Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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V ► .r a TIk' Scent of n Flower. The toent e» • wower U a wonderful thlnwl It ptayi routid fw heart like the zephrra of spring; So subtle, so soft, to i .slstless 1U power. No monarchy rules Mke the scent of a flower. Some odor* w btad with past happier years They move ihi like melodies breathing through tears; ' brfng -ih© face* and forma that wild woods 'mid sunsets of For they btfng are cmC And walks (h the gold. A fragrant .*> .Ics from a flower that I know, Dear pledgn of a love in the sweet long ago. When tuts* w^ro more simple, and purer our pleasures. And gifts *f fresh blossoms were holier treasures. One ere whss the dew on the leaves glittered He progered the prize with a tender ‘'Good- nlfht;" And ra/ spirit grow faint with ecstatic emo- __ tlru. For I felt In that flower lay a lifetime devo- He is sene; yet the scent of that delicate flower Still bolds me with all the old passionate power; And oft my sick heart would lie down In despair But that mercy divine melts my sorrow In prayer. “Consider the lilies!” Lord, grant us to be Ay the Held and the garden brought nearer to Thee, To read in sweet blossoms Thy goodness and power. And an Infinite love In the scout of the flower. The Quiver. MitS. PEASLEE’S NEIGHBOR. "An oltl bachelor! It’s just too bad,” cried Miss Jane Peaslee, ex citedly. "I never could abide old bachelors, and here one of ’eru’s gone and moved in right next door. He’s got a great, horrid dog, too. I’ll war rant he’ll be the plague of our lives.’’ "Mebbe not, Jane.” mildly expostu- lated her sister, Mrs. Webb. "Old bachelors ain't apt to bo meddlesome, gencr’ly.” "Him! I mean the dog,” snapped Miss Jane. "Of course he’ll be run ning over here, tormenting the cat and digging holes in the llowcr beds next summer fur a cool place to lie in, or a chasing the hens an’ stealing the eggs when they’ve made nests in the weeds. But I won’t nut up with it an’ I shall tell him so plump the very first chance I git.” "The dog, .fane?” "The dog! Of course not. I mean the crusty, crabbed old bachelor bim- nelf.” "Oh, Jane! You don’t think he would -.teal the eggs and make holes in the flower beds, do you?” "Fiddlesticks! Ain't you got no sense at all, Melaneey? A Ixxly might as well talk to a close prop as you! 1 said the dog would steal the eggs, an’ 1 shouldn’t put up with it an' f should tell the old bachelor so, too. Now do you understand? Au’ so I will! I’ll take the broomstick to him, too. See if 1 don’t,” she concluded, emphati cally. Miss Jane and her sister owned the little cottage in which they lived, which was about all they did own, and managed to eke out a living by doing plain sewing, dressmaking, or any thing of the Itind they could get to da "There’s the gate open and Sam Pickles’ old bell-cow a-tramplin’ round in the truck patch, of course,” and snatchmg up a sun-bonnet she darted out^K) put a summary atop to the old bell-cow’s depredations among her "garden truck.” Meanwhile the old bachelor next door was taking a survey of the situa tion. "Two women folks, and one of them an old maid. I’ll bet a pocketknifc. The other looks like she might be a widow, from alius dressing in black. Thunder! What did I ever move in here for? Paid six months’ rent, tdb! Confound it all, a man ain't safe any where hardly these days. Of course, they’ll both be a-setting their caps to ketch me, but I won’t bo caught! I’ll keep out of Their way as much as pos sible, and even if I meet one of ’em face to face I’ll look another way. I see they keep a parcel of old hens, too. If any of ’em come a-scrntching about here I’ll set the dog on ’em, sure. I ain’t to be pestered by old maids or their hens, either. I’ve hired a man servant a-purpose to keep out of their clutches, an’ 1 ain’t a-going to be took in by the smartest woman that ever lived.” He was by no means the crusty, crabbed old bachelor Miss Jane had declared him to be, but a rather fine- looking man, with pleasant, dark eves, and only a few threads of silver shin ing in his abundant brown hair. Moreover, his canine follower was not a "great horrid” dog, but a very curly and frolicsome Newfoundland puppy- “There’s that dog a-worryin’ the chickens agin,” screamed Miss Jane one mtiming, and, snatching up the broom, she hurriedly gave chase. Finding himself pursued, the puppy at once released the Leghorn rooster’s tail, which ho had boon playfully shak ing