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lART & COMPANY, Qi AitTERS for LlEL PRATT COTTON GINS, THE BROWN COTTON GINS, e E ? a ? cowdewser?, sclioilchl's Cotton Press, ' ?TATE AGENTS FOR SPREADER, i'nlverlwr ami Cart combined. Distrib utes Manure, Cotton Seed, Muck, Marl, Ac, evenly in drills or broadcast. Every e Warrantko. AGENTS FOR GRANT'S . FAN MILLS, b?rrall CORN SHELLERS. FOR SALE hl$ BRISTLES, BABBITT METAL, BELTING, MILL STO S ES, PICKS, tlx. AGENTS FOR not Bradford's Corn, Wheat ar? Fesd Mills. hart & co., CHARLESTON, S. C. June 15, 1882 48 ly [Grand Midsummer Sale. Preparing for Fall Trade. Ib'jy NOW AND PAY WHEN COTTON COMES IN. 200 Pianos nntl 500 Organs. TUOUSANDS of musical families are intendine; to purchase Pianos and Or gans in tlie Fall when Cotton cornea in. wbyvait? Ruy at once, and enliven tbo long, hot summer months with music and make the "Harvest Home" still more joy ful. Midsummer Special Offer. Under our Midsummer Sale we offer to sc'.l 'luring the months of JUNE, JULY, AUGUST and SEPTEMBER, 1882, PI ANOS and ORGANS, of every make, style ami price, at our very lowest cash rates : On Pianos, $25 Oath, balance November 1,1SS2. On Organi, $10 Oath, balance November 1,1882. ' Without Interest or any advance in Price. If balance can't be paid in tho fall, longer lime will be given, with a reasonable In crease of price. All Instruments of every grade and price included in the sale. Teil your musical friends of it. Write us for Catalogues, Price List, Circulars. This offer dose* October 1st, 1882. Address L. E. NORRYCE, Or M ('Smith Music House, GREENVILLE, S. C. June 20,1882 ?) |Buist's, D. M. Ferry's, Hiram Sibley's, ?Johnson, Robbins & Reid'i FRESH SEEDS AT SIMPSON, REID & CGVS, CHEAP FOR CASH. JSr- We will not he undersold. Feb 16,1882 31 sawing notice. TpVEKY one wanting logs sawed can *-j have it done promptly at my Mill, "conce Lumber, in any quantity, dried and Messed, constantly on hand. . , ,? A. H. OSBORNE. July 18.1882 52 THE SAVANNAH [VALLEY RAILROAD H be A8 taken a fresh start, and work will resumed in a few days, and thus the | WWW of many of our citizens will proba b'y be accomplished in time to move the | n?t crop, in the meantime our Firm IS BOUND fts?n,?.n.ln the good work of maintaining tion for ^ow Prices and Fair mined In ita lnc?Piency wc deter TO BE ?l1 Competition, and by hare aml H?NEST BARGAINS we BUILT bntfnr^ie.lLat weans not only nroud of, thank V wc take thla opportunity to eWnVft! niany customers. During the ?tocl fft ,aim''r we anticipate keeping in 3gJ* ? ?"?eof General Merclian BY rreSS*^ we t?vlaa those in need of Good i> cods? ?ood Good* and Bargain* to call on KtOWN BROS AWiao,iM2 40 ABOUT BULL BLN. Intercrtlng Narrativi of the Ma.. Who BroUBht the l.a,l No?e ,? AVanhh.^ton Pithhur.j Disjmtth ?H((n.?ew uith tfr. Kenned* MarsJtaU, ? "Bichniond clergymen jbing for virgin territory, and bucine "s moo seeking fer a speculation, made up their mind* to take a flying trip to t? new capital of (be Southern Confederacy ur ??, of gallant young recruit*.hTd by the valiant McDowell, linder th? di rectiou of theeagaeioua Scott, was to E0 ahead Hie rebel soldiers had been ?l^,ed alco"v.cnk'nt.l,??nta in sufficient ,\~\ *"j***1?""?? aa 1 went alone with hundreds of others to see the fun 1 was a member of the Pennsylvania I^islaUire and the malaria common to legislative balls had left me half an in valid. Hen Morgan, Charles Spane, ir. of Spang, Cbalfaut & Co., John Shaw t.:.:u Hour IoHjiector of Alleghany coun ty, since burned to death at Scottdale and Char es Clark, of Clark & Thaw, all' 1 itt?burghera, were with me. There never was so large aud respectable a lot ol camp followers a? those who followed our army out from Washington. Many of the most distinguished nieu of the country were there, and there was uo lack of good company. "Wo were just beginning to tire of the picnic, aud wore preparing to return to \\ ashington to spend Suuday, when on Saturday one ot Gen. McDowell's aids told us that Ihey wero going tc attack the enemy that night. There "was appa rently ;io attempt to keep tho matter socret. At 1 o'clock Sunday mommi:. July 21 b THE TIIOOI'S 11EGAN TO MOVE. "Wo left our carriage and followed them on foot. 1 got separated from my party, and fell in with Henry J. Ray mond, of tho New York Times. We fol lowed the right-baud column, under Huntor. You know how tha battle was fought at first; how their ekirmish line was chased, their batteriee charged and the entire left wing of the rebel army rolled back beyond the Warrenton road. We whipped them fairly in the early hours of the light, and about 3 o'clock iu the afternoon, Kaymond aud I, sitting beside the road near the Warrenton stone bridge, were well in tho rear of our ad vancing right. It was a hotter day than this, and wc were tired, half sick with tho smell of powder and very hungry. Along the road came Russell, on horse back, with a big knapsack of provisions behind him. e was an old campaigner and come provided. We hailed him, and while he shared his lunch with U9, told him how we were licking them and how we could serve the British the same way upon occasiou. He had driven out from Washington since morning, bring ing a saddle iu his carriage. While we were talking together, we heard locomo tives whistling over on the Manassas railroad. The trains stopped iu a cut out of sight. Pretty soon out marched a lot of soldiers in gray, with a stand of brigade colors, and came at a double quick across the field. It was Kirby Smith with the last installment of John son's army from Winchester, which had eluded Patterson. Tho panic which seized our troops when these fresh light era hurled themselves at the Union lines, already tottering with exhaustion, was wilder than anything in military history since three Austrian soldiers, coming out of the woods to surrender after the battle of Solferino, put the who!o French arma to rout for a time. Regiments that had stood up to their work bravely since o'clock in the morning melted away in a few minutes at the signt of tho CRAY CHARGING COLUMNS. "There was no knowing what force was behind Smith, and Hunter's men didn't wait to see. They took the road toward Centerville, pell mell, every man for himself. The infantry charged theirown