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VOLUME XV. GREENVILLE. SOUTH CAROLINA. MARCH 3. 1369. KO. 41.
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1 \ O. F. TOWN E fci ,
L EDITOR.
9. 0. BAILXY, Pre'r. and Associate Editor.
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The Light at Home.
The light at homo how bright it beams
When evening shades around us fall;
And trom the lattice far it gleams,
To love and rest, and comfort all;
When wearied with the tolls of day,
And strife for gory gold, or fame,
ZIow sweet to seek the qniet way,
Where loving lips will lisp our name
Around tbe light at home!
When through the dark and stormy night
The wayward wanderer homeward Aies,
Mow cheering ia that twinkling light,
Which through the foreat gloom he apiea !
It ia tho light of heme. He facia
That loving heartr will greet him there.
And aafaly through hia bosom eteala
The joy and lo7e that banish care
Around the light at homo.
The light at home how still and sweet
It peopa from yonder cottago door,
The wear* laborer to greet, .
When the rough toils of day are o'er I
Bud is the rout that does not know
The blessings that the beams impart
The cheerful hopes and joys that flow
And lighten np the heaviest heart
Around the light at home.
A Carious Trial in Italj? Beauties
of Romanism?A Convert Case.
The Florence correspondent ot
the London Ncw6 writes:
The Florence journals have
quito overlooked a curious trial
which took place ten days ago before
tlie Tribunal of Correctional
Police in their own city, and which
lind for a result to condemn to
twenty days' imprisonment Lcopoldo
Fabbroni, tho agent of the
I3ible Society in Florence, his two
brothers-in-law to the same term
ot imprisonment, a hackney coach
luan eight dare' imprisonment,
aind tho wife of Fabbroni to one
day's imnriaonment.
I'lio offense fur which these sentences
were awarded consisted in
the fact of the whole party having
y?oive on the 16th of last May, to
the Convent ot Monti Celii, and
attempted to remove thence the
eldest daughter of the wile by a
toraaaer husband. It is altogether
a very sad story, and illustrates in
a too instructive way the proceedings
of the old Grand Ducal rule
in Tuscany, in matters affecting
*he liberty of conscience, and the
consequences which these proceedings
have entailed even on mere
liberal governments. i
As long ago as 1856 there died
in Florence a certain Domenico
Barretti. As both Ike and Ids wife
had become Protestants, the priests
determined that the two little girls
whom ho left should be separated
Irom their mother. This was
done, and they were consigned, in
epite of all the supplications and
remonstrances of tlicir mother, to
the nuns of Monti Cclii. In the
twelve years tiwt have passed
eiuce the separation, they have, of
course, been trained up to believe
that their mother is a monster of
heretical iniquity, and that their
return to stAV under her roof
would be incurring tlie risk of
eternal misery. On the 16th ot
last May the poor mother went to
the convent to entreat her eldest
daughter to leave the nuns and
come and stay with her.
The daughter refused; then
they bado each other farewell:
but at the lost moment, as if seized
by an uncontrollable maternal impulse,
the mother made a rush at
her daughter, caught her up in
her arms, put her in the hackney
loach which was waiting at the
convent door, and attempted to
drive off. The nuns, with their
pries, roused the neighborhood.
*mv<J the girl was brought hack to
4>be convent. Such are the circumstances
which lod to the trial
of the 9?th nit. All the parties
condemned have made their ap?
peal to the higher tribunals.
Thk name of the lied sea is dorived
from portions being oovered
with red patches, from a few
yards to somo miles square, composed
of microscopic vegetable animalcnlro,
particularly abundant
in the spring, and which dye the
water to at) intensely blood red.?
When not affected by these organic
beings the deep waters are intensely
blue and the shoal waters
Shades of grocg.
Don't Keep too Xaoh Stock.
