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L la whiag «• i faar rm rn Ut'«r* tnd to b* p«b)Vto*d >KouUl ba writtoa T tto abacU. and Um objact of nach J lodieatad by naonaary not# «b«a ra^abad. *• ArUcla* for pnbllaation aboald ba wriitaa in a c'aar, lofibla hand, and on only ooa aide 0/ the page. 4. All ehangaa in adrarVataienU auat raackat on Fiiday. NEWS GLEANINGS. THE -V \ VOL. V. NO. Si BARNWELL, <jkr:H., S. C., THURSDAY. MAY 4,1882. $2 a Year.*' TOPICS OF THE OAT. The average life of the buffalo gnat ia raid to be about fifteen days. , » Steel works to cost $400,000 are to be erected in Batesville, Ark., during this year. One man will ship 9,000 cords of tan- bark from the vicinity of Chattanooga this season. Mrs. L. Q. Coburn, a lady of San Aatonio, Tex., has 40,000 silk worms at work in her yard. Thera are 990 convict at present in the Worth Carolina penitentiary, 128 of whom are white and 862 are colored. An orange tree in Orange county, Fla. measures six feet four inches in cir cumference three feet from the ground. A n Atlanta merchantman one-fourth •f the corn coming into Georgia from the West ia in a damaged condition. The old Tail shams gas-works were t week for $A0. They were Tn elongated Oscar W. Tide made $25,000 out of his lectures. * has time-honored principle ad educating men only must be maintained. That lets ths women out Thb asssuranoe has gone out that there will be plenty of peaches in Southern Indiana. Governor Crittknden, of Missouri, is of the opinion that Frank James in dead. We feel pretty sura that the Governor hopes he is, at all events. King Theebaw caused fifty-four persons. It that this will last him for some time. F.noljLnd made a great fuse about the “farce at Washington**5—referring to thi tedious trial of Guiteau—and advised thin nation to make short work of the that assassin. Singular indeed is it, right on the heels of this farce one Maclean shoots at the crown head of that country and is acquitted on the ground insanity. Now, it is a question appetite, whether Maclean is as enmy as Guiteau, the butchery of is to be hoped law, Preoideni We sm perfmtly wiling te con- oada that a liberal compensation ihonld be al lowed the pbyiioiaui and surgeone, a oompenaa- tion in exoeaa even of what it waa poaaible for any of those medical attendants to have earned in their ordinary practice daring that time, lint the iuom recommended to he paid by the majority of the committee are exceative. We are of opinion there waa no extraordinary med ical (kill exhibited ia the treatment of the ease, and nothing calling for an extraordinary al lowance for professional aerviera, bnt while willing to be liberal we coold not consent to the manner of payment recommended, nor to the extravagance and wanton lavuhmont of the public lands. 1 There ere a greet many private citi- zeus who hold about that same view. an (Fit is self-evident that Guiteau knew he was committing a crime against the Coxouas is endeavoring to regulate oleomargarine. It is to be sincerely hoped that it will succeed to that degree that lb# honest butter-maker may be pro- towrt: —^ " BxwaToa Ifxxowm, the Virginia Read- joe tor, readjusted hia family affairs the other day by presenting hie wife with e eet of diamonds valued at $40,000. is no repudiation about Col. R. G. Ingkrsoll has been reply ing, in New York, to Talmage'a assaults and at his lecture Sunday night, speafT Railroad Feclablllty. “Speaking about tbe sociability of railroiul travelers, H said the man with the crutches and watch poe$et over hit eye, pever no well* acquainted with the paaasngen on a train, as I did ths other day on the Milwaukee and St „ _j oth' ing of his defeat for the niinoia Govern- Paul -Railroad. We were going at the crahip, he said: 0 n£sa waa defeated for I waa aa InAM. a Now ru I all voa. They ashed me whether I an in&det, sad I taid I waTT I waa de rate of about thirty miles as hour, and another train from the other direction We were all thrown into other’s society, sad brought into immediate eoeial contact, so to speak. I went over and eat in tbe lap of e •4 Ship Island and Vicksburg railroad# have bora aoM to R. T. Wilm A CV, of New York, for $400,000 > valued el940,wn. mere 1 My nmohood aad let an corpulent lady from Manitoba, and a ma| in about that odten. If everybody w-re aa frank a« 1 was. I girl from Chicago jumped over nine for* seme maa r^d be j ..