batteries, cut the horses loose, jumped on their backs and went to tho rear at a gallop. Russell disappeared on tho tide at the top of his speed. Raymond drift ed away from me, and I didn't let many pass me in the race myself. It was the farther the faster, and after covering what seemed to me about five miles I dropped exhausted beside tho road to rest. By and by Raymond come along. He had fouod his barouche, and he took mein. We whirled along in the crush of ambuianccH, artillery horses, privates, officers and camp-followers on foot, ladies aud politicians in carriages, and 200 or 300 steers, all making the best of their way to Washington. A drove of cattle had been driven out behind the army to he slaughtered after tho battle. They were stampeded with tho rest and added to| the confusion. Tuero were many amusing incidents. Earlier in the day I had noticed L. L. McGuffin, of New Caatle, since Judge in this Judical Dis trict, now dead. He was carrying water to one of the ?eld hospitals. Ho had been one of the 'On to Richmond' crowd, had come down to stiffen up the Presi dent's spine, and was loud in advocating a vigorous prosecution of the war. HOW JDOUE M'GUFFIN RAH "Ho was a large man and wore a long linen duster. When the rush to the rear began ho ran with the rest. He was fat, and as the crowd gradually swept past him lie at last begau to think the rebels must be almost within grasp of bis living duster tails. Blind with sweat and duet, bo tripped a log and fell flat on hiastom ach, or aa flat as he could fall on such a round stomach. A zouave, who was hard at his heels, came down with em phasis on top. Mr. McGuffiu was certain ?!.s T??-u???!?aa n?rn nnon bini, and with a week endeavor to roll his eyes around, that he raifiht seo his foeman s race, exclaimed : 'Great God, gentlemeu, ?an't thin thing be compromised Y "Before Raymond and I had driven far m ordnance wagon crashed into our uarouclie and demolished it. I mounted ane of the carriage horses. Raymond ivas in despair. . . "Get on the other horse," I cried. "But I can't stick on." "Then good evening; Im going to VV"1?ihf ou; I can ride behind the nig ?cr " exclaimed the distinguished eJitor, * id be was about to clamber up behind inu ne ? ? ouu?? ??-? . ? the colored driver when a carriage drove past with some Congressmen whom he ine?*, and he got in with them. "I calloped away, but before I had rone far I saw a regiment drawn up in ??'e a iosa the road,with fixed bayonet* .topping the fugutives. I took to the ? fxecute4\flank movement and rot past with a few others. When I Same.to the little field telegraph office ?ar Fairfax Court House, I was riding head of my party. A wire had been aid out thus far and dispatches from the old were carded here and wired to Washington. The last messages sent bad told how our troops were driving the ;nemy. "'Wim: news from the field?' cried Le ?l,eratori with his finger on tho 'Our men are routed. They are run mug, tuia way,' I shouted back to him as gal|oped past. He cut loose his instru ment, tucked it under his arm and took to his heels. When the next orderly came with a dispatch he found the bat tery dismounted, and that was how J came to be THK FIRST ( AltllV THE NEWS to Washington, i overtook 'Hull Kun' Kussel!, and we rode together for awhile ; but his horse was fagged and mine was tresh.so I soon left him. After that 1 rode foremost and alone. At Hall's Cross Roads I was challenged by a Dutch sen tinel Hen Morgan bad my pass through the lines, but I bad an annual over the lennsylyania Railroad, signed by Tom ecoii. ? allowed the sentinel the name of Scott, the Commander in-Chief, and he passed me through. I got over the long bridge at Washington at' !l o'clock, just as the countersign was being given out for the night. I rode up to Willard's Hotel, through streets thronged with people, wild with excitement over the favorable telegrams that had come in froin the front. Tho brass bands were out in force, and somebody was making a rousing 'Un to Richmond' speech from the balcony of the hotel. I walked into the olOce, under the sound of his inspi ring words, knowing how soon those, cheers would be hushed to whispers of ailnght. Chadwick was keeping the hotel then, and as I pushed up to the desk lie stared at me," bareheaded and streaming with dirt and sweat as I was, and finally recognizing me, asked me where I had been and what was the matter. " camo from the front. McDowell is licked out of his boot?, aud tho wreck of our army in not fai behind mo.' "Chadwick dived back into hjr. privato office with a scared face, and in a few moments came hack and took mo in with him. OEN. MANSFIELD STAOOEIIEI). "There sat (Jen. Mansfield, who was in command of the troops around Washing ton, with a bottle of champagne before him. " 'Mr. Chadwick informs me, sir, that you report our array retreating. Are you ft military man, sir?' "No, air." '"Then how do you know, sir, that they were not merely making a change af front or executing some other military maneuver, sir?' "Well, General," I replied, as calmly is I could, while the gray-huircd old martinet eyed me sternly, "? saw whole regimenLs throw down "their guns and .ake to the woods. I saw artillerymen :ut their horses loose from the guns and .'assiona and gallop away. I saw officers, neo, Congressmen aud Texas steers run ning neck and neck down the road to ward Washington, and steers were the inly things that had their tails up. It nay have been a change of front, aa you say, but?" "I don't believe a damned word of it," jroke in the General, who had listened .o me with evident impatience. " Good evening,' I replied, and walked nit of the door, The crowd had got the jews by this time from Chadwick, and I vas almost pulled to pieces. Somebody loticed that I was wearing a gray suit, tnd shouted : 'He's a rebel.' There were leverai suggestions that I be lynched for ittempting to stimulate a rising of the ebel element in the city. Gen. Mane ield hurried off to the War Department, ind pretty Boon a sergeant and a squad >f Boldiers came for me and took mo to .ho Department. President Lincoln and lia entire Cabinet were there, with old "?en. Scott, anxiously waiting for news "rom the front. Simon Cameron had cuowu me as a member of the Legisla