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WILLIAMS & DAVIS, Proprietors.] A Family Papor, Devoted to Science, Atr Inquiy, Industry and Literature. [TERMS---$3.00 Per Annum in Advanoe. VOL. IX. WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 10, 1874. N THE A I R F I BLD II RALD 13 PUBL.ISE D WKEKLY BY W I L L I A IR S &I A V I N. Term,.-The iUERA iD i published Week. ly in i he Town of Winusboro, at $3.000 inrarialy in advance. VW All tranioett advertisements to be PA1D IN A DVA NCE. Obituary Notices and Tributes $1.00 per I quare. TUB DEFO ED. UT MaS.1. ,W sTaATTON. Tt'rn not on me that skud'ring gate, That loathing, fwond'ring look ; )'ieroe hatred In my soul you raise Man's aoerar I eannot brook. And I can better bear to meet A stranger's open sneer Than smiles I know are falsely sweet, Ono is at least sincere. My wan, unearthly fazc you see, And wonder frate could bless A warped distorted wretch like me With gilded hideousness. Yes, I have Gold-the shining heap To me a eurso has been ; Distrust into any heart will creep, When kindness else might win. In youth's straig oar6er I ran, Mysterious and bright ; I feasted on the praise of man, W hile shrouded from his sight. And long I lingered in the shade, Alone with book and pen ; But tho' a glorious name I made, I was not, happy thet. But forth into the world must, bring My hideous form and face ; Aen wondered that so fond a thing Could win so high a place. In evil hour I laid aside The friendly mask I wore, Mistakvn, deerl-y punished pride They worshipped me no more. But while they shuddered, still they smiled, For wealth immtaneuse was mine, And friendship still mitne car beguiled, Atid round my heart could twine. And I had too a dream of love, Lut tue not ouee ily sneer ; Knaowest thou [lant intellect can move, To noble hearts be dear. Or so I thought, whon o'or my soul A tlood ot'raptur6 swept A first deep love, beyond control, Into my lone heart, crept. The witching beauty of her face , I have not, words to tell ; On aor fair form of matchless grace Reionibrance dare not dwell. I bore her to my splendid home, A lovely, gentle bride; Through Its grand halls she loved to roan, My trcasuro and my pride ! But soon site drooped ahd passed away Consumaption bade us part; 'Twas no4 despair-how dare they say ller's was a broken ieart, t lh. talq 9t.those s1o knew her test Long tielibaiM -will be; They said h I-otlI r's stern behest Uave that, fair bride to sic. They e"Id than 1e had promised long 'ilmie another's lot; It wa a tale of cruel wrong, And [-believe it not. Oh I tell e ti'ot'lliat beauty's gift Ja vah1 esor' va4,' W be,i dld ey cannot lift W i 'o d 'gV i n'g p ain ., Last Words 0f Neille Gr'ani. Reuben E. Morse writes as follows conoernintg the departure of. Nellie GJrat-:. aThe Bdid gave a lurch, ad took a sea on board that had been probably everkoeked at the start. I, and the glass of wIne~, anid the speech, trsveled'across the table, ecoped off all the dinner service, and e ina a chaotic hea p of broken oIldij R. E. Marse. Sadly 'the President hlcped me to my 'feet, and then, no. eompanied by the 'entire party, I Was taken on deck. Titey reofpd , camp. stool and lowered me on to' the cutter. Then thesPresidential party followed. Nellie leaned ovqr t449 raili, tnd smiled her aIdieux. Ai the steamer ploughed bAyay 'from-. us We banged off a salute, aidd the band struck up a national air. Thia 4#i'il ceas waved her' $500 handkerlhief, and shouted in a rilvery voien, "Good by, Papa I Ta I Tta! Mr. Morse l'' and ndo another remark, intended only for me, which I gueset 1 won't send you. tuy R{EUllEN E. MlORSE,~ P. S.--On second, thought I gtehi i'll tell you. Shte sid,."If it ever does happen, Mr. Morse, I'll 'call hin1 Reuben." * ..EJ. M. Gen. Sherman willnet leayd ,h'o to establish the army headq uarters a' St. Louis till October, H~e thinka there are several .ad ntages itt the propose4 aonag whidh ,5 .entieo 6ka the Mwl~pl the.. tatigsed west of the 311f Tihi' n ease 4f any India' War, Ootb940 trpisi that section atn1f operitilons could be bettet di rooted frorp St. 