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? BY E. B. MUKEAY & CO. ANDEBSON, S. C, THUBSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 30, 1880. _ VOLUME XVI.?NO. 12. Whitewashing a Corrupt Candidate. The personal detraction incident to a . heated Presidential canvass is no new thing in American politics; bat never before in our history has a great party ? put forward a candidate for President smirched with personal and official cor? ruption in anything like the same degree as Mr. Garfield. Is} it suprising that ?S honest and respectable Republicans all " - over the. Union are every .day aban? doning such a nominee to cast their votes and influence for the peerless Han ^ . cock, whose reputation is without a stain ? Who over heard before of a candidate for the Presidency of this great country whose record required an elaborate vindication from Rome of his party friends at home that ho was an honest man? Here is the certificate of character which the Stalwart V boss -a of his district have just given to Mr. Garfield through the press: "Cleveland, Ohio, September 9.?The Republican County Central Committee of the. counties composing the Nineteenth Ohio District have, issued a column and a half address to the Republicans of the United States, for the purpose of remov? ing impressions which may have been ^produced as it ssys by determined efforts to 'misrepresent and falsify the history of Garfield's relations to the Republicans ? ? of this District.'" The impression intended to be convey ? ed is that the "determined effort to mis? represent and falsify" emanate from the Democracy; and it is noteworthy that alt tb.3 'Republican*:organs and orators adopt the same lib.?-of argument, and en? deavor to convince the people that the assault upon Garfield's reputation are al? together the work of his political oppo? nents. To correct this industriously propagated error, we present a very small portion.: of ..the immense amount of docu? mentary evidence at our disposal. First, as to "Garfield's relations to the Repub? licans of this (his) district." At.a Re? publican Convention, held at Warren, in that district, September 7, 1876, the fol? lowing resolution was adopted: "YVia father arraign and charge him A^GarfXald) with corrupt bribery iu selling his official influence as.Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations, for $5,000, to the De Golyer Pavement Bing, to aid them in securing a contract from the board of public work of the District of Columbia,; selling bia influence to aid such King in imposing upon the people of said district a pavement which is al? most worthless, at a price three times its fe; costs, ss sworn to by one of the contrac? tors; felling his influence to aid said Bing in procuring a contract, to procure which it corruptly paid $97,000 'for in? fluence;' selling bis influence in a matter that involved noquestion of law, upon the shallow pretext, that he was acting as a ^lawyer; selling his influence in a matter so palpable and clear as to be so found and declared by an impartial and com? petent court upon an issue ? solemnly tried.? So it would seem that "the determined efforts to' misrepresent and falsify" re? ceived a vigorous lift iu a Convention of his own Republican constituents. Two years before, however?July 30,1874? the New York Independent, a Republican religious newspaper, printed the follow? ing: "The testimony taken in the investiga? tion of the District of Colombia frauds show that Mr. Garfield received .$5,000 for his aid in getting through a paving r j- contract accepted by the District Govern? ment. A Mr. Parsons, a notorious job? ber, made an argument for the paving company,- and thenpgot Mr. Garfield to make a further argument and to use bis personal influence in its favor. Of coarse Mr. Garfield's argument was successful. & How could it be otherwise? He was . chairman of the committee on appropri? ations. Every cent of money voted tov the District had to come through him. Shepherd could not refuse anything he asked, and Mr. Garfield knew it when he asked And recived for his services a fee which would have been grossly ex? travagant but for his official position." As an appropriate closing up of the ?* DeGolyer part of the case, we give an extract from a letter,written (May ?S0, ? * 1872,) to the pavement firm by their Washington agent. George B. Chitteu den-: "The influence of Mr. Garfield has been secured by yesterday, last night, and to-day's . labors. He holds the purse ? strings of the United States ; is chairman ? of the committee on appropriations, and :' the strongest man iu Congress. I can hardly realize that we have Gen. Garfield with uj<. It is rare success and very *. gratifying, as all the appropriations of ' the District must come through him." As to the Credit Mobilier matter, the following is from an editorial in the New York Tribune of February 19, 1873: "Jarnos A. Garfield, of Ohio, had ten shares; never paid a dollar; received $329, which, after the investigation began, he was anxious to have considered as a loan from Mr. Oakes Ames to himself. "Well, the wickedness of all of it is that these men betrayed the trust of the people, deceived their constituents, and by evasions and falsehoods confessed the transaction to be disgraceful." From the same paper ?f February 28, 1873: "The men who received it (the Credit Mobilier stock) were not fools or blind. - They knew the tenor of the transactions; could not help knowing that this gift? for it hardly had the tbin disguise of an investment?was for an object and with a purpose. The testimony ueed not be recapitulated to convince the reader on that head. It is fresh in the memory of the people, and that impression of it is distinct and clear. If Ames was guilty so were all the rest." From the New York 'Times of February 19,1873: "Messrs. Kelly and Garfield present a most distressing figure. Their participa? tion in the Credit Mobilier affair is com? plicated by the most unfortunate, contra? dictions of testimony." From the same paper of February 20, 1873: "The character of the Credit Mobilier was no secret. The source of its profits was very well known at the time Con? gressmen bought it. Though Oakes Ames may have succeeded in concealing his own motive, which was to bribe Congress? men, their acceptance of the stock was not on that account innocent. The dis? honor of che act, as a participation is an obvious fraud, still remains. "Some of them have indulged in testi? mony with reference to the matter, which has been contradicted. The Committee distinctly rejects the testimony of several of its numbers. This can only be done on the ground that it is untrue. But un? true testimony given undefoath is mor? ally, if not legally, perjury." , "It is the clear