Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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A I L i n L Kates of Adrertfsinj. Onf tnek^ one insertion , . ?1 00 “ “ each sulneijueni insertion. f>0 ct-ni* Qitattcrly, semi-annual or yearly contracls iriiiUe on libet-al terms. "* Contract ail vertising is payable SO days af- let ttrsYinsertion unlessotlitsr.tfis*stipulated. , No ooumuuicntion will bo published un less acoOmpaoied by the name and address of the writer, not necessarily for publication, but as a guaranty of good faith. Adtireo*,. - -THE PEOPLE-, Barnwell C. H., 8, 0. ' —. - r * ^u jhs i jvin' AJt- A ..VJL' BARNWBIX C.. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 25, 1S7R. South Carolina Railroad. CHANGE OF SCIIEDCLE. . «. Up Day Passenger^. . . (This Train does not connect with Train'for Columbia at Branehville.) Leave Charleaton 9.00 a m 4k Br&hchville _ _. . Mr 12 05 p m <« Midway 12.28 p m <4 Dam berg 12.37 p rii «< Graham’s ^ 12.61 p m «( Lee's 1 04 p m Dloekville 1'1l p m Elko ' ' < 1.26 p m it Williston 1.34 p m <4 TfindsoF' -v 1.54 p m 4 4 Montmorenci 2.12 p m 41 Aiken ,2.21 p m Arrive Augtwtft 3.15 pm Down Day Passengers. (Tlua Train does not conn.ect v*itb Train for - Vplnnibiaat Bmuclmlle.) Leave August* 8 15 am-. el*’ Aiken 9.11 am <4 MonttnorenSt* - ' 9.20 a m 44 Windsor 9.41 am 14 Williston lii.OI a m 44 * _ ,Elko 10.08 a m 44 Dlnckville *. 10.24 am* il Lee's *■ 10.31 a m 44 Graham's 10.45 a in “ Bamberg 10,5$ am —Midway 11 lid am Branahrillf 11.30am Arrira Charleston — . 0.00pm .■j , kiijht nxmess. Leave Charleston 11.00 pm Arrive Avgusta 0 :10am L« a»e Augusta 3 45 a m Arrive Charleston - 10.40 p in Down Leave Utackville • ^ 0.20 pm p Leave Blackville 5.38 a in --Conueeto-with Trainewt-BrowehwHofoe Columbia. * **• t rnsionr a«d accommodation. Leave Churlosion 7.TO am Arrive aughsia * 0.45 p m Leave Augusta 4 .00 am Arrive Charleston , 5.20 am Down Leave Blackville 8.34 a to Up LeaveHlackville 2.3-p m Connects at Branehville with Train for Columbia. . ville wiib Columliia aecDUimoiiation tmin. Magnolia PassfngtT Route. ltaclci»&.im on liumbn^n. Mb. Editor :—FUd you ever bark your shin agin a cliair or whcelbarrcr ? Thare iz few pleasanter feelings, to ray notion * after the 7 first ngonyTz overT It com es trrghcr bei mrtmer'of- -rite-* ‘ties” of human life, excepting laying your Hcd in your sweethsrt’s lap and she a’scHitching your ivool. Jest you try ’em both ef you would experience sumthiug of the human system for cx- quizite enjoyment. The next thing to it iz the mtUfartihun of Icing humbug.- gcd. Our people love it wuss’u a biby loves its rnuther’s milk. You can’t hum bug a Yankee, bekase he cut hiz eye - teeth sum days pfevous to being born, Sura peeplo kin never see till they go stone blind, and it iz ray opinion that sum will never ,.Le worth nuthing tell they arc dead broke using this lazy map’s manufej The fust thing in order to BWarenny hope -trf a phool iz to cram m reasonable sense into hiz hed, but r n „ vervs utch of the garment, w lien a "man goes to worl’"ta ''’kTHthir 'TTiAt TdVtrtjrmnt hw M atouoU i trodse what layod tl>c golden aigs” ypu Hopce for that lltue had about az well preach hiz funeral. Buckskin. hut tire fact iz, haint got no use we Southern people filr a man what aint smart enough to humbug us, and the deqier he pokes hiz finger into our pe cuniary eyes we* like it all the better. Tliarc iz no denying or rubbing out the fact, proved by the figgers and we know that ‘ figgers dou’t lie,” az much at enny rate, az human critters does. Thp biggest l^mbu". and the one that iz killing the country nuss nor yaller fever, cholery, dipthcry and menunghtes with the hooping cough, incasels and sore ize throwod in, iz the fertilizkr uumbuo. I wuz once at a meeting a lotting by 1 TlOTOTr irfrmr the- ti«» for preashing, when * daahy specimen -of the feiuail persuashiu cum in and sot down not fur off. She had a vail over her thee and her ize shined like diamonds. Sed the dea con, leaning-over and whispering : yl say, biuthcr Buck, aint that an otrcoinmon hans»*me temail ?” I sed nothing and didn’t turn my hed narj way, but after the parson had trot PORT ROYAL RAILROAD, \ Augusta, Oa,, June 24, 1879. f • The fuliowing pvsse»ner echeJute will be operated on and after this date : Biildoe ] 1 32 Down Biidoc 4 ik* Up Allendale 10 0(1. Down Allendale 8 45 Up . I’AtLY WAaeKSiiRR TBAIN.7 Going South. THE XITTliK HOBE OF WIUTE lay; fh • roowwood cradle a babT my: Its mother was stitching, eatching away On a little roboofwhlU- . . One foot c.n the rocker. al«o hoped to keep Her frolicsome baby fast toadoep^ „ To llnlsh her vfork that uieht, a piide ,1 Nleetlng; of Tra^tees. Barnwell C. H., S. C.. — September. 