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Spool*' Roaueoti 1. Is writ! ■ t It tkfa i •Hrty* gh» jvt mum Mm on basnet* and Port cfflce 1 Boil mm Uilera and communic*- tloaa to ba published iboa Id be written on Mparale eheeU. and the object o’each olrarly indicated by necemry note when required. v • . 8. Artlolee for pnblieatioo rbould be written in a clear, legible hand, and on only one aide of the page. 4. All change* in adTortiaementa must reaqh na oj Friday. . NEWS GLEANINGS. The oat crop of Alabama ia immense. Nashville ia to hare electric lights soon. Texas is shipping cotton to San Fran cisco. Knoxville, Tenn., has a good public library. - Georgia hag seventy odd gold mills at work, one giving a monthly product of about 87.500. —— One thousand men are employed at the Cherokee iron works, 8t. Clair county, Ala. - * r Oolnmbns,Ga., has 30,000 inhabitants, and wants the government to build a a fine postoffice. In a population of about 1,000, Dar lington, 6. O., baa fifteen bar*rooms and no temperance organisation. Minueippi ranks first in the^nion sr a cotton crowing State, third in the Sooth aa to the entire product of her ■oil, Texas and Tennessee only out-rank ing her. Hke Sumac trade of Virginia ia in creasing. The Pumac manufacturer* ■ow have aa organisation with a presi deni and other officer*. The grinding of 8,000 tons of leaf Sumac is now the annual business, representing about 8880,108. TVs Alice blast furnace of Rirminf- ham, Ais . cleared 818/00 dariag tW swath of Jaaaary The iaeastmeat yielding a net income to i af 1144,007 per ana am la hi was la i dealer, which had s war. Sama of U tWhalaa A groat deal af •f baring Wea aiWwsd la alaad la tbn ram by iha plnatem after >1 * haled. The eatmds Inyase have Is be p(ched eff. aad every halt which hen fattea wot ham bom It to t» aoaada Ha tom of days after first No. —k*- VOL. V. NO. 29. BARNWELL C. H., 8. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1882.- $2 a Tear. a pasted by thi dram of the writer, an! aoensmilly ffif t|! Address, THE PEOPLX, l—. Barnwell a H., 8. O. TOPICS OF THE DAI. The President has approved the Anfi- Polygamy bill. ' Cohobess will probably not adjourn before the 1st of July. outrageous a figure the redistricting will out on the Congressional map. Congress has decided that the China- mai^oan be kicked oat. Ex-Senatob Oonkuno is to retire from poll ties for the present. — Jay Gould is tired of business annoy ances, and is thinking seriously of re tiring. ‘ _ . • __ a 1 ^ The President is said to look favorably upon the matter of pafdoning Sergeant Mason. - 4.. Now, then, if the President has no objection, the Chinese will quit discov ering aa. • The first snow blockade of the winter, in the Northwest, occurred on the 23d of March. t * Oitteac has refnsed 8350 for the suit qi clothes he wore when he shot the President. Amtuuu eat eral end Mrs. Grant at a grand < law days agu crop in Had Oscar Wilde come to this country in ordinary citixen’s clothes, there are very few people who would have ever heard of him. The secret of his fiso cial success has been in the extensive advertising lie received as a result of his outlandish way of dressing. His ideas, while they are pronounced "fair to good,” are not new, and decidedly corn- “Betty and the Babyconstitute Sergeant Mason^family, and in several eastern cities contribution boxes with theifi words upon them sre located in prominent thoroughfarea for the recep tion of nickels. Snob a box in the Baltimore American office received 456 nickels in one day. It seems that " Betty and the Baby ” will be taken care of, whatever may be the fate of the bad marksman. Exobbstve drink and malaria are said to be very similar in their effects upon i system in Washington, and a rbo does not have an oo- naainasl ettosk nf malaria ia looked upon ea a very fortunate person. If the Potomac flats are drained as a ——r rj abating malarial inflneooea. Jtotesmeo who gel sick from owe cause. and doctor fur the other, will have a delightful time explaining matters. — “ BILI/N BLOOMS. Mr. Arp Laments the Frost Nipping of His Peaehes. HE ALSO CONTINUES HIS LAMENTA TIONS AND TALKS WISES THAN USUAL —HE TELLS SOME OOOD STORIES, TOO, ABOUT JUDGE LOCHRANK, TEXAS RANGER AMD THE ^ INDEPENDENTS. [From the Atlanta Constitution.] Nipped in the bud. It looks like there is no security from anything, no second-hand orchard: we planted it and the blooms for three yean have looked so sweet and promising, and now this is the third year the fruit nas been killed. I suppose we could, have built little fires all abonL but who knows when to build’em f It ia poor comfort to build ’em when there ft no dancer. Reckon we will last have to keep the orchard for the flower*, like we oo a crab-apple. tree, for they an mighty pnttr. One of my neignbon livemn- der