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?? ??? ? ??? ?? ? ?? ' .. i ' >.> . , ." lewis m. grist, Proprietor. Jnkpenhent JamilD ^tctuspttpfr: Jor tjie |]nmofi(m ?f % Ipeliiital, facial, Agricultural antr Cffmmertial Interests l|e j$ont|. TERMS--$2.jO A YEAR, IN ADVANCE. VOL. 36. YOEKYILLE, S. O., THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1880. i 37. . j? : : T~~. , . ~ JfrlrcteA ftoeftg. THE PRESS AND THE PLOW. We envy not the princely man, In city or in town, Who wonders whether pumpkin vines Turn up the hill or down. We care not for his marble halls, . Nor yet his heaps of gold : We would not own his sordid heart For all his wealth,twice told. We are the favored ones of earth. We breathe pure air each morn, We sow, we reap the golden grain, We gather in the corn. We toil?we live on what we earn, And more than this we do? We hear of starving millions round, And gladly feed them too. The lawyer lives on princely fees, Yet drags a weary life, He never knows a peaceful hour, His atmosphere is strife. A merchant thumbs his yardstick o'er, Grows haggard at his toil, He's not the man God meant him for; Why don't he till the soil ? The doctor plods through storm and rainPlods at his patient's will; When dead and gone, he plods again To get his lengthy bill. The printer?bless his noblt soul! He grasps the mighty earlh, * ?'1 if r.n?? Hoilir shnut.q AIIU 3U1111 pO XV UU UU4 ??*?j To cheer the laborer's be? rt. We sing the honor of the plow, And honor to the pressTwo noble instruments of toil, Each withapowerto bless, The bone, the nerve of this last age, True wealth of human kind; One tills the ever-faithful earth, The other tills the mind. Jitorw teller. THE ENGINEER'S STORY. - ? On a sunny October day, according to instructions I had received from the officers of the railroad company, I handed the engineer of Eugine No. 32 a letter from his chief, requesting that I accompany him upon the engine, as a better post for observation along the rails I had been commanded to make. After reading it, he touched his hat, and respectfully bade me welcome, arranging as comfortable a seat for me as he could provide for the long ride which lay before us. ft was a novel experience for me, and a highly exciting one, as we seemed to cleave the air, the train thundering along behind us; and I could but look admiringly at the man who stood so unflinchingly at his post, and in whose hand lay in reality all our lives. . He was a tall, handsome fellow, whose keen gray eyes never stirred from his post, either to right or to left, but whose cheery laugh often rang out on the clear morning air as we chatted together. By noon we had become friends, at which hour we stopped at a small station where there was a delay of twenty minutes, to take onal and water. As we slov/ed ud. I no ticed standing on the platform a young woman, holding a ueatly-covered basket, and clinging to her skirts a little child, some three years of age. "Papa ! papa!" the little one* screamed, in delight; aud, glancing at mj companion's face, I needed not to question if he were the one thus called. "My wife and child, sir," he said turning to me. "I have only one day a week off with them ; but Mary always meets me here with ray dinner, aud now aud theu I get an j hour or two with her." "It is a hard life," I said. "You must miss j them sorely." "No matter where I am, sir," lie replied, j "they are with me. I hear the little one's voice above the loudest wind, and I see my Mary 8 smile in the darkest night, although I staud alone on my engine, with my life in my hand. It's a hard life, maybe, sir, but I ought not to complain. It ga re me happiness, since it won me my wife. When we were on our way again, aud I had seen the tears fill the wife'j bright blue eyes as she fondly kissed her husband goodbv. while I had slipped into the little one's chubby hand a golden gift from the strange gentleman riding with papa, I asked my companion what he meant. "I don't know as you'd care to hear, sir, rnd there's not many as I'd care to tell. You read so many book stories of the people who make up your world, that you have not much time to look at mine. There are people who think such as we have no time to love, but you have seen Mary and ray boy, and?you'll tell me if I tire yoa? "I was a careless fellow enough six years ago, not neglecting my work when at my ! post, but foud of a good time with my companions when off duty, always ready to accept a friendly glass, and sometimes with my head not quite steady when I mounted ray engine, though the air always set me right before we had gone far on our way. "One evening at a dance, I met Mary Morton. She was the prettiest girl in the room, sir, and a little bit of a coquette in those days, though no more than was natural, with all the young fellows trying their best to j turn her head, f "t was not long behind the rest. I couldn't get her out of my thoughts, but it did not take me a great while to 6nd out the truth of j the matter. I had lost my heart. The one j question was, Would she turn me adrift, or give me hers for that she had stolen ? It was : many a week before I got up ray courage enough to determine to ask her to be ray wife. Every moment off duty I would spend with her, until I grew to fancy she used to watch and wait for my coming. "But I was not without my jealous hours, j for all that. How did I know bow she spent I the time, I was so constantly away from i her? "At last I heard of another dance, to be given on the night I would be. off duty. I could not see Mary until then, but I felt sure she would know I would come for her, and would go with no one else. "But when the evening arrived, I found, when I called for her, that she had already j gone. Perhaps, sir, in your rank of life, you I know, too, what it is to be jealous, and how j many a man destroys his future happiness ; by it. "My first words to Mary were those of re-1 proach, while her smile at my entrance died away, and her face grew white. "I did not know you were coming, John.! How could I ?" "'You might have waited, then!' I exclaimed. "'And stayed at home, perhaps, to have | had you laugh at me, with the rest. Besides 1 am quite satisfied with my escort, and oelieve I am the only person to be consulted in the matter.' "'As you will,' I said, turning on my heel, muttering the word 'Coquette !' between my teeth, and unheeding the little pleading glance she sent, from time to time, across the room to where I stood. "She was not without pride, and if she suffered