Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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A HOLIDAY. Is the age sordid, impotent and cold? None the less sweetly shrill the thrushes cull; None the less swiftly "snowy blossoms fall On slim young grasses and buds mani fold Where kingcups raise their chalices of gold Astender breezes drift the hawthorn's pall; None the less milky sway the chestnuts tall, Or royally ore large white clouds en rol lJd, When- up the azure mighty branches . climb. On eyes that see and hearts that content plate No shadow f ?Iis of days degenerate? They reckon but by seasons' change the time: Here the vain babblings of unlovely hours Cringe into silence before holier powers. ?Macmillian's Magazine. A Chinese "Church" In New York. Pedestrians up and down Chatham street, or, us it is now known, Park row, have noticed an unusually large number of Chinamen arrayed in holiday attire passing in and out cf tho narrow hallway of 202 Mott street. It bears the name of "Joss," and tells the devoutly inclined Celestials that the temple Is up-stnirs. The altar is of carve:! ebony, practically a large frame for the picture of Joss and his attendant deities, executed on satin in the most elaborate style of Chinese art, and a heavy table for holding the incense burn ers and votive offerings. The chairs and tables are in the same style of rich Orien tal carvins ami the room is lighted by carved lantern-; banging irom the ceiling. The wails are hung with Chinese mottoes, the uir is heavy with incense arid it is hard to believe tiiat we are in New York and not In Cathay. I noticed u larg? proportion of the wor shipers would come iu, makg their obei sance to the ultur, burn a few prayer sticks and go out. Some, however, re mained a longer time and gave the priest sums varying from 2? cents to 81.00. In response to my Inquiry the old priest said: "A man can say a.i that he wants to in three minutes, so he have three minutes for nothing; if hr> have a good deal to say he nuy 25 cents fo: iu-x: three- minutes, 50 for next three,-aad soou. No good to pray too long." Then he added after a moment's reflection:' "In Mcliuau church ? Linn talks an hour and everybody pray *two hours or two hours ami half, then make collection beg to pay minister. Chinese way, 500 or 000 people pray two hours; we make $2,000 or $3,01)0." The system strikes me* as a good one. It pays the expenses of the temple and discour ages garrulity. With its dingy exterior the Chinese of New Y'ork have now one of the most richly furnished place; of wor ship iu the city.?Allan Formau in Chi cago Tribune. A Novel Feminine Freak. A late feminine freak hus the merit of being strictly novel and deiiciously ab surd. There is a young English minia ture painter in this city who has gained a great reputation among fashionable women, not for making their charming faces Immortal upon ivory; not for send ing them down as precious heirlooms of loveliness to admiring great-grandchil dren, who will believe firmly in the rose bloom of their pictured skins and wonder at their quuint coiffures and picturesque gowns. He reproduces them piecemeal. In his study are ovals of Ivory upon which is a mass of crinkled auburn liair for example, or a Cupid's bow of a mouth Of smooth scarlet, loveliness, or a satiny, crumpled pink ear, and best and most beautiful of all, eyes of hue, shape and ex pression. These are not combined, but are separate pictures. A woman who has some exquisite feature goes to him und has it preserved for her lover or her hus band. Eyes are the favorites, however, and among those of well-known women he has in his collection is that of Mine. Barrio3, the widow of the late president of Guatemala. They do not have the pair painted even, but just, the one melting eye with the fringes surrounding it aud the arch above. Mme. Barrios' eye is large, almond-shaped and of velvety blackness, with a thick fringe of lashes and a brow as clear and hue as if drawn with a pen.? New York World. Important to Shorthand Writer*. It is proposed to hold in the autumn of ls;S7 an international congress of short hand writers of all existing systems, and of persons interested in shorthand gener ally, to celebrate conjointly two events of importance: first, the jubilee of the intro duction of Mr. Isaac Pitman's system of phonography, marking as it dees an era in the development of shorthand on scien tific principles; second, the tercentenary of modern shorthand, originated by Dr. Timothy Bright about 1587, continued by Peter Bales (1590), John Willis (1G02), Ed mond