Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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pt fRltf)tli li hR5 ESTABISIIE 1865 NEWBRRY, . C.,THURSAY, ARIL 5 1888 PRC815=AYA ENGLISH AS SHE IS SPOKE. Southern Provincialir:mi. Traeud to Ohd Engli,h Authors. (Fromi the -4outhtern Journal of Edu11c ta tioni.1 .Yrofesor Charles Fo,ster -S:zitht, of Vanderbilt University, be-gan his first lecture on this sulbje"t by showiing how diiticult it is to be a tIoroughlyi zcorr.",t speaker of English. le tiien referred to the southern pronuncintion of such words as dear, clear, fear, etc. ,e lug , which in the south are sounded dear, fear, clear, eie. (e short). Here, he said, is coimmonly proniouneed hyer. This prnuli,:cittion, as well as the South Carolina prouilIattonz of air, fair, prayer, bear, there, nanely, ear, fear prear, bear, (e shortw, was claimed to be a survival of the speech of Chaucer's time. Anothar peculiarity alluded to was that which obtains in Virginia and to some extent also in South Carolina, i. e. cyar, gyardcn, kyind, etc., which is also a survival from early English. Another habit of speech not peculiar to'our section, but more uominmon here, perhaps, than anywhere else, is a care lessness in enunciating final syllables, producing e. g. winter for window; dropping r and re, namely do' for door, mo' for more; the dropping of final g and even d and t, e. g. thinkin', roun', won' do it. But Richard (rant White has shown that the English nobility drop their final g's, and Mr. Lowell cited front Cromwell, minister of Hen ry VIII, worle for world, and from a letter of Queen Mary to WIli amt I I r. "dear husban'." Still other lxeuliarities are the oiis sion of h in the prolnuneiatiol of such words as shrill, shriek, shrinmp. Almost universal among Southerners, outside of Virginia, is the pronunciation ealn (a short) for calm, palm (a short) for paim. Some words that are almost syste iatically accented on the wrong sylla ble are exquisitely, exquisiteness, per emptory, obligatory, inquiry, ally, acu men, albumen, vagary. As to the pro nunciation of proper names, a gentle man told the lecturer he had recently heard a preacher in reading a part of the last chapter of Romans mispro nounce 9 out of the 15 proper names. The speaker himself had heard preael ers put the accent on the antepenult in Aphrodite, Aegean, Aclilles, Ulysses, and on the penult of Boreas. The survival in the south of (erta in words or forms of words that are now obsolete elsewhere, was next discussed. Among these are to bat (to wink the eye), certain for certainly, drouth and heighth for drought and height, to fair off, to favor (resemble), to feaze or lie is a feaze, heap for much, illy for ill, low for short, mighty for very, pert for lively, plead for pleaded, to pleasure, poor (pro:x. p)ore), rising for swelling, soon for early and vice versa, to stum mons, to suspicion,. to use for frequent. Next it was shown howold( are nmanyv of the forms anid usages whieh w~e now consider vulgzarismns or colrupt ionms, e. g.; Chaucer said hit for' it, shiet for shut, het for heated: 1)ryden riz for rose: -Dr'ayton thriv for throve: Lord Leices ter said becaise for b'ecause; Walter Al bion's England has git for get: Marga ret, miother of' Heniry VI I., wrote seehme fotr such, anid Chaucer wrote sich; D)ry den's wife, an carl's daughter. wrote tell for till, and the great dluchiess (of Marlborough sence for since.Shk speare...renechedl for rinsed; Sir' Phlili1 riey wrote furr for far, and Lord Ba furder for further. Tindall has coiLL ' d "Jack Jugler" seely. D)ry scae -ife spells worse wosee, and den M.v- .onounced worst wvust. Thme 'et5'~tv ~ im England in \Voltaire's bie lu41n'-11 -rehmer, and( in Pepy.' tintie thsaich no5w tim he kttl Wa OZ. elu ded with some0 eU rl on the ri ~ u subistit utio n, is beconnui~11 ~ a:id more comn of,of l~ay "',rwf, and tlmnfor la.m mh nui ad absurd exam rier i'bstit u a onavere given," -\Ot -to the uk of Saxe NYemn huax \(A' the il'-that w~anltSt j'a then tilmo.' ." e j- to dreyo. to the \ nica*tion1 frIier19 frSete hi t t uk a gang of enwtv of maskeilgy a negro as "a ptati a~ case' 1q t Ie ni\. ma -n U1'- his ayer said, '______wart____ - cotunty stole a ior'se. sen1try thmaltomg the wife . 'the general), ''The general's orders; ma'am-: no ofne caml 1)ass.'' ''ut I''--t the genieral's lady.' "YXou c.ouhin'it pass, ma'am, if you were his wife." (From New Orleanis) "A lady caused the arrest of a policemian for calling her a wonmiin: Tihe juidge, after carefulvy deliberating, decided that she w'as a wuar, thus aggravating the insult.' A womani was one day brought before ti j'udge of a police, court. Shmesaidl in her defene - Me amnd-anothier' lady' was a hav'ing a1 words, and she ('alled mem a 'hindew'idual,' and I ups with a pail of water amnd c'hutek'd it ali (over her, and that began the row between -- me..anid the other lady.' v. . .. 