Said a fanner who does not take
the American Agriculturist, to a
neighbor who does: "You want
more stock to make manure." It
was an innocent remark, hut our
triond is as fond of an argument
as was Dr. Johnson, and replied :
"That remark indioates a lack of
just ideas on the subject. It is as
absurd to say, I want more stock
to make manure, as it would be to
say, I want more stoves to make
ashes. It I burn fifty cords ot
wood the amount of ashes will be
the same, whether I use three
stoves or a dozen, and if I mm all
the fodder J have it will make
little difference, so far as tbe quantity
and quality of the manure is
concerned, whether I keep a large
number of cattle, sheep and pigs,
or a small nnmbe>'. The value of
the manure heap will depend on
tbo grain, hay, straw, and stalks
used on the farm, and not on the
stock." There is considerab 1 e
truth in what our friend Bays, and
we are glad ho has so far profited
by the teaching of the Agriculturist
that he realizes that the
vaiue of the manure depends on
the food, and not on the kiud of
stock it is fed to. It is a great
mistake to be overstocked." There
is no possible advantage?not even
in the manure heap?and not unfrequently
the loss is very great.
Better sell part of the stock and
teed what is retained all they can
eat?enough, at all events, to keep
them in a thrifty, healthy condition.
If the animal is not gaiuing,
we are losing all the foou it consumes.
By providing wartn, sheltered,
dry, and cotnfoi table quarters,
we can save a considerable
amount of food, but after all is
done, tho animal still requires
about 2^ lbs. of hay per day, or
its equivalent in straw, for each
100 lbs. of live weight, to sustain
the vital functions and keep it
from losing flesh. What we gain
in milk, flesh, or wool, is derived
from tho food consumed in excess
of this amount.
[American Agriculturist.
A Nkw Swindling Dodge.?
Pretended firms in this city ad
vertise in tho country papers to
furnish Alaska diamonds, equal in
all respects to the genuine article,
except in their intrinsic value.
They request thai when rings are
ordered, a ring already possessed
by the owner may be sent them,
in order that the size of tho finger
may be ascertained. On receipt
of tho specimen, they forward
their trash by express, to lie collected
for ou delivery. It the
specimen ring should be worthless,
they included it hi the parcel, but,
if it should happen to be valuable,
they retain it, and any attempt on
the part of the loser t<o regain bis
property, proves fruitlesa, inas
much as no firms with tho title
they give, are to be found at the
address given. A case comes
under notice from a correspondent
of the jewelry firm of Messrs.
Browne "& Spaulding, At Lexington,
Ky., of certain individuals,
styling themselves ** James T.
Monroe & Co., Importers and
Manufacturers, No. 195 Broadway,"
w1k> obtained a ring in the
above manner, worth several dollars,
of a lady in that place. They
obtained $12.00 for the Alaska
"diamonds" forwarded to her, but
did not return the property sent.
As no such firm is to bo found at
195 Broadway, the prospects of
the lady for obtaining her ring aro
indifferent.? New York Timc$.
Save tuk Pkkisiiino.?A physician
was once returning to bis boine,
when he saw a little child in great
peil in the 6trcet. Another in
slant she would liavo been crush
ed nnder the iron hoofs which
were almost upon her. At great
VAtlSl llintAAU llA J-v
jn;i ii iw iiiiiidvii) nu I u9iivu iui(
ward, and, seizing tbo little one,
bore nor in safety to the sidewalk,
Curiosity impelled him to look
into the child s face, that he might
see if he knew whom lie had rescued.
Pushing back the little
bonnet, what were his feelings tc
see that it was his own little
daughter whose life he had saved
80 he who hates to save the per
ishing, often finds rewards he litth
dreamed of. " Whatever tby banc
findeth to do, do it with thj
might,**
Consumption
Dr. Henry I. Bowditch, of Boaton,
who boo made consumption a
specialty of study and treatment,
is contributing a series of papers
on the subject to the Atlantic
Monthly. In the second paper he
says that want of sunlight is one
powerful promoter of consumption,
and advises all who have the first
symptoms of the disease to keep in
the sunlight as much as possible.
