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. v ' / \ ' ! ! A DINNER AND A KISS. I* "I have brought your dinner, father," The blacksmith's daughter said, As she took from her arms a kettlo, And lifted its shining lid. "There's not any pie or pudding, So 1 will givo you this And upon his toil-worn forehead She let*, a childish kiss. The blacksmith tore off his aprou, And dined in happy mood, Wondering much at the savor Hid in bis humble food; Whllo all about were visions Fill) of prophetic bliss, But bo never thought of the magic In hia little daughter's kiss. While she with her kettle swinging, Merrily trudged away, Stopped at tho eight of a squirrel, Catching some wild bird's lay; And I thought how many u shadow Of lifo an<i fate wo would miss, If always our frugal dinners Wero seasoned with a kiss. * ?Pittsburgh Commercial. _ FARMER KELLUML'S FOX TRAP, And How It Worked Impartially on Doss and Italians Also. About twenty years ago Randall Kellum, of Kirubles, Pike county, EJa., purchased a liorse for which he paid $90, a correspondent says. He worked the horse daily on his farm, until one day last week the horse died. The neighborhood of Kimbles, and in fact all through that part - of the country, has been literally overrun-.with foxes this ? A .. 1 4.1. ? c..li: eUttSUlI. ' AO ilttt) UCUii L1JA3. I LI OU1Uvan county, across the Delaware River, the farmers have lost hundreds of chickens and other poultry by the bold raids of these usually timid animals. Farmer Kellum hit upon a plan that he thought might destroy a large number of the thieving pests, and that was to put strychnine in tho carcass of the old horse and place the body in a spot where foxes would be sure t'o Hock to it. The dtadly drug -".s accordingly placed Slentifully in tL. Sosh of the dead orse, and the carcass was hauled to an out-of-the-way spot in the woods, two or three miles from Kimbles, and left there. The next morning Kellum went early to the woods to see if his plan had worked successfully. He found lying scattered about in all directions, and none of them far away from the poisoned horse, thirty-nine dead foxes. How many more managed to get to their holes or hiding places was of course unknown. Mr. Kellum had the foxes laflen home, and the next morn"ing went to the woods' again. There ^ were no foxes found, as could hardly have been expected, as the horse during the previous night had been monopolized by half of the dogs in the neighborhood, fourteen.of which were found dead at the scene of the feast. "With barely an exception the dogs were animals that had long been suspected of habitual and wholesale killing of sheep in the vicinity, so the night's work was regarded as an excellent one. The following morning Kellum visited the remains of his old horse again, and this time picked up 19 dead foxes. He was returning home loaded down with fox pelts, when about a mile from Kimbles, he heard moans and cries of pain issuing from the woods, some distance off to his right from the road, lvellum made his way to the spot from which the sounds proceeded, and found two Italian quarrymen rolling in the snow and writhing in pain. Upon asking them what the matter was, one of the Italians told him that they had found a frozen horse in the woods, and had cut a piece of meat from it, which they had roasted over a fire and euten. They were almost immediately seized with , intense pains in the stomach. Kellum waited to hear no more. He knew at once that the Italians had eaten a piece of his poisoned horse. He started on a run for the station to telegraph for a doctor. Fortunately, Dr. Brace, of Lackawana, had been called, to ICimbles ] that morning to attend a patient, and 'if nl lum mnt- ViJr*1* r? r? ' JAVltUUl IUV7U U1JJ1 UO UC >v il3 UJflU^ 111 l-ur aid for the poisoned Italians. Kellum hastily told the doctor the sitviation and . the two hurried back. Dr. Brace ad- * ministered powerful antidotes to the Italians, and got them to the nearest house. He succeeded in counteracting the poison, and in a few hours the Italians were able to go on their way. Kellum lost no time in hurrying his dead horse. i The 58 foxes that fell victims to Kellum's baited horse will net him $58 in bounties. The pelts he can 