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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 8, 1893._ VOLUME XXVIL- -NO. 32. Every Household Zin which there are younj; children, should 'be provided with the unequaled medicine, -Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, tlie best remedy for ?croup, whooping cough, sore throat, and bronchitis. It is soothing, healing, always ? effective, agreeable to the taste, does not in j terfere with digestion, and ir the most eco i norxJcal of all similar preparations. For croup, pneumonia, whooping cough, loss of voice, coids, and sore throat, take Ayer's Cherry Pectoral Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell. Mass. P rQ &) J>t tO ?Ct, SUT?tO CUf0 CO TO GOSSETT'S SHOE STORE fob BARGAINS IN ALL KINDS OF SHOE 9 MENS', WOMENS', HISSES, CHILDBENS'. m I JL 1 UNDER MASONIC TEMPLE. HEIffi Dill! in ? STEEL PLOWS AND PLOW STOCKS! BLACKSMITH OUTFITS DOWN. WAY DOWN. Two Hundred Dozen Axes, the best in the world. We Defy the World in duality of Goods and PRICES. SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO. CUTTING HIGH STUBBLE. Next to Farmres and Merchants Bank. WILL. R. HUBBARD, JEWELLER. JLf yon want to see the LARGEST STOCK and the BRIGHTEST PLACE in Town jtut drop in and see WILL. HTJBBARD'S JEWELRY STORE! SOUVENIR SPOONS, LQVE CHAINS, DIAMONDS, GOLD and SILVER WATCHES, SILVERWARE anD NOVELTIES. ?&r It will pay yon to give me a call before buying. I don't sell at Cost nor throw in a Cbromo, bnt make a living profit on every article. fSf Correct representation. Polite attention and promptness. WILL. R. HUBBARD, Next to Farmers aud Merchants Ban2c. jP-A-lSriEO PRICES, The Greatest Bargains in Furniture ever offered in South Carolina are offered at G. F. TOLLY & SON'S, DEPOT STREET. They have the Largest, Cheapest and Best Selected Stock in the State, and challenge any Furniture House in the State for a comparison cf prices. WALNUT and uAK SUITS cheaper than they can be bought from any Factory. BU?E AUS at prices unheard of before. FABLOB SUITS cheaper than any. AND EVEBYTHING in the Furniture line. Come and see for yourselves and be convinced that what we say is true Come and look at our Stock, whether you want to buy or not We will be pleased to show yon around. Gaskets and Coffins furnished Day or Night. G. F. TOLLY & SON, Depot Street, Anderson, S. f. SARGE PLTJXKETT. A Babe in the Middle for Firty-Three Years. Atlanta Constitution. True as it is that it is hard to learn an old dog new tricks, so it is true that it's hard for an old man to quit his tricks. I have stated before that Brown's family was mighty prolific. He was blessed with twelve fine girls and one boy?making thirteen. But Brown's trials and tribulations did not stop with this thirteen, if worrying with babies be a trial. Each of *heBe twelve girls bave been blessed with twelve children each, making 144 grandchildren for Brown to fondle since all of his own were out of the way. So it comes that for fifty-three winters Brown has had a babe to divide his bed with him and every time and all the time the babe must have the middle. This middle business is what Brown so soured on. He said it had grown mo? notonous. He was downtrodden, he thought, for there couldn't be a word said about turning the babe over on the outside but what the answer would be : "It will fall out." "Let it fall," said Brown. "Fall and bedogged, hain't I got some rights in my own bed ? Hain't I drawed up with the rheumatics from jnmpicg np in the cold for 'em? I'm 'specting every minute now to have to get op and get the thing some water. It eat enough at supper for a grown hand. It will want a piece of bread, though, before morning. I'll be bound that and I'll have to light onten bed to git it. Nobody don't lose any sleep over my troubling and falling and shivering and shaking. Nobody cares for me; I'm nothing. I'm a downtrod? den old fool, that.'s what I is," and he would grit bis gumbs together , as he would turn over on the back railing of ' the bed with his face to the wall. This had. been about the state of affairs in Brown's room every night for some time until recently, when his old 'oman got worried out with bis grumbling and aeut the last little gramlobild home to its parents. Then wo all looked for peace at night and Brown looked fur eomfort. The little child hadn't more than got to its daddy's good before the " late unpleas? antness" in the weather swooped down upon us. The first night?the night the wind blowed so?I was listening to it as it zooned around the corner of the houBe and beard Brown's voice : "Cover, more cover! Cover or blood! I" His old wife was doing her best to pac? ify him, but I beard her say that all they had was on the bed and then Brown let out: ??I'll burn every quilt; I'll tear down the house I It's a trick got up on me be? cause I had that brat to leave. Jerusa? lem ! I'll freeze I You want me to freeze. Cover, cover, cover, I say 1" I lay and listened to this kind of talk and to the poor old wife trying to pacify him till I was iearful that something bad would happen before morning, so I spoke np and asked Brown to come into my room where there was a good fire burn? ing and warm himself. He came, and in there I argued the point with him. "Did you ever see.it so cold ?" was my starter. "See nothing I It's a trick!" was his answer, as he