The sick should not be shut np in
rooms on the north sido of the
house where the sun never shines,
but should be allowed rooms with
a southern exposure, and the blinds
should be left open notwithstanding
the fading of the carpet. Impure
air of all sorts is another prolific
cause and promoter ot this
disease, and a perfect ventilation is
not only better than medicine, but
prevention and cure both in one.
insufficient and improper clothing,
tight lacing and exposure of >he
limbs, all tend to pulmsnary disorder
Poor food feeds the disease,
and indigostion is one of its powerful
allies; and, on the other hand,
a generous, wholesome diet, regularly
taken, tends both to extirpate
and keep off the enemy.?
Over study, particularly with children,
intense activity ol the brain.
care, prolonged excitement, fear,
depression, gloomy emotions, all
tend to develop the germs of the
disease, as do intemperance aud
excesses of every kind. One excellent
thing in these papers is the
fact that Dr. Bowditch throws the
pitch of his largo experience of
one-third of a contury directly in
tlio destroyer's path, to prevent
his getting his iangs fastened into
the vitals of tho system. Prevention
is the great thing, and prevention,
in nine cases out of ten,
is possible, will we hut have the
wisdom and the will to apply the
proper precautions.
Instruction of Qirls*
The right instruction of girls is
much neglected. Even in some of
the best schools, showy acquirement
are prefered to real knowledge.
A lady who has written
ui>on this subject makes some sensible
observations upon the varieties
of character and the diflerent
modes of treatment they require.
After remarking that in
striving to destroy a fault we
should be careful not to overlook
the virtue that may accompany it,
she says: "An impulsive, rash,
self-confident character is also ac
tive and energetic. A selfish, over
careful disposition, contains the
germs of prudence. An indolent
character is usually crentle. and
unwilling to oxcept provocation.
A jealous temper is an affectionate
one. Vanity is the exaggeration
of an amiable desire to (Hoase.?
And tho reason why so much good
advice, or advice which is meant
to be good, is received so badly
by those to whom it is offered,
very often is, that in tonching the
fault, the virtue is touched also;
and then tlvo natural instinct of
Relf defence exhibits itself in the
form of an excuse. Now, it wo
wish to givo advice which will bo
palatable as well as true, we must
show sympathy with whatever is
natural and innocent in the feeling
which has been aroused, before we
give a caution against exaggeration
There sltould be a percep
tion and encouragement of the
good that tnay exist, whilst the
evil is condemned which accompanies
it.
Atiikwt.?One who does not
believe in the existence of God.?
Such a creed can only arise from
tuo ignorance ot stupidity, or a
corruption of principle, since the
, whole universe is filled with the
moral and physical proofs of a
. Creator. lie who does not look
to a superior and superintending
; power as his maker and his Judge,
. is without that coercive principal
( ot salutary fear which should
prompt him to do good and es;
chew evil, and his oath can, of ne*
; cessity, he no stronger than his
. word. Masons, looking to the dan,
gerous tendency of such a tenet,
> have wisely discouraged It, by de,
claring that no atheist can be ad!
mitted to participate in their fra.
ternity; and the better to carry
5 this law into effect, every candl
I date, before passing through anv
of the ceremonies of initiation, U
r required, publicly and solemnly,
to declare bis trust in God.
A
Cheap Smoke Honse.
A fanner in Western New York
gives tbe following as Ins plan for
a good and cheap smoke house:
No fhrmer should be without a
good smoke-house, and such a one
as will be fire-proof and tolerably
secure from thieves. Fifty hams
can be smoked at one time in a
smoke-house seven by eight feet
square. Mine is six by seven, and
is large enough for most farmers.