Willis (1018), Shelton (lliSJO), Cart wright ih>i2), Rich (1CJG), Mason (1072), Gurney (1740), ?yrora (1707), Mavot (1780), Taylor (1780), Lewis (1812), aud many others in past generations, and finally by by Mr. Pitman and other English, and continental authors of the present daw? Pall Mall Gazette. tie Saw Ills Dead Brother. A lew days a^u a Gcrmau visited the aBat:ie of Sedan." Not that he is the only German who has ever visited this great picture, but this is a peculiar case. While on the platform be asked the lecturer where ths Eleventh Prussian army corps was, aud on Its being pointed out to him replied that he had a brother a member ofthat division, who v:r killed a! Sedan. The lecturer, for the sake of a joke, said: "Yes, I know it. Yonder is his dead body now, lying at this end of the line." The .simple-minded Dutchman imagined Uta! he could see hjs brother, and, bursting into tears, left the platform, muttering: ".Mein armer bruder! mein armer brnder!" (My poor brother, my poor brother.)? Cincinnati Sun. Slung of the Circus Fakir ,. The circus fakirs call everyb fly "guys." Some?the more important persons -are designated as "maia guys." Coutrymcll as "jay:-" and "hayseeds," "blokes,' au I ??.-ackers." Money is "bunt." "tiu,"' or "cases." Beer or other drinks are spoketi of as "lush." clothes as "togs." or "imr nes3," food as "grub," conversation as "weeding?." the verb to see Is rendered "stag." eyes are called "ogles," a hut a 'dicer" or "cady." while ladies are spoken of as "dames," mrlsas "molis." argnmcul as "guff," clowns us"j>ieys,"and bank bills as "flimsies."?Chicago Herald. One of the five wills left by the late Myra Clark Oaincs, of New Orleans. La? been offered for probate in Brooklyn. It is claimed that she was a resident of that city. HOW TOM THUMB WAS FOUND. Barnum's First In trod action to the Groat Little BCan?An Interesting Chat. "I'm the man who was the mean3 of Tom Thumb being found by P. T. Bar num," was the remark made by Mr. Henry Folsom, of South William street, to a reporter the other afternoon. "How so?'' was the query of the person to whom this information was vouchsafed. "Weil, I will tell you how it came to "pass," Mr. Folsom responded. "About forty years ago I knew a family named Stratton who lived iu Bridgeport, Conn. I The head of the family was in the habit I of indulging too freely iu liquor. Some people called him a 'bummer;' but, as far '.I ever knew, he was a quiet, inoffensive J man. He was in very poor condition j financially, and his family sometimes suf I fered for the want of the necessaries of 'life. This man had a son, who was the ! smallest child of his age I ever saw in my I life. The little fellow was probably 5 or ! C years of age at the time. He was a cun | r.ing youngster, and the wonder of the ! neighborhood In which he lived. This j small chap was Charles S. Stratton. after i ward known as Tom Thumb." "But how did Barnum find him?" "Oh, I'll explain that to you presently. ' There was a restaurant and liquor saloon ; in Bridgeport in those days. The proprio I tor had trap door in the floor of his saloon that opened into a sort* of cellar j where clams were kept. This establish ; ment was situated on the docks, so that i boats loaded with clams could come '? alongside for the purpose of dumping ! their loads into the cellar aforesaid. A large number of men who wer- c i %-iged j in the clam business were in the iiabic of : frequenting this place. There wen; other ; customers who came there to eat chowder and to partake of the liquid refreshment ! offered at the bar. The saloon became j known as the headquarters of a class of ? happy-go-lucky men. of whom the elder ; Stratton was one of the acknowledged leading spirit*. The elder Stratton often I brought, his dwarfed boy into the saloon j to amuse the men who congregated there. Nobody then had any idea that the little ? fellow would ever be of much account. I ! was then acquainted with P. T. Barnum. ! At that time Barnum kept a small mu seum. His museum was such a one ' horse affair that there was not sufficient j income from it to keep its proprietor from financial embarrassment. I "One day Barnum asked me if I would ; take the trouble the next time I visited Bridgeport to go to his brother, Philo j Barnum, who lived thre, and obtain for ' the showman a loan ot$?O. I did the er J rand as requested. Feeling Interested in ' Barnum's museum enterprise, I naturally began to think about ways and means of helping him in his business. I said to him: "See here, Barnum, there is a dwarf named Charlie Stratton up in Bridgeport. He isn't bigger than a pint of cider. It seems to me that it would be a good idea 'for you to get him for your museum.' 