Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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% \ J . / 1 mmm tott*™ __ * tioH to bo pabliahed ahoold bo wilttaa oa Moonto aboota, tad Um obioet ofooeh . indlootod bjMoemrj ooto wboo required. S. Artidoa fir publieotion abouM bo writtea la o door, iegiblo baud, oad oa oaly oao ddo of tko poge. 4, All cbunfoi ia odTorilaoBeaU matt f «ch u co FrUdy. VOL VII. NO. 16. BARNWELL C. H., S. 0 THE DYING YEAR. The yeer ie old—so old ! x The eightu ere long end dark end dreary ; The fretting wind* tie never weary : They fret against the window pane, The burden of their sad refrain, The year is old—so old' The year is old- so old ! The mountains tell it to the river. Their aides deep rent by aeam and shiver ; The rivers, sobbing as they flow, Repeat it in the valts below, The wild sea waves take op the straini A d ocean bears it back again, The year is old —so old ! The year is old—so old ! 0 voices of the dreary night! O sleepless watchers "for the lig^t! 0 hills that lift yonr hoary heads Above the ice-bonnd river beds ! O winds that wail around nameless graves! O sobbing, sighing, w ild sea waves ! The year is old—so old ! The year is old—so okl! O hearts that breathe and eyes that weep O'er buried hopes that treasures keep ! Prepare the shroud and winding sheet, And softly walk with reverent feet! The year ia old- -so old! Governor’s Farm- A CHRISTMAS TALK DT THB AUTHOR OP ‘/RTS AND FLASHES. There waa a Concord wagonful of tu, homeward bound, to engage our mus cle, our appetites and our digestion upon tXecember turkey and ita kindred pelatables. For a conple of hours vocal cross-firing had been briskly kept np, but, all at onoe, there came a depressing lull in the conversation. I looked at my companions in mnte surprise. It was nearly five minutes since anybody had uttered s syllable. The extra-loquacious traveler was intently studying the frozen landscape, and, for a miracle, seemed to have no notion of talk. He had been everywhere, and had seen everything in and ont of the geogra phies and history books, and yet none of oa remembered to have ever seen or heard of him. This wasn't exactly what the dictionary terms a coincidence. The stage rattled sm&tly over the ground, and the roadside fences ran neck-and-neck with the mingled shad ows of horses and conch. A short curve and uncomfortable roll of the vehicle re opened the flow of words. “Ah 1" exclaimed the strange man of volubility, “I thought we were near it. There’s the 1 Governor’s Farm/ gentle men !” We severally turned our frost-tinted visagea in the direction thnt his Anger pointed, and saw a very ordinary old- fashioned, yet apparently snug, mansion on the summit of a hill at the distance of half a mile. Whs t it had been orig inally would puzzle the brain of an architectural expert. The main build ing, two stories in height, was of stone, with a capacious wooden portico, end rambling, uncouth outhouses. A frame barn, twice the size of the dwelling and its belongings, and of recent and im proved construction, st od about two hundred yards in the rear. The adja cent fields were in trim order, and there was a fine grove of lofty trees stretching from upland crest to meadow marge. Another iharp bend in the road, and this delightful picture was swept away. “Yea,” continued the extra-loquacious rsvelar, ja he leaned back and settled imself for the final seven miles of our journey, “that’s a place with a blood- tained chronicle !” And thereupon he looked u mysterious as a Connecticut murder. Of course he was aching to tell the story, and our nods of encouragement and acquiescence promptly brought it orth. “You see,” he began, "I was born and raised in this ’ere neighborhood, el- hough I haven’t laid eyes on it until to day for nearly forty-one years, and that is a deal more than a generation. My father and ancle, who were carpenters and builders, pflt up that house before I wss even thought of among human pos sibilities, and I’m fifty-eight next month. That is, they raised and finished the dressed stone portion, and erected that swell piassa, with its Anted coin mns People came miles and miles to see the dwelling, and when the husband of its girl owner was elected Governor of th 8>ate, it was the abode of tnuch gayety and hospitality. I have heard it mid that the Governor was just about as clever as they made ’em in those days, and there’s no denying his popularity now, because he was twice re-elected to the office and afterward went to the Na tional Senate. Bnt this isn’t what you care to know. The farm was a marriage dower of the Governor’s wife. She was the only child of the wealthiest man in this section ef New England. The Gov ernor himself was a rich maa*s heir, but old R , his father-in-law, held first mortgage oa emy Sfepnd plantation hi the wwnty. 