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Leave Augusta Aiken “ Montmorenci “ • Windsor “ Williston “ Elko '• Blackville Leo’s “ Graham’s Bamberg “ Midway “ Branchville Arrive Charleston 3.30 p m 4.40 p m 4.53 p m 6.18 p m 5.34 p m 5.42 p m 5.59 p m G.07 p m 6.21 p m 6.37 p m * f- 6 46 p m 7,25 p w lO.lOp m KIOHT EXPRESS. Leave Charleston 10.15 p m Arrive Augusta 8.20am Leave Augusta 7.30 p m Arrive Charleston 6.Oil a ra Down Leave Blackville 11.25 p m Up Leave Blackville 4.30 a in Connects with Trains at Branchville for Columbia. VREIOHT AND ACCOMMODATION. Leave Charleston . Arrive Augusta Lear* Augusta Arrivs Charleston Down Leave Blackville Up Leave Blackville Connects at Branchville Columbia. vith 7.40 am 9.35 p m 6.(Hi a m 6.15 p m 10.24 ii m 4.56 p m Train for Magnolia Passenger Route. PORT ROYAL RAILROAD. 1 Acqcsta, Ga., Jan 4,1879 / " The following p issencer schedule will be operated on and after tnia date : Baldoc 12 07 Down Baldoc 3 30 Up Allendale 12 30 ITown Allendale , - 3 00 Up DAltT PASSENGER TRAIN. Going South. Leave Augusta 10 t!Oa m Arrive at Yemassee 2 05 p m Leave Yemassee 2 10 p m Arrive Savannah 4 35 p m Leave Savannah 4 45 p m Arrive Jacksonville 8 00 a in Arrive Charleston 9 00 p m Leave Yemassee 2 45 p in Arrive Beaufort 4 02 p m Arrive Port Royal 4 17 p m Arrive Augusta 6 "O p m Leave Yemassee 1 30 p m Arrive k emassee 1 20 p m Leave Savannah 10 25 a m Arrive Savannah 10 15 am Leave Jackeonville 6 50 p m Leave Charleston 7 15 a m Arrive Yemassee 1 ('0 p m Leave Beaufort 11 23 a m Leave Ton Loyal * 11 00 a m Trains run tlirougb between Augusta and Savannah witbou* change, making close con nection at Savannah with A. & G. R. R. train for all points in Florida Haggage checked through. Bta^Tiirnugh tickets for sale at all piittci pal ticket offices. Robert G. Fi.kmino, General Superintendent. J. S. Davant, GWieral Passenger Agent. (’hiiflctte, Columbia & Augusta R P. CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. Chaulotte, Columbia A Augusta R. R. 1 Gk-Verai. Passenger Department. V Columbia, S. C.* t)ec. 27,18/8. j tbe following passenger schedule will be operated on arid after this date: Ao. 1—A T «^/i< Frpress, South. Leave Charlotte 1:00 a m Arrive Columbia 0:00 a in LeaVe Cohimbia 0:05 a m Arrive Augusta 10:00 am A'o. 2—A'ight ExprlH, Nu)ih. Leave Augusta, 5:55 p m Arrive Colombia *., k .. 10:00 p m Leave Columbia. 10:10 p tu Arrive Charlotte. 3:10 am No. 3—Day Fattenger, South. Leave Charlotte-. 1 ..11:27 am Arrive Columbia ....... n . 4:10 p m Leave Columl ia.. v. 4:15 p m Arrive Augusta. 8:30 p m No. 4—Day Pattenyrr, North. Leave Augusta 9:03 a ra Arrive Columbia. 1:20 p m Leave Columbia.. 1:30 pm Arrive Charlotte. 0:30 p m These trains stop only at Fort Mill, Hock Hill, Chester, Winosboro, Ridge* way, Leeeville, Batesburg, Ridge Spring, Johnston, Ttenton and Gran- itpvlllo. All other statiqns will be rc* cognised as flag stations. T. D. KLINE, Sup’t. Jobs R. Macmttrdo. Gen. Pas. Agent. Savannah and Charleston Railroad Co. CHANCE 9F .SCHEDULE. JanuArt 1, 1S79. The following Schedule is in effect at (his date: Fait Mail, Daily. Leave Charleston - * « • 7 16 a. m. ArHre at Savannah • * . 1 00 p. m. Arrive Port Royal - - • 4 17 p. m. Arrive Jacksonville - . 635 a. m Arriyeat Augusta * • * . 6 30 p.m. LeaVe Savannah .... 8 15 p. m. Arrive Charleston - - <« 9 00 p. m - Fig hi Train, Daily. Leave Charleston - • 8 10 p. m. ArrivnSavannah - - • 6 40 a. m. i^oav.e Aavannah - - 9 00 p. m. ArriveCharleston - - - 8 00 a. m. Pu^Unan cars on all Night Trains. C. 8. GADSDEN, Engr. and Supt. S, P^lston. 0. F, andT. Agint. VOL. II. BARNWELL C. H.. S. C.. THURSDAY. JUNE 5, 1879. NO. 92. The Tokea. BY B. H. STODDARD. Clnd In purple, he sat In Ills palace, A powerful klnp. In the days of old; They brought him wine in a beautiful chalice, Whose gems were crusted In beaten gold. "Who hath jewels like n'ineV” denial ded The boastful monarch; and straightway then. Through his men-at-arms, who at once disbanded, Came one, who looked like the Man of men. J. He came in proudly, and held up a jewel. Held It with both hands over his Head; Its light was lovely, its light was cruel; But cruel, or lovely, the light was red. It shot out sparkles; It was a Glory. A terrible Splendor, a heart of Fire; No one light like It, in song or story, For who had that had his soul’s desire! Its brightness shone over land and ocean, Far-reaching—a dazzling, blinding light; Creating won er and strange devotion, A sense of Love,and the sense of Might "Who hath jewels Usd thine?" demanded IhisMinof men. “Look at my great gem! It grew where the rivers aregolder^andcd, With others—It does not compare