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■ - Speoia* R«u nests. i. la writing to thin cSm on boat on* alwnj* fire your ntroe and Port ctlca 1 Baain<^M letter* and oomiHinloa- Uoaa to be pabliehed tboald be written oa aeparate *breu, and the object of each ekarly indicated by neceaaary note when icfuiied. -'I S. Artioie* for pabHoation khould b* w rittan iq a clear, legible band, and on Only one aide of the page. 4. All ehaasa^ln adeertieemenu mart i n« on Friday. wauira Asd tlowexb. tn rom a. wkittim. Ok, mtatar of the fralta and Aowarm, W* own Tky «1m dMlfn, Okaraby thaa* kaman bandi of our*'' Way ahara tha work of Thlnat Apart from Tha* ar* plant in rain Th* root and aow tha read; Thy aaity and Thy later rain. Thy ana and daw w* aaad. Onr Ml ia awaat with thankfulnaa^ OarbnrdaaUour boon; Th* ear** of oarth’a gray moraine to Tha htoatoag of 1U noon. Why aaarah tha wide world aTarywhar* Tor Cdaa’i unknown ground? That garden of th* primal pair " ' May navar more b* found. But,4d*at by Thaa, our pattaat Ml Way right tha aaaient wrong. And gir* to arary all me and aatl Th* baa* ty loat aa tong. - T A • 1.11 • VOL. V. NO. 25. BARNWELL, C; H., S C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23. 1882. $2 a Year. on one era, end carrying e gingham umbrella in the other hand. " Is this the Stab Mountain Lyceum?” said she, primly. “No, mara!” said the landlord. “This ’era’s the tavern. The lyoeum ain’t open till 8 o’clock. Want to buy tickets for the lecture ? ” “Certainly not!” said the elderly female. “ P’raps jon’d like to engage a room.” said the landlord, with a glance at the id fraitad May Edan** orahard ahama; W* to*«* th* tampttng awaaia of thaa* | Bra, without har bton*. Th^prlda of avary ThpTairaat, rara WayaBhaamAaour far* thy awa fruit* and Sowar*, d MU with rmraat w**ua Tky gtfla aaok y«ar toaiwayr kaaatlfui— IBI TUB LECTURE. ** A lecture, *h ? " snid Denooo Hob- mi, aa be stood an tranced before the bulletin hoard of tba Stab Mountain Ly ceum. “ And spaa Um ' Bights of Want- no?' Weil, I swan I Mr*. Hobeuo, be »-wantia’ to beer U, ea I 1 wonder, tf ebe'd ■ And p'raps We a good thing tests m “Nothing of the sort!” said the lady. The font of the landlord’s imagination was hopelessly drained dry by this time. He said nothing more, bat stared bard at the starched female. “I with to see Miss Smith,’ 1 said she, abruptly. ». “Eh ?" said the landlord. “The lecturer on—Women's Rights,” with a' little griifcaoe at the words, as if they had a bitter taste. “She ain’t arrir’ yet,” said the land lord. “ I do not intend to allow this outrage on public taste 1" said the lady, vehe mently. ’ -1 “ Mora ?” said the landlord. “I mb Mias Smith’s mother T " Be you T" gasped mine boat “ And here I aet until she presents herself,” said Mrs. Smith, depositing beraeif on the nearest chair, and clasping both hands firmly over tha umbrella- 1%* landlord looked feebly at her. and almost within tha same second in Lurried a abort, over-draws I l%dy, with curia, jewelry, bangles and a aoarlrt shawl, while a shabby bleak-silk skirt trailed its fiouneas over tha durty floor. “Landlord," eeid i thaa* poster* at ooea I “What lor, mara?“ cried the poor “ U s swindling I ” mm ana, “downright aspenaaa, sad 1 And so you may tall rights ’ “lU t 111 to havw ap i ha And the laadlord of tha Stub Mountain “It wm an ill wind that blew good to nobody," he said, "and any popular aru- saoon wm good for buaineaa.” This STM on Tuoaday. Upon tha Wedneaday morning n stout gentleman In a chaise drew np to the hotel and itrutted up to the bar, with a vary rabi- mnd (am and little, fiery eyes. -“Mary Smith lectures here to-night?” said bu “I guess you're about right there, Squire,” said tha landlord, feeling in his pocket for the handle of tickets which the lyoeum proprietor had authorized him to aell. “A pop’lar subject, too. You can read a’l shout it on the bulletin board oat there, and—” “ I forbid it 1 ” Mid the stout gentle man, growing redder and more apoplec tic with every moment “ Land o’ Goehen 1 ” ejaculated the landlord. , “ She is my wife,” said the stranger. “My name is Smith—Zerubbabol Smith —and I won’t be disgraoed by any of this pnblio-lectnring nonsense.” “Yes, I know,” said the landlord; “ but I don’t b’lieve the law will uphold ye in it, Squire, arter tha tickets are •old and—” “ Haag tha law 1 ” shouted Mr. Zqrub- babel Smith, bringing his gloved fist down among the glasses with a bang. “ I don’t care two straws for tha law I My wifs is my wife, and I won’t have her making a Merry Andrew of herself here or anywhere alse I When do you expect