The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, February 18, 1879, Image 1
SE.D N. WINN Q S. C TUEDOiY3 NO.E
DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON.
--o-.-,
rvERDAY LIFl OF TWE G$B,4T
LE.X ICOU.45"HE$.
MBe Savage Manners.-Love of Contra
diction--A Warm Iear Under A
. Boug, Hi de.
Dr. Samuel Johnson was a singu~
lar compound of strength and
weakness., of great vigor of mind,
of strong appetites, of immense
learning and eminent disregard of
the courtesies, - as well as the
deceneies, of life, lie was both
eavage and tender, brutal and kiod.
haearted. This will appear by
further incidents of hig life.
He often talked for the sake of
being brilliant, or for gaining the
svictory, not for the sake of arriving
at the truth, and when worsted in
.argument would ignore it.. He
told Boswell when he was getting
.the betster of him; Let us halve no
.more of this. I'd rather you'd
"w4istle a .Scoteh tune." He would
,say to his opponents : "You talk
the langnags of ignoranco." A
,life-long friend said: "There's no
.arguing with Johnson, for he will
not hoar you, and haying the louder
,voice ' -ist roar you lown." He
threw Garrick's elegantly bound
Jooks to the Door and split the
backs, saying; "I treat a paek of
Billy plays in fops' dres.o, just as
they deserve.; I see uo book." lie
told Boswell when he defended the
Americans on the .subject of the
Stamp Act: "If your coInpany does
not drive a man out of his house
fothing will." Iu disputing with
Beauelerk as to whether a man's
having two pistols was proof that
,he meant to shoot two persons,
leauclerk said:: "This is what you
,don't know and I do." Johunson
replied: "One thing I know which
-you don't seem to now-4;hat you
are very uncivil." Ho . said after
wards that he was thus rude be
.cause there were two xtrangers
present who might think they
.could take liberties with him it
Beauclork did. At anothor time
Dr. Percy disagree:l with bim aIonut
Pennant's trayelo in Scotlind and
his accuracy, and Percy said to
Johnson: "You are near-sighted
and do not see as .well as I do."
Whereup.,n Johnson retorted: "This
is the resentwent of a narrow
.mind." P,erey--"Sir., you may be
as rede as you please." Johnson ..
'Hold, sir.1 D.n't .talk of rudone,;
remember, sir, yotq told me (pufing
hard with pasion, Atruggling. for a
vent) I wis short.-sigited. We
have done wirh civility. We are to
:be as rude as we please." But the
afterwards m.edo up. Johnson was
.so accuttorued to contradiet that
he often said "NQ, air," when he
,meant to agree with viat was .sid.
When Bos.well said in Seothtnd:
"Thiere's a woountai)1 lke .a cone,"
.Johnson replied.: "No., sir.. t
~would be.called so in a book, .but
(though it is poieted aot .tke top, one
.side is larger than the,.other." He
almost always begani a <con.trosa..sy
by remarking: -"Why, sir, I see no
reason ;" "sir, if you mean to say.."
After talkiing several hours wvithi an*
eminent wnag he said.: "You have
said but oce thing .for w.hih I
.envied youk." He told Boswel-1
.once "if -yes can't talk better as a
-man, T'd hare youi ibellow liks a
Moore, who was ,Lattering hima
more -than he liked: "Before yen
Aatter, you should.consider whethe.r
.or not your flattery is worLbth bo
Ihaving." When he was in France,
~he met the Abbe Ronuffette. They,
talked Aluently in Latin, and John-.
son pronounced so glowing a
eulogy on Milton that .tIe .4bbe<
embraced him, wha.teupon Piozzi,a
.on Johnson's account, invited the
Abbe to -England. Johnson re..
buked him on the sp.ot for asking a
man to visit him whom he knew1
.nothing about aud.the Abbe went i
off disgusted. .A gentleman having ,
.said that drinking makes us forget
what is disagreeable, .and asked :'
"Would you no.i allow a man tor
,drink for that reason -" JQhnson
Answered': -"Yes, sir, if hie 'sai uext 3
to you." Johnson beisag .a Tory, 1
jad a gr,eat dislike for Wilkes, the~ j
Libe'aLl. ie met Wilkes' Inother, *
.a man~ of very amiable character "
land zofned taste. and who, as A
amatter~of fagt, Was a Tory, .though I
Jonsgegl~k not know it., irin~g I
ithe dinet ilkes, being, about to a
laake a remark, Johnsox stoppeda
,him wijh "I hoje hir .whtypr
*narma tatt what wim hawaima .
said." This rudeness shocked and
spread a gloom over tho very die
guished company present.
