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VOLUME IV. -: A.n. Ind.eperxd.ent Paper Devoted to tlie Interests of tlie People. rn ?>Wl? ORANGEBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1875. NUMBER 1. .. - iln J.-f-? . SliUWBKK H?NO. BT OKLIA' TOAXTEB. *"H*?!| Thou Httla child, with tender, clinging arms. Drop thy sweet head, my darling, down and rest Upon my shoulder, rent with all thy charms; Be eootfacd and comforted, bo loved and blessod. A i,..;,;. t thy sUkon, honey-colored hair I lean a loving check, a mnte caress; Close, close I Rather thee asd klis thy fair White eyeUd?, sloop so softly doth oppress. Dear little head, that lies in calm content Within tho gracious hollow that Qod mado Xn every human shoulder; where ho meant Bomo tired head for comfort should be latd. Most liko a heavy-folded roso thou art, In summor air roposlng, warm and still. Bream tby swoet dreams upon my quiet heart: 1 watcn tny slumber, nought shall do theo ill. MAJOR MUDD'S MURDER. . BY JUDGE OXiABK, -t>l? -Do Bruin was a leader of the stookooraoy?a " bear," moreover. He had faith in nothing but flnanoial total depravity., His bump of reverence mis a obhoavity, LikoOapt. Bymmes, he believed in- tho hollownosa of the world ?not only of this world, but all others, including the next. Ho would have sold stock in the whole of them !' short." TJm final bankruptcy of the universe was a cardinal article, of his creed, and he didn't believe the assets would pay over fifty per cent. He had a daughter " Pet." The best that can be said of her is that she didn't take after her father; for Pet was a beau ty, and didn't caro a pioayune whether Bosh Preferred went up or down. I met Pet at ono of our fashionable sea-sides, and, to ont a long story short, fell in love with her and told her bo. She said neither "yes" nor "no" when I popped tho question, but hung her pretty head and asked for time, as her father might have done in case of tho " bulls" having a temporary ad vantage in the market. I soon found that another was the real stumbling-block. It always is an other, who, in spite of what tho prayer book says, is wiokedly putting asunder those whom Heaven wonld join together. Another, in this instance, was a fat Broad-street broker, old enough to be Pet's father, and so like the latter that tho two might have been^ouba oftheh tho same litter. He was called Major Mudd ; and to him, it seems, old De Bruin had, somo time before, hypothe cated Inn daughter. Pet had no groat liking for tho major. What woman ever had for a man old enough to bo her father?nnleBS it was her father ? I was near her own age, and?well?I'll not flatter mysolf. The upshot of it was that Pet and I made up our minds to run away and get married?she confiding in paternal affection for final forgiveness, and I in the old gentloman's ultimate discovery that he couldn't help himself. Mr. De Bruin watched hiB daughter like a hawk. Ho evidently suspected something. How to oarry out our plan became, from day to day, a more per plexing question, The old fellow's eye was on our outgoings and incom ings. He wonld tap at his daughter's door, at tho most unexpected seasons, under pretense of making this or that irrelevant inquiry. To evade his vig ilance wonld have been liko giving the slip to Argus. A bright idoa strnck mo. I had often amused myself and Pot by mimioking the mijor. I could do his voice to a nicety; and having had somo experi ence in private theatrioals, I felt sure that with a little stuffing aud other making up I should be able to porson ato the old hipopotamus to perfeotion. Tho major's arrival was expooted daily, and when ho came, Pet and I knew, that with two instead of one to watch us tho execution of our nohome wonld bo rendered doubly difficult. Accordingly wo determined to bring matters to a crisis. It was given out that I was going away not to return. It being privately understood that I was to come bnck tho same ovening, disguised as the major ; dooeive Peter's father as to my identity; oarry her off at midnight; marry her at tho nearest minis er's ; and boldly risk tho consequences. I took an austentations loavo of Mr. Do Bruin, bowed a oeromonious good by to his daughter, and took tho next train for the city. That evening I presented mysolf to tho hotel clerk, to whom I had paid my bill iu tho morniug, with all tho dignity of padded portliness nnd