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V6l.. XVII.?New Series. UNION C. H., SOUTH CAROLINA, MARCH 12, 1880. NUMBER 10.
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^Hain't you put that rack ia (bo cellar yet,
to ktDg that at' drieil beef on ?' asked Mrs.
Stutsoo.
' N??Jttdy ; I thought mebbe 'twould rain in
* W iWo, and than Jabe could be spared to
njlf^a little about the house for I most get
mf work ketehed up while wo hare good
weather.'
'Tee. there's alius something ye can't do if
it don't rain, and ye can't do if it does ; I declare
for it, I'd like to know what on airth
. would beoome on us all if 'twan't for mo to
look after things!'
, 1 Come, come, mother, don't fret any more ;
. v* we don^ want a cloud in the kitohen when
there afwt none outside.'
< Wal, I re got something else to do besides
peekln' at the weather; and if yon ain't it's
time that you had !'
Giles Stutson wu a farmer?a man of good
habits, honest in his dealings with his fellowmen?who,
in his youth, had married Judith
hlelntoeh.
? A smarter girl never trod shoe leather.' 80
aid the elder Stutson on the morning of their
marriage.
They had, by the olosest eoouomy, acquired
a small fortune in the shape of a small farm,
logated about two mi'es from the village of
M
Only one child had been given to them to
brighteh their little country home, and this was
a daughter, who, at the timo of our story, had
just reached the age of twenty years.
Mm. Stutson, as you will observe by this I
conversation, was one of that peculiar type of
Smen whose very life seemed to depend upon
llding and working, all at the same instant,
and the more she fretted and scolded, the more
work she acoomplished.
The whole family had become so accustomed
te this that its only effect was, as Mr. Stutson
onee said, that,
' It weat in one ear and out tother.'
Wal, Giles,' there's just this muclAbout it:
if that 'ar rack ain't up by ten o'clock, I'll git
igom. nails and drive up to hang that beef on, |
mmyseir. I've got lo clean that cheese-room todlf.
and I want that pile of beef out of my way.'
80 saying. the went into the milk-room to
strain .Ike morning'e milk.
'It's no use arguing,' said Mr. 8tutson to
Jabe, the hired man; when Jndy gits eot on
aajthlng-sbe'll hare her way, and if she Bays
pha'll do a thing, she'll do it every time. Dot
1 guess that oheeae-room won't spile if 'taint
eleaaed txlaj, and the beef is well enough
" 0>n g|?ther wilh to dm7? unyn^npng^rnwirsi
clear away the break that.
Having cared for the milk, Mrs. Stutaon appeared,
and exclaimed, partly to hprself and
v partly to Marsha:
; Whocrer did see sieh men folks ? They
1 think a woman can get along aay way, no matter
f how! Here is biled dinner to get, them
tarobed clothes to iron, pies lo make, cheese,
room lo olean, and maesy knows what, I don't '.
Yes, and there's the donation party to tho parsonage,
to-night. Was ever a woman so put to
it to know what to do fust? I never was.
Wal, I shan't go to the party, that's one sure
thing !'
* Why, mother, of courae you'll go,' said
Mifiha.
' Of oourse I shan't go ! I've got something
else to ?lo, besides going skylarking round
nights. There will be enough of 'em without
me. L?t them go as hain't got so much to do
as I hnftfb Here, Marsha, you go into the shed,
and fteiTH^Kjbox behind the door git me some
nails, and gvie the wood-pile and fetch me the
hatchet, and I'll see what I can do.'
All things being now ready, Mrs. Stutson,
With hatchet, nails and beef in her hands,
started for the cellar, stopping on the top stair
to tell Marsha to
'Be sure and^wash them greens clean, and
not be a-gaping out the winder Co Tom llyder !'
Thomas ltyder was the son of a neighboring
farmer, who had at sundry times shown Marsha
Ann some attention at apple-bees, and candypulls,
these incideuts being sufficient to impress
the mother with the great responsibility which
devolved upon her to keep a watchful eye upon
Marsha, lest Tom, who she thought was ununworiby
of such a prize, should come and
rob them of their precious treasure.
un rescuing ine cenor, she lounU & suitable
place over the pork barrel, where, to her mind,
the beef would be 4
Out of the way of rate, and handy to get
at,' ae she afterward* told Mr. Htutson.