duty of Congress to j visit with punishment all who took Credit Mobilier stock from Oakes Ames." From the report of the Poland (Repub? lican^ Investigating Committee, February 18, 1873: "The facts in regard to Mr. Garfield, as foucd by tho committee, are that he agreed with Mj. Ames to take tho ten shares of Credit Mbbilierstock, bat did not pay for the same. Mr. Ames received the eighty per cent, dividend in bonds j and sold them for ninety-seven per cent. ' cash dividend, which, together with the Er ice of the stock and interest, left a alance of $329. This sum was paid over to Mr. Garfield by a check on the ser? geant at-arms, and Mr. Garfield then un j derstood this sum was the balance of divi' ' dends after paying for the stock." *From the resolutions passed by a Re publicnn Convention in the Nineteenth Ohio District, September 7, 1876: "Resolved, That we arraign and de? nounce Jas. A. Garfield for bis corrupt connection with the Credit Mobilier, for his false denials thereof before his constit? uents, for his perjured denial there before a committee of his peers in Con? gress, for fraud upon his constituents in circulating among them a pamphlet pur? porting to set forth the finding of said committee and the evidence against him, when in fact material portions thereof were omitted and garbled." Hence it would appear that "the deter? mined efforts" from which the Republi? can candidate is now suffering, originated either in testimony submitted to courts and investigating committees, or in charges made over and over again in Republican papers. While the De Gol yer and Credit Mobilier business was still fresh in the public mind we believe that every respectable Republican paper in the land, wtihout a single exception de? nounced Garfield with more or less sever? ity. He was litterally lashed from one end of the country to the other with whips wielded by his own political associates. Democrats then did little except look on and applaud the merited punishment. They do nothing now but repeat ' what Republicans once said about Garfield. They find in thefile3 of Republican jour nals more ammunition that they can con? veniently use ; and they use what they want of it on the justifiable assumption that what was true of Garfield when he was not a candidate for the Presidency, cannot be false now that he is. The par? ty which nominated a candidate whom it had thus pilloried must pay the penalty of its own forgetfulness or fol? ly.?News and Courier. The Agony of Getting Tip. "The greatest trial in the life of a Southern farmer boy is getting up sum? mer mornings," remarked a gentleman as he sat with, a party of friends. "When I was a boy the voice of my father, call? ing me mornings, struck terror to the core of my heart. Just about daylight; in that hazy time of day when you can gap into listless bliss and stretch into paradise, the. old gentleman would step to the foot of the stairs and call':? "John, oh John." "Ye-e-s, sir." "Get up. Broad daylight. Get up and feed the horses while your mother's gettin' a bite to eat. Hurry up. We must finish that corn \ before it rains. Are you coming?" No answer. "John." "Ye-es, sir 1" "Are you coming?" "Yes, sir." "Who could get up at such a time? Who could break a spell born of heaven ? Another stretch. The refresh? ing air comes through the window. How delightful. A winking struggle between consciousness and a delightful oblivion. A gentle doze. I dream that I am up. I go out to the stable and begin putting the gear upon my horse. In tying the ham-string I lift the horse from the ground. He goes up in the air, and catching hold of the ham-string I float with the animal out of the door and around the lot." "Git out of this bed, sir," and my father grabs me. "I?I thought I was up. I'll get up." "Get right up here," and he hands me my pants. I take hold of them. My eyes are so heavy that I can't see. I feel strange. I seem to be coming from the spring with a bucket of water. "Put on them breeches, I tell' you." Well, if he hasn't gone to sleep trying to put on his clothes !" "Finally, I put on the pants and reach for the jacket. 'Hurry up,' says the old gentleman, turning from the door to see how well the work is progressing. I sit on the side of the hed and begin putting on my socks. The old gentleman has gone down. I pull on one sock and lean my head against the bed-post. I lose all presence of mind. Again I doze." . ' Whack, whack, whack." "Fin up. Oh, dog-gon it, Fin up. I won't do it any more. Oh, oo-ugh." "Come on, this minute, sir." "Everything is clear. I am wide awake. I hear the steaming tea-kettle as I pass the kitchen door, and even whistle as I cut oats for the horses. I suppose that nearly every Southern boy whose parents were not wealthy has gone through a similar experience.?Little Rock [Ark.) Gazette. A Child Fascinating Birds in Ohio. We learn from a correspondent that there.resides in the vicinity of Harrisburg, in an out-of-the-way place in Hancock County, about three miles west of Mount Blanchard, a very remarkable child, only five years old; who seems to have the power to charm birds at will. Her mother first noticed the strange fascination that the child possesses about a year ago. The little girl was playing in the dooryard among a bevy of snow? birds, and when she spoke to them they would come and light upon her, twitter? ing with glee. On taking them in her hands and stroking them, the birds in? stead of trying to get away from their fair captor, seemed to be highly pleased, and when let loose would fly away a short distance and immediately return to the child again. She took several of them into the house to show her mother, who thinking she might hurt them, put them out of doors, but no sooner was thexloor opened than the birds flew into the room again, and lit upon the girl's head and began to chirp. Tne birds remained about the premises all winter, flying to the little girl when? ever the door was opened. The parents of the child became alarmed, believing that this strange power was an ill omen, and that the much-dreaded visitor, death, was about to visit their house. But death did not come, and during last summer the child has had numerous pets among the birds. The child handles the birds so gently that a humming bird, once in her hands, does not fail to return. This winter a bevy of birds have kept hor company, and she plays with them for hours at a time. Every morning the birds fly to her window, and leave only when the sun sinks in the west. The parents of this girl are poor, superstitious people, and | have been reticent about the matter until lately, fearing that some great calamity was about to befall them.?Forest andi Stream. Beautifiers.?Ladies, you cannot make fair skin, rosy cheeks and sparkling eyes with