turned first one side and then the other to the fire, then his face and then his back, theu one foot and then the other and then his bands. He got to taming pretty fa it, for the lire was migjty hot, as I asked him if he thought the weather was a trick? He stopped everything but shivering as he turned and gazed upon me. Between shivers, at last, he said: "Trick ; nothing bat a trick 1 Hain't I seen it so cold that the timber in the woods was popping like cannon ?" "Yes," I answered aB an arctic shiver caused him to pat bis other side to the fire. "Wasn't I here on the 'cold Friday ?'" be sneered. "Yes." "So cold then you coulu spit and it would freeze before it bit I he ground ?" "Yes." "I didn't have no such a time as this then. No, sir; never did. It's a trick. They have hid all the cover and opened holes in the house. Can't fool me. This hain't no weather." It is sufficient to remark that Brown refused to allow me to dissuade his mind as to the trick business, nor would he lis? ten to anything all next day, but in a day or two he softened, and it took another turn upon him. He got to believe that the weather was sent as a punishment for sending the babe away, ;:nd he begun to coax at his wife to send arid get it. Mrs. Brown is tolerably easy to be coaxed when she wants to be, but this time she | woul l not hear to bringing the i-aby back. It was too much trouble a! i;ight for old folks like Brown and her?this was the way she talked, but sbe didn't mean it, sbe wanted it back, was obliged to bave it back, but Brown was worried. He talked to me more in the last week about babies than in bis whole life to? gether belore. I set by the fire yesterday and listened to a sort of dialogue between him and bis wife. "Fine time for catching rabbits," said Mrs. Brown, as she cut her eye out at the falling snow. "Catch nothing," answered her hus? band, gloomily. "Nothing to bother us," said she. "Everything is bother," almost "hissed Brown. "Don't take much fire for just us two," she suggested sarcastically. "Much! What do you call much? Hain't I been lugging wood for over a week? Wood, wood ; nothing but wood, and still the cry goes ou." "ReBt well at night, though ?" she care? lessly said. "Rest! What do you call rest?" "Pienty of room?no baby in the mid? dle?" "Room is nothing. The world is full of room." Mrs. Brown would have gone on, but her husband seemirg to get inspired by the suggestion of "room," ?rose and punching both his hands away down in his pockets, he sauntered out and took a look at the clouds. Ho came in with me directly, and poured out his feelings in about the following words : 1 Piunkett," said be, "I bave bad a hard life. For fifty-three winters I have had to worry with babies?sometimes twinB. Some of 'em were colicy babies, some of 'em were 8tay-awake-at-night laughing babies, some of 'em were me wants-some- water babies, and some were bound-to kick-the-cover-off babies. I have done my share of stumbling rouud in the dark for bread and water and I've lost more than my share of sleep from the colicy and stay-awake-laughing babies, but the baby that I have suffered the most from is the kicking baby that must sleep in the middle. Some of these kick with one foot and fling their hands wildly and are sorter pacified when you pat 'em and sing to 'em, bat there is a kind of kicker?and the most of mine was of this sort?that humps himself like a Texas pony till his whole weight rests upon about an inch of backbone in the middle, then Bends both feet flying one way while his hands go back the other way. This sort will freeze you, skin you and make you think 'bless it' forty times a nigbl without half trying; at one flounce they will fling themselves cross ways and beat the drum with their feet down in your face and at another twirl, they are kicking the skin offen you any? where from your knees to the top of your head. All these I have had to deal with in its worst form, but I tell you, Flue kett, what it is"? "What is it, Brown ?" I asked, when I saw he was softening and wanted to con? fess. "I must have a baby in the house and the baby must sleep in the middle." 80 much for habit, Brown confesses it at last, everything went wrong when the baby was away, but he squirts the tobac? co juice outen one corner of his lips, kinder gives his mouth a twist over to bis left ear, shuts one eye and says: "It's dinged strange that I never seed no weather before, aa old as I ie." Sarge Plunkett. Corned Beef. Since bacon is going out of reach and out of the ojarkets farmers who have beef "cattle would do well to put up a few hundred pounds of corned betf. It will come in handy during the spring and summer. A barrel of good corned beef is much more agreeable in a family than a corued man, or even a half corned one. The beef should be good to begin with. No amount of salt and pickle will con* vert poor stringy beef into a palatable article. We give the following excellent receipt from the Southern Farm for spiced corn beef: Editor Southern Farmer : In your last issue I note your reply to H. A. M , Pal? estine, Arkansas, who requested a receipt for corning or pickling beef. For years past I have pickled a beef every fall, for my family use, and wish that every farmer who subscribes to, and reads your paper, would add to his own enjoyment and his wife's larder a barrel of beef put up in brine made iu the