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vol. vm BARNWELL, 8. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1885. Might? Monarch. I am richer than Crcesiu of old, to my mind, I have trcaaurea moat varied and rare; I have ahipa whoae departure depends on no wind. And I know naught of burdensome care. Houses unnumbered I claim as my own, " ithout tenants to make them a bore; I Imve songs which are written for my ear alone. And have pictures and books by the score. I have horwis and cattle and birds of all climes. Queer fishes that swim in the sea; 1 nave bells made of sliver, whose musical chimes Are rung out to please only me. ^ rij}® UI >d^put«d. acknowledge no peer r ™"f! ni y subjects are oft known to scold), ror 1m King of the nursery, and what Is q user. I'm only about two yeara old. —L. H. Mansbach. I’urple and Fine Linen. no answering wore brighter than their ~d all robed in splendor, fair as dawn »lien first he bares his forehead in the East; * hito, shimmering satin fell In softest folds, A royal rolie, fit for a kingly fea*t. And lace that was historic, fine us frost. The tracery of its pattern, trailing down or sprays of blossoms, caught with Jewels fine; No lain r sight In all the goodly town. ^ et gazed she on the splendor cold as death. Vet looked the on the picture still and white; The Hushing Jewels caught Hash In eyes that erst were brighter than light. No warnith from ruby hangings could light up 1 he chill oft hat set face, as silent there She thought upon the radiance of her life tiivcn for the radiance of this pageant fair, — Lottie Tyng Griswold. HER MATCH-MAKING. "Woll, do you like him, Kitty?” “Oh, very much, Sally, dearr’ "llU lovely mustache and his big, blue eyes! liid you notice, Kitty?” ■•Blue! Why, they’re a sort of green ish-grey; and his mustache is decided ly stubbly.” "Stubbly!” Miss bally Wilson dropped the paper in which she was twisting her hair for the night, and turned upon her friend with a gasp. "Stubbly! l or mercy’s sake of whom nre von talking?” "SS bv, of Mr. Beadle, to he sure— Mas-Alfred Beadle, the great bondhold er, the hero of the evening; of whom else?” Kitty pulled off one small white slip per, and stood twirling around upon the other and laughing gleefully. Sally watched her in dismayed sil ence. "Mr. Beadle!” she said, reproach fully. "You know 1 mean Howard Ben- ueti." Kitty paused in her giddy revolutions and sat down, with her rouAded elbows on the bureau, aud her lovely, Hushed face in her hands. "Dear me!—no I didn’t,” she said, fixing her soft eyes wonderingly on Sally s troubled face. "But, come to think of it, he uuu rather nice-look- ing.” Sally groaned. Was this the reward of all her love schemes? Was Uiu the way in which her dreams were to be realized—her hopes to bo fulfilled. Miss Wilson was a very romantic young lady. She bad always been, and rejoiced in being. As regarded herself, she had long since come to the conclusion that any romantic ending was, if not quite im possible, at least most unlikely. She was not, in the first place, of the proper appearance. She w as not imposing enough for the queenly sort of heroine sot forth in her favorite novels, and she had not the necessary raven locks and haughty manner; and the petite and babyish stylo was equally out df the question. She hail not a retrousse nose, nor pleading, blue eyes, and Lor stock of dimples was extremely limited and on/y made visible by painful contor tions. 1 lien her circumstances were very much against her. Sally was an heiress, and her par ents being dead, she was living with an aunt whom she had raised from the obscurity of dressmaking to preside over the beautitul borne to which she had recently returned from boarding echooL Nobody could ever love her madly guest had gone, to hear Kitty’s venycL “Rather good-looking!” she repeat ed, despairingly. “Why, he’s a per fect Adonis, Kitty!” f “Oh, well, I don’t know!” said Kit ty, composedly. "Howard,” she went on, dreamily, "ho looks os though hft name was Howard; all the Howards I ever knew were big and fair, and— rather soft, and ” She stopped suddenly; she.xhad jpped glim ps caught a glimpse of Sally’s face in the glass. “I’m so sorry, dear! I suppose he’s a great friend of yours?” she said apologetically. "But really I didn’t think him 'so entertaining as kMr. Beadle, and he hasn't half the indney, you know,” and Kitty laughed wick edly. Mr. Boadlo again! Sally’s heart sank. She might have expected some thing of the sort. Kitty was so totally diflerent from herself. She could never be made to see things us Sally paw them; she was distressingly matee.