Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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1.' In writing to this office on trauneM *1- wny* giro your name and i’ost Office addreao. • 2. Business letter* and eoamuaicadonj to t>« publisUed should be written on separate sheets, aij^l the oh)ret of each dearly indi cated by necessary note when required. 3. Articles for publication should be writr ten In • clear, legible band, and on only one aide of the page. . gJ j_.-v. ..-a—: Travelers’ Guide- a ^ m H I w. HOIJtES. TOIIINBTDN, COLUMBIA TtKD rr-^-3- -=— - * Oh, forone hour of youlhftil joy I AUGUSTA BAILROAD. n ^ iS^BT * , T . , .r Tr. |,v >> * m'u*u BARNWELL C. H.. S. C.i THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15. 1877. NO. II. jw Ay OLD MAN'S DREAM. Gmuul Passbnoee Dipabtmeut, Columbia, 8. C„ August 6, 1877. TbeffilloH ii^ Schedule will be operated on ,.and affhr tLia <lr.fp; r K Tram-DaU* «r-is< xonm. t :'\e Columbia 11 16 p ns. ; «* Florance 2 40s.m. Airtrd dtt Wtlmington " . . 8 32 a, m. 0011*0 SOUTM. co-aVo wi^mingtoM t Leave FI ora nee - Arrive tt Ookraibia ’fT ^ This Train is Fast Hr ^ ____ _ connections, all rail. North and 8outh, and water line connection via Portsmouth.’ Stop only at Enetover, Sumter. Timmonsville, Florence, Marion. Fair Bluff, WhitevillB and Fleinington. * ^Through Tickets sold and baggage check ed to all principal points. Pullman Sleepers on night trains. * Tkr+upA Frrifkt 7 rein—Dtihf. dhpa) aomo roetr. Leave Colu»|hl^. • *.6 •-* ItR OS p. tp« 1 2*a.». I cave Fl< renoe. Arrive at Wilm.ngton. . * ' oomo seum. Leave Wilmington, ^ Learn Florence . Arrive at Columbia . 6 00 p. ». 4 80 a. m. It 00 m. 1 80 p.». 2-86 a., m. 10 10 a m. A. Give back hay twentieth spring 1 , I’d rather laugh a bright haired boy. Than reign a gray haired Mnff. - Off with the vrlakled rpnHs of age, _ Away with learning’s crown ; Tear out life’* wisdom-written page, “> And east itf trophies down. One moment let nly life blood stream, From boyhood’s fount of fame; Gire mo otic gitKiy7”)’ e *^ ,, 8 l ^ rea,n ' Of 1; o. of love, and fame. My likening angel heard the prayer, ■ And stmlijia snid: “ “ “11 1 but touch thy tdtvrretkbafr * Thy b»*t^ vvicli llud sped. . ' .. ‘‘Bitiis tinsueti'ithing in tjip track . Vturt fondly SttW. While ilie swill s itsons hurry bm;k v .,<. To fin«i the waited for day ?’ i V Ah, true*t soul of womau kind. Without thee what were life? * s >- Onabliss I cannot leave behind— tl’U ukftigr jrecieus wife- , ? . The angel took a sapphire pen -- Aad wroteia rainbow hue: . ■That man would be a boy again, , And be a husband too. • •‘And is there nothing yet unsaid, • Before the ehange appeant! Kemeraber all thy gills hare fled - * With thekedfseolving-yeaks.”-— “Why, yes, I would one favor more; My fond paternal'toys— I could not bear to lose them all; . _ ITt take my ^irla and boys." The smiling angel dropped his pen, “Why, thinwill never doj ^ The man Wool-j bg a ' « And be! I. ■K , J- little eteps, and bringing one fool time close to the other. Now—he all but obthe topi Uebalte agnlo; he through the multitude. Suddenly he me full front toward the top It Is oklly almost a level; he staggers, but It is forward. Yes ; every Hnob in e multitude makes a movement as If would assist him. See, at last he Is P bu IHiHHH I n (he top, and down he falls flat with is burden. An enormous ihout! He has won ! be has won! But neither of them gets up. If he has feinted, It Is with 4»y, and it ts In her arms. v i The baron puts epursto his hone, the crowd foliowlrg him. Half way he obliged to dismount; they ascend the rest of the hill together sliest and frippy, the bardfo Aadylo burst with imme and hnpartenoft. Tb<.‘y reaTb be top. the lovers are face to face on he ground, the lady dasptng him with oth arms, his lying on each si 1e. “Traitor 1” exclaimed the baron, “thou hast ‘practiced this feat before on purpose to deceive me; aritt> !” ‘•You cannot expect i\ my lord,” said a worthy man, who was rich eaongh to speak his mind ; “Sampson himself might take hie rest after sueh a deed.” “Part them 1” said the baron. Several persons went up, not to part them.jbHtto oongrattrtate them. These they kneel 4own, they y bury their faces up on them. * * “Heaven fotbld they sbouln ever be -parted more 1” said a veoer ble than ; “they never can ^e." He turned-ills old face, streaming with tears, and looked up at the baron, “My lord, they are dead!” weak S wicked condones all, and n—the pu . Iicfc-are all onoeoloees over No prominent les< “Restrain your elder the general honorable In your oomes of trial at th ion, w^ere you cab plain or defend, an will make up the e yon are toneacqhlti Yfe remove this down this