ure and vouched for my loyalty. There vas very little said while I told" my story jrielly. TIIK PRESIDENT DESPONDENT. "The President sat with hie head bent iown upon hie hand, and was evidently rery much depressed. Simon Cameron, :he"n Secretary of War, wae the coolest icad in the Cabinet. He immediately jousulted with Scott as to horrying re mforcemeuts across the Potomac, and irdci-s were issued to stop all fugitives at Long Bridge. They asked irte Very few puestiona, but after I had totd toy story ind wae dismissed, tho newspaper cor -espondents nearly devoured me. Just is I came out of the War Department, [ met one of Gen. McDowell'e aide bring ng in the report of hiB commander's de eat. The Government took charge of] ,he telegraph offices, and suppressed every vord about the final disaster. The glow ng reports of the uuccess of tho Lnion orces in the early part of the action were ilio wed to co out, and the next morning ,he whole North wae ablaze with rejoic ng over our victory. The next day tho rue story was published, however, and I rot more notoriety than I have ever had lince. I was quoted as an authority in ivery prominent paper in the country." A Yankee Captain Outwitted. ?aptain Farrow, of Iaieaboro, tells a jood story of himself which occurred a ew years ago, while he wae trading at iey West. It wae a case where a Norih ;rn Yankee was outwitted by a Southern ! . The Captain was trading in a small ressel, and had been up the coast to Tam ia Hay, where ho purchased twenty doz in chickens, paying 5=4 per dozen. The :hickens ran all tho way in size from a ew daye old to full-grown oucb. At Key iVest a hotel landlord came alongside ind asked the Captain how ho Bold hie :hickens. The Captain replied: "If rou pick them out I shall charge you $6 >er dozen ; if you let me pick them out rou can have them for fS per dozen." 'All right," said the hotel man, "you lick them out." The Captain selected eversi dozen of the amallest, when ttie nan said : "Go ahead, I want more." the Captain v.-as now among hi?, largest Owls and wished the man would stop jut be still said, "Go on." The Captain iaw the point at last. The man kept him lini selecting until he purcascd the entire ot at a loss of $20 to the owner. After his the Captain sold his chickens on a iifferent plan.?Bangor Whig. ? "I should so like to have a coin da ed the year of my birth," said a maiden if uncertain age to a male acquaintance. 'Do you think you could get one for me?" "I am afraid not," he replied. 'These very old coins are only to be found in valuable collections." And yet be can not see why, when he mot the la ly next day, ehe didn't speak to him. ? Colonels T. M. R. Talcott, A. B. Andrews, Captain . T. Smith and other Krominent Southern railroad men have een making a trip over tho Western North Carolina Railroad. 1 hey went to the Paint Rock terminus of that road und thence went two miles further on tbe East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Road, to the place where the two iron bridges are being erected over the r rencu Broad River. The River makee a horse shoe bend at this point, and is spanned by two fine iron bridges, distant 400 yards from each other. The bridges will coat $175,000 each. I, S. C THURSDAY (i 11 ANDFATHER'S DAYS. The Mule Urchin of Iii? third Generation. Fnjin the Atlanta Constitution. When a man begins to get along in yen ? he gradually changes from being a ( ! king in hie family toa patriarch, lie in j ; more tender and kind to hie offspring, j ! and iustcad of ruling them, tho lirai , I thing he knows they are ruling him. My i youngest children and my grandchildren just run over me now, and it takes more than half my time to keep up with 'em, and find oui where they aro and what ' iheyare doing. It rains most everyday, and the weeds and grass aro nlwaye wet, i and the branches aro muddy and Ihere are six little chaps around hero perusin' the premises, and Mrs. Arp just knows they are bound to get sick or snake bit, f?l it?tiii?jp, tramp, tramp from morning j till night, and her anxiety reminds me of a hen that we set on some duck eggs, for I ! when the brood was hatched they made I for the branch, and the hen like to have took a fit and flew from one side to the other and made an everlasting fuss try ing to toll 'em they would get drowned, but they sailed around and around and waa as happy as happy could be. These lit tle chaps ride the horses and colts over the meadow and pasture, and muko tho sheep jump the big branch, and they go in a washing two or three times a "day, and they climb tho grape arbor and the apple tree, and they cauteli whether a watermelon is ripe or green, for they plug it to see, and every one of 'em has got a eling shot and my pigeons are always on the wing, and the other day I found one of the finest young pullets laving dead with a hole in her side, and alf the satis faction I can get is I didn't mean to do it, or I won't do it any more, or I didn t do it all. Jcsso. It's most astonishing how tho little rascals can shoot with their slings, and now 1 don't believe it was a miracle at all that made David plump old Goliah in the forehead, for these boys can plump a jay bird now at 40 yards, and wo have had to take all their wea pons away to protect the birds and poul try. Sometimes 1 get mad and rip up and around like I was going to do some thing desperate, but Mrs. Arp comes a slipping along and begins to tell how they didn't mean auy liarm, and they arejust like all other boys, and wants to know if I didn't do them sort of things when I was a boy. Well, tha''e a fact?I did?and I got a lickin' for it too. You see, I was ono of tho oldest boys, and they always catch it, but tho youngest one never gets a lickin,' for by tho timo he comes along the old man has mellowed down and wants a pet. Tho older children have married and gone and the old folks feel sorter like they have been throwd off for somebody no kin to 'em, und so they twiuo around those that are left all the closer, but by and-by they grow up, too, and leave them, ' and it's pitiful to Ree tiie good old couplo '' bereft of their children and living alone in their glory. Then is the time that grandchildren find a welcome in the old 1 family homestead, for, as Solomon saith, the glory of an old