Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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'to '^^i'iaiUiir'c,' ?)omcuHmc^ rrnt^^cius -of *1 lffc<r'^laiv' ^J"-"* *> r' ' ' ==____ -?^~aj????? ' * * ' " VOL. XIV.?New Series. UNION C. H? SOUTH CAROLINA,DECEMBER 7, 18837 NUM15 KB 4?. ~ UJ ~1 III ? 'J '_ ,L- . - _ . - - 1 - ^ - - ' " 1. - _ ?? cotton buyers ARE 1 Higher Pric THAN IS PAID AT ANY POINT STA' HUMMEL, LEAD! IS s Dry Good*, Notion** and Fancy Not to be Equalled . .. FOR LADIES, CHIL Otf*' Wjfoleh ejects, /ri) 10 atv *^olcn, (a) 15c. and 20c. Desirable and New Foreign Dress Good Gilberts 6-4 Flannel Suiting, in Myrtlo Shepherds Plaids, Armurcs, Mohairs, <5 Black Cashmeres @ 50c., 65c , 75c., 91 Colored 4-4 English Cashmeres, Superi Black Velveteens, best grades, 50c., 71 Colored ,l <4 " 21 inch i ? BLACK SILKS, ? $1, $ Compare Samples of these with a be superior in Width, Quality HOSIERY, KNIT G From cheapest to best goods in this line. Full Regular Enorlish IIna? in Illaob )f La(iien' Mixed and Ail-Wool Uuder Vests, J Cashmeres and Berliu Olovcs, all colors. 1 m ' Bootees. Jersey Waists in Black and Cardia Magnificent Rep. Dolmans, Elnboratoly Trimni =PRIC] f . - NO HUMBUG IN THIS. YOU CAN GET Wl ATED HERE Calicoes. Good Quality and Style, 5c., Bes Kentucky Jeans, 12Jo., 15c., '20c., 25c., to . Red Flannel, 15c, 20c, 25c., to yard wide All Linen Towels, 10c., 12Jo., 15c.. 20c., " " Napkins, 55o. to 2.50 per dozen " " Table Damask, 00 inch wide. 3( Fruit of Loom, 10c., Londsdale, 10c.. War Cotton Plaids, Factory llumespun. Ticks, All Wool Blankets 10-4. 11 4 and 12-4, 2f Mr. Benj. F. Sims, of Union, is*with mt Oct. 19. NEW STORE! W. C. W h i n g BOOTS A1 GROCERIES .A. ] OROOKERY, SA1 Scraping the Teeth, Tj^XOEPTby a Dentist, should never be done JPi as the enamel once destroyed nover reforms All stains and discolorations of the teeth can bi readily removed by the use of wood's odontine which contains nothing harmful, but on tho con trary polishes the teeth, hardens the gums anc makes the breath pure and sweet. It is preparec from a formula of Dr. Thos. T. Moore, and ii reccommended by him as a harmless and efficien dentifrice. 25c a Box. Trade supplied by For sale by W. C. FISHER. Dr. J. M. Qibbks, Wholesale Agent, Union C. H. Columbia, 8. C. March 9 10 1 y s NEW GOODS At Drouth Prices. WE take pleasure in announcing to out YV friends tbat our fall stock 19 now oper and ready for inspection. All are cordially in vited to call and examine our goods before buy ing. Our prices are as low AH the lowest, and we take pleasure in showing goods remember tlittt. Samples cheerfully sen to parlies notable to come to make their selec tion from the store. Polite and oourteoui attention guaranteed to ail. Very Truly, J. C. HUNTER, & Co Oot 6. 40 tf ? 0| "W'W people are always on the look I \ n. out for chances to inoreasi WW 1 M I i their earnings, and in tiroi become wealthy; those whi .do not improve their opportunities remain ii poverty. We offer a great chance to make money We want many men, women, boys and girls t< work for ns right in their own localities. An; one can do the work properly from the firs tart. The business will pay more than ten time ordinary wages. Expensive outfit furnishei free. No one who engages fails to make tnone, rapidly. You can devote your whole time t the work, or only your spare moments. Ful information and all that is needed sent free.Address Stisbom & Co., Portland, Maine. Feb 23 8 ly Dontal Surgeon. DR. L. E. MEADOR, a graduate of the Bait more Denial College, offers his professiont aervioes to those who may require Dental Sqi _ get/ in any of its branches. \ m Being amply supplied with the bost instru tents and all modern improved appliances, h feels safe in assuring perfect satisfaction. He will be fonnd in his office over Dr. Pose & Bros'. Drag Store on a'l days. Office hours 8 A. M. to 6 P. M. July 27 30 tf SEND FOR PRICE LIST. MeBlree's Jewelry Palace, 264 King St, I Charleston, 8. C. Largest Stock. Low. __ eet prices in the South. Repairing a / v ' specially. S*qd me jour watcher. K at Spartanburg PAYING A ?e for Cotton 1 IN THE UPPER SECTION OF THE TE AND ?R OF LOW PRICES, EALING Goo?1h Very I-ow, in Fact at I*rlcos I in (Ills Same Section. .DREN AND MISSES. J 22*. t - ? , worth 2T> coots, s at popular prices. Grey, Brown, Wino, Navy Black and Mixed. :c. >c. and SI.00. ior Quality @ 50c. )c., and 81.00. ivido, 81.00. : J j 1.25 AND $1.50 PER YARD. I i 1 ny market, for you will find them to j ( and Lustre. All Pure Goods. j . ! i < OODS ANI) GLOVES, Superior Quality Silk Hone in Black and Colorsrs. Extra Qualities and styles in Woolen HoseSilk and Lisle Gloves, all colors, Mousquetaircs- j Hoiisquetaires. Knit Socks, Hoods, Mittens and 1. Satin Dolmans and Circulars, Diagonal Wraps. ' ed Walking Jackets. Cloaks, &c.t at low prices. ' E MST: HAT I ADVERTISE. EVERYTHING ENUMERIS IN MY STOCK. . t Quality, C-4. * COo. 11 Shaker (n) COc. c '25c., to 75o., each. t e >c. usutta. 12J. I' Stripes, and ali Domestic Goods, at bottom prices, i per cent, less than last season. 1 ), and will be pleased to wait on his friends. d L. M. HUMMEL, j Spartanburg, S. C. ' 42 '2m. V NEW PRICES | r ALL ACE \ d i^^^EL^t^e, qpneistipg of. f AND HATS, J SHOES, ? VD HARDWARE, DDLERY, &c., &c. 0 Wow sky & Baracb,; s b CHARLOTTE, N. C. ? C r ; o i <i S t ? OFFER EXTRARDINARY IN- r DUCEMENTS TO PEOPLE WHO] J ARE DOING THEIR TRADING e t BY MAIL. I I OUR MAIL ORDER DEPART- I I t 1 If T3 XTrn T ft r./^ - 10 su arranged that 8 [ "shopping" by mail',is ren- * dered easier and is of- [ ten more satisfactorily i [ done than in person. { letters of inquiry are l( promptly responded to. t samples sent and esti- c i mates given. we guar an- \ ; tee satisfaction?deliver i packages for over ten (( j dollars in amount free { i of express or mail 1 1 charges. , y o ' we keep everything , that is needed to clothe men, youths and boys, la. dies, misses and children, hi including a complete r"| line ofjladies' and misses' ; underwear, and* have the best dressmaking 7 establishment in the south. 8end us a trial order. WITTK0W8KY ft BARUCH. Aug 17 83 0*.- l( viuasl ul.uvkk. IIas Lowner Struct a Bonanza? Mr. Marcus A. Bonner sends us the f?>l? lowing letter and article, which we give with pleasure. The clover is something new to us. ? Ei>. Southern World. Editor Southern World.?As I am a native Georgian, with many old friends still living there, uiany of whom 110 doubt are subscribers, as well as myself, to your very interestiug and valuable paper, and who, no doubt, are begiuuing to believe like many othors, thatdivcrsiGed farming is the only lini upon which we farmers can suc? cessfully Gght out the great battle of competence aud independence, I send you tor their perusal, if you fleem it worthy a place in the columns of your popular paper, a let tcr I wrote for the Home and Farm which may apprise my old Georgia frieuds and farmers, that we havo found iu the Quasi plotruv ??1 :? -- vuiiaiiv lUOIUIV lO suoceeu red clover, Califoruia burr clover, at the very moment of their most trying hours, when dying in fact frooi heat, while this new recruit, Quasi Clover, is just marshalling his inviucibles with with their summer uipplics, and armed an equipped for the heated campaign of summer, to ccaso its j mward march, only alter the commanding | 'cucral, Jack Frost, orders such galiant and jnyicldiug recruits into December winter quarters. Marcus A. Bonner. [From Louisville Home ami Farm] Sinco the publication of my former letter [ have sought information eoncerning this juasi Clover of various persons of great bservation and experience, among whom verc Prof D. L. Pharos, author of "Flora if Mississippi," Professor of Biology of the V. and M. College, Mississippi, Sanitary Commissioner for the Slate at largo, and of niinv papers on medicine, natural history, tc., and of improved farming, and the auhor of "Farmers' Book of grasses," and ivcn this distinguished gentleman eould lot tracj its origin, or even was aware of ts existence until 1 sent biui a sample. ,'rof. Pit ares requested of me a more minute lescription, like many others, of this Quasi dover ; and as 1 am impressed with the >olicf tbut llomc and Farm has the lar;cst circulation of any of n>y nine papers, will write for it the description. Quasi clover, in my pasture at this dntc July 14), resembles at a distance a field of icavincs' It is now in full bloom, and ho continuous buzzing of millions of honey iee9, feeding upon itblossoms, and 1'sedng in every direction around you, together rilh the sight of my gr.iziog cows with Ddoea tttia must 1)C ' a laud ot inilk lu'dw loncy." ' | I have thirteen cows and wc got so much uilk and butter that wo have concluded to llow the little calves to grazo wit!) their aethers all through the day unmolested, ud we find apparently very little difference u the quantity of milk the next morning, inving been separated through the uight uly from their mother . 