University of South Carolina Libraries
. ".- . ma e n - = - ..* = . . . 4e m , e s a m - e s BS BE 17IWAA r~4ABLISIED 1865.,_ NEWBERRY* .So Co, FRIDAY, SEPT F~MBER 10I87LCI1AiEz ~~lA~T R"Ir HAPPINESS AT HOMIE AItP4 AV TINAT IT 14 31OUHE v\.UAnI.E THAN TUR, KLONI)IE.I Pohuts Ol1t sHono Defects - asHflmI. mil a COnokpi a Iic ) , PIn froin the sage of 3% rn,w. 10 poet says that "domestic hap. les is thle Only blifS of paradise Hint has survived the fall." If that is so, and I reckon it is, wbIt an aw ful sin it is for a man or hi; wife or a son or daughter to break it up. It is worse than murder, for thoros ..thou only one victim, and he is dead; but the destroyor' of dniosltic bappiness'brings misery to flio fam ily, and they must live on in their sorrow. If domestic peaco ind love could be purchased with money, whit a price it would bring, and, yet it can be had without money if overy member of the family Would do right. I was'ruminating about this and wondering if even -the devil wa mean enough to take pleasure destroying the peace of i -h6tiiohold. The'book ofjQb-xdos not make him ~ n,for Job sufeired no sor row from any bad conduct of wifo or children. Satan wants worship ors, and oven dared to try to seduceo the Saviour to his allegiance; but he did it in an open manly w:ty, and lost.. He is an s. iorsary----a bad one -a powerful one over since he was thrust out of heaven; but according to seripture le has not yet lost his power or his consequence, for the Lord talked to him in Job and the Saviour had a conferenco w ith him iii Matthew, and MichnOl, (be arch angel, had a dispute with him about. I the body of Moses. He is a bold, self-poised, defiant spirit, i:iad uisef; many aits to seduco maniciud from I their allegianco; but surely le J wouldn't take away and deOroy the I only bliss of paradise that is loft us. t Ho hasont done it from 1!igersoll, , for that. notablo man has a uost i ylov ing household, and so havo many in fidels and atheists and -keptics. I My opinion is that our orig inal sin 1 has more to do with bad conduct than the devil. Wo are bor:n to sin as the sparks fly upward, and the 1 devil urges us on and apologizes for every mean thing we do and tries to I comfort us, but I believe tht it is in 1 the power of every man and wonian t and son and daughter to proservo N the family peace and to mal.o home t the most attractive place upon the oarth. Then, why don't they do it? It sickens as with sorrow to read the a family t !oubles in the daily papers. . ymotimes 1sist~usbaud, somne- I tim ha1~.'fffo, sometimes thet daugh- ( ter, but oftenor thani all togother it I is the son that brings the blight and r darkens the (leers and1( muak.' p)arents aind sisters seek to hide fi om the ' gaze of men. What makes the ~ young men do so? Every day there ~ is a new case somewhere-- murdor, ~ suicide, embezzlement and all is ~ mixed up with jails and con r's and ~ pictures in the papers-and I ho mis ery of kindrel and thme world's cold I criticism. H-owv many families that once moved proudly with the social ~ swelling throng have retired from i.t to grieve over the crushing famte of a wayward1 son or a daughter's shame. H-owv many families have been broken ' downVh by reck(less sons5-inl-lawu~. I t kcnowv some1 aged parents whose hair1' t has grown prIemuaturely gray, whose browvs are farr-owed with linme- of sor row and whose smiles are ,always I sad, if thl{cy smile at all. I YoguMg men, llnse stop and inok. ~ The 'happiness of home is wvorth mnil- R 1 ~'fo dollars. It heats thme K(lon- I dike, and is right close by, and no C frozen hills to cross. The leasur1esd of a happy home excel ainything upon earth, and can be bad sol cheaply if father and mother and t chidren will make it so. "Hoe that o troubleth his own house shahi inhor-it aI the wind." A cross husband, a con- fi tentious, complaining wife, a selfish ' a -n or an indolent, (liscontented b' daughter- can destroy the peane of a n' househol. There are some things 5 worth so much they cannot he valued. a1 Realth of body is one of th"m, but c * peace of mind is wvorth' more than a thamt. Sonio years ago there was a r verdict rendered in our court at F Rome giving $835,000 to a young man a becauso of a,41ll'from tho train at night fliA m perianent injury to Il, sPii-" lie was a man of br illiant ifld anud high ambition and splon iIid prospects, but the doctors tosti fiod that he would be a mental wreck, and his oloquent. lwyer drow suichi a sad picture of tho Wreck that the jury gave this largo