Having armed herielf with hatchet and nails,
he mounted the barrel, and prepared to drive
the first nad, when the barrel cover slipped,
and splash she went?into what?
It seems that Giles and Jabe had been there
before her, and in getting out eome oider barrels,
had changed things about in such a manner
that the barrel of soft soap stood wher* the
pork should stand ; and she, in her baste, not
noticed the change, had mounted the former.
< Lead o' massy ! What would that man do
next, I'd like to knew ?'
Making a plunge for the lop of the barrel,
she tried to extricate herself, but each succes-1
site attempt proved only a complete failure.
What on arth'a a body going to do in such
a ftx ? Marsha I Martha Ann I What can
thai gal be about ikat she don't come when I
call her? Hanging on the fence, I warrant, atalking
to that Tom Ryder ! I will Tom Ryder
the bull lot if I ever git out of here !'
Just at that mosdmI Marsha came through
the hatohway.
Where are you, mother?'
' Where be 1 ? I should think you'd ask!
Oo ask Tom Ryder I Mebbe h^II tell you?
that all you think on?and leave me to git
along alone.'
Where are you mother ? I didn't hear you
call. 1 was washing the greens.'
? ? ?. ?.t, i iv-n you, in ino sonp oarrei.
Where Jo you suppose ?'
' In the sonp barrel?' queried Marsha.
One glance was sufficient. Convulsed with
laughter, elio seated herself on a stone jar, to
recover sufficiently to render the needed assistance.
' Marsh* Ann Stutson ! What do you mean ?
Haven't I lcarn't yen never to laugh at other
folks'a calamities ? And here you be a laughing
right in your mother's face !'
' But, mother, I never saw you in a soap-barrel,
before.'
Tnin't noways likely you will ever again, if
I get out of this one. Go out into the lot, and
call your father and Jabe to como here as quick
as their legs'll fetch 'cm. But you needn't tell
them what's happened ; they'll find that out
quick enough when they get here.'
Marsha, once out of her mother's sigh', enjoyed
another hearty laugh, and ran to the
field for the men, who, dropping their rakes,
hastened toward the house.
Marsha waited at the top of the ptairs, trying
to compose her countenance before entering the
nmcnftf of h?P mnlk?r - >" ' ' 1? -1 -
r v. ?v?u?> , uuv ?% mow nuc
led the way for Jabe, saying :
4 Mother line met with an accident down
here. '
Peering through the darkness, honest Jabe
exclaimed, on beholding her mother's situation :
4 IIow did you get in there ? '
4 It's none of jour business how I came here.
I'm here, and have got to be got out, some waj
or other. Where's jour manners, Jabe Hosey,
that you stand there and laugh at me in this
perdickerment ? '
4 Perdickerment I I should say it was a soap
barrel, if I was any judge.'
4 What if 'lis? Do you tliiuk I'm so big a
fool that I don't know what I've got into?
Marsha, where'e your father? Why don't he
come along? '
4 He iscoming.'
4 Yes, so's Christmas ! And I s pose if the
house was on fire he wouldn't'hurry a mite
quioker! '
4 Why, Judy,' said Mr. Stats jn, on entering
tho collar. 'Where on atth be ye, anyway ? '
4 Where be I? Can't you see nothing?
Better pat on your spects and look in tho soap
barrel! Wal, I declare for it! Kf I hain't
got to stand here and wait for another one to
haw-haw and giggle 1 For my part, I don't
ee nothing to laugh at. What are you thinking
of, Giles Stutson, a standing there laughing
like that at me ? What kind of use is it for me
to learn Marsha Ann to be reepeotful, when you,
her father, don't show me no respect! '
4 Come, come, mother, don't scold. If you
could see yourself as we can, you'd laugh ; you
eonldn't help it. But how came you U> get in
'Giles, what do you mean a-talktng so, when I
you know I was one of the lsadiug wimmln in
the temperanoe^^se ; and the idee ! Accusing
me ngnt a-iorqjHown onua or uotng sucb a
thing ! '
< Wal, Mrs. Stutson, how be you going to get
out ? ' asked Jabe.