all the cosmetics of France, or beautifiers of the world, while in poor health, and nothing will give you such good health, strength, buoyant spirits and beauty as Hop Bitters. A trial is certain proof. See another column.? Telegraph. The Next Vlcc-Presldcnt. I have spent the morning with William | H. English, the Democratic candidate j for Vice President, and he is no more j like the William H. English of popular ; imagination than a cow is like an oyster., His picture gives him a prim, New Eng- j landish, pedagogue look, with carefully ! trimmed beard, exact fitting clothes, and general air of complacent sweetness, but his pictures are like the "Pinafore" ad? miral, "they mean well, but they don't know." Indiana is hot, very hot; hot? ter, in fact, than half a dozen New Yorks rolled into one. Red-faced politicians rush frantically from place to place; red hot Democrats plot and red-handed Re? publicans bluster. It requires no vast j intellect to discover that the politics of the State arc raging like the fierce flames of a prairie fire, with indications of a I greater intensity in the uear future. The i surface suggests a great-Republican vie- ; tory in October, but, as the State Auditor, j Mr. Fleming, quaintly puts it, "the Re-1 publicans always carry Indiana down to j the day of election, and then the Demo- > crats out vote them." Having seen and heard much of Wil-1 Ham H. English, his loans, foreclosures and general cussedness, in compliance with Herald orders I sought and found him this morning. He is Chairman of the State Democratic Committee, acting as Gen. Arthur docs for tho Republicans in New York. The headquarters are in the Bates House, not nice?dilapidated, bare and unattractive. On the walls bang samples of Boys in Blue uniforms, torches and banners ; on the floors are nothing; on the tables are bundles of political documents, and on the chairs the orators of the nation, waiting for ap? pointments and the necessary funds for expenses. Mr. Fleming is the right bower of Mr. English in this matter. He stands and stoops about six feet high, is an off-hand enthusiast of the Gen. Barnum type?"not too enthusiastic, but just enthusiastic enough"?and quite confident that he and his party are- "all right up to the present time." Having introduced the Herald to the magnetic magnates, Mr. Fleming kindly took me to the private office of Mr. English and left me alone with the Indianian. The great expectant was occupied for a mo? ment, and thus afforded me an opportu? nity for observation. He stands in low cut, uubuttoued gaiters above five feet nine inches. His head would be bald but for an ingenious, though not an en hair, and is well shaped for business. He has a shelving forehead, a clear gray eye, full dyed beard and red socks. He wears black broadcloth, coat and trousers ?the latter perhaps two inches too short,* a brownish vest, no watch and a silk cravat, with tho knot nearer his ear than his windpipe. The far-famed iron-lined mansion is an ordinary two-story double brick house, with a kind of square tower running to the top. We entered and looked. The doors are like a thousand in New York, and have no iron lining or protection in? side or out. One window in the second story was then pointed out. "There,", said Mr. English, "you can Bee the barricaded window, of which so many lies are told. When I was Presi? dent of the Bank, Col. New's room was entered by a burglar and shots were fired. He and I exchanged opinions about it, and agreed that we ought to be more ?carefufof our persons, lest enterprising burglars should eeize and bind us and, carrying us back to the bank, compel us to open the safes. I then had that lat? tice work, which slides in and out, put up, so that if burglars attempted to get in I would be aroused and prepared to defend myself and protect the property of the bank, and that's the whole egg from which Halstead's tremendous lies are batched." I was greatly interested in what Mr. English said and the way he put it. He wore an old felt hat, walked carelessly along with one hand in a pocket and used the other as a pointer. He ap? peared to be entirely earnest and honest, and spoke of himself and his affairs with commendation, as though it was a per? fectly accomplished fact that English and the world were friends. He is building an opera house, a fine structure, to hold 2,000 people, with a beautiful broad, d"ep stage, absurd little boxes and an entrance direct from the street. It is to be opened later in the month by Mr. Barrett in one of Shakespeare's plays. Mr. English showed me through it and pointed out with commendable satisfac? tion the name of English worked in the parti-colored tiles upon the roof. His son, who is theatrically inclined, is to have the management of the theatre, which stands next door to his dwelling, and, like it, is to be a part of a system? atic frontage along the eutire block owned by Mr. English.?Indianapolis Letter to New York Herald. Love that Glorifies the Humblest Man. There is nothing in the world so sad as human nature, and the tears come into my eyes now as I think of the pitiful ?tory Tom told me as he smoked his af? ter-supper pipe last night. The other day, just before I came home Tom had occasion to go back over the lake. On his way back, and when the train stopped at the bay, he noticed a man getting into the car in front of him with a little baby in his arms. The baby seemed young, and the man hushed it in his arms with a gentle, rocking motion, bending over it now and then to kiss its white face. As the train got under way conductor came to Tom and said: "Come with me; I want to show you the saddest, strat.gest sight you ever saw in your life," and he led the way* into the next fcnr. "Do you Bee that man over there?" said he, and there sat tho man whom Tom noticed with the baby. His precious little bundle lay quiet on the seat in front of him, and, as these other two meu watched, he leaned over, looked long and earnestly , in the little flower fate, and then kissed the frail finger tips he held so gently in his hand. "That baby's dead," said the conductor. "It died this morning at the bay. He couldn't bear to put it in a coffin, because then it would have to go without him in the baggage car, and so he is just carrying it home to New Orleans in his arms." And the car rattled on ; the boy called his stale slices of sponge cake and cigars through the car; the passengers laughed and smoked, and fought mosquitoes; and he stricken to the heart's core, sat there quiet and unheeding, watching fover his dead baby, kissing the fingers that would never again clasp his, looking down upon the white lids that bad closed over the bright eyes as the petals of a sensitive flower close at night-time over its delicate