fol? lowing proportione. Four gallons of water. Six pounds of salt. Two and a half pounds of brown sugar. Six ounces of salt-peter. Two ounces of soda. One ounce of allspice. One ounce of cloves. Boil the above, (except the spices) and skim off all impurities that rise on the surface, after which draw the fire from under the kettle, and put in the spices to boil which would only be to "waste their sweetness 00 the desert air." Let the brine get cold before using. Cut out your beef in suitable pieces, dissect the bones out of the hams and then wrap them with a strong twine. Bub all cut edges of the beef with salt and let it lay over night to extract the blood. I prefer a molasses barrel to all others for pickling beef. Sprinkle the bottom of the barrel lightly with Bait. Wipe the blood off the pieces with a cloth and pack it down aa closely and compactly as pos aible. Lay on a heading and weight with a heavy stone. After pouring the cold brine over the beef see that you have brine enough to cover it, and at the end of four weeks it is ready for use. At end of five weeks I take out the hams, hang and smoke tbem with my bacon. When sufficiently dry they are put in cotton sacks, removed to the store room and used for broiling and chipping. The bf lance is kept uoder brine until consumed as corn beef. By this receipt you avoid the trouble of weighing the beef and then propor? tioning ingredients according to its weight. The strength of your brine and all its ingredients being governed by the quali? ty of water used a single piece ni meat put in a barrel < f the brine would take no more salt than if placed in a vessel and barely covered with it. I prefer a youDg beef weighing from 600 to 800 poinds grosB for family use, and find by experience that it takes about twelve gallons of brine to cover it or three times the quantify of ingredients as above given Add two pounds more of salt to every four gallons of water (8 instead of 6) and the spices and no better brine was ever made for bacon hams than the above. Charles W. Anderson. Florence Station, Tenn. Deafness Cannot be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure Deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflimed con? dition of the mucous lining of the Eust achain Tube. When this tube gets in? flamed you have a rumbliug sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entire? ly closed Deafness is the result, and un? less the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal con? dition, hearing will be destroyed forever ; nine cases out of ten are caused by ca? tarrh, which is nothing but en in? flamed condition of the mucous sur? faces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case ot Deafness (caused by catarrh) that caunot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Seud for circulars, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0. Sold by DruggistB, 75c. How the Money Came. BY BISHOP 0. P. FITZGERALD. It waB in the early seventies. I was living on Bay Street, North Beach, San Francisco. Not long before, while driv? ing on the Alameda?that beautiful ave nue, shaded by the wide-branching wil? lows planted by the first Jesuit fathers of San Jose and Santa Clara, for which good work I hereby give them my hum? ble thanks?I had met with an accideut that nearly ended my earthly experi? ences. The long-limbed, four year-old trotter, taking fright by the collision of a hind-wheel of the buggy with a heavi? ly-loaded lumber wagon, plunged for? ward, tearing off the entangled wheel, and then with a few frantic leaps came a crash, and I found myself describing a circle in the air. When I came down there was a blank in my recollection of events for I know not how long. When I regained my consciousness, a badly dis? located shoulder, and many bruises and wrenches attested the combined effects of gravity, propulsion and concussion on my corpus. I was taken to the house of my old friend, P. T. McCabe, where Drs. Caldwell and Thome adjusted the dislo cation, and mollified my bruises. Bless? ings on the memory of the master and mistress of that hospitable home, where true hospitality always smiled a welcome, and from which no needy woman or child was ever turned away empty hand ed. Long weeks of pain followed the acci deLt. The surgeons of San Francisco even talked of amputation at the shoul? der joint?doubtless a very interesting operation, scientifically considered, but one that I felt that I would rather read of than endure in person. I objected, the doctors desisted, and this sketch is penned with that same right arm, with an occasional twinge that reminds me of that ride and smash-up twenty'years ago. I was just able to move about the house, with the arm in a sling, walking softly, and trying to exhibit the patience I had so often commended to other per sons. One day as I stood looking out of the bay-window upon the ever restless, ever changing sea, it occurred to me that 00 that very day I had to make a pay? ment at the bank of $180, or serious trouble would result. The money was not at hand; I was unable to go down into the city to attend to that or any other business matter \ there was nobody to send ; the hour for the bank to close for the day would soon come?what could [do? To my inner ear a voice seemed to speak : "You profess to believe in prayer ?so you have been teaching others for many