Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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BY OLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. . DO PEOPLE RE?LL. EVER EXCEL THEMSELVES? One is'tempted to believe so while looking through the Tremen ? dons; Stock of Sadies' and Children's Goods with which .Hiss Lizzie "Williams has just returned from Northern Markets. 1 I HE taste nod care displayed in the present selection outrival even her grandest successes in .':he past, and her reputation! as a skillful Buyer, which has heretofore been uriequalkd, seems, if-possible, to increase in strength greatly, to the delight of her juatome*/, who are benefited more than herself. To see is lo admire i And to hear a quotation from prices is to wonder 1 Such Style ! Such-quality 1 And in return for such a small amount of money 1 Was .he-like ever iseen before t If not, come to the? I^aciies' Store ! SULLIVAN & CO'S. >.... ?Bf|p?end a -cordial invitation to any of our Friends who come to the City to call in and see us. Tfiey certainly owe it to them? selves to let no jshance pass to buy thejr^s ^ ^ Merchandise Right!! We liave a. JTzmXI Line of STAPLE AND SEASONABLE GOODS! >:'; PRESENT indications-warrant the belief-that ? a large Fall-trade will te^realized,- and-we have hu: .... : ??'''-???'?'. ?? ??" --. ; .-: /.. 'never, before since ;Our start in . business 'used ? more caution in buying and-ejecting'onr stock. !i Discounting every dollar's worth" ofgoods that '*'?. ? come into'oar house, whether it be'Groceries or . p^;.Qp^o^^E'|^eDable8wtovmeet'-any a?d all 'competitibn;' ^ ?'"''" "? "' ^-:v." ?^'?^?y-y^l '* -"Come, in then, and you will- find ns;with our ~^'.:'-\';'5! hands out of our pockets. Come in, and if we . :f": ' don't give you causejocongratulate yourselves, X:~2, : 'i^7?lWe?l t>pM?giz9, for we are here to .do busi ^^5^^tt^nK^^^?:ra?if right we-will make :' right>t :SM. ??i '?" t' . . . .With iank8 for past patronage,^we remain, ?-.?->> !.' Respectfully yours, ...?? f? i-? ^rffl GO_. ffi ?S^a a. ^ . aj I sgJI P3iz? f fi . a*-s.j tEj-i.flJ I ? * S ? 1* . ? ?tilt* ^ 1-5 Is sfAltwi Pis I! SIs-O < rl Ha|* H iL gJS S O O J- L ' O ? P5 ? C r/^. et rJ tv -g s go-So r? ? ^ ? I r^ o I ?P3 1__ ? CO w E have already received a big portion of our large stock of Lamps for this season, and they are constantly arriving : Library Lamps, Students' Lamps, Stand Lamps, Church Lamps, Store Lamps, Parlor Lamps, Kitchen Lamps cheaper than ever before. PAINTS, PABNTS, PAINTS! We have the largest and most complete line of Floor Paints, Carriage and Baggy Paints, Mixed House Paints, Enamel Paints in all shades, White Lead and Oil. Brashes, all sizes, from 10c up. - Don't forget that we keep the largest stock of? Drugs, Patent Medicines, Brushes, Combs, Toilet Articles Of al! kinds, including Perfumery, Fine Soaps, Face Powders', &c. I We will take pleasure in Bhowing you through our big stock. Call early and get a look at oar elegant line of Lamps. WILHITE & WILHITE. B. F. CRAYTON * SONS, No. 1 South Main Street, DEALERS IN FANCY GROCERIES. FRESH GOODS - BY EVERY TRAIi TE}A0HE}r$'Goi,UMN, -gg^ All communications intended for this Column should be addressed to D. H. RUSSELL, School Commissioner, Ander son, S. C._ We request all ihe teachers who have, taken books out of the Teacher's Library previous to November 1st to return them, as we wish to start in with the new school year. We are glad to note that the people of Shiloh, near Holland's Store, have em ployed Mr. W. It Earle to teach a ten months' school for them at that place. We thiuk they haveacted wisely, both as to the length of the term and the teacher employed, and we intend, at an early day, to look in on them. Another very significant fact that appears from the School Commissioner's Annual Report is that of the more than five thousand children attending the public schools of the County, only a little over two hundred have been learning the alphabet. This, to us, indicates pro? gress. It shows that the teachers have taken a step forward, and are economiz? ing time and labor by teaching the child to recognize words at once and quickly. And we hope the next report will show still less, for It is a great waste of time und labor to f-pend months teaching a child its alphabet when there is a shorter and a better mute to accomplish the desired end. No better investment of the same amount of money can be made by parents than, to put a few dollars into a fe w good newspapers for their children. We do not mean so much the great newspapers* of the day that are filled with sensational reports of crimes and tragedies, but those papers of a more solid, literary, histori? cal and biographical character like the Youth's Companion, of Boston, that are gotten up with special reference to the tastes and inclinations of the youth of the land, and which inculcate good, wholesome lessons in. morals and religion. Put a paper like this in reach of your T)oj8 and girls, and it wjll open up a new world to them, arouse their mental ac? tivities, and~8timulate them to new and different modes of habit and thought and speech. It will help them to realize that they are living in a world of wonderful opportunities and responsibilities, and, that they themselves have a part to per? form in the great drama o'f life. South Carolina, with'a population of over 1,000,000, and a taxable valuation of about $200,000,000, spends abont $428,000 on her public schools, while the