'That's what I'd like to know, Jabe ! You
get that wnsh-bench around here, so that I can
have it to step on to : and you take hold of this
side, nnd Giles, here, you take 'tothcr, and
when you two hist mo up, Marsha Ann can
scrape off the soap. Here, Giles, you ain't
good for nothing ! Ye never was knee high to
a toad ! If 1 ever git another man, I'll git one
that won't have to stand on a sheet of paper to
reach a eoap barrel !'
After numerous attempts, Mrs. Stutson was
part:ally outside the barrel, with one knee rest,
ing on the top, when splash ! she went back
again, spattering the soap in every direction, a
goodly portion lodging on Giles' shirt front,
while he, with the others, was enjoying another
hearty laugh.
Did I ever see sich a pack of fools !' she ex.
elamcd.
There's no use cryingover spilt milk, Judy.'
Spilt irilk, and a woman in asoap barrel, are
two different things, and you'll find it out so
afore you git through !'
I always told you, Judy, if you'd do a little
less scolding, and u*e a little more soft soap,
you d make a good many more friends than
you do now.'
Wal, I guess I've got enough out this time
to suit you, and don't you never dare to say
soft soap to me again, just as long as you live ! '
After spending a great deal of timo and
strengh, Mrs. Stulson was at last as far out of
her dilemma as the wash-bench and began commenting
upon her own personal appearance.
' Who ever sec sich a looking critter? Caliker
dress all spiled, shoes, stockings, and the Jiull
She then ordered Jabe to get a tub of water,
and Masha to bring clean clothes. Mr. Slutson
had already gone for the meat rack, thinking it
would havf been cheaper to put it up in the
first place than to have been hindered in this
way, and wiahlDg women folks would mind
their own business and let the men folks alone
'Just look at this cellar bottom!' Mrs.
Station exclaimed ; ' and this bench, and things 1
It'll take a hull day to clean it up as it
ought ter be, and all this because the men folks
didn't lend to things as they orter. '
lln1 frnm (hsf tUv 1a lKl? mKanavas Taa.lw
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begins lo scold, Mr. Stutson says : 'A leetle
j soft soap, Judy,' and Judy is silent.
Motiieu'h'Hbmrdy.?I would suggest
in addition to Mary's recipe for caked
breasts to add to tho beeswax and mutton
tallow, honey and fresh butter. Mother's
role was a spoonful of each melted together,
spread on a cloth as largo as the breast with a
bole in the middle, and worn day and night.
Never knew it to fail if properly used, and
it saves untold suffering.?S- F. .V, III.
Always brings down tho bouse?A cyclone.
IKtMUE AGAINST LAWYERS.
Where is the senso in abusing tho lawyers
? They do not elect themselves to
office, for there nre only about 1,000 in
the State, and thero about 200,000 voters.
And when they go to tho Legislature they
should not be blamed for all tho bnd legislation
; for they aro in a minority thorc.
Will anybody undertake to provo that
lawyers arc less patriotic than other people ?
They have served tho Stato a9 faithfully in
peace and in war as nny other class of citizens.
Let any old soldier say if this is
not true. And everybody remembers with
what unselfishness and fidelity they worked
in 1S7G, on tho stump and everywhere
el-o they were uocded, for tho success of
the democracy.
It is trettini* to ho nnilo tlin atvla ninonr.
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a low order of political reformer* to abuse (
and vilify lawyers in tho abstract. But ,
lawyers do not exist iu the abstract;
they arc re real, living, acting personalities,
I known and observed of tho communities
in which they livo. They are the kinsmen
and friends and companions of other people
of all other callings in the oommunity ;
they arc officers in tho churches, trustees
iu the schools and colleges; and in eery
other way, in their individual relationship,
stand on their merits ns other men in other
professions and callings do. Let anyone '
take the troublo to call over tho list of lawyers
he is acquainted with?the individual
members of tho profession?and see if they
do not compare favorably, in point of character
and personal worth?esccntials of
true manhood?with tho average man in 1
Other walks of life. There are 'black
sheep' among the lawyers only as there aro
'black sheep' among farmers, merchants
sod mechanics.
