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TfR17WEEKLIYIiEDITIONJ} WINNSBOIRO. S. C., USDY DMCEMBER 31,1878 IVOL. .N.4 LIFE AMONG THE SHAKERS. aLA"LINJIsWir, on WIT'rOUT, GoDLINEs,. A DesoriDtion of the Queer People Who Reside Anong the Berkshire Hills of New York. ERMnom the Neta and tburier. I In our nineteenth* century we find many singuIarities in modes of worship which'aro hard to reconcile with the spirit of the'age. For instance, the" "Shakers," a sect singtilar in" tlio habits of life, personal aspect, and form of worship of its members. We visited a Shaker village in, the summer among the Berkshire Hills of New York, and found one virtue at least per fectly illustited-oleinliness. Of "godlinoss'! we saw nothink. With in a mile of the village we met a lumbering vehicle proceeding at a funeral rate, with two men and two women sitting .very erect and looking exceedingly uncomfortable. As they approached, the curious garments, the queerly cut hair of the men, und, above- all, to the feminine taste, the outrageous and unmistakable bonnet of the * women, proclaimed thom undoubtedly "Sha kors." As we passed, the men gave us a sober, dignified bow, wilich, I am sorry to say, we returned by' a Rather curious gaze. "It's a re Markable fact," said our driver, ''that you nevei find one man and one woman* riding together. It's either one man and two women, or two ndh and several women." "Then they do not allow flirtations, evidently," remirke a young lady, who certainly looked as if size wan not above sunl amuisbmint. * "Bless jour heai-t, no I" Le exclaitned, "tid] men hfven't nothing to do with the' women." At the entrance to the -.Shaker Villago," fields 'of oilions, then going to seed, (for"which- these people ture noted,) id prim looking apple orchards bordjred the ..rd forming a relitd, howeves94j stiff, pinkish huses, the ibodos of the people. These "dwellings" are very large, built of stone and brick, and generally of a pinkish *color most offensive to the eye of thu: fastidious. The Inon Iwo on one nide of tho hoise ind theo women on. the other. Aa we wore anxioums to make a few purcbases, as relics of the place, we stopped at a store. The articlea for sale were very expensive, nearly all of thom being fancy, such as baskets, boxes, fans, Ac. One-thitig attracted us strong ly, and that was a box of maple sugar, which everybody said wao: partionlarly well made by the Shakers. All of as ate it until, as Mark Twain would'say, we 'lo'athed the ver" sight of it. It tasted like a miit..re of brown sugai and water,'which to me was not very appetizing. The store was* pain fully clean, not a speck of dust to lbe seen on the floor, ceiling or wall, the latter being adorned by little placards with directions for becom ing good.' Several of us were ad. vised to inves,t in these, but~ we en dorsed tlie sentiments and 'dida't buy. A Shakeress now came in and* asked if we would not like to go. down to the dairy. The maple sugar eater's welcomed that idea gladly, thinking of a; hospitable invitation to partake of milk, &c. Poor creatures I they were doomed to disappointment, for we were not allowed to touch nor taalte. The dairy was cleaner than the store, if a comparison be' possible. Large hospitable cheeses adorned the shelves and tables, creamy and -*inviting in their appearance. Tall, bright looking cans of cream and milk rested 'on ' the' floor, while bright tin plates an;.1 pans adorned the walls. We p iased 'from the dairy into the launidry, and there, ensconced in a rocking chair, was a pretty young Sh ikei-ess. Now there was a handsome young man :in our psty, (a necessary append age to all parties,) and by a strange coincidence (such thidge happen some times) he looked at he ', and she--I regret to record such a vanity and frivolity of a Shaikeress ~-4ooked at him and laughed. Tnis little coquetry was stopped, how ever, by the appearance of our Shakeress guaide--an elderly lady, who never did such things when eAe was young, at' lent hier digni-, fled expressioni hnpIied. 