Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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||umomtsi Department. ftaf It was at the second battle of Bull Run that a cannon ball carried off a poor soldier's leg. "Carry me to the rear !" he cried, to a tall Yankee companion, who had been fighting by his side. The Yankee caught the wounded soldier up, and as he was about to put him across his shoulders, auother cannon ball carried away the poor fellow's head. The Yankee, however, in the confusion, did not notice this, but proceeded with his burden toward the rear. "What are you carrying that thing for ?" cried an officer. "Thing!" returned the Yankee. "Its a tnan with his leg shot off." "Why, he hasn't any head !" cried the officer. The Yankee looked at his load, and for the first time saw that what the officer said was true. Throwing down the body, he thundered out: "Confound him ! he told me it was his leg!" "Can you tell me the road to Greenville?" asked a Yankee traveler of a boy whom he met on the road. "Yes, sir," said the boy. "Do you see our barn down there ?" "Yes," said he. "Go to that. About three hundred yards ( beyond the barn you will find a lane. Take that lane and follow along about a mile and a half. Then you will come to a slippery elm log. You be mighty keerful, stranger, about going on that log?you may get into the branch?and then you cau go on up till you get on the brow of the hill, and there the roads prevaricate; and you take the left hand road, and keep that until you get into a big plum thicket; when you get there, why, then?then, then?" "What then ?" "Then, stranger, I'll be hanged if you ain't lost." Swallowed a House.?John Haynes, while on a bender, recently, made a mistake very natural to one in his condition. He imagined that he was indulging in copious liba aP konilnA u?kan l r\ font ko it'OC ^Pinlr. UUUO VI Ifligii) 1U 1UVV) IIV IIUW UAiun ing genuine linseed oil. Shortly after John felt a queer taste coming into his mouth. The first idea that occurred to him was that he was poisoned. A physician was sent for, and he applied a stomach pump. "Is there arsenic in it, doctor?" faintly enquired the patient. "No," replied the Esculapius, "it smells like a newly painted house." "What!" screamed John. "It smells like a newly painted house," repeated the physician. "Doctor," cried the now excited patient, "you don't mean to tell me that I've swallowed a whole house!" Luck After All.?One Smith failed in busiuess and sold out, and having two or three tough little bills, had given them to a lawyer for collection. Smith went to the office to receive the proceeds. The amount collected was about fifty dollars. "I'm sorry you have been so unfortunate, Smith, for I take a great interest in you. I shan't charge you as much as I should if I didu't feel so much interest in you." Here he handed Smith fifteen dollars and kept the balance. "You see, Smith, I knew you when you were a boy, and I knew your father before you, and I take a great deal of interest in you. Good morning. Come and see me again." Smith, moviug slowly out of the door, and ruefully contemplating the avails, was heard to mutter: "Thank God you didn't know my grandfather." tey1* A school superintendent living in Sutton county, Kansas, recently mailed the following answer to an applicant for a teachership: "mi deer miss?Yoors of inqueery is gest receaved & at hand & contents noted & i will sav this mutch that we air grately in | kneed of some good teachers & if yoo air prepaired to undergow a sewear examination in spellin', gramer, latin?come on to once. P. S.?how would yoo like to enter the konobial state there air a grate many young men of high tone, & superior mental acquirements here who air red hot for a wife, & if yoo play kards d n sharp you won't teach long. "Yours in respect, W. \V. B." SHF" A Chicago widower, who has been married nine times, says that which a raau most wants of a wife is her companionship, sympathy, courage and love. He is right. The true man wants his wife's companionship when lie has to get up in the uight and see what noise is in the cellar. Her courage is eminently valuable in the general neighborhood debates over the possession of some domestic article, and her love Is absolutely indispensable when he gets in late. But her sympathy ! Well, any one who has ever picked up the wrong stove-lid with his bare hand can estimate the value of that. &-& About the best illustration of the fruits of going to law for the settlement of disputed rights in these times, that we have seen, is the following: A picture representing a cow, with two angry claimants contending for right of ownership, one holding the cow by the horns, the other by the tail, both with defiant determination, while a lawyer comfortably seated, calmly milks the quadruped. It strikes us that this picture explains exactly "what's the matter." A Little Light.?"Mr. Smith, you said you once officiated in a pulpit?do you mean that you preached?" "No, sir; I held a light for the man who did." "Ah!?the court understood you differently. They supposed that the discourse came from you." "No, sir; I only threw a little light ou it." ? + teg- An American judge once intervened in an odd way to prevent a waste of words. He was sitting in chambers, and seeing from the piles of papers in the lawyers' hands that the ! first case was likely to be hardly contested, J he asked "What is the amount in question ?" "Two dollars," said the plaintiff's counsel. "I'll pay it," said the judge, handing over the | money; "call the next case." A man out West,who married a widow, ! has invented a device to cure her of "eternal- I ly" praising'her former husband. Whenever | she begius to descant on his noble qualities, ! this ingenious No. 2 merely says: "Poor, dear man ! how I wish he had not died!" and the j lady immediately begins to think of some-! thing else to talk about. tSidf "Is Pat Flanning on board this ship ?" j roared Nelson, during a lull in the firing at the battle of the Nile. "I'm here, my lord," j said Erin's sou, showing himself on the deck, j "Then," said the gallant Nelson, looking sat-1 isfied, "let the battle proceed." Pat relates < this story himself. fc#* A witty editor, just failed, says he did j it with the honors of war, and retired from the field with flying colors, the sheriff's flag fluttering from two windows ana a door, ana a white Hag hung out of his person as a token of surrender. ? - ? fetf There is a gentleman out West who feels considerably taken down. He remarked to his wife that it was lucky he didn't meet Miss before he got married, and his wife unfeelingly put in her oar, and said, "Yes, lucky for her." fisiy Having a bill against a man in a Keunebeck town, we sent a letter of enquiry to a newspaper manpf-that locality. The reply was 'he is deacK;but pays just as well as he ever did." Uttf "Mother did you ever hear Sissy swearing?""