to the great disgust of its owner, and with a bark of delight seised the edge of Miss Jane’s homespun petti coat which showed beneath the nm of her dress, and shook it energetically. The outraged Miss Peasloo in the meantime beat right and left with her broom, missing the culprit at each lick, however, until thoroughly ex hausted she dropped her weapon on the ground, whereupon Curly imme diately seized it and scampered off with all his might Over the neat gravely walk, over the tidy border of blackberry lilies and Iris versi-color, round and round he whirled, dexterously avoiding the avenging foe, natil at last he espied Bonaparte, the big gray cat leisurely taking his nporaing walk. Whereupon he at once dropped the broom ami gave chase to the cat Bonaparte fled np a tree in great terror, and Mias Peaslee, seizing the demoralized broom, made a sudden sortie on the dog. Cutty, however, discovering this rear attack in the uiek of timer scuttled swfflty ecsUsa the yard end through tfe* fence to Us naln, wmm “Play! The vicious beast chawed the broom to pieces an’ tore my skirts half off o’ me. if you call that sniffed Miss Jane wrathfully. • * * • • * “Jane! Jane! What on airth is this that dog’s ben a shakin’ an’ wal lopin’ rouna inthedust?” cried Melan- cey a few days later. The dog was growling and shaking some dark object fearfully. After a desperate struggle the sisters succeeded in rescuing all that re mained of—-a coat. A man’s coat, of fine, heavy, dark cloth, hopelessly mu- tiliated by the teeth and daws of the frolicsome puppy. “Dear me, it’s plum ruined!” cried Melaneey. “It must belong to the ole bachelor an’ the dog has stole it” And she surveyed it regretfully, hold ing it up by the tails. "But—what’s that?” “That” was something that had dropped ont of one of the pockets. Jane seized it quickly. It wax a let ter. "Why, Melaneey," she cried, breath lessly "it—it’s directed to me!” And Jane opened it and read: My Deab Miss Peaslzk: 1 never popped the question in my life before so I don’t know the proper way. But if you are willing to be my w ife Just say so, an’ I’ll be the happiest man in Honey Locust Holler. Calvin Cubbeuleigil "Jane, Jane, don’t faint!” cried Me laneey, alarmed, as her sister grew first pale and then red. “I ain’t goin’ to faint,” declared Jane, stoutly. "But look, Melaneey, this letter is dated five years ago, when we lived over to the hollow. What on airth does it mean?” “Give it to me,” said Melencey, promptly. "I’ll soon find out what it means. I’ll take the coat home, too, soein’ the dog’s left it in our hands.” In less than fifteen minutes there after the old bachelor, hatless and coatless, ran frantically through the gate, never stopping till ho found him self in the presence of Miss Peaslee. "Jane, Jane," he cried with breath less eagerness, "I'vo como for my answer. It’s live years since 1 writ that letter, an’ thought I’d posted it, when there it was bid in the lining of that coat all the lime. But you haven’t said yet whether you’d have mo or not.” Somehow or other Miss Jane forgot her dislike of men folks iu general, and old bachelors in particular, and said she would. "We ought to be thankful to that dog,” s^id Melaneey, with tears in her eves, x^hen she heard how it was all set tled, and, indeed. Master Curly had no reason to complain of his treatment thereafter. —Helen IP. Clark, \n St. Louis Mayazme. Origin oT Familiar Proverb*. “Truth is stranger than fiction” w&a invented by an editor as a head-lino to a twenty-line lie extravagant, that would believe ten original use of this uea unto this dav. so monstrously he knew nobody words of it. The proverb is contin- Whenever you see that line in a newspaper don’t believe a word you read under it. “I’ll make a spoon or spoil a horn,” was the thought of a man who never made a spoon in all his life, and who knew perfectly well that he couldn’t make one, and only took a mean man’s malicious delight in spoiling a horn. P. S.