The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, February 12, 1891, Image 1

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BY GLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. fiYLYBSTEB BLECKLEY, JOS. J. FRETWELL, J. H. VoK HASSELN, President and Treasurer. Vice President. Secretary. DIRECTORS: SYLVESTER BLECKLEY, JOS, J. FRETWELL, FRED. G. BROWN, "WILLIE R. OSBORNE, JAMES T. PEARSON. J. H. Von HASSELN. SYLVESTER BLECI Incorporated Dec. 30, 1S90. GENERAL MERCHANDISE, BUGGIES, WAGONS, Guano, Cotton, Bagging and Ties, and IJMZTTXiES ANDERSON, S. C, Jan. 1st, 1891. ; ; ^ChE oIcI Firm of Sylvester Bleckley Co. having dissolved, a brand new Joint ?Jtock Company has been organized and duly incorporated. The Company proposes to keep for sale, and have now in stock, at the old ?^ >=irta_d, a large stock of? GENERAL MERCHANDISE, v Which will be sold CHEAP FOR CASH, or on Time to prompt paying custo- j .mere. We will be pleased to see all of our old friends and customers, and shall en? deavor to merit a continuance of the patronage so liberally bestowed upon the old Finn in the past. Our President, Mr. Bleckley, who has so long and successfully steered the ship, is still at its helm, and will continue to guide hor in safety through ?tonn and weather. POLITE ATTENTION TO ALL. kW&i-v *JB@- Please call and examine our Goods and Prices. SYLVESTER BLECKLEY COMPANY I SELLING OUT AT COST. Contemplating a Change in Business WC- ? Are offering their entire Stock of DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, BOOTS AND SHOES At and Below Cost fur the next 60 days. y So come on and be convinced, for low prices will tell the tale. We have on 'ihand $1800 worth of Clothing which must be sold, and the present prices will Boon : ? <do the work; so if you are needing anything in the way of Clothing now is your time to buy. Will sell Quilts, Blankets and Jeans cheaper than any house in the city. Our line of Dress Goods is complete?-Worsted from 4*c to 20c, and Ca3hmere r . Aooa 16c to $1.00. -All kinds of Plain and PJaid Flannels "at the lowest prices. : : Calico, Gingham and Checks almost at any price, co come oa and buy before these bargains are all gone. BIG STOCK OF FLOUR. Remember, in buying, that we carry as big line of Groceries as any house in the upper part of the State, and also will sell as cheap as the cheapest. Our stock . <of Flour, Sugar, Coffee, Molaises, Tobacco, Hay and Bran are all fresh, and bought :at the lowest figures, and will be sold the same way. We have just received a Car Load of Pure Brown Oats that will be sold ve?y ?cheap. We keep on hand at all times all kind of Canned Goods, such as Tomatoes, .Tears, Peaches, Peas, Okra, Cherries, Pine AppleB, Oysters, Salmon, Sardines, Totted Ham aod all kinds of Jelly and Pickles. Be snre and get our prices before buying, and you will be convinced that we can save you money. 1 ;.? ' ' ' ? . . Very respectfully, ZEL *W. BROWIsT & sonsrs. P. S,?We are CASH COTTON BUYERS, and also Agents for High Grade FERTILIZERS. See us before selling your Cotton. E. W. B. & S. -, ; ; _____?- , ? _. ix*** :>'?- . MY COLLECTING HORSE WILL TAKE A NEW START ON CrA_.TT7J_.-R_r 1. 1891. AND if you OWE me anything, and don't want him to come to sec you, you can avoid the annoyance by coming to see me FIRST WEEK IN JANUARY, 1891. "My instructions to my Collectors is to make the MONEY, or stay with you until he GETS IT. So don't blame him if he takes your Horsa or Cow. 1 TOLD HIM TO DO IT. My Creditors want what I owe them, and I must have the Money from you to pay them off. Your prompt attention will SAVE EXPENSES. This is piain talk, but MEANS BUSINESS. J_ S_ FOWLER o for infants and Children. "C_*torlaISBOWeH adapted to children that 3 Caatorla enree Colic, Constipation, known to me." H. A. Auchh?, SI. D., f gestio-, 111 So. Oxford St, Brooklyn, N. Y. | Without injurious meditation. Tim C_stacr Cozpast, 77 Murray Street, N. Y. ?3 I HAVE associated with me Mr. T. A. ARCHER, well known to you all. We are prepared to do all kiuds of work in Sheet Met;:!, and wo respectfully ask you patronage. We sell Stoves, Tinware, Guns, Rifles and House Furnishing Goods. Coma and see us, and we will convince you we mean busioesa. J_oo?fing and Guttering and puttiag up Heaters a Specialty. SEEL & AEOHEE. Jan 3,189! 27 ly T???H^'?otUMN, All communications intended fo this ^olumn should be addressed to C. WARDLAW, School Commissioner, An? derson, S. C. MEMORY GEMS. "Politeness is like an air cushion; there may be nothing in it, but it eases the jolts of life wonderfully." "True politeness is to say. The kindest thing in the kindest way." HISTORY QUESTIONS. When was the first steamboat built, and by whom ? When floated, on what river, and what was its name ? When did the first steamship cros3 the Atlantic ocean, and what was its name? When and where was the first railroad j built in the United States, and how long was it? When was the first Legislative assem? bly elected by the people in America, and when and at what place did it con? vene? What iB meant by "Old Style," which is sometimes used in speaking of dates ? Who named Carolina ? Wheu was Columbia made the capital of South Carolina? What boy or girl will send me the cor? rect answers to the above ? MEAND EBINGS. We have visited the schools in Rock Mills and Hopewell Townships. Ridge Spring school is taught by Miss Lizzie Shirley, who is doing some good work. I am glad to hear that her school house has boon repaired. Since my visit Mr. C. M. Barrett, who is in charge of Willi ford's Store school, has a good house, with a very interesting set of pupils. Miss