Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Of That Blithe Throat of Thine. ■bout • good day’s Jole by one of our ' r—Greely heard the tly soundlny over ^Mne, firoui arctic. (.More than 8g. •teamlnir difb fast oceanert Sony; of a si Sale the desolation.] Of that blithe ’ Olrsw bleak and Monk. I'll mind the lemon, ioHt<.ry bird; let me too w^»»e ohilllnc drifts. «> v^4 profoundest chill, as now—a torpid '»u)se, a brain unnerv’d, ‘.mv Mfe land-loek’d within its Winter hay—t (cold, cold, O cold 1) These snowy hairs, my feeble arm’, my frosen feet: Tor them thy faith, thy rule I take, and grave it to She last. Not Hummer's rone slone. hot chants of youth, or South's warm tides aione, Out held by sluggish ttoes, pack'd iu the North ern ice, the cumulus of years— these with gay heart 1 also sing. —Walt Whitman, in Harper's Magazine for January. A WOMAN SCORNEI>. to tci you, without you Dane, if you “I didn’t mean and I’ll stay here wish me to. ” “Oh, you will, will you? I rather think so myself,” Dane Kckhart said, • With a sneer that made Giuevrs, his wife, lift her clear, dark eyes wouder- Injrlv “You needn’t stare so, Ginevra, Us time I told you • the truth, if I’m ever poing to.” Ginevra got up from the pot of ger aniums she was watering and came to her husband's side, aw odif pallor in her lovely face. “Yes.dea’-,” she sai l in a low tone, “if there is anything I need to know, tell it to mo at once, prur." The man stirred uneasily in his chair, and looked at her stealthily from under his black eyelashes. He was a singularly handsome man, but with a dangerous droop a^apt the corners of his finely molded lips, tkat would have warned any reader of char acter against trusting Lim too far. "1 shan’t be likely to come back,” he sa d in a sulky tone. Ginevra looked at him, her faco whitening. 5 "You will send for m* to come to you? Very well.” "Not a bit of it,” Dane Kckhart said in a hard voice. "You’ll havo to go back to your aunt.” "Never!” "As you please; only I wash my hands of yon. I want yon to under stand that you,and I have both got too much temper to got on well together.” "It is a pity you had not discovered as much before you married me.” "Well, I know it now; and as for the marrying, you ought to be as thankful as I am that it was just a farce.” "What?” "Only a game, my dear. You and I have only been playing married.” H* threw up his .handsome head in- aoleuHy, but involuntarily 1 his chair back a step as he euvountored Ginevra’s blazing eyes. She stood nit instant, trembling with passion, then she came nearer to him, nnd dropping upon a Jow, seat, wound a white arm around his neck. “Don’t plague me with such horrid talk, love,” she said sweetly, "and I’ll try not to lose my temper so easily.” Dane Kckhart cast her arm off his neck impatiently, and rose with a mut tered imprecation. “It is no talk, as you’ll liud,” he said savagely. "While you were Mar garet Mosley's heiress such talk was well enough; but you ought to have known 1 couldn't afford to marry a poor woman." "And you are not manied to me? What, then, w.u* that ceremony be tween us?” “Ihe merest farce. That man wasn’t a minister more than 1 am. There, don't make a Miss, tv was all itecause of your aunt Marg rct’s money, and under the circumstances, it-ally ought to 1m- thankjul to be rid of I am-—-" "To bewml of me,” Ginev ra Mid you mo, as in a Yen well, vou are hard, cold voitn rid of me. Go!” Dana Kckhart laughed nervously. "1 think 1 will go until you are in better bumor, at least;” aud-hesauuter- ■ ed gracefully out and down the garden walk. The passionate young creature he had left sat staring after him with a look of piteous misery on her blanched face. She sat where she could sec the man she had till this moment supposed to be her husband; the man whose dan gerous beauty and luring words bad brought her to this—won her from a luxurious home, of which she was the idol and prospective mistress; the man for whom the aunt who had been a second mother to her had cast her out, disinherited her—and now ho cast her «off. She could sec him, smoking as he -walked and lazily smelling the