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TWO DOLLARS FJ3K ANNUM. [? GOD OTTK OOUNTBY VOLUME 11. SATURDAY MORNING, 'APRIL 7, 1877. NEW GOODS AT JL.OW 3?]RIO.Ti3. Cornliill Crackers, Fruit Crackers. Lemon Ih*s;uit ami (iraham Wafers. Orange Marmalade, Broma Chocolate. Cox's Gelatine English Piccalilli. Choice Hyson and Y Hyson Tea. Koanted Codec (try it.)' And a full supply of First Class FAMILY GOODS My stock of DRY (SOORS (being re {tlenished) Lady's and Men's Straw Hats, 'arnsols, etc, etc.. will be sold as Low as Ca*h purchases will allow. As usual Hiebest assortment of TOBACCO os hand J. A.. Hamilton Russell Street next to Oornelson's. ABI A Ii LATIIKOP, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Va3~~ Odicc in rear of Masonic Halb March 3 I v. Is hereby given that in thirty days from date, application will ho in ?de to the Clerk of Court for Ornngehurg County togrnril.a ('barter to Ed is to Lod<_re No. 5U1. I. <).(.). i-. in coitfortni ty with the Ac*. * f Assembly, entitled "An Ai l tu pr vide fur grunting ol *? certain ( barters" nop.oved February ?Olh lS7d. J. 11. W ? in.kks 1 Committee. F. RkAIahs. j feb 17 1 in GO! 1IIIWS overnnicnl will be recognized at JJT Washing! a n before long. This cheering news induced no* to pur chase ODO of the lines! lut of li?pJiS AND MULES ever brnugbl into ibis Market. And as times will grow bei t er im I er I he Rrople'.s Governor; 1 have, put my juices down and can.now aceommo xlate the public upon the most resi ,*?( nable terms- No mutter what style ol i lorseoi Mulei wanted I vouch I caii 1.11 the bill; Call on me at my (.tables Hl Maler s Hotel. R R SLATER. Watches and clucks RlsPA 1 HK1 ) On. t.li<'. shoi'icsl; Notice 15Y JOHN J. HOWELL, at tiik s v it i: y K.TUK ROIRNSt >X. oiiAj\OJ:nujio, s. c. All work1 in the above line done on the ?hortest notice. Also .Jewelry repaired. My terms are reasonable ;iud :ill work Warranted. ' Sive iue a trial. dee 'S.i I ST 'i .'Jm -~jTo Tjj x 6 u n m n fa'n.'KSSpn oe roiR::rt .j i :n:, vi honorier :? *id Manufacturer op HARNESS A SADDLES. Has the pleasure to inform the I'iiblic that he has Keecived a heavy Stock lYnm the North of every dcseriplion wli.il belongs to a first class Saddlery Kstah?slunetil; Also vidi to draw particular attention in bis Stock of LAIM KS HI 1)1 NCI SADDLES and bis assortment of SI 10 KS. Prices lower ihen ever. (ioo(l Saddles at S?.?O. FTISTEY. According to the latest improvement;* i.? the art. I . S. WOLFE over Fzekiel's Store, is prepared I > execute anything in Iii? line Chinrnntcchig :i fa oh fed nilcnd:iri?<? io business, he respci Vdly a-i; a enii ' i i anru of the patronage, w Iii? h lit- he r to fore been extended to the old linn hi Sni?l< r, Wolfe ? CsdvWt. V&T. AU Work Guaranteed. FOR RENT 'the Two Story Ihiildhig in the Town of Lcwisville. 'flic first Story lined unit a Store, complete in all respects. TheM'cbiid Story arranged foi a Residence. For particulars apply to pKORtSK HOblVKIb aug. 5 it' DR. J*. F. MUCK ION FUSS Dentist Rooms over Store of Mr. Oeo. II. Cornclson's. J??y" Charges Reasonable. Helen's Babies With Some Account of Tin:in Ways. It was an enticing invitation from my only married sister, Helen Lawrence, that moved me, Harry Burton, salesman of white goods, bachelor, aged twenty-eight, to spend my fortnight's vacation at Ilillercst, Tom Lawrence's cigars and claret and horses, a splendid flower garden, plenty of handsome girls, and un limit d leisure for reading?these were the iliducemenis offered me. Inciden tally, as Tern and Helen were to be absent on a visit, I was just to keep an eye on the children, w ho, I was as sured, would not give me "the slight est, trouble." Remembering Budge, the elder, as a hoy of five, with a serious, noble face and great, pure, penetrating eyes, ami 1'nddic as a happy little know nothing oi three summers with a head of tangled yellow hair, I set out for Hillerest without apprehension of impending woe. At the end ol the trip I hired a hack man to drive no* to Tom's. On the way on!