?^, my dear; what did she say?" "Why she said she wasn't going to wear her darned stockings to church." ^hiWrcn's fjlfpatlmcnt. [Contriluiii'il.] A WORD TO THE LITTLE BOYS. Perseverance, you have all heard, boys, is , the secret to success. Doubtless many of you who read this, have often seen the words : written in a precise, beautiful hand, on the ! copy-line of your copy-books ; but have rea<l : it, only because it was new for the time be| ing, while you wrote it, line after line, with : the sole end in view of getting to the bottom ' of the page as soon as possible. There is a deeper meaning in the words 1 than you dream of?a meaning that must I characterize your youth and manhood, ere you attain to much success in life. It is true, . good fortune sometimes comes to a few, without effort on their part; but to the larger J number it comes only by dint of hard labor. | And this same determined spirit of self-reli; ance and work, makes, by far, the best men I our country afTords?the very bone and sinew j of the land. I Many of the great men, whose names are written in glowing characters, high upon the j rolls of honor, were born under most inausj picious circumstances. Their memoirs ccrj tainly do not tell us that they were "born in | a fortunate day." Their only guiding star j of destiny, if such it may be called, was a dej termination to persevere in upright, manly I principles, and a strong will not to be conquered by adverse circumstances. You are priviledged to strive for the same high reward, with fewer difficulties, perhaps, at the starting-point. What others have done, you can do. When once you fail, try again. You will only be the better for a little shaking up ; and so far from discouraging, itshould only stimulate you to renewed and greater efforts. Do not wait for help. Kemember that the exertions of ourselves are the only efforts that are likely to place us on the top round of the ladder. Show a manly independence, and give your friends the opportunity, one day, of lifting their hats to the boy who persevered aud conquered. Evlina. THE SECRET OEHAPPIXESS. The other day, I went to see a little blind boy. The scarlet-fever settled in his eyes, and for many months he had not seen at all. He used to be a sprightly little fellow, upon the run everywhere. "Well, my dear boy," I said, "this is hard for you, is it not ?" He did not answer for a minute, then he said, "I don't know as I ought to say hard; God j Unci ." knf l?ia lin nniooiwt nnrl h. little &.1JIMT3 UCOli y UUV UK) \^uif v*vv.j ???? ? ...... tear stole down his cheek. "Yes, my child, you have a kind Heavenly Father, who loves you and feels for you more even than your mother does." "I know it, sir," said the little boy, "and it comforts me." "I wish Jesus was here to cure Frank," said his little sister; "Jesus cured a good many blind men when he was on earth, and I am most sure he would cure Frank." "Well," said I, "He will open little Frank's eyes to see w^at a good Saviour he is. He will show him that a blinded heart is worse than a blind eye, and he will wash his heart in his own blood, and cure it, and make him see and enjoy beautiful heavenly things, so that he may sit here and be a thousand times happier than many children who are running about." "I can't help wishing he could see," said Lizzie. "I dare say," said I, "but I hope you don't try to make Frank discontented." "Frauk isn't discontented," said Lizzie, earnestly ; "he loves God!" "And love sets everything right, and makes its own sunshine; does it not, Frank?" "I dou't feel cross now," said the little blind boy, meekly; "when I'm alone, I pray, and sing my Sabbath School hymns, and God's in the room, and it feels light, and?and?I forget I'm blind at all!" and a sweet light stole over his pale features as he spoke ; it was heavenly light, I was sure. I went to pity and comfort him, but I found God had gone before me. The great God who has a thousand worlds to take care of, did not overlook him, but with his heart of love came and turned his mourning into joy, his darkness into light, and made him in his mistortuncs as nappy as a child can be. God can do more and better for us than we can ask or think. THE OLD SXA*IlTA>'I> THE FLY. Dreaming in the sunshine, reposing on a dock-leaf, was as beautiful a fly as ever spread a wing. He was awakened by the sky lark's soug and hurried out to view the glories of the day, uttering no thanksgiving, but boasted as he Hew?"who so beautiful as I? The golden cups and primroses are all mine to hold my breakfast, so I'll just help myself." The old snail, crawling on a stony wall, warned him of the swallow flying in the lane, and of the spider making his net, telling him they cared nothing for beauty, and if either of them caught him, he would surely die. But the silly young fly said mockingly, "If I were a dull, old stupid thing like you, I might fear. Get back into your slimy shell, you are an old slow-coach; I am young and bold !" So the proud fly flew away, but soon being tired and thirsty, a sparkling dew-drop attracted him. It lay on a carpet, spread over a bush, a carpet soft as velvet. "And this is for me," he boasted, "how nice! Old