safegueid man, however hum' limited his little ambl shrink fa presence oi ere long nothing will biagujd. oa baa i 1 they may, death t and, the d and the en the earth of death, now be told: ambition; con- be honest and i, for the day public opln- appear to ex- r deeds alone upon which condemned." wb break there Is no station or , who does not tbooght that left of him but he must .w; butone bend an ear, they bury day, Arrivesmt FIorenoeM 8 «tp. mjf A. POPE, O. F. AT. J. F. DEVINE, Superintendent. South (Carolina Railroad. CHANGE Of 8CHEDULB. Columua, Ally 11, 1877. On and after Sunday, 16th, Paasenger Trains willrunas follows; . _ / _—~£~ ^ - FOB COLOMBIA, (Sundfy morning excepted), Leave Charleston . . D <lf) a. m. 8 lop. m. Arrive at Columbia. 12 16 p. m. 7 16~a. m. -FOM AUGUSTA, -± i.-=xc -■■ * '(Sunday mornhigexcepted), j. *- Leave Cbsrlestbn . .‘ 9 00 a. tn. 7 10 p. nt. Arrive Augusta . . 5 GO p. ni7 8; 0>» a! m. L. T ^ ro* cujElbston, (Funday. rooming excepted). Leave Columbia . . 8 15'p'. m. T 00 p. m ‘ Arrive*t Chariest>nl0 00 p. m 0 4fta m-,, sob alon«*. in ecoru, he bnde him.do Leave Augusta . . 8 80 a. m— 8 16 p m. ■ and bia ilaogttter should be bis. Arrive CharieetoM . 4 20,p. tu.... 7 .“O a. m. ( TbS peasautiy-as-yuibled in the val- Tbe Oamdei train will leave Csmden at ley to witness SO extraordinary height. 7 30 a. r>. on Mondays, Wednesdays an l They measured the iBountiriu with Fridays, and connect at Kingville with the their eyes ; they eommuuetl with one 4tp passenger train for Columbia.^ On Tucs- [ another ftixl sitook th*ir heads, but all days, Thursdays and Saturdays it will eon- admired the young man, and Home of _ u And so I laughed. My laughter woke t he household with its boisc. rote my dream when morning broke, ' To please''roy girls and boys.’ , , « mm » LOVERS’ MOUNTAIN. We forget in what book it^was, many years ago, tHat we readjtbe story of a lover who wna to win bis mistress by carrying her to the top of a mountain, and how he did win t er. and how they ended th*dr days on the same spot. I We think the scene was in Switzer- land, but the mountain, though high wnouch to tax his heart to the at tats, most, must have b*en.arat'ng the low est, It was, at any rnte. so blgh,Thst | the fnAlipr tit the indy, a pr aid ‘tl-'ble, though* ItMmpossiblo for a y< utigvnHit ! so burdened to scale it F-t this rea It. nectst Kingville with down passenger train from Columbia and arrive at Camden at 8 p. m. Connects dailv,with trains from and to Charleston. 8. 8 SOLOMON*. Superintendent. \ GREENMUE AND CoLlMISU ^ RAILKOAfi. "X __ The Joarnal of Conuneree, 'V ^ <a»-n _;**■'.< • Y3lE®MITDBt of 0 .mmerce bas been in exiateuce now for nearly two yearn. It n-grb wlug clfoffTaTjivn fa the dty and hi tbelotgrtor, as well 8s in the neigh boring States, and the steady increase in he advertinng patronage, prompts us to depart from our usual custom, sua while expressing our .appreciation of thsrpnbiic favor, to say something about our enterprise. The Journal of Commerce was started by a number of democrats, who realised the Absolute necessity of a pure, unadulterated dem ocratic paper, which would reflect the sentiment of the people and advocate the redemption of our dpwn-trodden State without a compromise, in the great struggle between the people and radicallstn, the verge pf which we were Their"approaching. It started with very little capital, contributed by the ywople whjo realiz-d the necessity of Imvlpif twTrpai ets in 'Charleston, and wbohopeiJ Uiai the cause it was dc- ?dgn*-d toaeive would induce tbe great democratic party in the State to rally linwcdlutily to its suppoit. Public sentiment had Keen trained to think that a democratic paper, such, as the Journal of C 'Uimeice, would provejto he a sort of bull In a china shop, believe it can fat safely said that no leavea her*tags to We-are a nation pot-— , Arnold. All our othef -Arnolds have gon* down to dusky death to rise again on the Indiscriminate ptaisegiven from the lips to a sacred rasmory. Tbe 111 they have done wa bury with their bones, and tbe good they did not do is woven Into songs of praise and elo quent ntteranoes of antagy*' A roan may never fUA abovs *ifie sectional party that did not motAn but gtoritd In the civil strife tbat deluged aland with the blood of brqtbers; hejnay give his fine brain and Wgh courage to tbe perpetuation of tbe bate such strife engenders for the gratWcation of his seiflsh ambition ; he may never have felt one generous Impulse or have ut tered one patriotic sentiment, and yet command after death tbe unbroken 5 raise of the people. eath transmogrifies t possible gods aad the We are the. one poo, the erres cursed but wi How bleseed now