flowers, and her hands clenched and unclenched i themselves almost viciously. .In her absorption she did not see till »Ue was at he door a man who came the walk—unnoticed, too, by Dane, whose face was the other wav. The man ftCfcrcely stopped to knock, and Ginevra an to him with both hands outstretclmd, "Oh, Robert, Robert!” she cried. "I’ve come as I promised you, miss. ; Mistress Margaret lies a-dying, and . she’s asked for you over and over again.” An indescribable change passed over ( Ginevra’s face, and she panoed swiftly in the direction of the shrubbery, where a faint blue smoko was curling past the leaves. "I will go with you instantly—in- tstantly, Robert,” she said, her eye* ;gleaming. "I see you have a carriage; •go back to it; I will Join yon. Take itnis path, Robert; I should like to get off without t>«mg seen.” Robert did-as he was bidden, and Ginevra, stopping barely long enough to don cloak and hat, ran after him. Dane Kckhart tossed away the stump lig] ‘Deuced bard th: “I’m glad it’s overT Now il Dame Margaret should leave her the money after all, she’d rather have the upper hand of me, wouldn’t she?” He sauntered back to the bouse again. There was no one in the little sitting- room where he had liA CRhena, and he noticed at once that her cloak and hat were gone. “What now?" he grumbled aloud. “Where can she have gone te?” “Please, sir, I can tell rdh all about It,” said a sharp little voice sft hie el- of his cigar and lighted a fresh one. ' ring,” he mntiored. bow, and Ginevra’s small ihaid-of-all- work popped out from behind the win dow curtains, where die hat been curl ed this long time. “1 heard ’em, I seen ’em,” die ;nod ded briskly; "The man’s name tras Robert, and he said Miss Margaret was a-dyin’, and she went off with him.” "In a carriag^f’ detannded Dane, In breathless amassment. The child nodded. "Did he say her aunt had sent for her?” Another nod. "Gad, I mast overtake them! What a fopl I’ve been! The old woman is going to forgive her after all, and then I’ll get the cold shoaider;” and Dane Kckhart hurried away toward the town lor 1 a horse. It was something of a walk, how ever, and two hours had gone before be had started. • • • • • • At Moxley the dying woman tossed on her thorny couch and moaned con- utjUitly one inquiry: .Silas she come? Robert said he knew where to find her. Robert has gone for her. Jane! Jane, I say!” An elderly-looking woman came for ward to the bedside. "Go/down, Jane, and see if she has not come.” t "They have orders, madume, to let you know the instant she arriv s,” the woman said. "Yes, but they may linger. Moments are ages to me now. Go, go!” "But the doctor’s orders—you were not to be left alone for an Instant.” "The doctor is an idicM Do you serve me or him** demanded Marga ret Mox ey, In sharp, queRBcs UMU". "You, certainly. i^mj^Wmight' “Stop thinking, then, and do as 1 bid vou.” Reluctantly the woman departed. It was not the i!rst time she had been on thi- fruitless errand, and each time she had l>oen in terrible fright lest bar mis tress should fall into one of her dread ful spasms, and so be dead when --he got back. She was not* absent trom the room more than ten minutes iu all. She found Robert and Miss Ginevra just ar rived, and she only stopped for h:vlf a dozen words with the 1 tier, ’before she dragged her up the -lairs to her aunt s room. • Ginevra sprang ahead and entered the apartment lirst, but shrank back upon her own steps, ns though she had eniAUintered Satan himself in there, shuddering with horror, ami uttering scream upon sereani. that ‘resounded I to the farthest corner of tbo house. Thinking that what she had feared had happened in hriabsence, the nurse pressed pa-t her into the room. But now much more awful the sight that met her than any she had ever dream ed of. Margaret Moxley lay half way out of Imj4, m though 4r*g: some awful struggle, her eyes already lixed and staring, her throat cleft with a gash, tlirorrgh which the life-bloixl flowed iu a purple tide. The poor old woman had been mur- doied by somebody who could not wait for her death even the little time he would have