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BY E- B/M?BEAY &XX> ,ANDKBSOy, S. G, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 2, 1880. ~ [~~ VOLUME XVI.-NO. 8. ' ?Tour Upsf'are Cold." j A remarkably' animated aud pictures? que spectacle .was preaanted.at the free swimrojai bath at the.Battery, yesterday. It was |9adies day," and before nine o'cl?clTin "*tuV evening more than five thousand worn adgtrjs had gambolled in the brii^MQbj&t* jnarine* bjafeii. "Some days we have^fully 7,000 lady brvbhers/' remarked ,3enora Fernandez, the vivacious superintendenVin*charge.4 Bar assistant, Mi&s . Harney, said thr.t much pains wero taken to keep;out im. proper characters, and the athletic young ' keeper of the boys' departmeutexplained ' *? that-it was his. refusal to admit disrepu .. * table youths that caused them to retaliate ?' by making false charges that fees had been demanded. Senora Fernandez tapp? ed the door vigorously with the tee of her French boot, and said that necessary rules must be observed and * enforced. The city expected it.and discipline would be preserved. No girl would be allowed in the water without a bathing suit .of some kind. As she spoke a fleshy woman of generous avoirdupob deposited a gold watch and aboutJSO worth oQewe^ryfor safe keepiqgO'@>n sgfeve hy^^pa^h? from the beat,classes.~Jnejp.pas^;"byall the other baths and come down here. Th?j Tratet"is pitier, but'ibcost^hunt-twen ty cents to come because of the 'L^ rail? way faresfSwBic? 4&ey couJcT ai bathing i?rejsJoflfe. TfiW < wa^er anwuaifafflll?>pulaJ I that they bring their jewelry and knitting anu valise. One would think they were go'.ng to the country to spend the sum . mer." ' But how do you keep the girls from coming right in again, after ?they !have gone out?" X *a %<J. K? J Ia "Oh, that easy enough. We don't feel of their noses, as is done when the.'boys bathe. We try their lips; if they are cold we know theylave^e^eje^ilMn two hoars. Swimnjng^kew^s^noses . and girls' lips very coIaV' ?-? CAUGHT IN THE ACT. Just, then a uauit/ , and rosy cheeked lass came walking down' the gangway] with ao;unconscious innocence calculated; to ilecetve ? da hi and 'all the serp'en ts 'i n the Garden of Eden. "Come here my dear; how are you to day?" said Senora Fer? nandez, saluting her with a kiss that would nave destroyed the discipline of a maa-of-war. ?> r>:'? i '{ "I am pretty well, thank you," respon? ded four feet and ten inches- of "sweet j sixteen." "Well, that is nice; I am glad to hear it; but your lips are cold and yon have been here before to day, so run home to y00? mamma ?j>$f .come. b^cfciCor-mo^-? row," . . ' V/hat.a.transformaJiojo .there was rjrt. that jroW^glrjii?^ lovelinesst^lf tarried black, red. and purple, growing more beautiful all the time. Thea a - scowl, a quo-gar a nd-a QrATtapha^it&ihun^ \, derbolt tc^g*qp itffisc^nBff^l drJoTelvjl mask, fcna her c!saMclips^^rteor"o"n7y with commanding firmness:? ' <: You nasty thing! You think you hav:. been in,a. dozen times ^ day, don't ret clean?; I want tojwBSa aM get jclaao?* What's ' the bath'fbr^ny^y^^ vV^Moes pay faxes for? Do you know? I won't go ^a^mw^^Q^ow.^ You |*m^nj^ hue wba'o the life out of your feller if you've^ got one. Don't yousoeak.,tome. Don't yoo dare open youf fmpnnr to *me," after heaping insults on a poor, unprotected working girl, that has to slave for a living and has no time to go ?to' Newport fox a These and4^^a4^he^i^ikifa^ eluded the conversation, and the carna finn ^jrae^Htf ijfifl from Delapcey street, walkp^orp tji^^ngpfeuk^with'vthe ma jesty1i?f^arfrrouted--hermesf Senora*] smiled. "WeTiever have any trouble here?no fights, no hair-pulling nor drag? ging Out?only the hot-blooded yonng ?mis^?r?xpr^Ahemselves rather freely sdaJettaYeey bat the^?lw?ys get over* it. - She will come back to-morrow in a nice musl o dress, smiling assweetly as a June mormrij??* HMi *yt*'.w.i i A DA42?SG 8PECT*ACLi. . The fashionable hour had now arrived; the bathers came swarming in by dozens. The reporter took several sly peeps and others, iha'f were.ndt so slv, at tbe .pano? rama' within, the bath,he entije area' of the water was alive with youth, beauty old age, gray hairs. 30Q-pound women, little 16-pound children, slender and sylphlike Calypsos, Oriental .eyed Her brewA;ff$ t&p%$& ajfenujf allj$r/g ling their anatomy together in ever chang? ing forms of poetry?alive and kicking .' and swimmi9gio, a- glorious- healthy way that would/WajkOjdpcfcr/sjwffor^ month. The reporter was introduced to Eome' tff the more venerable visitors and W9a-&!JJ2??sLi8Jearn JbaJL they, were good?i wimmers. Miss Harney said more tbau .'bree-ia^rtbs those, who tcame " could pwima9d^80bi| of jthcm?jvfcre really expert. Near the centre of the bath the sight was intereatmg, and ljfc-giying, A "Kid" not mdre'tnaifsii years~olff was] splashi pg-around.-ton it's mother's breast. Sue Wi)^mnMp|nfe onji$r**ac?and hier . strokes'Nfefe ftwlrful Woogh^to put an-j end to all discussions with a refractory ' husband. "She weighs 275 pounds," remarked Senora Fernande?. . Near the' fleshy lady swam a thiu joint? ed, gray-haired woman, with spectacles lashed on her nose. She propelled her? self with the genuine frog stroke ? and at times pat in some fancy work to show the young people what an old ladyxould do. Some of the poor ^jirls wore only~a sort of skeleton, chemise, and. it made one sympathize with them in their poverty'. Among these sheetedghosts were misses in tights* and^rich*. women hi embroidered shmtig?t'Soita'of the latest Cape May pattctas^'. Qp?B. QfJ.be best.d.iyers. stayed nnder water three minutes. She was abserrt!9oHp;i!gtbaV Senora sugge^ted-she h|td gorie1& ttopeyi Island to retuxnby tfte'boafc. "A^gTOUpf of grrls standing by one of the dressing rooms spoke of a Pres? idential candidate as.'living jso uear, the water that his noWttas always cold, ?ahd" therefore the keeper wouldn't admit him on men'sday. One lady who came had hard work to find a suit large enough for her body. At last one was found so expan? sive* that it took the policeman's breath away who was standing by. It just fitted her and measured two yards in circumfer? ence, or two feet in diameter. The airy creature robed herself as if for a feast and then deliberately jumped into the water, makingthe bathhouse trembled to its centre, and every time she kicked she' disturbed the water as if a whale were interviewing an iceberg without a lan? tern. FAT WOMEN IN A MAJOBITY. Duricir the reporter's visit of an hour no two of the 200 visitors looked alike. The number of fat women was something appalling. "It take9 seven yards of flan? nel to fence them in !" "How the bath housegrsans when they dive!" "How the blue fish outside scott for Sandy Hook when they, see them get off the Belt line street cars>P' "How much water it bikes to wet 'enr all "over I" were some of the remark* dropped by the dressing room attendants. A well dressed grand? mother, with spectacles, a lunch-basket (??and a little child, came at about fire o'clock. "Can you swim," asked the re* I porter. "Oh ! laws, yes^ I: bring my little grand daughter down "here, and while she gambols in the. water, I - knit audj^tyhAhe pranks of the. young peo? ple. Then when I am cooled off, I dive I and swim around for a few minutes, but ah "old'igrayTiaired'wDmau like me has ?to be careful and? not 8tay?in? too long," ffbe said, taking out aset-bf 5^60-porcelain lined teeth. "You see I have to put my hair in an old silk net to keep it from get . ting jangled. .up with my specs. When I was ^ girl, J used-to.swim in the Har? lem Kiver. In those days the waters up there were clear,and beautiful.