Eddie L. Davis is doing a very thorough work, but she could do more of j it if her patrons would make her school house comfortable, and supply it with good black-boards, &c. I notice from the books and reports of Teachers in Rock Mills that the attendance of the pupils is very irregular, and I would direct the attention of the parents to that fact. This should not be the case. The children should be required to attend regularly, and thus increase the average attendance in your District, and to that extent increase the amount of money you receive from the two mill tax. It would also add to the progross of your children. Think of this and make your attendance as large as you can. In Hopowell I find the Bchools very full. Miss Nettie Hall, who is the teacher at Cross Roads school house, has a very large school, and is doing a work that deserves appreciation. Miss Lottie Crosby, at Hopewell school house, has as many pupils as one teacher can manage well. Sbe is very much liked by her patrons, and is worthy of their good will. Miss Leila Russell's school house, at Mid* way, has all it can accommodate. She is assisted by Miss May Neal. Her school house is the best equipped of any house I have entered outside of the city. She is an excellent teacher, and is doing a good work that will tell for good. Miss Leila Browne is at Trinity school. Her school, while not as full as the others, has as many as one teacher can do jus? tice to. Miss Leila is doing some as good work as can be found anywhere. The Anderson Female College, under the efficient managemout of Misses Mag? gie Evans, Varina D. Brown, Lucile Nardin and Miss Lois Watson, is doing a work the result of which will compare favorably with the bost Colleges in this country. The discipline is very fine, indeed their pupils seem too busy to find time for anything exce^ the preparation and recitations of their lessons. The Home School, in this city, with Miss Lenora C. Hubbard as Principal, and Misses Gussie Hubbard, Gena Ben? son, Minnie Gadsden and Minnie Wilson as assistant-, is an educational institu? tion of which any community might justly be proud. It is almoBt a thor? oughly graded school. The recitation rooms in this school are busy scenes from 9 o'clock a. m. to 2 p. m. There are many things I would like to say of the methods adopted in this school, but my limited space will not permit. However, I will say that the different branches are taught with such correctness and thor? oughness that it is impossible for a pupil to fail to get a clear idea of the- lessons studied. The colored school known as Taylor's school, in Centerville, is crammed full, one hundred and twenty-four being the number enrolled. L. A. Jenkins is the principal, assisted by E. J. Thayre, They are doing as well as could be ex? pected under all the circumstances. The writer has enjoyed his visits to the echools very much, and is very much pleased with the earnest, faithful work that is beiug done. INTEREST YOUR PATRONS.. It i3 impossible to get the best results from a school in which the patrons are not actually interested. I so often hear tho complaint that the patrons are not interested iu the school. I am so often asked how can the patrons be interested ? Wake up, fathers and mothers! Is it possible that some stranger?a teacher? who comes into your vicinity, has more iuierest in the development of your children than yon yourselves have? What means this lack of interest on the part of parents? Farmers, do you treat your fields with as much indifference as you treat th* minds of your children? Is it possible that there is a father or mother in this, the banner County of the State, who visits his tenant or laborer and overlooks his work cfioncr than he or eh;.1 visits the school -^nd tcauher, and seer; what kind of work is being done on tho luinds of tho children ? Do not bc lieva you aro not needed and wanted at the school house. Visit the schools as oftcu as you can find spare time, and if you cannot find spare time, sparo some time and go anyhow. It will please the teacher, and intensify and increase the interest of your children. Go and sit for an hour or two cm the hard, uncomforta? ble benches you have provided for your children, aud sen if you do not think they could and should bo rnado more comfortable. Try to use a black-board ANDERSON, S. C, that ia eo slick that you cannot make a decent mark on it with the chalk, and then think the progress of the children demand something better. The first real cold day call in to see if you don't think the school house is a little too "airy." But this is not telling the teacher how to secure the interest of the patrons. If necessary to get them started, arrange a Bpecial programme for some afternoon, and extend pressing invitations to the patrons to call that afternoon. Repeat this if necessary, and "they will eventu? ally become so interested that they will not wait for an invitation, but will drop in at any time. The press is an important factor in helping secure and keep the patrons interested." Write up your school, give some account of your work, keep your school before your pa? trons. Visit the patrons and enlist their co-operation. Keep them informed of the progress of their children, and you will find in them at least some response to your own interest in the work of pre? paring the children for usefulness in this world, and happiness in the world to come. ? _ Get your pupils to send me answers to the questions asked through this Column. The Charts recently ordered and ship? ped to me have arrived. Call and get them out.as soon as possible, and put them to work. It