The people. (Barnwell C.H., S.C.) 1877-1884, February 23, 1882, Image 1
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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.
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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
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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
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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 . "