*',.. . The venerablejand glad-hearted grand I -mbthersmiled sweetly as'her grhud daugh? ter pitched off the steps in1 o three feet of sea water. "Oh I darling don't swim 'dog fashion.' There, that's a sweet child. Imitate the frog; the Almighty gave him the true secret of good swimming. Laws 1 laws 1 I remember when we girls used to swim clear around Blackwell's Island, ou moonlight nights, fifty years ago.- But, ble?8 tne^ those days are gone." As the reporter turned from the scene ?awl-entered -rhe^eeptiofr-rooTn-4?yrh^ard loud shouts of girlish enjoyment. The ~5erS0undea>Jikc efghjfe &1sjfeeff Bt-gfeog tfayH "T|e|o?]^9fiaa.&just I the ten fdotperch*^.'explained Senora, the superintendent, as she turned to give directions for a new supply of fresh'smts. "To-night will bring 2,000 girls. You will hear all languages spok? en here?German, French, Spanish, Pol ish^falian M^flittlg ^Swejiish." As the reporter-sauntered vjv the ^gangway to the green sward of Battery Park he ?heaid-a boy yell to another, "I say, Billy, them uptown girls gits washed iu forty ^conds-f?'tftjcjMan hour for a Rivington Street g? to ?pf?phei iide look like marble." "Tbatain't.nolhing," retorted Billy; "I have been wasbin' for ten years and ain't clean yet." ? >!fK :?:. .. g?-., .. - is The Possibles of Cotton. Mr. Edward Atkinson has recently^ written a letter td\h6'Nem^iaiyrerr0' on the subject of cotton-raising i>. this country, and the gains to be expected fron* a, jtho^Qnrt^tHizatiohX of {what is now wasted. It is full of suggestiventss, as. the subjeinedeitrad^proje;:. ? "Although the testimony is"almost con? clusive that the laborers in the - cotton fields'" are 'now"less numerousihitn*' before the war, because more males and less women and children are now worked, therr labbVis so nhj'ch^rrrorFen^ the..fifteen crops of free labor exceed the fifteen last'crops made the- labor-"?f slaves by 9,000,000 bales, worth in gold coin fully $600,000,000. Wheu the crop now about to be gathered is numbered, if the season ends as propitiously as it has begun,'it will be more than double the average of the fifteen ante-war crops, and at least 25 per cent, in excess of the larg? est crop ever raised by. the Jabor of ?laVe?f-i~ -...1?..-.y "Nevertheless, what has been done is but a tithe:?f what remains ; the present power of 'King Colled is but the shad- . ow of the substance yet to come. The value.of the seed is yet an unknown <fttt?it5r. $t&b?y seertf#rj$dst2he^ work of aVyisionaijy. to computed. If we m??e 6,-000,000 btfleSof cotton-fibre" in a- yeAr' the weight of cotton seed that will re-! main after enough has been set aside for j the5 next year's* planting; will be 3,000,000 tons. If the whole of this seed be treated as a small .portion is now treated, this seer!M\\ give the following reegjlf About .90^000,600.gallons of oil, about 1,300,000 ions o&ilicake or meal, about 1,500,000 tons of hulls, from which there is every reasou to suppose fromexperiments here Arn^a^luaKuse*' tHs^vf^ns^lhatt tjT50,0?0 tons of paper may be' made.. Otherwise these hulls ground into meal with the oil cake will serve as food for stock? 2;800,000 tons in all. I Each ton of this ground-meal would carry at least five sheep six months,*; the rest of the-.year they would have ample food from the an? nual grasses that are the pest of the cot? ton -planter, ot from corn fodder, cow^eas or other refuse;or alternate crops; The wast of the cotton gin and of the oil press, with other waste of the cotton farm,, will therefore suffice for not less than 14,0CD, 00Q to 20,000,000; .sheep, ..probably fpr double that number. These sheep folded upon the cotton field, would so fertilize, the soil as to double the crop of cotton , on any given acre of uplands?the manure of animals fed on cotton seed meal being richer than that.from any other known variety^of-foodV: * ?'-?-? "The almost unrealized portion of the product ot a single year's cultivation of tbeycpttotf plajcton thg area now in use foruvt purpose^abbttt' 13,000,000 acres, ;or less than 2 per cent, of the area of 'the Cotton States) may therefore, consist of 75,000,000 to 90,000,000-gallona of-oil, 500,000 to 750,000 tons of paper, or 50, 000,000^.;to 100,000^000 p?uhdsiqf .fine clothing-'-wool:; ami, as an ancideorV of this progress, 50 to 100 per cent, more jcottari fibre' from the same area of land now cultivated will be produced with less j labor than is* now? 6xpended<; i53 ; '? ' "One thing is neecfea^and thatris agreat exllihitfou exclusively devoted to cotton. What is the secrets of its kingship? May it not be found in the fact that cotton or cotton fabrics are almost a legal-tender for all the other commodities that the world yields or needs ? In one form or an? other cotton works more international ex? changes than any.other substance. Two colored laborers working on good land in Misssissippi, Texas or Arkansas may easily, make twenty .bales .of. cotton, in a year, or 10,000 pounds, aud with the aid of their children will pick it. The labor of ginniug, baling and moving to Lowell will not exceed the value of the work of one more hand. The work done in Low? ell in one year by one operative will con? vert the 10,000 pounds of cotton-into &> 000 pounds of coarse cloth, with which TfiQQ Chinese may be amply clothed for one/year, or 3,2J)0 East Jndians,.may sup? ply themselves with the lesser' clothing needed by them in their tropical clime. The farmer of the South is eager to learn the' methods of the North. If the result of these efforts could be concentrated and exhibited at onetime and in one place, a foundation would be laid for progress in the next decade to which that ot the last would seem as- nothing. Who will un? dertake this work ? Let the Agricultural Department, the Cotton Exchanges, the Northern associations of manufacturers and the Southern associations of planters and farmers reply?" Atkinson's figures will startle cot? ton growers. It in evident that there are millions upon millions of dollars in what is now thrown away, and such