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BY E. 1). MURRAY & CO. ANDERSON. S. C., THURSDAY. JANUARY 2, 18711. ~V?L7XIV~-NO. 257 mrm OF suJtncnrPTioN.-o^z POM.M* and KIVTV CCKTI per anainii, in advsnre. Two DOM.-.CM at end of year. I?I?'-KXTV-KIVI- Vv*t* tor lix moulin. Subscription? are not talon for a less period ilian ?ls months. tATEi OF AUVRRTISIS'I.-OM*, Dollar per Mua? ol one Inch for the Orst Insertion,and Fifty Csnts per square for subsequent liuertlonsless thsn tlirca ninths. No adrertIseuit-uls counts lass than a square. Liberal cent ract s will bs m&drwlth those wishing to advertise for Ihre?-, six or twelve months. Ad vertising by contract must be cpufinrd to the im in? Hale business of thc ll nu or Individual contrae ting. Ob'itiarj Notices exceeding Ove H .vs. Ti lim ti 3 of Itsspret, sud sll personal communier* lon? or ?iwHfii ?.% lu?iri?uai interest, will be charged fur at advertising rates. Announcements of ina ir Inges and deaths, sad notleys cfs religious character, are supoctfullv solicited, and will be inserted grstls Sufferens of Nathen Spooner. nv JOSIAH AU.LN'? WIFE. Says I, "Josiah Allen, if there wus ?1 hetivy fine to pay for ehettin' up doors, you wouldn't never lose a cont of your property in that way," and says I, clutchin' my lap lull of carpet rags with a iirmcr grip, for truly, they wus flutter ill' like hauliers in thc cold breeze, "if you don't want me lo blow away, Josiah Allen, sliet up that ?loor." "Oh, shaw ! Samantha, you won't blow away, you ure too hefty. It would take a Hurrycnne, and a Simon, too, to tackle you, and lift you." "Simon who?" says I, in cold axents, cauzed partly hy my frigid emotions omi Kartly hy tim chilly blast, and partly by is darin' lo say nny man could take tue up and carry me away. "Oh ! the Simons they have on the desert. I've hcarn Thomas J. read about 'em. They'll blow camels away, and everything." "Says I, drcnmily, "who'd have thought twenty years ligo, to have hoard that tuan a-cuurlln' mc, and callin' mc a zephire, and a pink posy, and .\ angel, thal he'd ever live to sec thc day he'd call mc a camel." "I han't called you a camel ! I only meant that you was hefty, and camels wus hefty. And il would" take 11 Simon ?ir two to lift you 'round, either on you." "Wall," says I, in frigid tones, "what 1 want to know is, are you n-goin' to (diet that ?loor?" "Yes, I be, jist as quick us I change my clothes. I don't want to fodder in these new briches." I rose willi ?ffyrnity, or as much dignity ns 1 could lay holt of-half bent, tryln' to keep ten or twelve ?juarts of carpet rags from spillin' over the Hour-and went and shot the ?hair myself, which I might have known enough to done in the li rsl place, ami unveil time and breath. For biictlin' of doors is truly n accom plishment that Josiah Allen never will 1.: vstor. I have touched him up in lots of tilings, sense wc wus married, but in that branch ol education he has been t?io much for mc; I have about gin up. In the course ?if ten ?ir fifteen minutes Josiah came out of the bcd-[norn look iii' ns peaceful and pleasant as you may please, with his hands ii: his pantaloons pockets, search in' their? remote depths, ?ml says he, inn oil-hand, careless way: "I'll be hanged if there han't a letter fir you, Samantha." "How many weeks have you carried it 'round, Josiah Allen?" says I. "It would senre me if you should give me 11 letter before you had carried it round ?11 your pockets a month or so." "Oh! I guess I only got this two or three ?lays ago. I meat.' to handed it to you thc first thing when I got home. Hut 1 hui n't had on these old breeches sense that day I went to mill." "Three weeks ago, to-day," says I, in almost frosty axon ts, ns I opened my letter. "Wall," says Josiah, cheerfully, "I knew it wuzn't long, anyway." "I glanced my gray eye down my let ter, and says 1, in agitated tones: "She that was Alzina Ann Allen is cumin' here a-visitin'. She wrote mc three weeks ahead, so's to have me pre pared. And here alic is liable to come in on us any minute, now, and ketch us all unprepared," says I. "I wouldn't have lind it happened for a ten-cent bill, to hud one of the relation, on your side, come und ketch me in such a condition. Then, the curtains are all down in the ?pare room ; I waahed 'em yesterday, and they hain't irone?l. And thc carpet in the settin' room up to mend ; and nol a mite ol fruit cake in thc house, and she a-voiuin' herc to-day. I am mortified 'most to death, Josiah Allen. And if you'd give me that letter, I should have hired help, and got everything done. I should think your conscience would smart like a burn, if yon have g?it n con science, Josiah Allen." "Wall, less have n little sunthin' to eat, Samantha, and I'll help 'round." ileipl Wiiafii yon do, Josiah Al len ?" "Oh ! I'll do thc barn chores, and help all I can. I guess you'd betler cook n little ol' thal canned snmmou, I got to Janesville." Says I, coldly, "I believe, Josiah Al len, if ynti was on your way to the gal I us, you'd make 'cm stop and get vittles for you, meal vittles, if you could.'*' I didn't say nothin' more, for, as tho greatest poets lins sung, "the least said, thc soonest mended." Hut I rose, and with outward calmness, put on the tea ki-tlle und potatoes, and opened the eau of seimon, and jist as I put that over the stove, with Home sweet cream and butter, if you'll believe it, that very minute, she that was Alzina Ann Allen drove right up to thc door, and come in. You could have knocked me down with a hen's feather (as it were), my feclin's wus such ; but I concealer! 'em ns well as I could, and advanced to the door, and says I : "How do you do, Miss Ritherson?" she is married to Jenothcn Richerson, old Daniel Richer-son's oldest hoy. She is n tall, spindlin* lookiu' wemen, light complected, sn inly-h ai red, and with "pig, light blue eyes. I hadn't seen her fur nineteen yeera, but she seemed dred fnl tickled to sec me, and she says: . "You look younger, Samantha, than you did the first time I ever seen you." "Oh, liol" says I, "thut can't be, Alzina Ann, for that is in the neighbor hood of thirty veers ago." Says sho, "It is true us I live and breathe, you look younger and hand so ner than I ever seen you look." "I didn't believe it, but I thought it wouldn't look well to dispute her any more, sn let it go ; and mebby -.he thought she had convinced mc that I did look younger thnn I di?!, when I was eighteen ?>r twenty. Hut I only said, "That I didn't feel so young anyway. I had spells of fcelin' mauzcr." She look off her things, she wus ?!re.?s c?l up awful slick, lind Josiah helped b.ing in lier trunk. And I told lier just how mortified I wus about Josiah's for p.