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Address, THE PEOPLE,
Barnwell C. H., S. C.
VOL. II.
BARNWELL C. II.. S. C.. THURSDAY. AUGUST 28, 1879.
NO. 104.
South Carolina Railroad,
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
Up Day Passengers.
(This Train does not connect with Train for
Columbia at liranchville.) • ——~
Leave Charleston
41 ; Branchyille /
Midway
“ Bamberg '
“ Graham's
44 Lee's
44 Blackville
44 Elko
44 Williston
44 Windsor
44 Montmorenci
44 Aiken
Arrive Augusta
Down Day Passengers
(This Train docs not connect with Train for
7.50 a m
12.05 p m
12.28 p m
12 37 p m
12.51 p m
1.04 p m
Dll pm
1.27 p m
1.85 p m
1.64 p m
- 2.12 pm.
2.28 pm
3.15 p m
FltOTI FI.ORIDA.
1. In writing to this ofio* on basinoM nL
ways give your name and Pool Office addreas.
2. Business lettere and oommunleatlone to
be published should bo written on ■epoieto
sheets, and (he object of eaeh cloariy indi
cated by necessary note when required.
8. Articles for publication should bo writ
ten in a clear, legible hand, and on only ono
side of tho pago.
4. AH changes in advertisements most
reach us oft Friday.
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Leave Augusta
8 15 a tn
• 4 Aiken
9.09 a m
44 Montmorenci
9.20 a m
44 Windsor
9.41 am
44 Willistoil
1 '>.00 a m
44 Elko
10.07 a m
. 44 Black villi
10-22 am
‘‘ Lee’s
10.31 a m
“ Graham’s
10.44 a m
44 Bamberg
10.68 a m
44 Midway
110 6 am
44 Branehville
11.30 a tn
Arrirs Charleston
6.00 p m
NIGHT XXPIIBSS.
Leave Charleston
11.00 p m
Arrive Augusta'
C 00 a m
Leave Augusta
3 45 a m
Arrive Charleston
TTTTO p m
Down Leave Blackville
6.18pm.
4.84 a m
Up Leave Blackville
Connects with Trains at
Columbia.
Branehville for
rKNIgHT AXD ACCOMMODATION-
Leave Charleston
Arrive Augusta
Leave Augusta
Arrive Charleston
D»wn Leave Blackville
Up Leave Blackville
^ Connects at Br&nchville with
Columbia.
Down day passenger connects at Black
ville with Columbia accommodation train.
Magnolia Passenger Roule.
fi.OO a m
(1.45 p m
4 . 50 a m
5.20 a in
O.fW a m
2.38 p ni
Train for
PORT ROYAL RAILROAD, d
Augusta, Ga., June 24, 1879. /
The following pisscnger schedule will be
operated on aud after tnis date :
Baldoe 11 30 Down
Babloc 4 1“ Up
Allendale 10 oo Down
Allendale 3 45 Up
DAILT PASSRNdSIt TRAIN.
Going South.
Leave Angnsta
Arrive at Yemassee
Leave Yemnssee
Arrive Savannah
Leave Savannah
Arrive.lack son villa
Arrive Charleston
1 cave Yeraasses
Arrive Beaufort
Arrive Port Royal
A rive Augusta
Leave Yemassee
Arrive den as ice
l.eave Savannah
Arrive Savannah
l.eave Jacksonville
l.eave Charleston
Leave Beaufort
l.eave Port Loyal
9 00 p m
1 5(t n ni
2 40 a m
0 35 a in
4 10 a in
7 15 a in
8 00 a m
2 20 a m
8 45 a in
4 00 a tn
0 3(1 a ni
2 00 a m
1 20 a m
9 (to p m
8 20 a m
5 16 o tn
x 30 p m
11 23 p m
11 00 p ni
Trains run through between Augusta and
Savannah without change, makingclnse con
nection at Savannah with A. it U . U. 11. train
for all points in Florida
Baggage checked through.
Bfcij-lhrough tickets for sale at all priuct
pal ticket offices.
RonrtiT Ci. Fi-kmino,
General Superintendent.