new State of North Dakota, with a pop? ulation of 250,000, and a taxable valua? tion .of $70,000,000, spends over $576,000 on her public ecnooIsV^ South .Dakota, with a population of 350.000, and a tax? able valuation of about $91,000,000, spends over $1,000,000 on her public schools.' In other words our public schools costs us per capita about forty five cents, while the two States above mentioned are spending respectively $2 30 and $3 per capita. This is one of the causes of the rapid development of the resources of these Western Stales, and the vast stream of emigration that has its tide set in that direction. The principle of popular education is a thor? oughly engrafted American idea, and is one of the mainsprings of the marvelous and almost unbounded development of the material resources of the States to the north of us. In every community, and in reach of every man who is a bead of a family, stands the district school house, a prominent f-ai are of the neigh? borhood, a landmark to greet the eye, and not a poor, miserable subterfuge for a building, hidden in some obscure cor? ner as if hiding from the public gaze. We, of this State, are-lagging behind in the march of progress because of our nig? gardliness toward our common schools. They have been aptly termed "the peo? ple's colleges," and they are, in the senee that they are about the only "colleges" that seven eights of our boys and girls will ever enter, they are the only places where they will ever receive any train? ing for the great duties of life, any train? ing for the great conflict that lie just ahead of them. The State is spending to day over $2 50 per capita lor her stu? dents in pursuit of a higher education, and while we would not quarrel with her about that, we do speak out in the name of the children of the State?the hardy sons and daughters of the State?who are born to a heritage of toil, and ask for more money for our "people's colleges." We have done well with what we have had, it has almost worked wonders in the decrease of illiteracy, but we must do belter Htill, we must be able to em? ploy better teachers, and have longer J?fiiH, and reach every boy and girl in the land, and educate them in hand, heart and brain until we raise them "to the full measure of the stature" of intel? ligent men and women. To do this as it ought to be done, and must be done, requires more money, and surely South Carolina is not so poor that she can only pay forty-five cents for every man, woman and child within her borders?less than any other State in the Uniou. Texas, with au undeveloped empire within her borders, is yet developing a most mag? nificent sys'em of public schools, and it IB attracting to her limits the very best elements of American citizenship, and this, in the near future, will make her the Empire State of the Uuion, We have many advantages of climate and soil over her, but capital and population will pass us by, in a large measure, until we offer greater inducements in an edu? cational point of view. ? Dennis McCarty, one of the oldest men in Northern Iowa, died at his home near Fort Dodge, Thursday 7th inst.; aged 111 years. The old man was hale and hearty up to within a few hours of his death and retained full possession of his mental faculties to the last. He was a staunch Democrat and took great inter? est in the election. When informed of the result in Iowa he exclaimed: "Thank God, I can now depart in peace," and died a few hours af'erwards. ? It took seven years to mike a hand? kerchief for which the empress of RuEBia] paid $2,500. - NDEESON, S. C, TI Death of Col, Alfred Rliett. Charleston, Nov. 12.?Col. Alfred Rhett, one of the prominent figures in the war of secession in South Carolina, died this morning and was buried this after? noon. -Deceased was born in this city in 1838 and was a son of the great Barnwell Rhett, whose connection with the Char? leston Mercury is part of the history of the S'ate. He graduated at Harvard in 1860 and reached Charleston juBt after the passage of the ordinance of secession. He was commissioned a lieutenant in the First Battalion of Regular Artillery of the South Carolina Army, and was on duty at Fort Moultrie during the bom? bardment of Fort Sumter in 1861. From a lieutenant he rose rapidly totherankof Colonel of Regulars and served through the war with distinguished gallantry, having been captured at the battle.of Averysboro, the last battle of the war, After Anderson's evacuation of Fort Sumter Rhett was assigned to its com? mand, and was in charge when the moni? tors made their attack on the fort and were repulsed with the loss of the Keokuk and several others of the fleet. He retained command of - the fort until the operations of the Federal Army on Morris Island with General Gilmore'? batteries rendered the fortress untenable for artill? ery operations". Then Rhett's" Regulars were ordered to evacuate, and the fortress was put in charge of an infantry garrison, Gilmore's guns had 00 battered the walls that the casemate guus could no longer be worked. Rhett was afterwards placed in command of artillery defenses around Charleston, and remained in that position till the evacuation of the city, in Febru? ary, 1865. The incident of Col. Rbett'a life was his duel with Calhoun, an event that cre? ated much feeling in the South. Ransom Calhoun, a kinsman of the great John C. 