The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, March 04, 1885, Image 1
VOL. I. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1885. NO. 23.
WILMINGTON. COLUMBIA AND AUGUSTA
RAII.KOA I).
Going Hon h No 48 No 40
Lriri Wilmiajctnn y 30 p to 11 10 pm
Arrive at Florence 1 40 a m 2 30 a m
Arrive at Columbia (I 40 *n
Going North No Jil we 47
Leave Columbia 10 80 p m
Lear* Florence 4S0 pm 1 62 a tn
Arrive at Wilmington. . .7 40 p in fi 10 a m
Train no. 43 mop* at all station*; no*. 48
and 47 atop onW at Drinklev's, Wbiteville,
Flemiugton, Fair Bluff, Marion, Florence,
Timmor.aville, Sumter, oatnden junction ar<l
Eanin?er. Paanetigera for Columbia and all
point* on c fc ? K *, c, c * a n it, Aiken Junction
and all points beyond, aheuld take no. 48,
night express. Separate Pullman sleepers
for Charleston and Augunta on trninn 48 nnd
47. All traias run nolid between cbarleaton
nnd WilmingtonSPARTANBURG
A*D
ASHEVILLS RAILROAD
On and after Mar 12, 18R4, pasnenjrer
traiaa will b? run da^ilv, except Snudar, between
Spartanburg and Ilendersonville as
follows:
UP TRAIN.
Leave R. A D* Depot at Spartanburg 8 00 p m
(<eaT? Spartanburg, A. L. depot 8 10 p m
Leave Saluda >60 p ui
Lear* Flat Rock.*. . 9 IS p m
>4rrivs Hend-raonvilie V 30 a a
DOWN HIWIN.
Leave Headersonville ft 00 a m
Leave Flal Rock 8 15 am
i .... c.i.j. a n? . ?
l<f*rr Air I?ine Junction 11 25 mm
Arrive U. A I> Depot Spartanburx 11 30 a vt
Trains on this road run by Air-I.ine tint*.
V?lh trains taake connections for Columbia
and Charleston via Spartanburg, Union and
Columbia; Atlanta and Charlotte br Air Line.
JAMES AXDEKSON. Superintendent.
^JONDKXSKD TIME CARD
Magnolia Passenger Ronte.
In effect September 14, IB84.
OOIN? SOUTB.
Arrira I'ort Royal fi 0.% pm
\,ii*iesion o ?v pni
** Sarfinnnh 6 42 i>m
" Jacksonville 8 00 am
GOINO XORTH.
I.eitre Jacksonville ill pin
, " S?r?*nnh <5 45 am
" Charleston ft 10 am
Leave Port Reval T J.Sam
" Heanforl 7X7 am
" Augnata I 40 pm ^
"Leave Atlaata i 8 50 piV)
Arrive Ancnata 6 10 am
Leave Anguata 4 Of. pm 4 40 am
Arrive Greenwood 9 00 pin 11 SO am
Ticketann Rale ill (>recnwood to all point*
At thiongh ratea?baggage checked to declination.
W. F. Snr.i.i.MAK, Traffic Manager.
J. K. Ri?n, Superintendent.
&301>TH CAROLINA
RAILWAY COMPANY.
Commencing Smidaj. Sept. 7th, 1RR1, at
2 IS a m, Pa?*engcr Train* will run an follow*
L*. y.' 'mtil further notiee, "K**lern tisue:"
IjLi Col am hi a Jtitifinn ? Daily.
f Leave Columbia 7 48 a in S 27 p m
Dii? at Charleston 12 20 p ni fl 3ft p m
Leave Charleston 7 00 a ni 4 SO p m
-, Ita. 1 nn .. ... o no.
IKtinitH?i)ai?rexce pt ,
m, ?d??w CoUrobU 7 4* am b 27 j> lii
Dut Camden 1? p m ft 25 p ta
Jj?av? Camdon .. 7 15 a m 4 00 p m
IHit Columbia 11 Oft n in W 32 j> m
Auputfa f>iri*ion?hailv.
I^jave Columbia 5 27 pm
I>'ne August a 7 4! am
I>eava Augusts 3 50 p m
I>?u Columbia 9 22 p m
CouMftinn*
Made at Columbia with Columbia and (iretnvillo
railroad by train arriving at 11 00 a. m.
and departing at 5 27 p. in.; at Columbia
Junction with Charlotte, Columbia and Aufrusta
railroad by same train to and from all
point* on both road*.
At Charleston with steamers for New York
on Saturday; and on Tuesday and Saturday
with steamer for Jacksonville and point* on
St. John'* river; linn, with Charleston and
Savannah Railroad to and from Savannah
and all point* in Florida.
At Augusta with Georgia and Central rail
road* to and from all points West and South:
t BlacVville to and from all point* on ltarnwall
railroad. Through ticket* can be purchased
to all points South and West br applying
to
I). McQueen. Agent. Columbia, S. C.
John B. Peck, General Manager.
