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Speola I^«qu !• la wtittaft to tfcUcffa* m Vu^n>n alar.jM g,*c jour n»n *> »L»i ?• «t < ffica r -^r A'*'* ~*T ■ r 1 Bu^otai’ WUf^rt »rd ohticqdIci* tioaa to b« fAib talud aid tw artltaa oa mputts* tbious and M ti wputVc abfous Mid H>o)jfet of etch olearlj iodicttwl b/ Ofoc»«ry note wlea nvunii. S. Articles lor publication rbould b’ rittf n in-a Oetr, legible hand, and oa only one fide of th£ p!>gt\ 4. All chtniwH in adwrOttmentt mutt reach U' oa Friday. , UHF. A TRBK. *r H« C. DODOS. ■x') A man is very like t tree. For instance: crooked limbs has h«. He has a trunk; he trows somehow And when he leaves he makes a bough. He can bo cur, will often lean; Is always sappy when he’s green. He la aboanl when on the sea And oft a-shaving, too, la he. When he Is frightened quite a lot, l.ike trees, he's rooted to the spot. r " If he is a*ed too ntueh he’ll lie And often will, like trece, gethigh.” He has his lumber in the night Is sadly warped and feels the blight. He ”chips" for stakes, though h« should not. And. h** hi* chppe, swnctluics a lot.. We gels ^ dead wood ” en him. Is wob’d. Is knotty When he ahould be good. And when he dies he’s sure to learu That he, like trees, has got to burn. vruo rmrcuBB the coma. A reporter asked Jamee N. Sampson, the rite ran detective at ,the Bub-tretan* tj, to what the Government detectives attributed the andden increase in the n«uftl>er of clipped and punched coins, Which has attracted eo much attention of late. Mr. Sampson said that it was Perfectly well known that nine-tenths of the punching was done in this 6ty by Cubans. A number of silver coins were damped together in a roll, and in lem ’ than it takes to write an account of hole ia drilled through the whole The value of the silver obtained by t • bqfe of usual siae in a rain to about one-twenty fifth of i e( the cote, so that for every d • °f «*e quarter ■doilst ia ditawed by raaning a drill through the roll. Mr. Haaimou aaym, alao, that Hato* ©f Adrci T s r r —.. i.. ■*■■—**■ VOL Ys NO. 22. BARNWELL C. H., S Co THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2. 1882. —- $2 a Year. Oas lash,! " M eagbrubaaqueutl Q isrtedjr, arai-ausudur vuarlf Um.u made ui liberal teraa. ^ Cratrsct adrerthiat l* pay able 90 dsy* after first inoruoa. oi'c« other- wise •tipulsta.f. No noamuaiestlou wilt be publish «i ^ unless acompaoied bv lbs n •«■ aod ad dress of the writer, not neesemiily for pubilcatim bat as a guaranty of good faith. A.ldress, TJE PEOPLE. B trow«i| 0. it . V T ARTHUR AS A SCHOOL^ , TEACHER. How th« Prtoidmt Organized Himself Into • Committee of One to Bnforee Order and VUeipUne in a Country School, • ( [From the Troy Timee.) In the year 1858 tha writer attended the district school at Cohoea. The high department did not enjoy a veiy envia ble i eputation for being possessed of that respect due from the pupils to teacher. During the year there hsd been at least four teachers in partment, the last one only remaining ope week. The Board of Educa tion had found it difficult, to obtain a pedagogue to take eba^s of the school, until a young man, Blender as a May- pole, ala feet high in his stockings, ap plied for the |a engaged at once, although hsvi^g Been previously informed of the kind of timber he would be obliged to hew. Promptly at 9 o’clock whe would net do anything the tetwhar asked. He was beloved by all, and his quiet manner and cool, dignified ways made him a great favorite. -He only taught two terms, and every reasonable inducement was offered to prevail upon him to remain, but without avail His reply was; * I have accomplished all I intended—namely, conquered what you thought was a wild lot of boya, and re ceived the discipline that I required. I my charge, for I have > love them, but I am to enter a law office at once.” That teacher was Chester A. Arthur, now President of the United States; the teacher of the pri mary department was his sister, now Mrs. Haynesworth, apd the first of the three refractory boys wss the writer. if TAKiira cake or bahikh. you wiah to have a healthy and come the man who said he would "con quer the school or forfeit his reputa tion. ” ^Having called the morning aee- skm to order, he said that he had been engaged to take charge of the school. He came with his mind prejudiced sgainst the place. He had heard of the treatment of the forme, tear her* by the pupsk, yet he was act at all em 1 tor he felt that, with good child you must bathe the baby twiee a day. There ia, perhaps, no erom and irriible man or woman who goes without a daily bath but would be better if ifwere regularly taken. Tour infant will be so much more quiet with dally baths as to fully pay you for your time and trouble ia giving them. It will grow up stronger and will be more likely to have cleanly and genteel instincts all through life. Begin with water that is humble garb. To do good newspaper work requires not