the western slope of a mountain and r killed. ) they will be tender with aa. There are a power of upa and downs in this world, and in politics they are moatly down*— especially down south. Bill Arp. - The Dake’a Death. "Kneel here by my aide, Lnrline,” and in obedienoo to the summons, a beautiful girl flung henelf in an aban don at grief near the bed on which lay the eighth Duke of Twcrity-second street, Rupert Rollingstone. Rupert was dying —dying away out on the West Side. A cola had developed into a qniok eon- .tied. The dreaded diaeaae had made known its pieseuce while Rupert was at the house of a friend on Lafliu "Too can not live mort than a ” the doctor had said "Bat my pried the aiok man, in an agony of fear; "they are on Twenty-aeoood street, and too poor to hue a carriage. How shall I — IfesmT" and he wrong bis hands in an ageny of despair. • • • • ’It can not be dona, my lass,” said The British SoMJer. . f Vv' , The British soldier always presents the appearance of scrupulous cleanliness. He is scoured, brushed and scrubbed beyond reproach. His hair ia enriched with pomatum pnd his shoes are radiantly ied. His little cap ia worn in a manner determined by oouaideratioos purely (esthetic. He carries a little cane in one band and a pair of white gloves in the other. He holds op his head and expands his cheat portentously, and bears himself generally like a parson who hss reason to invite rather than to A Vw. 11 I a in A ^ “v»uc v.ut* norcc iigiit moaern criviCiBBi. He is the darling of the appreciating housemaids of the West End, and on this ground considerable ill-feeling exists between him and his rival, "the be or policeman, Busan sometimes fa' the one, sometimes the other, and some- reliable. ' dicta!-both. On the thing. HUMORS OF THE MAT. A HALT loaf is bsttar Mm* A whole loafer. Never too lata to mend -A tool ton- dollar note. A —at. Mtate transfer—moving a cart load of dirt. A lover has all tha qnstitiss s hus band has aot. A pool and aa aooordeon ana both easily drawn out. Wuat is sanoe for the tar key is oran- for the dinner gneets. wants bat little Smw bsiovT,' «d“ that’s just about what ha gets. Bans cashiers are generally smart fal lows, bat they are frequently flighty. his fruit is never i He bad Crop to be 80 per that of aa Cadwv Ws it a "Mon*no, wboaa 10,000 live eaUraty on tha profit* of the geouog table*, ha* 184 pn«aU to look That msty fc itaa last year, bat the son don’t rise at hu house till it’s about two honra high, and that wouldn’t suit my fofcsat all. Well, it might suit the folks bat it wonlda’t •nit my hnstnem. It wnold be dinndt- time before breakfast. The MflsVnt meet everybody eaa have a few trees around the hones where they si* protected. W« can’t expect to have ell the good things ia oar place. My Irish lines were killed dawn the ether that hart sty im tile proed that I was ahead af Bet they will eaaM oat W some comfort left the last momenta of a dying bat I eaa not aoonmpliah iapnmihil * from Twenty sesond stoaat to the one, aometin JBafiawJMnMB. other hand, when on parade, the extreme perfection of his appointment* makas him look very well, mid anyone who aass ; parade for the Queen’s birthday eueral review at AidemboL will have no hesitation in saying to himself that them are the haixtooea. st troop* in the world. The long squadron* of cavalry and hone artillery ahintag and shifting, tha dragoon, human and Ovall shares, plow I da. They alwayi thing on i pey for it sight if bo will bwy any- mabealio.e.1 to i Orlena* Fton- "Iis scold the Um five , he firsrv “d VZ* 71 ■ killed a "Mr “J! LuiW had k—ithflh* dying maa. ha 04 4.K to her sad t|»k* ‘ Lurlia*, my qm»» • diM«ren> M ? , deriaag/ he eatd. "I am dying down for i**^**. f *rr*y? t * , &± “ —“ iy 1 “ • rr,rt - 1 L'wtesi-S at mha "I am hiena." ms "I haww H to am s That Is toe i ^ CsilNirMHffi V the Da T«* ewv wt'l make a teal < eietotog; ewmq IMre hadl^wwjjd at tola ^ ^ hey to toai af toa ■ Terhea- Ipmto M tha M«w Tmk i fito« that all torn to an la a i 4f} SfHS: hia Iwe ■mehomo,"he mya, "with r aoskae to the charm teg In thetf array hoeha, aad i t haon werth a fa* peaay hst to Alhea*, deer ia to the toads a wwrptag wtl- speeet cal from the Napstooa'a grave la from the so ted elf Oa Baaday sight ia the valley of the Tyiwa monataie, seer the dividiag line between North aad Bonth Carolina, Gram Mills weat to the honm of Jane Jackson, n rival for the attentions of a young farmer of the neighborhood, and called her out ia the road. The next morning the body of the latter was found, and indication, showed that a desperate 8ght had taken place, in which one had lost her life. It is supposed that •be was struck on the hesd by a male smistsnt of her rival, who is unknown.' Tarnish sa the Cksrch Pews. Tbe seats had been newly varnished, and, somehow, the