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J ' i. i i i ' ". - S VOL. XXXIII. * CAI^OiRN, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1873. NO. ?. ' itttimmiLr< " 3KEAHT 3 INDEPENDENT FA1ILT_PAPER PUBLISHED BY JOHN KERDHAW, SUBSCRIPTION RATES Oue year. Six months 1 OD Three months 76 ftjf Transient Advertisements must belaid r imsoaif From the ll?* Yori^fn^un?,* Au/u?t 9. ot polities and wader of pontical discussions poiag on foi rcvfph^kn pqaknpon the probabliicies of President Qranl a being nominated 1 for a third term, and in connection therewith what has oome to "be called, in the slung , that gains such easy curreucy in polities, "Cpmrism," must bo infiuately amusing. 8t?fibd, *? are haliioeUned to tiunk, by some out* who stttkk upon it in the dearth of topics from idieer lack tif a a.bjeet of in*"Vjtfwt, oY: perhaps by sotfrf JSu^erservieeable supporter of the administrate >n who h?d ? knew eye for the maiftciwuco. and was determined to be first in the field, the jungle over and aboutlit has spread until - half the - * - '??_ i_j . L..J newspapers id me country nare nau a uan? * ... in it The question# just now seems to be >a?bo begun it. On the one band it is charged that the rf AWsrtmseiatwitioa broached it thus early with awfeeadieae purptee of fatalHsrising the people with the idaa and gradually feW **y. *>' C?rum; on the other hand, the admtnistra lien eegaaewhiah hnwj sauna enoagh la tie the eiset of it, say thawhilebnaialm isn conspiracy of the opposition-to deire the repuband ridicule as. and weald endanger the1 *** *****n? has been the tagatnpw wi^'whieh each side U"J du eahar with startnuLMr vnpjena, mo* obwmre and unlnllheotial. of the adminwith it? Um m^onty We denouncod it ai yoely iafriffoliroSl^ reoominatioQ of * ?*?>"*f ><>iWmit *; another taj? tbe plot is to farce Grant's re ?? that the renomiriM end reseriiflcate o^copftdajtco in bioi; and still another mrj "the partj will nominate and elect him if it pleases" ami "ask no iilil*efwii/Wy. Sotae truth andtooio nonsense in all this. General Grant may or may not be a dull, coldL of other people for him. Ho is pretty much fte??me i?whenhc'waa Hocud ksf year, with (he fame Tore of ease >**4 fapoee, the nm$ distaste ^or public business and the same mdilfs^to' accept what-mee^ rife do^t i Kffk^ a SJffindi^iVlhySuch or not hi^aMli?a^^lipar?iin)Hat and his methods of adtnhtfctiHexmb evil influence and example and dpfeulsttd to establish unwholesome and dangerous habits of political thought and conduct is q?ito another question which need net note in dismissed But the fear, afthercbeanj.of hiapevaena) ambition EMIng IfUn' tbatttuiUPJClh role of Caesar is, w# beliete, jpxwsdlenflodeed, it Is well W> reaper that the danger to free gorecMMat is notJikaljr. #e> arise from the sbyjrtIi it by no meant certain that Prudent to\udorUk?.to fwiBrt to remote pn event. One baa only to recall the aduntfdg Ganges in the atawdiaf-nf pvofMaaat-poMtteiam daring the laat nine months to he convinced of the uncertainty of political reputations and the futility of conjecture aa to the probabilities of awieatiaai and ?ipaigne three years away. down asd bring out naw and startling couibi aHam, Had the developenont of the list teftaiaa ef fbt last (Ingres been brought to t i?' Wkt ebia^i, perhaps equally unexpected J*nd strange, die neat three years hare in ! *??fOT nMiAmwtbH ?p* Ifw<r pigfc jnlge from present indications, we should say not only that President 0rant's MttMd*k Mtol aj k?? ?ti? it is net entirely out of the ranee of nossibili tie* that it will'be the beet nomination prac-1 ticable for the party, and perhaps for the coaatry. ' He was nominated lan year not tha campaign ran, o^aoaooat of hi* great aereWas in the war, for which he had not been folJj paid. It waiJ&BpIjr because no ono of tba a>pfra|fa for the soceceaaton felt strong eaepM then knaka a fight for it, and they prefotaed to gfr# Qrant four yeara more, in ?rtM^ time nacti typed to strengthen himself u&cienily to go into the pent convention with a bapofqf hanking. There has been MVHthing a?