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TWO D OLLARS PEK ANNUM. ) GOD A.JNT13 OTJR VOLUME 8. SATURDAY MORNING, PE1 The Death of Dr. Livingstone. The following interesting account of tho laet moments of Dr. Livingstono is taken from", tho account just published ?with tho last journals of tho great tniv oler: ? ^??About 11 P. H. Susi, whoso hut was* cloeo ky, 'as told to go to his master. At the time there were loud shouts in the distance, aud ou entering Dr. Liv ingstone said, 'Are o?r men making, that noise?' 'No,' replied Susi,'I can hear from the cries that the people arc scaring away a buffalo from their dura fields.' A few minutes afterward he said slowly and evidently wauderiug, 'Is this tbe Luopula:?'._Susi told hiin they were -in Clutambo's village, near the Mililamo, when he was silent for a while. Again speaking to Susi, in Sua bell this time, he1 said,'JHow many days !b it to tho Luap?la V *I think it is three dayB, master,' replied Susi. A few secondn after, as if in great pain, he half sighed, half said, 'Oh dear, dear,' and tbon dozed off again. It was an hour later that Susi heard Majwara again outside tho dqor, 'Dwaua wants you, kSusi.' On renching tho bed the doctor told him he wished him to boil eome water, and for this purpose he went to the lire outsido and soon re turned with .tho'^.coppor kottlo full. ^Culling him close he uHked him tobring hi.-> u.cdkine chest and to hold the ,caV$lc near him, for the man noticed.ho could hardly Eet. "With great difficulty Dr. Livingstone selected the calomel, vbich be told him to phce by his side, then directed him to pour a little water into a cup and to put another empty one by it. He said in a low lccble voice, 'All right; you can go now.' These were the last words he was ever heard to spc It must have been si bout 4 K "ifWPTTllBHH VfBTa'b step once more. 'Come to liwana, I am afraid; 1 don't kuow if he is alive.' The lad's evident alarm u.ade J-Uhi luu to mouse Chun.ah, (.'linw |eie, Matthew and Muangasere, and the six u.tn went immediately to the liut. 1 ai-s-ing iu.^ide, he looked toward the l ed. Dl? Liviligst??c was not lying on it, but appeared to be engaged in prayer, and they instinctively drew backward lor tbe instant. Pointing to him, Majwara said, "W ben I lay down he was just as he is now, and it is be cause I find that he docs not move that I fear he is deud.' They asked the lad how lrng he bad slept. Majwara said he could not tell, but be was sure that it was some considerable time. 'J he men drew nearer. A caudle, stuck by Hb uwn wax to the top ol the box, abed a light sufficient lor- the m to see bis form. Dr. Livingstono was kneeling by the'^sideof bis bed, his body stretch cd forward, his bead buried in bis hands ?upon tho pillow. For a minute they watched him; ho did not stir; there was x.0 sign of breathing. Then one of them, Matthew, advanced softly to him and placed his bands to his cheeks. It was sufficient; .life bad been extinct some time, und the body was almost cold. Livingstone was dead. His sad hearted servants raited, him teudcrly up, and laid him full length upon tbe bed; then carefully covering him, they went into the damp night uir to cousult together. It was long beforo the cocks crew, aud it is from this circumstanoc, coupled with tbe fact that Susi spoke to him gonctiu.c shortly after midnight, that no- axe able to utate with tolciable ccr tninty that he expired early on the 1st pfMay." ? mi ? - ? - long Life. ~ The atmosphere of Isorth Carolina ap pears to be favorable to longevity. Thero ore now living near Kiuston, in t?.'*t State, throe old veterans of tho war of 1812, one of whom is ninety six years old. Tho other two are a few jours younger. They aro all in good health, of vigorous constitution and g >od mem ory. Iu another part of the Stute, fifty four years ago, a man by the name of j?ouey bad eight children living, and tboy uro still are alive and well. Wo arp not informed if any one of them bears tbe charmed name of Methuselah, though they all seem to have scleoted him' au a mode). The Lien Law?Important Rulings We clip the following from the Lancaster Ledger: Upon a motion'_ to dissolve; attach ment on an agricultural lien in the caso of J. K. Kirkpstrick vs. B. F. Fergu son, which came before ? hif> Honor Judge T. J. Mackey, at the recent term of the Court f or this County, his Honor ruled as follows: "That it is essential to the validity of an agricultural