1 never kucw or heard of this clever heore last yeai. It came up on my farm in ted ltiver valley, after the high, water in he early part of 1882. I had the year beoro had deadeaed a piece of wet, stiff, lack land, .vhich, every summer after the rater weut off, would be very hard and with racks everywhere in it?so much so that ; lOthing would survive upon it. This laud, j n that nccouut, was valueless, unless j iitehed and reclaimed. However, when his Quasi clover was first seen, it seemed ight there, on this very land, to be luxuriating in tho zenith of its glory, and within wo months from its appcaranco it hud covired the entire deadening?over reached tho togs, and was basking iu the sunshiue on orush heaps and trash piles. I would feel delighted to have some ox )crt iu tho soieutific analysis of forago tlants to stop at my house ou Red river, hirty-five units below Shrevcport, and pond a few days with mo admiring this vonderful pasture olover, 6oe the brimming till pails ot'rich milk and the well-filled uhs of golden butter. When the seed are natured, they are formed ou a little cob, a rac simile, under a microscope, cf a minia? ure corncob, including its pith, shape and ill. There are, on tho largest cobs, from en to fifteen seed in a row, aud from ten to welve rows. The first blooms come in a lirclo of one row, at tho butt of the cob, hesc remaining for many days, and whilo trying up ou the forming seed a new circle if hlonniK for the u>l>nnd rnuj iu ? - j??? ?5'pv?? - I ng, which, as the first circle of blooms, reuair. many days and then the second row >f seed are formed ; and thus tho flowers sontioue, from May until near fall, iu a ?orgeous array of beauty, producing sueh in unrivaled harvest field for the little busy ace. Those seed will bo matured folly ou .he oldest viucs much sooner than on vinos >f subsequent growth, and bo more of them )n the cob, when matured, than on late cobs. This clover is very easily killed by the plow, although it masters all other vines, weeds and grass, wi.ich I have seen vieing with it. Last year I had in oultivaticn a few rows of cotton near this pasture, which had this clover on it, and by plowing it on with theother rows, it was effectually killed. This year I am allowing it to grow aud flourish in the water furrow of my cottcti rows, and I apprehend no danger whatever from it, as in the drill, uuder the shade of tho cotton, it will only creep on the ground oarpellike, and nevor ascend tho stalk, as it revels alone in the sunshine. Outside of niy pasture of Quasi clover the shady woods of tho satno king of land is separated from tho pasture only by a wire fence, and although tho doadening is ono solid mass of vordant clover, yet the woodland shade keeps back every sprig of this Quasi clover. Lust winter, after tho early frosts had killed everything, this clover still remnined green, and only did it yield its green until titer Jack Frosts came in his frozen garb. The Quasi clover has uiauy advantages to ( render it valuable. It will grow on hard ! packed land, cracked open iu summer, or it will grow iu early spring in water almost covering it. In litis way land otherwise worthless may be utilized and be made to blossom as the rose. Last April I had sold 100 head of cattle to ?dr. John O'Neal, of Lavaco Texas, and had nowhere to confine them, except within this Quasi clover pasture, which at that time was quite young aud tender and partly under water, vet a greater portiou of those cattle were allowed to graze on this clover until May 1, and. excepting the fact that they kept it eaten down tolerably eloso. 