-itin' her letter, nnd her ketchin' me unprepared. Hut, good Lord ! she told mc that "she never, in her hull life, see a IIOUPC in the order mine wus, never, nod she had seen thousands and thous ands of different houses." guys I, "I feel worked np, nm! almost mortified, ni ?out my s?ttiu'-room carpet bein' up." . ; , Hut she held up both hands (they wus white ns snow, nnd all covered erith rings.) And saya ehe, "If there ir. one thing that I love to see, Samantha, more than another, il is to see a scttin'-ronm carpel lip, it gives such a sort of a frep: noble look tn 11 room." Savs I, "The curtains arc down in the snare bed room, ami I nm almost entirely out of conkinV Pay? she, "IT I had my way, I never would haven curtain up toa window; thc sky always looks SO pure and inno cent somehow. And cook in','* says ?bc, SA ?th a look of complete disgust ?rn hoi bec, "why, 1 fairly despise cookin', xvi.at'? thr use of it?" says sh?, with u sweet smile. , . ..Why," says I, reasonably, If il wasn't Cur cookin' vittles and eatiu' cm guess wc shouldn't stand it agveat while, ! none on us." I didn't really like tlie way she wont ! on. Never, never, thrugli my whole life, | j wus I praised hy anybody as I wus hy ; ' bur, durhi' the titree (fays that she staved with us. And one mornin', when site had been gain' on dretihlly, that way, I took Josiah out one side and told him, I "I couldn't bear to hear her go on so, andi believed there wits suth i n' wrong about it." "Oh, no," says he. "?lie means every 1 word she says,'"' says he. "She is one of thc loveliest creel era this earth affords. She is most a angel. Oh !" says be, | dreamily, "what a Bound mind she ha? i got." Says I, "I heard her tellin' you this ! mornin' that you wus ono of the hand- j snmest men she ever laid eyes on, and didn't lonk a day over twenty-one." "Well," says he, with the ?loggy firm- j ness of Iiis sect. "Siic thinks so," and fays he, in firm axents, "I nm a good lookin' feller, Samantha. A crackin' i good lookin' chap, but I never could 1 make you own up to it." I didn't say Doth in', but my gray eye j wandered up, and lighted on his bald \ head. It rested there Boarchively, and very coldly, for a moment or two, and then, says ?, sternly: "Bald heads and beauty don't co together worth a cent, j I'.nt you wits always vain, Josiah Allen." ; Say? he, "What if I wu?.?" and says he, "She thinks different from what you do about my looks. She has got a keen eye on her head tor beauty. She is very smart, very. And what she says, ?he means." "Wall," says I, "I am glad you are so happy in your mimi. Hut mark my words, you won't always feel so neat aboutit, Josiah Alien, ns you do now." SavH he, in a cross, surly way : "I guess I know, what I du know." I hain't a yaller bair in thc hull of my foretop, but 1 thought to myself, I'd love to see Josiah Allen's eyes opened ; for I knew, ns well as I knew my name wus Josiah Allen's wife, that that wemen . Hdn't think Josiah wus so pretty and beautiful. Hut I didn't see how ? wus guilt' to convince him, for he wouldn't believe mc, when I told him, ?he wus a makin' ot ;t ; and I knew she would ?tick to what she lind said, and so there it wus. But I held firm, and cooked good vittles, ami done well by her. That very afternoon wc wus invited to tea, that wus Sylphina Allen's, Miss Na thcii Spooner's, us and Aiziua Allen. Sylphina didn't uso to be the right sort ol' a girl, she w us a kind of helpless, im provender thing, and threw herself away on a worthless, drunken feller, that ?he married for lier first husband, though Nathen Spooner wus a dyin' for lier, even then. But Yt?iirii ?le? ui?iik?ii ?iUabiiiii! died, and she wus left with that boy of i hers, about six years old, she up and | j i ned thc Methodist Church. I didn't usc to associate with her nt ail, and Jo siah didn't wnnt me to, though site wus a second cousin on his father's side. But folks began to make much of her. So I and Josiah did everything for lier wc could to help her do well and be likely. And last fall she wus married to Nathen Spooner, who hadn't forgotten her in all this time. They make a likely couple, and I shouldn't wonder if they do well. Na then Spooner is bashful; he looks as if he wanted to ?ink if any (me speaks to him ; but Sylphina is proud speritcd and holds him up. They hain't got a good deal to do with, and Sylphinn, bein' kind o' afrad ol' Alzina Ann, ?cul over and borrowed her mother-in-law's white-handled knives, and, unbeknown to Alzina Ann, I car ried her over some tea-spoons and other things for lier comfort, for if Sylphina means to do better, and try to git ulong, and be a provider, I want to encourage her all I can, so I carried her thc spoons. Wall, no sooner had we got seated over to Mrs, Spooncr'ses, than Alzina Ann begun. "How much !-how much that beauti ful little boy looks like you, Mr. Spoon er," ^he cried, and she would look, first that enthusiastic look of ber's. Sylphina'o lace wus red ns blood, for the child looked as like her first husband as two peas, and she knowrd that Natheu almost hated thc sight of the boy, and only had him in thc house for her sake. And truly, if Nathen Spooner could have sunk down through the floor, into the seller, right into the potato bin or pork barrel, it would have been ono of the most blessed reliefs to him that he ever enjoyed. I could see that by his coun tenance. If she had just said what she had to say, and then lclt off"; but Alzina Ann ne'ver'll do that; she has to enlarge in her idees, and she would ask Sylphina if j she didn't think her boy had the same noble, handsome look to him that Nathan had. And Sylphira would stammer, and look annoyed more'n ever, And get as red in the face as a red woolen shirt. And then Aiziua Ann, looking at the child's pug nose, and then itt Nathen'n, which vv.iH ? ?ort of Hom;in one, ?nd the best fcetur in his face, as Josiah says, would ask Nathen if folks hadn't told him be fore how much his little boy resembled his pa. And Nathen would look this way aud that, and kind o' frown ; and it d'ul seem as if we couldn't keep him out of thc teller to ?ave our lives. And there it wus. Wall, when it carno supper time, more WUS in sion: for ?lim. Syiphina bein' to determined *.n do better, and start right in the married life, made a practic of makin' Nathen ask a blessin'. But he, bein' DU uncommon uoshiui, it made it awful hard for him, when the y und com pany. He wusn't a pl of essor, nor nuth m', and it come tough on him. lie looked as if he would ?ink all tho while Sylphina wus settin' the table, for he knew what wus before him. He seemed to feel worse and worse all the time, and when she wus n settin' the chairs 'round tlie table, he looked so bad, that I didn't know but he would have help to get to thc table. And he'd give ?ie most piti ful and besecchin' looks to Syiphina that u... -j.