from my coldness, she only smiled the brighter on others, until I grew mad with jealous anger. That night I began a series of dissipation with which I employed every leisure moment. I drank more deeply than before, not for so-called good-will and good fellowship, but to drown memory. "I did not go near Mary for a month. To me it seemed a year. Once, after a night's carousal, I passed her on the street; but not until long after did I learn of the bitter tears iny haggard face and dissipated air had cost her. Fiually, ray better nature triumphed, ! and I went to her, repentant, to ask her forgiveness, and perhaps her love. "On a long, lonely night ride I made up my mind to do this, though, like a thousand mocking devils, memories of the moments I had spent in the last few weeks crowded around me, as though taunting me in contrast to her purity; but with God's help I would make myself worthy, I said aloud, and thought tha hours would drag along until I could find myself once more in her presence. She came in to see me, holding out her hand with a sweet smile of welcome, as though we had only parted yesterday, and yet?and yet there was a change. Ah ! I learned it all too soon ! In those first few moments I told her the story of my life for the past few months, of -what it had been before I knew her?ot j what it should be if she would only give me the assurance and promise of her love. Then I paused. For a moment silence fell between ! cViQ er?.-.lro A hriorht flush was in uo | biiv/u ouv o|/vaw< w* gxv ? her cheeks, her lips trembled, her lashes veiled her eyes, but her voice faltered not. ' 'John,' she said,'I am only a girl, it is true ; but the man I marry must be a man. Perhaps I might have loved you'?here a little tremble crept into her tone?'but I have almost ceased to respect you. Were you my husband, I would fear for you, and fear and love cannot go hand-in-hand.' "Stop!' I said. 'Do you want to drive me back to the life I had hoped to have left behind me ? 0! Mary, do not be so cruel. Be ray wife, and let me prove myself worthy of you.' " 'No, John,' she answered, softly ; and the blue eyes now raised to mine were swimming in tears. "If you have seen the wrong, surely you will return to it no more. Rather, if you indeed love me, prove yourself a man. It does not take a battlefield to make a hero.' " 'Prove yourself a man.' These were the words that haunted me in the weeks that followed, saving me from the ruin I would else have drifted into, but torturing me with their hopelessuess. What hope had I, in my daily routine of duty, of changing Mary's mind ! Yet, in spite of her words, something in her eye had told me that she loved me, and that suiueiuiug gave me obieugwu iu nvc, a?u tw withstand the daily temptation ot my life. "So six months passed, when one pleasant morning I mounted my engine to take the express train to C. We were going along at the rate of thirty miles an hour, when suddenly, right ahead of us it seemed, a tiny speck of red fluttered on the track. "I strained my eyes?I blew the whistle. What could it be? Merciful heaven! Another instant it was too clear to me. It was a little golden haired child playing in the very face of the huge monster of death my hand was guiding to its destruction. "I whistled 'down brakes,' but as I did so I knew that it was of no avail. Before the order could be obeyed, it would be rendered useless. Then something within me said : " 'Your life is worthless. Give it for that innocent life if it must be, but save it at the peril of your own. Had you been a better man, you might hav had a little child like that praying for you at home.' "It takes a long time, sir, to tell all this, but in reality not one second had passed. At such times men think quickly. One bitter sigh rose in my breast. I would never have a chance of proving to Mary ray manhood by some great deed in the future, or long years of penance. But it did not make my duty i i i T* *ii ,i _ n i any me less Clear, join, me nreman, was uehind nie. "'Take the engine!' I screamed to him. 'Good bye, Mary,' I whispered low to myself. "The next minute hardly conscious of what I wasdoiug, I was down upon the cow-catcher of the engine clinging hy one hand, the other outstretched to grasp the child, now paralyzed with terror. Then we were upon it. Was it killed, crushed, mangled? No! I looked down. It was held with one strong arm, its red dress fluttering in the wind, its golden head pressed close against my shoulder. How was it done ? I cannot tell you, sir. God, I.Qir CMIT7 /Ifioo nnt lot- fVio QtiQrrnw fa ] 1 HI I OUJ J U UVO II\l V IVII HIV U^/MI < v "Then the train checked its speed, stopped ; the passengers cb.rue crowding about us, men grasped me by the hand, women cried over me, aud I?stood dazed, bewildered in their midst, the child light held within my arms. It was such a simple thing; yet, sir, they gave me this," throwing back his coat, and showing a gold medal. ' I wear it in thanksgiving for the little life I saved. They raised for me a purse of gold to a large amount, but the gift which seemed to cleanse my heart was the poor mother's grateful tears. "The papers rang next day with the story. You see, sir, it seemed more to them, looking at it, than to me, who had no time to stop and think ; but something more was in store for me. I was off duty, the next night, alone in my lonely, desolate room, thinking it all over, when some one whispered my name. In another moment some one was sobbing in my arms?some one who had come to me of her own sweet will?some one who, from that moment, has beeu the sunshine of my home and heart. "That is all, sir. It is a simple story. I trust I have not tired you." But I, as I grasped the noble fellow's hand, whose speech had 60 unconsciously betrayed the grand, true heart within, could only echo hit Mary's words : "It does not take a battle-field to make a hero." Home Haf-'iness.?Probably nineteentwentieths of the happiness you will ever have you will get at home. Some of you will get pleasure iu the theatre, and some of you will get delight in the church ; but happiness you will only get at home. The independence that comes to a man when his work is over, and he feels he has run out of the nf nMrvt inf A A AIIIA^ v-* O A f k A W* A *11 v\ Am 31U1 111 liltu UIU UjUlCt 1J(VI UUL VI 11U1UC TTllVtV he can rest in peace with his family, is something real. It does not make much difference whether you own your house or whether you have only one little room in that house, you can make that little