J. S. Davant,
General Passenger Agent.
i harlotie, Columbia & Augusta R P.
CHANGE OF SCIIEDULR.
'Cit \rtoTTt, Columni v A Auocsta R. R.
Gjc.mcpai. Passkmibr Dur\rtmk\t.
Columbia, S. C., June 1,1879.
The following passenger schedule will be
Operated on and after this date:
jYo. 1—Ni'jht Express, South.
J eave Charlotte, 12^15 a m
Arrive Columbia 5:30 a in
1 icave Columbia 5:35 am
Arrive Augusta 9:25 a m
No. 2—A’ujht Express, North.
ti«'ave Augusta 5:15 p m
Arrive Columbia 1:30 a m
1 ve Col umbia * 2:30 a tu
Arrive Charlotte 12:10 a tn
No. 3—Ddij Edssciijcr, South.
Leave Charlotte 2:12 p m
ArrivoColumbla. ....12:00 m
Iieave Columbia.. 1:00 am
Arrive Augusta 9:10 a m
No. 4—Day Vassaljer, North.
Iieave Augusta G:50 a m
Arrive Columbia 10:45 a m
Jit'ave Columbia. 10:55 a m
Arrive Charlotte. 9:00 pm
These trains stop only at Fddt Mill,
Lock Hill, Chester, Wionsboro, Ridge
way, Leesville,' Batcsburp, Ridge
Spring, Johnston, Tienton and Gran-
iteville. All other stations will be re
cognized as Hag stations.
T. D. KLINE, Sup’t.
John R. Macmcrdo. Gen. Pa«. Agent.
Savannah and Charleston Railroad Co.
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
JanuXiiv 1, lSt9.
The following Sbhedule is in effect at this
date:
East Mail,
Daily.
Leave Charleston - ■
« .
7
15 a.
m.
Arrive at Savannah -
- -
!
00 pi
m.
Arrive Port Royal -
- a
i
17 p.
m.
Arrive Jacksonville -
» - *
6
3.) a.
m
Arrive at Augusta - *
1 • a
6
39 p.
m.
Leave Savannah - •
. . .
o
O
15 p.
m.
Arrive Charleston - .
- .ft.
9
00 p.
rtr
Eight Train,
A
----
lOp.
Leave Charleston
•s
- 8
m.
Arrive Savannah
-
6
40 a.
m.
Leave Savannah *
a -
9
00 p.
TO.
Arrive Charleston -
— M
8
00 a.
m
Pullmnn canon all XighlTrains.
C. 8. GADSDEN, Engr. and 8upl.
8. C. Botlsio*. 0. F. and T. Agent.
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.'Northern Induwtry v*. Southern
Indolence.
Lake Wake, Ful, July 31, 1879.
To the Editor oj The People :
I was pleased with your article on
“Work,” Ih'TuE People, of July 17th,
and the. able manner in which.you
handled the “Southern Christian Ad
vocate” forks “Wholesome Talk.”
Of course I agree and say amen to
all that you wrote, as you expressed
my own views exactly, but every
honest man North and South must ac
cept your fair and just proposition.
“If the Yankee is the superior of the
■Southerner in anything that is com
mendable, we are willing to acknowl
edge it when proven by facta and
figures, not by speech. Now, Mr.
Editor, I have both, the facts and tho
figures to prove that In energy, enter
prise, industry and perseverance, the
Yankee, so far from being the superior
of tho Southerner, is not even his
equal, but really and greatly his in-
fetior. Now for the facts and figures,
on which I base the above assertion:
Five years ago I left Barnwell coun
ty and settled on Lake Ware, Marion
county, Fla. This is considered, by
all Floridians, to be the most beauti
ful, as well as the healthiest lake In
Florida. When I came hero only one
man lived on the lake, now every inch
of land around It (and it is sixteen
miles in circumference) is taken up-
in many places you can throw a stone
from one house to another. The
many families settled here represent
almost every State In the Union; a
small majority came from North of
Mason and Dixaon’s line.; all located
here for tho purpose cf growing
oranges, and all had to commence In
the pine woods “from the stump.”
