Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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gijrottd to ^griruKurc, UortituKurt, gomijslic tfconomg, polite JTileraturc, politics, and the (Gurrnit $cics of the gag. VOI,. XVII.?NEW Series. UNION C. II., SOUTH CAROLINA, JULY 10, 1S8C. NUMBER 28. UNCLE SAM 3 NIECES. W \siiin?,r>>s, June 1.?The govcrnmeut clerks employed in the departments at Washington number l*>,t)iM?, marking an army half again as large as that of Xonopltou in tlie retreat which he writes of in his ? Anabasis." \ curious army it is?old and young men and women, of all types, strong and weak, crippled, and active?its variety is as broad as that of human life ! Fifty-eight hundred ofit> number receive salaries which range from jJUlH) to a year, and all, from chief to privates, are allotted a vacation of one whole month at almost any time of the year they chooso to take it. This army of clerks never strikes. It is content with its wages, and it has no reason to complain of its hours of work. Those hours ate practically only six daily. Tho departments oj?en ut 'J o clock, and the clerks nrc expected to be at their dc?ks at that hour. They work steadily until noon, and then take usually an hour lor luncheon. At 1 o'clock they are back at their desks, and at I their day s work is douc. The treasury contains between U.oOO and 1,000 clerks. It Is the largest department of the Government. At I p. in. four human streams pour forth from its various exits, nud the streets are crowded in a moment. Here goes a dashing young lady with a lunch basket in her hand, dressed in the latest fashion, and witii a new spring bonnet resting jauntily above her banged curls. Deside her is a gay young man in a Derby, who chats with her almost lovingly as they pass out togctucr. In front is a plainly dressed old womau, who probably keeps a family out of the JT Jo a year which she makes by copying papers all day long, and back of her is a long, thin dude, with a collar as big as a shirt cull* and enormous cars. Further back there is a widow in mourning, and as you look at her you wonder whether her husband was a soldier. There are 1,000 women in the Government departments at Washington, and among the bestlooking and most intelligent ladies of the capital arc so employe 1. They come, as a rule, from good families. Many of them arc tlie widows of noted Generals, the daughters of ex-Governors and ex-Congressmen, and now dim men you win null tlie relative or d I'reai* dent or a Cabinet minister. Many of tlietn have traveled widely, and the great majority are educated and refined ladies. They do all kinds of work, and receive salaries ranging from $720 to $1 .>00 a year. As money counters they are much more expert tliau the men, aud the rapidity with which they count thousands upon thousands of dollars without tnakiug a mistake makes your lu-aiu wh* * as you watch them. Thcso money couaters g .bout ?7o a mouth, and they count millions of dollars every month. At one sido of each one on the tablo lie great piles of greenbacks, done into packages as they come from the press. 1 am speaking now of the iv lemption bureau of the treasury. These bills are old and dirty. The strip of paper around each package of 100 bills states where they came from, and who counted them in the country. The young lady lakes this oil", and moistening her lingers with the wet sponge in front, of her, she counts the bills liko lightning, and, if the package is not light, she reports so to the chief, and the hanks from which the hills come must stand the loss. The girls seldom make a mistake, and if they do so or pass a counterfeit without noting it they must make the mist ike good, an 1 the amount is taken out of their Hilary. I'hoy can toll, however, a bad hill simply by feeling it, aa I a biuk cashier will make a hundred mistakes where they make one. Not long ago one of the young la ly counters was engaged upon a lot of .Slot notes. She had Itoeu dropping the scrap- on the tloor heside her in a pile, after verifying the count. While she was counting a pmkigo she would lay thi.