tho froBts of at least fifty winters silveriug the looks of my wig. The olork who know the major well, saved mo tho commission of downright forgery by registering the name himself. I spent a dull ovoning with Mr. De Bruin. Pot loft us early, doubtless to prepare for our midnight flitting ; and tho old gentleman tackled mo in a dis cussion about "poiuts" nnd "corners" that fairly mado my head swim, and more than onoe drove mo to tbe verge of committing myself through ignor ance. Bed-time came at last, and I hastened to my room, where I threw off my dis guise, and resumed 'my usual apparel? my purpose being to quit the house when all ^vaa quiet, meet Pet at the ap pointed rendezvous, and oonvey her in a carriage, engaged to be in waiting, to the plaoe at whioh the nuptial knot was to be tied. It is an unromantio fnet to speak of in this connection, but one whioh subse auent events make- it necesaarv in men tion, that the excitement I was laboring under caused my nose to bleed freely. I had barely succeeded in stanohing it, when a glance at my. watch apprised me that I had no timo to spare. ? I opened my room door softly and. stepped into the hall-way. " Ha!" exclaimed a voice. I turned quickly and' found myself face to face with old De Bruin, who was evidently surprised to see nie coming out of what he supposed to be the major's apartment. He didn't stop to parley, however,. but passed by, carry ing his chamber lamp in his hand. I had gone but a few steps when Mr. De Bruin rushed out, pale with alarm, and shouting: " Murder I" " Seize him 1" he oried, pointing me out to those who came in answer to his call. "He has made away with the major, who is no whore to -bo soen, and tho floor is oovered with his blood 1 The haste with whioh 1 was seeking to beat a retreat, eddod to tho proofs against me, and I was caught and se cured at once. Next morning I was arraigned before a local magistrate. I had but little to say. Of oourse, I could enter into no explanations without compromising Pet. I could only urge that the major's body not having been found, there was no sufficient evidence of his murder, i The non-appearance of the corpse, however, in the estimation of the magisterial Dogberry, by augmenting the mystery, Cnly added to the horror of the prime. Had I aceiinr ;.v.pfeconcc Zt?the major's room at an unseasonable hour ? Had I explained my sudden return, after having taken a final leave of the place in the morning? Had I oleaied up tho blood-Btains on the carpet? None of these had I attempted to do. Above all, the major had been seen to enter his room, I had been seen to oomo out of it, and hn had been seen no more.. It was dear a foul crime had been committed, and who but I could be the guilty one ? I was fully committed to stand my trial for willful murder, and was being led away by an oflloer, when Mr. De Bruin, who had attended as a witness, as the orowd passed the railway-station whioh was near at hand, gave a snddtn start. " Bless my soul 1" he exclaimed. I* How are you?" said a portly gen tleman, advancing to extend his hand. Tho other drew bnok as ho might In wo douo from a ghost. " Wh?what 1?ain't yon dead, major?" Major Mudd, for the new-comer was no other, warmly repelled tho insinua tion. Old De Bruin was completely mystified ; and it was not till the dis guise I had worn had been discovered, and some othor oironmstauoeB came to light, that the truth began to dawn npon him.' I was discharged, of oourso ; and, on my way to take the next departing train, I saw Pet, on tho major's arm, promonading tho veranda of tho hotel. She mado a month at me over her shoulder as I passed. No woman ever forgives a man for making her or him Bolf ridiculous. Pet would have mar ried me and mado mo a good wife, no doubt, but for tho misadventures of that night. As it was, sho married tho major, and I am still a baohelor. Reforming A Fug Nose. Mrs. St. John Eckel, Maria Monk's daughter, gives the following account of tho successful reformation of her pug nose: "Ono of tho first things my sistor had said, on seeing mo, was, 1 But whero is your pug noso ?' * It is gone,' I replied ; hut I did not toll her huw it had gone. I will hero mako tho oonfession to tho reader. At night I would take a long string and fasten it around my face, drawing it no tightly around the tip of my noso that I could hardly breathe through my nostrils. During