'Louis than fron W abh$nfton. A negro woman has .been Iledged in Warren reounty jail eharged with tho terib e rimo-o infanti oid~. "Do Fervislons, Joslar." A.COUPILE OF i.INUOI N COUNTY DARKI F.XPRE8S TRIER IDEAS ABOUT CIV, nIGHTS. A sapient looking Fayettevill darkey,oscillating between tweni and twenty five summers, overtoc an old negro on the streets the othb day, and wedging him in a fenc corner, proceeded to acquaint hii with all the gorgeous provisions < the Civil Rights Bill. Young Afrii im parted to old Africa a fund valuable information, thusly :" "Woll, Uncle Billy, Sumner Swivel Rights Hill has passed C Senate ob de United States widot a murmur." "Is datso, Josiar ?" "6Jess so, Uncle Billy. And a Uncle Billy, we colored pussonsoj gwihio td see whose pervisions is i: do pot. We are gwine to be allowe to ride free on de railroads, smoke i de ladies' ear and put our feet on d percussions of do seats whenever %v dam please !' "Is dad so, Jot ar V" "Jess so, Uncle Billy. And say Uncle Billy, we's gwine to be allou ed to stop at de hotels and set at d head of de table, and hub do biggea sliees ob de chickens, and lay aroun in de parlor and spit on dle carpet and make de white trash hustl denselves and wait on us widou grumblin ; and whenever do boss o de concern bhoves a bill on us, we' hab him sent to Washiiington and ot cured in do plenipotentiary. "Is dat so, Josiar ?" "Jess so Uncle Billy. And sa Uncle Billy, we's gwine to be allom ed to go to the white schools and so up on do flatform wid do teache and learn gehography, tiggerm anon try, gohouniny, Latin, Dutch, Frenel Choctaw, algeebray, rheumaties, d rule of thrice and de diapbragam. '-G. od God ! is dat so, Josiar ? "Joas so, Uncle Billy. And sa Uncle Billy we'sgwine to be allowe to be but ied in italic coffins wid loot ing glasses on top ob dem, and d will hah to carry us on a hocarse t dograbo yard and bury us on to of do white folks, so when do day o resurrection am arrive- and do angt Gabriel come tootin' along, he'll sinj out troo his trumpet, 'All ob yo colored gemmen rise fust ' And sa, Uncle Billy, do perviblons ob dZ bill-" "W hat's dat you say 'bout pervis ions, Josiar ?" "Well, Uncle B3illy, as I was gwir on to state, do pervisions ob do bill-" "Stop right dar, Josiar. You so dares pervisions in dat bill 1" "Jess so, Uncle Billy. Do pe visions ob de bill-" "Stop right dar, Josiar. Ef dar pervisions in dat bill, I want a .sac ob flour this berry minnit. Dam i smokin' in de ladies' car and d geography, and de Latin and de ital coffins I [ want de pervisions, Josia1 Dey's all dere Is in do bill wuff dam cent' "-Fayefueviile Eapress. Dignity of the Press. Aiurat Hlalatead ita a recent addre on "the Press and the Peoople," say It should appear to the people-ni we inust make it appear--that .the are fneost honorable careers not ash elated with ofice-holding ; that the are better places than official por tions ; thtat the information of o1 fellow citizens is. of greater cons quenee than to win their suffrage f< individual aggrandizement ; that ti drudgery of canvassing votes does n become the best manhood, aind .batarfml to the pe6ple ; that the pu licservice moat advantageous is n through flatteries ; thiit there a aurer measure ments of' popular,. con dence than by counting ballots , th it Ils ;'eteellent to have a gian1 strength and to in . UsEJ IT 'I~1 A GIA NT ifacing all punblie questions wit perfeet eatdot and sparing, no vi Extursion T'ickets. Ul hPheeuth Carolina Railroad deri pany, with a view rt accomnmoda those who are fortunate enough toI able to spend the sumuier away fro ,thie~ci ty, are selling exeursion tic1ke to the varioud summer resorts in tl State.: Tickets to Greenville aI return are sold for $ 5 ; to Spiarta burg and ',eiurn,7$f ; to Andorst aend .return, $14 ; to P'endloton ai return, $15, and to -Walhalla ai return, $10. The low. price at whil these tickets are saelplaces sum u, exourdion, tripse ntih; roach of ~atsd there will doubtless c a gre rush ot' travel to the .oountry diar 4he~hgateteo, - News and Courin'. Llrlsunrr ssaulttilliafEeeper.' Patry.AzrLrilA,Ju*O M.