- 5}-,GGk her hcr.d at him and looked decided, and then he'd look as if he*J will right down again. So when we got 6ct down to the table. Syiphina gave him a real firm look, and ba nive a kind of a low groan, and ?bet up his eyes, and Syiphina and nie, and Josiah put on a becomin' look for thc occasion, and shet up our'n, when, all of u sudden, Alzina Ann, ?ho never asked a blessin' in her own house, and forgot other folks did, leastways that Nathen did. Alzina Ann, 1 say, spoke out, in n real loud, iidmirin' tone, and says ?bc: "There ! 1 will say it, I never see ? such beautiful knives as them be, in my hull lite. White-handled knives Ls sun thin' I always wanted to own, and al ways thought I would own. But never did I ?cc any that wus so perfectly beau tiful ns these 'ere. And she held out her knife at arm's length, and looked .'.'. it ndmirin'iy, and almn-d rapterosly. Nathen looked bad-drelful had, but wc didn't none on us reply to her, and she seemed to sort o' quiet down, and Syiphina givo Nathen another look, and h"e bent bis head, and shet up his eyes agin, and ?ho ana me and Josiah shot up our'ri. And Nnthcn was jost a-begiunin' agin, when Alzina Ann broke out afresh, and say?: "What wouldn't I give if J could own some knives like them ? What a proud and happy wemen it would make mo.'' That routed us all up agin, and never did I soc-unless it was on a funeral oc casion-a face look ns Nathen's face looked. Nobody could have blamed him if he lind got up, then, nnd not made another cfl'ert. Hut Sylphina, bein' so awful determined to do jist right, ami start right in the married life, she winked to Nullica agin, n real sharp and cn? courngiu' wink, and chet up her eyes, and Josiah and I done as she done, and shot up our'n. And Nuthcn (feelin' as if he munt sink) got all ready to begin agin. He had jest got his mouth opened, when says Alzina Ann, in that rapturous way ol her'n : "Do tell me, Sylphina, how much did you give for these knives, and where did you get 'em ?" Then it was Sylphina's turn lo feel as if she must sink, for being so proud sporitcd ; it wus like pullin' out a sound : tooth to tell Alzina Ann they wus bor rowed. Hut bein' so set in Irvin' to do I right, she would have up nnd told her. ! Hut I, fecliu' sorry for her, branched j right ofl", and naked* Nuthen "if he lived ' out tu vi?te Republican, or Democrat, or j Greenback." So we had no blessin' I asked, after all, that day. Sylvina cilhed, and went to pouria' ont thc tea. And Nnthcn brightened up, and said, "if things turned out with him, os he hoped they would that fal!, he cal culated to vole for old 1'etcr Cooper." I could sec from his mean, that Josiah was gcttin' kinder sick of Alzina Ann, and (though I hain't got a jealous hair in the hull of my back hair forctop) I didn't care a mite il he wuz. Hut, truly, werse wus to conic. A flor supper, Josiah and mc wus n-set tin' in the spare-room, close to the win der, a-lookill' through Sylphina's album ; when wc hecred Alzina Ann and Syl pliina, out under thc winder, n-lookiu' ut Sylphina's peary bed, and Al/.ina Ann was a talkin', and says she : "How pleasant it is here, to your house, Sylphina, perfectly beautiful! Seein' we nre both such "friends to her, I feel free to tell you what n awful state I find Josiah Allen's wife's house in. Not a mite of carpet in her settin'-room floor, and nothiu' gives a room such a awful look as that. Sho said it wus up to mend, but, between you and mc, I don't believe a word of it. I believe it wus up lor some other purpose. And the cur tains wus down in my room, and I lind to sleep nil the first night in thnt condi tion. I might jest ns well have sat up, it looked so. And when she got 'em np the next mornin', they wusn't not ll i tl' but plain white muslin. I should think she could afford somethin' a little more decent than that for her spare-room. And she hadn't a mite nf fruit cake in the house, only two kinds of common look i n' cake. She. said Josiah forgot to give her my letter, and she didn't get word I wus cornin' till th;, doy I got there, but between you and me, 1 never be lieved thnt for n minute. I believe they got up thnt story between 'em, to excuse it oil", thing? lookin' so. If I wusn't such a friend of horn, and didn't think such n sight of her, I wouldn't mention it for the world. Hut I think everything of her, and everybody kilowa I do, so I leel free to talk about her. How humbly she has growed ! Don't you think so ? And her mind seems to he kind o' runnin' down. For how, under the sun, she can think so much of that simple old husband of hern, in a mystery to me, unless she is grawin* foolish. Ile wus always a poor, insignifi cant lookin'erecter ; but now, he is the humbliest and meakenest lookin' creeter I ever seen in human shape. And he looks as old as grandfather Richcrson, every mite as old, and ho is most ninety. And he is vain ns a peahen." I jest glanced round at Josiah, and then, intentively, I looked away again. His countenance wus perfectly awful. Truly, the higher we nre up the worse it hurts us tn full down. Rein' lified upon such a height of vanity nnd vain glory, and fallin down from it so sudden, it most broke his neck (spenkin' in a poet ical and figurative way.) I, mvsalf, bavin' bad doubts of her all along, didn't ?eel nigh so worked up and curious, it mere sort o' mndded me, it kind o' ope rated in thnt way on me. And so when she begun ngin to run Josiah and me down to the very lowest notch, cn?led us all to naught, made out we wusn't hardly fit to live, and wus most fools. Anil then says agin : "I wouldn't say a word against 'em for the world, if I wusn't such a friend to 'em-" Then I rose right up, and stood in thc open winder, and it came up in front ol me. some like a pulpit, and I 'spose my mean looked considerable like a preach er's, whpn they get carried away with the subject, and almost by the side ol themselves. Alzina Ann quieted the minute she sot her eyes on me, ns much or more than ? any mininer ever made a congregation quail, and snys she, in tremblin' tones "You know I do think everything ii the world of you. Y'ou know I shouldn'l hn.'e said a word against you, if I wasn'l auch a warm friend of yotirn." "Friend !" snys I, in awful axents "F *?nd, Alzina Ann Richcrson, yoi i know no more about that word . C.._ .1 ; . -mr AR S! yoU .IC.Cr SCc u un min ill) . 