18, J.&79. Pursuant to a call of the School Commissioner, Rev. A. Bulst, the Trus tees of the free public schools In Barn well covTaty tnetT se:? ^ The Commissioner called the atten tion of the Trustees to section 36, 37, 38, 40 41 and 46 of the school law, and after an explanation «f said section, which define the duties of Trustees, urged the faithful discharge of the duties* therein proscribed. He also called their attention to a joint resolu tion of the General Assembly, relative to using funds of current year to pay back indebtedness. And suilled on hot babe with a happy pri As It slept In Us cradle by her Aide, Till the little robe was doze. Then the folded up the cambric and lace, And kissed her little one’s ohubby face, That smiled In its infant glee. She tossed it np and down m the atr: “ How pretty you’ll look, .little babe, when - '-you wear That new little robe,” said she. la a rosewood collin the baby lay; Its mother had wept the night awi its mother had wept the nl* Watching its dying breath. i to her bosbm, With It pressed to keep larilng baby 1 Xu tne cold, cold arms away she prayed Col. T. H. Johnson mflide the follow - Ing Inquiry : “Would It be practicable for a Board of Trustees to employ one competent teacher in their townel said teacher to teach in different- por tions of said township at ^lifleient times during one scholastic year. The Inquiry was favorably discussed -th« Commiasioiifir . njud several Trustees, andjppposed by no one. The Commissioner informed the Trustees that the next scholastic year will com mence on the first.day of November, 1879. On motion, tfie meeting adjourned. A. Buist, Chairman. D. H. Cropland, Secretary. Her darling"baby from going to (deep, s of Death: They burled the babe in the garment just Whose every stitch hold a hopeful thought From that loving mother’s eight. On the marble stone she wrote, with a tear; , . ' “ How many hopes are buried here In that little robe of white ?' In the Saviour’s arms (ho baby lay, From its rosewood oofila fa? away. In the realms of love and light. The angels a garment had fhfaod about Tts little form, which will uavM wool out— A seamless rone of white. The Heglmewt et Title*. The following pen picture of the people of the Southern States Is true in all respects. “They are the F F’s— the titled gentry of the South, who glory In the high sounding: prefixes of General, Colonel, Major,some of whiah. -<► i Lcnv* Xupiixta Arrive at VeiMMeee » . 9 00 p m 1 50 a ni 2 30 a m Leave Yemoasce Arrive Savannah C 35 a m Luftve Savannah 4 10 am A rrive Jack e«n ville ' 7 15 a in Arrive Charleston 8 00 a in Leave Yema-aee 2 20 a in Arrive Dcaiifort '3 45 a in Arrive Port Royal 4 0<> a in Arrive Augusta 6 a iri Leave Yeinaaeee 2 o() a in Arrive ^ eniH’<» i ee 1 20 a m LeaveSHValinah 9 OO p m XrriVe Savannah 8 20 a m Leave Jacksonville 5 15 a in Leave Charleston 8 30 p in Leave Beaufort 11 23 p m Leave Port. Loyal 11 00 p in through, I detarmined to gratify a natural curiosity, az l mirer of the femail sex. When I got a close view, the vail wuz up, and I’m blest cf you could have stuck a pin’s pict anywhere without hittiug a freckle Now, this ’ere fertilizer: bizziness iz mighty purty thing to read about, but, hceording to my uoshun, its got a thick vail which the poor farmers can’t raise to sec ef tharc ain’t sum mighty big freckles on the hide. W«- git alinaniek* free grativ for nothing now adays, and yojtihK U .VV! Mjfctip q. for every .lay » we wentRHmw 1*, -rm wblch i 8 0 J three fertiliser ceiUDcates to Trains run t lirou^b bet wren Aiqpista and Bavnnuali witbou* ciinnge, making close con* iiectjp'n at Navannab witb A. ft G . It. B. train tor all points in Florida Bagyaffe fliecked tlirougli. fwrTii rough tickets for sale at all prinei p.il UckeUullices. - lUnaaT G. Fi.kmino, General Superintendent. J. 8. Davant, General I’aneengrr Asrent. ( hdrlottf, Columbia & Augusta R B. raTA R. H. 1 I’M ENT. > ie 1, 1870. ) CTIANGK OF SCHEDULE. Cn .aLorra, Coi.umbia A. Augusta R. R. Gknkral Fasskngrh Depart Couimbia, 8. C., June The following passenger acliedule will bo operated on and after this date: JVb. 1—Night Express, South. L^ave Charlotte, 12:45 a m Arrive Columbia 5:30 a tu Leave Columbia IL35 a m Arrive Augusta. 