The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, August 06, 1885, Image 1
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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
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