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ANDERSON, S. C., THURSDAY MORNING SEFrERiBEB^oTTsHil VOLUME XVT-Mn io Whitewashing o Corrupt Coiidldate. The personal detraction incident to a heated Presidential canvass is no new thing in American politics; but never before in our historv has a great party put forward a candidate for President smirched with personal and official cor ruption in any toing like thc rame degree as Mr. Garfield. I<. it supriting tiiat honest and respectable Republicans all over tile Union arc every day aban doning such a nominee to cast their votes und influence for the peerless Han cock, whose reputation is without n stain 1 Who ever heard before of 11 candidate for tlie Presidency of this great country whose record required an elaborate vindication from some of Iiis porty friends at home that lie was an honest many Hero is tho certificate of character which the Stalwart bosses of his district have just given to Mr. Garfield through the press: "Cleveland, Ohio, September 9.-Tho Republican County Central Committee of tlie counties composing the Nineteenth Ohio District have issued a column and a half address to the Republicans of tho United States, for tlie purpose of remov ing impressions which may have been produced as it Bays by determined efforts to 'misrepresent and falsify the history of Garfield's relations to the Republicans of thia District.' " The impression intended to be convey ed is that the "determined effort lo mis represent and falsify" emanate from thc Democracy ; and it is noteworthy that all the Republican*organs and orators adopt the ?arno lrhe- of argument, and en deavor to convince the pcoplo that the assault upon Garfield's reputation are al together tho work of his political oppo nents. To correct this industriously propagated error, wo present a very small portion of tlie immense umount of docu mentary evidence at our disposal. First, as to "Garfield's relations to tho Repub licans of this (his) district." At a Re publican Convention, held at Warren, in that district, September 7, 187G, the fol lowing resolution was adopted: "Wo filth cr Arraign and charge him (Garfield) willi.corrupt bribery in selling his official influence as Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations, for $5,000, to thc De Colyer Pavement Ring, to aid them in securing a contract from thc hoard of public work of tlie District of Columbia; selling his influence to aid such Ring in imposing upon thc people of said district a pavement which hs al most worthless, at a price three times its costs, as sworn to by one of the contrac tors ; selling his influence to aid said Ring in procuring a contract, to procuro which it corruptly paid $97,0G'.> 'for in fluence;' selling his influence in a matter that involved noquestinr f law, upon tho shallow pretext that h.- OAS acting ns a lawyer; selling Iiis ?nfl.'.-nee 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 "thc determined efforts to misrepresent and falsify" re ceived a vigorous lill in a Convention of his own Republican constituents. Two years before, however-July 30, 1874 tlie New York Independent, a Republican religious newspaper, printed the follow ing : "The testimony taken in the investiga tion of tho District of Columbia frauds show that Mr. Garfield received $5,000 for bis aid in getting through a pavir-j contract accepted by the District Govern ment. A Mr. Parsons, a notorious job ber, mado an argument for the paving company, and thea got Mr. Garfield to make n further argument and to use his personal influence in its favor. Of course Mr. Garficld'a argument was successful. How could it bo otherwise? Ho wai chairman of thc committee on appropri ations. Every cent of money voted to 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 winch would have been grossly ex travagant but for his ollicial position." As an appropriate closing up of tho DeGolyer part of the case, we givo-an extract from a letter written (May 30, 1872,) to th? pavement firm by their Washington agent George B. Chitten den : "Tho influence of Mr. Garfield luis boen secured by yesterday, last night, and to-day's labors. He holds tho purse strings of thc United States ; ia chairman of the committee on appropriations, and tho strongest mau in Congress. I nan hardly realize that wo have Gen. Garfield with us. It is rare success and very gratifying, aa ali tho appropriations of tlie Disti ct must como through him." An to tho Credit Mobilier matter, the following is from nn editorial in the New York Tribune of February 19, 1873: "James A. Garfield, of Ohio, had ten shares ; never paid a dollar ; received $329, which, after the investigation began, ho was anxious to have considered as n loan fro i Mr. Oakes Ames to himself. "Wei., tho wickedness of all of it ia that these men betrayed the trust ot tho pcoplo, deceived their constituents, and by evasions and falsehoods confessed tho transaction to be disgraceful." From the samo paper of Februai ? 28, 1873: "Tho men who received it (tho Credit Mobilier Htock) were not fools or blind. They knew ?ho tenor of the transactions; c'iiui? nut liOip ?.now?n?- ?I-.it this gift for it hardly hod tho thin disguiso of an investment-waa for an object and with n purpose. Tho testimony need not bo recapitulated to convince tho reader wu that head. It is fresh in tho memory of tlie people, and that impression of it is distinct and clear. If Ames wus guilty so were nil thc rest." From the New York"77>n?? ,f February 19,1873: "Messrs. Kolly and Garfield present a roost distressing figure. Their participa tion in the CreditMobilicr affair is com plicated hy the most unfortunate, contra dictions of tostimony." From tho samo paper of February 20, 1873: "Tho character-of tho Credit Mobilier was no Beeret. Tho source of its. profits was very well known at tho time Con gressmen bought it. Tbongh Oakes Ames may have succeeded in concealing his own motive, which was to bribe Congress men, their acceptance of tho stock w:a not un that.account innocent. The dis honor of tho act, asa participation is an obvious fraud,still remains. "Some of thom hr vo ? idulged in testi mony with reference to tho matter, which baa been contradicted. Tho Committee distinctly rejects the testimony of eovcral of its numbers. -This ?an only he done on tho grout, 1 that it t* nniruo. But un true testimony given under'oath is mor ally, if not legally, perjury." ' "It is tho clear duty of Congress to visit with punishment all who took Credit Mobilier stock from Oakes Ames." From tho report of the PolandMfRepub licanl Investigating Committee, February 18, 1873: "Tho lactsin regard to Mr. G.irfiold, ns found by tho committee, ni e that bo agreed with Mr. Ames to tnko tho ten aharea of Credit Mobilier stock, but did nut pay for tho samo. Mri Ames received the eighty per cent, dividend in bonds and. sold them for ninety-seven per cent. cash dividend, which, together with tho Crice of the ?tock nod interest, left a alance of $329. This sum was paid over to Mr. Garfield by a check on the ser geant at-arms, una Mr. Garfield then un J?r$food thia tum teas thc balance of diri dends after paying for thettoei." 