% tnUhtx apaoag statesmen since then. The l?t of aspirants has been eoinaah* thinned hv Credit Mobil ior expofttlfB |*d back-pay follies. The conditions now are preHy nraeh tbe same as those which last pMifoittd IhiHdhfcotn ination at Philadelphia, bat an 01* knowa how long they Ailieoatiuue. Mnaatiaw itia to be observed thai, while there is* great show of girtas o*ac the back-pay basiaeas iu iudig uant resolution* ofwfttate conventions nd pdktj or frm* bjijll sides, tfrere is a marked tenderness toward the President, who is the chief sinner in the nuttntv 'Nnowe dedbunccs him by rfesoluOnr peri) is not, we rep^t, from any one man's amhitiort? tt cotnes rather frmrflhe disposition to enthrone the caucu^ind dike the party supreme. That done an J the parnot, pethsp<& tfjwsarism, bat something infinitely worse. >..!>/ vi, ??h* . The America* Ki*o.?The wealth and power of Mr. Pornellns Vanderhjlt is assuming appalling proportions. Tlii groat consolidated railway line from the West to thwNorthern seaboard, which controls, is represented on the New York stock Exchange by sureties, equal to $215, OtiMOO, and its gros* income last year was nit ltss than $45,000,000?more than the wljple in come of the United States Jtoveaamenta lew jews ?go. I# edbhneatilBupoQ thy fact Harper's Weekly remarks JT*? * ,u*h4? It is impossible to oon^btajdate tlyf vast aggregation of money powerCboifc&mrcial control iu.the hand* of on* wan withoui feciiug concern for the result. Neither miliary nor political^ nor commercial supremacy, can V> pushed beyond certain limits withonwdanger. It .weald see in m though the linut in this case had been reached. Yet not intent with the majesty of 2150 miles1 of huilwav, involving, in a large degree, the eontrol of tha internal trade of tho Statet of annual oldctioaif^he Western Union ^ele*. gxygh Company^ tha commodore will otter iato posMmia* of that gaaat property Ikevise, with its-sixty pfyet&ks thousands of miles of aires, its f^fty ^illfous 6t capital, and its eight ojr nine .pillions of revenke. When this occurs, aet .waly will the ccp- 1 mstoe of the four chief States of tba North be subject tb Mr. Yanierbilf?tfnder ?ufi ; fieahle restrictions as our Leeialaturcs m(y C(WnvTTwnl n nf iAyt . iV may prescribe not only what shall be tlfc 1 prioe of a barrel of four fn New York, bjt 1 also when, how, and at what cost citixen ' may communicate with, each other by telq ' graph. Of course he.will he aubjcot to legist ' latree eontrol. What itwiUamoeutt? we oil ' kuow. In the past, no legislature in t-hii 1 j Staft has ever dared to bread|bini. Ite will j be a bold man, indeed, who attempts to U<1 1 aq now, when hie resources are so unbound- ' ed and his power so far reaching. U was aid that tho late James Fish, ir.,' who con- < trolled a paltry 450 miles ofBric, running 1 through a half settled country, could, on any ' meft { Jmqpow nnny lmm> Hp p?ummi the master of 216& miles of railway through j . thickly settled country, and 75,000 mlfes of telegraph ? It is, moreover, one thing to pass laws agil quite another to execute them agaiust a nun fertile in resource, energetic iu action, obstinate iu combat, and inexhaustible in purse. * |* T?.i*Vl # ! h** JaJM *'Ja< ' > Jefferson Davis Apologizes Under a Challenge. A* i. + 4* ?4 ? 