The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, September 08, 1881, Image 1

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HY E. 15- MUMU Y & CO. ?I I? tr. pun.ns;p,i'll v ANDERSON, 8. C. THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 8, 1881. VOLUME XVII.-NO. i) ti li ow* from thc P?'ii or Arp. ? \ wu week?drouin ?snot calculated to Bini nco '??oil hilarity io ii farmer's fain B iievcrtbclcst! we liaven't put on HnuniinK at '">' "ouse? I'10 bottom Bru is pretty good. Thc barn is. ful i of Bv that was cut and cured in tho early Bumior. About ton thousand bundles of Bidet will soon be added to the stock of Bili: forage. Tberc is a good lot of oats B't'ie ^hoaf, and wheat straw in the1 Bck and so reckon wo will pull through ! Bl ri "'ld. We never planted any cotton, I Bd aro that much heder off than our Bhors. They talked about making a Blfor?p n few weeks ago, hut now they Bve got down a quarter, and their up ?}<1 corn is burnt up. Already there Be lots of second class mules and horses Bekii'g purchasers, for thc farmers can't Kiter 'em ?md nobody wants to buy, Bd thev will go for a song. 1 tell you Bs a real collapse, and the people had Btt'er begin to set their house in order Br hard times. From Richmond to San 3ntoni'>, from thc Ohio river to tho Sjlf ?t's generally bad failure of crops Etli tho exceptions, hi wau ii specula Br and could lind a partner who would B[rti<>!i thc iiitjtiey nnd take all thc risk Bwould buy cotton fi.lures right now, Bd give him hall'the prouts, for ti e crop Bon't reach five million hales this year Brtain. Corn will bc $1.50 a bushel* be Bre January. Every fanner ought to Bw s "inc ry?'or barley right away, ari Broanvhow for early spring forage. .Sow Bcnty'of oats for hiter supply. Flow Bpl'i "tannre richly and use the har Bw.' Sow some grass orclover seed with Bc oats. Let the farmers in upper Geor Ba compost all their cotton seed HO they Bout have any to plant, and maybe iu ?<> years wc will gain all that wc have Hst by the drought. When I feel hint ut heme I hunt up K( children and gu to frolicking with Bm. There are children and grandcbil Sen all mixed up together, and they Bc up to all sorts of snort and mischief, Rd keep Mrs. Arp in astute of maternal ffixictv, but they love us and wc love Beui. * They keep us amused aud per ?eyed, for we wonder what they will do Rxt for devilment. Titree of'em were Kling the old mare without a bridle and ?lddcnly she took a notion lo walk into Bibil'and then into her stall. The top ftlhe door just raked 'em all off in a pile id from their screams I was shore thev ere killed but the fertile soil they (eil a was soft and no bones were broken, hey caught the Tom eat ?iud one of 'em lok him by the forelegs and another by ie hind legs, and was trying to pull him i two, and such a squalling I never heard lieu suddenly the hand holt give way nd old Tom took his revenge by scratcb ]c other boy into a squall of a diff?rent ind. I made'eui a lillie dam across the randi under the willows for 'em to athe in and they wanted to stay in nil ay, but Mrs Arp cut down their time > half an hour in the shank of thc even* Bog. The other morning I missed 'em, Kid so in perusing around I hoard 'em ak the bathing hole and saw their clothes ? little way oil'on the grass. I managed Bp slip up and steal 'em curried 'em to Hrs. Arp with as much solemnity as Boscph's bretheren carried his bloody H>at to their father. "Mercy on me, ?hat .-hall I do with those children," she Kclaimed. "They will catch tbeir death ft that branch. William you must get r$e three switches and then go out and Mill them. I will not stand it." So I nit half n dozen sizable ones from a peach Hec and brought 'em to her when she nive me one ol her curious looks and re Harked : "Did you expect me to beat thc ?Boor little things to death? I diden't Saut but one," and she broke off about a Rot and a half of the little end and throwed Bie others away. I called 'em awhile Sad it was pitiful to seethe little chaps rauntiug around for their clothes and ?nally coming like a funeral procession Bo the house. They hid behind the cabin ?ml were taking on powerful when Mrs {. met 'em with their clothes in one ham md thc swtich in the other. They begget nd promised and cried. Narry lick wa: truck that I heard of and in len minute: bey all had biscutandxyriip on the door tcp and peace and harmony prevailed iVhat is home without a mother. The other morning my big boy wen lown to get some water melons and tin irater melons were gone. Just over it he corn field close by was the sigu ol vhere the everlasting rascals lind cu ?pen and gutted about a dozen of tin inest ones in the patch. It's a sorter o i sickly feeling that conies over a mai fhen he goes out to look at his melool md they not there. If thc rascals take om iud leave two it's not so bad, but whet hey take all the best ones and cut 'em uj md waste more than they eat, the aggra ration is of a very lively character There is no religion that I knov >f that will enable a mau under snob iircuuistancea to go bnck home serene br thc next fifteen or twenty minutes shot guns will cunio into his mind ii ?pile of all he can do. When a nabo lolls me about the rogues Btealin hi melons I can give him Christian advic. ibout patience and forgiveness and sane [ification and all that, but when thc itcal minc its a very different thing Says I to my boy, "them are nigger track ind they will colite again." So tba hight we agreed to kill a nigger whethe ne come or not. There were tw< darkies on thc place and we loaded tb guns and tied up the ?log and my boy lob the darkies he wanted'em to still linn with bim and lie in the corner of th fonce and watch. I fixed up a botil of Spanish brown and just beforo nigh ?'