I). C. Allen. Gen. Pass, and Ticket Ag't
flOLUMBIA A X!>
V_y GREENVILLE RAILROAD.
On and after October fi, 1884, Parhkscii
Tb a 1KB Kill run as herewith indicated upon
th is read and its branches. |
Daily, txctpt Sunday*.
No. M. UP PASSENGER"
Leave 6'olumbia S. C. Jnne'n 10 45 p in
" Columbia C. A G. 1) *11 10 pm
Arrive Alston 12 10 p n>
" Newberrv 1 13 p ni
Ninety-Mix 2 47 p tu
Greenwood X 09 p m
Hodges 1 5.1 p in
Helton 4 40 p in
at Green villa ft 05 p ra
Xc. 62. DOWN PASSENGER.
I.care Greenville at 9 50 a m
A rrive Helton 11 1.1 a th
Hodges 12 XI p in
Greenwood 13 48 pin
NinstySix 1 12 p m
Newberry ?. S 03 p m
Alston. 4 10 p in
'* Columbia C. A G. D 5 IS pm
Arrive Columbia S C. Jnne'n t 20 p ni
rAKTANBUKU, UNION * COirKKIi R All. BO AT).
KO. 63. ur PAftftRXUER.
LftTi AMton 12 42 p m
" Union I ii p m
" Apartanbarg, S.U.AC.depot 4 50 p m
XO. o'i. DOWN FASHKNOEH.
Rpart'f R. A D. Bepot .... 1# *5 a m
" Sparf* 8. U. A C. Depot ..10 50 am
" I. n'toH 13 50 pm
' Arrive at AUtoi HI pro
LICHENSRAILROAD.
Leave Xewber-y ISO pm
Arrive at Laurena C. II 8 W p m
L?are Lauren* C. II 7 40 a in
Arrive at Newberry II 10 f m
ABBBVILLK IHAKCH.
Leave Hndrea * 45 p m
Arrive at Abbeville 4 4ft p in
Leave Abbeville 11 00 a m
Arrive at Iiodgea 12 00 p m
ILn BIDfiS BAILRO tn AND AKPBRHON BR ASCII.
Leave Bel ton 4 45 pro
Arrive Anderson 4 18pm
** Peadletoa 4 W n m
" Seneca t 6 4ft p m
Arrive a?W?lhalla 7 0.1 p re
Leave Walhalla 8 SO a m
Arrive Heneea 6 15am
" Pendleton tilan
" Andenon 10 13 a in
Arrive at Belton 11 OA a m
COXK EGTIOXS.
A. With fleuth Carolina railroad t* and from
CharUaton; with Wilmington*, Columbia and
Anpimta railroad from Wilmington and all
Mints north thereof: with Charlotte, Colombia
tad Anfosta railroad from Charlotte and
all points north thereof. B. With Aehaville
' and SpnrUnbtarf railread from nod for points
in Western N. Carolina. C. With Atlanta and
C^iarlette div Richmond and Danville railway
' for Atlanta and all points south and west.
?Stat*Mtr<fE?4UrH ftmt.
CK R. TALCOTT, Ruperinteadaat.
M'. 0c.Afr4*t**,GaB,I Psssenrar A*t.
DlfclUVMLi lirt Gen'l Pass. Aft.
S&; ' ' .
te .
Richmond a.m> dahvillk
UAlT,UOAl>.
I'aumgrr DepavtmtnlOil and alter Au/r
.1?i, 188-S, pasacnjrer train service on tlie A'
nnd c. Division will he as follows:
Xarthieard. Ho. 51* No. 534
Leave Atlanta 4 48pm ? 40 a m
arrive (iainenrille C 57 n in 10 .16 h ni
Ltil*. a 7 25 p in II 61 a ir
Kabuu (Sup june h 8 12 p m 11 30 a m
Toccoa r 8 54 p nt 12 04 p ni
Seneca City d 1 59 p m 1 00 p in
Central .. .*. 19 32 p m 1 52 p m
Liberty 10 53 p m 2 13 p di
Knalev 11 10pm 2 27 p ni
(IreenTille * 11 42 p in 2 47 p m
Spartanburg/ .... 1 01 a in 3 5G p m
Oa.itonia <j 2 20 am 5 54 pm
chariott? h 4 10am fi 40 p ui
Soitthiear'l. No. 50* No. (2f
I.part charlotte 1 45 a m I 00 p m
arriTeGantonia 2 30 n to 145pm
Spartanburg....... 4 28 a in 2 45 p m
Greenville t 43 a m 4 55 p in
Easier 6 17 a m 5 26 p in
I.iberty 0 S4 a in 5 12 p ni
central 6 55 a m 6 00 p n;
Seneca city 7 33 a ni T 31 p in
Toccoa ..." 8 40 a m 7 35 p re
RabuuCapjune... 9 14 a m 8 30 pm
I.ula 10 69 am 8 59 p hi
ttainenTiii* iu ? m ?jspni
Atlanta 1 10 p m 11 30 a m
*KxpreK?. tHail. ?