a Cotton Exhibition as is proposed will be useful to every one who is in any way interested in the great staple. The Agricultural Departments, the Cotton Exchanges the Associations of Manu? facturers, and the Associations of Planters cannot apply themselves to an undertak? ing of greater utility.?Charktton Nact and Courier. ? A man must be a hardened sinner when ho "lies" at the point of death. An interesting: Interview lyltli General Hancock. In conversation with Judge Mackcy, a few days;since,; he gave us a very inter? esting sketch of men and things "as he saw them on his recent visit North. He was profoundly impressed with General Hancock, with whom he had an extend? ed interview and regards him as in the first rank of American statesmen. The I Judge states that General'Hancock is . confident of victory in the pending elec? tion and expresses his firm conviction t hat ? with a free and untrammelled bal lot,'unswaved by tbeorganized interfer-" , ence of Federal officiate,-he would be elected by the votes cast in the Northern States alone. He declared that in bis judgment the great and vital issue in ' volved in this campaign is the restora , tion of a spirit of fraternal concord among , all American citizens, and that this can I best be effected by a just and equal ad ; miuistrntion of the laws over all, without regard to race,' color or station. That the political changes-now transpiring : throughout the country but mark the 1 general reaction* against those methods of government and that sectional party-policy \vhich bavc 'theretof?re ten? ded to defeat that benign object. He --.expressed himself as highly gratified by the broad and national platform adopted by the-South.- Carolina'.Democracy in 1876, and reaffirmed in 1880. He espe? cially commended the first article of that platform which is in the following words: "We accept in perfect good faith the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to. the Constitution of the United States ; Accepting and standing upon them we turn from the settled and final past to the great living and momen? tous issue of the present and the future." Here the Judge made a certain excul? patory statement as derived from Gener? al Hancock himself touching the Suratt execution. The Judge reports General Hancock as saying he made a prompt return to the writ of hobeaa corpus, serv? ed on him by Judge Wylie, setting forth the authority by which the prisoner was , held in custody, and also the procla ,-.mation of President Johnson sus? pending the writ, but declaring that he .submitted himself to the judgment of the Court and would obey the mandate of writ if the Court so ordered, afterhearing the return, by producing the body of the prisoner in Open Court. Judge Wylie held the return sufficient nd quashed the writ. Judge Mackey states that many of the leading business men North, who have heretofore acted with the republican party and aided to furnish it the "sinews of war" during the past twenty years, have given in their adhesion to Hancock. Among these he instanceaXJnion Adams, of New York, the bead of one of the largest, if not the largest, wholesale clothing house in the world and worth many millions of dollars. The chief fear among men of this class ?merchants and bankers?has been that if the Democratic party came into power it might rudely disturb or change disas? trously the financial policy maintained by the Republican adminstration during the past ' four years. Upon this vital point many of them have conferred with General Hancock, and are perfectly sat? isfied with the assurances that be has given them. * Judge Mackey bad a long conference with Mr. John Kelly, of New York, I whom he characterises as the Warwick of I American politics, who, "by his splendid j partyr leaderBbip^ and ' his unequaled I rwlitical sagacity tankcL'inflexiBle .* resolu i tion, averted" a great calamity from the j Democratic party. He states that Mr. I Kelly is universally rec?gnized as an in? corruptible public official, who, as comp ; troller ?f New York city, has effected a' j retrenchment and reform in its financial j administration which has saved to. the j taxpayers nearly seven millions of dollars dunrigthe past two years. The Judge ! says that Tammany is in hearty accord ' J with the regular Democracy on the Pres-' jjdential issue, and has bung the Hancock [ banner out from its historic hall. He states ?-hat General Hancock and the Democratic j headers of the North, who are most dis j tinguished for their political forecast, regard New York, New Jersey and Indi? ana as sure for the Democracy, while all I the.indications point to the great proba i bility that Massachusetts andrennsylv? * nia will be swept from the Republican , column. ? ?. ? j j All the political1 telescopes in the North j iiro now being directed towards the i B'- Jthcrn horizon. * * * * Our friends in the North fear, and our ' enemies there hope, ..that there will be I lollisions between the races in the South? ern States that will furnish- the Republi? can party the raw.material out'of which to weave their bloody shirt. *. * * *: I The great danger of violence springs from the practice of a compulsory divis? ion of time with Republican speakers at their own called meetings. This prac? tice is regarded in the North as an out? rage upon the Republicans?virtually .denvingto them the right of freely as? sembling to hear their owa chosen orators, and it is earnestly advised that no at? tempt will be made to enforce it in this campaign, for it is" certainly 'calcula? ted to provoke violence.? Chester Repor? ter. Uses of Buttermilk.?Bathe the face in buttermilk, sour of course; it is not quite agreeable we know. Take a soft rag and dip in a cup of buttermilk ,aud wash every part of the face, neck and hands. If there has been a greater exposure to the sun than usual, after washing the face well, squeeze out the cloth and just wipe the skin off, and let it remain without washing till morning. You will be astonished to see how soon tue freckles and tan disappear. For keeping the hands and skin soft, there is nothing equal to buttermilk. When one gets burnt with the hot sun, one or two bathings in buttermilk will cause the smarting to cease, take out the in? flammation and render it comfortable quicker than any remedy over tried. There is something in the acid contained in the buttermilk that does the work. When one has-stained fingers with ei? ther berries apples or nuts, it will re? move the stains almost immediately. It is . particularly cooling to the skin. You will never try any other lotion for beautifying the complexion after using tli3 buttermilk ; if you can obtain that. Parted Lovers.?They were very fund of each other, and bad been engaged but they quarreled, and were two proud to make it up. He called a few days ago at her father's house