tho day I used to pull on the noBO. In two years I succeeded, and the pug disappeared. How muoh did I not snffer for this vanity ?" Tnnirrc are only three women in Mil waukee who can direot an envolopo straight without first drawing a lino with a pin. An Architectural Fiasco. INTKMOR DEFECTS OF THS PABIB QBAKD OPERA HOUSE. OntsirJe, the opera is not a failure; Inside, it is a fiasbo. Some years ago, when Boron Haussmoun was remodel ing Paris, the drawings of M. Charles Garnier, architect, were accepted for tho national oporu, because it entered admirably into the general plan. The oenter of Paris, the junction of bo many fine boulevards, had to have a grand monument, and the enormous .faniirling plsimed by no?n!a? was sc? cop red by M. HansBmann. But he him self made many ohanges in the plan, for the benefit of his own plan, for the streets to oenter at tho Place de TOpora. Garnier changed his model and, estimated the cost of his building at some twenty million francs. But forty-three millionu'of francs were swal lowed up before the house was near completion. The outside, constructed under Baron Haussman's eye, is as fine as anything in the world, and no coun try can show a grander or more impos ing structure; but when left to himself Gamier proved unequal to his task. j.ho main salle is small, squatty, if I may use the term, badly lighted, badly constructed, and with boxes very badly disposed ; everything has been sacri ficed to two or three showy foyers which are marvelous, it is true, but net as necessary as a good central salle. The entrance and the grand staircase aro also magnificent, and Paul Baudry has decorated tho foyers with some very fine work of art; bnt, beyond this, I ean say very little good pf tho boasted monument of high art in France. The boxes are narrow and there is a man trap in the shape of a break-neck step at tho entrance of each. I must warn all who hope to visit the opera during the coming season to remember this step, or they may get an ugly fall. The gaignoircs are simply detestable, and one might as well be in a cellar. The grand chandeliers shed but a gloomy light upon the lower patt of the hall, and even the boxes on the first tier aro not aj?_|rnomy or. as well ligb i?d-Uft thos? of the old opera in the Hue Lepelletier. And stranger still to say, in this thea ter, built at the expense of the entire nation, there is absolutely no place for the people. Tho chicken-coop allowed thorn in the loft is not even decent. Everything has been saorified to the foyers, as I have before remarked, and to the front tiers of boxes held by rioh subscribers. It was for this reason that tho director was allowed to raise his prices, for since English and American visitors will occupy them on off nights, it is necessary to make them pay as much as possible. My first v sit to tho building was a disappointment, bnt I was informed that everything would be right when the house was lighted. I waited in patience to see the result. My second visit was a still greater dis appointment, and I must say that, in my opinion, the salle of tho imperial opera of Vienna is infinitely suporior to this in every respect. But thegrand monde of Paris oan meet in these splen did foyers on the arislooratio nights, and for this the foreigners in Paris aro expected to pay on tho off nights', the prioes having been raised to this end, and for a very long time to oomo very few of them will have tho pleasure of assisting on subscription nights. I very muoh fear that this system will prove a costly one. English and Amer ican visitors may go once to boo the bouse, but they will probably keep their money to spend elsewhere when they find that they oan only go off nights, and see only tho bourgeoisie.?fan's Letter. Tho Secret of Beauty. It is not in pearl powder, nor in gold en hair-dye, nor in jewelry. It cannot bo got in a bottle or a box. It is pleasant to bo handsome ; bnt all be&uty is not in prettiness. There is a higher beauty, that makes ub lovo peo ple tenderly. Eyes, nose, hair, or skin never did that yet; though it is pleas ing to boo fine features. What yon aro will make your faoo over for yon in the end, whether nature has made it plain or pretty. Good pooplo are never ill-looking. Whatover thoir faces may bo, an amia ble expression atones for all. If they ean be oheerful also, no one will love them tho less in causo thoir