years?why not pray ?" Heeding the voice still and Braall?this Voice is always still and small?I sank into a chair, and bowing my bead upon the window-sill, prayed. A calm, iudescrib ably sweet came upon me. It was the answering touch. (Wboso hath felt it will understand.) Lifted my bead, I looked out, keeping my seat by the win dow. Across the fiat between the end of the street-car line and my house I ob? served a man and a woman walking Blowly along as if they were conversing on.some subject of mutual inerest. When they reached the foot of the ter? race they turned and began to climb the steps that led up to our door. In answer to their ring, the servant opened to them, and in answer to their inquiry, told them 1 was at home, ushering them into the room where I was sitting. "We are from Humboldt County,"said the man; by agreement we have nut here in San Francisco to be married, and we want you to perform the ceremony." "Yes," said the lady, who was a rapid talker, "we are both strangers in the city, and when we left the Lick House awhile ago to find a minister we were at a loss, but your name suddenly came into my mind in connection with the recollection of some correspondence between us when you were Superintendent of Public In? struction and I was a teachei in the pub? lic school at Eureka. We agreed that if we could find you, we would like to have you marry ub?and here we are." She was very pretty, and smiled very sweetly as she spoke. "Do you feel strong enough to go through with it?" asked the expectant bridegroom. A glance at the pretty schoolmarm's beaming face inspired me with fresh strength and resolution, and I replied j that I thought I could go through with the ceremony?and I did,, he looking triumphant and she radiant at the close. When the last words were said declar? ing them to be man and wife together, in the name of the Holy Trinity, he tbrmt his hand into his pocket and taking out what seemed to me a whole handful of gold, with ?ometiiing of a flourish, he handed it to me, saying: "Will that do? If not there's plenty more where it came from." I told him I thought it would do. In a few moments tbey left, as happy looking a pair as I ever met. Retaining my curiosity until they had descended the first flight of steps, I then counted the marriage fee. There were justtweuty ten dollar gold pieces?making the $180 I needed, and $20 more for good measure. That is the way the money came. At the very time my name suddenly occurred to the mind of the pretty little school teacher I was bowed in prayer in the bay window at North Beach. Free agency is never over borue, but by the process of memory by euggestive touches and solicitations, it is moved upon by the Holy Spirit. A true prayer touches God, and he touches everything in the universe. If there is here a suggestion for some reader, be will know what it is. Atlanta, Ga.t Dec, 1802. Buuklens Arnica Salve. The beBt salve in the world for Cuts Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fe ver Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chil? blains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give per? fect satisfaction, or money refunded Price 25 cents per box. For. sale by HillBroH ? A Maryland factory states that it put up 4,000,000 cans of corn last season. Took It at a Glance. The death of Justice Lamar recalls a trait or faculty which he possessed in a remarkable degree. It has been said of him that he was able to read a newspa? per article or a page of a book at what seemed to the observer to be but a glance. Manifestly this faculty or capacity gave him great advantage over ordinary men. He was able to devour books as if be were a literary glutton, with the differ? ence that his powerful memory enabled him to digest at leisure what he had absorbed in haste. Macaulay possessed the same faculty perhaps in a yet higher degree. He would take up a volume for au evening's intellectual enjoyment, and before he retired he had the contents fully impress? ed upon his marvellous mind. Dickens was another of these remarkably rapid readers. George Elliot's "Adam Bede" came to him one day. Before his ordi? nary bed time he bad read it, and bad pronounced tbis remarkable dictum: "That book was written by a woman." Others required days of leisure to read it, and the question of authorship was the riddle of the time in literary circles. Charles Sinnner was another man who possessed tbis happy facultv A book, whether it was a volume of law, or of diplomatic correspondence, or a work of fiction, passed under his eye as if by a quick succession of glances. It was the same with Daniel Webster, who himself stated to a friend that when in college he read Don Quixote in a single night. In the case of both these distin? guished men what they read in this way reappeared in a new drea& in their speech? es and in their writings. Of course a retentive memory was necessary to ren? der the results of this rapid reading avail? able, but it is plain that in their capacity to read rapidly they possessed an enormous advantage over their fellow men, and the question rises, is it possible to develop this faculty and make it more generally useful in the vast multiplication of books? It is impossible for the average reader to keep pace with the production merely of the bc?t, to say nothing of turning backward to the wealth of the