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Tizi I~~j -'I _ _____ _____ A 1. T 0iro a : fw Ia , "- A T A ankii Towns-%,d levieu of tife . rofth Leg ilat ure. Below will be found a elassi ed :ist o most of the Acts passed at the recenI session of the General Assemly-oc: hundred and forty-one in numntbCr. There were twenty-four public or genera. Acts, live appropriation Acts and thiiiy six Acts reIating to county arirsii. V sides, there wcre sixte2n Act; rlating to railroads. t vee to maunicipal chreis. twenty-nine to miscellneius charters, seven to stock law exemptions, two con stitutional amendments, four r.-lating to the sale of liquor and six of a miscilane oUs character. An Act to make appropriatiois for the iscal year commenig Notuber L An Act to make appropriations for the payment of the per dieni and mileage and stationerv certificates of t;Ie mem bers of the General Assemny, the sala ries of the subordinate oflicers and em ployces thereof, and for other purposes herein named. Joint Resolution to provide for the payment of the expenses incured by the board of visitors of the South Carolina Military Academy in repairs of the Cita del buildings. Joint Resolution relating te the ser vices of the attorney general in the reve nue bond scrip eases. An Act to raise supplies ant make ap propriations for the iscal year ,egmaig November 1, l;. sZOeR LA. An Act to exempt ceatain purt iois (f Colleton county from the operation of the stock haw. An Act to amend Chapter XVI I of the General Statutes, relating to the gen eral stock law and fencing stoue. An Act to exempt certain po etious of Hampton county from the opetation of Chapter XXVII of the Generai Statutes, relating to the stock law. LIQUO'o LICNsEs. Ai Act to repeal an Act em-itted an Act to prohibit the sale of p irituous or malt Iquors within the coLnty of Barn well, approved December 21., . An Act to amend an Ac: enttitled :n Act to prohibit the sale of spirituots, liquors in the town of 1n.io, zpproved December 26, A. D. 188 L Act to submit the quetion of license for the sale of spirituous, malt or intox cating liquors in Anderson and Laurens counties to the qualified elect o-t hereof. and providing penalties for tia violation or evasion or attempted era tiW prohibitibn law if a majori. e. said electors vote in favor thereof. An Act to authorize the sale )f liguor in Berkeley and ilBeaufort coun:ies. 1'ILU At ~ An Act to amend an Act prescribng, the mode of divesting the rignt of dower of insane married womlaen. Joint Resolution to extend the time for the payment of the taxes foc the tiscal year commencing Noven:.ber L 1.85. An Act to provide for the formatioL of certain corporations under the general laws. An Act to regulate the vime for col lecting taxes by execution or distress. An Act to punish the s:aaling of melons and fruit. An Act to create a fuud to be desig natted "The Treasury Rieserv'e Fund, and to provide for the control of the same. An Act to regulate the issuing and ser yice of warrants in criminal cases. An Act to amend Section 08 of the &Jeneral Statutes of South Carolina, re lating to the repairs of highways. An Act to amend an Act ennmUed --An Act to amend Section 1,830 of the Gen eral Statutes, in relation to parttion, a~provd December :26, 1lS~>. An Act to provide for transporting persons convicted to then periitenitiary by the penitentiary guard-. An Act to establish the Soni: Carolina Agricultural Farm and Stations. An Act to repeal Section L.' and tt ,mend Setion 1,142, Chapter XX, of :he General Statutes, cutitled "Of the. University of South Crolina. An Act to amend Sections !. 2:%; and ,37 of the General Statutes in relatior to 2urles. An Act to fix the fee for dietiug pris oners in county jails. .a t Act to amend Section i,'K of the General Statutes relating to time hunting of deer. An Act to amend Section :2,*;ti of thn General Statutes of South Carolina it relation to setting fire to gra-. An Act to regul~ate the pulic printing .in this tstate. An Act to amend Section 1,.i of tht Gecneral Statutes. as to the rnumng o; trains on Sunday. An Act to amend an Act entitled -A .Act to amenda an Act entitled -An Aci to incorporate the lalmutto iRailroat Company; app~ roved December 21 1882," approved Diecembe.r 2:, A. D. 1851. Ali Act to confer crtia rights uipt the Port Royal and Western Carolimt Railway Compiany, to wit, to iniortga~g its corporate p.roperty and franchises, t.. extend its rniiway and to lease connect Ing railways. An Act to a' neid tau .tct nted "Ai Act to mie.:pomt th~ e itene at: Decenmber U L %5C. An Act to char ter the Y. mnaee an-t Walterboo ilrnkoa.iI An Ac-t to minend an Ae: to chal.rter thi Chester and" e : fe:3 l (lra Copany An Act to. ch:Luge he name a..me the charter of the Cheister, reenwoo: An Ac to ice' -'' ioSio an. An Act to amei~nd an et toincro Comny and t' vaiudate' ali .cts a contracts maude in. i'n' em ' n s schcol disti:-t No. 17, Yzirfield countx and nihe two0 scho~ol distriets thereof. : Or the estab lisiuent of a new s'*ool district in the county of I ngto. to be liow I the Sc ol 1 irt Of tile t of Tinmuosinville. an i to autlhorize the e- - anId eollection of a snecial school tax thierca. Au Act to reduce the num'ber of trial ji in Kershaw county nd make the 'Lilee a salaried one. .N .