?lipped down in thc field and BprinkTei it along for a hundred yards to the creel bank knocked down a few corn stalks am conic back. I was to get over the fenn jato tim melon patch that ni"'.!!, and tb darkies was to see me and give the nlnni and my boy was to shoot over me and was to run round d e fence to tho hous and my boy and thc darkies was to rm ?her mc to thc creek and the next morn mg they was to find the blooi ftnd it was to be nornted that w had killed a nigger and he wa drowned in tho creek besides. Well i worked very nice. Tho darkies saw m and thought I was a shore enough tb ie and my boy ?hol nt me and I bolleret Ch Lordy" and fell over thc fenc and run and hore they all come n teurin My boy led the race towards the cree; out one of the darkies saw me a slippin along another way ?KKI nbout that tim thc dog got loose and here be come Darkin and a yelpin and got on my trac and tho darkey followed him and 1 HIIOO Juc load out of my hecla and spilt f?i 'orne. I haven't had such a run ni thii \y years. I beat tho darkey badly bu the dog caught me by tho breeches leg s t tell on the steps and come mighty nen getting somo blood that wasn't apanis f rown. .Mrs. Arp and tho children hear ute fuss and such a screamin and hollci ?nail mixed up with thc fool dog n bark ln was "ever heard before at mv btu? ? } look "everal minutes to iiuiet the fan j'y and explain, but as good luck wool Java it tho darkey turned back to tl i reek for my boy keptacnllin of bim an uciore they got home again the oxcitcmei vsas aU over and thc darkies had a bi "'"? ?mu us how they run one nigger nip the creek and another to parts un knotvu. Next day the blood was treked and ever sim o ?ts been ali tbat we can do to keep the coroner from coining out aud dragging the creek for a dead nigger No more melons 1.'ve beeu stolen s?nee' but tilc nest time Re trV that remedv ! bink I will do the shooting and let some body else do the runnim:, for i haven't got over it yet and thc catch in mv back is more than my rheumatism. Whr-u -Mis. .Vrpseesme a limping around she says: "\\ iMiam, I'm afraid voe are losing your senses. Will you never realize that yen are growing old and can't do like you used to when yo., aero young?? Then I H?IM at HWeet aild plaintive song W hen you mid I were voung, Maggie " and smooth her raven hair with n routr'h but loving hand. Woftol Tale of a Lovely Woman. Kathiuka de I?., born on thc 7th of September, 1859, waa the only daughter ol Count Macbael de T., a great land owner in the vicinity of Warsaw. In thc bosom ot a loving family she spent tho brat twelve years of her life, which prom ised to end as happily as it begun. In October, 1871, little Kutbiuku was sent to a boarding school iu the vicinity ol Stuttgart, and she afterward completed her education at Lyons, in France, -md at the University of Yu rich. In thc .Summer of 1S7S the young Countess re turned to her father's castle fully devel oped in mind ?ind body, an ornament tc her sex, and the pride of her family The next Autumn she gave her hand u her lover. Victor de F. Victor, wai lully equal to his bride ia meutal ant material advantages, and the felicity o the young couple appeared to be securei against all attucks from without. Hu how strange was their destiny : The old Count de P. and his wile liai been involved in political controversies i which ended by both ol' them being bau I ished to Siberia. Victor de F., who hat played a role in the unfortunate move ment, lied in time to the United State? ' and succeeded in Unding a situation ii ? Baltimore, which gave hut wretched sup port to himself and his wife. At tb cud of May he set out to hud auothc situation, ami on the Gib ot July, prc vided with very slight means, ll; -y slarl ed for the far West. The journey wa fortunate unlil they took llie railroad bc tween Chicago and Dubuque. In th cars of the Illinois Central Railroad tb unlucky man was struck with apoplex and died at once. Deprived of all mean of help, tho inferable wife, with ht child six months old arrived in Di buque, where, with th . . id of ebaritabl persons, she waa able u, -ive her belove husband a proper burial. From Dubuque she desired lo go to S Louis, but her money ouly suliiced I take her as far us Davenport, and froi there she was helped on to Muscatiu Hero our acquaintance with the unluck lady began. On July 26 Madam t F., au elegantly dressed lady of gre; beauty, came into our office atid explaii ed to us her situation. Tears Howe abundantly, and the deepest grief w printed upon every feature ol' her cou tcnance. Without reserve she related us the history of h.r life. Wesuceeedi in getting her a ticket to Burliugto Before her departure she handed us se eral family papers, a gold ring set wi diamonds, her wedding ring, and a lett to her parents. She ids) made the i quest that, afier the receipt (d' more pi ticular directions, '.hese articles should sent to the address she had given us. was on Friday last that we received t j following lines : , NEAR KEOKI.'K, August 0, ISSI. RESPECTED SIR-When you reeei these Hues your protegee and her ?ut cent child will no longer be among t living. They have sought aud lou eternal repose. I beg you earnestly fulfill my last request in recard to I articles confided to you. Think kim of au unfortunate one, whose last ye of life were a long series of disappoi incuts and privations. Farewell, : ! happiness, farewell ! KA I MINKA DE I1 On receipt of these lines we sought information whether the imfortiiii lady had actually committed the ri deed of suicide and child murder, ? we received from Hannibal, Mo., the swer that on Friday last the corpse c woman whose dress and appearance swered our description had been brou ashore. Of the body of the child nt ing has yet been discovered. The rions articles confided to us were sent thc same day to Russia by .Morris' ropean Express, accompanied by n le and certificate of death. Educated in splendor and riches, I daughter of one of the most aristocr families of Europe ended her life in waters of the Mississippi.-Afutra Zeiluwj. ! A MOONSHINER HERO.-On Th ? day last the famous Lewis R. liedme ? the moonshiner outlaw, stood up in United States Court at Grecuvilie, s>. lo plead guilty lo ten indictments j illicit distilling, conspiracy, etc. prisoner wore a smiling ?ace, was dressed, and had a dashing air that i tivated everybody. . Cen. dallington made a touching I speech, in which he asked for mercy the unfortunate prisoner. f ?c g Judge was visibly allecled.aud intim that while it would be his duty to .sentence upon the defendant, still lt probable that the President would g a pardon. . It is natural that romance and nra should encircle such a niau. Hil ploit-s will doubtless furnish malena a .laze.i dime novels, and the boys 0 land will read his adventures with s dering horror, |?fg?byiuixcd with iicsiie io follow in mc ru ",{..'?,, buys should be missing shortly, Mm taken for granted that they.arc?lud? the mountains, armed with toy pi and a small supply of crackers am liena sausage, looking about foran, hie opportunity of cleaning out a of revenue oflicers. A new crop of monds may be looked for.