-eta aad ant down on the plug hat of • and Forestry Statlsttem In acme cantons of Switneriand there is a law forbidding the destruction of a tree without planting another to take its place. This law is an outgrowth of necessity. It has been scientifically demonstrated that the increase in violent storms, inundations, and landslides in Switzerland, scattering death and de-- x true lion on all sides, u due to deforest ing the mountains. Gradually the timber has disappeared uutil little remains, except on the high slopes of the mountains, and that little is of inferior size and quality. Unless i)u- i-nx-t-mi ix nrre-t. <l, the mountains of Switzerland will present as bald an ap pearance as those Alps which divide France from Italy; and nothing more desolate and dreary outside tbe steppes of Asia, or the desert of Africa, presents itself to the eve of the traveler. compared with the area of the United States, is but a speck, but if we h^e more acreage and wider stretches of timbered consuming them mere A gtsn<w* at the series of forestry bulle tins issued by the Census Bureau easat to alarm oos for the future timber cd the Doited States. The show the original extant of forest leads ended by the ramrcsalres ax ei Take of of ths " ■ - Silos aad Ensilage. Tbe new system of preserving and feeding ensilage is one of snob simplicity that doubting minds are incredulous as to possible results. If the building of a »ilo and the subsequent process of filling with ensilage wore some wonderful secret, or perhaps a new discovery pro tected by a series of patents—if the use of the system were permitted only under tbe payment of .heavy royalties—there is a class of skeptical minds who fatten ou uncertain quantities, and who have but little faith in any practice which is within the reach of persons of ordinary intelligence and common sense. It is difficult for many minds to realize tbe facts claimed lor ensilage, or to explain to themselves why such result* should ■ be seeured by processes so simple and by apportions so economical. Yet proof ! —absolute demonstration—is within the 1 reach of every inquiring mind, or of Tn Christians of Egypt burnt instead of oil in their lamps, in ths third century. Thx first admiral of England was Richard de Loot, appointed by Hanxy UL in 1228. It was not till after the ninth century that copyists began to leave spaces be tween words in writing. Tn revenues of the 190 abbeys which were dissolved at the Reformation amounted to over £2,000,000. Oauocba, not satisfied ships of gems, had a pea favonte bone. covered with dot the manufacture < be encouraged. Acoobdeto to if* •toy ere serum atotssg mee—I ef 'here ese bustd- ret hum $1SSS «u $4.SSS •U FwitoliSne says taut she tetd him ohs ied that the uf tbe ^usrd a taw fsabeknng treupwe «w by etate etoaiaea, mab- ns teakte to tbe asm «4 •■renA $t oim We 'Fhva* tbe Iwu abe teOs tbe tuns i beu*uau Knsrss e — A Mate Ivy st Ml Chuul ve .re ebbs MSS • • id to s bss m iMIMi A eutauebu • sntb. Mu Cb^ ' In by *t to bu aa Ini mf ~ Us i Me saMuamsd 1 I bur ure tetos sa af eeeul 4aye eg* tosu* reuw Thu suae Tee Jtoe F to e ieto et It to sn bw fitoy i Ware >lle u Ml btai Rear fwubaeS On, Lrea twu tedwa •tea toss* tbe war. toirtedt n lav tag reto •efl etaut**. Thee >‘f ■ny tmitry nren The ^eiSaree he to. Oeuid to tone geul teyub.! i tost is white toe toller date* The li ton iu eta ere here been ue- tibed tbet Ibey cunset tesrk tbe it ab- Mm. At a meetiagof tbe AppleOrevt Orssg* tbe foltewiag anoug otbsr sae- pbatta ranlsttaae were adopted Re- nlved. that a eesmUtee be appdatod who will prewot to said parlies a copy af then reaolsUosa/aad respectfully re queet there Momou elders who are is- trading themselves and their vieieus aad devilish doctrine* upon this com munity to desist from so doing, and further, to leave this community im mediately. never to return. Carrollton (Ga.) Times: “Mr. John R. Handley, living near here, has a re markable razor with a remarkable his tory. It is made like the ordinary rab- tler razor, the thick part of the back be ing solid gold, so pronounced by silver smiths. He has beeu offered $25 for it, as it is thought thst the gold upon it would amount to fully that much,, the party making the offer proposing to re