with them! “ I say to thee, monarch It is a token Of Masters, that ever on earth remain; And if by chance any part Is broken, It is nothing less, but is whole again.” Thus in Gallic Latin—your Southey will show it - Two hundred and fifty years ago, Wrote the great de J turn, oLan early poet; But what the meaning, lie did not know. The Revival of lluninesB. The Boston Traveller says the re vival of business has fairly set in, if every day’s experience and every day’s news prove anything. Last week vas distinguished in Boston by the largest move In flannels known for a long time. More flannels were sold in that week than for the six months previous, and manufacturers decline to fix prices ahead. Says the Traveller : “ This is the legitimate result of a settled con* vlction on the part of business men throughout the country that the flood is coming in strong. Another slgnlfl- cant fact is the starting up of the va- vious iron concerns in Pennsylvania and the West. This is, perhaps, the m St important industry west of the Alleghany Mountains, and Ra revival, after so long a depression, Is in the highest degree encouraging. Witt in the past three months there have been several thousands of miles of new rail roads surveye'd, and within a very short time a large portion has been put under drantract. All these things are indicative of a vast increase of la bor employment, and thus emigration to the West from the over-crowded localities of the East becomes anothet and* important factor in the restora tion of business. Parties who are in a position to be well imformed are of opinion that there will be a largo ex cess of foreign immigration this sea- s n, the news of a large prospective demand for labor having already crossed. Still another important fea- turs is the increase of sales of land grants, both by railroad corporations and government. The business tide ia evidently rolling onward." Let it roll. THE mKUno EXODUS. I'.nKlish Opinions. Arrest of I> T. Corbin. D.T.,Corbin, ex-United States Dis trict Attorney, ex-Presbfbnt of the Radical State Senate, and ex-claimant of Senator Butler’s seat in the United States Senate, came to Charleston last week for the first time since our peo ple have gotten possession of the State Government, and ho was arrested on complaint filed on the ‘15th of August, 1877, in behalf of the State against him and his partner at law for the re covery of §24.063.94, collected for the State from the South Carolina Phos phate Company, which he claimed to have retained at attorney’s foes. He gave bond in the sum of §50,000 for his appearance at court, Alva Gage, J. H. Fisher, C. H. Baldwin, G. I. Cun ningham, and R. M. Wallace being his bondsmen. Mr. Corbin informed a re porter of the News and Courier that he had come'to Charleston on business and would remain several weeks—that he expected that his nomination for the position of Chief Justice of Utah Territory would be rejected by the United States Senate, In which event he would come back to Charleston to live. His partner, Mr. Stone, he slat* ed, was now living in New York, but ho did not say whether it was his in tention to return also. Air Exodus from Canada.—The ne gro exodus is not the only one taking place in this country. A correspond ent of the Ohlcage Tribune writes from St. Albany that every Southern- bound train from Canada Is loaded with emigrants to the United States. Entire families of all ages, and many of them of an advanced Intellectual class, are among the number. Noth ing like It was ever known among the Canadians before. Their route is over the New York Central to Buffalo, thence to Chicago, whence they pro ceed to Kansas and Nebraska. A few go to the workshops of New England. The Canada papers nre preserving an unbroken silence on the eubject. * r' A pint of grated carrot root made into a poultice and bound to the fet lock is said to cure the eeratebes in horses. [London “ Telegraph.”! A curious social phenomenon has suddenlyappeared in the United States, tho South is menaced by a negro ex odus; and the Mississippi steamers are crowded with black passengers, all bound for Kansas. They are wretch edly poor, with little or no worldly goods, and can hardly make them selves understood; but as if some watchword had been given, or some Impulse had become epidemic, they press northward as to a promised land. The selection of Kansas Is curl- ous enough ; for its climate Is far cold er than that of Any of the Southern States, and Its soil Is lees suitable for the cultivation of cotton. No doubt there is abundance of untilled ground, but there is as yet little demand for unskilled labor. Tho only explanation that can