-1//.?,'" Appeal. __ EvOovernor Bishop, of Ohio, ?a now in New York, aays that hen Mcnt that Mr. ^"?J"' eratic dandidate tor Governor elected by a handsome majority on issues. - Corn silk is said to bo an efl ami powerful remedy for dropsy, b troubles and diseases of the ku but a gallon remains. Adel Mig increasing the flow of Ult " " lucriaanih ni lier diseases of the enormously. Other uisea. der and kidneys are bene I el o remedy, which is WFtj&g crat'fu to the stomach. ? " S" bo continued for months w danger or inconvenience NEGRO WOMEN NEVER KISS. ?MHIIO Manner* ul Whites tint Imitaten l?y Hincks. A gentleman ?aid to u Pott reporter thia morning: ''You newspaper men are supposed lo know everything ; t^ll mc I why it is negro women never kiss each i oilier ?" The reporter had long noticed this peculiarity on the part ol' neg.o women and naturally turned to au amusing rc? i collection ol' having heard the question argued in a schoolboy's debating society. ; i The conclusion arrived at them was, that "the women have something better to 1 j kiss,'' and this answer hr- never been j forced to give place lo a more satisfactory j one. j "1 have at times given much consid- . oration to this question," said the repor- : ter, "'and have frequently thought of propounding it to the many read--s of the J'utf. Y<m will also tiiid that tho j ; negro women seldom shake hands willi i each other." "Yes ; I have noticed that peculiarity ' with them, too, but havj never been able ( to arrive at a satisfae.ory explanation, j It is said that the negroes imitate tue whites, and relating to most thiugs the assertion is true, bul iii 'ins one purlieu- j lar the negro woai Mi cannot be chnrged ' with adopting tue manners and customs i of tl > whiles. Two white ladies who | are friends, meet, rush into each others i arms and kiss, each declares she never saw thc other look better, and mutual praises and admiration are exchanged, j Two negro women meet, no matter how i warm and endearing the friendship be tween them, maintain a respectable dis- I tance, inquire alter each others health, aud enter at once upon the subject upon which they desire to converse. 1 have lived in the Smith all my life, and I have never heard a negro woman, lace to face, com pliment another. There is less of what you may call social deception among the 1 negroes than any other class ol people ; their dislikes are strong, and can not be hid under an assumed politeness.'' ? "You can hardly employ ivs strong lan guage in regard to the negro man?" I "No, the negro man h moro of an or thodox handshaker than the white. I Why, he sticks his handout to everybody j he meets, and is very profuse in the use I of taffy. Your negro mau is purely an imitator ; the negro woman is not. In the matter of dress it may bo said that all women are imitators, but beyond this, the charge can not bc made airuinst negro women. They have habits that are pe culiarly their own. Among tho more refined you never hear them nddress each other without the prefix 'Miss,' while among the lower class it is always 'La dy.' " "Admitting, as we must, that the ne groes are more or less imitators, how are we to explain the fact that they never kiss-for I do not believe that anybody 'ever saw two negroes kiss. I have at tended u number of negro weddings, and I never yet saw the bride kissed, while, on the other hand, a wedding among the whites, with RH attendant re ! '.option without kisses, would be some thing so strange ns io cail forth general ! comment. I ha vi. n\%o heard that Indians ! never kiss. Are we to suppose, then, that kissing is confined to the white race? 1 have always considered kissing as an lestbetic pleasure, to be thoroughly en joyed only by those of a delicate and re lined temperament. You will also lind that among the lower classes of white women kissing is a rarity." "That will hold to a certain extent. I Why I have seen women kiss over the I washtub. I must admit that it makes me ! feel uncomfortable to see two rea! pretty girls kiss-what a willful wasting of good things of life ! lt is a kind of cruelty to animals that hurt both ways ; it is tortu ring to a man of delicate and highstruug i nerves, while a spirited girl must stifler the torments of Tantalus to have her lips so often deceived by the insipid act of female kissing. The negro woman shows much wisdom in not torturing herself in that way. Eor twenty odd years I have lived in the South, have had negroes in my house ever since I was a child, during my whole life I have been intermingled with them, and never but once have I seen one negro girl kiss another." "Then you have seen an exception to what you claim is a rule?" "Yes; but then it was done in such an ignorant, bungling manner as to be real ly laughable." "How so?" "1 will tell you that, and, if ever you have au occasion to dissertate on thc art of kissing, you may find a place to lit in. One of them was a very bright mulatto, and stood inside thc gate; thc other was a dark skinned girl, apparently a visitor just leaving, aud stood on the outside of the gate. AH I approached they were talking, when all nf a sudden the light colored girl threw her arms around the j neck of the blacker one, with the fero ciousness of an angered politician, bumped their heads together, said '(mod bv,' and ran into thc house. She prcba.' j bl y called it a kiss, and I have let it go as j an exception to the rule, but in truth, it ! was more plainly an assault ; they were entirely ignorant of the art of kissing, and did not know how to give or receive the blissful boon. This, however, was hardly a fair case as one of the girls was nearer w hite than black. In all my life I have often heard my father remark the same thing. He was over sixty years old and frequently told us it was a tradition through all his family the negro women never kiss. A friend of mine, who has been n great traveler, has visited Africa and Hayti, has remarked to me the Btrange fact thnt nrero women never kiss. Why is it? Open a column in tho Pott for communications on thc subject, and I will guarantee that you will get sufficient material to make an interesting volume." That which is expressed in the conver sation above is in the main correct. While it may be truly charged that ne groes are imitators, it must bc said to their credit that they imitate the vir tues rather than thc .'ollies of the white?. In social relation there is less deception among the blacks. They are too full of nature to pretend to what they do not feel. Scandals, divorces, and other iniqui ties that flow on from deception aro of seldom occurrence among them, 'lhe i subjeei of negro women not kissing has often Lean discussed right here in Ken I tucky, where the customs and thc habits of th? negroes should be known and ur derstood, and old men who have been sur rounded hy negroes all their lives declare ? that they never heard of negro women kissing. It may be said that kissing is ; tho offspring of love and the finer sensi '? bilities of" nature, and that the. negro iacks the refinement for such delicate expressions of sentiment. Whatever the cause, the fad stands that negro women never kiss.