heart?and the world was nothing to him ?N. 0. Times. ? Kansas is the geographical centre of the United States, 208 miles in width and 404 miles in length, containing 52, 000,000 acres, or is larger than the whole of New England. ? It is curious that some people think a newspaper should entertain the samo political opinions as themselves. They claim the right to think as they please, but deny this right to the other man. tirely i Why mi Englishman Came South. Mr. Thomas Hughes, the well known English author of "Tom Brown, at Rug? by," and other favorite works, has estab? lished a colony of young Englishmen in Tennessee. He was entertained at Cbat tauooga a few days since and made quite a lengthy speech, during which he said : "I can promise that you will find us a law-abiding and loyal folk?proud of the State of our adoption, proud of her re? cord in the past, jealous of her honor in the coming time, resolved that so far as in us lies? that record and that honor shall remain untarnished. We hope, my friends, to be on the very best terms with all our neighbors. We are conscious how much we have to learn from you, hojv almost entirely wc must rely for years on your teaching and your sym? pathy. "And now, Mr. Chairman, lot me turn for a moment to our settlement at Rugby. It "was a matter of sincere pleasure to me that after our inquiry in England, lasting over two years, we were able at last to come to the conclusion that your beauti? ful Cumberland mountains offered the very best site for our enterprise in all these broad and magnificent States of your great country. I had felt for years that it was the first duty of every man who speaks our English language to do all in his power to heal up the breaches which still, to some extent, are at any rate believed to divide the great sections of your republic. The great city, your Northern neighbor, to which I have al? ready referred, has set us a noble ex? ample. The splendid line over which we have travelled to your city has been built by Cincinnati, and will do more than any other enterprise to bind these States to? gether in solid and lasting friendship. All honor to her for her courage and patriotism I We, in our humble way, have hoped and hope to follow in her steps. I was told in my own country that it was madness to go South for our experiment, but did not pay much" heed to predictions coming from that quarter, and which have too often proved to be founded on a profound ignorance of your country. But I confess that in the first days alter my arrival here among you my own convictions were somewhat shaken. I had to visit your famous fashionable retreat at Newport, and there met old friends, patriotic Americans of famous historical names, who shook their heads and drew a dark picture of the immedi? ate future. In the event of the success of the candidate favored by the South in the coming Presidential contest, they drew a dark picture of the probable re? versal of all that has been done since the termination of your great struggle fifteen years ago. I was disconcerted but not convinced, and a few days' residence in your mountains greatly restored my con? fidence. I found the mountain folks as staunch friends of the Union and Con? stitution as it exists in its amended form at this day as any Northern Republican, and since my arrival here, sir, that con? fidence has been turned into absolute certainty. I cannot tell you the pleasure with which I have heard the free discus? sion of the events of your great struggle between men like General Wilder, who took so active and prominent a part on the Northern side, and many of your? selves who owned frankly to having been "rebels," who met him in fair fight on these renowned battle-fields, and who would to-morrow join with him in draw? ing sword and freely risking life and for? tune again for the maintenance and in? tegrity of the Nation as it exists to-day. "I visited the National Cemetery, where nearly 13,000 Union soldiers, a number equal to the present population of your city, lie. In their neighborhood are an equal number of Confederate sol? diers, not in a noble National Cemetery, but buried for the most part where they fell. "Pause, for they tread on the Na? tion' dust." That splendid passage came into my mind, but it very imperfectly touches the deep pathos or the impor? tance to mankind of the Issue which was decided here, of which the memory for all time will hang round this place of sepulture, and these ridges and valleys? I say it deliberately, that the battles round Chattanooga were of as much, if not more, moment to the world than Marathon, or Tours or Waterloo. I feel again more strongly than ever that all danger for your great country from civil war has passed. By the inside of the inland rivers, Whence the fleets of war have fled, Where the whisp'ring grove grass quivers, Asleep are the ranks of the dead. Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment day, Under the one the blue, Under the other the gray. No more shall the war cry sever, Or the inland rivers rjun red? Wc have buried anger forever In the tombs of the sacred dead. Under the sun and dew, Waiting the judgment day, Love and tears for the blue, Tef rs and love for the gray. Yes, your great orator's famous words are surely fulfilled?"Union and free? dom, now and forever, one and indivi? sible." King's Mountain Centennial Celebra? tion. The following programme has been adopted by the King's Mountain Centen? nial Association for the celebration of the one huudredth anniversary of the battle of King'* Mountain, on the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th of October, 1880 : REUNION DAY?OCTOBER OTH. Salvos of artillery, and assembly at the Grand Stand, at 11.30 o'clock a. m. Reunion of the States. Prayer, by Rev. Ellison Capers. Addresses?by the representatives of South Carolin, North Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee, in the orOer named. BATTLE DAY?OCTOBER 6TII. Illustration of the plan of the battle beginning at 12 o'clock m. The troops participating will repair to the points designated, at 11.30 a. in. CENTENNIAL DAY?OCTOBER 7TH. . National salute, at sunrise. Review of all troops, at 10 a. m. Procession to Grand Stand, at 11.30 a. m. Prayer, by Rev. William Martin. Singing of the Lyric. Written for the occasion by Mrs. Clara Dargan McLean, of Yorkvillc, S. C. Reading of the Ode. Written for the occasion by Paul H. Hayne, of Augusta, Ga. Oration, by Hon. John W. Daniel, of Lynchburg, Va. Procession to Monument. Unveiling Monument, with appro? priate ceremonies. Dress parado, at 5 p. m. Pyrotechnic display, at 8 p. m. MILITARY DAY?OCTOBER 8th. Prize drill, beginning at 10 o'clock a. m. Award of Centennial Medal to success? ful Company. ? It cost about $5,000,000 to sustain