- scrap, marked with the name of the hank which sent s?, on the table besido her. At last she came to a package that contained only ninety-nine u ties, an I on looking for the s-rap was terrified to had that it laid fallen among the others. She was sure site knew iho name of the bank, but could not provo it. Tho bank was nolihed end refused to ncknowlcdgo the mistake, and the poor girl was forced to pay the ? lot'. ISoth sexes of elerks at Washington work in me sit mo uepariiucnt, imm i' n often I lie ca>c that young men ami young women have desks Hide h,V aide. There is no testrielion n< to their social intercourse, ami it is a matter of surprise to outsiders that so few marriages occur among the cleiks. It is not that the girls are not good looking, nor that (hey arc not good, neat and intelligent. And it is not that the men are not .imlde and attractive. Washington living, however, is expensive, and it is contrary to the rules of the department that two member- of the same family should ludd positions under the tiivcrnment. The ladies in the department earn enough to keep them respectably, and lltey do not care to tnarry a man who lias no larger income than themselves, and have in the end not as much pocket money as before. Many of the marriages which do lake pi le- are with men outside of tho departments, and it is not an uncommon thing here for a goo I looking clerk to marry a t'oiigrcssmsn, a Senator, or a newspaper correspondent. Mrs. Titeakcr, who is to he Stanley Matthews s wife, \\ a (lovcrninetil clerk when she met tin I marrie I Judge Thcnkcr. a former eoiiiiiiis-ionoi of patents. Stephen A. I>?>tigin< 111 irrii-1 a lepttriiiK'iil clork. ami Attorney tieaeril llrcw^iiT s wife, n'thongh she w f lloLert J. Walker * <lan;rhtcr, waa wurkiiifi in tlie <le|>.nii.ieiii> when he fell in lo\e w ith her. I ilon t think women are ju-ilv treated in 11e ilep irlinents. Men who <1 > the same cla?s of work often rei-i-ive hi jlier i ilaries th in the women, an I a * 1.10O rlerk ant u -I,mm ( ' rk nre en jihiye-l on liie ?amu work at times, mi I tho bl.mrt woman pcrhapa does t he most. It was in i&CJ that women cntcrcl t!to service as copyists nn<l counters nt n sularv of ?7'20 per year. They were not eligible to clerkships. At this same time the men appointed to clerkships received Sl/JnO a year, and Inter, when the salary of such women was raised to ?t.K)0, men doing the same work were paid as high as $1,200 aud $1,000 per annum. In 1X70 women wero made eligible to clerkships, and since then they have been promoted until now two receive !? 1,800 a year, liut the high-priced women clerks aro very few, and men who do as good work receive as a rule better pay, and more certain of holding their positions. The young men in the departments, as a rule, have no one but themselves to care for, and i> j mi !?3iv i miy mvjr ,-ire ma man ioa they will tell you that their salary is not large enough for them to support wives. Nearly all of the singlo women in the ilepartmcnts have others depending upon them. Many of them sond their sisters or brothers to school, and many of them nrc widows, who in this way support aud cducato their families. Some of tho old lady clerks are very lino looking, nud gome of thern had noted careers in society before going into the departments. One I know who had Jefferson for an ancestor, and another, perhaps the most beautiful of the white-haired ladies of the treasury, was the wife of an Ohio Governor has a daughter in the departments, and one of tlie fine old ladies of the pension olliec, now a great grandmother, is a Kansas woman who was the first woman clerk ever elected by a legislative body in this country. These old lady clerks dre?s well, and among them arc some of the most agreeable talkers in Washington. Their hearts nro young, though their hair is white, and they are almost as fascinating now as when the bloom was on their cheeks and they were tho belles of their native ?tnte. The women do the bulk of tho dead letter office business. In lt<S4 there were twentyseven male clerks in the dead letter office nud sevcntv-cight female clerks. Tho annual pay roll of the male clerks was *37,100, an average of $1 dI per day. The annual pay-roll of tho seventy-eight female clerks was ?70,120, or an average of $3 01 per day. The men did practically the game work as tho women, but they rocci* ml &1 nuiro n. iln.v for it nnil Im.l <1%a men a work been done by women tho Government would have saved S'.i.dll. Had the men done nil the work at the above rate the payroll would liavo had to be increased ?24,155. It would seem that an equalization board ought to be appointed, and that Uncle Sam, at least, should give his nieces the same pay as his nephews when they do the same work. Is the civil service of the Government a good place for women ? It seem:- to mo that it is. Tlio hours of labor arc short, the work is not such that it overtaxes the system, and the labor is honorable. The