'From tho resolutions passed by a Re publican Convention in tbe Nineteenth Ohio District, September 7, 187C : "Hctolced, That wo arraign and de nounce Ja?. A. Garfield for bis corrupt I connection with the Credit Mobilier, for ' his false denials thereof before his constat j ucnts, for his perjured denial there j before a committee of his peer? 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 bim, wheu in fact material portions thereof ! were omitted and garbled." Hence it would appear that "the deter mined efforts" from which tho Republi can candidato 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 wo believe that every respectable Republican paper in the land, wtihout a single exception de nounced Garfield with moro or lose sever ity. He was laterally lashed from ono end of the country to tho other with whips wielded by bis own political associates. Democrats then did little except look on and applaud thp merited punishment. They do nothing now but repeat what Republicans oocd S?M about Garfield. They find in thc file- of Republican jour nals more ammunition that they can con veniently uso ; and they use what they want of it on the justifiable assumption that what was true of Garfield when ho was not a candidate for thc Presidency, cannot bo false now that he is. Tho par ty which nominated a candidate whom it had thus pilloried must pay tho pcuulty of ita own forgetfulness or fol ly.-Kewt and Courier. Tho Agony of Getting Up. "The greatest trial in the lifo of a Southern farmer boy is getting up sum mer mornings," remarked a gentleman as he sat wita a party of friends. "When I was a boy the volco of my father, call ing mo mornings, struck terror to the core of my heart. Just rho ut daylight, in that hazy time of day when yon cati gap into listless bliss and stretch into paradise, the cid gentleman woutd step to the foot of j bc stairs and call : "John, oh Juim." "Yo-e-s, sir." "Get up. Broad daylight. Get up and feed the horses while your mother s gettiu' a bite to eat. Hurry up. We must finish that corn bofore it rains. Are you coming?" No auswer. "John." "Ye-es, sir i" "Are you coming?" "Yes, sir." "Who could get up at such n time? Who could break a spell born of heaven? Anothert?reteb. Thc 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 j the goar upon my horse. In tying the Lam-string I lift the horse from the ground. He goes up in the air, aud catching hold of the ham-string I float with tho animal out of the door rind 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 righi up hero," and he hands "me my pants. I take hold of them. My eyes arc 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 be hasn't gone to sleep trying to put on his clothes ! "Finally, I put on thc pants and reach for tho jacket. 'Hurry up,' says tho old f;cntleman, turning from tho door to see low well tho work is progressing. I Bit on thc side of the bed and begin putting on my socks. The old gentleman bas gone down. I pull on one sock and lean1 my head against the bed-post. I IOBC all presence of mind. Again I dozo." "Whack, whack, whack." "I'm up. Uh, dog-gon it, I'm un. I won't do it any more. Oh, oo-ugh.'' "Como on, this minute, sir." "Everything is clear. I am wide awake. I hear the steaming tca-kettlo as I pass the kitchen door, and even whistle as I cut oats .for tho 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 ia Ohio; We loam from a correspondent that lhere resides in tho vicinity of Ii arri shu rp, in an out-of-the-way place in Hancock County, about three miles west of Mount Blanchard, a very remarkable childi only five years old, who seems to have tho power tc charm birds at will. Her mother first noticed tho strange fascination that the child possesses about a year ago. The little girl WSB playing in tho dooryard among a bevy or snow birds, and when sho spoke to them they would como and light upon her, twitter ing with gleo. On taking them in her hands Dud stroking thees, thc birds in stead of trying to get away from their fair captor, seemed to bo highly pleased, and. when let looso would flyaway a short distance and immediately return to tho child again. She took several of them into the hou?e 'o show her mother, who thinking sho might hurt them, put thom out of doors, but no sooner was thoH?oor opened than the birds Pow into tho room again, and lit upon the girl's head and began to chirp. Tho birds remained about tho premises all winter, flying to the littlo girl when ever the door was opened. The parents of the child became alarmed, believing that this strange power was an ?il ornoo, and that the much-dreaded visitor, death, was about to visit their house. But death did not como, and during last summer tho child has had numerous pets among the birds. 'The child handles the birds so gently that n humming bird,once in her hands, docs not fail to return. This winter a bevy of birds have kept her company, and she plays with them for boura at a time. Every morning tho bird? fly to ber window, and leave only when tho sun sinks in the west. Tho parent? of this girl are poor, puperatitious people, and havo been reticent about thp matter until lately, fearing that some great calamity was about to befall them.-Fbrest and fitrcam. ? /_ i ' | BUA UTI Finns.