had to. The nurse's screams, added to Gin evra's, brought every ono in the house about them. Somebody went tearing away for tbo doctor, as though he could be of some use, and the rest stood about in horri fied groups, or, the more stout-hearted of them, ransacked the house in search of some traces of the murderer. Tliaro was an inquest the next morn ing, and when Ginevra was brought into the room to give her testimony, quiver ng in every limb and white with horror, the first face upon which her eyes fell in the apartment was that of Dane Kckhart. He had been found hiding in the shrubbery, watching for a chance to sec Ginevra, and those who knew of the enmity between him and the dead woman, had fallen upon him as her murderer. He had eesisted at first, and then, seeing that it was of no use, had come with them. His face was a little pale, but confident, as be stepped to Ginef^a's side. "It was this lady,I was watching in the shrubbery to see,” he said, trying to take her hand; "she is mv wife.” "A singular place to be looking for her,” said the coroner mildly; and Gin evra shrank from his extended hand with a strange, threatening look in her dark, horrified eyes. In that brief moment her mind had gone back in a flash to the day before, and this man’s brutal words to her then. She remembered hew pitiless he had been, and she was saying to herself now as she said then: "Heaven help you, Dane Kckhart, if my turn ever comes.” It had come now, and she took it. In a calm, self-possessed voice, from which every trace of agitation had van ished, she told how she had entered her aunt’s room first, and of the ghast ly siofht that had met her eyes. "Was anyone else in the room? Did you hear or see anyone?” demanded the coroner. Ginevra paused, with her eyes bent upon the floor, and an aSliy tremor creeping around her lips. *T cannot testify,” «ie said in low, clear tones; "the man who is charged with her death is my husband. The law does not require the wife to speak in such cases.” Dane Kckhart shrank as though she had struck him. He understood now, if ho had not before, what a fool he had been to dare such a woman as this. "She shall give her testimony,” he declared wildly; "she can say nothing to criminate me; let her if she can. She is not my wife; I deceived her with a sham marriage.” Genevra’S lips trembled into a bitter, awful smile, as the man cried ont so rashly, but her falling hair hid her face, and none saw anything but the grief of a 'wifo who fears to criminate her husband. Dane Kckhart canght on the faces the ooncltasions his rasii words had given birth to- He struck himself with hie nftinnht 1 * and was silent. The inquest went on, and he was committed for trial at the coming ses sion of the court, for the murder of Margaret Moxley. He thought It weald cerae to noth* lag. He arid to himself that nothing gooes V®I» atonal could come of it, but he shuddored in voluntarily as he met the dark, bright, menacing eyes of the woman wronged. Margaret Moxley had made bet Will in favor of her niece, Ginevra, in those days before she bad ever seen Dane Kckhart. When Ginevra hod eloped with Dane she hod made grant pretense of disinheriting her, but she had neve#” I”* . made a new will, and ih* rent for her depot at the last in kindness. So the property was all Ginevra’s, and Dane in his prison-cell on that aw ful charge, had ample opportunity to meditate on his evil deeds and the evil fruit they had borne him. ' v Bad as he seemed, Dane Eebhmrt was not altogether evil. A wanderer ever, learning young “to live by his wits,” and seeing life thusTn many of its worst phases, he had never aspired to be what is called a good man. Per haps the nearest approach to his better nature had been his love for beautiful Ginevra Moxley. He had loved her, and it bait been no sham marriage be tween them, as he pretended. He saw plainly tliat Ginevra would never consent to leave him, and that they were miscralrty poor, ft mi with the prospect of worse before them. Ho thought that once set fro • from him, her aunt would take her buck, and knowing that she would never go, except in some ha