1 Ol uou't know tho true mernin' of thnt word no more thnn a Africnn babe know: about slidin' down hill." Sayn I, "Thc ??ib?e give.*, a pre . ? goo? idee of what it means ; it speaks of i mnn loyin' down his life for his friend Dearer to him than his own life. Di you 'spose such a friendship ns that would be a inistrustin' round, n-tryin' ti rake up every little fault they could la; holt of, and talk 'em over with every body? Do you 'spose it would crec? r.iund under winders, and back-bite, nm slander a Josiah ?" I entirely forgot, for the moinint, tba she had been n-tnlkiu' about me, fu truly, abuse heaped upon my pardu? seems ten times ns hard to bear up undo as il it wus heaped upon me. Josiah whispered to me, "that is righi Samantha! (live it to her!" and uphel by ?lilly, and that diar man, I went ot and says I : "My friends, those I love and tho who love mc ?TC sacred to mo. Tiici well-being ami their interest is as dear t mc as my own. I love to have othei praise them, praise them ns I do; anil should jist ns soon think of goin' 'ronni tryin* tn rake and scrape nunthin' to ss against myself, us against them." Agin I paused for a breath, ami agi Josiah whispered : "That is right, Samantha ; give it \ her!" Worshinin' tha? uinti n." I do, his -.vr.r. I wus far more :?.??.?"in' nn?l stimolatin' : mc than root beer. I Agin I went on. nml says I : ".Maybe it hain't exactly accord in' i Script uro; there is nunthiu' rospectab iii open enmity, in heginnin' your r marks about anybody honestly, in Ul way. (Now. I detest and despise '.ii mnn, and I nm goin' to try to relieve n mind by talkin' about him, jist as bsd 1 * I can,) and then proceed aud tear bim pieces in ii straightforward, manly way. I don't ?'pose sudi a cou reo would bc ; upheld by thc 'postlcs. Hut, ns I say, : there is n clement of boldness mid cour age in it, nniountiu1 almost to grandeur, when compared to this kind of talk. "1 | think everything in thc world of that j man. I think he is ji-l as good DH ho can be, and he hain't ^ot n belter friend in the world than I am." And then go on and s: everything you eau to injure him. \\Uv, n pirate runs up his skeleton . r.mi cross-bars, when he is goin' to rob and pillage. I think, A kimi Ann, if I ! w us in your place. I would make a great effort, and try mid he as noble and mag- ' numinous as a pirate." Alzina .Villi looked like a while holly i hawk, that had withered by a untimely '? frost, lint Syiphina looked tickled (she , hadn't forgot her guffcrens, and the sui- j ferens. of Nathen Spooner.) And my Josiah looked proud ami triumphant in i me. And he told me, in confidence, I a-goin' home, "that lie hadn't seen mu j look so good to him, ns I did when I j stood there in the winder, not for up- j wards of thirteen veers." Sayn lie: "Samantha, you looked, you did, al- J* most perfectly beautiful." That man worships the ground I walk on, and I do his'n.-l'cterron'? Magazine. Public Education. Thc Stale should interfere as little ns possible with private affairs. The only interference that is at all justifiable is in cases where the public good requires it, and the interests of the people at large can thereby be promoted. We think il clearly to bc the duty til the Slate to pro vide for the free education of its chil dren. If the children thus educated at the public expense were the only persons benefited, it would he different. In thal ease il would be discriminating in favor of apart against the whole. Hut pub lic education is a public benefit. Thc rich ns well as the poor reap its advantages. It is tho r.cans ol' raising up a better class of citizens, and consequently it tend-: lo diminish crimes. Il makes life r.nd property more secure. Wc believe it to be true economy in thc long run ; that thc money it takes to educate those who are unable to pay for their own education is far less than would bc re quired to try, convict and imprison or hang them if allow ed to grow up in igno rance of all moral, legal ard political obligation. Schools .Vu le.-s expensive thnu jails and penitentiaries, and the State lins to choose between them. Wc do not menu to say that ail thc educated ure free from crime, nor that nil thc un educated ure criminals ; but it has been the universal experience of all tintions that in proportion ns thc people are ed ucated crimes tr.' diminished. Hy public education we mean a common school education. This Slntc is too poor to un dertnke more, mid were she ever so pros perous it would be inexcusable extrav ngnnee to keep up n university or other institution of high grade nt the public expense. Such nu institution would, practically, be open only to the wealthier youth of tho State-only to those who were nble to go from home and pay board in a city-unless the Slate should pro vide free board as well r?5 free tuition, nod that is not to be thought of for a mo ment. What is needed is common school facilities within renell of every child in the Stale. There ure thousands of chil dren who, through no fault of their own, are unable to pay for their schooling. Among them arc mnny diamonds in the rough-ninny who, if given n chance, will in the future do tlie Slate good service in return. They will repay her a hundred fold for giving them nu education, mengre though it may bc. We have, on paper, an excellent system of free school educa tion. It devolves on State Superinten tendent of Education, the. County School Commissioners and the Trustees to look well to their duties, and to see that the free schools nre managed efficiently and economically ; to see that none of the school money is wasted ; to insist rigidly upon thc employment of competent teach soiutely needed. These officers have n great responsibility resting upon them. In their hands nre placed, inn very large measure, the destinies of thc rising gen eration. If faithful to their trusts they cnn mnkc tlie free schools n success nnd n blessing lo tlie Stale.-Newberry Her ald. _ ^ THK MONKEY ASP WHISKY.