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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.
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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.
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