we ooi through tbs streets and alleys they went, and every now and then ope of the pursuers who was more fleet of fjpot than the balanc^woold whsdi the horrid man over the bead with her broom. Tbe race waa kept up for quite a while, but at last the unfortunate man reached tbe canal, and, being al most entirely exhausted, be concluded to either effect his escape er pise leave bis corps* at the bottom. He plunged In, and, being a good ewlmmer, reach ed the opposite shore fa safety. Tbe gallant band of female regulators all gathered on tbe bank, and in concert told wbat they would do with biro IT they ever caught him. It is P/e' ty safe to sav that the warning was quite uncalled for. If reports are true, the ioung man will never show hie face in that village ggsln. “ The f'esnsla ColiecUea. V V <Ue*kr.) According to promise, a morning waS demoted to eeeiog the ed wonders. Lest eomg of our readers have forgotten tho acconot which ap peared some weeks ago to the Work ing Christlan concerning them. I will noa^tulata The Cyprloteantlqultles •vt-re ditu-overed by U.m, Osgota. an Kalian nobleman by »*lrth, a graduate of the Royal Military Academy of Tu rio. a soldier of the revolution In Italy in 1848, of the Crimea, and our olVU war. In 1865 be became an American Citizen and was appointed consul to Cyprus. It is an impressive fact, that { > the-custom of burying ead objects of the flue and W Quarterly, steriwassl’* leap accronpaaled by Ibe M tie writer, not neceiMrily for j hnt m a guaranty of gr.oS fcltk. Addren, .•*( your own, and add (o It If j •dsbfal, practicing self-t! at once to grow can consume, and that you •ell. Sow dawn had your cot ton I in small grain, priodpaily oafa, red *>ats. Yes, we say sow onfa, Lboy wUl never prove a total fnHore, and are moet wholesome food .'or men and j'by . to wont 1 beast. Grow your own tho sheaves for your plot and cattle, and tnt» sh Is fed to the huge, sad •ift a little of the meal sod yourselves aa a suherite* or corn bread. You will how well It flte in If you tried It If you have red Cut m? The touch of latoim- into through att one Arnold, be had we fa ourvctfll ssrvkjt, honesty fa our dealings, and one ngrtlcle of the heroic In our national character. Morton la dead. No more will the fallen Senator hold the thousands to his public utterances, that were oursee wrought Into Incisive sentences. No more will he call for tbeVrar of races That followed the war of sections. No more will he sit scowling ioto submis sion bis weaker followers of the Sen ate. Morton is dead, but an Imaginary Morton, a good and great map, lives In sacred memory, and a nufob mourns. Coed aa* Bat Fanning. jV .U fAojwrta £?«,)Cihronlcle.l In the speeches of the PrcsldentlHl party at Richmond the topic most dwelt upon Was agriculture. The Pres ident and Secretary Sherman tallad ke farmers who understood the sttb- set, find the comparisons drawn he- ween Virginia and Ohio wers kindly and Interesting. It was shown that diversified agriculture and small In dustries had done mors for Ohio than anything else, and tbat she did not begin to become a wealthy common wealth until tbe wheat mania was beaten out of the heads of her plant ing Population. Tbe Ohio people for merly clung to wheat culture with the same tenacity that our people ollng to cotton; but the preeent generation of ea have gotten over that hobby and how what was considered source of we- ltb*prftductton rot secondary Importance, just gold of California Is of relatively The Black Hills. his Httendante, tacking at the village damsels, th<>iu?lit they e^iild do ae much. Th« father was *'ii herv< back, apart and nullen, repenting that he had subjected hie daughter even to the show of Hueh a haz in); but. Itatfronpi T It would teach bis Inferiors r» lesson. The young mag (the eon of a small, landed proprietor, who had sums pre tentious to w» altb, ‘hough muie P> no -hlHty) •tnral, rekpefliful-lookiniZ but fluent, rejoicing fa his heart trial he daily neyrspaper th 8 targe city like [Chkafio Trttmao.] Two “Black HillA’s,” Captain D. C. Nichols and H. S. Cofetnan, are at the Palmer House. They are Intereet- ed with three others in three claims near Central—the Golden Gate, Bel cher and Father De Sroet—only the latter of which, however, they are at present working. This one yields 82,000 a week fa gold, a ten-stamp mill fa-ing used. Captain Nichols comes to We|bhfcago to buy a twenty-ktatop mllf, and when this Is in |>o6ltioi he expects L'hirh stun bus ever bK>.n._tXarted and in a.st»ce» -« on •-» shiall a capital as un: tin: lot a yield of, ?8,000 a week. A reporter emit -CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.. Passeogor Traiaa rna daily. Sandays ox- eteted, c nnectinE with th« Fa!