'Calhoun, was a captain in the battalion of Regulars in vvhich ?hett was a lieu? tenant. The battery was on duty at Fort Moultrie when Anderson was being bom? barded. It was firing the /ed hot shells which set fire to the barracks in Sumter and fioally hurried Anderson's surrender. The shells were heated in a furnace near the guns and had to be handled very gingerly. Capt Calhoun, it is said, made some remarks to Lieut. Rbett reflecting upon his manner of handling the shells. This led to an unpleasant feeling on Rhett's part, and it was aggravated later by a reprimand which Calhoun is said to have administered on his lieutenant in the presence of the battery. Rbett chal? lenged Calhoun The latter declined the challenge, giving as his reason that the war was going on and his services were the State's, but offering to bold himself ready to meet Rhtet when the war ended. Rhett, who was a fireeater, like all his family, was very much exasperated, and took occasion at all social gatherings to denounce and berate Calhoun. Things went on for about a year in this way, but fioally, at the Charleston Club, Rhett began to berate Calhoun as usual, when Arnoldus Vanderhorst, one of Cal? houn'? friends, resented the insult that had been offered his friend, and challeng? ed Rbett to a duel". The two men met and exchanged shots, but neither were injured, and the affair was settled. It is then said that Calhoun changed his mind about fighting a duel. He said he could not afford to have bis friends involved in a quarrel on his account, and as he had announced that he could not fight a duel while engaged in the service of his State, he sent in his resignation and challenged Rhett. The challenge was promptly ac? cepted and the duel was fought. The battle ground was in the city limits. Calhoun appeared on the field in a dress suit of black ; Rhett in his Confederate uniform. Calhoun fell mortally wounded at the first shot and died within an hour. The duel created intense excitement here at the time. Some of Calhoun's friends denounced Rliett in unmeasured terms, and it is said tha,t one of them, a clergy? man, was so enraged that meeting Rhett on the street he threw off his clerical garb and dared him to challenge him. After the war Col. Rhett devoted his attention to rice planting. In 1876 be was elected Chief of Police of this city and served through two administrations. He was admitted to be the best Chief of Police the city ever had, He lost his place, however, after a six years' term, and at the time of his death v,as a Trial justice. During the earthquake, when the entire city was demoralized and living out in the streets and parks, the negroes in their religious frenzy made things so unpleas? ant to the whites that in many cases the latter were driven out of the squares. The police declined to interfere, or at least did nothing to preserve order. At that time Col. Rhelt was out of political life. He was iu the city, however, and at the request of the citizens he was clothed with police powers, mounted on 'i horse, and in a day or two had perfect peace and quiet restored in all the earth quake camp3. He was a man of unques? tionable courage. In an election held here in 1878 be quelled a mob of over 500 iofuri-tted ne? groes. He was his own enemy. Death resulted from a congestive chill, resulting from malaria, acquired last summer while plantinc rice in the country.?Dispatch to Columbia Register. An Admission of its Good Oualilios. An o'd line physician never recom? mends a proprietary medicine till he knows of its gor.d qualities and has prov? ed them. A well knowu conservator of the health writes: Marietta, S. C. "Allow me to offer you my experience with Dr. Westmoreland's Calisaya Tonic. [ have prescribed it in many cases of ireneral debility with marked success. In fact, I treated a case of torpid malarial fever with no other anti-periodic tonic or btimulant. It has proved all you claim for it in my hands, and has been perfectly satisfactory. M. L. West, M. D. Dr. Westmoreland's Calisaya Tonic is -<oltl by all druggist at fifty cents and a dollar si bottie. ? Id Belgium a des-crip^on of every colt mu't be scut to the government im? mediately after birth, [TJRSDAY MORNIN? Stand by the Local Mills, Editor Greenwood times: 1 am a farmer, pure and Bimply, am proud of my profession. Progress has been my watchword. I love my brother tillers of the soil, and my greatest desire has always been to see them aspire to that more elevated sphere to which they so justly belong. Actuated by such emo? tions I trust my brethren in and out of the Alliance will not charge me with arrogance or presumption if I venture a word of advice. Within the last few years all over this Southland, farmers have al? lied themselves in bonds of brotherhood believing that by united action we might belter our condition both socially and financially and at the same time fight down the Trusts and monopolies that have bo long oppressed us. The better cry, "Down with the Jute Trust," has been raised a?d reached all along the line, from the Old North State to Texas, and right nobly have we thrown ourselves into the breach, and as an Alii ance man, I have the most abiding con? fidence that we will stand by our colors, and never cease the fight until we see the last bale of the fleecy staple clothed in its kind. But my brother farmer in our zeal in fighting this one Itait; have we not become oblivious to the fact that in selling cotton seed to the Oil Trust we are aiding, abetting and encouraging the most gigantic monopoly in all the land? one before which the jute