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VOL. X.
THE LAWS OF 1886.
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BARNWELL, 8. C„ THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1887.
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A LIST or Tim ACTS PASSKO BY THE
OICNICKAL ASSEMBLY.
Hew Railroad*. Hew Bank* and Hew Cltlr*>
and Town»--A Kevlew ef the Work of the
Legislature.
Below will be found a classified list of
moat of the Acts passed at the recent
session of the General Assembly—one
hundred and forty-one in number.
There were twenty-four public or general
Acts, five appropriation Acts and thirty-
six Acts relating to county afiairs. Be
sides, there were sixteen Acts relating to
railroads, twelve to municipal charters,
twenty-nine to miscellaneous charters,
seven to stock law exemptions, two con
stitutional amendments, four relating to
the sale of liquor and six of a miscellane
ous character. -
ArrBBorKi ation h.
An Act to make appropriations for the
fiscal year commencing November 1,
18H6.
An Act to make ap|irvpriatiuua for the
payment of the per diem anil mileage
and stationery certificate of the mem-
lien of the General Assembly, the sala
ries of the subordinate officer* and
Act to provide for the establishment of a
new school district in the county of
Darlington, to be known as the school
district of tltf town of Timmonsville,
and to authorize the levy and collection
of a special school tax thereon.”
An Act'to reduce the number of trial
justices in Kershaw aounty and make
the office a salaried one. : ——
An Act to limit the number of trial
justices in certain counties in this State.
An Act to prescribe and fix the amount
of the bond of the Probate Judge of*
Williamsburg county.
An Act to amend the law in relation
to county eommiasionen and county
school commissioners.
An Act to authorize and require The
county commissioners of York county
to submit {o.the quaUhod- voters of
Broad River township tod Bullock
Creek township the question of trans
ferring the sul>seription heretofore voted
to the Georgetown and North Carolina
Norrow Gauge Railroad to any other
company after a limited period.
An Act to create a school district of
that portion of Barn well county lying
within the coqioratc limits of tbo town
of Barnwell.
All Actio prohibit the county com
missioners of York county from granting
aid to the outside poor except os herein
provided.
.An Act to limit the number of tiial
justices in York county, fix th<*r terri
torial jurisiiietioD, and to provide for
their compensation, sad to provide for
' two trial justioea in the «ty of Spartan-
em
ployee* thereof, and for other purjHaes
herein named. •
Joint-Resolution to rn»nd'- -fnr thct-Wfr - —
|auraw*sas*s*^ ssnaims»wAfl lO AQUIOTIZ# tllG tOVll
in repairs of the CiU-
Mditarr Academy
del boiklings.
Joint Keeolutlou relating to the ser
vice* of the attornev general in the reve
nue bond aerip case*.
An Act to raise supphe* and make ap-
^ropnations fur Up- tiacsi > ear i •cguimng
I iHirtious
o|K-iatM>n
f . KTVKE LAW.
.An Art to exempt ceaiau
CoUrton county from the
the stork law.
An .Art to amend Chapter XXVII
the General Statute*, relating t »the g
eral stock law and fencing’ ato.-k.
An Art to exempt certain pi-rtioas
flamptou county from the <>p. nation
‘Charter XXVIi of the < *eom
relating to the stuck law.
eoum-il
of
for rebuilding and repairing Mount Zion
Collage.
An Art to authorize the- aountY eom.-
miamouen of C'laren>lon county to bor
row money for Imilding *ryt repainng
bridges and for the support of the poor.
An Art relating to the resnaeesmeat of
real property and tire collection of taxes
in certain portion-, of the counties of
Charleston. Berkeley and Colleton.
An .Art to create a ties school diet net
sithin the towuahip of Barnwell, in
Barnwell ooniity, to be known sa the
Barnwell Graded School Ihetnct, ’ and
to authorize the levy aid ooUertioa of a
local tax therein.
Joint ReeotuUon ankhonxing and
qomns the county school mss uni
of WilTiamsbnrg oounty to pay to W. 1).
Knox his *
tMNK BOOTS.
A Story of Interc*t in the Cao*e of Tem-
|»erKii<-e.
