Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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» . • Km**' '&* / V. 1, r.iliJi - NGE SIS. to their I*ropfer*ty of onaurpaased repa In o&ae of losses oc- plsoing business in their on their personal attention to terests in settlament of claims, aak a oaQ from property owners before their insurance elsewhere. Term* a* low as any reliable, first-class , aVULE'BOUSE. E. J. O. WOOp, ’ gTDEBIA. OTT. Fire Insurance! London Assurance Corporation. Chartered 1720. Assets, $15,886,110.96. l^orth British and Mercantile. Chartered 1809. Assets, $2,044,664.00. Phoenix, of Hartford, Conn. Chartered IMS. Assets, $2,826,875.00. Hanover, of New York. Chartered 1852. Assets, $2,561,141.00. Germania, of New York. Chartered 1859* Assets, $2,471,061.00. CLAUDE E. SAWYER, Agent, AIKEN, S. C. D. 8. Hexdkhson. E. P. Henderson- H. A. SMY SER, (Formerly of Alkali, S. OJ, -’Has a fine large house and qottage for the moooTimodation of boarders in tlJe beautiful Til lage of Summerville, nea? the (pity of Augusta, Ga., finely situated, with splendid drives and pleasant walks. Street oars] within three minutes’ walk. Churches veryt aoavenient to *“• **“^ Th ® 1 ? OU8 ® is ntatiy sad oomfort- aolf^nmiisbed with everything necessary for Booms and halls ve’!- ventilated and [alia delivered duly. Terms mod-, phr to H. A. SEYSb®. Sand H enderson Bros., AttotiNEvs at Law, Aiken, S. C. Will practice in the State and United State* conrta for South Carolina. Prynpt attention given to collections. J> A. EMANUEL, Attohnit at Law, Aiken, S. O. WQi practice in all the State and United Stated Courts. Special attention paid to collec tions and investments of money. JAMES ALDRICH, Attorney at Law, AikEN, B. a Eracpieee in the State and United Statei Oonrts|f>f South Carolina. QUITMAN DAVIS, Attorney at Law, .. i Aiken, S. O. raotice in the Courts of this Circuit, kentioo^lven to collections. r. w. DevouE, Aiken 0. H. JteVORE. - me Aitokneys at Law, . Aiken, a 0. te and United States Come for Thy Bights t dome, honest manhood, not ashamed to toil, Stand in the garb or cause that honors thee 1 Come from the mill, the forge, or sterile ■oil, We crown thee king, thou ahalt our sovereign be 1 Come from the ocean laden—fish or pearls; Come from the mines with all their precious ore; Come art as servant, serving moneyed churls, But, in thy right, stand dignified before. Tbou feedest kings; they tax thee in return ; Thou dothest nobles, rich in courtly dress ; Thou diggest coal for them to cheerful burn, But savest little, each, thyself t6 bleei Ihon art content, pushedliy nUMndly hands, Stand out; the fightful ruler of the land? I Copse for thy rights, as constant as the ran 1 Stand for thy cause in eloquence of deed 1 Come with thy riches, when thy toil is done, As plants give bloom to multiply their seed! What though the rich and proud thy wages take— Still strivest thou in faithfulness of soul, Till by thy care the fields a harvest make, That give a welcome to the living whole t Nor halting here, to moan with selfish Sighs That others take as freely as they choose, Thou givest all to nations in supplies, And rarely break’st thy serving to abuse ; Thou guard’st, thou honorest here with high repute; Thouplant’st the seed—art generous with the fruit. Earth bears no blighting curse by thee imposed; Thou art her husband, toiling, royal wed 1 She bears no malice, when in death deposed Thou sleep’st at lasfrwithin her silent bed ; But kings and despots, ruling to devASt; Have wet her bosom deep with peasant gore— She keeps account, to settle by at last, When kings sleep well, but sleep as kings no more. How can a death-dethroned king relent? He lies a subject, humbled in estate; The peasant has no carnage sown or rent, And in the grave he is a king as great; He reaches forth ii\ pleasure and id dope', Not dies debauched, a morbid misanthrope. —C. C. Merritt, Springfield Republican. THE TABLES TURNED. A large, old-fashioned, quaint gray stone house, with a green, close-clipped lawn, extending down to a very pictur esque portion of the Avon. Seated on the lawn were three young ladies in summer toilets with broad straw hats. Two were at work; while the darkest, prettiest, though smallest, was reading aloud. Suddenly, blended with the musical ■dip of oars, the still, calm air was broken by a strong, clear, manly voice singing; “Whgn the lads of the village, Merrily ah !