liou that theadvances made should consist solely of such sup plies as are essential to thu production of tho crop. The adrasecs of such sup plies, however, do uot operate with in themselves as a lien, thoy must be tng.de pursuant to au agrcemcut fixing their value in money, and auch a?rcom ent must bo catered into nud recorded be fore any of (he sajyplias furnished. The reason of tho law in this rcspeot io, that tho lienee should be guarded agttiust his own improvidence by a Gxed limit to his credit and the record Will protect, others against boiug imposed upou by a ^secondary ugrccmcnt. "All costs incident to tho seizure and sale of tho crop must be paid by the Uiuor, fur tho crop under the Statute is bound only for the amouut advanced, and not for thu disbursements in ouibrc ing the lien. "The claim of laborers for sarviccs rendered in the production of the crop is a preferred lien aud must be paid be fore tho lieu for advance is satisfied. The rent is next to the laborers lieu a preferred lieu upon tho crop. "The advances for supplies can only bind the crops for the agricultural year iu jvhich they are made. . They cauuot i oppcrato as a lien upon future crops. The lion must rest solely upmi the crop-1 and canuot bind wurk an1 i^dj ly, A horsoj Qr I jfBf^yj lor the purposeHSTTpTouT^o^ a crop will operate as a lien upon the crop, it boiug a .supply within thu meaning of the Statute. "Contracts for the renting of Ian 1 for thct coming year will carry with them a .statutory lien on ono-fourth ol tho crop, but if the contract to rout oxprcsHyso provid cs, tho rental will be a lien upon one-third of the crop, provided, that the contract be duly recorded as in the case of advances made. ??The homestead exemption cannot, be plead to protect a crop against the enforcement of a Hen for advances made to enable a party to produce the crop, but no mortgage or lien can bo enforced against a crop raised on the homestead, except iu the case above staled. "If a crop produced on a tract of laud , which, together with the build ings thereon, dues uot exceed one thous and dollars iu value, no part of t'.io crop, however great its value, is subject to execution for debt." Yesterday morniug, says the Detroit Free l'rcss, an old ludy, who lives iu tho West part cf this county, was Belling some buttor to a grocer on Michigan avenue, aud some one incut ioncd some thing about the Beecher ccaudel. "What is that thiug, auyhow ?" asked tho old lady. "It's biu in the papers, but my oyes are poor, aud I haven't tolt. liko reading." "Well, it's juut this," replied tho grocer, as he scraped ulT the crock; "you soe, Beecher hirod Mrs. Tilton to knit him twelve pair of socks, and when she got 'cm done he tried to pass a counterfeit bill ou her." "Is that sol" exclaimed the aged dame; "well 1 dou't blame the papers a siuglo bit for showing him up?he's wors'n a vagaround." A New England scissors editor is said to have a plan of spotting any scrap credited to the Danburg News, Detroit Free Press, or other papers of the* kind, and?without readiug it?ox claims, us ho plios bis shears; "ilod . That's a good ono 1 I'll capture iL.' This plan saves time, but renders tho editor liable to occasionally niuko tho uiiBtnke of clipping an obituary notice and placing it among his "F Icnsan tries." A printer invariably gets out of sorts when ho reaches tho bottom of hiH cusp. How Nick Bowers Was Caught. Nick Bowers was a member of the or iginal Christy Miustrels, and in Iiis da}', was the greatest 'middle intorogn tor' known in the profession. Nick used to tell with great merriment, an incident of his boyhood. To presorvo the flavor of the relation wo will record it in Nicks own language, and only regrot that we cannot accompany it with his inimitable gesticulations. 'My old man,' Paid Nick, 'r.s a gencr al thing, was a pretty stoady old gent, butonco in a while would get oblivious and water was not the cause of it- I recollect a certain holiday win approach and I had becu skinning arouud to get a little monoy to have a timu with on that day; but the fates r.ad t'.io purses were against mo.?It was but two days prior to the anticipated holiday, and I hadn't uary a red ou the same afternoon I came into the house, when lo ! tln.ro on the floor, totally ovcrco.no by his it batious, lay my respected dady, and be side him lay 813 shinning half dollars which had rolled from his pocket. Bov'j I've been an honest man all my life, but once when a boy I had commit ted a theft. I hooked one of tho.uo half dollars. Thinks I tc myself the old uiau ou a jumborce aud wont know how much he spent, uud will never miss it, But mark yc, tho next morning I and niy two brothers were bumnnmed into j uiy fathers presence. . X'lv? old man's laoe lowered/, 'I thought of the half dol lar, and 1 knew that a storm was bow ing.'