3 This gentleman,* when a member of the United States Senate, was a great sufferer from a painful disease which deprived him for souie time of the use of his eyes and ? reduced hiui to a condition of great debility and nervous irritability. The mental vigor and spirit of the man would not, however, permit him to absent himself from his plare in the Senate! He was, therefore, always in hU seat during the sitting of tho Senate, to whieh he would be led by his wife, but in a condition Umt jxcjted the. profound sympathyobserved' Wm ! In the debates wbieh arose in ths Senate, he was always a listener, and never failed to take a part when the subject invited the expression of Ms views and one in which he *r rTB Iflfli'i'l teuiper, always earnest, and realotis, and not disciplined by the*- loDJL praqlicc and cxSefi<mcC*at tne wir.4 wWrcb tnoftf of the onators had graduated, Mr. Davis was frequently provoked in tho warmth of discussion to language of a passionate and virulent character, whioh his ooolor adversaries would turn to advantage, or make the occasion for placing him in the apparent position of an unprovoked aggressor. Hut when restored to calmness and reflection Mr. Davis quickly discovered and always promptly reco?*it#ddifr *ffor, and invariably volunteered atonement t,hcrefor, or -1.1 J. J li /loman/)A/Y nf Itlm jflCIUCU IV mtDN Uiumn^u v. ....... Now, it happened on one ocoosion of a debate iu the Senate, that Mr. Davis selected oar own distinguished He tin tor, J. J'. Benjamin,as the object of one of his wrathful and menacing explosions, and hurled at bin. an offensive mid personal insult. .Mr. Benjamin made no reply in the Senate, hut sent a prompt demand for an apology or the satisfaction qf a gentleman. .Mr. Davis replied that he "would deliver the answer to tbw demand in the Senate. According^tho next day ho apjieared in that august body, and as soon as he could obtain tho floor, arose and addressed the President in one of tbc noblest and most touching aincuds ever made by a proud and brave man. The purport of it was that u natural irritable temper hod not beta improved by a military fife" anu inexperience in" civil debate, and that when to these deficiencies, was added a feeble and depressed physical condition, he felt that ho nad claims upon hi& brother Senators ior some indulgence and forbearanoe for exhibitions of irritability and aeorbify, anch as he had displayed to tbo honorable Senator from Louisiana, on the day before But it waa indeed a grout 1?.... ?olaee and relief to hijn. . wl^n the opportunity was afforded J)im thus promptly to acknowledge his error and weakness, and to express to .the honornb.e Senator his sinoere sorrow and full withdrawal of the offensive remarks, in which he had indulged. These words. delivered in the peculiy earnest aidSiiofiniehofyJtfcils 6f Mr..Davis, produced a thrill through the whole Senate, and when the two Seftntofs advanced and cordially shook hands, the faces of all the Senators were lighted op with an expression of cordial sympathy and admiration of the hiffh beariue and magnanimity of the harfci Jlissiasippinn.?New Orleans Herald. ' ! Dr. McCoufth and OoinpnlMory ? Education. Editors Chratiical on*1 SentintL At the recent meeting of the National Education! Association, held at Elinira, New Voile, t)r. Mc'Cosh, the President of Princeton, read an olaborate paper on UpGr Schools, w which be stated that "durg a recent tour through several' of the most important Southern States, he had found few or qo schools outside of the largo cities and tewna; that every man blamed his neighbor for this state of things, yet nobody did anything to help it." Fortunately, Prof Jbynes, of Washington and Leo University, was present, who- protested against this statement as unjust to the Southern peoplo. Prof. Joynes stated that aM that the Southern people asked was a "just appreciation and the liberty to do the bcsl they could for themselves. The South wanted perfect equality before tho law in education a? well as in govern meat" -ft > T -LL^L. II I a. irof. tioywes, wno hi wen Known w u? w one of the uiost thoroughly (iompetent professors in this country, deserves the thanks of nil friends of Southern education1 for his tiuxdy rebuke of this arrogant Scotch President. Here is what Dr. McOwh proposcs-we cypok W his paper on upperij schools, as published ro the newspaper: "This (the'pLn proposed) for the Northern, Midule aod Western States.. For the Southern States I propose a modification of the-plan. Having taken a tour three months ugh in j Wtte of the Southern States, I was grieved to find throughout wide regions that out- j 3id? the great cities there was little or no sducation provided for the paople, white or j black.