If one has a valid objection to a lawyer,
let him make it nn individual objoctioo, aa
be does in the ease of a merchant or farm*
er, and not abuse the whole profession for
the faults of one.
It may be set, down as a pretty safe rule
that the mau who is eternally abusing tho
lawyers is a demagogue and is trying to
advance his own aspirations by appealing
IA nratn/lioA nnouiAn
Tbij u not written in defonso of lawyers I
1?for flojdefena# j hot as n pwtest
against a mean speotcs of domagogistn
that wou^t prejudice one class of citizens <
against another, tyr politiosi purposes -^-for '
it is a significant fact that all the abuse of
lawyers centers in politics.
But how do tho lawyers regard this
abuse of themselves ? We do not know,
but thick it very likely tbcv regard it with
contempt, as all other sensible pooplo do.
They know tho purpose aad they know
that everybody else whoso opinion is worth
anything knows it also ; and so they move
on serenely and unconcerned. They know,
and t^iey feel that every other sensible man
knows, that they aro measured by their
character and not by their calling?as
other men arc. And they know more than
that?and Wght here we would put a 'flea
in the ear of the anti-lawyer' howler?
thev know that tho more lawyers are
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abused, th) more will a discriminating and
justice*loving public come to thoir vindication
whcucver they aro candidates for office.
And this is no doubt the reason that
of all men who run for office, the greater
proportion of those elected are lawyers.
If two men of equal merit and ability
are running against each other, one of them
being a lawyer ; and the other candidate
or his friends baso his claims to support on
the ground that ho is not a lawyer while
his opponent is, the lawyer will be elected;
for ho will bavo not only the votes of those
who voto for him on his morits, but will
get the votes of many who, otherwise neutral,
will take the part of the candidate
who is unjustly abused.
The best way to elect a lawyrr is to
abuse the lawyer.
While on this subject, it occurs to us
that there was a time when it was not objected
but lawyers held prominent positions
in the country, and at a time, too,
Kon tliAi/ tnri'n.) not f/\? -*!.?-- ?*?
TTWVM t.lVJ ?V? f WV> UVW IVI OUIC11J UUl IUI
patriotism. Let us run over the list of
tho Generals that were in the Confederate
army from South Carolina, and see what
their occupations wero before they went
into the war. It may giro some now ideas
to politicians whose stock in trade is abnto
of the lawyers. The list of Generals may
not be complete, but embraoes nil that we
can now call to mind :
Lawyers: Msxcey Gregg, J. B. Kershaw,
Jno. D. Kennedy, Samuol McGowan,
W. U. Wallace, M. W. Gary, M. L. Bon
htm, M. C. Butler, States Rights (list,
James. Cornier, James Cbestnnt, Abner
Perrin.
Planters : Wads Hampton, John} Bratton,
Jobn Drayton, Trapier, Johnson
Hagood, A. N. Manigault, Stephen D.
Elliott.
Regular Army: It. II. Andersou, Stc- ]
phen D. Lee. -John Dunnovant, It. S. Ripley,
N. G. Evan?, Harnard llee. ,
Teacher: jiicah .Tcukius.
Tho above i?iay prove interesting reading
to thoso who thiok that lawyers are too
promincut in these pipinir times of peace ;
who think that lawyers are public enemies j
that lawyers have no patriotism, but only
want the offices for private trreo 1 aud pergonal
and professional aggrandizement.
Can anybody point out any bad legislation
or maladministration that lawyers are
responsible fo^? How could such a thing
bo when they have always been in a minority
in tho legislature? And in looking
over the list ft State officers, the ouly lawyers
we fiod there are Lieutenant-Governor
Sheppard, who is siuiply President of the
Senate, and Attorney-General Miles?this
officer must of ueccssity be a lawyer. So
that if there is any maladministration the
lawyers are OTt responsible for it. Then
why this wholesale denunciation of lawyers ?
Lot every mac stand on his own individual
merits. Thesis no sense in trying to
ray ono class of citizens against another.