room a true home to you. You can people it with such moods, you can turn to it with such sweet fancies, that it will be fairly luminous with their presence, and will be to you the very perfection of a home. Against this home none of you should ever transgress. You should always treat each other with courtesy. It is often not so difficult to lo\e a person as it. is to be courteous to them. Courtesy is of greater value and a more royal grace than some people seem to think. If you will but be courteous to each other you will soon learn to love each other more wisely, profoundly, not - to say lastingly, thau you ever did before. Palestine as it Is.?A recent visitor to ! Palestine furnishes a melancholy picture of | the desolation that has settled down upon i that historic land. Treeless it is, he says, for I twenty or thirty miles together. Forests which existed thirty years ago on Mount Ta; bor and Mount Carmel, are fast disappearing. Rich plains of fine garden soil are at best onI ly scratched up in patches, and have no hedges or boundaries. The villages are nothing but mud huts, dust and squalor. Large ' tracts are without a horse, or cow, or sheep, i or a dog. Except from Jaffa to Jerusalem, j there is no pretence at roads. Everything is j taxed, even trees, and iu consequence no trees : are planted ; every cow and every horse, ev! ery vegetable sold out of the garden ; while every eighth egg is not taxed but taken outj right by the Government. This year double j taxes are expected, since after three years of I bad harvests an abundant one is in prospect. |L fggL ?etttrti trial. " j From the Charlotte Observer, 24th ultimo. KING'S MOUNTAIN. j MEETING OF THE COMMISSIONERS AND THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. The King's Mountain Centennial commissioners, from the several States, met at the rooms of the chamber of commerce yesterday at 12 o'clock. There were present: From North Carolina?Hon. F. C. Robbins, of Davidson county; Mr. T. P. Devereux, of Wake, and Col. John L. Brown, Hon. W. M. Shipp and Mr. W. J. Yates, of Mecklenburg. South Carolina?Col. J. E. Boraar, Gen. John G. Williams and Col. J. P. Thomas. Tennessee?Judge T. Nixon Van Dyke, Col. Marshal T. Polk and Rev. Dr. D. C. Kelly. Hon. F. C. Robbins, on behalf of the North Pnmlinn nnmmiooinnarg OvUnHpd A WplffimP vmuiiiJM vvui IU40WI vu v* w| v?wvmw? ? .. ?? to those from other States, and closed his remarks with a motioD that Col. Marshal T. Polk, of Tennessee, take the chair. The motion was carried, and Col. Polk, in a beautiful little speech, in which he referred in most pleasant terras to his early associations with the people of this State, returned thanks for the honor. Col. Bomar, of South Carolina, was elected secretary. Col. J. P. Thomas, on behalf of the Kiog's Mountain Centennial Association, addressed the commissioners briefly on the object of the meeting, pledging them all sympathy and aid in the work, and then gave an outline of the progress of the undertaking from its inception, and said the committee was using all efforts to augment, by private collections, the sums appropriated by the States of North Caroliua, Tennessee and South Carolina. He gave an outline of the monument proposed to be erected, and laid before the commissioners the plans decided upon, asking for such suggestions in connection therewith as might be thought proper. Letters were read from H. S. Bowen, of Virgiuia, and Col. J. S. Preston, of South Carolina, neither of whom were able to attend the meeting. A letter was also read by Judge j Van Dyke, from Dr. W. R. Sevier, of Tennessee, stating that 6udden illness prevented bis presence at the meeting. Judge Van Dyke called attention to the fact that the writer is a grand son of Col. Sevier, who was one of the comr$anding colonels at the battle of King's Monntain. A letter was read from Hon. Lyman Draper, corresponding secretary of the historical society of Wisconsin, in reference to the proposed publication of a work on the battle of King's Mountain and the Revolution, iu which the opinion was expressed that he had in his possession fuller details of the battle of King's Mountain?both American and English?than any one person has ever yet collected. Judge Van Dyke moved that the commissioners express their approval of the proposed undertaking. Dr. Kelly stated that he bad recently come into possession of valuable historical papers .which led him to believe that Mr. Draper had in his possession some most valuable documents bearing on the history of King's Mountain and the Revolution, which should not be lost, but turned over either to North Carolina, Virginia or Teunessee, or to the King's Mountain Centennial Association, instead of to the historical society of Wisconsin. After some further discussion of the matter, Judge Van Dyke offered the following resolution, which was adopted : Resolved, That the commissioners in behalf of the State of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Teneessee, assembled in Charlotte, North Carolina, on the 22d day of June, for the purpose of co-operating in making arrangements for the celebration of the centennial anniversary of the battle of King's Mountain, fought on October?, 1780, cheerfully recommend to public favor the history now being prepared by Hon. Lyman C. Draper, of Wisconsin, in regard to the battle of King's Mountain and the border warfare in the South during the Revolution, A resolution was adopted requesting the committee on historical records and relics to ask Mr. Draper to turn over to the association me origmais or copies ui me papers iu ims possessiou beuring on the history of the battle of King's Mountain. Enquiry being made as to the manner of drawing the several appropriations made by the States to the association, and as to who was the proper person to receive them, Judge Shipp introduced the following, which was adopted: Resolved, That the Governor of North Carolina be requested to pay the appropriation made by an set of the Legislature ratified March 27th, 1880, to the chairman of the executive committee of the King's Mountain Centennial Association. On behalf of Gen. PrestoD, of South Carolina, Col. J. P. Thomas, offered the following resolution, which was adopted : Resolved, That each county of the States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee, shall send at least one volunteer company to the celebration of the battle of King's Mountain, and that the Governors of the States named be requested to carry this resolution into effect. Jugde