A drtinken man came staggering along
village street. As he readied a corner,
he saw a group of boys watching some
thing across the way. Ho had not en
tirely lost his senses, so no wondered
what they found so interesting.
“Wha-a-ar-yer-yer lookin’ a-at?”
“Well, old fellow,” answered Billy
Dorr, “we’re looking for a beauty to
come out of that door over there.”
“A beau-tie?”
“Yes, a beauty; but go on, there is
no use o’ lingering to see Pink Boots;
your old, rod eyes can’t half across
he street.”
But the rude boy was mistaken; tie
red eyes were not quite so blood-shot as
usual, and they were looking with as
much interest as the younger eyes at
Pink Boot*, who just then opened tin'
door of the store opposite thorn and
came out. Pink Boots was a beautiful
girl of ten years, and her hamls full of
Howers -rosea, lilies and carnations. Slie
walked a half dozen or more steps down
the walk, and was just stepping into a
handsome carriage when another little
girl oamc hi sight. For a brief moment
the two children stood in strong con
trast FIokms Burr, with glowing, hap-1 w itt, hornet prohibition-
py face, and Celia Hunt, with her ,*lo. | ££ u( t . vory ^ ^ ^ wi-e
diatnase«l ouo. ikm*iic< was dres-M-d ui to Uni rum oligarchy
an elaborah-ly embrudereil pink cash-1 * J
mere and her feet wen- encased in U-an-
tiful pink kid buttoned boota—for Flor
that I am! Ah! Celia, you're waking,
child. Florence Burr will never buy any
more pink boots with the money that
belongs to tho little ones. I’ve been over
to Sergeant Wright’s, working hard at
blacking stoves for four hours, and while
I.blackened the stoves he whitened my
heart a little. God bless him! He paid
me, too, a good price and to-morrow I’m
to begin work in his tin shop. Wake up
tho poor little boys, Celia, my dear little
girl. Tell them their father, amt not a
brute-, has come home, and brought such
a supper that they’ll shout for joy.”
KEY. Milo L. CfYLEK, 1>. I>.
Hi* 1‘oiiltloM—O that Hart a Million Dr.
Cnylrr’* A merle* Won III lie Tree.
My temperance creed is very abort,
and my course is very straightforward.
I believe in total abstinence from mak
ing, drinking, offering, or selling any
ami all intoxicants. 1 shall fignt the
]>onaablc help* to
Righteous law* demand a public ooti-
Mcienet- behind them ; our Mocicty aims
to create and quicken that conscience.
I abhor all dram-dens, and am nady to
Tk«- t1i-*»areiurnt of I he Y**r.
OH) VIRGINIA CHRISTMAS.
ence was going .to a tm partj. Sue \ The I. :mth of the rear ia stru-Uy
wora atao a uroaff'bruTifrlNU lixt tHfL Jay* .- hour* -W uilfiul«* ktf
MKMOKIEH OF THE HOLIDAY SEASON
IH THE DAYS BEFORE THE WAR.
How tho Family Kept AA'ati-U for Ihe Day.
and How They Enjoin! It When It
Ckme.
(Mxrioll UarUad in tfc* Ceurwr-Jour**l >
In the days that are no more, the legal
Thanksgiving day was not known in
Virginia. Nor yet New Year’s day, as
kept by Knickerbocker burghers. The
Twenty-second of February was cele
brated by college orations; the Fourth
of July given over to political barbecues;
Christruas-timi- was the reservoir into
which debouched the flush tide of fami
ly, social ami national rejoicings. With
lofty as with lowly, it was a watch-tower
set on the hill, the benign light of which,
like the flaming sword guarding Eden,
u—hwrt every way. Backward rays from
Christmas gout- met and mingled with
the dawn of Christmas coming. We
began to count the days yet unfulfilled
with the reddening of the rock maples.