1 ' , “Folks around hare wondered that he consented to Bessie wedding a harum- scarum young lawyer. Not that Diok M want good enough for her (tad I tell you hie family wue top-netah in lineage add pride), bat R wan toe* totally oppfliad to the political party of which hie pretty daaghterh *euitor was an srknaufledpji leader. TWe opposi tion gathered strength at aata an team election, and lomahow or other kmt grip after tba bitterness of defeat had spent its force. - Aa for Dick U , ha waa neighbors admired hie great natural gifts, and winked at his personal indk- cretions and vaganee. Thus rapidly pushed toward the goal of aa honor able ambition, when he finally became s candidate for the highest office to hh native State, R-;— forgot old partisan sores, and openly need his influence to elect his daughter’s lover. The eoveted magisterial prize and Bessie were both won at a single dash. The farm, which we just passed, was the choicest bit of properly hereabouts. Old R not only deeded it to his daughter, but con tracted for the erection of as elegant a dwelling as could be built for ten thou sand dollars, and that amount was a considerable pile of money then. Labor and material were cheap, and, inside and outside, that house, with its furbe lows and ornaments, imported French and English furniture, was telly equal to any city mansion. “Well, the time slipped along, and before I was a lad of fourteen, Hon. Richard M—had been ont of office and in his grave nearly three yean; and now cornea the gore end thunder of my narrative. • “After their marriage Bessie M—ac companied her husband almost every where that hie duties and inclinations led him. They had a eostlv establish ment at the State capital, and apent their winters amid the whirl and flash of city life. Then they had been several timea to Europe; in (net their two chil dren were born abroad. It was on thete last joint visit to the continent, while sojourning at a German spa, that Mr. M—and his wife made the acquaintance of Count von 8—. “He was a handsome fellow in the Austrian diplomatic service. Little did M—dream, when an honored guest at the princely estate of this man’s father, and a daily companion of the son, that he was nursing a hypocritical friendship whose dread evolution would speedily blight all his earthly happiness and end his own career. “To be sure, be noticed ^a change in the demeanor of his usually gay and light-hearted wife, but unsuspicious as he was, he attributed it to maternal cares and anxieties, to the fatigue of travel, or to home- longings. On their return to this country, If—became im mersed, day and night, in the canvass ter Ban alar, v A* thia pasted Mia. M— with her children and servants were at the farm mansion which you have seen. Here, after his nevf elevation, tha d s- tinguished American returned for a brief holiday, and with him came the Count von 8—. “With a large party of titled foreign ers, the count was traveling in the Uni ted States, and early sought renewal of the intimacy with Hon. Mr. M and his charming family. Ha was received with undisguised cordiality, and spent several weeks at ’Govemor’a Farm.’ Aa he was a real live nobleman, we became.much exalted by bte “Mrs. M was a brilliant hone- woman, and, escorted by the Count, she waa often seen in the saddle, galloping rose the country. Oa asms ef theae excursions the Senator was in company, bnt he waa of too gallant a nature to permit his official or personal engage ments to interrupt the recreation* of bis wile and their visitor, and when occu pied with an increasing correspondence or other duties he transferred to the not unwilling Mrs. M the entertainment of their guest. Tattlers and granny- gossips wagged their heads and tongues, and looked a heap that they were afraid to apeak; but at the end of a month, the count had packed np and rejoined his comrades in New York, tad his visit to Governor’s Farm’ soon passed to be the staple chit-chat in these parte. “The foBowing winter Mrs. M went to Washington with her husband. Hers they found the Count von 8 was regularly accredited to and installed at the Austrian Embassy. Scandal ere long coupled hte name with that of Mrs. M . The old and ahamaltaaly true story, gentlemen. One mondng the hotel corridors, private drawing-rooms, and the Congressional halls and edm- mittees’ parlors were filled with the bum and echo caused by the upshot of this affair. Count von 8 and Senator M ’s wife had eloped 1 “They were traced to St. Lottie; from thence to New Orleans, and them the cUf was lost, although poor M and his venerable father-in-law spent thou sands of dollars to dbeor&t the hiding- place of the guilty cam. The children, too young to roaiiae the great dtegraoe which had clouded their young lives oontinned to live at the farm with their brooken-hearted grandfather. M wandered reetleealy mom oily to eity. He again went to Europe sad traversed its length and breadth, but to. no pur pose. In London, just prter,to Ms re turn home, he heard br tha mesnet ac cident that Count Ton S had salted three weeks before for New York. It wss •till the day of peokst-ships, and M cfceted and faotted om At last it was sated. Hs aid of the best detectives, an that the Count Von S had with his secretary, • yoath of twenty, but no other company. The pair, had had gone on to Washington, end, with- “ Before hie own death, which ensued in leas item s year, old B willed all bis immenae property, ahare and share alike, to the tiro grandchildren, • boy and girl, making such trust deed and guardianahip as would steotpally pre vent any after interference of the mother, if aha dared return. Her marriage with the Count von 8——.though regarded as improbable, actually took place at Vienna within another year, and the silly, polluted and brasen woman re warded the slayer of her first husband by conveying into his hands the proceeds of the sale of all her reel and personal estate In America. Bo the Governor’s Farm passed to strangers; and I moat my that it remains in tidy shape, judg ing from its exterior appearance, as viewed through a stage window on scold day. “1 never heard what became of the scoundrelly intriguing Austrian, or of his victim. Mora than likely he de serted her after he had soared on her beauty and graces, and got rid of all her cash. Neither oo I know any thing of the children. They wen only little toddlers of four and six yean of sge when I left" this hnm-druja neigh borhood, and, aa I told you iff the be ginning of this yam, that was forty-one fears ago. But hem we am on our last half-mile stmtlk, and 1, forgone, am 'mighty glad of it, though I’ve had very sgmssble company.” Ache thus pleasantly topped off, the stage rumbled thsoogh the main street of Plngville, and draw up in all its clat ter and majesty before the Aoor of that wsefhsr beatao inn, which, time ont of mind, had been sailed the “Sorrel Horse,” because the effigy of a bay mare waa onoe visible oa its crashing sign. That night, ia the tepwuom of this same licensed house lor the entertain ment of awn sad beast, t consulted the landlord, who vividly ramembeaed everything that had occurred in State or notion since the battle of Tippecanoe. “Unde Ben,” quoth I, “when waa the ‘Governor’s Farm’ sold, and to whom ?” ’•What?” yelled the astonished vet eran. I repeated my question. “Thsre awmr was no such a farm to sail, my hoy f was tha inelegant, yet ■I tell in the dual which his PftUmte^kMteMdcfpsfogta, Pis jgytepffifr md m^mim |>b*wM, My flteh in the forty-one yean’ wan derer was beginning to ooze. “Wasn’t Btobhrd M three times Governor F' “No, my innooeat; nor wunst, neither," was the rankling arrow that batted itseif in my gullibility. I de rided not to speak of the Senator, the Austrian ooant, the slop am ant or the doel. The extra-loquacious traveler had evidently remembered that it was the season for stuffing, and had nicely filled op the crowd. Bnt there was one more inquiry, and hesitation I made it: “Say, Unde Boa, who was that tall in tee shaggy overcoat, with the ear-mufflers and alooch hat, that came through with us this afternoon f" “Ha I ha!” laughed the old publican; “now I understand tee nonsense which you have been asking information on. Well, my boy, yon am not the first, the one hundred and first, aye, nor the nine thousand sad first, that he’s sold with hte eflhlgunt narrytivea, aa he calls ’em. Why, that’s Joel Brtxton, an’ he’s the most owdaoioua liar ia twelve town ships.” ' I waited to beer no mom, but walked quietly oah Then wan a aptey perfume in the air, aafi I thought of far-off lands, not so cold and nympathhang as this. I thought of bahtey Osykm and flowery groves and the night- (The night had for ms.) I was and wicked. By- the tropical odor the region of pie, from the open oajMtoote dt the hotel kitchen. They wete ymporffag for the festive mor row. “Thrice tee brindled oat had aw wed.” Was It mocking me fl re lieved myself by talking gibberish and Hinduatanee to the frigid stars, because I recollected to have heard that it was not pious to swear on Christmas Eve. Lahdiho nr Hoholulu on Sunday, a writer