'orc'orain and the. I ;;rr. - [('ourier-Journ'ial'] To show hmowi his known bienev~olenc'e subjected him to all kindis of impu<h-nt begging letters, there was one wtmhich lhe received with his large imail one morn ing,- which made him laugh, and lhe showed it. The writer said she was a young girl wtmho had never had a silk dress, and that she lad hear'd of his kindness and genierosity, and slhe wtmould be so happy' if lhe wioul send her a blue silk dress. He had it boiughit am' d sent. although lie feit the imupudenmc ot the reqluest, yet he coul not resist the pleasure (of imlagininig the girl's delight The ?'uuthi'r Brilliant Futur.. [Mallnuact urers' I.e"ord1.] Ncver ie"fore. not evell durilg the airvelously active tirnes of the winter o>f ls.-87, was the pro'spect for the p rosperity of the South s) brilliant as to-day. The whole South is ruov>.g forward with a rapidity that is start ling, and no one caln carefully study weekly reports of new ellterprises with out beiig astonished at the inlagnitude andl the diversity of thisgrowth. Fromi every part of this section the reports shov wonderful activity. It has been donll0ltstratedl beyond 411 luestionl that this development issolid, that it mtust increase and that its 1o)Sibilities are :dmost beyond conprehension. These ac"ts are now forcing themselves upon the whole business world, and as a re suit there is already seen the beginning of a great southward movement of cap ital and settlers that, gathering mtollell ttum as it goes, will soon swell to ill m telse proportions. W'ho can picture the vast, the illim itable future of this glorious sunny south? Blessed with a Climate that ill itself is a source of untold wealth, and wealth creating possibilities with every variety of soil, yielding all agricultural products ill abundance, so that even now Soutthcrln faris are annually pro - diucing $StH1),(xx4, which by better c"ultivatioll couldi le doubled without adding an acre to the area under culti v:tiol; with mineral wealth that str prasses that of any other country in the 1 world; with almost boundless forests of tiher of mtany varieties; with a nag n1iticelt stretch of sea coast; with rivers that furnish transportation; free front severe droughts; knowing not the hor rors of the blizzard; here is a land Ix>s sessing ill its own matchlless resources the Combined advantages of almost ev ery other country of the world without their mttost serious disadvantages. What a colbinat;oll this is. It is beyond the power of the humtan mind to fully grasp the future that is in store for this coun try. Ill man ufacturing interests it is destillied to surpass the present great est industrial centers in the world, be cause ill no other country on the globe is there such combination of advanta ges as a hasis--cotton, irc.n, coal, t'n b'er, water power, climate, &c.-for Iuilding ipl every line of nanufactur ing. This is inevitable. As yet it has barely laid the foundation for this growth. As well might we expect to see the laws of nature reversed as to even question this. It was this that forced itself upon that gifted Pennsyl vania, Col. A. K. McClure, when, in his glowing prediction of Alabama's future as surpassing the greatness of hisi own state, 1w said: "We cannot war with destiny; we cannot efface the ben eticielt gifts of Him who leads the wa ters to the sea and sends them back in tile dews anid rain~s of heaven. Alabamai has beeni gifted far beyondl( eveni our boa,:stedl empire of Pennlsylvaniia." * *And theno referrinig to the certainlty ofd Ala] bama: surpassinig Pennsylvania in. coal ana(l ir'on, he said: "'No legislation, canl halt such a revolution wvhenl the immulIttable lawvs of trade commlanld it; and10 the suddhenl treadl of the hlerdecs froml the niorthiernl forests upon ancient Rtomle id not mlore sudd(enlly threaten thle mlajesty oIf the ristress of the world thanl dloes the tr'eadl of the ironl anId coal diggers of' AlabIama threaten the mai:jesty ot niorthiernl ir'on and( coa fields."' Whot could ask for a stronlger stateml ent? To this vast ironl development the south wvill :a<kl a tremlenIdouIs textite ill dulstry, for wvhere the cotton is growl) thereO. will it be mlanlufalctured, and to cot toll she will add( every variety of wood-workinlg husinless, anid then on all these shle will build up a diversity of 51mall1 eniterprises that will help to cnch lien peole. As boundless as is her future ill man11 ufactulrig, so) are her agricultural po5 duce0i tIhe enltire ('ottoni erop~ of tile sou1th, a hlundred miillion hushels o,f corn, and4 still have room for her rapidly develop inlL fruit and vegetable growving busi ness, lien grazingz farmis and 1her bloodedl live stock. This oneC state couldl (10 all his, and10 vet MIisissipIpi hias scarcely oe-iine-teenlth of the soutth s whole area. No peni has everi yet fully p)ictured1 this woniderfull comblhinationi of ad vnltgs-advanitages given by nature il such unistinited mleasuire. The mjore we c'ontempillate these advanitages and contralst thiemi with those (If all other cunltries, the mlore deeply will we he ipressedl with the unque111st ionlable truthtl thlat here ill this glorious land, "'(reation's G;arde'n Spot," is to be the rihest amio the greatest co4untry upon11 whichl t he suni ever shonle. What is anl Anthem?' (The SunI.] Thle old( story of tihe British tar's ac (oun o (f his expecrience'( at a cathedral servi('e oIl shore is againl beinig told, and is wort h retelling. He was particularly enthulsastic ini his dlescriptionl oft thec siginig (It an anIthemh. "What's a