snlarics are better than women can make in almost any other occupation, an I the associations arc what the women choose to make them. There used to be an idea that women in the departments were as a rule questionable characters : that they were indebted to politicians for their appointment, and that the appointments were often given in the way of a bargain for questionable relations with such Congressmen. There may have been instances of this character, hut they arc by no means common, and ninety-nine hundredths of the women in the department today uro as pure as any in tlio country. No woman who wishes to be honest need fear that she will be insulted while working for the Government. The tlovemment elorks stand well in Washington City. They are fir above the average of the intelligence of men doing tlie same clniraetcr of work which they do throughout iho country. Washington is a pleasant place in which to live. It is expensive or cheap, as one wishes to make it. and it is to he in the future the great educational, social and literary centre of the country.? Ex. How Ggnkual Lkb Couutku Dkatii.? Mr. Ileagan gives me a new fact in General bee s history which is not generally known in the North, lie said that towards the close of the downfall of the Confederate Government there was a very general impression among the high ollicials of the Confederacy that General Leo intended to lose his life on the field of battle. This impression was -hayed by otlieers of Leo's army. General I.ee never lost an opportunity of placing himself in a position of danger. Mr. Ileagan says that he drove out from llichntond to sec I.ee upon the day the principal battle of CoM llarb r was fought. .V- he < runup near where lie could see I.ee - hetd'piartcr-, he saw the shells bursting continually around bis tent and ploughing up the ground in front of him. Some of the otlieers asked Mr. Itengan to try and persuade General Lee to move his headquarters behind a piece of limber near by. All felt that he was exposing his life too much. Mr. Ileagan sai l to General I.ee: I do not presume to advise any general in the midst of a battle, but arc you not exposing yourself too - 11....i.i . -. i-i . .....v..- j un iiui I" i?m-K ii" i rer your reserve V (ieneral bee said lit- lia<l no reserve, lie had only one.line of men. lie Ii>I nol time to shorten his lino for fear 11 wonM he turned, ami did not dare to thin it for fear it would be broken. (Jrtiernl l,ee evidently sought death many times during the closing lay- of the war. That was the view of the Southern leaders then and i* still believed by many.? Waefiiii'/toii I.flier. Wntuti III Wori.ii Hi:.?Teacher?".Johnnie, do y<>u know the nature of an oath V ' .Johnnie?"Yes m. It is something that a man gives when he wants to be believed. Teacher 'lliat's right. Now let lis have it illustrated. Johnnie, suppose your lather should swear to y.oir mother that lie would be at home at It' o'eloek in the evening. Where wo iid Ik. I that hour Johnnie "In 'Inn |b,>?pni's barroom Ace Oi lniin Slau.*. Mance Jolly.?Many of our readers remember "Maocc" Jolly, who operated in Fouth Carolina and Georgia soon after the war, and was a terror to those that wore the blue. Jolly had a terrible aecouut to settle with the Yankees, and ho paid the debt with interest. Five of his brothers had been killed during the \v:.r, and he swore that lie would kill five Yankees for caeh one ol his brothers that were slain. Alter a truce was declared between .lolly and the Yankees, he went to Texas aud married. His ialhcr-iu-law gave him a plantation on the opposite side of the river, and Jolly commenced building a j hou-e, and would swim his horse that he rode while on hi.} many raids in Georgia over to where he was building. lie was roturniug to his father-in-law's for dinner, and while about midway the stream, "Dixie," the name of Jolly's horse, gave out and they went down together, to rise no more. Jolly has a relation now living in Athens, who has given us some interesting accouuts of his hair breadth es capes. Mance Jolly was a very restless fellow, and could see a Yankee a mile off. His relative says ho was in church with him once injlart county, and all at ouce Jolly became very nervous and walked out of the church, closely followed by his relation, who saw from Jolly's aetion that something was wrong. Glancing through the woods lie saw a regiment of negro soldiers coming through the woods. Jolly saw that it was too late lor him to get his horse, as the black troops were