to see the old gentleman on busi? ness, of course. She was at the door. Said he ; "Ah, Miss Blank, I believe; is your father in ?" "No, sir," she replied; "pa is not in at present. Did von wish to see him per? sonally?" "Yes," was the bluff response, feeling that she was yielding, "on very particu? lar business," and he turned fproudly to go away. "I beg your pardon," she called after him, as he struck the lower step, "who shall I say called?" He never smiled ajain.?Providence Journal. Extract from Speech of Hon. Johnson Hagood at the Lexington Survivors' 'Association. To-day you are assembled to do honor to these martyrs of a lost cause. It is fit and proper that you do so. Recall their deeds of valor and of endurance. Re? count their triumphs and show, how grandly they bore themselves in defeat. Tell your children tho story of the past; tell them to pray God that when trial comes to them, they may meet it as un blcnchingly and bear themselves as truly as did the men in grey. Let monuments arise all over the land to commemorate the deeds of tho dead; and let women hang garlands upon them. For while : the sons of the South in support of the Confederacy vindicated the blood they had inherited, her daughters illustrated all that is admirable in the attributes of women. There arose among them. no one to emulate those heroines of history who girded on the harness of war, or drove a dagger to t..e tyrant's heart, for there was no need for them to unsex themselves; but it is scarce an exaggera tion to say that the voluntary efforts of .our women, themselves laboring under Jcrucl and unaccustomed privations, clothed our armies and organized all of the comfort that existed in our hospitals. Devoted heart and soul to the cause, they were as ready to cheer with brave words their champions in battle, as to tend with gentle ministrations the sick and wound? ed ; and many a Southern woman checked the cry of wailing over her I slaughtered husband, to prepare her first born to take his place. Such was the women of the Confederacy; and when it went down in bleed and gloom, she re? mained as true to its memories, as she had been faithful in its performances. Wherever a monument has arisen in all our Southern land to the Confederate dead, it has bad its inspiration in a wo? man's heart, tender and true; and it has owed its completion to her devoted and unwearying zeal. It is mete that the daughters of Lexington should raise a special shaft to their own dead, for no better troops marched and died with Beau rsgard "and Joliuston and Lee, than the brothers and husbands and fathers whom their prayers accompanied to the war;.and where can tenderer hearts be. found, or fairer hands to.placo immor? telles upon a soldier's grave i The past is dead in the issues it en volved, but it lives in the teachings of its heroism. We staud now amid new sur? roundings; new issues are before us; new-duties upon us. But if we are to meet, as true men meet, the rcsponsibiU ities that await us ; if we are to discharge to the full the obligations we owe to each other, to the country, and to ourselves, we mu:>t approach as near as may be to the umielfish devotion to principle of the men o f tho Confederacy, and emulate their, fidelity?a fidelity even unto death. We may bury the issues for which they fought; we have done it, aud done it in reverence; but we bury not the memory of the heroic efforts and high motives of the contest; nor could we if we would divest ourselves of their influences. The laws of nature forbid it. The new South is the daughter of the old. The blood 0/ the mother flows in her veins and man? tles in her cheeks, and with it she claims by divine right an inheritance of the mothet's characteristics. On a new field of action and under tho circumstances of a different civilization these characteris? tics should be aud arc manifested. Look at our history in the recent past. When after the war and, as its consequences, our people found themselves stripped at one.. blow of the accumulations of two hun-' dred years of thrift, and deprived of the self-government which had descended to them through the struggles for ten cen? turies of a free ancestry ; when all that was base and vile in our own society, commingling in filthy scum with the residuum of invading armies, floated to the top, aud protected by the all power? ful conqueror was regarded as the State; when place, and power, and wealth how? ever ill-gotten was the sure reward of desertion, how few of our people, young or old, were recreant to their convictions, and false to the-right. With what forti? tude they submitted to the inevitable; with what patient endeavor'they sought to redeem amid almost hopeless circum? stances their broken fortunes; and when the opportunity of relief came in 1876 how promptly they seized it, and how boldly they worked out their redemption. My'friends, this record of the new South Carolina approaches any thing in the history of the old; aud for the last four years the .record has been continued untarnished. Once more in.possession of their State Government, our people have shown wisdom in readjusting the wreck, firmness in bringing it back to the methods of good government, moderation in pursuing their plunderers, and fidelity iU'ftdfeering to tho constitutional require? ments .which embodied the accepted re strrtS'of the war. These happy manifes? tations have brought peace nud harmony among us, and largely turned the thoughts of all classes from the disturb? ing influences of angry political discus? sion to the advancement of that individ? ual welfare, the promotion of which should be the highest aim of all govern? ments. And now, with tho better elements of society iu control of our local affairs; with the virtue, the intelligence, and the property of the people once more exer? cising an influence in their management; and with the bed rock of financial de? pression reached, the rebound has come. Disciplined aud chastened by adversity, 1 shorn of some of her adventitious sur? roundings, but of none of her fair pro? portions, our old Palmetto State has commenced anew an onward progress. In ?he development of her abounding resources, and with the advantages of her favored clime, is seen for her iu the near future a prosperity surpassing that of her happiest day. That it will come I know ; that my eyes will behold it, ere I am laid with my fathers beneath her sod, I devoutly trust; but whatever the future may have in store for her and her sisters of the South, however prosperous or glo? rious their history may hereafter be, no chapter in it will ever compare in all that dignifies and ennobles humanity, with that which records the motives, tho trials, the triumphs, and the defeat of the Confederacy. ? There is a fortune in store fcr the milliner who shall devise a bonnet that can be worn in