" ' A.n. Independent iPaper .Devoted to the Interests of the People. -?-; ;, i_ ? '_!- I - ? . . \ ,, 1 ? ' -- , ; -' ? ??" ? YOLUME III, ORANGEBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1874. NUMBER 3?. I ONE^T LOVE, NEW LUfE. FROM Tin: GERMAN OF GOETHE. \ Heart, my heart, what Bpoll la o'er thoe, And what tronblea thee so sore T JO Such a life haat thou before theo, That I know tboo now no more. All ibtno oltVdcllRhlH aro d> Iuk, Clouo tho caupo of all thy signing, flonn thy power and cono thy zeal, Heart, alnco lovo did o'er thoc steal 1 As fair youth to bloom advancta In thla viilon of delight, Do bar trno and kindly glances Bind thee in their wondroua might, Should I vow no more to aoe her, Bo a man, and wisely flee hor, , Heart, you will not bo denied, Back you bear mo to her Bldo. And thia maeio thread cntwlno theo Never to be loosed by mo; And thia lovely maid confines'mo, Nevermore shall I bo free. I muat'in bor aphoro enchanted j Lire the lifo that she has granted. Thou that wrought tho change In me, ^ r j^X0? denr 'ovo? oni Bot m0 'rco i OVERTAKEN BY JUSTICE. The Monday after tho second Mrs. Tattle died, thirteen pooket-handker obiefs flapped from the Rev. Titns Tattlo's clothes-line. Nine had sig naled the gentleman's sorrow for the first Mrs. Tuttle, but four of those had been great silk squares, capabfe of be ing wet through, dried in the brine, saturated and dried again indefinitely, so that the number was no criterion of the mourner's oompnrative grief upon the two occasic-nB. Ho felt very badly indeed. No one could doubt that who, the Sunday-after tho funeral, saw him in his suit of black pass slowly up the aisle, holding hin orape-bound hat be ~rfore~Uiim-wiu -.that melanoholio, deeply dejected way, peouliar to the newly widowed. It was very touching, espe cially to tho female portion of the con gregation. The Rov. Titus' mind being unset tled, tho Rov. Thoopolis, of tho Meth odist persuasion, this day officiated for him. When tho Rev. Thoopolis prayed that tho Rjv. Tit.tiB "though oust down might not bo forsaken; and that this affliction, though for the present not joyous but griovouB, might work out a far more exoeediug nnd eternal weight of glory"?then every female head in tho congregation was bowotl, and every female right ovo turned outward to see how Titus " took it." It would havo been interesting had Tita? at that mo nient turned hie right eye down on tho ....congregation to see how they were im pressed ; but he didn't. B eased man 1 there he sat on the ecclesiastic velvet, hid face buried in tho fourteenth pocket handkerobief?ono of the half-dozen with Waok bovduiB uu Una ??urcam.,,.? while mourning for the first Mrs. Titus. To see him bo crushed and yet bo sub missive certainly had a very mellowing c eilecb, nnd it would have required but little further infusion of the enthusiasm '"?of humanity to set ouo-half tho congre gation including his case in thoir pri vato orisons. . . At the close of the services, Mrs. Pattypans, mother of five daughters of rnarri.igttble ages, but unmarriageble ?jawbones, grasped the hand of tho Rev. Titus in tho aisle. "It's a mysterious dispensation, but it may turn out for tho better," quoth she: " O, Mrs. Pattypans," responded the pastor, wringing the parishioner's hand, 41 nobody knows whnt it is until- ne'e passed through it." .. ?.?? You've passed through it, haven't you,' pa ?" asked Mrs. PattypanB, some what snufiingly, addressing Pa Patty pans. I,~Pa Pattypans was a florid gentleman, with a large nock and a heavy chin. Pa had buried one wifo before ho met the ^Dtathor of the five. "Ye? yes," answered Pattypans, drawing liiinBclf a little out from his collar. " O, yes, I've passed through it." Indications of amendment in the Rev. Titus' case appeared in about six weeks from tho demise of tho second Mrs. Tuttle. At that date ho escorted Miss Pollio Plum home from Thursdoy pray er-mct ting. It w a a calm, ?>tili night, like that on whioh Lilly Dale, of olden memories, was buried, nnd tho spring atgSosphero was favorablo to spiritual Eootlnng syrups. "Yon cannot know how irreprossibly "^lonely I am during these dnye, MiBB Plum," said Titus. Pollio supposed she couldn't. " I do not know in what light my parishioners may view tho matter," continued Titus, with a littlo cough. " But there is no time in a man's life, ^Iias Plum, when ho more needs the -supporting influence of a womanly sym pathy than under Buch a bereavement as mine.'" Pollie felt that a man ought not to cut himself off from "supporting influ ences" because of tho ppeeoh of n carp ing and ungodly world. "Woman seems to possess an intui tive knowledge of tho nature and needs of Borrow, and it heems ordained that man in tho dark