nearly to where the animal was hitched, and they had begun firing at Jolly. Ho ran through the woods, the soldiers shoot.ng at him all the time, llis mother was it. the church and fainted when she heaid the report of the guus. The soldiers, af* r capturing Jolly s horse, left and had not been gone many minutes before Jolly had called together a few of his followers, who were desperate men, and followed after the soldiers. Jolly's mother and the preacher all tried to stop him, but it was uo use. llis blood was up and he inteudod to pay them back fur shootiug at him ami steal- | ing his liurac. They hau a skirmish with the negro soldiers and several of thcui bit the dust. Next inoripng Jully rude into Anderson. S. C , and informed the commanding ollieer that unless his horse was sent to his house the next day that he would kill him and five of his men.' The ollieer knew the man he had to deal with and sent the horse to his house. Five thousand dollars was ollered for .Jolly, and sijuads of cavalry were continually scouring the couutry, but they always oxtne back minus one or two of their men, who ......I-...i 4.I.;II ..I .1 _ o IIKII MU 1\ IIIUU Ull IIIU lliu.li ur Hill. The horse, UJ >ixie.' that ho rode on all of his raids, was a thoroughbred racer, and it was foolishness lor any common steed to try and catch him. The horse was well trained, and dolly coul 1 make him come by a shrill whistle. Tile horse would not allow, any one to approach him after dark except dolly. If a stranger came near, he would get perfectly frantic and kick and bite as long as they were in reach. Maucc Jolly has several relatives still living in Franklin aud Klbert counties, i I is history was written and published in Iltrjnr',s Mnjiiand it is said to he very thrilling and interesting.?Athens, (in., thinner. - liow Mum. Pim.mw Ti:\vu>.? Pittsburg, l'.i.. .Inly ? Mr-'. tivo. M. Pullman. wife of (lie palace or inventor, her four cliil Ircu, servants, five horses, family carriage and dog ear!, took up the room ia loo large I'liUnian cam <?? the Tort Wayne roi l yesterday evening. The l'ullman family i- ell route to Ling Po-anch for the summer. The car for (he horses an 1 carriage lias six stalls and rooms for three carriages, besides the berths, lookers an 1 sit'ing rooms of the grooms an 1 hostlers. The stalls arc models of convenience and eijuinc .jinfort. Separate compart men* are aN > arrange 1 for the feed, hay, lamp* an I other article* required I for the horses and cirri.iges. The private car in which Mrs. Pullman travels i< in i-aita'ion of a modern dwelling. l>iviusof nine liian Turkish luxurioasne<s occupy the c >rnors an 1 sides of the main room in the centre of the car, while reclining chairs, ott unans an 1 easy chairs are scattered around. \ magnificent cabinet organ is cue of the hinlsiniosi ;n < ments of the drawing room. Too dinin. room and sleeping an I kitchen apartment-* are iist< 1 up on the same magnificent scale. A <iooi> Shot With a Kih.k.?Joe 15rowi), one of the (Jeorgia Senators, u?ed to lie the host shot with a squirrel rill-- in the South. Ili-t father would give hint twelve bullets and tell him to bring in twelve squirrels. 'And mind ye, the old man would add, del the holes he through ' their uirnal dluriti/o Trihunr. .\ S?'il III) I IJ'M III it . . I I * 111!' >11 II 11 > 11 | 1 j??^ iVoiil :i v i; 1 I ti !i lln .i i, ( s:rui liko a liitll? t I irit m rloi ii v. * h i i:i?v?r go to the uiooii lo gal her nut.-. 11 unninil a Xkwspai'kk.?Of course anybody can run a newspaper, as no particular amount of brain is required. All you have to do is to sit around on a drygoods bo.* when the weather is fine, and talk politics with any other inuttonhe.vl who is foolish enough to spend his time iu the same w ?y, and when the weather is too reoliercb, as it wore, for that sort of work you can OvOupy :iti upholstered chair on the tropical fide of a coal fire and 6wap lies with the comity judge and rake in the collateral on advertising and subscriptions. The newspaper man's life is a Dutch pic- * tiie, a thrcc-ringcd-circus with four clowns and a trick tnulo all for one price of admission, all the year round and no postponement on account of had weather. Oh, the editor's life is a rosy one ; he rides freo on the railroads and t ikes cabbage subscrip. tions ; ho gets complimentary pisses to all the theatres, and gives five dollars worth of advertising for a lilty cent ticket to a tcncont show ; lie tries to get up a nine-column paper iu a three-column town, and sometimes he tries