Snail ought to see this!" Then waving his plumes, he lit down on the carpet so soft; but alas! When once his feet touched it, he could not get away ; and out from its. hiding-place a hideous spider came. Here was the very danger the snail foresaw. The spider bound him with cobweb chains; he knew he was doomed to die, and in his la fact rnnm?nf? mndp n TlPllifpnt. POllfpSsion of his folly. "What a proud, foolish thing I was, despising the wise old snail, who would have kept me safe. If I had not mocked his age, I j might still spread my wings, and share my j Creator's bounties." Now, dear little friends, if you kno w of any | who are too wise in their own conceit, tell i them this story of the "Old Snail and the j Fly," and when old people warn you, don't1 despise them because they are slow, but be | guided by their counsel, and you shall walk , safely. After tiie Event.?A swallow's nest fell from the eaves of a farm-house, and the barn- \ yard poultry and the hedge-birds gathered about the ruins, and went into committee on , them. "I knew it was going to fall?I felt sure it must the last time I went on the roof," J chirped a sparrow. "Stupid thing?building its nest up there," hissed a goose. "I could have taught her how to lay eggs without getting them smashed, if she had only come to me," quacked a duck. "And I could have taught her how to hatch them?I have had to hatch yours, neighbor duck," clucked a lieu. "Gobble, gobble, gobble?if people choose to be fools, they must take the consequences," said a strutting turkey-cock, puffing out bis feathers. "My friends, you are very kiud to take so much interest in my affairs," twittered the poor swallow; "but if you were so sure that my house was going to fall, isn't it a pity that you didn't tell me so a little sooner?" Evil Habits.?It is related that an Indian once brought up a young lion, and finding him weak and harmless, never attempted to control him. Every day the lion gained in strength, and became more difficult to manage. At last when excited by rage, he fell upon the Indian and tore him to pieces. It is thus so with evil habits and bad passions. They are like this lion. If indulged in youth, they will cause much vexation in after life, and may perhaps destroy us. Youth, remember and beware. fkmUug for the ahhath. CONDUCTED BY IlEV. ROBERT LATH AN. [Original.] EXTREMES. One of the very noticeable features, both of the physical and moral world, is that things | and principles diametrically opposed to each j other, are often found in close proximity. : The good and the bad can always be seen at I the same moment, and may bo. caught at the st-me grasp. There is no better sign of rain | than a cloudless sky, and there is no surer ! premonition of a dry day than a day of con tinuous rain. The richest valleys are often fringed round with barren glades and craggy rocks. The choicest fruits, and the most poisonous plants, often grow in the same soil. The sod in which grows our bread, frequently nurtures and matures the deadly night-shade. In the same community, and on the same plane, lives the rich man, whose possessions are boundless, and whose table is daily covered with the luxuries of life ; and the poor man, whose humble hut scarcely protects him from the inclemencies of the weather, and whose coarse food is doled out in such scanty supplies as just to be suflicicut to prolong life. At the same glance of the eye may be seen the stately mansion of the rich, and the miserable hovel of the poor. The moral aspect of the world presents the same extremes. The church and the dramshop are often within a stone's cast of each other. The most wonderful cases of exemplary piety, and the most deplorable instances of godless wickedness are near neighbors. Tli o nrnvops nrwl nrni<p? nf t.hft riorhtenus are t ? o often drowned by the shouts of profane revelers. Such is the condition of things the world over. Such has always been the case, and such no doubt always will be the case. Why, it may be asked, does God, who is omnipotent, suffer these things to be so? No doubt, one reason is, that the good and pious may, during the whole of their earthly pilgrimage, see the ruinous effects of sin, and be thereby induced to serve God with fear, and join trembling with their mirth. The husbandman, in the parable, instructed his servants to let the tares, which the enemy had sown, grow until the harvest, lest by remov-! ing them before that time, the wheat would be rooted up with them. Whilst the church remains in its militant state, there will be wicked men in the world and hypocrites in the church, and any attempt to Wholly remove them in any other way than by preaching the gospel, would prove an incalculable injury to Christianity itself. We should remember that there is another world in which God proposes to separate the good from the bad, and punish the wicked and reward the righteous. When the judgment comes, God will gather all the tares together and burn them in unquenchable fire. Until that day arrives, we may expect extremes of good and evil to exist. [Original.] THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. "The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took and hid in three mAQonroe r\P man 1 till flio u'tinlp wns Ipnvpn. ed." Matt. 13:33. In this, and the preceding parable, by "kingdom of heaven," we arc to understand the effects of divine grace in the soul. In the parable of the mustard seed, we are taught the wonderful growth of piety in the soul; in the parable of the leaven, we are taught the manner of the development of that piety. In the former, we are informed that a thing, at first small, becomes, in the end, exceedingly great; in the latter, we have an illustration of the mode or manner in which that thiug which was small in its incipiency, ultimately becomes great. The grace of God acts upon the soul as leaven acts upon meal. It is secret. No one can certainly tell the precise moment when the leaven or yeast commences to exercise its influence upon the meal; just so with the grace of God in the