features are not regnlar, or because thoy aro too fat, or too thin, too pale or too dark. Cul tivation of tho mind adds another charm to thoir faces, and, on the whole, if any girl is dosirouB of being liked by tho many nnd loved by the ono, it is more in her power than ehe may believo to aooomplish that objeot. Cosmetics will not accomplish it, how ever. Neither will fine dress; though a woman who does not dress beconiingly wrong3 herself. IToroed smiles and affected amiability wiljj be of no avail; bat if she can man age to feel kindly to everybody, not to be jealous, not to bo cross, to be happy if possible, and to encourage content ment, then something will come into her face that will umtlast youth's roses, and gain her not only a husband, but a life-long lover. Folloe Court Sketches* WHEN the FAN8IES BIiOOlC "This is a case which oan bo er. 1 led, tried, and disposed of inside of three minute3," remarked his honor, as Charles Taylor leaned. on the railing and regarded him with an appealing look. 4>I couldn't get nothing to do," re plied the prisoner. " I hear you couldn't, but if I were a yc~ "an eighteen years old, in sound health, ind the fat on my ribs was an | inch a* .1 n half thick, I'd find work enough to pay for my board, or I'd slide off the wharf and moko business for a coroner." ''I've looked all around," said the prisoner. " Well, we won't argue the case. I know that work is scarce, but I also know that there are dozens of fat loaf ox;, around this town who wouldn't turn a grindstone two hours for a week's board. You are charged with vagrancy, arc guilty, and Til give you sixty days. That will let you out about the time the p?nales bloom, and if you oan't find work then Til send you back for six months," Tho prisoner shuffled off into the corridor, wiping a tear from his nose, and ~s& so ugly that Bijah Lad to draw the crowbar at him before he would Bit down on the water cooler and wait for tffijBfariSjgO drive around. '4VND HE was SO YOUNG." Ho - was only twenty-two, and the bl m of youth on his nose had scarcely bi? eaten into by the rust of man h/id's tribulation. Ho was found viifltut"oil- t!;o-?idowa3k,--lying-on. hia back, arms folded across his peaceful breast, and the pole, cold moon cost a snowy shadow across hia face. "Ever here before?" asked the court., "Never." "And you feel powerful mean over this?" "I do." "And you won't be found iu suoh a situation again ?" " Never." " Well, bo very careful of your oon dnot in the future, young man. Ton are just budding into manhood now, and if you are pioked up drunk at twenty-two what may not happen to you at forty-four ? I don't advise you to carry an ioiclo around in your pocket, or to refuse a prescription because one of the ingredients is burnt brandy, but as a general thing it will be best for you to mind yoar own.business, let in toxicating drinks alone, and pay your board bill in advance. This is all, sir? there's tho way out." "s'oatI" Exclaimed some ono in the andionoe as tho name of James Kitten was an nounced. His honor rose up, looked around him, sat down and said: That remark mnsu't bo remarked again." Mr. Kitten had also been drunk. Ho said some one drugged him, bat it was pretty evident that ho took tho fluid in tho usual way, and that it had no moro than tho usual effect on him. When found by tho officer he was hanging to a tree-box near tho city hall and shout ing: "Luoinda, 'fn don't open that door I'll knookyerheadoff I" " Mr. Kitten, such oonduot is unpar donablo in a man of your yoars," said his honor, " and it will be altogether more harmonious for yoxi if you keep away from me hereafter. I don't re member having mot yon bofore, and I don't want to sco you a second t.;me. I oan let yam off this time, but if your fadod form confronts me again within a month, I'll mako it so lively for you that sitting down on a rod-hot penny will be a cool position compared to your s.' " Am I sent up?" asked tho prisoner. "No, air?you are sent out and you oan stop along as soon as Bijah findB your hat," he wasn't. Just before tho " last man" was called a tall, red-haired woman wearing No. 7 shoes and a straw bonnet, and her eyes showering out sparks of anger, attraoted tho attention of the court and asked: "la Josophns Andrew MoDaff in horo?" Bijah dodged into the corridor, made -1 1 inquiries and then answered her in the negative. " Well, all I want in this world is to get my paws on him I" ejaculated the female, and she strodo out, head up, heels striking hard, and her brow cor ruga ted until it resembled tho grooves in a washboard. The boys caught the one and followed her around tne oorner, singing: Oh! tho wife of McDnff, She's tall and sho'a tnff, And Bho'U make it rough .. 