The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, March 04, 1885, Image 1

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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*.