is my purpose in the future, each week, to head this Column with one or more "Memory Gems." I hope every pupil in the County will commit them to memory. I have received from Mr. M. N. Mitchell a lot of questions for the his? tory class, but as we would not have room for answers to so many, I will only give a few at a time as I may have space. The patrons of the Centennial school, in Belton Township, are perfectly de? lighted with the work being done by Miss Julia D. Roberts. She has a good school, in which the patrons are inter? ested. She is a teacher. If any of tho schools need supplies, either of maps, black-boards, seats, or any other help or furniture needed in a school room, they will find it to their in? terest to confer with me before buying. Remember this, Trustees. I am very glad to note the improve? ments that are being made on the school houses throughout the County. The children should be made comfortable if we expect the best results. One other thing I would like to see in every school room is a full supply of good blackboards. This is also essential to the best results. Every teacher will agrao with me in this. The education of the children is what we should seek most of all things in the school room. And no teacher can do his or her best work without1 a comforta? ble room, supplied with good black? boards. You had just as well put a car? penter, or blacksmith, or any other work? man to work without tools. There can be no better investment of money or labor than that expended in getting blackboards. I have au offer from a dealer to supply the schools of this County with the beat slated cloth, (which makes the beBt blackboard one can get, except real siato stone) at one dollar a yard. It is a yard wide, and three yards would make a splendid board. Let me insist on good blackboards. I shall be glad to assist the patrons or Trustees of any school in getting whatever they may need in improving their schools. A Revengeful Monkey. An amusing story is told of a monkey and a cockatoo in the Zoological Gardens in Washington. One day the cage of the cockatoo was put on the top of the cage of a 7ery intelligent monkey. The monkey, undisturbed by the presence of his gorge? ous neighbor, went flying about, as usual, most actively. In the course of his movements his tail went through the top of his cage and lay against the side of Miss Cockatoo's cage. She immediately caught it with beak and claw3, and the poor monkey screamed and struggled to free himself. When at last he did free himself, the hair was torn from his tail, and for some days he Buffered. The cockatoo was moved across the aisle. Somebody had given the monkey a small piece of a mirror, which he greatly enjoyed. One day &3 he hold the mirror a ray of sunlight struck it and blinded him for a minute. Tho reflection danc? ed about from place to place, to the monkey's delight, at last striking the cockatoo's cage, who gave a frightened scream as it struck her eyes, for it blinded her. The monkey by this time had learned to direct rays, and for over half an hour the cockatoo was chased from sido to side and from top to bottom of her cage by tho blinding flash, the mon? key evidently enjoying her fright. He could not be diverted until a passing cloud mado the bit of mirror useless as a meanB of annoyance.?St. Louis Presbyk' rian. State of Ohio, City of Toledo, \ Frank J. Cheney? makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State afore? said, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every cas6 of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall's CATARRn Cure. Sworn to boforo me and subscribed in my presence, this Glh day of Decomber, A. D. I8SG. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Seud for testi? monials, free. F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, 0. BS^old by Druggists, 75c. ? At L"ir next presidential election, in 1892, tho largest number of States that ever v.olod will then vole, a3 wc have now forty-four States in the Uniou, six hav? ing been admitted within tho last two years. FRANK J. CHENEY. A. W. OLEASON, Notary Public. THURSDAY MORI BILL ARP'S CHAT. The Philosopher's Advice- to those Con? templating Marriage. Atlanta Constitution. I am going to build a pigeon house. It seems to be a long-felt want. A squab fell down from the coping of the chimney yesterday, and Mra. Arp had it cooked for the little orphans, and I heard her telling the children how her pa had a great, big pigeon house and hundreds of pigeons, and they had great dishes of squabs to eat all the year round, and how nice old Aunt Peggy could cook them, and they were better than chicken or partridges, or anything else. Every once in a while Bhe discourses these children on the joys and luxuries of her childhood. She tells them about the fish-pond and the de? parks, and the bucks and does and fawns, and how she petted one, and it would come at her call and eat from her hand, and how they had vension whenever they wanted it, and old Aunt Peggy could beat anybody cooking vension. And how they milked eight cows, and Aunt Sally made great churn's full of butter, and how they killed about a hundred fat hogs every winter and what a big time it was drying up the lard and making sausages and smoking hams and shoulders, and mid? dlings in the high topped smokehouse. And about the big potato patch where they made enough potatoes for the white folks and a hundred negroes besides, and her pa kept them sound and sweet until the patatoes came again. And she tells about the big plantation on the Chatta hooche and the ferryboat, and the fish traps and the bluffs all