-Dr. Guthrie tells the following anecdote of a monkey : "Jack," us lie was called, seeing his master and some of hi. friends drinking, with the imitative faculty for win' li all monkeys are remarkable, got hob' of a glass half-full of whisky and drank it off. Of course it flew to his head, and very soon "Jnek" was drunk. Next day, when they wished for a rcpetitiou of thc performance, he w as no where to be seen. At last he was found, curled up in n corner of his box. At his master's call he reluctantly came out, but one hand applied to his bead signified very pla;nly that he was ill-that "Jack" had got a headache. So they left him for a few days to recover. Then, supposing him to he well again, they called him to join them in another jovial parly, expecting to have "rare fun" with him. Hut he eyed the glasses with evident dread, mid when his master tried to induce him to drink nc was upon thc house-top ?ii a moment. They culled him to come down, but bc refused. His master shook n whip at bim, but it had no effect. A m.?. ....... ii.-.:..<-.i Ut- . tu- ? %. gu:: -.vas Wc? p.v.. ..k rum , ria go?, un bind a s?''.ck of chimneys. At length, in fear of being dragged from his refuge, he actually descended the chimney, risking u scorching rather than he made to drink. "Jack" lived twelve years after, but his r?pugnance to whisky remained as strong ns ever, while his master become its vic tim ! POCK MILES OF FAITH.-A good gentleman who had just patented n new religion, deemed it necessary to quicken ?mi confirm the fait!*, of Iiis pros?lytes by whooping them up a few miracles, and accordingly announced thal he would Hy over a ravine, 0,000 feet deep and four miles across. A vast multitude assembled upon the appointed day, und them he thus address ed : "iJearlv beloved brethren, in order that I should perform thc miracle which will now bc presented for your intelli gent appreciation, it is absolutely neces sary that I should bc supported by your faith ns well ns my own. This is nu oc cisi?n where I cannot run my fnith alone. Do you, therefore, believe that by miraculous agencies I cnn fly over this yawning abyss ?" *'\Ve do-so say we all of us." "Then, dearly beloved brethren, there i* r.o r.c'd cf mr flying across and wast ing a miracle." - The Grand Duchess of Hesse, Princ ess Alice of F.nglaml, died on thc 14th December of Diphtheria. Tho Grand Duchess wns thc third child mid second daughter of Queen Victoria. She wns born April 25tb, 1??a. Her father, the lalo Prince Albert, died on Saturday, December 14th, 1801, a remnrkubly co I incidence. DAVID DICKSON. Home Practical Vieira KUcItc?! from ihr (ir?-?! Farmer. A correspondent of the Augusta (t?a.) Chronicle and Cotiititultonalitt has lately visited Mr. David Dic'*sou, of Hnticoclc county, Georgia, who has long been con sidered the first planter in the South. The following published account of tho correspondent's interview with Mr. Dick son will bo read with interest : Thinking n bric! respite from tho monotony of a dull town would be bu? li healthful and pleasant, your correspon dent planned and executed a visit to Mr. David Dickson. Mr. Dickson lias long been considered thc first planter in the South. He has won his way to that proud distinction, not by long MUIII theories, peddled out in journals und reviews, but by the de monstration of practical success, which is, after all, the line lest i f merit. Mr. Dickson is a remarkable man, Considered from almost any point of view. His physical organization is tex turally line. His appearance is striking and commanding. He would arrest thc eye in any assemblage of men. He has Hie broad, honest, intellect un! face of thc genuine Anglo Saxon, of ? .?ich race he comes. His cast of mind is banty and practical, ns is evinced by the great prominence of tito perceptive organs, ile is, eminently, iv man of aflairs, view ing all questions in the light of reason and common sense. Mr. Dickson is one of the few planters of the South who has kept up tho large j farming operations of ante-bellum days ; ; and notwithstanding the stringency of the limes nnd recent seasons ol drouth, ' has managed to make money on every crop he has ever grown, with the single . exception of the present year. His en- j lire farm, covering an urea of 20,000 | acres, presents everywhere the appear- l ance of thrift and enterprise, in striking contrast to the dilapidated and dicte j plantations contiguous lo il. His fences appear in good repair; neat and commo dious cabins dot his placo from centre to j circumference. Water gins and saw mills of the most approved pattern are whirled by every stream that waters his domains. Ponds (five in number), willi fish in abundance, and constructed al a total cost of ?.'?0,000, upturn their silvery faces from between thc hills, and in the expressive language of Myron, "Wann up with their stillness, to forsake earth's troubled waters for a purerspring." All of theso objects, combining thu useful and beautiful, render a ride through Mr. Dickson's farm a most delightful ami in teresting pastime. Your correspondent had the pleasure of this jaunt in compa ny with thc proprietor und took advan tage of the time and occasion to ply him with ihe following interrogatories: "Mr. Dickson, you -ire the only plan ter in thc State who has farmed on au extensive scale that bas managed lo keep uj). What do you attribute your success to?" "Well, I don't know, unless it is to financiering. I make calculations and steer clear of what don't pay." "Do you expect to make large gains now as you did years ago?" "Oh, no. It ts out of ihe question for a farmer to make money now on hired labor and thc price ol tho products ol that labor. The price of labor and the other neccs'iry expenses nggregate, in most instances, more than the entire pro duct of that labor will bring. I expect to get my rents." "What is youl plan of renting?" "Well, I fu.!>ish the land, the agri cultural implements, the horse and its feed, together with two-thirds of the guano. Tho renter furnishes tho labor and feeds it, and one-third of the guano. At the end of the year I take two-thirds of all of the crops, and give the laborer one-third. In other words, I rate the land at one-third, the horse and its feed and the agricultural implements, black smithing, ?vc., nt one-third, und the labor ai onu-iiiirt? ; ami rent ur on lilis princi pio. T think this is tho la i rest system of renting that cnn be devised." "Who gathers the crop?'" "Of course the laborer does the gath ering. I calculate that in us part of tho labor. One of my hands not long ngo gathered his third of the corn and left my two-thirds standing in thc field. At the end of the year, ho came back t rent again. I told him no, he had dug his own grnvc. Yes, sir, the laborer must perform the whole of bis contract, which includes the making and gather ing of tho entire crop." "What is the plan you would advise the farmers to pursue another year?" "In