The opening, of the chinquapin burr,
the apple harvest, the fall of the leaf ;
the cnange from pucker to sugar in the
pulp of the persimmons w«-ro way-
marks, impatiently numliered, in the
pmrmsainn f months and werka toward
the culminating glory of the year,
uchwia'iw tvmiarticrd |ia*pasa>iaa
lielle of the party, and hit wife was
sometimes his vis a vis. Cburehly elders
\ who had scruples about dancing in gen- ]
eml were coaxed into taking the floor
for this “once a year.” As the clock
struck 12, they joined hands in a wide |
ACT* OF'
circle and sang, “Auld Lang Hynu," or,
quite as often, “Praise God from Whom
all Blowings How.” They
The following
paiMd eft the
tore and all relate to 1
interest;
.mm
re
wore SB O — , ^ w^nwuit w* *or- , —
it revealed her bruised anklea. which ,|„. wnn About 43 B. C., Julios, TM traditu.ns of our'English
were bare like her frrt. An old veil. ty the b«-ip of Sosiguuw, an Al- told mightily in modeling our habita of
tied about her pinched face did duty a*!, nuidnan philosopher, cams to a tolera- life. »* *“ * - ~
heed protector, but no wrmpojvered her bly clear umlerstamliug of the length of . “(-RRisnua is Town”
^.rih^hdli 1^® 00 \ m7mr A , . k *rSr* t 'rCi 1 , ^ .leprecated with a .Uto of comiwa-
needed thmehillvlly. ' y^ JmuU be hdd to eoorirt of JjLonrtTeonS-ipfthy planter* and tUr ,
dsovw away with Jli.r I .km* tor thn purpow, of absorbing the Th.rkoptop.m booses si that i dinnse wsi
.Mkl boura By thi* rather cluiu.y ar- vlUl berimes, that looks to u. I afternoon,
rwngemeat the aataml time toU Imhmd now hkf , hoo|1-iB rx tiav*«anc. Tb-
the reckonuig, as. in rtahty, aday every | ^ ^ inor dcrd*rly in IV-,
fourth year u too umch br 11 minuWsi M for ^ nuptial, and court balanced by
1« second* and thre< tenths of a second; , Mince mi^It was slrsadv sanoe at th* tod.
ashamed to name Him to whom all
praise belongs in those brave, simple
days—that are no mors! One more set
—the Virginia reel, danced on Christ
mas night in the Mother Country to this
time, under the name of Sir Iv >gcr de
< 'nverley mid the vs assail bow l of egg
nog vas brought in. A toast to u><
health and happiness of present and ab
sent friends was drunk, and tbo girls
betook themselves to the cheery, crowd
ed chambers overhead, leaving tho men
to smoke ami talk iiolitics about the
drawing-room hearth.
Before sunrise every sleeper »>u the
plantation was aroused by the deafening
1kmmi of the “Christmas gun.” A heavy
blast of gunpowder was rammed into a
hollow tree and tiled at daybreak. De
tonations of lesser force followed, from
logs riddled with augor-holes and stuffed
with powder, guns, pistols, and “pop
crackers,” while the outcries of
“Chrismaa-gif my raarstcr!” “Chrin'ina*-
gif my tnixtls!” under windows and in
balls, rivaled Uu- “baksheesh" yells of
the Beilowiu.
Nobody in that region and time mid
"M. rrr Ohristama," but always "Christ
inas (rift." The strife ss to who ahou d
get it out first was, with children end
on the bberality of
Whet wee
wtxdat nuDOHr nxnm.
1.476 of thel
to running
be lawful for said
persons to run on arid <
months of April, May,
any and every mo
trains such
stay be rendered
dinary nm rrgriv*ifrf
cident to freight or i
such fr ' “ ^ ‘
which
o’clock a. m.’
, Bnc. 1,477,
Juty
A
USM
i, ami “pop Iformity with the provisional
of but delayed by aoosdcot or ofth
able
point aft
on Bundaj.
it is i
lot it to
-
Lujoun
to provide
>|uomr *ele,
Beaufort <
The camagr drove sway with Fh>r-|
coor, ami (eha stood gazing after it NX I
count- the drunkro men sew the poor j
child, *o did the boys. The latter
laughed, and Billy Dorr raid; •**1 tell j
you it pays better to sell liqu**r than it
doe* to drink iL What • your opinion.