covered with lau? rel, and the big gin house, and how she used to ride around on the long beams and pop the whip at the horses as they went round and round under the cogwheels and how little Ben fed the gin and big Ben picked the cotton, and old Uucle Jack wore number fourteen shoes and his feet spraddled out nearly straight and made a path a yard wide wnen he walked through the field, and so he wasn't allow? ed to hoe corn, but waB kept at the ferry or in the blacksmith shop on the river bank. And how she learned to spin and to weave and wore home-made linsey woolsey dresses, and could plait a shirt bosom or tuck a dres3 before she was 12 years old, and, last of all, how she would have been somebody if I had given her time, but I married her when she was nothing but a child, and she hasent had any times since to learn anything or do anything but nurae children and work for them. Good gracious?when she dilates and narrates and expectorates upon the hal? cyon days of her girlhood, I have to take a back seat, while the children draw near and listen and wonder and admire, and I feel like I am nobody much and maybe I did wrong in invading her household and carrying off its queen. ? But I have done my best?yes, I have done my best, I have fought a good fight and kept the faith and tried to keep her up to her raising, and she might havo waited longer and done worse. But I am going to build her a pigeon house aud 'let ber feast her mem? ories in watching the beautiful birds as thoy gracefully sail around in flocks and she Bhall feed her children on squabs to her heart's content. I bought her a fawn once, but he grew up to buckhood and liked to heve killed one of the children, and so I killed him and that let me out of the deer business. I bad some big foot negroes, too, and several cows and used to have right smart hog killings, and I made her a fish pond and raised turkeys and pea fowls, and kept her fresh and green in the memories of her youth, but I never did have a great big pigeon house. I'll Bhow her children that I'm Bomobody, too, oven if I dident have much to start on except form and feature and wore good clothes and ten dollar boots and carried off the prize at the school examination. One of her boya was fixing for a party the other night, and it took him half an hour and two'iooking glasses to array himself in his swallowtail coat and dou? ble breasted cravat and rainbow surcingle and patent leather shoes and derby hat aud a chemisette for a shirt bosom, and when he presented himself his mother exclaimed: "Well, well! you are just your pa over and over again. He was the dressiest and the handsomest young man you ever saw and you get it all from him." "When a young man begins to look around and hanker after a wife he had better consider whether he can keep a wife up to her raising or not. If he thinks he can then he is safe to invite her to put her clothes in his chest, but if she is rich and he is "only tolerable, I thank you," he had better be careful and go slow, for riches take wings and fly away, and if he can't keep'up the old standard it's a re? flection on his capacity. A good, souaible wife won't aay anything on that line, but most every woman has an idea that if she was a man she would make life a success, and bo, if her husband proves a failure, Bhe don't strain her eyes in looking up to him. It's all right at our house, except the pigeon house and tho squabs, and I'll catch up with that. In fact, I'm ahead of the music in a good many things con? sidering the war and raising ten children aud keeping them in good clothes aud healthy vittcls. I've douo prs-ity well and she knows it. If I am not rich I am not indecently poor, and a few more years will close out the partnership and the battle of life ba over. In the old fashioned time when folks married for love they bunched everything they had and got in one boat and uailed down the stream together, but nowadays it is not uncommon to hear a married woman talk about her house and her farm and her crop and her bank account. It is all well enough for a woman to keep what she inherits, but I wouldn't play aocond fiddlo to no woman upon earth if she ever said "this is mino" to me. It dwarfs a man in the estimation of his children for their mothor to have tho big? gest pile. Pa is of no consequence if ma has got the money. I havo known boys to grow up and suo for property their pa? rents Bold to raise them on, just because there was a flaw in tho papers, They had no respect for their father. Tho property came in hetweon thorn and him and they dishonored him and brought disgrace upon themselves. I have seen rich men made richer and their victims bankrupted fING, FEBRUARY 1 by these infamous suits, and I have my doubts whether it benefits the State or itB citizens for anybody to own anything in town. Legal theft is as dishonorable as illegal theft. It is a sort of larceny after trust and those who are guilty of it leave a legacy to their children, a legacy of property acquired through a parent's in? famy. Children should be raised to be? lieve that their father is their best friend and the best man in the world so far as they concerned. ThiB is the true parental relation and if one of mine should seek to undo anything that I have done in re? gard to property I would hide my head in shame that such a child was ever born to me. "Children obey your parents, for this is right." "Honor thy father and thy mother," saith the Scriptures. One day a father and his child were riding in a wagon, when the horse ran away and overturned the wagon just as he got loose from the harness. The father was thrown