Van Dyke said he desired to .arouse a general feeling of interest in the celebration, and as a means of accomplishing this, moved that the commissioners from each of the States represented select a speaker to deliver an address at the celebration. The motion was adopted. Rev. Dr. Kelly alluded to the general feeling of interest manifested in the celebra-* tion by the different railroads, and of the valuable assistance proffered, and moved that the meeting return thanks therefor, which motion was carried. An invitation was received by the commissioners to attend the meetiug of the King's Mountain Centennial Association, which wa9 to assemble immediately after the adjournment of the former. The invitation was accepted. Maj. W. J. Houston, general passenger agent of the Air-Line Railroad, tendered to the commissioners and members of the committee, a special car in which to go to King's Mountain this morning to attend the ceremonies of laying the corner stone of the monument. Col. Coward, president of the Centennial Association, was then introduced to the commissioners, who cordially received him by rising to their feet. The meeting then adjourned until 8.45 o'clock P. M. EVENING SESSION. The commission re-assembled at 8.45 P. M. The first business for consideration of the meeting was the recommending of orators by the commissioners to deliver orations at the October celebration. North Carolina named Hon. D. G. Fowie. < South Carolina named Gen. John S. Preston. Tennessee named Gen. Alex. W. Campbell. The chairman announced that he would inform the gentlemen of their selection. On motion the thanks of the meeting were voted to the chairman and secretary. On motion the meeting adjourned. > MEETING OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. The executive committee of the King's | Mountain centennial was called to order by | Col. Asbury Coward, chairman. There were present of the committee: Col.! A. Coward, chairman ; Capt. W. T. R. Bell, I secretary ; Capt. J. M. Ivy, treasurer; Capt. E. P. Howell (proxy), I. W. Garrett, J. S. Bratton, C. Petty, J. S. R. Thomson, Rev. Ellison Capers, Allen Bettis, P. S. Baker, W. G. Whidby, Rev. R. Lathan, Dr. J. M. Miller, Dr. A. F. Hambright, Freno Dilling, VV. S. Goforth, Emanuel Patterson, Dr. B. F. Dixon, Col. J. P. Thomas, R. H. Garrett, j W. A. Mauney, W. J. Houston, and Hon. I. D. Wither3poon. The chairman presented to the committee a letter from the Washington Light Infantry, of Charleston, transmitting the following action : "The Washington Light Infantry, as the custodians of the battle-flag of Col. Wm. Washington's troop, which was first displayed in the victorious cavalry charge at Cowpens, on the 17th of June, 1781, desire to express their cordial sympathy in the proposed centennial of the victory - - " *-i- *V,o 7*1, nf OI mng S 1UUUIIUIIU, np^unucu lui mo >u October next. They ask a place in the pageant ot : that day, and pledge their active co-operation to | the success of that centennial celebration. "Resolved, That the crimson flag of Cowpens and Eutaw Springs be sent to the King's Mountain centennial under a suitable guard of honor from this command. "Resolved, That this command tender their services to the King's Mountain centennial committee as a committee to raise funds in Charleston for the monument proposed to be erected on King's Mountain in honor of that victory, or for any services they can render." The chairman stated that he had accepted their offer. A letter was read from Hon. J. H. Evins, member of Congress from South Carolina, explaining the cause of the failure of the bill in Congress making an appropriation to the centennial. The'committee on monuibent reported that the contract for building the monument had been awarded to F. A. McNinch, at $2,600. Messrs. J. A. Deal, W. Kates, J. M. Hambright and F. Happerfield were added to the committee. A letter from C. M. Bliss, corresponding secretary of the Bennington battle monument, inviting co-operation with them .and pledging their co-operation to secure congressional appropriations, addressed to Maj. HoustoD, was referred to the committee on monument. Major W. J. Houston, chairman of the committee on transportation, reported that he * ? < ? n.? "D had provided transportation ior i\ev. xv. Lathan to Columbia and Charleston, to members of the executive committee, and grand masters. On the first of June he issued circular No. 2. He had secured the rate of 1} cents per mile each way Irora the (Virginia Midland Railroad, Western & 'Atlantic Railroad, Macon <fe Brunswick Railroad,Spartanburg & Asheville, Spartanburg, Union and Columbia. Chester & Lenoir, Rome Railroad, North Eastern of Georgia, Raleigh & Augusta and Raleigh & Gaston, Alantic Coast Line, Richmond, York River and Chesapeake, Charlotte, Columbia & Augusta, Little Rock & Fort Smith Railroad. The Carolina Central Railroad gives a rate of one cent per mile each way. The South Carolina Railroad gives a rate of two cents per mile each way ; the Western North Carolina, three cents per mile each way; the Alabama Great Southern, six cents per mile one way; the Iron Mountain Route, one fare for the round trip. The Western Railroad of Alabama refuses to give any rate. Several roads have not yet determined as to the rate. The Texas roads were in session yesterday to arrange rates. The report was received, and the thanks of the committee returned to Major Houston for the efficient manner iu which he had discharged his duty. Col. Wm. Johnston warmly eulogized Major Houston for his efforts. Major Houston stated that next October a large number of military from Northern States would come to Atlanta, including the Seventh Regiment of New York.. If the committee desired the presence of these, they could have the cooperation of the Atlanta and Charlotte Air-Line in placing thera at or near King's Mountain. Rev.