her?” “The room wm engaged from 11 o'clock.” (alter.d the landlord ; “but—” “ Tory well," roared the red faced man, “ I’ll just go and stroll around tha village, ewd yon Irt ma know “Belgefn smayt" ha mai. 1 tha whole *vunal world ag**f Smith ma t hate, nor Mary Smith ma t, mm Mr*. (With, ear mm* of th# Smith*. m I know of I” curly lady, up her thin lips, “you ar* ia Tha Iam41u*\l “ I wtah to of Urn wbuto Ituag." a “ Bet if there* lew laal. 111 have my tha eMttoJ Indy. i lawyer, IH-" Tim landlord was vaguely in h» own mind whether H wm bast to go »»d«r the cennt. r, aecepe by Lack wiadpfl or setae bis grandfather'a rwity musket from th* iruu hook where it hung atwee tha chimney piece, defy tha whole party then and there, when a um rciful Providesoe interfered ia his liehaM. Tha depot hack rumbled up to tha door, and out stepped a tall, pretty young woman with deep blue ayes ami hrooao-hrown hair, t French gray traveling dram and s marvelously com posed manner Mary Smith ! ” said she to the land lord. "Are my room* ready ? I lecture here to-night in the lyoeum.” Never was so glad to see nobody in my born days,” creaked the landlord. Yea, the rooms is ready ; but your hus band, he’s out on the green, and your mother’s here a-waitin’ to forbid the ban sea, and your par drier a-vowin’ anc a-aw earin' she’s been swindled, and—' “It's some mistake,” said Miss Smith, in her clear, incisive voice. “ I have no husband. My mother has been dead seven years, and a partner is a luxury in which I have never indulged my-. self.” “This ain’t my daughter!” said the starched female. “ My Mary Smith has red hair, and she sfuttere.” “ Quite a different sort of person from my partner,” said the lady with the red shawl. " And my wife weighs 200 pounds, and she wears the bloomer costume,” unwillingly confessed the stout persou, who had by this time come in from the green, and was standing staring in the doorway. % The landlord heaved a mighty sigh of relief. ' • “ Wal,” said be, “I don’t see but that the lectur’ may go on, after all. ” *• The three discontented spirits van ished. Miss Smith retreated. to her room, and the landlord brea'hed freely ipfeto But in the afternoon train from Bos ton a young man in tho undrees uniform of a naval o«Wwr. came unexpectedly tha Is this the pUo* where Mary Smith back guiding, reading poetry under tha >ear trees.” “ Polly," said the young officer, lean ing over the pretty, French gray shoul der. “ I hear you,” said Miss Smith, turn ing over a leaf and pretending not to be aware of the pink flush which was over spreading her cheek. Are you really determined to go on with this public-lecturing tour?” he asked, quietly. “ Why shouldn’t! ?” cross-questioned Miss Smith. Because I don’t like it, Polly.” Yon quarreled with me," said Mary. I beg pardon,” said the young offi cer, “ you quarreled with me I " “Do you really care ? ” said Mary Imith, melting into softness. “ I care more than yon will ever know I ” he answered, fervently. “ Polly, I love yon 1 And as for women’s rights, yon shall have every right you wish, if only you'll give np this lecturing busi ness and marry me 1 ” She smiled—hesitated—visibly yield ed. “ Bat Fve made th* engagement. ” “ Break it, then,” said the officer. The clergyman lives just semes the green—I had his house pointed oat to me. Let’s go there this very minute and get married I ” ' Mary Smith laqgbed and blushed, ami burst into teire, and finally put her baud into that of the naval officer. “ Have it voor own way,” «*M she. But I don^know what the public will 1 Heuorfurward," said Cap*. L«cv, “ I am to be your public. And my ver dict is entin ly ia your favor." Ho there wm do lecture in the Stub Mountain Lyoeum that night. And the mt man weal home, where he found hiswTM* and mother-In-lew me greet rage, the starched female proceed 'd to end the curly CONOBKBBJOyAL MVICIDMM. There have been a number of mem bers of CongreM who have committed inicide. Haywood Chauncy Biddle shot himself through the head, in Tennessee, about 1875. He was undoubtedly insane. James Blair, a Representative from South Carolina, blew out his brains at a boarding-house on Uapitol Hill, April 1, 1^34. Felix MoConnell, a member from Al abama, committed suicide, ia a fit of de lirium, M lie St ChuHe Hotel, Wash ington, by stabbing himself and then catting his throat Sept 10, 1840. Representative James Ashmore, from SoglhOno^p, blew out his brains at SardisjMto!v Dec. 6, 1061. Elijah Hiae, Representative in the Fortieth Congress, committed suicide at Russellville, Ky., May 8,1870. John White, Reprtsentative{from Ken- tacky, committed suicide at Richmond, Ky., Sept 27, 1845. James G. Wilson, United States Sena tor from New Jersey, threw himself from Us house, in a fit of delirium, in 1832, and Tax following is told of Frelinghuy- sen, President Arthur's new Secretary of State. Ex-Senator Frelinghuy sen is popularly supposed to be a man of cold heart and of little feeling, and in whose being first authorised to spend $35,000.