Freight trains ?n this road all carry passencor?;
passenger trains run through to Danville
and connect with Virginia Midland railway
to all eastern cities, and at .4 tUsta with
all linea diverging. No. 50 leavas IVchmond
lit 1 p m And No. 51 arrives thera at 4 p m; 52
leave* Uichnmnd at 2 29 a m, i:\ arrives then
at 7 41 a m
IlujTr.t Sleeping (.'am iritfioui
change: On train* Nor. 50 and 51, New
York and Atlanta, via Washii.^ton and
I)anvill?>, Greensboro and Aiiheville; or
train* No*. 52 and 53, Richmond and
Danville, Washington, Augusta and New
Orleann. Through tickets on Kale al
Charlotte, CJreenville, Seneca, Spartanburg
and Gainesville to all points south,
southwest, north and east. A connect.*
with N. K. railroad to and from Athens
b with N. K. to and from Tallulah Knlls
c with Kl. Air Line toandfiom Klbertor
and BowersTjllc; rf wiih Hlue Kidge tc
and from Walhalla; e with C. ami G. tc
and from Greenwood, Newberry, Alston
ml Columbia: / with A. iV R. and S.,
U. tc C. to and from llendernonTille,
Alston, <tc.; g with Chester and Lenoii
to and from Chester, Yorkrille and Dallas;
h with N. C. division and C.. C. St
A. to and from Greenaboro, Raleigh, <frc
KnurKn Hkrei.et, Supt.
M. Slmtf/fifcr, Tien. I'ass. Agt.
A. Li. KiVes. 2d V. P. and ?*?. Man.
ANTIC COAST IJNK,
PASSENGER DKI'AKMMKNT,
WitmingidiK -V. Jul if 10th, IS84.
KKW LINK between Charleston and
Columbia and I'pper South Carolina.
coKurxREn scnenui.K.
nnno ooiNfl
Wf.ST. EAST.
I 90 *ni Lvi...Charltnloa .... Ar. 9 45 pm
81#" " .... I.anrn . " 8*5 ?
? U " ? ..... ?yunt*r " CU "
jryillpwi Ar....Colnmbia Lr. ill "
3?i -??. -.T.wtnnfl&Aro ... " X w "
1 I U " ** . . .Oh??fcr.. .rr;-r^.-" t 44 "
?J5 " " . .YorkrilU "lH"*6
2i " " !,?nr*t orIN "
iti ?? ....Hock ??;?; ?
415 " " ChmrlolU ?' 1 00 "
1 13 pm Ar Sewberrr Lv 3 43 pm
3 09 " ' .... Grernwood " 13 4H "
* ">0 14 " Lauren* " 7 40 aw
18 " " .... Andernnn " 10 3:5 "
.. ?> " ' (Jrvenrille " 9 50 "
7 03 " " Walhalla " n 3d *?
4 45 " " ....Abbeville " 1100 "
5 50 " " . Spartanburjr " 1C50 "
9 30 i" " ... lie ii<lrr*otiritle.. " 8 00 "
Solid Trains lielwprn Charleston and Columbia.
S. C.
J.2F. DIVINK, T. M. EMERSON.
Gon'l Sup't. (iaii'l Pa*. A^ent,
JjjXCHASGK HOTKIj,
(tRKXKril.T.E. S. C.
THE OXLY TTV0-CLA8S HOTEL II
THE WORLD.
W. R. WniTr. PnorKiKTOR.
riENTRAL HOTEL, .
M its. M. W. Thomas, Proprietro.**.
Broad ntrret, Au^ixta, (Ja.
U L. MARRY,
Atorncy and CouiiH'.-llor at Law.
abevii.i.k c. ii.. a r.
Office formerly occupied by Judg<
Thomson. tf
I/, W.' rURRIK. T. r. COTHRAK.
pERRIX k COTim.VK,
Attorneja at Law,
Abbeville S. C
W.C. 1KNP.T, JAS. IC. RICK. I.. W. SMITH
Abbt-Tille. Ninety-Six, Abbeville,
JJE.NET, BICE * SMITH,
Attorneys at Law.
Will practice in all the Courts of thf
State, and giro prompt attention to al
legal bunint*HS entrusted to them.
C. WILUAMS,
Hi'rorok Pkntist,
(lre?nwoo*i, S. C.,
J?UGEXE B.GAIIY,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
Abbeville, K. C
Subacribo for th? Mfssenokk.
JAMES S. I'ERRIX,
Attorney and Connaellor at Law,
AHKT-illi, C. II., H. C.
Jan.28,18A5-tf
HOBT. *. REMrniLL. WH. P. CALLOW
JJKMPHILL & CALHOUN,
Attorneys at Law,
Abbwim.k. R. H.
Will practice in all the Court* of th
State.
-V '
OLD TIMES.
