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TRI-WEEKLY EDITION.} WINNSBORO S. C.. TUESDAY, JANUARY 21% 1879 {OL. 2. NO. 151 TAXlAAOE ON IS CCrITIO$. He Explodes a Number of Sensational Stories and Nails a Lie. Talmage took his critics to task on Sunday. In the course of his sermon he said : "But during these ton years of my ministry here I have not only received the criti cism of the World but much of misrepresentation. Lies have been told about mo-lie8, LIEs, LIES I I once came to Now York from Philiadelphia to marry a couple. The ceremony was performed at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. For some reason or other the newly married couple started off upon their wed ding trip in a balloon, ascending from Central Park in the presence of 5,000 people. A week afterwards it was howled through the country that I had belittled the holy ordi nance of matrimony by uniting a couple in ;he clouds. At one of our May festivals, with five hundred children roaring happy before me and with a Christmas star of ever, greens hanging over my head, I said, 'Boys, I feel like a morning star.' Now, it happened that this was the refrain of some negro song, and a member of a neighboring'church who chanced to hear of it wrote to a religious paper saying that I had quoted two or three verses of 'Shoo Fly' from the pulpit, and that 'Shoo Fly' was sung by our Sunday-school each Sabbath. A religious paper in Maine recently published the state ment tMat on several ocoasions I had appeared in the pulpit in war paint and with an Indian's dress about me, whereupon several clergy men bemoan in the colum ns of that paper the degeneracy and abuse of the pulpit, and asked piteously, 'Is there no way to stop this mnan 1' Why do I state these ridiculous tales t Is it to stop them? Ah, no. I don't want to stop them. They make things spicy, I long since learned to harness abuse to Christian work." Mr. Talmage then repeated his customary thanks to the press of America for giving him every week millions of read ers. "But while," he added, in con cliding his discourse, "some of these falsehoods may have excited your mirth, there is one that is dif'erent, because it invades the sanctity of my home. It has been stated that sixteen years ago I went sailing upon the Schuylkill River with my wife and her sister, and that I allowed my wife to drown while I saved her sister, marrying her in sixty days afterwards. I propose to nail this infamous lie on the forehead of every man who shall utter it, and I invoke the law to aid me." Mr. Talmage then read from a paper which he had prepared a complete account of the unfortu nate catastrophe on the Schuylkill. He was in a boat with his wife and child, his own sister and her child. Knowing nothing of the dam they were swept over it and the boat was upset. His wife was in itantly sucked under by the strong current. His sister, the two children and himself wvas saved by clinging to the gunwale of the boat. At the time this sad accident occurred he ,had never seen or hoard of his present wife, and was introduced to her for the first time nine months later by his brother. He would pay one hun dred dollars to any responsible witness who in the future would give him the name of any responsi ble person who dared to utter this libel again. Next Sunday Mr. Talmage will preach a sermon entitled "Sonsa.. tionalism vs. Stupidity." There is an interesting anecdote of a boy, in one of the rudest parts of the county of Clare, in Ireland, who, in order to destroy some f aglets lodged in a hole one hun dred feet from the summit ofa rock, which rose four hundred feet perpendicular from the sea, caused himself to be suspended by a rope, with a scimiter in his hand for his defense, should he meet with an attack from the old ones, which precaution was found necessary, for no sooner had his companions lowered him to the nest than one of the old eagles made at him- with great fury, at which he struck, but, unfortunately . missing his aim, nearly cut through the rope that supported him. Describing his horrible situation to his comrades, they.cautiously and safely drew him up, when it -was found that his hair,- which was a qttirtee of ah hour before sa dark auburn, was changed to gr-ay., A Mirseileso.*ieftd for 1879 the da Iprc,Gorb .YAP'OL ON'S MEMon . The Emperor Napoleon was at Erfut. A legion of kings and princes had come to humble their crowns before his regent royalty. At one of the soirees which he gave at this brilliant court. the conversa tion turned on an ancient pontifical bull, about the date of which there was some doubt. An Austrian prelate indicated a period which the Emperor contested. "I am better informed than your Majesty on such subjects," said. the prelate, "and I think I am certain of what I state." "And for my part," replied the Emperor, "I do not say I believe ; I say I am certain you are deceived. Besides, the truth may be easily ascertained; let such a work be brought, and if I am wrong I will hasten to acknowledge it." The book was brought. The Emperor