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v' , 1 " i w??? ? OH??a??i w ' A. REFLEX OF POPULAR EVENTS. iSifci' . . *' ? . ? w "" ' ' ^ ' > ' . *,** i i-* 1 if,. ' r~ U. .j .. 4 A. . ;. , gaeEMaBgBBBB5?BgggB?gBggggSBgaBBBSgMBBaegSSBM?M8BaMgBaaBBgMMW?aMEgBBHBHg-EBM^SgggggBB-BSg I HI g ,. SMSMBB?R? VOLUME XV. '. . JSREENVILLE. SOUTH CAROLINA. MAT 18. 1P69. NO. 81. O. F. TOWN JE?. EDITOR. I.I. lAOIT, Fro'r. and Aaaooloto Editor. SoMOkimoM Twu Dullara per inaaa. AiriMiiiMim lnMrt*d it the nlN of ?M Ml? r*r aquoro Of tvolro Mioioo linoo (tUlo alnad typo) or boa for lb Ant insertion, Ally oooU onak for lb aooond and third Inaortloea, and twontr-Ava ouU for aabaoqaaat Iniwina. Tonrtjr ooatraeU will ho aaodo. All adrovUaamaata oatt horo tho numbor rf laoortiona narked oo tbeaa, or they will bo Ikiirtid till ordorod oot, and ebarged for. Unless ordorod otherwise, Advertisements srill lororUhlj bo " displayed." Obituary notices, and oil aaotton inuring to Oo tho boooAt of U| ooo, ovo regarded oo Advertisements. Beautiful Hands. Snob bttlifnl, beauiful hands I They're ooithor white nor tmoll; And you, I know, would ooaroely think That thsy a ere fair ot all. Fro looked on bonda whooe form and boo A oeulptor'a dream might bo; Trt are three aged wrinkled hands Moat beaut.ful to ma. o^.k l.u?if..l 1 .ir_l I J.i Thoogh heart were weary and tad. Thee# patient hand* kept tolling on. That children might ho glad. I almoot werp, a* looking hack * To abildhood'e dictant day. I think how thee* handa reeled not, Wl? wora at thoir play. ?oeh beautiful, beantilul band*I They're growing feohla now ; For lime and pain have left their work On hand, and heart, and brow. Aloal alas I the nraring time, And the day to im, When 'arath NHilalM, out of eight, Thaaa baode will faldad be. But, oh1 beyond thla ebadow lamp. Where all iebiigtjt and lair, t know full well three dear aid haade Will paltne of vlotory hear. Where eryatal atreame throogh endleea year* Flow over golden eende, And where the old grow young again, I'll elaap my mother's handa Punishing Children. In multitudes of esses parents Lave made hasty and furious, and utterly groundless charges against a child, which lias so taken it aback that it could make uo reply, and this has been taken as a tacit confession of guilt, and the next qucstiou proposed in tury is, What did you do it fort" And the child being thus confused and inore alarmed, cannot stitutuoa presence of mind and composure enough to make denial, and as the only alternative burst* into a kind of hysterical crying. Many parents are of such a temperament that, when a child cannot be induced t utter a word nnder scold lug, they become more enraged, and utter threats which are a disgrace to civilization; we have beard them, ourselves, from affectionate, indulgent and Christian parents. 411*1! knock yon down with a log of wood," u 111 break every bone in your body," w 1*11 beat you within an inch of yonr life," and other similar bestialities of expression from edocated, civilized minds; at least thev passed for such in the great world. Tliere is one sate rule always applicable in the reproof of chil drei): never speak so loud to them that a third person, ten feet away, eon Id hear what was said. Any angry feeling is intensified by a loud utterance. Another good rate is. do not reprove or correct a child in the presence of a third person, or it so, let it be done in a oft, low, affectionate tone. A third precantion, and it ie not a minor one either, is, do not reprove on the instant; wait a few nonrs, if not nntil neat day, or better still in many cases, defer it nntil the occasion is abont to occnr when the fault minht likely be repeated. Any intelligent ana observant housekeeper knows that /S steak is put on the table this morning, bnrnt to a crisp, bouucswm mm ilia la Kt a ?*at nnin/v uyr tfVMk ??'? tw*/iv i uinmi^ I into the kitchen, and blazing way at the oook, la neither ladylike, nor wiae, nor polite But Mft morning, jnat before the steak is about to to oooked, be in the kitpW *nd esk that it be not bverdoneas yesterday, with tome Word of encouragement; whatever Servant it not managed in. this Way had better be' dbmUned.? Now, children are ?a ignorant aa fteryatttc the minda of both are 1 weak and may be easily made per- 1 verse alike. Be assured, reader, that it yon make it *n inflexible rule never to scold above a whis i per, yon will never ontrago your i child's feelings, nor {rapture its ] sknll by a blow dealt iu ungovcrn < able fur*,--Journal of Health. < 4 Irw th? Alb my Country BeeUwee. XiufMuitrflMiktiii 1ML On no aeoonnt allow joar bona to incubate in tbe room in which >our fowls