rail el torn alive as this, i.o had lied to hor thus. He lay in his prison-cell, and thought of all this, and of hi* too probable com ing faro. But he know better than to attempt to make Ginevra hcltere him —certainly then. "When I stand face to faco with death I will tell ho..” i e said to him self. "She will bebeye me then.” The case wenfbp" Iwl trial It is not so diflicult to string, together evidence enough to hang ^man, wheh there is so little to be said on ths oiler side as iu this case, and th.; vcn'ojrqomslauces left little to be said. Kckhart already boro a and a bad name is as nV smiling to a man as a good one age. We cannot follow the details of that trial here. Ginevra never went near it 8hnt up in her chamber at Mox ley, she waited with her beautiful face growing more like marble every l our. When that verdict of gutty was brougnt her, she ordered her carriage, and for the tirst time went to Dane’s prison. Dane smiled as she c:uue in. It w.-u the old witcidng smile that had won her, and the face, pale though it was wilh coiitinenient, was the old, hand some, fond face, ymobscured by the sneering. b*lf-bru|nl rioud that had been ho\ bbt#o|||.^ker and it of sweet, and ithtoonctTi'Cling, as IfedsiOn- tbejr bOfe bwa more than all t e world to each other. SonK’thing smote this proud woman suddenly, as a hur.-t of sunshine dis solves snow. Down at hi- feet, on the prison-floor, she sank, crying: "Forgive ine.~~D;iTie!" Then Dane Kekh u t lifted her up, and toll his story. *T will save you yet!’’ (linevra cried. "]y't mo go!” But Dane shook his head, sadly. "You may try, my darling, but It will ho in vain.” “And it was. The strange, improb able story site told was received os the loving artifice of a fond, too faithful wlfd—that was nil; and Giuevia went back to her husband to say. with her face in his bosom: "I cannot save you, my beloved, bat I shall die wit i yob; I will not live without you.” Tne awful day approached. There was no remedy, unless, indeed, the real murderer came forwa d at the last moment anil confessed the deed. There seemed little enoug > prospect of that; but one ovuiiiug as Ginevra was driving home from tbo prison, a strange, hungry-looking creature came out of a clump of bushes by the road side and spoke to her. She might not have hccdqd him, he looked so desper ate and forlorn, but she caught from his lips her husband's name, and, bid ding the driver stop, she leaned eagerly from the carriage-door to listen. The gaunt, miserable being came closo beside her. "1 can’t stand it any longer,” he said, "and I’m going to give myself up. I was the heir-at-law, and I thought if sho lived to see you, she’d make a will and turn me out. I didn’t know she had made her will already, and I shouldn’t-have harmed her if you had been a day later in coming. She would not haye lasted of herself till then. It was for my wife and babes, who were starviip, and she wouldn’t help them. They’!! starve now in downright ear nest, if the disgrace don’t kill them first” “I will care for them,” Ginevra said solemnly, and-took the wretch in her carriage, and drove back to town. It was as the man said. There was plenty of corroborative evidence when it came to that, and Dane Kckhart was free—a thankful, it is hoped, a better, man. The poor fellow who had really done the deed was, in tfie end, lent to a lun atic asylum instead of to death. He went mod in the prison, and, some thought, was mad all the time. Ginevra kept her word. Sho and Dane took homo the starving wife and babes, and shared Margaret Mox ey's riches with them, partly from hnmble gratitude for Iheir own happiness after all, partly because both felt that it wae right and just. -—- Several old telegraph the course of a long con told some of their experii frontier. One ef them ~ the great bullion roi lace. It was at noon, across J ’ operator sat two men present his door and demani Both hod revolvers. , ____ r) and let them in, and tlieyquArebouni and gagged him. Believinfclhe was safe, they disappeared aud fiwMW no more of them- As soon afcMre were out of sight he juanagod turn to his instrument, and