Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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TWO DOLLARS PER. ANNUM. } VOLUME 9. - M c? 7 O Sr*j ; s II V J & ,JM<$3^! ^SjSlp! ?TTR COUNTRY. Sffigfegffif^^ 4 1875. ALWAYS IX ADVANCE. NUMBER 20 T "H "K?? * ? ? ' u, taYlgh Cotton qw:1' ORDER IT EARLY.: Took the Silver Hetlal at the Oraiigeburis Fhlr lm;i?72U j And LT?x>k l?s 35!gJ!?tsss la 1873. It is of Light Draught, Gins R?p~ idly and gives a Beautiful Sample. ?Price Below any other Withi Claas Ulli?: JOHN A. HAMILTON; '. its Sole Ageut for OH ?tfGEBURG and BARN well The fallowing gentlemen are using ttJhe'.gin *? R E Clark, Esq., Dr W W Wanhar trnaker, Jacob Cooner, Es.p, Jacob Iveitt, Esq., Muj J H Hydrick, B?lin <fc Argoe, J F Witt, Esq., J W Smith,1 Esq , D C Stoudemire, Esq., J AV3 Culler, Esq. Building Material &c. Tha subscriber would ask tho attention of the readers of tho Nxwi A Tinea to his Stock of r-j-i L ' '.' J 'Ii-im .- ... i- ?' i Hardware, Building Material, House Finishing and Carriage Build ing, and Trimming Material, Ac. . Cono?rting iE part of Fresh ^ Stono Lime, \ Hydraulic Cement, !i. Calcined Plaster, Nails. Hair, Laths, Locks, Hinges, BradsT" Tacks, Window Glass, Putty, Varuishes,- Paints, Oils aud Brushes. In short, the largest variety of goods to be rfoiind in any one house in the State. All .goods' warranted as represented, arid priem gnaranteed'w low as the lowest fur sacs* ?qnalitr ?f goods AH orders aceompanied -with CaA -ox ?atisfactory City references, twill harejpsromjit and careful attention. john c. iilAb,A Columbia, S. C. July 10 1*75 Sta: COTTON GINS. COTTON Br/)om cotton gin, . Price $4 00 per saw. MAGNOLIA.COTTON GIN, HALL'S PATENT COTTON GIN, Price $4 00 per saw, HALL'S PATENT COTTON GIN with Feeder Attached, Price $5 50 per saw. I The shore sre price* in store at Charles ton, fiend for Circular. c. GRAVKLEY. . No'. Ill P'asi Hay Street,* * Ncrth of the Postoffice, nug 14?2 Charleston, S. c. NOTICE ^HARsLstiSTOM store Will be ?PEM? $ ?r?gi> b?rg on the 1st Sopt&mbor, 1875, next door to T. W. Albergotti, .1 Baker, by J. L. MORRISON. A well selected Stock of DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, BOOTS, SHOES, ETC, ETC., Constantly on hand. atig 14 1865 tf McMICHAEL HOUS E okaNueiiurg, s. c. This HOUSE is now open for the recep tion of ROAItDERS. GUESTS well taken ca'ri of. The TARLE amply supplied, and a HACK meeting each trsin at the Depot. Ternis Moderate. ?ay 20 1875 ly. Dental Mot ice THE undersigned taken pleasure in an nonnciug to his many friends and patrons that he has permanently located at Orange ritirg, C. II , S. C, win ?re lie will devote his entire time, from every Monday till Saturday T noon to tho PRACTICE of DENTISTRY in all its Department?. Perfect satisfaction guaranteed' in all operations entrustedto his carc.^ Charges very moderate. Office at Dr Fersner'n old stand over Will cock's Store. A. M. SNIDER, D. S. Uometic Diplomacy. She vm watching at the window, Ab I hurried down theatre**, In the simple brown merino That I lancj looks 00 neat, And her amile I thought portentouH, it waa ao exceeding Bweut. Then ahe met me at the threshold With a very loving kiiw, That recalled the early singes Or our nuttrimonin! hlia*, And I felt at once a tremor? Was there anything amiss ? No t The children were all quiet, And the hearth was vury hright, And my pet?our roguish Charlie? Waa quite fextal in his white; Yet I braced mynclf for something, Be that HOinethhig what it might. My chair was near ihe fire, And my ?Uppers by ita aide? My pipe wan very handy, And my paper* open wide, And whewoic the pretty hreaatpin That 1 gave her when a bride. The dinner was perfection? It was laviuh without wa.Ue; TheHoup waa vermicelli, And exactly to my taatc; While the deccrt waa a triumph Of artistic skill in paaic. And when the meal waR over, And the.inner nian-aj rc^ ffiie^Miw hoV'cBaF^ide * Hi-We^abY-bn'her bfeV li!' JliaralTu pfl tonuc-r rn( TWtltlmmhca al 1 her fa? , Aa I claaped her to my bosom In a lover's fond embrace, ' It Waa then nhc roftly whispered, "Won't you let me have that lace?" [From the Ohio State Journal.] A TREMENDOUS 1SATTLE. Mr. and Mrs. Mootinglr's Con flict with the Rocking Chair. Old