tho first pince I would advise them to increase thc capacity of their lands. Rich land is the besl labor saving machine i know of for the pres ent generation and for posterity. Sec ond, pay thc labor- r, if he hires for wages, in tho products of the land, then he shores with you the loss occasioned by low prices." "What is a hand worth for another year ?" "Thc way to estimate that is to calcu late what an average hand will make an average year. I calculate it this way : One hand will make three bales of cot ton, fifty bushels of corn And throe thou sand pounds of ont". Now, take the . hird of that and you have what ?n average hand is worth." "How is it you can gel so much work out of your hands? I notice you culti vi.t.. more land lo thc pint*.', and do it better than anybody else?" "Well, in tho first place, I try to get willing but active hands. I then toko especial pains to train them lo be ex perts-to do everything in the shorfArt, the best, the easiest and thc most elffea clous way. Why, there is skill tn farm ing ns there is in everything else. He fore the war, when I mndc a specialty of it, my hands cut with more facility, plowed with moro accuracy, hoed more rapidly and picked more cotton than any !..un!- ! ever saw. I trained them todo everything the right way and on scien tific principles. Of course I cun'l man age free labor so efficiently, but you cnn still sec some signs of my old method." "How ir. it you make so much more to the [dow than anybody else?" "Well, if that is so, I attribute it tn two causes: First, I cult?valo more land to the plow ; my system of shallow cul ture, with broad sweeps, nllows that. Second, my methods of cultivation and preparation are, I think, thoroughly scientific. I break my lands deep anti cultivate them on thc surface. In othei words, my molto is deep plowing before planting and shallow plowing after plant ing." "Rut will not tho lands get too hnrc! to cuitivnto them shallow nflcr tho pock' inp rains of the Spring?" ? "Oh, no; not if you will keej> aplcntj of vegetable mould in them, liototo th< ' crops and I will warrnnt they will neve: get too hard." * "How do you manage to control Inboi j -I notice every hand seems to know hi) j pince and everything moves on smooth!* > and harmoniously?" I "Well, I don't know as to that. / great deal is owing to what I call tier". con vi nco tho laborer that I understand fanning better than he does, and that my way is right. I never neglect him, so as lo leave Mic impression on hw mind that I am indifferent or careless. I give him justice and demand my rights nt his hand.?." Hut time will not permit u further enumeration of Mr. Dickson's view?, lie seems to be full of thc strongest und most practical ideas, and presents them in ihe tersest, most original way. As a man, he is generous and brave, au honor lo his coilutiy and his mee. THE BUSINESS FUTURE. A I'orrliotliui; of Genorul I >1: . t < i . A correspondent of the Cincinnati Ennuirer gives the following interview with Mr. Armour, of Armour, Planking* ton ?..>: Co., the largest pork and provision dealers in the United .States. Mr. Ar mour luis just returned from England, and he is lilied with alarm nt the distress ing financial status of Great Britain. "W hat is the matter over there?" I asked. "A general financial ruin stares them in the lace all over England, Ireland und Scotland," .-dd Mr. Armour. "Hanks and individuals are failing everywhere. The neiv. pupcrs ?to not hall'tell the story. Tho English people ar0 in a dreadful condition. Mu lufacturers arc running behind, the tenants cannot pnv their rents, real estate has shrunk in value and cannot be sold at any price, the mechanic is ?die, and th?! farmer is poor." '.Why can't the farmers pay their rents ?" "Because their crops ?hi not pay. Prices for farm products are so low thal the fanner only makes enough to live on. The 300,000 land owners are out in the cold. They cannot collect their rents nor st il their laud, mid many seemingly rich families are actually suffering from poverty." "What makes provisions so low?" "The splendid ?Tops made on this side. The fact is, the United States having no large jinny to take away the laboring men, is making more provisions than thc whole world can eat. We are putting wheat in Liverpool at (LOS, and pork in Dublin ami Glasgow, clear-tide*, dry salted, for fije. Now, how can the Eng lish fanners stand this? He pays rental on laud worth $200 to $300 an acre. The lowest farm lands rent for $10 ntl acre per annum. The average yield of wheat is thirteen bushels tn tho acre, worth say $13. Now, how eau that fanner pay his tent? Tlun they used to sell theil pork for 15c. per pound ; and now can they sell it at Mc. and live?" "Then cheap American provisions aro ruining the English farmers?" I "Yes. They are bucking their $30C land against our $20 land, and the resull is the $?100 land ia tumbling. Thc shrink' agc is awful already. They ure just going through what we have gone through, oi I rather they are fixed as we would be lixc< if some great country like China shblilt ship wheat lo Chicago and sell it for 80c per bushel and lill up Cincinnati wit) pork at $.'1 a barrel. Where would oil fanners be then? They would be ruined and our land values would shrink hal within a year, and another crnsh liki that in England would be upon us." "What remedy do they propose for lb hard times?-' "They have no remedy. They nre bc wildere?! and discouraged, A member o Parliament told mc thal he was thinking of advocating au import duty on corn ports and wheat, und thus put wheat tv to $2 nm! pork up to$10. Hut this woul be only enacting thc odious corn law ag:1.!!:. I told this member if they shoul put an i in port duty on wheat mid pori the wages of laboring men would hnv to be advanced, and then our America manufacturers would have thc advantage 'See,' I Haid, 'wc are already sending cot ton cloth, colton thread, and steel good and cutlery lu England.' " "What do you think will be the end < the hard times in England?" "They will end in a dreadful de pre ci: lion of real estate, thc stoppage of th manufactories, general poverty, mob vi? lenee, labor insurrections, a gencri smash-tin of business and society. If had land in England to-day, 1 w ould se it anv price." "Have wc got through shrinking i America?" "No. That is, we have and wc haven1 Land cast of Iowa must shrink still mo in value. Two ten for live hogs ar twenty cents for corn doesn't mean $1( farm lands, ll means $20 farm hind Our dear lands must shrink more yt while our cheap lands have struck br tom. Corn, pork and w heat are the pri of lands.; "How ?lid you find things in Ge many ?" "Germany is badly off too. Her pc pie are running away to keep out of t army. Tiley come to Imgland stowed tho holds nf vessels, hoping to get frc there t?