for tee San Francisco Chronicle set forth to see the people of the capital of the Hawaiian kingdom; but all the houses ware rioaed, and, after a depress ing walk In tha deserted streets, he turned hte steps toward his ship. He found one door open—a ohomtet’a shop with a soda water fountain. The ther mometer marked over 100 dsgmoa; yet the keeper of the place had to aay, “We do not aril coda to-day; we can’t buy tea on Sunday.” writer coatemear “A photographer who had traveled with ua had proposed to ahow a law of hte new pictures of the hte regret that it could not be dona. •But why not r ‘Oh, you eoUid not aee them without light. ’ 'But there te pkuty of Ught/ ’Ah, you do not know Honolulu,'said tea r"^~TT|1in, If a wtadow of my pfarns wum to bo omb op« ia& get into trouble, RtaffififfitaiRiwtoy> ofruf < "ff URSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1883. •• - — 5- $2 a Year. THE PEOPLE, Bmwufl a H. 8. a IH GOURTESY. m aCTKMH WAI ABfcoTMFOED. Isstris In the Harden. fori. Waller Hcstl Sir Walter happened Cootts, the actress, visited Abbotsford, it so were already in the Scotch and English, sf high bteth dRllfUnk, who felt by no mesas disposed to^fnsist their host and hostess in makhty Mn. OoutteM visit agreeable to bar. On the first day of her stay Sir Waited during dinner did everything in hte power to tauatoraot this faflnenee of the evil eye, and some thing to overawe R; but the spirit of misehtef had been fairly stirred, and it waa easy to see teal Mm. Courts followed theae noble dames to the drawing-room in by no means that complacent mood which was customarily sustained, doubt less, by every blsiriishment of obsequi ous flattery in this mistress of millions. He cut the gentlemen’s sederunt 'short and, soon after jotting the ladies, man aged to withdraw tee youngest, the gay eat and cleverest, tipo was also the high est in rank (a lovriy Marchioness) into his armorial hall adjoining. He said to her:—*T want to speak a word to you abogf Mrs. Coutlk. Ws have known each Other vhile, and I know you won’t takeany^g I can say in ill part. It is, I heju-, not un* common among the fine ladies in LondoU to be very well pleased to accept invito* tions, and even sometimes to hunt after them, to Mrs. Ooutts’s grand balls and fetes; and then if they meet her in any private circle, to practice oa her any delicate manoeuvre called tipping the cold shoulder. This you agree with me is shabby, bat it is nothing new either to yon or to me—tbs fine people will do shabhiness for which beggars might blush, if they once stoop so low as tc poke for tickets. I am sure you would not for ike world do snob a shabby Dr. Sturtevtat jp * recent bnltetto issued from' tec experiment station at Geneva, N. Y., says : “Cabbage worms have been abundant and destructive. Ws have waned against them with tobacco-water, saltpetre, al cohol, boraric arid, bisulphide of car bon, eta, but finally settled upon an mnlaion of keroatia oil and soapsuds as the remedy that, all things coiudd- eerad, was the most satisfactory. It ap pears that one ounce of common yellow ard soap, one pint of kerosene oil and one and one-half gallons of water well mixed and stirred and applied by means of a rose from a watering-pot, destroys all worms that become thoroughly wet with the mixture, and does not injure the plant. Care must, however, be taken to keep the ingredients thoroughly mixed in the pot, for if the oil is per mitted to rise to the surface, so that it will pass out upon a few plants, it will prove fatal to the tew, while the remain- thing; but you must permit me to take the great liberty of Baying that I think the style yon have all received my guest, Mrs. Courts, in this evening, ia to a great extent a sin of the aatne order. You were all told a conple of days ago, that I had aacapted kar vteH, and that she would aniva to-day to atty teree nights. Now, if aay of you had ati bsen disposed to be of my party at the same time with her, there waa plenty of time for you to have gone away before she came; and as none of you moved, and it waa impossible for you to fancy that any of you would re- m*in out of mere curiosity, I thought I had a perfect right to calculate on your having made np your minds to help me out with her.” The beautiful peeress answered: “I thank yon. Sir Walter. You have done me the greatest honor to speak aa if I had been your daughter, and depend upon it yon shall be obeyed with heart and good will.” One by one the other exclnaives were seen engaged in S little tete-a-tete with her ladyship. Sir Walter waa toon sat isfied that things had been put in a right train; the Marchioness was re quested to sins a particular song, be cause he thought it would please Bin. Courts. “Nothing could gratify her more than to please lira. Courts.” Mrs. Ooutts’s brow smoothed, and the course of half an hour she was happy and easy as ever ehe was hi her life, rattling away at comic anecdotes of in her early theatrical days, and joining in of Cook the chorns of the “Laird kpeo. The Explosion of Boilers. A frequent cause of boiler explosions not generally understood, and all the more insidious for being so little recog nized, has been recently brought to notios by M. Treves, an eminent French engineer. Water left standing for hours above the boiling point loses its power of ebullition, thl air in it being drawn off; and in this condition it ab sorbs heal without the power of deliver- ing it up in the form of steam. It thus becomes superheated, and any mechani cal agitation—such as opening of the steam-valve or the introduction of fresh water—may cause it instantaneously to bunt into steam with explosive force. These are the very conditions to be found in a boiler when, ae often happens, work has been suspended for an interval, dar ing which, the boiler being filled, the fires are left burning, though slackened. Whan work te resumed, the engineer, finding s good supply of water with • low pressure on the steam gouge, firm up without putting in more water, and there te another mysterious explosion. A good sad simple device to guard •gatestthte danger has been proposed by MM. Donny and Gernex, and te rec ommended by BL Treves. The water feed-pi^ te prolonged by a T, the hori zontal branch being about nine inches above the bottom of the boiler. On the uadar skte of this tabs, alone its entire length, from end to end of the boiler, te a row of eoateal nipples. Before firing, water te to be forded through the feed pipe until s pressura-guage oo the pump •hows a higher reading than the quiescent aieam-gmage. The nippies full of afar sad ready to act MBtrce of ebwDirton, may p* paohed without riak of ordinary pas- the greet oom, tithe wind extingutehti the fartk art lifkte der will not receive enough of the oil to destroy the worms. In this ease the kerosene is the insecticide, the object of the soap l>eing but to thicken the liquid so ns to retard, in a measure, the sepa ration of the oil from the water. A larger proportion of soap makes the wo- er so Ihirk that it will not flow readily through the fine openings of tbs rose. A larger proportion of oil endangers tbs plant, while a smaller proportion is in efficient against the worms. Thera is one cantion, however, to be given : If repeated applications of the.mixture are made upon the samq plants the more tender vsristtes will be destroyed or till lie injured. We found, on trial, that where one or two applications were made without injury to the plant, a large number of applications blighted the leaves, more or leas, and five applica tions entirely destroyed the early va rieties, while large growing and late va rieties seemed uninjured, even under se vere dosing. The growing cabbages famishes so many biffing places for worms, that we cannot hope to destroy them all with a single application, how ever thoroughly it may ha mod*. The perfect remedy should destroy the wooms wherever it touches them, and should not injure the plant in the least tndexagTjBumi BAKED A WESTER* STORY. a cfrxR.KY RD HAN TO THK KKH4TK, AMO HOW BlMlOaTB0 MB VKI.T. Hew a PSttjr ei Traveler* Heeled ef Hew Tiler WeeUI Repel tk* Attack el Bead Aceeta mad Hew Ttter Old It. By end by the army officer mentioned something about read agents, and di rectly the eonvereation baoama interest ing. Coaches had been stopped at vari ous points on the line within a wete, end it was pretty generally believed that a bad gang had descended on tha rente and were still ripe for burinesa. The man with one eye had nothing to ■ay. Ones on twite be tabtelfrta t 4mad and that ness, like a oaped his mouth. The captain had said what he would do in esss the coach was halted, and this brought out the others. It was firmly decided to fight. The passengers had money to fight fcm agd weapons to fight with. The men with one sys said nothing A t each a time and under such cireum- staucea there could be but one interpre- tationof such conduct. “A coward has % business traveling this route," said the captain in a votes which every man could hear. The stranger started up, and that eye of his seemed to shower sparks of fire, bat after a moment, he fall bate again without having repiiad. If ha wasn’t chicken hearted, why didn’t he show his colon ? If he intend ed to fight where were hte weapons? Ha bod na Winchester, oad am for aa aay 4»s had seen aa ha entered the eoate," he was without revolvers. Everybody frit contempt for a man who calculated to hold np his hpnds at the order, and permit himself to be quickly despoiled. “Pep! pop! hah!” The passengers were doting aa tea aalnty of the road agents reached tegir The ooaok waa halted immyta to M. , >; rjjrS 1 - - ZM of tee days like tease of * kakideeaepa. We sea the gathretog in ef tea oMhkrerefred. Three te tfea Chriftmas dinner; the monarch of the farm-yard, upside dawn on tea table, hte pluses afl cone, hte gobble gone, staffed *iffi teat ha can aarer digest. Tba day baton wa had teamed at achori teat Graces was south of Turkey, but now we find that turkey tesurroundedlTgrease. Ley the carv ing-knife at tee breast and divide it up. Give to the boy that te sentimental, tee heart; to tee musical bos, the drum stick; give to the one disposed to tesofapwl- discussion tee “person’s nose.” And tee , Who» piss, fat whisk yta not filled wite a mixtaW, s sort of glbri- III deep fled hash; not totoee tfre with mysteries of origin, but plot Ibid retibei mods. Yon iiluiid New an old-fashioasd mines pis. Turn the kslsidoseope again and sea I Dawn tee hill they go; four sled* abreast 1 Tfaeh up the hill panting—the fcWrtBJ'y oC tirtrny of our Utob, working op wig up hill neighborhood qufitinga, where a merry group would aaaamblfl, toll of news. I need to tetob team . wese ream than necessary tfegppilt a blanket; bat otter things are quilted—neighborlinssa, warm sympathies, oounubisl bites. Again w« see the church, tee choir win a broken Addle, the sMtis awakiag to notes “1 yarer for tmailsftia, more foil ’w4 and bodies faere still 1 voice, at the door of the oooeh called A F*r*i«ir r*ts Hla Fartase 1s a* Ovea aaS FiaSa tl Is a Pile *1 Aahes. “Mr. Jacob Leib, a farmer, of West Millcreek, has been ruined by too much precaution,” says on Erie (Penn.) dis patch. For the last month the villages around Erie have been worked pretty thoroughly by a gang of professional burglars, the two leaden of whom have been captured. Fanner Lieb is one of those who believed a bird in the hand to be worth two fa) tee bash. He has never deposited hi| savings in the bonk, bnt kept his money and valnoblea in a safe at home, where the treasure would al ways be under hte aye. The operations of the burglars in bte neighborhood convinced him that sates do not always save, therefore he con cluded to be too canning for the oraoks- men. Remoringhis greenbacks, amount ing to $5,000, with notes, mortgages and other valuable documents representing as much more, he concealed them in the oven of a parlor stove that is not gener ally used until the winter has fairly set in. As ah extra preeintian lie con cluded not to tell Mrs. Leib, least in s moment of weakness she should give his euteness away in gossip. The project worked like s charm. At Union City safes were being cracked and dwelling-houses being en tered all aaoond, bnt hte treason re mained all safe in the oven. One morn ing it was discovered that an unsneeess fall attempt had been mads to burglarize his residence, bnt the' discovery only served to tickle him. Mrs. Leib was seriously alarmed for the safety of their possessions, bat her husband bade her be of good cheer, and trust to hte s*> gacity. That night he came to Erie on busi ness, and during hte abaenoe tee first snow-storm of the season occurred. Thinking of the husband’s oold ride, Mrs. Leib planned a little surprise for him, and so prepared a dainty and tempting slipper, spreading it In their cosy parlor, lighting the fire to add to Mr. Leib’s comfort. When he arrived and took in tee situation he almost faiuted. Boshing to tha store ha opened the orea door aad pulled out s charred mass that onoe represented their fortune, Im t which was now not worth a cent. On Saturday he brought the ashes to the court-house, but obtained no oom- toi t. out: “Vo non etiaate right hands Um first me will get A to who kicks oa h hte head V’ Wi ing for his yell of defiance and the elite of hte revolver when he stepped den and oat re humbly aa you plan. Tito sutler hod been aching to shew np a dozen road agents, and now hs wm tee second man ont. The surveyor bad in timated that he never paaaed over tea route without killing at leant three high waymen, bat this ocas ion waa to be an exception. In three minntee the fire of ns were down and in. tins and *>*«% ap, and tbs road agent hod said: “Straight matter of business 1 First one who drops hte hands won’t ever know what hart him (” Where wm the bob with ole eye? The robber appeared to bffiteww that wa were all oat, and he was just approach ing the head of the line to begin his work when s dgrk lam dropped out of ttia coach, theca was a yell as if from a wounded tiger, aad a revolver began to crack. The robber went down at the first pop. His partner waa jnst coming around the rear of the coach. Me was a game man. He knew what bad hap pened, bathe was coming to the reaeae. Pop ! pop I pop I went tha revolvers, their flashes lighting np the night until ve couH see the driver in his seat It didn’t take twenty aeoonda. One of the robbers lay dead in front of us —tea other under the coach, while the men with one eye had a look eat from his head and the graze of • bullet across his cheek. Not one of ns bad moved a finger. Wa were five fools In a painfal .lull There was a painful lull after the hurt •not, and it lasted • full minute before te it is not fun of re^ of gratftuAe. W * tea blessing now fat your homes, tee children. % book* sU,tee flour vsnisneea ter which otiuf mta, T >Tq labored test yon might enjoy.-rTci- maj/c. »i.*r raffizoadl hut rotate ©re*.'/ ; Lomfr. -W-mtaT tee average crop. In the quality b exeel . , - . la WasfainglMf sad quantity that of aay raeabt sad bringing from » estate tofLIplJer barrel. In Santeg* ao«Kty, titt ta fat' of last year, and buysm ffiie per barrel The Islet by drouth, hut wffigtejli^ of last year sad! totoes. From Columbia < ports show s good crop, batter than last year. There tea/ the yield te There te ai of 60peroeai ini per cent, in rmm* in in Green eoonty. tar ooanttss rauge toatfl to ffiLflfi per moot the crop is reported at least th»n toTUt We reports a crep abew tee average. Vary little rot is reported this r, which, with freedom from beetira, sn exceptionally good crop. rear, whicl has given i the stranger turned to us end remarked iq a quiet, cutting manner “Gentlemen, ye con drop yer hands!’ We dropped. We undertook to thank It hxoins to look ss though tee bant of Massachusetts which stretches out into the stlsntie would at last really be severed, on the surface, from the main body of the State. Dredges end pile driven are already oo the line of the otaal, and it te promised teat 500 laborua ffiall at epoe follow. It must be remsmbsrud, towerer, that this en terprise, two or tens yarn ago, had ad vanced still further than now, such then failed. Baltbe last Legislature granted e charter to d eomptay whisk te believed to hare both tha means aad tea energy for pushing through, at last, this project, for which plans fears than a century ago, sod which baa beta under ooBteiteridjog ftbogl two pan- tuten !FTtV*1 -3H» him, and ws wan ted In shabahands, and somebody suggested a shake-purse for his benefit, bnt he motioned ns into the coach, banged the door after us, and climbed up to a seat betide the driver. His contempt for such a crowd could not be measured.—Detroit Free Free*. That Settled It. A Georgia justice of the peace had an important case to come up before him a tew weeks since which involved a point in law, and the best legal talent of the town wm arrayed on bote tides. After oil the evidence had been submitted, one of tee lawyers arose and proceeded to argue the esse, when he wm inter rupted by the attorney on the other tide Just at this point tee justice, who wm looking oat of the window, discovered a black cloud looming up in tba west, and rising forward ha said: “Gentte* men, you may talk about this eaaa as much m you please; but I’ve got to go home and set out some potato slips. When you g« ‘ decision writ a piece of j walked out. '-i;. -y A Yi paper is raspansibto far the story that sn old lady recssrtly con fessed that she didn’t keep a dairy, at* though her folks had two cows ad rttabid op what tba pigs wouldn’t drink. If tha product of ttuAobanriag te any worn than , tha paotuffi kind of btetaMigufatot harm help fea pante full of mteeiy that 1 anywhere, but it is told mi ladies to be careful how they aeouM ser vant girls of crimes A fea from the Chicago carpet company wm tat to a bouse recently to put down .a carpet, and in the work it wm necessary to re move* large mirror, and in dofx^ so * beantttul htuast-pin tell npa tbs eurpat, which tea man guv* t° the lady of tba* hone*. Instead of q antic of thankfel ness from tbs lady, wbfafe tea num am peeted, the lady ten down on knees sobbing and praying, and sitting God to forgive her fee bar injmtiBS. Tbs man wm psnlyasd, and fheoght the wo man wm amsy. buf sin explained to him, m she got an tew ek town, tent nsarrant gtel eased ef ffimUng tea breast fin, wm serving s lam In the forte V hustled down to and showed tba pin, tad to hew, work was begun to raiaaae tbs a* girl from prison. xsa^- * :*• ■ r.