hanl hem?"' asked a listenler. '"What, oyou',t meanl to say vou1 doun't know whlat a hanthemWIl is''" "'Not mle." "W\ell, then I'll yer. If h was to say to yer, 'Ere, ill, give mec that 'spike,' that wvoulhin't ha hlanltheml. But was5 I to say', 'Hill -lHill---ill-gi-giv--giv-giv wve, giv that-Bill, giv lme,' giv mIe that hand,41 giv mle that, hanld, hanidsplike, spike sik-Bil, giv-giv mec thlat-that hiando -handspike, handli(-hanldsp)ike, spike, spike-spike-spike, ah-mnh, ahi mi en; I ill, giveiiethiathanidspika, spike, ah-menh!' Why, thlat would1 be a hIan LOVES OF EASTER ".ONNETS. son e Hint. on Shap. and Triinniingr Which Womn winl Understatnd. [lialt linre Sui.] ('onnuis.eurs and all lc Vers of the Ibeu:Iltiful ag,ree that millinery is unusu ally attractive this sE'ason. Never e ti re has there Ibeenl sueh a coulplete exhib,ition of beautiful flowers, Iirns, foliage, 1inOsss aini grasses, and in their fidelity to nature almost perfect. Flowers are extensively used this sea soni. Ti. ; are imade of muslin, crcamny satin, <h rk rich velvet and soft silks. Sonic of the roses have velvet leaves oil one side and silk on the otlher. Flowers are used singlv, buiiched, in long trailing vines, and in com bination with sinall ferns, grasses and palns. Palnis are anong the season's novelties, and are efietive combined w"itl black 'aee and white hvaeiniths. ('lusters of leaves are to be used oi hats of anty color. Ivy forms the trimmtnting around the crowds of imanty hats. Wreaths of pink and yel low roses are also used in this way. Amilon1g the principal flowers used by prominent uiilliners in Baltimore are also used in this way. Among the principal flowers used by prw'nent milliners in lIaltimtlore are p>oppies, riar cissus and hyneiiths, inl white, deli cate pink and gold, roses ofevery hue, with and without foliage; sweet lit tle cowslips are also seen, whik. silver and gold wheat look lovely tied up in green leaves. Maiden hair ;ferns and foliage of every style, color and combi nation give Ibeauty and grace to this seasont's bortnn'ts. Ostrich tips will be more extensively popular than for many seasols ; they will be worn all sumnmer on hats. They appear in all the new .:hades, but are most prominent i-t the omibre and motly effects. They are used in clusters and are generally placed in such a'position as to fall over the front c f the crown. Some few quills are still worn, but the new ones are composed if ostrich feathers with a gold arrow down the middle. Sonic iiggrettes and half-stripped peacock feathers are also used. Ribbon is very largely used this season, and never be fore has attained such artistic perfec tion in colors and qualities. 'Sone of the coblinations of colors and tints bring to mind old tapestry. Onibre or shaded eftfets are the new features in ribbous, which show every tint of one color from the faintest to tile deepest. The changeable or glace ribbons now used are exquisite in their varying tints and shading. Moire ribbon is still fashionable, and is very beautiful in changeable and onbre effects. Sat int and gros grain are very popular. All widths of ribbon with plain satin or corded edges are in vogue. Some tines the entire trinuning of hats and bonnets is miade of large loops and bands ot inch ribbon. Prominent aimong the triniiunings for bonnets and hats this season are laces andi nets, emni broidered in gold and silver and other mietal thireadls. A great variety of pass i eenterie effects ini b raids, cords, heads, aigrettes andi( gimaps are shown. (Galloonis are made inito loop.s, mingled with velvet and tulle or laid flat. Crape is usedl for entire bonnets, and also for trinmming. F>lack lace is extremely fashionable bioth for trinuning and en tire bonnets. Sprinig bonniets are miak ing their app)earance in a variety oft beoming shapes. .The small bonnet which has been worn so long will still be used, with slight modifications, a little longer fronts beiing one of thiem. The crowns are very similar to those of la.t season. T1here are new pokes, p)rettier thain ever before, with peaked froints and fitting snugly to the head at the sides. These are trimmned with flowers, feathers and ribbons. Some honinets have a flaring brim, with trimi mning iinside, while coronets arc addedct to the Princess shapes. Charming little tocques arc seen in great variety, and are so pictures<Ilue and becoinig that they hbd fair to lie the~ chioicest for p)res cnt wear. New Ahapes in hats show sonic pietty miitcationis oft existiing styles, and also some new features. One of the new hats has a square, low crowni andi a flat, biroadl brimi. It is triiiiiied in ribbons, flowers and feath ers, with the long streanmers at the back that are seen ini almost all of the new hats and bonnets. When these streamters are of ribbon,u it is opitionual whether they hang down the back or lie brought arouind and fastened at the left side. The birinms of rench hats ai very capjriciously si aped. Sonic are wider at one side, while ot hers are unar rower toward onie sideC; others~again pritrudle in front, and still others have half-rolling biriims. Somie pretty little gipsey bonnects are miade oif satiin braid with the crowns covered wvith wreaths tif riises and grass. Bonnets anid hats are made of fine English strawv and faincy braids of all kinids. Colored straws are also seeni in great variety. Fine chiips areagaiin revived ini all the new shades. Thle idraw-in or snirred bioinnets are still wori. The fraires are nmdett oft coloireid tulle and godld. G reen is the fashioinable coilor, aiid appears in all its various shades-the bright apple green, t eNl re, the sea foam gren fthe reseda or grayish green, the ligh tyel-~ lowish greeii. 