> America. The poor peoplo Germany and England are all lo ><?i toward America. Emigration will immense next year. Every man w can pay his passage or steal it will away from Europe, cursed hy its I annies and burdensome taxes. The fi is," said Mr. Armour, "real ?'state England, Ireland and Scotland has j to shrink 100 per cent within a year a I a half or the business interest ol' I United Kingdom have got to go up one mighty crash." Cu HB FOR WOUNDS.-As noon ns I wound is inflicted get a little suck, knife or file handle will do,-and ct menee to tap gently on the wound, not stop for tlie hurt, but continue Ul it bleeds freely and becomes perfet numb. When this poi II t is reached ; are sale-all that is necessary t?> pro! it from the dirt. Do not stop short of bleeding and the numbness, and do i on any account, close thc opening w plaster. Nothing more than a li simpkt cerate on n clean cloth is nc snrv. We have used, ami seen this in QR &}t !:!.;:!". i:f simple punctures for t ty years, and never knew a single stance of a wound becoming intlamct sore after treatment ns above. Am other cases: A coal rake tooth going tircly into the foot, n bad bite by a several instances of file shank through hands, and numberless enses of ri 1 nails, awls, oct., but never knew a ure of this treatment.-Scientific Ai can, l - The Preshyteriansof North Cuni ' have issued an "address to the. Church I It was prepared by Kev. Dr. Smitl ' Greensboro, Thc following extract I ) the address should be widely circu? . and generally rem! : "There aro t great and growing evils in tlie 1 I against which wo would lift up a voil ? earnest mid solemn warning to c church and ever" community : drui f nest, and Sabbath desecration, and j . i and dishonesty in business dealings, T r are bringing down upon our county displeasure of heaven, anti aro aprca r crime and sorrow through tho land." . - A bill to appropriate $10,000 t< able maimed soldiers to buy arti k. limbs is pending in the Alabama L I latnre. UEX. GORDON AT SIIARFKHURU. Wounded l l vi- Timca In Ono Dattie. At Shurimburg General (now Senator) Gordon (tuen u colonel) furnished tho sublimest spectacle of citduranco nnd courage that I think in furnished by tho annals. Before tho bnttlo Leo rodo down thc lines mid expressed doubt at to Gurdon being ublc to hold h s posi tion, nnd conveyed to him an iden of the importance of him doing no. Gur don, turning so thnt bis men could hear him, said : "General Lee, my men are determined that they will stay here 1" Then the battle opened. Line after line wits thrown upon Gordun's front. Rut from that dauntless front they wcro thrown back as often aa they wero man-lied against it. The slaughter was terrific. The ground was literally blue with the corp-cs of the enemy, while only .-lix men of thc right wing of the regiment were left. Rut tho lino never wavered. Tho men had como there to "stay," und, dead or alive, they were de termined to "slay." (jordon was wounded early in the fight. A minnie ball passed through the calf of his leg, tearing the flesh in the most fear ful manner. The fluw of blood waa in cessant, but he had no time to staunch the wound. In about half hour another hall plunged through the same leg, about a foot above where tho other bud gone. The loss of blood from these tao wounds weakened him, but he still kept his feet and gave hij orders calm and clear to his men, who were lying on their faces. An hour later iie was shot again, the uall tearing through his left, arm, making a hideous wound and culling a small ar tery. This disabled his arm and helped drain his weakened system, but still hag gard and bloody he stnggered up and down the line, encouraging his men. A fourth ball then entered his shoulder, knocking him from his feet. His men who saw the crimsoned uniform and pale face go down thought their heroic leader was killed. With sublime courage, how ever, he struggled to his feet, and, though he had hardly strength to stand, waved his sword above his head and called to his men to remain firm. Some one ran lo him hastily and said that it was rum ored up the line that ho was dangerously wounded i\v[ that tho men were waver ing. "Tel them that I am not burt," he said. .Mid so through those dreadful hours of slaughter, with four unstaunch ed wounds drawing blond from his body, he stood, determined to die with his men nnd in defense of the part that Lee had confided to bim. At length a fifth ball struck Gordon full in tho face, and entering his check knocked him sense less. Ho fell, and for ? mle limo his prostrate body was wrapped in tho smoke of the battle. We heard from Gen. Gor don's own lips a story thatin n meta physical point is exceediiif|*iy interest ing. He said that when he fell he was utterly inenpnblo of moving. He grad ually began to think of his condition, and this is the half dream and half solil oquy that he carried on: "I have been struck in the head with a six [mund solid shot. It has curried away my head. On thc left sido there is n little piece of skull left. Rut the brain in gono en tirely. Therefore, I am demi. And yet I nm thinking. How cnn n man think with his head shot off? And if I am thinking, I cannot bo dead. And yet no man can live after his head is shot off. I may have consciousness while dead, but not motion. If I can lift my leg, then I am alive. I will try that. Cuni? Yes, there it is ; lifted up ! I'm all right!" The General says that every stage of this soliloquy is indelibly stamped on his mind, and that in his exhausted state the reasoning was carried on as logically as ever man reasoned athis desk. Doubt succeeded argument nnd argument dis ?ilaced doubt just as logically as could >e. He says he will never forget with what anxiety he made the test of lifting his leg-with what agony he waited to see whether or not it would move iu re ed before trying it for fear that it mig?, faii nnd his death bo thereby demon strated.