-I.onmiUr (h'y.) Pott. _The will of thc widow of the late 1 ex-l'rcRidcn* Eillmorc makes public be I quest? to thc amount ot" nearly $55,000* - Hitting Hull ?san untamable savage. I lc exhibits a strong distaste for thc re finements of civilization. Away from ? his wiid haunts ho feels like a Sitting I Bull in a china shop. "OLD HICKORY'S N.OSK." Lieutenant Itumlul jilt',. Attack IU Presi dent .(ackson. A Washington letter gives Ute follow ing Recount of nu affair which created a great stir H. the nine it occurred, Lieuten ant Randolph'* attack on President Jack son in 183!J : Lieutenant Robert ll. Randolph, of the navy, on board the frigate Constitution, was appointed by captain Patterson, in in the year 1828, to assume the duties, of neting nurser, in the pince of John R. Ti tn be Hake, the purser, who, in a fit of drunken delirium, had committed suicide. Timberlake was thc first husband of tho future Mrs. General .lohn ll. Huton, uer, Peggy O'Neal, who enjoys the dubious honor of having caused thc dissolution of (.'.encrai Jackson's first Cabinet. Ran dolph took charge of the olliee of duties ' f pur-er, and, in his statement of tho case he complains that the survey and inven tory required by thc regulations or tho law were not made, and that he was held accountable for un amount of stores which were not on band. After sotw years he wits lound to be a defaulter, on what he insisted was nu assumed stato of I lads, when be took charge of thc purser ship. A court ol'inquiry was appointed to investigate his accounts. The report exonerated him from un intentional mis use of the public property, but not from the default. They reported him to be careless or neglectful, though not dishon orable. ( Itherwise he was an efiicient officer, who had rendered thc country valuable service. On this report Gener Jackson dismissed bini from the service, in spite of the strenuous efforts of influen tial friends in his behalf, lt waa to avenge himself for bis injustice, as he regarded it, that be made the violent assault upon thc President. The friends of General Jackson were never williug to admit tho fact but his opponents iusisted that Ran dolph pulled the old hero's nose. That seems to have been the purpose of tho ruffian, ut any rate ; and the blood upon the general's face would seem to prove that the attempt was successful. The opportunity for this outrage waa furnished by a trip of the President, a portion of his Cabinet, his private secre tary, and other friends, down tho Poto mac to Fredericksburg in Virginia, to wit ness the ceremony of laying the corner stone of the monument to the memory of the mother of Washington. The boat stopped at Alexandria fora few moments, and while there are a number of persons came on board, and among them Mr. Randolph, the lalo lieutenant in '.he navy who had recently been dismissed from thc service. He cutered the cabin where the President was seated aud engaged in reading a newspaper. Ho advanced to ward the President as if to address him, and seemed to be in thc act of drawing his glove. "The President," says thc account in thc Glube, "not knowing bim, and sup posing, it was some person about to salute him, and seeing him at some difficulty in getting uti'bis glove, stretched out his hand toward bira saying, 'Never tniud your glove, sir.' Randolph having then disengaged himself from his gloves, thrust one hand violently into the Presi dent's fnce, und before he could make use of thc other received a blow from a gen tleman standing near by him with an umbrella. Almost at the same time two other gentlemen in Ute cabin sprang upon him and he was dragged back and thrown dowu. "The moment he was assaulted the President seized his cane which was lying near him on the table, and WM forcing his way through the gentlemen who baa crowded round Randolph, insisting that ! no man should stand between him aud thc villain who had insulted him ; that lie would chastise him himself. Ran dolph by this time had been borne to ward the door ol' the cabin, and pushed through it to the deck He made his way through the crowd on deck anti the wharf, being assisted, as is believed, by some millan confederates, and made his escape. Mo stopped for a few moments at a tavern in Alexandria, and passed on beyond thc district line. Thc grand jury, then in session, in a few minutes found a presentment against him, and the court issued a bench warrant. A magistrate had just previously issued a warrant, but before the officers could arrest him he was gone." An eye witness, writing to thc Rich mond Enquirer, gives sonic additional particulars, as follows: "When tho i President said, 'Never mind your glove j sir,' Randolph said in a low tone thal he j came to, 'take his revenge by pulling his nose,' suiting tho action to the word. The President exclaimed in astonishment 'What, sir! What, sir!' Randolp on the instant was struck by Mr. Potter with an umbrella a vety severe blow, which knocked him against thc berth. Captain Rrown seized him and dragged him with violence from the President, and Major Donalson rushed toward the table in his anxiety to protect the President. It was thc work of an instant. The President ?.\ .'aimed, seizing his stick, 'Let no man interfere between me and this personal as sault ; 1 am an old man, but perfectly capable of defending myself against, and punishing a dozen cowardly assassins.' It is said that a person named Thomas ap proached the President, and, tendering his hand, observed that if he would promise to pardon him he would murder thc dastard. Thc President put by his hand, saying: 'No, sir; I do not wish the majesty of the laws in tilted for mc. lam capable of defending myself against insult.' " OSE OTHER FACT.-"Are you ac quainted with this lady?" asked a Little Rock lawyer of a witness in Court. I "Yes, I used to know her pretty wei!, but Pvc lost track of her for several years." "Were you intimately acquainted with her?" "Can't say that I was so powerful in timate. 