soul. No one knows the precise moment when he was born again. When God's Spirit enters the soul and quickens it into life, few, if any, certainly know. As none of us are conscious of the day and hour of our natural birth, so likewise none of us are conscious of the day when we became the sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty by the regeneration of the Holy Spirit. The record of our natural birth is kept by our earthly parents, and the record of our spiritual birth is kept in the archives of heaven by our heavenly Father. Again, the operation of divine grace in the soul is secret, in the sense that it is without noise or confusion. Powerful as may be the effects of leaven upon meal, they are produced without noise. So it is of every one that is born of the Spirit. God's regenerating spirit is a "still small voice." Although it rends the mountain and breaks the rock, it is noiseless. No one hears, as no one sees, the Holy Spirit quickening a soul dead in tresspasses and sius, and making it alive in Christ Jesus. Again, piety is like leaven, in that it works from within outward. The leaven, that it may do its work effectually, is put in the meal, not on it or around it. So it is with God's Spirit. It is put in the soul, not on or around it. In its work of sanctihcation, it works from within outward. Its operation is from the centre toward the surface, not from the surface toward the centre. The inside is cleansed before the outside. The thoughts and feelings are purified first, afterwards the words and acts. When leaven is put into meal, the nature of the meal undergoes a complete change. It becomes a new thing. A chemical change takes place which thoroughly changes the meal. It is no longer what it once was. So it is when the spirit of God is put within the soul. A most thorough change takes place. The thoughts, feelings and desires of the soul become new. The man becomes a new creature. He sees and understands things as he never saw and never understood them before. Tim inclinations of hits hofirf. AXP. nhflllped. l and lie loves what lie once hated, and hates what he once loved. His once stubborn and rebellious will is subdued, and he becomes voluntarily obedient to God as his maker, preserver and redeemer. The change extends not only to his thoughts, but also to all his acts. lie commences to live a life which ter- j mi nates in freedom from sin in this world,! and in glory in the next. No change can be ' greater, and none is more desirable. Without. this change, produced by the leaven of I grace, there will be no heaven to the soul. j ? At#" If you say that many of those who make a profession of religiou do not live in accordance with that profession, my reply is that it is with this as with other things. You never saw an apple tree that did not have fifty blossoms where there was one that set and came to fruit. Aud it may be true that in a community where fifty meu arc impressed with religion, ouly one will become a ripe Christian, while all the rest will, more or less, lose their impressions, and relapse into different degrees of inferiority all the way down. I lU'coher. | IpsfcUanwusi fading. BILL ARP ON THE STOCK MARKET. It are honorable to acknowledge that when j I writ some of my letters, I was a right ! smart fool. I can look back and see that I ain't a proflfet. Proffesy ain't my forte. Me and the preechers was both mistaken. We tliot we would whip the whole of the fite, but we only whiped two-thirds of it. We whiped it at the fust and in the middle, but they whiped us at the last. We never counted on havin to fite all creashun in front and Ellik Brown and Joe Stephens & Co. in the rear. It was a unfair contest. If I was a Yank I wouldn't never menshun tbis war as long as I liv'd. I'd be ashamed to. Old Xerxes, with his big army, whiped a few Spartans, but histry ain't got no respect for him. Now I don't want to hurt feelins. After a man has done a mean thing and bin cotch at it, I ain't I'nrlit.Mnnt f/-> Ir non o thr/MfMn if- tin tl"\ him LUG 1UU1 Viuuai LU IVLL|i U ?v Uwvr If the Yanks are ashamed of their konduct, I'm willin to drap it and make friends. The pure breed of Yankees never was a favorite stock with me. When it's jewdishously crossed it does very well, but even then the old Yank will crop out ever and anon and show the skrub. There is as much difference in people as there is in horses. The pure Southerner is blooded stock. With him honor and fair dealin and family pride are bigger things than money. The pure Yank is a philthy lucre skrub. Money is the big thing. Their chief end of man is to keep all you git, and git all you can. They like what other peeple have got better than their own, and they go for it and call it speculatin. If they can't git it fast enough that way, they pass laws in Congress that will get it by degrees. Through tariffs and bounties and appropriashuns they got nearly all we had before the war, and have stole all the ballius since. They look upon us as foemen worthy of their steal. When a Yank gits rich and don't want any more, he gits sorter honest, and gives away sura to churches and colleges. Then he lays down and dies, and has a white sepulker bilt over him, and goes about huntin for Abraham's buzzum. * A ptire Southerner don't keer for a thrip, but a Yank will git rich off of coppers. He will buy nails at four dollars and 90 cents a keg and retail em out 5 cents a pound. Ten cents and keg is considered a fair profit in Konnetikut. He will spekulate on anything in the world. I knowed one to buy his wife's .1 i..? i?? j u uuwer lur nvu nuuuicu uunuia uuu sen il tu his dady-in-law for a thousiu. That was a cute way of makin the stingy old cuss give him sumthin before he died. A reglar Yank is a perambulatin man. He out travels all creashun when hunten roun for money. He don't mind goin from Maine to Mississippi not more than we mind goin to the post offis. He insinuates himself into every land that's got any thing he can git. He's smart, and he's diligent, aud he's never left by the train. These