And it is wrong.?Xeirberry Observer.
A Hloodv TiiAtiKDY. ? Grccuville,
OTrrch 2.?A_horrible tragedy occurred at
Piodinont this morning. J itncs \V. King,
a resident of Picduiout, after accompanying
to the depot'his bruhor-iu-law Phillips,
who took the up-freight train, returned to
his dwelling iu the village, murdered his
wife by stabbing her in the breast and
throat with a knife, and after this bloody
deed cut his own throat.
Parties who suspected something wrong
broke open ^hc door of their room and
found Mrs. King lying on tho floor in a
pool of blood and her husband lying across
her, both dead, and the knife lying in
King's breast. What led to this dreadful
ovent seems to be wrapt in mvstcrv. Evi- I
dcntly King aod his wife did not live amicably
togethdt. A circumstance creating
this belief it that King had recently notified
merchants of Piedmont not to let his
wife have g'sods on his account. King j
earned his living by ditching and fo:no of
his children worked as operatives in the 1
Piedmont Jaet^ry. Put little can bo
Itiftrtiad ; They ca.ne to
Piedmontwis strangers from riorth Caroling.
It is ^jjvmscd that King had some
fai?Vy troutpk ..oil haU bccom- ins ino vrht-n
ho committefl the awful tragedy. King
was about ferity-five or fifty years of ago.
They louve, is said, nino children, soveral
of them very young.
Ruin-Yard Manure.?Tlio chief valuo
of barn-yard manure, an exchungc says
very truly, lies in the manner iu which it is
saved. If allowed to be drenched and
washed by rain, us soluble portions are
washed away, and thc9o contain about all
there is of value in auy fertilizer. If, on
the other hand, inoist manure is thrown
into a pile, aud allowed to heat, its valuable
constituents arc volatilized, and pass immediately
into that vast storehouse of fertility,
the air. Ilence, under tho action of water
and stroug fcrmuntation the valuablo con*
stiluents of manure may bo dissipated until
so little remains as to be practically worthless.
In tho feeding of animals in the
fieids or in pasturago this fertility is not
lost. The soluble portions are washed out,
and descend into the soil, and arc held for
future U9e. The practical saving of manure
of yards and stables therefore becomes a
matter of iuiportauce. Two means are constant
and simple ; tho prevention of fermentation
in heaps, and tho washing of the
solublo portions out of the yards. The
first may bo prevouted by spreading where
it may bo tramped under the feet of animals
and the second by forming the yard
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UISM!U? auu null a vi*y UUIVUUI lllcll Will
hold tho liquid.
A Sad Rbvkksk of Fortune.?The
other day I met on tho streot a man, now
old, gray and rather seedy, who has had
some curious variations of Fortune. lie is
desccuded from one of tho oldest and
proudest families in the South. In early
manhood ho was Professor in a University
along with a friend who now holds a distinguished
political position. Then he became
a popular and learned minister of tho
Gospel. When the war broko out he joined
the Confederate army and attained high
command. After the conflict ho ^affiliated
with the Republicans and, for a year or
two, lod a faotional fight, in a reconstructed
State. Ilia .aide lost tho game, and,
from that tiino, he has apparently gone
down, down, until the wreok of so much
talent and courage is fearful to oontemplate.
Out of hit woro vest pocket he takea a barmonicon
lb blow the old war tunos of the
South; add when he cao get boon companions,
tells scrofulous anecdotes and sings in
a quavering voice, salacious songs. Can
tSfro be soy thing more dreadful than noble
| gifts perfected to suoh usee!
Tub J-kvkf.-IIr.aded Farmer?The
level-headed i'.inucrs?and farmers who
succeed arc level-headed?arc the ones
who do not have their smoke houses, corn
cribs and hay and fodder stacks iu the
West, uor their lertilizcr piles in the warehouse
of some distant city, but are farmers
who realized the vast aud varied resources
that arc placed so near theui, and who use
nature's abundaut resources to uiake their
crops ?we say crops, because they make
their own provisions regardless of the ox??
tra labor that may be entailed upon them
?but are ever mindful of the terriblo bugbear
and iuczorablo master?debt. It is
useless to say wo have entirely a cotton
producing country. It is proved every
day that there is mosey in farming, but
not in the all cotton farm, liaise all you
uccd ou the farui, and theu plant several
acres of cotton for surplus money. Cotton
must be the surplus crop, lleducc the
acreage of cotto i one-half aud manure and
care for your land, and in three years you
will raise equally as much as before the reduction,
and not work as hard. It requires
more labor, care and attention to make
a poor crop than a good one.