9:25 am No. 2—Night Express, North. Leave Augusta.”...i 5:15 p m Arrive Golamblft l;30’a m •i aTerage, make you open your ize, and then you open your mouth and swallcr ’em down, lies and all, az gospel truth. I have knowed men whose names wuz signed to sum tliwfo sed they never give enny. Ef I hud my way 1 would rite under each one, “.-l minimum of truth, a maximum of I'es, and death to your land. ’’ I don’t luetin that cunybody means testate what (hey know ain’t so adzackly, though sum may, but I sorter think their calculations iz bigger on the wrong side. Like the feller who wuz huying sum corfr. “You see,” sez he, “two XX iz twenty and XI iz eleven, one and tcn.is eleven ain’t it?’’ “That’s S-O,” sez tnc seller, “I didn’t know you wuz so good at figgers.” To look at the result it seems mighty goo^, but cf we will only ax ourself how it cum, our poor overtaxed laud will tell a tale sad enough to draw tears outen the ize of a Irish pcrtatcr. Az a pceplc our reputashnn for lazincts wus A No. 1 and XXX to boot, but sense this ferti lizer manure emu in fashion wc would git all the prizes and diplomas at every world’s fare for the next forty years, leastwise tell another generation stepped into our shuse. This iz one pint agin it. Wc air gitting lazier, and a farming on the lazy plan of doing bizziness. But I hen it iz a grutc consol .shun to a lazy man td know that sum smart feller iz profiting by hi*laziness. My next pint iz that while it increases our , cotton and truck it iz killing the land. Now all the sensedu the world wont die with them what iz sticking their finger in our ize Leave Columbia 2:30 a m Arrive Charlotte^ ’:..12:10 a m No. Z—Dag Passenger, South. Leave Charlotte 2:12pm ArriveColumbia... .12:00 m Leave Columbia. 1:00 a m Arrive Augusta..... 9:10am No. 4—Day Passenger, North. Leave Augusta G:50 a m Arrive Columbia 10:45 a m l iesYS-CatuTntjta..........:;. 10:55 a m Arrive Charlotte — 9:00 p m Theee trains stop only at Fort Mill, Jtock Hill, Chester, Winnsboro, Ridge way, Leesville, Batesburg, Rbl|fe Spring, Johnston, Tieuton and Gran- Iteville. All other stations will be re cognized as flag stations. T. D. KLINE, Sup’t John R. Maomurdo. Gen. Pas. Agent. Savannah and Charleston Railroad Co. CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. * Januauv 1, 1879. The following Schedule is in effect at this date: t * - * Fast Mail, Daily. \ Leave Charleston - > « Arrive at Savannah Arrive Port Royal - Arrive Jacksonville - Arrive at Augusta * Leave Savannah Arrive Charleston - 7 16 a.m. 1 00 p. m. 4 17 p. m. 6 85 a. m 6 30 p. m. 8 l& p. m. 9 00 p. n> Might Train, Daily. * Leave Charleston - , • • 8 10 p. m, ArriveSavannah - - - 6 40a. m. Leave Savannah, - - - 9 00 p. m. Arrive Charleaton • .- - 8 00 a. m. Pullman ears on all Night Trains. C. S. GADSDEN, Engr. and Supt. 8. C. BovuTox.flkF. and!. Agent. away pasCthe second jiut. Thare ain’t but twgf important cleiaente, according to my noshuu oKhimisti^ (and I have road right smart), in the stuff. Ohc iz Ammonyer and terthcr \j. Sulfuris Acid. The rest of it ain’t worth toting.’ The fust of these iz a mighty;good thing, being adzackly what plants needs to make ’em grow. But they allers takes good care to put.mighty leetle (if it in the fertilizer. It costs ‘Tike forty,” az IbfksfiayyftTiTiThey -ahYtagwrinc to give tis the best end of the bargain. Yni* bet. Tire terthcr thing iz what does the devilment with the land. It it wuss nor old Satan turned loose in a meeting bouse. These fertilizer follers say it iz & powerful thing—and now you jest listen —a wonderful, powerful thing—“to render soluble the otherwise insoluble elements of plant food iu the soil, thus rendering these elements easily appro priated by the plants.” Jerusalem, them iz a lot of words