. 'Hoys' sail he, 'last night when I 'came home I had six dollars, Cue of em is gone, your mother didn't take it. Theres been nobody else iu the house, Which oue of you took it?' We all protested our innocence. 5iiyB,J said the old man, 'that h .-ill |**^g^!ar never walked off, aud I'm going to find odfr ^Mwrouo of" you ll/idtf"lfc' Turning about he to ik down from the wall an old (tint lock blunderbuss. This he dcliheratolyjoaded wiih powier and buckshot, then fusttuiug ieto tha table, cocl.ed it, took a seat behind ami in so'., mti tones addressed us thusly: Boys, I'm going io discover the thief Hid punish him at the same time' You must each blow into the muzzle of tint gun. When the guilty oue blows off" goes bis head. Now, then, you jj have a chance, will you own up, or blow up ?' 'Ben,' Miid the old man to uiy oldest brother; 'have jou got that half dol lar V 'No, Mr.' ''fake a blow.' 'Nick, (eh, boys, 1 tell you the chills began to roll down my back,) got that Ii all dollar V 'No, sir,' said I with a defiant swag ger. 'Blow that gun.' 1 walked up bravely, gave n blow, and?dodged ! 'Nick,' said the old man iu a voice of thunder, 'where is that half dollar !' He had inc. The truth dodged out inc. 'Said I. '^ut in tho barn pap. Brought it Out. It is a novelty to sec tho arrival of a band of burglars in any neighborhood regarded rather iu the light of a public beuctit, but such a ease is of recent oe cureuco. Several burglarious opera tions took niace in diflercnt parts of Frederick covuty, Nirginia, causing groat alarm throughout that region. This according to the Winchester Times had the offeel of bringing to the banks large deposits, which often came from unexpected quarters. People who have been suspected of having catdi enough to pay their taxes in tide their appearance iu Winchester with Minis for deposit ranging from hundreds to thousands of dollars,and the money, market of that place suddenly became remarkably easy ? till on account of the burglars in Foderiok county hav)og trightouod the country men, who had been hoarding their currency since the panic. This money now goes iuto general circula tion. - ???>??? i iu ft ? * ? oaaKfn ? - A rnck never dreaded by printers?A galloy rack. Fowl SynvjL?rty? Thero is an nuihent*&j story of a largo flock of s wallows that yjvongcd a wrong committed oa tvfo of t-Lbjr number. A pair of WT0U3 had dnvcji out those two swallow from a uest, riid usurped pos - seGsiou Tho injure^ Toncs twittered their complaints to associates, anl after a short couforenco tltCFT'holu company began to take up mu^-in their bills from tho stroot an d continued to work unt il tbay hftd plastor cd up the entrance to the nest, and buried Inc guilty wrcus in a living tomb. This Kuriotu incident showed a power of talWiug ?-in swallo-/ language?and a poorer of sympathy aud of planning to wo'.k togcthor. A case of sympathy without the t:\lk iug and plauniug happened recently iu Nowtou, Mass. Some pet heus and pig cons ere fed together' daily, and have boocino good frionds cud well actiua :u ted. One day a "at sprang from place of ambush ou tho pigcou, and saized one in iis claw. Tl struggled hard t*> escape, bei flapped its v/iags in terror, L uc ia vain. Its doom './as sarej if uuuolpcd. Help cam e Irom aa uuexpotod so urc?. The 1i?::j looked ou surprised at the salde:0<s oi the attack, but at length, as if e i uprc hendiug the situation, two ro tsiers and three or four lions rushed at tho oa t, aud by vigorous pcoking compelled it to givo up the prey and take to its heels iu scU" defeuee. Before a spectator, who saw tho who'tu scene could reich the svot, the pigeon wainrce aul had down to his ho use The Bessemer >?.IU|),,. system has . been applied, by a jfu {[ ml. y Oiffard to \ ?i hanging railroad |(lfj W;, ,.