- It seems to we that the General bloTwninont whieh has felt duly constrained to interfere from time to time with the Southern States, v;Ui require to tak< a t'lirtlu.r sUp ami educate the peop/e tn ickoi*, n or wrunejfy, it has (/in n th>- ffftk-1 Hero is a man, n foreigner, who, by his iwn confusion, has spent but three months in the South, and m.w proposes a plan of legislation by which the whole South is to have a syatem JifturenL JVoiu llie. Norihorn. Middle nrftf 'ucStern Stifles. by which ronipulsory cdncation is to bo established fcrtl iC South. The scheme, as wc undi rland it, proposes this and nothing clso. The tlcncral Government, which has "felt duly constrained to interfere from time 14 lime with the Southern Stales, tr >74/r<fiirr to take a fHither step." This itfudmt ik. McCosh proposes. And vet this j* the min who is now making his appeals'fir 1 Siithoru patronage, who is urging thai the vcang men of the South shall be sent to l'nnceton to be educated. bet this lenrnod President of Prinoet n ha^ his own way about the subject of ed'bation, and wc infer that the General Goprnmcnt would take this Hfurt1wt step," undndopt a system of mixed common sohowls ] through nut the South, with the chief of the j burda at Washington City, or else at Prinli.fnn with a hnrdc of liedu<?OCUea-? ' fresh importation?in every village and , distrpt. urmod with the legal authority to , enfohc the attendance of the c hildren .of i Southern jwrpnts. Andrit\ for a cpUegi.ife ! edncwoti', wny, of fcours^, to get that the I people ot the South should be compelled to ! stnd 4eir sons to Princeton. For did W this Fpsident make himself notorious last Wintet by appearing on the floor of the United States Senate Chamber and lobbying ag|nst the'scheme to give each Stat*; a portiouof the proceeds of the sales of public lands t4 aid in establishing colleges of science?i scheme of inestimable advantage t<? the im]svcrished South ? And yet, strange to say. this learned Scotsman, concerning ( whom tone one has said ho oonti dive deeper ^d come up drier than any author known ;tlu$ distinguished Princeton ppesi- ; dent, asl? for Southern patronage. riuby. " ?? ? ?~ *<!,.' ^ i The Radical Platinum?Jackson. : Miss., A|gust JJth?The Republican t'on- ' volition afoptcd a platform declaring it un- [ neccssai jfco adopt any new dogmas but simply j to renew jks oppression of steadiest th.it 11 in ! the Kepnffiean party ; and is opposed to bur- I doning tlii reconstruction of Mississippi with the repudbted Planters and Union Hank 1 bonds, am) pledges the party to resist by all lawful the assumption by the Stale of any audi '*Lts. Tt opposes granting to rail. l roads or ot^cr corporations the fund donated ; to the StaUbv Cougrcss for educational pur Hi' Mia hay! 1HIMJH, mill iwilliiuu.l UlW IBJ^OI v..- j lOgislaturoof such grants already made. It favor* a bicfcnal meeting of the Legislature, I and na?rt f Mho equal rights of all children | in the puMk Hchpols. and pledgpu the party j to on fore J <*4h rlgm hy appropriate legHa- J tion, and In tuppurt the present school gyv torn thus cxpfcinod. It endorses It. (V Powers, tho prca4t Governor. A resolution to endorse tho Ivellog Government of Louisiana, was received with such demonstrations of hostility fliaf*li<r' in^ver with-.lrew If. Gen. Ames was iutfe]iiced anduuid cashorta}?eceh. saying, nmonqother things, that if elected Governor, nnudiiring his term, nnv hill look ing hi the payment <d*the repudiated dolit, or qaeuing the question ip any way, shall come up he must ccrtkiuly will veto it. The Convention adjourned ?hw </z> at eightjo'clock last evening. ' - - - . , S Mr. Cladstone. ** -4 The fact which lies at the bottom of all this hard work, and which