When riding with him in Scotland
Boswell, wishing to go on ahead and
make proper preparations for him at
tho inn, told him he must leave him
for awhile. Although Johson hal
Cwo attendants t,ith him, he raised a
tremendous shout, got into a vio
lent passion and said he would as
soon think of picking a man's pocket
as of doing so. Even after Boswell
explained his motives he refused to
be pacified, but said that if Boswell
had gone on he would have parted
with in and have never spoken to
him more. When he was very ill he
desired his friend Langton to draw
up a paper telling him what he
thought were his (Johnson's) great
faults. He did so and mentioned
his contradiction of people. John
eon at this rebuked him in a loud and
angry tone, and subspquently told
Boswell no one was the worse for
being harshly and roughly contra
dioted, and that he knew no weak
nerved people whom he had hurt by
contradicting, A gentleman having
quoted something from Johnson's
own writings by way of reply to his
arguments. he advised him, "after
having drunk out that.. glasa not to
drink another." Goldsmith said
there was no use arguing with
him ; "for if his pistol rpisses Aire he
knocks you down with the butt end
of it,"
$I6 INDIFFERENCP TO PEO.'T.E's FTT,
Jwos.
Johnson was arguing that a man
could live very comfortably with
another even if they disagreed
strongly on some point. Goldsmnih
suggested seme difficulties. "Sir,
I am not saying," remarked John
son, "Uhat you could live in
friendship with a man from whom
you dit'or as to some point ; I -am
only saying that I could do it." A
gentleman coming out of Lichfield
Cathedral said : "Dr. Johnson, we
have had a most excellent discourse
to.-day." Johneon scolded B<well
for shivering in the cold, and sr.id
to an eminent gentlems.n who com~
plained of hoadachO ; "At your age
sir, I h ad no headache." A young
gentleman once asked him: "Dr.
Johnson, woildi you adivise me to
get married ?" ulnd hp answered, "I
would advise no man to get married,
sir, who is not likely to propagate
undorstanding," and left the room
chruptly. H:e told Mrs. Thrale
w'hn ahe ,inforamed him of her ap
proaching marriage, .that her intend
en husband "was not only a
eu 'id. ugly dog, but am old dog,
too' When lir Joshus Reynolds
got the btter of him in .argon:rent,
he said : -"I won't argue with you
any mnore, sir ; you are too f.tr
granb," to whic) the other replie.l
"I should baaWo thought so, indeetl,
Sir, bad . made such a speech as
yon hava !now dpse." Johnson
bluhued and' said he did't moan to
(tTedi(, which was his uinnal exouse
for his injoleneo. 4 nob)lemnn,
who wasentertaiing him at his house
isked him what he thought of a
seighboring peer. Johnson said to
his host:: '"Ho is a dlult, conmnon.
g~lace sort of a man, jus.t like yon
and your br'other." e~arrick invited
him to a seat on the stage when he
played .LearL, and he talked so loud
as ita interrupt him. When the
actor afterwards reproached him
ror disturbing his feelings, Johnson
said : ."Don't ta.lk of f.eelings;
Punch has no feelings." A friend
bold.,Johnson that his wife's s.ister
vas a very be,ppy woman and api.
ealed to her to confirm it, w.heh
she did. Johnson, who had a theo
ry that nobody was really bn j~,
AlX'ned to her and intimated that he
ied.; for said lhe, "she is. happy
sithout health, . wthout beauty,
vithout money, and without under.'
itanding:" On heing -after ward
'eproactied for his .brutality,, 11
Iefeededl M, saying "I tell you thie
voman is ugly, sick, foolish and
oor ; and would it not mnake a m~an'
sang himself to hear such a creattire
~my it was happy.' A gentleman
vas defending Berkley's theory that
hinge de not exist except sas the
nina presents themi. When h~ -wa
going away, Johnson said to him,
'pray, sir, don't leave us, for we
nay perhaps cense '4o think of yu
nthen you will cease toexist.' A
roungl man met Mr. and MigS. hralep,
rham he knew and spoke .to, but
)r. Johnson who was with them took
Lo notice of him. Mr. Thirale said :
Dr. Jph.pspn, here is Mkr. Oholmon
eley" '(prmonered Ohihly). Dr
ohnson did not-speak or move, and
- Thra1e . epeated the: rensrk
giln and then thrice. Thoes Johm.
omanswered : "Well, simt, and wh,at
there ie Mr. OQhnondolog t"
overal; years afWrwr Johnson
laehp*)b@g yology,
thoughho claimed to have forgot
ton it.