by lying imVu on the table found Lb*t with one (4nptio hands he could reach the key. It was diffi cult work, but by degrees htp&proved his position until finally he vised the Cheyenne office and commuAated the fact that a robbery was iafprogress. The operator at that point Kept him posted os to the procecdingnalMre, and in a few minutes he was gretfiied to hear the intelligence tickemover the wires that th« Superin ten Ait and a party of detectives were e Jroute for oidney on a special train. Tferiistance was 102 miles, but the runfwas made so rap dly that the people orthe town were hardly aware of the jobbery be fore tho train dashed in The operator had by that time Lecn released, and it was found that the thieves, who had t, had o floor Hie bul- and a: have car. as made the great- in a hole, ndcr was coal-shed, e thieves 3,000 in been accreted yndcr the come up through a hole made by removing a hoa lion weighed about 600 it was thought they could ried it far a rigorous M , near at hand, liefore nlgfii or part of the gold was fou under the depot and the re discovered in an adjoinin where it had been dropped, got away With only about currency. Another man remarked the man who discovered tba Ogalalla train robbery. He was in \fliarge of the little office Tit Kearney. He had had a very stupid afternoon, jind as the day was miserable without*'fie dozed more or leys, e tAs no one cqffiae in ho leaned forward, pljfccing his_arms hi- table and his head upoqtfiem. “I must hare slept reumllv for It he was upon have prevented. 1 nibbe | my eyes and looked around sleepily., Thu dc- 1 pot m as empty. It uat^lqak outside ' r ‘ahd rain wasrairngj' PateppeiT fo Th o door and looked out for a Tninute, but heard nothing. Then I went back to my desk, tilled and lighted my pipe, and began to read. My eyes had just fallen on the page when my instrument sounded once or twice very feebly. I looked at it closely. It ticked again almost inaudibly. ‘Something's the matter,’ thought I. 1 got up, loaned over the sounder, and listened. 1 could just c atch the faintest click, a- if a child might have been playing with a key somewhere. When I listened I began to comprehend the nature of tho message .that was be ng synt. I could not catch all tho letters, bnt I got enough, after listening to it a dozen times, to make out this much: ‘Oga lalla, Ogalalla! Help!’ It flashed up- ill at once. The overland train awhile,” t>*Mid, “for i 1 tirely for aa hour or two, 1 had an imliitlnct impress: one was calling for assis dream it seemed to me hear tho on - , ‘Help! help! was powerless to render a: Finally i sat bolt upright, ous feeling as though somi ble had happened which yself en- r presently ‘that some In my I could nd that 1 istance. h a nerv ing terri- I* ought to on me al agi I grabbed my key and let everybody havo it from Cheyenne to Omaha. There was some lively telegraphing there for a time. They sent engines out from two or three points, and got to Ogalalla n t me to scare tbo roblsjrs off. You see I was a good deal furthei off than a dozen other operators, but somehow I was the first one that caught on. The way it happened was this: The robbers came into the depot at Ogalalla about an hoar before train time and bound and gagged, the opera tor. After they got him fixed they sat around and waited. When the train drew up they left him, and he immedi- ately got himself in a position where he could use tho key a little. The boys who saw him say it was a mystery bow he ever did it. His legs were tied twice, and his arms were pinioned be hind him so that it pros almost impossi ble to move even the fingers. The fact that ! could not catch two consecutive letters until I had heard the message ten or twelve times shows fiow faint the stroke was. It was tho queerest experienoe of my life.”—Sidney (Neb.) Cor. Detroit Times. One well was never lar. e enough to furnish water for two or thr e families. I rent my palatini dwelling-place from •no owns t S n man who owns two homo—eoe on aithsr side of that in which I lire. In my back yard that e is a well, and la eacfapof the other back yards a cis tern is located, and when we three familiM moved into places of abode, it was stood and so nominated that all should have acceseto and water from the well, and tbnt the central fig> pro in the group (meaning nay sen) Should be permitted to draw upon the hoarded treasures of cither cistern at his owwsweet will. - ~ - —— On Monday of the second week after N® began to utilize .our building, my wife intimated to me that she wotnd. appreciate having a few palls of ware- ^ 55 W water from one of the cisterns. Whop my wife intimates anything to me, I always feel the promptings of love in my neart and promptly accede to her wishes. I did so on tnir occa sion, and went to the cistern to west ward of us. I pumped up one pail of water and took it to my waiting spouse, but when I attempted to draw another, the woman who seemed to be running that cistern came out and asked me if I did not think it would be more polite —she bore down . on "polite” pretty hard—to get some Water from the other cistern. I told her that I was a plain, blunt fellow, who did not stand on etiquette very much,*aud if it made no difference to her I'd get tho water where my wife dum pleased. Sho ro- E lied that her c'stern was very low, ut I told her I was not a bit stuck up or particular abont the rank in society of cisterns with which 1 might havo to associate, and she said something about my not being able to take a hint, when i replied that I could take more hints in a minute than she could give me in an hour, and proceeded to transfer the water from the cistern to the wash-tub. When I returned for a third pailful, tha crank of tho chain-pump was gone, ao I visited the cistern of my other neighbor, who smiled as if to welcome me, as I entered her gate, and remark ed that tho weather was quite dry. I agreed with her. and was engaged in wetting a pailful of weather, when she proceeded to say that cistern water would be an object one of those days. I said I supposed so, and having emp tied my pail came for more. “Don’t yon hate a hog?” she inquir ed. 1 admitted that 1 was not very deeply in love with tho present tene ment of the devil, when she said some thing about two-legged hogs • that I could not help regarding os personal. I filled my peil and gracefully strolled to tho back door of the kitchen, where my wife stood, and informed her of the crisis that hovered over Us. Sooner than I can tell it, the round of a dis- . carded table-log was thrust into the our respective * ckrksfiip i» tha Prefee- dwrly 0»d«r. “ S '* f T ‘d in the bond P®****^* at the oMee, pRWirtBg lb busy himself wriMpg lee the etsge. Hie superior officer complained to toe Prefect, and askM Bsron Haussmaa to tom lha deltaftieit out erf fits pla but the Baron (who waa interested A valet-de-chambfs to a gentleman whose service fie is de sirous of entering. “Where ware yob last employed? Why did yo» leave our placer” "Kmpioyed by Blind ‘om. Left becauee he kept too oloee an eye on km.” When Henri Rochefort wae a yonng ie Prefeo- the actress that wae to snstain the! “ ‘ In Rod ‘ ' ■' 33g ontruig shefort’s play) decline the profouniLaphoriaao; "You a man out of hla office who of wsi er is liable to ] moth •Trass. J«M claw,” be saX'i&W who Was kx>kta|> «£ t turn never in UP Mme. X Wa charming woman, bnt nature has dowered her altogether too liberally in tho matter of feet She htt. been sick twit has been convalescing, and tells a friend, whb has called to f JW- see how she is getting along, that she 11 l,oa can barely put one foot before the othet*. "Ah, my dear,” says the visitor (who wears No. Isl, "then you have made a gigantic striae toward recovery.” They have been dispaming a fatal duel, wnd ona of the party says solemn ly: "It seems to me that Providence would have been wiser had it ordained that the nrardefer should be killed in stead of his unfortunate victim.” X. tells tho story of his. duel to a friend. "You see, about thre4 months ago we got into a diratssion abont pol itics and be gave me a slap in the fsqe. Of course, after that an amicable ar rangement was impossible, to I demand ed satisfaction ” “lad got it?” "Yes; we met next