roost. It it surprising what a great quantity of vermin are generated in warm weather, in the nest of a sitting hen, and any one who bas ever paid the least attention to his fowl* knows what a pest said vermin are, and uses everv precaution to keep them out of tlie poultry-house. Some may use portable boxes, but even these do not answer, for although they can be taken out and burned, still some of the vermin will find their way out of the box, and like as not, the head of one of your fowls will be their harbor. The other fowls will greatly annoy those incubating, and they also take up nests that the other hens should have to lay in. T liof) nnir avruirSanAn whatever in the poultry line, I once set a hen in the chicken honse. About ten days before her time had expired. 1 noticed that she had become exceedingly thin and weak, and that she was scarcely able to walk; al?o that she came off her nest five or six timee a day. 6he grew weaker and weaker, until at last one morning on going into the hen-houso I found ner dead on hor ne?\ the eggs cold, and she. poor tiling, was completely covered with lice, the the eggs and nest also full. This accounts for her coming off so often. She would go on her nest and stay there until fairly driven off by vermin. Set your hens in some place where they will not l? disturbed, and give them plenty of food and fresh water. 8oine 6ay that eoine days before hatching, the eggs should be washed, but this is all moonshine. The hen, in getting off and on her nest, turns them as much as is needed, and what possible good can washing do tlicra ! It is far more apt to prevent them from hatching. Sometimes a hen may want to sit when you are out of her mind. In such a rase put her in a coop and feed very sparingly for a week or ten days, and she will be effectually cured eff her incubating desires. Lewis IIooff, Jk. Fairfax Couuty, Va. The Result of Savino a Lady's Life.?I taring the past few weeks a man named Samuel Temple, residing at Yardley, Bucks comity. Pa., baa been shot at on three different occasions, but in each case miraculously escaped injnrv. The cause of these unpleasant proceedings has jnst transpired. A few mornings since, says the Philadelphia Star, Mr. John Bitting, of Newton, found a letter under bis door addressed to Temple. It was dated New York, March 20, and signed 44 Viola," in a neat hand. The writer stated that two years ago she was riding near Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, when she was thrown from the saddle and Temple came to her rescue. She fell in love with him at onee. and afterward wrote him tw> letters telling him so. As he paid no attention to thsm, she resolved that no other woman should wed him, and employed four Span S.L ? *4 n..n I imi Rwnwim n fi wv apiece to kill him. She afterward conclnd ed to make no more attempta at hl< life, but she had not an opi*?rtunity to get word to her hiren accomplices before the lost attempt was made. She says she is wealthy, and highly educated ; that she is now going to Europe, and that lie is in no more danger, as she now has het Iter love for him, and wonld not marry him.? Temple says he remember* the circnm9tances of rescuing the lady ; that he asked her ir she was hnrt; she answered in the negative, and thoy parted. Thk lsoston Advertiser ?ay? that a distinguished physician of that city recertiy left for a brief tonr in Europe. 44 What will yonr patient* do in your absence f" inquired a friend. 4i Get well," was the prompt reply. A vkbt pnadiiiff question to solve is, which is the easiest and i most oomfortsble, to ride a vtloci- i pede or lead one round with you i all day t Opinions are, to far, i about equally divided. . j( % (fold ?The Conceals* Wealthof AliMatMif IbMfkito Light Considerable excitement was Kroduced on the streets yesterday y the discovery of a deposit of some metallic substance so near like sold that if it is not the pure tneul, it is difficult for the uninitiated to detect the difference.? Workmen engaged in excavating for the new building on the oorner of Alabama and Broad streets opposite the Times office, when some ten or fifteen fi-et below the surface. struck a bed of on art* or metallic formation which wan pronounced by competent judges to be largely impregnated with gold. The substance was submitted to chemical test by Mr. Mitchie, the jeweler, and he is satisfied that, could it be found in sufficient quantities, it could be made valuable in the manufacture of jewelry. We examined specimens of tlid ore at his store yesterday afternoon, which had been experimented ujton by him, and it bore the chemical tests almost equal to thepure metal. Wo also