McStingcr was going to bed a little wavy the other night, and not wishing to disturb Mrs. McStingcr, who has a tongue like a rat-tail file, he thought it just as well not to tum on the gas. He got on very well un til he reached the door of the cham ber where his patient wife lay sleep-1 ing. Here he paused a moment balanc ing on his heels like a pole'on a jug gler's nose. Then he made a dash for it, in order to make a bee line across '?ihejloor. :As?7 Mrs. McStin^r^ufiL cmplary fart^de, $haf rooking chair that bo man 4yeemj|/ j^P1^ jj, room without? running over it: firrt thing hA^MuJig^ bed his toe nail onagnihsl which knocked the seat against the crazy bone of his knee, and made one I of the loug arms prod him in the stomach. Simultaneously he fell over the chair crosswise, and it kicked him behind his back before he could get up from the floor, as he stood on all fours. The engagement was now fully opened. When a man begins falling over rocking chairs in a dark room, he ought always to have three days' rations and forty rounds. Before McStinger could get up straight his knee came down on one of the long rockes behind, and the back of the chair came down on 1 is hind with a whack that laid him out. flat on the floor, and before h j could move the chair kicked h'm three times in the tendercst part of hu ribs with tho sharp cud of the rocker. This made him perfectly furious, and he scrambl ed up and made a blind rush at the chair, determined to blow up tho enemy's works. He ran square against the back, and it rocked forward with hiinr fanmOT 'jF^PW* WW1^1 ovAfter hStSlWth#owffi| fcMtmgV ^a^WFft f1T?^?ii^Ifmi<fttdrffg o'n'-^?flriKrjfgKng f^MSm spreadout on the under side. It would have been a good thing for McStingcr if he had lain still then and let the chair have itt> own way. It lay flat on its back, with the long points of the lockers embracing his abdomen, and didn't scorn to want to do anything active just then. But MeStingcouldn't makeup bis mind to g.ve it up )'ct. He rolled over side ways and upset the chair. It fell with a crash on its side, giving him a fur ious dig in the liver, which made him straighten out his legs spasmodically bruising one shin from tho instep to the knectfft Cht |oilr^wll^i^tu^ in ?W/W m 'fcWff its I backward and forward at him, like a wary old ram making feints of buck ing its adversary in order to throw j] him off his guard. Too blow in tho side nearly finished McStinger, and; while Wing there rubbing his wind back again, he wns just beginning to reflect whether bis honor required him to proceed any further in the affair, when Mrs. McStinger suddenly began screaming all the names in the crimes act, under the "impression that the Charley Roes abductors were trying to commit a burglary, bigeny, robbery, and everything else on her. Up to th'iB time she had been speech less with terror, nnd had lain there trembling, shedding perspiration, and accumulating shrieking power, until she hud gained the screaming capacity of a camel-back engine. She bad just reached her third sforzanda fortissimo acclerxindOf when old McStinger suc ceeded in getting to his feet once more and became dimly visible to Mrs.Mc Stingcr. With oue last wild parting shriek she sprang from the bed nnd made a dash for the door, near which the rocking chair still stood menacing the whole universe with a butting mo tion. Mrs. McStinger had uo time for investigation just then, she pitched into and over the rocking chair and clear on down stairs, the chair after her, turning over and over; and kick ing Mrs. McStinger every bump, un til they both landed in the bell below, where the chair brok all to atoms. This ended the fight. If wives will learn from this sad story not to leave rocking chairs standing around the middle of the room for their poor husband to fall over, we shall not have written in vain. ??>?*?