3Myrtle andI cedar, and ilive, copper, tiabae, suene, beige, silver grays, golini blue andi( uiahoga:iy are all fashijonale. I rs. 3Mary H urley, of Sani Franucisco, is lu years ol, and without any (lile to care for her, having ouitlivedl all her family. Some time ago her only soii, aged $4) yea:rs, died, :und a few days ago she lost her only remaining chiild, a A Cyclone Near Anderson. AN1 t.ON, Miarch :8.-A considera ble thunder storm visited this section about o o'clock this afternoon. The at imlosphere was heavily charged with electricity, and at one time serious conn secuences were feared. At Liberty Hill, a suburban negro village, two houses were wrecked and the wife of Elias Terrell, colored, was seriously if not fa tally injured. No other persons were hurt. The engineer running the pas senger train due here about 5 o'clock on the Blue Ridge Road, seeing the storm, or cyelone, as the passengers terni it, ran into a cut and stopped the train until the danger was over. The passengers report that they saw leaves and flying timbers passing over them as they stood in the cut. A very large tree, an old landmark, was blowi down at Liberty Hill. The wires are down between here and Belton, and tele graphic communication in that direc tion is cut of$. During the storm this afternoon Col. John Brown's fine cow was killed by lightning while standing in the stall. Dyison. [Edgefield Monitor.] The farmers are getting along very well in preparing their lands for plant ing. All the stubble lands have been turned and now they are putting out guano and "ridting." Wheat and oats are looking very well, making the land look green, indicating that spring is coming, even if we do have ice every morning. Mr. L. E. Werts has another son, Sidney, who is down with typhoid fe ver, but am glad to say that he is now on the mend, and the Drs. consider him out of danger. Mlr. Charles Sperry, a young man of this vicinity who was so long confined to a bed of sickness, has now nearly re covered, to the joy of his many friends. Capt. James Holland, of Richardson ville, has been through our section sev eral times this spring with his drove of mules. I think he has been very suc cessful for I saw himi to-day, and he had only three of the large drove left. Prof. Asbury Townsend has a flour ishing school near his home at the Ad dison place. Prof. Townsend has been a teacher in this section for the last twenty-five or thirty years. The Rev. Edward Rice gave us a fine sermon at Sister Springs last Sunday on the "Immutability of God." Mr. Rice will preach at the Butler greve school house second Sunday, proximo. Miss Eva Aull, one of our charming young ladies, is now on a visit to her brother, Mr. Elbert Aull, at Newberry. We hope that she may soon return. Miss Sallie Jones, of Laurens, C. H., is on a visit to her grandmother, Mrs. Dyson. We arc glad to welcome her back with us again, and hope she wvill remain all summer.. Somnebo)dy down about Meeting Street has cooped one of our young mn. How is that, John? REx. March 23, 1888. A lnner Party for 618,000. [Wilmington Star.] People are too rich in this country. They have so much money they are really p)uzzeld as to how to gret rid of it. The banker, George Law ,is known to spendlt over; $100,000) every year for jew elry only. The other day he gave a dhinner at Delmonico's to eight other "millionaire fads," whatever that means, and here is what is said of it: "On the plate of each guest ando at tached to the menu was a beautiful ring with an emerald stone, set in dia mnondIs. The rings cost $1 ,000, and as there were eight guests, the menus, hiave cost over $]8,000J. Nine Sensible sayingN. Curses are like processions; they re turnl to the p)lace whence they camne. The brave man is ani inispirationl to the weak, and compels a following. What we believe is right is more of ten so) because it grinds, our ax than o:herwise. Never did any soul do good but it ,ame readier to do the same again with more enj oymnent. TFhere is nothing like setting with our selves, as there is a deal wve must do without in this*life. To smlile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to becomnea principal in the mischief. Nothing is so contagious as example; we are never either much good or much evil without inmitators. WXickedniess miay p)rosper for awh1lile; but, in the long run, he who sets all knaves at work will pay thenm. The nerve that unever relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thloughit that never wandIers, are the harbingers of victory.