past. Indeed, in the hurry of modern life it is scarcely possible tor the business man. for the society woman, or the more modest housewife to seep pace with the newspapers and snatch an occasional hour for the magazines. To all of these it would be an inestimable boon if they had the faculty of grasping sentences, paragraphs and perhaps pages at a little more than a glance. No one but the most illiterate now pays attention to the ietters of which a word is composed. It is not possible that by cultivation the average reader might catch words and sentences as letters aro now caught by the most indifferent readers? A vast deal of energy is now devoted to teach? ing pupils to read more or leas effectively in public. There is careful atteutioo paid to articulatioo, to moderation, iuflec tioo, emphasis?all tending toward slow uess rather than rapidity in reading, What would be the result of changing the aim, and consequently deliberately modify the process, iD our public schools? Is it not possible that with proper train? ing in the more advanced grades?per? haps in the very lowest?children might be sent forth from the schools with some? thing of the capacity which gave Macau lay, Dickens, Sumuer, Webster and Lamar their tremendous advantage over others to grasp the meaning and the thought of an author without dwelling upou the separate words which expressed that thought? It is certainly something worth thinking of and discussing serious? ly. The burden of the best literature alone is already something almost beyond the capacity of the mind. Life is short and cares are pressing. Is not there something that can be done for the men and women who are to come after us, even though we have missed what a few rare mi?ds possessed by accident? The subject is at least worth the consideration of educators, and it has heretofore been almost wholly ignored.?Augusta Chroni? cle. Six Miles a Minute. People are apt to indulge apprehensions about the movement of waves of the ocean which are errattic, born perhaps, of illu sionary ii>fluences. Every one has noticed the action of the wind on a field of corn, and seen the undulations caused by its crossing the field in a few seconds ; but no one supposes that a single stock has left its place. As with the corn wave, says the Brooklyn Eagle, so with the water wave, the substance remains rising and falling iu the same place, while it is only the form that moves. The speed of this movement depends on the speed of the wind. When a gentle breeze is blowing the friction between the atmosphere and the water is small, and only a slight ripple is produced, but should the velocity of the wind increase the ripples become waves or even bil? lows, mountains of water, moving at a tremendous speed. Waves which have resulted from earth? quake shocks have traversed the ocean at a speed which is almost incredible. For instance, the great earthquake which occurred at Samado, iu Japan, caused a wave which traveled across the Pacific from that country to San Fran? cisco, r. distance of nearly 5,000 miles, in not much more than twelve hours?, that is to say, it raced across the ocean, at the rate of about six and a half miles per minute. The self acting tide gauges at San Francisco, which recorded the arri? val of. this great wave, rendered it quite certain that this was the actual rate of progress. ? A single sheet of paper, six feet in width and seven and three-fourths miles in length, has been made, it is said, by the paper works at Watertown, N. Y. It is claimed that the sheet of paper weighed 2,207 pounds, and was made and rolled entire without a single break. ? A piece of petrified wood, weighing S14 pounds, is reported to have been recently uneartliened near Elkton, 0. According to geologists who have ex? amined the nature of the petrifaction, its formation is believed to date back 3,f?00 years by the most conservative calcula? tion, Pruning Orchard Trees. In passing through the country one cannot help observing that even the readers of the Stochnan do not read care? fully. An orchard containing large, thrift apple trees is being pruned, for in? stance, and green limbs, four or five inch? es in diameter, are being cut off; and worse than this, instpad of cutting close and smooth, so that the healing process may begin soon, stubs of from two to six inches in length are left sticking out painful evidences, probably not of the carelessness of the workman, but his lack of information. .Unless an orchard is in a dying condi? tion, it is very rare iudeed that great big limbs should be cut off Neglect for a number of years may make such pruning necessary. Interfering or crossing limbs or one branch of a fork, which the prun ing knife could have removed at the right time, may have to be taken off; but only one, or at most, two, such large limbs should be pruned in one sea? son. Some take the ground that all prun? ing is wrong, because unnatural. This cannot be well sustained, for nature does not transplant and graft, and does not do many other things that the judgment and skill of man bave shown to be bene? ficial. But while judicious pruning at proper times is not to be con? demned, "cutting and slashing" is al? ways. Another error of the pruoer who does not understand is trimming up so as to leave a long, bare trunk e-oosed to the sunshine and to the attacks of the bark insect. The warm