'Rout as inti unite ?is two people out to be." "You visited her ?it one time, didn't you'."' and the lawyer, who in o sly way w:?s trying to impeach the character of tho woman, looked at tho jury and wink ed. "Well, she used to come, to my house ! occasionally." "Will you allow to ask," ?ind he I looked at the jury, "whether or not this I woman visited you in the day time or at night?" "Sometimesshe would come in theday j time and slay all night." "Would there be any one else in tho j house?" "Not usually." "That settles it. Gentlemen, you ob serve that this woman-" "Hold on u minute,'' said the witness, "there's one other fact that you should know bofore you are too hard n thc wo man." "What is that, sir ?" "Nothing much ; only she used to bo I my wife." - A workman was packing 70,000 cartridge shells in a box at a Vermont town, when they exploded, sonic .r>,000 of them entering his person to a depth of I half an inch. Yet bc lived for several . hours. Charleston in 1881. The irado of Charleston, during llie commercial year which closed yesterday, was satisfactory in most respects, and in other rc-pjicctH was decidedly encouraging. As a market for tho chief staples, Charleston has nover stood higher. The receipts of cotton tor the year wero*G28, IS? hales, which ls more than was re ceived in any previous year, and is 1G0, 590 hales more than in 1870 SO. The receipts of Sea Island cotton wer. about 17,'217 bales. Rice was depressed in con sequence of the increased growth, in Louisiana in particular, and tho decline in prices would have been serious had the factors been less judicious in supplying th'* market. Tho receipts were .r,;i,871 ti ''es, against 55,000 tierces '.bc year bel..re. In naval stores there was a fair business. Tho receipts were .r>l ,000 casks of spirits of turpentine, against 00,000 last year, and 231,417 barrels of rosin against 200,000 iu tho year previous. In phosphate rock and commercial fer tilizers a vast business was done. The receipts of crude phosphato amounted to 110,000 tons, ami of commercial fertil izers to 100,000 tons. This trade, already so important, is only in its infancy. In local manufactures there is a mark ed improvement. The value of the arti cles produced in tho year just closed was $0,045,000. During the present year the advance will bo still more marked, as the Charleston Cotton Mill will go into ope ration, togetb.r with two additional Phosphate mills and the cotton-seed oil j factory and factories of other kinds. The wholesalo and retail trade of the ! city is in a healthy condition, the esti- \ males, in the face of careful revision, I showing an increase in comparison with j the returns, for 187i'-80. Charle.*; >n ?ia? not yet been injured by ! the combinations which have been made by 'railroad syndicates during the last year, and the expectation grows strong that it will not be to the interest of any existing combinations to discriminate against this port. Charleston now has two routes to Augusta, and in a month or tw will have two routes to Columbia. The ct. .?mercial accommodations of the port nie being rapidly increased. New wharves and depots are in course of con struction, and thc older wharves have been repaired and enlarged. The South Carolina Railroad has gone a part of the I way to tho water on the Cooper River, ! the Northeastern Railroad has enlarged : it.s accommodations there, and thc quay ' of the Charleston Canal will, iii the course of a week or two, furnish a wharf on the Ashley River one thousand feet in length, and wido enough for double railroad tracks. Work on tho National .Jetties progresses favorably, and in a comparatively short time there will bo twenty-five feel of water or more on thc bar, unless operations be retarded by thc unwise niggardliness of the government in making appropriations. These facts justify the belief that the advantages of Charleston as .a shipping port will con tinue to increase, and that ?van syndi cates which have been deemeu unfriend ly will find it more advantageous to allow trade to luke its natural channel than to force it out of its course. Charleston, in line, ?lauds un its meri'.s, and has no fears for the future. There is confidenco everywhere that what changes and devel opments take place will be for the better. The people have indeed good reason to be hopeful. There is a large increase in the amount of exports and imports, which is a token of Charleston's growing strength, and there has been during the year a notable improvement in the value of real estate and in the prices of local securities. Full particulars on these points are given elsewhere. The purpose here is simply to direct attention to some salient facta, to incite those interested in the subject to study at their leisure w hat is by long odds the most careful and trustworthy Review of the Trade and In dustries ol' Charleston yet given to the public. T1IK THAW, ur THU CITY. The following table exhibits the amount and value of the chief staple products received nt Charleston during the year, September 1, 1880, to August 31, 1881 : Cotton, upland, I ?J os. 610,970 S.'T.rio.oon Cotton. Sea Uland, bag*. 17,217 1,366,000 llieo, tierces. .">3,?7i I.YJO.OOO Naval stores, K[.iritturpen tine, casks. ">l,:tsr, noo.ooo Naval Moro*, rosin, barrels... 231,417 M0,U00 Phosubate, c: udc, tous. lus.isa KQ,ooa Lumber, feet.I8,610,H57 2,0O0,IHH) ('nilou goods, domestic, bales. i.ooo.oou Fruit, vegetables, Ac, |>ack'f*'a . .'VHIIKXI Value of Maules.$36,216,000 Mniiufuelurcs (including fertilizers). 7,945,000 Wholesale and lletall trade. .Js.avi.ooo Crnnd total.S7l,2ll,Ooo -N?ws and ( 'mirier Trade Ismo: THU LAW'S DELAY WITH QUITKAU -A special dispatch to tho Baltimore j Sun from Washington says : The Grand Jury of the District of" Columbia will i meet on September 12. If the President ] is dead at that time the facta connected | with tiic assassination will be laid before j that body, and Gui?eau will be promptly j indicted for murder and u". apeedil; possible thereafter be m ought to trial before the Criminal Court. Public ex- | pectation is very general that in the event ! of the President's deease jt'stico will ? swiftly bc meted out to the criminal, but enough is known to justify the assump tion that the law's delays" will bo inter posed to the utmost to postpone as long as possible the merited punishment which must of course sooner or later fall upon Guiteau. From the nature of the case the trial of Guitcnu will take rank as a cause crlcbrr almost if not quite unparalleled in tho annals of criminal jurisprudence, and its varioup .dages will necessarily consume much more time than has been anticipated by those, con stituting the large majority everywhere, who reason from impulse only. It must ou remembered tout iou District cl t>> I umina is under tho exclusive jurisdic tion of tho United States, and that the national government is alone responsible for thc maintainancc ot order and the due enforcement of law and justice. Publicity has been given to tho fact that Guiteau has made a confession, or per haps more properly a statement to tho District Attorney. The nature of this statement will, of cour.