-New York Mail and Ex Circumtantial Evidence. [From the Epoch.] Husband: "Wasn't it very late last night when young Johnson left ?". Wife: "Yes, very.". Hlusband: "And Clara isnot up yet':" Wife: "No, poor girl, I thought I would let her sleep." Husbandl: "I wonder if that young man really intendls to propo~se to Clara." Wife: "I think he has done so already. I no)ticedl this mlorning when I came dlown that one of the legs of the large easy chair in the parlor was broken." Wrig~ht & J. W. Coppock's is thle p)lace to get your Clothing if you want SCH:MEs FOR THE CHIEF .J'STICE SHIP. Promuinent South Carolinian, S,,gg.i,ted u fo the Supreme Ilench [lltimore Sun.] 'T here wa. considerable gossip amc specllationuat the Capitol to-day relativt to the Vac:lt Chief .JLusticestip of tih< Supreiie Court, especially amhong (oil gressnen liv'ig in the Fourth Judicia Circuit-Maryland, Virginia, Wes Virginia, North and South ('ro Iina. It was said to be iii (on teniplation by prominent Southeri Senators to suggest to the President to fill the vacancy from the Fourth Cir cuit, as suggested in the Sun thi: nmorning by a leading Southern Iepub lican. Senator Vance, who has con versed with several of his a:ssociates 01 this subject, says there is quite a senti inent in favor of the promotion of Mr Miller to the Chief Justiceship, and the appointment of an Associate Justie< fron one of the States embraced in the Fourth Circuit. Senator George, o Mississippi, is also reported as incline< to favor this suggestion and to be working in harmony with Se.nato: Vace on this subject. Southern Con gressmen do not believe the Republl e:tn Senators would vote to confirm i Southern man as Chief Justice, an< they are doubtl:ss quite right, and a: between Justices Miller and Field, al though the former is a Republican and theslatter a Democrat, both hay ii!g been named as presidential possi bilities, Miller is preferred because o the views he entertains on States rights, which he set forth so enphati aally in the famous slaughter-house eases. The promotion of Justice Miller would open up a better opportunity for the selection of an Associate Jus tice from the Fourth Circuit. Among the names suggested at the numerous eonferences held here to-day were Sell ator 'Wilson and ex-Senator Whyte, o Maryland ; J. Randolph -Tucker, o: Virginia ; Messrs. Fowle and Bachelor rf Raleigh, and George Davis, of North Carolina ; Judge Sinionton, 'nited States Attorney Youlans, .Judgc Simpson. McGowan and Melver of South Carolina. Several othei inaies were mentioned, but the above list will afford plenty of materia for the President to make his selectioi if he should concur in the idea above illentioned. Ohcurity of Birth. It is only shallow-minded pretenden who make either distinguished origin a rmntter of personal merit or obscure ori. gil a matter of personal reproach. A man who is not ashaned of himself need not be ashamed of his early condi. tion. It did happen to nme to be born in a log-cabin, raised among the snow Elrifts of New Hampshire, at a period s< aarly that when tile smoke first ros& from its rudle chimnnev andl curledl ovei the frozeni hills there was no similar er. idence of white man's hiabitation be tween it and( thes settlements onl th<( rivers of Canada. Its remains still exist [ mlake it an annual visit. I carry m)~ :hildren to it and1( teach them the hard <hips endured by the generations befort them. I love to dwell on the tendel recollections, the kindred tics, tihe early affections anId the narrations and ine*i leuts which ming~le with all I know o: this primitive family abode; I weep~ t< think that none who then inhabited il ire now among the living; andl if ever ] fail inl affectionate veneration for hin who raised it, and1( defendoed it againsi ,avage violence anld destruction, eher ihied all dlomestie conmforts beneanth it~ roof, and through the fire and(loo )0( <even years' Revolutionary War shlrunII from no toil, no sacrifice, to serve hi: :ounitry and to raise his children to : yondition better than his own, may mlf name and the name of my posterity h< blottedI froml the memo111ry of mnankinid Way D)own in Gleorgia. [From the Smithville News.] Sunday, March the 4th1, was the birthday of one of our little notes, an11 we had to hustle like thlunder to ge the money to meet it; Tuesday, the 6ith wasi the birthday of' our youngest ac -ount wi th 'the Atlanta Newspape[ 110on -a pretty.. little afieir of es W ednesday, the 7th, a tramp pIrinte] reliev ed us of two( brass galleys, a paii > cissors, a pipe~, ai pocket knife an thle good will of tile paper, and1( 01 phlursdlay, the 24th, we enitertainei three strong chills, a slow fever ando ont > our poor relations at dilnner. D)on'1 :alk "March'' to us. Gunn wvants an invitation to dinner Timie andl againl we have thloughit o: asking this man to comle upj and dinm with us; nlot\vithstalnding tile knowl dge \ve have of his aplpetite, but wheri we ivere ill Cuthbert last, Ed. Morri: took us aside and told us about Glunni' <taying qualities, and1( we've felt afraic: If him ever'sinee. Nevertheless, if in 111d his excellent lady wvill conme uj next Saturday and she will p)rom1ise ut lot. to let him stay mlore thian a week we wilr sit calmly (doy, with the res ignatio'ii,that becomes a Christian wbc bas (done nothling to deserve it, and le1 huim (lean ouit our house and14 hiomie! Only One Thing Lacking. (From the Alta Califoniianl.] There is nothinig in the carp)enter': trade that a womiuan