pales into insignificance. As a farmer, aa an Alliance man, I would infinitely prefer to surrender all we have gained in the jute rather than see our farmers contin? ue the indiscriminate sale for money consideration. Manure is the basis, the very foundation of Agricultural pros? perity: science and experience have taught us that the cotton, seed, or its product meal, has no superior, if an equal, as a fertiliser, then is it not suici? dal for the farmer to send his seed abroad, thereby impoverishing his. own soil to enrich that of other sections? When I joined the Alliance and got an inkling of its inner workings I felt that the era of better days was about to dawn, but when the season opened and I saw my brother Alliance men ton selling their seed to the oil Trust for the gain of a few paltry cents on the bushel, I con? fess that my confidence was shaken and could but exclaim, surely, surely they are killing the goose that laid the golden, egg. I have a notion that when a farmer sells his Cotton Efsed, for a itioncied consideration, he feels mean about it, he seems lobe conscious that he is com? mitting a great wrong; often tries to excuse himself by saying he needs the money to pay debts; to such I would say if you cannot pay your debts by ap? plying the seed upon your lands you never will get out of debt by selling them for money. The farmer should remem? ber that his land is (he only heritage he has to bequeath to p'osterityj and if he continues to strip it year by year of this ?reat source of fertility, when he is called away instead of leaving an inheritance upon which they may subsist in plenty, he simply entails poverty upon them. Now, brother farmers, and particularly brethren of the Alliance, what are you going to do about it? If you continue this policy you are placing an obstacle in the path of future prosperity which is simply insurmountable, you are under? mining the great source of Agricultural success. We see that local oil mills are being projected at Ninety Six, Green? wood, Abbeville, and other portions of the country. The public spirited gentle tlemcn who invested their capital in this enterprise of course expected to make money out of it, but the farmers, if they will do their duty will be mostly benefitted. We hold the life, the success, the very existence of the mills in our hands. Let me appeal to you by the ties that bind you to your wives and to a common country to stand by these local mills, cease to sell your seed to that great monopoly the oil Trust; the local mills have already caused an advance in the price of seed Eeveral cents over last year's prices, while the price of oil is ID to \2\ cents less. The Ninety-Six mill now in operation propose to give 1,100 pounds of meal in exchange for a ton of seed, also from all points within a reasonable distance to pay freight on seed and meal iu car lot. We have it fom scientific and agricultur? al authority that 750 pounds of meal is equal iu value for feed aod fertilizing to a ton of jaw seed. This is certainly a most liberal offer to those who expect to apply raw seed to their crops; in my experience I have found that 200 pounds meal applied per acre upon any crop gives belter results than the 22 bushels raw seed. Lei me again urge you my brother farmers, and especially brethren of the Alliance, to resolve never, no never at any price to sell your seed for money, but instead seud them to the local mills and exchange them for their meal and feed to your cattle or apply to your land. If these local mills fail, and they will without the united support of the farm? ers, the responsibility rests with us, but if we will come to the rescue and give them that support which they deserve, we will have the proud consciousness of having performed our whole duty to ourselves, our families and our country; those who are to come after us will bless us. I own no stock in any oil mill and have only been prompted to write the above by a sincere desire to benefit my brother farmers. Respectfully, R. A. Gkifpix. ? An esteemed correspondent has pro? pounded to us a question which involves a question in finance far too deep for our penetration. He fays: "A man arrived at El Paso. Texas, with a Hilver dollar in his pocket. He goes into a bur room, buys a drink aud gets in change a Mexi? can dollar, which is worth eighty five ceuts down there. He crosses the bridge into Mexico, gets a drink over there, planks down his. Mexican dollar and gels iu change a United Stales dollar, which is worth eighty five cents over there. In this manner he crosses back and forth until he has bought ?10 05 worth of whis? ky, and still has his dollar in bis pocket. ? Washington Post, James Edward Callioun's Willi The will of the lale James Edward Calboun has not yel been summitted to the Probate Court, but the contents of the will are known, The Milwood property, twelve thou? sand acres in Abbeville county and four thousand acres in Elbert county, includ? ing the Trotter's Shoals water power on Savannah river is left in equal parts to E. B. Calhoun, of Abbeville. John C. Calhoun, of New York. John C. Calhoun, of Florida. Benjamin P. Calhoun, of Florida. Miss M. M. Calhoun, of Atlanta. Andrew P. Calhoun, of Atlanta. Pat Calhoun, of Atlanta. The mouDtain lands, 1G5.000 acres, is divided into nine parts, to the seven persons named above, together with? Mrs. Maria Simpkihs Butler, of Edge field. Miss Isabelia Lee, of New York. The executor, Mr. Pat Calhoun, is authorized