-e, not bo made known in advance of the trial, but it is believed that it is of HUCII a character, and designedly so on Guiteau's part, as to prepare the way for advancing the theory of insanity. Indeed, it may bc mentioned as a fact int Guiteau will have counsel, and that the. plea of in sanity will be entered. This will opon up a wide range of investigation, and quito likely protract the trial HO as to strain public patience. Then, lifter Guiteau's conviction before the Criminal Court he will have the. right of appeal, which will certainly bo exercised, to the Court in (Sencral Term, where the pro cess may nlso be expected to be tedious. It will thus bc seen that after the Presi dent's death months may intervene be tween (?uiteau and tho ropo. - Henry ( leismer, of Buffalo, ha:'been hold in $1,000 bail for smuggling woolen rags from Canada. It is believed that the government has within a year lost $12,000 in this manner. THE FIND FOU MKS. (MUFIKM). Cortlflcates For m i ti .or O now in tlir Uandi. Millie President's VI lt*. f*<um thc .Veil' I uk Tritium. Although no special effort lui? been made by tho promoter* of tito movement, the feeling of anxiety concerning the President bas directed attention to the Garfield family lund, which during the days of Ilia supposed recovery seemed to be slipping out of the public notice. Some ol thc wealthiest men in the coun try have privately pledged themselves for tho payment of iarge sums in ease of tho President's death, and there is no question in tho minds of those who have been nctive in securing subscription* that if the end should come which thc nation in dreading n<>\v, tho amount of money which will voluntarily How to the fund will greatly exceed in thc aggregate tho large sum originally proposed. Thus far $15o,755.(i5 has been subscribed, and all of this sum except $5,000, (which carno ns a conditional subscription from Columbus, %()h'-.) has been paid to the United States "rust Company. Acting under the conditions of the trust, this company has purchased and now holds for tho "lund $125,000 of United States four per cent, registered bonds, on which the interest is f?6,000 per annum. The bonds cost $145,281.25, and last night there was a cash balance with tho Trust Company of $0,470.40. Tho cities from which thc fund has come thus farand tho amounts respectively given are shown in the following list : New York Cit;.$113,274.H(I Philadelphia. 12,284.23 Chicago. 11,500.00 London, England. 0,300.00 Washington, D.C. 3,355.00 Columbus. Ohio, conditional on $245,000 being subscribed. .\uuo.o0 Syracuse, New York. 1,005.00 Montgomery, Alabama. 5nu.no Puris, France. 250.00 Burlington, N. .1. I27..'?0 Huston, Mass. 123.00 l'hwtiixvillc, I'cnn. lio.ou Nashville, Tenn. 100.00 Key West. Kia. 50,00 Newark, K. .1. 25.00 Cincinnati, Ohio. 17.00 Baltimore, Maryland. 10.00 Newport, H. I. '.UKI Other places. 31 LOO Total.$130,757.05 One who has been prominent in this movement said to a Tritium reporter : "There has becu a good deal idle talk iu the newspapers and from men who have been opposed lo this gift, as though President Garfield, in the event of his recovery, or Mrs. Garfield, would refuse to accept it. All such talk is based on a misapprehension of the real facts in the case. Neither the President nor Mrs. Garfield has any voico in thc matter. This is a trust fund, and under its condi tions tho money is invested in United States government bonds, and kept in trust by thc United States Trust Com Eany. The income from thc bonds is to e paid to Mrs. Garfield during her life, and at her death tho principal is to bc divided among tho surviving children of the President. If Mr?. Garfield should refuse tho income, it would go back and become part of the fund ; it would be re invested, and at her death bc distributed with thc original principal among thc President's children. I know, moreover, that the fund has already been a great source of comfort to the President. It is not generally known, but a fact neverthe less, that certificates for tho $125,000 bonds which have been purchased have already been placed in tho hands of Mrs, Garfield." On Saturday last Messrs. Drexel&Co., of Philadelphia, notified Mr. Cyrus W Field that in tho event of the President's death they proposed to receive in that city subscriptions to the fund for Mrs. Garfield's benefit, heading tho list with $5,000, and inquiring whether Air. Field approved the plan, in reply to which ho telegraphed hts approval. Cattle on thc Island of Jersey. Mr. Jonathan Smith contributes to tho English Live Slock J our it ul, un interesting account of Jersey cattle at homo, from which wc take the leading points: "Jersey is but a small island. If it were squaro it would just bo six and three quarter miles each way. Yet this little Bpot manages to support about 12,000 cattle, that is, roughly speaking-one for every two acres of its surface (rock, roads and water, and house room for 60,000 people included). And it has dono this for the last twenty years at least ; for the census of 1871 gives the number of cattle iu Jersey as 12,037. What is still moro remarkable, it exports every year above 2,000 head (the average export by the census returns, for thc last eighteen years being 2,04i?), nearly one for every teu acres. Now the total number of cat tle in England only averages one head to ten acres. It therefore follows that in proportion to its size, Jersey export* every year as many cattle as England contains. In other words, if England were to export stock at the Hame rate, ber whole stock would be swept away in a "ingle year. Not a hoof would be left behind." * * ' All tho beef for our j 00,000 people is imported every week from thc neighboring coast of France, and from Spain ; and this has been the case for tho last ono hundred years With our 12,000 celle we do not rear a single bullock ; neither do we make a single pound of cheese, and probably never did. * * * A good Jersey will yield half her own weight of butter in a year. She rarely exceeds soo pounds in weight, and her average herc is about OOO pounds. Cows that will yield half that weight of butter arc to bc found in every good herd." Josh Billings' Wisdom. The man who gets bit twice by tho same dog is belter adapted for that kind of business than any other. Thero is a great deal of religion in this world that is like a life preserver, only put on at the moment of immediate, dan ger and then half the time put on hind aide before. Experience is a school where a mau learns what a big fool he hos been. The man who dosen't believe in any hereafter has got a dreadfully mean opinion of himself and his chances. Thero aro two kinds of fools in this world-those who can't change their opinions and those who won't. A good doctor is a gentleman to whom we pay three dollars a visit for advising us to eat less and exercise mor c. Out in the world men show us two sides to their characters; hy tho fitcside only one. lhe world is filling up with educated fools-mankind read too much and learn too little Every man has his follies and often times they aro the most interesting things ho has got. - Tho longest drought that ever oc curred in America was in tho summer of 17G2. No rain fell from the 1st of May to tl e 1st of September. Many of the inhabitants sont to England for hay and grain. \v i-cok of tho Ship Sandusky* NKW VUHK, August 30. Thc steamship Hudson, from Now Or ient)'*, arrived here to day. Sin reportf that she had heavy weather oil* the east coast of Florida, lasting thirty hours August 28th she tell in with thc shit Sandusky, from Pensacola for Liverpool with lumber, dismasted, waterlogged and stern gone. She took off thc crew, who hail been seventy hours without food or waler; gave them clothes and made them as comfortable as possible. The report of Captain Lowden, of the ship Sandusky, says she left Pen sacola At gust 12th, for Liverpool; on tho 'J.rith, t!.