<( Dny Trains .i . u ooSoutk Carolina Kaitruml up and down. On , »houW win bis lady love though at the •nd after Monday. July 11, Uw following cost of a noble pafa, which he could will to the Mhnduin: . 1 h®rdly think of as a pain, considering who It was he was to carry. If he died ■f V •- * .UP. -V ' Lnave Columbia at - - - Learn Aleton - - - * - Learn Jfawberry - - -* *- Leave Kaigil ’ - v -s- v Leave Belton - - - • - Arrive at Greenville «. - DOWN. Leave GreenTille'lt'f' - Leave Beltoa - — ^ I.cArf Hodgee - u '- ’ - Leave Alaton - - - Arrive at Columbia - > - • 12 46 p.m - 2 35 p. m • 8 48 p. m. -s.-—f AOf. - _ 8 80 p. m. « 10 00 p. m. - 6 40 a. mi. "I-*? 20a. •. 8 67 a m. - 1 05 p. m. « 2 50 p. m. .m ....••—« AFDBESON BRaNCH AND BLUE RIDGE Jl VISION. T^ar • Dnlnm - - LaaVjt Ao'i^.'ea v Leare'Ftrullffon l^avn Perryyi(l: Arrive at Walbuiiu 'A 80 p. in. for If, he should at least have bad her fa bis arms, ~snd have looked her iu the face, which he contemplated with eh transport aa la knftwn only to realPovers ; for none others know bow respect heightens the joy of diepeoeiog with formality, and how the dispensing with formality ennobles and makes grateful the respect. The lady stood by tbe side of her father, pale, anxious, yet hopeful. She thought her lover would succeed, but only because she respect the noblest nothing was too n*uch_for Ms strength AptTvalor. She knew not what, might happen fa the chances common to all. She felt the bitter mss of being herself thought plm fa every •st of his sex, and tbat . 11 16 p. at; j •own. - (.cave Walhalla > ' i.-iva Perry rille ■*"*’ Leave Pendleton Leave Anderson Arrive at Belton Laurens Brandi Traiaa Ar mi. and leave days, Thar-days and Saturday*. Abbeville Branch train connects et Hodge’s with down and urf ♦»at«t.*al1y,'fundays l.Ji r TISHAS do dame ad. 0 20 p. ns. .the burden to him And the task ; and - 10 10 p. j she dan d neither tft look at her father 10 40 p. m. ; nor ths mountain. She fixed her eyes -ijow on th*» erew.t(whlcb, nevertheless, | tiot). and now on her haari l-eMjiJ»er^fagni en ds. whf«di she doubled } LfFtrftai ) fad-.witft a pno iy pretense^ j the oidy.d'/ovi’tfai) she had ever used. Once ex twice ^daughter or a mo4»er siipped out of the crow's, and, coming up to her, notwlthais ding their fears of the lord baroo, klaaed that which she kh«w not what to do >6 tft a. ■m 6 40 a. in. • 8 80 a. nr. • 7 10 a. m. leava C inlon at 9 8 p. m. aw Tnesr. erptad. /i-ZaR* row, Jb., Jabex Norton, Jb., Gen oral Ticket Agent. , b^nd with. ) father “Now, sir, to put an end to this mummery,” and the^lbver, turnlnc . Jourii.tjr of rce. It has rly <‘oiup!Lti“'l tin* s-coud' year of •ulfM-tiot ii'.d unaidefd by ‘tfflri.il tap "I ..fay kltul ■ausfajhfag. It :..».*. ;..-vn g .. cold Umt the cK-r i -u oi tTt<~ ni'd H>ui;pt<<u ami tne redemption of rite State, in November lust, was due,-in a gmvbn>--»Bur‘* r to-4ta*eatat4taltfnetrt of- tha Journal of Commerce, whose vig orous and-persiateut advocacy of the stralghtoul democratic potley, at a time when the public sentiment, led by the teachings of “independent Jour- nals,” wavered and was almost ripe for u compromise with Cbamberlaiu, se cured the Domination of Governor Hampton by tbe democratic conven tion. To this fact we point with pride, and we also point with pride to tbe fact that, without the aid of State or citv pap, fa the way of official adver tising, we have made the Journal ofJ “ Oomtncrce what it was Intended to befytbej a first-class daily democratic newspa per. Some democrats In Charleston seem to think tbat the Journal of Com merce should at least have a share ot the public advertising of the State dovernmeot,. and the opinion Is not confined to. - a faw. The Journal of Commerce, however, bas survived nearly two years without public pap amj bas gene on steadily increasing both In .its circulation and advertising patronage. It Uvea In the hearts of those of our people Who have experi enced the effects of tbe “one newspa per” malady, and it will continue to live. The ambition and aim of the founders of tbe Journal of Commerce Is to make this newspaper a journal worthy, of the support of the demo cratic people of South Carolina, and we shall not Tire ip oar effort* -until that ambition is attained. found him yesterday, aad inquired about 'hlngs In tbe Hills. “The^ are lively.” said the Captain. “How many- people are thcremow T” - “Fmm six to ten thousand In the i T sv-fr s^H- vicinity of Deadwoed.” o-ner.iiTy com- . •’-Ar,* any out of employment?" “None that want to work.” “Arat-here many coming in?” “Nat very nan, ' “Cun oEe sW flhr groundTor claim?” .t -' > “Tbs claims are about all taken up. Coe might find a vacant spot, but I guess ^everything ia located oa that mineral belt.” “Are many of the daimi paying ?” “Yes; the Hidden Treasure, Keats, Alpha, Golden Terry, Golden Star, Homes take and others are paying well. About four hundred stamps are running with success. Borne yield more and some less.” bra tba c as am: nlflceqt tillage, The President seemed to think that Virginia was the pa radlas * for emi grants, especially for those who wished to preserve the type of th which they sprang. He dwelt upon the fact that nowhere was tberp a flfler people physically, and the cheap ness of good lands must be specially attractive to meo of small means who wished tp come to ths Old Dominion.’ Tbe staple of these addresses seemed to be fashioned upon an old argument or assertion which wo find In tho At lanta Independent: “If a good Vermont or New Hamp shire farmer should work our Geo.gta farms as he Works the rocky, steille New England lands, he • muld produce such crops as were nevor seen in this country. If our thlrty-flve thousand farmers would work Georgia lands as the good Northern farmers work their lands, the agriculturists of Georgia would be the mone. lenders - of tbe State.” “ This may be true, but It Is equally true, we are Informed, that neatly ev ery Northern man who came to the Smith and turned farfaer proved a dis mal failure. It may be tbat when Vet* mont and New Hampshire men come here they either tolldw the plan they And prevailing, or else they discover that methods of agriculture suitable to tbelr old homes are not adapted to their new settlement. The records of the South are fllled, since 1866, with the wrecks of men who came from New _ 7 _ „ r wand ancient history of nations. The tombs of. Cy prus are sepulcbru* of the ages. Cy prus is itself onw vast necropolis, tbat unfolds to us< the history of ancient civilization. 1 be Greek tombs were tin 04} feet below the »drfaee. Tien, six and a half feet belowthero/tee the Phoenician tombs. The Greeks did nut know that tbelr necropolis repoaod On another and so oltfar city of tbe dead. Ia 1870, Gen. Oesnols, by bis excava tions, discovered tbs temple of Venus. Th* foundations were 1012 low the surface. Moderr wbolsrtUlp is looking to Cyprus as to the key of the origin and development of Greek clvtlte-ttion. These exhumed treas ures show how the civilization, retiffioo and arts of Egypt and Assyria Wrfe transmitted by tbe Phoenicians, slid adopted by the Greeks. Cyprus is a large Island in Che Mediterranean Ifaa, a short distunes from the sosstef Syria, and subj‘Ct to Turkey. Iq ths Old Testament it Is railed Klttim, or Chittim. Tbe Pbceuiclaus of Tyre were probably the first neuters. The island contains near 110,000 lahall’ants. GemObnola mAt with great difficul ties In pursuing bis Investigations, but succeeded iu Bending quits a large thr'rivr Wa CHr F° these buried treasures .to New ths race from Y o r k. They are on exhibition st the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It gives one a strange feeling to be surrounded with such antiquities—some dating back 1.500 years before Christ, end coming down to the second and third century B. C.; to think that irall gloss vase was fashioned by hands th$t mouldered Into dust “before the Sav our came to catth;” that those tear- bottles were made for tbe use of peo ple who lived in tbe times of the Pha raohs. You could scarce credit your senses, and felt hb thowgh you miustbe In dreamland, wandering amid shad owy relies of tbe past. The Terra Cotta collection Is only valuable for Its antiquity. You would not desire tjjiem for Uitir Beauty, forahty pause** but some of glass sped men a were lovely. The wet earth In which they had laid so long, bad imparted ' to them, by some chemical process, all the ootars of tbe rainbow. Some of the jewelry was very modem In ap pearance, very eimllar to jnst such ar tides as we had been admiring at Tif fany’s, and yet those ear 'nftgi and bracelets had doubtless adorned some Phoenician bells, hundreds of years ago, some dark-eyed, nut-brown maid, who, In the dim, far away past, had led a butterfly existence, sporting among the flowers of her native land, and was laid away fa tbe cold, dump your family. We do not advise mg wheat for market. Sow tys for pasturage at onee^ sod look beyond the win* er to the spring, wfa n your rye wllf just bs hbedfag out, to Ufa Mutllifi green etopa you wilt Rave to plough under ss preparatory labor for some summer crop. Barley sown now will do ho good be fore April or May, unjdte the eprin# l« Very earty or tbs winter umw as««ml ty» warm; though, If ; though, if aetwn now, it fMb<w faaks the soiUwr food fa the hin hprlrg.fqr plough animals IrcHli Th