to pay his bills, but this latter lie dosen t always succoo 1 in doing. Newspaper meu have been known to pay their bills but the cases are as seldom as the 30th day of February. The only instance of the kind which [ can now call to mind is a fellow who uscu to ru:i a p iper in Wisconsin, but lie don't do it any more? he's in the penitentiary. Speaking of penitentiaries reminds uio that this same fellows afterwards started a paper in the prison honored by bis presence?conclusive evidence that the only way to reform a printer is to kill him. One of the most pleasing experiences of an editor's life is the fact that .everybody else huows so much better how to run the paper than he docs himself. True, no two people havo the same idea, but if he wishes to succeed he must adopt them all. Wore I Jo lay down a course of training for the young man who designs goiug down to his doom by the dark and gruesome path of journalism I should suggest that at least twenty or twenty-five years hj spent in some lirst-class circus acquiring the art of riding not less thau six separate unbridled, bareback. >!mrsea at one and the Mine time. Then I would recommend thirty or forty years in a roller rink to get a good, healthy callous upon the vulnerable puts of his anatomy, and to cultivate the necessary stock of agility which he will need in jumping from one side of the political fence to the other, and which is also useful in dodging creditors. It has been asserted that printing is not e liiaoltlur ktteinA^ ??- ? 1- * ~ i* < uv/uibiijr tiii't uitib uih; ti itrs uilK.'l ailments is lead n\\ soiling. I c m testify to this from personal knowledge. A friend of mine once started a paper out in Arizona some years ago and he had not been running six months before lie died from lead poisoning. It was a 11 caliber .Smith & Wesson in the hands of a miner which caused the attack. It was fatal and he has been dead ever since. ? 1':< //s Sun. * * 11 f.ai'ino.?(io.nl reading seems to be one of (he lost arts. l?ut few of the pupil-. in our public schools can read intelligently. Of all the teachers, but lew can entertain an audience by reading. As by reading we obtain an idea of all other subjects, it should receive special attention in tlio school room and at the iirosi le. Nothing is uioro disagreeable than to hear a chilil try to read in an unnatural tone of Voice. It destroys all the beauty of the Sfleeli >n. We like the old fashioned cii^ torn of having some one read al md to the family. It has many advantages over the present custom Many persons can trace their i'>v ; for literature to the stories read to them when they were unable to read themselves. i he human voiee is one of the tr.o^t perfect of musical instruments. It can give forth tones of the sweetest or the most discordant strains. All that it needs is cultivation. The unnatural tone used by many children in reading does them a great injury. Habits are being formed that only years of patient study can oiMilic at e Tlioro i j > i. I. . I i ... - ^ ^ j'wnti ill till' human voice. 'J'ho fiercest animals have o It on boon cow 1 by the s >l*t est tone. The voice of ihc mother has much to do in de tormiiiin^ the character of the children. If her V 'ice is harsh. the children will bo j rude. W hile on tlie other hand a ploasant Voice will 111i the house with sunshine, and it seems easy fur the children to he <jood. liven the dumb animals can he in Huenccd by untitle words. A kind w ?rd spoken in a pleisant tone is always nest cfTcctive. A I iok ? hi cause a child to cry, and the sweetest Words when spoken harshly may have the same ell, ei. The influence does not depend so much upon what is said as upon how it is said. A teacher with a harsh voice should n vc." no employed to instruct children Thev become restless; ! under iu-I 11 .tin nt. Their childish I'.ic s li e mi sad and tlo ii ehei i fill oat tire j ( lie; I ' '' O I'j lh - oliOiloi'i! ? l < -I the | : t. O le . I I | j., l? I !.tl I hill W till !l lo V I I j hears a haisli wind.? Tin (,'numnmtanA Solicitor Our.?The 1 almetto Pott, published at Port lloyal S. 0., in commenting ou the result of the Ferguson trial says : We hear the jury did not know upon which Solicitor Orr (for the prosecution) was. IIo must have handled tho case very gingerly. Hut this is election year, and the Ferguson family and friends are very luiuicnuui they say in the country, and Orr ami lionet -ire both candidates for political honors!' This is a gross injustice to thcso gcntlcincu. To begin with, Mr. llenet