\et to limit the number of trial Justices in ertain untics in this State. .n .iet to prescribe and fix the amount of :he bond of the Probate udge of W Cilliamsbug county. An Aet to amend the lw in relation t couiltv coniionerS and county -chL 21 'ui?ssioners. AL, - t authorize adI requir the cuai": ,oniisi.SSoners of York county to 1bmit to the gUlditied voters of Lroad River township aud Iullock Creek township the question Af trans erring the suleeription heretot-rc voted to the Georgetown and North Carolina Norrow Gange Railroad to :, .y other company fter a limited period. An Act to create a school d -trict of that portion of Baruweli coun-:y lying within the corporate limits of tam town of Barnwell. An Act to prohibit the county com missioners of York county from gunting aid to the outside poor xcept as herein provided. An Act to limit the number of t-inl justices in York county, fix their terr torial juris..iction. and to provide for their compensation, and to prc vide for two trial justices in the city of Spartan burg. An Act to autho:ize the town council of Winnsboro to issue addition.l bonds for rebuilding and repairing 3c a.t Zion -n Act to authorize the counny com missioiiers of Clarendon county to bor row money for building and repairing I bridges and for the support of -.he poor. An Act relating I the reasses miuet of real property and the collectio n of taxes in certain portion, of the counties of Charleston. Berkeley and Colleton. An Act to create a new school district within the township of Barniwell, in Barnwell county, to be known as the "Baruwell Graded School District,~ and to authorize the levy and collection of a; local tax therein. Joint Resolutiou authorizing and re qu.rng the county school coninussioner of W illiamsburg county to pay to W. 1. Knox his school claim. 313eCIPAL eEARTE~ts. Au Act entitled --An Act to incorpor ate the town of Runiphville, in the coun ty of Colletuon," approved December 2:, A.D. %5 An Act to alter and amend the charter of thie town of Laureus. nAt to amend an Act to incorporate the town of Hamnipton. Au Act to renew ant amend the char ter of the town of Winnsboro. Act to amnend Section 6 of anl Act en titled "An Act to incorporate the town ot Barnwell," approved March L1. 187$. An Act to chuter the town of York Sille. in Act to aiaend tie charter of the torn o- Ciester, ratiiicd and apl-roved Deembr 22, 1I85. An Act to auend the charter of the town of Kingstree. \n Act to confer certain povw ees Iulon the town council of Hodges in Ubeville county M 1e-CELLANEOCS elTEls. Ai Act to incorporate the Bamberg Banking Company of Bamberg, S. C. An Act to recharter Holley's Ferry across Big Saluda River in Edgefield county. An "Act to charter the Bank of Green wood. An Act to charter the Spartanburg Encamzpment Association. An Act to incorporate the Congaree Construction Company. An Act to alter and amend the charter of the Young Men's Loan and Trust Company of Rock Hill, and to change the name thereof. eONsTITt'noNAL AMENDME~rs. An Act to ratify the amendment to Article H of the Constitution of South Carolina by adding thereto a section, to~ be known as Section 4 thereof, in lieu of Sections -1 and 5 of said Article as it now stands. An Act to ratify the amendment to Section 14 of Article 9 of the Constitu tion of 'he State. mJseELLANEOUs. Ar. Act to amend Section 481 of the Geineral Statutes of the State of South Cor olina, in ref eren 2e to the salary of Ithe Lieuten tant-Governor. An Act to provide for the issue of a deficiency~ bond or stock to Octavius A. White, in satisfaction of the guarantee of the State on a certain bond of the Spartanburg and Union Railrcad Comn pany. An Act to cuncel the matriculation obligations. of 0. J. Bond and Thos. P. Ha'rrison to the board of visitors of the 31 ilitary Academy and to define the man - ne'- in whi'ch the said board ay here after del with like cases. V a At to allow persons whmo shall hav e resided within this Staite for ten veairs since the war, and who have lost iheir legs or arms or have b~een perma nentl disLabled in the legs doing mili tav servic'e, to obtain the benetits of the Act to pr ovide artihicial limibs, Xe. Thel, or the lioness if you please, of tie American colony in Paris is Mrs. .:me rown Potter, of New Tork, who nt guest4 in the hiome of her uncle, the Amria :Minister McLane. So _uer_ have the calls upon her time ieoe ht she has been compelled to delc all: uittions to dinners or re eep tions not given suily in her honor. 