-//. II". Grady in the Atlanta Constitution. NEURO DISFRANCHISEMENT. Th? Henning- of the Proponed National Convention or Colored Men. Some of thc leaders of the Republican [tarty aro of opinion that the outrage lusiness cannot bo made a telling issue in thc next Presidential campaign. It is a mere mutter of sentiment, they say, nnd does not come home to thc people as practical issues always do. They admit thnt if the white people aro to control the Southern States, they must also, to a very large degree, control thc negro vote. The votes of the ignorant and dependent classes are always more or less controlled by the wealthy and intelligent portion of tho population. Railroad corporations cnn and do dictate to their employees. So do mill owners in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. Rut there i-. a practical question growing out of the Southern outrages, sayH these men, which will claim thc attention of thc Northern pub lie mind, and that is thc question of rep resentation. The South lins twenty rep resentatives based on negro votes. If these votes are to count for nothing, save to add representation to the South, then the North will demand thnt something lie done. The North pays the great pro portion of taxes, nnd it will not bavo its money voted away to its disadvantage by these twenty additional representatives, which in cfTect give the South thc control pl the government. Thc reply to this by Southern men is: "You amended thc constitution, and im posed negro su fl rage upon ivs, and we nave Butlered immensurable evils there by. Now that tho advantage is to be reaped by us, you want lo undo what you have done. We had no choice in "thc matter, but had to take a very large proportion of evil to get a little good, and WP mean lo itoM on to thal little." All thc indications now point to an I agitation nt no Inte v ?y for the disfran chisement of the negro, and the Repub licans will deliberately propose it. A very prominent Republican said to me : the other day, "If we could inly get rid of this negro question we coi ld whip the Democrats everv time." Il ? meant that thc additional electoral ?nies which the South gets upon its increased representa tion makes the Presidential fight doubt ; ful. Gc rid of this increase of tho elec toral vote which tho South secures i" through its negro vote, and tho Rcpubli 1 can party will be strong enough to win ' without a very bard fight. The proposed ' negro national convention is a step in < this direction. It is a political move in " the direction of the disfranchisement of ' tho negro.-Sj>ecial Diynifch to the Netp ? York Sun. ) - A man was boasting that ho had an ? elevator in his house. "So ho lins," r chinned in bis wife, "and ht keeps it in * tho cupboard in a bottle." - A courtly negro recently sent a re - ply to an invitation, in which ho "re 1 gretted that circumstances repugnant to - the acquiescence would prevent his ac ceptance tb the invite." require cult pay tuent? Executor?, Admlntetra aud hcravritb append notices, a-lMch will c money coif*? wit ? thc?, Citation*, t ?o insert! Estate Notice?, t li real Float Bettlenn-nta. Al TO COItUMPONDJ attention, communie* by tba true nama und Jected manuscript* willi necessary ?tanita ar? fui thereon. *af We ara not rc opinions of our wrest. AH communication* L Itora Intelligencer." ant order?, Ac, should be? of GENERAL ?j - Tampa, Flor, weeks, recently, 31 - There aro 460 try, with nu aggr sors. - Mr. J. Russe! arrange General G travels. - The number o men anti openers i at 10,000. - Tho tide of i from Germany is h ever before. - Tho inform?t! that plain rum ?a t by Congressmen th - Jesse Pomero; murderer, of Bosto Iiis mind and failin - Mr. Wullara cently -..arried in had n* the time 104 - Rev. Jnmes II Petersburg, Virgin! come to nn end on - Tho North meeta January 8. nary they elect a U - A curiosity ca N. Y. It is a live . forepnw having two feet feet. - Gen. Joo Ho well, hearty, and p nversion for his ar^ Grant and Sherman. - Jefferson Da vi to be published ne otisly in New York . French edition in P - A prisoner nr_ the New Castle, Va Judge over with h clerk with a brick b - The registers months tho Rich 1,897,305 alcoholic drinks ; total tax, - There are 82 city of New Orien trodden and oppre in and take "sugar i - Adnm Johnao npostle, hns been Creek, N. C., for swi out of $114 and th farm. - If George P next March he wi. country as minister yenrs, and will have ces $204,000. - Alabama is b purchased by the S ono county the State sion of 197 000 sc of the county. - Mrs. J. D. m county, N. C., aged ti presented her lord wij fourth child. He isl hi? fourth wife. - Mr. Halsted sa among Grant's intit: would rather be made a salarv of $50,000, pay, than to run again. - Wm. Jefferson, I Wnrrenton, N. C., on] admitted io the col rapes, ono murder, murder, besides nut inga and burglaries. - It ?5 saki that only colored cadet w!ij ted from West Poi; write or authorize a hardships which ho on account of his cole - Cednr Keys shit pounds of fish, brir about $16,000.' Inj shipped on ice, i ni iv, salted and sold to par increasing the incor - A baud of tint Crawfordville, Ga., women drove a thrivi; ing fortunes to negr that tney were au tote wuiiu wives. - A thousand mcnl clio to thc Red Rive buffalo. It is clair army has been of State in- driving nacl allowing the tide of follow close in their - Negro slavery abolished by the war, I nut Democratic slave! The slaveholders lost] control of the Souther still retain mastery Democrats. The Hilhj Whitthornea and ?Jul whips in the halls of Voorheas and Thurm." Coxes and Springers fe! and apologizo for th.tj O lobe-Democrat. - Daring the se3sti Va., last month of tl Good Templars, an ir" occurred. A speaker. ancholy end of thoj Allen Poe, which brouj who attended Poe in Baltimore. He refut Blander that he died of either opium or liq: after he became ratio before bis dentb, he C5 ded to tako either stiri to allay his nervous died in his sober senses of the past. - Baltimore is grov as a grain port, the re thc year ending the amounting to 778,211 grain to 30,639.G.r>4 of about one-fifth in year before. The wh< greatest gain, from 2,1 1877 to 9.875,233 bush< tho corn receipts weret than a year ago, ow in,' the Baltimore and Ohl with the very low rat? lt mik ?ines. - If tho new year fresh activity in tradt lowest point of busin? ing passed and better tl it will not tx* because] tho United States, hi one another with tliin the belief was without] tion. Capital is gain) enterprises aro project? sumption, better price aro looked for. Tho! is printing a series of ent sections of the cot ness outlook,, which all] impression, that aa fal dustry aro concerned,* .pent and the day is ats - When Johny wa why his engagement jg been broken on, he rol?* ed ssrj much pained, si she turned out a d?cela got to mention that hal whom she bad turned oj -*J. H. Grant, a vf cf uty U. 8. Marsha], State tfith the army.? Columbia on last Fridaf