into a ditch but the little girl was found safe and sound under the wagon body. She smiled as they took her out and said, "I knew my pa wouldn't let me get hurt." That is the faith, the trust, the love that a child should have in the parent. The expectation of getting property when the old mau dies is a drawback upon the child's affectation. It is an insidious, poisonous temptation and too frequent paralyses filial love and respect. And so the law of compensation comes in and blesses the poor man in the loving devo? tion of his children. If all that ho has to give them comes from his daily labor, his sweat and his toil, they have more hope in his life than in his death, and nature fills their heart with love for him. It is an Arabian proverb that the heritage of the poor is the love of their children. Then let no man envy the rich, for they are in peril, but rather let us be content to breathe the prayer of Azar, tho proph? et, and say, "Give me neithor poverty nor riches." Bill Aep. The Co-Educational Idea. To the Editor of the News and Courier ; The proposal of Mrs. S. F. Chapin to make the Industrial School for Girls an ann^xto Olemson College seems tobe one of those happy suggestions that are so eminently wise that the wonder is that they havo not been thought of before. 01em8on College is to be pre-eminently a "practical" college established and supported in the interest of industrial enterprise. It will include in its course practical chemistry, industrial drawing, typewriting, stenography, photography, the use of tools in wood-working and many other subjects that have a bearing upon the industries of women as well as those of men. Then why not extend the course a little, so as to include practical cooking-and dressmaking, and so give the daut lers of the State, at a small additional (. st, the benefit of these ex? pensive advantages that are being pre? pared for the young men'? Furthermore, there is a strong feeling in some quarters of the State that tho experiment of co-education ought to Be fairly tried, or, at least, that a woman's annex to a collegiate institution for males is one of the best ways to provide for the education of women. Here is a most auspicious opportunity to make this ex? periment at a small additional outlay, and without any of those complications that are liable to arise in an institution that has existed for years on a different basis. It is to be hoped that the commission to be appointed by the Governor to examine this question will give this sug? gestion from Mrs. Chapin the attention which its importance demands, But there is another reason why the proposal seems wise and timely. It has been proposed to make the industrial school an adjunct to a State Normal In? stitution. The aim of an industrial school is to help the students themselves by rendering them self-supporting. The aim of a normal school is to build up the public schools of the State. The person? al advantage accruing to its own students is never the primary consideration. The two aims, though not necessarily opposed to each other, are not strictly harmoni? ous, and might cause complications that would prove a woakness to one side or to the other. Every good normal school includes in its course some elements of manual train? ing. The importance of requiring the brain to find expression through the hand is fully recognized to-day in the teaching profession. Manual features are more and more finding their way into the work of the public schools, and tho normal school must pro? vide for this demand of the lower schools. But tho manual training department of a true normal school course id adjustod to meet tho requirements of a symmetrical gcjieral education, rather than to give the knowledge of all those technicalities that are needed to give success in specific trades. Thu teaching of trades for the pnrpo30 ofrcndoriog tho studont self-sup? porting belongs not to the public schools, nor to tho normal school especially, but to the technological institutions. Is not this one of tho most important re-anus for connecting the industrial training of girls with Clemson College rather than with a normal school? The State of South Carolina wishes to provide for the young ladies of the State opportunities for these two kinds of edu? cation. There is already one institution in each of these lines, supported partly by tho State. What could bo higuTT wifldom than to continue the work just a? it has beeu begun, and build up Cicmson College as a centre for all industrial arts, and to build up a good normal institution whoso ono aim and purpose shall bo to bring to the highest efiicioncy the public ucliool system of tho Stain. A Teacher. ? Tho gay young bicyclist he's in bed, Not for him is the spring Min shining, He has been flung and is sore in body and in head, But Salvation Oil will make him smiling. ? "You say that all dreams are due to something influencing tho sleeper at the particular moment. How do you account for my dreaming tho other night that I was dead?" "Probably your room was too hot." 2, 1891. A TRIBUTE TO HER HUSBAND. Mrs. Jefferson Davls's Moinolr ol the Con? federate President. The memoir of ex-President Jefferson Davis, written by Mrs. Davis and just issued, is dedicated "to the soldiers of the Confederacy, who cheered and sustained Jefferson Davis in the darkest hour by their splendid gallantry, and never with? drew their confidence from him when defeat settled on our cause." Mrs. Davis gives the full text of the correspondence of her husband with Generals Johnston and Beauregard in regard to their alleg? ed failure to follow up their successes, and