big enough and hard enough almost to choke old Nonh Wsb- sbfrv.whp made the diotionery hizselfi Ef wo will work ’em all out plain, it means at last that Sulfuric Acid iz got the power to melt up and fix the good part of the silc iu sich a way thaj the truck kin take up more of it and iu- ebureo we git more cotton, but then you observe io gitting a bigger crop we aint putting nuthing back to make up for the extry wo tuck out and air naterally killing our land. Ef you had a duzzon shoates in a pen to kill along when you had company or a preacher to take the night, and cf you wanted to make a big r 'show and killed two at a tOM instead of one I reckon they woukjM Ust long • — * ■ "A Our Jtiimkcrg; letter. Cdtrtspondcnce of The People : • Near Bambkro. S. 0., * 1 September 17,1879. ) Mr Editor—I have always thought the suction of country lying north of Bamberg, on tho Ellsto, contained the best cotton lands, uv'et thrifty farmers and more health than any other point of the oownty. But since M. J Smith’s 255 lbs. cotton pickers,” have concluded wo also have tho most effi cient labor. Why, Mr. Editor, 300 lbs. are so common thrt we never think enough of It to mention it to our nearest neighbors; bad 61 my hands who picks on an average 750 lbs, or a half bale per. day, with his wife, and a little boy ten years old, asked me to *blow his horn for him.” I told him as I had just hoard of some of our neighbors’ hands picking 500 lbs. per day, thought it would bo prudent not to ezpose him iu print. The colored women down here com plain that thejr cnlldren aro such na tural born cotton pickers that they try to pick all the lint cotton out of tbelr bed quilts, before they are ouo month old, and some little chape oo ray place have displayed so much dexterity In “picking” they actually extricated my goubere from the vine, one inch below the eurface, without breaking the crust. I can only account for tho improve ment In “picking” as follows: Oo Saturday eveulngs they all drink free ly of Bamberg whisky, which is “well” watered with that notable "artesian water.” I have often noticed cotton blooms reported from Willlston and Allendale, and on the same dates we had boils half grown; such late report* and poor cotton picking Is really de trimental to our ettunty, -Brother WUUaton fanners, you m your cotton pickers by sending them down to Bamberg fpr their whisky, or try to counsel your reporters not to expose you any more. A Farmer. Sentenced to Matrimoney.—A cou ple In Ireland was recently sentenced to matrimony Iu a curious way. A young man and a young woman wore contesting possession of a piece of property, the one claiming trader old lease, the other trader an old will. “It just.atrlkes me,” eald the judge, “that there is a pleasant and easy way to terminate this old law-suit. The plaintiff appears to be a respectable young man, and this a very nice young womau. They can both get married and live happily ou the farm. If they go on with law proceedings, It will be all frittered away bet wen the lawyers, who, I am sure, are not uq- gallant enough to wish the marriage not to come off.” The Jady blushed and the young man stammered they “liked each other a little bit,” so a ver dict was entered for the plaintiff on condition of his promise to marry the defendant within two months, a stay were legitimately earned iu the late unpleasantness, and many merely tacked on to their names by way of compliment or adulation. This caste constitutes the tone of society, and controls the political status of com munltles. They are all tolerably, some finely, educated, and are aa hosts ex ceedingly polite to guests and chival rous to all strangers, and will discuss politics with singular liberality, provi ded you render unto their Cmear what ever spoils be may daim. You may be a Republican, If you ohooee, or you may be a Democrat if you can; to theeo seemingly regnant citizens it Isa matter of no consequence, if they may be permitted to exercise a controlling influence over your opiuU>n8| i, c., if abas ate adverse to roodfTth leas to thetf cause, or if 'favorable, t© apply them where they deem it wisest. They croato public sentlmuat, set up the political Idols to be womhipped at the primar i«e by the common voters, and