The Northern and Southern men
brought on an average about tinr&ame ;
amount of money, and all had about
as even and fair a start as is possible
to get in any race. Now the facts aud
figures are all before us* and all we
have to do Is to add them up, as every
man on the lake^has done time and
again. Ask any honest man living
here what ho now thinks of the Yan
kee energy and enterprise, that he has
been taught to believe in all his life,
and he will tell you emphatically its
aft "bosh.” Take the "number who
have become disheartened,• abandoned
their places, aud gone back, and the
figures will stand five Yankees to one
Southerner. Take the conditions of
the groves into consideration—those
that look green aud flourishing, and
those that look yellow aud sickly, and
the figures are still more in favor of j
the South. How is this difference to ,
bo accounted for? Jump into your |
sail boat and take a trip around tho
lake—count the men at work in their !
groves, and those lounging about their ;
houses, and you will find ten Southern
men at work to one Northerner. Go
at any hour of the day you choose and i
you will find them either fishing or
swinging in their hammoekii. Al
though we differ in politics, wo are on
good and friendly terms. We are
necessarily thrown together and know
each other pretty well. Of all the
Northern men livincr here, only two
are energetic working men, and they
have Btiooei ded as well as any, while
there are vey few Southerners here
who can be called lazy.
Some may say that Lake Ware is
only one isolated case, that “one swal
low does not make Summer.” For-
tuuately, for the truth’s sake, in al
most every county in this State you
can find settlers from the North, South,
East and West; its no uncommon
thing to find a man from Massachu
setts and one from Mississippi, whoso
groves join. Let any one travel over
the State, as I have done, and make
notes of all who succeed and all who
fail, then add up tho "facts and the
flgure.■*, ,, and the result will be found
to bo the saftio as on Lake Ware.
In almost every part of the orange
belt of this State you will find gen
tlemen (who before the war, counted
their slaves by tho hundreds) with
coats off working in their groves ; in
the Winter you will find them gather
ing, packing and shipping oranges,
and it Is no Uncommon thing to meet a
man who was a member of Congress, a
Judge or a General, driving a four ox
tf am, bauling crates of oranges to the
river. Go with him to his homo (for
he will be sure to Invite you) and you
will find that his family, raised In the
most refined society of the South, do
the cooking and other house work.
He will sit you down to a table loaded
with not only tho fruits, hut the fat of
tho land, all prepared by his wife with
a skill and science that cannot be
taught to a negro. You will find every
thing plain, but as neat as a pin, with
peace aud plenty all around, aud hap
piness beaming in every face ; he will
tell you how destitute the war left
him; bow little money be bad when he
came here; how hard he worked and
long he waited, but now bis labors are
all crowned wltb success—he bad so
many acres of orange treea bearing,
they cleared him so many hundred
dollars per acre, he had all that ho
wanted and money to lay up ; he takes
the beet papers and periodicals, reads
and pays for them ; goes to bed with a
clear conscience, and all accomplished
with not a drop of Yankee blood in
his veins.
Do not, Mr. Editor, understand me
to say. that Florida U the only State In
which Southern men have succeeded,
for there are thousands of men in
Georgia and South Carolina who
found themselves at tho close of tho
war with not a dollar In their pockets
or shelter over their heads—thanks to
General Sherman—who, with fortitude
and induetry, have steadily worked
their way op. Yet this very same
General Sherman, in a late communi
cation to a paper published in Atlanta,
Ga., had the brass or impudence to
say that “all the South needs Is a little
more Yankee enterprise or energy.”
Unfortunately for the South they do
not exhibit near so much energy and
enterprise In building up as they did
in burning down.
Well, Mr. Editor, I ffiave already
transgressed my limits and perhaps
your patience, a few more words and I
am done. Where do we get all of our
ideas of Yankee industry and enter
prise ? From Yanicee literature, of
course, which we read and teach In
our schools. Go to many farmers’
houses and ask him to let you see the
last county paper, he will tell*you he
does not takftlt, but wdl produce an
eight page Yankee sheet, saying, “I
get this large paper for only SI,and 1 am
charged ?2 for our little county paper.”
Ask him if that paper tells him any
thing about the sheriO r sales, taxes or
anything pertaining to the- eounty.