describes graphically his distress at the reverses which came upon the South toward the close of the war. When the Northern lines began to compass the Southern capital the memoir says : "The President was a prey to the acuteBt anxiety during this period, and again and again said: Tf I could take one wing and Lee the other I think we could between us wrest a victory from those people.' At another time he ex? claimed : 'With Jacksou, Lee would be on his feet.'" ' After Gettysburg General R. E. Lee said the defeat was all his fault and offered to lesign, in the belief that a younger and abler man than himself could readily be obtained. "I know that he will have as gallant and brave an army as ever existed to second his efforts, and it would be the happiest day of my life to see at its head a worthy leader, one that would accomplish more than I could perform and all that I have wish? ed," says the memoir. The President replied: "I have im? pressed upon you the propriety of avoid? ing all unnecessary exposure to danger, because I felt your country could not bear to lose you. To ask me to substitute you by some one in my judgment more fit to command, or who would possess more of the confidence of the army, or of reflecting men in the country, is to de? mand an impossibility." Tighter and tighter grew the bonds wherewith Grant, with 162,000 men, was preparing to bind Lee, with 75,000, at Ap pomattox. At laBt, exhausted by con? stant fighting, with Gordon's rearguard worn to "a frazzlo," all means of escape cut off, Lee's ragged, starving, sleepless hand was forced to surrender. Of this surrender President Davis, who had re? moved from Richmond, entirely approved as a matter of necessity, but the subse? quent surrender of Gen. J. E. Johnston took him entirely by surprise. Figures are given to Bhow that Johnston had large numbers of soldiers, and was in a position to keep up the war and at least force the enemy to accord more favorable terms of peace. Virtually the distinction of having ruined the South is bestowed ou Generals Beauregard and Johnston. Mr. Davis has a robust and well de? veloped opinion concerning Geu. Miles, who is now filling such a conspicuous position in the Indian troubles. He was a young man of twenty-five years, though a Major-General in command of Fortress Monroe at the time Mr. Davis was confined there. Mr3. Dayis accuses him of annoying his prisoner. Sho says: "We excused much to General MileB, whose opportunities to learn the habits of refined people were said to be few, and his sectional feeling was very bitter, but that he should not have been moved at tho age of twenty-six by the evident physical and mental anguish of his pris? oner, and should have devised ingenious tortures for him, we could not understand. * * * Enough of this sickening retro? spect ; my memory does not furnish a record of the thousand little stab3 he gave his emaciated, gray-haired prisoner, Suffice it to say thut he used his power to insult and annoy to the utmost, and in ways previously unknown and not to be anticipated by gentlefolk." Many pages are devoted to a descrip? tion of "Tortures of Fortress Monroe," in which General Miles appears in an unfavorable light, fie is charged with ebackling the prisoner by brutal force, keeping him in a vermin-infested coll, withholding his clothes and linen and making souvenirs out of all his posses? sions?even his hair when he had it cut. At first President Johnson curtly re? fused to seo Mrs. Davis, but after Reverdy Johnson, Mr. Voorhees and Mr. Sanlshury had "remonstrated rather sharply," he granted her an interview, of which she says: "Tho President was civil, even friend? ly, and Baid : 'We must wait; our hope is to mollify the public toward him.' I told him that the public would not have required to he mollified but for his pro? clamation that Mr, Davis was accessory to assassination, and added : 'I am sure that whatovor others believed, you did not credit it.' He said he did not, but was in tho hands of wildly excited peo? ple, and must take such measures as would show he was willing to sift the facts. I then responded that there was never the least intercourse between Mr. Davis and Booth, or an effort to estab? lish it, and remarked that 'if Booth had left a card lor Mr. Davis as ho did for you, Mr. President, before the assassina? tion, I fear my husband''} life would have paid the forfeit.' To which tho President bowed assent, and after a momont of silence, remarked, now this wa3 all over, and time was the only element lacking to Mr. Davis's release." While Mrs. Davis was talking to the President a little bsnt up Congressman came in, and, eilting on the edge cfa chair, twined his logs around his walking stick and gave Mr Johnson a most tre? mendous blowing up. The President said nothing, but grow very red. When tho assailant swagged out he said to Mr?. Davis: "I'm glad you saw that. Now you know ray situation." Of Mr. Davis's final release from pris? on, his widow proudly say3 : "Does any one believo that if a war? rant could have been found in (he co stitulion for tho epithes of traitor, aud if tho fear of his entire justification by its provisions had not prevailed, that any feeling of mercy or pity would have saved the prisoner from execution and his name from being one universally execrated, both North and South? Instead, he was left to follow his course of dignified seclusion, 'by all his coun? try's honors blessed,' among his own people, by whom, as well as by many nt the North, he was beloved as much as he was esteemed." VOLUM Intensive Tanning. [A paper read beforo the Edgefield County