The people. (Barnwell C.H., S.C.) 1877-1884, February 13, 1879, Image 1
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
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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«.
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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.
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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. - - .
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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