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1. In writing to this office on business al- wny* giro yoirtr nnni* andI*oot Officetddrdls. 2. Buniness letter* and communication* to be publiefaml ebould be Written on separate •httfta and the object of each clearly indi*, anted by nece.^aary note when required.' ■ , I. ^Artlaladfor publication should be writ- tan in a clear, legibla hand, and on only one aide of the pfcga. ■ 4—4. AH ehaiiga* in adrertlscnicnt* 16ns! beaefcus on Friday. 'A Distracted rAkterr. a • f., a — ’TH* roKT showh how t^kjus may be bl’ch a xtttsa an too much lovb is *" w _ : •i f From th ‘ AUiauy Timp*.] Firh daughter*—four of them ebgaged - Good heavens ! I shall go mad ! For sucl^a surftitiny of love A No parent ever o The very ntnyspher* i* c^lrged With ftf no maMee'Where * I go about the house I trTjjl Upon some whispering pair. At evening, when I take my ^tpe . And seek a quiet nook ' To read the Evening firntt, or Some new nod tempting book, - 1 opto, perhaps, thepoilor door, r S, When a famiter sound, Quite unmistakably, suggests U is forbidden ground. Go then more cautiously I turn To our reception room; . Butlo! again upon my ear from its romantic gloom fcemes softly, yet with emphaais. That warning, when | start And leave, as Lady Macheth wished Her guests would all depart. fat "iff! report t« then thn pwab- Where roses trail and bloom ; ' Ha! is it echo tllat betrays Tha joy* of yonder room ? Ah, no! a startled “change of base”' lleTcal* the presence there Of Oupid’s vMark*, and, alay ! There’sst ill another pair. “But sure,” I think, “my library Will be a safe retreat,’’ there al once with quickened step I fake my weary feet, Vain hope—that warning sound again ■ Breaks on my Itotenitig ear ; ; —- I Thank Heaven, my youngest* hnth^ict yet, AUaiueil her lurttentii year. Hark! there shnis! and bless my heart That popinjay, young Lunn, • Is at hersido - I do believe That she, too, has begun. Oh, J e wh j love to sil and dreartl, Of future married joys,. Bray Heaven with honest fervor that Your girls may ali be boys. nit. GXAIIA.U'* COl’ttTffiHIP. How a Louisville Scientist Met HI* Fate In Arkansas—A Happy Kpftlitj More Kemarkablc lliati itoinance. Pr. Graham having passed a very creditut> 1c txjniinat i*>n before the army , medical board, was commissioned OH as- sistant surgeon in the United Stales army in IS—, and ordered to report for duty to the comfuauding oilleer tit Fort MeKiivett, Texas. ’J here were no rail- « Toads iu the Western country at that time, and the usual way of getting fo Texas was by the Mississippi rivet* to New Orleans, and then crossing the gulf to stage it up through the ytnte. Pr. Graham was very desirous of ex* amining the Western country inin?r&!ogi- cally,so applied and received permission ^^/rotn War Department to go by way ^^^f Arkansas and the Indian Territory to his post. On his arrival at St. Louis he shipped the greater part of his baggngo by way of the river, and, taking only what he could carry on horseback, started on his journey. While in St. Louis, at the Planters’ Hotel, he formed the acquaints mice of a gentleman who, learning where he was oing, gnve him n letter of intro** duetion to his brother, wlro was a farmer living on his route in Arkansas, It is not necessary for us to foMow him on his road, or tell what tlisg}re«<cs he made in the iiitcreat of ^sufficient it is that one dhy toward dusk he reached jtho house of the gentleman to whom he had the letter, and, dismounting, knocked at tho door and presented his letter to the Judge (even in those days every one was a Judge in Arkansas), who would not have needed it to have accorded him an open* banded welcome {• for travellers were a God-»end and news was aa much sought after then as now. After a short * Tot. n. BARNWELL C. H., 8. C.. THTRSLAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1879. les* accq lb* tori tar, not necessarily tol but m a guaranty of good faith. ■ Addr*«, TfiJfi FEQPLK, , , Barnw*II C. H., 8. €. right earnest, and with her it was a case of “ love -first irigljt.” ' But ( am antieipating. Puriog the nr^bt our friend, the doctor, woke up and remembered what he bad said, and it worried hint; but he said to himself, after emptying his water pitcW, “never mind; I’ll make it all right in the morn' ing. I must have made a ibol of my self. She’s lovely ; but what must she not think of me 1’’ and rolled over and went to sleep again. Morning came, and up on his going down to the parlor he found the young lady, alone, for whieh he blessed his lucky stars, and was just about to make an apology, when she said: • “ I told Mamma, and she said it was all righb,” at the same time“giving him a kiss which nearly took his breath away. “ Papa is going to town this morning, d£ar, and you ride ip with him and talk U over; but he won’t object, I know.” “ But, my dear miss, I was very^boli Island'*— „ “ No, indeed; you are all right.” “ Well, I will go to my 'pdst, nhd re turn for;yon; for I must goon at onle.