merely pecuniary but a reasonable amount of morel encour agement One ought to feel that the reader does not measure his mental ef forts with the yard stick. Precisely as vulgar rich people purchase the largest painting with the finest frame, and pass by with contempt the genuine gem be cause it ia only a few inches square, so ignorant people are apt to judge the Aw«paper by the siae, and the square yards of reading It oootaina, without regard to quality. of the future will be BVITOBIAL WOMK ABB WBiTUTH. As with private letters, so with edito rials ; sometimes it gives one real pleas ure to write them, whil# at other times the question uppermost ia " What shall I say next? " Usually the professional writer, like the well-bred lady who may be compelled to entertain a bore, can conceal his disinclination and emptiness by a well-selected stock of words, and, as papers are read with very little care, most .anything will past master. The nered nugget of tin-tag tobacco fact is, newspapers are too cheap to be highly regarded, and yet the brightest gems of literature and the mightiest thoughts have first appeared in this md sun than anything in the way of a tub nj.vieuk Bnoieuno. “Did you ever see them buckskin bronchos of mins that I used to drive, named Yellar and Taller ? " asked Back Bramel of Gen. Worth, while he looked out across the green billowy divide to ward the eternal whi toners of the snowy range. *• “ Why, no; never heard of ’em.’* " Well," said Bnck, as a tender light came in his bine epe, and a three-cor- stowed away in his cheek, “both of them same cayuoe pings oottld scoot over more mountain road between son boss I ever see. “Taller wss pretty middlin' rapid, but Taller was an Imparted terror. You ought to see him gather up his legs in a wad and vanish. One day I waa out on hoard of Taller, tryin’ to round up an American cow that had strayed away bom the eosral, and over weal of the divide 1 worked up a long-lagged, buck antelope. “Imade a little ahaaaay over toward ti>e antelope to aea him tight hut, but he fimkpranoad akmgkiadof Saw Orleans Motyune gives a serious warning to praotioal jokers. At 2 o'clock on a recant morning a gentle-' maaltfi hie dub in that dty with a friend, and, the latter returning for his cane, the former concealed himself in the bottom of tha Mg box that holds the balancing weights of the elevator and la called a “lift case.” The friend came Back and went away, disgusted at find ing no traces of the jolly joker. The latter, as he entered toe Mfl caae. had dosed the door. He tried to open it, but oould not, fot it opened without a key only from the outside. He laughed heartily to see the biter bit, but pres ently he heard a noise which ha oould not misinterpret The lift wss slowly falling down from the fourth floor. Ha,- in groping for toe door, had pulled the tope which aat it free. Death stared him in tha face, tor that immense mam of irem would kwritably aruah him aa fiat as a pancake, and by a slow torture that would make dying seam an agony of horrors. Ha became frantic with u, Ha flung ttoaelf against the door of tha lift aaaa at I da He shrieked lor baip. ks were heard by toe janitor, It goes against toe grain to pmMeii corn and wheat * Aw election. Him a areas, is generally carried oa mktor a camam. Whbx a girl rejects an offnr of mar riage she goes through a alight-of-hasd pwrformance. Tbc man who was “rocked in tha cradle of the deep * must hare slept be- seen sheets of Water. Air advarthm lit oat whoa tha lift waa ran < industrious man, at 5,000 head of ahee Spanish fluently." "Xaabiaou,” said an unfortunate husband, is tha oh arch yard of lovers. “And you men," replied his wile, “are toe grave-diggers." War is paper money more valuable than ooinf Because yon doable it when you put it in your pocket aod when yon taka it oat yon find it tocreaaaa. Samons frequently mutiny for an in- crease in thsir aitowanee of grog, and bat tha only strike far water on record ass whan Moaaa smote tha rock. ▲ Tome widow waa ask ad why she was gotac to wad ao aaoa aflar the death of her flmt hnaband “Oh. leT aatd •ha, “ I do it to prevent fretaag mjmR tilH*a»«afl«tilof dear Tom P of Mrs Twaaama, sahmhaabaad laaaflt- “Tsry wall, toen; yJlI rf*- jaaa its if yw r> r «** *• srreSy aa- Oh. that’s ATt llrvthal inftoa* In some of tha richest districts of England tha harvest of 1881 mak<« tha seventh had one in succession. In tha . Booth, in addition to bad croia, a heavy misfortune has fallen on tamers in the shape of liver rot in sheep, so that since 1874 the flocks of six southeastern coun ties have decreased 13 per cent. , while an abstract of agricultural returns for all Great Britain shows a diminution of as much as 20 per cent, in the same period. Everywhere except in Camber- land and Westmoreland agriculture if at a low ebb of prosperity, and from the Tyne to the Thames, according —to-the London Timet, and ftom the Bevern to the Solent, cornea the same story. From the fertile flats of Holder- uess and the light chalk wolds of the East Biding of Yorkshire jo the broad vales rif Somerset and the sheep-walks J of Wiltshire: from the fens of Cam- ,.