Make your manures at home. The vile
and fraudulent compound sold to you as
guano is not worth hardly the labor it takes
to haul it to your farms. Replenish your
lauds with grasses, pea-vines and other
manures tb.it contains living substantial |
food?something that will give bone and
sinew, so to speak, to tho land. Do not
milk your land without feeding it.
It is nbtglutcly certain that the all cotton
! plan is a humbug vud we uiu^^ijerge from
is. j. lie icvci-noaaea J^uior has seen it,
nnd is to>day in fair and easy circumstances.
Do not plaut more than yon can command
the labor to cultivate thoroughly aud rotate
and diversify, prosperity will begin to draw
upon you.? Cotton Plant.
Terracing Land.--We are glad to see
that the farmers nil over the country are
beginniug to see the benefit of terracing
their land instead of using the old hillside
ditches. A careiui study of the matter
will couviuce any practical farmer that terracing
is the only way to Bavc the land and
make n gradual improvement possible. By
this means the land is made .to absorb
mfltstnro whifeh would othofwiso1 ran off, it
stops washes, and the fertilizers that are
.ugcd froyi year to year, instead of being
washed away by the rains, are caught "by
the terraces, and thus all that the plant
docs not tako up is left in tbo soil. Those
farmers who hive ezperictice with thia
matter arc enthusiastic in its praise, and
common sense teaches that it is a good thing.
Whenever litis country is once terraced
and the barren hillsides of this Piedmont
section is reclaimed, wo may expect to see
a wonderful chaugc in tho condition of tho
country.?Laurens Advertiser.
A IIard Working man.--Kvery year
every local pfforgive from ?100 to 34,000
iu free lined f^r the benefit oV the vicinity
in which it is located. No other agency
can or will do this. The local editor in
proportion to his means, docs more Tor his
town than any ten men and, in all fairness,
he ought to be supported, not because you
happen to like hiui or admire hid writing,
but because a local paper is the best investmont
a community can make. It may not
be brilliaut or crowded with great thoughts
but financially it is more of a benefit to a
community than the preacher or teacher
Understand us now, wo do not mean morally
or intellectually, hut Gnancially, and
yet on the moral question you will fiud the
majority of the local papers arc on the
right side of the question. To-day the
editors of local papers do the most work for
the least money of any meu on earth'
Exchange.
Born A ft br IIis Mother's Burial.
?ltev. John Lindscy, now preaching in
Richmond county, N. 0 , was born four
mouths after his mothor had beeu dead and
buried. His mother to all appearances,
died and was buried iu Stcwartsviilo cemetery.
Tho night following her interment
persons for securing the jewelry buried
with the body unearthed tho romaios, when
consciousness returned and she was enabled
to return to her home. Arriving at her
lato residence she rapped at tho door, and
wan nnawflrnd nn hnr lmak<nil ?1>a
overjoyed to meet agaio in life his beloved
wife whom ho had mourned as dead. Tour
months afterwards lie v. Mr. Lindsey, was
born. The mother survived scvoral years.
This statement is mado by llov. Mr. Lindsey,
and is literally true.
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With money, come poor relations ; with
property taxes ; with the winter, pneumonia,
and with the summer, cholera and bate
ball.?leoria Journal.
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i Lomocsde may help a man along fairly
i well, but it is the 1 stick ' in it that oautei
him to stumble.
A Hint to tiie Boys.?I stood in the
store the other day when a boy oaaio in
and applied for a'situation.
Cau you write a good hand ?' was asked.
'Yaas.'
'That will do?T don't want you,' Raid
the merchant. < .
But,' I said, when the boy had gono, .