*' V No; l ean go with ycu.” n You won’t have limc.”^ “ U yes, I will. Pupa will fix that. It wobld be such an expense for you to come al! the way back here.” “ But I b^ve no way of taking you.” “ I have thought of that; that does hot make aby difference. Father will give us a team.’’ - With Meid-ty tears iu his eyes he went in to Breakfast, to which at that moment they were both summoned p but, alas ! appetite'be had none.. It was not that she was not pretty and nice; but he thought wl’ftt a confounded fool she must be not to see that he wanted to get out of it. But it was no use. When the judge started for tolvn, Dr. Graham was sitting beside him. The judge saved him the trouble of broaching the subject by starting it himself; key, nothing could they find; and so went o£to thei’r-homes, perhaps to worry alt night, or perhaps a giggle in the tree, turned their look of dUappoi^tmept to. a very cheap smile 1 , and a laugh from the some placq made them hiVc awful wick* ed thoughts about boys. a One victim found a piece of tin, and hying the cause of the noise to that, was saved from a great deal of worry. But when she picked it up and threw it down to test the sound, the boys nearly fell out of the tree. A man, when caoght, would slap all his pockets, glance around a little, but it was Sehfom that. he was brought to a hard-pan search. When shy one saw the trick afler scarching New Y^Vwtdoh vwuithenw^oorUdeal half an hour and say ing all kinds of little things for the amusement of the boys, he simply went Away hurriedly. There was no remark to make, no nametcrortl. T 0 get out of sight as soon as possible seemed to be most desirable. The trick is harmless ; no one breaks a leg or loses an eye in the process. It might be re commended to constitutionally tired boys as a pood wav to sweep the walk. The victims will throw all the chips and stones into the street by curiosity's'pdw- er, gs it were. : Whut be (jittawo Men Have to Hay Tor Tbera»rlve«. ■ '$»■*** .. , * Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist: It ia but seldom that I make a de mand upon the columns of your val uable paper hod would not now ob trude myself upon the pabtte'tHTtrfOf the great injustice done a class of merchants and manufacturers by some of our country friends, who look upon guano dealers as upt much above a set of thieves or pickpockets, If we may judge from their communications. They write as though they considered them and the cotton factor as neces sarily h set of sharpers, whose aim and object in life was to swindle the poor planter, In whom was embodied sil tlie honesty and integrity left in hut mehlory intersperses the list with many names In the order In which they were commUted to Its keeping In the old days—names to which no man wiit evOr answer Again until the reveille of the eternal morning shall sound* The sergeant hesitatas mors than once, as bis thought b&rects his tongue, which was wont to run over the longer array so glibly, and at each such pause there rises up before us the appailtlos of some familiar face as it used to beam upon us In life, or perhaps as we last looked upon it, ghastly and gilm be neath the stains of battle, ere we fold ed our comrade in bis bloody blanket shroud and laid him in his shallow grave. From dank Cblokabomtny marsh and fertile Pennsylvania valley, of a wilderness as compared with ltai.from.the tangled thlcketS of the WU- A Widow N**cce*«r«*lly Traclwg* Her Mtolea Child After Twenty- seven Years Absence. fSpringSeU (Mmb.) Union.! / „ 4 romance lo real life, stranger than any fiction, has recently bad Its denoue ment, one of the partite most Inter ested being a resident of this city. This Is a widow lady, whose name we are not at liberty to make public for the preeent, who has recently discov ered the whereabouts of a long-lost daughter .stolen from htir twenty-seven years ago, when an Infaht. The lady, though a resident of Springfield for some years past, is a native of Hart ford, Conn,, and went With her bus- band, ^ter her marriage, to Western condition now. Her first child, a girl, was born there, and she