amunt as com pensation. No bonos were brok. on nor did he suffor any pain. le walked about and visited his friends, and showed no sign of imbecility, buW his montal forco wits impaired, his high ambition gone, and this vor Llict was only all approximuationl of the damago. What, then, is the peaco of a fain ily worth? Not merely peace of mind, b,tt of heart, for the hoart mntropfis the mind as the mind does hotbody. I was ruminating about b1ieso ill. assorted, unhappy marriages Uhat soom in theso lator years to be noro frequent than in the olden time, ind are the prolific source of so nuch domestic trouble. The poet iays: How sad a1d11- dreary is the home Where love, domestic love, no longer nestles, Buti stricken by some cruel doom Its Corpse lies on the trestles." I wonder how many modern mar ,ingos may b) called happy-in how nany families do peace. and love 'ulo the household. Not many inong the children of the rich, I know, for they have known no want ior self-denial, and cannot bear pa iontly any misfortune.. And even tmong the poor there is misery that ho hard times have increased. On y yesterday a sad-faced woman alno to us begging food and clothes or her children, and her story was hat her husband had to run away or trying to make a living by run ing a blind tigor. What a curse ie his marriage tio when hastily and inhappily mado. If I was a girl, t seems to m11e, I would rather re nain single all my life than bin nyself body and soul to a young nan who had no moral principlos to ,overn him. Tho chains of inatri nony! If a man commits a crime ko can give bond and keep out of ail, but, there is no bond provided or a poor woman who is chained to bed, ur principlod hIsband. She imidly shrinks from seeking a di orco, for ovon that does not erase he scars of the shackles she has orn. Her life and her hopes aro ilighted. Thoro is no more pitiful ight in all natuiro than a good wo inn chained for life to a bad, un >rincipled muau. She clings to her hild ron mi her only comnfort and ives only to shield them from her hamnie. But why wvrito about theso things *f sorrow? I know they are unwel omno to my readers, hut I1 have bought it a (luty, and that seome one *r imore might be influenced to stop nid think. On yestordlay I receivedI long letter from un old1 friend ask rig mnc to pilead with tihe young peo0 lo. and beg them to step this mad areor that seems to be increasing in uir southern l and-thiis unahallowed hirst for getting money by short uts -and dishonest pratices-this rinking and ganibling that leads to uicidoe or the jail-this infidelity to heir marriage vows that destroys hie happiness of the family. But this (vill (10 for this- time. It not a good day for me no howv. It not Friday, but it is one of these ard, unluck3 clays that burings troui Io in various forms, The old cow 'ot out last night andl went foraging the suburbs and oat up a whole of-ton p)atchi, and I'm expecting the arkey every minute to come for his amages. But that's nothing. A ttle negro girl was rolling our lit ho Caroline thro'ugh the long hall n a tricycle. Tlhe child is only two ndi a half.years old, andl is my comn art--a little bluo-6yed beauty that to borrow almost every dlay froum or mother--andc I wouldn't take a tillion dollars for, her love. But, r>moh3iow, the nurse cut the wheels round too suddenly and throw (Jar line violently forward on to the iron haft, and the bolt on the top of it mahoid out two upper tooth anid 0110 >wor one, anid bent the others ini i ni ut hrchn balyi nd bruisnr1 her little lips to a jelly, and when I took her up and Saw it all it made mo heart sick. I wanted to weop and cry aloud for grief. For an hour or two I was nearly heart broken, for I can't bear to see such a I lpless child suffer such agony. Itur little mouth all broken up and deformed. But the good Lord tem pArs such things to little children, and now the dear little girl is get ting along nicOly and sings a lisp ing song to her dolly. The good book tells about a place where there will be no more pain or sorrow. Well, I want to go to that place as soon as the Lord wills it; and I want all my folks to go with me, and everybody else's folks, too. BItL Anp. JEFF DAVIS'S FAMILY ATTACKICD. A hareastlc onslaught on ihem by i1rinng hamt Age-Herald. [New York Tribune.| Atlanta, Ga., Sept. L.