So it inevitably followed that the U gin
Daddy Hunt?" I ning of the year moved onward
“Daddy Hunt did not answer ; be the point at which it was in the
stood stupidlyjgixing at hia baretooUd,, c«mr. Prom the *»■**» of the
uo* oa u< chhek.
to repeal an Art ei. titled an
Act to prohibit the aele of *|>imuous or j An Art su'uUert “An Art (
malt liquors within the sountv of Bant **• oMtumidiville,
reO, approved DvremU r-21, ivCI.
An Art to amend an Art ei.
Art to |Wi-hibit the sale of hpmtuou*
liquors in the toun of l’won, approved
December ‘JiV, A. D. Khi.
Art to submit the question «-t license
for the sale of |q>irituous, malt or intuni-
raiiftg liquor- in And..-«» u ami Inurcna
counties to the qualified elector , thereof,
and providing peualtic* Tor the violation
or uvaMun uz aitemptol evaaicH of the
prohibition law ii a majontv of mnl
elector* vote in favor thereof. *
An Act to authorixe ttn- mUr «•{ liquor
ui Bcrkeiiy ami Beaufort cutmtic*.
ITBLll XtTH.
An Act to amend an Act pu scribing
the mode of diverting the ngut of dower
of maun married womi-n.
Joint Resolution to extend the time
for the (wymeot of the taxes for thctiscul
year cotumenciug November I. Itao.
_ Aa Act tp provide fur the furmatioti
of oartain corporation* under the gem r.d
■krs' ~~ • ' ~ ~ ~ ~~~ ’ ■
An Art to ri-t,ui«i. tiie tmii for col-
It-cLag Uo.e* by cxocuilon or diidreas.
An Act to punish tho stealing of
melons and trait.
An Act to create a fund to be desig
nated “The Treasury Reserve Fund,"
and to provide for tm- control of the
weary-lae
*Tsay, old fellow, dal you buy
fall outBt at tbo same stosu that ITnk
Boota' felhrr bought hat*?”
I "Bhut sp, now, will you? If you
Art oaUUod “An Art to inoorp.* ! don’t, 1’U knock the twerth out of Hr'
in the eoun-1 Tl*e druukard spoke savagely and
! of Sics, ia SUi A. R., whs* the
on
fell com-ctiy
Pope Gregory found,
tat there tied beeu an o
21st o(
■ 1M
frost
in
d court
is alraady
with | xwch brandy in
i rtust ami mould, then pack.-d
huge jam, and bWldsn tied
mouth*. With the flirt hard
lie “hog killing.
*rs nba, shhMS am
lo
of |hs
bleGift huimldad by the sagrts' aathaas
above tho plains of Befthlehsa.
not nouux v mnrr k
lotovor unttl lUo'aloek,
1 at 2 or 3 o'i
tier soup nor llah was
regarded aa an caantta* lo the feast
■tort turkey aft the hand«i
for
was ! l: d.
between the two,
other sahfof the i
h oyster
midway
is to be i
| ty of Cotb -ton,
. A. D. I9«ft
approved Deermber '.*6, | I,., w.^.1 to' execute hi* thn at,
, ah. u sudden!v r litth- arm t<>ueh hia.
An Vd to alter and amend the chart.»I JdVv3r , 1 toI eoaxingiv Vo*?,
Of the town of Lauri-im father.’*
.Vn .Art to amend an Art to incorporate The »'»■- ■uffi-ml himeelf to be led
U-t,,.. ^ ^
An Act to regulate tho issuing and ser
vice of warrants in criminal case*.
An Act to amond Section id 8 of tho
(General Statutes of South Carolina, re
lating to the repairs of highways.
An Act to amond an Act entitled “An
Act to amend Section l.oSO of the Gen
eral Statutes, in relation to }»irtition,"
approved December 20,1885.
Aij Art to renew and amend the
ter of the town of Wina*l«oru.
Art to amend Section 6 of aa Art en
titled “An Art lo incorporate the town |
« .f Barnwell, approved Marrh 1.1878.
’.An Art to charter the town of York-
rtUsi.
An Art to amend the chart* r of the!
town of Chester, rahflsd ami approved
Deeember Si, 1883..
An Art to amend the charter of the
town of Kingrtree.
Aa Art to confer certain pow cm upon
the- town council of Hodges, in Abbevilk-
oounty.