turn tlic razor as before minus the gold. Mr. Handley, who waa present at the surrender of Gen. Steneman near Macon, found this remarkable razor in 'the road, whore Geu. Stoneman had passed, just after the surrender, and it is thought by some that the razor was the property of the Federal General. If aa, gued i i OuMuua, op to M M.wa. I of S I ba to | •vidautly worth $1,800 lor a ltd probably r or twu of the ; is no doubt but that ths paopia tos want Chin are iauui- In voicing this aenti- Bulletvx says : Hrofoxnta customers: “Yes," said a lady customer, ” these mu very pretty; but haven’t you something more ex pensive f The gentlemanly clerk took mant, the San Franciaoo Tbe reto m s oniqt Rtste paper*. It reeirree *11 iu Underuses for Lbe Six Chins*, oompsuiaa, sod slaps la loo fees, so to .peak, threa soTerrign BtaUs of tbs Uaion. It apboiil. slavery sftar a bloody war waged to destroy it, sad pats tbe u lobby" above tbe American Congress. ~te~ Aim now De Lesseps is going to flood the Sahara Desert from the Mediterra nean Sea, the French Cabinet Council approving of his plan. Scientists say that the great desert is above the sea level, and this being true, and De Lesseps being a great man, we suppose the time has arrived when we shall see “ water running up hill” Thx President has transmitted to Congress a letter addressed by the Min ister Plenipotentiary of Mexico to the Secretary of State, propoeing a conclu sion convention between the two conn- tries for defining the boundaries between the United States and Mexico, from the Rio Grande to the Pacific Ocean, by the erection of durable monuments. Tn sxpsnss of crowning ths Czar at Moscow will be ton million roubles, almost sight million dollars. In other words, enough money to feed aad clothe 80,000 paasanto far a yuor will W wasted in gilding ths eanmonias «f a dynasty. The nobslitv of M « Onto will the whale re to bu stplndsd will re greet re that of 187$. Ktersn ac of ths reef known re Flood Book ing hmnalad at a depth of fifty sixty teat, and when this work is « eted, two years hence or so, ef will be broken up with ooa scat tered charge of dynamite. About seven acres are already completed. Hailetta Rock, broken up in 1876, has been fished out and carried away until there : is now a twenty-six foot channel at low ' water, where six years ago waa one of the barriers of navigation. It n believed that even newspaper correspondents are occasionally capable of exaggeration. At all events they are now telling of a boy in Paris who has a telescopic eye. One eye is as large as a silver dollar and the other as small as a French pea. Up to a few months ago this large eye was of no use. Bat after an operation on it an astonishing change occurred. The eye became telescopic in its range, and the boy could expand or contract the pnpil at will At night he could see the rings and moons of Jupiter and the newly discovered satel lites of Mars. Then it was discovered that the smaller eye waa microscopic, a drop of water appearing to him through it aa a world of life. The oouliata, micro- ■oopista, and astronomers of Paris are said to ba in » atatAcf greet,excitement over the boy. \y r reef Tire n u that toe portea of toe irenfaii, teruMriy Dow^fin!u*lU^wTy 'wTum ere era. Another q Mature u Do the Auatraltau gum-tree their actioa on the rainfall from those of other lands f Old Urns Reformer*. It is the general opinion of the reform ers of our dev that they, or at most their immediate predecessor*, were first in the field, and that all was darkness 1 ref ore. As far as suffrage is concerned, the fact that women could vote in New Jersey seventy or eighty veers ago throws some doubt upon this claim. The suspicion is strengthened into coovietion by an appeal to history. A Masiiaclmsetta woman has discovered that Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams, and gener ally his wisest counselor, as far bock as 1774 wrote to him in behalf of woman’s citizenship. He was at the time in at tendance on the first Constitutional Con gress at Philadelphia. She specially asked him to remember the ladies in the new code of laws and to treat them bet ter than his ancestors had done. Mercy Otis, sister of James Otis, about the same time hit upon the since much need phrase of "inherent rights,” declaring that they “ belonged to all