“Not a word about the county in it
but lots of fine stories, &c.” These
stories, perhaps, do the farmer, whoso
m|ud Is mature, no harm, but how
about bis children? By these very
papers they are taught all the Yankee
Idea of honor and morality—they
teach him that when a man insults
him or his family it is roudjismto
knock him down and kick him, but
the proper thing to do is to sue him
for slander, get a few dollars and all
is well—they teach him to measure
honor and morals by dollars and cents,
and as sure as face they will teach the
next generation of our children to feel
and believe that their forefathers were
not only Rebels but rascals, roudles
and traitors. Well, I must say the
price of such teaching is dear enough
at one dollar. Alfred Ayeh.
The .VIi*«*ouri Hirer.
To be appreciated Missouri river
must be seen aud heard during the
April or June rise, when Its waters are
red and thick with the powdered soil
they have brought from tho mountalas
and stolen from tho farms in the val
leys. Then it pours and swirls and
eddies along with a treacherous sound,
between a chuckle aud a half sup
pressed whisper, that repels while it
fascinates the listener. It made mil
lions of acres of rich black deposits,
on which it still holds a mortgage, the
oreclosure of which no man can fore
see. Hundreds of farmers, after clear
ing away the heavy timber and raising
Hue crops year after year, Inexhausti
ble river bottom, have seen their en
tire possessions swept away in a few
days by a sudden and unexpected
"change of channel” during an April
or June “rise.” These changes of
channel have different causes. Some
times a giant cottonwood tree that has
been uprooted where tho river has
risen upon the forest above, is borne
down by the current and lodged in the
mud, where it will gradually become
embedded In tho yielding bottom, and
perhaps lie in wait for months, or even
years, without giving any particular
sign of existence. At last an unusual
rise takes place, aud then this hidden
“snag” creates a diversion la the
strong current, which begins to circle
round the spot, and whleh culminates
In a boiling eddy. Tho eddy Increases
in depth and force, gradually diverting
the water from its former course until
a new pathway is formed In the river
bed. If tho eddy is located near the
shore at tho upper edge of a promon
tory, and the Water is sufficiently high
to overflow the flats, a now channel Is
sometimes carved straight across some
valuable farm or Umber, and a river
town, whore steamboats took freight
and passengers last year, may bo from
two to six miles distant from navigable
water next year. A few years ago
Forest City, Mo., was kissed day and
night by the dirty lips of this Western
flirt, To-day the river sports miles
away, out of eight of the old love, and
Is whispering soft things to White
Cloud on the Kansas side, which has
gained a river, while the State has lost
several thousand acres of productive
cotton land that now supports cattle
and hogs In Missouri. Missouri river
towns are never safe, except when lo
cated on bluffs or table lands, Tike
Omaha, White Cloud, St. Joseph and
Kansas City.—8t. Paul Pioneer Press.
Cheering news from all quarters of
Tennessee of a corn crop.
JFDAII I». HK.NJTAm.N, <1. C.
Omc of DIs Old I.owislana
l-'riendM Kelnte* (he Marvel.
I ohm Transformation NceOes of
His Life.
[New Orteam Democrat.]
In 18G5 the Secietary of State of the
late Confederacy, after its downfall
and the dispersion of Its Government,
tramped on foot from Central Georgia
to Florida and escaped in an open boat
to Nassau with a single tcn-dollar gold-
piece which ho gave to the negro who
so safely carried him beyond the reach
of tho pursuing fofc! In 1879, fourteen
years afterward, this fugitive becomes
the recognized head of an InstltuHon
of all others the most exclusive and
difficult in which to attain prominence
and success, the bar of England. One
gratifying proof of tho reality of this
achievement Is furnished by tho fact,
which wo learn authentically, that Mr.
J. P, Benjamin, Q. C., recenUy pur
chased a very elegant resldaace In
Paris, giving therefor 300,000 francs
cash. It Is added that this large sum
does not exceed one-half of hi# yearly
Income from his practice in the highest
courts of Great Britain. To these courts
the large pressure upon his time and
labor has compelled Mr. Benjamin to
limit his practice. The briefs declined
by him would double his Income. But,
always accustomo 1 to do well and com
plete everything ho undertook, he has
been forced to reduce the amount of
his labor withiu tho compass of his
wonderful capacity and Industry. ‘ We
doubt ifHh^se have-ever-been equalled
by any other aspirant for distinction
and success at the EflgTish or Ameri
can bar.
