Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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/ I w?r-rir nla m **-~?*~Ka=sesammasss^mBmr'lvmmrwm*mm*r*M*^a^^ ssBaBssas?BmaKssaeammsmmmm^Hp^mmm???? ??? VOL. XXXIII. ' * CAMDEN. S. C., OCTOBER 0, 1873. No. O. ??? ????? ?ii i mi ??i?????1-TTXMD^^^^M THE CAMDEN JOURNAL. _ AN INDEPENDENT FAMILY PAPER PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY ' TRAXTHAtt d HAY. SUBSC RIPTTON RATES One year, in advance $2 50 Sii months 1 60 Three months 75 Transient Advertisements must be paid ] n advance. ""advertising rates. Space. 1 M. , 2 M. I 3 M. 6 M. 1 Y. " '?I??t? 1 square 3 00 6 00 8 00 12 00 10-00 2 squares 0 00| 9 00{ 12 00 18 00 2C 00 3 squares 9 00! 13 00' 1C 00 24 00 85 00 4 - quares 12 00: 10 00. 20 00 30 00 43 00 i -.-I..*..- i tr nn! Ktmt 94 no S4 ool so on J column I 20 OO; 30 00 40 00| 65 00{ 80 00 1 column | 30 OOj 60 00 CO OO' 90 00)150 00 All Transient Advertisements will be charged One Dollar per Square for the first and Seventv-fitk Cents per Square for each subsequent insertion Single insertion, $1 50 per square. Steamer Lillington. Fast Freight, Accommodation INLAND AiR LUfE. THE STEAMER LILLINGFON, Capt. Bell, will, from this date, make regular trips, connecting with the Wilmington. Colombia and Anpsta RAIL ROADS. ! i Through Bills of Lading will be issued to Charlel- | ton aud the principal northern cities. < The freight on cotton, inclnding insurance per 1 bale: . . ] ? * Aw fA To Charleston, 91 ou Baltimore 8 25 1 Philadelphia, 8 50 New York, 8 75 < Boston, 4 75 c Parties from the interior shipping through < this line will not be charged for Drayage or Storage at this place. For further particulars, enquire of ^ GEO. ALDEN, Agent. J Camden, sept. 4. tf ^ CONGAREE IRON WORKS ? Conmbia, S. C. J JOHN ALEXANDER. Proprietor. _ SUGAR CANE MILLS j LIST OF PRICES. f 3 Rollers 14 inches diameter, $60 00 A 8 44 12 44 bO 00 1 8 44 10 ' 70 00 a 2 44 14 44 70 00 0 2 44 1 2 44 60 00 2 44 10 44 60 00 g Above prices complete with frame. Without u framo, $10 less on each Mill. J Steam Engines, Boilers, Portable Grist Mills,. Jj Circular and Muley Saw Mills. Mill Gearing of all kinds made to order, Iron and Brass Castings on short notice. Gin Gearing constantly on hand of the following sizos: . 9 feet wheel and pinion $35 00 ' 10 44 40 00 1 1 44 4 4 4 5 00 12 44 44 60 00 f 14 4 4 4 4 65 00 c irou auu Drasa ittsuugs ui nu ucivufuvua ? made to order. n Anti-friction Platen and Ball* for Cotton t Press, $15 00 and $20 per set. N. B.?Terms cash on delivery at Railroad Depot here. Hy*Works Foot of Lady Street, oppoaite the Greenville Freight Dhpot. ? Columbia, Aug- 21. 10t J THE BESTCOTTON GIN. r NEBLETT & GOODRICH, ' r No. ISO Reynolds Street, Augusta, Ua., Manu- . faeturere of the ^ "Neblett & Goodrich Cotton Gin" 3 t To this Gin wan awarded a Gold Medal by the " Cotton Slates M. and A. Association in 1871. First Premium South Carolina State Fair, 1871. c c We are now receiviug orders for our FIRST CLASS OoTTO.Y GIN, which we desire to 9tate * i" above nil competition, an I is certain of unbounded success wherever tried. All the material nsed i* No. 1. ! The workmanship is skilled, and the Gin ( guaranteed to give satisfaction in every respect. fe#-Sent! in your orders early to the makers, I ( through J. & T I. Jones, Agents. NEBLETT & GOODRICH, Augusta. Ga. Special attention paid to nil orders for Leather or Rlibber Belting, which will he furnished at Lowest Trice. Apply to J- & T. I. JONES, Age iitsfor Kershaw and surrounding Counties, j Caiudeu, August 34. tf. A CARD. THE undersigned offer for sale at the lowest figures for cash. Groceries, Dry Goods, Shoes, Hardware, Crockery. Saddlery, &o., Ac-, and solicit a share of public patronage. PHELPS & BILLINGS. F. L. Phelp9 and W. M. Billings are duly ?u thorixed to act as our agents, and ure empower e l to sign the name of the firm in purchases and settlements H. A. PHELPS, M A. KILLINGS, 8 A. DiSAUSSVRE.