'Batt a# the old adage-runu, "Let yorngg people alone for enijoying 4.hein'selt'es." A 4, left the ,roonm, 'our' hadsaome foung . gotld . fidg4' .J i to have a little cit wit' the pretty young Shakeress. "What a very clean.place you have here," he 'e marked, granciag furtively at his coimp..nion. "I suppose you ai'e never troublod with flion ; there seems to be a perfect dearth of then here. Why if one came in all thit would be necesary to s.%y would be shoo-fly, eh ?" "Not if you were tle fly," she coyly answered. At this interestin, juncture, when his hopes no douibt were run ning high, the party re-entere and the young 8hakerems was ordore to leave the room. With a submissive "yea" she obeyed, but not without a baokwird glance or two. "What are we coming to," remarked a spin ster of our party, "when eoven Sha kers flirt I" We visited the church next, but were told no service would be held there until Sunday. As it was Stt urday we determined to roturn the next day to service. Accordingly, on the following morning, about 10 o'clock; we found 'ourselves at the church door. "Vehicles to the nuin bor of forty or fifty filled the street, people having come from all yarts of the duntry to see th3 perfor mance (ceremony, rather.) The so -called church was certainly. curiously.built. * It had very Much the appearance of a large ha.ill, with the exception of a bay-window at one end. -The gentlemen of our party --were told to go to the left with the "brethren" while the ladies passed to the.right witha the "sis ters." The fISor was s> spotlessly white that yoh positively felt it was wrong to p u your "herotic.d" feet tipun it. wohebes were placed for visit,rs, aid we succeeded in ob taining one of the fron, seats. Tio "eonregaion" i.e.,t10 84.akers, (we.constituted tihe audience,) had already asrembled, the women wear ing barege droes. jerjfuetly plain, (no such woL'ldly thing as an over, skirt,) With a muslin han-lkernhiaf nfoarnd the neck and curials lttle caps on the head, were se ite.l on one side of the room, and the laon, with long coAts and pants of a deep bluish coloi', were. seated .on . the other.' The h.ir of the toen were long behin and bthgod in front. After sitting awhile. in profonit siience. abiout Welity-five mleu an wottien* rQs8-. ani:1 'fIn.AA3 - circle c41ll the "Singing Circle," or it Somed to us ithe '"Timing Cirelo." T m'rest of the CO1)grg:Ltion now r-4 and foui-rm.1 a long line, pre l):'ratory to thcir dan(_'e1arouhd the "minging Ciicle." 0.jt of the "sisters" having givon the key-note a dismal wailing was set up and the congregation commenced to da-ice around. No discription can convey an adequate idea of how these people dance. To er,joy it, one should see them. There was one man who struck our attontion par ticularly 4nd he may -Rerve as a model. 'He was tall and thin, with a most sanetimonious countenan ce. He walked on his toes with a moat elastic 6pring of the body-beiding forward at each step an dwaving'his hands up and down in a most efr'ee' Live manner. Niiv and then, 'as if, moved by the spirit, he would jerk himself up and then give a long' stride. After dancing twve or thr'ee times around tihe circle, they all stopped, and then a brother, and sometimes a sister, would sp)eak. One sister give ue the benefit of one of her visiond; .It so happened that she had bad one that morn'ing on her way to church. When they had danced about eight times, th~e signal was given for them to stop, They all then:went'to their :seats, the men on one side at d the women on the other, and. ' after spreading their pocket handkerchiefs' on their laps, composed thiemselves to listen to the "leader," who now came forward to address "the people of the world," as he called us. Turn. ing his back on the NShakers, he commenced as follows : "We are all glad to see you bere to-day, and hope proper decorum will be observed ; no frivolity, and all wordly thoughts put aside. I know I ain addressing Methodists, Episcopalians, B iptists, and. manry other seotsi but j tell you just what it is, my friends,'tiie time'for