that e.'ft its 1 u'ntifa: ^sowing barley on gray or ft«dy fend, and If on ofay bad It should’be mads very riot), Leave no corn lo the 'eld later thou, should II' T- have , s 'v • this mou.tb, It.. bonsed before this, j Potatoes are dug, or being dug. 8re<li. r»otato« s should • bw- b«ab*o afifa tip? olden style, and net,b« opened tflfnext errlntr. M-tny fnrrosrs n'ko ft> • k ihctr SHtlng potatoes, w o use a v»rv dry cellar, snd do nothing bat pat the po- tatoas fa it, and ihfoar a o a'log ef dry sand and a lit He a beat straw ov«r _. them. We are usually very successful In saving them all winter, snd have none of tia troabfa of optidog and i Nil ng tba baphs. O. t ls and all kinds of stock are now, or should be, fat, and if so, let your aim be to keen them so till next spring. Don't let your dumb brutes loss alt 'heir fleeb by exposure to tbe bloats of winter, while yru ars snug slid fortnble In bed or by a cheerful flrifat But go to work nt oneennd erect soma soft of abeltsr for every head of thsro, and see that they ate. put under It. every nlgV- an* t tr 7 maks two cows s'and fa tbe seme stall, however; for though tho weakest and moat pa tient of all animals, they ars ths moat pugnacious towards each other. All rnimals ars benefltted by abetter fa the winter tltne, snd bone should be forced to suffer from cold and innk-uv- snt wt stber. Salting ' •*e»l* . [PfMK’i if>l *—* BodftfHl tO OUT POOpiO- ■ imm ada <1 {AtAmsare wtxzixtte ground for a? cotU)D . Baeii r rlcB.^orV/peuches. i raise cotton, sugar, rlc8, corn, peaches, ete^, etc. * * «. ^ * I ^ But, in spite of all this, the fact ap pears to be subetantlable that tbe South does suffer from poor farming. notable work is being done fa tbe way of enlightenment, by Oolonel D. Wyatt Aiken, in ^outh Carolina, by tbe Joneses fa Georgia and by Daniel Dett- uettio Loulslaoo. Tbe latter gentle fag pals for the first time, took op tha lady. * a I The-spectators rejo ce to staLthe manner In whioh he moves off, slow . y, mw .| but secure, and as If encouraging bis OJltOD Si JLl66tl6 ! lad 7 loTe - They mount the hill; they ^ W ^ t ; proceed well; he halts an instant be- , • , . , , fore he gets midway, and seems refus- Of you vas a dmkm mans, ( vast a j ng 8 omethlng; then ascends at a Icetle somedimes), ven you cooms mit quicker rate, and - now being at the dot Barnwell town, better you ihtop a midway point, shifts the lady from one Icetle in at dot side to the other. The spectators give a a great, •hput The baron, with an air Ifift fialnrm °f indifferenoe, ^ Wtes the tip of bis aiC. vuuams oaioon, ^ then ewtson them an und sot n fact 1c Schnanns lie keern *7® of rebuke. * At ttie shrmnthe lover und got a leet le ocnnapps^ tie keeps hUl Wliy . gip W but not feeble his step, yet it gets slower. He stops np In fler FMmii Hmm nnT«! («" m “ n 'und he vas von nice' fellers mit dot SahaoB. Hexsells you somedinps to drink wot Vill 3 make you right avay queeck feel so petter ash goot. He vas got some of dose Goot Olt Gabinei Vhiskey vas more asn dwendy ^srs mit age. iT it, eh ? Ymi^you ooom und dry Id vil vim goot idea to pring I ’tne sf dose irenlig. mit you veu yuu , needer. hot likes fa take a lectle ash you take a emiple totea yust to wss de mans dot ddttyou forget id again. $be women begin to tremble, but ths men say be will be victorious. He resumes again j be Is half wiy be tween ths middle and tbe top; hfrush- es, be stops, he staggers; but he does not Wt Another shout from the men. 1 bs resumes once more; two-thirds orthe remaining, part of the conquered. They are certain . lady kisses him on tbe forehead. The women burst into tears, and the stent- est men look pale,^ Hejjtoenda slower than ever, but seeming To be e. He baits, but It Is foot to go on again ;. pteks hie way. ffantlng ble foot every step, and then gaining ground with an effort, The lady lifts up.her 0. P Merton. “How fnuoh is turned out fa a week?” Ml, to give you an Idea, one of banking houses ships out $50,000 a Ik fa retort gold. Thai’S pretty good, Isn’t it, for a camp not six months old?” “You spoke of the sold belt belt« pre-empted. Are there no gulch claims left?” “All the gulches run down towards Dead wood, and this gold belt rims across them. The gnloh claims have not done much, on accountof there not being sufficient water.” “Have any of them been abandoned?” “NoT^tohad to have one for ffoaip- inc pnrpojicbs, and It cost us $2,000.” ''Howtuttah gold does a ton df ore yield?” ' * ** * “About $20. and there i* any quan tity of ore.” ^ The Captain ’further stated tbut everybody lu the Hills had plenty to est and drink, and was happy, and that alt of those who were working their claims fa the belt were making lots of