-Timot Broghay a prisoner it a house of c< reetipn, assaulted oue of the g stir .yetrday-afteroon' and was .lJr< thing hiin when the guard, nam Halnos, managed to reach his pIit and shot Brophy through the boae of course killing him innenantl.Iv Our Affairs. Ps Commenting Upon the election of i. r. Eaton us United States Senator from Connecticut, and upon his open declaration of tho btraight-out, States e right, Jeffersonian faith, the New y York Times grows fiast and furious k upon South Caroliii affairs. It r opens the full vialb of its vwrath and o pours out a rabid decoction of u vitriol and prussic acid all over our of party organization. It denounces a the State as rotting away, dropping f to pieces in the hot sun from gau grene and corruptiou. It sustains is Mr. Eatun inl the demand that, for lo the honor of the country and the in t terots of the nation, our manage ment of this State should be vigo. rously investigated and overhauled. , It is too long and bitter an article s for publication, and, what is more, it a lays the blame of most of the trouble d upon the colored majority. It inti n mates very plainly that if we don't e clean out our craft of our own motiou, c the national Repablican party will have to do it for us in pure self-de feos,-. There is nothing but gall and vinegar in the Northern pross to. Wards us, and each article is worse e than the last. The Republicans of t this State must see to it that in the I coming election every county shall , elect none but honest and competent e ,lee, without stain or reproach ou their t private or public reputatiou, or we b shall be driven out of the house of I our fricuds as a leprosy and curs.- - - This is the work we h vo to do, and 'twere well it were dono quickly. Union.-ih rald. That Order. The Orangeburg News, in a ceontro versy with the State Treasurer, uses the following language: 'Mr. Cardozo charges Judge An drews with having got Iluimbe:t to cash the $6,001) order which brought hin out a defaulter. In our opinion the State 'reasurer would be reflect ing his own interest by having as little to say about the order in ques. t tion as possible, We e'arge that he P is as guilty as any one connected b with the transaction. Judge An.. diews and H1umbert acted in good faith, the former in receiving the money and the latter in paying it. Why ? Because the order was drawn upon State funds, and Cardozo ac cepted it, endorsed it as State Treas. urer, with the promise to pay it as coon as the appropriation bill passed. Upon his Cidorsement, H11umibert cashed it. Who is to blame in this ? Cardozo for cashing the steond or y duplicate otder, or 11 umbert, who paid the original with the acceptance of the Treasuirer ?" The public, who feel a great intor, est in this transaction, would like to k learn from soine one who knows its k entire history. This, we submit, is c but reasonable in the public. The 0 defendants are before t e court, but the other parties whose names are here i'ientioned have no exeu.o for silence about a matter in which they are so mixed up. Will % r. Cardozo, or Mr. Andrews, favor the country with his version of the facts ? - Phwauix. s A Graner's Ircam. id The Landmark Gazette, a staunch re0 Granger paper, publishes the follow 3 ing, which is too good to bec lost. ..A Granger d reamed t hat lie died; 'i he went straight to the spirit world; ar he knocked at the gate of the Newv B- Jerusalem, and it was opened unto >r him. Ie was asked, "Did you ever to beloiig to any so ret societ~y ?' to rit which lie replied, '1 did-to the la (ranges.' "Then, sir, you cannot b'b dited-de part. ie thlen went at to tho bottomless pit, where the esamoe gnestions were again asked [.him by the devil, and~ again lie wasu ,t told to depart. After.