is sending great and little Britons to hydropathic establishment in flockB, is that droves of human donkeys persist in forcing themsolves into placos and position for which they are unfit. Mr. Gladstone, for instance, would make an average schoolmaster. He has some knowledge of Greek roots, and could plant them in toe memories of docile boys by the help of much scolding. Pic has such an acquaintance with arithmetic that lie could make out vhe half-year accounts of his pupils in an earnest and profitable manner, errors excepted. He knows, too, something of music and something of china, and he might have fiddled for ,tfyc Duke of Edinburg or kept a shop in Wardour street. respectably. But what on earth tempted a gentleman of his disposition to go in foT politics ?" He baa merely succeeded in lowering tho whole tone afpol itical war fare to the level of a pedagogue's dominion. It is not an improving sight to bohold a, Prime Minister knocking about the laws of tiis country and" stumbling over them by turns because he oao .neither sea, fed, nor comprehend them. It it not sweet to hear a man in authorty scolding like a washerwoman, and then ^it^Lng down to cry hysterically over a cup dftea and his troubles, while he sends for the Lord Chamberlain to to forbid the playing of a pantomime win oh pokes fnn at his whiskers. Fsuey William Pitt or Charles James Fox, who were heavenborn ministers, doing such a thing as this! Why Fox once sat down with a personal friend over a bottle and compared caricatures with hhn, and when ho found that he oould show the largest number (and mercy on us, what hard hitters were the caricaturist in hit -day I) he langhed like a boy. Nor was the battle too much. Fox took his politics-natorally, and did them for relax*' > J *T ft,. ka tion alter a nara nay ;n jiun waitci, ? Ma a fat man, and had to stir his clumsy legs briskly when he vanned to see a horse race. A great^ouled. jolly fellow ho was with wide human sympathies, an immense knowledge of mankind, and language fall of force and truth welled np liko the wators of a fountain to his prodigal lips. Who can imagine Mr. Gladstone and a bottle together, unless the bottle contained an infusion of camomile ? So it comes to pass that we heaifftf. Gladstone U sick and weary, and that ho must hide himself with a commercial | friend in 'Scotland* now and then without leaving his address in Thiwning street, that he may recover from the effects of overwork. I/ord Hronghaui was never overworked, nor Lord Grcnvillw, nor Lord Melbourne, nor Robert Peel; but these men were all politicians by not lire. Mr. Gladstone would not be overworked as proprietor of a commercial aeadeinv, or as head clerk in a counting house at Liverpool. Rut he Li absolutely ignorant of the first principles of statesmanship, and its practice is wearing him to fiddle strings. There never was such an expression upon the face of the natural ruler of a people as (lint which has become fixed npon the countenance of Mr. Gladstone. \t is a look of peevishness, discontent, weakness and hopeless bewildcrinont. No wonder that he becomes hysterical three times a week ufter tea. A cart horse would become hysterical if he was set to work a sewing machine with his fore feet. ' An Extraordinary Court.?A few nights back, a party oflndiesand gentlemen were laughing over the supposed awkwardness attending a declaration of love when a gentleman remarked thrft if he ever had an opportunity to offer himself, he would do it. in a collected and business-like manner. "For instance." said he, addressing himself to beautiful lady present, "1 would say : 'Miss S , I have been engaged for two years looking for a wife. I am in the receipt of a clear income of two thousand dol- j lars a year from my present business, wtucn i is Jaily on the increase. Of all the ladies of j my acquaintance T admire you the most. Tnloed. to speak plainly, T love you, and * would most gladly inako you my partner for ' You flatter mc by your preference," good humoredly replied Miss , to the surprise of all present. ' Not at all,7 said he ; "I ain entirely sincere." 