'h-s, of couirse, annoyved her that this w"s unayoidalei but whit else was the auto do?' The mhiniking Parisians, ecPls oft) all save their ownm enjoymaent, keptthrsting honior after honor upon i irnee pausing to think how onerous evei honors become. Then, just to Ok, a F~ruch count who met Mrs. 'atte du cring his visit to America de *v otes a whole chapter to her in the book of traves hei has jutst published: Mrs. utitsrrst "farewell" appearance can *t be postponed much hunger. A.aprehenisions tontching the .siety ' store s using 'al)ine for fuel iire set . esIt by the imparo.vements; obo.servab1le I. th l-'rou.t Vapor Store. F~or iartber I pa-tici,-ee advrertisement. .' clrungLen moar: cax.e :L.ii:.:.weaon village stra.t. As he reache1 a corner. he Sa:w 1 !roup of boys watchinlg: Solit tihing aross h av He had not en tirely lost his senses. so fle wondered what thcv found so literstin4. --Wihala-ar-ve'r-ver look:u' a-a:?" --W ,.ild fenow ." answ ered Billy Dorr, --we're looking .or a babutV to come out of that door i or there." * A beau-ti? "Y-Xes, a beauty; but go on, there no use o' liugering t- s i' B ot: vont, old, red eves c.n't see hali across Lie stret. But ti-e rade bo)y was m1ist.,aken the red eyes were no (ilte so blood-shot as .sual. .3 they were looimg with as =1eh intere.,t as the younger eyes at Pink Boots, who just then opened th' door of the store opposite them ;andJ came out. Pink Boots was a beautiful girl of tea years, and her hands -all of riowers-robes, i*' and Carnations. She walked a half teze! or aore stcps down the walk. and was jtz. stepping into a handsome carriage when another little girl came in siLt. For a brief moment the two CulIaren stood in strong con trast--.Florence Burr, with glowing, hap py ;ace, :nd Celia Hunt, with her pale. distressed one. Florence was dressed in an elaborately embroidered pink cash mere and her feet were encased in beau tiful pink kid buttoned boots-for Flor ence was going to a tea party. She wore alzo a broad-brimmed hat with nodding pink plumes. As for Celia, she wore an old faded dress, so shabby that it revealed her b ruised ankles, whiCh were bare like her feet. An old veil tied about her piched face did duty as head proteetor, but no wrap covered her thin shoulders, althougih one was much needed this chilly day. The carriage drove away v:ith Flor ence, and Celia stood gazing after it. Of course the drunken man saw the poor child, so did the b( e. The latter laughed, and Billy Dorr said: "I tell von it pays better to sell liqu -r than it 'does to drink it. What's your opinon, Daddy Hunt?" "Daddy t Hunt did not auswr: lie stood stupidly gazing at his Oarefcioted, wearv-faced child. "fsay, old fellow, did you buy Celia's fall outLit at the same store that Pink Boots' father bought hers?" "Shut up1, now. will vou? If you din't, Ill knock ta breath out of it." The dlr'unkard spoke sava e and raised his hand to execute his threat, when suddenly little arm ;,eh his, and a voice said coaxiNl: "Coml father." The man sulirered himself to be lid away fron tle h-artlesa group: crel Billy singing after them: O the:, dear fathr, come home. It was a long walk to the drukii~ard's home. Before he reached it, he was sober. "Celia," he said, --wouldn't you like some pink boots?" "No, father, I would not want them"' "iyliv not?" '-Thev wouldn't correspond withi my rags, te child said bitterly; :and -wouldn't wear Florence Burr's pink boots if I h-ad silk dresses to wear w\ itl them," she added savagely. Again her father questioned: "Wiy not?'' "Because they were bought with money that ought to have bought bread and meat for poor starving children and their crying mothers." "Who told vou so?" "Nobody tld me, I found out for myself." "You're a strange child. Celia." "Yes, perhaps I am, but I love you, father." And Celia put her cold hand within her father's. "I don't know how you can," he suit, chokingly. "I guess it's because yo're my fath er," was the innocent answer. As father and daughter entered the house, the mothler arose, p;ut the sleepc ing babe in its wretched cradle and said: "Come to supper." Such a supper for a fanily of six! Only a part of a stale loaf of bread and some weak tea. The patient weary wife would not have been surprised at her hustand had hle thrown the bread across the room at the wall and hurled the tea pot after it, cursing her at the sameo time, as he had done often before, but she was surprised when he rose from the tuble just after seating himself--and said huts kily, "Eat this miserable stuff'if von can, poor things: I must be gone." Hie started for the door weak aind faint. but determined. His wife followed him, beseeching, "Oh! don't go out again ,to night, Fred., don't ; the baby is siek. ad-" She said no more for with the words: "The little felloa' is sick, is he?" the father went back to the cradle, stooped and kissed his infant child for the fir'st time, and arose with tears gistening upon his evelashes. "i'm not going out to drink. 