any part of a church always present its trimmed side to tho congregation. ? A gentleman in a town near Boston, invited home to dinner one day one of the deacons of the church he attended. The guest offered the blessings at the table, which proceeding greatly excited the curiosity of the gentleman's five year old son, who sat beside the deacon and interviewed him on the subject. "What was that you said ?" he began. "It was a blessing on the food wo were about to eat," replied the deacou. "A what?" "Why, a blessing. Don't your fatcr ask a blessing at the table?,' "Oh, yes; but he don't say it in that way." "How docs he say it?" "Why, ho sits down and looks at the table and says, "Oh, the devil! is this all you have got to eat?" The Censns of tlic State. The Supervisor of the Census in the Second District of South Carolina has furnished a statement of the returns from the counties composing his district, which he does "not give as absolutely correct, but which he believes to be near? ly so, and the most accurate statement that can possibly be obtained until the official count is made in Washington." By this statement the total population of the Second District, comprising the Counties of Aiken, Barnwell, Beaufort, Charleston, Colleton, Hampton, Lexing? ton, Orangeburg and Richland, is 844, 881, an increase of 107,647, or more than forty-five per cent, since the census of 1870. The population of Charleston County is 102,853 of which the city contains 50,043 and the county 52,810. The pop? ulation of Columbia is 10,037, and of the rest of Richland County 18,551. The population of the First District is 392,034, au increase of 85,780, 'or nearly twenty-eight per cent, since the census of 1870. The population of the Third District is 259,909,. an increase of 76,752, or forty-two per cent, since 1870. This gives the State a total population of 996,824, an increase of 291,218, or more than forty-one per cent, since the census of 1870, and a gain of 71,679 since the Radical State census of 1375. In the five years from 1870 to 1875 the increase in population was 219,539, or more than thirty-one per cent., and during the five years from 1875 to 1880 only 71,679, or over seven per cent. According to the census of 1875 the average yearly increase of population for the five preceding years was 43,907. By the present returns the average yearly, in? crease since 1870 has been 29,121. And since the census of 1875 the average annual increase has only been 14,335. The figures given in the following table may vary a little by the "official count at Washington," but the population of the State will not be greatly reduced from this estimate, nor will the ratio of in? crease fall below forty per cent. : 1880. 1875. 1870. Abbeville. 40,856 38,968 31,129 Aiken. 28,132 30,304 . Anderson. 33,594 29,127 24,049 Barnwell. 39,934 37,523 85,724 Beaufort. 30,191 43,062 34,359 Charleston.102,853 123,489 83,863 Chester. 24,264 24,227 18,805 Chesterfield. 16,252 13,826 10,584 Clarendon. 19,173 16,243 14,038 Colleton. 36,449 83,883 25,410 Darlington. 34,602 30,461 26,243 Edgefield. 45,861 35,039 42,486 Fnirfield-.. 27,786 22,791 19,888 Georgetown. 19,462 17,646 16,161 Greenville. 37,806 32,706 22,262 Hampton.. 18,771 .... Horry. 15,585 12,012 40,721 Kershaw. 21,478 20,902 11,754 Lancaster.... 16,876 14,735 12,087 Laurens... 29,431 26,405 22,586 Lexington. 18,569 16,613 12,988 Marion. 34,542 31,654 22,160 Marlboro'. 20,573 17,683 11,814 Newberry. 26,499 23,326 20,775 Oconee. 16,273 14,075 10,536 Orangeburg. 41,394 34,070 16,865 Pickens. 15,010 11,807 10,269 Richland.;.. 28,588 84,245 23,025 Spartanburg. 40,373 32,184 25,784 Sumter. 37,203 31,480 25,268 Union. 24,059 21,965 19,248 Williamsburg.... 24,163 21,055 15,489 York.. 30,722 31,639 24,286 Total.996,824 925,145 705,606 A Sensation iu Everett, Pa. Quite a sensation was created in our town on Friday evening last by the arri? val of a.road locomotive or traction en? gine, as the inventor calls it, hauling a Geiser Separator. The coming of the novel machine bad been heralded by travelers who had passed it on its wr.y, as it toiled slowly and laboriously over the high mountains and rough roach be? tween McConnellsburg and this place, and it was expectantly awaited by many of our citizens who didn't more than half believe that such a vehicle as it was de? scribed could possibly make the journey. About six o'clock, however, a strange steam whistle was heard at the east end of town, and soon the novel vehicle came steaming and screaming up the street, and in a few minutes it called a halt for the night on Main street in front of the old Mansion House lot. Here it was soon surrounded by an interested throng of spectators, who examined it curiously, criticised it freely, and asked all sorts of questions about it. As the presence of the road engine in our midst was an event worthy of special notice and marked a possible new era in the appli? cation of steam power, we went to some trouble to obtain information concerning it, and this iis what we learned : The engine, is called the "Peerless," is the invention of F. F. Landis, and was coustructed by the Geiser Manufacturing Company, the manufacturers of the cel? ebrated Geiser Separator, at Waynesboro, Franklin county. The engine and sepa? rator were purchased by Mr. Joseph Sell and others, of Morrison's Cove, and the manufacturers proposed to deliver the machinery by the overland route?in other words, make the engine deliver it? self and the separator too without the aid of any other force or power, the in? tervening mountains being the only ob? stacle in the mind of the inventor. They started from Waynesboro on Wednesday morning and arrived at McConnellsburg ,thc same evening, making the distance of about thirty miles in nine hours and fifteen minutes. From McConnellsburg they came as far as Mcllvaine's on Thurs? day, and reached Everett on Friday evening about six o'clock?the actual running time from McConnellsburg to* Everett being only ten hours and thirty minutes. The loss of time was occa? sioned by the breaking of couplings in the train. The engine stood the test of the rough mountain roads without a break, coming through without having sprung a bolt or loosened a screw. When we say that in crossing the moun? tains she had to overcome grades of from 4? to 8?, or four to eight feet in every 57 3-10 feet, the success of the traction engine can be appreciated. It certainly demonstrated to our citizens what very few of them thought possible, and what still fewer of them expected to live to see. The total of the weight thus moved over the highway by this engine, which is eight horse power, was about eight tons.?Everett (Pa.) Enquirer. ? Texas society is agitated over the question whether or not the groom at a wedding Bhould wear his revolver belt outside or inside his dress coat. ? A