MDVRLLXNBO-TR ('BAKTeas.
An Art to- incorporate the Bamlierg
Banking Company of Bamberg, S. C.
An Art to recharter Hollas * Ferry
acr6ss Big Sabidx ITtvcr in Edgefield
raouty. ” f ~~ •s■■■■ ■P®
An Art to charter tins Bank of Green
wood. _____
.An Art to charter the Spartanburg
Encampment Associa tion. ~
An Act to inoorpoi’ate the Cougaree
Construction Company.
An Aet to alter and amend the chartea
of the Young Men’n Loan and TriUF
Company of Rock Hi 11, and to change
the name thoroof.
CONSTITUTIONAL. JLKKM >MXXTK
| away
char- HiIIt singing
I dear frther.
after tliei
sue home.*
“O father.
It
An Act to raUIy
.Article II of the Constitution of South
Carolina by adding thereto a soothm, to
An Act to provide for transporting Ynowu aft Sectidu 4 thereof, in lieu of
iraona convicted to the peniteutiarv bv 800110118 4 and 5 of aahl Article as it now
persons convioted to the penitentiary by
the penitentiary guards.
An Act to estabbsh the South Carolina
Agricultural Farm and Stations.
An Act to repeal Section 1,040 and to
amend Section 1,042, Chapter XX, of
the General Statutes, entitled “Of the
University of South Carolina."
An Aot to amend Sections 2,23(1 and
2,237 of the General Statutes in relation
to juries.
An Act to flx the fee for
-oners in oounty jails.
Act Act to amend Section 1,087 of the
General Statutes relating to the hunting
of deer.
An Aot to amend Section 2,497 of the
General Statutes of South Carolina
relation to setting Are Iff grass.
An Act to- regulate the public printing
in this State.
dieting pris-
in
I tw
jb
RAILROADS.
- An Aet to amend Section 1,470 of thc
General Statutes, aa to the running of
trains on Sunday.
An Art to amend an Act entitled “An
Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act
to incorporate the Palmetto Railroad
Company,’ approved December 21,
1882, approved December 26, A. D.
1884.
An AetTo confer certain rights upon
the Port Royal and Western Carolina
Railway Company, to wit, to mortgage
.ttloonMinte property and franchises, to
extend its railway and to lease connect
ing rail wars.
An Act to amend an Aot entitled “An
Art to incorporate the Blaekvdle and
Alston Railroad Company,” ’approved
December 24, 1885.
An Art to charter the Yemaasee a nd
Walter boro Railroad.
An Act to amend an Art to charity ~
Cbertar and Canute Railroad Com’
An Art to change the name and r
the chatter of the Charter, Grer nwood
and^Vbbevdle BaiWK^nqwny
“ ' cSttW '
stands.
An Act to ratify tho amendment to
Section 14 of Article 9 of the Constitu
tion of tho State. .
MWKLLANKOr s. _
Ac Act to amend Section 481 of the
Qenqral#tatutes of the State of South
Oorolina, in referenje to tho salary of
tho Lieutenant-Governor. *.
An Aot to provide for the issue of a
deficiency bonfl or stock to Octavius A.
White, in satisfaction of the guarantee
of tho Statej on a certain bond of the
Spartonbytg and Union Railroad Com
pany. _ ■
t. to cancel the matriculation
it of 0. J. Bond, and Thos. P.
n to the board of visitors of the
Academy and to define the man
ner il which the said board may here-
eal with tike oases.
Aet to allow persons who ahdl
esided within this State for ten
ce the war, and who hare lost
b or arms or have been perma-
ly disabled in the legs doing miti-
service, to obtain the benefits of the
to provide artificial limbs, &c.
a tong walk to the drunkard's
home. Before be nwcbi-d it, he was
softer. “Oeba,” he mid, “wouldn't you
tike some pink boots?”
“No. father, 1 would not »ant llulP
•Why not?”