'I know that lad to bean honest, iinlustyou*
boy. Why don't jou give him a chance ?'
'Because he hasn't learned to any 'Yes,
?ir,' and 'No, sir.' If he answers nie as ho
did when applying for a situation, bow
will he answer customers after beiog hero '
a month ?'
What could I say to that '( He had
falleu into a habit, young as he was, which
turned him away from the first situation
ho had ever applied for. < *
Obstruction to Streams in Upper
South Carolina.?A writer with iho
signature of 'Tlio voice of the people,' ??
lodges a just complaint with the commissioner
of agriculture that while some owners
of dams on tho Pacolct river, in Spartanburg,
have constructed tho fish'ways required
by law, there arc others i*i the .same
stream below who pay no attention to the
law, ond calls on the commissioner to see
that they comply with the law.
The statu* of tho matter is this; The
commissioner has reported all parties who
ate obstructing ftreauis to the respective
%)unly commissioners where tho obsiuction
exist, and they having declined to take actiou
in th? matter, the cases have been referred
by the department to the attorney
general, in whose haads the matter if no$.
? Columbia Rejittrr.
No, Never.?Last strapping negro
woman was up before an AuMitt Jgttr
tice, charged with unmercifully -J?
boy, a paddle-colored imp.
I don't understand how you can bawC'vV." ^
the heart to treat your own child so
elly.'
'Jedgo, has you evcrTjecn a parent, of aj
wufless yaller boy like dat ar cub of mine ?' '? *.
'Never, no, never!' ejaculated the Judge, j .
with great vehemence, and getting red iu "
the face.
'Den don't talk.'
Thcro was suoh a sensation in Court, that
the Judge had to caH*^'Ntxt,' four or five
times ond to fine a man who said 'hardly
ever,' fifty dollars, before order could be restored.
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. Heard From.?An exchange says : 'The
nogfo'cmigrauts from Carolina are being
beard from. Several families, numbering
150 persons, arrived in Jackson, Miss., u
few days ago, from Orangeburg, S. C .
Uhurlcs it. Walker, a labor agent, contracted
with thcui to work ncir Little ll-iek;
They wero at Jackson turned over to some
Yazoo county planters, but refused to go to
work. Their baggage is held by the railroad
company for fare, which was not paid
by Walker.' The frieuds ol these misguided
people tuny look for appeals from them
for money to briDg them back to S ju'.h
Carolina. Experience is a dear school,
but a certain class of people will learn in no
other.? Orangeburg Democrat.
Gkn. Hancock's Humor.?Tho late
Gen. Hancock wa9 not much given to humorous
declarations, but he said oueexcecd.,
ingly good thing iu that line at Gettysburg.
At a certain stage of that great battle it
happened that some subordinate officer, noting
upon bis own responsibility, disregarded
ordinary military rules and caused a
decided advantage to be gained whore, ac- ?
cording to West Point philosophy, a disaster
should have ensued. Hancock was both
provoked and delighted. 'If I knew tho
fool who ordered that movement,' he exclaimed
'I would have him breveted.'
Ki.df.r Salve.?To about half a pound
of the inner bauk of sweet cldor, add a few
balm of gilcad buds ; cover with watcr^boil
twenty or thirty minutes, then strain ; to
the water add one cup of lard or firesh
butter ; and if the balm buds caunot bo had,
add a piece ot hard sweet gum tho sizo of a
hickory nut (both cau bo used) ; boil gently
till the water is all cooked out. When cold
it is fit for use. This is a valuable ointment
for cuts, burns, scalds, frosted limbs, ulcers
etc. It may bo used on any eruption where
the skin is broken.
Why is a newspaper like a pretty woman
? To be perfect it must bo the om~
bodiincnt of many types. Its form is mad* .
I up. It is always chased though inclined to
bo giddy. It enjoys a good press ; the
more rapid the better. It has a weakness
for gossip. Talks a good deal. Can stand
some praise, and it's awful proud of a new ^
| dress.
What is the differor ee between a Jew
and a lawyer/ The one gets his law from
i the prophets, and the other geU hit pfoAte
from the law.
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