was right. The whole assembly were astonished at such an excellent memory on the part of one whose head was constantly occupied by a crowd of other sub jects. "When I was a lieutenant," said the Emperor. These simple words, "When I was a lieutenant," pro duced a singular effect upon all present; all the representatives of the old monarchies looked at each other, smiling. "When I had the honor to be a lieutenant of artille ry," continued the Emperor, in a louder tone, "I remained two years in garrison in a city of Dauphin, which had but a single circulating library. I read three times the whole collection, and not a word of what I read at that period ever escaped me. The title of the book which has just been brought flgured on the list. I read it with the rest, and, as ybu have seen, I have not forgotten its contents." A PARROTS P.TY. Capt. James Etchberger vouches for the following bird story : About thirty years ago, when in Honduras, in command of the bark Eldorado, his wife, then accompany ing him, was presented with a par rot, a sprightly bird and a fluent discourser in the Spanish language The bird was brougat to this city where, after being domiciled in th household of the captain's family, it soon acquired a knowledge of the English language. The next-door neighbor of the captain was a gar rulous woman-an incessant scold -forever quarreling with some one. or something. Polly, being al'owed full liber y,e was pleased to take an airing on the fence, and in a short time had learn ed to mimic the scolding woman to perfection, and finally became ag. gressive. Polly not infrequently rued impertinence by being knocked off the fence with a broomstick. This brought forth a torrent of abuse from her injured feelings upon the head of her assailant. Finally the bird's language became so abu sive that the captain was obliged to send it away, and Polly was trans ferred to a Christian family in the country, where in the course of time she reformed and became to some extent a bird of piety. Some time ago, while she was sunning herself in the garden, a large.- hawk swooped down and bore the distressed' parrot off as a prize. Her recent religious train ing came to her assistance, as at the top of her voice she shrieked, "Lord save me 3 0, Lord, save me ?"' The hawk became so terrified at the unexpected cry, that he drop ped his intended dinner and soared away in the distance.' Polly still survives her attempted abduction.-Baltimore News. A young manA doeinto Xenia, Ohio, the other day with some friends, to mieet a train. Arriving at the depot, a freight train was standing on the side track, and the countryman, not seeing any conrven jent place to tie up, deliberately tied his horse to the rear car of the freight, and proceeded to promen ade the walks around the depot while waiting for his train. What was his surprise when lie saw his hitching post pull out for Cincinnat ti, with his horse and wagon bring ing up the rear in not the best of order.e It would not be propek' to record.the remarks of the young man on the subject. .. HELlru Noms.-~?statistfes p rove that twenty'-fve ydr cent. of the deatjs in qn Mrger citips are caused by consumpton, and when we re fleet that ths.terrile disease in its earlier sta' e will end ily,.yicl. to . a bottle of Dr.'111's ;%ough Syrup (coeting 25 cents), shall we condenin' the sufferers for their negligenoe, or pity them for their ignoralce?* A CITY Tro MIEs IN THE AIR. Some Interesting Facts Concerning Leadville, the Chief Mining City of Colorado. Loadville, Lake County, Col., is the highest, newest, and, for its size, the noisiest city on the conti nent. It is what the eminors call a rattling camp. It is close up to the snowy range, overlooking California Gulch, the scone of the gold-hunt ing furoro of 1859. At an altitude of 9,000 feet, or to put it more for cibly, nearly two miles higher than New York, it may be considered as well up in the world. There is no place like it in the whole Rocky Mountains. It is a larger city than Deadwood on the north, or Silverton or Lake City on the South. The twenty-year-old towns of Black Hawk, Central, and George. town, are nothing to it in popula, tion, trade, fast money-making, fast everything. Where Leadville now stands was a year ago almost a howling willderness. There were a few prospectors busying themselves with turning up rocks here and there, but there was hardly what could be called a camp. No town had been staked out. It was not until last spring that the place was organized and named. From that time until now people have poured in from all the surronding country, from the far East and from the Pacific States and Territories, until there is a bustling city of 8,000 in., habitants. It has a mayor, coucils, police and fire departmeuts, church, es, schools, a telegraph line, daily mails, money-order post--office, two papers, three banks, and hundreds of stores, shops, saloons and other features of a fast new city. The streets have a sort of straggling regularity. The principal thor oughfares are named