—For a man who likes to take his horn straight the introduction of a spoon always spoils it “A wink is as good as a nod to a blind horse,” was said by a man with a stiff neck, who wanted to nod, but couldn’t; although why any sane man should wish either to wink or nod at a blind horse no man can tell. "A little more sleep and a little more slumber,” commonly attributed to the sluggard, was stolen by him from the night watchman, who invented it in his dreams. “Fast bind, fast find,” was remarked by a police justice when he bonnd the tough over to keep the peace and fined him $15.85. “All’s well that ends well,” was said by a murderer who killed a dude. The name of the murderer is suppressed lest he should be overrun with more orders than he could fill, and thus be compelled to hire a cflerk, who would eventually run off with all the money. “All’s faro in love and war” was the inspired thought of a railroad conduc tor. “One swallow does not make a sum mer,” was the brilliant remark of a man who was trying to see how many swallows do make a. summer. Nota Bene—If the thermometer got half so high as the experimenter did, the dog- days came right along on the heels of Christmas that year. The record of the swallows, howe rer, was lost in the dim mists of O’Blivion, the great Irish swallower. “Dead men tell no tales,” was the jovons exclamation of the first editor who slew a man who came in with a continued story of sixty-five chapters. It was this same editor who, upon re ceiving a demand for 10 cents from a t for an epic poem upon which he ad labored twelve years, said; “Write makes smite.” And then he smote him, that he died^—^oo/bfyw Eagle. Will-Power a Yoaag Blau's Fortune. President Gates, of Rutgers College, If 0 says: “Everv young man has a fortune in the fact of his youth. The energy of J outh is unblunted by defeat, or worn y hope deferred. With age one be comes more conservative and looks at os impossible what a younger person would endeavor to acoomplisk.in many cases with success. The effort, even it there be a failure, is a grand success. Self-oonfidence, or self-conceit, if you wish to call it so, is a great tiling. A young man’s fortune is u<u to be found la inherited wealth or social position. Every man la the arbiter of |>ls own fortUM. Gracious manners or boti- nass habits are good things to cultivate but arc not aii Wiit-power is the young man’s fortune, it is the esse nos ofUmmaa. ▲ young man with only little will-power is a foregone failure. It should be ealtirated. Genius la a edGod m>d should m/t cans* arid* ^^^ol slutted fena An Astontoblatr Invmttoa nest Thr—I— to Rupenodo All Otlwrs. An invention hes recently been per fected at Philadelphia that bids fair to revolutionize ell existing systems of electrical communication, both tele graphic and telephonic. The Secret of it has been carefully guarded by the inventors and the small company of apany it while and the small com large capitalists who control it was being fully covered by patents, bot'i*. American and foreign. Now that all is secure, it is to be suddenly sprung upon the public by an exhibition at the Continental hotel, probably daring the present week, as one «/ the gigmhtic scientific surprises of the century. To state in brief what it is, it is nothing less than making telegraphy as simple, rapid, and easily within the command of everybody as is tho oporatintr of the caligraph or type-writer. Effecting what is claimed for it, it will he the means of greatly reducing the cost of telegraphy, of enabling the opening of some forty thousand new telegraph stations in railroad and express offices throughout the Uuited States where there have hitherto been none, ami of taking the place generally of the tele phone. Any person who can pick out a word on the keys of a type-writer can l runs mil a message by the system accurately and with rapidity, only re stricted by the speed of the picking while, as for receiving messages, the instrument does that automatically, whether there is auybody superintend ing its operations or not. There was a private exliibitiou of the system re cently, the results attained at which seemed to fully suAtaiu all that is claimed for this most remarkable in vention. The instrument used is both a trans mitter and a receiver. The two in struments used in this exhibition were connected by about one hundred miles of wire coiled about the offices. Each appeared in its front part to be simply an ordinary type-writer, with the let ters, numerals, etc., on raised keys. Behind this rises a small column with blank paper wrapped around it and moved up line by line as required by a simple device. Inside that column is a small hammer that strikes outwardly, so as to. whenever & key is touchad. press the paper against the peripb of a horizontal wheel that lies betwi the keyboard and the column, that periphery, in high relief, are letters of tho alphabet, numerals, points for punctuation. The whatl spins around with lightning-like rapid ity as