varnish was not right, as H was terrible sticky. Ton know when you poll anything off of sticky varnish it cracks. Well, the au- dience had all got seated, when the min ister got op to, give oat the hymn, and as the basement of his trousers let loose of the varnish of hia chair there was a noise like killing a fly on the wall with a palm-leaf fan. The minister looked around at the chaff to see if he was all present, and that no guilty man’s pants had escaped, and read the hymn. The choir ram with a sound to revelry, and after the tenor had swallowed a lozenge, a piece of hemmed and the soprano had shook out her polonaise to am if the varnish showed on the south ride, tha audience began to rise. One or two deacons got up first, with soonds like picket firing in tne distance on the eve to battle, and then a few imcw got op, and the rattling to the un- yialding varnish sounded as though the fight was becoming more animated, and u.'-n tha whole at onee with a eoand to and the bam had coughed np i frog, and the alto had hen Ja*»totoe Mas Coast Thm with a eaa to lha kaeartog^m^^v^abm^anjMHa^ towed htos htofosad am " Btofisa i •tol year mi toea hs msafid h mmmhsag etoo, for hs i toaitopv It tomwi i Mbs them am * Itoi to ton! stoatoea hsawssw at^BM a eart to imasy of Beam i foe ihem fc a* other aa* to a. In mi ia y 1 to Igjfcjrft to Md • atone initon to a 1% saww. thadashog toteto toe l*a* and the Mato al Mfcam. bat M Iwa —w ^adTSm imlm ^ m * md > a power to «m ST stoBtod from tfto >wfll u a Tee New York Smn says Hulliran ha* brought the prim hag into thsrrpule. Good! Will somebody now met a momument to Built van f Hia act should b* ennobled. Fathionablb swells in the East now wear but on* ejie-glasa, aa do the snobs to London. Well, we are glad the idea to wearing eji-glnssos fc at least hall discarded, anyhow. permit Point Whittaker’s ultiuiaUi aim is to be come an officer in the army, whether Ued to finish his course at West oF not Ha will apply for the position of Second Lieutenant. The War Department has provided for issuing 600,000 rations fos the suffer ers from the Mississippi overflow. Aid can not come too soon to the distressed people of that desolated valley. The House Appropriation Committee cut the tail off of the roetoffice appro priation bill—the franking privilege— and it ia tipw a question whether it will get back on again. The members of the House most feel pretty bad about it - The remarkable feature of Nioodemus, a negro colony to 367 families, in Gra ham County, Kansas, is the entire ab sence to money. There are churches, school-houses, and stores, but Ihe trad ing has to be done by bartering the pro duce to the forma. Tee LoofovtUe Ocmrier-Jommai says 'Van Ohio man died after drinking a glam * We ate glad to know ha didn’t die before drinking the water, bto ia the latter earn he'd foOed to oat Ikw traditinaal Ohio will parpoae aad bwild a great wall i upon which s-nfrim may be placed. Ten Sanitary Engineer my* the dan ger that a midwife may carry contagion* diaeam from (me bedside to another waa the subject recently to some remarks by a physician to the Cleveland Board to Health. He stated that recently, in his practice, a German wife had conveyed puerperal fever to three patients, all to whom had died. The physicist had cautioned the women when she was at tending Ihe original caae of the fever, telling her she might be the means to conveying it to others, but his word was disregarded, and three lives, he believes, sacrified in consequence. The Board of Health were sufficiently impressed by the statement to instruct the Health officer to cause her arrest under a l.iw governing the conveyance of contagious OiMSMS. s than half a emp to I’iStacrJSLr- Mafr.wi«h tom (tofihlae bstosi fc a | Mfc fcpnfaafi upaa to* Im*. _ real rami afctolhy apea aa Falittoe as a mighty nunaao and tefcaa aa a right el room to the MwsMtona Ml whoaye«compareU wtfhfoma^Mall • mrter Hto a moaksy rimw that fc CK doing like Stewart's Texaa Baa gar, wfot went to are an amateur music* * trmanos la Roam one night during war. He wae a six feel nod two inch* an umbrella sod boots and spurs that jingled like t a couple of navy pistols to mt off hia beard, and he paid bis half a doRkr and looks stand behind an empty bench in the tear, and looked on with a lofty con tempt, and whenever the performers closed a piece and the cheering began the ranger rattled the bench most alarm t, the lowly i Sun. ard a hat like BrttU Hl<k lift. up until ne monopol had it all t^himselL These premature oWlfatatm for governor, and so forth, reminded pie of Judge Lochrane’q story of the Irishman who thought he had a fast horse, and so he pnt hint in the races snd bet on him. He ran pretty well, but seemed to run better behind than before, and the Irishman clapped his hands with delight and