0 ( "Then I refer you to my father," said the father. 'Dravo!" exclaimed the gentlemen. "Well, I dc-c l-u-r-e I" exclaimed the ladies, in one united chorus. The lady and gentleman were married soon after. W-an't ?Kb4 " notnarrator, "a modem ....... , T way of coming to the point, and a lady-like method of taking a man at his word ?" Well, 09 tlharles Lamb would nay, <lIt wasn'tanything else." We owo many of our happiest moments to the moon. Wo have hunted coons by her soft light; we have watchod the dance and heard the banjo "on the bench by the old cabin door" while she hold her golden lantern, I years ago, nnd we respect her for the sako of old times. But if she really controls tho seas.his, and is the same planet in tho north that she ia in tho south, why does she burn op Michigan with drought while she drowns .Mississippi Alabama with incessant rains? The cotton planters rejoice I Tbero has at last been discovered a caterpillar cxterminator that beats Maris green all hollow. Lei ihctn sprinkle the plant with Cincinnati whiM.' V The worms ntrl up and hind in I Io n chocks at onoe. i THE BOSTON YOUNG LADY. SHE COMES, SHE SEES, SHE COH^TTERS Ell PERKINS. ? : The Boston Young lady ha# arrived at Saratoga. I mean the real literary young lady?the siege of Troy girl. She grew up in Boston, and graduated at Yassar College last year* She wears eye-glasses and is fall ( of wisdom She scans Homer, rattles the | verb " lipo" like the-multiplicatiou, sings Anacreon to the old Greek melodies and puts up her hair after the statue of the Ye- 1 nus of Mild. There is no end to her knowl- 1 odge of the classical dictionary, and when it comes to Charles L&mb or Sydney Smith? , Sotherns of literature?those who never < wrote much, but got the credit of every good joke in England?she can say their jokes as a Catholic says .her beads. If yoti ask her ( how she likee babies, she answers; " How ? Well, as Charles Lamb remarked. 'I like 'em b?b?boiled.' " Ask her any thing and she vill always t lug in a quotation from some pedantic old t fool like Dr. Johnson, or 8wift, or Jaek a Busby, just to show that she's up in liters*, ture and you are?green. Not a single ori- | ginal idea, but one constantSocrates said," or "as Pluto remarked," or "as Diogines . I observed." Yesterday, some sharp, shrewd, [ original New York young ladies got hold of j the pedantic business,, and introduced a t I paraphrase on Miss Boston's language. t "Do you love musio S&llie ?" ' ? "Well, 'yes/ as the poet Observed." < "How many glasses did you drink this -d moAing?" ' . ./ -i -iIjW " Six/' as Mr. Daball pathetically remark* 0 ed in his arthmetie. l "Danoe the round dances?" j "No," as the Lord Mayor of Loudon qui- 0 etly observed ttJoba mob Kin asxeu aim ror i (he loan of fbttr dollars. TheBostaugirl js so wslj posted that *lp 9 wine triumphs over yon by a sort of literary J '"bluff" game. She attributes sharp quo- " tations to distinguished men, and, conscious h that you dare not question their authontiei- f { ty, of course Bhe " blufls" you right down gj Wbw too go to jtmmm, wi rail up, , and find that she ncally has "bluffed you, of p course you arc tod gentle to mention it) mid & so the Boston girl gees on pluming-herself w at the expense of New York gallantry. * Yesterday, tho Boston fflrl was at kauai* . Somebody asked her wnO jjras the oldest, Tj Methusela or Deuteronomy. "Why, Barnes, the commentator, say6 ^ Deuteronomy came before Numbers'?of course he is.too old to be computed^ B1 ' Now, I know she lied, but still Ihad tny doubts about it. I didn't want to break out ,'t and say Deuteronomy crunc after Numbers, e) and then have those miserable Boston fellows tc say with that terrible upward inflection, how p. are you, Eli Perkins? Oh, no. But when w I did go up to p>y room I sent out