—merrily ah !’* “It’s Tom 1 It’s dear old Tom 1'’ cried thd two girls who were dressed “ They will not even pass the doco,, after dark,” remarked Georgie, with toss of the head. “ But don’t you quiz 1 them, Master Tom, for you. also, are tool frightened to face itj What, coward-1 icel” with a little shrug. * r j declare,! if any man loved me and I found he! was a coward, I’d never, never marry] him I” ’ \ Perhaps it was accident, perhaps itj was intentional, but Georgia's dark! eyes rested on Tom as she spoke. I * “ There goes papa!” cried Rosie, at the instant starting up t as a tall, elderiy man passed along the terrace in •front of the house. “ Let us tell him ' Tom haa CGLue.” Jwslep in his own bedroom ; to which Noi^ie.the bold disbeliever, even added pr entreaties. They fancied that he pd (been more frightened than he kgia to Confess, for he had been ro- tarkably quiet and thoughtful all Ay, had kept aloof from them, and irandered about the house like a ghost imself. But Tom was firm. He said he was esotved to believe his eyes and brain Md deceived him, unless the poor lady- Host appeared a third time. y-But suppose she may not corns Rain?” suggested Georgie. TiicII I’m resolved to sleep in this TSm until she does, or put it all $wn as nervous bosh and optical FOR THE LADIES. Snperatitiona About Love. manner of stuffing^are sumcienc aione T7 .... . . for the garniture of a hat; and a bird Frdm he earliest times flo ereht in f re( . uen t]y completes the ornarafenta- human life has been {issdeiated With rt of velvet as the ob- more extensive folk-lore than marriage. . !V ; i rrifr .A,^v hug the headdress very closely. Cer tain of the large birds, in thef present manner of stuffing, are sufficient alone . The Pasture Bars. J all the skies, I do believey Had all the year withbolden fheir gala tints to guild that eve It would na been more golden; The wee birds worrid na sing so fine If they had been Invited; The cows came proudly k* a liner As if they were delighted. We UngfeT# by the pasture bare tense* to gloaming, • miMrailight Clustered fcrto stars, -.And through the fliouds went roaming; And tthcsv the moon glowed uj> the eky It found us -Win Relating : ^ot poi^ but jny otftt |l«e and I Knew why thp cows waiting. —Janies' Jtuison Lot*. HUMOR O f THE DAY. A man is fcfltfWB by the company he keeps away front^.Pieaj/une. Pretty new ballad by the house keeper, dedicated to the grocer: “Taka Back the Flour.” “Something left over from the fight of yesterday,” was the Duke of Wel lington’s definition of hash. What is the difference between freight and cargo? A horse-car con ductor says the pa; eengers make the freight and the horses make the car go- It has been ungallantly said that the telephone does what society rules have always been unequal to—compels Women who use it to talk one at a time. Yesterday we saw a man with a black eye, a skun nose and arm in a sling. He had a revolver and wanted ^ . , to know who invented hammocksw— ^ Boston Post. When a man hums to me for advice I find out the kind of adriee h* wants »raf 1 give it to him; this satisfys him l > that he and I are two az smart mea a* ■‘'“.A Beginning with love-dmnations, these e |riinmiilg, are of efer* conceivable kind, the Amapg the fabrics JL 11CH ± ^ until — , * “Let us all go to him,” said Tom. p W n as nervous bosh and optical They rose and the sister* went on illusion 1” before; but Tom sonpuiow managed Wi^h that Master Tom strode off to 10 d £°P ft little he,hiiid with his febusijb;! h- \ aurtted bedch«mbef; while the "Sd, Georgie,*’ he said, “you Si». rept along to theirs, wouldn’t marry a man who was a Scarcely had midnight chimed—for ascertain her lot in the marriage