Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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iumorous fepiwtment. Running Down Himself.?In a certain town there live twin brothers, whom we call John and William, who so closely resemble each other that their nearest friends, even their wives, often find it difficult to distinguish them. One day William went into a store to make some purchases, and, chancing to look out of the window, a pane of which had been broken and its place supplied with a looking glass, cried out,? "O, there goes brother John ; I must go see him," and hastening into the street, found, to his surprise, that "brother John" had disappeared. He returned to the counter to finish his purchases, when, glancing toward the window, he saw, as he thought, his brother, again. "I'll have you now, old fellow," he said, and darted toward the door, to the amusement of many who were in the store, and by this time saw the joke. Of course no John was to be seen. Upon re-entering the store he went to the window, and to his disgust discovered the mirror. "Sold!" he exclaimed, "boys, don't tell it; I'd uot have my wife know it for any thing." The story was too good to be kept, and ere night many were asking him if he had found his "brother John." He Was Absent-Minded.?An absentminded Congressman once lost the vote of an entire family by his carelessness. He had a way of saying "I would be glad to have you do so," and one day a constituent, . with his family, paid his respects. The Congressman was busy, and after some talk the visitor said: "We will remain in the city several days." "I should be glad to have you do so," replied the member of Congress as he fumbled a pile of papers on his desk. "We will come in and see you every now and then," chirped the visitor's wife. "I should be veryglad to have you do so," said the Congressman. "And bring around our little boy you haven't seen," suggested the husband. "I should be glad to have you do so," still said the Congressman. Then they rose. "Well, Mr. Blank," said the visitor extending his hand, "we must tell you good-bye and go back to the hotel." "I should be very glad to have you do so," said the Congressman, - and he wondered for a week what made his visitors leave so abruptly.? Washington Critic. Had Been a Governor.?The old story has started up and is going the rounds of the European diplomatic circles relating to one of our Consuls. "At a dinner given by a prominent native official, at which the whole diplomatic corps were present, the American was seated by the side of the French Consul, who often addressed his American colleague after the usual French manner, as Monsieur. This did not please the temper nor suit the dignity of the gentleman of the eagle country, and he stood the supposed undue familiarity on the'part of the Frenchman until his patience became quite exhausted, and then his pent up indignation burst forth in words more characteristic of strength than elegance, and are reported in about this strain : "By thunder, Sir, I have you to understand, Sir, that I've been trovernor of the State of , a State, Sir, larger than the whole of your country, Sir, and I'll be hanged if I'll be mounseered by you or any one else." A Good Story.?President Van Buren's son, familiarly known as Prince John, was a man of great natural ability, a good law yer, and a ready wit. On one occasion he had taken some technical legal advantage by which his opponent's client in an action was non-suited. The man was furious, and declared his purpose to give John a piece of his mind when he saw him ; he would wither him. Happening to see John one day at Downing's, standing at the bar, he boldly confronted the Prince, and, being a small man, looked up at him fiercely and burst out: "Mr. Van Buren, is there any client so low and mean, or any ease so nasty, that-you won't undertake to defend him in it ?" "I don't know," said John, stopping to put away another oyster; then bending down and confidentially drawing out his reply in the little man's ear: "What you been doing ?" |SrA "mixed" train was proceeding at the usual rate on a Dakota road, when it suddenly started up and began to run much faster. An astonished passenger called the conductor and said: "Aren't you running about twice as fast as usual?" "Yes." "Going down hill?" No." "Wind changed and helping us along?" "I guess not." "Engineer drunk?" "No more than is * CJstomary. I'll tell you, though; we've sighted a man about a mile ahead on the tiack, and I'm going to catch him and make him get on and pay his fare if I have to run the wheels all off and have the cars dragging on the rails. The rules forbid any man trvin?r to beat the company this wav." - ? ? A Ticklish Question.?Undertaker J. Lewis Good testified before the register of wilis, yesterday, in the Mary Ann Rogers will case, that he knew the deceased. She was an old colored woman, upward of 80 years of age, and he had talked with her on various subjects. "What was the state of her health ?" inquired one of the counsel, who added: "Of course you inquired as to that ?" "No, indeed," was the reply; "people in my line of business never inquire as to the health of their acquaintances." The hearing wascontinued.?Philadelphia Times. S6F "If I pick out some wall paper right away can you send a man to ray house to hang it this afternoon?" she asked in a paper store three or four days ago. "Yes'm." "Very well" you may show me some samples." She sat in a chair before the sample rack until 11:45 and then went to dinner. She was back at 1 and remained until almost 5, when she finally heaved a long sigh and said to the patient clerk: "Dear me, but it is such a task and so late in the season that I guess I won't get any at all. Much obliged to you, and I'll probably buy of you next spring."?Detroit Free Pre**. Ma, haven't I been a real good boy since I've been going to Sunday-school?" said little Johnnie. "Yes, my lamb," answered his mother fondly. "And you trust me now, don't you, ma?" "Yes darling," she.replied. "Then," spoke up the little innocent, "what makes you keep the preserves locked up in the pantry, the same as ever?" 1ST The Oakland Garden band rode up to the garden in a horse car the other evening, playing "Home, Sweet Home," and as the people hummed to the music of the words,! "There's noplace like home," they thought j that was a funny way to invite attendance at the show.?Boston Poet. BioT "It is said a woman never quite forgets j the man who has once asked her hand in j marriage. Nor does a man ever quite for-1 get the woman whose hand he has asked in I marriage?unless it is gained.? 'Fid-Bits. I |JisfcUaneoMS ?eMittg. | MOUNTAIN MEADOW. TRESTOR Y OF A NOTORIOUS MORMON MASSACRE. Pearly in September, 1857, the company of emigrants that had been ordered out of Salt Lake valley, and compelled to take the southern route to the coast, entered the meadows and encamped with the intention of resting and recruiting before crossing the desert. Nothing occurred to alarm them the first day, and when night fell they took no precautions except such as had been customary with them during the journey. The valley seemed a haven of safety, and they laid down to rest with thankful hearts, but while they slept a plot for their destruction was maturing. The Xauvoo legion, obedient to "orders from headquarters," had surrounded the unsuspectingemigrants on every side. A portion of the legion painted and disguised as Indians, had been sent on in company with savages no less cruel than themselves to attack the train. The remaining companies of Mormon militia had other orders. At daybreak the guard at the emigrants' camp perceived dark forms moving upon the sur- | rounding hillsides. He aroused his comrades, and as the dusky ligures showed more plainly in the growing light they decided that they were Indians and an attack was intended. It was necessary to think and act quickly, and a barricade was formed'at once with the wagons of the company, but before their hurried preparations for defense were completed the sharp crack of | rifles and the whizzing of bullets denoted that the battle had begun. It was already only too plain that their assailants greatly outnumbered them, and from savages, as they supposed them to be, no quarter was expected but love stronger than death nerved their arms and strengthed their hearts for the contest. All day long the unequal battle raged. At night the tire of the assailants slackened, but the light from piles of burning sage brush showed that they still surrounded the emigrants' camp on every side. Before sunrise a murderous rain of bullets recommenced, and again continued until nightfall. The third day was a repetition of the first, but on the fourth day access to the springs was cut off, and the horrors of death from thirst stared them in the face, yet they r Li ...!IL .1 .mil ?,ka? f lUUgll I Willi UCSUCI illC luuiii^r, tiuu HII&II uiv sun went down they still held their position and kept the foe at bay. The morning of the fifth day found them worn, exhausted, tortured by burning thirst, but with hearts as undaunted as ever. Late in the afternoon the steady firing of the besiegers ceased, and when they looked out to ascertain the cause, they saw a party of white men approaching, their leader bearing a flag of truce. Let it be remembered the emigrants had never doubted that their assailants were Indians, and the sight of white men, coming as they believed to their rescue, was as welcome as a vision of angels. In answer to the flag of truce a little girl was dressed in white, and placed on one of the wagons. In view of what followed, this act was full of unutterable pathos. Truly, they had decked a lamb for sacrifice. The white men as they drew near proved to be a body of Mormon militia, headed by their officers, who were also the bishops of the surrounding settlements. They represented that they had done their best to induce the "Indians" to leave, but they would not do so unless the emigrants would agree to - - - ? - - ? k frt nl? lnl h give up UIU1I pi'upei'tjf, simiv men ?i mo and march out of the valley under the escort of the militia. The emigrants, seeing no other prospect of saying the lives of their families agreed to these hard conditions. After making the required surrender, they were divided into three companies. The women and children went first, under the escort of a detachment of the legion. The men followed at some distance, guarded by another body of militia, and a wagon containing the wounded brought up the rear. And now comes the blankest page in this chapter of treachery and murder, a page that the most callous historian might shrink irom recoruing. u given m^uui huiu the officers in command, the unarmed men were shot down, and when the last one lay dead or dying on the bloody soil, the slaughter of the women and children and the butchery of the wounded began. When the sun set that night on the reddened and trampled Meadows, one hundred and nineteen mangled corpses strewed the ground. Of all the company that entered the valley, none remained alive except some of the smaller children. Why they were saved when so many other children were shot uuwil wiliiuui mercy, iiuiiu uul uiu ] trators of the deed can explain. The two oldest of the children thus saved j were for some weeks in the care of a friend of the writer, and from them many of the details of those dreadful live days in the I meadows were obtained. All the property j of the murdered emigrants, even to the j clothing and jewels taken from the bodies ; of the dead passed Fnto the hands of the I Mormon leaders, and these helpless orphans were returned penniless to the StatesJ where relatives or old neighbors of their parents received them.?Boston Bulletin. ABOUT CHEERFUL MEN. If cheerful men were selling for 10 cents i apiece and I had $2,000 to throw away, I j wouldn't buy one of them. I used to have a positive reverence for a smiling, grinning, bland-voiced man. Many a time I've met j Smith or Green or White on my way down j town, and it would jump my soul a foot high to hear him call out: "Well, my boy, beautiful morning, eh? Isn't everything just lovely? Why, I seem to be floating in mid air ! Why, sir, I wouldn't trade this earth for all the heav- I ens ever preached about by the ministers, i Have acierar? No? Then have a drink? ! No? Dear me! what can I do to brighten you up and make you feel like an angel | on rollerskates?" And I'd stand off and look at him and j wonder if the land beyond the skies did j really contain a happier soul. Ah ! the old hypocrite ! I got to know in after years j that his children were afraid of him, his wife trembled as he entered the door, and j ! that it was his daily habit to growl out as I ; he left the door: "Wood! I bought *2 worth last week, j If that's gone we'll go without until Satur- | day. You are the most extravagant woman in Detroit. I believe you burn it up to spite me. Soap? Didn't I get a bar last Saturday? If you let the children play! horse with the soap you must take the consequences. Go down on the ferry? I'd like to see myself lugging three or four I younguns and a limping wife around town!" Your habitually cheerful man is an old fraud and a liar. He is well dressed, while his children are the rag-bags of the neigh-1 borhood. lie has a dollar for cigars when ; his wife wears a bonnet six years old. He j passes for a whole-souled fellow with the ! public, but is a fault finder at home. You'll see him taking the cool breezes on the river, while his family are weltering in a stuffy house on some back street. I want to see a man grin when there's; anything to grin for, but when Green gets up in the morning and declares he hasn't had a meal fit to eat in the last three months, | and that he can't see why his wife's always J groaning around and his children always | whining, he has no business to stop the first man he meets, with a smile clear back to his ears, and shout out: "Why, old fel, how solemn you look! Brace up, man?life is worth the living ten times over!" I used to reverence Green. He had a grip of the hand like a carpenter's vice?he had a voice as bland as June?he'd make a consumptive believe that nothing more than a sore heel was the matter. I used to lie in ambush for him just to hear his hearty voice and see his serene countenance, and I'd go about my day's work wondering what sort of guardian angel he had. I found out one day when a policeman had to go in and stop him from beating his wife. When you find a man who can grin over the servant girl's jumping out at an hour's notice, with wife flat in bed and the chil dren having a scarlet fever look around tne eyes, don't you go off on a fishing trip with him. When a man can soar among the angels with bill collectors ringing his doorbell?last week's grocery bill unpaid?the children wanting shoes?the rent running behind and his wife coughing all night long, he's an infernal old fraud and ought to be kicked. When a chap who has frozen the children, jawed the cook and blasted his wife as a sort of morning tonic before leaving the house meets you about a block from the gate and is troubled because you haven't got your angelrs harp on your .shoulder, keep your hand on any stray half dollar you happen to have about you. He's mean enough to steal chicken-broth from a boy with a broken back.?J/. Quad in Detroit , Free Press. MANNERS*^IN BUSINESS. A shop-keeper may attract or repel customers by his manners. Luudy Foot, the tobacconist of Dublin, laid the foundation of his fortune by his kind manners. "Thank you, my dear! call again, please!" he would say to the little ragged Irish girl, who asked : for a ha'penny's worth of snuff. A writer in the Fancy Goods Recorder accompanied several ladies shopping in a quiet country town. He thus relates his experience : "The shop-keeper's manner was well calculated to drive people from his shop. He was a slovenly, bushy-haired man, with a smileless face and suspicious eyes, that seemed to regard every passer-by as a burglar and every customer as a possible swindler. His till was fitted with a patent burglar alarm, which gave a clang every time he opened it to change a ten cent piece. He watched with the glance of a detective every lady who handled a piece of goods, as if she purposed slipping a whole piece of Horrock's cotton under her cloak. Indeed, his entire manner made the party feel uncomMa nnrl onvinnu tr\ hp mif of his nlftPf1. lUi W4VIV UlIU UiiAlVU^ WW WW x/MV w. ...W | Finally, when one of the ladies gave him a five dollar bill to pay for her purchases, he put on his glasses to examine it slowly and carefully, then pulled out the burglar-proof drawer with its ring of alarm, closed it on second thought with another clang, and hied away to the further end of the shop to make sure from an old bank note detector that the note was not counterfeit, after which he moodily made change. "The party have never called upon him since, and no member of it ever will. The whole conduct of the man said, as if in so many words, 'Look here, you people, you can't cheat me, and you can't have my goods until I am satisfied about you. I have every device for swindlers, so keep your distance.' The result was that he lost all custom, for no one cares to be suspected obviously of being a thief." LAW STUDENTS VHO FAIL. "What proportion of the young men who register as students are eventually admitted to the bar?" was asked a well known lawyer the other day. "It would be impossible to give figures," he answered, "but it is safe to say that the proportion is a very small one. The great trouble for many years I past has been that boys have been brought tm 1 y-.j-.L- Iinnn a trorlo no n rlpcrrarliltinn. ul' lu ,uun " Fu" " ? " ?ft If they show any considerable amount of smartness at school, fond and doting parents insist upon it that they must study a profession. Now, in most cases they are doing their children a grievous wrong, especially when it is necessary for them to earn a living at an early age. A boy graduating from the high school in the senior class most always wants to be a lawyer; it is, he thinks, the most gentlemanly of the professions and the easiest to learn. Some friend will probably get him a position in a lawyer's office, where he will earn $3 or $4 a week, with the privilege of studying. If he has any talent for it and his parents have any money he is all right, but if either of these conditions is wanting his whole life runs a chance of being spoiled. Hy the time he has studied for two or three years he often tinds out that he cannot live on the paltry salary he is drawing, and even should lie pass his examination and become a full fledged lawyer, unless he i has some money to live 011 till he gets a practice his case is not at all bettered. "I have known at least a dozen young men who commenced to study law when they were about sixteen years old, and who, by the time they arrived at the age of nineteen, found they had wasted a valuable portion of their lives and had nothing to show for it. Nothing was left but to fight out life's battle on another plan. One young man I knew became an attorney and then committed suicide. A few are fortunate enough to get places with men who will take an interest in and really help them, but these cases are one to five hundred." ? iinimnvaii ^loorn r,.\-UW* Eill.MMl .liuat.1. Behind the bars of a gloomy cell in the Massachusetts penitentiary there is a shattered wreck of a man who is face to face with death. Xo pityingeyes look into his; no friendly voice utters a word of comfort, and no kind hand ministers to the wants of this suffering outcast. This utterly friendless man, who is left to die like a dog, was not always a felon, and in other days he had troops of friends. In the first flush of his bright manhood Franklin J. Moses was regarded as one of the most brilliant of South Carolina's sous. But his good fortune was his ruin. Success maddened him. He became the most prodigal ruler that ever sat in a Governor's chair. In his vain desire to give his State a dazzling administration he fell an easy prey to unscrupulous flatterers who knew how to make thrift follow fawning. The Governor of a great commonwealth became the accomplice of swindlers. Disgraced and scorned by his own people he left the executive mansion and became a wanderer on ( the face of the earth. His recent history is painfully familiar, j Time and again within the past few years j the penniless exile has yielded to tempta-1 tion, or to necessity, and he has paid the j penalty. From jail to jail, and from prison to prison this broken man has gone, [ naxraf oannnimr fho pnnsun nonPfi nf his npf- I "V*V4 V/OVKJ/iu^ k,,v/ VW.WV>J-V?.? ? I- I ty transgressions. Now, at the age of fif-1 ty, when he should be in his prime, he ! is cut off from his kindred and the friends ' of his youth, and forgotten and uncared for . is left to die a fellon's death. Men will say that it is just. They will say that it is a warning example. It is more than all this. It is the sad ending of a wasted life, and it is impossible to contemplate it without pity.?Atlanta Constitution. MOTHER NATURE. Among the views of living nature, and ; indeed of the inorganic universe as well, ! which receive tacit acceptance and sanction from ordinary thinkers, there are certain phases deemed incontrovertible in their j plain every-day demonstration. Before ! our eyes, for instance, we see Madre Nutu- [ ra spending her wherewithal in apparent: thriftlessness and woeful waste. The proverb, "Waste not, want not," so thoroughly and repeatedly dinned into youthful ears, would seem to have no application to , the works and ways of the prodigal All- j mother that surrounds and incompasses us. j That flower that "blooms unseen aud wastes j its sweetness in the desert air" is a very j mild illustration of a nature-spirit which j appeals in more forcible ways to the mind j as an example of needless contrivance, I wasted effort and useless prodigality. We , fly to Tennyson for that apt quotation con- j nnorl onrl tuKor/i. ' CCI'Il lllg CMC BCCU.I jJlUUU\.cu,?uu nuviv of only one comes to the full fruition of its race. Every summer day shows us how true apparently the poetic axiom holds. Every spring time seems to teach us the same truism. The pines and other conebearing trees disharge their polen or fertilizing matter in clouds. The winds, as nature intends, sweep this pollen from their branches, on the 'flowers' of which it has been produced. Carried through the air for miles, so much of the pollen cloud will fall on the receptive 'cones,' fertilize the ovules, and thus convert them into seeds, whence a new dynasty of trees may arise. But countless showers of pollen are spent in vain, irrevocably lost and sent abroad to no purpose whatever. They fall on barren ground; they litter the earth miles away from their parent trees, or cover the surface of lakes for miles with a yellow film?their purpose futile and their production vain. True it is, as the botanists tell us, that more pollen will be produced in the case of wind fertilized plants than is found in that of insect-impregnated flowers. It is a case of "hit or miss" with the wind fertilized trees, while it is an illustration of an exact calculated aim with the flowers. Hence nature has to provide for J the cotingency which awaits her efforts in the former instance by providing a very copious supply of pollen. She is in the position here, not of the'marksman who takes deliberate aim at the bullseye with his rifle and single bullet. She showers her bullets at the object in the hope that some of them will hit, and with equally plain expecta- j tion that many must miss altogether.^ MY HOY. I was in Father Taylor's study, talking with him about his eventful life. We were discussing some features of the temperance question, when he took down from a shelf a plain pocket Bible, and asked me to examine it. On the fly-leaf was written " , -from his ; mother." Turning over the pages, 1 observed that in some places they were torn, blistered and stained with blood. I asked for the history. He replied: "Some years ago I was sent for in haste to visita young man who was danerously ill. I went to the house, in a miserable garret I found a lad, pale, weak, and faint from the loss of blood. He told me that he had been attacked with a severe hemorrhage, and knew that he was soon to die; that he had been leading a life of dissipation, had becomea slave to drink, and had been brought to his present position. 'My mother,' he said 'was a godly woman. She instructed me faithfully, prayed for me tenderly, and tried to make me a good man. I left home, and came to lioston to maKe my own living. I intended to do right, and follow my mother's counsels. Her last gift to me was this Bible. At first I read it daily, and attended worship every Sabbath ; but I fell into had company and gradually went astray, until I lost all my manliness ai d became a wretched drunkard. I have burst a blood vessel and am dying. For God's sake and my mother's pray for me.' I left him in great distress. The next day I found him dead. He was lying with his book clasped to his lips. It was wet with his tears and blood, and, torn with his convulsive agonies. Some years after I made a temperance speech in Philadelphia. I related the incident and held up the book as I did so. There was a stir in the audience. A poor woman, with a sad, heartboken expression, arose and tottered to the platform. She implored me to let her have the hook. The stillness of the room was terrible. Every eye was fixed upon her. With trembling hands she turned to the fiy leafthen, with a scream, fell fainting to the floor. She had read the name of her own son, and for the first time knew of his sad fate." REMOVING A MAN'S Kill. There is a man at the Ivy Street Hospital, Atlanta, who has twelve ribs on theright right side and eleven on left. The twelfth I rib was cut irom nis rignt siue una ween.. The man who has thus become a little one| sided, is named Carmack, and he is from Alabama. Mr. Carmack is a young man, apparently strong and healthy, but in reality quite weak and ill. For months he has been suffering from empyema, brought on by a severe cold. At first he paid no attention to the trouble, but as it began to grow he sought the best physicians in the locality in which he resided, but could obtain no relief. lie then began trying every patent medicine that he could hear of, but again obtained no relief. A few months ago he was advised to come to Atlanta and have an operation performed. lie reached the city Sunday and placed himself under Dr. Nicholson's care. The doctor soon discovered that the only chance for the man's relief was in removing a rib and inserting a tube through the orifice made. His patient was advised as to the dangerous operation, but agreed to its being performed. Yesterday morning Dr. Nicholson, aided by other physicians at the hospital, undertook the operation. The patient was placed under II - -< -t-i U1U lllHUeilL'U UI ClllUlUiUl IIJ, nuu iui unu hours the physicians worked over him before completing the task. When the operation was finished, however, and the man had recoved from the effect of the chloroform, he appeared to be much better. Ilis case is deeply interesting to all the physicians who have been made acquainted with it. The operation is a difficult one and is rarely resorted to. The result of the operation will be watched closely by the profession.? Constitution. The Percentage of Good Looks.? What proportion of good-looking people does one see in the crowded thoroughfares of a city, and at the theatres, the balls, the hotels, the restaurants ? Should the observer count up all he sees in a single day he ivnil/n o rncwi/itohlfi n frPTPflltR. hilt 111 1 ? I 1 U IllUlW U OB~ -O 7 would the percentage of good looks be one in a hundred? There is usually something the matter with the face. It is either too long or too short, too red or too sallow, the nose too retrousse, too long, too short, too highly bridged, or has no bridge at all, is : too thin or too bulbous; the eyes too near together or too far apart, have an undesirable color, are too large, too small, or have an evil expression ; the forehead is too high, too low, too narrow, too broad, or out of i shape from a phrenological standpoint; the I chin is too short, too weak, too square, too i pointed; the mouth, thought by many to be the most expressive feature of the face, < may have nameless and numberless devia- i tions from the true type of beauty, while i ? the hair, ears and complexion, may be all wrong, and the profile either that of a fish or a pair of nutcrackers. It is said that we are born to live under such fateful and melancholy conditions, we Americans even, who pride ourselves on being the handsomest people in the universe. Bald-Headed Men ofTo-Da v.?"Baldheaded men don't wear wigs now as they once did years ago," sadly said a wig-maker to a reporter. "They don't seem to care if they do show a sleek, clean pate, especially the married men and confirmed old bachelors. They look upon the absence of hair as a badge of intelligence or conspicuous popularity. Maybe they are right, but our profession don't think so. Our principal customers are actors and women. The latter cannot stand the slightest trace of baldness, and are willing to pay well for a fine wig, but they are so well made and matched in color to the natural hair that detection is improbable. Human hair is cheaper and in more demand than formerly; hence there is no necessity for anybody going through life bald-headed. I deal in all parts of the United States, and after an experience of forty-five years I received an order three weeks ago for two wigs for negroes. They were the first of that kind within my recollection. They wanted them curly and kinky. "Fashion repeats itself, and my impression is that within the next decade the powdered wigs of the time of Louis XIV. will come into vogue. They had style in those days. The head was the centre to dress from then and a cavalier made an imposing appearance. Even Gesar wore a crown of leaves to hide his baldness, but these parquet-bachelors have lost all pride." 1 The Reckoning of Ships.?There are 300 degrees of longitude in the entire circle of the earth. As the earth turns around on its axis in twenty-four hours, l-24th of 300 degrees, which equals fifteen degrees, corresponds to a difference of one hour in time. Xnw. if a shin is sailinereast ward from Lon don, when it has reached a point fifteen degrees east of that place the sun.will come to the noon line (or meridian) one hour sooner than at London. When it is thirty degrees east it will be noon on the ship two hours earlier, at forty-live degrees three hours earlier, and so on. When a ship is sailing westward the noon lineispassed one hour later for each fifteen degrees in longitude. If two ships meet at a point 180 degrees from London, the one sailing east and the other sailing west, the one will have gained and the other will have lost twelve hours on London time. The rule of navigators is to drop out a day when a ship crosses the 180th degree meridian sailing westward (that is, the 180th degree from the observatory of Greenwich, near London,) and to add a day when they reach the same degree sailing eastward. In this way the reckoning of ships sailing east and west around the globe is made as nearly uniform as possible.?Inter Ocean. - ? A Holiday for the Wife.?Give your wife a vacation. She needs one. Little cares are harder to bear than greater responsibilities, and she has many more cares than her husband, and sometimes as great responsibilities. The doctors tell us more women break down mentally than men, and they also tell us this is because they have more cares to carry, and have to carry them continuously. When your work is done you can lock up your office and put the key in your pocket. Hut she never locks her work un till sleep comes and turns the key upon it. A woman's work is never done. And modern life hasincreased and intensified it. Cares are multiplied faster than conveniences. Life is more complex, its demands are greater and more numerous, society more exacting. Who needs a vacation if she does not ? And she cannot get it at home. The more quiet and restful the home is to you, the more evidence that it is a care and burden to her. A housekeeper can no more take a vacation at home than a merchant in his counting house. Even though her absence occasions inconvenience, give her an occasional vacation.?Detroit Free Press. Be Kind to the Living.?Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness. Speak ap proving, cheering words while their ears can hear them, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happy by them ; the kind things you mean to say when they are gone, say before they go. The flowers you mean to send for their coffins, send to brighten and sweeten their homes before they leave them. If my friends have alabaster boxes laid away, full of fragrant perfumes of sympathy and affection which they intend to break over my dead body, I would rather they would bring them out in my weary and troubled hours, and open them that I may be refreshed and cheered by them while I need them. I would rather have a plain coffin without an eulogy, than a life without the sweetness of love and sympathy. Let us learn to anoint our friends beforehand for their burial. Post-mortem kindnneya r1 ri/^f /lIlQor tllQ IllirvImiPlI Sni H t\ ncoa uuco iu/i v/iivv/i tiiv WM?mvi?W? Flowers on the coffin cast no fragrance backward over the weary way. The Fridays of this Year.?Superstition has always fixed upon Friday as the "unlucky day" of the week, and many people, otherwise matter-of-fact and practical, always avoid, if possible, carrying out upon 1 that day any undertaking in whose success they are interested. This distrust of Friday is more wide-spread and more deeply-rooted than almost any other form of superstitious belief. It is, therefore, somewhat disquieting to be informed that the present is pre-1 eminently a year of Fridays. On a Friday the year was born, and on a Friday it will J die ; the longest and the shortest days are both Fridays; upon five Fridays occur changes of the moon ; no less than four months out of the twelve contain five Fridays apiece; and, finally, the fatal day occurs fifty-three times within the year in-; stead of the more usual fifty-two. The day | of evil omen is undeniably "in the ascendant," as the astrologers have it; but it is hardly to be assumed that the year will ne-; cessarily he unlucky, or, at any rate, more ! uniucKy tnan usual. The Safest of All Explosives.?It j. is now claimed that means have been dis-1 f covered which make blasting gelatine the " safest of all explosives to handle after it is i manufactured and which render it entirely 1 suitable for use in shell projectiles. Blasting gelatine explodes with nearly twice the force of dynamite. It is the material to be . used in the projectiles for the Maxim gun and the new experimental war vessel Destroyer, which have so lately attracted attention in New York. So sanguine are some people that this explosive is to revolutionize national warfare that the National (iazette says: "On the completion of the Destroyer, the ironclads of the world will j be rendered worthless hulks, and the strongest system of coast defense will be as chart' before the onslaught of this terrific engine of destruction." This would seem to come wonderfully near realizing the idea of rendering war impossible. Secretary Whit- j ney would do well to be cautious about' recommending contracts for any more ships.' lite ?0tMle #nqitim. TEllMH OF SUBSCRIPTION: Single copy for one year, $ 2 50 For six months, 1 25 For three months, 75 Two copies one year 4 00 Ten copies one year 20 00 And an extra copy for a club of ten. 