AKP'8 REMIX1SCKNOKS OF FIFTY
YEARS.
i Tho Children of To-I>ny IJctlor Off
i Tlinn Thrlr Grandpnrenta Were In
1 CliiUlliood?Tlio Saturday Wood?
, ClioppliiK for Sunday MrPH-Imi
provcmentu tn Illuminations.
i A sweet little girl from Marietta writes
1 me n nice letter ami begs me to write
i something for the children?jnst for
[ the children.
I never look upon a flock of huppy,
| well raised children without wondering
if they knew how well off they are?
| how much better off than their grandi
parents were some fifty or sixty years
' Hen I irnn l?ba * r\ * ? ?
m n w???v? line W OVC laillVI IIUIC
set hi* clock back a half a century just
for a week and put everything like it
was then, and I would walk around and
hare lots of fun out of theso little folks.
I dont *boliev*' they could stand it a
whole week, but it wonUl do them good
to try. In the first place, thoy would
[ have to got out of their comfortable
> housos with plastered walls and large
i glass windows and coal grates, and get
> into smaller houses with about two
' rooms in front and a back shed room,
' that- liAfl nn firi? Iilai'n *iwl r>,i.ilin.? *n.l ?
, window with a wooden shutter, and in
t lhat shed room thoy would have to
sleep, and the wind would cemo slipping
in all night nnd kiss their faces ever so
! nice. They would have to take oft' all
; their nice clothes, and wear country
i jeans and linsoy, nnd they would hare
' to go to the shoemakers and have sonic
coarse, rough shoe* made of country
leather and no high heels nor box to??s
, nor buttons. But. they would be good
strong, and two pair would last any little
boy or girl a whole year?one pair
. would do them if they greased them now
and then and went barefooted during the
summer as we used to do?all the Htore
stockens would have to be dispensed
with, and the cU*(ic too, and they would
put on some good wnnn on ok that wore
knit by hand, and l?e tiud up with a rag
?no nice hats from the milliners, with
pretty flowers and gay ribbons flying,
but the girls would have to put on home
made bonnets nicely quilted, and the
boys have to wrar home made wool
hats or seal skin caps that would last
two or throe years, and stretch bigger
as thoir heads grew bigger. There
would not be found a store in the whole
state .where ready made clothing could
beluundr?not a coat, nor a pair of n?3\*.%
nor a shirt, nor a doll,
of any kind. I suppose that some few
1 things for children might be found in
i Augusta, or Savannah, or Macon, but the
country stores wouldent hare anything,
noi rien canny or orangeti or a box of
raisin*. A boy could fino a dog knife
or a barlow, and be allowed one a year,
but the little girls couldent evirn find
a thimble small enough nor a pair of
scisaors. Children wore not of much
consequence then, especially girls.
I would like to five tho clock net back
for one week and sec tho boys cutting
wood and making fires, cutting wood half
tho day Saturday for Sunday, nnd Sun'
day morning sitting down to loam t?ome
more of the Shorter catechism about
, justification, and sanctification, and
adoption, and Home more verses in the
Bible, and that poetry in the primmer
about?
In Adam"* fall
We sinned all.
The cat doth play
An<l after slay.
Xerxes must die
And so must I.
Zacheuu, he
Did climb a tree
? 11 in Lord to nee.
I would lika to see one of those boys
wake up some cold morning nod urban
he tried to make a Are and stirred around
among the ashes to find a coal, he
couldant find one, and what then ? Not
a match in the wide, wide world, for
there waft none Inventod. Wouldent he
be in a fix ! Well, he would have to run
' over to the Dnhors, if he was a town
hoy, and borrow a chunk. If he was a
country boy he would have to walk a
mile or so, maybe, and nearly freeze to
death beforo he got back, if It was rain|
jng his chunk would he apt to go out
on the way. I would like to see these
boys and girls studying their lessons
by the light of one tallow candle. No
gas, no kerosene, no oil of any sort?
only one flickering light of a candlo, or
" maybe only a lightwood blaze in the
fireplace! I reckon they would study
and studv fast and go to bed soon and
...? ... .1.1.. a. :? ? -* s.
?t-v ujj r?i ij in me inoruiiig nun iry n
Again. I would like to nee them nil
down to write a letter and find nothing
- but an old goose quill for a pen?not a
steol pen in tho world. I would watch
tho poor fellow as he tried to make a
pen out of the quill, and after he had
cut it to a point see him try to split it in
the middle with his knife, and split it
too far or not far enough, or on one sidr
and then throw it away in despair.