sun' hatches out the eggs of this insect, and the little crea? tures make their way to the inner bark, on which they feed at firet, and the whole Southwest side of the trunk is de stroyed before danger is apprehended. This insect [Ghrysobothris femorata) is much more common in the central West than the apple tree borer of the Eas*-; and the most convenient way to head i off is to shade the trunk by the growth of smaller branches (Keeping them in check, of course) until the top of the tree is j large enough to du the shading. The pruning of the peach differs very materially from the foregoing. The tree, as a rule, receives less pruning than any other fruit tree, while it needs more. As ib well known, it produces its crop on the wood of the previous year's growth; and as the terminal buds are most in? clined to push, the height increases year by year, until in time the tree has but a few long branches stretching away up, or out, with leaves, or leaves and fruit, at the top only. Instead of this, the tree, by correct pruning, can be kept in good form, rather low and round-headed, or spreading all the limbs fairly within reach, with the fruit evenly distributed aud easy to gather. The pruning, which should be done annually in Spring, consist?, in cutting back the previous season's shoots, re? moving one-third to one-half (in length) and in addition to this, of the second or third year, cuttiogout about one-tenth of these shoots, as they become too num? erous. Three things are gained by this: (1) Keeping the top of the tree in proper shape; (2) Maintaining a regular sup? ply of bearing wood; (3) Reducing the crop of fruit, and thus saving the tree from the bad effects of overbearing, and adding to the size and quality of the fruit allowed to remain. The time for the wort, as stated above, is in the Spring, any time before the trees are in full leaf, but a moderate pruning, even when the leaves are fully developed, is better than not to prune at all.? The Stockman. A Romantic Marriage. Miss Ruth Thackston, daughter of Thomas J. Thackston, of this place, was married on July 31st last to William Brockman, at Rocky Creek church, this County, by the Rev. C. A. Jones. The marriage was kept a Beeret and was not known to a soul except the con? tracting parties, the minister, and the witnesses until a day or two ago. Miss Thackston was teaching in a school near Batesville, and it was there that she met Mr. Brockman, who is the son of a well to do farmer of that section. The marriage last July was the result of the attachment that sprang up between them. Last fall Mr. Brockman went to Louis? ville, Ky., to Btudy medicine, and Mies Thackston also went to the same city shortly afterward to take training as a professional nurse. All this time the parents of both young people were in entire ignorance of the marriage, but reports br-gan to leak out from the witnesses concerning the clan? destine ceremony at Rocky Creek church on the 31st of July, although as the reports could be traced to no responsible source they were not believed, Not many days ago, however, the young lady wrote to her father asking him if he would have any objection to her marrying William Brockman. He replied that he had no objection to the young man, who, from what he knew and could learn about him, was upright and trustwortny. Great was bis surprise when a few da.ys after to learn from a letter which the young lady wrote to her uncle, Treasurer Thackston, evidently in reply to h6r father's letter, that she had married Brockman last summer. The minister who performed the cere? mony is now a student at Furman uni? versity, and now that the story is out, tells the particulars of the romantic affair. Mrs. Brockman is a handsome blonde who has many friends and admirers throughout this County.? Greenville News. ? We have just found out why block? ade liquor ia called wild cat juice. Not long since when the revenue officers upset a distillery in the mountains, out fell a well cooked wild cat, together with a peck of buckeye roots and tobacco stems The cat fell in one of the still tubs and when the still was filled up in darkness the cat was not discovered. The wild cat ingredients make a man fight, the tobacco makes him sick and the buckeye roots give him Ilia. SNOW. During winter we frequently see the ground covered with snow. Everybody observes its fall, but very few people give themselves the trouble to inquire int:o its nature and uses. Such is too gener? ally the case with those objects which daily come under our notice, and from which we derive very considerable ad? vantages. Often, indeed, the very things most deserving of our attention are those which we chiefly neglect. Let us hence forth be more rational, and begin by de? voting some moments to the considera? tion of enow. It is formed by very subtile vapors, which, being congealed in the atmos? phere, fall down in flakes, more or less thick. In our climate these flakes are pretty large; hut we are informed that in Lapland they are sometimes so small as to resemble a fine, dry powder. This is doubtless caused by the extreme cold which prevails there; and it is also re? marked that in our own country the flakes are greater in proportion as the cold is less severe, and they become less when it freezes strongly. The little flakes generally ramble hexagonal stars; sometimes, however, they