>> wind increased to a heavy gale from the northeast, anti tho ship commenced leaking badly ; on tho tit ? t li the gale increased to a hurricane, thc leak gaining so fast that both pumps could not keep the vessel free. At (J, p. m., she had ton feet of water in tho hold, with both pumps constantly going, but to no purpose. Al H, p. m., a squall ol great violence throw the ship on her beam ends, when thc masts were cut away. Al the same time everything was ?wept from the dock, including both houses, with all stores and fresh waler. All the ollicors and crew roached thc weather mizzen rigging, except two sea men and tho cook, who were never after .>ocn and must have been swept away w hen ibo deck load went over. The ship slowly righted, after tho loss of her top hamper, but was a complete water logged wreck. The crew remained on the mizzen rigging until daybreak, the sea continually sweeping over them and threatening to carry them oil' every mo ment At daybreak we were enabled to better our position somewhat, but as the ship was constantly breaking up, it was a day of terror. About 1, p. m., wc saw a brig steering nearly for us, but she lasscd us by w ithout noticing us though 1er people were plainly visible to us. The wind was still blowing a heavy galo and tremendous seas .vere breaking over the ship; when neatly dark lite whole stern frame broke ami was swept away with the after part of tho main deck, and limber commenced coining out from be tween decks. Wc were obliged to aban don our position aft, and afler great risk got forward anti into lite fore top, where the night of the 27th was passed. The next day was lino, but w ith heavy seas, constantly deluging thc ship. At o.-'IO, p. m., wc saw a vessel which proved to be tho steamship Hudson, from New Or leans for New York. Thc crew and officers wero taken od* after being seven ty eight hours on the wreck without food or watet. Every kindness was BIIOWII us by Captain Freeman, bis offi cers, and passengers-the latter making up a purse, which greatly gladdened the hearts of the destitute mariners. Tho gale was ono of the most severe, so Cap tain Freeman reports, that he. ever expe rienced; the wind reached the velocity of a hurricane on tho evening of the 26th. As the ?hip was fast breaking up, she will soon cease to be a danger to navigators, although she was abandoned in the track of Northern bound vessels. Why they Emigrate, The lido of emigration from Uer many continues to attract a largo share (d'attention. The IfamlcUblait of Ham burg, after informing its read ors that the number of immigrants Lwided in the United States in 1878 was 153,2(17, in 18711 250,505, and in 1880 586,008, goes on to calculate thal each individual brings in his labor a capital ot $1,200, and that the total value of the labor thus conveyed to thc Untied States during thc last five years has been abuul $700,0o0, 000. "No wonder," exclaims the Hun dthblalt, "that tho United States of America prospers." The Fr-vulen iilalt, of the same eily, in its cor respondence from Schleswig, where the emigration movement has assum ed largo proportions suggest some of thc motives influencing the people who go. "Fathers with tlfir sons, and a great many more nona alone, leave thc country to escape the burden of a three years' military ser vice." These people express the opin ion that "only an idiot is unable to leam the required drilling and shooting in two years," and thal a strongman, with sound sense, can learn the whole affair in ono year." Hut for this enforced ser vice, it is said, Germany would retain thousands of able bodied, strong young men, who now turn their strength and fortunes to a new home on tho other side of tho Atlantic. An example of tho de crease in wages is afforded in tho manu facture of a certain kind of velvet which, lu the five years front 18(39 to 1874, paid the weaver for his labor at tho rate ol from Gt? to 77 cents a yard. At tho pres ent for tho same labor thc weaver gets but 33 rents, and from some manufac turora but "2. Prince Bismarck's protec tive tnrilf ha; much to do if it is destined to euro this state of things. It might bc supposed that this scantiness of wages is counterbalanced by corresponding cheap ness of footl. Hut this is not tho case, A laborer, for example, who works elev en hours a dav. getting OG cents per day, pays 10 cents a dozen for eggs, about 2<. cents a pound for butler, $7.50 per bar rel for Hour and 13 omits per pound foi mutton. THE 1'ori.TitY YAUD.-The Moulting Season is now al hand, and il is a crilical and trying time with tho adult fowls Fow ls during this great strain of casting off the obi plumage and getting new art in a weak and debilitated state, and need especial attention. In a majority ol cases, at this season of the year farmen are too prone to conclude that the fowl; can take care of themselves-get theil O' living. This is true, however, onlj _nder especially favorable circumstances v.'licrc thc fov.!:> ?rc permitted lo O? joy an unlimited range, whicl should necessarily include a wheat stub bio, or wbcro they can scratch over th? Btraw and chafl" from tho threshing Even w hen a flock may be thus favorably situated it is mistaken economy not to feet them. If fowls aro fed regularly, duriuj moulting, morniug and evening, the} 1 gel through tho strain of moulting mutti sooner, are less susceptible to disease I begin their laying again much sooner : and are able to commence the winter will I hearty, vigorous constitution-in fact, a i flock properly cared for during July am j August "show their keeping" for a yea I afterwards. The morning feed at thi j time should consist of good, sweet cori j meal aud wheat bran or middling -tho latter preferable-scalded wit! boiling water, and about twico a wcol ! add a teaspoonful o? fias seed meal t< j each quart of the mixed food. Keo| , clean, pure, fresh water whero tho fowl : can have access to it, and replenish thoi '. drinking vessels several times during tin day. ll you have not nico shady rotreat j for them, you must pr?vido them, for hen ' like humans, enjoy n noouday siesta i . the shade.