3Mary. Do not be wcor: ed ; l'll be back Ly nine o'clock. and the child shoculd g~et worse, Celia i-ill finid mie at Sergeanit Wright's.' "What do you: sulppose it ali means, m~other?" asked Celia, aLs soon as the father was gone. ''I don't know, child ;but l'erha~ps it means there is a 1blessing coming "mi us all. Pray to God that it may be so." "Mother," said Celia, "father asked me this after'noon if I weanted pi::k boot'. What do you think of that?" "It was a strange questi'n il ad.-I be thankful if he'd save enuough tobu von some black ones. Your feet are blue with cold1." At miune ur'cl'ck a face pepdirs tL little cu'rtainless windowu cof the k;t elen. The0 eyes saw a i.so0lte picetdre. It was this :a bar c'old-lookig ioom ; a hagard woiman lending ovecr a .siek b abe; a little sad-faced girl fallen asleep) onth hard tioor wvhile bravely "waiting for father," anid two pale-maced boys tisleep on a low bed against the wvall. Upon the bos' faces were traces of teas', for they were onlv little fellows of four 1:ndc. Si. aid had~ cried themselves; to sleep be cuse they were hungry. Thle face muoved fromt the wicndow'cr 'l the man to whom it belongedi opened' ih door and walked in. "Wife," he said, bending dowin to k iss his wifes wornm face focr the Erst time ' vea'ii'. 'I'v'e bee anOi iUdii. anid a1) brut, oad lile otask you tc forive meii t' ha a .mi: (tua, you re wakin child. ioece Burr wil never u an more pik bi)O with- the niney tha belongs to ti jittle ones. lve been ove to Sergeant Wrght's. w'rking hard it blacking stoves for four hoirs, wa:d whil, blackenied the storVs he whitened m. heart a httle. Gd bless him: He pait me. too. a good prie and to-morrow 'n to begin Nork in his tin shop. Wake ul the poor little boys, Celia. my dear littl< rl. Tei them their father, and not i brute, has come hone. and broug ht .,ucl a supper that they'il shout for j yv." m..r. E i:0. L.< 1 1, 1:R. !. 1). l i i N-, t 1m--O tat 'We [In:1 Mi ll ionl D r. 31: teniperance creed is very short and Inv course is very straightforward I bleliOe in total abstinence from imak inv. driukim . offering, or selling any ar'd alintoxicants. I shAll ight the drinkivg usages of society by pulpit, pen, and tngue as long as God gives me life : a~d od's word and JHis gospel, and the pravers and labors of God's people, are ino:-; onsable helps to our success, ta laws demand a public con. scienee behind thcm ; our Society ain to create and quicken that conscience. I abo: :ll dram-dens. and am ready tc ajon .ha:Ids with all honest prohibilion ists, of -vcry party and sect, in atl wisc e:lorts to suppress the rum oligarchy. The M':-aiure:nenit of the Year. The lngth of the year is strictly :3> days 5 1? ars iminutes 49 seconds and seven-tenths oi a second-the time re quired 'or tle revolution of the earth round e bun. About 45 B. C., Julius Ciesar, by the help of Sosigines, an Al exandrian ohilosopher, came to a tolera bly clear ulderstanding of the length of a year, and decreed that every fourth .v-ar shoiltd be held to consist of :3; 'days for the purpose of absorbing the odl liours. By this rather cluusy ar rangement the natural time fell behind the reckoning, as, in realiy, a day every ourth year is too mnuch by 11 minutes 0 seconds anid three-tenth's of a second; so it inevitably followed that the begin ning of the year moved onward ahead of the point at which it was in the days of C.esar. From the time of the Council o -Nice, in :325 A. ).. when the vernal tluinox fell correctly on the 21st of 31arch, Pope Gregory found, in 13 1 D. that there had bee: an over-reeK Inng to the extent cf 10) days. a'id that t'e vCrA. equinox fell on the i1th of 3arch. To correct the past errir he decreed that the 5th of October of that ar* shoald Oe reckonCd as ti. 15th, -and, to keep tun year righit in Intue th' oVCIpUs bweig 8ours : * liiutes and in secodIs in a centary-he ordered tha * #ry,' C teial var that c d ot Ibc dividi by four 1700, 181, J90), 21,0, 22 IXii should not be bissextile, as it otherwise would be; thus, in short, ropping t extra day three times every -uo years. While in Cutholic countries the Gregorian style was readily adopatd, it was- not so in lrote'stant natio.:s. In 1kita.n it was not adopted until -752, by .dh time the discrepaney betn een the J ulian and Gregorian periods amounted to il dav. An act of Parliament was passed dictating that the 3d of Septen ber ti"at year should be reckoned the 14th, and that three of every four cen tenni:d years should be leap years. 