<? i Household Words,?Wlicu Shake spear originated this phrase, we wotidcr if he had any of the following too farni-j liar expressions iu his mind, which the] Church Union bos gathered ju oue sug gestive paragraph : Stop* your . noise! Shut up this minute! .. I'Jl Jtosc your ybr*\''llo\<\> youlgtonSucli Uiuctll 'Spw! BkLlvfi lormelfiL I WkiiYtAj id iTjtor'ltjcattjlt inve it I O, look what you have done Twos you! Won't you catch i though ! It's my house ! WhoN afraid of you ? Get out of this room directly Do you h'ar me? Dear me, I never did such a thing in all ray born days Victouious Faith.?In ancient history there is a story of a valient captain whose banner was almost al ways first in the fight; whoso sword was dreaded by his onemies for it was the herald of slaughter and victory. His king once asked to see the sword. He took it, quietly examined it, nnd sent it bnck with this message: "I see nothing wonderful iu the sword. I can not see why any man should be nfrnid of it." Hie captain sent the reply: "Your majesty baa been pleased to examine the sword; but I did not send the arm that wielded it. If you had examined, that, nud the heart that guided the arm, you would have un derstood the mystery." . m ? ? ? - A Remedy that Somihimks fjordrespondent of the May iKorVAv rites; "Now, if you' ifcffoft ^|*aWrTtuu who has a cow that! 9^ JTnakl3d>nterrJ tell him to use guodj ^El?^!JB?v# remedy won't always! lo. A. gentleman from the intern r,j who has been staying here for a long! time ou business, had a cow bitten by' a snake in May, and be has been using good whiskey ever since?using sometimes as much as ten or fifteen cocktails a day?and yet bis wife writes him that the cow died at leastj six weeks ago.?Loninville. Courier Journal, A gambler in Iowa, to cscapo ar rest, attempted to cross a liver with a pocket-book iu his teeth. His strength or skill proving inadequate, was ^l/'i?eiL l? ?PC|1 hiajuoutb in ^cr m^Fr^^ff*' ftU"ps poc-ket k' frfrMlIr ri' ?0ti' 9 11? t!'e ; ; ' 'Svmkips Oxen. ?d Of' course W?1 ?iin drive the oxen home, wer told tho farmer.. TJie idea of doubting our ability when we have s?At iBe'?f thajfdlefl ^qry^dy^or Ufa past mon ft,?'He handed over the long I "whip atiu Snarled them, we taking t)>o proper position just in front. It was easy enough, rather monotonous till we met a team coming tho other way; then - We ' "gccd" these oxen into a ditch, and running againsta tree came to a standstill. We received a pleas ant smile from the teamster, as we had given him the whole road. But thorp .yyo were. We hollered "gee," Vita,!' nnd"back," till our throats were sore. <JiWor couldn't get ahead unless w? boffowed an ax and cut the tree jittWrij bfid'.when. we tried to back them uycy Spread out from the pole, and itoed face ito face, nearly choking themselves. Then our patience gave, out;. We-, kicked the near one in the ribs; he playfully retorted by switch ing usjicross the face with his fly dia pcJrserVl. Wjfc lit a pipe, ami pulled stocke in to' their.nostrils. This was a happy thought; they sneezed over us, and backed, bat forgot to stop till they go??8i jfc-totfc <yjx\l between tlienif We went home to bor ow a steam dcrick, but before.:the*, arrangements were made. \thct^oxon camo in view, ami calmly/ stopped, in front of the barn. You may think there is nothing hu man in au oxj but we are ready to swear (that both wiiiked when they saw usl-ahd one had a positive grin on his fa<je.?. We refrain from expressing our opinion of oxen. I^i'SeVfft ijfJf iA?Al^.T-;In the town; of W-~, lived Deacon Wright, a*| exemplary- nicnibcr of the Free HVill Baptist church. But he waa, troubled vvith the. weak he's, as commjbn to deacons as to other men -^t^bftiWf ar| e^Jra; foliage ;of tljo "root of evil," and. the. usual objection of the nwhapn-adtiig.. The church build ing..owng .-In want of repairs, such a& rcpl^eung'paiutjiug, etcv the deacon "as" wall as ninny oihcn? vrdo ctpftflmrt tW. and ne contributed his mite in con formity with the parable, at h ast as far as the mite weht. One night dur ing prayer meeting, Elder Woods worth ' presiding, a large sheet of flustering Fell from the ceiling upon Deacon Wrijjhf, hurting him .