\ hie ti tested with sucees^u t jlQ \uv} 0f tnc .Vorthern railway \i\ b\ xa:c Seated in this car. which hiu^oa 0| a stjc >prir)gs the traveller expor)., ncc3 ,ua Miisatibij _nf reposing iu a^u^,,,,,,, Jrcc lroill I tho vibrations ?iid DUtUplUgS. of the or ordinary car At ti in es the car undti lntes as do03 a bo-it ou a calm sea. The movement is described as a very gentle one, and tho traveller is enable I to read without fatigue and write with ease 1'ho principle o*' this car; applied to am bulnucea, doubtless would be a iircit boon to the wouuJjd who inty bo eon veyed in them. An American writes from London "I never, iu tho whole course of my life, met such a collection ul idiots and numb skulls as 1 did at the so called fashion able clubs. 1 asked Lord-at dinner, oue night, il he had ever been to America. 'Yeth, all, yelh,' said he. ?And did you like the country and the people'/' I inquired. 'Yeth, ah, yeth.' The two countries,'said 1,'have much iu common?wo .speak the same Ian guagc, and many of our habits and ous toms nro identical.' 'Yeth, ah, yeth,' lisped 'milord' lb the cud of the conve satiou. And now 1 hear the words ?yotli, ah, yeth,' continually, in imagina lion, aud 1 am almost crazy." A Pennsylvania man ate four quarti of peanuts at one sholliug and thou iu the beautiful luaguago of Tyndall,'ra ded like a streak i l* moruiug cloud, into (hg inliuito azure of -ho pist,' Hi:; friend possessed of that touching doiicisy aud thoughtfuluesa which al way.i characterized the bestowal of inor tuary honors in ^Pennsylvania, buri ed the shells with him Au ambitious printer iu Philadelphia, has published a busiuess card, in cullers, on which uro found the following mot toes : ??We mix our colors with brains." "Me work our presses with speed." "Wo set our types with intelligonoo." A critic, ou examining the card, con eludes that the brains have been re dueed, or they are very light and of an iultrior quality. W. C. Poor young thing! >Sue fainted a way at tho wash-tub, and her pretty ooso went kerslop into the- soapsuds. Some said it was overwork; others, how ever, whispered that her beau had peep ed over the back fence and called out : "Hullo, there, Bridget, is Mias Alice at home If" A Startling Metamorphosis. Somo one who baa been viewing the Siamese jugglers says : "One trick Minham performed was a very superior version of the mango troo feat of tho Indian jugglers. He took au orange, cut it open, ami produced a serpent. This he took do'.rn into the audience, nud borrowing a robe from one, cut the snake's head off and covered it with tho robe. When tho robe was lifted agaiu a fox was in placo of the snake. The fox's head was cut off two robes bor roned, and when they were raised, there win' a wolf, which was killed with a sword. Throe robt-j, aud a leopard; it was slaiu with a javelin. Four robes covet ed a ^most savago looking buffalo , that was killed with an axe. Five robes covered iu part, but uot altogether, a lordly elephant, who, whoa tho sword v/tu pointed at him, seized Miuhiuau by the neck and tossed him violently up. Ho mouutcd feet foromost, and finally by his toes to the capital of one of ihj columns. Toapada now leaded from the -tage aud alighted upon the eljp h a.it'c rhouldcra. With a short sw^rd It c goaded tho beast on tho head, until shrinking, the unwioldy animal roared upcu his hind feet, twined his trunk about otio of the great columns, aud seemed trying to lift itself from the ground r.ud wrap its body arouud the great pillar. The music clashed out barbarously. Norodom 11 ashed forth a dazzling firework of some sort, and the elephant disappeared, aud Tepi da lay upou tho stage writhing in the folds of a great boa constrictor aud holding up MiTrhnian upon his feet." A postmasterTTriHS"^1 received a letter the other day dirccttTlriiSii^ws: Wond Asm' Mass, After puzzling over it for some t mo ho made it out ni .follows: John Uu lor wood Audovcr. An ancient, bin -enoroui hearted fe male, named Hannah Goldsmith, doWu in Jefferson Co , wants to give 550 to W ads the erection of a homo for.superan nuated editors who never publish ??! a lie, an i who never charged fur <>!<l pa\ ers to put under <-<trprt.<."' Who is first to apply for room '. One of the Syacusc daily papers in speaking of the Ononduga S. S. C'invon t ion and a show by Duprez k Benedict's Minstrols got things mixed, thusly: "An ftddre^s was delivered before the school by Ucv. Benedict, who is the best tOOg aud dance man in tlie business." Dixie. . miii hi ? ? ?