1 saw no pther. injury to it from continuous tramping. From one seed of this Quasi clover a little vine will appear, and two inches up that, two other vines at right augles, and so^ou at every joint, each joiut sending out its own independent rootlets until the vines are radiating Jin every direction. Since laying by my corn, I have turned my horses and cuttle on this clover, saving many bushels of corn. The seed of Quasi clover, would be tedious to gather, by band, but by pulling up the whole vines, I would suppose that uu oat sack of vines would | secure seed enough to plant at least an acre, and if only one seed every three squares would bo seed enough to form a considerable pustuio. with inuttcd clover, the first summer. The greatest advantage of this clover is. that it gives unyielding, verdant pastures ail through the uiid_suimncr. at which time all othor clovers have died out, and this fact will rendeigt Ji"i'?ablo tor n summer pasture, which is so much needed in many sections of our couutry. Any one wishing to gather seed may briug his wagon d)wn and help himself, free of charge, of this wonderful clover, which to be seen, is to be admired, and if any one doubts the merits of Quasi clover or thinks uiy description too glowing, to such a oue I say, come and viow the ground in its beauty arrayed, and then he will ex> claim, as did the Queen of Shebr of the glories of Solomou, "The half has not been told mc." M* A. I?. Tiik Down fimnk.?Col. J. J. Owen, editor of the San .lose Mercury, gives the following photograph of a class of young men in that California town, accompanied with somo wholesome advice to them. Possibly there may be other places where a similar class of young men may be found, to the heart of some ono of whom the question whia^^loscs Col. Owen's article may Ci J v.io"g irm in ffcn .Ttfce V rl'All>' industriousyoung MmHvMwoathedown grade, going straight to hell by the through Liquor Line. They arc now.only moderate tipplers, though seldom without tlio taint of liquor on their breaths. They are social and convivial young follows. They do not like the taste of liquor particularly, but because it is the custom of young men of their kind to visit the saloons and treat each other ; aud when they go awty on a pic nic, excursion or get off together for an evening, to get thcm> selves "full," as they term it. and have a regular carousal, and wake up next morning with a splitting headache. ' Mnnv nf iKnoA vaiim ' ? ~ ^ ?. ...kgU IIIVII nic VIVI1V9 IUIU IIIU- l chanics, with gun.l situations, who should practice habits of economy and thrift, and lay by something of their weekly earnings as a nestegg for their start in business sometime ; or if they expect to marry, as most of them do, as something with which to procure a home. But instead of this they livo up their last cent, and J often inctir deblS besides that they find very | difficult to pay. But the worst feature of the j business is, they ate cultivating habits of thrifts j less extravagance and dissipation that will work j their utter ruin, and that in no distant future. , "These young tnen are hale fellows now, full ! of that life and euergy which if properly direct- | ed would make them, in time, the foremost men j of b.tsiness in the community, and the best mem- j bora of society. But the demons of Evil Habit i and 111 Health are toying with their morals and their vitals ; and a few years heuce we shall tind them bloated and loathsome drunkards, broken down gamblers or already dead and rotting in their graves. "God pity the young woman who marries one of them I There is before her a life of sucli unutterable wretchedness as no pen can describe. Her only ray of hope is in her possible strength of soul that will enable her to rise up in her womanhood, ero it be too late, and cast adrift a, ??-i 1 ?i ...v .. v.,.uos ingnuunu who would urive ner and hor children down (o everlasting despair. ''And yet there isn't one of these young men who might not, if he would, break lo>se from his evil associations, throw off the straight, jacket that the demon of drink aud dissipation is weaving around his limbs aud go forth to a noble and manly life. If they only knew the misery in store for thetn?the agony of soul, the physical torture? if they could realize the degradation and sliaine they are bringing upon others, as well as themselves?the scalding tesrs that will be shed in their behalf?the breukiug hearts, the blighted lives?and all beoause of their unworthiness, it would seem that they would soouor