'sell for $2 i apiece?a total of $174 from a horse dead that only cost him $90 alive and had given him 20 years' faithful service. The Blind Chaplain of the House. A Washington letter says: No Chaplain within the memory of the oldest ' Representative has commanded the respect and affection of that unruly body 1 as Dr. Milburn docs. His predecessors were, without exception, tiresome and ' slow. The morning prayer was invariably delivered in a sing-songy fashion, and the whole performance bore the perfunctionary air of a man trying to < earn his salary with as little effort as 1 possible. Dr. Milburn's daily invoca- [ tion is eloquent and brief. The full, rich tones of his voice fill the chshnber and the adjoining cloak-rooms. Every 1 word can be distinctly heard. During 1 thcr delivery of his prayer the members ( rise to their feet and remain in that 1 position, reverently and respectfully, until- its conclusion. Such action on 1 the part of the members is all the more remarkable when it is remembered that in former times no more attention was ) paid to the Chaplain or his utterances i . than if he wens a thousand miles -away. Dr. Milburn visits the members of the / 1 House precisely as other pastors visit their parishioners. He makes no distinctions on account of political or reli' gious differences. * With the Roman Catholics, of whom there are quite a -number, ho is in every way as popular ,. as wjith the most orthodox of Protestants. It is very evident that the reverend doctor has created a profound ira' predion upon the rather unusual congregation over which he is called to | . preside, and that he may bo regarded as ' a fixture, so long, at least, as the Democrats remain In control of the House. i - . ' ^*1GWR!fi?igns*v . .* . > , v--: ' ' - ' ' ' , '' *-V*.,v"' THE OLD SCHOOLMASTER, And Ills School In Sleepy I1oHo\t, m So luted by Wonbtnatoa ^rrlng. In this by-plnco of natxire then abode, in a remote period of Ampricai history, that is to say, some thirty'year: since, a worthy wight of the uame o Ichabod Crane, who sojourned, or, a: he expressed it, "tarrifed" in Slc*p] Hollow for the purpose of instructing the children of the vicinity. lie was i native of Connecticut, a State whirl supplies the Union with pioneers for tin mind as well as for the forest, am sends forth yearly its legions of frontie woodsmen and country schoolmasters He was tall, but exceedingly lank, witl narrow shoulders, long arms and legs hands that dangled a mile out of hi: sleeves, feet that might have served fo shovcin, and his whole fame most loose ly bung to^Cilier. His head was suial and tlat at top, with huge cars, larg< green glassy eyes, and a long snipi nos?, so that it looked like a weather cock porclied upon his spindle neck, t< tell which way the wind blew. To se< him striding along the proll e of u hil on a windy day, Willi his c.othoj bag ?ing and fluttering about him, om might have mistaken him for tin genius of famine descending upoi earth, or some scarecrow eloped from i cornfield. His school-house '**rt3 a lov.' buildin; of one large room, rudely constructed o logs; the windows partly glazed anc partly patched wi h leaves of copy books. It was m.-st ingeniously sc cured at vacant hours, by a withe twist cd in the handle of the door, ant stakes sct-figainst the window-shutters so that tho igli a thief might get ii with pcrfect case, he would find somi embarrassment m getting out;?an idei most probably b rrowed by the arclii tec*, Yoat Van ll-utcn, from ihc mys tery of an eel pot. The schoolhousi stood in a rather lonely but pleasan situi ion, just at the foot of a wood; hill, with a brook running close by, ant a formidable biich-tree growing at out cad of it. From hence the low murmu: of lis pupils' voiccs, conning ove their lessons, might be lieard f i drowsy summer's day, like the hi..a o a bochive; interrupted now and thcnbi the authoritative voice of the master, ii the tone of mcnancc or command; or pcradventurc, by the appalling sound o the birch, as he urged some tardy loiterc; along the floweryvpath of knowledge Trutn to say, he was a conscientioui man, that ever bore in mini tae goldci maxim, ''Spa. the rod and spoil thi child."