-of- fact. Sally sat pondering seriously, with the lights turned low, after Kitty, flushed and tired, and happy, had fall en asleep. Surely things must come out right. Howard must be backed and endtir- aged, and Mr. Beadle must be snub bed, crushed, and annihilated. Sally was not quite clear as to how this latter was to be accomplished hut she went to sleep with renewed hope. "I suppose wo shall be flooded with calls, shuu’t we?” said Kitty, as they sat in the parlor the next evening, talk ing over last night’s festivity, with oc casional yawns. "I suppose so, dear,” responded Sal ly, gazing at Irbt in fond admiration. Kitty was at her loveliest. Her red lips wore a smile of pleased expectan cy, and her dark eyes were bright with anticipation. r "By the way,” she said, peering in to an opposite mirror and patting her hair; "Sir. Beadle said something about coming to-night. Deaf me! how do I look?” Sally groaned inwardly. "I presume Mr. Beadle will not no tice muck,” she said, severely. "He is past those things, 1 should think. He must he forty at least” “About that,” said Kitty, sweetly. The bell raug at that moment, ami the subject of rheir conversation was ushered in. followed by a tall form, with a fair head, none other than How ard himself. Mr. Beadle pounced upon the chair nearest Kittv; Howard sank gracefully upon the sofa at Sally’s side. "I hope yourduties wf last night have not (juito worn you out.” he said, look ing down at her tenderly. "Ob, dear me, not at all!” responded Sally, rather sharply. This was all wrong; but what waa ■he to do? "it was a charming affair,” Howard continued, moving a little nearer to her. "Thank you!" said Sally, abstract edly. She was watching the pair opposite, with rising uneasiness. Mr. Beadle was leaning forward at a dangerous angle, talking with horrible volubility, with his eyes fixed ou Kit ty’s face. Sally felt a wild desire to see his chair roll backward and land him on the floor. Howard looked a little hurt by her brevity; but Sally was oblivious. "Don’t you think her lovely?" the said Kitty was venturing a remark at the 1 th ?! n tucked, waist find abbreviated skirt, and fct hair in two braids down her back. > Sally* hope* had somehow risen rather tgh. This waa almost tho end of Kite’s visit, almost the last time that sat and Howard would be to gether, tnd something must happen. The ^ct of their approaching sepa ration Could come home to them both; trould bring them nearer together; would firike down all obstaoKs hither to exiaing, and bring matters to a happy aid. Mr. Ifeadle was. of course, the chief obstack Mr. Beadle had shown a profoant interest in the occasion—a positireenthosiasm, which Sally con sidered ’evoking. “A naa of bis age!” site had suit! to Kitty, ialignantly. "It is absurd! He will proiably come as Infancy.” "Undiobtadly!” Kitty had respond ed, gai^T. “And Mr. Bennett as a lamp-pqt or a lightning-rod—he is so amusinfly tall!” link Imythe’a rooms were a blaze of light anl a scene of whirling gaiety. Sally pazed upon the scene, bewilder ed, fron tho retirement of a sofa. She had lod sight of Kitty, and in the present itate of confusion could not be sura of inowing her a?ain. A stalwart Highlander, with a fero cious niisk, paused before her, and ap peared t> be examining her intently. Then to came nearer, and stood re- gardingher critically, with his head on one side folding bis arms and crossing his scactily-clothod legs with a satis fied air. "He thinks I’m somebody else,” said Sally to herself, amusedly, aud forgot Urn in a new excitement. She hail caught a glimpse of red waist »ad a twinkling skirt; of a gay turban ind a flying mass of dark hair. Kitty was in alow chair at tho fur ther end of the room, her bare, round | arms, with their ailrer bands, gleam- 1 ing white, and her smiling, red lips, | just visible. A distinguished-looking individual, ; in tho costume of Louise XVI. was perched upon an ottoman at her side, gazing upward in an obvious state of : admiration and bliss. Sally craned her neck. Surely it was Howard! Only the lop of his head was visible behind his exaggerated ruff; but surely that limited portion bora a sinking resemblance to How ard’s. Sally felt a thrill of exultation; this was exactly what she had honed for. The music struck up; tho Highland- ; er offered bis arm promptly, aud away I they whirlod. Their steps were eminently suited. Sally’s cheeks began to glow behind her mask, and her eyes to