engineer and keep In working order the whole political machine. The parvenuea have no part iu such learned matters, asd are utterly eschewed until voting day, when a random smile is flung from the radiant face of an aspirant that is supposed to illuminate the masses and win their reciprocating approval. Election over, here as elsewhere tho ballot-casting class io put out of mind until another campaign approaches; but still it le nbt so much among these south-west- ern statesmen os iu Maryland or Virginia. General H. or Colonel Z. never forgets to be regarded by bis constitutents as one of them, while he always contrives to he held by them os a superior being. You will bear it remarked by an ignorant lout who rolls his quid of long-green over In his mouth, and expectorates copiously prior to expressing hie opinion : “Yer may telk about yer smart men much as yer please, but thar’s Gln’ral kin take ’em all down. What he says, boys, you kin bet Is right,” and a doz en assenting voices will echo this panegyric. Then the first speaker wlR continue to point o,ut the virtues of the “gln’ral” and inform his listen ers that they’d never think from the way he went about tho country that he was anything more than a common scrub like themselves. Heiresses “jes os oncry ’as any ef us folks, and ain’t above shakin’ bans and talkin’ with a poor man,-and yet he’s collogfa larnt and most powerful man.” • o l x i.— Position A fleets Sleep. An English physldafl, Dr. J: Morti mer Granville, In his Moeatly publish ed work upon sleep, says : “A con strained or uncomfortable posture will ofien prevent repose. Lying flat on the back with the limbs relaxed would seem to secure^Ee greiSiA afllOtltirof' rest for the muscalar system. This ie the position assumed In the most ex hausting diseases, and It Is generally hailed as a token ef revival when a patient voluntarily turns on tbs side ; but thorq »ro sststsI disadvanagee In the supine posture which impair or embarrass sleep. Thus, In weakly states of the heart and blood vessels, and In certain morbid conditions of the brain, tho blood seems to grave- Itate to the back of the bead, and ts produce troubleeotne dreams. In per sons who habitually, In their gait or work, etcop, there is ‘probably some distress consequent on straightening the spine. Those who have contract ed chests, especially persons who have bad pleurisy and retain adhesions of the lungs, do not sleep well on the back. Nearly all who are Inclined to snore do so when to that-positlon, be cause the soft palate and uvula hang on the tongue and that organ falls back so as to partially close the top of the windpipe. It Is bettsr, there fore, to He on the side and, In the if senco of special cheet diseases, render ing It deelrnblo to He on the weak side so as to leave the healthy lung free to expand, it is well to choosa the right 1.1* writing to this office on bnsinns al ways give yo*r nans and Foot Offi ce add ret*. 2. Botinett letters and ooirmiunicatium (o bo published should bo Written on smamte sheets, and the object,of each elcarlyMndi- cated by nocostary nots when required. t. Articles for publics .lion should bo writ ten in a clear, legible hand, and on only one tide of tho page. 4. All chances in advertisements must reach us on Friday. =*= OTIiRBWlflB. ’' t f Bllllous fever Is quits prevalent I The Republicans of Maryland haro along the upper Saluda, on both sides, nominated James A. Gary for Gov- The State Board of Equalization has arnor. been called to meet In Oblumbla on The ■TATE til.F.ANI.-VtiM. Monday the 6th of October. The residence of Dr. J. E Humbert, of Sumter, was dTtSffo^ TJfTIW, tile result of accident, on last Tueeday. The election In Williamsburg county for State Senator has been ordered for October 16. v The Democratic primary election will be held October 1. Dr. J. F. Easor, late Superintendent | ,nff last slave sold In the South brought 8900. The consideration In cabbages, 81 per heed. only 75,000 bales of cotton. Last year she shipped 1,000,000. *' j ■■ r ; • ‘ : .Tbs call for railroad Iron and sup plies has of late been very great, one of the beet possible signs of Improv- side, because whan the body is thus placed the food gravitates more easily out of the stomach Into