examined at Mr. Mitchie's a massive ring, manufactured from a metal discovered at the Oahaba coal mines, which has the appearance of a bright l*-karat gold, and which he told us had been worn for some time, and retained its color equal to the tine-t gold. The substance discovered here yesterday is similar to that out of which this ring was manufactured, and we learn that Mr. Mitchie is going to submit it to the necessary process to determine its value, lie has the rinar and also specimens of the ore discovered. here in his possession, and will cheerfully show them to those curious in these matters. We did not ascertain how large a bed of ore had been discovered, though we believe the investigation has gone no further than the ordinary progress of the work would develop. The whole of the upper portion of the State is abundantly supplied with mineral productions of all kinds, and Selina is as likely to have her 6hare of the rich deposit as any other portion of the State. Mr. Mitchie will be enabled to determine in a day or two the exact value and quality of the substance found here yesterday, and we shall publish tho result of his investigations. [-Selma Timet. How to Dissolve Bouts. A barrel, box or an ash hopper will do to dissolve bones in. The bones should be broken into small pieces with an axe or sledge hammer. By laying them on a flat stone or a piece of iron, thev can roadily be broken into small particle*. After being broken, place a layer of them in the vessel pro vided, about three inches deep, ? ?K ...:?u i 1 1 1 o? iuviu ??uii ffima iinru wikhj unlatched ashes, to which should be added fresh lime in proportion of half a bushel of lime to a barrel of ashes. Put on euoufih of ashes to cover them thoroughly, and so continue alternately until the vessel is full. Add enough water to saturate the whole thoroughly, though not enough to make the lye run. Let it remain about three months, taking care to dampen it every two weeks with enongti water to start the lye If tne lye should run, catch it for dampening the ashes in fDture use. In three months the bones will become soft and ready to crnmblo. Much of it can be broken up with tho shovel by throwing out the mass and working it over. Those hones that do not work up can be picked out, and reset again, and oy the time they go through the process again thev will be thoroughly decomposed, and ready for use on grain or other crops. r a>.,v?/ Wf rrw mr 1/ www r?w? P book KM or thk WoMlli'l Rights Movkmiwt.?An low* paper states that as a result of Anna Dickinson's late lecture in Des Moines, a la<tv has been working at the tinner's trade. 8ke will go into the horse shoeing business next, and won't care a tinker's blessing what people think about It either. ? 1 s " Bob," said a young fellow, at a fancy ball, " yon are missing all the sights on this side." " Never mind, Bill," returned Bob. "I'm lighting all the misses on the / KIlM by ft Xeteer correspondent in New Booth Wales gives the following particulars of ft renufrkable accident: 44 On th? night of the solar eclipse ft great deal of electrical disturbance was observed, and all through the month meteors have been almost nightly. Just after the eclipse one et the most singular incidents probably that ever occurred took place. As the schooner Urania was passing Crowley Head about half an hour after midnight on the 18th ult., a a meteor, described as being like a ball ot fire, fell immediately over the vessel's stern, exploded with a loud report like that of a heavy piece of ordnance, and killed the sternsman, a man named Sales. Every one on board felt a violent shock, like that of a volcanic battery, but no one except Sales was seriously injured. Sparks of fire were scattered all about the deck, and the flash of the meteor was so brilliant that the steward, who was ly ng in a berth below, saw the fire thrnngli the caulked scam of the deck.? His cabin was at the same time filled with smoke, which blacken* ed some papers lying about, lbe paint on all the aft part of the ship was discolored, similarly to what it might have been had the ship been smoked with charcoal.1 A peculiar, indescribable smell was perceived for some time after the explosion, and a quantity of flakes like the soot from a steamer1# funnel were scattered about the deck. The meteor apparently traveled with the wina, which waa from the sontb. The body of Sales, the man who was killed, appeared to be blackened, but showed no other marks of injury. Sales was a young man about twenty-three years of age, and is described as a smart seaman. A Short Lfcturk roa Yootto Mkn,?Keep good company or none. Never be idle. II your hands cannot be usefully employed attend to the cultivation of your mind. Always speak the truth.? Make few promises. Live up to your engagements. Keep your own secrets, if yon have any.? When yon sjieak to a person, look him in the face. Good company and good conversation are the verv sinews of virtue. Good charncter it above all things else. Your diameter cannot be essentially injured, except by your own acts.