It would be fun to u? old folks, but il
wouldent bo fun for the boys 01 the girl*
to be sot back. But there are old people
living'nOW who do iuOilaiu olu liiiugr
e and live the aame old way. Col. Camp*
bell Wallace still uses the quill peni
J i*n?l makes thorn himself, and I wish yon :
could see how nicely and how quickly i
ho can do it. Our schoolteachers had to <
make the pens for all their scholars, and 1
it took about half their time, for they I
had to inend them oftener than mnke 1
thorn. Whon the first split wore out I
he had to split it Again and trim it down I
to a new point. His knife was always i
rcadj\ I'oor man ! He died before the 1
steel pens were invented and never got 1
the good of them. <
Hut wo were used to these ways and 1
never thought hard of thein. Judge '
Lester used to run over to our house of '
a cold morning and say to my mother : '
Please mam, lend me a chunk of fire, '
and I used to go over to his house and 1
do the tamo thing. But we dident let (
it go out often. We knew how to cover *
up fire in the ashes so as to keep it till (
morning. I remember going aver to '
Forsyth county once when an old Indian '
lived there by the name of Sawnee. Ho (
didn't go off with the rest of the Indians, '
but lived on a mountain called Sawnee
mountain, and he had some grand-sons 1
about our age. George Lester and Cic- '
ero Strong were with me, and we gave '
an Indinn boy some money to show us 1
how they pot fire when thoir fire went *
out. llu took two tlry hickory sticks (
about a foot long and as largo an my
thumb ami a little burich of dry grass, '
and started off on a runj and rubbed the 1
sticks together so rapidly than you could 1
hardly spo them, and tho friction made '
fire and caught the grass, and he came 1
back in half a minute with a blaze in '
his hand. I used to go down to the store J
at night with my father, and he had a 1
tinder box nailed up by the door and '
would strike the steel with the flint and 1
make a spark and let it fall on a piece of '
punk and light it, and then he would light
his candle from the punk. lint matches '
came along al't-T while and stopped all
that. I renumber the first matches that '
came to our town. They wore called
Lucifer matches for some folks thought
that the "old boy" had /omething to do 1
with theni. They smelled strong of '
brirustono and wejx: sold at 25 conts a 1
a box. Now ten times as many sell for '
a nickle. But about lights. Dipping 1
the candles was one of the notable !
events of the year. It was almost as |1
big a thing as hog killing. The boys '
prrpared the canes .gr rflfcds about 60 in '
number, as largo as tho little finger 1
and nearly* a yard long. They wore
smoothed at the point aud put away in 1
Wten the time come, 1
cold weather, in the fall, our
mother would grt out the candle wick '
and wind it round a pair of cotton cards
end ways and after a good deal was 1
wound would cut one end with the scis- 1
sors and that made the wick? when 1
doubled just long enough for a candle. 1
Three or four canes were then interlaced i
through the back of an old fashion chair
to keep thorn steady while* she looped 1
tho wicks around them and twisted their 1
ends together. Seven wicks were put
on each cane and when the cone was taken
out and held horizontal the wicks I
hung down and were about two inches ;
apart. When all the canes were full
they were laid upon a table ready for :
dipping. The tallow was molted in a
big wash pot. Some beeswax was added
and a little alumn. Old plank were placed
on the floor where the dipping and dripping
was to be. Two long poles or
quilting frames were placed parallel on
the backs of chairs and were wide
enough apart to let the candles between
and hold up the canos. The big pot had
t<? be kept nearly full all the time. A
cane of wicks was let down slowly in
the pot until the cane rested on its
edge*. Then it was lifted up and allowed
to drip awhile and then placed as
iiumucr uiiu urinccn me long poles
where, if it dripped any more, it was on
the old plank. The lirat course wag
long and tedious, for it took the loose
cotton wick some time to absorb the
tallow. After that the process was rapid.
Tallow would harden on tallow quickly,
and at every dripping the littlo candles
got larger until after while they were
largo enough at the bottom ends to fill
a candlestick, and that ended the job.
They w?;re left on the poles over night
and then slipped off the rods and placed
in the candlebox or an old trunk.
Seven times sixty made 420 candles,
and that was the year's supply. Only
, one candle was usual for the tahble in
, the family room. The reading and sew.
ing was all dono by that. The boys
I wore allowed a picce of one to go to bed
by. Nobbdy sat up until midnight then.
' '1'l.n nUkt ?.?t: -? L- ' >
?. nun kvuvivii iu iiu crrmcu
; for Bleep and re*t, and the day for work,
i Th?*re wore no theater* nor akatingrinks?no
reading novels half the night,
, and lying in hed until brcakfaxt next
i morning. The rule was to go to hed at
i nine o'clock and get up with the chick:
en*. But now we couldn't read by cani
die light. It taken at leant two lamps
and one lamp i* equal to ten candled.
: But wc got along pretty well. All the
t iiub*tantial things were <w good as tli?*y
i are now. Good water?good air?good
i tunsiiiaie and shower?good health good
warm clothe*?good bread and meat,
i and milk and butter?good peaches and
ipplcs?good horses to rido?good fish- .
ng and swimming and hunting. We
lidenthave railroads and telegraphs and
:elepliones and sewing machinos. and so
orths, but we dident need them. We
leod them now for the world is
puli of people that the ol J waj'K wouldn't
feed and clothe thoni. The right thing
ilways comos along at the right time. |
[f the clock was set back I wonder how
this generation would manage about the
:ooking business. Fifty years ago there
ivere no cooking stoves. The ovens and
ikillets and sbiders were big heavy
hings that had to be lifted on and off
:he fire with a pair of pot-hooks. They
lad heavy lids and the cooking was
lone by putting coals underneath and
:oalson top. It took bark and chips
;o make coals quickly and our old
:ook used to say, '"Now git ine some
:>ark, little master, and I gib you a biktct
when he done.'' There was no sod*
>r tartaric acid or baking powder. The
tmcuit were made by main strength.