- William Rameey, Representative from Pennsylvania, committed suicide at Bar onin’s Hotel, in Baltimore, by shooting himself through the eye with a pistol, about 1840. John Ewing, of Indiana* was found dead in his room at Vlneeonee in 1839, and on bw table tha following epitaph ha* a bms *ko tor** W* Representative Alfred B. White, of Ohio, emamitted suicide by taking poi- jo on the grave of hie two children, at Columbus, Aug. 1, 1805. He wm < horg#d with improper arts in roanee- stuu with oottaa James Henry Lane, United nature pride of race rule# supreme; but know an incident which contradicts all this, aud shows hint ia his true light; an incident which he has to-day forgot, and which he thought unknown at the time to any one bat his ooschman and the recipient of his kindness. It oo- its heavy sleets, about five yean ago, and it wm during one of the worst of those storms. A poor Irish woman wm strug gling aleog I street toward her home, with a heavy bundle in her arms; she was slipping and falling, and teemed quite unable to make headway against the stinging gale. The Senator was coming from his door to his carriage, on bis way to a state dinner, when he mw her. He stopped, and then went toward her, Mjing, with the great est courtesy he would have shown to a lady : “You seem to have trouble getting along?” “God knows I have, sir,” she answered, almost crying. “ Well, step into my carnage here and tell my man where to drive you.” And then be fairly ran back to the house to pe the storms of blessings that (ell Lavish expenditures in public build- Inga for Paris entirely deputed with the termination of Baron Haussmann’s offi cii .career. Baron Haussmann, after 000 in the embellishment of the city, ended in 1869 frith an expenditure of the enormous total of $120,000,000. It is now said that the new postoffice and Hotel de Ville will cost, when finished, $14,000,000, and that the Church of the Sacred Heart on the hill of Montmartre of Quarterly, seal-ensual or yearly c>u> tsorta asade on litoral tunas. , . Oratreet advertising k payable 1$ day* after first intertlon, unless other wise stipulated. J No communication will be publish id miles* accompanied by the name and ad dress of the writer, not nocesaeilly for G bltoation, bet a# a guaranty of good th. Address, THB PEOPLE, Barnwell O. H.. 1. curred during the winter so famous for at least $5,000,000. Of the Opera House, .. r,- r - 'rT” “iv, r . •_ ■”2ZLSzr^ji~Mi-fzz:i m Xi ■ with true Irish warmth athwart the atirui. , Sixes the war between France and Germany the growth of the two ooun- tnea m po .ulatioo has been ruriooa ia its contrast*. Germany has increased by 4,500,000 souk, but France by only 612,000. Births ia Franc* In 1867 were 264 In every 1,000 iahabttaat* ; bit in 1878 they were only 254 ia every 1,000. which Germany are W 8-6 and 38| For 1867 of btrihs over deaths a Franc* 140,000 ; a 1*78 It we* only 98,175, which ia not yet oemploted, the cbsi'al- ready has been $10,500,000. Some no tion of the outlays which have been made on the Hotel de Yille maybe learned from the fact that the estimate for doors, window frames, glsse, fire places and locks alone amounts to (140,- 000, while about three bines that sum k set down for art decorations and fur niture. On the four outer walla of the bnildiug will to placed in niches no (ewer than 106 statues, each six feet in height. All will represent jiersona born in Paris who have reached eminence in various walks of life. Tn Philadelphia Prem publishes what it claims k the true story of Ool. Forney’s “ Forrest Letter,” the publica tion of which, e quarter of a century ago, caused so much excitement. Col. Fomsy had become interested in Kimberly, a pobMo reader, and oa departure lor the Booth gave her i indorsement and such letters tribute.! greatly to her saeoesn. Her agent, Mr. Roberts, wrote Forney, ex pressing hie thanks and sens* of obliga tion. Whea Forrest broke ia on Out. •ruey with the story that his l*i*e to him. sod Mra. F.wre** th PLEASANTRIES. Doorons live by pillage. Oautobhu is rakin’ raisins. ’ A HKALTH-orvcfo number—Quininot Tn man who had so elastic a atop wore rubbers. How a man decides how he will build hk house—By lot Tn