~ It one speaks evil of you. let vour life be such that none will believe liim. Drink 110 kind of intoxicating liquors. Always live, misfortune excepted, within your income. When you retire to bed, think of what you have been doing during the day. Make no haste to be rich, if you would prosper; small and steady gains give competency, with tranquility of mind. Never play at any kind of game or chance. Avoid temptation, through fear you may not withstand it. Never run into debt unless yon see a way to get out again, l^ever borrow if you poe sibly can avoid it. Never speak evil of one. Be just before you are generous. Keep yours* If innocent, if yon would be happy.? Save when you are young, to spend when you are old. [Uunf $ Magazine. A Northern exchange says: Last week a sleigh was returned Anw !???/,?* ? ?!- ? vuv vi VUI II TCI J OUIUICO Willi ?ft lady's fur collar in it. The livery man sent it to the residence of the man who hired the team. The lady of the house said it didn't heIons to her. but she would keep it ana ask Mr. how it got into the cutter. There was trouble in that family. Th* young ladies of New Tork are now adopting the role of " sweet simplicity," and appear at balls and parties in short muslin garments, without ornaments of any kind. Law books in Kentucky do not last long In one county it is frequently found neoessary to replace volumes worn out by the lawyers in pouudiUg each other's heads. Nsw York pays more for tobacco than it does for oread. v* -? Tkb snakel poison is in bis teeth; the laoqorqr'l M? tdngae. ? < MamMamMaan The 8hoe S?u. An industrious nail-ma k e r, ! named Olinerast, used to sit the I livelong day in bis workshop, end * hammered a way so tliet the sparks i flashed round about. The son ot ' his rich neighbor, Mr. Von Berg, came daily, and often watched him i tor hoars together. M Come and learn to make a nail for your amnAement, young ] master,w once said the nail maker; ! u for who knows what good it may sometime do yon." ! The idle yonng gentleman ac- i cepted his offer, fie sat down < laughing at the anvil, and soon gaine i such dexterity that he conld hnish off a good servioeable shoe- < nail. The elder Von Berg died ; bnt the son lost all his property i through the war, and went as a i poor emigrant to a far distant vil- i 'age. Iu this village there lived a < great many shoemakers, who nsed to carry mndi money tor shoe- i nails to the town, and often knew not how to procure them on account of their extravagant price ; for through the whole district many thousand shoes were made for the soldiers. The young Mr. Von Berg, with whom things went badly, now be thought himself that he understood very well the art of making shoenails. He offered to supply the shoemakers with nails in abnndance, it they would assist him to , set up a workshop. They helped to do so, and he soon maintained himself very amply. , M It is good, indeed," said he frequently, 4i if a man can only make a shoe-nail. This now renders me more service than all my landed -possessions, which wonld not have been offered for sale for a hundred thousand crowns." " An boniit trade, wall undnratood. Will alwa/a bring ita otrnar food." From tha Ripon RoprMnoUllm. From One sf the Grant Family. RipinaboutthesivintcenthofMarch. Htither Pick?Av coorse yen will be afthor excusing me for trubling yez wid a bit ot a letthcr, whin yez become convarsent wid the relationship which I hoold to Chafe Magisthrate of this Dation. It is somethat difficult for me to tell that the relationship is in a few woorde, but I'll be afther writ- ; ing it down here, whin divil the doubts have I but some of ye's raders well figure it out for me. Well thin. President Grant's great grandfather's hired man was a sicond cousin to my first wife's aunt t?e a former marriage, who immigrated to America ana settled at Gelana, previous to the bornin of meselt. II inee me name?Terrence McGrant. _ That I am a nare relative of the President, it strikes me no one, attlier rading the above, will for a moment doubt. That all of our rilatives are entitled to appointments in the pay of the besfit government the world iver saw. should be equal plain. I am at prisent a candidate tor one of thim same. Fkat the divil is the yoose ot bo in a