* June 6 tf LAW CARI>. WM. D. TRANTHAM, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CAMDEN, 8. C Offiat adjoining tlitt of J. M. Davii, E*q, A' FAMILY ARTICLE. Agents makeSl'i.GO per day, $75 per week. AN ENTIRELY NEW SEWING MACHINE For Domestic Use, ONLY FIVE DOLLARS. With the N?jw Patent BUTTON HOLE WORKER . Patented June 7th, 1871. AWARDED THE FIRST PREMIUM AT THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE AND MARYLAND INSTITUTE FAIRS, 1ST1. A most wonnderful and elegantly constructed Sewing Machine for Family Work. Complete in all its Parts, Use9 the Straight Fye Pointed Xtedle, Self Threading, direct upright Positive Motion, New Tension, Self Feed and Cloth Guider. Operates uv Wheel and on a Table. Light Running. Smooth and noiseless, like all good high-priced machines. Has Patent Check to prevent the wheel being turned the wrong way. LT8eB the thread direct from the spool. Makes the Elastic Lock Stitch, (finest and strongest stich known;! firm, durable, close and rapid. Will do all kinds of work, fine and coarte, from Cambric to heavy Cloth qr Leather, and uses all descriptions of thread. This Machine is heavily constructed to give it strength; all the {torts of each Machine being made alike by machinery, and benutifully tinish.ea ana ornamented. It is easy to learn. Rapid, Smooth and Silent in operation. Reliable at all times, and a Practical, Scientific, Mkchaxical Invention, at a Qrtatly Reduced Price. A Good, Cheap Family Sewing'Machine at last.. "?he first and only success in producing a valuable, substantial and reliable low priced Sewing Machine. Its extreme low price reaches , all conditions. Its simplicity and strength . adapts it to all capacities, while its many merits make it & universal favorite wherever used, and oreates a rapid demand. IT 18 ALL IT IS RECOMMENDED. I can cheerfully and confidently recommend its use to those who are wanting a really good Sewing Machine, at a low price. Mas. H. B. JAMESON, Peotone, Will County. 111. Price of each Machine. "01a98 A." "One," (warranted forfive years by special-certificate,) ivith all the fixtures, and everythiny complete belonging tojt, including Self Threadin Needle, packed in a strong wooden box, and delivered to my part of the country, by express, fbek of further charges, on receipt of price, only Fjve Dollars. Safe delivery guaranteed. With ;ach Machine we will send, on receipt of $1 rxro, the new patent BUTTON" HOLE WORKER, )ne of the most Important and useful inventions >f the age. 80 simple and certain, that a child :an work the finest button hole with regularity tird ease. Strong and beautiful. Special Terms, and Frtra Inducements to J ale and Female Ayenlt, Store Keepers, Sc., vho will establish agencies though the country nd and keep our New Machines onj Exhibition Ild Saie. COUNTY KIGIITs given 10 smart ugema kee. Agent's eom/ltetr ovtjit, furnished without ny extra charge. Samples of tewing, descripive circulars contninrng Term, Testimonials, 'ngravings, &c., &c., sekt the*. We also upply AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. Latest Patents and Improvements for the Farm nd Garden. Mowers, Reapers, Cultivators, 'cod Cutters, Harrows, Furin Mills, Planters, larvesters, Threshers and all articles needed or Farm work. Rare Seeds in large variety, ill money sent in Post Office Money Orders, tank Drafts, or by express, will bo at onr risk, ud are perfectly secure. Safe delivery of all ur goods guaranteed. An old and responsible firm that sell the best oods at the lowest price, and can bo relied ipon by our readers."