is good qualities, and I wish our peepul had em. When a clever Yanks cums down South and mixes with our foaks, he improves rapidly by contakt, and if he comes in his youth and stays long enuff and marries in a respectable family he is apt to make a good citizen. It helps him and helps the family, | especially if its poor and proud. This kind of a cross generally does well and brings good froot. The offspring is apt to be lively and shifty and have the love of money and the love of honor so butifully mixed up you can't tell tother frum which. The only danger is that the Yank may crop out occasionally and produce sum mortificashun. A cross between Massachusetts and South Carolina does very well now a days. One is chuck full of money, the other of honor. The money keeps the honor from perishin, which is a good thing, fur if it aint kept comfortable its inklined to degenerate, aud the stock runs into skrub in two generashuns. Honor, nor nuthin else aint bumb proof agiust the debasin influence of an empty stomach. If a race hoss aint well kept, his offspring will play out; and so when a fust family gits poor, the children bekura a sekond family, and so forth, until you can't tell them from common stock. Now my opiuyun is that a State or aGuverment ought to keep up its human stoek. When a man looms up above the horizun as a great man, he ought to be penshuued and supported so that he wouldn't hav to think about munny. He ort to be required to marry into another penshuned family, and in this way keep up a family of brains to draw from for our Presidents and Guvenors and law makers. They ort to be paid enuf to keep them out of teraptashun, and then we would hav no carpet-bagers, nor Mobillinrs, nor Cleweses, nor pig iron Kclleys, nor lobbyin bills through the house for pay. I like to see a family of brains keepin up the family reputashun for generashuns to cum. I like the Adorases, and Brekenridges and Laraars, and Bayrds, and Prestons, and all sich, and I'm glad they was born rich. I want all great men to be rich as long as they are good. Their influence spreads all over the country and we can pint our children to em and eay, "there's your mark, now shoot at it." As it is now, the struggle seems to be who can git the richest, and it don't matter how they get money, so they git it, and aint cotch a stealin of it. Sometimes you see the worst sort of skrub stock blessed with an uncommon quantity of brains, and then you may look out. \ ou raout as well surrender, for they are goin to have a slice of your property. If they can't git it no other way they will run down an offis, or a railroad, or a Michel estate, or a lease, or get up a guverment kontrakt, or git sumthin that pays without work. A smart skrub is a dangerous animal. A cow that horns down the fence, or a hog that roots open the gate, or a hoss that lets down the draw bars is a nusance and a cuss. They are a skrub. A pure Durham, or a Berkshire, or a Harney won't do it. The oldfashund fu9t families wouldn't do a mean thing. They wus abuv it. They wouldn't lose their self respek. I like them sort, espeIf fViotr oro i-inti T lilro fn livp in t.hp.ir i O.ClilJf 11 H.VJ w.v I.W.. naborhood. They have big ideas and big ways, and look like foaks ort to look. They hold their heads up and look at you strait when they talk to you. They don't ride nor walk like common foaks. I can tell one of em a hundred yards. It takes all sorts of foaks to make up a world, and I'm glad that kind is in it. I'm as poor as Lazzyrus, but I ain't fool enuf to hate rich | foaks ; I like em. If they are good stock 11 cau pick up a rite good livin off of what they i throw away. But if you think you can make j anything off of a rich skrub jest try it. He don't waste enuf to keep a houn dog from j starvashuu. Poor foaks are a rite good thing . in the country. Iu fakt, a country is obleeged to have em to keep rich foaks in munny. i That's what I've been doin all my life, and if j I don't grumble at it nobody needent. Being j poar and keepin so is my forte, but I hav had I a rite good time, nevertheless notwithstandin, | for raunuy brings a heap of trubble, and the j children get so orful tired a waitin for the old j man to die. Three score years and ten must, be a long time to foaks that's waitin. And there's that needle's eye business, and the long divishun, and the quarrels of the lawyers over the estates. But after all I like ! munny. I've got nothin agin it so far as I am concerned. If enny body should leave ; me enny, I should exsept it and shed a tear to i his memory. The fakt is I would like to feel j the feeling of a rich man for a little while, i May be it would stretch me up a little. Mrs. | Arp says I'm gcttin hump shouldered. I i would like to be an elder in a church and give GOO dollars a year to the preacher and shake hands with the brethren nnd sisters at the vestybule. That would be elegant. I'm j obliged to think I'd like that. Well, after all, it don't matter much whether a man is poor or rich. One man is about' as happy as another if his hart is iu his buz-1 zum and not in his pocket. If he ain't, we can't help it, nnd its no use to grumble about | what we can't help. Bill Arp. i A GAMBLER'S WIFE. There was a story current at Washington in the closing year of Mr. Tyler's adniinistra: tion, says the Old Stager, which created some i merriment among those acquainted with the ' parties to the affair. A well-known gambler, ; who had a faro bank on Pennsylvania Avenue, | opened a place of business at the White Sulphur Springs, in Virginia. The wife of the gambler was a well-connected woman of I Washington, of good character, of fine culture and considerable sociable experience. The society at the White Sulphur was in: clined to exclusiveness, and while the gentlemen associated freely witii the gambler, lost their money at his table, partook of his hospitality without scruple or hesitation, anil recognized him on all occasions, his wife was cut dead by the ladies in public and private, i She had an elegant establishment, drove a I