I first dug all tbe ground out below
where the frost would reach,
and filled it up to the sni face with
small stone. On this I laid my
brick floor, in lime mortar. The
walls are brick, eiplit inches thick,
and seven feet high, with a door
nn nno 0M0 tfanf Tl?^
V?? v?.v DIMV V I WW ? IVlCt JL lie
door should be made of wood and
lined with sheet iron. For the top
I put on joists, two by lour, set
up edgewise, and eight and n halt
-inches from centre to centre, covered
with brick, and put on a heavy
coat of mortar. I built a small
chimney on the top in thg centre,
arching it oter and covering it
with a shingle roof in the usual
way. An arch should bo built on
the outside, with a small iron door
to shut it up, similar to a stove
door, with a hole from the arch
through the wall of the smokehouse,
and an iron grate over it.
Tho aich is more convenient and
better to pat the fire in than to
build a fire insido the smoke-house,
and the chimney causes a draft
through into the smoke-house.?
Good corn cobs or hickory wood
aro the best materials to make a
smoke for hams. The cost of such
a smoke-house as 1 dcscribo is
about $20. 4-v
&
Loko Sermons and other
Tiiinos.?A lawyer who consumes
three hours in arguing a question
of law relating to the ownership
of a barrel of apples, is indignant
at his minister for exceeding
twenty-five minutes in unfolding
one of the great principles of morality7,
on the observance of which
the tolerable existenco of society i
dejKMids- The judge who fills two
hours with his 44opinion" on the
right of the counsel to challenge
a witness, grumbles at his minister
because ho has prolonged the discussion
of fundamental laws of
human existence to thirty minutes.
The physician who takes ten minutes
to prepare tho medicine tor a
headache, is nervously restive if
his minister spends only twice as
many in attempting to relievo a
chronic headache. The belle who
has spent?how long? in adjusting
the bows of her bonnet, is remorseless
in her criticism on the minis
ter who does not finish his meditations
on tbo character of God in 1
fifteen minutes. The fop who has
combed, and |>erfumed, and waxed
his beard and moustacho for un j
hour, is mortified past endurance
if the poor minister is not through
his discussion of tho immortal Lito
" inside" of twenty minutes.
11 ore After Business nouns.'
The road which the man of business
travels in pursuit oi competence
and wealth is not a macada
mized one, nor does it ordinarily
1 _ M a! ?
ieaa uirougu pleasant scenes and
by #M*ell springs of delights. On
the contrarv, it is a rongh and
rugged path, beset with " wait abit"
thorns and full of pit-falls,
which can only bo avoided by the
watchlul care of circumspection.?
After each day's journey over this
worse than turnpike road, the
wayfarer needs something more
than rest; he requires solace?
and deserves it. lie Is weary of
the dull prose of life, and athirst
for its poetry. Happy is the man
who can find that solace and poetry
at home. Warm greetings
from loving hearts, fond glances
from bright eyes, and welcome
shouts ot children, the many thousand
little arrangements for comfort
and eniovmeut that silentlv
toll of thoughtful and expectant
love, the gentle ministrations that
beguile us into an old and easy
seat betore we are aware of it;
, these, and like tokens, of afTection
and sympathy oonstitute the poetry
ot?life. Think of tliis ye wives
. and daughters of business men.
The Rev. Mr. Wakefield of the
> Universalist Chnrch in Owatonna,
' Minn., was recently presented
\ with a watch-guard in which every
, lady member of his congregation
was represented by a hair.
A Startling Initanoe of the Justice
of Hsaren.
Tho retributive justice of
Heaven has never been more
clearly shown or exemplified than
in the fate of the judge and jury
who acquitted the murderer of tho
laments Bolmeycr.
The circtiinstances surrounding
the cane are too well known to
justify a reheatsnl at this time.
Briefly, a brutal beast, bearing the
name of Brown, in cold blood
and without tho {.lightest provocation,
assassinated Bolineyer, on
a public street in Dayton, in
broad daylight, in the presence
of numerous witnesses, for the
only reason that Bolmcyer was
the editor-in-chief of the Dayton
Empire, a Democratic paper.?