-Ellison Capers offered the following, which was adopted: This association having ascertained that military organizations from the Northern States propose to visit the South about the time of our approaching centennial celebration, Resolved, That the visiting military from the North are hereby cordially invited to participate in the celebration of the centennial of the battle of King's Mountain, and that the committee on troops, together with the committee on transportation, be authorized to carry out this resolution. Resolved, That this association has heard with pleasure the communication from the Washington Light Infantry, of Charleston, offering the services of that corps to aid this association in appropriately celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the battle of King's Mountain. Resolved, That the ready acceptance of this patriotic proposition by our chairman meets our hearty approval, and that the committee on the programme of the celebration be charged with the duty of assigning them a place in the ceremonies of the day. Adopted. By Col. J. P. Thomas : Resolved, That this association have a high appreciation ol the persistent efforts of Hon. J. H. Evins to secure congressional aid for the purposes of this celebration, and feel assured that his inability to accomplish, at this time, the end in view, resulted from no want of zehl and earnest endeavor on bis part. Adopted. On motion, the secretary was instructed to furnish a copy of this resolution to Mr. Evins. Dr. J. M. Miller offered the following: Resolved, That the papers and accompanying bill sent to this association by Charles M. Bliss, ol Washington, through Maj. \V. J. Houston, chairman of the committee on transportation, be referred to the committee on monument, with instructions to acknowledge the same. Adopted. R. P. Waring offered the following: Resolved, That A. E. Hutchinson, chairman of the committee on monument, be authorized to draw orders on the treasurer of the association for such sums as he may deem necessary, not to exceed $2,000, which orders shall be paid, aud the money thus paid shall be appropriated to pay the contract for the building of the monument on the battle ground at King's Mountain and for no other purposes whatever. Adopted. Col. Wm. Johnston offered the following : Resolved, That the chairman and treasurer take immediate steps towards collecting the appropriations made by the States of North Carolina and South Carolina for erecting a monument and for the centennial at King's Mountain, and they are hereby authorized to receive and receipt for the same. Adopted. The committee took a recess until 12.30 P. M. At 12.30 P. M. thecoinraittes re-assembled, the commissioners from North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee, being present. Col. Coward expressed the gratification of the committee in having prese't with them the distinguished representatives from North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. The committee ou ways and means reported progress. The chairman stated that Columbia would be canvassed by the Governor's Guards and the Ri/^Mqml VnllintfiP.rS. Maj. Houston stated that the press association of South Carolina would render the centennial all the aid at their command. Rev. D. C. Kelly, D. D., of Tennessee, read from the official report of the battle of King's Mountain, giving the British strength at 1125 men. The loss is as follows: Of the regulars?one major, one captain, two sergeants, fifteen privates killed, thirtyfive privates wounded and left on the ground not able to march ; two captains, four lieutenants, three ensigns, one surgeon, five sergeants, three corporals, one drummer, forty nine prisoners. Loss of tories?two colonels, three captains, two hundred and one privates killed, one major, one hundred and twenty-seven privates wounded and left on the ground? one colonel, twelve captains, eleven lieutenants, two ensigns, one quartermaster, one adjutant, two commissaries, eighteen sergeants and sixty privates prisoners. Total loss 1105 men. The meeting then took a recess until 4:30 P. M. The committee met at 4.30, p. m. Col. J. P. Thomas reported that he had explained the object and progress of the committee and invited the cooperation of the commissioners, and they had expressed their hear ty desire to cooperate fully with the committee. The committee on the programme for the centennial celebration submitted the following report which was, after discussion, adopted: First?That the ceremonies shall embrace four days. Second?That the first day, Tuesday, October 5th, shall be given to a re-union of .the States of Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina, together with such others as may choose to be officially represented on the occasion ; that! addresses of greeting shall be delivered by orators from these States, selected hv the centennial executive committee or hereafter designated by the executives of the States themselves. Third?Wednesday the 6th of October shall be set aside for an illustration of the plan of battle under the direction of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston. The committee on troops are charged with the necessary arrangement. Fourth?Thursday, the 7th, the dedication of the monument with the centennial oration by Major John W. Daniel, of Virginia. Fifth?Friday the 8tli to be set aside as a field .1 !iu ?I?u ? ?f^,. (lay lor LLIt) UIJI1U1I J, WJH1 a. (.-UIU^UU ?o w?... ..... I a centennial prize, to be designated and awarded | by the executive committee, the rules to govern said drill to be mado and published and judges to be appointed by thecomniittee 011 troops. Gen. Johnstone Jones, of North Carolina, Hugh S. T ionipsou and Capt. \V. A. Courtney, were added to the committee on troops. The committee elected Capt. W. T. R. Bell, Freno Dilling and I. W. Garrett, a committee to rent the privileges of the ground. On motion of Hon. J. S. R. Thomson, of Spartanburg, Col. Foreacre, general manager of the Atlanta & Charlotte Air-Line, was requested to make King's Mountain the place of debarkation for visitors. The chairman of the executive committee was requested to correspond with the Governor of South Carolina relative to co-operation in preserving order during the centennial. Rev. Wm. Martin, of Columbia, S. C., grandson of Capt. Martin, who participated in the battle, was elected chaplain to officiate on the 7th, and Rev. Ellison Capers, chaplain for the 5th. The committee on renting privileges were instructed not to allow wheels of fortune or any other device for gambling, or any intoxicating liquors to be sold on the grounds. The committee took a recess uHtil 9 P. M. . JOINT MEETING OF THE COMMITTEE AND COMMISSIONERS. The evening session of the association was called to order at 6 o'clock. For the information of the commissioners fmm the apvprnl States the nropramme adoD-1 " w*" ;? i o * ted in the afternoon session was read. At this stage of the proceedings, by permission of President Coward, Col. Polk made a motion to reconsider the adjournment of the commissioners' meeting and a motion was adopted to consolidate the commission with the King's Mountain Centennial Association, after