have eight angles, and at others ten, and some of them have an irreguUr shape. .The best way of observing them is to receive the snow upon white paper; hitherto little has been said of the cause of these different figures. The whiteness of snow may be thus accounted for; it is extremely light and thin, consequently full of pores, and these contain air; it is farther composed of parts more or less thick and compact; aod such a substance does not admit the sun's rays to pass, neither does not absorb them ; on the contrary it reflects them very powerfully and tbis gives it that white appearance which we see in it. Snow, as it falls, is twenty-fonr times lighter than water, which may be proved ? by melting twenty-four measures of snow, and they will be found to produce but one of water. Snow evaporates con? siderably, and the greatest degree of cold does not obstruct this evaporation. It has been dutibted whether snow ever falls at sea ; but those who have naviga? ted the northern seas in winter affirm that they have there seen much snow. It is known that high mountains are never eotirely without snow; and though a small portion of it is sometimes melted, new flakes soon replace it. The air be ing much warn e' in the plains than it is on the mountains, it may rain on the one while it snows on the other. Snow has several uses. As the cold of winter is much more destructive to the vegetable than to the animal kingdom, plants would perish if they were not pre served by some covering. Oed has then designed that the rain, which during the summer, descended to refresh and reani? mate the plants, should fall in winter like soft wool, to cover and protect them from the injuries .they must otherwise have sustained from the frost and the winds. When the snow melts it becomes a fruitful moisture to the earth, and at the same time washes away from the winter seeds and plants everything that might prevent or inj ire their growth ; and any superabundance of melted snow that then remains, goes to supply the rivers and springs that suffered during the winter.? Sturm. Cash Worth Nothing. Hidden away among the archives of the treasury department is a curious vol? ume which few people have ever looked into. Though nothing more or Jess than a scrap book, it is filled from cover to cover with money. Altogether it holds not less than $200,000. The contents are real currency of legitimate issues, and yet the whole of tbem would not be ac? cepted to day aB payment for a bag of floor or a box of eoap. This is because Confederate notes and bonds, which compose the collection described, are worth nothing more than their value as waste paper, save in so far as certain specimens are in demand by collectors. Nevertheless the volume is extremely interesting by reason of the fact tbat it represents the most complete existing as? semblage of the 'shin-plasters' put in circulation as promises to pay by the government of the South during the war. Looking over the pages of the scrap book, the various issues of currency being arranged in chronological order, one fol lows from start to finish the history of the greatest civil conflict that the world has ever seen. The atory of a nation is always told most interestingly by its money. "Two years after date the Con? federate States promise to pay," reads the inscription on the earliest notes, but very soon this is replaced by a more con? servative legend, setting the date of pay? ment at "six months after the ratification of a treaty of peace between the Confed? erate States," and tbis latter form holds up to the end of the war. The money is patterned pretty closely after Uncle Sam's, but the clear lines of steel engrav? ing are feebly imitated by the processes ol photo-lithography. It will be remembered, perhaps, that Charges G. Memmioger, of South Caro lina, on taking office as the first secretary of the Confederate treasury, made a con? tract with the America Bank Note com? pany, of New York, for a supply of paper notes for $1,000, $500 and $50. The order was filled, a considerable quantity of the currency being shipped to Rich? mond and safely delivered. The goods being found satisfactory the bank note company was requested to send on the engraved plates. This wa3 done, but the United States Government was on the a'ert and succeeded in capturing the plates on board of the veesel which was conveying them to Richmond. A few years later this matter was brought up in Congress very effectively a3 an argument against employing the American Bank Note company to print United States money, the action in lending euch ser? vices to the Confederate government beiDg denounced as disloyal.? Washing ton Slur. ? Salvation Oil should always be kept in the kitchen. For the ready cure of scalds arjd burns it has no equal. 