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ONE DOLLAR per square for the first insertion, and FIFTY CENTS per square, for each subsequent insertion. A square consists of the space occupied by seven lines of this size type. j&?r Contracts will be made at reduced rates for advertising space to be used for three, six, or twelve months. All contract advertisements will be confined to the regular business for which the space is engaged. TpUr Rejected manuscripts will not be returned to the writers. Persons who send manuscript to this office for publication and desire a copy of the same, should make a duolicate. Tributes of Respect and Obituary notices charged for at the rate of ten cents a line. Usually there are about seven words in a line. A FIA E Florida Tonic ! VJIIU U1 Hit; IclllU lllill l\3 **l tilt; ^UVM?Ml I/Uiq iiimv, now of Orlando, Florida, writes: "I can hardly select a single case, of of the manv to whom I have siold QUINN'S PIONEER BLOOD IlENEWER, but what have been satislied ; and I find it the best remedy for all Skin Diseases I have ever sold, and a fine Florida Tonic. "FOSTER S. CHAPMAN, Orlando, Fla." A CERTAIN CURE FOR CATARRH ! A Superb Flesh Producer1' and Tonic ! (jiuinn's Pioneer Blood Renewer Cures all Blood and Skin Diseases, Rheumatism, Scrofula, old Sores. A perfect Spring Medicine. If not in your market it will be forwarded on receipt of price. Small bdltles ?1.00; large bottles 81.75. Essay on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free. MACON MEDICINE COMPANY, Macon, Georgia. For sale by DOWRY <k STARR, Yorkville. July 14 11 . lv FOUNDRY AND MACHINE SHOP. THE undersignec-l would respectfully inform the public that lie now has in operation, on his lot on King's Mountain Street, a FOUNDRY AND MACHINE SHOP, in which he is prepared to do all manner of work in light iron and brass castings, and general machine work. REPAIRING, Of all kinds, promptly done on short notice. Steam Engines, and agricultural machinery of any kind overhauled and repaired. Resides, any class of work that may be wanted in his shop, he will attend any call for repairing stationary engines, doing the work on the premises, thus obviating the necessity of moving the engine. Prices reasonable. Terms, cash on completion of the work. EDWARD THOMAS. The Howe Machine Company's LIGHT RUNNING, HIGH ARM, " New Howe " WHICH IS THE BEST I SEWINC MACHINE KVKR MADE. I CALL special attention to the following features : The NEW HOWE is a new machine through- | out, differing in every point from the machines i heretofore manufactured by the company. The { needle is self-setting. It has the most room under the arm; the perfect Howe stitch ; no holes | to thread, except the needle; the easiest shuttle I to thread ; the most perfect take up ; the loose j balance-wheel; the largest bobbin ; absolutely j no vibration; the most perfect tension. It is the lightest running; noiseless, and the most I pleasing in appearance. Prices within the reach of all. Call and get a j descriptive circular, and see the machine, which j is always on exhibition at my Photographic I Gallery". PHOTOGRAPHY. i I would inform the public that I am yet making PHOTOGRAPHS in all the various styles, j Also, Ferrotypes and other cheaper styles of pictures. Pictures by the photographic process ' enlarged, and all work done in the best style of I n.r.,it i-ojicmiiililf nriccs. Gallerv on West Liberty street, near the jail. J. It. SCHORB. "MOORE COUNTY GRIT" The bewt Millstone in the Worlii for Table Meal. Samples of meal sent on application. Send for prices on Purtable Corn Mills, Upper and Under Runners and Millstones. We are agents fur Katrine*, Boiler*, Saw Mill*, f'otton din*, Planers, Shafting. Pulleys, to., also for Roller-Mill Outfit* which save.10to ascents j fur the miller in every barrel of Hour he makes. Write stating what you want and terms you wish to bnv on. Give references. Address, North Carolina Mill8tone Co., l'arkowoud, Moore Co., N. C. June 23 6m9 "APPLICATION FOR niSdIAKGTr VTOTICE is hereby trivon that the undersigned, Kxeeutors of the estate of THOMAS 1>. I S PRATT, deceased, have made a final return and settlement with the Jtidfrcof Probate for York ounty, and on Saturday, the 7th day of August, ItvXti, at 11 o'clock A. M., will make application l...(mm linliilitv -in Kvnentors nf tlio mid estate. T. C. S Pit ATT, ) .. J. M. SPRATT, 1 Lxe, ut?r?. July 7 -7 ">t CHATTEL MORTGAGES, MORTGAGES of Real Estate, anil Titles to Real Estate. For sale at the ENQUIRER OFFICE. July 7 '1~> tf GARRY IRON RO< Manufacturers of all kinds of W. . IKON ROOFING I'KIJII'KD AND I'OKKl'UATEl) SIDING, Iron Tile or Shingle, .ffiMiqy FIRE I'UUUF DOORS, SHUTTERS AC., THE LARGEST MANUFACTURERS OF fcCI"- Orders received lty T<. M. GRIST. May 10 C. & L. NARROW GAUGE RAILROAD IgMMgygjHx jji ur w - w" SCHEDULE of Mail and Passenger Trains from Lenoir, N. CM to Chester, S. C., taking effect at 12 o'clock, Noon, Sunday, July 4,18813: GOING SOUTH. Leave Lenoir 7.30 A. M. Arrive at Hudsonville,* 7.50 A. M. Arrive at Lovehuly,* 8.05 A. M. Arrive at Hickory, 8.34 A. M. Leave Newton.... 