a new religion has' oome, and you can now throw off your'old shacklesi and embrace the new fqith. All of those religions are ruled by an authorit,y which is 4,bsolately -damn n.ible. '['here's: the ohulroh'of kng land, Why, Who's Mt the head of that ? -Viotoria, She's at the head of the church atal the army, Wes ley leg Is the Methodists,' and thats the way with all of them. Iv ial4 rather be dahqd (taWbe 'N4e tbe authority of 'those sect. th~eso people beliet6I~. Instead of rising, you all did like so many cows ant horsem, und you! needn't hAve any other hop6. How different we are. We live 'like ange0s (they certainly didt, showt it) and don't believe in m%rripge.. We are proud of .tho nan%of Sho- I kers, aind live honest' livet, tilling the soil and earning -otr dvin bread Then, again, what' bigotry i'ues tioso people. Just the 9hr day I met on1e of Lhe4 men of t0- world and we had a discussion on religion. Immediately his eyes. bi'iand,I know right off that man,bad 'the devil in him. No Chris- with I charitable feelings would- get so angry in- a discinsion. .ko ' no doubt about it. All .Episo9alians, Methodistmi, anI all- sxoh li -are an infernal ot of (hristiane." t -t With such remarks he aotinud to scold his audience fdr "Atly half an hour, when, to our great relief, he concludeil his remaiks'i th the siticere hope that we would%kUow-, ledge the error of ouir ways id em brace the new religion, i. eco.me Shakkers. A hymn was t1a sung, and the-people were distusvpd. The women then walked in a's%$ imoni. ons' ianner to their respet e pegs to6k ddwn th61i 'boungts ' tip- b pots and walked slowly on6. t Our party soon after left,laoralizt iug on what we had *een an hvard. i THEATRIOALS AT BLA'CEST I..-.,Q4 t Christmas evening an entert nbin was given at Blackstook r.'the ' benefit of the Blackstock igbt - Itifantry, the receipts .-fro4 which .0 !-wore $155.00 Great disapp6int.: 0 ment was expressed at the Absueno a of the Chester Luminaries, but-~the : Rossville String B.nd waar 1. hand a anI iunished music for $4e occa.. a sion, The performances opened f' with a dri.ll in the manual 6f arms 6 by a chosen squad of the B. L. I., 0 who splendidly acquitted them- 1 selves. "Tho -Cousins," a -efined a society drama, was'then intrdduced t Misss Mary Nicholon, . Iattie 0 Boulware, Lida Mobley' 'd An nie % Morrison persontted -their ' ter6 in an tttrajtive-. ino ' " t tained handsoeo Pag4n,T . Vp Keveo#ral impressive tableax were i pi-esented, after which followe4' a t farce entitled' Wintafall." Misses tI Mninie Woodward andTilla obyel di'stinguisheI theine4ves in. the', A charming wa,y they naotod 41fre. anc d Clar'a M.ely. AMssrs. O1, Kou no.ly, Caldwell tind Pagan sust:inea their parts in a mostereditable way. Mr. T. it. Boulware acted the negro to perfection, and with his cornfield arlance kept the audience con, vulsed with law%.hter. Aniid. astori4 of applause the certnin fell, when everybody forthwith invaded the apartments where Mrs.. Brice, -Mci. McLure, Mrs. Craig, Mro, Shannon a and Mrs. Oates vied with each other I in dispWnmiug a prindely fot. 'A P spec.ially noticpable featro 6f the 1 ocq#on wAs a variety 'table in o:'arge of Miss Anna Ualdwell~ the Mies. Mobley and Mis* Nettie Rbddy. These' young ladies" d is-' cha'rged their' duty iti fa'most engaging manner, and were the centre of attraction' to 'which' susceptible bachelors gravitated, a The lemnonade well was ai popular institution. Tihe "dra*ers of water". r at this wvell were -two charmin~ a young ladies, Misses Woodward and e Mobley, whose sweetness of manner gainett them many admuirr1 ChAester Reporter. -. - . r At a partyv in M'ehigan a couple 0 of young people submitte'd in jest toiil a mock marriage ; and after the a ceremony was performe&I by a gen, t tleman present the girl discovered I that he was a justice of 'th's' peace, and she claime. that the marriage 'I wa lga.Th youi muani doesn't A bright and happy face' peoping ( out of a baby carriage, -'is 'a sure a" sign that the little' occupant. hais not, been dootored 'with