hours of life should turn to her for light." Pollio thought bo, ioo. "The consolations of religion are, to our weak faith, sometimes vague and unsatisfactory, and we yearn for tho sweet ministrations of human svmpa thy." Pollio did not doubt it. " I hold it a man's duty never to yield to dark despair, but to seek out a way through tho furnace of auliotion, and thoroin gain strength for the future." Pollie appfovod that doctrino. On t he ninth prayer-meeting evening, quoth the pastor: "You littlo realize precious souro-> of consolation Wut rfyfflpathy ban beeri to mo, Miss Plurn." Pollie nuido n lit'lo noi^o in her throat. Aft a sound if didn't rtmonnl to avch ; au. uu expression it meant she dn't sco how that eould be?she bo weak and unworthy ; bnt if sho was "source of convolution," ehe was bo glad. '* Wlienaraanloses his?his partner," continued Titus, 44 what he most misses is?is a certain responsiveness the world can never give. Figuratively speaking1, he finds himself tf thirsting and alone in a land of sand and thorns.'" Pollie hadn'fany idea that'it 'was. so bad as that. By the twelfth Thursday evening the sympathy, responsiveness and general softness filled with the moon, and the climax was attained in accordance with conventional statutes. 44 'Tis not that I love Mollie and Dol lie the less, but you, Pollie, the mere," said Titus, looking off on the top of tho cypress, alias locusts, that waved over the village cemetery. I do not think thoBe two sainted women wish me to travel the remaining way through the i desert of this world alone. I do not I doubt that could they but speak, they would approve of my course. Perhaps they are even now looking joyfully down upon us from yonder starry realm." Pollio shuddered, and looked np through the maplo leaves apprehen sively. Thereafter the Rev. Titus not only saw Pollie home, but every other Friday evening gave her a species of 44 prepar atory lectures," his principles not allow ing him to attend to secular business on Sunday evening. No more wassaid in regard* to the spiritual ministrations of tho late Dollie and Mollie. Those two 'ladies were conveniently supposed to be pleased with the pew arrangement, ana it was just as agreeable to tho sur vivors that they should projeot them | without their assistance. As the Rev. Titus' cardinal difficulties-amended, his bronchitis, owing to taking. his con sol a- { tion in too much evening nir, rather in creased. . One Friday afternoon be was obliged to send for his physician. Phys ician forbade him going outdoors; but. as evening advanced, ho felt ho , mnst have a word with Pollie. Titus had found these Friday evoning exercises with Polly very helpful to him in his ministerial labors. His ser mons during those days had a great deal to do with leading the ohildren of Is rael out of the plague-strioken land of -Egypt to a land flowing with milk t>nd honey; lifting Joseph out of the deep I pit (of sorrow) to make him chief, stew ard of all Egvpt (all joy). The services of Jacob in Padanoram were dwelt upon with a wealth of imagery. The expe riences of Isaac and Samson were not montier ^ffe^Hr,,^ j?i*A*, * an through these discourses. Miriam sang and Slaved; Judith sang ; the daughters of udith sang by the rivers of Babylon. 44And Ol if they oould have sung while in captivity," pursued Titus. 44 what rapturous hosannas must have burst from their lips as they came forth on tho .Tudean plains, and felt that for them the night nod forever passed, and that far above, iu tho violet depths of that oriental sky, beamed their day star |M (POllio had a kind of 44 violet" eye.) The 44 improvements" of the dis courses wero uniformly to the effect that men onght never to ? yield .to the de pressing inllueno - of afflictive dispensa tions. " However fleree tho storm may rage," ^aid Mr. Tuttlo, 44 be snro the sun still shines, and you have only to wait for the re-illumination of your own landscape. Gradually the dark olouds will roll away, and the thunder mutter ings will be heard at a distance. Tho sunlight will gild flrstthe distant/moun tain peaks, then spread down tho. sides, and soon hill and dale will be flooded with glory, and your wholo world will stand clothed with beauty as with a gar ment." On this partioular Friday evening the glorification and beauty wero qnito wide-spread, and the meeting with Pol lie, being of the 44 protraoted" kind, did not eloso until late. Observe, now, by what far-off work ing nnd strange conjunction of oiroam stauoss transpire the ineidents in our daily lives. In the neigboring town of Birman, Barnaby Barnes had, this spring, been elected constable. The position of constable may not be an ex- i alted one, but to tho office-loving ani- ' mal of these United