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RI-WEEKLY EDITION.} 'WINNSBoRo.TS.C..,THURSDAY, NO'VEMBER 7,t 878 (L.2 . 119 BEN BUTLER'S BIOGRAPHY. -0 WEKnB 11. VAMB noBr--INCI DEVT8 IN111 CAt1EE. What a Reporter Learned iu a Wide With the Essex Statesman--Ben Tells His Own Story. [Nitom the New York Sui.] The weary way was enlivened by General Butler relating many re miniscences of a varied and . active life. I picked up, in this way, some scraps of biography. General But ler's grandfather and father were seafaring men. His grandfather served, however, as a cavalry officer in the revolutionary army until be was rendered unfit for duty by a broken leg. He then fitted out a privateer and captured an East Indian so large that he hoisted his little craft on deck and sailed into a port of Portugal. His grandfather on his mother's side was also . a privateersman. General Bittler was BORN IN NEW IIAMPSHIRE. His father died six months before at St.- Christopher, in' the West Indies. "The piece of land on which I was born," General Butler said, "was so stony that in driving the cows a mile to pasture I often jumped from one stono to another the whole distance." When he was nine yeans of age his mother re moved to MassacIusets, whUre an. old uncle lived. There wer but few houses at Lowell then. "I have shot squirrels in the ,woods on the hill where my house stands," General Butler said. "I have lived in that house twenty eight years. There all my children, and Sue and Blanche were born." With some emotion, after a pause, he added: "For more than forty years I have lived among the people of Middlesex county, coming in and going ont before them. A man is known by his neighbors. I do not believe you will find one of mine vho will i.ot tell you I have been a good citizen, a good husband t.nd a good father-" General Butler's uncle assisted him to prepare for college at Dexter Academy, and to go through Vater ville College. "I was a wild boy," General Butler said, "but not a bad one. I did not lead in all the schoolboy pranks, but I was well up with the foremost. It was an orthordox Baptist institution, and the Rev. Mr. Smith, the same, by the way, who wrote 'My Country, 'tie of Thee,' was our chaplain. We had to get out of bed at 5 o'clock in the morning to attend prayers, and were obliged to go to church twice on Sunday and lectures once a week. It is true," the General said, laughingly, "that I helped put a horse in the chapel one night, and I learned then how to make a horse go when he doesn't want to go, a .trick that served me more than once in the army. After the boys had tried in vain to lead or drive t the old horse, I took him by the bead and backed him down the 'stairs. I often showed my men 'how to get horses on a boat during the war by baoking them along a plank." "Another of our PRANKs AT coLLEGE was breaking up an abolition meet ing. T'he English philanthropist 'who dlied the other day, George .Thompson, was to speak in the college town. The students shared the common feeling against the good man. 'We thought he was abusing Americans, and our patriot ic pride rebelled at tie. We did aiot want to get into a serape ; so, after debating the matter for sever.. al nights, we hit upon the following plan: We went .into the country and p aid an old farmer fifty cents to allow us to cateh In his barn all the swallows we wanted. WVe got a dozen or so, and the night of. the, meeting a number of us were pres ent, distributed judioiously about the room, each boy with a swallow in his poceot. The 'church was lighted. by old.fashioned chande liers, holding -each threoe or four,I whale-oil lamps. At a given signal, when tlre exercises were well under wAy, the swallows were let loose, -and in the tyiokling of an eye ont went the lig~hts. '.the birds, of eourse, went straight for the. lights, and the rush of aff~ catsed ty 'their' wings pyt ytpe l.hyp 9. ,~ , . kissed a girl or, two, aend tliey, of course,.shrie1 d. 41 wasbo Then silence ; said that some unaccounta ble accident had put the lights out, but the audience must sit quiet and preserve order, and the lamps would soon be lighted. "The sexton hurried away for a torch-there were no lucifer matches in those days-and presently back he came with a lighted candle. As he came into the church, holding it in front of his face and shielding it with one hand, tho swallows, of course, went for the light, and one of themt struck the candle, knock ing it out of the old man's hand and into his face. Ho tumbled back, gave a yell of fright, and gathering himself up took to his heels, vowing there were spirits there, sure. The crowd, now frightened in earnest, the students leading, got out of the church in a hurry, and the abojition meeting was at an end." THE WATER WHEEL STORY. "Is 'the popular story true about your attaching the great wheel of one of the factories in Lowell to compel the payment of wages to some of the foiale oper'Ativos ?" I asked General Butler. "No," he replied, "that is a fiction, and one by the repetition of which I have gained credit among the ignorant for great shrewdndss as a lawyer. There are many other fictions current by which I have gained credit for something worse, and none -of them have as much foundation as this story about my attaching the great wheel. Not long after I began to practise law at Lowell, the factories n.de a rulle that if their employees qait service b-1fore the ond of the month they could not be paid until the first of the next month, the reglar.pay day. There was probably ;some excuse for this rule, as help was a great deal more independent then than now, and by leaving in the middle of the month or earlier could seriously embarrass the mill owners, as well as put them to great inconvenience to settle a multitude of little bills. But, of course, all rules ought to have their exceptions. I was on friendly relations with some of the mill owners, and saved them ~many a moyances by paying the employees who quit before the end of the month, and came to me to have their employers sued. I kept an account of these payments, and at the next pay day sent around the items by my office boy and got my money. One or two mill owners, with whom I had no relations of this kind, once undertook to treat me cavalierly, but they soon learned better. Well, one day an old spin ster, whose parents or relatives lived in Now Hampshire, came to my office and told Ier story. Some body at home was sick ; her presence was required; it was absolutely necessary for her to go, but her employer would not pay. She needed money; she must go home; she could not wait till the first of the month. 'But what can I do for you, my good woman ' I. said. 'I want you to see them,' she replied. 'But that will not suit your purpose. You can't wait. You nmust go, and if I bring suit, it can't be tried in your absence.' '0 yes, but I know you can make thern pay me right *away, this yery day.' -'How so 1' I asked. 'Why, by attaching the great wheel ; of course .that will stop the milL' I rather liked that, and so I thought I would humor her. I told her to come back later, and I would see what could be done. I sent around a note to the mill and asked if so and so had quit work, and how much wams due her, and if I should piay as uanal. In a little while the re ply came. 'All right.' The ac. count was all right, but the rule could not be broken. ','When my New Hampshire spin. stor returned, I gave her a receipt to sign and paidsheo thie hmount of: her wages. She was triump)hant and said : 'I knew ydu would bring them to terms. when you attached the great wheel.' Of course ehe told how I attached the groat wheel all the way ft'om Lowell to her home in New Hampshire, and thu~ -the story got started." FRanser, IGNoIANOE Ni NEw YORK. -It is a pretty serions fact that in this city of New Yorig t,here are ig day 20,532 gi'own.-..i ja and wor, men who can 'neither read nor write. Itia is till; Iai seri 9that, while a per contago of favored lads' and misses are, getting, t rsua.tger ng of the "higher Eiglishi b'rAnchds" at the expense -of the whole agly1,ot taxpayers,"thodsand 'of l',ttle ones rea fo erey p$:n i n fit pulic hoos. This. must We'amhdedwNew ork on ' SING ULA.1 S UPBRSTITXONS. How Some Miners Think They are Forewarned of Death. There are wonderful things to be studied in the vast laboratory where nature has stored her treasures. The men who toil in 6e caverns of the ground and tread' the endless windings of the drifts have their presentiments of corWng calamity, and at times feel the touch of death in the very air. A Virginia (Nov.) Uhronicle reporter was talking with an old miner a few days ago who implicitly believed that no death over took place in the mines with - out a warning of some kind. "You see," lie said, "death never comes of a sudden upon the mon in the mines. You reporters write up accidents and tell how something gave way or fell quick and killed somebody. Now, this ain't so. There's always some warning. When I see my lantern begins to buin low down and blue, I know there is danger ahead. If it keeps on for a few days and then begins to waver and flicker, I'll watch it close to see where it points. Now, yon may set me up for a fool, but What I'm tellin' is the gospel truth. When the flame loans over (as if it was being worked by a blow pipe) and points to a man, death has marked him. Some years ago when Bill Hendricks was killed in the Savage, the flame of my lantern pointed right to him for over an hour, and when he moved the flame would turn, just as if Bill was a load stone au. t:o fiine was a mariner's nedile. I kti-av he was gone, and tol1 him to be careful about the bLA. \Vei, n g.,t througa that all rignt, and got wi tilto ctgo. As we went up, the canilo kept acting strangely, and at tines the flame would stretch out long and thin towards Bill. At length it gave a sudden flicker, and Bill reeled to one side and was caught in the timbers. I hard his drcadful cry as he disappeared down the shaft, and while he was bounding from side to side, dashiug out his brains and scattering his flesh down to the bottum, mny light went out. I never lit that lantern, again. It hangs up in my cabin now, and it always will. There's more in a candle flame than people think. I'd rather gee a cocked revolver point ed at me than a candle flame; a revolver sometimes misses, but a candle flame is sure to kill when it starts towards a