man is hie children's ' children. Then is tho time that the lit tle chaps of tho second and third genera tion love to escape from their well ruled \ home, and for awh?o find refugo and freedom and frolic at grandpa's. A child without a grandpa and a grandma can never have ite share of happiness. I'm sorry for 'em. Blessings on tho good old people, the venerable grand parents of the land, the people witli good old honest ways and simple habits and limited de lires, who indulge in no folly, who ban- < ker after no big thing, but live along : serene and covet nothing but tho happi- < ness of theirchildren and their children's children. I said to a good old mother not long ago: "Well, I heard that Anna ? is to be married." "Yes, rdr,' m\<\ she, saiiling sorrowfully, "I don't know what I will do. Tho last daughter I've got is going to leave me. I've nursed her and and petted her all her lifo, and I kinder thought she was mine and would always be mine, but she's run otT after a fellow shc'ii no kin to in the world, and who , never did do any thing for her but give ; ber a ring nud a bonk or two and a little t French candy now aud then, and it docs < iook ho strange and unreasonable. I couldnt understand it at all if?if I hadent done tho same, thing myself a < long time ago," and abo kept knitting . away with a Hiuile and a tear upon her motherly face. But I'm not going to slander tbeso lit tle chaps that keep us so busy looking after them, for there is no meanness in their mischief, and if they take liberties it is because we let 'em. Mrs. Arp says they arejust too sweet to live, and is al ways narrating some of their smart sav ings. Well, they are mighty e-nar?, fo? they know exactly how to get everything aud do everything they want, for they know how to manage her, and they know that she manages me, and that settles it. A man ie the bead of a house about some things, and about uomo other things he is only next to head, if he ain't foot. A man can puuish his children, but it's always advisable to make an explanation in due time and let bis wife know what he did it for, because you see they are her children shore enough, and she knows it and feels it. The pain and troublo, the nursing and night watching have all been hers. The washing and dressing, and mending and patching?tieing up fingers and toca, and sympathizing with 'em in all their great big little troubles all falls 1 to her while the father is tending to his 1 farm, or bis store, or his office, or hie friends, or may be his billiard table. When a woman Bays "this is my child," it carries more weight and more meaning than when a man saye it, and I've not got much respect for a law that will give a man the preference of ownership just because he is a man. I remember when I was a boy a sad, pretty woman taught school in our town, and she had a sweet little girl about eight years old, and one day a man came there for the child and brought a lawyer with him, and the mother was annual uioli?ctcu, s?u an o> us boys?big and little?got rocks and sticks and thrash poles and hid the little girl up in the cupalo, and when the sher iff came we attacked him like killing snakes or fighting yaller jackets, and we run him on, and when he come back with mote help we ran 'em all off and the man never got his child, and I can say now that the soldiers who whipped the yankees at Bull Run were not half so ?roud of their victory as we were, though found out afterwards that the sheriff was willing to be whipped, for he was on the side of the mother and didn't want to find the child no how. But the world is getting kinder than it used to be?kinder to women and to the poor and the de pendent, and kinder to brutes. Away up in New England they used to drown women for being witches, but they don't now. Well, they do bewitch a man pow erfully sometimes, that's a fact, but if any drowning is doue he drowns himself because he can't get the woman he want's and live under her witching all the time. But a man is still the head of the house and always will be I recen, for it's ac cording to Scripture. He bas got a nat ural right to run tho machine and keep up the supplies, and if he always has money when the good wife wants it and doesn't wait for her to ask for it but MOENING, AUG?S makes ber take it as a favor to him, then he is a succosa as a husband and peace reigns supreme. Jesso. When liiere is money hi tho till a inau can sit in his piazza with his fet t on tho banisters and smoke tho pipo of peace. A woman loves money for its uses. She never hoards it or hides it away like a man?a.id when 1 used to be a merchant I thought there was no goodlier combination in all nature thau a new stock of dry goods and a pretty woman in the store, with a well filled purse in her pocket. Jesso. Bill . A SWEET VOICE SILENCED. The Ileiuarkahlo Cnrcor of Sister Mary Agues. The Baltimore papers announce tho defttll ? midiiiirht un Siimbiv lust of Sis ter Mary Agnes, a nun who had become famous as tho possessor of a phenomenal voice of great sweetness and of such ex traordinary compass that, while it could be called neither ?oprano or alto, it had tho rango of both, and who was, perhaps, the most distinguished teacher of vocal music connected with the Bontan Catho lic (Sisterhood in America. Almost thirty years ago a beautiful young womau with a miraculous voice charmed tho musical people of Phila delphia. Tho voice was phenomenal in i., wcderful compass. Its owner, dis daining all attempts at cultured ventrilo quism?the vocal gymnastics acquired by a teacher's instruction?sang Irotn the love of harmony that had its outgrowth in her soul, and because in melody she fouud tho greater pleasure of her life. This girl was Louise Gilbert, the Sietcr Mary Agnes of tho Convent of Mont de Chantal at Wheeling, West Virginia, where sho lived until within a week of her death, on Sunday lam. Sho waa * j daughter of Theopholis Oubert, a French-1 man, who nome fifty years ago kept a | grocery in Philadelphia. Her mother j was the eldest sister of W. Milner Kob-1 erte, a civil engineer, who died in Brazil about a year ago. Louise was one of twelve children. Her father, Theopholis J Oubert, was a musician as well as a I grocer, and his wife was also tho pos- I seaaor of considerable musical