faithful brother in a Fairfield, Iowa, church recently prayed for the absent members who were "prostrate on beds of sickness and chairs of Wellness." ? Is it possible that a remedy made of such common simple plants as Hops, Buchu, Mandrake, Dandelion, &c., make so many and such marvelous and won? derful cures as Hop Bitters do? It must be, for when old and young, rich and poor, pastor r.nd doctor, lawyer and editor, all testily to having been cured by them, we must believe and doubt no longer. See other column.?Post. The Cattle Herders of Florida. i A letter dated Fort Myers, Florida, i 8nys: The Caloosahatchee at this point is a deep and wide stream, affording easy navigation or ocean craft. From here eastward the river narrows, and drains an open prairie, or savann-country. i This region is a vast cattle range, and in? habited only by herders and the rem? nants of the Seminoles. Some of these cattle raisers are wealthy, and pride themselves on their acquisitions. Cuba affords them a market aud their available wealth is mostly iu Spanish doubloons, though a great deal of it is in Mexican dollars. The silver money is kept in sacks representing $50, $100, or $200, and never untied?passing from baud to hand for the amount marked on the tag. Every man is his own banker, and his coin is a good deal safer under his own roof thau it would be in the custody of any bank. It would be impossible to rob one of these cattle men of his money and set away with it. ?The weight of the coin would prevent rapid flight, and there is no place to fly to if flight were possible. Hemmed in by swamps and ocean there is no safety for him who would rob his neighbor, for he could not get away or make use at home of what was another's. If theft were attempted swift punishment would follow the offense. No useless judge or supeefluous jury would consume time in determining the magnitude of the crime. The offender would die with his boots on, and there would be no cambering of n court record with the transaction. The people of this region are honest from a desire to be so. Everybody's bouse is open. The merchant, who is always his own clerk, leaves unclosed the door of his store when he goes to dinner. If a customer should come in during his absence and want a plug of tobacco, he would take the tobacco aud leave the value of it in coin in its place. If he couldn't make the exact change at the time he would mention it afterward and square the account. There is no such thing as cheating on the part of a merchant. He could'nt keep store if he was known to cheat, and he never at? tempts it. There is unlimited mutual confidence on the part of buyer and -seller. One of these '"'cattle kings," as the herders designate cach'other, is a miser, and lives iu a miserable hut, with no company but dogs. He has boxes of doubloons in untold numbers secreted about his premises, has no visitors and no neighbors, for, in addition to being a miser, lie is a hermit. Perhaps fancy has credited him with more wealth than he actually possesses, but he is reputed the richest man in Florida, and marvelous stories are told of the gold and silver he has buried. As poorly as this miser cat? tle king lives, there are none of tliem who live much better. Bacon is their staple meat, and with all their cattle, they have neither milk nor butter, and fresh beef but seldom. With a climate and soil that would produce fruits and vegetables the year round, they have nothing, of the kind, except what is gathered in a wild state. One or two families at Fort Myers have done some? thing in the way of producing fruits, but elsewhere about here no efforts are made in this direction. The Caloosahatchee is a favorite home of the alligator. Thousands line its banks, basking in the hot sun of April. Deer are found in abundance, and bears and wild cats are too numerous to make the rearing of hogs or sheep possible ex? cept in enclosures. Fish of fine quality can be had for the catching. Birds of gaudy plumage and ravishing song en liveu the forest, and bush and tree of ex? quisite flower and foliage make a picture on which the eye delights to linger. A Farmer's House in China.? Crossing a small stream, we prepared to enter a farmhouse for rest and refresh? ment. As usual, our first salutation came from the dogs, who were speedily quiet? ed by the men. These were Chinese settles who had intermarried with Mon? gols, and although the ciders retained their Chinese traits of countenance, the offspring were clearly of a mixed race. A number of Tangoats were stretched upon the ground sleeping, having arrived in the morning with a number of sheep for the market town of Liang Chu, to the west. The buildings, in lieu of posessing an inner and outer wall, consisted only of a quadrangular courtyard. On tho upper side was the dwelling house, with large open windows. On each side of the doorway the women of the family sat sewing and mending clothes. Mules and ponies were engaged in the open space threshing out the wheat. This rude op? eration consists of dragging a heavy stone" roller to within a few inches of the head of the grain. Therfgrain was wiunowed by men with wooden shovels, who gather it up aud toss it against the wind. In the house we saw and old cone grind millet and wheat for family use iu a hollow stone mortar with a heavy wood? en pestle. The straw wa3 packed in heaps at the angle of tho yard. Agricultural imple? ments of a bygone age were lying around; square harrows with long iron prongs; plows with immense shares of a peculiar ishape, thorough carts used for transport. Heaps of manure were lying around for future use when dried. The dung of camels, or angol, as it is called, which is used for fuel, was to be seen in one of the outhouses.- Having obtained per? mission to enter the house, we found our? selves in a square room. The furniture consisted of a round pine table, with some two legged stools of the common? est kind. The picture of the Buddha hung immediately opposite the door.? Corr. San Francisco Chronicle. ? The census shows thirty-four sets of twins in Union county, N. C. ? Mr. Allen Berry was killed by a stroke of lightning near his home nine miles from Camden, S. O, on last Tues? day. ? Rose Johnson, a colored woman, was found dead in the public road in Clnreudon County last Tuesday. The coroner's jury reudercd a verdict of death from heart disease. ? A serious cutting affray occurred at Hickman's, Horry County, on the 16th, between John Reaves and John Richard? son about a trivial joke. Richardson was badly cut in the side. ? The net of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together; our virtues would bo proud if our faults whipped them not, and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our vir? tues. ? General Toombs was asked by a friend a few days ago whether Mr. Alexander Stephens