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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. <
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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.
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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.
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Tkb snakel poison is in bis
teeth; the laoqorqr'l M?
tdngae.
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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
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