opida' t preparations. If your baby needs medicine buy a'bottle of Dr. Bull's'9 Baby, $yrup. It containe nothing ,1 mnjurQus, ... Pope Leo XIII. is engage'di drawing up a .scheme' of co-.operar tion bat\Ween. all -the Europead powers, with a view' to the regreo. .sioin'of socialisticad atol todidencies. The damage. doge rby* recent two days' -storli h foeu west#ru 1 counties of "Ma tta j. A6i mated 4 $8r p4otep'sn TIa rar,r.oJVwrra, L Now Theory to Its Generation an Re'production. Among the most vahnablo con ributions to thq yollow 'eve oroblem, is one fro;a Dr. E. E lrnipsoed, of Columbia, publishe< a the New York Bledical Reaord le says: "It weems, from the means of re earch at my commnand, that in al lie inquirics of those who hav< ritten on the origin of ellom ver, none-have gone beyon th< Vestorn .: ' pho. Althougf xtensively.: tn upon, by Lien eikant*Atury and others, physi ians have entirely . ignored' th uliuence0of the trade windai upor he production of disease. Tht treat desert of Africa is'a Region o ry, hot winds, the intensely hoate< nd rarifieI aiUs passing over COentra Lfrica, during the rain season, wher he poisdious elements * are being onstantly and rapidly,gonerateil, o ourse takes up this element it -reit abundance, and as moisture iE dded in 'large quantities, -whilc )assing over the immense area o .ea water, 'these trade winds ar< roll-suited to deliver- their living urden on our shores, prepared fol he addidon of the nalai-ii necessa y to*intonsify its malignity. Ae leoe winds, like- all 'others, are otnewhat subjected to changes it heir'direction, I would ask if- 'this any n6t account for fhe appearance f thif feyer only in certain locali [es, either on our Gull Qr Atlantic ot, in anv givan oeason, while al ter portions are oxenpt. ' So fat % my investigations - have gone I nd that all those who have made rwv registrations for the direotions ad ducations of witd while this var prevailed,-.bjvegpuflued theij eives to the.6ds. near the surface f the earth, not regarding the aper.strata of air, . which w1y -count for the seeming incongrili r*in 'all efforts ' to identify . th rigin of the poison of this diseaso ith prevailing urinds. Tis traciug I the'trade winds, and of. their ,$oeo doie -li fully with tht ties which A 1 i nva4dda 61. xa .... . .nv'.d .11 P4frah'c6 i ywhore in the orld btip de of the precibod no, goes fr. to corroborate- i'n isory of this poison; and, - unt: lose trts- ire satisfactorily refut, l, I'will hold this opinion, and at >)me future tine mnore fully Gluui -Ite the tostiniony."4 J7-KC-A-BR4C, aliny slop, Tired nature's sweat restorer - -Don't amount to much, If you impon to bunk ..with a snorer. :91-mdra Gazette. In Paris a certain Mlonsior I(en rd announces himself as "a public rib.e, who digests accounts, ex, lains the laiguage of 'floweis, and ils .fried potatoes." Every miai is mad better by th< pssession of a~ good picsture, if it ii sly a landscape on' the bauck of i unfdred dollar note --Kew Orlean. 'icayune. . "Got all kinds of ties here ?"~ sii .would-be wit, .entering a well. nown) frirnishinag store. "Yes, sir,' splied the shopmnan. '"Well, ould like a pig -style,". replied thi astomer." "All -right, sir jue end - down your -hogshead, ani e'll taike your' measure," said th< pad.) sh6pman.. 'Thej w.ere looking at the fall styli f bunnets. Said she : "Oh I dear )ok at. thudt bird in the crown ; whal pretty bill I" And -because he~ srned away, 'wiped ' his eyes with, is handkerchief, and murinured, "] hould saiy i6 wa's a pretty bill," sh' ecamne. nelacholy, and threateuic t>m leave him and go home to hei Nothet-, - A noted sharper, wishing to in ratia'te himself- with W elergyman, id:' "Parson, I should like t< ear.you preach mor'e thain I oat all' yott.". "WVell," 'responde<t th< lergyagau, "if you had been wher< on ooglj .to have:been last Sunda; 'on woduld have heard me."