Alliance on Friday, tho 2nd of | January, 1S91, and published, by resolu? tion to that effect, in the Alliance De? partment of the Edgefiold Advertiser. Brother President?We often hear of the intensive system of farming, and to convince myself of the practicability of the system I determined to plant a plat of 2* acres and report the result, and I herewith present a detailed account of the entiro expenses, and also the plan of preparation and cultivation and the result of the experiment. I will say that the experimental plant was what would properly be called a clover sod, the samo having been in clover for the last three years, upon which the clover (red) was very fine. The first year in clover paid me forty dollars per acre in clover hay. The land is level upland with clay subsoil, and was well improved even before I seeded it down in clover. Now for the preparation: The land was turned about the 15th day of Febru? ary, 1890, with a two-horse Farmer's Friend plow followed by a one-horee subsoil plow. After the land was bro? ken it was rolled with a heavy two-horse roller. It then lay in that condition until the first of March, when it was laid off" with a long six-inch shovel and fol? lowed with a ten-inch shovel in rows five feet apart, in which was deposited two hundred bushels of cotton seed, green from the gin-house, and 1,000 pounds of | acid phosphate and ridged on with small turn plow. It stood in this condition until the 10th of April when we run a bull-tongue plow in the ridge so as to incorporate the soil with the cotton seed and acid phosphate and thereby, to some extent, prevent the cotton from dying out after it should come up, and also to add the ammoniated guano that I pro? posed to apply at this time (500 pounds). The land was then bedded out with a Farmer's Friend turn plow, and the bed opened with a bull-tongue plow and 500 pounds ammoniated dissolved bone ap? plied and the cotton seed then planted with a Dow Law Planter. The after cultivation was by the usual plan with the hoe and sweep, and now the result in toto : Turning 2$ acres clover sod with one hand and two horses.$ 3 00 Subsoiling, 1 horse. 2 00 Rolling, 2 oxen. 2 00 Laying off and bedding out same. 2 50 200 bushels cotton seed and patting in the same. 27 50 1,000 pounds acid phosphate and putting in the same. 10 00 1,000 pounds ammoniated dissolved bone.?.15 00 Ploughing cotton four times. 2 00 Hoeing cotton three times. 3 00 Picking. 17 75 Ginning and packing. 0 55 Bagging and tics. C 70 Total expense on 2J acres.?101 00 Cr. by 4,437 pounds lint cotton at 9 cents per pouud. 399 33 266 bushels cotton seed at 121c. per bushel..'.. 33 25 Net proceeds on 2$ acres. 432 58 Deduct expenses above.i. 101 00 Total.$331 5S Now, brother President, this exhibit looks perhaps to &ouie unreasonable, but having made the experiment unsolicited and of my own volition, and also at my own expense, and in the face of the fact that I was not contesting for any special prize or premium, but simply to satisfy myself of what I thought to be the best plan for us all to adopt, that is to plant less and manure better and thereby secure greater profits from our farms, is my reason for submitting this paper to the Alliance to-day, and I feel satisfied that the above result can be excelled. I will add that tho best acre of tho above plat made a fractiou over four bales of | 467 pounds each, on the balance of the plat, 1* acres, the stand was imperfect and therefore the yield was not so good, and further, I will add, that my rows only being five feet apart were entirely too close, and a great deal of the cotton rotted during the wet season in the early fall. But at all events I was pleased with the result, and shall plant the same plat next year and try to raise five bales per acre. I believe it can be done. The variety of cotton planted was the Haw? kins. Respectfully submitted, W. S. Allen. Fruit Hill, S. O., Dec. 30,1890. urn A Bad Woman. "Now, the best thing you can do," said the judge to an old negro who had applied for a divorce, "is to go borne and behave yourself." "Yas, sah." "I do not see why you do not get along all right." "Yas, sah." "We all have to make sacrifices." "Yas, sah, so I heah 'em say, but mighty few men haster put up wid sich or wife ez Fse got. I keu stand de com? mon ruu o' wimmen, but dat pusson, jedge, is rank pizen. Wh sah, if she wuz er sleep au' w?ster dream dat I wuz enjoyin' myself, she'd wake herae'f up an' see dat de enjoyment wuz stopped right dar. She like ter died sometime ergo. Wuz mighty in hopes dat I wuz gwineter lose her, but when she found dat I wuz pleased, blame ef she didn't tum ober an' git well. She's a bad 'omaii, sah.:; ? You've tried Dr. Picrcc's Favorito Prescription, have you, and you're disap? pointed. The results are not immediate. And you expect the discaso to disappear in a iva!;" Tut a pineh of time in every dose. You should net call the milk poor becau:!0 tho cream does not rise irt ah hour? II Ihorc's no water in it tho cream is suro to rise. If there's a possible cure, Dr. Picrco's Favorito Prescription is eure to effect it, if. given a fair trial. You get the one dollar it costs back agalsrif it den't benefit or cure you. We wish we could givo you the makers' confidence. They show it by giving the money back again, in all cases not bencfitted, and it'd Biirprise you to know how few dollars are needed to keep up tho refund. -o Mild, gentle, soothing and healing is Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. Cures the worst cases jiermanentbj. No experiment? ing. It's "Old Reliable," Twenty-five years of success, DE XXV.?NO. 