- horses shied viblohily. and I he driver exclaimed : ';Thai was one of the 'imps'?that little euss that scared the bosses, j There he comes runuin.' Wonder j where t'other is? We Call 'em the j 'imps,' cause they're so uncommon likely at mischief!" '1 lie offending youth was Budge, in a very dirty sailor suit, and the other "imp," who bore down on us iu a cloud raised by thrusting a brunch i nto the dust of'the road whs Toddie ! "I bey're my nephews !" I gasped . fhe recognition was mutual. ''You're Unele Harry," said Budge. "Did you bring us anything ?" Bring us nn\ thing ?'* echoed Tod die. '*! wifdi I could have hi ought you sonic big whippings,"said 1, severely. "(ltd into t his carriage.'' Iii they climbed, each with a very dirty towel, knot led in the center. 'They're not towels," explained Biidgc, "they're dollies; we don't like huyed dollies; these are lovely." "I want to slice your wateh," re marked Toddie rolling into my lap, followed by Budge. Obediciitly 1 showed them the dial of n,y three hundred dollar time keeper. "\\ ant to slice wheels go wound," said Toddie. "No,''said I fearful of dust. "Want to slice wheels go wound|" repeated Toddie, '"want to slice the wheels go won ml." '1 tell you 1 can't Toddie; dust spoils watches." "Wan! to sin e wheels go wound," murmured Toddie again." Abriipljy I pocketed the. Match. Todili c's,jaws dropped, and he cried . "Ah- -h ? h?h. Want?lo?slue ?tlu?w heel-?go?won?ouiiil !" "Stop that noise ibis instant !" "Yes?oo?on?wants lo shec"? '?toddie, I've got some candy in"? "Wheels go wound! Ah?h ? h ?h !" "Toddie, dear, don't cry so. There are some ladies coining in a carriage." "Ah?h?h?h. Wants to slice wheels !"? Madly I snatched my watch from my pocket, opened the case, and ex posed the works to view. The passing carriage slopped; mv name was called, and, looking up. I saw?bright-eyed lair-faced and smiling? iss Alice May ton, a lad whom for about a year I had adored from afar! Tb ease with which she greoioil he;, praised?actually praised! tin ho dreadful children;and let inudiscover .that a hixjiicl. from die Lawrence j garden would he an acceptable oiler I ing, converted my confusion inl ? de light. When the carriage siarted again Toddie niurmured : ? ."Uncle Hawwy, does you love thai lady?" 'Wo, Toddie, of com sc not." "Then yen's biuhly man, au' de Lord won't let you go to heaven if you ' don't love peoples." You may believe 1 was glad to get those children home und t"rn them Over (o She girl! At dinner they found fault with my blessing, and taught me the one their papti says. Then they condemned my version of Jonah, and Budge gave one certainly much more graphic. Ami finally, after requiring me to say my prayers first, that performance, too, was bold ly criticised. Budge prayed with a face lit for ac angel, and then To I lie. closed his eyes, wriggled, twisted, breathed hard and at last began : "Do Lord not make mo sho bad, an' [bosh mamma, an' pupa, an* Budgie, au' duppity (grandfather,) an both hoggics (grandmother,) an' all good people in dish house, an' everybody else, an' my dolly. A-a meh 1" '?Now give us candy," said Budge cell .cd by Toddie. I gnvcUhem the candy and escap ed at last to the parlor, where I pass ed a delicious evening with my hooks. That night Toddie howled for his dolly like a young demon, nidi made tue get up and find it for him; and next morning, before be was fairly awake, I was appalled to bear him murmur : "VV Mi ?to?slice ?wheels? go? At break last he remarked : "Uncle llawwy, days!) an aw fun funny chiiut up 'stairs?awfoo big cliUlil. 1 show it yon after brepa pup." "Toddic's a sidy little b >y," said L?dge; ' be always says hrep-pup for brebus" (breakfast.) " b ! what does he moan by cbunt, L?dge ?" "I guess hc*m<*aus trunk." A iliicl'ul thought struck me. 1 rushed up stairs. Yes, be did mean Tr'tiiik? my trunk? open ! --eniptiedr A blacking box in my dress hat, and rolled up lightly in my dress coat, one ol those dolls! Bui worse was to onie. I made an exquisite bompiet for Miss Muytotl and put it in n box which 1 sent to her by the coachman. To my surprise he brought it. back, and To Idie, shrieking with delight snatched it and ex< laimod : "Uli, darsli my dolly's k'adle! .Somebody put nasty ole flowers in it; 1 freed "em away !" Opening the box he displayed? that internal doll ! ? viewed him so sternly that he look refuge in sobs, wept plentifully on my shirt,ami murmured : "1 wanUh to love you, and wantsh you lo love inc." Who could resist? 