the keys arc successively touched by an expert. When it has to recede in the alphabetical order it Uios back to a fixed point, as does the wheel of a gold and stock indicator, hut much more swiftly. All the delicate and intricate electrical attachments neces sary are below, and when understood are much less con.plicated than they seem, their apparent complication be ing caused by their multiplicity. A separate wire leads from each key to e single common wire, and each of thoee key-connected xkiros serves cither tot transmission or reception of messages. The sending or receiving of a parties lor letter or figure is governed by the strength of current required for last that individual one, and for no otaei It seems very strange that all thoee rions impulses should be flashed alone a wire—even in opposite directions as the same time—without jostling each nt session of the Boston Educational and Industrial Holmes was greeted with e vation by his sndtenoe. The on wse “Old Ironsides," dear to the heart of evsrr orator and almost ss fsmi- thst ■chi liar Dr. from fee manner in which it was derodll was evident that tho fire Household word. It is one of mes’ earliest productions, bat ren- snd spirit which originally inspired the write^were not yet extinguished. “The next fliece 1 will read," said the doc tor, ^wsa composed at a time when physiqians were not so much given to teetotslism ss at present It was writtfe for s gathering at the residence of Dn Reynolds when! loaned him my •ilvcgpunch bowl.” Dr. Holmes then readme poem, “On Lending a Punch Bowl. 1 ’ The following lines, read with that tnctuous humor characteristic of Dr. tfolmes, caused great merriment: That night affrighted front his nett the SPreamlnr eerie flew; He htard the Pequot'i rlnfing whoop, the t Soldier’s wild halloo; And there the aaehem learned the rule he taurht to kith and kin; ••Hue from the white man when you find he smells of Holland fin.” The next selection was the well- known poem entitled “Contentment” “Jehu Quincy Adams," said Dr. HMmes, "wrote a poem somewhat similar to this, though many years previous to my production. Like my self, he borrowed a line from Oliver Goldsmith, but we arrived at rather diferent results.” The audience laugh ed heartily on the reading of this poem, and the modest requirements of the man who wished to be contented. “BUI and Joi" was then read. "This peem,” the doctor said, “was a partic ular favorite of John G. Whittier.” It was followed by “Brother Jonathan's Lament for Sister Caroline." "This posts,” said Dr. Holmes, "I am very food of, for even among his own writ- isgs a person has a preference. It was wmten before the war, when South Carolina first seceded, and I received a number of letters from gentlemen re siding in that State which showed that •vikO during the war there was some kindly feeling towards the Northern- ^ Farewell to Agassi r started on his lion to the Andes Mountains, iext retd, followed by “The Sep- That exceedingly comical poem, isV’wr itten when rotten when i tj ip of in- Moun tains. Gale” and “An Old Man^s ’ "This lost poem,” said the ‘was written in 1854, when I oensteered myself a very 'old man, r k older than 1 do now.” By spe- Tequest, Dr. Holmes read his well known poem, “Dorothr Q.” He gave A befef description of the portrait on Which the piece was written^ and stated feat the picture had undergone repairs Wbteh would tend to preserve it for a teog time. The original canvas had keen removed from the back nnd now doth had boon applied. It was at C sneat, he said, in his library, where Would be happy to show it to • bo might desire to see it. llie iliar lines gathered fresh beauty the lips of the author, particularly eft-quoted verse: the breath of lualtlcu’s Yes. Ufht fossamor *i;rs with Icm, or a eabte that Ookla so fast h all tbe battles of ware and blast, rer an echo of apocoh or tone res In tbe bnbb.lujr air to lonf. last selection was “'The Cham- Nautilus,” which. Dr. Holmes «r tbm Aarlewlar Appead- ao* iMtlsatire of Chansetor. “I used to notice when a lad," said a successful business man lately to a reporter, “that in making the ftnal awards at country fairs on the anality of all sorte of blooded stock, the judges universally examined the oars of the animals. Whether it were a thorough bred horse, a Berkshire hog. a dog of any special breed, from a toy terrier to a bull or a pointer, or whether it were a Cote wold or Southdown sheep, the oar was always one of the chief points, and