mankind, and had all been conferred on all by the God of nations. ” These are old authorites according to the American standard ol antiquity, bnt we think Semiram is and Zenobir, saying nothing of other ancient women of note, must have held very much the same idea of tbe equality of the sexes. If no utterances of their* tc this effect ere extant, their caree still be studied, sod “actions ia words.” whtoi ile wish to aleeo. This re&oe u/testeaoeouata toTtL goer rills warfare which ia waged against them night after night and year after year from all the back windows ia town. It also account* for the carious totilfO which you sometime* find in tbe beck yard ia tip morning and which the cook tells you are meteorite*. Nothing baa been devised that kills cats, and weap ons are limited to each band projectile* inspire respect or terror. Tne old stone-throwing machines of the Greeks and Romans were originally devised for this kind of combat, and were hence called catapults. Every adult oat has had more costly articles thrown at it than any opera singer that ever lived; for, when a man’s state of mind becomes such that he ^ets out of bed to serve his country in this cause, the first article he touches is the thing that goes, whether it be a coal scuttle, an ivory-backed hair-brush or a diamond bracelet. Man has the right of this conflict, and he will surely win if he lives long enough.— Exchange. Tn of toe of too 1» Opium to l to to* lea* four ; that $15,000, tette, almost they are often contracted in marriage at 6 years of age, and m> to live with thoif husbands at 12 or 13. Before this, at the age of 5 they are taught to propitiate the gofjL in order fto secure a good hus- MT^ifand their little minds are distracted by the idea of what a model huahand ought to b*. The orthodox conception is a husband like the god biva, who wee holy, ■asters, advanced to yean, and faithful and devoted to on* wife, toe goddeae Doorga. Good little girls revolt aft the idea of a * aaaaaE^afl or flower. So between stem and flm ly found in no other plant covered with regular ro warts and spines. The Spanish bayonet occupies thou sands of acres and has its share con trie* ties. When young its long tough bayonets point in every direction as if guarding some precious fruit with in its worthless stamp. Later all but those pointing upward and downward fall off, leaving a band in its .middle, giving it the appearance of a small bun dle of straw tied up and ready tor the harvest wagon. Individuals of the variety send up a shoot from the center four or five feet, like a bamboo, bearing at the top a pleasing cluster of small flowers.—ATew York Great Expectations. Every day some new suggestion ia m*d« aa to the probable use of electric ity. A San Francisco professor thinks the time is coming when swamps and sewers will be deprived of their unwhole- sorneneaa by strokes of lightning, or, in other words, by electric current* which will kill the germs and spores which communicate oiaeree to the human sys tem. This ia baaed upon the germ theory of disease, which ia to (he effect that malarial and other foul air conta gions are dna to anhnalculm, or infusoria, which muhroty to (he vietias’a body after inocalabna. But would it act ba M all *7, ? Tbs stern I.- light has ■** Ja AtMd which may ’Seal "Y-. which lad tha the nature of hia regret. “Brother MeGraw ” said he, “will you let the church know what sort of sorrow it ia yon feel f la it a godly aor- rw Brother MeGraw F* Then the aged brother lifted high Ids head, looked the moderator full m the face, and answered: “Brer Moderator, 1m sorry I’m sorry—tha* I didn’t break her neck.”—.Rtttor'* Drawer, in Harper > t Magazine. dead Taste Amaag the Mighty. The more I think about the elephants, the more wonderful they seem to be. The great clumsy creatures are ao very knowing, so very loving, and so tike human Ixungs in many of their qualities. They know their power well, and they also know just when they must not nee ii Deacon Green tells me that keepers and trainers of elephants often lie down on the. ground and let the huge fellows ■tep right over them; and that they leal e ectiy safe in doing ao, because they W the elephants will ■ over the so treading on them, tores can brash a i as eaaftty as a man o And what ieheato I lighted. I’m told. Yet to* i Ban oat of