blood relashun of the first family in the land, and^ hide one's diplomatic talents uu'der a saw buck? Arra, sir, the time has arrived fhen the nation must be saved, and divil the boy in all America can do more than Teddy McGrant, >he undersigned. D'ey mind the promises I have resaved in yesrs pasht, from the man who now hoofds us all in the hollow of his hand. Ah, air, it sames but a day since I worked in Grant's Tannery at Gelana. vVell do I remember one hot day in Angust, whin the presidentjtnd mesilf were engaged in *Mirowing f*ain hides intil the cellar windy, sthood upon the sidewalk above, aud throwing the hides to the president in Hie cellar bey ant.? We had treqnent access to a bottle ot tishky, and though I blnsh now to be afther saying it, we were both dape>y agitated?or fatigued as the papers hare it. 1 Hazed a particular darty shape skin, and thought it od be no harm to chuck it fall into the face of the president. I did so, and the rear end of the hide, which was dirtier nor the balanoe, struck him torinst the mouth, knocking him flat as me shealy oould have done.?* Hoping that 1 had not mnrthered tne rilative, I sazed the flaky and jumped down thare. There be bia jriaidwtfll bead pillowed k A upon a eow-ekin, gasping fur brMth. 1 insarted the nick of Uw bottle betwane bis teeth, whin he come to, bat not till iverr drop of the fishy wes irretravably lost.? rhen he rose np, end sez he: M Teddy, dra yes throw the! ilikin in toe face on pnrpossf** 44 JDivil the parpoee,** seys L 44 Then, Teddy, liehten," seys lie. 44 when advarsity relsses her hold upon me, %nd proeperity has me be the hand, come to me thin. Bay shape skin In me ear, end res shall be provided for. Remember Geleny?,** end he sank in e peaceful slumber. I have thought that circumstance over many's the time, end whin me relative was a gineral I thought of saying 44shape skin** to him, bnt for fear he*d give me an appointment in the army, that depriving the home guards of services, I did not do so. But now I am afther him. Am I not as much entitled to consideration as the Stewarts, of New York, or the llooree, of Massachusetts. A course I am that same. Are they blood relations I Divil tbe won.? Did they iver work aide be side wid him in the days of advarsity f No 1 All of onr relatives, at far at heard from, have resaved some appointment, and why am I here idle. It's me own fault. Instead of going to Washington directly, like a common politisian I hare been writing to him. when ar coorse they have been thrown into the waalite basket. But that I intended to tell you was this. Nixt Monday I start for the Capital for the purpose of pre* senting raeaelf in person. I shall be afther writing yez agio from there. Howld yez whisht until I get a chance to say u shape skiu " till em. Yonrs biehly connected, TERRENCE McGRANT. P. S.?Have yez iver a bit of salt tobacky I Tm Cost or a Vklocipkd*.? A gentleman in Hornellsville, New York, recently bought a vefodipede, for which he paid $100 ; broke a plate glass window, fur which he paid forty dollars: cut his face and neck, for whicn he paid tbe doctor five dollars ; ruined one pair of pantaloons, for which he paid eleven dollars; frightened a horse so that 'he animal ran away and broke a boggy, for which he paid damages amounting to sixty dollars; and to cap the climax, he finally smashed his velocipede bv running into a brick wall, leaving him $216 out of pocket, and a court plastered face to sbow for it. Wealth is not bis who gets it, but his who enjoys it. Blebs God for what yon have. and trust him for what you want. Betticr break your word than do worse in keeping it. An affection few men are troubled with?a rush of brains to the head. It it. not polite to crowd into a full car or omnibus, and expect another to rise and give you his seat. Tbk slave trade is said to be extinct, the English sonadron to suppress it being withdrawn from the African coast. A Kew Enoland lady had an imitation bird as an ornament on her hat Tlie cat discovered the same and ate more than half of it before perceiving its mistake. Tine Now York Express suggests, now the Odd Fellows* Jubilee is over, that the "ivtrl mVIs w get up a celebration, and get even with the men by marrying. Two yonng women per day commit suicide in Paris on account of di*apt>ointed lore. One man per day kills himself on account of pecuniary embarrassment. Which shows the most sense I Cokvtssiokkju appointed to ascertain the amount ot damage done t?? property In the border conntiee of Pennsylvania during the rehul invasion hare completed their ?* lotnient. *1 he total amount r1 -ted is $1,821,031.44, tr ?>maiuouut allowed d the 0