- Ladles, you cannot make fair skin, rosy cheeks and sparkling eyes with all tho cosmetics of France, or beautifiers of the world, while in poor health, and nothing will give you such good health, strength, . buoyaut spirits and beauty as Hop Bittern. A trial is certain proof. Seo another column. 7t?cgrapn. Tho Next vice-President. I have spent the morning with William H. English, tho Democratic candidate for Vice President, and he is no more like the William H. English of popular imagination than o cow Ts like au oyster. His picture gires him a prim, New Eng landisb, pedagogue look, with carefully trimmed beard, exact fitting clothes, and Ec nc rn I air of complacent sweetness, but is pictures are Uko tho "Pinafore" ad miral, "they mean well, but they don't know." Indiana is hot, very bot ; hot ter, in fact, thau haifa dozen New Yorks rolled into ono. Red-faced politicians rush frantically from place to pisco ; red hot Democrats plot and red-handed Re publicans bluster. It requires no vast intellect to discover that the politico of the State aro raging like Ibo fierce flames of a prairie fire, with indications of a greater intensity in the near future. Tiie surface suggests a great Republican vic tory in October, but, as the State Auditor, Mr. Fleming, quaintly puts it, "the Re publicans always carry Indiana down to the day of election, and then tho Demo crats out vote thom." Having seen and hcaid much of Wil liam H. English, his loans, foreclosures and general cussedness, in compliance with Herald orders I sought ana found him this morning. He .? Chairman of the State Democratic Committee, acting as Gen. Arthur docs for tho Republicans in New York. Tho headquarters are in the Bates House, not nice-dilapidated, bare and unattractive. On the walls bang samples of Boys in Blue uniforms, torches nud banners ; on the floors are nothing ; on tho tables aro bundles of political do ? .mienta, and on the chairs thc orators of the nation, waiting for ap pointments and tlie necessary funds for expenses. Mr. Fleming is the right bower of Mr. English in this matter. He steads and stoops about six feet high, ja an off-hand enthusiast of tho Gen. Barnum type-"not too enthusiastic, but just enthusiastic enough"-and quite confident that be and bis party aro- "all right up to tho present time." Having introduced the Herald to the magnetic magnates, Mr. Fleming kindly took me to tue private office of Mr. English nnd left me alone with tho Indianian. Tho great expectant was occupied for a mo ment, and thus a fioul cd me an opportu nity for observation. He stands in low cut, unbuttoned gaiters above five feet nine inches. His lier' would be bald but for on ingenious, though not an en tirely ingenious, combing cf his side hair, and is wei! shrr.cd for business. He has a shelving forehead,- a. clear gray eye, full dyed beard and red socks. He wears black broadcloth, coat nud trousers -the latter perhaps two iuches too short; a brownish vest, rio 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 ijwer running to tue top. We entered and looked. The ' doora are like a thousand in New York, ! as? bava no iron lining or protection in side or out. ODO window in the second story was then pointed out. "There.", said Mr. English, "you can Bee the barricaded window of which so many lies aro told. When I was Presi dent of the Bank, Col. New's room was entered by a burglar and shots were fired. He and ? exchanged opinions about it, und agreed that we ought to bo more .careful of our taroona, rest enterprising burglars should KC i zo 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 tho property of the bank, and that's tho whole egg from which Halstead'a tremendous lies are batched." I v.T.a greatly interested in what Mr. English \ snd the way he put it. He wore an old felt lint, walked carelessly along with one hand in a pocket and ! used the other as a pointer. Ho 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 bouse, a fine structure, to hold 2,000 people, with a beautiful broad, deep stage, absurd little- boxes and an ! entrance direct from tho utroet. It is to I bo opened later in the month by Mr. Barrett in ono of Shakespeare's plays. I Mr. English showed me through it and pointed out with commendable satisfac I tiou the namo of English worked in the parti-colored tiles upon the roof. His son, who is theatrically inclined, is *o havu tho management of tho theatre, which st Ands next door to bis dwelling, and, like it, is to be a part of a system atic frontage along the ontire block ? owned by Mr. English.-Indianapolis Letter to New York Herald. LOTO tbat Glorifies the Humblest Man. There is nothing in the world BO Bad ns human nature, and the tears come into my eyes now as I think of tho pitiful story Tom told me au ho smoked his af ter-supper pipo la-it night. The. other day, just before T carno; home Tom had occasion to go back over tho lake. On j his way back, nnd whon thc train stopped ; nt the bay, bc noticed a man getting into I ihn eur in front of him with a littlft baby in his arms. Tho baby seemed young, and the man bushed 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 ctrauuCun came to Tom and said: "Como with me ; I want to show yon the saddest, et range?t sight you ever saw in your life," and ho lcd tho way* into thc next car. "Do you seo that man over there?" said bo, and there, sat thc man whom Tom noticed with the baby. His precious little bundle lay quiet on the seat in front of him, and, as I these other two men watched, he leaned I over, looked long and earnestly -. In tho little flower fabe, and then kissed the frail finger tips bo held eo gently in his hand. "That baby's dead," said tho conductor. ! "It died this morning at the bay. He , tiuldn't bear to put it in a coffin, because then it would have to go without him in I the baggage car, and so he is just carrying I 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 tho car: the passengers laughed and smoked, ana fought mosquitoes ; and j bestricken to tbe heart's core,.sat there 3uiet and Unheeding, watching'over his cad baby, kissing the fingers that would never r-g.iln clash his, looking down upon the wTsite?ioV that bad closed over tho bright BB th? yet?is of a sensitive flower close at night-time over ita delicato heart-and tho world was nothing to him -N. O. Times. - Kansas is tho geographical centro of tho Unite??. Stetes, 208 mile? in width and 404 miles' in length, containing 52, 0!K)/)0G acres, or i ?larger than the whole of New England. - It is curious that some people tbinV a newspaper should entertain tho same political opinions ea themselves. They claim tho right lo think aa they please, but deny this right to tho other man. W?,y an Englishman Came South. Mr. Thomas Hughes, tho well known j English nu tin ir of ''Tom Brown, at Rug ? hy." and other favorite works, has estau , lishcd a colony of young Englishmen in ( Tennessee. He was entertained stCbat I tauooga a few days since and made quito I a lengthy speech, during which ho said : , "I can promise that you will find us a I law-abiding and loyal folk-proud of the i State of our adoption, proud of her ro ; cord in the past, jealous of her honor in j the coming time, resolved that so far as ? iu us lies that record and that honor ! shall remain untarnished. We hope, my ! friends, to bo on the very best terms with j all our neighbors. Wc arc conscious ; how much wo have to learn from you, ho rv almost entirely wo must rely for years on your teaching and your sym ! patby. I "And now, Mr. Chairman, lot me turn ! for a moment to our settlement nt Rugby. It wa? a matter of sincero pleasure to me j that after our inquiry in England, lasting ; over two years, we were able at last to j come to the conclusion that your beauti ful Cumberland mountains offered the ! very best site for our enterprise in nil ' these broad and magnificent States of your great country. ? had felt for years J that it was thc firs', duty of every man who speaks cur English language to do a.'l in his power to heal up thelireaches I which still, to some extent, are at nuy rate believed to divide tho great sections of your republic. The great city, your Northern neighbor, lo which I have al ready referred, has set us a noble ex nraplc. The splendid lino over which wo i have travelled to your city has been built by Cincinnati, and will do more than any other enterprise to bind theso States to gether in solid and lasting friendship. All honor to her for her courage and Catriotism I Wc, in our humble way, ave boped and hopo to follow in ber steps. 1 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 bo 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 fosbionablo retreat at Newport, and there met old frieuds, patriotic Americans of famous historical names, who shook their bends and drew a dark picture of the immedi ate future. In the event of tho success of the candidate favored by thc South iu thc cornily* Presidential cont00* (boy1 drew a darle picture of the probable ro vcrsal of all that has been done since tho 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 tho mountain folks as staunch friends of tho Union and Con stitution as it exists in its amended form at. thia day as any Northers Republican, and since my arrival herc, sir, that con fidence has been lurued into absolute certainty. I cannot tell you the pleasure with which I have heard the freo discus sion of tho events of your great struggle between men like Geueral Wilder, wno 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 vouH to-morrow join with him in draw ing sword and freely risking life and for tune again fer lbs maintenance and in tegrity of the Nation as it exists to-day. "I visited the National Cemetery, rc hero nearly 13,000 Union soldiers, a number equal to the present population of your city. lie. lu their neighborhood arc an equal number of Confederate sol diers, not in a noble Nntional Cemetery, but buried for the most part whore they fell. "Pause, for they tread on the Na tion' dust." That splendid passpge caroo into my mind, but it very imperfectly touches the deep pathos or the impor tance to mankind of thc 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 tho battles round Chattanooga were of as much, if not more, moment to tho world than again moro strongly than ever that all danger for your great country from civil war has passed. By tho inside of the inland rivers, Whence the fleets of war have fled, Where the whisp'ring grovo grass quivers, Asleep are thc ranks of the dead. Under the sod and the dew, Waiting thc judgment day, Under thu ?ne the blue, Under tho other the gray No moro shall the war cry sever, Or tho inland rivers rim red Wo have burled unger forever In the tombs of thc sacred dead. Under the sun and dew, Waiting thc judgment day, Love and tears for the blue, Teuro und love for tho groy. Yes, your groat orator's famous words aro surely lulfilied-"Union and free dom, now and forever, ono and indivi sible." King's Mountain Centennial Celebra tion. The following programme has been adopted by the King's Mountain Centen nial Association for tb A rydAhmiinn of the one huudredth anniversary of the battle of King'? Mountain, on the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th of October, 1880 : I1EUNI0N DAY-OCTOBEtt STU. Salvos of artillery, nnd 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 nnd Tennessee, in the order named. BATTLE DAY-OCTOBER OTU. Illustration of tho plan of the battle beginning at 12 o'clock m. The troops participating *.?:!'. repair to tho points designated, at 11.30 a. m. CENTENNIAL DAY-OCTOBfc : TT!!. . National salute, at stinrh.-. Review of all troops, at 10 r tn. Procession to Grand Stand, nt 11.30 n. m. Prayer, by Rev. William Martin. Singing of the Lyric. Written for tho occasion by Mrs. Clara Dargan McLean, of Yorkvillo, S. C. Reading of tho Ode. Written for tho occasion by Paul H. Hnyne, 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. MI UTAH Y DAY-OCTOBEB 8th. Prize drill, lxeinniug at 10 o'clock a. m. Award of Centennial Medal lo success ful Company. - It cost about $0,000,000 to sustain tho 489 churches and chapels in Now York city; and $60,000,000 lo sustain the 10,000 liquor shops. A Florida Typhoon. Florida summe? are passably cool. The thermometer rests between 80? and 90?, with occasional spurts to 100". At night tho beat is frequently intense. Without a close sand-fly bar there is no rest, and with one no ali. Grateful dews cool the air before daylight, but a coppery sun soon reappears, and up to 9 a. m. tho atmosphere is like that of a furnace. Then a refreshing trade wind sets in from the southeast, aud blows steadily unti1 sundown. This trade wind lasts three months, say fiam the middle of June to cbout the same timo in September. Without it, lifo on the eastern coast would be insupportable. 