From gentlemen who have recently
called on him In London wo learn that
his labors are incessantly prosecuted
in his office for at least twelve hours
out of the twenty-four, and that he
has still a few hours to spare for en
joyment and recreation with his friends,
to whom he is always welcome as one
of the most genial and vivacious of
companions. So far from being affec
ted by this intense labor Ida physique
exhibits scarcely a perceptible change
from that which it exhibited when ho
was a leader at our bar and at that of
the United States Supremo Court, a
Senator from Louisiana and the most
brilliant and effective orator and de
bater in that body twenty pdd years
ago, or when Secretary of State of the
Confederate States fourteen years ago.
His hair still maintains Its raven hue,
unfrosted by sixty-seven years of trial
and labors ; his Hashing ^yes have all
their old brilliancy, needing no aid of
glasses to perform their work, and his
handsome face wears still that winning
smile which is rarely preserved by
masculine countenances. Thtf only
perceptible change observable in his
manners is In the greater gravity and
precision of his utterance and In the
restraint of a vivacity which, in his
middle age, might bo propeily dos-
scribed as boyish in its freedom and
gayety. This change is doubtless due
to the discipline of the English bar,
where extreme slowness and delibera
tion are so rigorously enforced in ar
gument as frequently to run into the
extreme of a stammering, cloudy and
confusingly involved style of speaking.
There is little danger of Mr. Benjamin
over falling Into this style.
We have been Impelled to present
this sketch of the career and the char
acter of ono who was so long Identified
with the political, judicial and social
history of our State by the strong
manifestations, communicated through
old friends who have recently visited
Mr. Benjamin in London, of his sin
cere, earnest and unchanged sympa
thy with and devotion to his old friends
in this city and to tho State where he
first embarked in the struggles of man*
hood and achieved his earliest tri
umphs. Time and distance have in
deed strengthened these ties to the
land of his warmest affections, which
so many'of his relatives claim as their
home aud in which repose the dust of
his parents and many of his friends
and relatives. Doubtless no greater
pleasure could by offered to him than
that to which he looks forward with
enthusiastic hopefulness—of revisiting
the scenes and reviving the friend
ships of the days of his youth and
manhood.-
STorriNQ a Runaway by Telephone.—
Probably the first Instance of stopping
a runaway by a telephone occurred in
New Haven, Conn., a few days ago. A
pair of horses started from some place
up town and tore down the street, evi
dently headed for their owner’s pack
ing-house. The driver, who was off
his wagon on business, ran Into a store
near by aud telephoned to his employ
er to look out for the runaways. When
the horses reached the wharf a cordon
of men were stretched across the street
to prevent the animals from going
down to the water, and the result was
that the horses were turned Into the
packing-house yard, were It was found
they had sustained no injury.
The Custer battle-field is to be made
a national cemetery.
Pickles.
There are a great many Varieties of
articles that are prepared for table use
In the form of pickles, and they are al
most an Indispensable dish on every
dinner table. They give a relish to
food and anta general appetizer. Some
have a prejudice against them as be-
lug an unwholesome condiment; but
if one individual's delicately organized
stomach cannot bear them, ninety-nine
persons can cat them safely, and with
genuine relish. Therefore pickles are,
and will remain a regular Institution
In every household ; those who can
not eat tJnem must learn to deny them
selves, and iet others Indulge. Cu*
CUtnbers are the most customary veg
etable that is pickled, and thete are
many ways of preparing them to make
them palatable and keep them for sum
mer use.
As good a method as I have ever
found Is together the cucumbers when
they are dry, cut ee much of the stem
on the cucumber ns may be without
injuring the vine. Let them stand In
a dry warm place for twenty-four
hours to wilt, then wash them off In
warm water, and put them In weak
brine for a couple of days longer, if
you like ; then drain them off and put
them into a jar or tub ; heat vinegar
enough to cover them, to boiling bout,
and pour over them, cover tightly and
let them stand a week or ten days;
then prepare a new quantity of vine
gar, with spices; a teaspoonful of
mustard, pepper, cloves, pimento, da*
amon, ta two quarts of vinegar, and
the same proportion to a larger or
smaller quantity of vinegar. Scald
them together, drain the cucumbers
from the first vinegar, and pour the
spiced vinegar over them; set them,
tightly i covered up, either In the sun
or a warm place, and they will bo
ready for use in a few days; If you
wish to keep them for winter use wash
a few horse radish roots and put in
with them ; it keeps the vinegar sharp.
Tomatoes need just about the same
programme, only they need scalding
in the salt and water after they are
sliced crossways. To salt cucumbers
for keeping, a good way is to wilt them
after washing, and pack them in a tub,
alternate layers of salt (coarse), and
cucumbers, till the tub la full; then
lay a heavy weight upon IM top, and
they are all right and safe, till needed
t® refreshen.
Sweet pickles are made from ripe
cucumbers, pared and sliced, and
boiled In brine till they are soft enough
to pierce with a straw, then prepare
your vinegar, aud add a pound of su
gar to each two quarts of spiced vine
gar, and turn boiling hot over the
slices ; keep covered tight.
Crab apples need the samo treat
ment and are a delicious pickle for ta
ble use. They cam bo pickled without
the addition of spices, are very tooth
some, when only vinegar and sugar
are used.
Little cucumbers are very nice, to
be scalded in equal amounts of salt
and alum, in water, and put Into glass
jars, and spiced vinegar put over them,
sealed up tight. When you arc minus
sugar you can make a good nice pickle
by using two quarts of West India mo
lasses to three gallons of soft water.
Put into a tub and keep in a warm
place till sour os you like.
Tomato lily, In varied forms. Is com
pounded, and is really very good, and
a healthy condiment.
Pickled beans are good, and are now
made just like cafmmbers ; only after
stringing they are boiled till tender, In
weak brine ; and the scalded spiced
vinegar Is turned over them.
All pickles require care and atten
tion, Ip both making and keeping to
see they do dot get flat and lifeless, or
mould.—Faksieb’s Wife, in Western
Farmer.
Josh Billinosisms.—If a young man
hain’t got a well-balanced bead 1 like
to see him part his hair in the middle.
I don’t take any foolish chances. If
1 wuz called upon to mourn over a
dead mule 1 should utand in front of
him and do mi weeping.
There Is no man so poer but what
he kan afford to keep ono dog, and 1
have seen them so poor that they
could afford to keep three.
Isay 2 thirds of the rltch people In
this world make tho most of your
money, for It makes the most of you.
Happy thought.
I never argy agin a success ; when 1
see a rattlesnalx’s head sticking out of
his hole, 1 bear off to the left and say
to mlself that hole belongs to that
snalx.
Tharo is one thing In this world that
money kant buy, end that Is the wag
of a dog’s tail.
Flattery Is like colone water; to bo
smelled of, not swallowed.
A paper in Memphis relates a case
of a beautiful young lady, the daugh
ter of wealthy parents, who eloped
with an editor. That Is as it should
be. We thought all along that young
ladles would eventually recover from
the coachman mania and aspire to the
nobility again.
Tin: NLBffiC'niilEB.
It was Uif) old subscriber.
His wyes werv old and dim.
But “he wan’t takin’ no papor
That was pokin’ chaff at him,”
For ho picked his paaor up one day
Ami ii wont to his naart like a rocket;
“ (V horn the gods love, die young, it
, said.
But. they whyee hearts are dry,” he
’read,
“As summer's dust, burn to tho socket.”
Then ho looked through the paper with
wrath and doubt.
And his heart with aciror burned ;
For he found a t had been loft out
And found an o that was ••turned.”
And ho lifted his voloo with amUhtyshout
As tho sheet with his feet ho spurned.
He stopped ids paper : ho would not road
8uch a blunderlutf, villainous sheet ;
Of the nows It contained he had no need.
Ho could hear the news on the street.