3 For JosephoB McDnff. Tuff-ruff. I Mr, and Mrs. MoDaff,;.... ?Detroit fi^JPrcsa. A Lost Babe. HOW A CADLFORNXA MOTHER WHO W?TJ?D DANCE WAS BADDY SOARED. ; A ball was given nt Campfconville, Ynba county, Cal., on New Year's Evo, win oh was attended by a osartain Iedy who resides some distance from that place She had a baby thai could not be left at home. Arriving at Oampton vUle early in the oven jug with her baby, she put up at the Globe hotel, kept by one Jones. She told Jenes sho was desirous of attending the ball if she could find some one who would take care of her baby. Jones, being an accommodating fellow, proposed that he would "father" tho "young 'un" ad interim. The lady accepted the offer with joy, and putting the baby to sleep, laid it down gently in Jones' bed, and then went to the ball. Up to midnight Jones made frequent visits to the room, to attend to the wants of his precious charge. From that hour the babe, so far as Jones or if - mother was concerned, was left, alone, for Jones fell a victim to sleep. It happened, how ever, that a stage-driver was asleep in a room nearly opposite to the one oc cupied by the babe. About one o'clock a. u. says the North San Juan Times, the babe began to cry fearfully, and to appease it the stage drive? took it to his own bed,"and kept it quiet the re mainder of the night. He was up and off by daybreak, before tho mother had returned from the ball, and before any one was stirring in the house, leaving 4ho babo fast asleep in his own-bed. An hour later the ball broke np, and the mother returned to the hotel. She went straight to Jones' room to see her babe. Lo 1 and behold I it wasn't there ?neither was Jones. Soon the whole house was in an uproar, and searoh was made for the missing babe, but ail in vain. In the meantime the whole to-vn was startled by the information that a child had been stolen and carried away. Finally, it was remembered that the stage-driver had slept in tho house that night, and that possibly he might know something about the missing child. He was telegraphed to on the subject, to Downievillo, and in tho course of a few minutes a reply was received from him, which read as follows : " Frank Ramp pin : You will find the child in my bud at tho hotel." On tho reception of the telegram the mother rushed frantically to the stage-driver's room and fonnd her preoious babe lying in his bod fast asleep. Nearly everybody in Oampton ville got drunk that day re joicing over the event._ Rabies' Names. When people name their babies they sh onld remember their future feelings As a general thing, a name that has a pleasant eonnd, and is neither too com mon nor too far-fetched and romantic, is the pleasantest to have. And it is always better to have one that, while admitting of a childish diminutive, will not sound ridiculous if its bearer lives to be an old man or woman. At the same time, there is suoh a thing as sticking too striotly to the oommon-place, and it is not considerate to inflict upon innocent babes thoir grandfathers' names, or even their grandmothers', if thoy aro obsolete or hideous. I It is duo to your baby to givo it a name that will not bo a torment to it in its sohool-days?und there is nothing like a queer name for children to make sport with?and one that will last it if it lives to be eighty. Divorces in England.?Thoinoreoso in tho business of tho divorce court is rather alarming. In 1870 tho court an nulled 151 marriages; in 1871 tho num ber was 170 ; in 1872 it rose to 173, and last year it was 215. If ono will reflect that before tho divorce court was estab lished the number of divorces obtained in England was soarcely five per year, and that domestic lifo was then far more pnre than it is now, he may estimate for himself tho valne of this espeoial invention of human progress." I sup pose that if a law were passed by which parents might kill thoir children under certain circumstances, tho nnmber of babies pnt to death wonld inoroaso steadily year after year. HAYINGS AND DOINGS. The Indian, remedy for removing tho dandruff?removing the scalp. ' ? ? ? ? When a Boston man takes a- Russian t bath he imparts a dark stain to sJxteen7?r gallons of water. ,, ,_. r . .