defended Ferguson, therefore ho had no fear of offending the 'family and frieuds' of Ferguson. Moreover, Mr. ileuet always does his duty in auy case lie is employed in without regard to outside influences. To those who know Col. Orr any defence of him from such a charge is wholly unnecessary. To those who heard his earnest, strong and able conduct of this prosecution the utter absurdity of such a charge is manifest. No truer, braver, firmer man ever discharged a public duty than Solicitor Orr. lie knows 110 turning aside from fear favor or affection. Moreover, if ho were a man capable of being influenced in any such way as the Palmetto Pott insinuates, it. would be unnecessary now Col. Orr's term of office does not expire lor two years yet. J>ut it was a work of superogation to defend him against such a charge. lie stands too high as a pure, honorable, conscientious uian. to need it.?Ahhruilln Jlfct. scnycr. A I'mcIvV Lnri.K (Suit..?Belmont, Mass., July 7.?The dwelling house and stable of Edward Harry, a day laborer on the Fitchburg ilailroad, was burned lo iho grouud early yesterday morning. When the fire broke forth Mr. liarry was walking upon tho railroad track in the direction of home somewhat under the I iutluence of liquor. In the house sleeping quietly were five children, tho eldest of whom, Nellie, had just reached her tenth year. Ever siucc the death of her mother, which hnppentd a short time ago, the little girl lias served ns housekeeper for her father and taken core of her smaller brothers and sisters. When the rear part of the house was nearly consumed j Nellie was awakened by a falling timber. With oat waiting to dress : lie caught up tlio baby, two years old, nn<l ran through the tHick smoke with it out upon the green award. She then hastened hack to carry forth another, and so continued until she had the whole four securely nestled together iu front of the burning building. Just as the tire department arrived the room in which the children had been sleeping fell through with n crash, sending a shower of sparks far into the heavens. . _ ? Important Decision.?Several months ago tlio town council of Laurens arrested, tried and convicted a gentleman of the country, as he thought, in a harsh, arbitrary and unjust manner, and lie promptly announced his attention to appeal to the circuit court. Judge Hudson sustained him, and ordered a new trial on tlie following grouuds : 1st. That before any man can bo tried before council bo must l?e served with a summons totting forth the timu, the place, and the nature of the ollonce, at least livo days before trial. 2d. That the defendant was eotitlcd to a trial by a jury. The council was represented by Solicitor Duncan, agisted by Williamson Martin. Col. Irby, the dclendcut, was represented by Lewis Simians.?K.r. ? .Iav (jot i.i?"s 1*kavr.it.?Our father, who art in Knglaud : llothchilds he thy name: thy financial kingdom in America; thy will he done in the United States n* it is in Hnglaml. (live u- this day our bonds in gold, hut no silver ; give its plenty of laboring men s votes to keep tiie monopolists in power and their friends in otlicc. We know, our father, we have done many tilings that were wrong ; wc know it was wtong to refund the bonds and make tlicrn payable in corn ; we know it was wrong to demonetize silver : wc know it wn? wrong to water all our railroastocks hut thou knowest we made money by that. Now, our father, thou knowest we arc above polities. It is the same t>> us whether iIn* Democrats or tlie Republicans rule, lor tlioii knowest we nrc able to sway u!l political .join in <?ur favor. Lead in not into the way of the strikers but <lcliver us froin the humls of the inline Knights of Labor. Tlius shall we have the kingdom, bonds, interest Iower an I goll till Republic shall end. Amen. (Scluh. i Arn;it Mating a fiiiKA'r Vahiktv.? Never have a great variety nt one uteal, but niak . the variety from one meal to the next. I>i<l you ever stop to think what a conglomerated mass your stomach contained after eating a great variety at one meal '! II not, just amagine all you have oaten and drank mixed up in a howl, ami then ask yourself the question whether it is any wonder that people have dyspepsia, ? II ' /'/ /# Ura/ll, .InuriHtl. A Kan* is j. ipi r publishes 'fourteen rules t> I nb-'ived dniiu^ a tornado. (July one is necessary ? be soinewlmrc else, Ax lxivrnttcinLa Witxru.?Perhaps ??Imvc all known a man or womnn who was incapable of giving an answer, yea or no, lo a direct question. There are such