the 489 churches and chapels in New York city; and $60,000,000 to sustain the 10,000 liquor shops. " A Florida Typhoon. Florida summers are passably cool. The thermometer rests between 80? and 90?, with occasional spurts to 100?. At night the heat is frequently intense. Without a close sand-fly bar there is no rest, and with one no air. Grateful dews cool the air before daylight, but a coppery sun soon reappears, and up to 9 a. m. the atmosphere is like that of a furnace. Then a refreshing trade wind sets in from the southeast, and blows steadily until sundown. This trade wind lasts three months, say from the middle of June to about the same time in September. Without it, life on the eastern coast would be insupportable. There are days in which the air becomes mucky and sticky. A dead land breeze coTers the earth. Sandsand marshes throw out a tremulous heat, blinding to the eye; the loaves of the oleanders and fig trees shrink under the burning rays of the sun; the sky seems roofen by a brazen dome, and gardens and groves fairly pant for breath. On the approach of autumn the Flriri dians quake with apprehension. It is the dread season of hurricanes. Tearing through the West Indies, they often strike the coast with deadly effect. With scarcely a note of warning, houses nre overthrown, sailboats blown from the water, and orange groves swept bare of leaves and fruit. Some of the old set? tlers say that they can detect signs of the storm a day before it breaks upon them. "You feel it in the air long before it comes," says one. This is, however, an indefinite sign. The devastation lining its track cerTainly proves that "you feel it in the air after it comes." One of these typhoons visits the coast every year. The day may be bright and beautiful, and the flowers heavy with bees and humming birds. Shimmering mosquito hawks quiver in the air, and the scarlet cardinal twitters in the acacias. A cool? ing breeze plays through the leaves of the trees and gently swings the unripe oranges. Clouds of gulls soar above the dark green mangrove bushes, and the sand bars, at low tide, are covered with pensive curlews and willets. Thedrowsey roar of the surf is heard, and the gentle swell of the ocean is rippled with golden sheen. Almost imperceptibly the wind dies away. Cries of terns and water birds fall upon the ear with pianful distinctness. The mud hens of the marshes pipe an alarm. Not a blade of grass move3. The blue sky grows hazy, and the easteru horizon is milky white. Fitful gusts begin to ripple the water and handle the green leaves. A low moan comes from the ocean. Smoky clouds roll into the sky from the southeast, and a strong wind whitens the ruffled water. Every minute it increses in fury. An ominous yellow light tinges the atmosphere. The sun is gone, and great drops of rain are hurled to the ground. Within fifteen minutes there is a gale, and soon the-full force of the hurricane is felt. Great eagles and pelicans are swept through the heavens utterly powerless. Sparrows aud other small birds are lashed to death by leafless twigs, and the torn bodies of snowy herons and wild turkeys lodge in the branches of the live oak and cypress trees. All living things disappear. Tall pines are twisted asunder. The limbs of wil? lows and oleanders snap like cow whips. Lofty palmettoea bend their heads to the ground, their great fans turned inside out like the ribs of an umbrella. The force of the wind keeps the trees down until every green fan pop3 likeja pistolshot. Orange groves are ripped into shoe strings. The leaves of the scraggy scrub on the beach are whipped into little brushes. The tough saw palmetto is blown as flat as a northern wheat field, and the dead grass of the savannas lashed into fine dust. Boards in the surf are struck: by the winds, and sent spinning hundreds of feet into the air. The sand duneB are caught up bodily and sifted through the tops of pine trees miles away. The foam of the sea is blown beneath the houses on the main land, and comes up between the cracks of the floor like steam. Woe to the owners of sail boats and .boat houses. At Lake Worth the Crui? ser, a heavy round-bottomed sail boat, thirty-two feet long, owned by Capt. Charles Moore, was picked up from her ways, rigging and all, and carried across the lake, a mile away, without touching the water. A boat owned by Dr. Wallace of Castle Windy was torn from her moor? ings, lifted from the water, and dropped into a salt-water mash fringing Mosquito Lagoon, 800 yards from the castle. In the fall of 1876 the Ida Smith, a large schooner running between New Smyrna and Jacksonville, was torn from her an? chors and stranded on a marsh 500 yards from the ship channel. The coast sur? vey steamer, in a good harbor, sheltered by sand banks, threw out three anchors, and kept her wheels working against the wind under a full head of steam. She draggedher anchor several hnudred yards, and barely escaped destruction. The hurricanes last from seven to eight hours, even longer. During the lull rain falls in.torrents. The tide rises to a great height, carrying away wharves and boathouses, aud flooding the country for miles. The ocean leaps the sandy barriers of the coast and floods the In? dian and other salt water rivers, invol? ving great damage. After the storm, ceutre-boards and jib-stays are found in spruce pines, oleanders are loaded with cordage, and dead eyes id peak-blocks drop from leafless orange trees. Gardens are destroyed; fences swept away, and the tormented Floridian has three months' work and no pay to repair damages. Vessels are driven ashore had some time many lives lost. The Landona, a New York steamship, went ashore twelve miles north of Canaveral in the great gale of Aug. 23,1871. All on board perished. Since then many vessels have been wrecked. Ziska. Jerusalem. Jerusalem, according to British consular reports, is a growing town. The foreign Hebrew population has increased consid? erably of late years. That community is now estimated at 15,000, including native Jews, against 10,000 in 1872. The desire to avoid compulsory military ser? vice now enforced in most European countries, and the right of holding real property in Turkey, conceded to foreign subjects by the protocol of 1878, proba? bly accounts for the increased emigration. The German colony at Jerusalem now numbers nearly 400 persons; that at Jaffa about 300. There is a third German settlement at CaifTa of about equal num? ber with the last mentioned. The settlers ose mechanics, artificers, carriers and agriculturists, and are fairly prospeous. The chief industries remain what they were?tho manufacture of oil, soap, aud articles in olivo wood and mother-of pearl ; the production of the latter "[arti? cles, has greatly increased, as the sale