money. Getter ash you take a couple siNffK)T LAGKBT PEER. AAehlbalt appedite. Jfic. ariIiJB( u ff to lighted'him. Bee, be la] praise dose dfagp. Und altpoat at tbe u»r ! He stops, he strug- | glee, hq moves sideways, taking very 3mj [Washington CopHat ] The death of this noted politician la an event the press seeks to Improvs by flooding the laud with aulogies. This is the why of oar American world. Many a pen tbat for ten years has been engaged in puttlng^p record bis errors and sins is now turned to praise, and the man who, if we are to believe the independent and demoeratio Jour nals, whs mean, selfish, blgctei and cruel, is now a saint, sitting on tbe right hand of his Creator. ^ j- # We have three degrees of greatriess In this free and enlightened land of oars. Firdt, a prominent man is pro nounced a Loo). Then he Is denounced as wickml. After, when death has claimed Mm as It# own, he-^ clalmed asafat and a patriot. Knowing tbfeito be the practice, basteneri to express our opinion of the ienator waa aUve. we dhfayfti^utitU now tbe very tbat poured wrath and disgust through IttsC^ftld give us the gravest rebuke for more their own oplntaos. And lie, If Us very sh fa the entire case, must-say that mallets were unjust in their past or insincere fa this, imt bury our Ceesars, C^And fa so doing wo teach acts are of so | uu let them be' in pro* he the all public men that their f llttls respccribUtty that, Indignant Virtue. . j •' ^ ^ o [Coliunbun Statesman.] - Groveport Is a beautiful little situated about tea miles out on the & H. ?. R. R. The majority of the In habitants are Christian men and wo men, who attend church at least twice on Sunday, yet, according to report, there are some bad men and women within the corporate limits. Last night a married man, who lives pear Reyn oldsburg, and whose name might be Leisure, but is not, called on one o tbe females el the fleet mentioned vil lage, who does not, according to re ports, bow a very good name in her native bailiwick.' A dozen or more of the indignant ladies who live fa the immediate neighborhood of Ufa fral congregate together, and after r themselves with ‘ ers. jer marct their nt residence last decided I. which waa done, mber went to the the I tbat the fellow be turned < were so dear to her in life. There are overfonr thousand vasts fa this col lection, of every imaginable shone, some very like iLoe*- fa use now. The colors used, a dark brown, almost black, and a purple red, dreorati d zifa conc«-otrie elides and chequered de signs, and In rare 1 of la nets with lotus flowers. Some of the VHSes have Pi.os- TIim h a matter that u again ogita’i tag the rand mtnd; not simply wbent alone, but other crops as well. Just now it is wheat, aa that is tbe crop now be. ing put in. We have eeverul queries concerning it—when to apply tail tep wheat add cn grass land, and how much per acre ? For wheat it esn he applied before or after sowing. We should pre tax before Rowing..harrowing ift with Urn lor be tore Rowing, barrow ing fa Wl|l whW. The quantity detrends upon diiions, hut three to. five Whels per men tells his readers that In parts _ Europe farmers take sandy and grav elly barrens and eon vert them Into rich farms and gardens, and make money out of them. This bas been done in England, in Flanders, and In many portions of Francs and Germany, and many other countries. He adds: “Look at some of tbe lands in Louisi ana that nature made rich and farmetr have made poor. Look at farmers ■cratohing twenty acres of pine lands to make an amount of corn or ptRon tbat good farmers product on two acres of land originally the same as the Indolent and thriftless farmers now cnltivate. There are pine land armers who have from one to twenty thousand doM&rs at interest, by the side of farmers who are too poor to afford .‘store cofiee,’ and who usually drink corn coffee and sassafras tea. The pine lands, which are called the poorest lands In Louisiana, when culti vated by good farmers, may produce a five hundred pound bale of cotton to an acre, or forty bushels of corn, or fifteen to twenty bushels Of lice, or from one to two hogsheads of sugar, and from one to three barrels of mo lasses besides, and other produce in proportion, and nothing but home fer tilizers need.” >... _• • < '"v. What Is true of Louisiana is rela tively true of Georgia. We need In this State and fa the whole South good farmers as tbe rule and not tbe excep tion. When that shall have beoome the ease abundant prosperity will in deed dawn upon our country, and not till then. „ * COB** per acre is enougtr, perhaps. The case of anon in Michigan who applcria too per sere, by mistake of his hired ihnn, is exdttag considerable comment. The result in (hat oats proved good, and now some are wondering whether sa’tis not, after all, Abseuee ef Mlsd. of 1 P.l?.