and directed to set off from the lands above named two small tracts, in such places as he may deem proper, as follows: To his Bervant, Carolina Calhoun,.150 acre&i To Edward Kelter, who had managed his farming interests for several, years, 150 acres. The will was signed October 19,1889. The testator died October 31,1889. The witnesses to the will were M. C. Butler, of Edgefield, Marcus H. Wood? ward and Jas. W.GVeD,bothof Atlanta, Ga. It is understood that it is the policy of Mr. Pat Calhoun, and of bis brother, Mr. John C. Calhoun, to endeavor to preserve the Abbeville and Elbert county property intact, aDd that they will seek the co operation of the other legatees in, an effort to induce capitalists to invest tbe ne&esary amount of cash to erect immense cotton factories cfl Trotter's. Shoals. A majority, of the legatees are believed to be well off in this world's goods, and it is supposed that they and some of their friends will organize a joint stock company to carry into effect oi\e of the most important' industrial enterprises with which this section of the South has ever been favored with. The fall in seven miles i3 135 feet; the supply of water is constant and inexhaus? tible?being supplied by never-failing mountain streams.. Another advantage lies* in the fact that because of the width of the river and swiftness of the current, the stream has, we believe, never been known to rise higher than seven feet above low water mark. The lands are higb on each Bide of the stream and the-water is never out of the channel. At present, the only questien is, as to tbe availability of the power, and the suitableness for factory sites. If compe? tent engineers should, find tbe water power available and the lands suitable for factory purposes, then there is no way to propetly estimate the value of tbiB property to any company of capitalists who may chooBe to improve tbe prop? erty. Recently the Savannah Valley Rail? road has run for miles through the edge of the lands, and near to the shoals, and it is now certain the Georgia, Carolina and Northern Railroad will crosB the estate at the head of the shoals at an early day?possibly within a year from this time. With the building of these railroads, and the utilization of this vast water, tbe increase in all the property in that sec? tion of tbe county will be immense. It has been the history of other remote sections that after the appearance of railroads, and after the building of fac toriee, that farming lands have gone up greater in price, and we see no reason to doubt that the rule would hold good in case tbe Trotter's Shoals property is im? proved. $1,000,000 or $2,000,000 invested in factories would make the lands of tbe estate of Mr. Calhoun, to say nothing of the water power, worth perhaps three times as much as they are at present. If the legatees are wise, they will co? operate with the Messrs. Pat and John C. Colhoun iu their effort to improve the property, to which they have so recent? ly fallen heir. If the estate is divided, and the water power destroyed, it is doubtful if it would bring the assessed value ?4.25 an acre. With the property improved, it would be worth possibly $20 an acre. By improving it the vast amount of timber might be profitably utilized.? Abbeville Frm and Banner. The Cnl) Way lo Become a Capital? ist. Somebody must save money, aud the people who save it will be the capitalists and they will control the organization of industry, and receive the larger share of the profits. If the workmen will save their money they may be not only sharers of profits, but owners of stock and re? ceivers of dividends. And the workmen can save their money, if they will. It is the only way in which they can perma? nently and surely improve their condition. Legislative reforms, improved industrial methods, may make the way easier for them, but there is no road to comfort and independence after all but tbe plain, old path of steady work and saving. If tbe working people of this country would save for the nest five years the money that they spend on beer and tobacco and baseball they could control a pretty large share of the capical employed in the in? dustries by which they get their living, they could turn the dividends of this capital from the pockets of tbe money lead.-rs into their own. There is no other way of checking the congestion of wealth and of promoting its diffusion so expedi? tious, so certain and so beneficent as this. I wish the working people would try it. ? A French statistician has just ascer? tained that a human being, of either s?x, who is a moderate eater, and lives to bs Bcveuly years old, consumes during the days of the years of his life a quantity of food which would rill twenty ordinary baggage cars. "A good eater," however, may require thirty. 