if that were faulty, all the other good qualities went for naught This set me thinking that, os men represent every quality known to the brute crea tion, the ears of men wonld be likely to serve as pretty sure indices of charac ter. I then commenced studying. First of all I procured a good specimen of what we will coll tho normal human ear, one taken from the head of a man of good character and in whom all tho various qualities and propensities had been about evenly balanced, a level headed, practical man of tho world. This ear I studied until I had thorough ly mastered all the couvolutions and surfaces that it presented. I’ve bought hundreds of them and now h&vo ABOUT 200 TYPICAL EAKS that I’ll show you." With this the old f entleman unlocked his safe and pro ceed two packages tied up in oiled silk, soft and flexible as kid, and semi transparent. Untying one of these packages, there fell out on the table a number of nondescript fragments of mummified-looking stuff, which, on examination, proved to be dried, or rather partially tanned, human ears, all in a perfect state of preservation, so iof sha other or getting mixed up, but tfiey do, t 110 * 1 carefully-prepared Many messages were sent during teste* a ‘‘ ““ poems. by non-experts at a speed of from forty, to fifty words per minute with gnatoe accuracy than is usually shown by ex pert “sound" operators, and that speed it was affirmed, could increased. A noticeable and vnluabli feature of the system is that it prin clearly in the sight of the person trani mitting a message just what is beii sent to the receiver, so that errors avoided, or if committed are readily r corrected. The messages sent over * wire by this instrament cannot be bv sound, so that it is much more fsvi bio to the privacy often desirable business than either the Morse sys or the telephone. Inasmuch as ths ini ■trument can be adjusted to anr syttoi of wire communication and will wot to as great distances as is required i telegraphy it will be of inestimable va ue to railroad and express companiei bankers, broken, mechanics and tl general public. There are no fonnidj ole complications in its constructioi and expert electricians who hate exon ined it pronounce it ono of the mi wondenul achievements of the Should it only do half what is c for it, and that it shows it can would practically revolutionize telsj pky- The company controlling this invention has been organized a capital of $2,000,000, but 'no itoc for sale, all being held ss an invest poems. At the cloee of the readings the doc tor was thanked by Mrs. Gordon in behalf of the ladies. Mrs. Isabel i. nau insispoon Hooker then stated that she wished to be very neotlw * wor< ^ before the assembly dis- ■ - -per»c<l. She said that she remembered one morning when she met Dr. Holmes, nnd he was not in the genial frame of mind that he was at present. She asked him what was the trouble, and he replied that three things annoyed First, he had consented to write for tiie Atlantic Monthly once more; second, that he bad so mnch corre spondence on haDd, and third, that people wonld still persist in coming to him for advice. "1 told him,” said Mrs. Hooker, "that he shouljl give up writing for the Atlantic. He had fur nished its columns with ‘The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table,’ and that was quite enough. His correspondence contained nothing but flattery, and he had had enough of that, and lastly that having passed all his life in killing people, he should not give any more pills or advice. I think that be ought to devote the rest of hia existence to reading his excellent poorui to delighted listeners. We all sincerely hope that he can favor us again." Burdette’s Recipe. Miss Psrlos, the cooking expert, ■he “makes kisses bv beatingtlie w of six eggs with a Dover beater, adding a cup of mixed sugar, wi she stirs in very carefully.” Well,] mokes them sweet enough, oer bat to make good kisses s girl be an nnthonty on Bavarian or esoolloped oysters. When she stfeds on the rawer oroes piece her face to oome at least sight inches abort top of the gate, with tbe moonligt one cheek and tbe shadow on the| er, then yon know just where to my son. And if yoa have snjvdfebts about it, send for your eld father, needn’t ring: lust rattle a stick gritegs ana I’ll come down.— California red-wood was in in England Inst year, the Imports 8LOO0 cubic foot It is vary for furniture, inside boose and the best joiners’ work, many other purpoeee. So for K af this remarkable landed in Boatload, w met with realty sale ortho, bejhfefc- ly appreciated by oamoei-maken, a ?