-° tn,c * ti,tioc *‘ bnrDt fo them whrs tfelag tireded. Ftrjjn nrpori* ineulff that have ben made .■L-diikreut times we learn that a large quantity of wilt can be applied to farri vitHnut ap* parent injury, bnt tha a irtnailer quan tity serve* tha purpose jnst a* well* Ja expeiirocnts made a long time ago ia England ns much ss forty.(bur bushels were applied without injury. Oaene. plot sixty two bushels per acre were plied, but this reduced the ] ouc*halC Tbe best prodnot tyiued with five and a half bt salt, with p’enty of manure, tens the growth of wheat ‘ mature four to five days would Filhout; ft i< though', blight *ml mildew, stTfll.*nfi it bright.-r and the grain ] It U on aoik that eontaia a good Ifumus and ammonal that salt she effects; H . eliminates the cinenhi converts it fate shape for plant-toot also ncta vjam other ruiucml rendering them solubl i’he way to ksru its efiecta U to full ah p’ttU of the wheat field., Leave land or plat unsaltcd and sow one bushel on second land, two on the next, time cm the next' and so on. In (fa- vr one can learn something definite ng quantity needed on his soil, land sow in fail or spring, and « the quantity needed ta the ^n.c RefW salt can be purchaMtti low prices, qad we have no doubt wid pay to apply it. baked. We saw, also, some hideous speci mens of sculpture. Oue representing, au Egyptian king from tho regalia, and belongs to tbe best Egyptian epoch, say 1400 B. 0. Also, a eolloasal statue of Hercules. Some of the stators seem to be priests of Venue. The doveta Id fa their bands was sacred to that po-i- dens. A statuette of Ibis, and a Rinek le sacred cow. Although this col lection Is so wonderful, we enjoyed m.'A-h hipre the beautiful -ciiaphry of Hwvri‘8 Chinn, iu another hall Of Ufa Mubcutn.. It waa bard-tc keep the spirit of the tenth commandment when looking at these exquisite ctvina plat*n, each one representing * different pic ture—fruits, flowers and tan , so soft that they seemed to be pnlnti on Ivory. Vases, ao rare in their ar tistic beauty, that Tis said they adorn ed' the palate of Borne illustrious I’r.-t eh inouarolk • Flue (old wedge- wood plate, and np* . imens of the ear liest attempts of American pottefcy, in deslpn and autlful iintlogs and statuary by Europcaji artists, closed ths exhibition. Weary with sight-seeing, we went home to M. («. V«s rest. Hints far the Moatk. [ New* »n.l l -M The pant Bfa moirths hats- been a trying am son ito cotton planters fa many portions of our State and th* South. May waa a very dry month. Jute and July were seasonable, and, In many places, tbe first half of Awgoit gave no cause for the chronic grumb ling of ns farmers. From tbe middle of August till tbe l>iU4 r part of Sep tember was again dry and windy, and very Injurious to the blrifartn most tromialng cotton Crop. October has -1&- ,1. The late Mrs. Jane W-*-was equally remarkable for kindnem of beau and absence of mind. One day she was ac costed by a beggar, whose stout and I promising cotton crop. October has bealtby appearance startled her Into a I been, as it frequently Is, a lovely mouth g||| hr of the needfulntfaaj for »U kinds of" work. Perhaps tbe brooms, pok- ir Implements . one of deaf and .tr ach h be Lels made a uto the yard. The mao, whose name might ‘ " LH outaMegave a war hot; phtayit. Over Is not, declined. ugh the back Tlfatentindson dm; momeiita|y4atfihMPiJMI of charity in this Instance. ‘Why, 1 exclaimed the good old lady, “you look well and able tft work!” “Yea ” re- bave beep dumb these sevah-years” “Poor mao, what a heavy affliction 1” exclaimed Mrs. W-—, aA"*h® giving him relief with a liberal On returtififlg home she men- _ “wbat ul thing. U is to be deprived But how n crop Was never harvested, thus far, in better condition, and surely no ‘aU Waa ever more propkloua for the jring of the crop. If the crop bas trigh gathered, whoan is 1», or wbat bas bt c meofli? Is the same Id song sung anfio os heretofore, [ “Ilene must be lifted,” “store accounts have to be paid,” “provisions must be crop .must -age Luftr Stokb asya custom and tha love of j day against tha Lplnntdo •he think* the noble B,5‘ ]>n.claimed thfi»* wiA te Irgge wtjh theirsitbw “i & the gew I'cc'aration of I republics, form H* 1 can writ* us ronuitles.” sister, “did-you know tbat.! this the state of the case with-] the poor tnih-kftd been deaf and dumb so, now Is the time to resolved g. “Wby/’'•was life 1 will never be so caught again. for BevrH yeai#*S. ; “Why,* you farted j quiet and uneonsdeusanswer, “beto^d and! me . ZZ- V. Husband with a molt thut littia you /ave i'