-. ? A "pnBAHB help the , pq?r^ ibojj,^;^ Fhiindolphia recoived only four cent? ? during tho year 1874, and three pi! these', were very thin cents. - * ,r The danger of dabbling in Fronoh politics is shown in tho fact that more than 20,000 persons have .been, arrested! in Franco for insurrectionary commun ism. ??:<.;') tunit Ai.ii the axes and bnok-saws found- iti : the ruins of - Pompeii are of ligktmake, a as if constructed, for women'o -pfle,1;{ Those old, anoien^Jkner^. their liTUefi : *'<J.i' \o UlwivvU* liup., . A Pabzb merchant who refused: to ad-;. vextiso was challenged by ,an editor and , shot. The man who cays anything; ' against advertising deserves to bo: shot - on the spot. ; - >J?t?*i> esoairj An elephant is 1.227.3SG times larger'' than a flea,'but yet there are wometi ;> who growl at paying < two shillings ta <\ visit a menagorieand, will turn a feather. ;f bed over for half a day to hunt a floa,? Ul AOWTRATi Pobtsb b ay a wo j ha vo, no navy, and that there, are a hundred ( ironclads in Europe, any ouo of which is capable of destroying in action'our whole fleet combined. ."Onsitwnad io The Indians at Petoaky, according to tho Olam Lake News, have the follow ing expressive if net elegant raying for onoof the Grand Baplds and Indiana railroad employes: " Ugh, much talk, d?d little do." (7 Vasqtjez, the noted bandit of Oalifo?? -1 Iiis, hss been convinced of thirty-56r?? - separate and distinot. murders, p Wo al ways said that when a man goes intp,y any kind of business he ought to do his beet to make a suooess of it. "A ori8ts exists in Sonth America," 1 says a cable dispatch from London, "and revolution is considered im minent." That is the kind of. news we have been getting from South Amoriea for tho last iifty yoars. It is becoming tedious. Tell us something new. The San Franoisoo papers boast that; their new "Palace Hotel" will require four thousand looks and forty-eight thousand keys to make it juBt the thing. These looks and keys will weigh seven tons and will cost $20,000 in gold coin. Chicago stands aghast. The Grand Pacific must hide its diminished head. Tirs Paris gossips call tho marriogo of Mile. Ginlia Strakosoh daughter of Mr. Maurice Strakosoh, and niece of Patti, Marquise Da Caux, with M. Ernest Bonrdillon, a young and rising, advocate of tho Oonr d'Appel, a Gplon did matoh?a love match in the bar gain, a thing not always fonnd in Franco, M. Bonrdillon is a handsome| young fellow, of very polished man ners, and will certainly make his mark. Mile. Strakosoh is a sweet and winning yonng lady, who inherits tho musical talents Of her parents. A very large, and fashionable assembly assisted at the nuptial benediction at the Church of Saint Augustin. An interesting relic of by-gone time has lately disappeared with the death',' on December 22, of Lord Byron's valet, Faloieri, at the age of seventy-eight. After the poet's death, his friend Sir John Hobhouso.af terward LordBrough ton, took Faloieri into his employ as courier. Before long, however, the ccn*r?c? &cL to Iii;* forinci* o^il Ii **q*} and continued to serve as valet with Isaac Disraeli, author of "Tho Curi osities of Literature," and father to t)he present Prime Minister, until his master's death. In 1852 Lord Brough ton got him a berth as messenger at tho board of control. He was a very pleasant, obliging person, and as assist ant to the head office-keeper, the po lite old Italian, with his broken Eng lish, was often held in friendly chat by those who came across him in the way of business. The Stuff Oua Army, is Made Of.? During the last six or eight years, ac cording to tho Army and Navy Journal, fully one half of the recruits received into the army have deserted. Thoro has been an improvement, however, during the last few years, the number of desertions falling off some fifty per oent. The change is attributed to the army bill of 1872, by the provisions of whioh inducements are offered to men to remain in tho service, Tho pay was increased, a portion being retained until the final discharge, and savings banks, wherein the thrifty might lay up a Btoro of oash, were established. The journal thinks, and wisely, that tho best mate rial for the army is recruited in the country towns.