>• . ms™ , - a ffef Coal-Tar Chewing Guns. The Standard Oil Company is s big thing on wheels when you get talking about oil, but it is just as big relatively ■peaking when you get into the pro vince of chewing gum. They control nearly all of the refineries, and it is from that the gam is evolved, so to speak. Tbe refiners take ths residuum from the crude oil after the refined ar ticle has been made and work it in an agitator, producing a certain grade of E araffine, a wax-like substance. This i sent to two firms located in Boston and Hew York, who put it through an other refining process end then scent the stuffy out It ap into small pieces and than retail dealers taka hold of it and make thousands of giddy girls hap py with “something’ to chaw." The wax, as loaded on the eon, is worth •eventeen oonte a pound, but when put through the second prooees, iu cost is 90 cents s pound. A pound of refined paraffine will suffice tor the making oil 600 pieces of chewing gum; so tbs profit in the business is sppsrunt when you recollect that it retails for one and two cents a stick.—HfOsfesrp Dispatch. The London journals have not yet decided whether it is Saakia, Buakim, Sou akin, or Bouakim; but whan Gen eral Graham gets home he will be able to settle it- He has had uoosldsffable of s spell at that place. — Nut York Journalist to hie wile—I feel very tie morutefa I don’t seethes tt*s wkfiefefstownrtufecfeyhen aopA^nfafiy fett Is—« fehfe far os the retention oi shape is concern- ed ; "Why, where did you get all these?” "Bought’em of course. ’ "Of the hospitals?” "No, of the undertak ers. The ears of criminals and paupers would be of no use to me. They would serve no purpose in the way of study; the character of the criminal is so clear ly marked that one type is sufficient to know all by, while paupers have no character at all. It would make some people stare if they should exhume their deceased relatives and find that they are sleeping the last sleep with only one ear to help them listen for tho lost trump. The most obstinate fool I ever had to deal with was a half-starv ing artist whose ear I wanted to get on account of its remarkable formation. He was a man of extraordinary business affairs, but a genius. I offered that man $500 FOB ONE OK HIS EARS, and the stupid fellow refused it He was poor, half starved; didn't I be lieve, know where to get the next meal for himself and bis wife and children, and one would have thought that he wonld have jumped at the chance to get $500 for such a trifling inconven ience. 1 offered to supply him with a false ear, so as to keep up appearance# but he would not listen to me, and I missed one of the finest opportunities of my life. I opened this particular package to show you one very remark able example. fiero are oil sorts of ears; ears of men who are greatly im bued with religious feelings—there's zn ear, for instance, of a revivalist; ears of pronoanced atheists, ears of honest men and ears of rogues; ears of cute lawyers and ears of (TuI! money-grab bers, whoso only study in life has been how to hold on to a dollar. Here's the ear of a somewhat noted newspaper man. Now, just see how the lobe of that ear goes down into tho cheek; in front tiiere is no lobe to the ear at all I don’t say, mark you, that every one who bos an ear of that formation is s thief, but I do say tiiat lie lias the pro pensities of one, and only needs oppor tunity or temptation to develop them. This ear, in its principal characteris tic, is almost the counterpart of a pair that aYe worn by a man of former high standing in the business world, bat who is now serving a term in tho peni tentiary. It is only a week or two ago I had an occasion to let a contract for building on extensive wall, and smoiig the bidden was one who oflered to do the work half a dollar a thousand low er than any one else. Bat when I sew the man HIS EAKS TOLD US not to trust him. I know he would have robbed me in some way had he got the contract Here's another typi cal ear. Yon see this thin cartilage, with the roll disappearing in tbe north east comer and the ear itself coming almost to a point, somewhat like a fox’s. That is tbe ear of a keen, an- ■crapaloas, hard-hearted money-lend er^ one of those who seem to take a positive delight in qppressing the an- fortunato and in wringing from them extortionate interest for small accom