which Col. Thomas introduced the following which was adopted.: Resolved, That the action of the committee meets the hearty concurrence of this body, and that we will take pleasure in carrying out their resolutions so far as they necessitate action on our part. The committee resumed business and on motion Col. E. W. Cole, of Tennessee, was added to the committee on transportation. Dr. Thos. J. Moore was, on motion, added to the committee on ways and means. The following was introduced by Mr. I. W. Garrett, and adopted: Resolved, That Capt. W. T. R. Bell and W. G. Whidby be requested to attend the session of the North Carolina Press Association at Asheville, on the 3d of July, and nrge the claims of the Centennial Association. A motion was adopted requesting Capt. W. T. R. Bell to canvass the State of North Carolina for funds/or the use of the association. Rev. Ellison Capers moved that when this association adjourn, it be to meet at Yorkville, S. C., on Wednesday, the 21st day of July, 1880, at 9 a. m. Adopted. Capt. J. M. Ivy moved to reconsider the motion to meet at Yorkville, which was adopted. I. W. Garrett moved that Gastonia be the next place of meeting, and Wednesday, the 21st day of July, 1880, 5 o'clock p. m. the time. Carried. Col. J. P. Thomas moved that Mrs. Clara Dargan McLean, of Yorkville, be requested to prepare a lyric, set to appropriate music, to be sung at the centennal celebration. Adopted. ' A motion was made and adopted that the programme of the centennial exercises for Thursday be amended by adding the Ode by Hayne and the lyric by Mrs. McLean, to precede the oration of Maj. Daniel. Gen. Johnstone Jones stated, for the information of the association, that of the amount appropriated by the State of North Carolina, 81,000 only would be applied to the monument fund, while perhaps 8500 would be used in defraying the expense of the State Guard, Ac. Rev. Ellison Capers moved that Col. J. P. Thomas visit the State of Virginia, in the in- 4 terest of the association, and act in connection with the commissioners from that State. Capt. W. T. R. Bell moved that the thanks of the association be tendered the chamber of commerce for the use of their rooms, and also to the Air-Line Railroad, for the special car tendered the association. The motion was adopted and tho association adjourned to meet at Gastouia on the 21st day of July, 1880, at 5 o'clock, p. ra. Whitfield's Courtships.?The celebrated George Whitfield began his courtship in a singular fashion. His biographer pronounced him one of the oddest wooers that ever wooed. When Whitfield was in America, and had under his charge the orphan house in Savannah, "it was much impressed on his heart that he ought Jo marry in order to have a help-mate in bis arduous work." He had also fixed his mind on the young lady whom he intended to ask to become his wife. So he i addressed a letter to her parents, and inclosed another to herself. In his letter to the parents he stated that he wanted a wife to help him in the management of his increasing fam- i ily and then said : "This letter comes like Abraham's servant to Rebekah's relations, to know whether your daughter, Miss E-?, is i a proper person to engage in such an under- i takine: and if so. whether vou will b pleased i O ' * 0 4 t to give me leave to propose marriage to her. < You need not be afraid of sending me a refusal ; for I bless God, if I know anything of j my own heart, I am free from that foolish pas- ] sion which the world calls love." He wrote in a similar strain to the young lady, asking her among many other questions, if she could leave her home and trust in Him for support, who feeds the young ravens; and bear the inclemencies of air, both as to heat and cold, in a foreign climate; whether having a husband she could be as though she had none. He also told her that he thought the passionate expressions which ordinary courtiers use ought to be avoided by those who marry in the Lord; and that if she thought marriage would be in anyway prejudicial to her better part,she was to be so kind as to send him a denial: that she need not be afraid to speak her mind as he loved her only for God. The letters were not so successful as Abraham's servant The parents were not very anxious to send their daughter on such an adventure ; and Whitfield continued for a longer space in his bachelor condition. Some time after he essayed another courtship with a widow in Wales after the same style. The mode in which Rebekah was chosen for Isaac seems to have been Whitfield's ideal of obtaining a wife. The week after he was married he went on one of his evangelistic toucs; and left his newly wedded wife to muse.'Alone amid the Welsh hills in the second quarter of ^heir honey-moon.? Chambers' Journal, ^Uiscellattfflus ?U?tffag. SUPPORTING THE GUNS. Did you ever see a battery take position ? It hasn't the thrill of a cavalry charge, nor the grimness of a line of bayonets moving slowly and determinedly on, but there is a peculiar excitement about it that makes old veterans rise in the saddle and cheer. \xr . t 1 /? i it. .J iL ? w e nave ueen ugnuug tu me uuge ui lue woods. Every cartridge box baa been emptied once and more, and a fourth of the brigade has melted away in dead, wounded and missing. Not a cheer is heard in the whole brigade. We know that we are being driven foot by foot, and that when we break back once more the line will go to pieces and the enemy will pour through the gap. Here comes help! Down the crowded highway gallops a battery, withdrawn from some other position to save ours. The field fence is scattered while you could count thirty, and the guns rush for the hill behind us. Six horses to a piece? three riders to each gun. Over dry ditches where a farmer would not drive a wagon, through clumps of bushes, over logs a foot thick, every horse on the gallop, every rider lashing his team and yelling?the sight behind us makes us forget the foe in front The guns jump two feet high as the heavy wheels strike a rock or log, but not a horse slackens his pace, not a cannoneer loses his seat. Six guns, six caisons, sixty horses, eighty men, race for the brow of the hill as if him who reached it first was to be knighted. * A moment ago the battery was a confused mob. We look again and the six guns are in position, the detached .horses hurrying away, the ammunition chests open, and along ilt A AAtMMAAMi) f Unm AHA UUi ilUO 1UUD LUC CUUIUiaUU I U1VC bUVUl vuc more volley and fall back to support the guns!" We have scarcely obeyed, when