man. I must start for my shaft now. Don't give my name to anybody. There are some who would laugh at me." The man here picked up his bucket and walked away. There are plenty of miners on the Comrioei who have just such superstitions. Some be lieve that bad and good luck come in streaks, just us quartz and property. For three years past there had been no accidents in the North Consolida ted Virginia until a few days ago, when Champion had his thigh crushed. The miners said at once that a "bad streak" had been struck, and mere accidents might be expeeted. Yesterday two more men were injured by falling thirty foot into the sump. This was caused by the breaking of a two inch plank that seemed able to boar a, dozen men. "Handle it carefully, Marier," said an economical citizen, as his wife was l'amming his old shirt into the rag-bag. "That shirt repre sents capital I It may be turned into a million dollars' worth of Butler's cheap rag money when the old man fixes things, ar.d .capital should be treated with respect. .No, Ma;rie;-, don't sell it to the junk man I Lay it carefully away as flat money I" 2'aunton GazetUe. The Nevada inventors aspire to rival the wonderful achievements of Edison, and perhaps the greatest triumph yet recor ded by them is the tinvontion ., of a combined buids er churn and accordeoni.' 'The cream is p laced in the lower part of the accordeon, and while the player is dk'awing "Sweet Spirit, Hear My Prayer" out o.f the instrument, wooden attachments to the keys are churning the butter.. 'Fhere is so muciih destitutin, in New York that men have become de.spbrate, and don't care what they do;to.mtake a living. There 'wei-mo less tha .,ve canadidat4e for inayor, llUof-thiginey wo he. heretofore been regarded as highly res?eta.. ble. With pe.rfedt, fruth t ha been remarked the the avenes.. leading' to an e ily grave asy ltten aboon opnd e o thoa Who ran to catch m'e when I fell? The sheriff. In former times the man :ate the cream, (if the cat didn't ant4eipate him,) but now they crematg the man. This promises to be a very cold winter, and all of our young I;en are wearing the heaviest kiud of canes. Putting a bent.pin in. a 4hsir ij a very .amusing praotical joke. It never fails to excite a man's rise,% ability. A pretty girl down Eat is a "mind-readeh" She said to a bash. ful beau the other night : "La I I believe you are going to kiss me." She was right. Professor Edison is inventinq ' machine to turn over the festive slapja6k while the hired girl sitiin the corner and reads the latest I novel. Move on, great 'army of 1 progress Alabama has 6n iuti-eu strian i society, based on the be0ief that f horses were never made to carry burdens on their backs, and' that- it e it is extremely cruel to ride thein. Prince Henvy, second son - of - the Crown Prince of GerMnay, -is. a lieutenant in the navy, and set o -t I recently from Kiel for a two-years' 0 voyage on the Prince Adelbort. t A "A beam upon the fact 6f our Democratic watrs-a perfect .sky, acraperI in all our elections"-is what a Kentucky paper calledits pet ; candidute for lieutenant-governor. r Rev. Josiah Henshaw, said to be e the original "Uncle Tom," recently . visited a Detroit theatre and for the first time witnessed the perfor mance of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." L "Ganeral Sherman says the stories i about the supposed unhappiness in a his family are lies." But Sherman' r is such a liar that nobo.dy can r6di anything he says. We are fickle as a people in our love fo popular . songe. We first admire, then run the thing in the ground. Finally we wind up by abusing the author.-Nyouns AY. vertiser. Henry C. Work deserves a first.. class funeral after he is dead. He wrote "Grandfather's Clook." He ought to have about sixty days in the workhouse now.-49to Pos4 The late Mr. Vanderbilt's lawydr will swear to the old wan's alling him a scoundrel, a fraud, a vulture, just before he died, thus establisp.. Ing the old g6ntleman's sanity. Napoleon seems to have had an u instinctive dread of the literasL Besides his persecnUtio of Madame ds Stael and others, he attributed the whole of the Revolution to Rousseau, and pronouAced h,An a very bad man. It frequently happens that the a United States troop can't oyAr&%ak the Indians, but, on the other hand, if the United States tiagofl gget'a fair start the Indians qaa' tartake them either. Gambetta has created a great en thusiasm in France by his upsees. Some of our eagle orators could also create a great deal aOf enthu. siasm (in this country) by iaakiing ' speeohes in France. The flre *fteen minutes following a marriage engagemnent may be ' turtned from ecstatic blast bitter gall by tg gir4 rernarkciu that asa . can tell-a Brasilika peb W fre6i & diamond in a ring with her dyes shut.-F'e Pree,. It miakes a youn nian- feel very' , much as if some hig,ntpwo4d dow, and then happen to see a sign, "To Let," on the door.--inejrnagl BIreakfast- Table. If the !iew York banksval give their safe combinaations direct to the burglars instead of Iempartang them 11r h..jst - lsght a saufe the vos ago of pre. ezoue: time and taske esbey much lesaf nptaie4 Ag4gi. 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