the Intestines, and the weight of the liver does not compass the upper portion of the in testines, A glance at any pinto of the visceral anatomy will show how this must be. Many persons ars deaf In one ear, and perfer to He on a particu lar elde; but, If possible, the right side should be cbossn. Again, sleeping with the arms thrown over the head is to be deprecated ; but this position Is often assumed during sleep, because circulation la then free la tbs extremi ties and tbs head and neck, and the muscles of the oheut are drown up and fixed by the ehonlden, and the* the expansions cl tka Uaayg, TLo chief objections Ifthie MPHgn are that It erektos a teefRHy aacj cold fa the arms, and sometime* seems td cause hoaAaohos during sleep and drtoama. These small mat ters often make or mar oomfort In s‘ecplng." , • i • • 1 ■ Owe of Johw Phoenix** Mtorie*. Out in a certain Western fort, some time ago, the Major conceived that artillery must be used effectively In fighting the Indians by dispensing with the gun carriages and fastening the cannon upon th* backs of mule*. So he explained his views to the com mandant, and It was determined to try the experiment. A howitzer was aelootod and strapped upon an ambu bulance mule, with the muzzle point ing toward the tall. When they had secured the guu and loaded It with ball-cartridge, they led the calm and steadfast mule out on the bluff and set up a target in the middle of tho river to practice at. The rear of tho mule was turned toward the target and he was backed gently up to the edge of the bluff The officers stood round in a semi-circle, while the Major went up and Inserted a time fuse in the vent of the howitzer. When the fuse was ready, the Major lit It and retired. In a minute or two the hither- unruffled mule heard the fizzing back on bl£ beck, and It made him tm easy. He reached his head around ascertain what was going oo, and, die did so bis body turned, and the lowitzer began to sweep around the horizon. The mule at last became ox- of the South Carolina Lunatic Asylum, baa, received an appointment as sur geon In the United States Army. Lexington Dispatch: The honey crop of this season has proved a failure. Many of our citizens who have numer ous hives have not gathered a pound. Aleck Boone, a colored Clarendonlte, killed htmaelf by the accidental dis charge of his gun on last Thursday, while either loading or drawing a load. The Granitevllle Company are mak ing large shipments of their goods to different points. Additional wagons were run in order to facilitate the prompt filling of orders. . The dwelling of Oapt Thomas M. Sanders, of Chester, was destroyed by Are on last Tuesday evening, together with nearly all the contents, consist- Ing of furniture, bedding, clothing, sil verware, etc. The house was a total loss, no one but Mrs. Sanders and the children being on tho premises at the time the Are broke out. The Are orig inated In the garret, and it Is supposed was caused by rats nibbing matches. There was $5,000 Insurance on the property,. Cheater Bulletin : On Mondayjnlght, 2 o’clock, a party of unknown persons went to the residence of President W. H. Hardin, of the Gheraw and Chester Railroad, and, cursing fearfully, called for him to come out Mr. Hardin wa* absent from home. Being apprised of the fact, the marauder* vented them selves of a volley of horrid oaths, say ing they bad oome to kill him, and, al though they bad missed .hint* they yet have their revenge. They sad othei wise com - Ises. Falling In their diabolical The farmers of Minnesota have har vested this year very nearly a bushel of wheat for every Inhabitant of the 1 United States. Iu the town ,of Marlon, Virginia, there is a child living and growing whose neck was broken rodo Into Uio. jgrd i mlttod maMeicHo. m* they dispatched the yard dog- The Invaders were unknown, as was alao the cause of their dastardly ooa- duct. I x* • Newberry Herald: The number of acres of land In the county la 876,449. Of this 108,448, or lees than ene-thlrd, la In cultivation ; 233,556 are meadow and pasture lauds; and 34,445 wood land. The total valuation of the lands Is 81,562,615, being an average of $4 16 per aore. The number of bulldlnga In the oounty Is 5,365, valued at 8272,866- making