ability. For many years Mr. and Mrs. Gubert I Bang in the choir of St. John's Catholic Church, in Philadelphia. Louise's father, after acquiring a comfortable income, I sold out his establishment. At this time his daughter Louise was not over ten ears ol age, but her rcmarkublo voice J ad already attracted much attention among her parent's friends. The circle in which sho was thrown was a musical one. Among the visitors to her father's j house wero Prof. Augslus Fortunatis, Dob Santos, the Portugese refugee, noble man and polished gentleman, who taught music, and Edward Christian, a quaint old authetic who lived and died before I reetheticism became bo popular. It was in the society of such people as these that Louise Gubert was reared. When I die was fourtccu years of age she was placed in the charge of l'anni for musi- I cal instruction. The anecdote is told that wheu her mother led tho girl to tho I teacher and inquired his terms for tuition ho replied, after hearing the child sing : "Let the remuneration be tho poor priv- ] ilego that Parini can state that onco ! Louiso Gubert was his pupil." HEtt WONDERFUL VOICE. The remarkable qualities of her voice I soon became generally recognized, but the young singer was a dreamer. When I a child she passed eome years in the Georgetown Convent, where she received I most of her education. She became deeply imbued with a desire to live a pure and heroic life, to devote her talents I to tho welfare of the Catholic Church, and to ignore all personal and Beli-ambi lions motives. Her father died in 184l>, > when sho was 12 years of age, and she [ then resolved to enter a convent, but for I a few years she allowed the persuasion of her friends to deter lier from this course. When Louise Gubert was 18 years of ago I she made her first appearance before an I audience. It was in Musica! Fund Hail, J and she Rang in the oratorio of the Mes- | siah. A few weeks afterward she repeat- J ed her part of the oratorio in Concert I 11 all. It was the custom in Philadelphia I at that time, during a public performance of amateurs, to erect a guazo curtain across the stage, which concealed the I features but not the outlines of those on the platform. As Louise's voico aroso in S the triumphal notes of tho oratorio, at the performance in the hall, tho audience was so stirred by the intensa pathos and beauty of the clear tones that the hearers rushed to the platform en maste and tore down tho screeu which concealed the girl. Tho following day hundreds of] valuable presents were sent to her home. | The anonymous gifts she sold and do voted the money received for the benefit of tho poor, but the others she returned to those from whom they came. A few I months later she sang in Pittsburg, hut I the flattery she everywhere received an-1 noyed her, and following out her child-1 ish conception of a noble life, she en-1 tered the Convent of Georgetown, whero j she had been educated. At a division o? I the sisterhood, she was transfered to I Mont do Chantal Convent, the Sisters' School in Wheeling, W. Va. She taught music there, and it was thero that she I Bung at different times ior Parepa Rosa, I Liszt, Strakoach and Rubenet?in, who one and all pronounced her voico une quailed, ''arepa Rosa frarVly acknowl edged that her voice waa th eetestahe had ever heard. Liszt, the .oatpianist, recorded in his journal, published since bis death, that at Wheeling he had heard the greatest cantatrice known to the world. Max Strakoach heard of the sweet singer of Do Chantal and visited her. I Sister Louise sang for him, and soenthu-1 siastic was the oro pressano that he offered her $50,000 ior a season of six months in concert. Bishop Whalen declined to per* j mit her to accept, and ahe remained at the school, where she devoted her talents to her always Isrgs clssses. She wfts herself mora foud of simple ballads than anything else. Her voice woe too sweet to be marred by machine music, and it was her habit while accompanying her self on the harp or piano to strike the key note, and not until tho ls?,t echo of her voice died away did her fingers again touch the chord. Sister Mary Agnes was a victim of consumption. The disease recently de veloped itself so rapidly that her asso ciates became alarmed. She was taken to St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimora in I a special car. Her aged mother stood by tho bedside of her dying daughter, and Mrs. Gubert is now the last of the family. ? A Dutch Judge, on conviction of a culprit for having four wives, decided : "He hash bunisbment plenty; I life mit one !" ? Only her hnsband : Mrs. McCohlo, an Austin lady, rebuked her colored cook, Matilda Snowball, in the following words : "When I hired you you said yon didn't have any male friends, and now I find a man in the kitchen half the time." "Lor bress your soul, he ain't no male friend of mine." "Who is he, then T" "He am only my husband."?Texas S\fi ingt. 5T 24, 1882. Common Roads, We commend the following article from the Km/hern Planter as (specially applicable to the needs of our own State, and ask for it an attentive reading by our country people who are chiefly in terested iu having good common roads. We have so long been accustomed to the old ruts that we do not realize the neces sity for better, und yet good common roads arc the best indication of prosper ity of a country. With our present de fectivo system of road-work we can nev er have good country roads. It is essen tially the same nowas it has been tor a hundred years past. With progress in all other material wants, wo have made no progress here. The present system ie inefficient and unsatisfactory iu every respect, yielding poor results, hut felt as ??? ? &! ????"??? ??? ?! and r?n?w??f! , ,1' J' r""-~" ??- ??,?? ?