to a gentleman in Saratoga who has several buries * - 1-?J Ka Pnntn tniTofi o r?A otfro ill tu iniUj uuu mo & wiimiwuvii ~HHVI ?ui? ? enough, just my hick, that miserable, pedan- <x tic, spectacled Ronton girl was right. b< If you nit down by this Boston girl and hi don't behave likd a minister, she don't get "1 mad and pout. Oh, no. She says, Mr. Tomp- v kins, shall I read yon a few lines from Serin- . ner's? and then goes on? Why can't you he sensible, Harry 1 j?1 I don't like men's arms on my chair. ^ Be still! if you don't stop this nonsense, ^ I'll get up and leave yon?so there! m And when you talc* out a solitaire ring. C{ or try to "seal the vow," or something of that wirt, as New York fellows always try to do ^ with.almost every Boston girl who comes here, she looks up blushing, and in the lan- P guage of Swinburne poetically remarks: ^ There! somebody's coming?don't look so? ? Get up ou your own chair again? Can't you seem as if nothing had happened! * 1 never saw such geese as you men: : ?| The Graphic, j ????? e, There is a man Danbury, Conn., who has been engaged in the past two months in a a mighty effort to kill a oat. In that time 0, that unfortunate animal has explored the 0, bottom of every sheet and stream of water ^ within six miles of Danbury, has had an ^ unintentional taste of the several new varie- ! g, ties of powder, and has got so it can tell in 1 the dark without looking around, the differ- I -ence between a half brick and a whole one. ! tj The man himself hasn't got a whole piece of i p< clothing in his wardrobe, and has almost 1 fe entirely lost tho use of one leg from rheu- d< matjsm contracted while drowning that cat; tc aud has more scratches on him than the! tl snvivor of foffr wives. His aged father j al says he will take a chair out in the yard on ' tc pleasant afternoon, will ait there for ! two hours at a time, and will look at that : cat and swear. ; r_J_ . J Wiiat Sub Said.?A colored man living " on Macomb street, having long admired a w colored widow living in the block next above, *' hut being afraid to como out boldly aud re- w veal his passion, went to a white man of his , acquaintance, the other day, asked him to ' C( write the lady a letter asking her hand in i IT marriage. Tho friend wrote, telling the wo- : ^ ' *!% ?* *liA e 1 ?n lint* j liiuu lu a lew uriui uuua} mm* mo oiftv ui uvi a m feet was the talk of the neighborhood, and I y asking her if she couldn't pare thorn down a g little. Tho name of the colored man was \ u, signed, and lie was to call on her Sunday pi night for an answer. Yestorday, the writer of the letter met the negro limping along the street, and asked him what the widow Baid. The man showed him a blood-shot oye. a n< scratched nose, a lamo leg, and a snot on the in scalp where a hand-fhl of wool nad been a violently jerked ont, and ho answered, in solemn tones: '"She didn't say nnffin, an* I didu'f stay dar mor'n a ininntc !" ** Tiro German fatniKt-s all related to oach tl other and living in one school district in h< Wisconsin, have seventy-five children W suiting them, all snuud and noalthy. 01 W 1 rqarniti iJsJVM-oo 2 square* ? 00 9 od It; Off 18 00 26 00 t squares _, ,8 jW ;8 00 jyfl24 QOi 86 00 1 squares fl* 00 J6 qpLgO 00 M JOT^OO \ column 15 00! 19 00*24 00! 3? W 50 00 | column 20 00' 80 00; 40 00; 65 00' 80 00 I column ?80 OOj 60 OOj.-CQ OD, W 0^>0 00 All Transient Advertisements vill W dMtifsd Ose Dollar per Square for the first and S*YI*rT-nyE Ckjits perea^^^M^Sfent OUR OHLP-BASKBT. Sweetening one's eoflfee is gcnwally tk. first stirring eyeot of the d^y. Why are handcuffs like g^ide Wpks ? Because they are made for two wrists. J .'.vt t> Hew York doesn't wqat h^?bcsad battered unless the farmers supply them with better material. ' * **' ? '' '' .^V1 SMttnai ,"Prosperity is no just scale, mfPIjtf- ? irch, "adrersity is tho ohTy" balance to ireigh friends." * ' *1 '"+* '** "Shall you sue for dMhagdr?