Slate bit is signifi cant as a first stop. Barnaby saw of fices stretehing away before him like a double column of sphinxes lending up to a Theban temple?the temple in this case boinsr one with a dome, where not Isis and Osiris, but Saylook nnd Jeze bel are worshiped.' Barnaby wos bo.md to discharge a constable's dnties with a zeal and abnegation that should be on example to the Washington idol aters, and that should insure him the next gift in the hands of tho people. Friday afternoon a lot of jewelry had been burglariously abstracted from a shop in Birman, and Barnaby started in hot pursuit of the burglar. He appre hended him upon tho outskirts of TJul saue, and stnrtod back triumphant. He stopped at tho half-way house for rest and refreshment, especially the latter, and there, by some subtlety of device, his mau escaped him. Chagrined, he took np the puTBiiit again. A pretty race the burglar led him, but all through by-ways and hedges, it tended toward Dulsauo. It was fiftoon minutes pas two, and the brightest moonlight, when the fugitive, throat heavily muf fled, turned into Plum street. It was fiftoon and one half minutes pant two when Titus, throat heavily muffled, emerged from Pollio's gate, and mind ful of tho injnriousneHS of evening air, ran homo. A hand was laid npon his shoulder, aud he wan suddenly brought backward. ?* Hero you ?ro again, old fellow!" cried Barnaby. Thoughts of inquisitorial officers, tho dungeon aim the lack, flashed across Titus' mind; ho demanded on ox ,planation ; Bataoaby refused the expla nation. Titus thought , there must be Bomo mistake ; Barnaby thought his prisoner had- mado it. Titus pro tested that he was an innocent man, who had'been making on evening coll. Bornaby could i not see the force of evening oalls at two o'clock in the morning. " Mere's a light in Dr. Cart's office. Speak to him; he knows me," said Titas, desperately. "Beady to do anything to 'bleege," responded Barnaby. Dr. Curt, calming down his nerves be fore retiring with some beautiful little experiments on fungus tissues, was startled by the apparition of Barnaby's faoe pressed close and white against the window-pane. " I've got a chap here as has stole a lot of watches from the joolry shop in Birmon. and h? wants to kno1?? if h.e isn't yourpaator, Mr. Tattle." " Tuttle r snapped the dootor, " Tat tle's sick abed, and won't be out these three days." " Dootor," oroaked Titos. But Titus was hoarse and the dootor pre-oooupied, and Barnaby took firmer grip upon the deputy sheriffs door-bell. From an upper window a female voioe inquired what was wanted. " I want Bates to help me put this burglar in this look-up," responded Barnaby. " Bates is gone, and won't be back till to-morrow night." " Mrs. Bates," feebly whispered Titus. A heavy iron key dropped on the grass, and with the falling key fell Titus' hopes. Then he tried threats, entreaties, expostulations, offered Bar naby money. Barnaby loved money, but he loved office and money better; and had he not witnessed the disastrous effects of bribery in high places ? He bade Titus 11 put up his gold." A man never feels so unrelenting in the administration of justice as after bavin? resisted temptation himself, and Barnaby closed the iron doors on Titus without one compassiO' ate movement. I There was a harrowing lack of " respon siveness" about the look-up. It was oold, damp and cobwebby. All night, till tho morning light, Bev. Titus paced up and down his narrow cell, trying to make as good use of tho occasion by professionally carrying out tho simile of tho, man confined in jail, and man kind as the sin-darkened prison of the world. When, at nine o'olook the next -TV.. . .v., ?, i P1 i I ? > ? ' yr: ? or'n breakfast', lo ! by the morning light he found not the burglar of yesterday afternoon. "Go for Deacon Olopp," whispered Mr. Titus, unable to speak aloud. Bar naby brought the deacon. Tho deacon carried the pastor homo in his olose car riage, and the affair was hushed up among the heavy pew-owners. But the oo!d Titus had oaught pro duced a severe attack of pneumonia and bronchitis combined. Follie took care of him, and he greatly endeared himself to his people by the meekness and pa tience with which' he bore his sickness. When convalescent, ho one day re marked, "So many snares and pitfalls are set for tho unwary in this world, Follie, and there is snob a geueial un certainty about everything earthly, that I feel we ought not to delay our union till Christmas. I think no offense would bo eiven the parish, and I think Mollio and Dollie, if they oould speak, would approve, if we should be united in Oc tober." ? And they were " united" in Ootober. Too Much Business. Ono of tho surprising things in con-1 neotion