is no longer confined to visitors and pil? grims, large quantities being exported to Europe and America. ? The acreage for wheat in the Unit? ed States aggregates 30,000,000. Lucerne in Fairflcld. By permission of Major Hammond and Col. Rion we give our readers and ac? count of the success with which lucerne can be raised in Fairfield. Col. Riou refers to Mr. W. B. McCreight and Mr. Thomas Jordan for proof that the 4,000 pounds mentioned is much below the correct figures. _ WlKKSBOltO', S. C, Sept. 6,1880. Major 'Henri/ Hammond U. S. Supcrci<>or: Dear Major?I am in receipt of your letter of the 4th inst., and proceed, j as requested, to give you an account of j my experience with I lucerne ix fairfield, s. c. I have a lot containing one-half acre, which was a part of an old worn-out field. I planted in it corn for a few years, when nut-grass became a great pest. In order to kill the nut-grass I had it ploughed five times, quite shallow. ; during July and August. In September, 1873, it was well manured and then ploughed with a two horse turning plough, followed by a bull-tongue. The subsoil is a stiff red clay. This red clay lies near the surface and was turned up so that the lot looked like purely red clay soil. It was then harrowed with a revolving harrow. I then, on 15th Sep? tember, planted clover. It came up well and gave me two good cuttings in 1874. In 1875 I got one poor cutting, the uutgrass having nearly choked the clover out. On September 7 I had the lot ploughed with a turning plough, har? rowed, and planted with ten pounds of lucerne 6eed broadcast. It came up thick, and so did the weeds; so that in March, 1876, nothing was visible except the weeds. I had the lot cut close to the ground, and six barrels of gas-lime (shell) spread upon the surface. The lucerne grewjup with some weeds. After the next cutting the weeds disap? peared and have never been able to con? tend with the lucerne since; and the nut-grass is visible only scatieringly, so that search is necessary to discover that there is any. The lucerne gave four good cuttings in 1876, the summer fol? lowing the fall when planted. I keep three horses and two cows. I compared my hay bill from March to October, both inclusive of 1875, with the same expense for a life period of 1877, and I found it to be $64 greater. But I used only "East River" hay which is costly. In 1S78 I had ten cuttings, averaging over two and a half feet each, the lu cerne being very thick. Each of these ten cuttiugs off the half-acre would weigh over 4,000 pounds. In 187G we 'had a drought, and the lucerne was cut only six times. This summer we have had another drought, and to this time I have had only four cuttings. I first cut about the middle of March and stop early in Octo? ber. I give the whole a heavy top dress? ing of stable manure, following each day's cutting with a dressing for the sur? face cut until the whole lot is manured. The lucerne remains green all the year; stand from six to eight inches high dur? ing winter. No replanting is necessary. There are plants in a garden here which the old lady to whom the garden belongs has known as individual plants for over fifty years. I never allow any animal to graze upon my lucerne. The half-acre affords green food sufficient for three horses and two cows. My success has induced some ten or eleven citizens of this town to plant lu? cerne lots, all successfully. As lucerne is not cotton, none of the plauters of this country have attempted to raise lucerne; and this country imports large quanti? ties of hay and baled fodder each year. Very respectfully, James H. Rion. A Grasshopper. On the top of the Royal Exchange in JLondo. is a very curious weathervane, not like any other in England, or per? haps in the world. It is a huge grass? hopper, and the following account shows how it came to be put up there: About threo hundred and fifty years ago a woman, with a little baby in her arms, was trudging along a country lane. Presently, after looking to see that no one was watching her, she climbed over a gate into the field, and, wrapping the baby in its little shawl, she laid it down in the grass so gently as not to wake it, and then, never even looking behind her, she climbed over the gate again into tho lane, upon her journey. The baby soon woke and began to cry ; and it cried for a long, long time. And at last, tired and hungry, and hot with the suu, for it was a fine summer's day, it was wearied out, and dropped off to sleep again. "But God had heard the voice of the lad." By nud by down the lane came a school-boy. He was whistling away, as happy as ever he could be; he had come out of school, and he was going home. He lived at the farm-house a little way further up the lane. Now he gathered a few primroses, now he had a shy at a bird ; but just as he came to the gate, over which the woman had climbed, he heard a grasshopper chirping away so loudly that he sprang over the gate to catch him?and there was the baby fast asleep! Far more pleased than if he had caught a hundred grasshoppers, the boy took up the little fellow and ran home with his prize. The kind farmer's wife, although she had many children of her own, at once determined to keep the little orphan who had been saved from death by a grasshopper. Years passed away, and the baby be? came a strong boy; the boy grew to be a man; he went to London and became a merchant. God blessed all he did, and he rose to be the most noted man in the city. Queen Elizabeth was then on the throne, and often did she send for Sir Thomas Gresham?for the little deserted boy had become a knight?to consult him on the great affairs of State. About three hundred years ago Sir Thomas Gresham founded the Exchange. The Queen came to dine with him, and laid the first stone. And there upon the topmost pinnacle Sir Thomas placed a grasshopper; and there it is to-day; to tell the busy, toiling city that Almighty God can hear the infant's cry, and can savo a valuable life by oven such n little thing as a grasshopper. The mother of ex-Governor D. II. Chamberlain died last week at her home in West Brookfield, Mass. ? If your horse is troubled with scratches mix up a little saltpetre and lard and put upon the sore part, and re? new daily until cured. Keep clean by using castile soap. ? The Chicago health has had its chemist analyze 18 samples of tea. "Foreign leaves," leaves, that is, other than tea leaves, were found in all but two samples, six fell decidedly below the aver? age amount of nitrogen which should be found in tea, and on which its strength depends, and more than one-half showed that a part of tho tea leaves had been used before. No deleterious substances were found, however, aud the analysis is altogether more favorable than the results of a like inquiry