-American Fanner. - Water was so scarce last week i Richmond, Va., that the Mayor ordere* it to be turned off from the factories, an 2,000 hands were thrown out of employ 1 ment. News and Cos/dp. - lt is very clear that the Republicans arc seriously alarmed about ohio. - The New York Time? cou! i nues Bi much length to expose the star rente frauds. - The'white'voter? of Yirginin num ber 180,000, and (he colored about 112, OOO. -jThej best pruycrsf are* those which you try to answer yourself alter you have uttered them. - An infant elevcri'months old died in New York from having its ears pierced for rings. - Whittaker, the colored cadet, jw anti? to exhibit his ears on the lecture plat form lor $3,000 a season. - "Prisoner, have you ever been con victed." "No youfHonor ; I have always employed first elasx lawyers." Silk first came from China, ami the Chinese still have many important se crets connected with it unknown to Eu ropeans. - Prof. Parkhurst quiets thc fear-, of the timid by telling them that the new comet will not come within ."111,000,(1110 miles of the eurtb. - Atlanta is to have a big cotton ex position. Hut thc biggest cotton expo sition is ?it Long Branch when the New York belles disrobe for a swim. - - The majority against prohibition in North Carolina, according to Governor Jarvis's proclamation, was 110,(172, the vote standing 4.S,0('I for prohibition, ami 104,133 against it. - Dr. Taylor, of New York, on being asked what punishment he would devise for the assassin Guiteau, replied: "I would take him into thc streets of Wash ington, shoot him in the same place 'he President was shot, and then turu bim over lo the President's physicians." - A real estate operation worth men tioning was the sale in New York last week fd' 40,000 ncrcs of woodland, situate in the mountains of Georgia, to a party of English capitalists, for $00,000. The buyers of the property are now in New York for thc purpose of purchasing $.1(10,000 more of these lands. - Louis Walker, a maker of pyro technics at .St. Louis, Mo., became con vinced that the President's death would ruin his business. He, therefore, walked out on a dyke, put a charge of dynumite on his breast and touched it off. Tho explosion shook thc neighborhood mid ?lug out the Meshy portions of Walter's body, leaving a shell composed of thc back bone and ribs. - Apalachicola, Ela., bas a pope lr. lion ol' only about 2,000, but it contains li\ large mills with a capacity for over 200,000 feet of lumber i> day, and a licet of nearly fifty vessels engaged in thc sponge and fishing trades. Only two milla have been running this lust year, but 20,000,000 feet of lumber and timber have been shipped, and the sponge, fish and oyster trade has amounted to over $000,000. - A recent European publication cou cerning the Jews estimates their number throughout the world ut about 0,10^,000. Only 180,oii0 of the race are to be found in Asia, 400,000 in Africn, .'100,000 in America and 10,000 in Australia. Tho great majority of the race-more than 0,000,000-live in Europe. Roumunia contains a far larger number of Jews in proportion to its population than auy other European country. - The widow of Shaker Kerr, of lu diana, is quoted tis declaring that ?ho has frequently heard President Garfield say iu the presence of her husband and friends that he would not live to more than forty-five or fifty years. She thinks he was superstitious in this respect, and states that Mr. 'terr would frequently laugh at his fears and tell him bc would live to be an old man. At this the Gen eral would shake his head solemnly and say : "No, I won't, Kerr ; I tell you I shall not live many years." - The Food and Health says the water melon contains about 0.1 per cent, of tho purest water and a trace of the purest sugar, and nothing has yet been discov ered that furnishes, so perfect and speedy a "cure" tor Summer complaint ns water melon and nothing el?e. Even when diarrhoea has been kept up by continued ealing of ordiiu.ry food until the disease has become chronic, thia delicious bev erage-for it is lillie more-watermelon, takon freely two or three limes a day, r bas again and again been known to work wonders, and to "euro" when all thc , usual remedies had failed. - Miners at Ashley, Pa., uear Wilkes barre, claim to have discovered a solid mass of rock, in which appealed a clcar 1 ly defined human shape ot giaut pionor 1 tions. All the limbs, muscles and linea ments arc apparent. The rock is about IG feet in length, 10 in breadth and about 8 in thickness. The dimensions of thc : human frame are gigantic, measuring 12 feet in length and 4 feet across the chest. Across the breast is the impression of a huge shield about 4 feet in circumference, while the right hand clutches the broken and butt end of a large cutlass or sword. ; The rock was taken out whole, and is 1 now in possession of Mr. MtCauly, at . Ashley. , - Mr. S. IL Richardson, of Gilbert & I Brega, commission merchants, of Chica ? go, has been tv .-"kiug a thorough and sys ? tematic inquiry into the condition of thc i cotton crop, lie received, the latter part . of the week, telegraphic advice from r about sixty correspondents, stationed at i dill'erent points in the South, and thev are published in the Tiena. Ercrr. tho ! data at his command Mr. Richardson . estimates that the entire crop of 1881 i will not exceed -1,000,000, or 100,000 bales below that of last pear. In this ho f is sustained by tho views of cotton ex 1 perts in tho producing regions, though r the Mobile Board of Trade estimates the } yield at 0,000,000. I - Tho United States Commissioner of !' Agriculture, Dr. George B. Loring, writes ' to tho Agricultura. Department that ?tis his purpose to call together conventions , to be held in his department during the coming winter of such representatives of thc various branches of agriculture as the leading agricultural associations may ' select for purposes of consultation. The limo for tho conventions is fixed as iol > lows, and each will occupy two days : I Thc first, beginning January 10th, will J be devoted to agricultural colleges and P societies, and tho discussion of tho gen ' eral principles of farming and those r questions relating to agricultural educa a lion. Thc second, commencing January * 12th, will bc devotea lo tho discussion of 8 the animal industries of tho country, &c. II Tho third, begl-iuing January 14th, will discuss the cereal crops; and the fourth, commencing on the 17th, the manage 11 ment of vineyards and manufacturo of d wine. Dr. Loring requests thc appoint il ment of three representatives to each of - these conventions from every society or j organization addressed by him.