?Farmer't Journal, New fork. <3&-.Yot Retpoiwillr for Regittered Letter*. Address Orders JEROME B. HUDSON & Co., Come? Greenwich & Cortlandt Streets, N. Y. Sept. 25, 6m. WANTED. We will give men and women I Business that will Pay rum $4 to $8 per day, cun be pursued in your >wn neighborhood; it is a rare chance for those iut of employment or having leisure time; girls >nd boys frequently do as well as men. Par iculars free. Address J. LATHAM & CO., 292 Washington St., Boston, Mais. Sept. 4, 6t. ffampden Sidney College. rHE nest session of this Seminary of learning will commence on Thursday, September 4th, HT.'l. Ilampden Sidney is Situated in Prince Edward 'ouuty, Va., within a few hundred yards of Jnion Theological Seminary, and seven miles rom Farmville the nearest depot of the Atlantic, dississippi and Olflo Railroad. The locality of he College is most healthy, and the community .round distinguished for intelligence and piety. There is no Granimer or Preparatory School onnected with the College. It retnins the urricnlum and the great aim of its teachers is o secure thoroughness in the training and intrusion of their pupils and thus to pepare hem for professional studies or the nctiveduties if life. The ordinary expenses of a student exclusive if the cost of clothing, travelling and hooka, are roiu $225 to $275 a year. For Catalogue and further information apply o REV. J. M. P. ATKINSON, President llauiden Sidney College, Prince Edward County, Va. August 21. 12m NOTICE IS hereby given that application will bo made to the Legislature at ils next sessiou for the ipenmg and establishing u Public Road, from he black Kiver Road three or four miles from Jamdeu, to the llishopville Road at or near the iiig Hill. July 24 Gin. SOMETHING NEW. AN elegant Album for 25 cents, holding 24 full sized cards, bound in full gilt cover and sold at the low price of 25 cents, suitable lor the pocket or centre luble. Order a sample sent by mail, post paid on receipt of 25 cents. 3 for CO cents, or G fnr $1. Address, Bl'RROW k 00. Baltimore, Md. Kafir Agent# Wanted. Catalogues of Books, Pictiurca Ac., sent. June 12-3 2. to $20 PER DAY ! Agents wanted. A1 fp t) classes of working people, of either sei, young or old, mak^more money at work for us in their spare moments, or alkths time, than at any thimy else. Particulars free. Address 0 STINTON & CO., Portland, Mains. Ssptsmbsr 19. 12a. A TERRIFIC TORNADO. Tnlluhasse Sentinel, 20th. A northeast storm of terrific violence swept over this section of the State on yesterday morning, leaving destruction in its wake. A walk around the city during yesterday afternoon presented au almost appalling sight. The countless trees lying in almost every direction, in many places blockading the streets, the fences prostrated, the houses unroofed, and in many instances a to tal wreck, were terrifying evidence of the power of the storm. In and around. Capitol square mauy trees were'unrooted, fences blown down, aud the Capitol building very seriously damaged. The slating was blown from the roof, windows were blown in, and water flooded the Senate and Assembly halls, and poured through into the Supreme Court room, the Clerk's office, the Comptroller aud Secretory of State's offices. The top of the chimney of the Executive office was blown off, and some of the slate from tho roof went sailiug through the air. Two thousand dollars will not repair the damage to the Capitol. On our main business street the damage to the stores and the stocks of our merchants has been heavy. Geo. H. Meginniss' store, on the corner of the Cout House sxuare, is perhaps the worst damaged of any. The roof was torn completely off, and the stock flooded. His loss is estimated at $10,000. i The tin roofing on most of the stores in this ! block was ripped up by the wind and distri- 1 buted in fragments as far as the next street? ; some two hundred yards. The store of W. R. Wilson, in the same i block, was flooded and considerable damage : sustained, as also the stores of Mr. Spinner ] and the new store adjoining R. S. Williams, which he had just fitted up and stocked, in- i tending to connect it with his old store. In 1 , the next block south a portion of the roof of ( the Boot and Shoe Store of D. B. Meginniss* < was torn up, and the store flooded with water, 1 though the goods wero ^comparatively un- 1 harmed. The upper part of the Marine t Bank building was damaged by water, a por- < tiou of the roof being also ripped off. The I offices of the United States Surveyor Geucr- ' ul are here, ana the papers were hoiucwhuv 1 damaged. Ou the opposite side of the