would be returned to Congress. "Returned!" said Toombs, "Why damme, his district '11 keep him in Congress as long as he lives, and when he dies they'll run his executor." ? When a man wants to make his ene? my unhappy he poisons his enemy's dog, but a woman chooses a very different way to make her enemy nnhappy. She buys some new clothes that her enemy can't afford and sits iu front of her ene? my at church.?Middielou?i\Trancsript. More than Public Honors. A man died in Boston a few weeks since, who never held a public office, neither was he rich, uor of high social position. Yet more that a thousand merchants were present at his funeral, and that, too, in the busiest hour of the day. Strong men, as they passed by the bier, wept and stooping, kissed the face of the dead. "Why do you weep?" asked one of a negro. "He fed and clothed me," was the sobbing reply, "when I was in dis? tress, and has ever been a brother to me." A tremendous old woman came hob? bling up to the coffin to look for the laf-t time on the face of the man who had saved her from a life of dissipa? tion and crime. A young man followed her. He had been raised from the gutter and snatch? ed from ruin by him over whose life? less form he wept. When friends and kinsmen had pass? ed before the silent bier, there came clerks, laborers and seamen, whom the dead man had employed. They were there because, knowing him better than all others, they loved him. The man thus mourned was Deacon Franklin Snow. Thirty-three years be? fore he had come to Boston a poor or? phan boy. His first service was iu a fish house, at a salary of two hundred and fifty dollars a year. Though poor, he had brought with him valuable capital. He was. a Chris? tian, with a pure spirit, in a sound body. Though his own master since he was fourteen, he had no evil habits. His employers had taken him on pro? bation ; they soon found that they need? ed both his influence and his services. He, on his part, valued them because they.taught him correct business princi? ples. He also connected himself with an? other company?a Christian church? that he might he about his Master's bus? iness. Both in the counting room and iu the sanctuary he regarded God as equally near him. What ought to be done he did, whether it was easy or diffi? cult. He made money, but he never suffered himself to become rich. For he consid? ered himself the Lord's cashier, whose every check he was bound to pay when? ever presented. Thousands of such crafts were presented by all sorts of per? sons. Not one, if sent <by the Master, ever had Deacon Snow to say, "No funds." So active was ho iu business that he seemed indifferent to recreation. But had one holiday each week; it was the holy day of the Sabbath. "Blot out Sun ? day," he once wrote to a friend, "and half the pleasure of my life will begone," On that day he recreated himself. His life was filled up with little deeds, of service. His was a great heart, which took in the intemperate and the profli? gate. The worse a man wa3 the warmer glowed his sympathy for him. "That man is worth saving," ho would say, "and I ought to try and save him." Many a man whom the good deacon had helped to come to himself dropp? ed a tear over his lifeless body.? More welcomed him as he entered heaven. Murdered by a Mob.?The follow? ing particulars of the killing of Henry Waldrop by a mob near Grifhn, Ga., on last Thursday, are given by the Atlanta Constitution: About two years ago Henry Waldrop married Miss' Julia Heard and settled down on his farm four miles from Griffin. They invited the bride's young sister Ella, then about twelve years of age, to live with them. The trio lived happily together until last July was about ex? piring. One cveutful day?and one fatal to the happiness of that married couple ?it seems that Henry and Ella met in the kitchen and held a brief conference. At this critical juncture, Henry's wife entered the kitchen and forthwith pro? ceeded to disperse the meeting. Henry, of course, invoked the art of persuasion, but his wife promptly scorned bis appeals for reconciliation, and so Henry left his home and angered help-meet and came to Atlanta. In a day or two he was fol? lowed by the blushing Ella, who joined him in his quarters near the cotton fac? tory on Marietta street. He was carried to Griffin and two indictments were found against him and released on bond. The following from Griffiu gives the sequel to this affair. Under date of the 19th our correspondent writes: "Yester? day Sheriff Bridges, accompanied by a bailiff and another party, re-arrested Waldrop on a possessory and a peace warrant, and started to the city with him, when after night the Sheriff was met by a crowd of fifteen to twenty persons, jerked from his buggy and disarmed. The mob took Waldrop off a short dis tauce and shot him three times, killing him instantly. The Sheriff set to work to ferret out the perpetrators, and report says one party has been arrested, but it being some eight miles distant, I have not learned the truth of it. An inquest will be held and the facts then devel? oped. There is little sympathy for Wal? drop, whose conduct to his family and the little girl is considered very out? rageous, but every effort will be made to find out the slayers, as our people are greatly opposed to anything savoring of mob law." ? The rust has attacked the cotton and is seriously injuring it in Kershaw County. ? Judge Henry M. Spofford, of Lou? isiana, died at Red Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, on the 20th instant. ? In Scripture the drunkard's style begins in lawlessness, proceeds in un? profitableness, ends in misery; and all shut up in that denomination of his ped? igree, a son of Belial. ? The Radicals raider of Middle St. Matthew's, Orangeburg County, have been no little thwarted in their move? ment in consequence of a few ministers of the African Methodist Church refus? ing to allow political meetings to held in their houses of worship. ? A respected woman at LaFayette, Ind., has never been legally married to the man whom she regards as her hus? band. This is her way of keeping the property which, by the terms of her first husband's will, she would loso by marry? ing again. ? Capt. Robert T. Brown, the oldest ship master on the coast of the United States, was accidentally drowned in Charleston on Saturday. He was super? intending the loading of his vessels, when he fell over-board, striking his temple against a timber in the fall, and before he could be rescued was dead, ? It is to be.noticed that all of the Eeople who are 115 and upwards are lack. The whites die early Very mysterious! The blacks always keep re? cords, too, and know all about Braddock's defeat and Marse George Washington. We make it a point never to doubt an old negro's word when he says he is 175 years old. We ain't