state, witlj Somd cut the common brake or fern trinij just above the root to ascertain the Woo initials b’l her futufe. hfisband’a name. Again, nuts and apples are very ffivot'- ite love tests. The mode of procedure child is for a girl to place on the bars of a thoi grate a nut, repeating this incantation: cuffs ihCeffded fpr pfi st riped Sic- bibs as green, iften strips. If he loves me, pop and fly; If be hates me, live and die. Great is the dismay if the anxious useab Thef gjnetur are Tt makes pari clnmreirs'MttTts, KlWFlifl the purpose ihiai .Ixoc cufmfbrtliese costumes colored velvet. Li or erreen is Weferfedr *■ .'Cornflowers bee also to be' .generally cut licularly pretty reTter'suited to he goods. The ; are tff mack or latter case fubf k, x! /. cmiing popular. coward. I hope you meant that for me, because you might marry me if i were not. Oh, dear. yoti kndw how. 1 loVe yofii i’d face all the ghpsts id Christendom if you would only say you would by my wife!” “ Yet you will not face a probable one, Tom,” she laughed. “I will without demur, if you would only say 1 yes,’ Georgie,” he whispered) earnestly’. “Ghosts wouldn’t frighten hie!*’ “ I’d like to have that proved. I am •Jnewhere, no doubt; it did chime; Pjugh not in Mr. Harrison’s house— $tn iii the dark corner of the pak- Pueled apartment again appeared the fedowy figure. That it was a woman’s Bere could be no doubt; the loose rayish draperies flowed round it, rooping from the waving arms, while gray mist apparently enveloped the edA * It repeated the same evolutions as on le previous occasion, only its moans nd tokens of grief were more earn* not so certain,” she rejoined, saucily, wtly expressed; but, after all, this as they came up to the rest. light was destined to be materially “ Well, Tom,” exclaimed Mr, Hand- [lifferent. As the ghost’s time for de- son, “ these stiipid girls, tell MP therwjxiftufe arrived, lof and behold, there wafit yoti to sleep in the hauntenlwas another ghost! room, for our old house is respectable The last was taller, clothed entirely enough to possess one.” iin white, and, standing behind the “Sol hear, sir, and will willingl j first, frantically waved its long arms test its ghostly charactei, if you hav/pdth ft hollow sepulchral moan, noobjectiori.” i Evidently, however, the smaller “None in the least, my boy, only Til =|t>irit hadn’t expected this ghostly make this proviso—I’ll have no fir« - Companion, for, perceiving it, with a arms used. Should anything appear it ' ‘ ‘ face’of the !o“^ad„a!i»vS U *&,**W£*i> } £ the nut, ipstead of making tlmhop^, abundance, while for ball dresses they }f> mea “ Wl,ile "ms "er.“3 ^ the suDjorntd cheplet! , tliB in gretn an(i - tho slnl i, 8 in Fly away east and fly away west, tinsel,. Hosts of these aerial Show me where lives the one I like best. (lresstf} are | >e jpg prepared for youthful Should this little insect chance to wearers. Flowers are plrtced as^ art- fly in the direction of the house where lessly as possible PR these clouadik* the loved one resides/ it Is regarded as toilqts. a favorable omen. flfiffdsotnp and costly buttons are a Another species of love-divination g re at feature of talking' dresses and once observed consisted in obtaining traveling costumes, and as they can be five bay-leaves, four of which the transferred from one dress to atldfhe? anxious maiden pinned at the four they are reftlly not extravagant pur- comers of her pillow and the fifth in chases in the end. Tortoise-shell but- the middle. If she was fortunate t nri a, -arttb crests or monograms in will not be supernatural—in which 1 frying; , no moire believe than that the moon is ' “Oh! tom— 1 rUlT made of green cheese.” So it was agreed that Tom should sleep there. “ I hope he will see nothing,” said his sisters. “ I hope he will,” said Georgie, ‘‘and prove his courage.” “I shan’t sleep a wink to-night,” remarked Rosie, as they saw Jam dis appear down the long Corridor. “ I don’t think I shall much,” agreed Georgia, very thoughtfully. * The next morning Tours appearance at the breakfast-table was anxiouslyj expected. When he.came his expres sion was certainly more serious. “ Well,** smiled Mr. Harrison, “ What did yotl see, tom? Giles Scroggins* ghost or anything else ?