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1. la *rttla« la feta afoBfi fir* roar awl INm • 1 Bafewn lata aw aad oawtaaalm- ttaaa to W pabHahed »boo Id ba vritUa oa woanta ahaata, aad iba ohjact of aach eJtarly Indicated byDeoeaaaij not# vhfa ra^nlrad. *. Ariiclaa for publication ahonld be written in a clear, legible hand, and on . only one aide of the page. 4. All change* ie advert aemenia nauit reai k u. o» F. iday. NEWS GLEANINGS. handle Dalton, Oa., baa the only ax factpry in the South. " A $60,000 statue of John 0. Calhoun, will soon be erected at Chaileston, S. C. A thens ie the only city of its size in Georgia that docs not have a free school system. The oyster beds on Indian river, Fla., are said to be inexhaustible, and a can ning establishment is in prospect. The wages of street car employes on Tn auction sale of Wolfe’a collection of paintings in New York the past week - the New Orleans city railway have been fnetted $131,865. reduced from $88 to $35 per month. A suit over an old sow was settled at Luling, Texas, last week in favor of the. defendant. The ooeta were $547.‘80. William Smith, of North Carolina has sold his tobacco crop in Lynchburg, Va., for $50,000. Three hundred dollars worth of snuf) was sold by a Cuthbert, < Oa., house the other day. Atlanta and Chicago parties have or ganised a fertiliser company, the manu factory to be situated at Naahvllle. A shark was caught near Tampa, Fla., he 100 pounds D had, when caught, mvea rows of CbL Pratt, of fes Ptlatka, Florida, Herald, says that alligator oil beats lard all hollow, aad that alligator steaks boat ths frags of Paris. art ursr half a milttoa laad ia Fsltaa ooaaty, Oa, ths eoaaty la which A lias ts Is ritaalrd, valued at saly sight easts as sera Atlanta OaasSftataoa Ffti THE OraUaet advi days altar Ant wtas stipwlatad. Ho i wtt hi i VOL. V. NO. 31. BARNWELL C. H., S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1882. $2 a Year. dram of ths writer, pbiicariga, hat as a Addme, THBPBOPLl» Bamwall 0. EL, ft TOPICM OF THE DAT. ’ ZuiitrLAKD ia Buffering the ravages of a famine. Pantci Bisuabck is having decidedly poor health. WuaiiTHY Mormons of twelve wives each. have an average Jzan James was killed sure enough this time, and there is no doubt about it. Sowwa of spring wheat will occur about three weeks earlier than usual In Minneaoth an I "Dakota this year. Stwax MAJjONUt and James Wceflen, Pittsburg pugilists, will fight Jone 13, ia Wast Virginia, for a pnrse of $1,000. Thb liquor tax bill, in Ohio, gave the Democrats a boom pretty much all over the State in the late municipal i Tna statement that ths Chinaman sowld "be kieksd out aoene to be a taka Thr f^inan— is a hsftisr talln ooaatry It is surmise 1 that Frank James will attompt to arangu his bruthsr Jesse's murdsr Ths Pued brothers, who killed Janes, espress no faar at pwauoal tajaryT reply that some six years ago he and I agreed to be each other's biographers, and from that time to this have xept the Intention In view. Ths materials are abundant, particularly the family letters, all of whioh hare been put at thy dis posal” Tint resignation of State Senator Bar rett, of Tennessee, has created much talk, as his resignation will very oon8i<l- , erably change the oomplexion of ths Senate in the event a proposition to settle the State debt is submitted. The bill to settle the debt at 10Q-3.waepaaaodiy the Senate at the regular session by a bare majority, Barrett being one out of the thirteen who voted for it Et-Got«*ho* Staxtoid, of Cali fornia, says that ultimately the entire output of California grain for Europe and the Atlantic coast will go over the Southern Pacific Railroad. Ships whioh will take the grain from New Orleans to Europe will be fitted to carry back emi grants to New Orleans at a very low rate. Ha says that the popular table wince of California are better than the ordinary poor stuff of Franca, Germany and Italy. A LtPT writes from Bouton relating e httla episode that happened when Oscar Wilde drove out to Cambridge to caH on Longfellow, ftscer seked kite if not a gruel admirer af fellow rvpUed that be liked fee very lew “BY THB »EA, BEFT. 19, ISSl.” »t use raASOBs bodosos annum*. - Wstsbman! what of tba oi(ht T The sky Is dsrk, way frlsnd, , And ws In hssvy grief avail ths end. A light Is burning tn s sllsnt room, But we -ws hsve no light In all the gloom. Watchman! what of ths night? Friend, strong man watch ths light With ths strings mist of tsars before their sight, And womsn st each hearthstone sob sad pray That ths great darknssa sod at last in day. Watchman 1 how goas ths night? Wearily, friends, for him, Tat