- her gone a " little way off, he was accosted by the homely ruler of the pit, when the following propositions were made h "Stranger, said Nick, 'l will not I. admityou hero; they do not went you in heaven , but I will sell you two hundred barrels of brimistone for ciashi, ten per cent. ofi, and you can start a little hell of 5our own,, wit h no n. agents or middle mn.' to - >o Nominatiton of Conggessiiieu in1 North mn Carolina. ao GRKENsnouo, N. (1., June 2.--The id 'Convention of the Conservative party ti- for tho Fifth Con~ ressional D)sstrioi in assembled in this p'ae to-day. (on. id Ajfred M. Scales was nominated by ad acclamation. No opposition. ahm The Conservatives by this nomnina, r tion, claim a majority of 3,000 votes 1ll over "Windy hilly" IHenderson, th< at Republican noralio. gRALIIOIor, Jqne 2.--The Convontior a he Coniservative party of this (th< 4th) DIstrict, was he~ld in thIs city to day to ho'miate apefadidate for Con gress. On the 'fift6 oath ballot Capt Jos.J. Davis, of Franklin was nmi Snated. da Mi seems to be accepted all aronni it- Nat' the President Is actively in ques ed of i Secretary of the Treasury, ant oi much puzzled to find a proper mani rt> owing to thecgreat dcarth ofoexcutiv< ability in the Republican pay About Brat. Wheat bran is very much richer ii. phosphorio acid thini corn bran. i heat contains inl tle whole grail. 8.2 per cent. of phosphorio aci1, and corn only 5.1-2 per cent. ; but nearl the whole of the phosphioi acid of the grain exists in the husk or bran. 'Tlus wheat bri.n cont:ains nearly twtnty-nine per cent. of this valuable 8abbtance. What per contage is in the bran of corn we have no miieans of ascertaining, but it is certainly less rich in phosphoric acid than wheat bran. lyo bran is fiior still than wheat bran,oontaining over thirty-four par cent of phosphorio acid, which is a laiger proportion than is contained in avy other article of food far stock. Wheat bran is also far richer in lime than coin, and is therefore a better food for poultry than tile latter. If wheat bran is preserved free froin damp or mold it will not deteriorate in quality by keeping for any muderite leIngth of time, a 3ear for instauc. NT. Yf. TJribunc. Colo red Womcil its Lawyers. Among the. memorials lately pre sented to tho United States Senate is ene from Mrs. Belva A . Loek wood asking the passage of aln act declar ing that no woiani otherwise quali. lied shall be debarred from practice in courts of the United States on io count of sex or color. Whether Mrs. Belva wisbos her own disabili ties to be removed. being anxious for a forensic career or whether she is merely espousing the cause of some of her frienids, does not appear ; but it is by 110 means impossible that the Senate wsill grant her rcquest. A correspondent writing of Cuba, says : "For several years I resided in that island, and traveled thee more than the ordionary run of foreign. er., and have several times come across scones which many people would consider great curiositie-oei inl particular. No doubt the i *a ler will open his eyes at oyster4-gfowing on a tree. Often have I seen the sneer of unbelief on the face of tihe ig. norant when the fact had been men tioned) ; but grow they do, and in) im. melise (juantities, especially in the soutle-rn part of the island. I have iseenl miles of trees, the lower stems and branches of which were literally covered with them, and many a good eal have I enj)yed with very little trouble of procuring. I simply placed the bratnches over the fire, and when opiened, I picked them out. with a fork r01 poillteid stick. These peenI. liarshAllish are indigenous it lagoons and swami s on tle coast, and .s far as the tide will rise and spray fly, so will they cling to the lower parts of the mangrove trees, sometimes