thrust their right hand into inolten iron, and hold it there until only the charred bones remain, than raise it to their lips bearing a draught of that subtle poison that at last 'biteth like a serpent and stiugeth like an adder.' "Is there one of ^tkis class, who may read these lines, who has enough manhood left to try r Bostontan? in It a lb i oii,?ltaleigh, N. C. November 28.?A party of thirty-five prominent Bostou manufacturers and capitalists arrived hero this evening as guests of the city. Speeches were made by mayov Dodd, Governor Jarvis aud other prominent men. A banquet, will be given the visitors to morrow. The party will make a tour of the Stale, investigating its resources, Ac. I ALFALFA AS A FORAGE CROP. Tit" jj'xjtcri'-iice of a 1'racticul 1'.outer ' inth What ice call Lucerne. Editors Country Gentlemen:?Few iTany ^ forage plants have yet become so valuable : for stock as alfalfa. It was introduced into j California from Chili tunny years agu. It . is tbo same as the lucerne of Kuropo (Jle-fi ' cutjo sdtiva ) It must have beeu cultivated, as its name indicates, by the Celtic nation. Cven as far back as iu the days of Columella of the first century, one or two historians notice it, anil another mentions it, without name, as having been kuown in Greece I 500 years before the Christian era. Alfslf belongs to the clover family, as a pcreuial, and is found at the present day growing wild in toe western part of South America Its growth is wonderful, enormous and rapid in some soils and localities* Its roots, some say. extend down until they find water? even twenty feet into and through toe hardest subsoil. The plant is not only a perennial, but perpetual in every sense of the word. Tno roots are so strong and largo in sandy soils ' that to plow then) up, or evcu turn the sod. is next to an impossibility. They easily stop a double team. After becoming well 1 set it wiil thrive in almost any climate and ' "oil. '1 be product from its cultivation is ? greater in value and size than any known 1 forage plant, and the success attending ali ' the efforts :nndo at raising is simply won- j derful. In the cotton States, after the first yea , the average yield is reported to h" six * or eight tons of dry hay per acre. In Kern :l county. California, one farmer keeps twenty I head of sheep per acre the year round. Another near San Jose pastures six cows on ' three and one-half acres. In San Bcrnar? ' dirio Valley eight cuttings are made anuu- [ ally. Another farmer in the same county *grazes 1.500 sheep upon his alfalfa, giving ' them only one acre per day, and when they 0 are upon the twentieth acre, the hurdles 11 arc returned to the tirsi acre, where he finds the new growth eight to ten inches high. '* In Dallas county, Texas, it is a success, two ' crops of two tons each being cut annually. ' In Nebraska and Nevada it thrives as '! well, making, even on sage brush land. ' where nothing has ever been known to grow, v over six tons per acre of good, dry hay. and I seed enough from forty acres to amount to v 82,000 more. 51 So much for its productive <|uul(tie?. Its c value is incalculable. Tlio festimy of huti- *' drod-, as well as the careful experiments of many practical and scientific farmers, proves ' bi youd ali controversy that alfalfa for horses, t Ca'llo, (milch cows especially,! sheen, and * ?. . ..tji--, wc.i as oeoc, :-j .if Jlleu oy no El.irtt. Tins is putting it pretty strongly, ut it is nevertheless true in many sections, f In California immense herds of cattle are t fattened exclusively upon it, they being far 1 superior to any brought from pastures , 1 of the native grass, or even from clover pas- j ' turcs In its green and diicd state it is | ;1 tonally good for all kinds of stock. For ! " milk it excels all other clovers, both in in - Is creasing the milk and hotter and improving i I their flavor. Wyeoff says: "For milch.' cows, if, is superior t?? all other hay ; i' ex- i :l cites the secretions." The State Board of ' Agriculture of California says that the tes- timony of all dairymen 4,is that cow.-taken 1 from the native grasses and pastured upon ' ' it will increase in product of milk, hotter 1 and cheese, from sixty to seventy per cent , j y and that sheep growers state that their > n flocks grazed upon it are entirely ffe from ' I the skin disease so prevalent in California." 