THE ALLEGED CAUSE OF is UJ 'T4TaTY'
His friends explained his rough
noss by saying that it was partly due
to his (eafness and slort-sghtedness d
malking him unsgnsitive to those t
signs and hints wlhich regulate Y
people's behavior in good society. ?
When somebody called him a bear,
GoldEimith se,id : "No inan has a a
:more tpnder hoart. He has nothing U
of the bear it his skin." e
11
WIY 1' Y D8 It UF11IlC.SI, b
The question is often asked :
Why do so many papers live so brief
a tiige in tliea eautiful world ?
Some persons ofeven accute minds,
who do not push investigation to .
i the wall till it screams out its t
secrets, insist that it is because the
subscription'is too long on the road.
But the reason i$ not there ; nor a
will it be found in the fact that edi-,
tors have to take a position in thiir t
columns either for one party or the
other in every dispute which m y
arise betwoon four old raaids atd
one widpw at a tea party. Not
there. But it is found in the odito
rial coltmnns of the papers tl}em
solyos. The first blow is began in
this way : "'Dhe editor (?) of the
Basswood Paulpry concisely (1)
and clearly (?) states his forcible (1) h
reasons (7) for advocating (?) the
building of 4 storm shed to c"r
county jail (f)." The editor of the
Paulpry, under the withering sar
C ,sm of seven intei rogation marks I
retorts as follows : "We see that
the manly (?) ink-slinger of the
Puplartown Patript (?)-that ablest(?)
of newvspapers (?)-is -disposed to
question our sinc3rity I We would
toll the n:an (?) that if bis sublime
1
power-. (?) which are of the high- a
est (?), and most (noble (1)," etc.
4. this the Patriot man rises Up,
itnd in his next woek's issue has a
piragraph with twelve interroga
tion umrks in it. The fight then
sets in with the cry : "Let no in
terrogation n;ark eacapo 1" and war
follows until one of the editors sle.
pumbs to a broadside of thirty (?) in
one sentonco. Then he "regrets to
announce that awing to a laek .of
support the publiction of the
Basswood Paulpry ceases with this
nomber." Then he goe.e into a
country where he can't understand
the language spoken, and finally
dies. It must not be supposed that
this solution has been *rrived at
hastily. It is bed on careful and t
prolwnged watching of over a thous
and weekly papers, and the result
ought to advance the cause of sei.
ence materially.
To-day it is anotber jpwa ro
mance. It may be recorded briefly
after this nannpr : Ci tpter 1.--4
young man, a nwerchant at Waverly.,
Ia., in packing eggs for shipment
East, wrote his name and residence
on one, with the request that theo
person who .e.)iuk) finally bvy it J
would write t1) him and advise him
of the fact. Chapter I.-4 young j
Jady of Nowv York oeuutuilly becanae e
be owneor of the egg, and con>pIied I
-with the request written .th9ygg.
Chapter III.-Then. ensued a cor
respondence, an exchange of p)hoto
graphs, cC id genus omne. Chapter
IY.,-A wedding. It -is to be hopedt
they are egga-eatingy happy.
From the report of the )|ie~Ylork .
Comnimissioner of Emigration we
notice that, during the year 1878, .U
there landed at JJew York 121,8691E
passengers fi-om foreign countries, l
there being among them, 75,847 /
aliens, which is an increase of 20,-- I
811 as cpmnpared~ with 1.877. Of
this number, 32,658 went to the I]
WVestern and Northwestern States ;
80,5$6 remained in lNew York ; e
7,855 went to the Middle States ; t,
4,92. to the Eastern States ; 1,666a
to the Southern States ; 1,011 to a
Canada, anid 97 to South Aeia
It was .a Clifford, Ind. A revival g
iis the Methodist church was in pro- E
greas. An eldgr pf the Christian
c.hurch wvas invited to pray. He j,
toQk advantage of theo opporttn~ity -k
to itroduce a piece of 1rehgious en~ i,
terprise o,f ip owp. J:nto his pray- f,
er he incorporated his views on hap- A4
tism as contra4ietinguished from y~
the Methodists. Whereupon the 0
alert minist,9r in. charge propbly .i
invited him to halt.