was on her way to join her husband, after a tem porary separation, when the infAnt was slql’en from her during a long stage journey, and she has never seen the child since, though, as noted above, she has recently discovered that she is alive and living In Wisconsin, where she is married and has tbres chiidren. The anguish of the mother at losing the country. They appear to have an “ I alir*y«, young man, give Nell Iter j idea that the manufacturers of fertl- own way; So it is all right; you need not pay a wfftJ “ But I've got to grt cn to-day.” The old jhdge turned Ids fcy< « towarif liiiu. Ha bad -an Arkansas bowie -in each, and one of those double-barrel sliot *“1111 looks as he raid; “ you ain’t a-trying to get out of it, arc you ?” The doctor, taking in the situation, paid promptly, a l hope bcingggoue, “No, ■rift” Pzers are reaping rich harveata out of tho bord earniiigs of the cotton plan ter. I happen to^cnow something about iha ncliml J>}pprl*\nc-n of both manufacturers ana lhe,cotton factors, «n*l can say truthfully, that no class of men work border and take greater ri-iks than they do % What ia the ex pel h nee of tho cotton factors of Au- custu, Charleston etui Savannah since the wui ? More than half have been compel ed to go into bankruptcy by *• That’s right. I will fix everything! >be failure of the planters to meet for you; ; mine, and you that black team of a light wagon to c; arry y our wile's things (here the doctor shud dered), “ and a thousand as a starter. You can be married to night, and leave" early iu the morning. That’!! suit, Won’t it?” “ Yes, sir,” answered Graham, faintly. But on tho judge turning toward him, he said, “ Yes, sir, certainly.” .“ After you get fixed at your post I will comedown and p*y you a visit. I have been thinking about selling out and moving to Texas for some time*, 1 --it’s getting crowded here,, and things are a moving as slow as ‘ lasses in winter time.” -i Things were arranged as the old judge said. The marriage took place, and tho army received an addition to its ladies in the person of the Arkansas judge’s daughter, and Dr. Graham has never regretted the obduracy of his fatlicr-iq^ law or the unsopliisticatcdncss of his wife.— [Harper’s Magaxinc. The Small Roy lla» Home Fun. [Roohcuter Expre».]r He was naturally cruel, and he told an acquaintance one day that he had a new trick to play on the public—some- tiling entirely new. Ho had a long string and a brass key tied to the end of it, which lie said was the instrument of ^ torture. Over the front sidewalk a ma- visit he proposed to go on to the next pic tree sent sonle pretty .strong branch- town, abont tour miles off, where he in- ^ cs, making a scat hidden by leaves. Into tended to put up ^for the night. The this, after dark, the boys climbed. “Now. Judge would not listqn to his leaving, | wait,” says the principal, “ till the first and was so Cofdiul in his desire for him victim comes, and don’t tnak8 a wtrise.’’ to stay that hs would hart been rude not to hate done so. The Judge, after di recting one of the servants to attend to his horse, invited him. into the dining- Pretty soon un ordinarily dressed woman came along, and just as she had passed he let drop the key on the hard sidewalk, immediately pulling it up again. Both room, where he was iutroduced to the'now watched developments. Tho wothatP MHe and daughter of his host, and also a came to a sudden stop, began fumbling substantial Wfcatefn supper, to which he in her pocket, and wondered what it Was did ample justice. she could have dropped. She started on, ftfif_.lflppst_ they adjourned to the but ted niot gone far before she cam6 ,*and he entertained bU aew made hack, implied by curiosity, and began a hds with the latest news from the csreful search of the. walk. Meanwhile, fifitside world. The old couple retired the boys in -the tree stuffed their fists i# ftnd left tlnrtrttlptelo entcmio him, their mouths to keep^ froa Scariug lhe b| pjulf hffii love to her, and final y game, and thred hardly look below for aefte^ her to he his wMe and go to Texas fear of lauglung out, A sympathetie with Mm ; le whioh she consented. She, aister came along, and together they fwy unsophisticated and inno.. picked’up stohee a'hd turnetf over all the i took everything he said in down* ^ chips on tho sidewalk. No money, no their obligations and those who weath ered tho storm are little better off than they were fifteen years ago. The manufacturers of comtherclal fer tilizers may have realized some profit In the sale of their guanos soon after