** “I can*t quite say, sir,” answered his son. “I certainly thought once I saw somethingi bute I was su' dead t : rri1 V—NT-. ^ — inging shriek it fled toward the bed, frying; . .. f “Oh! tom—Tom, sdve me! there Is a ghost and it’s here! Save me— fsave me!” V- But no Tom sprang to her rescue. Ipnly the taller ghost pursued, ex- fclainjing, in a very earthly voice and mmid much earthly laughter i ir “ So, .Miss Georgie, I’ve caught you, nave II The tables are nicely turned fepon my life.” j “Tom!” gasped Georgie, the smaller ■ ipecter, plucking the gray gauze from Ibout her head, “is it you? Oh! what fees it mean ?” ja “ Only that I’ve discovered the Jjhost,** laughed Tom. “ The second Eight I suspected the unsubstantiality »i' my visitor and employed the next ■ky in minutely^ examining my room, wbi^h led to the discovery of a secret mdifig panel, which conducted into a Hjjiftge that had another secret outlet ^Khe.oorriu^r near yp the middle. If .she was fortunate tons, With crests or monograms in enough to dream of her lovef It Wrts a go^. enameletl buttons In Mauretwlle sure sign that he would be married to or Florentine styled ato effective and her in the course of the year. look well on bottle-green, Havana of Friday has been held a good day of prune-colored dresses. Wooden and the week for love omens; andili. Npr- ; lorn buttons are also worn, and stnall folk the following lines are repeated ro rftid Ftenctf gold buttons—“ gfelots ” on three Friday nights successively, sis _ w ith rough sttffaoes, are plentifully on the last one it is believed that the u3e d 0 n bodices. Cuffs, SlNl pockets, young lady will dream of her future j et mosaic buttons, with monogfamv husband: inlaid m jet on Colored, grounds and a jet border, are thoroughly elegant. J husband: To-night, to-night is Friday night, Lay me down in dirty white; Dream who. my husband is to be, And lay my children by my side, If I’m to live to be his bride. In seleetihsr tlie time for the mar- * fcoconi fliid f’boeelftfe, ,i Probably few of our readeFs, While riage ceremony precautions of -every drinking these favorite beverages, kind have generally been taken to avoid have ever thought to ask how the an unlucky month and day for the pl'Utt producing them grows. Yet its knot to be tied. Indeed, the old lio- culture tornis it targe ;part of t ^ m- man notion that May marriages are un-. ■ Austry, qot only_ ot J-lie . A pr lucky survives to this day in^England. zonian valley, but of other portions . June is a highly popular month. Fri- tr °P* ca ^^ ou jy i A^ Iier * c ^- . . day, on account of its being regarded ■ r ^ e (iliedbrorrih 81 ' *ns an inauspicious ahd evil day for th& Bkrak slmtif^ng f 00 ^ ,u r%s\-r*\-nrk£iT\rn*-rr%CkT\i- f\-f O mr fXt* IS Bi SIHclll iMlSllj seldom exceeding fifteen feet In heigutj In days gone by Sunday appea -s to although vve-havp' se^i old-trees- have been 4L popular dap luf- wliich were thirty feetL^gh. H has riages. ft is, abote all things tieces^ large, oblong, taper-pointed leaves, sary that the sun should shine on the whieli When young are rosj ami very bride, and it is deemed absolutely nec- beautiful, “the flowers afe slOft&i { f that he and I are two az smartwte there is living—Josh Billings. A saddiearted poetess asks in the columns of the Philadelphia Bulletin’. “Why do we sing ?" Perhaps it’s be- §; i % r< howl. When Hood wrote “There is a haj essary by ve wefik onflk many that she should grant, yellowish, and afe bqzhein clus- it he onlv t«rs on the twmk and, larger bf when lie sat up veiT 1 late with his jnd did not know what minutqUie man iiilghteome thumping obww&ti In some of the mountainous sect) of Pennsylvania real estatwha^l a sttdddn downwanl tendency? 1 g* two hundred acres slid down valicr tl day. It will be s- ..time before It gews up to Its for height.—Siftings. ' An easy time of it—** I any man’s advice,” said ra. ' f mm t <