The dough was boated with the rolling
pin until it blistered. When the dougli
ulistered it was good and made good bis;uit.
I can't say that we have any bet:cr
cooking now than we had then; but
he stove makes it a great deal easier to
i
The hoys hail no baseball but they
iad bullpen ami hut and town ball and
oily bob; ami tag and sweepstakes and
mil over the mark und foot races and ho
"orth and they thought there was nothng
better, they had the best rubber
t?alls in the world and made them themselves.
Some of them could bounce
inrty teet high. They wore made by
rutting an old rubber shoe into strings
?nd winding the strings into a ball and
:ovcring it with buckskin. Hut after
while the rubber shoes where not
nado of all rubbor. They were mixed
with something that took soiuo of the
bounce out and our halls degenerated.
There was an old man living near us who
n-as called "Lying Torn Turner, and he
told us boys one day that when he was a
boy he had a rubbor ball that he was
ifraid to bounce hard for fear it would go
upontof night and ho would lose it. We
inked him what became of his ball, and he
said he bounced it one day most too hard
xnd it went up in the clouds and was gone
k?lf ?I? J
> ???! Nil uuuif MIIU V? II*. II II U?IIIIU UOWU
[lis little dog grabbed it in his mouth
mid it rebounded and carried the dog up
with it out of sight, and lie had
never seen the bnll nor the little dog
lince.
Well, I don't know which times arc
thBA'iCtj old timet or the new. It i*
rery nice to havo a ntco Hou&a a I Hi 'fur-niturc
end nice clothes and lots of nice
story books and to ride on the cars, but
in tho old times, people didn't hankrr
*ftcr such things and they were easy to
please and wcro in no hurry to get
through life, and there wdta no suicidos
and very few crazy folks, and no pistols
to carry in the hip-pockets. Nowadays
there is a skeleton in most every house.
I don't mean a real skeleton, but somo
great big trouble that throws a dark
shadow over the family. There wcro
not any cxciting books to read, no sensation
novels that poison the mind just
like bail food poison tho body. There
were but half a dozen newspapers in the
whole state and they didn't have whole
columns full of murders and robberies
nnd awful fires that burned up poor
lunatics and all other horrid things to
make tender heart feel bad. There was
nobody very rich and nobody vory poor,
and we had as great men then as wo
hare now.
If tho clock was set back, and the little
girl who wrote to me wanted to go to
Augusta with her grand-pa to visit her
kinfolks she would have to get in the
mail coach and jog along all dny and all
night at four niilcB an hour and pay ten
cents a mile, and it would take two days
and nights and sho would be tired almost
in rlr>?th ?nf1 Rrt vrnillil hr?r nrr*nd-na
Well, thoy just couldn't go. But now
they can go as cheap to stay at home, nml
do it in less time, ah the Irishman said.
But the clock will not be set back,
and ho wj mu?t all be content with
things as they are and make them better
if we can.
Bin. Anv.
WASHINGTON LKTTER.
Notes and Comments of the Hour by
J. It. R.
Washington, February 23.?A translated
cypher dispatch from Mr. Cleveland's
privatj secretary is said to hate
been left on a Congressman's desk and
read. The Cabinet wsa given as Bayard,
Lamar, Garland, Vilns, McDonald, Frank
Jones and Manning. We shall see how
this turns out. Victr.r Newcombo is
credited with having purposely left a
dispatch about stocks on a man's deuk
which, taken for truu point, ruined half
the people in Louisville, Ky. Possibly
the alleged Lninont telegram may be a
joke, a harmless one, but how ahrewd a
guess wilt soon be ascertained, if indeed
tho.Hccret shall not be disolosed before
this reaches you.
Some of the old-time Democrats say
that the Republican mugwumps will
control (he rioxt administration. This
apprehension is rather feebly denied bj' Ca
some of the active leaders who are not At
without expectation of directing matters. Cc
We must wait the event and be prepared mi
for several surprises, disagreeable or la*
otherwise. ch
Persons who intend coming this way mi
for the purposu of witnessing the inau- co
guration ceremonies had hotter make lip
previous arrangements or else they may is
be subjected to some diseomfoit in the an
flesh as well as depletion in the pocket- an
book. I am inclined to think that many Hi
will rogret the trip unless they carefully It
count tho cost and are ready for any to
emergency. do
Nothing is said to he so just in paying
its debts as the weather. We arc suffering so
now for the drouth of last summer. The du
atmosphere, by unruly efforts to restore
its own equilibrium, is causing a large ev
element of humanity intense suffering. H<
There are not many reallj' pleasant days Hi
in any year for the majorit}' of mankind
at any season. ro
When Speaker Carlisle returned to th
his chair, yesterday, the whole House in;
1 1-.1 L: i -
u|f[nauut'u niiu. iiiiHiititinnuieaiways ???