calnnot malster ex. sept, perhaps, tile art by wichl the ak earpenter is enabledl to give proper lin ~uistic expression to iis feelings wher b.e mashes his thumb with the 1ham. 1)e-truction of Capital by Invent onls. [Hlon. David A. Wells, in Popilub r Science Monthly.] The readiness with whith society comprehend(s the suflering contin "gelnt (in the relentless displacement of labor byv io're ecoomIilillclal aid etteetive ieth ods of production and distribution, and the overmasterin-_ feelings of sympathyI for individual distress thereby occasioi ed, caused it to generally overlook an other exceeding,lV interesting and il portant involved tactor, and that is the relentless impartiality with which the destructive intluences of material pro;g ress coincidently affi"et capital (proper ty) as well as labor. It seems to be in the nature of a natural law that no ad vanced stage of civilization cal be reached except at the expense of destoy ing in a greater or less degree the value of the instruiientalities by which all previous attainments have been effect ed. Society proftlers its highest honors and rewards to its iI'ventors and dis coverers; but, as a matter of fact, what each inventor or discoverer is uncon sciously trying to do is to destroy prop erty, and his measure of success and re ward is always proportioned to the de gree to which he effects such destrue tion. If to-morrow it should be an iounced that sonic one had so imli proved the machinery of cotton manu facture that teln per cent more of fiber could be spun and woven in a given time with no greater, or a less expendi ture of labor and capital than hereto fore, all the existing machinery in all the cotton mills of the world, represent ing an investment of millions upon millions of dollars, would he worth lit tle more than so much old iron, steel, and copper; and the man who should endeavor to resist that change would, in face of the fierce competition of the world, soon find himself bankrupt and without capital. In short, all material progress is effected by a displacement of capital equally with that of labor: and nothing marks. the rate of such progress more clearly than the rapidity with which such displacements occur. There is, however, this ditference be tween two factors involved. Labor dis placed, as a condition of progress, will be eventually absorbed in other occu pations; but capital displaced, in the sense of substituting the new for what is old, is practieall3 :testroyed. THE THRIFTY LILY. Decliuning to Show Herself in Charleston Without Admission Fees. [Special to the Register.] CI".uuLsToN, S. C., March 27. There is a universal kick and a general titter around Charleston to-day. The Lily leaves here to-morrow morning with about l,Si0 Charleston dollars in her little purse and the contributors are kicking ando swearing. It is true that a good many of thenm paid their $15 only for the pirivilege of looking at the famous, if somlewhIat shady, Lily, nlot expectinlg to see anlythling inl the wa of historic talenit, hut even these were disalppointedl. Miss5 Langtry hals a Iine arim, a fine hust and classical features, but thene are a hutndred womnen ill South Carolina who for beauty would throw her comipletely in the shadle. It is evident that Mrs. Langtry is traveling on1 her shlape aiil rep)utation. Wle iln Charleston she never left hier p)alac coachl. It was mlore diflicult- to see 11cr ofl' the stage thlan it was to see~ the late (General Toml Thumb or the Princess Louise. Somle of tile local ar istocracy wrote lier tendering lien a re ception. Thle Lily respectfully declined. Some of them called at 11er special pa. ace car where she lived. Not at homle. Her poor, dear father-don't you know -just died three weceks ago. Imposs05i ble to see company; especially, too, during Holy Week. "0 dear me! de lighted, you knowv, but must really cx eulse mle. I am115 oldelicate anid so over (comeI withi grief at the loss of lhen dear A membiiler -of tihe Langvtry Comalnytl~ which, by thle way. is a yery ordinlary comhpanmy, as far as tallenIt goes, andi who saw tile Register correspond(enit while one of the aristocracy was explaininig why tile Lily couldn't receive caillers, said: "G3ammnon!"' The remark prvokedl an inquiry anId the actor went 011 to say: "Lanmgtrv's no fool, you knlow. Shle knows thlat if she depe'nded 011 her actinlg she would1 starve. Hecr shapie is what she travels Oil. P~eople pay fabua lous p)rices o see her just because she's a b)eauity. Why, if she attenlded a recep tioni here, or mlade herself public in ainy way, 11ow man~ly people)1 do4 yo(u suppose wold( haive comie to thle theatre to see her to-nlighlt? Langtry has a business headl, and shle's righlt. You couldn't explect Banium to allow one of his "freaks" to go to a pi)Lhc receptioni where hIundredls of people could see it withlout paying a cent. That's about the size of it.". So (Charlestoni ha~d to pay fon seeing the Lily, and it is safe to say that Chlar lestoni is satisfied wih whiat it has seeni. A Col umbia Seml)i nary P'rofessor (lolng. [Augusta (ihronliele.] Iniformlationl reached Augusta yester day that Rev. D)r. Hlersmani, the Pro fessor of iblicale Exgesi' ini the C~olulm ia Semiiinry, haus blen called to the chanci(ellorshiph of the U'iversity of Clarksville, TIenn I., an<i t hat lhe has ae (repltedI the call. H ighi License ini Ne*w York. Au.ANy, N. Y., March :29.