boom ! boom ! boom! opens the battery, and jets of fire jump down and scorch the green trees under which we fought and despaired. The shattered old brigade has a chance to breathe for the first time in three hours as we form a line of battle behind the guns and lie down. What grim cool fellows those cannoneers are! Every man is a perfect machine. Bullets plash dust in their faces, but they do not wince. Bullets sing over and around them, but they do not dodge. There goes one to the earth, shot through the head as he sponged his gun. The machinery loses just one beat?misses just one cog in the wheel, and then works again as before. Every gun is using a short-fuse shell. The ground shakes and trembles?the roar shuts out all sounds from a battle line three miles long, and the shells go shrieking into the swamp to cut trees short off?to mow great gaps in the bushes?to hunt out and shatter and mangle men until their corpses cannot be recognized as human. You would think a tornado was howling through the forest, followed by billows of fire, and yet men live through it?aye! press forward to capture the battery! We can bear their shouts as they form for the rush. Now the shells are changed for grape and canister, and the guns are served so fast that all reports blend into one mighty roar. The shriek of a shell is the wickedest sound in war, but nothing makes the flesh crawl like the demoniac singing, purring, whistling grape shot and the serpent like hiss of canister. Men's legs are not shot through, but torn off. Heads are torn from bodies, and bodies cut in two. A round shot or shell takes two men out of the ranks as it crashes through. Grape and canister mow a swath and pile the dead on top of each other. Through the smoke we see a swarm of men. It is not a battle line, but a mob of men desperate enough to bathe their bayonets in the flame of the guns/ The guns leap from the grouud, almost, as they are depressed on the foe, and shrieks and screams and shouts blend into one awful and steady cry. Twenftr m on Anf nP KoffflW QPA r? A 1X7*1 flnH til A I I>J ilivu WUU VI bUV VMbbVt J Mn uv?f U| MUV. vhv firing is interrupted. The foe accept it as a sign of wavering, and come rushing on. They are not ten feet away when the guns give them a last shot. The discharge picks living men off their feet and throws them into a swamp, a blackened bloody mass. Up now, as the enemy are among the guns'! There is a silence of ten seconds, and then the flash and roar of more than 3,000 muskets, and a rush forward with bayonets. For what? Neither on the right, nor left, nor in front of us is a living foe. There are corpses around us which have been struck by three, four and even six bullets, and no where on this acre of ground is a wounded man! The wheels of the guns cannot move until the blockade of dead is removed. Men cannot pass from the caisson to the guns without climbing over the winrows of dead. Every gun and wheel is smeared with blood?every foot of grass has its horrible stain. Historians write of the glory of war. Burial parties saw murder where historians saw glory.?Detroit Free Free*. BANANAS. The most perfect banana plantation in the United States is that of Colonel Whitney, near Silver Lake, Florida, over two hundred miles south of Jacksonville, and practically beyond the region of killing frosts. A daily line of steamers renders it easy of access from Jacksonville and other points upon the river. This plantation covers an area of several acres, and contains over ten thousand plants, most of them in bearing. The plants are of different varieties. Some of them are huge trees, twenty feet high, with a trunk from six to eight inches in diameter, while others, and probably the largest number are of the dwarf species, standing from six to eight feet high, with a trunk from four to five inches in diameter. The banana, as cultivated in this climate, bears no visible seed, but is propagated from 3lips or cuttings which bear transplanting well, and grow with great rapidity. These slips are generally planted about oiorVif foot onart if it. ia tViA dwarf anfiflififl. an ? > -- ? ?> -r ' ? acre of good ground will contain from six hundred to seven hundred plants. They require deep, rich soil, and considerable moisture. It has no season, but the fruit matures generally in from eleven to thirteen months from the date of planting, and, by properly timing the planting, ripe fruit may be obtained at all seasons of the year. Soon a leaf of this blossom opens at the pointed end, and rolls back to the base, disclosing a row of five or six tiny bananas, nestled closely together, as if hiding under the shelter of this protecting leaf. Each miniature fruit has a waxen yellow flower at the end, with a stigma projecting through it. Other leaves of the blossom unfold one after another in the same way, until twenty or thirty clusters of fruit are developed, all clinging to one stem, when these leaves wither and fall; and the fruit swells and lengthens to maturity, which requires generally about three or four months. The great stem on i which the fruit grows, bends under its weight until the long, finger-like fruit hangs down in graceful clusters. Each plant bears but a single launch of fruit, and then withers and dies; but, while the fruit is maturing, there springs up from the base of the trunk several offshoots, which take the place of the old plant when that has been removed, and go on growing to the full size of the parent tree. The fruit, when grown full size, begins to show streaks of yellow upon its deep green skin, when it should be gathered for shipment to market. It is easily and quickly ripene4 after catting by wrapping Ute ouncn in straw or in a blanket, and Keeping in a warm place. By cutting the bunches at tlie right time, they can be shipped to New York with perfect safety. Colonel Whitney has upon his plantation to-day thousands of bunches in all stages of development, from the little miniature buds to the well matured fruit sit or seven inches long. Many of those bunches contain 175 bananas, which sell readily to shippers an two cents each, from which may be inferred the great profits of banana culture. - ' Ml An acre or ground wui reaauy support 600 plants. Suppose the bunches to average 75 bananas each, and we have an annual income of $900 from a single acre. The cost of preparing and enriching the ground and # setting the plants the first year, including the cost of slips, will average, say, $1 per plant, leaving a profit of $300; but they