chiropodist first dates from Will- ism the Oomcurer. Thk term Mormon means the mor- mon-y you have the more wires you can be sealed to. ' Tn man who hesitates is loet, That k why Charlie Rom hesitates about coming back. j lx the vegrage of life every r *n k provided with a skull, with which to paddle his own canoe. _ Wicked Hew York man trasri buried in Greenwood, beeaovf it won’t burn so quickly an the dry. Dabwdi aaya: “Man, only osa whistle.” Darwin certainly never lived suywhere near a railroad crossing. A rnocMsiox of men passed through the Bowery and were aa hour peering a given point The given point v m» a sa loon. Wbatwveb yon have to do, do it with your might Many n lawyer has made Ms fortune by simply working witk n witt. Qunw Yioronu’s ohildiea stand In greet ewe of thrtr regal mamma, Me *he is so morh great awe then 1 Alwati pey m yen go,” Mtd an eld in railway tof souths with brenebM to every laodiag city he Union, ell he needs n the Deles end Lackawanna system, ekueh he rued, which H* owns the elevated of railways epos* winch York se he wields through hie eooUul of graphic system of tho country. This pate and nil the markem under hie authority. The following list of scow ntiea, which ore known aa the Gould propertioa, will give some idee of the vast capital which this man directly and indirectly controls ; u 1,1.* N-w York uid Vwtam IVcIS* | l*t*nuMl<aal Northern E^vatsd msd* W. •Urn Ualoa. Charles J. Julian. ware, died Oak 17, 1888, from injuries teeived while experimenting with n rifle-cannon which he had invented. Thera have been members of OongraM who havw killed men not on the field of honor. T’L— T,7U,0T0 «, l* 0,001 Ai.OUl.OJO Total 041,640,400 *ir»,«6*,0U0 Bat this does not tell the whole story,' He is interested in barge lines on the Mississippi, in express companies, and is a heavy dealer in stocks like Lake Shore, Erie and Pacific Mail. He owns over $1,000,000 worth of real estate. His indirect influence, of course, is very great, and it is quite safe to credit him with controlling almost absolutely fully ene third of the railway system of the country. Btatistios of railroads constructed in the Northwest, embracing six companies, show that 2,081 milci of new track have have been laid in 1881 as against 1,478 miles in 1880. The Northern Pacific has added 333 miles and the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company 225 miles, making the total construction of that single system of 558 miles. Tho Chi cago, St. Panl, Minneapolis and Omaha has added 178 miles ; the Chicago and Northwestern, 89 miles ; the Iowa South western, 87 miles; the Chicago, Mil waukee aud St. Paul, 471 miles. The Southwest has not been behindhand. In 1865 there were only five lines of rail way in Texm; now there are twenty- eight linen in active operation, and 1,634 mile# of road have been cons true tea within Um year. Several of these roads are pointing into Mexico. New Orleans has now n connection with Um Pacific eoMt, though th# main linn bet Shreveport and New Orleans k not yet and Southwest have added 8,715 miles of Tn latent tot of New York gOMip concerning millionaire* k that young Mr. .Vstor, who ran (ov CongreM and failed to receive the Irish vote after having danced at a ball with a cigar- factory girl named Lixxie Lynch, owi his defert to the money and exertions ol Vanderbilt, this being the latter’s meth od of revenging himself for the uoo-sd- mittonoe of thn Vanderbilt family to the social rirckn in which the Aston move. As the original As tor traded six- blnded jack-knives to thn Indians for fnrs, and the original Vanderbilt scalled people acroM the East river for 5 cento, the claims of both families to a place among the aristocracy of this country seem to be equally slim. Tan Boston people have been severely snubbed of late. Wishing to borrow for .a “ fair ” the rebel flag that floated over Sumter during the war, and other “relics,” their application for it to its custodians, the Washington Infantry, of Charleston, ji O., was refused on the score &at “the display of the relics in Boston or anywhere else, North or Bontk, would be unbecoming; and Pres ident Arthur, having been invited to dinner by an association of Boston mer chants, has declined, lieoauae, even if it were practicable, it would be unbecom ing.” He has “no disposition now, while the country k still mourning tlv, death of the late President, to engage ia public fMttvitiea.” of rad P. Holliday, of to have a fli qpore durable, easier worked, sod sne- MpbbW to a higher polish than walnut In osier k k s sheds between light me- bognny and black walnut Copt Holli