sparkle. Suddenly the music ceased; the waltxers paused; there w:u a little hum of excitement, aud then a situul- taneons removal of masks. Sally looked around eagerly. Kitty and Louis XVi. stood near—Kitty smil ing and glowing. Louis XVI. strok ing a stuboly mustache and beaming down upon her. Sally looked op at her partner in amaze, and encountered tho affection ate gaze of a pair of blue eyes, and a smile from beneath a blonde mus tache. "It la rather warm here,” said the Highlander, softly. "Shall we step outside?” And Sfiliv went Half an hour later, when tho rioting within had reached its wildest point, they went still standing out under the stars, with the iuu>ic floating out to xly for herself alone—reach across a bar rier of poverty, and marry her in the ry h rid. face of a disapproving worl Sally sometimes regretted that her father had been the highly successful railway contractor that he had been. Her very name was discouraging. Sally Wilson! Who could conceive of anything interesting happening to a on with person with so horribly prosaic a name? But Kitty! It was all very different with Kitty. Sally’s romantio soul had thrilled with prophetic delight tho mo ment she had seen her—sitting on one foot in one of Madame Lavine’s school room windows Kitty had been educated by a bache lor uncle. She was beautiful and pen niless—the very qualifications for a heroine, Sally had reflected. She had taken her under her wing, as it were; and now that school was •ver, she had brought her home with her for a long visit—the chief object of which was that Kitty and Howard Bennett might be brought together. Sally had met him while at home ou her last vacation, and had immediately eoneigaed him in her heart to Kitty. What could be more fitting, more delightful? Howard was fair, Kitty brunette—which was just as it should be. Howard was calm, languid, and slightly pensive; Kitty was gay and vivacious. Opposite qualities were al ways necessary for perfect happiness. The time had arrived for the fnlfill- ment of her hopes and schemes. Sally had given her first reception, and from her position as hostess had noted the prograss of affairs breathless- She had watched their meeting and -their subsequent intercourse anxiously; she had contrived that they should go In to sapper together, thoorb that had been no easy matter. Mr. Alfred Beadie—the reputed millionaire, con cerning whom everybody was so ridica- Self, end Howard haring been ae ob- tane ns to offer bis arm to hit hostess. M Bet moment with a coquettish little laugh. Sally could gladly have shaken her. "Very,” said Howard, rather vague ly, and without looking around. "He is jealous,” said Sally to her self. "Poor fellow!” "She is always pleasant, like that, to evorbody," she said, aloud, with sympathy and reassurance in her tone. "She doesn't mean anything by it.” "Indeed?” said Howard. But he did not seem quite to under stand the force of the remark. Mr. Beadle was begging Kitty to sing; and now was Sally’s chance. "Do dear!” she urged; "our new waltz song. Do you know it?” she went on, turning to Howard. “Mr. Bennett will turn your leaves, Kitty.” Howard followed Kitty to the piano obediently, and Mr. Beadle joinea Sal ly on tho sofa "How extremely well-suited they arc!” Sally observed; "They seem made for each other. Don’t vou think so?” "Really, I had not noticed it," re joined Mr. Beadle, stroking his mus tache with sudden gravity. “Stubbly!—good gracious, yes!” said Sally to herself, wrathfully. "( should hardly think so,” he add ed, with some asperity. "No!” said Sally, frigidly. And they relapsed into silence. That was the first of a long series of similar occasions. Howard anti Mr. Beadle called in cessantly, and Sally’s anxieties in creased accordingly. Things were very discouraging for the most part. Mr. Beadle was plain ly enamored of Kitty's manifold charms, and was determinedly devot ed. Kitty was gay, and careless, and bewitching, and Howard was as lan gultl as ever, and rather more pen sive. Sally was convinced that this was due to unhappiness. He was grieved and angered by Kitty's indifference; he was a prey to hopeless yearnings and jealous passiou. Tho only drawback to the theory was that Howard seemed sometimes ridicu lously and unexplainably attentive to herself. Bat that was pride, of course—pique. Sally lived in momentary expectation of having a tale of wounded love and blighted hopes poured into her sym pathetic ears. The days and weeks rolled by; Kit ty's visit was drawing to a close, and everybody was looking forward eagerly to Mrs. 8myttae’s masquerade. Sally herself forgot her schemes aad anxiettps In the flatter of preparation. AA-ift rAfl-M A gtpgi jl Howard's fair head tvu* bonding very low, and Sally’s long braids fell over his arm. "But—it is so perfectly unexpected,” she was paying, in a subdued way. "I had dc ver *v®n thought of such a thing. M "NV*Saiil Howard, in an aggrieved tone—^tltprybody could see that.'’ ’saidSally, in a meekly it was always Kitty I Dear me!” and she tour agOt the would hardly id at this knowledge of the is failars of her plans. It was quite tin explain able. • -ta • # • • “I obnld hardly wait to tell you!” cried K^ty. ~ She waa sitting on the side of the bed, her dark bait In charming con fusion aib|md her ihmtiders, her silver bands Is * pile beside her, her red tur ban on the floor. "I could hardly wait! Oh, Sally, can yotkjnteM?” “It iajfar- Beadle, I suppose?” said Sally, Kitty i "De "I tho after pose?’* whri At thei Buffalo,: cuse, the 1 ) ry, was i usual going parts. What aiwj "Big “Good. What are “Big I "Right i are the 1. "Little voiced ut question. The coni Utica that appose?" jnedly—so resignedly delightedly. Was I right »!" she ct$cd i so all along. it is Mr. Bennett, I sup- raid so," said Sally softly. Congregation Smiled. licaiMn of Pilgrim Chapel, lliamli. Duncan, of Syra- tte Send ay school Secrets- ressieg the children in his >us winner. "Now, 1 am |vide (hour school into three "There are b. b-’s. the ready response. [’henfthere are the b. u nJ g. s. Editors hav< well as other and inculeate tue. They arl is a failing, if that one anoulf love like Ihe have carefully | entertain for: atantialiy a you be mine? t Boost, end % highly-colored and ily-baoeaing turban—things which dream aad <d*l anted forty voices I And last of all there exclaimed a shrill Ithout waiting for the In smiled vociferously. leir peculiarities as spie. They practice city, which is a vir- Ibsent-minded, which not strange, then, and a note to his lady- lowing: "Dearest; I i xlysed the feeling I i and the result Is snb- |ws: I adore you! Will iwer.” Then, "Write only on Write plainly not nsosssntUy tar Vision. Night before last, after 1 had rc^!.-- teroa at the hotel and been assiguml "the last room in the hotel”—I use the language of the hotel clerk—I wont in to the dining room to tea. It is not my custom when traveling to smile on one in whose heart a hope might spring up to bo dashed to tho earth by my departure. If 1 have caused pain in that way 1 did not intend to do so. I can joke and carry on and have a real good time, but I do not wish to inspire in anv breast hope which may be blaxt- ed. ah, alas! too soon. It was not long before I discovered a beautiful blonde of tho femalo sex at the farther end of the room beneath the chandelier. Her skin seemed to be of a delicate sea-shell color, and her hair was corn-colored. Her clothes also were entirely new, I should judge, and made especially for her. On her finger she wore a diamond ring with perfect ease. She knew just how to work that finger in order to get the most possible glitter out of her dia mond. Every little while 1 would look over there and revel in her beauty, and 1 thought that she was not entirely in sensible to my charm.v All that evening she was in my mind. I dreamed that night that I swooped down upon her and carried her away to the remotest boundaries of the world in a special car. The next morning 1 awoke hungry, for I didn't eat much supper the night before. 1 went down to breakfast, waiting and fooling away my time, hoping that aim would come while I was in the breakfast room, and I would till myself up with tho beauti ful vision aud a cup of coffee. Anon she came. She sailed into the room with calm disdain and an air of hauteur, and such things as that. The head-waiter waved his hand like a self acting duke in a theatre and gave her a seat at my table. A thrill passed up through mu aud 1 laid down the vulgar sausage which 1 was about to feud my self when she dawned upon me. I ventured then to look across the table at her in the full glare of the new born day. The first thing that 1 dis covered was tbat she hadn’t put her yellow wig on straight, it was a little higher on one ear than the othcr.which gave her the air of a young man who has over-monkeyed with tho flowing bowl. This showed to the casual spec tator a glimpse of her own moth-eaten, sage brush hair peeping out like the faded tail on an old buffalo robe. Then I knew (hat wo could never be more to each other than friends. Her nose was red also, and she had not been properly culcimined. In the hur ry of dressing she had mi.