the war,when it was all sold for cash or factors’ acceptance. Since then, when the custom of giving the planter the < ptlon of paying in cotton at a given price became universal, the business has ceased to be profitable, and great care has been necessary to prevent ruinous lovses. - - The planter complains that the price of fertilizers have been raised. This la not the fact. Several years ago, when the material for manufac turing a standard fertilizer were high er in price, they paid one-third more in cash for a ton than they pay now; net-only so, but they now get a better article. Now, If the planter objects to the cotton option, let him pay. the cash or currency prices offered, to which he cannot object. To Illustrate thig mors fully, let us suppose a case. We will take the season of 1878. A planter goes to a merchant who is do ing business In his county, and pro poses to give him aU of his custom, provided he will take*cotton let No vember next iu payment, at 15c. per pound, to class middling. The mer chant hesitates, because-the price of the staple Is below fib sen cents, and his only Chance to make a profit on his goods ls a possible advance lo cot ton. He has a large stock on hand and competition strong. He concludes to -accept of planters offer. Pay day arrives and Ms customers bring him his cotton,which, according to contract, be allows him 15 cents^per pound for, while the balance of planter's crop is sold for eight cents and under. '1 he next spring the planter walks into the merchant’s store to make another con tract for the coming crop. The mer chant says to him, I shall be glad to furnish you with your supplies at the same price I did last season, but I can not take your cotton in payment at fifteen cefita per pound, for the Irrj simple reason that 1 cannot, afford to sell goods at a lose. Will any sensible planter find fault with the merchant and'Stlgmatlte him because he thua octal adorer of a commercial fertilizer. Hs cannot afford to make a first-class standard article and sell at last year's prices and take cotton at fifteen cents. A certain lose to all and ruin Co many would be the consequences as the ex pedience cf the past season wli prdve. v v jr/ Faiu Flax. but not described. A long fit of sick ness followed,and after berrscoYeryall possible search was made for the mis sing babe, but without success. But the mother never gave up hope of hearing of her child, and after twenty- seven years had elapsed her faith and patience have at last been rewarded. It seems she always suspected a man who carried her some fifteen miles by private conveyance to meet the stage, when on her way to join husband, of stealing the child, with the intention of adopting it as bis own. She how knows that he Was tho abductor. He gave it to as accomplice, Who took It some fifty miles across the border, into Penn sylvania, where It was placed in a fami ly, with a sum of money sufficient to provide for its wants for some time. His evident intention was to reclaim the child when he eould do so without suspicion. But the time never came when he dared to do it, and the little girl grew up as the adapted child of the family, finally married the younger brorher of the master of tho. house, and removed to WisdStelbtflf here the family Is prosperous and happy. Com- mnnicatlon has been established for some months now between the mother and daughter, and photographs ex changed, which could leave no doubt of the relationship, If any had existed before. They propose to have a meet ing soon near the scene of Their tragic parting more than a quarter of a cen tury ago. What a meeting it will be 1 A Tragic Wcddiua* The church of St. Francis Xavier, New York, whs the ecetfe of a very sad incident last week. C. M. Brennan and Meta E. Peetsch were to be mar ried. The church was beautifully dec orated and filled with an aristocratic audience. Father Alphonsus Pelletier was the officiating clergyman. He had been a teacher of Mr. Brennan’s, atid Was selected on that account. Af ter Lohengrin’s wedding march had been performed on the organ by Mr. Berger, the reverend father, attended by a number of clcrgymen,took his po sition at the altar steps. The bride and bridegroom stood outside the sanctu ary railing with the bridesmaids and grooms. Father Pelletier began to address a few words to the young couple. He referred to his long ac quaintance with Mr. Brennan and ex pressed bis pleasure at being permit ted to officiate at bis marriage. He was going on With the usual wards of advice, but bad hardly spoken three or four sentences when be was noticed to turn very pale. He stopped speak ing, and before any one could Inquire what the matter was, fell forward on bis face in front of the couple, bis head* resting upon the cushion upon which they were about to kbeel. He was hastily picked up and carried away, and died in a few moments in the sacristy. The audience were, how ever, not informed of this, and the ceremony was performed by Father Merrick. The congregation was then dismissed, and the bridal cob pie went to the house bf the bride's father, where the reception was given, the company bring ignorant till late at night that Father Pelletier’s illness had terminated fatally. deroess, the tterlleslopes of Manassas, the dreary pine levels of the Soutbslde, the ghosts of the old company come back to outface the living witnesses pf its valor and challenge their sturdy “ Here 1"—[dcribner for February. Cardoso's Case. [Winnsboro New»-H«ral<l.J The mere mention of a possibility met with such a unanimous and ear nest protest from press and people alike that If even seriously contem plated thavffort wM doUbtfesg-ntlSnce be abandoned. The Register contain ed a Well considered article on the sub ject, showing the otter absence of any extenuating feature in Cardozo’s crime and the absurdity of any assertion that bis 1 conviction was unjust. The Reg ister mildly takes to task those who argue that tho vindictiveness of the Federal Government Is a sufficient rea son for not extending clemency to Car* dozo, and urgte that Cardoko Is not a hostage, but that he must stand or fall on bis own merits. Thla objection would bo well founded were the claims of Cardozo himself based upon any other ground than the political posi tion. Were he merely a commop crim inal, a chicken thief or burglar, he would have no Chance whatever of pardon. It Is only a hope that the Democratic administration may be in clined to show clemency to political offenders that induces Mm to crave pardon for bis villainies. Hence the argumentbas*d oaFederal vindictive ness is most appropriate. t Bo long as Smalls and Card* zo are suffered to go at large, while 600 hog stealers and fence burners and cotton thieves are serving their sentences In the penitentiary, It may well be argued that justice ia South Carolina Is a mockery and the law a sham. Where mountains of crime were heaped up by the Radical leaders and all the ma chinery of government has yet been able to catch only two out of the forty thieves and more that drained the State, it would be equally a blunder and a crime to let these two escape. They, at least, must be offered on the altars of avenging Nemesis. Car dozo must go to jail, or thousands will clamor to know the reason why. We 4||*ve no idea that the petition will amount to anything, and we are cer- tain tbat Governor Simpson will take no part in allowing the arch-thief to go unwhlpt of justice. tit:.’* Fit A I. NifrlWJ. ' -- - - Switzerland abolished the death penalty and her murders Increased five fold. j • • : - y- Tell us somebody, why our law-ma kers are never arrested for passing worthless bills. A Miss Steers, of Virginia, eloped recently. *^he exhibited great anxiety to be yoked to a mate. There is a'man living In Madison county, Ga., Who lathe father of §2 ft 33 children. He has been twice mar ried. Miss Celeste Wtnans.of Baltimore,Is said to be the Tiobest young lady in America. She inherited 820,000,000 from her father. Governor Marks, of Tennessee, gives point to bis message on tbs reduction of State expenses by relinquishing 81,000 of tyi own salary. * Marshal MacMshoo, Duke of Ma genta, has resigned the Presidency of the French Republic. He has been succeeded by M. Grsvy, and Gambetta becomes President of the Chambers. Ircolqpj of 90^ colored men, work ing a quarry leNoith CaiulluiLliAte Locomotive whistling is to be enper- seded at Poughkeepsie, N, Y\ by a faqil woiked by.sMjstdcliJr, which will beset UP fo foo depot. Whep the train th rives within a mile of the station, the bell will ring until It gets to the (leper. The danger signal Is tbbs given, add the waste of steam is avoided, to say nothing of the racket. Any engine^ who whistles hereafter^ when in Poughkeepsie, loses bis situation oh the Hudson river railroad., , * In a very commendable fit of econ omy some fourteen of tho students in p Er»klne College hare concluded to go Into a kind of mess hall arrangsttient and will octoUpy Mrs. Babb’s boose. The hooss will be furnished wKh beds and otter such necessary findings t>y tbs collegh anthoritles, who will charge