street Captain Brokaw'a large livery stable, nearly opposite this office, was stripped of its tin rooting. Hire. Lamb's millinery store sudorcd a great deal; the largo skylight was broken, also a window ou the west front, and the goods deluged. The Monroe building lost a chimney, which carried with it considerable wood work, leaving a large gap on the top. The small building, back from the street, opposite Meginniss' store, occupied by James Jefferson as a shoe sin.p. was completely demolished and laid flat on the ground The Court House escaped with the loss of a chimney, a few panels of the blinds in the cupola, and the twisting out of recognition of the top of the lightning rod. The jail suffered the loss of a large portion of the high board fence surrouodiug it. The storm drove through the windows of the City Hotel and flooded many of its rooms with water, and the occupants trembled for the safety of tho building. In the northwestern part of the town, Postmaster W. G. Stewart's new building, just approaching completion, was blown Out as a pancake, Iudced, it suggests forcibly the idea of some enormous hand havinsr crushed it in oue powerful downward blow. It was twenty- ? five by forty-nine feet, two story, and entails t a severe loss upon Mr. Stewart, and upon I Mr. Watkins, the con trad or. The frame of j .tho Primitive Baptist Church was also com- I pletely levelled with the ground. Mr. K. II. r (J am Lie's bouse had the chimney blown I over, and his barn on Adams street was v wrecked, a falling tree carrying the building 1 with it. The building occupied by DeCour- <j sey Brothers, as a grocery and liquor store, c was badly damaged. The rear portion was a blown down, and the gable end of tho main ) building blown out. The loss will be some \ $800 or 8900. The building is owued by e Mrs. Kindou. u Near the depot, tho house of Mr. Sidney s Trent, new last year, was lifted from its ? foundation and hurled in ruins some twenty feet away. And here occur/ed the only lo.-s [ of life, that we are called upon to chronicle j in the city. Charles Mattaw, u nephew of H Mr. Trent, a boy about fourteen years of age, t in nttcnipting to get out of the building, was s caught ucar the door and buried in tho ru- f ins. "When extricated he was dead, and it j was found that he had fallen face downward, [ and the superincumbent timbers had pressed j his head deeply into the earth. Two older . persons, who were in tho building, barely es- [ 'caped in time to savo their lives. I Tho telegraph wires ure down in all di- ? ?? _?.i ?n . I'UL'IIUIIS, MI1U ail njjuil HIUIUIUUIIUUUH I is cut off The loss in the city, it is thought, ; cannot he less than 820,000. A Very few particulars of the damage v throughout the country has yet voiuetu hand, ] though there is reason to fear that it has t been excessive. Wo learn that the new , j Baptist Thuroh at Dawkin'x Pond is in u j wreck. Iu ijvery direction, fences and trees . are prostrate, as in the city, und many gin } thouses are badly injured. At Pel-Air, the ? church and school house are gone, and. a , building iu the lot of Father dames S. ^ Page, khas fallen. An old c.dored woman, ? named Mary Dudley, was killidjin this build- ? ing. We also learn that a colored woman j was killed by tho falling of a shanty uii j Judge Clwynn's place. On (.'apt. Brokaw's . plantation, fourteen cabins and the gin build- , ing wero blown down. One man had his ( leg brokon. l Disastrous, however, as has boon tho storm i in tho city and suburbs, the damage through- i out the county, by the destruction of the cot- . ton will be well nigh overwhelming. From < all that we can hear, every new particle of 1 cotton in the bloom has been blown out, and j beaten into the land, and 10 badly damaged < at to prove an almoat total loee. Up to I Thursday the hopes of our planters were b bright, that a fair crop would be made, des- w pite the ravages of the caterpillar, but p these hopes are now blasted, and the pros- s< pect ia indeed disheartening. Tn the face c< of so terrible a blow, we are at a loss to find it any words of consolation. We can only a hope that the result may not prove so ut- C terly disastrous, as at present appears. CuJ n off, as we are, from all communication with 'W the outer world, we have no means of tl knowing whether the storm has been con- E fined to a comparatively small portion of the a State, or whether it has extended from the k Atlantic to the Gulf. If the latter, and the tl storm elsewhere has been as disastrous as N here, it will take years for Florida to recov- fc er from the blow: ti News from St. Marks, this morning, gives S the information of the utter destruetion of w 1 ' t* n 1 i ?l tnat place, ny ine nooning 01 me water si every house, but one, is washed away. Twen- lo tp families are homeless, and an earnest ap- so peal * for help comes up. The City Council P nave appropriated $100 for immediate relief, ni which will be expended in provisions, and al sent down by extra train to-aay. hi : p< The Literature of Smoking. hi ai [From the London Globe.] ai Nothing has been more belauded, nothing w more abused than snoking. At one time, it pj bas been all the fashion, at another it has 80 been altogether tabooed; ignored as com- n( pletely as it is ignored in the pages of Shaks- ]yj pcare; idolized as completely as it was idol- Wl ized by Dr. Parr; cast off as ruthlessly as ev Blackstone cast off the Muses he had wooed. 0l Poets, divines, orators, and historians have tii svaxtd. eloquent in its praises, and not less fe iloquent have been the furious invectives Qj burled against it. It has been one of those hi ihiugs?there ar? not many?on which every me has had defiinite opinions. Those who lave written or spoken for or against it, have W( been equally unmeasured in the phraseology Q0 hey employ. King .James the First than- at lered the first volley in his famops "Coun- jje erblast to Tobacco," and was followed by a ^ 'Volley from Parnassus," by an anonymous jn, writer, whose wrath seems to have outstrip- K jed his power of expression. An undertone U]| )f grumbling, in the shnpe of epigrams, oc:asional pamphlets, sarcastic notes, etc., is pr lometimcs discernible, to the curious in such t hings, all through our literature, bat these a j grumblers are mostly of the subterranean gu >rder, mere croakers in the nethermost mud. pal Jim rUUCgUUU, IIUWCYL'I, WO UiUSb uirt&vo m nan who ought to have known better? cj Charles Lamb. His t'Farewell to Tobacco" 8jj a the expression of the only piece of in- ]Q, gratitude that gentle nature was guilty of? mi f ingratitude it was. Catullus, we know, ^ ilways discovered when Lesbiawas fondest ar if him by the heartless ^ay in which she te ibused him. Perhaps the same paradoxical lentiment was guiding the infatuated Lamb vhen he penned the line 'Filth o' the mouth ind fog o' the mind"?a plagiarism, by the ^ vuy, from a great smoker, who calls silence ou '"Frost o'the mouth and thaw o' the mind." ^ Jne of the greatest of modern poets, toleant of everything beside, has the bad taste m o be intolerant on this one subject, and yj, late's a pipe or cigar us he would be^shamed ^ o hate anything or nnybody else in the j{ rorld. But smokers can afford te smile at hese black swans, as they glance over the WJgoodly list of those who have been guilty ?f M he eame weakness as themsclves^fehe great )r. Isaac Barrow called his pip^nis Paniharuiacon, or cure for everything. Bishop M, lull and Dr. Hooker were by no means iroof against a quiet clay. We can see wj ien Johnson and Drummond with the White t upor wreathing itself around them, and ire ? )y no means certain, that my Lord Bacon t lid not know from experience the truth of his ^ iwn words, "Tobacco comfortet^the spirits ,nd dischargeth weariness, which itworketh * lartly by opening, but chiefly by tjio opiate jg irtue whicn condonsoth the spirits." Flotch- yn ? 0% A.N?A^ MIMA Wlflt "W AOIimAnt I nau uianjr u ijiuut iMFv n Ivu ^unuiuuuvj ^ >nd Sir Thomas Overbury often soothed him- CQ elf in a pause of his troubled life with that ^ 'delectable pastime." Scholnrs and students of every kind have pQ teen faithful votaries of the weed. Box- 0f lore, the great Dutch scholar, was such a jia lave to it, that he wore a very broad-brim- jj, nod hat, pierced a hole through it, and so ^ upported his pipe while his hands were ^ ice, and smoked unimpeded day and night. fai 3eutly could uevcr sufficiently thank Cum>erland for initiating him into the delightul mystery of enjoying a pipe, and only re- . ;rcttcd ho had not only begun earlier to earn it; he was over seventy when he had lis first lesson. Person used to dogmatically 0 issert, that when smoking went, out of fash- ll< on, learning did so loo, and old Dr. Parr a.n nsisted on taking his pipo with him 5,11 rherever ho wenL "No pipo, no Parr," i ns his snappish and ungullant speech to a 1 ady who objected to the fumigation of her * Irawing-rootu. The only rest poor old 1 iobhos got in that stormy, contentious exstcuce of his, was when lie could light his >ipc in comfort, and forget all about Dr. rc vichard or Wallis. Who cannot see, in im- w gination, John Milton smoking his regular on veiling pipe, and talking between whiffis to v0. :cntlo Klwood; or step over to the "Rose" aci ind Burvey the author of "Iludibras," or I-*"* ? * ott.l wi iH a historv I *ri nvaiv, nuijuuv, anu ivr>vi fvu, .... # ii every line of that hard, courso face, uow J * it up with the flare of the livo coal he has ^ mt into the bowl of hi* pipo ? .Fielding van a great smoker, and muny a scene of li.iso harum-scarum comedies of his were lashed off on his tobacco naper. Tillotaon en vas not a little attached to his evening pipe, uid Jeremy Taylsr meditated not a few of *1' - is golden pages through tho "wreaths of a 'urling mist which was born not of the ncadows." Old Burton, the author 01 tho by immortal "Anatomy of Melancholy," nas a las curious pauags on the divine plant. He ho knows n%|> what to oonoluds of it: To* m< acco, divine, rare superexceiient toDacco, rhich goes far beyond all theif panaceas, otable gold, and philosopher's stones; a Dvereign remedy to all diseases; but, as it is ommonly abused by most men, which take , as tinkers do ale, 'tis a plague, a mischief, violent purger of goods, lands, and health, ne may read in this the experience of iany "merrie, fecete, and juvenile" hours ith old John Rouse, of the- Bodleian, in ie back quad of Christ church, for he, like turton, was a hero of the weed. Mathelaticians have generally been great smoers, though we hope for the honor of le name they did not, Kke Sir Isaoo ewtow, use the fingers of their lady loves i tr stoppers. All the wits of Queen Anne's ( me were nothing without their pipes, teelc wrote with a pipe in his mouth, and it , as when wreathed in smoke, that Addison tone most. Dryden, after his snuff box, 1 ved a whiff, and the great Mr. Uqngreve lorned riot a "churchwarden;" Ambrose i hillips was eloquent in it^ praises, and his imesake John has written a deligtftd caic ode in its praise. Who can forget inest'Dr. Brown's "Little pipe of mighty )wer, and think of Daniel Defoe without is pipe ? The "Spectator" always devoted i hour in the evening to absorbing a clay, id if ever his equanimity was disturbed it as when the dancing Frenchman broke his pes. In later times tobacco has not been i popular with literary men; Shelley could )t endure a pipe, nor could Edgar Poe or ioore. Neither Maoaulay nor DeQuincey ere smokers. If report speaks truly, how-er, a good many distinguished writers of ir own day keep up tho traditions of olden mes. The novelty of Dickens did not sufr, nor perhaps do the poems of Mr. Tenrson, from their devotion to the "sweete ibit." _ Courtship in the Past.?The Hebrews ire a peculiar people in all respects, and it least in a matrimonial view. The operions devoving upon the Israelitish juvenis, before attaining to the joys of oonnnalty, were emphatically peculiar. For stance, when Isaac desired a wife for himIf, his father sent Elizur his servant to say ike myself of a maiden, I mdst entertain r with fine discourses and offer engaging esents; I must incessantly praise her beau- " ; I must only go by night to see her; whdh thing is known to a third person, it never cceeds." Not at all. Neither he nor his ther kuew Rebecca But after El tour had ade his proposals La ban, her brother, askt her if she would go with the man, and e answered: "I will go/' We see that re was not consulted in this case. This irriage was rather a bargain between braham and Rebecca. Nor was it customy for tbo affections to rule, there being ofntime no consultation between the parties, was usual for women to be courted by oxy. Thus Sechem, though strongly oved to love Dinah, did not disclose it in e ear of his beloved, but made advantageis offers to her brothers?"Ask me never much do wry, and I will give according as >u will say unto me." Jacob, however, ade an innovation upon this custom, and sited Rachel himself; he drew near and ssed her, and lifted up his voice and wept, icob made another advance upon his times, e have said that love had but little to do ith their marriages?wives were regarded a species of slaves, and not at all as comniops; hence "filthy lucre"twas the charm Inch ruled the mariage ties. Affection and ntiment gave place to gold and goods.? at Jaoob was a sentimental lover, and lou be found he had not treasure equal to , the price set upon Rachel, he conde- t ended to purchase her by labor and servide, and manifested, disappointment when e tender eyed Leah was faithlessly imposed ! >on him instead of the beautiful Rachel. ' It has been a custom, in all times, for the duration of love to fall upon the men.-- * hether this is proper or not, long usage 1 3 given it an authority not easily overme; but there have boen exceptions to , is rule. I An Israolitish widow had by the law the , wer of claiming, in marriage, the brother , her deceased husband; and he, in return, . id the liberty to refuse?under this con- ! tion, however, that the woman should come , him in the presence of the elders, and t )se the shoe from his foot, and spit in his 36. Charlis Bradlaugh.?This rabid, Rad- { il Republican is on a visit to this country. , is object in coming is to soe the institutions j our "glorious republic"?and to makeajlit- E ! money by sensation lectures on England t d its government. In his "Republican f nplicity," he chose a roomjon the fifth floor a the Filth Avenue Hotel, in Now York. g ridently he is very much in need of funds E lerewith to conduct his assaults upon the E ritish Government. s I k Commodore Maury's Remains.?The a mains of the late Commodore M. F. Maury n ire brought to Richmond, Va., on Saturday, t the Chesapeake and Ohio train, and con- j( yod to Hollywood Cemetery for interment, b lompanied only by membera of the family y relatives, who arrived tbsre on the samo * tin, and bi those residing in Richmond. a ins was committed to its last resting place t 9 mortal remains of one of the most lllus- D ous tnen of this century. v ? - o An aot of the Legislature in Virginia was ( titled: "A supplement to an act entitled, k act to amend an aot making it penal to b ;er the mark of an unmarked hog. tl ? P The onlv article of female apparel worn r one of the lady spiritualists at Vineland, t it Sunday, was a ran. We hasten to add, o wever, that she was liberally dressed in t m's olothes. i FAUETIiE. The child, who cried for m hoar, didn't get it. When the thermometer falls, how often, on an average, does it break ? The rote blaahee?no wonder, considering the things that are nnder them. People born with silver spoons in their months don't always make a stir in the world. A bachelor friend compares a shirt-bat ton to life, because it so r.i-en hangs by a thread. Dr. Johnson is reported to have laid that a second marriage nan the "triumph of hope over experienoe." , A poet has sent a poem, in which he alludes to the dew as "the perspiration of the moon." A tailor has a bill in his window to the following effect: "Wanted, several thin coat makers." This a fine chance for spate tailirs. Some people my the dark-haired girls marry first. We differ: it's the light headed )nes. A tattler may not be a rery bad person, bat he riehly deeerres what he getl?no trast ind contempt for his meanness. He that enjoys reading the Seriptares, meditation and prayer, nerer feels lonely and lever is alone, for " the father is with ilm." A provincial actor, who was addicted to he "flowing bowl," was pointedly alluded o as a living specimen of the mellow dram* ner. A story is told of a tavern-keeper by the tame of A. S. Gamp. The painter, in paint* ng his sign, lett oat the stops; so it read, 'Tavern kept by A SCAMP. If yoa want to talk heavy seienoe, say 'protoxide of hydrogen" instead of ioe. It oands loftier, and not one man in a thousand will know what yoa mean. The yoang men of Ohieago are said to be laasified, according to their skill M veleoi* ledists, into the "timid toddlers," the "wary rarblers," the "go-it-graoefolsand the fancy few." "Did the defendant approach the plain* iff seriatim ?" inquired an attorney, in a ase of assault and battery, the other day. 'No, air," to the reply, "he went at 'im rith a poker." Alnhonse (who has had an attack of mothr-in-iaw)?"Parbleau, madame, it ii sot ae roubles at your daughter is me, now 1 It a because she is not an orphan when she married to me." The question for discussion at a recent nesting of "scientists was, "which travelled asteat, heat or cold?" It was deoided in favor if heat, as many persons present had been kble to oatoh cold. At one of the ragged schools in Ireland a slergyman asked the question, "What is ho* iness?" A pupil 'in dirty, tattered ragl umped up and said, "Plaxe yer riverenee, t is to be clean inside. A merchant who has a class in Sunday* . (chool asked the question, What is solitude ' ind was visibly disturbed when a miserable ray answered: "The store that don't adver* ,ise." An Irishman referring to the suddea leath of a relative, was asksd if he lived ugh. Well, I can't say he did, said Ter* anoe, but he died high. Like the banks in hese days, he was suspended, Far Western papers, at< a rule, spare jeither age nor sex when s joke is wanted. For instance, a Carson City journal sajrs: 'Our county clerk can boast of a wife with he biggest feet and the longest nose of any female in the Territory." Rathbr Ssvkrx.?A rich tnerohant, lamed Hogg, once requested a person to >ring him a load of corn in a stated time, vhich he failed to do, and did not take it intil the next day after that whioh he had promised. The merchant u might be expected, refused it. "Well," replied the ragoner, "you are the first hog I ever knew 0 refue corn." Slighted Swains.?A social innovation, mown as the Society of Rejected Lovers, ias recently taken root in Nashville, Tenn., rhich seems destined to an extended popuarity. It seems that the qualifications for nembership of this club are simply what he name of this institution purports, the act of having been rejected or disoarded by , young lady, together with a fair average ocial standing and personal repute. There 1 thought to be not a particle of doubt that his club is organised upon a basis that will peedily make it the most select affair of its ind in the world, as far as sturdy manhood nd bonhomie are conoerned. The selectees will be infinitely enhanced by a rule of he club, which provides for the instant and gnominiouB expulsion of any member who ?trays bis weekoea by going beek to a oung lady after ebe baa discarded him once, rhether at her instanoe or his own. When member finally marries he is put on the re ired list, but can be reinstated in active aembership in the event of beooming a ridower. There is something in the spirit f an inception suoh as is realised in this 1 Jlub of Rejected Lovers, to challenge the :indly consideration of any man in whose reast is a touch of pathos or in whose brain here is a spark of yimor. The members ropose to turn their disoomfitore into mery-making, and their woe into -wassail.? Vhether the example of the luckless swains f Nashville will befollowed elsewhere remains o be told, but there is plenty of material tor t.?.Arew? and Chwrirr.