?Ichabod Crane's scholars ccr tainly were not. spoiled. When school hours were over, he wai ever the companion and playmate of th< larger boys; and on holiday aftcruooni would convoy some of the smaller one! home, who happened to have pretty sis ters or good housewives for mothers noted for the comforts of the cup board. Indeed, it behooved him t< keep on good terms with his pupils The revenue arising from his school wa: small, and would have been scvcel] sufficient to furnish him with da.-n bread, for ho was a huge fee<-.?r, oik though lank, had the dilating poweri of an anaconda; but to nelp tut hi? maintenance, he was, according fo coun try custom in those parts, b -ar ed anc lodged at the houses of the farmer whose children he instructed, v/itl these he lived successively a week a' i time, thus going the rounds of th< neighborhood with all his worldly effects tied up in a cotton handkerch.ef, That all this might not be too oner ous on the purses of his rustic patrons, who are apt to consider the cost ol schooling a grievous burden, andschoc1 masters as mere drones, he had vario..? ways oi rendering himself both useful and agreeable, lie assisted the farmer* occa.siona'ly in the lighter labors of tlicli fa;ms; helped to make hay; aiended tr< fences; took the horses to water; drove the cows from pasture; and cut \vi?v] for the winter lire. He laid aside, too, all the dominant dignity and absolu?? sway with which he lorded it in his little empire, the school, and became wonderfully gentle and ingratiating. lie found favor in the eyes of the mothers by petting the children, particularly 'he youngest; and like the lion bold, which whilome so magnanimously the It i/ih did hold, lie would sit with a child oe one knee and rock a cradle with his foot for whole hours together. In addition to his other vocations, lie was the singing-master of the neighboihood, and picked up many bnjrht shillings by instructing the young lolks in psalmody. It was a matter of ro little vanity to him on Sunday to tuko hie station in front of tlic church gallery with a band of chosen singers; where in his own mind, he completely carried away the palm from the parson. Certain it is, his voice .resounded far above all the rest of the oonjjrejration. and there are peculiar quavers still to be heard in that church, and which maj even be heard half a mile off, quite to the opposite side of the millpond, on a atill Sunday morning, which arc said to dc legitimately descended from the nose of Icliabod -Crane. Thus, by divers little makeshifts, in that ingenious waj which is commonly denominated "bj hook and by crook," the worfcHy pedaorogue got on tolerably enough, and thought by all who understood nothing of the labor of head-work to have ? wonderful easy life of it. The schoolmaster is generally a m*n Df some importance in the female circle of a rural neighborhood; 'cing considered a kind of idle, gentlemanlike personage, of vnstly superior tastes and accomplishments to the ro'igh country 3YYU1HM, anu, in?eea, interior only in learning t.o the p..rson. his appearance, therefore, is apt to occasion some little stir ut the tea-table of a farmhouse, and the addition of a -iiperuurrary dish of cakes or sweetmeats or, peradventurc, the parade of a silver teap t. Our man of letters, tliereiore, .vas peculiarly happy in the smiles of all ?hc country damsefs. Itow he would figure among them in tho churchyard, between services on Sunday-1 g'.vhenng grapes forthem from the wild vi.iesthat overrun **>e surrounding trees; reciting for their amUE?mon* all the pitaphs on the tombstones; or sauntering with o whole bevy of them u1op0 tae bank" of the adjacent millpo id: whilo the n* j bashful c ountry bi mpkins hi?? h A yishly back, envying nis supc.if elegancc and addicss. '.V'.i ? 'r } V- - -T; * n $r.. *y. ".v* " SJ ? . Palmetto THOS. McCET' f ) of the largest SALOON in tho up-coontry j (idvertisonionts. The half is not mentio: 1 preparod for fall trade. The Paluiotto Hoi ; Foreign and Domest * the best the market affords. He ha Rye and Corn, Irish I Apple, Peach, California and Fri 1 D Ho can cheerfully recommend his go mixed drinks with nil the DELICIOUS HE I'ERATE DRINKS. His specialty is a lar i GENTLEMEN'S RES0R1 and you will not forget again. B 0 A G-ood Line of Tobacci 1 Beer a 5 CUNNINGHAM [ HAVE i Tleir Larp aid ? i FALL AND W i Consisting ii B i Foreign and Don NOT] E HATS, HATS, H J30 HARDWARE, HAR1 s Groceries, Grocerie 3 ' 3 Crockery 3 At Lower Prices than they were Eve PAVILION IhiOTI?i CIIRLESTON, S. (First Class i>n all its Appofr.tmcnl RATES, S2.00, S2.50. ' Excellent Ouiseno, lnr^ro airy rooms, O Pasf*en?.'