1801) not being a leap year, the new and old styl?es nlow differ 12 days, our 1st of January being equivalent to the 13th ohl style. In lussia alone of Christian countries is the old style retained. The old style Is still retained in the Treasury accounts~ of (Great Britain. In ol times the year was held to begin on the 25th of 3March, and this usage, or i~iece of antiquity, is also still observed in the computtins of the Chancellor of the British Exchequer. So the first day of the linancial year is the 5th of AprL, being 'Old L~adv Day. "-Boston Jour nl of Education. iRain ai:nd the Fore-.. Among the p)opular errors in meteor ology mentioned by Professor Abbe on Friday evening at the Franklin Institute lecture is the common belief that the destruction of forests reduees the amount o& the rainfall. In this he directly con tiibutes the testimony of the Forestry A ssocation. The Professor stated that a very slight elevation of the surface aboive the sea level by cosmic changes was the probable cause of any changes which ha ioccurred. Hie did not refer to lhe modification or the distribution over the years of rainfall, but mecrely to its tota.lamount. In this connection it may be noted that the census of the U n'itd States in the volume on Social Statitis prints a diagramn of the amount o rainfall in Philadelphia for the past 100 years, as kept at the Pennsylvania Hospital, which shows a graduil, but general, increase in the annual precipita tion, althogh it will be generally acknowleged that there has been a great atestructionl of timbecr for hundreds of miles aiit the city in that time.- - Phildehia Ledger. ioe Walite! .Iter' 1iiy vf'i''. *Iaes 2d. Teagarden. almost eighty yars of" ge, iille suit in the Circuit lerk' oice yesterday for diveree from is ifei, Sarah Teagarden, who is seven tyfie and with whom he has lived for LIfv veatrs. To-morir wimll be the lit ethiannive:rr of their married life, for c on December 's, I-t, they were united in . litle Ohio ' ilge. 1i 18'% the r reoved here, andl the aged couple lay, util a -:h'' time ago Thc tou pellng r. eag ren to [lee onti theii tle door ab ove. She di thishe. says, V ita th'e avowmed intention of beingt pro Arted it. hurgars but he begau tu suspec ttha.tat la-t. after tifty years of cAmpani onship. :,he had grown tired ol i F'inal y his suspicious were sub stanated. C ne morniig 3Mrs. Teagar den left tae house and never returnel ign n n' lie w;;nt a divorce. 1asa Ci-l- ty Mio. i TjimesI De one o kep ::boarig h us e --v want to a- very low whieni yu ari ai' t . bion.iai an oid huur.tv -Io o tse me tendr if o ) "kO MsElmOWS (IF TuW : not; iA : IN TI. 1 I )AY V Fll-F ii: u Au lion I he Fam i .V I ept 8a tlcia ir 11h4. 1i - and liiw They .:n~oyed [i tyhen I In the davs that are 110 nor-. the Lhal Thank .giving day was not known in Virginia. Nor yet New Yeatr' ay,. a kept by Knickerlbocker burghers. .Te Twenty-secovl of Flbruary was Cele brated by coilegC oration-: the FuthVUti of July given over to political ilrbectes; Christmas-time was the reservoir into which debouched the flush tido of fami Iy, social and national rejoicings. With loftv as with lwly, it wat a watch-tower set on the h2ill. ie benign light of which, like the Iluing sword guarding Eden, flashed every v y. Backward rays from Christmas gone uaet and ninghd with the dawn of Christmas comng. We began to count the days yet unfulfilled with the reddening of the rock maples. The opening of the ehinquapin burr: the apple harvest: the fall or the leaf: the change from pucker to sugar in the pulp of the persimmors-were way marks, impatiently numbercd. in the procession of nonths and weeks tou ard the culminating glory of te year. Housekeepers eenim-.nced preparations for it in suobtr carnest by the last week of November, especially in the country. The traditions of our English ancestry told mightily in modeling our habits of life. GemI:lsiAs is Toxx" was deprecated with a dash of comp'as sionate contempt by pianters and their ffamilies. hey kept open honses at that season with heartiness that looks to us~ now Ike bootless extravagance. The premises were set in order early in De cember as for royal uI tials %d cot tbanquets. Mince-meat was already made. moistecned with peach brandv in quantity and quality suilicienlt to season it against must and mould, then packed down in huge jars. and bladders tied over the mouths. With the first hard frost, came 4-hog killing," providing hams, spare ribs, chimes and sausages of deliciousness inimitable. and to those who never tasted them, unnuaginable. Pots of lard, "tried out" into snowy hardness, were ranged on the store-roim shelves, destined to furuish 1t ath) for the b ro 'ds of simmer c'lickn-s. coopeId up, and fattenCed ou ots nd mush. Pens were built for Sttely tilr keys and pompons Muscov hieks. an ud the tenants ied as regularly and ouani full. as were the children who hoped to eat them. Later on, came cake making, never intrusted to the hand of hirelings; fruit CAke, with just enough