credulous much to speak of either. Political Jfotcs. ? The census of 1880 will undoubted? ly cut down New England's representa? tion in Congress. ? Senator Logan has returned to New York from Maine, and gives his opinion that the State is safe for the Repub? licans. ? The members of the Manhattan Club, of New York, have bet $10,000 each on Hancock's election. They claim that they were not influenced by partisan feeling in making the bets. ? The New Haven (Coun.) Register says the outlook in Connecticut is get? ting better every day. "The Democracy is united, earnest and confident of a complete success in November." ? Bill Arp is about to start on a lec? ture tour in the South, his subject being "Dixie now and Dixie then." Arp's real name is Charles H. Smith, and he is au elder in the Presbyterian Church. ? Mr. S. R. Mason, who was the Greenback candidate for Governor cf Pennsylvania in 1S78, and polled nearly 100,000 votes, has since, as previously announced, joined the Republican party, and has taken the stump forGarfield and Arthur. ? From the statements in the Repub? lican organs as to the amount of money collected and expended since their party has been in power, it is perfectly clear that not less than ?6,000,000,000 have been stolen by Republican thieves in twenty years. ? The Cincinnati Commercial has in? formation that Mr. Tilden has given the most tremendous sums of money to carry Ohio for the Democrats?that the bar'l was opened by the eloquence of one of ex-Governor Bishop's sons, and the Com.' mercial seems to credit the story. ? The Republicans have begun an active campaign in Ohio with homo speakers. The big meetings, however, will not begin until the fight in Maine is over, and the orators from outside enter the State. The Democrats intend to open their campaign formally the first week in September. ? The Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot says: "The Democratic party is now thorough? ly united for the first time in twenty years. The nomination of Hancock and English has had the effect of silencing factions, restoring harmony and of bring? ing back to the Democratic fold many who have not acted with the party since 1880." ? According to a San Francisco cor? respondent cf the New York Herald, the Republican managers in California de? spair of carrying their electoral ticket, and are bending all their energies to securing the Legislature and the United States Senator to be elected to succeed Newton Booth. California Republicans in Washington say the Herald's story is "all bosh." ? Mr. Barbour, late Assistant Post? master-General, has recently written a letter to a personal friend, in which he declares explicitly for Hancock, and in? timates no desire to keep his political position a secret. He is a man of much wealth and influence in Michigan, a bril? liant orator and write::, and will be a power of strength in the cause of honest government. He enteitains no manner of doubt of Hancock's election. ? Hon. Jay A. Hubbell, chairman of the Republican Congressional Commit? tee, and Hon. Marshall Jewell, chairman of the National Republican Committee, haveser.edon the government officials who have failed to pay their political assessments a circular, in which their failure to respond to the call for their assessment for campaign funds is alluded to, and tke request is made that they march up to the "captain's office" and pay up immediately. ? The Helena (Ark.) Daily Yeoman, of August 14, the official journal of the city, has this declaration of the plan of the campaign at the head of its editorial columns:. "The man who thinks that ho can lead an opposition against the organ? ized Democracy of Phillips County is not only presumptuous but extremely bold. He will require a body guard equal to the whole number of voters in the Democratic ranks, aud a Gibraltar in his rear on the day of election." ? Governor Colquitt and ex-Senator Norwood have arranged for a joint dis? cussion of the issues ?f the campaign in Georgia at a number of places in the State. The terms of the joint discussion will be that each man shall have two hou.s Tit each meeting. The opening speech will be one ana one-half hours, and the candidate opening shall have a half-hour in conclusion. The other can? didate will have a solid two hours speech. They will alternate on the opening. The terms have been written and agreed to. ? While the Radicals are howling over the late election in Alabama they would do well to study the recent history of that State a little. In 1874 the debt and liabilities of Alabama amounted to upwards of $30,000,000. Under Demo? cratic rule this debt has been reduced by a fair and just settlement with the State's creditors to less than $10,000,000. The amount required under Republican rule in 1873 to conduct tho State government was $1,100,000. In 1879 the amount re? quired for the same purposes was less than $600,000. Public schools have been opened in every township, and the money appropriated for them has been honestly and faithfully applied. Crime has been constantly on the decrease. The num? ber of prosecutions for larceny in 1879 was fiftv per cent, less than the number in 1S73". ? A young Mr. Cox is running for Congress in an independent way in the Fourth District of Georgia. At a recent gathering of yoemen he declared his in? tentions in the following outburst: "If you see fit to send me to Congress I will go to the best of my ability. [Cheers.] I believe I would like to go. Iu fact, I know I want to go. [Loud cheers.] I have heard that the salary is ample, and, as I have a small family, won't insist on its increase. [Cheers.] As I am fond of vindication, I want to viudicate myself. It has been hurled at me like a thunder? bolt that I am too young. In answer to this I say, first, I can't help it and it is not my fault; second, I am trying to grow older every day; third, I am suc? ceeding; fourth, I am afraid I will bo much older than I am beforo I get to Congress." [Prolonged applause.] ? Virginia letter to Philadelphia Times: "A prominent newspaper man here, one of the clearest headed in the State, said to-day that he saw more pros? pects of success for the regular Demo? cratic Hancock ticket cow than he had seen since the canvass opened. One of the most discouraging signs for tho ful? fillment of such hope is tho deolination of shrewd Flinders to be candidates. Notably among these refusals is that of Representative John T. Harris to be re nominated. No man in Virginia is bet? ter acquainted with her people than he, and there is no shrewder political man or closer observer than Mr. Harris. Then, too, there was no clamor for any great deal of effort made by leading Demo? crats this summer to secure the chair? manship of tho State Conservative Com? mittee, a place of considerable influence and heretofore generally sought after."