people. They arc equally incapable of being impertinent or tantalising, but their habits of thought aro widespreading and their manner of speaking must be diffusive. Let such a roan?or, to make matters worse, a woman?be 8UDpwOtCtl us a witness in court, and the quickest witness lawyer known to tlic bench is most often completely routed. A case in point was that of a man who had been placed on the stand with the expectation of dcYoloping through him the character of the prisoner at the bar. The following was tlio result of the rash step : "Do you know the prisoner well ?" asked the lawyer. "Never know him," replied tho witness. "No levity, steruly. "Now, sir, did you ever see the prisoner at the bar ?" "Had many a drink with him at tho bar.' "Answer my question, sir," yelled the lawyer. "Mow long have you known tho prisoner 7" "From two feet up to tiro feet ten inches." "Will the court make the " "I have, your Honor," said the witucss, anticipating the lawyer; "I have answered tho question. I knew the prisoner when ho was a boy two feet ten ." The lawyer arose, placed both hands on tho table in front of him, spread his legs apart, leaned over tho table, and said : "Will you tell the court what you know about this case 7" "That ain't his name." "What ain't his name ?" "Case." "Who said it was?" "You did. You wanted to know what 1 knew about this Case? -his name is Smith." "Your honor," howled tho lawcr. plucking his beard out by the roots, "will you make this man answer?" "WitDW", you must answer the questions put to you,'' snid tlie dndge. ?I.ord o' CSoshen, your honor, hain't I hin doin it ? Let the council fire away I'm ready. "Then," said the lawyer, "don't heat about the hush anymore. You and this prisoner hare been friends?" "Neter." "What ! wasn't you Bumtnoned hero as a friend of his ?" "No, sir, I was summoned hero as a preshytcrian. Neither of us was eter Friends ; no (junker ahnut him." "Stand down!" yelled the lawyer in deep disgust. "llcy ?" "Stand down." "Can't do it. I'll sit d)wn or t>lan<l up " "I'sher, remote that man from the box." Witness retires, muttering, "Well, if lie ain't the tliick-hcadcdest lawyer I ctcr laid eyes on." How iik Could Take Hkvknok.? 'Life." said cjuio?"life is not worth i:_:? > *\o 'i said the damsel at liis Attlo. 'Why V Life is a bore. Human nature is so tame, insipid, ridiculous in all cxcopt tlio vicious classes. Society in the accepted sense does not live, my dear Miss Jones. It passes the tiuio.' And has lots of fun sometimes.' Never. It believes it has fun, but it's very sorry, stupid, dull fun. I am a cynic. I'conic bore uie to death. Of course, there arc exceptions, such as you? but?others. They talk, aud talk and talk, and 1 ? I sit and listen, and think what empty, brainless things men and womcu arc. They weary me.' 'Well, why don t you take your revenge V How i iTnll- ItaoL #/* I lioin .* Ui rv L/UV rv ?vy viiviili And tlio cynic grinned a sickly grin ami dropped the subject. KnicvrtNu tiik Ntcno.?' Come lieah, chile, and'cite yo g'og'afy. (limine de book. Now, den. whar am dc souf polo ? "Down souf, of course." "Wot ribbor empties into de Gulf ob Mexico? "Dunno.'* "Wot country was yo bo'n in ? "Dunno, mammy; ain I got so fur as dut." "Wliar am de . Sa'ay, chile, how yo git yo ha r so full of kinks ' "Tildy poured la?ses on it." " Lasses, eh'.' Course yo couldn't pit no g'og'afy lesson fru dem kinks. Now, den, ignorus, if yo' wanter pit de pri/.e in Sunday school, quit cotchin flies in yo n.ouf an go larn yo kattykisni."? From /,//*. The Spartanburg /Fruh/ says: "We do not intend to puss judgment on Dr. Dellinger a guilt or innocence, lie swore positively that lie killed the negro in self-defence, immediately after the killing it was published in the (inula I lifit I 1 r? llnlliswriii* uai/1 l>a 1.1 1 - - l?wo .'Viuugvi iliiiu IIV VTUIIIU UIC UCfore he wouM tell why lie ?li?l the deed.' It he made thin statement the assertion now that it was done in self-defence is incredible, and Dr. Itellinger has added perjury to murder. If ho did not make the statement the paper which published it published a wicked slander, and imperilled the life and character of a good man.'' We are authori/.cd to say that the interview referred to took place only iu the imagination of an unscrupulous reporter. Dr. Itcllinger ncver at any time made the .statement quoted in the Mr raid. Of eoui-se, the Hi-rald has no desire to injure Dr Itellinger, and has been betrayed into this error by misstatements of others. , | ?A'ws and C'ouritr.