Brown, being fearful of the just
indignation of the p e o p 1 e of
Montgomery County, prayed for
a change of venue, had his case
trausf rrcd to the loyal County,
n r a - -
oi jut ami; alter a mock trial, ?
was acquitted by a jury organ- <
ized for that purpose, by a loyal ?
court and sheriff, notwithstanding '
the proof of guilt was incontest- (
able and overwhelming. Thi6 '
was the judgment of man. Now '
witness the judgment of Almighty J
Ood 1 Every juryman on that
panel that acquitted Brown of (
ti?o murder of Bolmeyer, has .
since been bereft of reason, met i
unnatural death, or committed sui- i
cide, and as a fitting cap-stone c
to this arch of retributive justice, <
Judge Parsons, who presided
over the tnock trial, died a few
days since, a horrible death in
I ho Lunatic Asylum at Dayton.
Verily, those who "sow the wind
shall reai) the whirlwind.*
[Zfncyms {Ohio) Forum.
Gkoroia Statk Qcarrifs.?A
correspondent of the Banner of
the South, writing from Polk
county, about fifty miles froin At
lanta, gives a glowing description
of the Uharlee Valley, near the
head of which lies Van Wert.?
The projected railroad from Atlanta
to Memphis, will pass through
it. Among the mineral products
of that region?slate, marble of
various colors, lime, grind and
whet stones of the finest quality
and in the greatest abundance,
are found in its immcdiato neighborhood.
The slate has been
o]>cued in a few places, and worked
since the war on a very limited
scale, with a profit of fifty and one
hundred percent, notwithstanding
the crippled condition of the coun
try ana the heavy expense ot c
wagon transportation, over a
rough road for twenty miles, to .
Cartersville, on the State Road, .
which had to be inenrred to reach t
the markets of the country. (
BsKnivK.?An emblem of indue '
try appropriated to the third d??;ree.
This is a virtue ever held t
n high esteem among the craft, ,
for our old charges tell us that ,
44 all Masons shall work honestly on |
working days." There seems, t
however, to be a more recondite i
meaning connected with this syin- i
hoi. Tho ark has already been >
shown to have been an emblem <
common to Freemasonry and the 1
ancient mysteries, as a symbol of {
regeneration?of the secoud birth '
from death to life. Now in the '
mysteries of the hive was the type '
of the ark. 44 Hence," says Faber. (
44 both the dcluvian priestesses and ,
the regenerated souls were called ,
bees; hence bees were feigned to |
be produced from tho carcass of a
cow, which also symbolized the
ark; and hence, as the great fath- ,
or was esteemed an infernal god, i
honey was mnch used both in fuueral
rites and iu the mYsteriM."
Pbof. Swket, of Providence, II.
In n well known pedestrian and
rope walkor, is to commonco on
tlio 1st day ot June next, the unparalleled
feat of propelling a velocipede,
of his own manufacture,
a distance of 8,000 iniles in thirty
days, averaging 100 miles per
day, for a wager of $5,000. During
the trip, he is to ride the velocipede
150 miles in twenty-fonr
hours, and one trial wilt only be
allowed.
Tas Ims oss thinks of hi* troubls*
and trials, lbs fswsr sod lighter they
are. An oooes of hops in the bean
will outweigh a ton of cara in the
hand.
A
Advertising Tested.
Ad Atlanta paper, in the coarse of an
irticleoo the value of advertising to husoes*
men, says:
A merchant in Macon, who had been
luccessful for years, concluded at the beginning
of one ysar that he would try
he virtue of advertising. That year he
pent eighteen hundred with the prin*
ere, aud his own testimony is, that be
lid three timet the amount of businessa
hat he ever did before in the same
englh of time . lie still keeps his
tame and business prominent in the
>apers, and tinds his profits steadily
ncreasing. Other merchants in Macon,
vitnessiug the success of this home,
allowed its example, and now the ilaion
papers are among the best patronzed
in the Stale, and the business men
>f that city are among the most subs'.an*
ial in the South.