1 petted and kissed him till be was consoled, and resumed his sovereignty, with the infantile command : "Kish my dolly, too " 1 obeyed; but closed the interview abruptly, and wrote the best apology I cdii hi frame to Miss May ton. The next day was Sunday. In the mottling those boys invaded my bed lo "fwidic" ami "wide horsiebacken,' und I sadly learned how it was that my brother in-law bad grown so Hat chested. In the afternoon we tried the stories again, and Toddie told with the most spirited gestures, how: "Dave, let /.c /.ling go bang hequcen B half's eyes, an* knocked him down (lend, an' Dave too Blind'ssword an' sworded Bliaff's bead oli', an'made it all hluggy, an' Blind'ruiiucd away." Then Toddie ''ruuneil away," and got himself stung by a hornet, and rushed in sobbing : "Want to ))o woeked. NVaitt sliiiig 'Toildic, boy, one in v.'" And 1 bud lo rock him and sing, line by lim-, tiller I Judge, some absurd l.l le i logge re I about a basket, begin ning: "A he e is my Iii lie bastik gone?" Said . od lie, boy one day. ^ heh he was soothed. lho-c child; rcii beguiled me out to a 11 cache rolls muddy brookside, in search of jacks* hi-I ho pulpit; Toddie tumbled in, and so did Budge, and in pulling them out I wiis most horribly sputtered ! i iiirrying home, a carriage overlook us with oulies in it.. Could it bo?? ol course it was!?Miss May ton her self! "You; seem lo have been having a real good time together," slid she, as the carriage passed; "Remember you are all going to call on me tomorrow afternoon." And 60 we did, Toddie bearing an expiatory bouquet. The child 1 en raced off to watch a grass cutter, and I sat 4own to a delightful chat with Miss May ton . Men were scarce among Itbc summer boarders at Hill crest, and somehow the piazza gradu ally filled with the ladies of the house Suddenly a shriek arose from the Jawn; Toddie had pinched his lingers "in the little wi eels of the cutter grass," and rushed up to me, sobbing : "Singj Toddie, boy, one day.'" Wy blood seemed to free/;, but when Budge explained that "he al ways, wants that song when he's hurt," all the ladies urged me, and I wrath Iully picked Toddie up and hummed the detested air. But. the little tyrant was not satisfied, and successively re quired me to *'sit iu a woekiu' chair,"' to "sing the words," and to "sing louder,"- till at last before that audi ence and her, I was obliged lo sing that dreadful doggerel^ line for line, as Budge repeated it. My teeth were set, my brow grew clammy. At last I heard some one whisper: "See how he love-: him ! Poor man ! he's in perfect agony over the. little fellow." But the agony was a prelude to a most unexpected rapture. An appro hensively accepted invitation to din ner, where Toddie tilted his soup over Miss May ton's dress, led to a twilight O-tc-a tcie, which Budge interrupted by informing the lady : "Uncle Harry 'speots you, Miss. May ton." The jlttlc rascal had, that very morniugtUlemuudcd to know whether T? Uiuti T^-"iove Miss Mayton, and ac cepted with suspicion my assurance thai, 1 "respected" her very highly. Now, before I could stop hi in he con tinued : "(.July what he calls 'spect, I calls love." 1 here was an awkward pause? something must be done. "Miss Mayton," said I, 'fBudge is a marplot, but a truthful interpreter. 1"? "When I loves anybody,'' observed Budge, "I kisses them." Miss Mayton gave a start. She did not speak; she was not angry. (J?uld it be tliat ?? 1 acted on Budge's suggestion, once, twice. She raised her head ami I saw that. Alice May Ion had surrendered at discretion. Then Budge and Toddie came in for a share of the kisses; two or three ladies appeared, and I calmly said : "Come boys. Then I'll call with the carriage at three tomorrow, Miss Mayton. Good evening." 