*? >??u in its operation. As a general rule those who do the actual labor on the roads are tho very persoua who have least concern about their condition. It is an unwill ing service rendered, and there is lack of strict responsibility for their proper condition. Wo havo in our jails nnd penitentiary tho very materials needed for putting and keeping the roads in or der, which instead of an expense to tlie State for diet ami bond, may be turned to usefulness and prolit : Tho elements of national prosperity uro numerous and varied. Tho patriot, the statesman, and especially tho farmer, should bo wide awake, fruitful in inven tion, aud bo ready to adopt and utilize what gives promise of being valuable. Railroads, besides being one of the grandest achievements of modern civili zation, nnd one of tho most potent in strumente of general wealth, havo been of incalculable advantage to agriculture. They are not, however, more valuable noi more important than common roads. Ono of the first consequences of a "new seulement," sometimes an antecedent, is a road. "Blazed trees," to mark tho course, aro succeeded by a highway. Tho foot-path or bridle-path is onlarped into tho wagon road. As population nnd wealth iucreaso, tho rude appliances givo way to more substantial structures. The civilization of people may bo approxi mately determined by the character and condition of the roads. Tho value of good roads and tho im portance of keeping them iu good con dition can hardly bo over-estimated. They are made to reduco tho tractive force to tho least possible limit, ho as to muke travel and traille easy and inexpen sive. "The tradivo force is tho power required to move a vehicle and load on a horizontal rond." if steep grade?, holes, rubs, unevenncss, &c, increase the trac tive force, then tho travel must be slower , and the load drawn must bo lighter. As , you approach the horizoutnl and impvovo the hardness and smoothness ofthe road bed, speed nnd the lond can be increased. ? A distinguished engineer eoya : "It may , bo remarked, by way of comparison, , that if fifty horses aro just sufficient to , conduct a given traffic upon a given , length of a very dry and smooth broken- | stone road, it will require seventy-one , borace to conduct tho sumo traffic upon , an equal length of tho same road in a ( moist, or dusty condition ; ono hundred and twelve horses if tho road be covered with dust and mud ; while upon tho name length of solid earthen causeway covered with gravel one and one-half < incheH thick, two hundred and forty horses would be necessary to accomplish tho samo work." volume would not suffice to treat of . the healthful influence of this creative j agency upon production, travel, revenue, wealth and cuinfort. We complain of an oppressivo and iniquitous protective tur ill', of the heavy exactions of internal , revenue, of burdensome city levies, and never tire of jeremiads on "bloated bond- , holders," and yet coat of transportation ' ie tho heaviest tax our pooplo pay. It \ is a tax on industry, on labor,on capital, ' on production, on exchange, on con sumption. The wealth of a State, as of a person, | consists in excess of production, over consumption. Everything that increases , the quantity of commodities obtained in | exchaugo for any result of industry, , encourages production and increases , wealth. Speaking after tho manner of , the science of wealth, a product is any- j thing got ready for salo, aud for tho pur- , poses of this paper wo limit to material , things got ready for sale. It seems too < obvious for argument that what inter feres with legitimate production hinders | tho accumulation of wealth, aud what j facilitates production increases wealth. ( Products may be numerous and proepec- , lively valuable, but without immediate | value or price, because they are not j where i hey can bo sold. To give market* , able value, buyer and seller must be , brought together. What restricts the 1 delivery of commodities, or makes deliv- , ery as to time or quantity uncertain, ? puts restriction upon sale and therefore . upon value or price. If the buyer and , seller be put into communication, and , the commodity be readily and cheaply ; deliverable, then some of the most so- , riouR impediments to trade aro removed. , A farmer grows and gathers crops and prepares for market, but the market has , to bo sought. Miles intervene between , the producer and the buyer. The cost , of getting the crop to market hae to be paid by the farmer, and is to that extent a diminution of profita and a tax on pro duction. If tho cost of getting to mark et equal the cost of -awing, then that crop must be abandoned. If remoteness from buyer and the cost of transportation be so great as that no profit can be de rived from producing, then the land will have no marketable value. Uood roads, and cheapness of transportation will enhance tho value of land and make farming profitable, llomote neighbor hoods ure brought together, trade and friendship are stimulated, and tho coun try prices bear a duo rotation to town prices. market is created for surplus produce, value is imparted by creatiug a flamand. And the better and lesa conti the transportation the largaria the sphere of demand. This matter of common roads needs increased and continuous attention. To it the couutry should give thought and labor and money. Improved roads, with mile post and signboards, would be wise economy. Esch county should have an engineer, with term of offico sufficiently long to protect from popular caprice and prejudice, and with compensation suffi cient to ensure competency. His duties should be to superintend the construc tion of new roads and tho maintenance and repair of old ones. There should be some system in opening and in working. The present, method of working is exe crable. Travel and traffic are subordi nated to whim, laziness and stinginess. It is true economy to build a good road and keep it in repair. In some coun tries men are permanently employed to work on roads. Our "jail birds" might be organized into effective road bande instead of growing fat and vicious at Eublic expense. Substantial work is etter and cheaper than patch work. I have crossed bridges built a thousand years ago and travelled on roads that are contemporaneous with the Coesa re. I have seen a dog. aided by a woman, drawing as great a load as a mule could VOLTO pull over some of our country roads. I ventured once to say to a Governor of a great State, who asked my opinion as to a message he was about to write, that if it wero my duty to preparo such a paper, instead of along dissertation on lederai relations, or a discussion of obsoleto issues, I should urge upon tho Legisla ture the need and tho economy of good country roads. A. VlROlNlAX. TIIK