--Vj—•••«_- — r --~ —■—- bridgeshire to the hop-gardens of Kent, the cry, only varied in degree by cir- cumstacoes, arises of distress and ruin. The chief causes of this distress, aside from successive bad seasons, are set down as follows: Excessive rent, un fair taxation, want of security for cap ital, injury from game, increased coat of labor and heavy losses of lira stock from contagious disease SraaTAwn al progress has base made in the work of boring tha tunnel tha n dteUnoa of 1,800 English obb of 1,400, or ^400 aii, which i of tna retire dials nos to bn •4 tua jnrkataa 4 to raisa him Tha lad 'Wad with, and ba “Follow toe. aw, ba lad tha way to hall, white tha boy if tha teacher was r sag to lake him out and kill him. Tha tor of tha rare ha Ud the young fuming to his sister, ha said : " I hare a pupil for you ; select a seat for let him remain bare. If be makes any disturbance whatever Turning to the boy, ba said : “ Young your teacher, and do not leave your seat until I give you permis sion,” and he waa gone. Tha lad sat there, feeling very sheepish, and, as misery loves company, it waa not long before ha was gratified to see tha door op m and observe hit seat-mate eater with the new teacher, who repeated Uie orders previously uttered, when he quietly and with dignity withdrew. The number was subsequently increased to three, tha teacher returning each time without a word to the other scholars concerning the disposition made of the refractory lads. The effect np6n the rest of the school was remarkable. As i no intimation of the disposition of the boys was given, not a shade of anger displayed on the countenance of the now teacher, nor any appearances of blood were noticeable upon his hands, speculation was rife as to what ho had done with the three chaps. He spoke kindly to all, smiled upon the scholora who did well in their classes, and seemed to inspire all present with the truth of his remarks uttered at the opening of the session. At recess the my story that had enveloped the school was cleared away, for the three lads in the primary department were seen aa the rest of the tMbolMg: flfod by tha door. While all the rest enjoyed the obliged to a, and, whan school the forenoon, tha primary with tha young like a the three in their di»aiaeed A homo tha inmates of a Western in sane asylum ia a man who ia often per fectly sensible, and when accosted at such times ceases visitors to wonder why he is confined there. This inmate entered into conversation the other day with a caller whose dress proclaimed him a clergyman. Said the madman : “ It was too bad, wyt it not, the killing of Grant at Chicago?" “It was,” said the minister, who followed the accepted custom of assenting to the statements of lunatics for peace’ sake. “ Hayea was assassinated at Cinciimati, was he not?” again asked the lunatic. “Yea,’’replied the clergyman. _ “And was not Quean Victoria mnrdered in her palace ? " To ttais query from the madman the clerical visitor once more answered in the affirm ative. Tha lunatic named one after an other a dozen living royal personages, all of wh6m the clergyman was led to admit were pat out of the ifay.. Finish ing his catechism, the madman turned on tha clergyman and said fiercely: A'Your dress would show you to be a minister, but you are tha wont liar I aver m* i" ■*«-A ■ J *' - Witzs small boys seek to imitate tha example of their elder* in some thinga, disastrous results are liable to fellow. In Norfolk county, Ta., a couple of 16- year-old boy*, named Jasper and Carey, want out hunting, and on their way boms eoodudad to amuse then.* !ve* a mock dual, baring, no doubt, diacorerad that tha real article waa re- popular ui the oom re natty. •lory Tha Duka raflaetad a thaiha Ilia ’And oo tha Borrow ha rent to ia abox of and mother-of-pearl, a small mirror. “ Those who know Elisabeth's charac ter can imagine bow deeply this bit of flattery most hare touched bar." TOO LITBBAU Tha short-hand reporters of Sidney, New South Wales, having been found fault with for their method of reporting the speeches in the Legislative Council, retaliated by giving the speech of one of the Council exactly aa it waa spoken, as follows: , “The reporters—ought not to—tha reporters ought not to be the ones to judge of what is important—not to say what should be left out—^but—the mem ber can only jndge of what ia impor tant—. “As I—re my speeches—sa the re ports—as what I say is reported soma- times, no one—nobody can' understand from the reports—what it ia—wliat I mean. So—it strikes me—it has struck me certain muttons—things that appear of importance—are sometimes left out —omitted. The reporters—the papats —points are reported—I mean what tha paper thinks of interest—is