1 shall not tell you what I thought or diel during that interval, except that I bought my angelic nephews everything they wanted, beginning with candy and ending with a goat and goat carriage. Nor shall I say a word about, my ride, with Miss May ton, except that it was suddenly inter rupted 1>\ a runaway goat and two boo booing b >ys; and that night BadgJ prayed : ??Dear Lord, bless just lots that lovely, lovely lad)' that comforted inc after the goal W'ns bad to me." The next day was wet and those children led me a terrible life ! Their only real comfort was donah, or ratlier, iho "whay-al," a picture of which Toddie tenderly caressed, mur muring : "De old w hay-al, I loves you. I links 'twas weal mean in Djotiah to get freed up when you hadn't, noffin else to eat, poor old whay-al !" Ami Toddie aiuusi himself for some time with a box for a whale and a dead mouse for a Jonah, till a mishap occurred which he ino urn fully an nounced by saying : "Djoua bwoko he tay al !" The next morning, I got a letter from Helen, inclosing one to hor from Alice Mayton, from which I learned that I might attribute the sudden success ol my suit to Miss May ton's "seeing that a man who could bo so loveablc with thoughtless and un reason able children must he perfectly iidortible to the women he loved." I have not lime to tell you how Budge revealed lo stalely Mrs. May ton the relations subsisting between her "little girl" and bis "Uncle Hurry," or bow that awful Toddie disclosed our secret to the ladies of Miss Mayton's acquaintance by solein nly declai mirgsome "Lines to Alice" ho had heard me rehearsing in the garden; or how the same Toddie swal lowed a "whole bottoo-fuir ' of pare goric, and was hurried lo the apothe cary's with such wholesome results that be reported to his brother : '?Budgie, down lo Ibe village I was a whay-a'. I didn't free up Djouuh but 1 f'rood up a whole libor of uwer things." Tom and Helen came home indue time, and at lunch that day toasts were drunk to "Her" and to "the makers of (he match ? Budge and Toddie!" And Alice insists that when a certain ceremony takes place they shall officiate as groomsmen; nor have I the slightest doubt that she will ea rry her point. A Negroo Walch Meeting The Neiv York <S'kn has a long ac count of a n gro watek meeting some where in the South : and it contains a most extraordinary aermon, from which the following extracts arc made : 'I'll tell you a litt!c allegoric or speech ob do digger. Truth and Lie started out for to trabblc. They stop ped to drink at de ribber oh Jordan. Truth was thinking no evil, but Lie pushed him, ami be fell in and wos drowned. Lie got out, stole Truth's bouts, and mcetin'. a culiud ptisson who was tootin' 'round whar he bad in bus'niss, entered into bitu and sot up his habitation; So Liobas lowed to dwell along wid culiud folks ever since Its uiy bi-nc ;s to pint out dese things to some you of de tricks of tie dcbhlc. Lie den sowed UU seeds among us culiud folks. 1 axes you ain't dis a fad ? Don't doproduce correspond wid dc seed ? No matter bow hungry you gits, if you has faith, do Lord's gwine to iced you. De re wos Da on el, a man who was sot agin circus shows. De clown ketch him prayin' out der winder, am! put him to starve in de lion's den. De angel one day met Belzcbub carry ing soup to his f'rirder, who was a hocili' bis crap. Ebone/.or came a ridin' along on iimulc. lie had been to town to buy some whiskey. Dc mule beseel do angle, and be kicked up and kicked Lbene/.er heels over bead, end he drapt his whisky bottle. Belzcbub he seed do bottle, and he picked it up, and put it in his coat tail pocket. Von see he found il, and that make it hissen. De tinge! kotched Bel/chub his wool on his head, and toted him oil', jus as he was, wid hisilin bucket oi soup, and dc bottle of whisky, and dropped him in de den where Daniel v/os I licbher beard dal. Daune) got drunk, but Scripter tells us Noah, who was shy of water, kept a bottle of Loo.-ianncr >'iim under his bed. Some colon! preachers say Noah was do 'cnsion of wc black folks in dis wise : Noah had one gal chii 1 natu 3 I L'anc Aiiny, a sassy, dissiptcd gal, who would steal her daddy's hot tie when be wos asleep, ami drink bis rum. He colch her one day tipsy and inakiit' si spectacle of herself. Uo ok; man cused her goo 1 fashion till she turned right black in de face, J don't pond much on dut, kti-io it can't be proved fane Aim'shead got kinky. No, my 'pinion is colored folks is the most wonderful production of nature ?oVy yr?U'cif jist so. I axes who made dein ? When was do made, and whar? Nobody answers. Dese p'ints can't be proved by do Bible; dhr's nuflin in dc Holy Writ about negroes; and (hit eirc must unco shows dc is a nation | 'euliur to dcre own notions, au' I'so nebber seod oiie (hit wasn't proud of his color. Do 'postlcs scs to do 'pistle, "Know thyself.'' 