'Chere aro days in which the ?ir becomes mucky and sticky. A dead land bre zo corers the earth. Sands and marshes throw out a tremulous heat, blinding toihueyo; the loaves of tho oleanders nr.d fig trees shrink under the burning rays of the sun ; the sky seems roofed by a brazen dome, and gardens and groves fairly pant for breath. On the approach of autumn the Flori dians quake with apprehension. It is the dread season of hurricanes. Tearing through tho West Indies, they often strike tiie coast with deadly effect. With scarcely a note of warning, houses are overthrown, sailboats blown from tho water, and orange groves swept bare of leaves and fruit. Some of the old set tlers say that they can detect signs of tho storm a day before it breaks upon them. "You feel it in tho air long before it comes," says one. This is, however, an indefinite sign. The devastation lining its track certainly pro-csthat "you feel it in the air after it cowies." One of theso typhoons visits the coast every yeor. The day may be bright and beautiful, and tho flowers heavy with bees and bumming birds. Shimmering mosquito hawks eniver in tho air, and thc scarlet cardinal twitters in tho acacia:'. A cool ing breeze plays through the leaves of the trees aud gently swings tho unripe oranges. Clouds of gulls soar above the dark green mangrovo bashes, and the saud bars, at low tide, nre covered with pensive curlews and willett. Thc drowsey roar nf tho surf ?B heard, and the gent?o swell of tho ocean is rippled with golden sheen. Almost imperceptibly the wind dies awav. Cries of terns and water birds fall uno., tho ear with pinnful distinctness. Tho mud hens of tho marshes pipe an alarm. Not a blado of grass moves. Tho blue sky grows hazy, and tbs eastern horizon is milky white. Fitful trusts begin to ripple the water and handle tho green leaves. A low moan comes from tho ocean. Smoky clouds roll into the sky from thc southeast, and a strong wind whitens tho ruffled water. Every minute it merges in fury. An ominous yellow light tinges the atmosphere. The sun is gone, and great drops of rain are buried to the ground. Within fifteen minutes thero is a gale, and soon the full loree of the hurricane is felt. Great eagles and pelicans arc swept through the beaven? utterly powerless. Sparrows and other small birds aro lashed to death by leafless twigs, and the lorn 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 palmettoes bend their beads to the gre end, 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 pops likest pistolshot. Orange groves are ripped into shoe strings. The leaves of tbe scraggy scrub on tho beach are whipped into little brushes. Tho tough saw palmetto is biown as ! flat as a northern wheat field, and tho 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 dunes aro caught up bodily and sifted through the tops of pine trees miles away. The foam of the sea is blown beneath tho houses on the main land, and comes up bctweon the craoks of tim floor like Bteam. Woo to tho owners of sail boats and Iboat houses. At Lake Worth tho Crui ser, a heavy round-bottomed anil boat, thirty-two feet long, owned by Capt. Charles Moore, was picked up from her ways, rigging and all, and carried across tho lake, a mile away, without touching tho water. A boat owned by Dr. Wallace of Castle Windy was torn from her moor* I inga, lilied from the water, and dropped into n salt-water mash fringing Mosquito Lagoon, 800 yards from the castle. In the fal! of 187G the Ida Smith, a largo schooner running between New Smyrna and Jacksonville, was torn from her an chors and stranded on a marsh 500 yards from tho 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 tho wind under a full head bf steam. She draggedher anchor sereral bnudrcd yards, and barely escaped destruction. The hurricanes last from, seven to eight hours, even longer. During tho lull rain falls in.torrents. Tho tido rises to a great height, carrying away wharves and boathouses, aud flooding the country for miles. Tho ocean leaps tho sandy barriere of tho coast and floods tho In dian and other salt water rivers, invol ving great damage. After tho storm, centre-boards and jib-stays aro found in spruce pines, oleanders are loaded with cordage, and dead eyes and peak-blocks drop from leafless orange trees. Gardens ?r? r?p*tmyed. 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 tho great gale of Aug. 23,1871. All on board perished. Since then many vessels bavo been wrecked. ZISKA. Jerusalem. Jerusalem, according to British consular reports, is a growing town. The foreign Hebrew population has increased consid erably or 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 tho right of holding real property in Turkey, conceded to foreign subjects by the protocol of 1878. proba bly accounts for the iucreascd emigration. Tho German colony at Jerusalem now numbers nearly 400 persons; thatat Jaffa about 800. There is a third German settlement at Caiffa of about equal num ber with tho last mentioned. Thosettlcrs ase mechanics, artificers, carri?re and agriculturists, and aro fairly prospeoua. The cbicf industries remain what they were-tho manufacture of oii, soto, aud articles in olivo wood and mother-of pesrl ; the production of, the latter ?arti cles, bas greatly increased, aa tho salo is no longir confined to visitors and oil ?rims, largo quantities being exported to miope and America.' I -. The acreage for wheat in tho Unit I cd States aggregates W,uw,ow. Lucerne In Fairfield. By permits,on ol Mnjor Hammond and Col. Rion we givo our readers and ac count of the success with which lucerne can be raised io Fairfield. Col. Rion ; refers to Mr. W. B. McCreight aud Mr. Thomas Jordan for proof that thc 4,000 pounds mentioned ts much below tho correct figures. WiNKBBono', S. C.. Sent. 6, 1880. Major Henry Hammond U. &. ?Supervisor : DEAR MAJOR-I um In receipt of your letter of thc 4th inst., and proceed, ; SB requested, tu give you an account of ; my