-sod her nose with the powder-rag and that organ— meaning, of course, the nose, ‘not the powder-rag—loomed up robust and purple in the ghastly waste of cheek bones and other osseous formations. Ah, what a pain it gave me to see my beautiful vision fade thus before my eyes! Then 1 tlioii^ht Imw I had smiled on her tho evening nefnre, and how, perhaps, a new hop; h.id sprung up in tier heart, aud I fc..r. h that when she knew it was all over between us the shock, at her time o( life might kill her. I left my hot pancakes, with the ma ple syrup all over them, and fled. Out into the din, tho hurry, and tho tire less rush of the mad, mad world, try ing to stifle the memory of that broken heart. Should she sue those lines 1 hope she will not think bitterly of mo. I still admire her as a well-preserved ruin, but love in such a case would be a hollow mockery.—Milwaukee Sun. Keturned to Hie 'Wigwam. FORETOLD DEATH. Brm»rical»l>> Prnpherjr of a Hale and Hearty Old Man. Nyaok, N. Cincinnati Valley Cottage, writes a Y., correspondent to the Times-Star, is a way station on the West Shore railroad, midway between this place and Rockland Lake. It takes its name from a hamlet, nod the ham let from the farm of John Ryder, who was long the most prominent man in the place. On June 11, Mr. Ry der died, and under circumstances that have caused widespread comment among the villagers. Mr. Ryder died after prophesying for three days that June 11 would be his last day on earth. Mr. Ryder was a wealthy farmer and a high official in the Methodist church at Rockland Lake. He was 76 years old, and his ruddy cheek and clear blue eyes gave no indication of ap proaching dissolution. He used to boast that ho had never buen ill a day in his life. Up to a few weeks ago he worked his farm, going out to plow at daylight One day he returned to the farm house and seated himself in an arm chair. When asked if he was ill he replied that he was not but said: "I have plowed my last; 1 have sowed my last. Now, I feel that as I have passed beyond the threescore and ten the good Lord allowed me, 1 shall not live to see this harvest. God's will be done.” His form work fell into the hehds of hired men, and he mechanically re ceived their reports. All day he walked up and down the veranda, his head sunk on his breast, deep in meditation. "I am tired,” he would say when any of the neighbors or hie relatives rallied him on bis actions. "1 shall not live long. Soon I will tell you be forehand the day which shall be my last” On Tuesday, June 9. he called his family around him and sent a servant after the farm-hands, meanwhile pre serving a calm demeanor. When all had assembled he said in deep and im pressive tones: "My friends, my time is drawing nigh. My sands of life have nearly run out. But two days more and I shall not be with you. 1 have received a warning, and it portends death. My friends, I leave you with a life, I hope, clear of crime aud with a hope ana a belief in the infinite tenderness and mercy of tbb true and living God.” Turning to a farm-hand, he said with surprising energy: "Harness up m horse and buggy. Do it quickly. cb Edwiu Forrest was once laid up with a severe attack of rheumatic gout, which rendered him about as pleasant to come in contact with as an Indian on the warpath. A friend of his drop ping in just as the emineat tragedian was seized with a terrific twinge, met with a decidedly warm welcome, aa regards unsaint-like expletives. Bein rather a facetious individual, the frien exclaimed: "Hello, governor! What are yon laughing at? I never saw you so tick led oefore.” In his fiercest manner, interspersed with deeptoned grunts and some pro fanity. Forrest growled: ‘Get out, will you? I won’t see anybody. Let me alone, confound you." A little while after the enubbed friend might have been seen in conver sation with a small specimen of a boot- black, whose stand was in front of the hotel where Forrest was stopping. The confab, accompanied by a series of pantomimic gestures on the part of tho gentleman, which were clearly dupli cated by the bright-witted shiner, last ed some fifteen minutes, when the boy, a broad grin illuminating his expan sive countenance, started to ascend the hotel stairs, receiving a parting injunc tion: "Don’t you stop pounding until ho lets you in.” This admonition was strictly carried out, whereupon the door was violently thrown open, and Forrest angrily de manded the cause of so