beautiful pair of ponies in a stylish phieton, dressed more richly and in better taste than ! any other lady at the Springs, wore more costly jewels, and really bore herself in a proper ! and becoming manner. But all this had no ! effect upon the aristocratic ladies who comj posed a large portion of the visitors at the ; Springs, except that being annoyed by her superior display, they manifested their vexation by loftier airs and a more rigorous enforcement of the exclusion to which they had subjected her to at the outset. She lived in a condition of isolation and solitude as utter as if she had been on a desert island, and this at a fashionable and well-attended wateringplace. As the season approached the close, and the visitors were about to disperse, the lady determined to free her mind, and at the same time acquaint her censors with her view of the situation. One fine morning, when most of the ladies were assembled in the parlor, she appeared among them, much to their astonishment. With perfect composure, and the air of a well-bred woman, she addressed them substantially as follows : "Ladies, we have been here in the same house, most of us, for more than two months, and not a word has been addressed to me by one of you during that time. I am as well born, as well educated, as well behaved, and of as good cheracter as any lady among you. Not a syllable has ever been heard derogatory to my reputation, and yet you have treated me with less consideration than if I had been one of your negro slaves. You have passed me with a supercilious toss of the head, as though there was contamination in my touch. The cause of this arrogauce and insolence is obvious enough. You refuse to recognize me because ray husband is a gambler. That such is his profession I avow without hesitation. But what of that? Your husbands are all gamblers. They risk their money at his table. They are on one side of that table, and he on the other. You cannot make a distinction between them on that ground. But that my husband's is the best side of the table is proved by the fact that tf ~ lose and he wins the money bet on the carus." The ladies looked at each other iu amazement. But, as one of them remarked afterward, the arguments to refute the propositions of the gambler's wife did not seem to occur to any of them. The Three RrcnEST Men in America. William B. Astor, A. T. Stewart and Commodore Vanderbilt?are all residents of New York City. Astor's wealth is mainly in real estate and its revenues; Vanderbilt's is mainly in railroad stocks, and their dividends; Stewart's is in goods, houses, stores, factories, lands and stocks. The aggregate wealth of each one of them is supposed to be somewhere between seventy-five and a hundred millions, which looks rather heavy. Nobody knows exactly; they couldn't tell themselves within a million or two. Those who know most about their affairs put their figures highest, and say that the income tax of a few years ago, which showed each of them to be worth between twenty and thirty millions, gave no proper idea of their real worth. Astor lives unostentatiously ; Vanderbilt lives in a three story brick house, on a third-class street; and Stewart lives in a marble palace on Fifth avenue, more magnificent than any other residence on the American continent, and equaled by but few in any of the great cities of Europe. Astor and Vanderbilt are New Yorkers by birth ; Stewart is a native of the north of Ireland. Astor is a large heavy man of 70, with strong features and a rubicund face, indicative of high living ; Stewart is a medium-sized man, rather slender and tall, of 73, with a face like a parchment, and gives the impression of being hard-up ; Vanderbilt is a tall, slim, handsome, proud-looking man of nearly 80, straight as an arrow. Astor has heirs to his estates ; Vanderbilt has children to whom he can leave his fortune; but Stewart is childless. Astor's public benefactions are confined to something like a couple of hundred thousand dollars, which he gave to the Astor library, and the two golden candlesticks, nine feet high, which he recently gave to Trinity church. Vanderbilt has never made any public benefactions, excepting a steamship to the government during the war, till very recently, when he gave a raillion dollars for educational purposes?onehalf of this sum to found a university in Tennessee, and the other half to another educational institution. Stewart has always had the renutation of beincr verv close-fisted : but he must be credited with his milliou dollar "Home for Women," which will be completed next year. Astor is a rigorous Episcopalian, Vanderbilt is an independent Methodist, and Stewart is said to be inclined to thinking for himself. Stewart is a scholarly man ; Vanderbilt is not.. Astor is an accomplished man of the world.?Cincinnati Commercial. Remedy for Cabbage Worm?A correspondent of the New York Times thus replies to a man who wants to know how to free his cabbage from the cabbage worm. "Thirty years experience enables me to tell him. Get what is termed by the city provision dealers ship-stuff or shorts?such as we feed to stock ; though wheat bran will do as well as shorts. Examine the cabbage before they head; if you see the web of the caterpillar, or holes in the leaves of the bud, put a table-spoonful of shorts in the head. If hard rains follow you may have to repeat. The cure is effectual. The worms become mired in the shorts made wet by the dew. The worms seldom attack cabbage after they are headed." A little girl, daughter of a clergyman, being left one day to "tend door," and obeying a summons of the bell, she fouud a gentleman on tha steps who wished to see her father. "Father isn't in," she said ; but if it is anything about your soul I can attend to you. I know thp whole plan of salvation." Jones, who has lately been rarrned, says that courtship is bliss, but matrimony is blister. lite fothviWr ^aquivcr. 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Arrive at Charlotte 4.05 " | j EAST AND WEST | GOING EAST. | GOING WEST. STATIONS. MAIL. MAILT Leave Green-lion g 8.20 P. M. j Arrive 10.48 P. M. " Company Simps.. - 10.00 ? I ? 