day writes that this rad gum grows oa the alluvial bottoms from Paducah, Ky., to New Orleans and also largely oo the bottoms of tribafory streams, lakes and bayous. It contains merchantable oak from three to five feet in diameter, and often grows fifty feet without a limb. In qaauUty it is simpler inexhaastibleu" Mb. Wars, the English ontler, recent ly died, leaving a fortune of nearly 11,600, OOP, aud it k believed that a large p ; u t of it he never would have Accumu lated but for the novel plan he hit upon for advertising. It was due to his own personal suggestion that the firm ol which he was a memlier embarked upon a continuous and enormous advertising aystem in the days when hansom cabs first came into use. He bought for a little money the right to display his ad vertisements on the splash boards of the cabs, and the name of Mappin A Webb for a long period was os familiar to tbe eyes of Londoner* os the two-wheelers themselves. Four or five hundred of them cabs, with tbe firm name upon ExruBT testimony split* finer bain in mam thaa here. M. Rivoira and kin wife, *~**“*g on the Rhone, were both drowned by the capsizing of their boat. Tbe woman wee wealthy and had made e will leaving ell to her husbend. Hie heirs applied eooordingly for possession of the property. The wife’s ralativM have begun a contest, and in th* oourt, where the cose hoe already come, tbe skillful and high-prioed expert sweers that, on examining the bodies of the drowned, he found evidence that the man had struggled violently when thrown into the stream, sad bed been asphyxiated almost instantly. The wife, on the other hand, sank to the bottom and undoubtedly outlived ber husband some momeuts, though in e state of an- oouscionsnesa. If the man died first the will is void. ~~ From India comes the report pub lished iq the Brilith Medical Journal, which is certainly good authority, of an alleged discovery of a remedy for ky- drophobia. The patient, a boy 5 years pld, had been bitten by a mad bulldog, and, to alleviate his sufferings, his phy sician, Dr. John Buxton, of the Army Medical Department, administered tiuct- tben* in faded letters, are still running. Th. Till*,, of W«( Fwmew, P., I <*. , T “ . - ___ hMbMn^lttodwHh.ptagoeol W •“'P™' 11 ** W •»<*• ’>«■! doorg. Smith, . (Mori (4 *» 4o«I mm advance summary of the qn-terly report of the Kansas Board|of Agricult ure announces that the total value of the twenty-two field crops raised ia 1881 k $91,910,489. or more than 80 per cent greater than in any previous year in the history of the State. Tbe two that con tribute the largest shore of this immense total era wheat and corn, the former making $21,706,275 end the latter $44,- $57,968. In prodnetian, average yields were not ao large oa in 1880, but the in creased price of form product* made the harvest to this year much more valuable. The report Mys: “ While it is tme that the long-continued dry weather and the armies to chinch bags did immense dam age to the crops to tbe State during 1881, yet there need be no immediate appre hension that the farmers are in want, when it is ascertained that the value to $122,450,406 ia divided among them this mow wMixwrjnrw cam*. Among the many carious thing* in the British Mueeam is a tablet to atone which k nearly 4(000 years old and which oontahst, as claimed by Mr. Two to its citizens keep some 180 hives, end, m bed weather made other food scarce, the interesting insects invaded tbs stores and houses in search to sweet*. Half e bushel to them swarmed in one man’s kitchen, of which they remained the teasels for a week. In that house, oo their account, all fruit canning and preserving had to be done at night, and for many fey* the family had to climb ask sad in tha windows, the bee* laying akge to the doom. In addition to this. after ten hoars’ sleep. These facts are apparently reported upon sufficient au thority to warrant careful investigation end experiment on the pert to medical A New Yobk court has decided that if a man breaks open s door under the be lief that there k e fire in the room, and it shall prove that there wee no putoie neoeeeity for hw doing so, he will be lia ble for dam Ages; but, if '-tor* is a pub lic MOMBitj in coder to prevent the fire aT ~ 1 * i How k man m to public Ml seritv through a be frequently eat I and records to important events into stones which formed their monuments and temples. The brickmakece at Ae- Kvffa, Persia and Egypt had their own marks indented into the clay with the corner of a burnt bock. A stylos, sherp at one end and blunt at I in tablets to soft wax. a kind to book by nkw . "