1 From California alfalfa is beiui* pushed I rapidly eastward. Colorado is last becorn ' ing grceu with it. So far it has failed iwk where where it has received unv attend >n : the first season. Throe and four cuttings, | producing from five to nine tons per acre ' wore made on a farm adjoining our college grounds, last summer, and the hay has be n ' sold, baled, at 81S and 820 per ton. Our ' eastern frinds will find alfiifa, in their alluvial soils, much more profitable and bets < ter than clover or the grasses. Only one ( difficulty attends its cu'tivation, whieh is ' that when once well rooted it can never be ? eradicated, except by flooding and freezing > ' it out. ' For bee pasture we find no plant bets ! ter. The honey made from it is almost ' equal to that from white clover. It will 1 flourish in any soil and climate whose tetm? 1 peraturc does not reach more than twenty degrees below zero. The grou id should bo 1 put into good order, and he well harrowed and pulverized. Sow twenty pounds per acre, and cover two inches deep, in April or May, and cut. it only once the first year A. E. BLOUNT. Agricultural C< Mcgc, Colorado, CoTTOJt Fiitork Notks Voio.?Augu?ta, Ga. November 28.?The Supreme Court of Georgia, | | in the ease of Cunningham against the National | mint 01 Augusta. has decided tiiat cotton future | notes are absolutely void. Cunningham made i j a note for $6,000 to Warren, Wallace & Co. in a j Cotton future transaction. Tho firm negotiated the note to the bank which sued Cunningham, who pleaded that tho note was void as it was given on a gaming consideration. The Court ays that cotton futures arc as much gaming as faro, and that such notes are void in anybody's hands, whether they knew the notes were given for futures or not. Tub Ouanob, N. J., Oi'Tkaok.?Newark, N. J., November 28.?The funeral of Miss Phoebe Paulin, the young woman recently found murdered and outraged near Orange, took place today. The cititens of Orange offer a reward of $1,600 for the arrest of tho murderer, and the governor has offered $600 reward, making a total of $2,100. A negro is now suspected. Hetty and-rue Babt Made Happt.?Washington, November 24.?President Arthur late this afternoon issued a pardon to Sergenut Mason. now confined in Albany penitentiary under sentence ?>t eight years' imprisonment for attempting to shoot Uuitenu. Tho pardon will he mailed to-night in order that it may reach Albany Monday next. THE WICKED FLEA ON (THE THEATRICAL BOARDS. A groat discovery in connection with theatres of the cities is uiost laughable and will result in much fun to audiences in the future unless some action is taken at once on the part of the managers. It seems that m iii)' of the best theatres of the cities have become infested with tleas. it is believed the (leas have been brought to the theatres iiu the pet dogs of actresses and by the dogs used in plays and they have multiplied and replenished the places of amusement uutil they are a formidable army, it is said that when a theatre has not had a pcrloruiaueo for several days the Ileus bueoute hungry aud when the uext company arrives upon the stage the Ilea- take possession of the members too quiek. Some aver that the ileus are divided off into squads, each squad with a leader, aud each squad is assigned to one particular actor or actress, as the ease may be. Fleas are no fools, and it would not be strange if they had a choice as to which member of a company should he assigned to them. Of course, it is possible that the boss (leas shake dice to decide which shall have first, choice for his squad, and yet it may be tbat fleas know nothing of dice, and ?o upon the principle o? first eouio first erved. While the Ilea is not human we oust give the io^ect credit for knowing the lifh-retice betweeu the taste of a young and icautiful actress and an old mail or woman, i'he Ilea is no fool, whatever else may beaid of him. and auy person with auy heart it nil will feel for the young actress whose: >atl compels her to go upon the stage of a Ica-iufected theatre with a low necked tress, bare arms, or stockings that are per* i... i ... ?' I...VU UJ Iiu mill iru lin: IIIML'p. IM WIIICIl lave u?it ..