the total valuation of real es tate In the oounty, outside of Incorpo rated towns, 81,835,480, being an aver, age of 84J47 per aore for the land at Improvement*. The total valuation of real estate in the oounty, Including this town and Prosperity, Is 89,297,110. The county has not grown any In size, but there are 2,080 more acres on the Aud itor’s books this assessment than last- Cotton wlU not make a full crop. It Is thought that It will be short nearly 20 per cent. > . The Two Honeymoon*. Love at flrat eight in church, with Scriptural commentry, la illustrated in the local columns of the Albany Argos. One Sunday a beautiful youag gentleman happened to have a seat in a pew adjoining one in which a lovely young lady was sitting. He was seized with a violent pasblon for the fair stranger, and resolved to propose to her then and there. Bo he banded her a Bible with -a pin stuck in the following text: “And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto tbeejrat that which we 'had from the beginning, that we love one another” (II John, 5) The lady returned the book, point ing to Ruth 11., 10: “Then she fell on her faoe, and bowed herself to the ground, and said unto him, Why have I found grace In thine eyes, that thou uoicuu«,uv ttilu.u k »ru I ifiOTSftiSe knowledge of me see- o execution b«ug put to It,, verdlot ^ H8 u . DaKl lt till th. uterrto. ceremony eh.uW he I ^ ^ ^ ^ 00 In „ till the marriage ceremony should completed. . - A conference representing 60,000 miners, held In Manchester, England, on the 13th, passed unanimously a vote favoring emigration to the Unit ed States, 14 ■ “I had mauy things to write, but I will not with ink and pen write unto thee. Bat I trust that I shall shor _ | see thee, add we shall speak face to face.” As the result of this Interview it ,1# said that a marriage will take place in a moutn or two. * Samantha Allea’s opinion upon these familiar moons la as follows: “The first years In married life le a preca rious time, make the beet of It; a dreadful ourlous, strange, preoarloaa time; and If ever a woman wants a free room for meditation and prayer. It Is then; and, Hkswtee, the same with the man. Thar* never was two per- bods so near alike but what they were cited, and his curiosity became mere 1 different, and bad their different waye and more Intense, in a second or two and eccentricities. A woman may ie ifras standing with his four legs In think she knows a man just as well as a hunob, making a|x revolutions per If she had been through hie head a minute, and tho howitzer threatening number of times with a lantern ; but sudden death to every man within |let her oome to live with him from day ago, and whose head Is supported by steel ban. Fifteen years before tho revelation v the wife of Washington kept sixteen spinning wbeele running and saw the fabrics made In her own honse, under her own direction. Savannah never before made each an exhibit In general business as she dess to-day. She la not only the second cotton port, but the second In naval stores, lumber and rio*. We have flung away hundreds of millions la tho last ton year* by a miserable ootton avarice, which has produced vast crop* that have melted the planter’* bands and left him only hie trouble for his pains. The ootton estimate for this year le 6,000,000 bales—half a million more than ever before. The tobacco cstl- tfaate Is 60,000,000 pounds—twelve million pounds more than ever before. The sugar estimate ie two hundred thousand hogsheads—one hundred thousand hogsheads more than ever before. In the face of such an exhibit, ft doesn’t look as If the Southern States were going to eternal smash at present. Speaking of the horse and mule trade the Atlanta Constitution saye: Itis held by some of the drovers that have already arrived that prices will be high this veer. This It Is •aid Is ooeasltov * h**«*Mf*v I Western market of the etfPMB ools that are suitable for tW* trade. farmers of th* South, and'espeo- tally of Georgia, have become so Inde pendent during the past few years that they will not boy anything but a flret-class hone or mule. The animals have got to be of good size, well-shap ed and serviceable before a sale can be made to the progressive and well-to- do-farmer of the