He thought be heard -"the angels i'
s,ing" but At proved to b~e ga chorns ~
of yells froni fAe neyt debre obil ~
dren. eHte j desperate, ro
oured a bottle of ;Dr. lull's Bb '
By. p and .s84t% t s.*g' .wit
hpce.0mplimeptp. 15was as eo
eacheloxu . / - ). d
A CUTJR f'ITYCOQKTA IL.
lquor That Took Hold Qgiok and
gold on LQpg,
(Chicago 2'ribui.1
Tact and politeness obviate many
iffcultios. A returned nii}or fronm
he Blaclk Hills arrivecj in town
osterday, and went to a saloon and
sked for so4o Qf the bgst whiskey
a the house, and when . it was
arved to lb}r spat it out with un.
ttera blo loathing, and said, "I
ailed for whiskey, yQgnq man ;
obbe you didn't hear n)e ' Tho
arkoepQr said that he had heard
im and that l;e had given him
vhiskoy, The gentleman from
)eadwbod proceedd with more
eadly calmness, though his hand
istinotively sought his bip-pockot.
I called for the best whiskey in
he house, young man; mobbe you
id not catch the full significance
if my language ?" Now, many
uothor barkeeper under similar
ircuulstanges would lave resented
he insinuation as to his liquor by
ouring it into the sink, and say
3g, "You dou't know good whiskoy
rhen you see it," or words to that
ifoct, or have offered the man
500 if he could find as good
1iekoy a that anywhere on the
ootstool, or in some other manner
o herein specified have led the
an from the Black Hills to draw
is revolver or hurl a chair through
he mirror. But this barkeeper
was a man of quite another sort,
o he said, kindly: "I beg your
ardon, Capt.Lin ; so many people
ome round that don't know what
rhiskey is, but I might have seen
vith half an eye that you knew the
lifference." $o he unbanely but
murriedly mixed in p bpttl some
lcohol, kept fqr pleaiig the
airror, and spirits of turpentine
nd Jamaica ginger, and Perry
)avis' pain-killer, and when the
tranger said "Yes" in reply to his
luestion whether he liked some
>itters i4 t, shook half a gill of
oeppersattcQ into t tumbler and
nushed the bottle towards him.
,he stranger h lle4 a hoaping tum
>lerfpil and passed it off, and when
te ha4 recoverd his breath said to
ie jar, oojOt "Cttng Mn, that's
he whiskey. I haven't tasted
iothing like that since I left Custer
]ity two wneks ago to--day. That's
eal genuine liguor ; hinder a cross
)otween a circular saw and a
vildeat. That takes hold quick
nd holds on long. Just you go to
)esdwood apd open a saloon with
hat -whiskey, and you might charge
n ovneo a glass for it and people
rouldn't kick. Sq lon; take this
a remembrance of me,' and, press
rig an $800 nugget upon the bar
:oeper, lp was gone.
A GENTLE Hn'r.-Tn our style of
limate, w:ith its sudden changes of
emperatnre.-.-rain, wind and sun
hino, often intermingled in a sin
'le dap-it is no wonder that our
hildren, friends and relatives are
o frequently taken from us by
eglected colds, half the deaths re
ulting directly from this cause. A
ottle of Boschee's German Syrup
opt about your home for imme
inte use will prevent serious sick
ess, a large doctor's bill, and per
aps death, by the use of three or
)ur doses. For curing Consump
ion, Hemorrhages, Pneumonia,
evere Gonghs, Croup, or any dis%
ase of the Throat or Lungs, its
necess is simply wonderful, as your
ruggist will tell you. German
yrup is now sold in .every 'town
nd village on this continent.
anmule bottlee for trial, 10c.; regu
ir size, 75ets.*
PJANoS AND -OreANs AT FACToR
L ArE.-Gran<l Introdntory~ &ale,
ommeneing Nov. 1, 1,000 Maignifi
ent Instruments from best makers
) be placed, for introduction and
Ivertisement, in Southern hQmes
t Agents'WhV?olesale rates, 4!legant
Oct. Pianos only $1-25. Magnifl
ant Square Grands,, catalogue price
1,000. only $250. Handsome 9
top Organs, $58:.; 18 Stops, $71 ;
[irror Top, 18 .Stops, $86. Ohoice
itruments at lowest prices ey,.r
nowp. Six yqars written guaran.'
se. FIfteen days test trial. Write
>r 1gtrod~netion .Sale circu.lar.
.ddlress LUDDEN ,& BATES' Southern
[usI4 flouse, Savannah, Ga. The
Freaf Wholessle Pio,no .and Organ
lepot of the South. ~Nov 12-x8m
Th~e Pullinan" car people are
wilIding a special car for a party of
tle4 Englishinen, who propose -a
mnting excursion as 4ar, West as
iey can go. The ear contains bed'.