paid to a popular member who escapcs of
a dangerous malady nnd resumes his of
duty. Mr. Reagan, Inst year, was siini- *n
larly honored. It was suggested that lif
Mr. Carlisle was th<; more vociferously
welcomed by some Southern members, dii
who were delighted to get rid of Mr. A1
Blackburn, whom they accuse of neglect- ag
rug thom and fuvoring Illinois and other vri
Republicans who voted for the whiskey pi'
ring. Mr. Rlackhurn certainly has raised "kI
a health}* crop of animosity by his sup- Ij'
posed retaliation upon men who helped P-i
to make Mr. Carlisle Speaker, but de- po
clined to follow him into the camp of ur
King Bourbon. While in the Speaker's
chilir, Mr. Blackburn recognizcd Illinois ac
seven times for the passage of bills, and he
refused to notico Georgia at all. But wi
for this deliberate neglect, our Augusta re
public building bill might have already if
passed.
One South Carolina Congressman has *
had sixty-four applications for the throe f|
postal routes on the Port Royal Railway. F*<
Good observers feel confident that a
European war, on a gigantic scale, will ^
soon take place. In this connection
some one says that England has colonies th
but no colonists; while Gui-many has
colonists but 110 colonies. Tho conti- ?
uenUl conflict may bo prjwfpitatcd bj*
Germany's attempt to change her status m
in this rospect. n?
Democrats expect to build a respectable ^
navy during Cleveland's administration, jn
but are.ftlready quarreling over the ways ca
*?vd wvan*. Ther* arc several elements of Si
diacord which will to regulate M
or suppress or harmonise. ^
Senior Morgan nometiraes scolds, but 0j
occasionally does not liko to be scolded, cl
Senator Beck is touchy about hia Scotch bi
birth. When Morgan riled him on that
point, B?ck made a hot reply, but might e,
have better turned the tables on his fc
adversary by getting upon record that H
good old anecdoto about the Irishman ^
and the American Judge, who iverc put jfl
into the same bed together. "Patrick,''
said his Honor, "you would have been ft
in Ireland a long time before slocping 111
with a Judge." To which the ready ^
Celt retorted : "Begorra, and its a long tc
time you would have been in Ireland a!
ncmorc you witc a tiuage. i ills is not "
a new story, but it is an apt one, well ^
calculated to enliven the (loiiyressional
Record, which in rather dull at this ai
time. 01
Next session it is proposed that five ir
members of Congress shall agree to at- ^
tend every night session, where pensions ^
are ground out b> a corporal's guard. o)
The special duty of these five men will b
be to call uno quorum," and so either ('
break up the night sessions or compel a jj
full attendance. It is strongly suspected f,
that interest combines with domagogism n
to pass many of those bills without li
sufficient challenge.
People who attend night auctions here
can, if prudent, secure bargains in books( ({
pictures and miscellaneous merchandise, d
A dealer not long ago put up splendid
Gonpil photographs, elegantly framed, "
of Beethoven and Mozart. Nobody u
would bid as much as fifty conts to start ?
them. Next night he exhibited them as *'
Robespierre and Benedict Arnold. They ^
brought $9 Men "with music in their Sl
souls" wore scarco in that audience, but '1
dynaroiteurs evidently had a considerable c
representation. 8
While at Richmond I was much im. ^
pressed with Rev. Dr. Hoge. He has j
established a mission in an out-of-the- a
way part of the city, where the light of *
the gospel has seldom shone. I learned
from him that hundreds of persons who "
would not go into a church came to listen p
to hira when ho preached in a room *
where there was no restraint. Dr. Hogo
and Dr. Hunter Maguire, the latter a ^
famous physician since Confederate t,
times, onoe met at Edinburgh, Scotland, tl
While standing at the corner of a crowdod ^
thoroughfare one summer morning. Dr. _
? ? c
Maguire's face grew melancholy. His c
reverend companion inquired the oauso f
and waa answered : "I am longing to Bee v
two things and don't expect to?a pretty ^
woman and a raw tomato." t
One of tho institutions of Richmond is ii
pt. Frank Parator, of the police force.
. 15 j'enrs of age Capt. Frank was a
>11 federate soldier and one of the iinirtal
hand that stood to his colorn to the
it. Ho is an ardent Democrat, a strict
urch member, a loyal friend, and commds
the respect of all good folks in the
innmnity. No profane word defiles hi*
is, and no stimulant pasHCH them. He
a model citizen and family man. Ho
d "Billy" Oilman, of the Dispatch,
e such fast friends that tho people of
chiuond call them Damon and Pythias,
is a very touching and beautiful thing
hoar those two sincere, honorable and
voted men talk about each other.
At the hotel table, tho other day,
me fresh arrivals from England?unaItcrated
Cockneys?were seated.