made some years ago by tho London La?icet. Fancy Farming. In a back number of the Scientific Fanner we find a very sensible article on what is now quite generally termed "Fan? cy Farming," which consists of some rich man, not a farmer by practice set? tling in a rural neighborhood and devot? ing his energies to a culture of the soil. The writer holds to the idea that such farmers are of great advantage. They buy a subcrban or more romote farm, bring to it of their wealth, romodel the old house or build anew, tear down or improve the old barns, and build from designs of a city architect who understands more of harmonies than uses, stock with improved breeds of cattle, the latest style of im? plements in endless variety, and the most expensive novelties from the seed stores, am! spend, perhaps without hope, cer? tainly without prospeet, of adequate re? turns. Wherever fancy farms abound there mny be observed continuos im? provement in their vicinity. They serve to change the habits of the life of the far? mer and his family. The old inconven? ient methods of housekeeping give place to a more convenient system. The waters from the well is brought to the house instead of being fetched in a pail from the distant well or spring; the wooiLpile is placed under a shed or into a compact pile instead of being heaped in the door yard ; the surroundings to the buildings are "slicked up;" flowers appear perhaps in the door yard ; the cattle are better fed, the fences better repaired, new crops and new'markets are sought, and expen? ditures are increased as the income grows larger and is derived from more varied sources. All this comes from the in? fluence of the examples of the finely but expensively maintained farm, whereon neither expense nor income is much considered, and which, judged from a business standpoint, must be considered a failured; judged from in? fluences on others, is to be looked upon as a public 'benefaction. There is too prevalent a feeling of jealousy towards the fancy farmer, and too littlle appre? ciation of the benefits which may be and are derived from his progress which re? sults from unrest, abundance of means, aud a strong enthusiasm towards a pur? suit. This man can experiment, when the poorer cannot afford to depart from the beaten rut until better results from a departure become demonstrated. This class encourages inventors and dealers I by furnishing opportunities for the trial I of uew things which promise well, and ! when, through costly failure, an improve? ment is secured, the working farmer can secure the perfected article. This class import foreign cattle and test their adap? tation to our needs. They introduce new fruits and improved vegetables, which, if found deserving, soon find." distribution throughout the neighborhood. They extend a knowledge of the arts of culture, and tend to distribute a practical knowl? edge of hot bed and forced crops; and in addition to these more obvious benefits, contribute largely, through taxation, to the public necessities, and relieve in this way the burdens on others. Marvels Performed by a Blind Man. There recently died at Burlington, Conn., one James Goodsell, who from bis birth, during a life of nearly ninety years, has been totally blind. In spite of his misfortune, he would swing an axe with dexterity, and felled trees; he was an accomplished grain thresher, and would frequently go aloue a distance of miles to thresh for the farmers, climing, the mows to throw the grain ; he could hoe corn or garden stuffs as well as anybody, having no trouble to distinguish the weeds; he would set 100 bean poles with more accu? racy than most people who can see; would lond hay; and was so good a me? chanic that he manufactured yokes and other articles with success. He had at: excellent memory, and was an authority on fact and dates. He could generally tell the time of day or night within a few minutes. One instance is given when he slept one day and awoke at evening, thinking it was morning. For once he ate supper for breakfast, but when in? formed of his mistake, slept another twelve hours in order to get straight again. He was familiar with forest trees, and knew just where, to go for any timber desired. He could direct men where to find chestnut, a maple, or au oak, and the childreu where to go for berries. He was a good mathematician, and could computeaccurately and rapidly. In olden days he was quite musically inclined, and, like most blind people, he had a genius in that direction. He was at one tim leader of the Presbyterian choir. To crown all, he possesses one of the hap? piest dispositions, and was ever genial and cheerful. To this end his generally excellent health largely contributed. The Old Folks?Do young people ever think that they will be old; that they will soon feel that the grasshopper is a burden and fear is in the way ? Only a few years ago that aged man and feeble woman were youug, strong and full of life, their young hearts were gushing with tenderness and care for the little ones who stand in their places. Do not jostle that aged couple out of your path? way, but rather lift them with lender care over the rough declining road. You may have forgotten how they kept your tiney feet from stumbling and with what care they watched your advancing steps. But they have not forgotten, and the time will come when you are forcibly reminded of it by the love you have for your little ones. Will they hand you the same bitter cup to drink thai you put out for that aged father and mother. Verily, "with the measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again." Think of the the anxious days and nights your mother has watched by your sick bed; remember her loving care; her patience with your fretfulness, and then let the blush of shame dye your brow, that you should be impatient or unkind to her now that she is old. Old folks are such a trial 1 Yes they kuow and feel it 1 and so will be such a trial to your children in the days that will surely come; aye, and you will remember, too. ? The increase in the growth of cot? ton has been remarkable. In 1867, we marketed two million bales; in 1870, three millions; in 1874, four millions; in 1879, five millions. The crop marketed for the year ending August 31, 1880, is 5,760,161 bales, and it is considered that the crop now being picked will exceed six millions. In the fifteen years since the war we have increased the crop threefold. Aud thus it is that the South is rising from the ashes of desolation, and is making such rapid strides to power and opulence. Prior to the war, the crop never reached four million bales except during the year I860, when it ran up to 4,66?;770 bales. ? Do not allow worms to cheat your children out of their living. Shriner's Indian Vermifuge