-The high license bill passed the assembly to-night by 66 agaiinst f 1. It was al most a party- vote andi req1uired E1 votes Here is a ghost that exercised a most healthful influence over his spectators: In the jail yard of Birmingham, Ala., a man was recently hanged for murder. The prisoncis crowded to their cell gratings to witness the execution. A few nights later two or three inmates while gazing out at the midnight moon were horrified to see their friend again ascend the gallows, adjust the rope to his neck and fall through the trap. With a howl of terror the prisoners aroused all the inmates to witness the scene, which was repeated then and on ; succeeding nights. Many of the super stitious negro prisoners embraced reli- -- -^1 gion, and the jail officials are not very anxious to disabuse their minds of the belief in the reality of the ghost, as it has caused marked improvement in their conduct. A HISTORICAL ANIMAL. How the Emperor of Germany Decided an American Case Started by a Pig. [St. Nicholas for March.] Between two groups of islands in the extreme northwestern part of Washing ton Territory run two narrow straits, one called the Canal de Haro, and the other the Resario strait. Between the two is San Juan island. It commands both water ways, and hence it would be of great value to either country that owned it in case two nations shouId ever quarrel. The text of the agree nent between Great Britain and this country reads that the boundary should be "the middle of the chaunel," with out saying which channel. A .man named Hubbs, who was pasturing sheep on the southern end of the island of San Juan, had for a neighbor, on the north end, a man named Griffiths. This Griffiths was employed to raise pigs for the Hudson's Bay company. The pigs overran the island and' caused Mr. Hubbs a great deal of.tron ble, so one day, in a moment of angei he warned his neighbor Griffiths that if another pig came upon his land he would kill it. The very next day a pig did trespass there. Mr. Hubbs kept his word and killed the pig. 5 f Griffiths was then as angry as Hubbs had been, and immediately sailed over. - to Victoria-the busy little city on Van couver island, where the officers of the g t sh government, the soldiers and the ships of war had their headquarters-and ob tained a warrant, or order issued-4a court. of law, for Hubbs's-brest constable went to arrest Hub take him to Victoria for trial u e charge of killing the pig. But Hubbs refused to go with him. He said he was an American citizen, and that therefore an English warrant wa-r nothing to him. The constable departed and Hubbs, well knowing the officer would come back and try to force him to go to Victoria, sent over to Port Townsend, in Washington territory, for American protection. A company of soldiers was sent him, and the English did not molest Mr. Hubbs. For five years that little island was occupied by soldiers of the two mighty~ nations. Each camp displayed the flag of its country on a high staff over the tent-the stars. and stripes fluttering over the pastures at one end and the red banner of Great Britain amongithe ' hills at the other, only a few imiles away. On either shore the people were greatly exeited, and many on both sies favored war ; and perhaps, if it had not been about the timeof the ac tual war between the States, in 1861, there wouldI have been war over that pig dispute. Our government wished the middle of the canal deC Haro to the border line because we claimed that it was the true ship channel, but to this the Brit ish had never been willing to agree, since that boundary would give San Juan to our country, and with that island went the control of the gateway to the English possessions. Finally the papers on both sides were prepared by the respective governments and sub mitted to the Emperor of Germany, who decided ini favor of the United States. And thus it happens that the greatest of European rulers not long ago passed judgment in a quarrel that began over a p)ig that was only trying to get something to eat. An Unpropitious Momnent. [From Harper's Bazar.] Book agent (to little boy:) "Sonny, is your ma in ?" Little boy: "Yes, she's in; but I guess you~ don't want to talk literachure to her no-. Book agent: "Why not ?" Little boy: "'Cause dinner's been ready half an hour and pa ain't got home vit." Hasty departure of agent. D)r. Callie L. Haynem. M1iss Callie L. Hfaynes, of Spartan burg co>unty, took her diploma at the Woman's M1edical College of Pennsyl vania last week. She is the first woman in the upper part of the state that has graduated in medicine, and perhaps the second native Sou.th Carolina women that has taken a diploma in a medical college.-Carolina Spartan. D-. Havnes is a sister oif Prof. Haynecs, of the (Columnbia Fem!ale (*01 Thirty Pounds of Babies. [lDublin, G;a., Gazette.] Mfrs. Howell, wife of Mfr. C. I How eli, living on Buckeye, on Friday last gave birth to three children-all girls. The three weigh thirty pounds and are as find and healthy looking babies as e.m be found anywhere. TiE .1L.1HAM.t DELUGE. Havoe Played With the Railroads by the Heavy Rains. A xx'is', AL.