- n "' A follower of Kaust, named Buld, war. paying his addresses to ,i young lady named lto.se. After a while ho popped the question. "Rose wilt thou be miue Rose answered, "I am sor ry it cannot be; for a Rose cahuot be turnod into a Budd." Mr. Fred. Aplin left Wyoming Co. four years ago not worth a cent. lie located in a "priutshop" in Michigan, and .Ian. 15, 1 7, lie look au iuvcutory and it resulted : Tobacco, 10c; pips, 25c; box efeollars, 25c; cash, 15o; total, 75c. "(io wcm, youug man I" 'Why don't you got marriod,'said a young lady to ubaclioior friends, * I h ive been trying for tho past tivo years to liud some one who was silly enough to have me,' he answered. 'I guess you havn't been up our way,' was tho *lusin uatiug rejoinder. A new weekly paper to be called the Pastoral Reminder has been issued at Ferry Center, -V Y., by Rev. .J. F. Root. Not having seen a copy, can't elucidate the position it takes, but the tu'uio is wonderfully significant. Rev. Wat. Johnson Daboll, an ok Baptist ..Met hod ist.a u d-U ui Versal ist dt vino, now talks of starting a papar called the Cre.sto Lamp Lighter, iu Kansas. Docs ho expect to have his journal used for illuminating purposes'{ A Vormont woman has forwarded live bibles to tho grasshopper sufferers ;ilems. j / j The hardest thiug "to deal "with?an old pack of .ards Nothing ^comcs home to tt roan bo much as an unsettled bill . ?. iM-?r?t No unfortunate tradesman looks -aft down in the mouth aa a dentist j {j They are disputing Goldsmith Maids time Is she willing to leave it tonn |n vcstigatinR committee ? ? ? , n ,!ri? Gravity is no more an evidenco of wisdom than a paper collar is -of a shirt "$"Bctwccn Spinner* and Briatow former oaths arc s?iid to bo the iriost so morons . ' ? i *^Mrs. Furuess's "Concordance to the Poems of Shakspcaro," contains 33,(j entries. ? ? t uliq A young man in 'Frisco etnbczzelod a diamond to pay his tailor's bill. Tail ors are at liberty to cut this out and soud it to their customers. h i A We soe it auuounced by posters on the streets that 'Seltzer's Aporient' hut it don't soy whether it^is a boy jotft sirl; 'I each or?Peter you are suoh a bad boy that you are not tit to sit with do cent boys. Co uc up here sir: JOorao up here and sit hire by mo sir-.' ,l * 1 An Alabama cditorjwiuds up' an' ar tide on the late corn crop, with thVtfo mark :3g We have ou exhibition in our sanctum a pair of magnificent ears/.,; Partium litis written to this city for newspaper man""* reported - to have "ost SI,000. lie would like to have him in ,. ' ' his.muscum. A ".man* in San Francisco recently wroto a letter ^to. another asking*) Mrh for his wife, without so much as cucb" ^ing a postage stamp Tue1 rush to'J" ol a rubber partners. The Norwegians in,this ^country sTfT" insiat that Lief Eridsonjdiscovcd%Ameri ca before Columbus did. William Tell has gone aud now farewell to Chris. !f*VV. A porson^was ^boasting -?that ^he Was from a high family, 'yes said a bystand er, T havo^sce 1 soino^ol your^fainily high that their feet couldn't touch tho grouud.' . i ti'jii , A weatorukp9stinu3tor j [writos to tho post master general that holl will bo j full of couutry^poJtmiitsrs boforj ( long, j it'they de uot got iuj;'? p i/ _than is al lowed his office. A Kansas farmer solemnly] declares that a grass hopper sat on a fence post and took iug k 1 im straight in thaaaface soi?l. 'Willtau liryaut, where in thuu j der is the baluueo ofthat cold meat ?' A lady asked a pup'l at school '?wha.t was the sin of the Pharisee?' 'Kating camels; maru,' replied the child. She J had read J that the Pharisee strained at a gnat and sworlowed a camel. It is asserted as a fact that Disraeli is quite .*poony ontthe Empress Eugenio aud all because the premier has takaa to wearing forgot^mo nots in his ^button bole A Chicago gentleman who recently traveled through Ohio, says that ovory body ho met called patatoes 'taters,' ox cept one young lady, whoj called him a sm ill pcrthtcv.' There's a $10 000: hoiross in South Jersey, who has so many lovers sitting on the len'ie waiting for her etO corns of nights, that she has givon her entire fortune to endow a lunatic asylum. 'Well pa/said littlo Tommy, running into tho house ono dar, 'I liko to have sold my pig just nowl' Why, how is that, my sou?' 'Well I naked a man it he'd buy ho it an 1 ho said No.' If ho had just said yes, I'd have sold it' Lumber! Lumber I! 1 will dollver first class LUMBER in any quahties to all persons favoring mo With their bills at $11 par thousand fei t, at the shortest notice. Addross II. D. SALLES* WMiston 8. 0. Or to A. J. JACKSON, Orangeburg S. O. jan 10 1?7? 3t