four or live deep, the mangrove being one of the very few trees that flourish in salt water." A "wad" or a "wed" is a wager, a het, a pledge, or plight. Therefore, in the Episcopal marriage service, the bridegroom says "and thereto I lipght thee my troth." Wedding means pledginv. But the lady says "anad thercfore I give thee my t roth,'' a delicate concession that the bride1 word is good as her band, anad per. haps a gro-it deal better than the bridegroom's "pledge." The Ihouce Commlittee on1a1n alfairs agreed to report at hill in fiavor* of giving the widow of Capt. I tall of Polaris fame, ai peniein of $30 per month, and the amount of her lhus. band's unpaid sa!nry up~ to the time that the crew of the Polaris were dis charged, amounting to abo,.t, $1,900. TIhe Unluth Iherald anid the Lon d on Tfimies have beeni pitching imnio one another for seome time. Of late the lierald has been getting the best of the British Thunderer. Learnilng that the Tlimnes' suscription list and business wero falling off on account of its at tacks, the lierald has with drawn from the contest and will al low the organ of England to recupor ate.- Mlining Gaaulte. S.,mo evenings since, while John Zanoga was sitting in front of his store in King street, Charleston, near the entrane to thle Citadol Oreen, a United St ates soldier, on passing by, pulled his hat over his eyes so that lie conld not be identified, and then softly di ow John's watch from his pocket. One Lf the soldiers ait the gatrrison hlas been arrested att lie in stane of John, who believes that he a the man who robbed him. M vissrspp is the first to begin 'the hares ths3 ear. Memphis receiv dthsnow whoat. Tho' evidences everywhiero indicato an abundat harvest this Summer. Wheat, Rye, and Oats, have niot boon seriously in. jured by the unseasonable weather this Spring. A man at Waterbury Centre, Vor m. ont, is trying how long lie canl live without drinking, ie ac.complished his two hundred and sixtieth da3 hart week. The IRing of the True lejul. It is not o tin that we 1.ear from t' o lips of Northern statesmen democratic selitimneits of the true ring. Less fregnently still do we have such sentimeints wafted Southward, as they 00110 in the clear and distinct utterances of one who has boon elect ed to represent a New England State in the Senate Chamber of the Union. It does the very soiu good to read the manly sentences. It strengthens the hope of a better day coming when gloat men, true to the founda. mental principles of a free republic and who bcorn to bow at the shrine of centralism, shall go up from every section to the national hal . Such a nnn is Senator Faton, recent ly elected United States from the State of Connecticut. The citizens of . Ihartford gave him a serenade, in response to which he uttered the fol lowing words : "Il go to the Senate with the'fixed g determination to honor the State of a Cunnecticut inl is tuch is in ie lies ; ( to honor the State which has h honored time. Fi rst, first, first, the State of CXumctient and the Fedoral UNjion. I hlall try, with other hnest Senatois to take away the Federal bayonets from our brothers in the South, that every State in this land shall have the same right of local self government, and the same exer. vise of it, is our own State ; that. Arkansas, and South Carolina, and b Louisiana may elect their r<-presen- a tatlives as you elect yours. I ni now as I alwaps have been and alvays shall be a States Right Democrat of the old J..fiersenian school. That'. my creed ! [Great applause.] I ex press again my profound thaniks for all that you have done for me." llow .tartling such sentinients a s thes -3 iuust be to the ears of tile z l ad ical 8enate. Heaven speed the day, wlen we shall have more of such noble utterance, such dealaration of true [)emocratic principle. And the time is coming, coming fast. The Radical party every (lay grows weak. or. The currenoy matter damaged. il, badly, and the civil rights- -ques tion, whatever the issue, will make it siagger like a drunken mn:n. The day.of deliverance is surely appronch- d ing. Tne end is drawing nigh to legislative iniquity, to unholy prosecution, to the traipling a o. States beneath a central despotisin. The time Is coining, when every State in this land siall have the samne right of local self-government and the same t exercise of it, and when "Arkansas, South Carolina and Louis.,iann, may elect their representatives" even 18 Musschusetts doei hers.