much commo tion. Striking an attitude a la Meta- mora, the tutored bootblack declaimed in a piping treble: “You sent for me. I have come. II you do not want me. I will go book to my wigwam.” “Pouncing upon the boy, Forrest rowlel out: “You young imp, you! ere, take this,” tossing him a quarter, as he added, 4< aiid go tell that ” (designating his facetious friend by name and a few additional adjectives) "to come up I want to see him.” A* the door closed upon the apt little, bootblack a roar of laughter isaaid from Forrest’s room, which seemed to have a beneficial effect upon his ail ment, for when his friend appeared he was in quite a jovial frame of mind. A correspondent writes that the Af ghans eet onions as the Americans do apples. Our readers will therefore at onoe understand the cause of the recent attack by the Kasdans. They were ed to use their guns to keep the distance. Aad near we can easily be^ liars Cob Mania's statement that ttfc Inhabitants qf jighinlstsa are a no* and *** When the vehicle waa ready he aprang in unassisted and drove to the little burying-ground near b)’, owned by a few of the old families in the neighbor hood. Arriving at the grave-yard he looked around, and, running to a mound whore there .was a pile of ■takes, he marked off the space in which he wanted to be buried. Driving home he did not spare the horse, and when his house was reached ho immediately dispatched a servant to Nyack for a lawyer who had done legal business for him before. In the nute he said he wanted to draw up hia wilL He also ordered the man to uring an undertaker back with him. Tho un dertaker came and jokingly meaaurod the old gentleman. "Now give me your bill; I want to pay it now,” ha said to the undertaker. Tbo surprised undertaker obevod with reluctance and the old gentleman paid the money down. The lawyer came after a second messenger had been sent for him. The will was duly drawn up, and-after the instrument had buen signed, giving the property in proportion to his children, he invi ted the lawyer to come to his funeral, as ho was an old friend of tbo family, and also net as pall-bearer. The law yer laughingly assented to thepropoai- liou, thinking it was but a whim of hi* old client Mr. Ryder then named three other men ho wanted to act os E all-bearers. In the lawyer’s presence e named all the other details about the funeral and mode disposition of his personal effects and mentiouod hie friends. Ob the following day Mr. Ryder sal in his old arm-chair on the veranda most of the time. During the night following ho got up several times aud his family' heard him walking through the house. Ho was in his usnal plaoe in tho morning and appeared to be in his usual health. Toward noon he called his family around him. saying: "My friends, 1 am going. Good-by all, and God bless you.” He then lay back in his arm-chair, and gazing tenderly at his family, rently closed his eyes. His lips moved In prayer, and once again he opened bis eyes and smiled, and again the tyo- lids closed aud all was still. Those around him thought he was sleeping, but when they called him he did not answer. He was dead. Many promi nent citizens of Nyack and vicinity ▼ouch for the truth of the details of the old gentleman’s demise. One at Mr. Ryder’s sou*, who is about 40 years of age. L a prominent business man in tliis City. Mr. Ryder was buried Satniv day, all his desires and religiously followed request* being It seemes to be tho ambition of all young wives to look well wheu any one calii. A young bride beard a ring at the front door. The maid was out, and she rushed up-stain to "tidy” a little before admitting the caller. There was a momeut of lightning work before the dressing-table. Quicker than it takea to tell u, a ribbon was fastened to her throat, a flower stabbed into her hair, a flash of powder ou her face, and aha was at the door—all smiles andblajbes. The “gentleman” said he nod tha cheapest dotbes-prope that ooaM ba bought for the money. . — ■ ^ I ie An Athens man. wheu he oakad his wife to marry him, promised her that if he ever got too poor to pay for tha family wnshiug no would sends tha clothes himself. He hoe reached that E oint of |ioverty. and the lady holds im to his word. Every wash-day ha m»y_be seen with UU oust off at work sMshtuU—SaeaMM* (Cfc) Himes. Msaq. Nilsson says tha oarer tired at hsaRag hsasstf sh ttteea to the degisgufst) HMsahsim n* mnrs or m stats. Seme ef Ute Latest Seytace e«S —The Edisto River Is rep ported to be In good fishing condition. —Lancaster wants a steam