present day, and Georgia Is getting fall of them. On Saturday, th# 18th, Mr. B, Blob- burg) who lives In Clarendon oounty, woe killed by the accidental discharge of hie gun. He bad been oat squirrel bunting, and on bis return stopped at tho steps to skin the squirrels, loan ing bis gun in the meantime against the poet at th* foot ef the steps. As there was no on* with him, It Is sup posed that when he bad finished and started to ge Into the house be was not careful In taking np his gun, and In raising It struck the hammer against the end of th# step. His moth er, hearing the report, went Imme diately to see what he had shot and found him lying dead, tho load having taken effect in the back of his head. 4 rf™'*- MH - '*-.i A Scotch minister who, after a hard day’s labor, was enjoying a “tea din ner,” kept incessantly praising the Mra. Dunlop at as fond o’ ham as he was,” when the mistress kindly offered to send her the present one. “It's unco kin’ o’ ye, tmoo kln’r hnt W ns put Ye It, IT just me." half a mile. The cemmandaut was ob- yed to climb suddenly up a tree, wereseen sliding over the Muff Into the rtv^r, as If they dld’t care at all about the high price of uniforms; the adjutant made good time toward th* fort; a sergeant began to throw op breastworks with his bayonot; the Major rolled over and groaned. minute or two there was a puff smoke, and a dull thud, and the mule —oh I where waa he 1 A solitary brute might have been seen turning success ful back-somersaults over the bluff- only to rest at anchor finally with his howitzer at the bottom of th# river, while the ball went off toward tbs fort, hit the chimney In tbs Major’s quar ters, rattling the abode bricks down Into the parlor, and frightening the Major’s wife Into convulsions. They to the trouble o’ sending! tak’ It hams oo the horse afore i When, on leaving, he mounted, and the ham was put Into the sack, some difficulty was experienced In getting It to lie properly. Hie Inventive genius soon cut the Gordian knot. “I to day, from we«k to week, in sunshine think, mistress, a cheese In the Ither and in storm; when dinner Is ready at noon and when It Is late; and In all other trials and reverses of life. I tell you, she will oome across little Impa tient, obstinate streaks In him she never laid eyes on before ; little self ish, overbearing streaks. And the same with her. He may have been firm as a rock In the belief that he marrying an angel, but the very flrat time he brings unexpected com pany home on washing day he’ll find :.c Lmnu'L They may be awful good principled, weU-meanlug folks, never theless, but there are rocks they have got to sail areuad, and they want etrengtl), and they want patience, and they want elbow-room.” " There Is another moon, what you may call the harvest moon of do net allude to It now, and no report] life, that rises to light the married tf the result of the experiment ever sent to th* War Department. Contributions of the most sort are made by people In all the 1,Muling Southern cltlee for the benefit of Gen. Hood’s children. lover* on the pilgrimage. It may not be so brllUontand dazzling aa th* hon eymoon. bat light Is steady and oelBo,| and mellow as anything, and it shines all tho way down to the ^ark valley, and throws 1l- pure light clear across It to the other side." and wad mak a grand balance.” The hint was Immediately acted on, and, like John Gilpin, he moved away with this “balance true.” The Boston Post says it Is the opin ion ef the shrewdest buslnes* men of the country that 'hrtta**, as s people, Just eeteriog upon a period of oaex- prosperity en a solid basis. The crisis has been passed, improve ment visible to ail discerning ejee has set la, and now all that la necessary for the people of this country to do Is to stand aside and not Interfere with the working of Providence. The feel ing of assornnee and stability for which we have been waiting has taken pos- of the various circle* of busi ness, and there Is a general belief that ' cause and effect sura as the laws of are kept In operation, so son are w* to have a better business this coming fall than has been kno wgbsfor* or since the period ol dtiaiis^ fairly set in. If some of the best I country will lose faith In to read the signs.