9..T0 " ' llillsborn s. 11.10 " = 7.47 " " 5 1.40 A. M. j S 5.26 " . Arrive at Gohl-bnro =' 4..T0 " I -s Leave 3.30 P. M. NORTH-WESTERN N. C. RAILROAD. (salem ijrancir.) Leave Greenshnrn .'1.40 J'. M. Arrive ;it Kernrrxvillr, 5.10 P. M. I .cave Krrncrsvillc 9.00 A. M. Arrive at (ircensliuro 10.50 A. Si. ! Mail trains daily l>otIi ways over entire length I of roads. Accommodation "daily between Dani villo and Richmond, (Sundays excepted.) i On Sundays Lynchburg Accommodation leaves Richmond at 8.25 A. M.; arrives at Burkeville 11.28 A. M.; leaves Burkeville 1.10 P. M.; arrives at Richmond 4.17 P. M. Pullman PalaceCarson all night trains between Charlotte and Richmond, (without change.) For further information, address S. E. ALLEN, (Jeneral Ticket Acent, T. M. R. TALCOTT, OitEKNsnoBo, N. C. Engr. and Gen. Supt. t Bnildinlkrivijv and Sup^iuMonMntgs, b i BracketsJfeweli Roil. Balusterj.Mfa GnankM 4 Slate and Marble Mantles-.Floor andBrain^ t Tiling; White Pine, WalnutRn^Lmlecy b 0 L'dl>inetMdJerj7uieWooclt,&c. I 7 All WorhWarranted, \ 9 LOWEST PRICES.! a Send forPriee List. J \ I.H. HALL & CO.! \ Manufacturer* & Dnlert. ! 3 2,4,0, 8,10. Market Street. M 22o, 225, Bast Bay, g$ g| CHARLESTON, S. 0. fa This Cut entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, by I. II. Hai.i. & Co., in the office of the Librarian of Cnngicsx, at Washington. July 3 27 ly Ms Hold Ipi Is an original, flrst-chw, Dollar Monthly. It b H O fresh and sprightly, and will Interest the entire household, including lovers and maidens, hus- VI O bands and wives, parents and children. It sug- p eests the importance of securing a union of * Q hearts and purposes In life, liel'ore there shall t bea union of hands. It liellevcs that, while it A S b woman's privilege to purify and comfort and g H adorn, it should be man's pleasure to provide w for, cherbh, and protect. It would huve chll- Q . a drcn treated as feeling, thinking and growing ^ creatures?perfectly created,but not fUltgrown. T || Yet in advocating these doctrines, the Msga- U zinc does not employ doctrinal sermons?long JJ S and dreary disquisitions which do not interest Q Eand therefore do not profit the reader. On the p contrary. It would rather preach as though It J. U preached not?an Interesting story,lor Instance, fc J being made to serve the purpose of a long dls- m. Q course by giving the reader something reul, in- OL L (cresting aud profitable to think about. J The wont as well as the best feature of the A n Magazine Is Its price. The idea of Retting a VI rf really first-class Magazine at one dollar a year, V M seems absurd to most people. Yet It employs A A some of the best contributors in the country? H Including Gail Hamilton, its leading editor, l\ Cwho receives a salary of three thousand dol- Jj lars, equivalent to about ten dollars per day. P A Each number contains nearly eight hundred gf tm dollan'worth of matter, which costs the sub- y M? g/'plSztf ultniif Aicrht fontn. A I -| Hope and Joy?two beautifully timet! crayon portraits worth Four Dollars?will bo mailed ?J N free to every subscriber to the Magazine at $150 ft E Specimen!) Tree. Agents wanted. Address S. Jv a WOOD A CO., Newburgh, N. Y. Y lOKIIllJiy-lKliJlF U United Tolce of the 1* re aa.?Wood's U/ magazine la one of the monument* of business ** 0 entcrprlac which mark the tge.?Methoditt Home O P Journal, Phlla., Fa Aa lis title prontlaea, It fa devoted to the Inatrnctlou and entertainment U E of the family circle,and,In order to place It with- ft &ln the mcana of readers In moderate clrcutn- "f stances,lt la furnished at a remarkably low rato fi J in proportion to the interest of Ita contents.?If. OY. Tribune. ..It la essentially a home magazine, M and la Just tho thing that one would most desire ft Y to place In the hands of his wife and little ones, w U or that a man of business would himself take II ft up for the employment of a leisure hour.?Pou 7Z ft Wilmington, N. C Were we out of our g q chair editorial, as a "private citizen," cutoff p> r from our exchange Hat and all that, one of the t P first magazines to which we should subscribe U fS wouhl be Wood's Household.?RryiArr, llart- " & fori!. CL It la an Intellectual and moral ft | educator, highly prized by all who become ac- jr 4L quaintcd with It?ChrKian Adeonilt. ....If L Q popular writers are, therefore, good writers, ft and If high prices prove the merit of literary ' wares, then Mr. Wood's magazine is a good M H one.?The Inilrjriulmt, New York Ita urti- V Oclea breathe a spirit of economy, morality and A virtue which Is highly refreshing In this age of f\ P fashionable folly and extravagance.?Sentinel, P Edlna, Mo It Is undoubtedly one of the A t freshest, liveliest Journals we have examined. 2 Jti ?Kemnl, Springfield, Tenn The articles Z 1 arc short, piquant, and of such unquestioned a J excellence, that this periodical ought to be both J ft familiar and welcome In very many house- |\| Yw holds. Wood's Is a marvel of cheapness and v first-class quality combined.?A>ir York Time*. C, Ms ImM Magi DOORS, SASH AND BLINDS, MOULDINGS, Brackets, Stair Fixtures, builders' Furnishing Hardware, Drain Pipe, Floor Tiles, Wire Guards, Terra Gotta Ware, Marble and Slate Mantle Pieces. WINDOW GLASS A SPECIALTY, i Circulars and Price Lists sent freo on application, P. P. TOALE, 20 Hayue and 33 Pinckney streets, Charleston, S. C. .2-$- Orders received bv my Agents, Messrs. JEFFERYS & METTS, at the Citizen's Savings Bank, Yorkville, S. C. jfcir White Pine Lumber for Sale. October 3 40 ly BO SE'SHOTEL (FORMERLY HUNT'S HOTEL.) COI^Ux\IBIA9 S. C. THIS HOUSE is in tlio centre of thocity, convenient to alltho Public Oflices and Business Houses, located on the south-west corner of the State House Square, has been recently re-opened and renovated, and will now compare favorably with any Hotel at the South. ROSE'S OMNIBUS will convey passengers to ami from every train, free of charge. Also, a tirst-class Carriage for the accommodation of ladies. TRANSIENT BOARD $2.">0 per day. W. E. ROSE, Proprietor. A o'Piitis may learn something greatly to their advantage and obtain specimens anil full particulars free, bvaddressing WOOD'S LITERARY AND ART' AGENCY, Ncwburgh, N. Y. WRAPPING PAPER. A LOT of TIDDY'S large-sized WRAPPING PA PER on hand and for sale, bv W. L. G R fST, Agent. 'STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF CHESTER-COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. J. C. H. Claussen and Win. Ufforhardt as Executors of the hist Will and Testament of John I Campsen, deceased, Plaintiffs, against Win. R. Robertson, Theodore I). Kline and James Doig, Defendants.?Summon* for Relief. To the Defendants, Wm. R. Robertson, Theodore D. Kline and James Doig: "irOU are hereby summoned and required toan! J. swer the complaint in this action, which is filed in the office of the Clerk of the Court ofC'ommon Pleas for the said county, and to serve a copy I of your answer to the said complaint on the subi seribers at their office, in the town of Chester, S. 1 Carolina, within twenty days after the service i hereof, exclusive of the day of service; and if ! you fail to answer the complaint within the time j aforesaid, the plaintiffs in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the com! plaint. Dated June 13th, 1873. McLURE <k McLURE, Plaintiffs' Attorneys. I TO THE DEFENDANTS?William R. Robertson, Theodore D. Kline and James Doig: | You will take notice that a summons in this ! action, of which the foregoing is a true copy, was I filed in the office of the Clerk of said county, at Chester Court House, in the county and State aforesaid, on the 13th day of June, A. D. 1873, and that ifyou fail to answer, as required in the said summons, the Plaintiffs will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the complaint. McLURE A McLURE, Plaintiffs' Attorneys. June 19 25 flt Dr. Crook's Wine of Tar. Jl 10 years PUBLIC TEST Awagp Has proved Dr. Crook's JSP? WINE *f?r Tj[R 1 To have more ,liieri?1 niait any jWWmWK niiuiini lion ever offered flic public. Tt is rich in the medicinal qualities of Tar. and iinei|iiale<l for diseases of the Throat and Lung*, Informing llie most remarkable cures. Coughs, Colds, fhoiiic Coughs. It effectually cures tlicni all. Asthma and Bi onehtis. Has cured so many cases it lias been pronounced a specific for these complaints. For pains in Breast, Side or Back, Gravel or Kidney Disease, Diseases of the Urinary Organs, Jaundice or any Liver Complaint, It lias no equal. It is also a superior Tonic, Restores the Appetite, Strengthens the System, Restores the Weak and Debilitated, Causes the Food to Digest, Removes Dyspepsia and Indigestion, Prevents Malarious Fevers, Gives tone to your System. TryDr.CroolUs Wineoi Tar October 3 40 ly thiThome shuttle sewing"machine. TIIEbestCheap Machine in tlio Market. If the number sold is a criterion of merit, it is the BEST MACHINE in use, as there have been more HOME SHUTTLE MACHINESsoldin the State during the last twelve months than all other Sewing Machines combined. You can buy a HOME SHUTTLE MACHINE for about half the money you will have to pay for a first-class Machine, "so-called." W. L. GRIST, Agent. GEO. S. HACKER, DOOR,^^^^^^MTORy, CHARLESTON, S. C. THIS is as large ami complete a Factory as there is in the South. All work manufactured at the Factory in this city. The only house owned and managed by a Carolinian in this line in Charleston. Send for price list. Address, CEO. S. HACKER, Post-Oflice 1k>x 170, Charleston, S. C. Factory and Warerooms on King street, opposite Cannon street, on line of City Railway. Decembers 49 ly CHARLOTTE, COL. AND AUGUSTA R. R. SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE, 1 Columbia, S. C., June 13,1873. ) THE following Passenger Schedule will be run over this road on and after MONDAY, 10th instant: going south. Train No. 1. Train No. 2. Leave Charlotte, 4.20 A. M. Arrive at Columbia,...9.30 A. M. Leave Columbia 9.45 A. M. 3.15 A. M. Arrive at Augusta .2.00 P. M. 8.20 A. M. going north. Leave Augusta. 3.52 A. M. 5.50 P. M. Arrive at Columbia,...8.27 A. M. 10.47 P. M. Leave Columbia 8.42 A. M Arrive at Charlotte.... 2.00 P. M. Standard time ten minutes slower than Washington ; six minutes ahead of Columbia. No. 1 Train daily. No. 2 Train daily, Sundays excepted. Both trains make close connection to all points North, South and West. Through tickets sold and baggage checked to all principal points. JAMES ANDERSON, General Sup't. E. B. Dorsey, Gen. Freight and Ticket Agent. June 19 25 tf KING'S MOUNTAIN R. ROAD. DAILY TRAIN. HEREAFTER the trains over the KING'S MOUNTAIN RAIL ROAD will run daily, (Sundays excepted) as follows, making close conI .! lit- i ?: ?I.A Cn1.<ml.in Iiecuoil Willi 11U1U3 via niu vuauvyuo, vuiuiiiiiiii and Augusta Railroad: Leave Yorkville, promptly, at 4o'clock, A.M. Arrive at Chester at 6 o'clock, A. M. Leave Chester at 2 o'clock, P. M. ! Arrive at Yorkvilleat 4 o'clock, P. M. All Freights must bo delivered at the Depot by 4 o'clock, P. M., on the evenings previous to the dopartureof the train. GEORGE W. MELTON, President. j OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH "OLD SOL" STILL continues, and we are prepared, better than ever, to execute PHOTOGRAPHIC PICTURES of every style, at our gallery in the "Adickes' Building." A lotof nice ALBUMS always on hand. Also Stereoscopes and Views. I J. R. SCHORB & SON. <?L K TO PER day 1 Aeents wanted ! x/jp All classes of working people of either sex, young or old, make more money at work for us in their spare moments, or all the time, than at anything else. Particulars free. AddressG. Stinson <C Co., Portland, Maine. 1 JO 1 v j CONUNDRUM. WHY is the Home Shuttle Sewing Machine bound to please all the ladies? Because it is the best feller in the world. Sold by W. L. GRIST, Agent. DIME NOVELS. A LARGE lot of ORNUM tfc CIVS Ten Cent Novels. Just received by \V. L. GRIST, News Agent. WHO BURNT COLUMBIA ? " A FEW copies for sale at the ENQUIRER Ofliee at filly cents per copy.