1 terprcts dat, ??Uo ye seekers oh do knowledge hour you' so comically made in dc flesh." You litivo all seed Mo ??' ? n,fq.H sycamore tree; dat oi ? atioo ia^i bery , interest ?' lac m ? . Hem ' was a very small col it.i.uumiiL* Nigger Demos. 1; public house, hi:(I done his ??? b.n?; He hoard one of de'eiploi .'<.oiU<Vfd a jiiuioy and was ?? great glory to preach, ft . \ lh mos thot if he could only gel to eedatirood.. man de Jundiegger he earricu iii"d? so all of his hack wmild cease. Hyarr" ? in' folks a slioutin' ho Hang down bla ' dish cloff and went out to sec de 'ciple, - hut hy the 'c sion of his stumpy legs., lie couldn't see nullin. A hig syca- .j more w as grow in' right before his cabin,so he shihed up dar and looked down at the 'ciple, who went ri'di?' Vfy"' and iiebber seed Nigger Demos. Poor-1 Nigger Demos did cry. He-was so . hurt cd, his tears was so hot dey blistered do bark wharcver dey touch ed. One of dem tears hit de jinny on de back and hurt her so bad she kick ed up. Dat 'eip' c den looked upand: seed Nigger Demos and said : "(Jomo down, poor fellow! I'll stop at your ,; hotel and take a glass of your'sim- . mou beer.*' Nigger Dehrns was proud of de honor. Sycamores been blister ed ever sence. Now we must bury'' our heads in de durt and pray long ?' and fervently. I hope my endeavors ^ to give you de true light to carry you.A froo tic next year will bring forth j fruits without insects. The Lord bo w id you all. ?ssrj> . - . <groiin V d A Good Point Plado by kJig Caro- ;j Una Spnrlau _ > "? 'i" I3y reference to the Auditor's books, we find one-twelfth of the laud.-, of Spartanburg is returned; as. jij ?'arable"?much of this, not being cultivated ?and it is worthy of remark'' that this one-twelfth now beats tho ' wdiole burden of supporting bur' : people, paying their taxes, cf-c; in ?; short, one-twelfth olithe county sup- \\ ports everything in the county, as j ? everything is based upon and suppor led by agriculture. Out of a total of 5CG,723 acres, . c have 290,992 acres' ''' in old fields, 18:l,(>77 in (original) ?"' woodland, and only 86,054 acres cal led "arable." The burden of support- , iiig the county falls not alone upon the cultivated laud, but also upon thj labor which cultivates the land, ami we are astonished to lind sosmal nn amount of land and labor successfully supporting the county; indeed, ifo'?r ., country was uoi what it is, if our lauds were not intrinsically worth more than tin \ iiio valued at,' such a ? stale.of alfairs.wnui i no impossible. We conic m>w . ? main point in view, and ask w ... i we require ibis small ana land and labor to carry this Ini i n, when a more liberal spirit iin the part of our land holders would?by dividing?lighten it? Is it not clear to every thinking man that we n. cd a larger population to put more laud under cultivation ? .. This being conceded, the questions arise, Low can wo secure a larger population 'i And what inducements jean we oiler I hem ? The first, wo 1 answer, By advertising your country land * its advantages; and the second, I By renting and selling lands on low, I reasonable terms. It is clearly with in the power of the landholders of Spartanburg county to double tho population of the county, in a com paratively short time; aud it is also clear, that in doing so, they double the value ol their own property, Is it wise to keep all this laud lyiug idle, dead capital, on which taxes aro paid, and for which no interest is rccoived? and Would it not be better to S3? and I least it at low rates to actual settlers, who will cultivate and improve it, and increase its value and tho value of the property surrounding it, than to allow it to remain in its present state? Our farms and plantations, are too large, and experience has pro ven that no country has ever arrived at a high stale of cultivation, (or of civilization even,") until it became pro perly settled. These surplus lauds represent so much idlo capital, whicti should bo loaned at low, rotes, in order that its value may be iucreased, and the country benefittcd.