* "Tf6t nuch ; it's repairs I need; I'm damaged nough." - , The young lady who has eyu)ee4 such leep interest in the hero of a certain qrimital case is often heard to to sing, "Let me ass him for his murder " ' I : .->;!/ 1 zf* yti:y0^ A dreg clerk who j>ot ?p noise* for ininine took the matter very eoofly, Myiyg he victim was old and would hay# died in . few years spy ^ t . ?/jmk,pvt i4t <> uD?r new," taid a Arte*/ .yertlsdey, << rh?n bis bigtoearm masked istty?s ?*? rhioh asotbecdropped .on WiJk tad on ay new ahosa" # u ?y*? tad* A Wrflahd'Wtor'tofc rout on another man's land, the ether day ; he owiiyfrttMll??*iiiid is ilenca before the mSiestie answer: "Who rants to catch yoht fish ? HtaAt to www tlrtd woret^v*-} x* Private advices froaCbarfoltefcfctttMt fc Tuesday aigik^ a-ymigg grM ofWNto ears, of TMpaotehUt %mffy, is&ppeared. -She t*Sf last se?n, jkout* Xbwiio ac obita^ r^^ w^ .iih andta r*"John," Mid * dotting ormandising *>n,"do yow iWAllwebidk yoa * Moot the,whole f?. the pwd<frwfcw?lVim *fr. ui m55^' ir Us UfcWhu ftarwr oceaoioe for padding df thy ? **' It u know a M the ang-oottog, fod, fcutf* >ring. *faS9t ,\+mu The editor of- tho Saw Fi? mo tikroule after stating that be has "no desire to igage io a personal controversy," proceeds I characterise ^qditMdfrSBlM ne*s* rper as a drunken ana cowardly idiot, ho disgraces journalism.".-.it tr> - wfT An old lady was telling her gtand'^biTren abont some trouble in SetfUtid^fcttke >nrse of which the ehief. of her olah was ) headed. "It was nae great thing of a jad brains,'to be sure,'* said the ttoof My. jut it was a sad loss to Jiini."' ??t~>7- i Soeae in a Fort Wayne dry goods atone.? ady?How much for this print/ gentleanly and obiigiri? clerk?Nine cents, mum. ady?Nineteen cCtits, I'R yiveyon eighteen lerk?Nine cents, main; jwt misunderstood e. Lady?Oh I nine ;.Iii giro yen night I yf: Uu "Pretty well," remarked the doctor's lughter who took an inteseat in henftfharfc iirse and profession, when some one anktid sr "how things were going 90." "Plenty ' colds, somo bronchitis, and a little typhus ver; but, as fkther said yesterday, what we ant to make thing* lively is a nlee1 Kttio pdami*" h| -1 * An aver crowded Mich igander has dfscored the beet way yet of getting rid of hie ?t>ring. He drove hie wngon, consisting of MichigoosMadtitorelafenhttchigoelings, rer a hundred mile territory, dropping one it over the tailboard svtoy fev mot* ' He rapt the old critter iA.n ernnk, *od and get ick home the best-divorced man in the tate. t; >-i ?i<u- w ' ?i 1 i- - ail A Missourian who stole a km from apretr girl was fined by e magistrate, horse-whipid by her brother, and worried into a bnun iver by bis wife The clergyman also ilfcsd to the affair in biseermon, the local editor ok aidas with the clergyman, and sneisned le case in print, and the potato bag oame oug and ato op every blade of the makfao>rTs wheat crop. "I say, otd boy," cried Paul Pry to an exivator whom he espied at the bottom fi a iwning gulf, "what are you digging there 7" A big hole,*1 the old boy replied. Pttrt -?t 4a La nnh aAT tea ihto ^LaL ion ?Wkfil 113 flUV IV IAJ |HIV VII III VMM IVH. ,, re you going to do with the hok V' he iked. "Going to cut it up i oto mud! holes, rejoin* I the old boy, and retail them to ftumers for iite-posts." Bio Sgu a w.?It is said that Kate Grant, i old Indian aqoaw, living at Grant, Wisconsin, has killed eight been this nnoflir. [ale is still unmarried. Many a bear has itempted to hog her, bit she never pormitirh familaritics. Kate is evidentlj no wall ;cr when clanger is bruin. A facetious Massachusetts grocer anounces on a plaoard at the door: "A fresh ivoice of choice licken," when he receives new lot of sacked tongues. The largest farmer's meeting ever held it is United States, took place on the 6th. ixty granges, numbering about ten lousanu pernios, accompanied bj five and red wagons, marched m proeearion. liss Garretaon, a farmer's daughter, was le of the speakers. . k