perpetuate themselves after the first year, thus leaving the $900 net for the second, and succeeding yearn. Humboldt states, that an amount of land that will produce 1,000 pounds of potatoes will yield 44,000 pounds of bananas, and a surface bearing wheat enough to feed one mac will yield bananas enough to feed twenty-fi^ men. THE DARE-DEYIL FORREST. No man ever exacted stricter obedience or more thoroughly maintained it. He brooked I no d isobedience of his own order, and he resented their infraction with characteristic fire. When his command needed supplies he stopped on no technicalities of obstruction to obtain them. The writer well remembers once sending a requisition for food and forage to an officer at one of the railroad stations, and was refused on the grounds that the supplies belonged to an infantry command in the rear. Forrest having failed in the same manner to obtain needed provisions, coolly took whaf he wished without further parley, siaung mat u hujt uuiupiaiut watt mauc no (General Forrest) was responsible. His services were so valuable that his summary methods were overlooked. He safd to the writer in explanation of his taking these supplies, that he never hesitated to override formalities when he deemed it necessary; that he would break a thousand of them at any cost to himself oefore his men and horses should suffer for want of subsistence, and that the infantry in camp could get plenty more, while his men, always in active service on the front, could not obtain supplies all the time. Another instance of his disregard of rules was that he allowed his men to absent themselves just whet he pleased. He had his ~ troops on hand i a all necessary occasions for march or fighting or picket duty, fie would turn a whole regiment loose for a day or two when in the vicinity of their homes, or when they could be spared, and this when there were positive orders against it frbm army headquarters. And the practical result of it was tbn.t it absolutely benefitted the service; it satisfied and encouraged the men, and made them better soldiers. No General punished desertion more severely, or demanded harder service, and none took more responsibility in behalf of the comfort or pleasure of his command. While the writer connected lines with Forrest the scouts of that officer were constantly in front and rear. Forrest not only recon J L!. J l?.i *1.-* ..c noiiereu nis uwu gruuuu, uut mat ui cvcjjbody else. His search for information was unceasing. It was this restless watchfulness and inquiry that constituted one of his chief traits. His scouts were ubiquitous. They went everywhere and they exhausted every source of news. Wherever he went he had every road, path, thicket and point of observation or approach, front, flank and rear, picketed, and in addition his scouts swarmed for miles around, sending bulletins to him hourly. Just before the battle of Chickamauga, the writer was in command of a brigade of cavalry at A lpine, Ga. Forrest passed by going to the front and inquired of the condition of matters and the news of the enemy. He received all of the information obtainable, and as he started off to the front be bowed adieu and said: "I believe I will go and give them fellows a dar."?An ex- Confederate. Officer in Cincinnati Enquirer. What Shall we do with Oue Dauuh0 fltAm a nr\r\A c nknnl nrllinofinn ?EjEL& 1 VjTIVO bU<QUi a guvAi kwuvv* vvtvivwimvu j teach them to cook healthful food; 'teach them to wash, to iron, to mend stockings, to sew on buttons, to make their own clothes and a well fitting shirt; teach them to bake; to kuow that good cooking saves medicine. Teach them that a dollar is worth one hundred cents; that only those are saving who spend less than they receive, and that whatsoever more is spent tends to impoverish. Teach them that they are much better dressed in strong cotton garments than in silk if they are in debt. Teach them that one round full face is worth fifty beautiful consumptive ones. Teach them to wear strong shoes. Teach them to make good purchases, and see to the reckoning of their accounts. Teach them that they spoil God's image when they lace tightly. ^ ? ?.*-1 ?? AAMflA Annn Jieacu LUtiLU gWU UUUIIUUU OOUOC, wuuu^uvs, self-defence and industry. Teach them to do garden work and enjoy nature. Teach them, likewise, if they have money enough, music, painting, and al! the arts, remembering always that these thing are secondary. Teach them that walking is better than riding, and that wild flowers are very beautiful to those that observe them. Teach them to despise all make-believe, and that one should say yes or no when one really means it. Teach them that happiness in marriage depends neither upon the station nor the wealth of the husband, but upon his character. If you have taught your daughters all this and made them understand it fully, then let them, when the time comes, marry in perfect confidence. They will be sure to find their way without further assistance. An Eloquent Passage.?The following was from the pen of Geo. D. Prentice: "It cannot be that earth is man's abiding place. It cannot be that our life is a mere bubble cast up by eternity to float a moment on its waves and then sink into nothingness.' Else why is it that the glorious aspirations which leap like angels from the temple of ourhearts are forever wandering unsatisnea r w ny is it tbiat the stars that hold their festival around the midnight throne are set above the grasp of our limited faculties forever mocking us with their unapproachable glory ? And, finally, why it is that bright forms of human beauty presented to our view are taken from us, leaving the thousand streams of affection to flow back in -Alpine torrents upon our hearts ? There is a realm whe.e the rainbow never fades; where the stars will be spread out before us like the island that slumbers in the ocean ; and where the beautiful beings which pass before us like Bhadows will stay in our presence forever." 1 ? ? The phrase "Too thin," says a writer in the Baltimore Every Saturday, was perfectly good English more than a century ago. ThuB, in Smollett's novel, "Peregrime Pickle" (published in 1751), when the hero suddenly informs his lady love Amelia, that he is going abroad, the tears gushed into her eyes, and she was at great pain to conceal the cause of her grief hy observing that the tea was so scalding hot as to make her eyes water. "This pretext," says Smollett, in all seriousness, "was too thin to impose on her lover or deceive the observation of her friend Sophy."