.•They wouldn't iviraapond with
rsg>,”tLe child mid bitterly;
wouldn't wear Florence Burr * pink
boots if 1 had silk tlrense* to wear Milh
,va«cly.
i^nbt
nd 'l
oquanoi
I March,
’ A. D . that tin*i bail beru an over-rark
ouiag to the extent of 10 days, and theft
, the vernal equinox tell on the 11th of
March. To oorrsrt the part error, he
! decreed that the 5th of October of tliat
year should be reckoned ** ti.c* 13th.
. ami. to kavp tin year right in lutura—-
Un- oveqilas I •ring 18 boun 37 nunotea
1 ami K> fteeomU in a century—be ordered
that every centennial year that could not
be «liride>l Inr four 11700, IWMi, 10UO, j faU — Wer# rl.iMreu who hoped to
f*. ^ ljtoU 5’ “ I cal {hern l2 r on. cam.- cake mSmg.
1 ‘I Foohl be. tints, ta short,, nt . w mtrurted to the hand of hirelings.
|M>d nbsral soul; pound
mannfartare sixteen ounew
gradient was nghteouslv c
ca, warranted 1
rtlvar i
inraft^by
tebai
Pot* of lard, “tried out” into
hardness ware n
khelvra, deatmed
for the broods
eoopsd np, and
muah. Pi ds wars bum lor rtaieiy tm
key* and pompon* Muscovy ducks, and
the tenant* fad as regularly and bouati-
ginger
ths, *pioe ami lesson <
not?
Uccnoao they were bought with
money that ought to have bought bread
and meat for poor starving children and
their erring mothers.
crying n
Vhotold
out
you.
Who told you m
Nobody told me, 1 found
myself." —
“You’re a (trange child, Celia.”
“Yea, pcrhaiis I am, but I love
father.’’
And Celia put her cold hand within
her father'a
“I don’t know how you can," he mid,
chokingly.
“I guoes it's because you’re my fath
er," wa* the innocent answer.
As father and daughter entered the
house, the mqtlier arose, pnt the sleep
ing babe in ite wretched cradle and said:
“Come to supper.”
Hack a supper fora family of six!
Only a. part of a stale loaf of bread and
some weak tea. The patient weary wife
wonld not have been surprised at her
husband had be thrown the bread across
the room at the wall and hurled tho tea
pot after it, cursing her atthe same time,
asjhe had done often before, but she was
surprised when he rose from the table—
Juri after seating himself- and said hus
kily, “Eat tnis m
n< >t being a kwi > year, the new and old
styles row differ 12 days, our 1st of
Jan nary being equivalent to tlia 134h
old style. In Romm atone of Christian
countries i* the old style re tained. The
tot old style is still retained in the TreftftUiy
accounts of Great Britain. In old timu*
the year wae held U> In^in on
of March, and thi* usage, or piees of
antiquity, is also still obsarvea in the
computations of the Chancellor of the
British Exchequer. So the' first day of
the financial year » the 5th of April,
lieing “Old Lady Day.”—Boston Jour-
^ ^id of Education.
iK)or things!
He started
but determined.
miserable stuff if you can,
I must bo gone.”
for the door weak aud faint,
His wife followed him,
‘Oh! don’t go out again to-
don’t; the baby is sick,
Ir». Jan* Brown. Potter’* Trfbulstloaa
The lion, or tlxe lioness if you please,
the American colony in Paris is Mrs.
>* Brown Potter, of New York, who
is now a gueaft in the home of her uncle,
the. American Minister McLane. Bo
OLuMrous have the calls upon her time
’jeeome that she hea been compelled to
decline all inriutions to dinners or re
ceptions not given solely in her honor.
It use, of course, annoyed her that this
wan unavoidable, but what else was the
lady to do? The unthinking Parisian*,
of all save their own enjoyment,
h non*
to think hoftrt
i. Then, jset
nt who met M
beseeching,
night, Fred.,
She said no more for with the words :
“The little fellow .is sick, is he?” the
father went back to the cradle, stooped
and kissed his infant child for the first
time, and arose with tears glistening upon
his eyelashes. X,-
Tm not going out to drink, Mary.
Do not be worried ; Til be back by nine
o’clock, and if the child should get
worse, Celia will find me at Sergeant
Wright’s.’
“What do;
Knin *ini lh«> For**!*.