Chestnut, Pine, State and Harrison avenues. Almost every thing is cheaply built, the stores which carry the largest stocks being mere cabins. There are a few story- and-ashalf and two story buildings. Lumber is in great demand, and the three or four saw-mills in the vicinity are not adequate to supply the need. Lately business men have begun to plan larger and better structures, brick-yards have been st,arted, and some fine blocks are under way. The prevailing spirit is that of rampant speculation. People stake out claims, tear up the rocks a lit, tle, sometimes "salt" them, get some plausible do nothing to talk up the discovery, and it is a few days before an avaricious "tenderfoot" catches the bait at a high 'figure. Lot brokers, who have the refusal of most all the desirable property in tawn, lot-jumpers and city addition platters drive a big business. Everything partakes of the nature of a grand debauch. Men seem to ba carrie.1 away with excitement, and, no longer satisfied with the plodding and sure. footed business ways, seem lost in a mad, furious chase for fortunes. Of course, saloons, dance, houses, theatres and . keno-dens ilourish in such a place as this. A GIAN(T 21T OUBLES. Losing His Wife, His Money and an Ecducated Goat Worth $4,000. Colonel Ruth Goshen, the giant, who has b)een exhibited by Barnum and other showmen in this and other countries, has begun proceed ings for a divorce. In 1862 he went to live in Mrs. Augusta Mat,. tice's boarding--house in Delancey street. M!rs. Mattice was a wvidow, and after Goshen had been living there a time she became engaged to marry him. After the wedding she accompanied him on his trips, and three years ago traveled through Europe with him and Donald McKay's Warm Spring Indians. They afterwards went to Jerusalem, where Goshen is known. A year ago when Goshen was living on his farm at Clyde Station, N. J., he made an engagement for a tour through the West. His wife refused to ac comnp any, he says, saying she was tired of traveling. He left her f the farm with their two adopted children, the key of the safe 'in which he kept his bonds and a man named J. W. Sweet, who, Goshen says, is.the divorced husband of a circus rider. Goshen says that when he got home he found that his wife had taken 810,000 in money and bonds from the safe and had gone. Sweet had gone to9. He says also that about. threer weeks ago his wife and Sweet took from his farm while he was away a hoi*se and wagoll and an educated goat -that could road and write and was worth $4,000. It takes 9)1--third of' Rssia's revbnue4to pay the interest' oW 'ei national debt. Masked bawl-A smothered cry. Only a matter of form-Tight lacing. The auctioneer's occupation's "gone I" Bored of education-A lazy school boy. Cold doesn't travel very fast; anybody can catch it. The German empire has a popu. lation of seventy-five million. There are two hundred and eight bones in the human body. A little machine is made that aetually measures the distance walked. No matter how little you over work a horse, his sufferings are "unspeakable." The camel is the paragrapher of the animal kingdom ; he has such a funny column, you know. The next territory that will ask to be admitted to the Union is Dakota, which claims 125,000 popu lation. Since Washington's time no President has ended his adminis tration with the same cabinet as he had at the start. Miss Maud Grubb is a Cincinnati prima donna, who soon goes abroad to change her name to Mile. Grubbelini. Women blush81 wo'vo heard it said, Wten they fad and hadn't, oug'ter; But men, like lobstei, dozi't get red Till they're tumbled In hot water. Scientists think they have dis covered evidence that horses existed upon this continent before its dis covery by Columbus. The silver and the golden pheas. ant both originally came from Ohina. So also did gold and silver fish, now so common. The number of physicians in Prussia in 1878, was 8,223 ; of sur geons, 149; and of dentists, 251. The number of inhabitants was 25,724,404. Skin cleanliness has a great effect on the assimilation of food. It has been proved that pigs that are washed put on a fifth more fesh than pigs that are unwashed. As to a cabinet, Prince Bismarck deems it "most tiresome that I have to discuss every plan with five or six persons who sometimes know very little upon the subject. The stenographers' bills so far in the Vanderbilt will case have reach ed the sum of ton thousand dollars. The lawyers' bills are expected to oxceed the Halifax fisheries award. Mr. Gillespie, a Republican poli tician from Philiadelphia, amused the members of the caucus after they had renominated Senator Cam eron by "butting heads with a young darkey." A New York belle besought her father for a new sealskin sacque. "My dear," he responded fonly, but seriously, "we have just paid over $5,500,000 to the British gov ernment, and I can't afford it." Judge Wendell went fishing near Truckee, Cal. The stream was almost dry, and he could walk over its rocky bed between the pools. Hie sat down on a bowlder and dropped