four wrought into it to hohl together the fat and liberal soul; pound cake. into Nhose manufacture SiXtCe!n ounices ofi c i gredient was righteously compounded: ginger cakes, warranted to keep for months; spice and lemon cake;, and, in the last days of joyous activity, sponge cake, molded and frosted into snow-balls as big as the tist, and owing their buoy ant being to eggs and elboc-power, with not so much as a dust of baking pow ders. English phum pudding was not made in every family. On the tilreshold of this emprise, dilfideuit housewi es and ease-loving cooks paused, dreading and daunted. Only veteran divers, phlging into the depths of ancestral recipes, brought up success and establishe~d a clinary reputation vaunted by children and children's children. As D3cembher nights grew toward their longest and December davs neared the briefest of the calendar," feather-beds were beaten for ten minutes each, by the flail-like arms of colored housemiaids, under the eye of the mistress or her factotum, and provision of blankets, sheets, s. tc., made for temporary sleeping-places. On a rainy or snowy day, an armful of straw, fastened to the entd of a pole, was thrust up the throat of every chimney to hurn out the encrusting soot. lHens, incited to the full measure of their duty by arts peculiar to colored p)oultry keepers, v ilded eggs by the hundreds for pud dings and pies, with especialireserves for egg-nog. 1;r eumouL's a: every pantry wasL 1iacked to groaning; comets of iiame and a galaxy ot sparki Istreamed from the kitchen chimney; every eligible nook hlcd a b ed; a dozen~ oung girls with attendant gallants sur rondedt the dr-awing-roomi fire; the play of repartee and compliment, and the ripple of light laughter rose and ebbod to th e piano acomp1ammeint re sponsive to the sweep of white fingers. City guests were always bidden ,and al ways came to the plantation Christmas folic. "Company" was no' trotuble; hosmitditv was as natural and easy ias breathing. But the Loliday reception was the cream of welcome to the visitoi. i eight bachelors slept andi smoked int the ofiec" in the yard, antd asr rany girls occupied the one spare chamber o. the homestead, nlob ody felt c.rowdedt. There were plenty of feather beds and blankets, grecat store of linen hieirlo..mns that required the wear of two genera tions to make theta thin, and big- nres brning' all nih in evry aprtmn o ventilation-. Supper would be served at '8 o'clock. perhps later. A repast of ht trie'l or smiothe red" chicken, stened~ a y-er- . four or lie k(indl' e c-old mat s - -. hot rolls, corni birea in d ier shape Is, that yielded crisply to the t b stuiuated, not sauistedul apeu IL - and lt. chrr reserves; h'omne-mnad-i e. tea, colicelund great pitehers of m~ with all the cream left o11. In spite ofth hau'i~irio us abunildancet-a their mnenus, the Virginians of thlat d0t were seldom gormanizeY(rs. There-cv ttle- tidk in well-bred compranies of ing- and drinking. Sum!l tu' us fare n -c--entedi as a par't ofI ~ then auym n. ad even h--ighe fests' wer;rnever Iere "eds ." If they fhag:ed over thIh ap~per 'An t11i5 eveuin i 1t as in ejoy ILeat ofL social eonlr.:c, at o1 grroer creat-'- comfor-. wsis h11Is pilace at the top of the ho ~ring-room whe Ithe h10iilariotus bev iuittered back thithe-r. Thle portly ht ..uall le or th .r as' 4 with ti. -pay :a'' l his wife was tw hi vi. vis. Chureidv eiders wvhi .*rjph-s::bLOUt dancing in gen ru vIem cA*xfd into taking the floor r tais -ce V Near." As the clock r b iud hands in a wide ir--!: :, , -'Auld Lang Syne," or, inte as often. -Praise God from Whom all .essings Flow. They were not asinuned to name Him to whom all Praise l-l1ongs in those orave, simple a ti are no more! %ne more set inia re!. danced on Christ n i'. ig i ht in .lothe r Country to this tiu. the rinl of Sir Roger de Co\%rer-ad the wassail bowl of egg nto:. -a. b rought in. A toast to the h'ealth and happiness of present and ab SenL Lfi&s was drunk, and the girls betook th. melves to the cheery, crowd d chLmbers overhead, leaving the men to .a.oe and talk pol'tics about the drawin-rooni hearth. Bef' o sunrise every sleeper on the plantation was aroused by the deafening boom of the "Christmas gun." A heavy blast of gunpowder was rammed into a h0ollow tre and fired idaybreak. De tor-ations of lesser force followed, from logs riddled with auger-holes and stuffed with powder, guns. pistols, and "Pop j erckes," while the outcries of 1 "Crina-if'mymarster!" "Chris'mas ii my mn'istis:" under windows and in HallS. 