will destroy these mis? erable pests, and give the little fellows new armors for the battle of life. ? In general cultivation an arce can be made to yicd three hundred bushels of potatoes. Less that two hundred bushels would not bo a profitable crop in many localities. General News Summary. ? Frost Las appeared in Arkansas. ? Georgia has 616 licensed di?tilerics. j ? Sauthern Texas has no cotton worms ? English sparrows have been intro , duccd at West Pointed, Miss. ? Boston celebrated her two hundred and fiftieth anniversary last week. ? The President has accepted an in? vitation to visit Washington Territory. j ? The sale of cattle this year in , Texas, it is estimated, will reach 7,000, 000 head. ! ? Memphis is the only city in the United States that has a less population ! than 1860. ? Tho late election gives the Ver I mont Legislature 137 Republicans and ; 14 Democrats. i ? President Hayes has been made j Vice-President of the American Bible society. ? The gallant Confederate General, j Bushrod Johnson, died at his home in j Missouri, last week. ? The Florida orange crop is reported ? ruined by the recent great storm; lo?s ! said to be ?1,500,000. ? The railroad commissioners of Ken? tucky will recommend the reduction of fares to three cents a mile. ? Victoria's stronghold in Mexico has been discovered, and the reward for his scalp has been increased to $3,000. ? A Boston pastor, who did not take a vacation, married twenty couples in the two months others were absent. ? John Keene, of Rockland, Me., has a horse which likes tobacco so well thai; he begs a chew whenever his master takes one. ? The Texas and Pacific Railroad Company have inaugurated a scheme to induce ten thousand Germans to immi? grate to Texas. ? Skowhegan, Me., boasts two apple trees, one planted about 1762 and the other 48 years later, which are still bear? ing their yearly burden of russets. ? Fourteen thousaud seven hundred persons are now employed on the Penn? sylvania railroad, and the New York Central railroad has 12,000 employees. ? A silk mill is being erected at Haw* ley,#Pa., which will have a ground floor of over an acre, be several stories in height, and give employment to 1,000 hands. ? The members of the Chinese Em? bassy have been so grossly insulted by the rabble in New York city that they have determined to go home as soon as possible. ? Clayton Hillsman, tho eleven-year old colored boy who brutally killed an infant son of C. G. Hillsman, at Cullo den, Ga., has been sentenced to be hang? ed on 29th. of October. ? The population of West Virginia is announced by the census supervisors of the State at 618,9.14. The population ten years ago was 442,014; so thero has been an increase of .forty per cent. ? The expenses of the late Triennial Conclave of Kngihts Templar, at Chica? go, were $93,000, and the receipts $87, 000. The deficiency will be made good by the three local commanderies. ? Henry Mockahee, a guard over convicts at work on the Bip Sandy rail? road, near Mount Sterling, Ky., was at? tacked with axes by two convicts and literally cut to pieces. The convicts made their escape. ? Five men were killed last Friday, at the factory of the Union Metalic Car tride Company, at Bridgeport, Conn., by the explosion of six pounds fulminate, used for making the large caps for exploding dynamite. ? Twenty thousand first-class passen? gers were carried from America to Eu? rope this summer up to July 14?au in crease of 4,000 over last year. Assum that each of them expended $500, a low estimate, they left abroad $10,000,000. ? Mrs. Oliver Jolly and her three children, aged one, six and ten years, respectively, were drowned recently by the upsetting of a small boat on the St. Lawrence. Two men and a woman saved themselves by clinging to the boat. ? Asheville (N. C.) Citizen says: "The tobacco crop throughout this sec? tion, which i3 now being cut in many places, will prove generally a splendid one. The area of land planted in tobac? co is probably double that of any former season. ? Robert E. Culbrish, editor of the San Francisco Weekly Argus, was pum? melled on the streets by J. C. Flood, Jr., for publishing an article in his paper relative to the rupture of the engagement between Miss Jessie Flood and U. S. Grant, Jr. ? The Jewish population of the world at the present time is a matter of much discussion and great uncertainty. The Jewish calender of Grand Rabbi Servi for the present year puts the number at 6,210,000. Others estimate it as low as 4,000,000. ? A duel between a Ute Indian and a Navajo, took place last Thursday, near Santa Fe, N. M. A few friends of the Indians were present. The Ute was killed and the Navajo seriously injured. Knives were used, and the duel was caused by both Indians wanting to marry the same girl. ? A peculiarly brutal and cold-blood? ed murder occurred at Hartford, Conn., last week. Henry Kinghorn, a black? smith 45 years of age, drunk, and exas? perated because his wife wouldn't pay a $400 mortgage on his shop and deed it to him, coolly shot her through the head as she sat at her sewing machine. ? A prominent Baptist divine in Magoffin Co. Ky., discourses against sup? porting missionaries, because, as he says, the Bible gives assurances that whenever the gospel is preached unto all people the end will nave reached, and God forbid that he should contribute one cent toward hastening that portentous period. ? At the annual reunion of the old settlers of Texas at Denton, the proces? sion was headed by George Morris who located in Texas fifty-six years ago, and has lived in the State under the crown of Spain, republic of Mexico, dic? tatorship of Santa Anna, republic of Texas, United States. Confederate States and again the United States. ? A ruralist came into Tallahassee, Fla., and finding a news-stand ordered a lot of papers, which he took from the clerk with profuse thanks. He was as? tonished, though, when the clerk asked payment, as he "never heard of charging for newspapers before." He had been reading his neighbors' papers for nothing, and never knew they cost money. ? ? The following changes in the Mis? sissippi Code go into effect in November, 1881: "Every woman now married, or hereaftor to be married, shall have the same capacity to acquire, hold, manage, control, use, enjoy and dispose of all property, real and personal, in possession or expectance, and to make any contract in reference to it, and to bind herself personally, and to sue, and be sued, with all the rights and liabilities incident thereto, as if she was not married.? Husband and wife may sue each other. A marrried woman may dispose of her estate, real and personal, by last will and testament, in the same manner as if she was not marrried. Dcwer and courtesy as heretoforo known, are abolished."