Among tho popular error* in meteor
ology mentioned by Professor Abbe on
Friday evening at ths Franklin Institute
lecture la the common belief that the
destruction of forests reduces the amount
of -|he rainfall. In this ho directly con
tributes the testimony of the Forestry
Association. The Professor stated that
a very slight elevation of the surface
above the sea level by cosmic changes
was the probable cause of any changes
-which ha 1 occurred. He did not refer
to the modification or the distribution
over the years of rainfall, but merely to
its total amount. In this connection it
may be noted that the census of the
United States in the volume on Social
Statistics prints a diagram of the amount
of rainfall in Philadelphia for the part
100 years, as kept at the Pennsylvania
Hospital, whioh shows a gradual, but
general, increase in the annual precipita
tion, although it will bo generally
acknowledged that there has been
great destruction of timber for hundreds
of miles about the city in that time.—
Philadelphia Ledger.
it all
as soon
means,
as the
lo you suppose
mother?” asked Cmia, a
tattler was gone.
“I don’t know, child ; but perhaps it
means there ia a blessing coming on os
all. Pray to Gad that it may be so.”
•Mother,” said Celia, “ffitteer asked
me this afternoon if I wanted-pink boots.
What do you think of that?”
“It was a strange question, child. Td
be thankful if he’a save enough to buy
you some black ones. Your feet are blue
with ooUL”“
At nine o’clock a face peeped through
the little curtainless window o! the kit-
The eyes saw a desolate picture.
It was this : a bare cold-looking room ; a
haggard woman bending over a rick babe;
awe acid-faced girl fallen
hard floor while bravely
asleep on the
“ tor
rv 2
Divorce Wanted Alter Fifty Year*.
James M. Teagarden, almost eighty
yean of age, filed suit in . the Circmli
Clerk's office yesterday for divorce from
Sarah Teagarden, who uneven
' ' lived foi
his wife, EBB -
five, and with whom he has
vear* reune in vsukuic euftimn., ^*10)*** together ths (at
the Oregonan style « ss readily adopt**!,
it wa* not ao in Protestant nations. In
Britain it was not adopted until 1738, by
» hush time tits diaorepaacy betwesn the
Julian and Gpagurian periods amounted
—, ■ , ber that year should be reck-nod ths - nl i n —.JlT!: i_ VlV
Again her father que-tion.d: “Why nth, ami that three of every four ean- 88 M n * 1 ’ °? ln « “**' UQO J.‘
ten nisi yean nhould lie leap years 1800
ant being to
not sol
and ellwe-power, with
a dost of bakiag pow-
phun-pudding was not
■ On the
Thai
rev id. Ths urbane !
lookout for
asks ths idaMni
wine with you.*
iag of gfawM,
•atom tta IwianL «
phrasi’ from one, the 1
from the otl
deer old
table ia the flood tide
^Hti!* W * TB
A., Mr.
Art to 1
iw—It Is all oftd-
»r called out
favorite
his
C\, a Florida |
14.
fifty yoars. To-morrow will be the
fiftieth anniversary of their married life,
for on December 28r'T836, they were
united in a little Ohio village. In 1866
they removed here, and the ag
lived very quietly together, the
■ays, until a short time ago. The trou
ble commenced by Mrs. Tiagarelen com
pelling Mr. Teagarden to risep on the
first floor while she occupied s room on
the floor above. She did this, he says,
with the avowed intention of being pro
tected against burglar*, but he began to
suapeet that at last, after fifty years of
eompantonahip, she had grown fifed of
him. Imall^hia roapiciomi^wsra nab-
den left the house and
and now he wants s divoi
Cifty (Mo / 1'me^ Dae flft.
into
ght up suBBBss and eat
utetion vaunted by children
and children's children. Aa Danembcr
nights grew toward their longest and
December days neared the briefest of
the calendar, feather beds were beaten
for ten minutes each, by the flail-like
arms of colored housemaids, under the
eye of the mi stress or her teetotum, and’
provision of blanket*, sheets, tie., made
for temporary aloeping-plaoes. On a
rainy or snowy dav, an armful of straw,
fastened to tbo eud of a pole, was thrust
up the throat of every chimney. to burn
out the onernsting soot. Hons, incited
to the full measure of their duty by arts
peculiar to colored poultry keepers,
yielded eggs by the hundred* for pud
dings andpics, with especial reserves for
egg-nog.