'Thank you for the suggestion,' returned j Mr. Barnum, 'and I'll go up to see the lit | tie chap.' Barnum accordingly went to j Bridgeport and saw Charlie Stratton. He ! was greatly pleased with the dwarf, and ; forthwith resolved to bring him to New j York and place him on exhibition. It was ; not a difficulty task to make a bargiau with the elder Stratton, who was de ' lighted at the prospect of making a little ' money without having to work for it. ? Well, to make a long story short, Charlie 1 Stratton's name was changed to Tom Thumb, and he was exhibited as the I 'smallest and most wonderful dwarf on ? the face of the globe.' He was a great at : traction for the museum, and it was not ; long before the proprietor began to realize the fact that Tom Thumb was a 'trump I card.' People came from far and near to visit the liliputlau wonder."?New York Star. Whin Wales Was a Youngster. About the only recollection I preserve . of the visit of the prince of Wales is that ' I thought him very clumsy-looking, ; with his bighands and feet. I suppose by his portraits that he has grown hand ! somer since his American tour, but he ; certainly was a gawky fcUow who would uot have beeu looked at twice if he had not been a prince, when ho came- here before the rebellion. By tho way, it is often quietly asserted that his royal mother has invested largely in American properties and securities. His father used to believe i and acted upon the belief in his private affairs that the profession of king was nearly played out. There are banking houses tn both Phila delphia and Now York that could tell o{ investments ranging to the millions, if they would, made in past years by En glish and French agents whom it would . not need a very shrewd guess to have be lieved were representatives of royalty. So I Queen Victoria Is rumored to be the ; owner of real estate to a large value in both cities, while Louis Napoleon Is re . ported to have invested largo sums of money in West Virginia and Ohio coal lands. I suppose if the people are fools they must pay the piper, and if a nation gives its rider an opportunity to plunder them it is nobody's business but their own.?Cor. Philadelphia Times. Cheap Novel Publishing in England. The following communication from a London publisher to The Anthemeum de SCtbes substantially the overdone condi tion of cheap novel publishing in this country also: "Shilling story books are appearing something like three or four a day. When a good story does happen to make a stir, it is now promptly choked out of existence by another treading too closely upon it heels, and that in turn dies before well boru. Because a story is startling ia situation, is told in a certain number of pages, and is sold for a shill ing, the belief Is widespread that a gigan tic fortune follows. MSS. from un trained hands keep pouring in, but proba bly not oue shilling story in every dozen that sees the light pays its expenses. Tho bookstalls will not hold them, the reputa tion of the publisher is being ruined by them, und the public is sick of them.?Ex change. Marriages in the French Army. Among the other innovations, the French minister of war. Gen. Boulauger, considers it necessary to make some changes with regard to the financial con ditions under which the officers may bo permitted to marry. A soldier's bride may not be portionless, and must needs bring him a fortune of at least ?800 be fore the necessary consent can be obtained frcm the authorities. It Is now thought expedient to increase tho sum, the ex penses of family being greater than they were formerly. Mothers with marriagea ble daughters do not look kindly on this proposition, and the young officers are mostly adverse to the change which would weigh sorely upon them in many cases. The general opinion is that it Is advisable to maintain the status quo for many rea sons, which it is not necessary to djscuss here.?Chicago Tribv ne. MKX1UAJN METHODS. - I ANCIENT AGRICULTURE AS * PRAC TICED IN OUR SISTER REPUBLIC. A Famous Hacienda?Productiveness of thu Soil?Finest Soli in the Republic? Agricultural Implements ? Ancient Methods?The Water Question. Much has beim said about Mexican haciendas, bat probably few people re alise the vast extent and unlimited possi bilities of some of them. In tin's wonder ful country there are estates int-j each of Which many an Old World principality | might be crowded, and which a king might be proud to own as his domain. An example of this i.