-Something of a eensation has been created here by the appearance in the editorial columns of the Birmingham Ago Hetald of a savage attack on Mrs. Jefferson Davis and Miss Winnio Davis. The Age-Herald is managed by E. W. Barrett, formerly Speaker Crisp's secretary, and the on-slaught on Mrs. and Miss Davis is writton by Mrs. Ball, who edits the woman's do partment of the paper and conducts a column of comment and criticism on the editorial page. The article in question is as follows: "It is stated that Mrs. Jefferson Datvis and her daughter, Miss "Win nio Davis (who will be remembered as having been known several years ago as the Daughter of the Confed eracy . by loyal southerners), have decided to visit the Nashville Con tennial during October. The an nouncoment is made that Mrs. and Miss Davis 'will be the guests of Mrs. Van Leer Kirkman at her handsome home near Nashville. Those ladies now reside at New York city in the winter and Narragansett Pier or some other northern resort in the sulimmer, and it may be well to state that, they will be recalled without much difficulty by people. below Mason and Dixon's line as the wife and daughter of the president of the Southern Confederacy. They so rarely visit the south or evince any interest in this section, which con forred upon their husband and father the highest honor within its gift, that it is refreshing to learn of their contemplated visit to Nashville. It is to be hoped that neither distini guished wvoman will be stricken with sudden illness, like unto the attacks of sickness which have so frequently interfered with their previous visits to the south. "Invitations to Confederate re unions have boon as productive of ser-ious, incapacitating illness to Mrs. Varina Jellorson Davis and her daughter, Miss Winnie, t -exposure to typ)hoid or malarial germs is to the majority of people. Their long, uninterrupted residence in the cooler, calmer, more congenial atmosphere of Nowv York and New England may h ave restored their depleted systems, which at one time could not stand many miles of travel through the hot, dusty, but enthusiastic south. It will not be necessary to make any elaborate plans for Mrs. and Miss Danvis' eontrtainment until the Nowv York newvspapers announce that they have condescended to spend a few dlays at Nashville." It is safe to say that this as the first time such an attack on the D)avis family has ever appeared in a southern newspaper, and at is likely to start a controversy which will rage from end to end of this section. WVhilo no expression has; been given to it before, the feeling of the rrosent mont at the apparent aversion of the Davises to visiting the south andi their choice of the north as their place of permanent residence has long bioen smouldering in certain quarters. TJhie Age-Ilerald's sarcas tic onslaught will probably be echoed to some extent, but it is likely also to ,aronso fierce indignation among the more extremo admirers of the late president of the Confedoracy, in whose- eyes his widow and daughter are sacred and their acts beyond1 criticism. CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE. Uns Where Th Strongest Wits Terribly at Fault. [St. Louis Globe-Domocrat.] Oklahoma City, Oklahoia.-"TIhe must conclusive and altogether coi pleto chain of circumstantial evidence ever drawn around personi chargod with murder came under my obser vation recently at Normand, Oklaho ma. It almost resulted in the 1i nch ing of the convicted men, and has thoroughly demonstrated to me that little reliance is-to be placed on that sort of evidence, especially In cases of murder." The speaker was a prominent law yer of Oklahoma, and his audience was a group of lawyers gathered in the reading room of the Grand Avenue hotel in Oklahoma City, whiling away the hours with stories of personal experience in court and on the circuit. The group gathered around the speaker closely, for they knew something worth listening to was coming. "It was the case of the Territory of Oklahoma vs. J. W. Jackson and H. G. Ward, charged with the mur der of one 'Happy Jack' Wilson, and the ovidence disclosed a thrilling story, which pointed unmistakably to tho guilt of the accused. It seomed that about New Year's Day Jackson aid Vilson had had a quarrel in a saloon in Norman, in )vhich Wilson wias badly beaten over'he head with a chair wielded by Jackson, and left for dead. Indeed, it was a grave (iestion for quite a timo whether or not his skull wt, not fractured, and he lingered for weels between life and death. Jackson was arrested for assault with intent to kill, and after giving bail hired Green, a far mor, living a few miles from the town, to care for the man, paying all the expenses of medical care