'v.Lcd the "bakshcesh" yells of the Bedowviu. Nobody in that region and time said "Murry Christmas," but always "Christ m?as Gift. The strife as to who shoud get it ou t tirst was, with children and servants. a claim upon the liberality of the latter speaker. What was undoubt edly the primal significance of the greet ing was solemn and beautiful-rsotUngj less than proclamation of the unspeaka-I ble Gift hendded by the angels' anthem bove t hie plains of Bethlehem. TEL: HIL1 I1AY MENU. r.bak iast was not over until 10 o'clock, n was sCrved at 2 Or 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Neither soup nor tisl was rcgarded Z-; an essential to the feast. Roast turi'y at the head of the table was balan"ed by boiled turkey with oyster t ace a he foot. last goose, rAudway betwCei the tv:o, mingled fragrant steam with rising incease of roast duck on the other id(C of the castor; chicken, lamb, roast beef and "shoat"-perhaps a suck ing pig baked whole-and the inevitable hoiled lam., were separated by vegeta b1les, likIs, cats ups and sauces. IFamily "ir rellected the sunshine of happy faces; cat-gass as old answered in sil very 'ies the tuneful clamor of young Tie curiv fahion of taking %in to .rether leut individual interest to the revel. The urbane host was ever vn the i hookout for opportunities to send the d ier alog, with -3Mis .A., 1r. B. asm :he 4 casure of taking a glass of th yu." Then thc gracefal lift v.-o f ghtsses. the exchange of bows aeross the board, the complimentary plrase from one, the smile of acknowl edgment fromn the other-it is all old nashioned now, but it was far Prettier i nn the customs that have driven theu oht '-Ladies .nd gentlemen!" called out dear o I Majr I. from the head of the table in t'e flood-1tie of the Christmas wassail "I crave leave to offer a tost His plautation shirted the Appomattox rive;, which lies between Powhatan and Amelia conties. At his right sat hisk favorite neighbor, Powhatan L., who was be!hhed to -ielia C., a Florida I bell', net present to-cay. -A toast"' rcpeatedL tile host, rising, mantling tumibler in hiand, his eyes brimniig with fun and fondness. "I give yomu-Thiie .pponmattox! Mlay it cease to hlow, thant Powhatani and Amelia may be forever united." TIis oi.DL DAiYu nIii'oum THE wI'm. t~ Ah! that was tihe sort of thing they 1 did in the ol Virginia days, before war laid their pleasant plaes waste. Pecople( watched for chanuces to turn mhrases handsomely, studied the capabilities of( language to give pleasur'e to theirf auditors. Elegant conversation was a f popular accomplishment. Now. it is . subsidiary to dancing, murdered by fiirtation. I have spoken of Christmas week. Tof limit the festival to a single day wouln have been reckoned a muaiming of their t~ chief bocial rite. F~roma one manor-houseI to another rolled the gladsomie party, taniying by appoinment a day at this,i a night at that, talking, dancing, dr'iv ig, walking, singing, love-making-inf such innocency of delight as is possiblet to none but the ' ong Now and then they dauetd Viryinia "eels, quadrilles, andi cotillions ibf alsitt 0f fashion now,)t on the bare oae .loor of a barn-like I pari'oi, furnished' ith' uinshioned chairs ad tin-egged :ables; as the wide, rambuig~ hiouse in which they it encaped II for a night's folie was unpainted, win-t dos and dor had shirtuik froma the casings, and the blaze of the Yul1e log I :re in'dafts pureg in i'ronadal quar- t i'- rs. i outimies tuiri progress~ was mae ian"st sohaln chariots, lurch ig- hev throughz redI mud two feet e.iand ee coduroy' ro'ad thatr w ii hae 'aa ola boiues fromi their m-e'~ts. i 1'.er all and :dive all. the .:arri'.d. th im rive, :..tay spirit that !aughs at ex ternal dis:, omfo~rt; found every where gentle breeding and whol-souled t ho spitality", adorning Christmas hospi tality as the ilexile spray~s of their own ? rnning-eedar' the wassail-bowl. .\ vho -irl',. s d t i mmiludit . .iebiu . s a Eex d a siue The b 1in a ie 'ry :e. meahnuen . toi '.\w ;!ci~eie When'p her parts o -- the v' e, -am'n vos .itd the youn(g lei ady .t adfr. ard wihi.~ightsie and uii ;eiatu in he iU rom the stage, whinithe i fac djvelope tue ad ben] ud liii sure. I1 ddnt ak ACTs OF TI I LElUSLATLI RE. ouwie Matter- of Special Intercst to the Iep4)icq 4r thIIe State. The following Acts are among those passed at the last session of the Legisla ture and all relate to matters of special interest: Sl*NDAY FREIGHT TRAINS. SECTION 1,476 of the General Statutes, in relation to running freight trains on Sunday, as amended at the recent session )f the Legislature, reads as follows: "It shall be lawful for said corporations or persons to run on said day during the months of April, May, June, July and Xugust trains laden exclusively with egetables and fruits, and on said day in my and every month their regular mail :rains and such construction trains as nay be rendered necessary by extraor linary emergencies other than those in 3ident to freight or passenger traffic, and much freight trains as may be in transit which can reach their destination by 6 >'clock a. m." Sc. 1,477, reading as follows, remains mchanged: "It shall be lawful for any ;rain rmni ng