be surmised to account for this selection of a land of Canaan is derived from-the past. Some years before the election of Mr. Lincoln Kan sas was a battlefield between emigrants from the North and the South. It was then polit'ealiy what is called a Territory, that Is, a district entitled to a local legislature, but controlled, as regards many subjects of legislation, by tho supreme authority of Congress. At that time this control was especially Important, as through its means Kan sas was kop‘ free from the legal es tablishment of slavery until it became a State, when the vole of the majority would decide that issue. Thus it was the Interest of the South to pour in planters who, when the local Constltu tion was made, would by their votes add another slave State to the Union. It waswthe interest of the Free Soil party to counteract this by sending down a stream of migration from the North. When the two currents met the result was ilot. Northern men were murdered, and retaliation fell upon the immigrants from the South. Free fights became common ; “ Bleed ing Kansas ” was a sensation heading in the Republican press ; and the ne groes who were taken by their masters into the Territory learned enough to know that there was a party in the North who fought to make them free. The recollections of that contest prob ably linger still in the traditions of the freed men ; the word " Kansas ’’ has for them, no doubt, the charm that “Mesopotamia” had for Sydney Smith’s old lady, and now a new gene ration seek in the former battlefield a realization of those blessings of free dom so often shouted in their ears by their champions in the North, though never yet adequately realized. But are not the negroes emancipated ? Have they not been an object of pro tection—nay, of care—to the United States authorities for years ? Has not the party devoted to their interests re tained power for nearly two decades? Have not statutes been passed and soldiers moved, all to secure them not only freedom, but electoral rights? Tnls Is true, but the result has not been altogether satisfactory ; it has not, at all events, fulfilled the rosy visions of the Abolitionists. Some consequences of the great (Jivil War have been grati fying, although they abundantly in dicate the utter failure of the best authorities to farecast social and poli tical events. It was said by the Demo crats that the planters of the South lived in dally dread of a rising of the blacks; and a repetition of tho mas sacres of Sc. Domingo was prophesied by a personage no less eminent than President Buchanan, who, in his last message, spoke of “tho white mother clasping her child In agony to her breast,’’ whenever she never heard an Unusual disturbance at? night. The Abolitionists were half inolined to ad mit this peril, tracing it, of course, to the “ infamous 6f uelties ” of the plant- P Hence the exodus wo see going on. ers. The war came, and all these fears were set at reaL Over many square miles of t‘ rrltory plantations were left In the sole charge of black men, also entrusted with the care of the women and children of those who had gone North to fight Tor a Republic "hav ing,” as its Vice President declared "slavery for the corner-stone of Its Constitution.” Under these circum- stancos—calculated, it might be thought, to provoke even a tame, ser vile race into striking a blow for liberty —the negroes remained quiet. A few ran away when Northern troops came near, but the great part remained at home working for tketr masters, and protecting their masters’ children and wives. These facts certainly prove that the negroes as a race could never have had any strong desire for free dom, and It also indicates that the ser vitude they endured must have been considerably mitigated in Us practical effect. Had they been as a rule treated with anything like cruelty they would have avenged their wrongs, or at least have absconded. But no outrages were committed, and ouly a few thou sands went North. Thus the "best authorities’’ on both sides—the al armed Democrats who prophesied a St. Domingo, and the Abolitionists who sjioke of a tortured population panting to escape—were proved, as " best authorities ” so often are, to be utterly in the wrong. Aaother proph ecy has been falsified. The South as serted, and the Nerth hardly dared to deny, that cotton could nst be grown by free labor; that the negro eman cipated could not supply the ready and regulated toll required at certain sea sons, and that the South would sas its staple Industry utterly destroyed. Here again the most eminent econom ists have been proved wrong. The yield of the South has more than equalled the quantity