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Lov6 Thee ? Love thee ! Cans't thou ask me still If, in truth I love thee? Ask the breezes if you will, Ask the stars above thee. Nightly, daily on the air, Passi ng soft before me. Breathe I not thy name in prayer To the heavens o'er? Naught but breezes fond could tell, Naught, but stars give token Of those words they knvew so well, Ne'er to mortal spoken. Waking, dreaming, near oil far, Gay, or when I am knely, Of but one, my dreaming are Thee-and of thee only. Life and love are now but one, I had known them never, Till with love was life begm, To live on forever. Came a presence st.'ange to me, Never to be banished; lBrighter as it grew to be While all others vaniled. Many footsteps round me fall Oiie alone I'm learning; Many voices to me call One alone discerning. Many eyes there are, I ow). Shedding true love through them; St ranlge, but j one pair alone Draw iy owin unto them: Many lips unto me speak. Friendship's faith repeating; ips of onle alone I seek, Wleni their gentle greeting. i Many hAnds there are. I learn, t Fain would t ruly guide mtie; 11t I only care to tUrn1 To onie hand bCside. What were life. if love were gonc? Love, if life should sever? Life and love will till be one In that vast forever. Two l)ARIES Wilt.) SucE-.r.-Ma- I con Telegraph ; Tough atory, but < a true one, comes to us from Jo nes t county. During the visit of the I eyclone which worked so much de- I struction to lives and property, f there were two little negroes asleep t on a bed in a house on Mr. Win Siith's plantation. The cyclone tore the louise to fragments, and lifting the floor onl which stood the bed containiing the two piccaninnies, carried it a mile t away over the top)s of tall trees anwl 1 deposited it amid the ruins of an Othier house that had shared a fear- a l fate. A tree fell across the bed, breaking dlown one enld of it, i alnd then lightning set fire to the t bjedd ing. T[he work of the storm was so - greait andl destructive that the peo pie who hadl secured themselves were afraid to emerge from their hiinrg places for some time; but t one after another finially went out. to rendler what assistance they t vould to the suffering. Discover inig smoke issuing from the debris of the negro house, a farmer ran .< to it and saw the burning bed with ( two little negroes lying on it. That a they were alive never entered his head, but judge of his surprise I wheb, on r'eaching thern, he found i they were alive and sound asleep,4 -adt having been awakened during the storm'. They were promptly reicned, andl whien aroused and seeing that they were ini a strange locality and inlAhe open air, they were nearly frightned 'to death. They had been shaken up and kbnocked about,'tctrried up into the 'Iir above the tops of the trees and bhen dropped into the broken) shell )f another houise and yet were not %waker.ed. H'IiE All) To DISABLE CONFEDER ATE.-The meeting in Cooper In stitute, N. Y., on Wednesday *to xid the proposed home for disabled Donfederates at Rienmond, was at ,ended by 1,500 persons, Corporal fanner, an ex-Federal soldier who lost both legs in battle, presided ind spoke. Gen. Sheridan and Fool's Errand Tourgee and Gen. John B. Gordon also spoke, all talking peace and favoring the iome. Gen. Grant and Gen. Han ,ock sent letters endorsing the schenie. No Confederate of prom nence except Gen. Gordon was >resent, Hampton and Butler be ng conspicuously absent. -A North Carolina man, w1ose iouse was demolished by a torna lo the other night, afterwards 'o1n(1 his watch hung on a small imb of a tree that had blown lown in the yard, the chain wrap >ed several tines aroued the limb. [t was ticking away as if nothing iad happened. Another mau, who dways kept a gun at the head of iis be(d, was found shot thro,gh I lie body and the gun lying near uim empty. -We are please( to learn, on vlhat might be considered compe ent authority, that the cyclone, eason has closed for this year. X'e fear it. is too good to be true, iut we will take it as a crumh of 'omfort, and make the most of it ill the next comes, which we hope nay be a long time off. Iliose who inve dug poits, however, nee(l not ill them up till further notice, as here is a good many false weather >rophets in these days.-Keowee .ourier. No DAaNNAG-F.-.Fire Marshal I very much fear, sir, that addi jonal means of' egress will have to >e. ordered for your church. .Pastor-'And why so, my (lear Fire Marshal-' In case of fire it r'ould be utterly implJossit~le t9 get he congregation out alive. Pastor-'O)h! You are mistaken -very much mistaken. I could mnpt~y this church in three min tes.' Fire Marshal-'In three mini tes ! h ow?' Pastor-'Ry taking up a collee ion. -President Arthur sometime ince invited all the members of >rngress to dline with him. He. Lsked them in squadls. But there vas one Congressman who was not )idIden. lie is the colored Con ~ressmnan from North Carolina, )'HIfara. .-A young lady entered a mu iae storo, and tripping up to the ianidsome clerk, pertly, asked: Have you 'Happy D)reams!' She gas non1p1ussedl when he replied, t'o mna'amn; T am pestered with naamquite BIf. FINE L O T IIN I SHOES FAE IN I .Wl POE &CO.O GREENVTILLE, S. C. ic 21-ly All pcrsons are warne(l against IAVE YOU B PLAN IF NOT, DO PL ANTINC W. Za aco THEY ARE A Farmer who p)uts in ie VEST'S GUANC And Cottoi 1ALLENTINE'N~ 04 will save money/, These Mach ines ar i'We Coach.Factory. MarW. 7S-RRINE, Superintead March7-2mo GUANO-I GUANO I I continute to rep resent the following OLD 1'tA LISHrED and PO' ULAR BRANDS of GUANO AND ACIDS. NEVASSA GUANO, NEVASSA ACID, NEVSSA ' Cotton Fertilizer - MONAtCHE GuanaO, ORLEM Guano, Ot2OLE DIssolved Eloneu. 9!M. Call on me and get prIces be fore you make your )iurchqew.s. J. R. GOSSETT, Agent. Easley, Feb. 8, 988 4--ti 11. P. JOHNSON. F. P. CLELAND. SWEET SIXTEEN, AND UP 1O Te Oldest, Should hi 1ve their Pictures taken -f. JOHNSON & CLELAND's GALLERY, GREENVILLE, S. C. We are repared to make FERRO TYPES, PIHOTOG RA P1S, Copy aUd ENLARGE PICTURES, A T CE /C DEV 1.IC'Es. Good Pictures made in cloudy weather. Pay us nor no one else for poor Pictures. JOHNSON & CLELAND, T[he Only Reliable Ferrotype Ga llery in the South. Nov 30-ly [nfiingements on these Patents. EXAMINE) Cotton PERS ? SO BEFORE i COT TON, r, S. C. TILE BEST CO7ALiTLCedI. FERT[LIZER with the DISTRIBUTOR, iSed with 9TTON PLANTER, time and troutble. e made by the Green H. C. MALRKLEY, Proprietor. mnt.