and nursing. Finally Wilson recovered, was soon around town several times and suddenly disappeared just be fore the grand jury met which was to investigate the charge of assault to kill against Jackson. It was open ly charged that Jackson and Ward had spirited him out of the country to keep him from testifying against the former. The case went over that term of court., with instructions from the judge to thoroughly -inves tigate, discover Wilson if possible, and find out by what means and why he had been spirited away, if such was the case. "Just about that, time the town was thrown into a tremor of excite ment b)y the rep)ort that the body of a man had been found on 'the edge of the South Canadian river, not far from the fr.rm of Ward. It was partly covered with brush anid partly with sand, but a hunting party of boys found it and notified the authorities. The body was brought to the town, and there identified by a dozen reputable muon and women, one of whom was his sister, andl all well acquainted with him, as the b)ody of 'Happy Jack' Wilson. They based their identification on a dozen di fferent points--thle sister, espec ially, being certain because ber bro thor had a gold tooth exactly similar to one found in the mouthI of the corpse. On the to1) of the head of of the corpse wvere half-healed scars similar to those matdo by Jlackson on the head of 'Happy Jack;' the bro gans worn by Jack were the same make as those on the body; a mole on the back of the r-ock wvas similar to one kntown to be onl Wilson, and one leg wvas abhorter than the other, It looked as if there couldi not be even a shadow of doubt, uat theoex citomoent ran high. Jackson and1( Ward were, of course, immnediately arrested and rushed to the jail, which was guardIed by a large force of officers to provont lynching, for it was regarded as a cold-blooded imur dier, wvithmout one -redeeming featulre. "Notwithstamd ing this precarious situation thme prisonoers woere cool arnd collected, but their very dofenco hadl a tendoney to draw the coils tighter around them. They acknowledged that they had spirited Wilson away to prevent him testifying agamnst Jackson, but had not barmed him in any manner; that they had filled him full of whiskey, inken him across the country to Earlboro, whoro they gave him00 money, ind shipped him out of the colintry. The story was laughed at', 'and oven those who thought there might be a mistaku wore howled down after the publica tion of ilia 'confession.' "But Jackson had some mQuoy, and spent it frooly to domonstrate the truth of his story. - He sent out men to different pprts of the country and advertised widely, offering a large reward for 'Happy Jack' Wil son or for information loading to his discovery. His father camo to his aid, and wont in person to Earlboro and otliof Eastern points in search of the missing man. A reputablo witness was found who declared he had soon Ward and Wilson at Earl boro on the day named, and saw Wilson put aboard the train, notic ing it particularly because Wilson was in a boastly state of intoxica l ion. He also identiilied Ward as one of the men, and a photograph of Wilson was declared by him to ho the likoness of the man ho had soon put aboard the cars. This put now life into Jackson's friends, and their exertions to discover W ilson wore redoubled. "The trial caine on, however, aind notwithstanding I the iost stronuous oxortions made by the lawyors for the defence, it lo,,ked exceedingly dark for the men. I was one of them, and although .norally con vinced of their innocence I could soo no hope for thei unless Wilson could be found -- aid such a thor ough search had been nado for him without any result that I had little hopo of that. We wont into the C -n, just hoping something would tuii u) iml our favor. "The Witnesss for the prosecu tion went, on the stand and piled up testimony against the men until it seemed unsurmountable and unan swerable. All our cross-examiia tioni failed to shiko them in the slightest degieo. Every one of them was certain the body was that of 'Happy Jack' Wilson, and nover a doubt seemed to enter into their minds or those of the crowd which filled the little court room to the doors and drank in the testimony with avidity. Many dark looks woro showerd upon the accused, and it was evident if the jury brought in a verdict of guilty the sheriff would have dificult work in saving theii from the b1P.nds of the people. "veil, the defence mado as gr )d showing as possible, but it was liii.m' wve could (10. The county attorney maiide the closing speech, which was a 1-owerful plon1 for justice, and mar i shal led the evidencei against thle mon01 with terrific force. There was no0 1h01) for thiemi. Th'Ie v'erdict of guil ty could be soon~ upon the faces of the jury. "And now camne the sensational part of the affair. Just as tihe coun ty attorney closed his speech a loud cheer was heard in front of the court, house, and a confused yelling, which soon crystalized into the cry, "Hap p~y Jack!' 