fire en gine, aud Charleston oflbn her one, with those reel, for —Over 360 earloads of watermelons have been shipped from Willlstbn, Barnwell county, so for this year. Mrs. Eveline Wilson, a pensioner of the war of 1812, died last Saturday near Keidvllle, Spartanburg county. The Bank at Johnston, Edgefield county, is now an assured fact. Almost enough money has been subscribed already. There ore many fields of cotton near Greenville, from which the pro prietors expect to gather over a bale to the acre. — Fannie Harris, a pretty seventeen- year-old white girl, has been lodged in Greenville jail on the charge of breach of trust. —Billy Roper, of the Trenton sec tion, has twenty acres of corn from whicli lie will certainly gather six hundred bushels. Mrs. James Smith, of Aiken conn- ty, had her collar-bone and three ribs broken, on the 23rd alt., by being thrown oat of a wagon. —The hands on the Savannah Valley Railroad are working energetically, and in two months’ time tins track will be laid to Mt. Carmel. —The upland corn is booming in Spartanburg, and the prospect is that not much corn will be shipped there from the West next year. —It is uow proposed to bnild an other railroad through Edgefield, from the Charlotte, Columbia A Augusta —Tha paataastar at Mariana, Fla., has absconded, leaving a deflate la U» accounts of 11,000. —Excitement in England ever tha disclosures of the J\tU Mail (kuatta continues unabated. —Maud 8. one day last week a mile over the Glenville track Cleveland, O., in 2.061. —There ore now sixteen comps of penitentiary, convicts in Georgia. The law says there shall only be two. —The counsel of Roll, the Caneda Hebei, have practically given np the fight, and rest their entire defcsuM on insanity. —The Springfield Republican thinks tbat Hosooe Conkling will be invited uuu oration on Railroad, at McCormick. or near Johnston, to —Mr. F. M. Stephenson, of Lancas ter, lost hia dwelling, kitchen and the contents of both buildings by Are, on the 17th ult. Loss about $1,600; in surance $800. —A detachment of the colored National Guard of Charleston expect to attend the funeral of Gen. Grant. The citizens will be asked for fluids to meet the expense. —A correspondent of the Keoscee Courier says the Bine Ridge Railroad is an unseemly carcass standing in tbo way of live enterprises, and demands the repeal pf the charter. —Mr. Thomas Reid, of Abbeville, was so badly hart by being struck in the eye with a piece of rock, which be broke off while hoeing, that he went to Atlanta for surgical relief. —Mr. Will 8apps was struck by lightning, on the 26th nit., in Lancas ter county, and Lam Yang ban, ooiored, on the 27th, in the aame section. Both men were paralysed fbr a time. •The citizens of Walhaila are very angry because the result of their pri mary election for postmaster has been ignored and somebody has Induced the Postmaster General to appoint another man. —Tom McCardell and Lee Clinton, colored, had a difflcnlty and shooting match in Lancaster, owing to indeoent remarks made by one relatlvs to the wife of the other. The case jras com promised. —A mad dog in the nlaghborbood of Tylersville, Greenville county, last week, attempted to bile a child, hot only tore her dress. He bit several animals, however, before be was over hauled and shot dead. —Senator Wingard and Rspraeenta- tives Brooker and Guiguard attended the farmers’ meeting at Lexington on Saturday and aided la the organization of the Lexington County Agricultural and Mechanical Society. —The Spartanburg District Metho dist Cou|brence, at its recent meeting si Gaffney City, adopted a formal pro test against free tuition it the Stnta College. The district embraces Spar tanburg, Lanrens and Union. —Qnite a number of Lancaster's progressive farmers have began In an experimental way to cultivate grapes with the view of making wine for market, and those of them who have given their vineyards that attention whioh they require have met with gratifying results. —The Episcopal church at Lancas ter, which has been closed for some time for the want of a pastor, will likely be opened at an early day. A plan is on foot for uniting with the church at Yorkville and calling a min ister fbr the two charges, his time to be divided between them. —Five carloads of lumber to? the Greenwood, Laurens and Spartanburg depot have arrived at the Spartanburg and Union depot. A squad of hands are ready to begin work. The Idea of s tramway from the Air Line bos been abandoned and they will lay the trade from the other end of the