his line into a pool. Sud denly he heard a tremendous roar. Looking up stream, he saw a vast body of water, eight feet high, rushing down upon him. A dam had, broken away. He ran as fast es he could, yet not very swiftly, being fat and short-legged. Tlie water quickly overtook him and carried him nearly a quarter of -a mile, throwing him on the bank so nearly drowvned that he was thought to be dead. A student at the University of Virginia thus describes the present condition of Jefferson's homestead at Monticello : "The house is in g ood condition, and in its entrance hal.l, as a centerpiece in the. ceiling, still diags his wings that great bird 'symbolical of American liberty, the eagle. In this hall also is a ladder old Tom daily ascended in order to wind up a clock whose weather beaten face is seen as the house is approached ; it was made by his own hands,. and is a very, Ingenious thing, looIdng, when .shut, e. lIke a square rod. The ro oru and bed he died.In,-the jailiwherein he 'ooAfd his slaves, and his num rti%,id collars are wed preserv~4 E but -the tunnel, by' means of, '*hich he escaped the Briis In lu is,ia4ow ground,. "t,a ~eAushes groing arouind as IWtohI and keep It in remembran c - To some pungent remarks of a professional brother, a Western lawyer began his reply as follows: "May it please this court : Rooting upon the couch of Republican equality as I do, covered with the blanket of constitutional panoply as I am, and protected by the wogis of the American liberty as I feel mv self to be, I despise the buzzing of the professional insect who has just set down, and defy his futile at tempts to penetrate, with his puny sting, the insterticos of my imper vious covering." There lives in Franklin C0tmty, N. C., a man fory-nina years old, who never heard a sormon preached, never road a chapter in the Bible, never fired a gun and never saw a white man narried.-New York Irerald. There is a man in Hills dale County, Mich., who never saw a horse, never heard a comic song, never road a newspaper paragraph, never saw a boat and never spoko to a woman. He is deaf, dumb and blind, poor man.-Pfree Preae. A RABBIT ON IcE.-The Richmond Dispatch of the 14th, says : "Yes terday morning a rabbit, pursued by dogs, ran into the river near Mayo's bridge, from the Manohes tor side, and, for safety, mounted a piece of ice that floatea by. Faster and faster the current carried along the ice and its passenger down the river past the Islands, and on to.. wards Rocketts. The rabbit no doubt escaped to the woods when the ice stopped at the gorge. An editor in one of the northern counties has received $2 in an en velope, with no writing except the words "conscience money," written in a trembling hand, as though the writer was about to die. The edi tor don't know which of his subsori.. bers to give credit to for- the $2, and he has decided to give his two hundred delinquent subscribers credit for a cent apiece.-Hawkeye. The Japanese silkworm-egg card dealers, complaining of over.pro duction, have subdribed $17,000 to ship 120,000 of the best cards to foreign countries and will destroy the others. The weak-kneed pedestrians who fall behind should drink ketchup. BOOTS AND SHOES. TPHE largest stock of the above over .offered by him. Great inducements to cash oustomors. *at If U. G. DESPOVES. PARTNERSHIP NOTICE. T have this day associated with me, in . the conduct of my business, Mr. It. M. HUEY,and the businea wtll hereafter will be conducted under the firm name of F. ELDER & CO. All parties indebted to the old. concern will please come forward and settle, either by cash or note, as I do not wish to carry old aecounts into the new books,a xtim January 1st, 1879, F. ELDER. SCHOOL EXAMINATION. THE final examination for teaohors in .this county will be held on Saturday, 25th of January. Applicants will pre. sent theraselves at Mount zion Institute at 10 o'clock, a. m. JOHNBfOYD, *R. MEANS AVIS, janil-t x1aw County Examiner. SALE BY JUDGE OF PROBATE. STATE OF SOUTH 0AROLINA, .COU1NTY OF FAJRnFrIt. William IB. Woodward as Administrator of the' Estate of Mary Lathan, Deoceed, - aganat Samuel Lathan, Robert Lathan, Alex. La.' than and Others. I hursuoe .of an order :made in yh aoe stated ease, 1 will offer for sale before tho court-house' door in 'Winnsboro, on the first Monday in February next, within the legal hours of sale, to the high~est bidder, at pitblio anction,the followingdescribed liroperty, to wit: All that, tract or parcel of -lauid, lying and situate in .the county of Fairtield, 'on the :waters of .'lo6ky Creek, containing ONB iKUNDIWOi AN SaV5N'TrdrWO AORKs, n.ore or less, , snd , bounded as follows ; On the northb lands belonging to the estate of noh' MeKeown, on't&ie'east by lands of Je,ffer eon IHemphill, on thd'south by' lands of Samuel Lathan, and on the.west by lands of William Morrison and James rown. enfurs 0r sLn: Qneshalf o'f 'the' puhi&e 'hinny 'to be pAi a , el .t b : a odit #t sat'U bisootted by thobnd qf i~ trobaser and a rgg fthpemiseu Ofad of Pa'obhte Judge, J. P. P. 0.