produced before tho civil war ; even Jefferson Davis ad mits that in this matter he and his friends were entirely mistaken, and that the abolition of slavery Is an eco nomical gain to the white man. While referring to unfulfilled prophecies, we may mention one more, freely repeated during theconttest. It was said, both in America and here, that the North might conquer, but could hever con ciliate, the South, and that the two oould never again be one. The pro gress of American politics has also up set this calculation’. Ex-Confederates are ia office; a majority of Democrats rules Congress; a Democratic Presi dent was within one vote of entering the White House ; and all the discon tent that now permeates United States politics comes from the Repub lican press. Southern politicians boast that they have accomplished what Lee and Jackson failed to achieve. They have “captured the Capitol,” and Northern men admit the fact. Thus the “ Union as it is,” once the political motto of the South, then the war-cry of the North, has again enlisted the sympathies of the Dem cratic party, whose right wing has always been, and is still, the votes of the " solid South.” The success of the Democrats, how ever, has been too complete, and has tempted them on to a perilous insol ence towards the inferior race. When “carpet-baggers” reigned In the Gulf States on a basis of Federal bayonets and negro votes, the Southern whites organized u secret system of terror known as the “ Ku Klux Klan.” When President Hayes withdrew the troops the system was continued with less secrecy and mors ease. The negroes legally had votes, but in the eyes of their white neighbors that mattered little. Each of the Vicar of Wake field’s daughters had always a sover eign in her pocket, but on condition that It was sot to be ohanged : and a corresponding prohibition precluded the use of the negro vote. Black agi tators wore well fligged; and some were shot or hanged. It whs an under stood thing in certain districts that a negro who persisted in going to the poll, unloss he voted the Democratic ticket, was a marked man. Whole districts were thus u bull dozed ’’—that is. the offending blacks received each a “ bull’s dose ” of flogging. The gift of electoral privilege was thus made “a mockery, a delusion, and a snare; ” it added, In fact, to the unhappiness of the negroes’ lives. Their white neigh bors always suspected them of the heinous sin of Republicanism, aud only by extreme submissivenees and com plete political abdication could a man of color purchase security and ease. Consequently, whether Republican or Democrat won, ths negro, over whose trampled body the fight was fought, received the greatest number of kicks. His friends the Republicans avenged themselves by trickery at Washington for their electoral losses through in timidation in the South, but the social condition of the negro was not thereby improved. In compensation for the White House they had lost, Mr. Hayes gave the Democrats free leave to rule the South, and the liberated slaves have had to feel ever since the pangs of a new kind of social serfdom. If it should assume large proportions It will mean a second catastrophe for the South. Without black labor, the agri culture of the cotton aud sugar States Is doomed. To avert this calamity the leading Democrats have hastily summoned u “ black and white” con vention at Vicksburg. Formerly, when single negroes ran away " from ser vice,” the planters organized chase by bloodhounds, nigger-drivers, and a Fugitive Slave Law, assented to by a subdued but sullen North. Now no tuch weapons are at their command, The laborers whom they oooe treated as actual, and more recently as politi cal, serfs, are free men and migrate to the North, aided by New England soc ieties, which Cnerlsh recollections of the " underground railroad,” to which “ Uncle Tom’s Cabin ” gave fame. At tho Vicksburg Couvention the negro delegates declare themselves ready to listen te the conditions offered by the whites, who, it is said, will vote for “ a reduced rent of land, lower food prices and better recognition of the civil and political rights of the colored race.” Thus the stream of emigration may be turned back, and emancipation will be justified by the final reconciliation of the two races, on a basis of legal and social equity. A 4Jroat C'anae wf Depression. fWa.hinxton Capital ] In view of the unhappy condition of affairs in Great Britain a national cau cus was held to Investigate the same with respect to discovering its prime cause. The result of this investiga tion will be of equal Interest to Amer ica as to the United Kingdom ; for our habits, as our language, are