-s tau famous eolado hacienda, which covers more than SOD square mile-;. Jt lies partly in the states of Coahuila, Nucvo Leon, Zacatccos and San Lui;, Potosi, on the great highway to the capital and the line of the New Mexi can Central railway, having an average elevation of over 4,0U0 feet. Chains of mountains traverse it?how rich in min eral wealth nobody knows; while flourish ing farms, mining settlements, manufac turing centres, and even iucorport^d Til lages are found within its limits. Just think of it: Over ;>uO,oOU acres of this fruitful soil, which bears everything grown In both temperate and tropic zones?producing, at least, two crops of corn a year, and a perpetual and almost spontaneous crop of many other things is a neat little property, "by no meuns to be dispiged." as the immortal Sairy would say. THE REAL PRODUCTIVENESS. As to the real productiveness of this soil, it is difficult to get information in reliable figures. Inquire of 11 Mexican how much his field or orchard yields, and the invari able answer?accompanied by an inimita ble shrug of the shoulders?Is "Qulen subc?" (Who knows?) or "Asi Dios quirere! (As God wills!) I have ascer tained that with Mexican cultivation? which means merely tickling t he surface of the soil and turning on water now find then?from thirty to forty-live bushels-of corn to the acre is considered a satisfact ory return. The few who have tried im proved met hods of cultivation affirm that seventy-rive bushels of corn twice a year, per acre, may easily be produced, planting the first crop in February and the second in July or August. In this country the standard price of corn is 2 cents per pound. ? Probably the finest soil in the republic is found on those fertile plains lying be tween Leon and San Juan del Rio, where one funega (about three bushels) of seed will yield, on a moderate average, not less than 4">0 funegas of corn. In several of the Mexican states?notably Guerrero, Jalisco, Oajaca aud Tobasco?three crops of corn ? are repularly produced iu a single year, called respectively rtsicgo, temporal and toralmile. Wheat grows to good advan tage in all but five of the Mexican states, and two crops in twelve months is the rule. Within the last five years inany plows-and other agricultural implements have been brought to Mexico; but upon the vast ma jority of farms nothing to this day has ever been employed for turning up the soli but great forked sticks, or clumsy, three cornered wooden concerns?precisely like those used in Egypt 1,009 years ago, if pictures of the latter are correct. The process of threshing, also, is almost i versaUy conducted in the primitive fash ion of King David's day, or by the still more simple method of throwing the grain into an enclosure and driving a dock of . sheep to und fro upon it. THE WATER QUESTION. That perplexing water question?which, in Utah, for example, the Mormons have regulated to the nicety of clockwork?is here among the mysteries that "no fellow can find out. "If you ask a farmer about his irrigating privileges, he wdl tell you that he has "nine days' water," "thirteen days' water," or "twenty days' wuter," as the case may be?meaning that he has a right to turn water on his land once in every nine, thirteen or twenty days?a privilege which you may be sure has cost him a good round sum. In thickly populated sections the greatest difficulty now seems to be that all the available water.has al ready been transferred from the rivers to the irrigating ditches. It is but reasonable logic to conclude that if Mexican land is valuable only when irrigated, and if most of the avail able water is now in use in thc< al ready cultivated area, the country must look to some improved method for lessening its enormous stretches of waste lands and barren deserts; and, a." the na tives have not advanced agriculturally a single step in the course of three centur ies it clearly rests with their more enter prising cousins, the Yankees, to come down here and devise the methods. It has been proved again and again, that all these desert sands and arid reaches of cac tus and chaparral may be made to "blos som as the rose" by merely turning water Upon them at regular intervals, and gov ernment lands are everywhere for sale, at the rate of from 30 cents to 3 cents for an American acre. Artesian wells have not been tried to any extent for purposes of irrigation; but that water is everywhere abundant, though sometimes far below the surface, is shown by the numerous very deep wells, of purest and clearest water, which are found all over