morning and I got a thrust in the ribs, and this is the fust time I’ve set foot outside of the house.” “Ah, there ho goes now—on tha other side of the street ” "Yes so k is. By heavens, he is laughing at the-Way am crawling along. Never noted, on! wait till I get round, and then don’t give him another lesson. adetplna Record. ■ ii » w- , A struct scene in Havana: A man posses wilh a hunch of lottery ticket* ami scissors', calling ont a number te a ? mted, only en see if I The Rainbow Rocks of the atone. Yellow- is no picnic, and after a man has been obliged to support one or two grass widows for a couple of years life cease* to have any cnorms for him, and ha Is ready to dle.—f’cct’* Sun. Iu Paris when a man gets a divorce from his Wife it is the fashion to cele brate the affair by a dinner,* ba 1 or some sort of festival. In America when a man gets a divorce, after he has set tled with his lawyers, he has to hump himself to get money enough to buy bread, and the chances are that hs will run a few lunch routes for some , • . . - ., . .. . . , tunc » An A-nti^ pUj. From a natural platform at the very edge of the lower falls, the sightweer can look 400 feet upward*10 flio top of tho heavily wooded banks, %nd down to the foot of the falls, 309 feoL It is not over forty feet from this natural platform ta the other side of the river, and the volume of water compressed Into this narroW space is enormous; but as soon as it passes it is transformed into snowy fleecy foam, and from be low rises a thick mist as the water is hurled upon the rocks that break its fall Grand as are the falls themselves^ the Grand Canyon really 'gives to the scene its unrivaled charm. .Use may tee turrets, towers, pillars and ccuafk and hundreds of other fantastic shapes, according as the reins of fancy are loosed. The oolors of the rock include every tint of the. rain bow. Below thle Is a stratum of brown rock, gradually shading into red. Then come orange, ar yellow, violet and white limestone. Yonder is a bright red tower, aad be sides it is a pillar of Mack flintstone. Below it is a white cone,* above a purple A way has been discovered by which marble may be saturated with a cer ts flower or a head upon a block of mar* bU and then obtain as many sikba bearing the imprint as one sees fit to ha to the block sawed into. The la called ‘‘Rndolithy.” was invited to saw it off, which When I returned at noon, from flee, I found my family thirsty.' and then 1 saw for the first time that I had revenge upon all parties concerned, in* eluding myself. It cost me a dollar to get the table-leg bored out of the spout, and my wife has to have some bangs and back hair, and the other wo men havo had to purchase new dresses, and court-plaster and arnica have to be bought for the children every day, aud each of my neighbors has a padlock on tho wheel of his cistern pump, while 1 pay a negro two dollars a day to guard tho well with a double-barreled shot gun, and don’t speak to tho }>eoplo that live on either side of us. Oh, not one well for three families is Very amusing, but it is expensive, too —r. E. Huddle, in New York Mercury. Sure Cures for Wife Beating. In Hampshire villages a custom atill prevails of serenading a wife beater with kettles, tongs and shovels ( until he is brought to his senses either from shame or to bedrid of the horrid din. In the counties of Surrey aud Sussex a somewhat similar custom was formerly in vogue. When it was known that a man was in the habit of beating the partner of his joys and sorrows soma chaff from the threshing floor waa sprinkled in front of his house at night If this hint which was well understood, had not the desired effect all tho cow horns, bones, cleavers, bells, whistles, rattles, frying-pans and old kettles in the village were pressed into service. Between the pauses in the music the following verse was sung: There if aman In this place v Has beat his wife Has beat his wife; It is a very reeat shame and disgrace To all who live in this place; It is, indeed, upon my life. This invariably produced the destfed effect But where the offender was too hardened a