alike, add the same social mistakes of life are common to both nations. After care ful inquiry and search, the positive fact was ascertained that a useles lux urious condition of action was the ac tive agent that tripped upon the heels of industry, and alcohol was the same. It was found to be an astonishing fact that duitng the past four yeais the amount of money expended In Great Britain for Intoxicating drink amount ed to no lees than two billion seven hundred and seventy-eight million one hundred sixty thousand (Wlars. This ia but four millions less than the sura total of the foreigo trade of the country. In 1830 there were but 50,- 000 public houses lu England ; to-day there are 200,000, an evidence of the enterprise of the day. If the amount of money fooliebly expended In IntoxH eating drinks was deployed in the reg ular line of trade, It would vastly In crease business, and send a flowing current through the now sluggish and stagnant ponds of trade. Luxury In Its best shape is bad ; Jn its worst as In this, destructive, demoralizing and to be abominated. Few men who hab itually driuk will deny that their bar expenses are largely in excess of the entire cost of supporting a family. And cui bono ? Except false stimulus, that re-acts lu inattention to business, chronic dyspepsia and continued ill- health. We are not total abstinence nor puritauicai, but it is the business of all men, and the office of all sensi ble people, to decry useless and In jurious excess. Aud certainly none In the records of folly exceeds the absurd aud Injurious use of intoxicants. |L iM ytfiltmyf BgttB 0» *«*»«» oL ways give yaur msm aadPost Office aiidr*^. 2. Bittiness Uttcnand ooetBanicatiatisto be published shoifid b* written on separate •beets, and the objret of Aeb ifcleaMir imli- cated by neesesafy note when * 8. ArtielestopaWI*aM«mlfcpMA.be writ ten in a clear, legible head, ea4 wasaly eww side of the page. 4. All changes in reach us on Friday. Hung: for Wit'otturder. Robert Skelly, white, woe hang on Friday laet at Blackshear, Piercocoun ty, Georgia, for the murder of bis wife, in December last. Skelly had long suspected his wife of infidelity with a ceruin citizen of the county whose name he refused to divulge. His Sus picions were fully confirmed in the early part of December last, when ho exacted a promise from his wife, so he asserted at the time of his arrest, to abandon her evil course. On the 13th of December, however, according to his statement, he again discovered hh wife with the same party. On tbit evening he returned home greatly In censed, and after abusing his wife for .her faithlessness, he commenced beat ing her, and finally knocked her to the floor senseless. He left the house, but returued lu about au hour, and (lading bis wife still unconscious, was, as be stated, " possessed of the devil,” and seizing a three-legged stool deliberate ly boat the unconscious woman over the head until her skull was crushed in. She lived until the following day, suffering great agony, and died with out having uttered a word In reference to the affair. Great Indignation was eqpressed lu the neighborhood, and ft was feared that violence would be used towards Skelly, who was sent to Sav annah for safe-keeping. At the spring term of Pierce Superior Court he was tried and convicted, and sentenced to be hung on the 23d of May. On Thurs day, 22d, Skelly made his will, witness ed by the sheriff of Pierce county and officials of Chatham county Jail, leav ing his two children, Walter and Isa bel, to the care of the Sisters of Mer cy at Savannah, and his personal prop erty for their support. There were over fifteen hundred persons present jR the execution. Skelly confessed his guilt, and said that the man who caused him to kill his wife was present in the crowd. He was perfectly calm and unconcerned, aud met his fate with resignation. King's Nlettnlnln 1780-1890. The Carolina Spartan says : " It is time to be thinking about the Centen nial celebration of the battle of King’s Mountaiu. This must be a national affair. The battle-field is in South Carolina^ and it becomes our State to take the initiative in this movement. We are sure that our sister-State North Carolina will second the move, aud we would suggest that the Meck lenburg celebration would be a favor able opportunity for an expresson of opinion. South Carolina is anxious for the celebration. Let us begin in time so that we may make the occa sion worthy both of 1780 and 1880. The descendants of Campbell, Cleave- land, Shelby, Sevier, McDowell, Lacy, Hawthorn, Hill, Hambrlts, WUIUme, Chronicle, Mattocks, Hobby and many other brave men who stormed the mountain peak, will rally with rejoic ing the 7th of October, 1880.” MACKEY IN WAftHINOTON. He Telle ike Thrllllwg Tale of Federal Bitll-doslag la Seaifei Carolina. [Nc*« «tid Conrlw.J Washington, May 28.