rend. —Mr. James F. Hooter, of ter, who loet so severely by n recent Are, met with a series of misfortunes on the 28th. Hie little child was seri ously iqiured by a fall; Mr. Ranter was suddenly taken ill and bod to be carried home; and his bone ran away and dnshed his boggy to pieces. —Jim Caskey, colored, who hod been speaking dlsrespactfnlly of ladtea in Lancaster, was taken from his bouse by n party of masked men, whipped severely aad ordered to leave the county, which he did. The maskers went to Lee Clinton's boose for * similar purpose, but be had decamped. —The educational outlook in Marion is more encouraging than it has been for many years. Mr. G. A. Woods has raised the handsome son of $4^00, in shares of $100. to be paid in two Instalments, on October 16 sad Janu ary 1, to buy a lot, erect suitebts bond ings and the hiring eorpe of teachers. —P. A. Harmon, of wishes to know now long a terrapin will live. He ed Ms fa two nMassoo theshsIlBifl’— sssF* Thor mo rency inaHthat l _ —The Salvadon Amy, Thursdaff aftmuoott with jl to deliver s natio life of Grant.. the —The decree entered a short Hq— ago in the Chicago Uodvsretty ease, finding Stephen A. Dongisrs heirs entitled to the property, has been set aside. —The Paris Telegraph* has a sensa tional dispatch from St. Petersburg sa)ing that war between Russia aad England is certain directly after the elections in England. —The rate of immigrant flue from Baltimore to Chicago nos been red ne ed from $7 60 to $7, baeanae, it is alleged, the latter charge has fbr some time post been mode by the Pennsyl vania Rood. —It is said tbat three hundred end fifty-eight criminals, who have escaped from Georgia in the course of the teal thirteen rears, are ’'wanted” in that State. The rewards offered for them aggregate $100,000. —Special, reports from all the Sooth- western counties of Pennsylvania show that the growing crops are more advanced and in a better state than for years past. Corn, oats, grass aad all fruits are reported especially fins. —The Norfolk Landmark raeom mends Postmaster General VI las as tha man to maka the oration on the occa sion of the memorial servioae over General Grant, to ba bald in tha House nentnttvos of of Represent —Willie Sprague, eon of tho cx-Gov- ernor of Rhode Island, hoc married bis step-mothers' sister. This makes him his tether's hrotberteaiaw and snarls up tha family oannsetion fa n most singular manner. Bat if hs and the old man are content, It is nil right. —Mr. J. B. Fanning, who lives in Newton county, Miss., ten miles wum of Enterprise, wee wounded la tha teoe at Mine Ron, in November, 180, the ball lodging Just above the root of bis mouth, taking twenty-two years to work downward the space of about on inch. —The fever epidemic at Pa., has at last abated, has been abandoned ant have left. Abont 160 people hare dlsfl from the fever ia Plymouth since its first outbreak. The highest nurnhar sick at one time was 69. About $tfl,s 000 has been spent in relief measures. —Mr. J. H. Clark, of Shirley, Cov ington oounty. Alabama, is the strong est man, physically, fa dm State. He con take a 260 pound anvil, placing his thumb in tbs throw it off Ilka a marble, sad to handle two stoat man at n time |s child’s piny. Mr. Clark 260 pounds. —In order to prevent the ate of foreku eat stone by the bricklayers and union and too hare decided not to balldlnf whore stone Chicago Is tbs above advised architects and their deeWon. —The epidemic of ehoisenfa flails Is becoming more aianulhf orerr day. 1M UUAt CQMHV where with with constantly Numerous towns fa the not offleiafty notiied the existence ofeha) and the ywtaal eame of death AH’ exceed the oflteiol stetleoes. Thou sands of the upper cineeee are France dolly, and nil hops of theappnOing contagion been lost. —A thunder storm Mount McGregor on Thursday night. Hour pereoM were strodt by Ifattatag bat not severely Mured. ~ struck the roof of the Gif and knocked Lightning alee struck tha toga. Veteran Knapp, on duty fa the room with the body of General Great, felt the shook severely. A ufahref the 12th Infantry also reeoivsd a shock. The lightning entered the Grant eet- tore off the Uyktming tags through the plastering. Tha the casket was put out. —In the year 1880 Reed what to GalnssviUs Carolina, tod as it was a < matter to transport gold dost, was tlto* being oanorFad tit eos Me quantities, and using this form was vary inconvenient, fall man rigged oat a mint hfawfaf in a blacksmith shop and m tatng $6 werth of geld, who hire seen them, it is ssid tfcttfc &■