--A1/unta Gvnstitution. General J. 1l. iloU4l writes as fol lows about what Joe J'ohnson says in his narraitive : "Whilst, I had twelve thousand and twenty-three (12,023) killed and wounded (u ing the siegO, according to lDr. Vo d's repoi t, page 578, my C actual loss was but 5,347, showing t that the wounded men r etui.ned to the ranks, as will ever be tie case in an t army standing its ground and fighting. I Admitting that there were no deser tions from the 10th to the 18:1 of ,July, and th-t I had all arms turned over to mae 50,627, as reported in G eneral Johnston's last return, this numiber, leses 3,000 sent to AMaeon and Mobile, would have given for the de fenace of Atlant a 47 ('7 effeetives; from whicb subtract, 40,4103 on hand, according to Colonel blason's return of the 20th of September, and even ill this ease wve have a loss of only 7,'22 during thme siege of forty-six (.46) dlays, against a lot~s of 25,000, suastainedl by General Johnston whilst retreating sixty-six (66) days and abaudoning one hundred (.100) miles of territory. "Sin1ce I had only about 45,000 troops, whiosd morale was imlpaired by constant retreat, opposed to a-a army of 100,000 or miore, during time siege of Atlanta, anmd Geoncral Johnston, whilst ut Dalton, had ever 70,000 'available' troo,,m, full of h .pe anid spirit, again 98,000, It may prove of interest to know thle relative strengthm of' Confedeoate amnd Feuderal aris in the prinipmal bat tics of the revolu tion. [t wes about as follows :In the seven days' battle around ic~h rm nid, frominGCi. n ' Mlill to MI Ivern lull1 inclusive, 80,000 Confederates algainsht over 150,000 Foderals ;see.. ond Mlanasisais, 50,000 against 138,000; Sharpsburg, or Antietam, 80.000 against 100,000 ; Fredericksburg, 58,000 against 100,001) ; Chaneellors ville, 45,000 against 140,00(1; Gottys barg, 60,000 against 95,000 ; Wil der ness to thme surrenmder of l'eter's bu rg, 45,000 against 140,000 ; Shiloh, 40,355 1 gainst, 60,000 ; Chiek amaunga, 36,741 againste 65,000. Nutwith-. standing -this glorious record, our army of over 70,000 'at and nlear 'Dalton',' Was made to turn its baok upon 98,000 Federals on the night of the 12th of Mlay, 1864." President Gr'sta'prmvo of deco rating the graves of Uni on and Con federate dead alike. lie believes that the timeo has come when every feeling -of fraternity ehould be en vouraged, and advantage taken of every opportunity to remlove anmy re-. maining animosity occasioned tiny the war. Oondienscl News. Affairs in Europa are quiot. Twelve thousand in habitants of [ey, in Morocco are in rebellion be. ause of the imposition of a gato tax. [t is hoped the Sultan will remove 10 tax. The Financo bill will hardly pass onaress this session. The majority ire inflationists, but Grant will veto heir bill. Goldsmith Maidgwon three straight iats over the pacer Copper Bottom t Philadelphia for $2,500. Shortest eat in 2,241. Judge Charles Doolittle of the Su 'reme Court of Now York was lost verboard the Abyssinnia en route o Europe. Five millions in gold will be sold n Now York during June. Secretary Richardson ' has become o much comprc wised by the investi ation into the Sawborn detective I ervice frauds that he has resigned t nd been nominated Judge of the E 'ourt of claims. Bristow who would avo Leon made Attorney General, e ad Williams become Chief Justice i till succeed him. Congress has re- ( ealod the lav giving collcotors of d oinquont taxes one-half. 0 Charles Edgar Thompson, President 0 f the Pennsylvania Central Itailroad i dead. 