exclaimed, " Faith and St, Patrick, just look how he drives ’em.” But its all right. I’m glad to see the independents waking np. Its all for the good of the people and will keep the old democracy on its good behavior. There’s nothing like * sentinels on the watch towers. Some times the party goes too fast, and these independents act like a balance wheel, a tor, a brake—sorter like Tinny Rucker’s yearling, for they say when Tinny was a boy he tried for an hoar to drive a yearling •nt of the pasture, and finally he got him by the b run aitd ran abd bellowed and ran on somebody hollowed to him and aaid " Ton can’t hold that yearling, Tinny; what are you trying to do “ I know I can’t hold him.” aaid Tinny, "bat I The "rush for Texas” to a year ago nas now merged itself into a "rush fat Dakota. ” This ia doubtless owning to climatic influences. The incessant warm temperature,to the Lone Star State un fits its water for drinking purposes a moat important item to be considered by K the immigrant—while the soil is not un- iversally good farming land by a long •hot It ia, in point to fact, a Krasina country. On the other hand the to Dakota ia cool—decidedly eool nan- ally—hut the winter just past it ha* bees unusually mild to that aeotioo to the ““ 7T “'Y&XS‘: tavern to he came, and what hia bosuMea, none could guees. Directly opposite the tavern stood the small cottage and forge to a blacksmith named Folsom. He had a daughter who was the beauty to the village, and it was her fortune to captivate the heart to the young stranger. He told hia love, ■aid he was traveling incog.; but, in con fidence, gave her his reel name, saying that he was heir to a large fortune. She returned hi* love, and they were married a few weeks after. The stranger told hia wife that he must visit New Orleans. He did so, and the goasipe to the town made the young wife unhappy by dis agreeable hints and ieera. In a few months the husband returned; but before a week had elapsed be received a large budget to letters, and told his wife that he must at once return to England, and go alone. He took his departure, gossips had another glorious op- ,y to make a confiding woman To all bnt herself it was a dear case to desertion. The wife be came a mother, and for two yean lived riu in silence and hope. By the end to that time a letter was received by the Stratford beauty from her hpsbend, directing her to go atofioeto New York with her child, taking nothing with her iothee she wore, end embark in but the clothes a ship for home in rival to New York splendidly i and two ■arrant* ready to On ’■r- with —rytofi to • rtf • i If tea to*y«ar lltf JL C. II wea **V»- minor yjm to Mm 1 and unlikely. He atndied the tione to the he end finally, after many long journeying*, he retained to Sparta. Dtatog hfc ab> •earn affairs had become (Reordered in Sparta, and on hia arrival almost the en tire community requested him to draw up a constitution for them, to which he consented. Then he induced them to solemnly swear that they would make no change in the laws till he came back, and he left Sparta, and it waa never known Exactly whither he went or where be died. By hia departure and failure to return he had hoped to make the Spartan Conatitation eternal: and the people saw he waa a god, ana worshipped him. Probably such a person as Lycnrgtu ex isted, who, at some remote time and critical juncture in Spartan affairs, may have been selected, perhaps, on account to his wisdom and reputation, to prepare m code to laws for the better govern ment to the State. It pan not be im agined that the entire legislation to Sparta waa first invented by Lycurgus and imposed upon tha people all at once; it is reasonable to suppose, how ever, that he collected, modified, and en larged the previously existing institu tions to Sparta. It Is related ’ by Plu tarch that Lycurgus " commanded that all gold and rilver coin should be called in, and that only a sort to money made to iron should be current, a great weight aad quantity to which waa' to ' little worth; so that to lay np twenty thirty boonde .there waa required ent names to tl tray a Europea foreafi; mutton; ooti, toe kw, for beef. Tt human broth, aad een inches long, with four oal are atill in existence. A berry,' bling a tomato la shape the special and proper eaten with "long pig.” chieftains lately said he aee a woman who would not eat bar I ■hare, and declared that waa ever ao much batter than ] "Long pig”' puddings. When a ing tribe visited another, r—’■ m at the latter would make a mid among hia nnew>i** ( and bring back woman 4 to make a feast for hia viattom. and i were aerved ati eighty people to these feasts. Formerly, bnetted, they aaid, “May somebody." Now they yon,” or to persons they. waa eon verted to Christianity, these had devoured forty-three fellows. > * ^