>omo ,iyhnt but frightening him much more. I He sprang to his feet and cried, "I j will give ?10 towards repairing this I ej?irc.h P .when jif'a solemn voice, Elder Woodsworth responded "Eord or!?oMETilL?q ?'Unuku It.?f-A- good om'T^emocral oT'Chicago; when his beautiful and-accomplished daughters asked him tor fifty cents each to enter for a -spelling tourtamont in which they were sure they would win the fifflfr pYizV^? copy " of Webster? refijjcjl, , einphaticalIv^''Ko, girls, no. Ifyfid a . rascally Whig trick; there's something under nil this. 1 sec that fWobstidcitiUee tu ?Washington when he Avns'iu Congress, and I never believed that tlfey did hnng him for murdering aii, but that his last words, iffl.lH$!i nvc?" would yet come true. Jjtf\$ tjicy ? have, and he's just tryiny AX) work off sonic of his old spoiling book truck' ou the market. No, my dears; ydur futhcr has travelled, and is up to these games, bet your sweet liyes." ' I Cnpt. \yclVb.ijasaUcccc(li d in swim-1 miugacross the English Channel. He entered tho water at Dover on the. 24|h, for t.hc.sectmd attempt to.cross, witlio'flt *tn*aMstnn?re'bf any flouting or life saving apparatus, rTlto follow ing dispatch has been received in Louden^ ^' >?? Calais,CAth/yar 25.?Capt. Webb arrived here at . 11 o'clock this morn ing, in-., good health lautlspirits, al though-., fatigued. The passage from ?Dover occupied- twenty onu hours und forty minutes. *'l'ran6e out some more pancakes !" warned .William MoDulf, as he sat at a inblo in Kansas City; and as the , AviulW wouldn't prance 'out, Mr. Me Dulf split his ear with a bowie knife. Jarvis und the Funeral. There is a story related ot Jarvis; the distinguished painter, ti> the effect that, walking down Broadway one day, he saw before him a dark-looking foreigner, bearing under his arm a small red cedar cigar-box. He stepped immediately into his "wake," and Whenever be met a friend (which was once iu two or three minutes, for the popular artist knew everybody, he would beckon him with a wink to "fall into line" behind. By and by, the man turned down one ^of the cross streets, followed closely by Jarvis nud his'Hail." Attracted by themea.sured trsad of so many feet, he turned around abruptly, and, seeing the pro cession that followed in bis footsteps, he exclaimed : "What for de dcbblc is dis? "What for you take mc, eh ? What foi you so much come after me, eh?n "Sir," exclaimed Jarvis, with nn air of profound respect, "we saw you going to the grave alone with the body of your dead infant, and we took the opportunity to offer yon our sym pathy, nnd follow your balm to the tomb." The uian explained, in his broken manner, that the box contain ed only cigars, and ho eviuced his gratitude, for the interest which had been manifested in his behalf, by breaking it open and dispensing them very liberally to the mourners.? Scrtbiicr'n A on/lily. A Fish with Foun Hands?Mr. Foord, member of the Australian Eclipse Expedition, recently described before the Royal rjo'eiety a mn.-t ex traordinary creature, which was dredged up from the bottom of the sea, near the Northern shores ol Australia. Foord guy a: "The body was that of a fish, but., wonderful to relate, it had in the place of fins four leg?, terminated by '.?hat yon-might call hands, by means of which it made its way over the coral reef. When plated on the skylight of the steamer, the fish stood up on its four legs, a sight to behold! It was small, and some?him? like n l.zord,jnit with the body of a nVi." The land animalsT>f Australia arc notorious for their pecu liar forms nnd structure, but accord ing to the above they are even less nondescript than those inhabiting the Australian seas; Mr. White, mem ber of tho same expedition, tells a strange tales about rats. "The little island upon which we pitched our tents," he siys, "was over-run with them; nnd, what was most extraordin ary, they were of every color, from black to yellow, and some tortoise shell." Two of the monkeysi.a't the Jurtlin <hs Plan ten t at Paris, tougbt a duel with knives the other day. L By some accident two largeclasp knives were left by one of the keepers in the cage of the animals, and no sooner bud tlicy i been perceived than two of the largest monkeys seized them, opened the blades and fell upon each other like ? a pair of men. One of them was killed ! at the first pass, whilst bis adversary I had one of his paws nearly cut off. ! During a dense ibg| a Mississippi steamboat took a landing. A traveler, anxious to go ahead, came to the un perturbed manager of the wheel and asked why they stopped. "Too much fog, can't sec the river." "But you can see