'Tom Scott will probably I cceed him. The Presbyterian General Assem ly of the South has not yet decided s to reuniting with the Northern hurch. liush It. Sloan, late President of a )e Cleveland and Sandusky I. it. roposod to compromise on 250,000, a ut this not being accepted, Sloan has I etuined to Europe. The Grand t nry at Sandusky has found fifteen It idictnients against him for ombez- I lement and nine for forgory. Ilerio Itochfort the groat Commu- I; ist who recently escapod from the r enal colony of new Caledonia, is in C ,ew York and in a long long letter n the Herald denounces the versailles g overnment and defends the Com- \ inno lle will go to Switz~erland. The Civil Rights bill hangs fire. 0 'lIe Republicais are in a quandary. t Clliott and other leading negroes t emuande' it in behalf of 800,000 , olored Radical voters. Brownlow a f'eannemee opposes it. The Nation- d I Baptist convention has prepared petition to Congress against it, c nd tho Democratic States threaten o abolish public Schools, if the bill asses. An effort will be made to stave 6 off this session. State News. a - - t The Methodist church at Newber ierry is undergoing repairs. The Grand Jury of Newberry ounty raised the license foe to c ;500. The Treasuror of Clarendon i ounty has paid in full the jury c ickets issued this term of the Court. 1 Tom. Riley, of Greenwood, drew 8 hree hundred dollars in Golladay's 8 ottery, of Bowling Groon, Kentucky. 0 a For the first time since the war, or r since the present jail hafs been built, yo have no prisoners the last having >een sent over to Columbia 0on Tues. t lay. Judge Townsend has the credit ' >f making a clean finish of the crim- ~ nal business, whuish has contributed naterially to produce this pleasant I ondition of our jail.-Jriny1onI u'otherner. Trho Clarendon Press says : 11,770 eros of land have beenm forfeited to. he State for delinquent taxes in llarendlon county for this fiseal year. 3ver half this numabor of acres is the ropcrty of his Excellency Franklin 1. Moses, Jr. Curses, like chickens, l nill como home to roost." This is ivcr 235 farms, averaging 50 acres. From the Mt. Airy, N. C. Visitor: r~ learn that a young girl, daughter< if Edward llull, who resides near ilount Airy, met a terrible death on d(londay night, the lth inst. It op. I >cars that a fire from a newground I ad blown out sud caught in a tree. I L'ho girls, three in number, cornmono- i ae cutting the tree down, thinking ~hat by so doing they could prevent he fire from spreading and doing fur ~her damage, but before they sue..I 3eeded in felling the tree the fire broke out in another place, and two4 of the girls ceased chopping the tree and went to put it out, while the oth' er continued to chop upon the tre , wvhichi suddenly fell with a tertibo arash striking one of the girls ald erushing bor to the earth and literal ly grinding her head inoapeft j..lly. c cfl About 11 o'clock one night a. policaman 'mot a negro .carrying. a trunk along tho.street,and, thinking ho had jiscovered an item,iio collar ed the negro, and told him, to drop, that trunk and explain. "I his~ do, It, sali,'' rhplied the stranger a~s b put the :.trunk' down. ."D)e fagwily. what was boarding fue has. beenh ax ing for money, and as they was gwync out to-night, I thought i'd get into sonic family whar dey respected de panic." He was allowed to go Brevities. The total proceeds of the seven lays sale of Sir Edwin Landseer's vorks was $367,510. The London Times has a telegraph sire between London and Paris for ts exclusive use, and for which it pays $15,000 a year. A Missouri man who swapped vivos with another Missourian got a ow, a calf, thirty good steel traps, i ud four children "to boot." There is a now nursery in Boston indor the guidance of charitablo 'olks, where working women may cave their babies