experience with LUCERNE IN FAIRFIELD, 8. C. . I have n lot containing one-half acre, ' which waa a part of an old worn-out j field. I planted in it corn for a few j yean*, when nut-grass became a great i 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 I ploughed with a two horse turning j ?dough, followed by a bull-tongue. The ? nubnoil is a stiff red clay. This red clay I lies near the surface and was turned up j so that tho lot looked Uko purely red j clay soil. It was then harrowed with a I revolving harrow. I then, on l.Otb Sep tember, planted clove It canto up well sud gave me two goo cuttings in 1874. In 1875 I got ouo poor cutting, the uutgrass having nearly choked thc clover out. On September 7 I bad tho lot ploughed with a turning plough, har rowed, nnd planted with ten pounds of lucerne seed broadcast. It came up thick, aud so did the weeds; so that in March, 187R, nothing was visible except the weeds. I had the lot cut close to the ground, and six barrels nf gas-litno (shell) spread upon tho surface. The lucerne growjup with ?urne weeds. After the next cutting tho weeds disap peared and have never been nblo to con tend with tho luceme siuco; and tho nut-gmss ?B visible only scatteringly, so that search ?B necessary to discover that lhere is any. Tho lucerno gavo four f;ood cuttings in 1876, tho summer fol owing the fall when planted. I keep three horses aud two cows. I compared my hay bill from March to October, both inclusivo of 1875. with the same expense for a life period of 1877, and I found it to bo $04 greater. But I used only "East River" liny which is costly. In 1878 I had ten cuttings, averaging over two and a half feet each, thu lu carno being very thick. Each of these tfii cuttings oil' the half-acre would ur<Mt?K over 4,000 pounds. In 1876 w? 'had a drought, and'tho lucerne was cut onlv bix times. This summer we have lind another drought, and lo this tim? I have bad only four cuttings. I fine cut about tho middle of March und stop early in Octo ber. I givo the whole a heavy top dress ing of stable manure, following each day's cutting with a dressing foi- the sur face cut until tho whole lot is manured. Tho lucerno remains green nil tho year; stand from B?X 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 haB induced somo leu or eleven citizens of this town to plant lu cerno lots, all successfully. As lucerne is not cotton, n J:.C of the plauters of this country have attempted to raise lucerne ; and this country imports largo quanti ties of bay and baled foddor each year. Very respectfully, JAMES H. RION. A Grasshopper. On thc top of tho Royal Exchange in London is a very curious weathervane, not like any other in England, or per haps in the world. It is a hugo grass hopper, and the following account shows how it carno to be pul up there: About threo hundred and fifty years ago a woman, with a little baby in ber arms, was trudging aloug a country lane. Presently, after looking to see that no one was watching her, she climbed over n gate into tho field, and, wrapping the hauy in its little Bhaw), she laid it down in the grass so gently as not to wake it, and then, never even looking behind hor, ?he climbed over tho gate again iuto tho lane, upon her journey. The brVy Hoon woko and began to cry ; and it v cu for a long, long time. And nt lost, tired and hungry, and h:t with the euu, for it was a uno summer's day, it was wearied out, nnd dropped off to sleep again. "But God had beard the voice of tho lad." By nnd by down thc I?'1 - carno a school-boy. He wns whistling away, as happy as ever bo could bo ; ho lind come out of school, and ho going home. He lived nt tho farm-house a little way further up the lane. Now bo gathered a few primroses, now he bad a shy at a bird ; but just as ho carno to the gate, over which tho woman had climbed, nc heard a grasshopper chirping away BO loudly that he sprang over tho gate to catch him-and there was tho baby fast as!"' 1 Far more pleased than if he had caught a hundred grasshoppers, thc boy took up the ljttlo fellow and ran home with his prize. The Lind farmer's wifo, although she had many children of ber own, at onco determined to keep the little orphan who had been saved from death by a grasshopper. Years passed away, and tho baby be came a strong boy; tho 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 mnn in the city. Queen Elizabeth was then on tho throne, aud often did she send for Sir Thomas Gresham-for the little deserted boy had become a knight-to consult him bil the great affairs of State. About threo hundred years ago Sir Thomas Gresham founded tho Exchange. Thc Queen came to dino with him, and laid the first stone. And there upon tho topmost pinnacle Sir Thomas placed a grasshopper ; and there it is to-day ; to tell tho busy, toiling city that Almighty God can hear the infant's cry, and can save a valuable life by oven such a little thing ns a gnuishcf-ner. - Tho mother of ex-Governor D. H. Chamberlain died last week at her home in West Brookfield, Mass. - If your loree 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 castilo Boap. - - Tho Chicago health bas had ita chemist analyze 18 samples of tea. "Foreign leaves," leaves, that Is. other than tea leaves, were found In all but two samples, six felt decidedly below tho aver age cmount of nitrogen which should be found in tea, and on which its strength depends, aud moro than one-half showed that a part of tho te* leaves had been used before.. No dclttcrious substances wcro found, however, and the analysis is altogether moro favorablo than tho resolta of a like inquiry mado somo years I ago by ibo London Lzr-cci. Fane/ Farming. lu n back number of the Scientific Fanner we Gild a very sensible article on whnt is now (juito generally termed "Fan cy Farming," which consists of soma neb mnn, not a farmer by practice set tling in n rural neighborhood and devot ing bi? energies to a culture of the soil. Thc writer bolds to tho idea Ihnt HUcb farmers are of great advantage. They buy a suberban or moro romoto farm, bring to it of their wealth, romodcl the old houseor build anew, tear down or improve (lie oid barns, and build from designs of a city architect who understand!! more of harmonics than uses, stock with improved