0.12 A. M. Arrive at Maiden,* 9.37 A. M. Arrive at Lincolnton, 10.04 A. M. Arrive at Hardin's* 10.35 A. M. Arrive at Dallas, 10.55 A. M. Arrive at Gastonia, 11.10 A. M. LeaveGastonia 11.20 A. M. Arrive at Crowder's Creek,* 11.38 A. M. Arrive at Clover, 11.50 A. M. Arrive at Yorkville, 12.30 P. M. Leaye Yorkville, 12.40 P. M. Arrive at Guthriesville,* 1.02 P. M. Arrive at Lowrysville,* 1.35 P. M. Arrive at Chester 2.00 P. M GOING NORTH. T i-,1 1? A or. i> \t T.~?/ j . 4U, Arrive at Lowrysville, 4.50 P. M. Arrive at Guthriesville, 5.20 P. M. Arrive at Yorkville, 5.40 P. M. Leave Yorkville 5.45 P. M. Arrive at Clover, 6.15 P. M. ^ Arrive at Crowder's Creek 6.63 P. M. " 'i Arrive at Gastonia, 6.52 P. M. Leave Gastonia, 7.10 P. M. Arrive at Dallas, 7.25 P. M. Arrive at Hardin's, 7.48 P. M. Arrive at Lincolnton, 8.10 P. M. Arrive at Maiden, 8.40 P. M.' Arrive at Newton, 0.02 P. M. Leave Hickory, 0.40 P. M. Arrive at Lovelady, 10.07 P. M. Arrive at Hudsonville, 10.22 P. M. Arrive at Lenoir, 10.48 A. M. * Flag Station. G. R. TALCOTT, Superintendent. The Accommodation Train arrives in Yorkville at 5.25 and leaves at 6 o'clock P. M., on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, going South. Going North, this train arrives at Yorkville on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, at 10.38 A. M., and leaves at 10.55. July 21 20 tf JOB PRINTING. d AWING to our superior facilities with the best machine presses, an abundance of type and iirst-dass appointments throughout our office, we are prepared to execute all manner of JOR PRINTING in superior style, and at prices that will compare with New York or Philadelphia charges for the same quality of work and materials. We have recently made a reduction in prices for the following classes of work, to which we invite the attention of business men : ItIJ.lL HEALS. For 500 For ICHS Half-sheet Bill Heads, 83.50 86.00 Fourth-sheet Bill Heads, 2.25 3.50 Sixth-sheet Bill Heads 2.00 3.00 Monthly statements at same price of sixth-sheet oill heads. We will till an order for bill heads, giving any desired number of either size of sheet *> at proportionate prices. LETTER. HEALS. For 500 For luoc Commercial Note, 82.15 ?3,25 Packet Note, 2.25 3.50 Letter (large size) 3.00 5.00 For the above work we use a superior quality of paper, and guarantee entire satisfaction in every instance. We also give special attention to the printing of Briefs, Arguments and Points and Authorities, which we furnish strictly according to the requirements of the Justices of the Supreme Court, and in proof reading exercise the utmost % care to ensu re accuracy. , We are prepared to furnish all other kinds of printing, from a visiting card to a large volume, and will be pleased to furnish estimates for any style of work desired. Address, L. M. GRIST, Yorkville, S. C, TO THE CAROLINA STOVE TRADE. T RF.SPECTFCLLY inform Stove Buvers all 1 over the Stale that I carry in stock, for Fall and Winter trade, 550 Cooking and Heating Stoves & Ranges. By actual count, requiring Store and Warehouse room, 25 by 200 feet to contain the stock, and can till orders promptly. COOKING STOVES FROM $8.00 UP, v ^ Warranted to give satisfaction. Best Box Heating Stoves from $2.50 Up. The goods are bought from parties who sell * lartje jobbing trade only, and challenge a com-. parison 01 quality aim prices m owvca \>im au_y market North, South, East or West. P&- Write for circulars giving prices and a full description of Goods, and SAVE MONEY. i I am very anxious to get a sample Stove sold in everv neighborhood in the State. TERMS CASH ON DELIVERY. J. D. RATTERREE, Chester, S. C. October 1") 31 12m 1880. WEST LIBERTV1TREET71880. Yorkville Livery and Feed Stables ARE still on a boom, and the year 1S80 finds me with some of the finest Vehicles ever T shown in the Livery business in Yorkville, and surpasssed by none. Everything will be kept in the best style. Give me* a trial and be convinced. Cincinnati and Columbus Buggies Of evervdescrintion will be kent. .Spring Wag oris, l'hrctons, Ac., of the best make,"always on hand. FOR FUNERALS I have a fine Queen City Hearse and a Clarence Coach, which will be sent to any part ef the county at short notice. Terms reasonable. A Big Bargain. I have a Jumpseat Plneton and some Ruggies 011 hand that I will give a big bargain in, if sold soon to make room for my new stock. HAVE YOUR HORSES FED At tho Yorkville Livery and Feed Stables, where thev will receive the best attention. F. E. SMITH. THE COTTON PLANT. The Only Agricultural Journal in South Carolina. AN EIGHT-PAGE, FORTY-COLUMN AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL ! ? Strictly and Intensely Agricultural, Fighting for and Aiding the Farmers. The attention of the Farmers' Clubs organizing now in our State is called to THE COTTON PLANT, As the only Agricultural Magazine in our State. Only (JO Cents a Year. SEND FOR SAMPLE COPIES. Address THE COTTON PLANT, - Marion, S. im ? rwviT A i\mnnn nCiAUHtAnl TjKO FOR j. M PURE BEER, At. n Bottled Beer a Specialty. Q 0 DEALER IX LIQUORS AND WIXES. UJ Agent for H M I'OItTXER'S TIVOLI BEER And The Bergner A Cngel Brewing Co. Shipments promptly attended to. Owing to our facilities for handling the above goods, we will guarantee satisfaction. C. 0. IIABKXICHT, Columbia, S. C. May 6 18 3m THRESHING ?ES Simplest, Most Durable, Economical, and Perfect , in use?wastes no grain; cleans it ready for market. THRESHING ENGINES POWEiS, Naw It II la. and Nlandanl implrucnugracrally. Send fur illustrated catalogue. j, A. B. FARQUHAR, I'enn.ylvunla Agricultural Worka, VOUK, I'm. July 7 27 U 3FIIVO COMPANY, IROX ORE PAIXT A-iid. Cement. EgKAk 152 TO 158 MERWIN STR1010T tfjfffir "i| Cleveland, O. Jry r^pjpi for Circular and Priee 1 IRON ROOFING IN THE WORLD. 9 I ly t