32. All Sorts of Paragrapni, ? The woman who knows how to hold her tongue is a rarity. ? Wrong rights no man, however much it may seem to. ? A weakness fully appreciated is al? ready half-overcome. ? It is occasionally frightfully hard to accept your own doctrine. ?A girl might have four strings to her beau and then not be able to keep him quiet. ? Sixty thousand people are said to he out of work in the east end of London alone. ? Man is of a few days at the best, yet most men industriously labor to make their days fewer. ? The people of the United States consume, it is said, 200,000,000 bottles of pickles annually. ? "I've got it at last," said the fellow who found his cough subdued by a bottle of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup. ? When a man's head tells him a thing is true, and his heart tells him it isn't, which is he to believe ? ? Senator Squire, of Washington, has an income of $10,000 a month. He owns a great deal of real estate in Seattle. ? Eev. Wesley Brown, of Bedford, Io? wa, got engaged to five girls in the choir and left town for the sake of harmony. ? Itch on human and horses and all animals cured in 30 minutes by Wol ford's Sanitary Lotion. This never fails. Sold by Hill Bros. Druggists, Anderson. ? It is Baid that there is not a lawyer in the legislature of North Dakota, and that 90 per cent, of the members are far? mers. ? "Wonder why they always call a lo? comotive 'she' ? Maybe it is on account the horrible noise it makes when it tries to whistle." ? Take two large spools, drive large nails through them in the wall about two inches apart, and hang your broom up, brush end up. ? A good remedy for bee or wasp stings is common earth mixed to a mud paste with water. Apply to the afflicted spot immediately, covering it with a cloth. ?A case of leprosy has been discover? ed in Buffalo county, Wisconsin. The patieot is a Norwegian who has four grown children. So far none of them show symptoms of the disease. ? La Grippe struck the country this lime from the Southwest, whereas it came upon us sixteen months ago by way of Boston ajd New York. This year it began at New Orleans in Novem? ber and had a run of eight or ten weekB, being extremely severe. " ? There is great activity in the tin mines around Homey Peak, South Dako to, and the production of the metal in merchantable quantities is a question of a short time. The rock yields 81 pounds of black oxide of tin p.^r ton. The crys? tals are the largest in the world. ?Within his official term of two years, Governor Taylor, of Tennessee, has par? doned eight hundred and one convicts. This knocks the record into fragments and gives the governor very few off days when he didn't pardon somebody who begged/ his pardon. ? A water stand-pipe one hundred and twenty feet high, at Temple, Texas, re? cently collapsed and the town was. Hood? ed. The break occurred at night and the boiler steel was sent whirling to all direc? tions aud two or three houses were carried away. The stand-pipe was a new one and built of the best material. It contained 240,000 gallons of water. ? Mrs. Jefferson Davis' long expected book about the personal and political life of her husband iB about ready for issue. It is in two large volumes, and will be found interesting throughout by all ad? mirers of the only president of the late Confederacy, as well as persons who are' curious about the personality of great men. ? A workman at a saw-mill in El Dorado County, California, was sawing a log when he struck something. He could not imagine what the saw could be striking in the middle of a tree three feet thick. . After the tree was cut and an examination made, a bottle containing $1000 in gold-dust was found in the centre. ? ? The largest gold coin in circulation in tho world is stated to be the gold "loof" of Annani, the French colony in Eastern Asia. It is a flat round piece worth ?65. The next in size to this unwieldy coin is the Japanese "obang," which weighs more than two ounces and a half, about equal to ten English sover? eigns. ? Mrs. Grace G. Eidley, of Amboy, 111., who went to sleep about nine months ago, awoke Saturday afternoon 24th ult., for the first time. She wandered about the house,, but did not speak a word. At the time she took her accustomed seat at the table, but could eat nothing, and when some one of the family at? tempted to assist her she motioned them away with a gutteral sound, but no dis? tinct word was uttered. 1 ?There will be introduced in the New York Legislature this week a bill drawn by Corporation Counsel Beekman to com? pel men to vote. It is about the same bill that was introduced hist year, but so late in the session that i: was coni-idered ad? visable to lay it over. Tho man who is entitled to a vote and does not cast one is to be fined $25 if Mr. Beekman's bill be? comes a law. ? A short distance out from Bucna Vista, Cal., thc-ro is a cavo literally swaraiing with spiders of a curiouB spe? cies of immense size, some of them hav? ino- legs four inches in length, and a body as largo as that of a canary bird. The cavo was discovered in December, 1879, and was often resorted to by the pioneers, who obtaiued the webs for use in place of thread. Early and late the cave con? stantly resounds by a buzzing noise which is emitted by the spiders whilo they are weaving their w^bs. Children Enjoy The pleasant flavor, gentle action and soothing effects of Syrup of Figs, when in need of a laxative and if the father or mother be costive or billious, the most gratifying results follow its use, so that it is the best family remedy known and ev? ery family should have a bottle.