MX UIRL PEDESTRIANS, flow tJipy uro I'rogrvMlng In tll?lr Tramp Through ili,- L'in olimi Mountain?, Hi:ni?uiusonvim.k,N. C, Aug. 12. The six young girls who started out to walk across the mountains of this Stale, a few days ago, arrived at this place to day. The girls are in excellent spirits, and liolwithsiauuiug met limi one of the youngest is footsore from tho num ber of miles which they have tramped, they are thoroughly in earnest. The girls will remain here for a day or two to rest and recuperate. As soon as Miss Etfio linyliss recovers I'rom her sore foot they will resume their journey. The girls are all badly sunburned, and ono or two somewhat freckled hv their exposure to the rays of the sun. Even with theso disadvantages they are quite attractive and greatly admired by tho young men in the villages through which they have passed. The pedestrians have been on tho road now about twenty days. During that timo they havo camped out four or (ivo nights ; once in a desolate forest in Surry County. They wero disturbed in their sleep on that occasion by some young bears that wero wandering" about. The girls had a short council of war and came to the conclusion that there was no causo for alarm. Each of the fair tramps is armed with a email bowio knife ?.nd revolver and two of them look aB if they woro physically capable of taking care of themselves in an encounter witn man or bear. Miss Hcttio Dendnr, who seems to bo commandcr in-chicf of tbo party, says they have been kindly treated where evcr they have stopped. Every house at which they have applied for lodging or food has been thrown opeu to them. Miss Dendar said that a lew of the fe males whom they bave met havo mani fested a disposition to give them the cold shoulder. These, however, the jolly lit tie captain added, wero invariably spin Bters, who wero fading into tbo ago of tho sere and yellow leaf. "Upon tho whole," said Miss Dendar, "wo havo a splendid time, and though wo havo suf fered somo privations we have been fully repaid for our trip. 'The country through which we have travelled is tho most mag iiiiicenl I ever saw. To-morrow or the ilay following we will resumeourjouruey directing out course towards tho Bald .Mountain We bave no very definite programme and xpect to go w here wo choose or where the most picturesque scenery invitCH us." Two of the party uro amateur painters and two others have mine little talent for sketching. All of the girlHare dressed with a view to com fort and case. They make ten tir twelve miles a day without trouble. 'They do lot expect to return from their trip before Jctober 15. Fodder Pulling. This is one of the peculiarities of tho Southern system ol farming. In the North and West wo believe it is never practiced as wc do it?that is, the blades ire not stripped from tbe stalk cue by ime, nnd the stalks left in the field. Wc ire not sure that wo can assign the exact season for this difference in practice. It lecniH to have reference entirely to eli mate?cither directly or indirectly. Our Southern corn-stalks aro large and the corn matures long before frost. Owing to the size of tbo stalks tboy are dilli cult to euro, being apt to sour uud mil Jew. Tho Northern corn ?h smaller of itnlk and ripens at about tho time of tho first frost. In fact, frost often occurs north of the Ohio river, before tho cars ire dry enough to bo secure from injury thereby. So the cutting of the "atalfc Mid all" is often Imposed as a necessity that the cars may be saved from the ll'ccts of tho frost nnd permitted to bar i?n and dry in tbo shocks. Another reason for the Northern practico is found in the necessity of providing a more ibundaut store for feeding their moro mimerons animals during their lung lud severe winters. It has often been urged that the prac tice of stripping the blades as with us, is injurious to tbe corn und should bo liscontinued. Wo have no doubt that :orn in often seriously injured and ?some Limes to tbo extent of tbo value of tbe Fodder. But where the Bcasons have been ;ood and the cultivation regular, fodder pulled at the right stage of tho corn will not seriously hurt the latter. On land abounding in vegetable matter, tho car itself is usually the first to give indica tion of maturity and of the approaching death of the plant, the blades continu ing green until the grain ?h well glazed, tho shuck tins begun to brown and be come loose. No possible harm can re sult if the fodder nulling is deferred un til this period, ana but little, loss will be occasioned even if the blades be pulled some days earlier. This ripening of the ears of corn ie quite analogous to tbo ripening of all finita and vegetables which occurs bef?te the foliage has turned brown from approaching death and decay. It is to bo regretted that the supply of our available cured forage is too often measured by the yield of blade fodder from tho regular field crop of corn. The supply from this source is generally in sufficient to more than supply work Block?mules and horses?aud is often far short of this demand. Corn forage, or corn sown very thickly on rich land and cut and cured as they do in the. North, would yield a far more abundant and cheaper, if not belter, forage than the blades. Tbe latter makes excellent foddor, hardly excelled by the best bay but the quantity i- always short cf whal tho demand should be. The truth is, Southern farmers feed too much grain and too little hay. They huvo been too much accustomed to consider fodder, hay, shucks, etc., as merely intended to "fill up." Long forage docs serve this purpose, but supplies a very consider able portion of the nutrivo elements of food, and in proportion to quality will relieve tho necessity for grain and at greally less expense.?Southern World, ? The number of deaths from light ning this year is twice as great as'the records of last year show, and from all sections of the country accounts are re ceived of destruction of property and live stock. The euu-spot theory is again resorted to in explanation of tho In creased electrical disturbances, and in lieu of a belter ono may he accepts, but none tbo lees should owners of houses and bams look to the condition, of their lightning rods. An examination once or twice a year may save much, money and many lives. May the good worl^ begun by St. Ja cobs Oil continuo u-.itil rheumatism and neuralgia have be ?u banished from tbe earth.? Albany tjji, ,) Frets and Knioi. trbocker. >.???