during the day. As an excuse for rejecting a widow r, a fair youag damsel informed a riond that "she did not want a warm. d-over man." It is announced as an evidence of Lknerican influence over English isto that felt hats are worn for the rat time in the House of Commoni. Lippmnn, the "Cloakman," is one f the characters of Paris, having eon for thirty years attached to the )pora Comique. He calculates that uring his "career" he has had charge f 1,523,039 overcoats ; 635,00 anos ; and 1,300,515 umbrellas. A Goodlettevillo (Teonn.) negro, aving one day last week quarrelled rith his wife, secured a mooosiin iake, boiled its head in his wife's )a, and the woman was only saved om death by the administration of atidotes. Here you have him: The Czar is bout 48 yeare old ; he is six feet igh ; he has light whiskers and mus licho, with a clean shaven chin ; his air is out short ; his complexion is iir, and he has a good color. Queen Victoria showed her friend. ( feeling to-ward her ex-Premier, ecently, by inviting Mr. and Mrs. ladstone to attend, or rather com anding their attendance, at the rand banquet given to the Czar at Vindsor Castle. Some of the generals and other iMoors engaged in the Arkansas war bink they should be entitled to re. tre on half pay, instead of being neoremoniously compelled to earx living by vending peanuts and can. Y. A'.uill composed almost entirely f pure sulphur, with only fifteen per ont. of impurities, has been discov red 900 miles west of Omaha. The Atroduction of this sulphur into ommerco will break the Sicilian me opoly, which for conturies has been flourishing source of revenue to bat island. The Bonato has passed the House ill to revise and consolidate the tatutes of the United States in force n December 1, 1873. Tkis con ludes one of the snost important Porks undertaken since the formation f the government. The laws passed y Congress have been revised and. D consolidated as to ocoupy two in Load of seventeen volumes. The onfliction and repealing acts have 11 been simplified and properly ar %ngod. An incident occurred yesterday at he express office in Chattanooga thich shows the idea our colored rethern have of the civil rights bill. Ln old African woman asked the sonoy clerk if be had a package for oer. lie inquired her name and re. >lied in the negative without look ng over his book. "Why don't yeu nok and see ?" Inquired the African ndignantly. "Oh," he replied, "t now without looking." "Well, well ou kin put on dem sassy airs now, ut in a few days dere'llI be a law asscd that I kin go behind that ounter and look for myself. Dern woht be beholden to you at all." There is an apparent'effort making n the p art of the Rlepublican enemies f the Uivil Rights bill, by a little harp management, to dIefeat the bill Itogethor. It is now og~ the Speaker's able. and can only be reached by a, wo.thirds vote, except in its regu ar order several weeks hence. It is otimated toward the last of the ossion a bill similar to that of the senato will be p resented in the House und passed. This will go to the benate, and the subject' will be be ween the two Houses, and may be lolayed from week to week on the 'nost plausible grounds. Thus each flouse will have voted for the bill, but it will not pass. The Paris correspondent of the Nation writes: "Victor Hugo is very rich, Larmartine gained enor mous sums of money, so did Alex andor Dlumas. The theater Is, how o ser, as a rule. the only lucrative province of literatur.. While suok mon asSardon, 3lelhag, and Haly ire making large'- foiftuos, Taine, who is a very hard worker, and who lives with the closest economy, has oinly~tjooeeded zin msaking a very small fortune.. About' is not rich, as ho only writes novels ad all his at teispts on the stage have been fail ures. .8o were the atteinpts of Thee phile Gautier, with the exception of a libretto of a tballet, which got him probably more money than all ).i other poems put together."