breeds of cattle, tho latest style of im plements in endless variety, and the most expensive novelties from tho need stores, am) ?pend, perhaps without hope, cer tainly without prospect, of adequate re turns. Wherever fancy farms abound there may bc observed continuos im provement in their vicinity. They serve to chango the habits of tho lifo of tho far mer and his family. Tho old inconven ient methods of housekeeping give pince to a more convenient system, 'ino waters from tlic well in brought to the house instead of being fetched ina pail from ibo distant well or spring ; thc woodpile is pluced uiulcr a shed 01 into a compact pilo instead of being heaped in thc door yard ; tho surroundings to thc buildings aro "slicked up ;" flowers appear perhaps in the door yard ; tho cattlo aro belter fed, the fences better repaired, new cropa and new'markets are sought, and expen ditures arc increased as tho income grows larger and is derived from moro varied sources. All this comes from the in fluence of thc examples of the finely but expensively maintained farm, whereon neither expensa nor income is much considered, and which, judged from a business standpoint, must bo considered n fnilured ; judged from in fluences on others, is to bo looked upon as a public ;benefaction. There is too prevalent n feeling of jealousy towards tho fancy fara.er, and too Hullo nppro ciation of tile benefits which may be and are derived from his progress which ro sultB from unrest, abundance of means, and a strong enthusiasm towards a pur suit. This man can experiment, wbon the poorer cannot afford to depart from the beaten rut until better results from a departure become demonstrated. This class encouragea inventors and dealers ? by furnishing opportunities for tho trial of new things which promise well, and when, through costly failuro, an improve ment is secured, the working farmer can I secure the perfected article. This clasa import foreign cattlo and test their adap tation to our needs. They introduce new fruits and improved vegetables, which, if found deserving, Hoon lindi distribution throughout tho neighborhood. They extend a knowledge of tho arts of culture, und tend to distributo u practical knowl edge of hot bcd and forced crops ; nnd in addition tn these moruu?v?ou? beneSta, contribute largely, through taxation, to tlic public necessities, and relievo in this woy llie burdens on others. Marvels Performed by n Blind Mnn. Tbcro reccutly died nt Burlington, Conn., ono James Goodsell, who from his birth, duriug a life of nearly ninety years, bas been totally blind. In spito of lita misfortune, he would swing an axo with dexterity, and felled trees; he was an accomplished grain thresher, and would frequently go alone a distance of miles to thresh for tlic farmers, diming, tho mows to throw tho grain ; ho could boo corn or garden stuffs ns weil as anybody, having no trouble to distinguish tho weeds; ho would set 100 bean poles with more accu racy Ihan most peoplo who can seo; would load hay ; and was so good a me chanic that he manufactured yokes and other article J with success. Ho had au excellent memory, and was an authority on fact and dates. He could generally tell thc time of day or night within P. few minutes. One instance is given when he slept ono day and awoke at evening, thinking it was morning. For once ho ate supper for breakfast, but when in formed of his mistake, slept anothor twelve houri in order to get Btraight again. Ho 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 children where to go for horries. Ho waa a good mathematician, and could compute accurately and rapidly. In olden days ho was quite musically inclined, and, like most blind peoplo, ho had a genius in that direction. Ho was at one time leader of tho Presbyterian choir. To crown nil, he possesses one of tho hap piest dispositions, and was ever genial and cheerful. To this end II?B 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 young, strong and full of life, their young hearts were gushing with tenderness and care for tho little onos who stand in their places. Do not jostlo tbnt aged couple out of your path way, but rather lift them with tender caro over tho rough declining road. You mny have forgotten how they kent your tiney feet from stumbling ar?!1 with what care they watched your at* va .seing steps. But they havo not forgotten, and the limo will come when you are forcibly reminded of it by tho lovo you have for your little ones. Will they band you tho same bitter cup to drink that you put out for that aged father und ?u?th?r. /cr;!;, "with the measure yo mete, it shall bo measured to you again." Think of tho tho anxious days and nights your mother bas watched by your sick bed ; remember ber 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 aro such a trial 1 Yes they know and feel it! and so will be such a trial to your children in the days that will surely come ; aye, and you will remcmbor, too. - Tho increase in the growth of cot ton has been remarkable. In 1867, we marketed two million bales; in 1870, tbreo millions; in 1874. four millions: in 1879, five millions. Thc crop marketed for tho year ending August 81, 1880, is 5,760,161 bales, and it is considered that the crop now being picked will exceed ' six millions. In tho fifteen years since the war we havo increased the crop threefold. And thus it is that the South is rising from the ashes of desolation, and is making euch rapid strides to power and opulence. Prior to the war, tho crop haver reached four million bales except dr ring the year 1860, when it ran up tc ? 