'IIlappy J ack !' 'H-ore's Wilson!' and( through the crowd, which p)rossed back and formed a passageway, camne thme tall, lank, lean form of 'Happy Jack' Wilson. He had found haiim the day before 25 miles south of Tecumeeh, visiting a sista, and1 by dirivin g all night had arrived in time. Far removed from railroad comnuunicationm, and without newspapers and few neighbors, Wil son had known nothing of the search being made for him, and was aston - ished at the rep)ort of t lie finuding of his body. "I nood( niot attemp)t to dlescriboe lhe sensaitioni his appearance cro atedl, nior couldl 1 if I wvould. Jack soni's wife thirow her arms around1 her husband, and that cool, collected man gave vent to his foolings in tears. Th'Ie old father hugged hmun and thme chihlren kissed him, and those8( who ai minuto before wer~e ready t.o hang him p)rossedl round to soe who would be the first to con gratulate him. Ward1 and Wilson also came in for congratolations, and1( what lookod a minute before like a tragedy became a senm'ational come dy. 1 do niot dIeny, cit her, that I turned away my)) head to n)rve~It the discovery of toar in 'ny Oyos. Of courso Jackson and Ward were at. onco discharged from custody and wore almost oaKried to their homes on the shoulders of the people. "Whose body was it? Well, I don't know. It has since been twico identified; once as that of Lewis Sochoff, a young German who was missing. Scoff's father was cer tain it. was his son's body, but the yo.ung man was fo und in Texas, where he's working on a farm. Then it was identilled as the body of M. Loder, a crazy cigarmaker, who had escaped from the asylum, but. that, too, proved erroneous. It m now ,bo lieved it was the body of a member of te Christian gang who had died or was killed and his body placed where it was found. It is pro bable its identity will never be known." P'urnticloun Jou renIWem. [Augusta Chronicle. A great onenoy to the south, today, is le liensational newspaper corros pondent, who writos for so much por column, and in order to fill much space writes consciencoless exagger ations of overy barroom brawl and street fight so as to' mako the story acceptable to his northern newspaper and its readers. He knows what the northern newspapor wants and he fills the demniand. A drunken brawl in which a negro and white 1111111 at , parties becomes a race war, and an ordinary fight becomes a deadly feud. He cares nothing for facts;'ho simply desires to fill spaco in a nininor acceptable to the north orn newspaper. Tohe result is that readers of the northrn newspapers see only items of lawlessness from the south and got the impression that overy man down here carries a pistol uand dies with his boots on. The Now York Post contains the following timely connient: The passion of the press for sen sationalism results in gii'ng people the most unjust impressions, not on ly of individuals, but of whole States. A "race war" is the favorito thing among those who want to furnish northern journals with "spicy" mat ter from the south. Given a drunken quarrol between two or throo white loafors aid as nily blacks in any town, and thoro is- basis enough for a lurid story, which is Calculated to make the thought loss reader suppose that all olomonts of . both races in ti. placo are thirstiing for each ot.her's blood(. Only a few *stop to hink that Irishmen in t.he north oc casionally get into a squabble with Yankees, without the tw~o races be. ig really3 involved. Undoubtedly there is far too much crimie in thle south, b)ut no small share of what is attributed1 to that section is either dlelib)erately ilnvented or ex aggeratedl ont of all reason. Recently a long story was pub)lished iln the north, wvhich p)urp)orted1 to describe in do. tail a desperate encounter between a West Virginia sheriff and1 his depu ties, on the one hand, and -Cap." Hfatfield andl a squadl of follow-out laws on the other. The plot was in tricate, with a man killed or left for dlead1 here andl there through it, and with a p)rofuso emblhellishiment of dleeds of dare-devil bravery, dyna mite explosions, hair.