modations. Some of these ears set well hack like a fox’s when it is snarling; they are the worst eases. In others the upper point stands slightly for ward; such men are rather shrewd and canning tu*u cruel, bat they are not very peasant folks at the best Others of this sort again, are movable at the will of their owners. These chaps add to their other amiable qualities a quar relsome disposition that will moke them snap and snarl at everything and everybody. The only way is to select ■ few noteworthy specimens. Btudy ths ears of some men whote character yoa are well acquainted with, and mark their respective peculiarities. Then compare those of men of similar char acteristics, and see where their strong- eet resemblances are; the first discov ery of a principle for yourself is the on ly difficulty^ If any one is shout to get married, loould tell him whether the woman he is about to wed is likely to agree with him or not. Oh, yoa may set it down tor a foot that tbe ear is the true index of character. Tell me be fore you print anything about this, and I'll corner the ear-muff market, and we will divide tbe profits.”—Boston Sun day Timet. city building, The tower of the new Philadelphia, will, with the exception of the Washington Monamen^ be “ highest structure in the fen 1$ jArrAjr-Th* ( Mvm The Newt and Courier.) Washington, D. C.,July 16.—Sen*- tor Hampton was always a yrelconw guest at the White Rouse during Mr. Arthur’s Administration, and probably received as many courtesies from the latter os any member of Congrees, Re publican or Democrat. He seems to occupy a similar position in the esti mation of the present Administration, and when he calls npon President Clevelsnd he is usually the recipient of mauy little attentions not bestowed upon his brother Senators. Several day ago he lunched with the President, and while seated at the table, it is said, the conversation dflifled on to tbe Charleston oollectorshiJr The Presi dent made uutr.eroujnnqniries os to the qualifications of tho numerous can didates, whereupon General Hampton remarked that he hod resolved that he would not express au opinion on the subject until he had been invited to do so cither bv the President or Secretary Manning. The President replied that he apprcpreciuted this position, and added that if other members of Congress would make suggestions only when called upon to do so, the Executive would be less embarrassed and conld place a higher value on Congressional recommendation. Baid he, under tbe present system some members of Con gress endorse several persona for one and the same |K>*ition, and then com plain if some one other than their favorite is selected. A few days after Gen. Hampton’s visit to the White House the President called upon the secreUry of the treasory for a brief of all the papers filed in tbe Charleston collectorship case. Lost Wednesday the papers wore sent to the President, and it was said at treasury department tiiat after looking over the list of ap plicants the President, Secretary Man ning and Senator Hampton concluded tiiat the appointment of Mr. Theodore D. Jcrvey would he most acceptable to the contending factions in Charleston. This information, coming from tin source it did, Jed me to believe that the matter was practically decided, and that tbe formal announcement of Mr. Jervey’s appointment would be mode in a day or two. the growth ov^hk south. ArmLAnnual SutemaBt mi Dm BalUnar* "■aaafartarm' RmmU.” The Baltimore Manufacturers 1 lie- cord publishes its semi-annual review of the South’s industrial growth, giv ing the name, location and obaricter of the basiness of all enterprises orgsn- ized in that section during tbe first half of 1885, showing that notwith standing the generaf depression in business there has been great activity in the Soath in the organisation of new industrial eaterprises. There also i wide diversity of new industrj^ in eluding iron furnaces, foundriBunc machine shops, steel works, ^Ptot seed eil mills, cotton compressesTfrult canning factories, floor, saw, planing and grist mills, fhetories for maunfac- taring carriages and yrifon*. agricul tural implements, sashes, doors sad blinds, shuttles, tobacco, ice, fertilisers, furniture, stoves, wire fences, soap, etc., glass works, gas works, etc., and marble and slate quarrying companies, and companies to mine coal, iron ore, gold, silver, mica, natural gas, oil, etc. The total amount of capital, including the capital stock of corporate compa nies