>owa,'ktlieie dining.4oom1 and
atne compartments, and will -cost
15,060. The suggestion of the
(ew Took' Mail that a great deal of
ama could ba bonght ore that stu
XE: -.r' E I) .1 ..
Tho li;ghting of llinas by oloc
tricity has b.muii (ucc fullyt ried in
England.
A bill granting the right of auf.
frage to the womon of )alota has
been introduced in the Logislaturo
of that Territory.
A revolution has broki out in
Hayti, and negro disturbances of an
Llarming charactor have occurrod in
the Island of St. Vincent.
Capt. Dingley, of f,ho hhip (mz
oerdown, at New Orleans, going
)board his vessel on Thursday night
roll from the gangway into the river
ind was drowned. He was a native
of Nova Scot,ia.
J. W. S. Parker, a merchant at
Greensboro', N. C., was knocked
down and robbed near his home on
Thursday night, and died from his
injuries. Joe Mondenhall has been
arrested on suspicion of the murder,
and is threatoned with lynching.
Chas. McGill was hanged in Clevo.
land, 0., on Friday for the murder
of Mary Kelley on the 2d of l)ocem.
bor, 1877. The only words the con
denned man said on the scaffold
were : "Don't make any mistake
about that rope."
The next President of the United
States, according to the St. Louis
Iost Despatc4, "cannot bo a West
ern nian, but will be Thomas Fran
cis Bayard, the bi,gget Seu.tor
from the smallest State."
The ronantic story that the
plague wats broulght into A.rtchin
in at silk hatndkerchief, the dying
bequest of a plguo-stilcken Cos.
sack to his sweethe:,rt, is suid to be
a "maliciaus and si;ly ho..x."
A German doctor has prop-unded
the doctrine that vegetarians and
meat -eaters are both wrong, and
that the real means to health and
life nre to oat all food raw, whether
animal or vegetable.
A bill has been introduced into
the Legislature of the Island of
Jamaic- in which the cat. o' nine tails
is the punishment allotted for
nearly every eeiau ofoi cc,.incicd
ing libel. The bill is likely fo 1Uh
coie ia law.
The prosecution of the corrupt
Russian army contractors, Cohan,
Gregar and Horwitz, has been aban
doned by order of the Czar, becauso
the proceedings threatened to com
promise so many personls in high
oJlicial position.
John Edwards, who murdored
Hader J. Balard, a pe(able citizen
of J1ohnston county, N. C., on the
)th of October last, was hanged Fri
day in Snithilold, Johnston county,
N. C. 1-is execution was ordered
for January 17th, but i respito had
been obtained.
Jefferson DatviR has declined an
invitation to deliver the annual
address at the next Commoncemont
of the Mississippi ~niversiity, be
cause of the precarious condition of
hsis health. and Senator Gordon has
been soiectod as the orator in his
.stead.
Prince Louis Na-pQleon ic report -
ed to be lying chiangerously ill at his
roother's reside1nce, Chisolhurt. It
is said that ho hias., for somne time,
led an irregular and dissipated life,
and has been wholly regardless of
the admonitions of his mother and
M. Rouhr, and other devoted
adhere,nts .of the Imperial family.
JamesiBeck, a baggnge m)astor on
the S.t. Liouis, Iron Mountain and
Southern Railroad, between St.
Louis, AIo., and .Columbus, Ky., was
arrested last week for robbing the
mails. He p)eaded guilty and was
sentonced to three years in the
poniteptiary, the entirme busi ness
being accomplished within four
hours.
Wilmingston is eviidently iired of
elections. Trhe Demnocraxje votere
,iu four out of five wards of the city
unani:pously adopted a resolution to
re,quest the Legislature to continue
the present board of aldermou imn
existence for two years, and the
dissenting wvard atppoinlted a com..
mittee of three to confer with the
executive committee as to the best
measures to be adopted.
Mary D. Hooper, who shot Au.
gustus Phillip (Oofty Gooft), was
arraigned at J effeorson Ma (rkot Cou rt.,
New York, last week. Phil.lips in
an affidavit claimed thait tbo shoot..
ing wvas not wilful and1( retracted the
statementa to the dontrary, which ho'
said weore mnide while he was under
the influence of mecdical narcotics.
The woman was beld to bail in $2,
000, Pbhip furnishing' $500 of flwy