reported.” This waa taking a very cruel revenge, but then, even a reporter is human. Lirrme rum tbil. —. A superstitious parson, desiring to’ learn leas of tha future thag be already knows, visits the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter and explains his mia- franea t That’s pretty any bueftaua aaaa i area saw, Td go •way to sosna lonely spot and stick my band into a prairie-dog's hole and Me of — Viffinia (Are.) 1 TBICBB UTfDBB TBB COBBBDBB ACT, A friend sends ns tha following circu lar, and writea : “ Provisions are high now, bat they might be worse; far ex ample, note tha inclosed:” CesrsoasATs Biaids or Aiomoa,] SCMISTMOS DBIASTinST, Bksmosd, Va, 8*VL M, 1861. The following prioea, totaf the svsrsge of late schedules established by Commissiomn for States east of the Mississippi river, with cost of transportation iaeladod, will be charred for subsistence stores sold to oftoer* under the act of Feb. 17, 1864, and amendments, in Vir ginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and East Loui- tisna, until further orders s Bacon, $Xb0 per r pound ; fresh beef, 70 cants per pound ; door, $10 per barrel -, corn meal, 04.60 per bushel of 60 pounds; nee, 60 cents per pound; peas, 00. 8 per bushel of 60 pounds; sugar, 08 par pound * coffee, 06 per pound ; soap, 01 per pound; candles, 08.26 per pound; rinsgar, 02.60 per gallon; molasses, 010 par gallon; salt, 80 cents par pound.— Co&mhia (A Cl.) JU jitter. / -A stout of heroum cornea to us from the English steamer Edgar on a recent trip from the Senegal. The entire crow, except tha Captain and his wife and the mate, ware stricken with rioknesa ao that they could take no part in the navi gation of tha vernal. The Captain sug gested to hie wife to taka tha poet of “tha man at tha wheel," while ha him self and mats acted M engineer and Urn three brought tha vernal of Afttoe to tha mug a “Tee, asr, with a si gone I leal that fata haa bare unkind to me. It ia simply frightful to a aaaa who ones oould hare a lantern stow .through him. And what do you think waa tha oenae of it ? Nothing but aa aa- cident Yea, sir ; a miserable hone be came frightened at one of tha dammy anginas and throw me out of tha window, injuring my spina, hipa and ahouldar. From that day I began to piclaup in flesh, and now I’m no card for even a 5-oent show;’’ and tha shadow of other days glared savagely at his unprofitable legs. Bnt Battorsby ia still a gainer from thesbow business. His wife, whom be wo^dand won during museum com panionship, ia still on exhibition asa fat woman. Mns. Db. Edsok, tha lady physician who helped to none the lata President during his prostration, is now in Cleve land, where she was graduated at the Ho meopathic College in 1864. She said to a reporter, who asked her whether the President realized that he waa gbing to die, " Oh, yes. * The second day after ho was shot he said to me: 1 Wall, it’s oil over; it’s,/my business to ba ready foe death, and I have always bean ready. 1 had work before me, but, after all, per haps it ia better that it is laid down wbrre it is—unfinished. It is a great and trying work, and I am retiered of it’" “What’s thatr asked Mm Parting too, looking op at tha eotumn on tha Place Vendome, during bar recant visit to Paris. “Tha pflkr of Napo leon," waa tha answer. “Wall, I n-vrr did f aha aaoMimad “And that’s kus pdlo* I Ha waa a great man to nas that I but ft’s shore hks a it’s mate of bun, I do ’ aaa wtmt it is to ha ha head m ttrtto tar atoll»' that Mrs. GarfisM the btography of has Lata will of eouna fire an addihm- uniqoe in tenet to ii She will not undertake to execute it barealf, but to superintend its execution. If ana may tract tha storica of tha materials for It, ft will ba a vary valuable as wall » interesting work. Large numbers of boxes are said to be (Wad with letters received by him daring his political life. The letters era all ulaaslfled, briefed and arranged after a systematic method. In addition to there lira. Garfield has copies or drafts of many of his anasrare to them, as well as large numbers of diaries kept and indexed. Soma of there are shorthand notes, ao that it ia difficult to imagine ciroomstamcM more favora ble for tha production of a biography and a history of tha times. It ia not surprising to learn that the publishers are already competing for the opportu nity of publishing ft. Mrs. Garfield’s sympathy with her husband and all his plans, aa well aa her intolligenea and literary ability, ought to result in a work more intereating and quite aa famous re Mai tin’s life of tha Prince Consort, of which Martin wss the nominal, Quaeo Victoria the real, author. Tna heroic cure of snake bite is pub lished by Mr*. Mary A Mansfield in tha Sanford (N. 0.) Journal: “My James and Mr. C. W. Thigpen on a hunt, when Ja log. below the kaea, by a vary large tlrmwkn Being fire aaire from be bound aeord tight and then split hia lag to at A part ha ef alJLTei: