Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE WEEKLY LEDOETL FRIDAY, PECEWBEK 21, 1804 5 CARROLL & CARPENTER, 4 I Millinery. | Silks—Surah .China, Japanese, IVa <l<‘ S<»i. llhadanip .I»( i mia- lines, (iro (irain, Satin Uhadaine, Shot Silk. Anntms. Silko- lines, tln»])(*rv Silk and Satins. Dress Goods. Dress tfoods in Silk Mixtures, Brocades, Ser^"-, Sa« kines. Trieots, Flannels, Cashmeres, Silk Warp llenrieua- . Adk Ben- ealines, Beavi , r Cloth, Broad Cloth. Covert Cloth in all tin new est shades, Braids, I’assainentries, Velvets. I’luslxs. Beaver Trimmings, .lets, etc., me. Carpets and Rugs. Dry Goods. i We keep a large and varied assortment of Staple and Fancy Dry Goods. We are offering Winter goods at unheard of prices in order to make room for Spring; goods. I The prettiest line of oarpets in the City in Bru*>els and four ply, all wool Ingrains, also matting, linoleums, stair ear- pets. Mo4|iinttn and Smyrna Bugs. If you w ish to make a nice present to any of your friends come and see our line of hojiday ! goods in lamps. I»is<|ue figures, mirrors, celery stamls. water i jugs, decanters, sugar and cream sets, tooth pick 'lands, smok ing sets. silk head rests, centre table covers, felts, gold - tamped crepes, Misses fancy mittens, etc., etc. Mantuamaking. Our Millinery and Mantuamaking department is complete, i Wedding trousseaus a specialty. Mail orders solicited. Groceries, This department is up to the' high standard we have endeav ored to establish for it and every thing is offered at prices to suit the times. Boots and Shoes. When it come to foot-wear we art*, to use a slang expres. sion, “strictly in it." Fvervihing from a shoe for the tot to the adtilt, either holies or gents, and we can safely say they an* are of the best makes at astonishsibly low prices. Clothing and hats. We are offering our entire stock of Winter Clothing, Over coats, etc., at almost your own price in order to make room for Spring 'tyles. Hardware and Farming Implements Farming Implements. Kverything with which to build a house or run a farm. We are handling the best makes, as the service already rendered by our goods will testify. We extend to each of our friends and customers Christmas greetings, wishing them a happy and prosperous New Year. Very truly, Carroll & Caroonter. rolopliono». AIARItlAUE MARKETS, A Queer Institution of tho Berber Tribes of Morocco. Sazan Where the lomlulnc Merchant Sella Ileraelt with tho Purchase of a Masculine Customer Who Is to Her Ltklag. Among the Kabyle clans in northern Africa women are looked upon as chat tels to be sold like other possessions, find they are accordingly disposed of to the person who makes the highest offer to the father or other male guardian. Many of the Berber tribes of Morocco, Algiers and Tunis hold yearly marriage markets, to which all the young mar riageable girls and widows from the neighboring villages are brought. The markets are attended not only by young men and old on the lookout for a wife, but also by a curious crowd anxious to Bee what lots are for sale and what prices they fetch. The girls when on riew are allowed to have a voice in the selection of their husbands, and may decline any proposal. They are arranged in rows right across the market place, decked in the most telling Berber costumes; painted, powdered and patched in the highest Style of Kabyle art; loaded down with rings and bangles, brooches, chains and coins enough to stock a jeweler’s shop. The jewels are rarely the girl’s property, but are borrowed for the occasion from friends and neighbors, as every village takes pride in its girls and wishes them to serve well. The young women are all seated on small squares of carpet Bpreud upon the ground. Each has an elderly woman beside her, and in front •he has, as if for sale, a small roll of stuff woven by her own hands. The faces of the girls are uncovered, for Berber women do not wear the facc- concealing haik of the Arabs, but it is impossible to tell whether they are pretty or not, for their faces and fore heads are so painted and even tattooed that the natural features cannot be made out. Here is a description of a girl of six teen: Yellow bars are painted across her face and a patch of gold foil is •tuck on her right cheek; her forehead js tattooed with a blue circle and her Bps and gums are well reddened. Her hair is arranged in narrow plaits, from the end of each of which dangle a rib bon and a coin. Mie wears u long- fcltuicd, red silk gar.aent, falling from her shoulders halfway down her legs, and a red silk scarf, worn like a plaid across the left shoulder, where it is fastened by a jeweled gold brooch. The log: from the knees down are bare, but the feet are inclosed in litile yel low slippers, with gold-embroidered edges and jeweled tops, while round the ankles is a double row of bangles with bells attached. On her l.c ol h a Phrygian ea'p with a thick corded silk border and fringed ends, to which tiny coins are fixed hanging over *h j fore head down to the eyebrows. To a pair of small earrings are attached two larger fkit,}, fcits ikckc) in (Uuihwtur*. from which dangle lit! !< lu lls. A heavy necklace is round her neck and below that a massive chain with a central brooch. Bound each arm winds a broad band of gold, and below it : evt n ban gles, to which bells are he lened. An other girl may have her whole face painted yellow, v.iih little stars and suns and moons in silven'oil pasted over it. Another ha.-> blue cireies tat tooed all over her checks. The widows wear a white cloth fastened to the top of the head and secured by a brooch at the waist. The man who wisl es to purchase steps up to the woman of his choice and asks the price of the woven stuff before her. if he pleases her she names a very low figure, then a loud, shrill and prolonged ‘•Yu-yu-yu-u-u” uttered by the old woman at her side announces that a bargain lias been made and the crowd shouts its approv al. If she does not care for the man ; she names an absurdly high price- then he walks off to inspect the next lot. The girls are perfectly solf-posse-sed. The young men are a good deal more nervous, and look us sheepish its a Eu ropean might in their place. They are dressed In their best, in long red burnous, with high straw hats sur mounted by cabbage-shaped plumes. One will spend an hour, and sometimes two or three, walking about the girl he wants before he dares to a-.k the price of the woven roll. The girls watch the men out of the corners of their eyes, apparently unconcerned, chatting' and laughing at them. When the suitor presents himself they eye him boldly from head to foot as they would a horse, and if he suits he gets a prompt answer. Sometimes the old woman will encourage a bashful youth with a wink or a nod. The old men set to work in a business-like manner and walk down the line making their proposal to one after another until they find some one who will accept their offer. QUEER FISH. An East Indlau Specie* That Co.-* ASoat on Dry I.auri. “During my military career, said Col. 0. L. Fourtney, an ex-ollleer of the British army,” according' to the St. Louis Ulobc-Democrat, “I freipicntlj visited the East Indies and ninny a curious animal have I seen. “Of all these strange animals I think the most peculiar I ever emne ■ •;m: i was a fish which belonged to the porch species and which is quite common in that locality. Those fish are in the habit of leaving 1 the water for hour- at a time. They wander about through the grass and can live for a \ve. |, in ; he i open air. .higglers m;,kc use of the n In the performance of H im th r curious exhibitions, which appeam’ to be beyond the hope of r< son.' -lo ex planation till stdem s mon ran-d that th< -e fisher have a provision iu their stmeUtre for .••rrying water enough to meet the dem mdsot the cir culation several days in Mwcc-sion while out of tho writer. While wan dering about on land they subsist on j the insects and worm , which happen to ‘ foil within their reach.” THE “McLLIE TREE." Itoiiiantir Story < toil with Oik* of tfu* th!iijh o! rro*:n* t l*arU. People who are aceu t< rued to visit ing Prospect park, as well as the of- lieials and employes of Brooklyn's great pleasure ground, are wondering, . says the New York Trilnme. what has become of the little silver plate which marked a tall, graceful elm tree in a small valley on tho Flat bush avenue side of the East drive. 'Hie plate boro the name "Nellie,” and there is a ro mantic story connected with it. The tree itself is one of the landmarks iif the park, and the driveway whi passes it runs through what is km us Battle pass. During the suu^, time it is one of the most bea trees i" the park, and thousands admired its graceful foliage, tin many years uttontii >n has beenattr 1 to the tree by the plate which it i The name referred to Miss How ard, w ho some years ago w reigning belle on Folumbia he: Her friends and admirers v.u recoj by hundreds, and her aeeoi incuts and l*oauty made her a 1 social circles. Mrs. Howard an] were in the habit of takir! drives in the park when sh girl, hutshc neverpassod the out speaking of and ndu beauty. Her affection for tl ripened as she grew older, every bright day in suinna in.-ist upon driving aroum and spending u few minute it, spreading branches. When ^ went to Europe about ti n yearsTi she visited all the* capitals <>f the o! world, but in all the interesting sights she saw in all her new experiences she r aid did not forget the stately elm iu Prospect park, and in every letter to her mother made inqiiiriesabout it. When she was about to return home she was stricken with fever while in koine, and even during her illness her throughts were constantly with her stately and silent friend in the park, and her last words to h*'r companions wa re about the happy hours she had spent under Its branches. Nellie’s death greatly shocked her family and friends in P.r<K»klyn, but her heart broken mother felt herself drawn more and more to the old elm in the park. tijp.il site became convinced that the • k it of her departi o daughti r haunted tie (tec. This IV.'lk " finally le i her touppk to tin-park romnii- loners for p< ! itii..:4on to set a plate in ih«* tree. '! ni. penuis: ion \va - ranted, sad in a ; hort time t he plat.' . 'd iee l in posi tion, and the elm " e. r ir •e been known as tbe "Nellie i ts e " This bo* ii. f (f the aIVee: inna!• .noth r was a j, ; at sol nett to her, ..no r! ueipieut in* teruti > sh- journeyed ! >l..e ’fee. where * he 1 lieved hi r dan e ter s piri. hud found a resting |>hi<'. , n: P, j nsse.l a silent hoar under the b ni a ••> her de- parled loved one though’ uu<'h of. Now the plate i gi in and no one connected with the .nark is utile to give any solution of the mystery of its disnppeunuiee. The gcm-i al opinion is, however, that the naik which held it | tw the txec had become loosened lw the ’eomliined inllnenees of the weather and the growth of the tree, and the plate dropped off and hits been curried away by some one, who neglected to return it to the proper authorities of the park. CIPLINE. A STUFFED EMPEROR. ice it,” .saw it, leoon as >i your other, fig. < >f soon ns !y begin again.” at the cxpi iise of the general, lies, of cours-, in the fact that when a section of Soimn’s men be came silent as he turned to the other was when the music so required. But the general looked upon tlds lapse its he would look upon the suspension of a section of his artillery when he turned his attention to another part of the field. Kxfitiiic Cable Journey. Across the Devil's Dyke, a deep ra vine near Brighton, England, a cable way has just been erected and opened for Ire die. From a single steel wire rope, thiee inch, s in diameter. 'retch ing "i"‘ thousand two hundred . ft be tween two iron columns <>n eithersi.ii' oi the dyke, arcsuspemied steel anchor ., two feet from lluke to fluke, by w ire ropes of smaller dimensions and ..i vary in*' leimth. so ns to brin ' lice line of and e's oil it level. On the Ih.ke . ere Miop...' ...I t wo wire r, oec.B :ee. one inch in di i. tcr, on ■■ hich run the pulh" - ' ■, a - ipport the ear. The ears are iron and win* cages, seven feet by fi •, i irr iug eight passengers. 'I'hey ; ;noved by at engine on tho Ixiiik. dii\in,- an endless wire rope to which the ear is gripped, like our cable cars. Tin cable is two hundred and thirty ie> ! above ibc bottom of the ra vine, ami the trip taken two minutes and u half. Valerian, Conquered by tbe I'ersiaim, Was l*ut to queer Uso iu Di|>loniacy. The art of taxidermy is now prac ticed by thousands of naturalists and i ornithologists, and many sportsmen have become so adept at it that they ! are no longer obliged to send the i specimens which tin y wish to have preserved to a professional, but can prepare and mount them themselves in the way they w ish to have them, and in this way many amateurs have sc- : cured most valuable collections, serv- : ing us excellent souvenirs of man}’ a delightful day's shooting, and many an exciting' hunting' adventure. One of the most remarkable stuffed skins on record was that of Valerian, emperor of Borne, who was taken pris oner and afterward kept in chains by Sapor, king'of Persia. He was either killed in a tumult, or by order of his conqueror, who was perhaps fearful of losing'his valuable living trophy, in the year ”»;!». The body of the dead Boman emperor was treated with no more delicacy than when it had held the hu mor tnl spark of a living'one. It was skinned, the hide, after being' tanned, w as stuffed, painted red and suspended in the chief temple of the capital. It remained here for many years, and was the popular spectacle