-'We ras that ?" asked the sharper. "It he coqat,yjai,'' was, lie reply, Two brothe.re, of the name o sawes,eon ereating .a disturbance al he Dublin-Theatre, wore called t< >r ,b-hecelebrated Felis Me a wowas 1ntli e atno bog )ne of the ,. present' .his cat-d. aid, "Yoi Qlal1 v r inu"ne o 1~o ~Lws." "La*ea ~Itqaoh 1%~ Then .11 da ur~t1 nOh t 0 e'h1io IfEWA OFTIHEDAy. Pullman oars will be running from Parip to Aome next spring. The Paris Exhibition building, rminus the PavIlion of the City of -Paris, is to be retained. A recent fire at Ab.in p-lace, the winter residence of the Khedive of Egylt,. destroyed half the building. *Hong Kong a troneidous con flagration broke out on ChristnaS and t'afed al4day Thursday, causing great dostruction of property. A Kentucky mule kicked over a - can of 'nitro-glycorine, aod was bl own into atoms, togetber with a negro driver* and the wagon to whioh the mule was attached. .6ight, one of the numGrous wookt lies itarted within tho last eighteetj months iv London, has gone out, and'those'very hard tilm6s are likely to have 6 very snuffling-6tt effect on sevoral other literary luinarieS. One of the Baston churches re-, fuses tu adtiit'a genlonan to its membership, beoause he breaks the Sabbath by preparing matter for a Monday paper. The Boston Young Men'aChristian Association oudirses this decision. Boston is getting up a big an. thors' carnivalo r fair. There are to be ten booths, each devoted .to the sale of one anthor's books by pretty girls. dressed to -represent his principal characters, There will also-le'readiig. The profit is to go to a charity. Reports from Manchester, Shef,, geld and other places in England show the recent distress to be still increasing, but the thaw, if it con tinue, will enable insons and other outdoor laborers to resuine wof'k, though even then a vast amount of destitution will re:pain. The corporation 'of Liverpool have given public notice that they intend to~ apply,.in the e0suing sos sion' of Parliameut, for an aot authoriing the A.ighting of the gi e streets, plaeoes,..a44g 4an. tint-the:6rdugh by 'iAA 'W e ootrie light, "or otherwise than by Wnehuns. of gas." The body of a well developed child, appi.rently soveral days old, was picked up on Thursday night on the streets in Paterson, N. J., after having been kicked about for several days as a parcel of no con sequence. It was wrapped only in a bit of old bedtiok and was frozeu still, The steam barge United, Capt. E. L. Haine, ferom Fredericksbtarg for Philadelpliia, sank off Cedar Point at 1, a. m., on - Friday. Sh was loaded with railroad ties. The crew jumped in a bott as the vessnl cank,and were five honra in the open boat. The cook was frozen to death. The Washington correspondent of the Loui'sville C1ou1rier-ournal as serts that Mr. Blaine is working very hard to have General Grant put on the army retired list in order that the General may thus get the reputation of being what the cor respo,ndent calls '"a Iaid1easide public man." The comittee of the Louisiana Legislature to whoin were referred the charges brought against Con-. gressman Acklen b)y one H. La. Smith, a telegraph operator, of the .sedluction and neglect of -a dani'h - ter of Acklen's ' overseer in 1877, have -published 'a report exnr'essin y their unaninious convicti6n that Acklen was -guilty. *Mr. Cranston, of Floyd county, Ga., married in 1872, deserted his wife in 1874, and, going to Ten unessee, married aiother woman, and w~as killed 'by'a railroad accident, His second wife sued the company for damages, and, his history having come dut, tbe question is raised whether she or the wvife deserted in Georgia should conduct the suit, The regular mnesseng~er of the Im. porters and Traders' JBank of New York City being absent on Friday, a new man was sent with the usual consignment to the 'Olearing..house, Me wha secornpanied by -the bank detective. 'and - earried S160.000 Olearing.-'bouse certi#oates of legal. ten-dere deposited In the United S ttes - treasury, *42,900 United States gold certificates, 6,755.88 carroucy7 and $6,7 gold. The me senger, on arriving at the Clearing housy, discovered that alW thy money was gone and could~ 4in to tadisAppearane.. rj~ 1 urned tothe ban *