by a schedule made in con ormity with the provisions of this Act, )ut delayed by accident or other unavoid Lble circumstance, to run until it reaches lie point at which it is usual for it to est on Sunday." AIQUon LiCExSks IN BEAUFoliT AND BERKELEY. An Act to provide for the issuing of icense to sell spirituous and intoxicating iquors, ale, malt and wine in Berkeley nd Beaufort counties: SECTION 1. That from and after the pproval of this Act, it may be lawful or the county commissioners of Berkely aud Beaufort counties to issue licenses or the sale of spirituous and intoxicating iquors, ale, malt and wine in their re pective counties to such persons as may onform to the provisions of this Act. SEC. 2. That before issuing such icenses the applicant thereof must be ecommended by six respectable free Lolders of the neighborhood in which he liquor is to be sold, and enter into , bond in the sum of one thousand dol ars, with three good sureties, for the :eeping of an orderly house, and for the lue observance of all laws relating to the etailing of spirituous liquors, and must >ay to the treasurer of the respective ounties, to be applied to general county )urposes, the sum of three hundred dol u-s. All lL:nses to expire on the 31st f December in each and every year. SEC. 3. That all Acts and parts of Lets incounsistent with this Act be, and he same is hereby, repealed so far as 3erkeley and Beaufort counties are con crued, except as to the incorporated owns or villages in which the provisions f law as now existing shall remain in orce. 1OUd.R.N IssUnAUNC COMuPAM.M An Act to amend an Act entitled "An ct to regulate the admission of foreign urety companies to do business in this tate," approved December 26, 1884, so ar as same affects clerks and officers of anks and banking institutions and rail oad companies: SECrIoN . That an Act entitled "An Let to regulate the admission of foreign urety companies to do business in this, tate," approved December 26, 1884, be, ,nd the same is hereby, amended by dding thereto the following Section: SEC. 14. The provisions of this Act hall not apply to surety companies so ar their giving surety for clerks -and icers of banks and banking institu ions and railway companies is con erned. THE UivEIISITY OF SoUTH CARonINA.. An Act to repeal Section 1,040 and to mend Section 1,042, Chapter XX, of he General Statutes. entitled "Of the ;niversity of South Carolina:" SECTIoN 1. That Section 1,01'2, in hapter XX, of the General Statutes, 'ntitled "Of the University of' South jaroina," be amended so as to read as ollows: "Section 1,042. The tuition ees s211 be forty dollars per annum, which fees shall be deposited in the state treasury and reported to the Leg slature annually; and the compensation or room rent, use of library and dam ges to property shall be regulated by he board of trustees, but shall not be ess ten dollars per annum: Provided, .'hat no tuition fees shall be charged Ltil after the expiration of the collegi ,te year 1886-8~, and that all tuition ees~in the law department be subject to he disposal of the trustees for the pay aent of the alary of the law professor: 'rovided, further, That the faculty of he said University may grant benelicia y scholarships, without the payment of ny fees, to such of the competent and eserving youths of this State as may >e unable to pay the same, and the rustees of the said University shall pre cribe such rules and regulations as may se proper to confine the enjoyment of his privilege to those whose necessities eqture it. Sec. 2. That Section 1,010 of the Gen ial Statutes be, and the same is hereby, epecaled." A Floriel Speaxke~r. Sienato'r Daniel, of Virgiia, is an 'rator of the old Virginia style, intro Luced by Patrick Henry and transmitted own through succeeding generations. L specimen of this histrionic elocution gas the opening paragraph of a speech iy Mr. lDaniel at Petersburg during a, eeut political campaign: "Fellow itizens of the old Commonwealth of irginia: I come to you from the fair unmain of the mother of statesmen and ~resident& .L come from dhe valley of he Shenandoahu, the daughter of the tars. There the river tiows, whispering o its grassy b'anks the name of Lee, .ue, Lee! Thle rivulets, flowing down lie moeuntain side to join the river weeping to th e sea, whisper the name f Lee, Lee, Lee! And the northern lains, scarred by the lierce feet of the ~od of war, look up the blue, overarch ug canopy of heaven, and caill to it oftly the name (f Lee, Lee, Lee! I ome from the Eastern Shore, where the Iue waves of old oce'an roll in upon the hiing sands, and sun and se and'shore na breeze m~ake glad the eye and heart, ud whaen I ask, What are the wild waves iying? the answer comes, Lee, Lee, see"-Ben. Perley Poore in the Boston indget. Pigs pay better than mines for a steady usiness thie world over: although both be