with the fail uro of Jay Oooke & Co. is tho magnitude of their business. At tho recent trial in Philadelphia Mr. Morehead, ono of the partners of the firm, testified that Cocke ?fc Co. nego tiated for tho government $1,930,000, 000 in bonds and afterwards bought and sold $3,000,000,000 in addition. In ten years that firm transacted a business covering five billions of dollars, a larger amount than was ever handled in the enme timo by any house in the world. It would seem that a firm having the haudling of so much monoy could have mado onough by its enormons transac tions to carry tho Northern Pacific through o three weeks' panic, if not enough to build the road. Certainly most baukers would have rubbed that small anvmnt from the coin as it Blip pod'through their fingersj and either tho firm was very honest or did bust ncHfl in a very loose way. Mr. More head thinks the house failed from over confidence. It had been dazzled by tho enormous sums it handled till a paliry $8,000,000 seomed a more bagu tinlle. It is n romarknble instance of f nil ore from doing a too large and prof itable business. Ever Been There? How edifying and oonduoive to ono's feelings it is to hold tho following con versation with your land lady when yon have beon to tho lodge : " Who's thar ?" "Mo." "Who's mo?" "John Smith?" " Whero'vo yon bin?" At this junct ure you must keep your temper and answer corrootly, in tho most nmiablo tones. After several other questions of a trifling nature, imoh as, " Any one with you?" "Aro you sober?" the window oomo down with a crash, and in a few minutes tho bolt grates and you are ushered in with the ohoering conn sol that "It's a pretty timo o'night for a young man who has any rospeot for himself to be out." ? It doesn't niako any difference if a man bus said hit* prayers before going to bod, lot him flu i eraoUer? crumb* between the hIh'cN, nnd ho won't go back on Iho satisfaction of three or four "swears," anyhow. NEW YORK HOTELS. The Gic.it Cnmvnmavloa-Tliclr Cost and UnrnlngH. The Fifth Avenue, inoluding stores, rente for $200,000. The lessees pay taxes, assessments and repairs?a total of about $250,000. The average annual Erofits of this house since its opening ave be9. A Deceptive Advertisement. A good joko is told oi a gontlomnn who was so charmed with the descrip tions of numerous country residonoes, which ho daily enoonntcrod in print, that he beoame tired of his own house, and determined to sell it. He instruc ted an auctioneer, famous for his de scriptive powers, to advertise it in the papers for private sale, b"t to conceal its location, telling parsons to apply at his offioe. In a few days the gentleman happened to see tho advertisement, was pleased with tho account of the place, showed it to his wife, and the two con cluded it was just what they wanted, and that they would secure it at once. So they went to the offioo of tho auc tioneer and told him the place ho had advertised was suoh a one as ho desired, and ho would purchase it. Tho auc tioneer burst into a laugh, and told Jiim that it was the description of his own house, where ho was then living. He read the advertisement again, and pondered over tho " grassy slopes," "beautiful villas," "smooth lawns," etc., nud broko ont, "Is it possible? Well, moke out out your bill for adver tising and expenses, for, by George, T wouldn't sell that place now for throe times what it cost mo." ?A society in New Yoik oity furnish es working-girls a breakfast of fresh bread and hot coffee for five cents. PA?TS AND FANCIES. ' ?It took tue hides of 165 cattle to furnish leather for three large.ibelts lately sent to Augusta, Ga., by a manu facturer at Ohioopee, Mass. " ' ' . ?Throe snakes were caughtfsticking a cow at St. Martin's, N. 13., a few days ago, and two of them were killed. They were a yard long, and in the stomach of each was found a pint of mjBV'! >ift ?It is not an uncommon observation that a man who is continually talking about his " ceaseless yearnings after righteousness," can't got trusted at a grocery store as quiok as a man . who swears. ' ?As small letters hurt the sight, so do small matters him that is' too much intent upon them ; they vox and stir up anger, which beget?, an .evil habit in him in reference to greater affairs.? Plutarch. "> Ulw ?In a single county in Vermont there are niuety-?vo farms vacant, and one hundred and thirty-six abandoned farm houses. Lack of railroad facili ties is the cause assigned for the whole sale exodus of farmers. ,, jjj , ?A party of sixteon ladies were bathing in a group at Long Brauen the other day, and a Boston drag clerk who stood near declares that tho paint and powder turned the water a bright orange color for a considerable distance around. * .?.-