his heart quails not, though ths light burn dim. As brarsly as ba fought ths field of Ufa, urs aimi "" ‘ ‘ Hs bears 1 utelf In ths final strife. Wsichaasl what of ths Bight ? Friends, ws are lift no word To tell of ell ths Uttar sorrow attrrsd In our sad souls. Ws stand sad rvU at fete Who leaves bends amply and |sarta desolate. “ Are pare, greet souls so many in ths land That ws should kws ths ohnssa of the bend ?" Wswryl Uni fcswtmsuffers lies, Usstieg sharp-weaponed pale with steadfast ayes And mskaa ao ■all drswsH while oa the threshold death tki gUttsrtag a plaint w his ksea fthftfeill Sad looking Inward peeese Hngstlng Far taring himself ths weak before the Ie tsars, my friend, ami pewles — Of his Ugh ireth and gmsmee. trwstlag wave; Of hla warm love sad tn) 1 haws sad MB WhMh paaasd ttfWS Area trss hem eB kUght as waa not at all like the d»nnh$-Tuiatreaa wboni, from the doacnptioa given by the friends who had recommended him to apply to her, he had expected to see. Bat she evidently knew how to dance, and she waa very handsome and lady- like; and fee young man found a new kind df pleasure in returning to take hla second lesson. “ Mademoiselle," said ha, aa ha stopped to rest and sat down on a stiff- backed chair, "shall I be perfect by Wednesday ?” In his French way, ao entirely desti tute of shyness, be had told her all about the important event which was to come off on feat Wednesday, bad ex plained how anxious he waa to see his future wife, and how graceful and chamumts aha waa—she must be " feat angel of a demoUelU." But all this had taken place at fee first lesson, and for seme reason Monsieur le Vioomte on this occasion had said much leas of the forthcoming event. " Assuredly, monsieur, mademoiselle shall have no reason to complain. Bnt you are no doubt consumed wife anxiety to sew her r "Ah, am I notr replied fee Vi- com to, wife a French ejaculation. "Bnt mademoiselle herself is entirely charm- He was an indulgent aether, and ah* had been allowed much more liberty than French girls generally enjoy be fore mahiage. Possibly, therefore, she was not quite no resigned to her fate as those around her supposed; but she gave no sign of discontent, and perhaps was waiting to see her future husband before she decided to oppose her father's wishes. More probably she looked am fee union as a matter of coarse. Mademoiselle de la Penthiere bowed low in answer to fee Vioomte’s reveren tial salutation; but, with fee modesty of a young French girl, she shaded her e man bis eyes wife her large orient al fan, ao feat in fee gathering dusk he could not at once determine what she waa like, save that she was elegant, graceful and very beautifully dressed. After a few phrases of cordial court esy, the Marquis glided from fee room —a proceeding not at all in aceonlanee with strict French etiquette—aad fee two were left together. Then the Vicotate knew feat hla time was coma. It might he feat hs would not aee bar alone again until thair mar riage ; and he had^omiaed "her” feat she should be told of hie recent Ha draw ODD MBAffft. Gxxixxn wood should cold tea. Soon milk removes b white goods. Tax purs bstudae to from hair-cloth furniture. The free use of lemon Woe i will always relieve » ooogn. Cbxam of tartar rubbed Upon SO white kid gloves clean them weu. Oox hot bread or sake wife • knife, and it will net be deanmy. Moths will eat fee all-wool i not the mixed silk and cotton i ing. Oamfhou placed in drawers or trunks will prevent mice from doing them any injury. Cnunos feat have bean Slacked by * kerosene lamp should be washed off wife soda water. Bieolu cream Ie cream feat has stood no tbs milk twelve hcuiu. It Is bast lor tea and soften. I* notunu egge put feane tebeOteg star It will prevent fes yoke bean Paid well. Tesea, Raftwtor lady living eo Dry creek last a lag fee lent storm. After search hack of 11 N Smith's pleats la fee fork of a tree, euppoard to haw blown there. A man, Jake Brooks by name, living near Argus, Crvuahaw county, Ala. itka ago made two hand putting his household goods le one and his three chiWrvn in the other, and took a trip to Florida and returned lately, he pulling the chattels and his wife the children. The bones of a woman and baby have just been fnnnd in an old shaft near Villa Rica, Oa. They are supposed to be thooe of a young lady who, seventeen yean ago, having committed a social indiscretion, disappeared and was never afterwards heard from. Mr. A. W. Martin of Milledgeville, Qa., was seventy two year* of age on the 12th ulti, and never had a lawsuit, was never a witness in court and never rerved on a'jury but twice, never learned to play