the boys a small rent to cover amount of insuianoe, Repairs, &c. The board ers will hire a cook and BuJ their own provisions. It is estimated that six dollars a month will, In thin way, cover ths entire edit pi living, n anting .of about six dollart a month, or dorteg the college year of about neventy-fivo doUnrs. _ established a system of local self-gov ernment, In which tbs whipping post Is ths principal penal Institution, ' ThaJ£hed4ve of -Egypt buroduoed bis army, and a largo number of Amer- blm three pendl stubs, n piece of chalk, four watch keys, nineteen matches, six pants and four coat but tons, a receipt for making milk punch. leans who held positions on the staff, a buckle, n lottery ticket, n «"* f n A Sewtfcera Roll-Call Near L: E»d of the War. the A single fife and drum—the whole reglmeutal field music—are squeallug and thumping the last notes of an old- time melody which has clung to tbs command through all its fortunes; It is^'* Rqnj, ~nlgg*f» ruhl dn paterol ketch youJ*' often heard In the days ' when the wdr was young. In a space between the-tents, serving fo lieu of more pretentious pafade,-about a dozen men are ranged in an Irregular fine facing the orderly sergeant, nod my little soldier falls into bit place just as the rpH begins. - It Is'short work now, Murdered by her Father. * - Davknfort, Iowa, January 25.—A terrible tragedy occurred near Day- tonville, Washington county, Iowa, last night, in themurder of Mtaa Em ma Hull by her father, O. P. Hull. Mr. Hull was a highly respected and wealthy fatmer, and his duagbter Emma was a beautiful girl of 18 years, a leader In tbe society in which ahs moved,-and apparently the idol of her father, nothing being left undone by bim for her comfort and happiness. This feeling of late seemed to have In creased Ibto a mania, ao that her ab sence from home even for an evening caused him much anxiety. Last night, she attended a spelling ecbool in the neighborhood, in company with oth- eru of the family, which seemed to give Mr. Hull more than ordinary un easiness. On their return he aroee from bed and met them. Boon all re tired without anything noticeable oc curring^ About 1 o’clock in the morn ing, one of Emma's sisters, sleeping in tbe same bed with her, called to her motbgf that something was tbe that- ter with Emma. The mother came in to the room, and, striking a light, was horrified by the sight of her daughter lying dead in a pool of blood. At tbe same moment Mr. Hull came Into the room and, with the exclamation : *0, mother T shot** himself ibiough the' head with a revolver, dying instantly, Emma Fts found to have been struck on the bead with ao axe just In front of the ear, bet head bptog-ftlqMaLettt Tniwo.'"^ r ~ T ' *. 4.T.. have returned? General Btone, the hero of Ball’s Bluff, alone remaining. Josh Billings says, “Thare fzlots oa people in tbis world who are like a' guide bord at the forks ov tbe road they kan point out the right way for others to perasw, hut they don’t fol low It themselves. ” ' - /ws-.ic * B. F. Jonas, the newley elected Doited States Senator from Louisiana, will be the third Israelite who has oc cupied a seat fo the forum. The oth ers were David Yules, of Florida, and Judah P. Benjamin, of Louisiana. The Jury iu the suit of Col. Ellison 8. Keitt, of Newberry O. H., against the New York Times for $50,000 dam ages for alleged libel, rendered a vdr- dict for the plaintiff of .six oints, fo, New York, on the 24th uK. A difficulty occurred on the 28tp uit. at McBean station, Burke county, Ga., between two brothers named M. H. and D. H. Mlxson. Theygotlntoa dispute about a horse trade, when tbe former shot the latter, killing him in stantly. Grant evidently knows how to make concessions to popular seutimeot. Her refused to go free on the Richmond, and now that steamer has gone around* to tbe Indian ocean to meet him. This, Is simply a repetition of what, during tbe war, his admirers were wont to call “ strategy.”