BY CHRISTMAS KVE
every pantry was packed to groaning;
comets of flame and a galaxy of sparks
streamed from tho kitchen chimney;
every eligible nook held a bed; a dozen
young girl* with attendant gallants sur
rounded the drawing-room fire; the
play of repartee and compliment, and
the ripple of light laughter rose and
ebbed to the piano accompaniment re
sponsive to the sweep of white fingers.
City guests were always bidden and al
ways came to the plantation Christmas
frolic. “Company” was no trouble;
hospitality was aa natural and easy as
breathing. But the holiday reception
was the cream of welcome to the visitor.
If eight bachelors slept and smoked in
'•the office” in the yard, and as many
girls occupied the one npare chamber of
toe homestead, nobody felt crowded.
There were plenty of feather beds and
blankets, great store of linen heirloom*
that required the wear of two genera
te make them thin, and big fires
all night in every apartment for
os.
would be served at 8 o'clock,
■ A repast of hot fried or
chicken, stowed oysters,
four or five kind* of cold meats; waffles,
hot rolls, corn bread in divers shapes,
batteteskes, wafers—as thin aa paper,
that yielded crisply to toe teeth and
you-The
to flow, that
may be forever united."
TUX OLD DAYS BBTOMI TWB WAR.
Ah! that was toe cost o< tUag they
did in the old Virginia days, before wm
laid their pleasant places waste. People
watched for chanras to turn phnaas
bandaonuL, atudn J tin i‘*pebilltiCB of
language to give pleasure to tMt
auditors. Elegant conversation was a | fees I
popular accomplishment. Now, it ia
subsidiary to dancing, murdered by
flirtation. , '
I have spoken of Chriatmaa week. To
limit toe festival to a single flay would
have been reckoned a maiming of their
chief social rite. From one manor-houae
to another rolled the gladsome patty,
tarrying by api>ointmeut a day at thi%
a night at that, talking, dancing, driv-
walking, singing, love-making—ia
innooency of delight as ia .
to none but the young. Now and
they danced Virginia reels, quadrilles,
and cotillions (also out of fashion now;)
09 the bare oaken floor of a barn-like
parloi, furnished with uncushioned
and thin-legged tables; ss the
rambling lioftse in which they encamped
for a night’s frolic was unpainted, win
dows and doors had shrunk from the
casings, and the blaze of the Yule tog
flared in drafts pouring in from all quar
ters. Sometimes their progrea* was
made in rusty shackling chariots, limb
ing heavilv through red mud two
deep, aud over corduroy roads
would have shaken old bonsa from!
sockets. Overall and above all, they I
carried the brave, gay spirit that laughs
at external discomfort; found every
where gentle breeding and whole-souled
hospitality, adorning Christinas hospi
tality aa toe flexible sprays o< th '
running-cedar the wasNuhbqwL
tor rdoas1
That!
Provided, f
the raid Ui
ry soholanl
anjiaaa, toi
i of
this]
.tsiinM
that
t
Daniel, of*
be old “
flmfy OWB
1 for toil
to
»rt 1 w *• f
yielded crisply to toe teeth one
mated, not mtisfled, appetite—*dani
son, melon, peach, quince, faawbenq
and cherry preasrvea; home-made cake*
tea, coffee and great pitchers of milk
with all the cream left on.
In spite of toe luxurious abundance of
their menus, the Virginian* of that date
Site talk in well-bred
tag and drinking. Bi
aarapftad aaa jmrtoMhrtr daily living.
A Kchpol-«irr*ffn«4en
A remarkable oaae of blindness 00-1
curml at Athens a few days
students of the Gnat Uni*
having * literary nilintsinisiiii'l. I
among those who took nail was a Miss
AieMcLataf. When her past on thaj
try .programme was reached the young lady
ce. stopped forward with a bright smte and
tilk begte a beautiful recitatieo. lit fee
midst of toe piece fee was noticed to
ftbd llibd IjOdXl Sod* i
a,A.
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