for holiday makers and visitors from the country. But it was put to more important ends than this; it was made a diplomat ic engine of much signUieaitce and efliciency. In after times it often hap pened that the Boman envoys at the Persian court had misunderstandings, more or less serious, with the govern ment to which they were temporarily accredited. When these ambassadors from Borne grow arrogant in their de mands it was the custom to conduct them into the juiseme of the stuffed akin of the old ex-emperor of Rome, where they were asked if humility did not become them at sight of such a spectacle. TOOTHLESS YANKEE VILLAGERS small sum of eight dollars he will re move all the natural teeth from a cus tomer's head and substitute for them an artificial set of much better appear ance, which will never cause any pain to the wearer. By this attractive offer the people are deluded into parting with the chewing apparatus with which nature has furnished them, and the result is a toothless population. As you are probably aware, tooth pull ing' is rarely resorted to by a good den tist, inasmuch as it must be an ex traordinarily bad tooth that cannot be fixed up so us to be better than any false one.” A HISTORIC HOWDAH. minded by ltn*e:iUy Travelinj; DcntiitU Into Itnying Sets of 1 also Molar*. “There is many a New England vil- lag'c in which you will hardly find a natural tooth,” said a dental surgeon to a Washington Star writer. "That is to say, not ni. adult inhabitant will p<.N'v>,s any teeth cf his own. All of th g'i'>.wn-up people wear false teeth. This rather <ald s ; ate of affairs is due to the operations of rtain unscrupu lous pers >ns who go about the country w ith false teeth for -ale. ' <ne of these fellows will g'<> throug'h a village and literally pull every tooth in the place. To take the nkw. • of the teeth ex- tiaeled he otters artmt ial sets at eight do. ;r». i .i rur. l p.. , f. r obvious re:, oils, it ph \i-ry • >m i n i’.y suffer from tootaai •. The malm!', is dis tressing', and t:. cast mtiry ay to get rid of it i> to have the tooth drawn. No dentist isnt hand to restore the uf- fllcted grinder to a healthy condition by filling*. The pi ripatelie quack comes along with his forceps and offers to give final and permanent relief from ill xuoh sufferlntr hv futura. Fob tho Tlio Indian Government Reducing the Number of It* Trained Elephants. The order has gone forth to break up the expensive establishment in India known as the “H »wdah Khana.” Al ready the roll'of ernment elephants in all India has been reduced to be tween two hundred and three hundred instead of one thousand, at which it lately stood in North India alone, says the Westminster Budget. As railways penetrate the* g'reat fighting' frontier districts, elephants, which still, as in the days of Alexander the Great, are scared in battle, are be ing less and less used to drag the heavy batteries. Mufes are preferred for mountain warfare. Even native princes are content with one elephant or so, where formerly they kept • score. The Scotsman remarks that state ceremonials and processions are no longer what they were up to John Lawrence’s time, when even that sim plicity-loving' viceroy held the grandest of all duubars at Agra, around and near the Taj Mahal. Only the governor general’s silver liowdah is to be kept there, and one or two state elephants. That historie howdah was furbished up under the artistic arrangements of Lady Canning for her husband’s viceregal progress after the mutiny. It has been used by almost every British ruler in India since the first Warren Hustings. Around it circle the memoirs of more than a century’s wars and pageants; but even that has become a victim to the depreciated rupee and the irresist ible rail wav. A Fatal King. (jueeii Christina of Spain recently presented to Our Lady of Almudeada a valuable opal ring that lielonged to her late husband, Alfonso XII. Alfonso g'ave the ring to his first wife, Queen Mem dt s, just before her sudden death; il then went to the king's grandmother, old Queen Christina, the mother of Isabella II. She died two months after ivi vb ing Iho ring and lift it to Mer- ee ic.s' -istcr, Maria del Filar, daughter of the Duke of Montpensicr, who also died after a few months, as did also her s ; ,ter Christina, who inherited the ring i , >m her. Alfonso then determined that no one else should wear the fatal opal, and took it himself; within twQ months he was buried. This story is believed in Spain; so to prevent fur ther harm the queen has given it to tho Virgin.