—[Post Spartanburg Herald: Mr. 6. B. Ham mett sent some gold ore from bis mine to the Doited States mint In Philadelphia oa or about the first of January to be made Into coin, which has been done, and the cola returned and it Is In circulation bearing the stamp of 1879. And now It turns out that Barrou, tbe Dexter, Me., Bank cashier, who ex cited everybody's admiration last year by his supposed refusal to reveal to burglars the combination of the lock to tbe book vault, which reluaal.lt was thought, cost him bis Hfe, was any hero and martyr after all, but on ly a defaulter and suicide. A special dispatch says that at Wrlghtsvlllef Green county, Illinois, on &>Ddajr, Dr. Chas. McAullffe sod Jas. Havener, his unde, bad a dispute about family matters. Havener was shot and killed. Oa Tuesday night a handful of cloves, part of a roll of loz; euges, three seat coupons to alas! winter’s lecture, a poker chip and a chew of. gum that had slipped down Into tbe lining of hit vast through a hole in the pocket. R was the most startling dlsdosurs ths Oamdatt man bad seen sloes he read the cipher dis patches. It is bhofrh to moat of the 1 of the Observer that the hor which Stonewall Jackson when he received the wont resulted lb bts death fo now ia I session of his brother-ln- seph Merrfooo, who lives at ths old Morrlvon homestead la Lincoln epaa- ty, fifteen or twenty mlisa from t bis city. Mr. Morrison rods him down last week, and Mr. Van Ness, an en terprising photographer, got a first- rate picture of him. Tbe gallant old sorrel showa the effbeta of age, but fo still able to travel and db Enough ser vice to pay for the expense of keepinff him.—[Charlotte Observer. Press and- Banner: Alfred Butler, who, it will be rememterpd, trotted off to Charlesto& at the bidding of Mackey, that be might contribute hfo mite of testimony against the re spectable people ’of this county, it fo thought, raised the, M *fod" fo a pe culiar way. Hte wife, only a few days before the reception Of the telegram, bad got her knee-cap brokan by the kick of a horse, which of course dis abled her from work, and since then has teeo t fo bed. AlfrM being out of money went to various of our cltiiens and appealed for tho loan of money with which to buy provtofons for his sick wife. Out of sympathy some loaned bim a dollar, others fifty cents, and ao on, promising each one that he .would pay him next week. The Arlingtofi ejectment goes to the United States Court the Judgmeht of ths lower court restores the>estate to 6en.Leo and calls for lha ejectment & Aft ten ants who have been In pooseaelon since the transfer of tbe estate under a tax sals in 1868. This includes tbe fruited States as a tenant of the Na tional Cemetery, 15,060 bodies of dead Union soldiers that rest therein, and the Government Signal Office and sta tion gt Fort Whipple. General (at, He I the eon* constable started witb^the doctor for hying established bis claim to the Carrollton jail, bu^^whec from town a m5b overpov stable and hanged McAUl It fo reported that Stanley fo to go to Africa shortly on another exploring expedition. , Statisticians affirm raising the modt Colons cat marriages. IQ- .t t countries ve the few- The powsr of prayer: An excellent lady iu this elty tells wbst a trial to her her first husband #08, being ssoof- fer at holy things, fad how, after vain ly remonstrating with him for years she at last organised a prayer cam paign concerning him “and In less than three wSeka from that time his horse ran away with him and be was thrown oat of lbe wagon and killed.”! The-wlcks of kerosiue lamps should be changed frequently, or if not too short, washed lq etrqpg, hot soap-suds, with some ammonia fo the rinsing wa ter. We tbfok the trouble with poor light from kerosiue lamp* probably arises from the wicks bling full of the sediment or refuse matter which comes from the oil, and that impedes tbe.free passage of the kerosiue through the wick. will use <! cape and and that furnish them A Galveston News special from €k>- Uad. Texas, says that two men, Hen derson and Lockhart, quarreHed. Both drew revolvers. Lockhart caught Henderson's arm and fired six shots Into him, killing him instantly. Hen derson’s brother rushed at Lockhart with a pistol. They closed In the at nig gle, and Henderson emptied fox cham bers of bis revolver Into Lockhart’s tbe penitentiary. property, fo now willing to part With, the National Cemetery portion of the estate for a fair price. Should the Supreme court affirm thsdeefoiou oi- the District Court, the Government will undoubtedly purchase the cem etery on the setate. - - . ' l As act to amend an act entitled M An act to utilize the convict labor In this State.” , Be it enacted by the Senate and House of BepreseotaUvee-of the State of South Carolina, now met and sluing fo General Assembly,, end by the au thority of tbe same: BaonOft % That section 4 of ah art entitled H An act to utilize oouvlct la bor of this State” be amended by etrl- king out tbe words* 1 ** provided that convict* shall not be hiredtmt for Igri- cultoral purposes.** v;*; Sbcl 2. That tbe corporation. | erpereoDSj,! give aatiafactory J attempts to said API roved