Only ton days later, he sold his corn.
But he pruuded his head full of dents.
When ho Darn d, after selling for twelve
and a-haif,
It was quoted at forty-two cents.
And his farm was sold for taxes, because
Ho uldn’t know when they were due,
And ho hot on a rac) three days after date,
And he bet on the wrong horse, too,
He was fined nine dollars and seventy
cents
For going out shooting on Sunday,
For hedld'ut know, with no paper to read,
Whether t’waa buuday or Monday.
Ko came to town to the Fourth of July,
But it had been gone for a week,
.And he felt so mad, th»t he wanted to cry,
For he didn’t know how to speak.
•
lie thought that Grant was President yet
And he never had heard of Hayes ;
It was worry, ahd blunder, and trouble,
and fret,
All of Uis weary days.
8o he earns to town, one summer morn,
Aud “signed” for his paper again,
And went book home to his wheat and
corn,
The happiest man among men.
‘-Burlington Hawkeye.
IXcIc Taylor.
General Dick Taylor, In hla person
al experiences of the late war gives
the following account of his first meet
ing with Stonewall Jackson ; “The
mounted officer who had been sent
on In advance pointed out a figure
perched on the topmost rail of a fence
overlooking thb road and field, and
said It was Jackson. Approaching, I
saluted and declared my name and
rank, then waited for a response. Be
fore this came I had lime to see a pair
of cavalry boots covering feet of gagan-
tlc Blz n ,a mangy cap with vlacr drawn
low, a heavy, dark beard, and weary
eyes—eyes I afterward saw tilled with
Intense but never brilliant light A
low, gentle voice inquired tho rtffid and
distance marched that day. ‘Keazle-
town road, sik and twenty miles.’ 'You
seem to have no stragglers.” 4 Never
allow straggling.’ * You must teach my
people ; they straggle badly.’ A bow
in reply. Just then my creoles started
tbeir band and a waltz. After a con
templative suck at a lemon, 'Thought
less fellows for serious work' came
forth. I expressed a hope that the
work would not be less well done be
cause of the gayety. A return to the
lemon gave me the opportunity to re
tire. Where Jackson got his lemons
‘no follow could find oat,' but be was
rarely without ono. To have lived
twelve miles from thot fruit would
have disturbed him as much as it did
the witty Dean.
Quite late that night General Jack-
son came to my camp fire, where he
would move at dawn, asked a few
questions about the marching of my
men, which seemed to have Impressed
him, and then remained silent. If
silence be golden, he was a ‘bonanza.
He sucked lemons, ate hardtack, and
drank water, an>* praying and fighting
appeared to be his idea of the 'whole
duty of man.’ ”
• om »
Oats.
The main dependence must, how
ever, bo placed upon oats—sown from
1st September to middle of October,
according to latitude, or again early
in January. Those sown In January
will not mature quite as early os those
sown in autumn. The red ru*t proof
on good land is the most certain, and
at least two bushels seed per acre
should be sowu—on excessively rich
land as much as four bushels per acre
may be sown. The thicker the seed
ing, the earlier tho maturing. Prepare
the land well, feed the crop well, and
don’t retard growth by grazing, unless
it be necessary in fall tq prevent
“jointing” before - the freezes corns.
Perhaps it would be well to divide the
crops and tako chances, sowing a part
in January. Tho latter sowings In
our own experience have been success
ful.
They have this advantage, that they
can be made in cotton land, and the
seed thoroughly plowed and harrowed
in without Interfering withthe cotton
crops. They can be manured also
with cotton seed without the necessity
of killing or crushing them. Bow the
first open spell In January—we have
succeeded well, however, by sowing os
late as the last week in the month. If
sowings are made ■ In cotton fields in
September, follow the pickers with tho
plows—siding the cotton as clean as
possible, then sow seed and cover
with sweep or harrow.—bouthem Cul
tivator for August
A family in Olsvel&nd, N. Cb, is
cheered by the presence of twenty-
seven daughters.
.NKWM A NIB OTIHSKWftnB.
A wife in the house is worth two In
the street
A million dollars’ worth of chickens
are shipped out of East Tennessee an
nually.