'j69,770 bales. - Do not allow worms to cheat your children out of their living. Shrinor's Indian Vermifuge will destroy these mis erable pests, and giro tho little follows new armor* for the battle of life. . - In general cultivation an arco can bo made to yied three hundred bushels of potatoes. Lesa that two bundrod bushels would not bo a profitable ctnp in many localities. -. J.is~rm JL. /W . . (J euer ni Mews Summary. - Frost iios appeared in Arkansas. - Georgia hnsolG licensed distilerles. : -Southern Texas h&3 no cotton norms - English sparrows have been intro j duccd at West Pointed, Miss. - Boston celebrated her two hundred and fiftieth anniversary lost week. - The President has accepted an in j vitation to visit Washington Territory. j - Tho salo of cattle this year in , Texas, it is estimated, will reach 7,000, 1 OOO head. I - Memphis ls tho only city in tho : United States that has a less population j than 1860. - Tho late election gives tho Vor ! mont Legislatura 137 Republicans and i 14 Democrats. I - President Hayes has been mndo j Vice-President of the American Bible society. - The gallant Confederate Geueral, : Bunhrod Johnson, died at his home in Missouri, last week. - Tho Florida orango crop is reported ruined by tho roceut great storm ; loss ! said to bc $1.000,000. - The railroad commissioners of Ken tucky will recommend the red u eli o of fares to threo cents a mile. - Victoria's stronghold in Mexico has been discovered, and thc reward for his scalp has been increased lo $3,000. - A Boston pastor, who. did not tnko n vacation, married twenty couples in the two months others were nbscnt. - John Keene, of Rockland, Mo., has a horse which likes tobacco so well that ho begs a chev whenever his master takes ono. - Tho Texas and Pacific Railroad Company have inaugurated n scheme to induco ten thousand Germans to immi grate to Texas. - Skowhegsn, Mo., boasts two apple trees, ono planted about 1762 and tho other 48 yenni later, which are still bear ing their yearly burden of rnsscts. - Fourteen thousand seven hundred persons arc now employed on tho Penn sylvania railroad, and tho New York Central railroad has 12,000 employees. - A Bilk mill is being erected nt Haw ley,.^., which will have a ground floor of over an ncre, bo several Btories in height, and givo employment to 1,000 hands. - Tho members of the Chines? Em bassy have been so grossly insulted by the rabble in Now York city that they have determined to go homo as soon as possible. - Clayton Ililluman, tho eleven-year i otu cuiuic? uuv nim biiiLii?iv k?l?ini HU infant son of Cf. G. Hillsman, at Cullo den, Ga., lins been sentenced to bo hang ed on 29th of October. - Tho population of West Virginia is announced by the census supervisors of tho State nt 618,914. The population ten years ago was 442,014 ; so thcro- has been an increase of forty per cont. - Tho ejFiepses nf tho late Triennial Conclave oi'Kngihts Templar, nt Chica go, wcro $95,000, and tho receipts $87, 000. The deficiency will be mado good by tho three local commanderies. - Henry Mockahoe, a guard over convicts at work on the Bip Sandy rail I road, near Mount Sterling, Ky., was at I tacked with axes by two convicts and i literally cut to pieces. The convicts made their escape. - Five men wore killed last Friday, at tbs factory of the Union Metalic Car trido Company, at Bridgeport, Conn., by Ibo explosion of six pounds fulminate, used for making tho large1 caps for exploding dynamite. - Twenty thousand first-class passen gers were carried from America to Eu rope, this Bummer up to July 14-au in creaso of 4,000 over last year. Assutn v that each of them expended $600, a low estimate, they left abroad $10,000,000. - Mrs. Oliver Jolly nnd her threo children, nged ono, six and ten yeara, respectively, were drowned recently by tho upsetting of a small boat on tho St. Lawrence. Two men nnd a woman saved thomselves by clinging to the boat. - Asheville (N. C.) Citizen says : "The tobacco crop throughout this sec-' tion, which ?B now being cut in many place*. ~sil provo generally a splendid one. Tho ires of land planted in tobac co is proonbly double that of any former season. - Robert E. Galbrish, editor of thu . San Francisco Wcelly Argus, was pum melled on the Btrce?t by J. C. Flood, Jr., for publishing an article in his paper relative to tho rupture of tho engagemenv. between Ml? Jessie Flood and J. 3. Grant, Jr. - The Jewish population of the world at tho present time is a matter of much discussion and great uncertainty. Tho Jewish calender of Grand Rabbi Servi for tho present year puts tho number at 6,210,000. Others estimate it as low as 4,000,000. - A duel between a Ute Indian and a. Navajo, took pince laut Thursday, near Santa Fe, N. M. A few friends of tho Indians were nresenL The Uto was killed and tho Kavajo seriously injured. ?Knives were used, and tho duel ras I caused by boih Indians wanting to j marry the samo girl. - A peculiarly brutal ?rd cold-blood ed murder occurred at Hartford, Conn., last week. Henry Kinghorn, a black smith 45 years of ago, drunk, and exas perated because bis wife wouldn't pay n $400 mnrhrage on his shop and deed it to bim, coolTy"ahot her through tho head as she sat at her sewing machine. - A prominent Baptist divine in Magoffin Co. Ky., discourses arainst sup porting missionaries, because, a? ho says, ?.be Bible give: a^uraness that ^benovo? the gospel is preached unto all pcop?o the ena will nava reached, and God forbid that ho should contribute ono cent toward hastening that portentous period. - At tho annual reunion of tho old settlers of Texas at Denton, tho proces sion WAS headed by George Morris who located in Texas fifty-six years ago, and has lived in the State under tho crown of Spain, republic of Mexico, dic tatorship of Santa Anna, republic of Texas, United Slates. Confederate States and again tho United States. - A ruralist came into Tallahassee, Fla., and finding a news-stand ordered a lot of papers, wiiich bo took from tho clerk with profuso thanks. He was as tonished, though, when tho clerk asked payment, as ho "never heard of charging for nowspapera before." Ho had been reading his neighbors' papers for nothing, and never knew they cost money. ? - Tho following changes in tho Mis sissippi Codo go into effect in November, 1881 : "Every woman now married, or hereafter to bo married, shall havo th? same capacity to acrrairo, hold, manage, control, ?we, enjoy and dispose of all property, real and personal, in possession or expecumee, and to moko any co?Ua?t in reference le it, and tp bind hemlf personally, and to suo, and te sued, with all tho rights and liabilities incident U-.sroto, as if she was not marled. Husband and wlfo may suo each other. A raarrriod woman may dMpcee of her estate, real sod personal, by last will and testament, in tho samo manner aa if sho waa not marrricd. Dower and court?! aa heretofore known, are abolished.