%., March 2S.-Forthe past four days the heaviest rains known here since _March, 1S4 have been fall in-. All streams in this section of the state are out of their banks, and imany lridlgcs have been washed away. To lay the East TeInessee, Virginia and (Georgia Pacific and Anniston and At lantic railways abandoned all trains and traffic, and travel is at a complete stand still. It is reported to-night that two children, living a few miles from here in the country, were caught in the cur rent of a swollen stream and drowned. The rain is still falling in torrents and shows no signs of abatement. The Rain Stopped, but the River Rising. 1xTUooMIRl, ALA., March 28. Night-The rain has ceased, but the river is still rising and the people are moving away from the low grounds and great damage will be done. It is now regarded as reasonably certain that the flood will not stop short of the great rise of 1&99. The Montgomery and Eu faula Road is the only one leading to Montgomery now opened for the pas sage of trains. All others are stopped either by high water or washouts. It is uncertain when traffic will be resumed, as the heavy rains to-day about the headwaters of the Coosa will give the flood another boom. ii NOAM, ALA., March 29.-The great rain storm continues. The coun try is flooded, all water-courses are un precelentedly swollen, many bridges have been swept away, and washouts are reported on all railways leading into the city. Trains that came in yesterday afternoon are held, and none departed south, east or west last night. The Herald's specials from all parts of the State tell of a tremendous flood and great damage. The Alabama at a Stand. MONTGo:MERY, ALA., March 9.-The Alabama River, after overflowing all the low lands and large sections of the city, has ceased to rise. The Coosa at Gadsden is rising, which may cause another small rise here to-morrow. The people took time by the forelock and only one or two deaths from the floods are reported, while nearly all the cattle were driven to places of safety. The Western Road is open to Selma, and the Montgomery and Eufaula to Eu faula. The Louisville and Nashville, both to Louisville and Mobile, is block ed by washouts and high water, as is the Western to Atlanta. The weather is balmy and spring-like, and little suf fering has resulted from the storm and flood. The Deluge in Georgia. ATrLANrA, March 28.-Reports from all parts of the state show that the enormous rainfall of the past week throughout Georgia has resulted in great danmage to railroad(s and farmning interests. The Congaree on a Boom. (Coint ma-, MIarch 30.-The -Conga ree is oni a big boom11. Thle Govern mient g.lu..e at the bridge this after noon)1 at 5.301 regristered th height of the river as 24.. feet above low water. The freshiet is almost if not quinte as great as the fanmous one of MIay, 155%. ThIe river is full of logs and debris of all kinds, plunginig furiously down the stream. All of the low lands above and belowv .thie city are fiooded, and tihe river road between Griffin and Childs plantations is almost impassable from the back water. Two houses at the Lexington end of the Congaree bridge are deep in the water, and 3Mr. (Clark, the bridge keeper, who lives on this side of the stream, has had to move out of his house, which is threatened. Th.e cheek dam at the head of the comipleted canal is still intact, but a section of the bank of the uncompleted canal above it has been eaten away. The loss, however, is not large. The river is at a standstill to-night. Ghosts' that Camne to Grief. "Playing rghost" is lots of funi for a short time, but persons who indulg-e in the amnusemeint generally fare b)adly in the end, and often miake troule for others than themselves. A smart young man in San Francisco, learning that t wo girls of his acquaint aniee were alone at home one night, (decidedi to sc-are thiemn by playin'g ghost. H e hid himself and began to miake nmysterious noises, but lhe didn't know those girls. They were not up in their part of the comedy, and thinking a burglar was ihi the house, called in a neighbor. Hie caught the ghost and crackedl huim over the head with a poker at such a lively rate that for a time he was nea~:rer to being a genuine ghost thain lie bargained for. A numnber of other Califonia youths took til thteir qutarters in a deserted bowling-alley, and for a good while played their miischievous prnks on the peo~'ple. Neigh bors saw lighlts moving pas the windows and ghostly figures fiittingi to aind fro, evidIently engaged in a phauno ganme of bowls. The sw irmiiiinig teacher co neted with the gardenis crawvled into the bowling-alley uone night recently, sawv a t.h' tly form amud made an unsuccessful grabl for it. lHe camne out a firm believer in the reality of the spirits. The proprietor of the gardens, however, was skeptical anid resolved to turn three of his bears into the bowling-alley at night, shrewdly thinking that they would settle the question whether the place was really haunted. Before long a trenmendouis growling and howling went up, and the badly scaredl ghosts canme flying through the winidows considerably the worse for their contact. with thme unsuperstitiotus