We happen to he able to testify to
he truth of this statement in every paricular.
For the size of the place, there
< more advertising done in Macon than
n any other city of the South, and
?ence her extraordinary prosperity
ince I lie close of the war. The name
>f nearly every merchant and buaine?s
nan in the city is to be found in her dai?
v papers; not occasionally and contained
into the smallest possible space,
is if the parties were afraid somebody
eould find out where there are, but regllarlv,
systematically, and prominently,
ind in many inslancea with an apparent
luregard of coet. They know what
hey are at, though, and go into the pa>ers
and stay there because it payt.?
The result is practically demonstrated
n the rapid growth of business and scuimulalion
of fortunes.?Suv. llepubli
an.
A Rouavck or the Cuban Rebel.ton.?
An American citisen who was
n the Theatre of Villsnueva on the
ivening of the 22d ult., and witnessed
he riot and massacre in the streets of
Havana that evening, rays: " A veiy
reautiful girl, the daughter of Aidant*.
>ne of the w ealthiest and most noble of
til Cubans, wore upon her left breast
he American flag, with the inscription,
Long live the Republic of Cuba* up>n
it. When that stirring song wns
>eing sung, the whole audience rose
tttd cheered this young woman, and aa
ihe rose to acknowledge the salute?
ill eyes were now bent upon her?a
ow, mean, cowardly Spaniard rliol her
villi a revolver, killing her instantly.?
Two A met ican gentlemen occupied the
k>x adjoining 8enorit* Aldama, whose
tames I do not know, but one of
vhom, seeing the pistol pointed at Ihe
oung lady's breast, drew hia revolver,
tod a second after the Spaniard had
ired, blew the top off the head of the
-owardly assassin. Instantly the whole
beatre wae the scene of the greatest
refusion, and the Spanish troops
oshed ia and Legan firing upon the
nasses of the huddled, unarmed, inuoenl
men and women."
Ch(?kons Doomed.?The Sport, a
*arie journal, Announces that the great
diet of the French capital have rleermined
to abolitb chignons. M The
iliaracter of ike head vl'e??," it aayt,
ie 10 undergo an important reform.?
rhe command hat gone forlh that
alte hair and wigs must be repudi*
ited." And not only so, but ladies
ire always to appear as if they dressed'1
heir own hair, for, * when the work of
v professional is manifest on their
reads, prestige ceases. In the day
irae the hair is to be simply plaited
ind confined in a net?in other words,
nstead of assuming a pyramidal form,
l is to have a tendency to fall like that
>f Niobe. In tbe eveuing, it will only
>e necessary to put on the head a
srown, or a wreath of rcses, of ivy, or
of some creeping plant." The 8port
tdds; " All is over with false hair,
Jecked with gilded or metal arlie'es.?
Henceforth false hair, at best, can only
t>e tolerated as a detail, aa a modest
luxiliary?it can no longer be the prin
sipal or tbe only ornament of the
l?ead."
A Toron Case.?In Arkansas, El
acr jvnapp, wbtie baptizing converts r.t
a revivnl meeting, advanced with a wiry,
sharp eyed old chep, into the water,
lie asked tlie usual question, whether
there was any reason why the ordinance
of baptism should not be administered.
After a pause, a tall, powerful
looking chap, with an eye like a
blaze, who was leaning on a long rifle
and quietly looking on, remarked:
M Elder, 1 don't want to interfere ini
this vera business any, but I want lo?
say that is an old sinner you have got
hold of, and 1 know that one dip won't
do him any good. If you want to get
the sin out of him you'll have to anchor
hiui out in deep water over night.'*
The wrinkles observed in some free*
running outward and upward from lha
corners of ths eyes, are said, by l>r.
ltecfleld, to tndica' probity or personal
truthfulness. Persons with this sign
largs. according to bim, are t o ed for
always keeping their promises, aid for
doing as tbey agree to do.
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