* IE XVIII.?NO. 6. Sews and (?osslp. ? New com is being contracted for at twenly-live cents a bushel in Texas. ? An Atlanta druggist says there aro 2,000 confirmed opium-eaters in tbut city. ? North Carolina lie?.* leads the South* ern States in tho number of her cotton mills. ? colored man living in Giles coun ty, Tenti., is the father ot fifty-four chil dren, forty-nino of whom are living. ? It takes tho whole Legislature to changa a man's nume. A woman can change hers by the act of a single man. ? Near Hemma, Ln., lives a thirteen year old girl who has growing un tier face a light brown beard about two inches long. ? Statisticians of Texas say lier corn crop this year will amount to 14,000,000 bushels. Tliis is six times greater than ever before. ? Ah eminent German surgeon has delivered the opinion that Gen. Garticld'a donili was due to the medical treatment he received. ? It is estimated that every year there uro from 1,200 to 1,000 railroad employes killed and from 5,000 to 10,000 injured in Ibis country. ? "I really believe my wife thinks I'm inly lini t baked," said the sad-faced man, 'lor she always gives me d warming when l corno home. ? Gen. Sam. T. Cury is reported as laying that "Tho Greenback party is lead as a smelt, and there is no unity of lentimont in it." ? A California young man, hugging lis aged grandmother, forgot that it ivasn't his sweetheart, und broke four of he old lady's ribs. ? A country paper speaks of a man ?vho "died without the aid of a physi :inn," and adds that "such instances of icuth arc very rare." ? A black walnut grove that was planted by a Wisconsin farmer about wenty years ago on ? waste land was recently sold for $27,000. ? Sixteen tliousa id men are now em ployed in railroad construction iu Flor dn. Highly thousand people have set led in the State iu tho past ten years. ? A young man in Indianapolis, whoso :eal outruns his common sense, has vow id that ho will never vote until his ninth* and sister can accompany him to tho mile. ? A Georgia editor tells us a story ihoul a cattish twenty three feet long, vliich died from swallowing a calf, tho ionia proving indigestible. So docs tho tory. ? "Do you belicvo in signs ?"asked he shopkeeper. "Well, yes, I used to," aid Fogg; "but sinco you placed in your rindow, 'Selling for less than cost,' I have weakened considerably." ? There nre only (100 persons to each ihysician in tho United States. The [odors should bo more careful ot their latients. First thing they know there iron't bo patients enough to go around. ? "Mamma, what makes angels?"ask" d a lituo boy, who had been reading of he heavenly inhabitants. Tho mother ;lanced out into the orchard, aud, with a ramine look, solemnly replied: "Un* ipo fruit, my dear." ? An elderly man in Boston is so po lle and loving that when he is dining vitli a young buly of his heart ho puts yrup on his bald head to attract the lies and prevent them from annoying icr. ? When tho wife of a candidalo be limi already to pay back tea nod cofleo lorrowed six years ago, it may bn Bet lown as a fixed fact that her husband vili make Ilio race even if ho fails to get he regular purty nomination.?Texas liftings. ? A rich, vaunting and eomcwhat irai illesa millionaire was recently boas ing in the presence (lf the Bishop of 'etereborough that he had given .?2,000 cgulnrly yearly to the poor. "Thai's ho largest insurance against fire that I vor heard of," remarked the witty deri si. ? A member of the Maino Legislature ad been courting an August** girl all noter, and had taken her to attend the essiotiB until she was woll posted iu tho ulea. On tho last day of the session, as hey caino, near tho peanut atand by the oor, be said to her: "May I offer you iiy handful of peanuts?" She responded : ? movo to amend by omitingoll after tho ford 'hand.' " Ho blushingly accepted ho amendment and they adopted it tnanimoualy. ? It is Huid that fourteen million mell?is of sweet potatoes will bo raised Georgia this Beaeon, and how to dis loee of the crop is a problem. Two at empia at aolution are mentioned in the Ulnula Const Hut ion. One is that freight ates be made low enough to make Wcs ern shipments profitable. The total :rop weighs near half a million tons, ind to carry auch a freight should bo an ibjcct to any company which could mndlo it and tako it to market, where air prices are eure to obtain. The other lolution ia to use an evaporator and dry he potato, by which operation only ibout 15 per cent, of the weight is lost. ? In the course o? a lecture at Now claven the oilier evening, upon the cus oms and religion of his race, the llev. Thomas S. Dana, au educated Indian, nado this singular statement: "The Indians never cook anything in tho louse where they live. They cook on t lido, and they give as a reason that if .hey cook inside the steam collects in heir clothing nnd draws the lightning. Whether this is so or not I do not know, jut I know that an Indian wigwam ia lever struck by lightning, nnd no Indian ins been killed by lightning in a hun ?red years." It is quite possiblo that vigwarns are seldom or never struck by ightning; but why a whole race should le exempt wherever they may roam limply because their low habitations Ion t attract destruction is, to say the east, hard to explain. ? We fear the articlo we publiahed in regard to girls who kiss dogs has been taken wrong, by some. We have a del icately scented note?not scented liko log, nowover?from & Chicago girl, who Is indignant. She says she had rather kiss a dog any time than a man. That is all right. It is only a matter of taste. If the man she refers tosmolls liko a dog, and has fleas, and his eyes run. and he licks himself instead of washing, wo don't blame her. Of course ehe knows more about him than we do. But if a nice clean man should come her way, a man with the modern improvements, who could kiss back, which a dog can't, we will bet she would drop her dog like a hot po tato and freeze to the man like tho ivy to the osk, and she would forget all about her dog. Try it once, sis, and you will sell your dog to the first butcher that comes along.?Peek's