Jthing pleased them and ttiey abused
erytbing. What they "got in hold
mgland was so much better; and
unericnns were so hillbred, you know/
Senator Colquitt is confined to his
om with rheumatism. I can sympaize
with him, for, at last, the prevailg
epidemic, a kind of "horse disease,"
s seized upon me, and it takes a deal
faith and Dr. Campbell's heroic doses
quinine to make me affirraatively
swer Mr. Matlock's conundrum, '*Is
e worth Jiving ?"
,-v iv ui i?il.ssitisjppians iasi
scussed the authorship of "All Quiet
long the Potomac," and unanimously
rood that Lamar Fontaine did not
rite it. They thought rt a Northern
oduction. Congressman Money said.:
was once at aupper with ladies,
itnar Fontaine was ono of the comny.
lie told tho lad'es ho had com*
sod a much better poom than the one
ider discussion, and asked if they
siild like to hear it. Of course they
quiosced, and he repeated what he
i called hi? "Bouquet 8ong." It
is intensely admired. But when ho
tired, I informed the company that
any one would procure the pubihod
poems of James and Horace
nith those Torses, word for word,
Duld bo found, entitled 'Hymn of tbe
owers.' The book was brought and
jninine exposen." nir. Money nas no
mbt at all aa to tha real author ; hut I
ill not mention the name to avoid hurtg
anybody's feelings.
A lady who is a social oracle tells me
at it is high.treason for any of her
x or .station to use scents. A very
iVd cologne is barely tolerated, but no
ubin or other extract*, however delite
and fragraut. Whero there is so
uch of '.he artificial that muet be
itural. I asked a man of the world
>out it. He replied : "What you have
;ard about perfumery being tabooed
good socioty is a fact. A young girl
>mc here and was invited to a party.
ie was exquisitely beautiful, rarely
compHahed. and ft daaxling creature
ery way. But happening to have on
h&totetottf * dainty drop
' violet-extract* oho wu''Awn?d to exusion,
in case ofaaTivrenM io the acantsttle.
No amount of intellect, wit, ~
iveliness, piety or grace could have
1 L C i??!? *
kvcii ucr iruiu rjicninriiuiuciuoD. i.
kino near being xuapeetod of outlawry
ir expressing the heretic* I opinion that
le perfumed atinosphete circulated by
e girl made h?*r more fascinating and
hiring. So, if any of your .Southern
idies propose vi?iting here and entering
deet circles, entreat them to Uave pcrmiery
at home. They can bring dynalite
and escape centure, but Lubin will
insign them to social death, without
owcrs." A* a .sentinel on the watch
wer, therefore, I warn fashionable or
ipiring women, old or young, in our
ction, to remember this edict of tha
[edes and Tertians "*ho haTe captured
10 Habvlons of the Kast.
Poor folks here follow the coal carts
id scramble for stray lumps that fall
ut. Yesterday I received an anguinhig
letter from a man whom I knew t*
e rich and employed at a royal salary
[velve years ago. He said that he and
f them hopelessly invalid and ono
ar?footod. He rmplorad roe "for
hrist'rt Bnko to Rend hiin a dollar?anyling."
I think he owes his downfall
> an aril hnhit; but what a dreadful
itc for a father and husband to hare
o money and no friend#, in a groat me opolis,
where to be needy or forlorn is
thp last infirmity of evil."
We have the skating rink problem
ore as well as in your city Clegymtn
isagrce aboutit. There aeema to me inidle
course in thin, between the two ex emes.
The rigid Puritan view will
ot. if enforced, make youths of both
oxes batter church mem hero. Thoy
inst have an outlet of Rome sort, and
rill hate religion that unduly circumcribcH
amusement and holds them in
uspicion eternally. The girls who go
j skating rinks are apt to injuro themelves
physically by oxccrs of motion,
'hey need not in Augusta fall into bad
otapatiy unless they choose; and the
irl who gravitates to such assocition
rill not need to find it at a rink. At
ho same titno, 1 do not find fault with
ay conscientious minister who protests
gainst certain tendencies of the ago
rhinh tiro inswlimin thd rorrunlinir.
Old General Woolford, of Kentucky,
do yesterday a feryentand characterise
io speech in advopacv of a righteous
ension claim for the Widow of an officer
rho lost his llf<J in* lhe service. During
he war General Ffcreat waa so stubbornly
ought by Rom? Federal cavalry that he
frit r<isjrivingR as to the issue of the consul.
Thin waa eo, strange a sensation
hat he Waa ptizxled to account for it.
it' last a-prisoner wan brought in and
Forrest discovered that Frank Woodford
ommatided - the, enemy. "That acounts,"
said Forrest, "for our hard job.
)Id Frank tights like the devil, and w
rill have iitf 'wdvan do to drive him off,"
Lrid yet this'trian, so flery and t?rrib1?
d war; htfs, a*I once before observed,
he tenderest heart that ever throbbed
b h valiant breast.?ri upimta Chnmicl*.