Mexico.?Fannie B. Ward in Boston Trauscript. A Famous Tree at Viclcsburg. Twenty-three years ago, one and a half miles norl heast from Yicksburg, Gen. U. S. Orant received the surronder of Viclcs burg and the Confederate army defending it, under a green tree, a few hundred yards from the Confederate line of de fense, from Geu. Pembertou, the Confed erate Commander. This surrender tree, as it was called, was all cut down and car ried od by relic-hunters, and even the very stump of the tree even with the ground. The United States government then erected a granite monument to com memorate the spot and event; but the relic-luinters chipped and defaced this so badly that the government removed it to the National cemetery of Yicksburg for preservation, and erected a largo 120 pound gun that stands about fifteen feet high, with the inscription on it: The Surrender ot Yicksburg, July 4, ISC3, to Gen. U. S. Grant, by Gcu. Pemberton. The gun is surrounded by a low- tone wall about two feet high; the numerous visitors by driving near the monument have made a deep cut or sunken road, and the rains have washed the light soil? still deeper and exposed the roots of tho original surrender tree under the monu ment. I crawled under the monument und with my knife cut off a piece of the root of the surrender tree with my own hund.? Yicksburg Letter. 8T C;,' || ~jpT?jl,A REMEDY NOT EOS A DAY, BUT FOB-f^T""}? 1 S^S-S' CS"'HALE A OMTTJEY"tBa 'B^B^B | |1 S \ i EELIET'Tf-G S?TPERING HUMANITY! IS Sis' 1 s'sis oj 5 I S EMS, AN INTERESTING TREATISE ON BLOOD AND SKIN DISEASES SENT FREE TO ALL APPLICANTS. IT SHOULD BE READ DY EVERYBODY. ADDRESS THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, GA. JOHN C. WHETSTONE. ROWESVILLE. S. C, 1 Practloal Maciiinist ana Millwright, AOENT F015 .- .'.._:?.^^--fe???-^*"tvi;, ????? ?I i THE S3?TII IMPROVED GIN, FEEDER AM) CONDENSER. A 1*??0 AGENT FOR THE TAY 1,01! AND BAY STATE ENGINES, GRIST MILLS, &>? SSSrVVM order Machinery of any kind when requested to ilo so. JSSTRepairiiig of all kinds of Machinery a specialty. All orders promptly attended July l-siii lo. Address as abov< 8TONO . 'Pliospliate Company, CHARLESTON, S. C. ESTABLISHED 1870. HIGH GRADE FEl.TlLGiERS! i! M ?II OKA DE FERTILIZERS! SOLUBLE i-T'AN?1 (liijmi} amuioiiialed.) DISSOLVED lIONi:. ACID I'IJOSI'ILVI K. AS 11 F.LEMENT. IMlOsrilA'l K FLOATS. GE1LMAN KAN IT. Hit.Ii Gl! A DE 1GGE FERTILIZE James "Van Tassel CV!( ll.C'Ii CHOICE FAM IL Y 0 ROC E Hl ES, Wines, Liquors and Segars. V T MY !?>'! ABLISIIMKNT I AN !?K rOl ND ALL THE STANDAKi A anirles ol I.ROCKRIES :d IM ISoii...;. him- ?> v.vll a> jairrM and I-.-M WINES, LU4U'OI!S. ?S:r., sold anywhere. Also tl:,- ehoiee..' M.t.Al.> AM) I >1?A ? ' In U- found in Hie luaikel JAM KS VAN TASSEL. 'S'<> !f??- l"uh!s?-. 'SNlOROl'di ? I! K D TAKE I'I. !?'A > 1''! !. IN AN- i Calves ? Hie yearlm? n-gMered .I?*r 'SNIOROIOII i> 1! K D I K 15 > K Y ? TAKE CLI-JAM ,'i l a AN- i Calves t ??e yearlm? n-gMered i liouuciim that 1 will run the lee Unsi-; sey Bnil. I.Vmste'red Ayivsiiire heifers lies- from May ist, 1-SStS. Customer:, please s-veral grade In h'ei> as also m-veral Mileli reserve vo?r orders and oblige. ' Cows in milk. Apply to " Yours iralv, E. N. CHISOLM, jai.^t CHARLES 1'. BRUNSON. | Kowesvillc, S. C. JUM A. HAMILTON, DEALER IN COTTON GINS. I Mac?iorT Ssiiiiiigs. Olis, k, ORANGEB'U RG, S. C, j The GULLETT STEEL BRUSH, COT j TON BLOOM, .ma Improved TA i'LOR GINS. Prices ns low as in the Stute, Work guar j an teed, Tern:-, accuuuuodathig. Also, fur i nishes Saws. Bibs, ami parts ofGinrfror ivpairs, Bristles, Ac IN STOCK. Brass CHECK VALVES, Piping. Coup lings, Round and Sheet Gum Packing, Babbitt Metal, Ac, Ac SUGAU MILLS, and SYRUP KET TLES furnished at factory prices. John A. Hamilton. JOHN C. FIKR. dka\.v..a in CHOICE FAMILY AN I) Heavy Groceries. ALSO Willow Ware, Glass Ware, Crockery, &c, ! Call au<l cxairinc my Goods before ptirehasluj;. They are <?!?.{>* and in-, prices arc as low :<s the lowest j * JOHN C. PIKE. ESTABLISHED 1*77. Twenlv-livu Yours Experience. T. DeCliiavettc. W.vn :: Makkij am-.! i.,,. ;:i.i:i:. \ ml ileaier in Watches. Clocks, .lewelry ^i. Spectacles, Silver and Plated Wnreand Mu>i.-al Instrument--. A!! wrrl; warranted for one year. (>;angebur . C Charles A. Ca ho, .jr.. BOOK km JOB PRINTEft ?ash? BOO l< B I N DER <;;> ?ifiiiARDSom s! 2s!:s:t. COLUMBIA,S. C. \ ! !. KINI> !.)!?' 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Cor l,s;Milldel)'c .I'.eitei! B.l} a .'?! Coriilick Iron Mower, t..<! save yotu hay and pea vim.*. \Y. VYANNAMAKER, Aug. lfKJmo. St. Matthews, S. C.