the stars overhead.'' "Yes," replied the urbane, pilot, "but until the boiler bu-df, we ain't going that wny." The passenger went to bed. A professional man not far from Stuto Street, Boston, returning to his office one Kay, after a substantial lunch, said complacently to his assis tant, "Mr. Pect kin, the world looks different 'o a man when he has three inches of ruin in him." "Yes," re plied the junior, without a moment's hesitation, "and he looks different to the world !" Gentleman on horseback nceing a crowd, reined up a yd oxclnimed: "What'sa foot here?" To which a wag replied : "Twelve inches, the same that it is every where, dsn." The gentleman rode away. SroitT in . Xf^ANCi?.j-rrTlie{} Paris ? correspondent of the London .Daily Tclci/rdpk writes : "A droll story,comes to us From the city of Marseilles.1 The hero is a geiitiC-iiinu weil known both there and in Paria. On his property near Marseilles lie or.ee had rabbits which the inn inner hie poach,ors,o(* the south have exterminated. jTjmre is now, as every one knows, a sincere though uncultivated admiration lor field sports - in Fi ance. Thisgcii'tle itian was quite ashamed to think tlult he could not. offer even rabbit, shoot* ing to a friend on his estates. Bu? the remedy was simple--the empty warrens could be restocked. Orders to th'fs1 effect he sent to Paris, and a great many coneys were turned dowhi The season of the chase bpeuod two or three days since, with a goodly shew of guns. M -:-led out to harass his game. Girt with horn.1' probably, and furnished with embroidered game hags, the party approached the scene of action, "To 'their mingled horror and delight, the 'rabbit* sallied forth on full gallop, greeting their exceit tinners with joy, and came running up to their gaitcrcd legs. Nevtr'was' there stich a welcome. Lopa and half lops, Dutch and Angora, bound ed to meet the sportsmen, tumbling one across another iu delight,;,,TTho fact is, tbut tho graiulcH'Jidsae had bought tame rabbit*, which lie hud been used to feed in.that very spot," ???? . . . ? ? Near Knoxvil e, the other night, a young girl, who was unexpectedly interviewed by the family as she was about eloping with the object of her virgin affections, knocked the old raau down, laid out two brothers .with a cistern pole, kiekod the hired man m the stemnch. and got away with her lover and "made the riffle.'* The ?Seattle Dttpatcfi, Wnsjiiiigton Territory, appearing with a deficiency of local news one day lust week, ac counted for it by saying that tlie day before had been its "local's" birth day. Happy spot, where.birthdayss nre ^^j^^^^^j^^l^_t. ; _ A Norristown boy who found a a pocket book containing eighty-five' dollars, and ret umod it to the owner, refused a reward of fivc-sents for his trouble, explaining that many a man has been ruined by suddenly becom-? ing rich. . 1 What iu life is more beautiful than happy human faces ? - .. "How we done it";is the heading of a Duluth newsp ap?P editorial. Sjmdj up some grammar* there, quick. ? i A Kentucky paper endeavors to pay a delicate compliment too favor ite nctress by calling hera'*aweet little red-haird chandelier kicker." "To bee or not to bee," as the man said when he got home and found ? : swarm of 'cut settled on his front door knob. ' ] "I don't care a cent for fashion? I've got to scratch my heel!" exclaim ed a Detroit man as he pulled offhis j boot in a street car recently. Miss Charitv Fuller, of IIu Ison, is r one of ten sisters, but the greatest of these is Charity?six feet two m her stockings. A Pcnnsylvnninii boasts that ho mokes a soap that would "wash a politician's character white as snow." There must be a good deal of "lye about that soap. A handkerchief of William Penn is to be on exhibition at the Centennial, und a curious correspondent writes to uske if it is the original Putin wipjr.? Mail. The question for discussion at a ro cent meeting of scientists was, "which travels fastest, beat or cold?" It was decided in favor of heat, as many pro? sent bud often been able to catch cold. Peter Cunningham told Douglass Jorrold that be had been supping on a curious di>b, which ho bad never seen before?calves'tails. "Extremes meet ," was the comment of his pleas* nut friend..