—T. J. Mackey, Circuit Judge of South Carolina, teetlr fled before the Wallace Committee to day that he was In affiliation with the -Republican party until 1876, when he left it. He was present at the election for State officers, Presidential Elect ors and Congressmen in Chester, in 1876, and was called on to Interpose bis official authority to check interfer ence by tho military and deputy mar shals at the polls. Several deputy marshals declared their purpose to carry the election for the Republicans, and exhibited a circular, purporting to be signed by Attorney-General Taft, addreeeed to United States Marshals, directing them to disregard the pro cess of the State Courts. At 2 o’clock the chief deputy marshal, at the head of a band of colored men, assaulted the voters at Carmel Precinct, tearing the Hayee and Hampton ticketa from their baode. Several refused to sur render their tickets and were knocked down. He subeequently saw the mili tary, nineteen men of the 18th Infant ry, march Into the Court-house yard forming in two lines. Yotere were re quired to pass to the polls under fixed bayonets. On complaint made to wit ness that the voters were Interfered with by the military, he issued a war rant for the arrest of Lieut. Hlntop who commanded the detachment. The sheriff mode a verbal report that Hin ton stated that he had been summoned by the chief deputy marshal to brlug his troops to the polls, that there was no breach of the peace except such as was com ml ted by tho deputy mar shals who had taken ballots from vo ters* and further that Hinton declared that he was Informed that violence was imminent at the polls and that there had already been a breach of the peace, and he asked to be sated the disgrace of arreet, promising that he would remove bis troops to the rear of the Court-house. Witness, this hav ing been done, Inetructed the sheriff to take no further actien. Several of the deputy marshals were engaged in distributing tickets, and charged col ored persons, having Democratic tick ets in their hands, and in a line with the whites, with betraying their race. All the deputy marshals, with one ex ception, were colored men. Their in structions were signed by the United Blntes Marshal, the words at the head of their commission being, "Stand by your party.” The witness saw, in three or four iustancee, Democratic ballots destroyed by these officers. The con duct of the marshals did not fall under hie observation In 1878, but be knew of one colored Democrat who was threatened. Cross-examined by Senator Teller i The Mayes and Hampton tickets em braced the Democratic nominees for office, and the Hayes and Chamber- lain ticket embraced the Republican candidates. It was declared by Rep resentative Sayler and other members of the sub-committee of ths House of Representatives, on the 3d of January, that Hayes had carried the State by from 1,000 to 3,000 votes, and such was the belief of witness. Hampton was elected by 1,100 majority. Hs sup ported tbo Hayee and Hampton ticket and all the Democratic nominees, and elds by side with Hampton be can vassed the State for Hayes, but voted for Tllden, endorsing on bis ballot as a reason for doing so, that bayonets were brought to ths polls to secure the election of Hayes. The troops did not Interfere as a body Mith tbs voters, but one of tbs soldiers cursed a citizen and threatened to bayonet him. The only reason given by the citizen was that be was on his way to the polls- The ttoops were at the polling place for an hour. He in 1873 oaw a voter shot down in Charleston and the shoot ing in that case was justifiable. In conclilsion of his testimony witness wished to say that a jury of the State Courts, composed wholly of Republi cans, would convict ths most promi nent Republican who should wrong a Democrat, and a Democratic Jury would convict tbs most prominent Democrat who should wrong a Repub lican. ■> It Is proposed to start a subscription to purchase a home for tbs destitute wife of Colonel Cox, who murdered Colonel Robert Alston, of Georgia. Mrs, Cox ia represented as a most es timable lady and teaderly devoted to her husband, from whom the law now separatee her. While charitable peo pie have their band in they might also inquire Into the circumstances of the widow of the murdered Alston. 