-breadth escapes and so on. A Whieelir:g editor, whose suspicionms were arousedl, tele graphed to the sheriff for the facts, and waus promiptly iunformned that there had1( been no light with tihe HIatield1s, andl t hut the authorities h)ad not yet been abl)1 even to locate ''Calp." and( his party. Theo Register is properly ind(ignasnt that . a story sh.ould be widely published, which is "calculated to (100pen1 then impres sioni al ready widely disseinratedl, that WVest Virgiriin is a State where every cit izen hab)itually 'totes' a gun, anid where we have a dead mian for bronk fmst every umor-ning,"' wvhen there wats absolutely no foundation whatever for- it. It calls for the passago~ of a1 "good( stiff lawi against this sor-t of thing," and its appllica tioni to.'the mantr resp,onsible for this Why will y(Ju buy hit tor nauuscat ig T( N i s as biensant as IA,emOn Syrup. Your drauggist is au1thiorited to refunid t.he mloney in ever-y case Where It fails AILIUSTA'S NHXT MAICOR. The f on. Patrick Walsh Aecopts Frsakly the Nomnination whithis Kathusiatl. caly Tendered Hm. [News and Courier.] Augusta, September 6. -Tonight former United States Senator Pat. rick Walsh, editor of the Chronicle, was tendored the nomination for mayor of Augusta. With two hours' notice a crowd of six hundred of Au gusta's at aunchost citizens got togeth or and marched to Mr. Walsh's house in a body.' * Then Mr. Charles Doolittle, member of council, speak ing for the voters of. the city, ten dored Mr. Walsh the mayoralty, if he would "acc,pt the nomination. Mr. Walsh accepted in a speech of one minuto's duration. The demon stration f otton up in a few hours was the largest and most enthusias tic ever toon in Augusta and there is every reason to believe that Mr. Walsh will bo Augusta's mayor. Opposed to him are Mr. Daniel Kerr, nlow in council and Capt. H. H. D'Antignac. DIR. ANDREWS INSIsT8 That His litignetion Vroku Brown be Ac copted. Providence, It. 1., Sept. 7.-It is unofficially announced that Dr. An drews will insist upon the acceptance of his resignation from the presi dency of Brown university. This decision was arrived at after a con ference this afternoon between Dr. Andrews and the advisory and the executive committee of the corpora tion. Hiii connection with the Cos mopolitan university, it is thought, will take up too much time to per mit of his devoting his attention to both universities. His decision is in spite of a letter received by him from tho faculty begging bip to re Main. A Dangerous Bore, [From The Louisville Post.J Elm trees all over Kentucky are being ruined by an insect called the "boro." Beautiful shade trees are dying. The bore resembles an ordi. nary bumble boo and makes its way through the bark of the elm straight to the heart of the tree. Here are dopoHitod the oggs and the bodies of spiders, on which the young are to subsist when hatched. When a count 1ss number of channels have been hollowed out in a tree the sap no longer returns a it should and the tro~ (lies, says Thie Coving ton Post. Hundreds of elm trees on Prico Hill, at Norwood and all thmrough the Kentucky suburbs have died as the work of the bore. Es poCcially it is wvork noticeable in Ludlowv. One old monarch elmn standing at. the fool of Kenner street, Ludlow, which hass been a land mark for more than 100 years, has fal len a v ict imi. Wiasuan, 74 Years Old wanuts to LEo to school. [ Topeka State Journal.] Miss U. K. CJrittenden of Brook. ville, K(an., hmas written a letter to State Su pe int"mndent Stryker stating that she is '74 years of age and has boon a teacher for eight years, hav ing hold cortillcat os of various grades during that time. "I now desire to scure a State dilomalh," Miss Grit tendeni says, "and 1 write you this letter with the hope that you will instruct me how to pro. coed to take up reviews and study for that purpose." She also announces a desire to at tend the State normal for a year to review some branches and to take up the study of methods. Uilveity Bhoys Cut Vordwood, Thirteen young men, students of Portland University, have been camped near Yankton, in Columbia county, for several weeks cutting cordwood, most of which will be used at the University. Something like 850 cords is the result of their summer vacation, which will mater ially aid them financially in getting through the next school yeamr. .The woodl is being brought to St. Helens through the flume and from there shipped on scows to Portand.