(tuincd their growl It as to height. Mich a person has got much beside her art 0 attend to, and her uiind must be constantly ccupied in devising means to uiasli fleas and lot give it away to the audience. An actress cau, it" she teels a flea grazing round, suddenly place hoi hand on her leart, aud while the audience is looking at he expression of pain on her face, she cau Ut >ue or two fingers wander down where the lea is and paralyze hiui, and the audience rill think that it is a gesture that is in the day. Kut there are places on every tier sou there a flea might walk arm in arm with mother flea, sipping the life blcod and b.;railing intoxicated, where no gesture laid lowrj in a play will hit. Suppose Mary Anderson, while t-.ying to iniiI Roineo up to the balcony so she can sco t he has been chewing cloves, feels a flea sufcto ?Wr . Wherefore art thou, itouieo ?" she cau vorlastiugiy dig her nail* into t'.?e openiug ii the corset and kill the ilea, and the audi:nce would be. none the wiser, while if she nicked up against the railing and scratched cr back on a scene, it would he noticed mil commented on to her discredit as no irtist, and besides, she might push down the cunery. Again, if a flea should appear to > ;exploring the vicinity of her waist, while t would not b?- admissible for her to create 1 gesture that Would fit the case, situ could, v tile poetic license that is granted all great leninsos. lean against the railing, on the. mint where the flea was, and, while giving illy to lloineo, she cohld make the Ilea hiuk he had got in the wrong paw. And >et, in that scene, if a lew fleas should get tuiong her stockings, as is almost certain to >o the cisc, Mary would not have any exs :usc. by any act or gesture iu the play, to jay any attention to the flea, and she wouid lave lo go on with the play and die game. in opera it is different. The costumes tro such that the hunting of fleas is merepastime. Especially is this the case in the ipera of "L.i Somnambulic" where the s-erp-waiKcr is nuircu wun a caudle ind a garmeut tli.it lias always been Highly recommended for the pursuit of fleas. It is supposed that actors arc impervious ro the influence of fleas, but such is not the lase. Booth, Barrett, Jcff rson and McCul* otigh arc nervous as women, and we uiay xpecf any evening to see Booth as Hamlet Imp his sword and roll down his black .ights, while the ghost is telling him the old <tory. and catch a flea and crush it between liis two thumb nails, pull up his stockings and toil the ghost that he will go home and make it red hot for his mother and the uncle who poured melted sealing wax io the ghost's ear In the play of "t'raiiceftca da Kim* ini," when Lawrence Barret starts home i.oin the army to kill Ins brother and his wife for being too numerous, and he is all excitement it would look strange to see him sit down on a slump and go to catching fleas before an audience, and yet this is what the stage is coming to if fleas and dogs are not quarantined. It would look queer to set Jefferson, when he rises upon the stage after the twenty year's sleep, go to hunting around his decayed and mildewed leggings for fleas, and to gee McCullougli as Othello stop ou the way to murder Desdemoaa nod search for fleas. This would he going from the sublime to tha ridiculous, aud the JSun nicitions these possibilities lhat managers may see what is liable to happen unless they e.tuse insect powder to he freely used on the stage and cause all dogs brought by actresses *o bring a certificate from an M. 1) that they are tree from tieas. It takes a manager with nerve to stand up before an actress who has gall enough to carry a dog or ono who has married a husband for the purposo of carrying her dog, and couipinirv lhat the <log, or the husband is fullof th us and must be quarantined?but it has got to be done. Let the fleas and dogs go.?JJnS' timore Shu. Tiik Ot.nr.st Baptist Ciiuhcii.?The first Baptist Church <>( Charleston, ami the oldest in thc .South, celebrated its UOOlh anniversary in lhat city on the'21st of November inst., during 'lu* meeting of the Baptist State Convention. Thi* Church was an organized hotly a hundred years before the city ?' Charleston was incorporated, and during these many yesri has had hut thils-" teen pastors, . *