889. Rebuked For Lying. The following letter waa written by Senator Hampton to Postmaster-General Wanamaker in reference to the appoint? ment of a postmaster for Columbia. The Senator sent a copy of it to Postmaster Gibbes, and by direction of its author, Major Gibbes banded this copy to the Columbia correspondent of the News and Courier for publication. It is known to be a fact, says that cor? respondent, although the Senator does not state it in his letter to the Postmaster General, that be was told by Wanamaker months ago that Mr. Edwin F. Gary, a moderate Republican of this city, who had received strong endorsement from the business community, should succeed Major Gibbes as Postmaster. In this also the head of the Postoffice Department failed to keep bia word. Mr. Clayton, an "Independent/' wa9 appointed for a reason which may be guessed. Senator Hampton's pen is pitiless, as Sherm an and others have found before now. His letter to Wanamaker, which follows, will maintain his reputation as an expert exposer of hypocrisy and cant: Glenn Allen, Miss., Nov. 8,1888. Hon. John Wanamaker?Sir: The enclosed extract from a South Carolina paper has caused me great surprise, for perhaps you may remember, if your memory is not treacherous, your assur? ance to me a few days ago that Mr. Gibbes should not be removed until the expiration of his term, in February next. Not only did you do this, but you volun? tarily assured me that inasmuch as Co? lumbia was my postofBce you would, when a successor to Mr. Gibbes was to be appointed, consult me. It is a matter of small importance to me who takes the place of Mr. Gibbes, but as I informed him, in passing through Columbia, of the promise you had made, you may,'perhaps, under? stand bow your action has. placed me in a false positiou, ' ? But it is fortunate for me tbat Mr. Gibbes will know that I, at least, told him the truth, though I was grievously deceived in believing what was said to me. I shall know better in future what reliance to place on statements emanat? ing from the same source. The newspapers state that besides man? aging the great department over which you preside, you are running a Sunday School in Philadelphia, and it occurs to me that you might, with profit to your? self, select as the most appropriate sub? ject of a lecture to your pupils the instructive story of Ananias and Sap phira. This would give you a fine field for your eloquence in explaining to your young charges the importance of confin? ing themselves to the truth, except where some fancied advantage might be obtained over a political opponent. I am your obedient servant, Wade Hampton. A Dog's Faithful SerTlce, Mr. Robert W. T. Denham died at West End this morning. With his death there is connected a strange story of a dog's devotion. The dog is not a famous breed accus? tomed to petting and fondling, but a lowly cross between a cur and a hound, and yet he exhibited a humane intelligence and fidelity. Mr. Robert Denbem, who lives on the Green Ferry road, near Westview ceme? tery, left his house yesterday morning with his dog and gun to take a Equirrel hunt. He had not proceeded a quarter of a mile in the woods when he was stricken with paralysis, and fell to the ground speechless and helpless. No human aid was near. He could not call to bis friends who were almost within bearing even if he could have uttered a sound. . His dog, his faithful and constant com pauion for many years, found him in that condition. Unable to move his master to his home, he could only stay by his side, which he did for mauy long weary hours which must have seemed days of agony to the suffering man. The dog watched and waited by his stricken friend, but human aid came not, and the day was near its close. Going to his master's house, he went iu and whining piteously, tried to attract the attention of the family. They thought nothing of his queer conduct at first, but as it continued, they began to notice his acts more closely. He would Btart away from the house whiuing and bark? ing, and going n Ouort distance, would return when he found they did not follow him. This he did as many as eight or ten times. Finally tbey decided to follow him, which, when he viiw, was furious with delight, and set off in a perfectly straight line through the woods. They came upon the old man lying in the woods unable to move, aud then tbey uuderstood the dog's actions. Tenderly they picked Mr. Denham up and carried him to the house. He lay in the same condition until early this morning, when his spirit left his frail tenement of clay at half past five. Dr. Longino says death was caused from paralysis.?Atlanta Journal. Strangled by a Dog. By a most singular accident a baby lost its life in Kentucky. John How? ard, a farmer, lives about two miles below Ludlow, opposite Riverside. His wife, while engaged in her household duties, set her 13 months-old child on the floor. The little one began playing with a puppy that happened to be in the room at the time. Fastened around the puppy's neck was a long, light chain that dragged on the floor. The baby and puppy were having a lively time when Mrs. Howard heard a bump. She looked around and saw the little playmates tangled up iu a heap, the puppy having pulled the baby over. The mother started to pick the child up, when she was horrified to find tbat its face was distorted and its body limp. She also found that during the play the loose end of the chain had in some way become wrapped around the baby's neck, chok? ing it to death in the presence of its mother. Every effort was made to restore respiration, but it was too late.? Cincinnati Enqiurer. ? Postal cards are made at the rate of four thousand per minute. VOLTTM Is There Too Much Learning ? There seems to be too much, of a kind of learning at least, in some countries ; and there is danger of the same overplus coming to us here, if it be not upon us already. A German professor has pub? lished a statistical book on the condition of educated men in Germany, and it is shown that a good tradesman, a brewer for instance, commands larger wages than a Greek professor. In Boston it is a common Baying that the head cook at a