !"? Detroit Dree Dress. "Dearest, let us in this rn/c refresh ourselves for a brief period," said a swell young man to a spirituelle creature dressed in the height of fashion. "What will you have ?" | said the waiter, handing the lady the bill of fare. "Oh, never mind the bill of fare," she replied ; "give mo a plate of codfish ' cakes, with plenty of butter." The young man fainted.?Eexc York Express 1 ? ?-?- . j?lil -i "Comin Thro' the Uye.?Wo rccontly replied to a querist, giving our own impression as to the interpretation of the old song, "Coniiu' Thro' the Rye," to tho effect that a field of rye was meant. Tho other side of the story is told in the following extract, clipped from an exchange, which we stumbled against for the first lime in mauy years. Having both versions, our readers may take their choice. The extract says : The conimou idea of this song is that a ryo field is meant, but whoever saw a Scottish lussio walking through a field of rye, or any other grain? Tho river Rye, at Daily, in Ayrshire, is meant. Before the days of bridges it was no easy matter to cross rivers without payiug such.a penalty as has immortal- ized Jennie in the old ballad. Burns wroto the ballad and Brown modernized it. As Burns wrote it it includes the river plainly enough : Jennie Is a' wet, puir bodlc, Jenny's seldom dry ; Nlic drag' it a' her pctticontio Cumin' thro the Kyc." [. ?(/? Ff nrisco Call. ? ? ? - - How to Suppress Crime?The incroase of crime is in direct ratio with the increase of hangings. There is talk every now and then of abolishing capital punishment altogether. Let it be dime, and every man will he a walking arsenal and every, man the proprietor of a small graveyard.? The reverse ol'the above proposition is what is wanted?that the execution of capital punishment upon ihose guilty of capital offenses shall be more speedy and certain than it is. An improvement in our judicial methods is needed, and a sterner public sentiment. It would bo well, too, to roverso the adage for awhile and proclaim that it is better that one innocent man should eufl fcr than that ninety and nine murderers should cscapo scot of free.? Charlotte Observer. Where Murder Begins.?Tho point of beginning is tho monster evil known as carrying deadly weapons. Out of this evil havo grown duelling and tho sickening record of life-taking in moments of anger by men who convert their persons into walk! ;lww ir 5i? / .?jfc uiacuuis. uiippiiy ior civilization tho barbarism of duelling now excites little other emotions than popular disgustand contempt; but that other relic of barbarism, carrying deadly weapons, has yet to be uprooted.? Public sentiment, without whose active, determined co-operation tho law is powerless, is responsible for this most pernicious evil, for it has done little to mako persons who practice it feel that their acts are acts of lawlessness. Remkdy fok tiie Bite ok Mad Dog. ?As the cry of Mad dog haB been raised, tho following which wo clip from an cx^ change, may be worth a perusal. "A Saxton forester, named Gastcll, now at the venerable age of 82, unwilling to take to the grove with hiui a secret of such importance, has made public in the Lcipsic Journal, the means he has used for fifty years, and wherewith he affirms ho has rescued many human beings and cattlo from . the fearful death of hydrophobia. Take immediately warm vinegar or tepid water, wash the wound clean therewith aud dry it, then pour upon the wound a few drops of muriatic acid, because miucral acids destroy the poison of the Saliva, bv which menna . ' " mrnrn^wmmmmW the evil effects of the latter are neutralized." The Street Railway.?The announcement we made yesterday in reference to the street railway has excited considerable iniutcrcst, and it is said that the enterprise is in a fair way to become an actual fuct at no distant day. The proposed plan is to run the track from the Greenville and South Carolina Railroad depots up Gervais street to Main street, thence by a double lino to the post oflicc, and from there to the Charlotte depot. A charter was granted for this purpose some years agn, but times were such that it was not found practicable to carry it iuto operation ; now, however, business and politics havo become more settled, and the parties interested propose to move at ouce.? Col. Register. "What a great thing the invention of the steam engine is," exclaimed a Frenchman, sipping his coffee in one of the Paria. restaurants. "Why so?" inquired a friend sitting next to him. "Because it is to that great invention that I owe my fortune.? My aunt, who was killed last month by a railroad accident, has left uic $20,000. A month ago to day I was hard at work trying to earn a living; to-day I aui a gentleman. What a great invention tbc steaui engino is." Judge C., of Memphis, is an incorrigible bachelor, but will hnvo Kio fun iD;?l d.? ladies. Not long since a lady wrote bitn a note, in a bantering style, asking him to send her bis picture?"a large one in a frame." He wrote back to inquiro what 1 she proposed to do with it, saying that if ib was to be hung in Iter boudoir he would | have it taken with his eyes shut. 'Ilere," said a farmer in Syracuse, as he exhibited a broken jar to the manufacturer, "I packed this jar full of butter, and the jur split from top to bottom. Perhaps you can explain tho phenomenon." "Oh, yea, I can," was the ready reply, ' the butter W38 stronger than the jar."