25 cents, All Sorts Of Paragraphs, ? Only 20 letters in 1,000,000 go as? tray. ? Conduct is the great profession. What a man does tells us what he is. ? Sixty persons now inhabit Robin? son Crusoe's island. Shall we annex itf ? All the gold in the world conld be stored in a room 24 feet square and 24 feet deep. ? A man may sow and another reap, but the sower of wild oats usually reaps the harvest himself. ? A man should make sacrifice to keep clear of doing a wrong; sacrf ces won't undo it when it's done. ? There is no better proof of the ex? cellence of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup than that it is recommended by leading physi ciaDs. ? Three hundred and twenty jack rabbits were killed witbin six hours on a 40 acre farm tract near Dodge City, Kas., a few days ago. ? A boy soon learns that be can get j anything from his mother by asking for it out loud in his prayers, but that ho can't work his father that way. ? When President Harrison leave* the White House in March he will baut received during his term of office for salary and allowances, the sum of $376, 800. ? The largest sheep ranch in tb< world is in the counties of Dimmet and; Webb, Texas. It contains upwards oi! 400,000 acres and yearly pastures fron 1,000,000 to l.SOO.OOO sheep. ? The second largest diamond in tho world is now undergoing the cutting pro* J cess at Antwerp. When finished it will be about the size of a pigeon's egg, and ] will weigh about 200 karats. ? Clara Edwards, a resident of Stewart County, 6a., owns a hen which sbe claims ' has laid two eggs about the size of turkey eggs every day for the past four years. She also asserts that each egg contains two yolks. ? Sneezing is averted by pressing the lips, because by doing so we deaden the impression made on a certain branch o the fifth nerve, sneezing being a refl action excited by some slight impression on that nerve. ? A religious census of Austrailia just completed shows 1,485,066 members of the Church of England, 80,118 Catholics, 493,369 Presbyterians, and 394,564 Meth? od isla. These are the four most numer? ous denominations. ? Many women find great difficulty in arranging their hair becomingly, because of its harsh and coarse texture. By the use of Ayer'a Hair Vigor, the hair be comes soft, pliant, and glossy. The Vigor is the most cleanly of all hair pre? parations. ? Ayer's Hair Vigor keeps the scalp free from dandrufl", prevents the hair , from becoming dry and harsh, and makes ] it flexible and glossy. All the elements , that nature requires, to make the hair ? abundant and beautiful, are supplied by this admirable preparation. ? The table on which the articles of agreement for the surrender of Vieksburg-J were signed by General Grant and Gen? eral Pemberton is in daily use in a beer saloon in Vickaburg. The saloon keeper | has been offered a large price for the relic, but be refuses to part with it. ? Kid gloves are not all made of kid; in fact, few of tbem are. The cheap ones are not kid and neither are the dearest ones. Ladies' gloves that cost -onder $1.50 or $2 a pair are all made of lamb* skin. It is likely that gloves paid for at a higher price than that will be of kid, ,ut the very best sod most expensive kid gloves are made of the skins of young colts. ? The largest steam shovel - in the world is digging pbospbstes in the mines at St. John's Island, near Charleston, S. ; O. Its weight is 56 tons. It ?an dig 10 . feet below its track and to a distance of 1 35 feet on either side. The dipper, which can swing through two-thirds of a circle, j has a capacity of If cubic yards, and about two dippers full can be bandied in ? a minute. ? A watchmaker in Newcastle recent- j ly completed a set of three gold shirt studs, in one of which is a watch that keeps excellent time, the dial being only , 3-16 of an inch in diameter. The three studs are connected by a strip of silver inside the shirt bosom, and the watch ? contained in the middle one is wound up by turning the stud above. The hands are set by turning the one below. ? Philadelphia has frequently, in fact, has often, been called slow by other en? vious communities; but here is a state? ment indicating that Philadelphia is only cautious to a degree. An estate that was assigned for the benefit of its creditors in the year 1806 is now about to he dis? tributed to the heirs of the aforesaid creditors.* In a less careful and more rapid town there wouldn't have been any of it left in this time. ? The Methodist people of a little town down East were anxious to bave an organ, and besides others tbey applied to a prominent and wealthy Quaker to help tbem, and be promptly responded with a liberal subscription. Shortly afterward one of his Quaker brethren took him to task for doing so. Said he, "Since tbey will praise God by machinery, thee must admit that it is best for them to have a good machine." ? At Lenoir, N. O, a mule fell over a bridge into the river, which was frozen over with thick ice. The animal disap? peared beneath the ice, and was given up for lost; but shortly the spectators dis? covered its head protruding some dis? tance above, at a place where the ice was broken. The mule had accomplished the wonderful feat of swimming a considera? ble distance under the ice, and was saved. ? An old almanac for 1813 gives the following as the rates of postage prevail? ing at that time: "For every single let? ter by land, for 40 miles, 8 cents; 90 miles, 10 cents; 150 miles, 12J cents; 300 miles, 17 cents ; 500 miles, 25 cents. No allowance to be made for intermediate ' miles. Every double letter is to pay double the said rates, every triple letter, triple, every packet weighing one ounce at the rate of four single letters each ounce. Every ship letter originally re? ceived at an office for delivery, 6 cents. Magazines and pamphlets, not over 50 miles, 1 cent p<?r sheet; over 50 and not exceeding 100 miles, 1* cents per sheets over 100 miles, 2 cents per sheet.