leading hotel receives larger pay than tbe president of Harvard College. There are, it appears, 29,000 Univer? sity students in Germany; and the sta? tistical professor says that at least 16,000 of these, when graduated, must enter on a life of hopeless poverty and disap? pointment. In the United States and Canada tbe number of youths receiving a college education is much larger, as, bsppily, are their opportunities. We are not overridden by militarism and officialism as Germany Is; and the wants of a new are vastly different from those of an old country. But, with all our demands, the supply of graduates is rising like a tidal wave. And not from the colleges alone, but from tbe academies and high schools, public and private, are rolling streams cf young men and women whose purely literary education has turned them from the ranks of skilled labor and sent them to recruit the standing army clerks, book keepers, salesmen, teachers, bad lawyers, typewriters, copyists, etc. Out of the academies and high schools we are getting absolutely no recruits for the manly skilled trades and crafts, such as carpenters, moulders, blaeksmitbe, turners, glass-blowers, machinists. The average graduate, is "above n. trade;'" but he will iearn as the yean; pass and the cares increase that the tradesman and craftsman are above him in wages, comfort and independence. The clerk and salesman and type writer are helpless people when employment' fails. The skilled man has no fear of want; he is always in demand here or there. There 'is a risk of having too much learning of the unskilled kind. There is as much learning and knowledge and honor in knowing bow to make or do a thing as in memorizing a date or acquir? ing a literary taste or a "style of writing." We need schools to train the hands as well as to train the mind. It is as easy for children to apply mathematics to mo? tion, force and mechanics as to apply arbitrary rules of grammar to a sentence or to fasten lists of dry as dust dates in the memory. We fear that many schools, public and private, are guilty of the grave error of teaching or implying that literary or {esthetic learning is higher and more desirable than practical, skillful or sci? entific learning. At any rate, the aver? age graduate is found to discredit tbe soiled hands and oily clothes of tbe sturdy and independent mechanic, and to prefer and select for himself the life of the adorned clerk or salesman, who spends all his earnings on living and clothes, to find himself at thirty-five or forty years of age, when the young spring has gone, a discredited, dependent, hope? less individual. We canDot have too many colleges for the classics and aesthetics so long as we have enough skill and science. The latter are the column, tbe former tbe capital. Tbe manual training school is the plant, the literary 6chool is the flower. A building all capitals and no columns or a plant all flowers and no stem is an abortion.?Boston Pilot. Good Alanners. Every young person should pay much heed to manners. Of course, good char acter is better than good manners. Many a pure-hearted young person is very awkward, lacking winsome ways, while many a deceitful, false hearted person has very elegant manners. Yet there is no reason why goodness should be ungraceful. Indeed, there is every rea? son why a pure, beautiful spirt should ?produce the most beautiful manners. In a sense, the heart makes the man? ners. A boy or a youDg man who is rude and unrefined in his feelings, with? out thoughtfulness or kindliness of spirit, is eure to be rude and unrefined in bis manners. A vain, selfish girl or youDg woman shows vanity and selfishness in her treatment of others. On the other hand, a heart that is gentle and thought? ful will reveil its sweet spirit in all the acts of the life, even to the lowest people. The Bible is, therefore, one of the best books on manners, because it teaches us tb3 law of love, and love working from tbe heart outward transforms the whole life. In another sense, however, good man? ners have to be learned. Every borne should be a school in which children shall be trained to be courteous, respect? ful, and polite. There are mauy things that cannot be taught too early. Table etiquette, for example, can never be learued so easily as when the child is beginning to use knife and fork and spoon. Eudeness permitted then will ba sure to cling to one's manners in after years. Young people should be ever on the alert to watch how refined persons act, and thus learn from observation what the rules of politeness require. Every boy Bhould know that the lifting of his hat when he meets a lady with whom he is acquainted is essential to true politeness, There are many other little marks of good manners. You should never interrupt another person who is speaking; wait till he pauses before you reply. Never pry into another's matters. Never speak unkindly of one who is absent. Do not fail to thank another for any kindness received. Some young men who are very polite to ladies iu general are positively rude in their own home to their mother and sisters. This shows that their politeness in society is only affected. Some young women act in public iu such a way as to draw attention to themselves and excite criticism and remark. Thus they prove their ill-breediug. True refinement in a lady is modes'., quiet, unobtrusive?Ex change. E XXIV.- -NO. 20. ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS. ? Salt Lake, in Utah, is reported ta-be"J eight feet and a half lower than it was 2 years ago. ? He who reigns wilhin himself, and rules his passions.desires and fean?, it more than a king. ? A man in San Francisco laughed oo heartily at one of his own jokes that he fell to the floor dead. ? James McMillin, of Bardwell, Ky., is said to have documentary evidence that he is 113 years of age. ? Iu Madagascar you can keep house, "0 live well and have three servanis-^of^ about 75 cents a week. ? The Bible has been printed in j twenty-nine different languages to Bupply the people living in Pennsylva? nia. ? Personal work for Christ is a vague J expression. Go and do something for some needy fellow creature. That is defi? nite. ? The United States are producing forty-eight per cent, of the world's silver * and nearly .thirty-three per cent, of its gold. ? Iceland is entirely Protestant. It. has 700,000 people, and possesses neither theatre, police, prison nor even a justice of the peace. ? The policemen of England and Wales, if brought together, would form a great army. They number over, thirty seven thousand. ~~ ?We live longer than Methuselah, fcr we know more, do more, are more in seventy years than he knew, did. or was.' in his nine hundred and sixty-ninib year. ? Can a man marry his deceased . wife's sister in any part of America ? Not unless the sister is willing, and as a gen-. /; eral rule, Bhe isn't. She knows him too well. . . ? "> ? The Rev. Ellis Howell/of Marshall,- :/ 111., has just married bis one thousandth . couple. He is eighty-five years old and has been in the ministry nearly half a 'century. ? Flowers can be kept fresh eome time . if a pinch of soda or saltpetre is added to<?;?/' the water. Wilted roses will regiin their , freshness if dipped a minute or -two in j.^: hot water. ? President Harrison takes a'five or " '. six mile walk every Sunday afternoon b i; Z ; tweeu 4 and 6. This is the only day that he is able to get all the time to himself . tbat he wants. ? Chicago has two women for police. ? We will wager a nickel they have a broom stick for their billy and when they go to take a man to the lock-up they'll take him by the hair. ?In Cashmere 30,000 shawls are made yearly. It takes three men a year to weave a pair. It takes ten goats to fur?; nish the material for a shawl one and a half yards square. ? Two Mormon preachers have been . whipped and run out of Birmingham. A female preacher, at the same place, is supposed to be a man in woman's clothes ~~ and they are hard after her. ? Sam Jones says: "Next to a pretty woman, I love a fast horse." We don't; . When we are next to a pretty woman we want a slow horse?one of the kind you have to build a fire under to start him. ? In the Philadelphia'schools thirty thousand girls are being taught how toy sew, and about the same number how to ': cook. The young man of the^near future will know where to look for a ? wife. ? A Salem county, N. J., farmer, . John Robeson, caught a strange bird re? cently. It is said to have pa face like a monkey, is about the size of a gr^i fowl and has plumage of a wondrou^f varied hue. ~-^~>* ? It is not the number of acres that a man skims over that makes brn either a large or successful farn. ;r. It is what he~^ makes net, above cost of producubn, for his own toil and interest on the capital invested. y-.. . ? The manufacture of artificial cone^gA from burnt flour or meal is carried in in | Cologne, Germany. The artificial beans ~s are made in special devised machines, and resemble closely in appearance the natu- , t ral one. ? An army of fifty thousand squirrels."i has been passing over the mountains and I valleys of Clinton county, W. Va., for the M past three weeks. Hundreds have been B slain by a large number of hunters eager 1 for sport. <? Novia Scotia is remarkable for^tfcg^-2 number of its old people. It has a larger population of centenarians than any oth? er country, there being one to every 19, 000 inhabitants, while England has only one in every 200,000. ? "Tell me, Charlie, darling," said she" shortly after their marriage, "do you love me as much as ever?" "Yes in-" deed." "And do you find anything in the world dearer than your wife?" "Nothing unless it is the house rent," said Tmar^ lie. ? A bill has been introduced in the Georgia Legislature designed to extermi? nate the Fox. It proposes to appropriate^ 25 cents for every scalp of a fox, and cents for tbat of every wild cat, deliver* to the Ordinaries of the various couj ties. ? There seems to be a contest amoiig.^5j the States in respect to which one hksy^ living within its borders the oldest twins. Massachusetts claims the cni pionship with Mrs. Sallie Cole and Mi Hepzibah Everett, of Dedham. They*; weie born in 1767. ? A Georgian?Georgians, by thj way, have been aptly termed the yankeea of the South?has invented a cotton cov? ering that has at least one advantage so . much sought for, it is the product of the cotton plant. It is like tough paper, and - is made of the fibre of the stalks andjhft^, hulls of the seed, and is supported on the | outside by a wire mesb. It h said to be ? water and fire proof, and is also cheap, ? ;. It was on exhibition at the Atlanta ex? position. The Ladles Delighted, The pleasant effect and the perfect. safety with which ladies may use the liquid fruit laxative, Syrup of Figs, under all conditions make it their favorite remedy. It is pleasing to the eye and to the taste, gentle, yet effectual in acting on the'kidneys, liver and Bowels. -.?