represented by new eaterprises organised in tbe South daring tbe lest six months and la tbe enlargement of old plants and rebuilding of mills de stroyed by fire, aggregated $36,694,000 divided among toe fourteen Southern States os follows: Aloboma$3^60,000, Arkansas $376,000, Florids i47»,000, Georgia $1,580,000, Kentucky 010,821,. /w, -v—*-•— a- land . forth 0427.000, Tennessee’01,802,000, Texas 01,819,000, Virginia $2,<306,000, West Virgima 06,632,000. The outlook for business in the Sooth i& now. very promising. Rstely, ff ever, have the prospects for growing crops been more encouraging at fee South than at present. Every indica tion points to magnificent com and cotton crops, tbe largest ever produc ed, while the outlook for rice, sugar, fruits .and vegetables is quite as grati fying. With abundant crops produced at low cost, with railroad, manufhe- turing and mineral interests steadily improving, the South bids fair to cater upon an era of great proeperlty this fell. ' A SMMOttra In Lmivm. The young man Verdin, who was badly whipped in Laurens county week before last nnder tbe impreocion feet be had defaced a so hoof room with obscene writing, is said to be at Woodruff, where be has wealthy and influential relatives who arc very in dignant, and say they will procccuti the men who whipped young Verdin to tbe utmost extent oi their means. Twelve prominent citizens of Laurens, including one trial justice, arc said to have bean implicated in the whipping, which was a terribly severe one. Verdin claims that the only evideaec against him was the similarity between tbe obscene writing and soma writing in bis music book which was mppoara to be bis, but was not. -He says ‘ confessed because fee mutate loaded and cocked revolver against each of his temptee. legal proceedings arc probable. At Marion, Ind., test Saturday, a colored man ' named Waltace assaulted the fourtecn-yesr-old daughter of a well-known citizen named Vlnam. The girl was thrown into epuem her denfe wmdeetarad tuba bet tionofa fewdavs. On Monday H here me evident that nt to lynch tito. —senator JMaier nee flrom Washington. *v —Tbe grapes In York aoffuty «! ■aid to be rotting very rapkBy- ftver in tbe town of week. —Company G. On J > BMeyD. B. A it Abbeville e will have a reunion at the 7th of -The Abbeville arrangements to go fete Savannah River for a wash. —There are 140 visitors Springe, abont three times that were at the springs at last year. -The Roek Hill BtnM there are forty-on# and seventy-six that town. —Thera ert fined la tbe jail at Edgefteld, of who! several are colored people coudned fe breaking their coatraets. —The Bpartaabaig and Ashevfll Railroad is now graded to within flv miles of Hendersonville, and 260 met are at work on the test section. —On the 10th Inst, a kiln ootaialni 11,000 feet of lumber belonging t R. W. DraAn A Co., of Lsncastol was destroyed by an incendiary trn. —A new base ball dab hc$ bid organized in Edgefield, composed 0 the members of tbe bar, with tenant Governor Sheppard sn « —The new cotton seed oil mill i Columbia is approaching comptetioe and tbe new cotton compress will b ready for work with the tog*—If c the season. —John Boa, colored, of age, has been commit York county, for making a assault upon a colored girl, ei| old, on tiie 4th of July last. —Busan Crosby, colored, has best lodged in tbe lancestor JaiL ohaqn with killing her intent child, fh woman sold she buried the child, thinl lag feat it had been born deat. —On the 18th kngnel Nlnety-flL will have an exhibit of fna efeth horses sad malm, which win, dofeU less, reflect credit on the beot.tecfe raising country in the United gtofei —The agricultural returned to Mr. Jfl treasurer of feu West' Union, a 0400 tn«ot offoM toatfe department tor the New Orleeno m Mbit. -W. L. Wood, Jr- white, m Charlie Carter, oolorad, gotfeto d sUercfttion in Houea Phtbeu Ttnnlfel morning about soarim which ended! fee former shooting the Utter wife shotgun, killing f * ed to feUi al dspnrttMnl hi era’ -Forty-eight OvITiVCaffl recent moctis^ ee were _ of fee nera for Y her thirty-five different grades, end jeeted. * —Governor Thompson hne i Mr. C. C. Traey.of WeRfiCM moT ef Colleton • - gresoive flatten. -The A.M.X. ed from fee Hampton r and oenotor Cherleoton cnee (eetlttln use AffTOH wwiiTv —Vinute Naaee, the woman Daniel vtetoi nf ease agali ■ i > -mm leevd aeoomuUee. warn ease Martha ‘taged acoompitee, ten -The total raoeipfe i irtMOTT wf 1886, ae I the eomi «a follows: ,jt.