'Vf «• i trWTipt.1 ***’• ’ To pay a compliment Is to tell (be truth, and to telf ft as thoogfi ^ou meant It. Ahd the only way to 4« (hat is to mean It If a girl is pretty or ac complished i if she plays well, o* sipg* Yell, or dashes well, of talks well; If, in a word, she pleases, name of common sense, Sboindn t eh« be told of it ? Don’t blurt ii out be fore everybody. That will only serve to make her feel uncdmfoftable and make you appear rldlouloue. Bay it quietly *ben opportunity offers, hut say it strongly. Convey ths Idea dis tinctly and tuilTi so that there may be no mistake about it. But-don’t aay It "officially.” Formality iS about the coldest thing knoYn. Wore than one maiden has been made happy—say for half an hour—by A man's taking the trouble to a pleasant thing abqut a toilet that ha liked,and many of fash; ion’s follies have been given up by girls when tbey noticed a discreet si lence ooncerfilnK them on the part of their gentlemen friends. A bewitch ing little black-eyed beauty once said to a gentleman: " I like to have you iay Sweet things to me,.lt seems to come so easy and natural.’* in gen eral terms, It may bS said thSt it is al ways bettef to say an agreeable thing than a disagreeable one, better tor all parties. The gallant who, when a young lady stepped on his toot while dancing and asked pardon, sa!4«" pent men-’ tion It} a dainty HtUe foot Ilka that wouldn’t hurt a daisy,” not only told the truth, but doubtless felt more com- fortSble that thb lWhr Who.Wttm hts foot waS eteppM oh, routed oat^ " That’s right; climb all over me with your grbat, clumsy hoofs.” There are said to be over 6*000 school teachers In Texas, Orlfffa er Shavlttg Face. The custom of sbaVing the beard woe enforced by Alexander Macedoo* not for the sake of fashion, but for a practical snd. Me knew that the sol diers of India, when they encountered their foee, bad the habit hf grasping them by the beard; and so bs ordered the Soldiers to shave. Afterwards shaving was practised in the Mace donian army, and then among Greek citizens. The Romans imitated the Greeks in the practice, as they did la many other things, add spread it to the different other European nations yet barbaric, la Urn middle ages, at the time of the rtnalsanCs* shaving was introduced, and ths hsbtt was re tained, though dasaicism gays place to romanticism; and that, In its turn, was replaced by realism. The beard was a source of trouble to Peter the Great; who,simultaneously with the Introduc tion of his great reforms in Russia* tried to Indues bis people-to Imitate the shaving nations. This Innovation was resisted by hts subjects With the utmost persistence, and they preferred to pay a heavy fine rather than suffer disfigurement, aa they believed, of the image of God. To the Russians of olden times the beard Ysi a symbol of liberty. In several oountrlasef West ern Europe and in the United States the beard was restored to honor only about twenty years ago, bat sven yet the majority of men respect the one- tom introduced by Alexander the Great.—Columbia Register. " Where’ve yon been these twe or three years? asked a Connecticut man of a jovial old friend whom be met on the streets. “ I’ve been in the whaling business,” was ths reply. “ You have?” "Yes-oat West—teaching school,” exclaimed tbe returned wanderer. A Fmraaer's Ylet wry. The returns shoY that it Yas the farmers of Oslifornla Yho earrisd the new Constitution. They gave two- thirds of the affirmative Votes. They voted this way because tbe instrument contains a law providing that unim proved lands shall be taxed the aami aa cultivated farms. There- are fifty thousand farmers In the State who own only 6,000,009 acres of land; while five thousand ranchman and specula tors own 60,000,000 acres, which here tofore have escaped almost all taxa tion, or have been taxf*«to a very email degree. Then there is another clause In tbe new Oonsituttoo which filled tbe farmers with admiration. It provides for the election of three com missioners who eh all hay# full power to fix the rate of railroad fares and freights In the State. The farmers claimed that they have been obliged to pay three timet aa much for freights aud fares as is paid in the Eastern States. These features of the new ~ Constitution swept in the votes of tfet farmers, who did net Mks the sections taxing credits and deposits and die- , criminating against capital. Bat they took that which they did not like In order to seeure that which they were specially anxious to secure. Some men never loose their pres ence of mind. In New York a man threw hie mother-in-law but of a win dow In the fifth story of a burning building, and canted a feather bed down stairs In hil arms. —— ' "I know I am a pertect>«*r in my ' -r mu maw. said a yoong farmer to hie “ No, Indeed, ypnare not. John; you yon are more eboep than bear.