at cards, and has not taken a drink of liquor in fifty years. Rome Courier: The guqno trade has been almost entirely abandonded by our merchants. They find it does not in the sequel prove profitable to themselves nor to the farmers. There is not one-half as much sold this season as was the last Farmers are learning to depend more on their own resources for fertilixera than upon bought stuffs# A thkateical man at Chicago thought ft would be smart to make a mend who slept with him believe feat the smart man had smallpox. So he got up in the night, and wife a tag* paint he painted his face wife smaDyox poatniea, and went to steep. The tenoosoi man woke up te fee moeaiag end looked at hie and him brake out, he it out ftakty an3 antlAul fee health * had of (ram New a pour ruaef sap and puor sogur. AThosee syrup tram Canterbury retails ia Ouaanrt 'at f 1 33 a gal loo and Hillsboro sugar at thirty <v cte a pound. Fusee Hatfoe, First Assistant Post- General, writes fes Postmaster at Cincinnati that postal clerks and other employes may accept monkupel offices, unleee such offices interfere wife the official discharge of their duties in fee pottofiloe. It should be generally known that Sarah Bernhard i now has a bona Mr husband, " a Greek gentleman, tolerably rich, and good looking.” If Sarah can master her blood-spitting proclivity she will keep right on playing jost as if nothing unusual had happened. . s A woman living in a suburb of Lead- villa a few days ago, gave birth to E monstrosity wife a head resembling a lizard and hands like fins. It gives out an articulate sound. Tho father hid to It bids fair to live. The fact of the matter is, "Betty and fee baby” are going to be rich. All fee prominent newspaper offices in the conn- try are collecting a fund for fee Ser geant’s family, and among them is fee Philadelphia Prest, whose fund alone now amounts to $2,200. If Msaon should happen to get oat be may proceed to en joy life in the most approved style. The site on which St. Xavier’s Church waa located, on SycaoMW afreet, Oin- einnati. teems to be a fated one. When fee old structure waa being tom down, yean ago. to give place to fee a wail tell, crushing a Awes work- to death under it Ike aev which burned a few days sgr.. and fix tarse, srtw valued The story sirculatm that Rev. Henry Ward BeeokmaaateaApiatoajutitfef from fee pastorals of Plymouth Ohimh, aad permanently from fee ministry, on the completion ot his seventieth birthday, which will be June 24, next year. This is not because he ie in foil physical and mental vigor—hit admirers ray hit pres ent sermons are among the best he has ever preached—but because, aa ia re ported, he ia unwilling to ran any risk of intellectual decline in the pulpit, of which he seems to have a dread. His father, Rev. Lyman Beecher, lived to be more than eighty-seven, but had not preached regularly for s number of years previous to his death. During August of last year, at the time the Cincinnati Commercial waa be held to prevent his killing the child, managing the " Cook One Cent Fund ” ai his cards he bm, and which ha ahonld tacitly or ex preraly lag aside. Bnt of his many invitatiowa one had wn accepted beforehand, and, in fast, the cause of his visit to England. He was wigagri to be Banted, and had come over to be engaged to his /Umcea —Literal^ to be introduced to her, tor they baft manor aak Their families had, in French fashion, made up fee match, and fee two persons whom English people would have considered moat in terested had never come together at all This waa Monday. On Wednesday week there was to be a state dinner at fee French Embassy, followed bv s ball, for the purpose of introducing Monsieur to aid Capt. Cook in paying a fine assessed him for slapping a man who " wished Garfield would die,” that paper received the following, which, at this time, seems of peculiar interest: "Kansas Orrr, Mo., August IS, 183L “To the Editor of the Commercial: *• Although SotMiad sod daspised. end feared bv a good many, and only $30,000 of a reward offered for at, dead pr otherwise, and for all of ire honor an the above we 1 and respect our Pmktoat, and etand ready not only to alap, but to (boot, if it need be, for him. lorry it ia not dollars instead of eeota that ia rolhng in to the honor able aad patriotic old Captain Cook. Fsaeb aeh'Jsssb JaMaa. t‘t Awful Outlaws. ism oopy it all for Mlaaoen’s Governor'* I hare not asea his asass in roar paper star Alphonse to fee daughter of de la Penthiere, French Ambassador ai St James’. A little ot English preju dice had been allowed to creep in, in deference to whioh fee Vioomte had re ceived a private