?r Elevnlor. 'Electric Lxill and ligh1 Heated rotunda centrally located. Oct. J, 'M-tf 21 QENTRAL HOTEL, Mrs. M.W. THOMAS, Proprietres; Broad Street, Augusta, Qa. A J?XOIIANGE HOTEL, GREENVILLE, S. C. The Only Two-Class Hotc in the World. W. R. "WHITE, Proprietor, JJEW DINNER HOUSE, Greenwood, S. O. Kept by Mrs. F. G. PARKS. Choap rate First-class fare. , <iune loin, ioo^-ir. Ill , T. P. TIIOMSON. J. W. TnOMSO" I rpiIOMSON & TIIOMSON, Attorn eys-nt-!Law9 j i Abbeville, 8. C. iSfOfficein renr Mr. Lee's. Jane 8th, 1 t-85-tf. 10 l | I QALIIOUS & MABRY, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law, Adbevillk C. H., S. C. Offlcc formerly occupied by Judge Thorn ; 3on. tf-50 noBT. it, nEMrniLL. wm. p. caliiouh JI <JC UAJjJtlUUJN, Attorney s-at- Law, Abbeville, S. C. Will practice in the Courts of the State R4 ' i. W. PERRIN T. P. COTHRAM : ] pERRIN & COTIIRAN, Attorneys-at-Law* AbbbVzlle, 8. Q. i SALOON f riCAN, Proprietor , don't intend to dnpe his cnstomors by false tied iu the three Abbeville papers. Heis well ise is woll stocked with everything in the lino of tic Wines and Liquors, s got Liquors nino yoars old. Good old and Scotch Whiskies, ench. Brandies, Porter. Ale and Fresh Laerer Beer. ods to the pnblio for MEDICINATj USE, and VERAGESof the souson. Also COOL, TEJIgo stock of PUllE GOODS, Call at the '.NO. 4 WASHINGTON ST, THOMAS McQETTIOAN. 0 and Cigars. Budweiser Specialty. 47 & TEMPLETON IIS STORE ell Selected Stoclt of INTER GOODS, 1 Part ot _ n. A lesnc ury uqoqs, E O NS, :ats, ot8 and shoes dwarf, hardware, Groceries, , Crockery, Crockery. r Offered Before. l-tf-22 ENM5ED BY SHr BETTEH AM SCIENTISTS AS j|||g_CHEAPEB TM 'S' PRACTICALLYBfej ANY MestrnctlMe STONE. [? Over BOO , ?end *? Beautiful Mm;|3 Price List _ Designs. Sw| Circular V?^ MANUFACTttRKn BY MONUMENTAL BRONZE COMPANY BBIDOEPOBT. CONN. ? 1886 AT THE 4 " Centennial .Saloon (For this year will be focr.d s. Absolutely Pure Spirits# * Sorth Carolina copper distilled Corn, Finest brands of Kentucky Kye, from $2 to $6 Per Gallon. iiDortei Cognac BraMy a Specialty ALSO Ales, Porter, Champagnes, &c ? [n fact all the popular and standard goodi i that can bo ohtninnd. TnoofhAr with an assortment of Tobaccos and Fine Cigars that can not be excelled in quality. Persons needing such goods would not bi i- humbugged by baying from them. The place is second door from Cour Souse. " O'DONNELL & CUNNINGHAM Proprietors, ABBEVILLE, S. Q, jan 14-tf 25 AZjL? the now shades in Hats and Eonnet with Ribbons, Birds, Flowers, Batin and Volvotd to match. - 52 B. M. HADDON ?fc CO. JgUGENE B. GARY, Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law . Abbey illk, S. 0* \ -" ;?'; N ' . ; * ' V v \ . ? . t. If > . . v ' * . . . .;..." . : ; * ;-. > BBBtfMnBHMMBaMnWHMMBHMMnHMMMMMBMMHMMKa GOODYEA1 Carriage Rep r<AN EE FOUND THE LARGEST STOCK 01 Phtoton* Ronn Carls, l^ianfHtjon Wnirons (nil sizes, 1 Harness Saddles. Ridh'nir, lonthor of nil kinds. Wmjon ft | thirty day* I will OFF ICR SPECIATj BARGAINS IN A 1/ ( GIES ?t loss limn M an uf adorers' Prices. Theso Bugp^Gf l cm muktw: which I will snarnntos eqnal to the best. C? viacc yoursolves that they are absolute bargains, ^V. R. GOODY] (Succcssor to R. II. May & Co.,) OPP. GEC S5- I ADGOSTA. GEOE ? DAY & TANr Arc Now Receiving a Fine I CARRIAGES AND E FOR THE SPRING AT PmCJES TO SUIT 1 And Never Before Attained, in the H We are enabled to give our customers every ad vat at the closet possible cash prices. Call CHILDREN'S CARRIAGES IN The finest assortment of ILVNDBAGS and SATC1 TRUNKS, WHIPS and UMBRELLAS. THE WILSON, CHILD'S & CO.'S PHI LA. WAG TENNESSEE WAGONS, 1, 2 and 4 Horse. DAY & TANNAIIILLL'S ONE AND TWO IlOli EXPRESS AND "DELIVERY WAGONS. AXLES, SPRINGS, HUBS. SPOKES. &c. RUBB IIOYT'S LEATHER BELTING. The best in the LACING, RIVETS, Etc. OAK and HEMLOCK CALF and LINING SKINS, LASTS, THREAD, ( HARNESS and SADDLES. WE CALL PARTIC1 HARNESS DEPARTMENT, IN WHICH WE EXC DAY & TAI 43 I WHITE BRO' I Would call the attention of buyers to u Fow Spi l. Is unusually large and attractive. They have the cbea] have ever offereu. They havo also some handsome Colo ROJtment of Black and Colored VE-liVETEENS ior Dr< a nice line of Wool Laces in all colors, the latest thing 1 Their stock of BLACK CASHMERE cannot be i unusual care in the selection of these goods, and are as to color, quality and price. A good line of JERSEY JA< It would astonish any otto to see how very cheap Fl J this season. Buyers in this line would do well to exuini : WHITE BRO CARPETS are so very cheap as to bo in the reac CARPETS and RUGS can be found at the store of WU The above are only a few lines in which Special Bat 1 The General Stock of Fall and Winter Goods row c WHITE B R O 1 / . Is tbe larg&st, be t assorted, and more attractive than tl I plete in all departments. The Human Eye and JOSEPH SI OPTICIi Superior toahy other in uso, constructed in accordance af nature in the peculiar form of a UONCAVE CONVI to the organs of sight, and perfectly natural to the eye, to the human vision ever invented. I ^11 Vfifi SPECTACLEHANIMmE U. 01 111 Jill IN THE CITtf C and is traveling at this time throughout the State of G known his Theory and Practice, and at the same time int his Spectacles have been t?ied tney are spoken of in tl testimonials will certify; the original and many other his rooms. Ho at the same time wishes to be uniors eliug quacks who merely sells you a pair of fusses at t may never see a^am. He has established in Augusta, a in case you should happen to lose or break yonr glasses at a small nominal sum, as it is his cnstom to keep a ie hies him to know just the glass yon have pnrchased fr from such men as Judge Tottle, Govenor Colquit, Get; t?ept.?. 0,1885 CLOTHING! CLOTHING 1 Bra A'S / ository. 1 ee F CARRIAGES, BUGGIES. [ to f> ho^o.) Single and Donble Tnterinl. <fc<v. <to. For tho next )T OF 0"KN AND TOP BUG * fire nil Fino Northern nnd East11 and exiimino tliem aud con- | EAR, Agant- I IRGIA RAILROAD BANK. I , m | I FACTORY, 703 I bill A Ellis Street I 4AHILL, I Lssortment of I iUGGIES ' i TRADE, I ^-IE TIMES ! I istory of the Business H itage by purchasing our good and be convinced. H GREAT VARIETY. I IELS ever brought to the city. . ONS. all sizes. . SE WAGONS. l.nflj ER BELTING and PACKING! 1 SOLE LEATHER. 1 DEMENT, Etc. ULAR ATTENTION TO OUlf EL IN QUALITY and PRICE.} MNAHILL, Augusta, Gra,. PHERS acialties: Their stockof pest line of BLACK SILKS tbe^f^Hj red Silus. They have u good asses iiiid Trimmings. Tney hay^^^^H for uue ?resa Trimmings. surpassed. They have bestowc^^^^H sured they are all right ill regar^^^^H JKETS, cheaper than ever before^^^^fl ANNELS and BLANKETS ne the stock of THBRsI h of all. A good assortment ITE BROTHERS. gains can be had. I ilit)red to the public h,y r H E R S , <fl| liey have ever carried. It is covfts^^^B sep.o0,ls.-5-2m. H Spectacles. H ILVERjS A.N. i with the science and philosophy ?X ELIPSEs. admirably adapted affording the best artificial help jlSHED A H GLASS EMPORIUM )F AUGUSTA. eorgia for the purpose of making rodneing these Lenses. Wherever\^^H le highest terms, as tho following s can be seen and examined at^HH ood that ho is not one of the trav-^^H exorbitant prices and whom yon^^^H t present, f>48 Brand Street, where^^^H . he wiilfreplnce tho same for you^^^H lister of all he soils, thereby ena-^^H| om him. Those testimonials are^^^H leral uordon and a host of othe?.^^^B ! CLOTHING J I >OK at the old gent above in a lix isn't he with his pants all gy and no fit? ]\Iy friends do SB wish to avoid getting into just Hfl i a scrape? Then when you :e up your mind to buy a suit of ^Hj lies come right along to our /. nnrl ltnva vnilf mPniiUTO fftlfpll Vi aim J have your clothes mado to or- ^Hj by the very best rAILORS IN THE COUNTRY. H then if they are baggy and 't lit, just say to us "send those hes right back, I don't, want n and wont have them." 'More- II wc would not let you keep n ourselves if they did not fit Wc arc not working for a fail e, but a tvado we can by giving fo -satisfaction hold in tho fuRemember our motto is "no Wc are youra truly, ?tHers. I