severe drubbing was admin istered by the village dames on a dark night in a convenient place. Btutit Vn the Water. fi-’RaBeto' ■*» i-misI te I di d. my of- sing-soitg tone; then a horse or donkaj is led bv with a load of fruit of mer chandise in panniers on either side of bia l-aek; or a cow is being milked In front of a customer's house; a mftn l>a.v-c* with a bunch of live ohiclrefit nnder Mr arm, or « negro— with a huge cigpr in her mouth; and thftn what from a distance looks like a nfar of elephants decked In green, batwhi£h on closer inspection proves to be a line of seven or eight horses, tied head (to tail, so loaded with fresh fodder to a height of eight or Sen feet that one cad just distinguish the little animal’s ud— and tail uodor t undulating mass«f may long and del Money does** alw rbu$-sp$ the dbniMito three af (with provoking « sorr, you might oorra t bribe that horse Om of oar | rain and mi in a ditch. can't tha; said. what eta I Observer. *—■ Ono of the attaMti ; it is there fcb—rt the. tim ■peak—a big bank ' In & A festive dude can He bad a poem; With thn effio# oU w sr&i .e swore Representatives of the difffirent Presi dents' families are living in Washitig- ton. They are as folle* s: Hefiry Adams; Mrs. Meiklsham, who is Jeffer son'- granddaughter, and Mi—Rhn- dolph. The Misses Gouverneur, great- greuddaughter* of Monroe; Mrs. Sem ple. a daughterofi’reeident Tyler; Jehu Tyler, •* ud Secretary Lincoln and fondly. Phil Sheridan’s prescription for a ;old: "Stay at home and sit in front >f the fire.” vacancy in oar , ■ Argus. 1 * KatefMiflta* 3t a 'well-cootooffi skyi i Mini dto SKimS around spectacle ▲gentleman VI Hoo f ‘ who is believed fa coachman. “I please,” says Ihe is dark-ooanlecti gummy khia of d to her ago, Wily, jreare yoongor to COMPETIHOB SOU] PADGETT LEADS ALL f '• *'• «ff ef; WALNUT BEDROOM SUITES, i©*I A NICE BEDROOM SUITER ET EVERY KIND AND EVERY VARIETY t* COOKING STOVES AT ALL Til jt otvoETTs rmunruME 4*0 bko. lllo *ku iu2 BROAD STREET ; - - - - CF*Refer yon to tbo Editor of this paper. ^ ~ M la; < On tho 28th of October, 1840, per sons present at tho Northport camp ground, in WaMo County, saw a me teorite fall into the water near the camp. As it foil it burst into fragments, or that was the conclusion drawn by those who witnessed its descent Search was made at the time for fragments, bnt none were then found, the tide al all time oovering the spot where the meteorite struck the water. Two years ago one who witnessed ‘ the .fall Mala made the search, and dome small frag ments were recovered. Fsom time to tune the —arch has been continued and other fragments have be^n brought' to light one of wh!uh waa Considerately ■cpt to Prdftosor F. C. Robinson, of Bowdoin College. More recently quite a large mass, weighing p—heps twaaty. pounds, was recovered, and this mass Professor Robinson has now in his pos se—ion. much to hi* gratiti ation. He will proceed to analyse it.—Brunswick (Maine) Telegraph. The following ail vert; unont recent ly appeared: "I—ing awake that it is indmicate to advertise for a husband, I refrain from doing ao; but if any gen- tleman should be inclined to advertise for a wife, I wnranswer the* advertise ment without delay. Pam young, have a roow figure, ate domesticated, and lodyiikA Apply, etc.” FlNi. U.OTHING, HATS AND GEN ING GOODS, BUT,! I. L. STANS 746 BROAD STREET, UNDER GLOBE HOTEL, A '•* •« j •••?•'•*. m Can get away with them all in fhawwy of FINE0I GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS for Utte Fall and Styles aud at Prices that astonish feterybody that tod He means to outsell them all. Give Mm s tfloTi best pleased man in the State. Ef Don’t fo £ Xa b£ a. r ft* ' 746 BROAD STREET, UNDER QLQBEJHOTgLfc PLEASURE AND VKOfJ TVATCH AND JEWELRY REPAIRING AHD fl j-oBcisr h. otbdal: Dealer in Diamonds, Watches, decks wni -’Jfcti Oppirsitt ■■■■L m POUCH AND DRESSWS ■*— * v i Contractors and Bwiidars, Manufhdanrai her and Building Material. We motes oo ad kinds of bdlMh—s. •_*, “Graodys,” 8. C, postoieo WftdsujyR. O. ’ Ws a—* keep tostoeh at < Augusta. Ga*, all kinds oCi place will bo pi promptly