invitation to tea on the same afternoon, nntil whioh time, owing to her absence on a visit in Shropshire, the young lady would be invisible. In'" one more week from that date they were to be married—a queer arrangement to the English minds, bnt to fee two famil ies, and indeed to the two persons who in English eyes would have been consid ered victims to it, the most natural state of things in the world. Oddly enough, the Vioomte could not ——iir c , dance the newest waltz which was then the rage in London. New descriptions of that dance succeeded one another ao quickly feat tn these days it ia easy ter a sailor, French by birth and faahiooa- bte by station though he be, (rum fee semes of his country and find htiraslf still "at ess” on the well waxed a > ^llnvac • terete a state <jI occurred to him. I will not You hava insulted ms, bat I will not exact such a punishment. Hear ms On one condition I will locgive MU" r~j — " Whatever it be, I will win year par don." * "I take you at your word. You will, before yon marry—nay, at your first meeting wife Mile, de la Penthiere— tell her of your recent misconduct You have wronged her as mnch as myself.” " I have promised. Mile. Adrienne,” he cried, with a groan. " But what of you?" - “Of me?” said she proudly, bowing low. “I pardon you. Adieu, Monsieur! ’ And, before the young man could again interpose, she disappeared, fee door closed behind her, and he was left alone in the unfurnished talon. “ Well, I am a fool 1” he soliloquized, as he picked hia way ferongh Golden Square and Beak street “I’d have married her, though what madame my mother would have said I don't know, and, as to Mademoiselle de la Penthiere, how I shall tell her I don’t know. Bnt I’ve promiaed, and fee Oarmignola keep thair word,” he added wife a groan, aa he remembered how a few minutes ear lier ha had offered to break hia most ■clean engagement Even at fee French Embassy, feat stately building which, flanking tbs Albert Gate, induces country eouau tak what it la, a great ball ia heralded by some slight bat pneeftihU P«P^- >—- - 1 —— -■ • — aptl sad c4 all who are look after nervesre pe lt Is a great mistake to have large quantities of trait, biscuits, etc., lying about s sick-room. A very few grapes, an crangs peeled and divided, and two or ferae tulk or water biscuits are quite enough to have displayed at one time. The same may be said of food. I have often been pained, when visit ing some of my sick pensioners, to aee their friends, with well-meant but mis taken kindness, bring large basmfuls of horrible compounds, which they dignify wife the name of gruel, or ugo, or tap* iociL as fee ease mar "be. The mere sight oi fee food seemed to set them against it Whereas* if a little care had been bestowed mxto its prep aration, and a small cupful provided in stead of fee large quantity I name, they probably would nave partaken of it wife pleasure. Another error, committed wife fee beet of intentions, is to keep asking fee patients w hat they would like, if they could take t^us thing or the other. The sickened, wearied expression I have often seen flit over fee faces of people who are recovering irtan a lingering tllnem, when their officious relatives come teas ing them as to their requirements { 1 >unng the lingering illneea of m dear relativeTl verily believe we made her often eat, just by providing dainty mcr- lood. ■els of arranged, and tide quite anything, 1 feel I don't pries. of greatflfreM MbrtngsagnMl them to are vsry rare jnwww The raby baa bare owaafully imitated in Baste, I back*!'by a raby lad an with. The BxmaUr raby of Hold, set ia fee middle of a ftw a pwndaat, which i after bis turned oat to be fate ia not ao valaable whre ths ruby, bat s fins ate Tbs tergsat < spoon Belter,” to esi ths oooupetion of ths finder in Its weignt is 182 1-16 sold to s French jeweler lor Lady Burdett Coutte, of one of fee finest sapphires. It BM merly one of the crown jewels of The emerald ia eo rarely per* “ an emerald without a flaw" ha into a proverb, and fine \rorth from one hundred to dollars a carat. In fee middle value was four times emerald known is the was purchased by fee Duka of shirs for Don Pedro. It is not cut, and is two inches in diameter, ounces, eighteen pan turquoise is found in BOppotodfe sion all fee finest gems, as ^ only those of inferior quality to fee country. In enneeqbeitfn, turquoise of good quality sad flat era extremely rare aad faring prices. The opal is but the absurd traced "Anne of Qtertaeia," ia Hsratcane of The carat, in fee miooie ages ore i enormous, Oellini patting it a* 9s fee diamond. The largest mown is fee Devonshire, wfisft v; .m