1 Tennessee defeated by 15,000 major.
Ity, the propoeltion to settle her old
debt at fifty cents on tbs dollar.
Great Britain produces three times
as much Iron and nrarly three times
as much coal as the United States.
The distance from Atlanta to New
York by the Air-Line Railroad is 893
miles, and Is travelled In 81 hours.
44 The dearest spot on earth to me,”
tho young man muttered as his girl
coaxed him into an ice-cream saloon.
“If it wasn’t for hope, tho heart
would break,” as tbe old lady said
when she buried her seventh husband.
Senator Bruce estimates that be
tween 9,000 and 10,000 colored people
left Mississippi for Kansas during the
“exodus” fever.
Wm. N. Hunt, of Company H, Twen
ty-sixth Georgia regiment, is said to
have fired the last gon in defense of
the Confederacy.
|A Yazoo, Miss., negro woman at
tempted to fill a glass bottle with pew- t
der while smoking a pipe. Result—no
bottle and not much woman.
Charleston contains about 25,000
white people and about 33,000 colored
people. For every white person who
dies three colored persons die.
1 Why dbD’t the men propose tnammaf
Why don't tho men propose?”
' Because, my anxious maiden,
Thoy can’t keep you in clothes.”
T#ITI at Portland, Maine, calls bef
husband boms at nights by firing a
sky rocket from the roof of tha house.
When the rocket goes up, he goes for
home.
Texas encourages Immigration, giv
ing away her pnbUc lands. Tbe head
of a family can get 160 acres for tha
expense of the survey and patent;
which is about fifteen dollars.
“ See,” said a sorrowing wife, “how
peaceful that cat and dog are.” 44 Yes,”
said tbe petulant husband, “but Just
tie them together, and see how tb® fur
will fly.”
A lady of experience obsarves that a -
good way to pick out a husband is to
serbow patiently the man walta for
dinner when it is behind time. Her
husband remarks that a good way to
pick out a wife is to see whether the
woman has dinner ready In time.
- A Florida man, who owns 150,00d
cattle, and Is richer than anybody else
In the State, is a recluse, living in a
shanty which has neither fireplace nor
chimney. He sells bis surplus cattle
in Cuba ; be seldom sees any one; and
he hides his money in tin cons on his
land.
The young lady who doesn’t scream
when a candle bug crawls down her
back is she who, later in life, can spank
a baby until it thinks the day of judg
ment has arrived, then go smiling to
the parlor and receive her friends with
an easy grace that is os soothing as a
dose of morphine.
Says the Louisville Courier-Journal:
“We would walk seven miles barefoot
ed over a tarn pike to the funeral of a
,fool who would try to make a cork
screw of a mule’s tall, btft we never
can shed a tear for the idiot who bad
no better sense than to kill himself
drinking whiskey. Every time a drunk
ard 'hands in bis checks’ be makes
more room in this world for sober men t
who are trying to keep body sod soul
together.”
Ibey were walking along the village
street, and they were newly wedded,
husband and wife. The air was insuf
ferably hot, when he, locking at the
signs, “ice-cold ’Bods” and “lemon ice
cream,” said; 44 Darling, ioe is very bad
for the teeth ; it rules the enamel.”
Then she took out her no# set and
putting them gently behind the tying
post, said : 44 Sweety, we will take all
the precautions and save all the
enamel.”
It would be intereetiog to know what
won’t explode. Flour is now looked
on as about as dangerous a material
as hltro-glycerlne. Numerous other
unexpected explosions have taken
place among things hitherto regarded
as completely non-explosive. The la
test explosion of this nature was caused
by a quantity of starch “going on a
bust,” as the vulgar would say. In a
New York candy factory there was a
terrific explosion of starch, by which
two men were nearly killed and one
slightly injured.
Owen Wall, the famous negro banjo
player of North Carolina, rode with a
party of tonrists through the moun
tains, near Rockingham on Saturday
last. He sat in his saddle Turkish
fashion carelessly, picked on his banjo
and sang “Dandy JTm of Gfcrpllne,*
the chorus of which runs:
Just is Owen finished the
while the genttessen were
he fell from the