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PLEASURES OF MEMORY,
By Oznola
For wise and benerolent purposes man is
endowed with distinct mental powers, called
facuttiet. Among these faculties tits most
intimate relationship exists,—each depend
ent upon others for healthful exercise. A-
round memory; however, all seem to cluster
more closely. Whether we exercise our im
agination, by which man seems “to verge to
ward creative power,” “to travel buck to
the source of time” and is even boruo aloft,
“where the eye has never travelled;” or
whether we exercise our reasoning poteen,
by which man makes his way into “the ab
struse regions of a philosophic world," makes
the elements obedient to his will and ap
proximates the diety. I say whether we ex
ercise these or any other of the faculties,
memory is a necessary concomitaut, an aid
without which most if not all are powerless
to act. Is memory so important then ? If
so the question, “what is memory ?” becomes
doubly interesting. What is this purveyor
of reason f” What is this mysterious power
of the mind f
To define accurately the term, to decide
in our own minds what this power Is—is a
matter not so easily accomplished. Among
“Man's noblest mission to advance,
Ills woes assail, his weal enhance.
His rights enforce, ins wrong, redress-
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DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE, MORALITY, GENERAL INETLLIGENCE AND INDUSTRIAL IMPROVEMENTS,
VOLUME 2.
DARLINGTON, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 22, 1869.
N0.10.
Is there so much ^pleasure then in the
remembrance ef our past sorrows? How
great must he the pleasures derived from
that faculty which enables us to recall the
pleasures of the past.
Memory is really the only source of pleas
ures which we can call our own. 'Tls true,
that,
“Pleasures are like poppies spread,”
lut they are not lost. In after days memory
will bring them from her store house. “The
days of our childhood are set in our memo
ries as priceless gems, meek ns the bright
laughing stars are set in a cold winter's sky.
We have loft them far behind among the
many things that have been and are no more,
but keen-eyed memory seek them out one by
one and holds them up to our vision all
shining with purity and innocense.”
As an illustration of the power of
memory to recall he pleasant scenes of
by-gone days. I hope I will be pardoa -
ed for giving the instance mentioned by Dr.
Haven. He says: “It is related of Carsten
Niehbur, the oriental traveller; that when
old and blind and so feeble, that he had
birely strength to be borno from his bed to
; his chair, the dim remembrance of his early
adventures thronged before his memory with
such vividness that they presented thenr
selves as pictures upon bis sightless eye
balls. As he lay upon his bed pictures of
the gorgeous orient flashed upon his darkness
as distinctly as though he had just closed his
eyes to shut them out for an instant. The
cloudless blue of the Eastern heavens, bend-
the many <&finitions by philosophers, none i j n g by day. overthc broad deserts andVudded
JcfFerstou Da tin.
His Appearance and Manner—WUath* tags
of his Travels—His future.
JHastmic.
seem to me to claim our assent, more justly
thau that which makes it, “that faculty by
which wc retain and recall onr knowledge
of the past.” Its brevity and clearness at
latest should recommend it. That there are
objections to this I am free to admit, but
what definitions of terms in mental science
arc free from objections?
An investigation of the nature, leading
principles and origin of this faculty would be
out of place here and it is not the purpose
of the writer, foolishly, to enter into such
a field. I do not think, however, that it
would be out of place to notice some of the
theories, held by phi losophers.
The ancient Platonists and Peripatetics as
cribed the faculty to the common theory of
ideas; that is of images on the brain, or in
the mind, of all objects of thought. Many
other philusohpcrs supported them in this
view. Later writers have made it a “de
caying or banishing sense,” “a sometwhat
weaker impression than that which we call
perception and as depending entirely on the
changes which take pla««Hrti fhc fibres oftfie
brain.” All .tUese theories hear upon their
•’** fallacies observable by the miwtsu
perficial. Their defects have been admira
bly shown by the acute thinker—the justly
celebrated Dr. Reid. He sums up his criti
cism in the following words: “Thus when
philosophers have piled one supposition upon
another as the giants piled the mountains
in order to scale the heavens’ it is all to no
purpose—memory remains unacdountoble
and we know as little how we remember
things past as how we arc conscious of the
present.”
Our ignorance, however, of the origin and
nature of memory does not prevent our see
ing its practical utility and its beneficial re
sults, aud enjoying
The pleasures of Memory.
We do wot deny it has its pains. We can
conceive, nay, we believe that in point of
fact, is has in some cases, proved true, that,
bv night Souther constellations, shone as
vividly before him after the lapse of half a
century, as they did upon the first chaldean
shepperds, whom they won to the worship of
the Host of Heaven; and discoursed with
strange and thrilling eloquence upon those
scenes which thus, in the hours of stillness
and darkness, were reflected upon his inmost
soul.” As a further illustration, go with me
to the home of the lone widow, deeply be
reaved of a sainted husband. Step gently.
Disturb not her happy reverie. See her as
she stands leaning on the door post, watching
the last ray of the setting sun as it darts a-
thwatt the door, the lessening cloud and the
mountain * brow illumined with gold. Mem
ory and imagination are busy interweaving
scenes of the past. She is again the blithe-
girl. the happy betrothed, the orange-crowned
bride, the beloved wife, the happy mother of
her first born. But the spell is broken.—
Hear her gently murmuring:
“Oh ! it is too sad to outlive one’s early
loves, to live an in the cold winter of years.
Bui'' ? ~J>aX!-iiig pleasant to recall those dear
forms, who to me are but spirit presence*
now, to remember that they are now dwell
ing in tire realms of eternal summer. The
tones which now reach me express the con
cord of peace and love; no words they utter,
but a meaning sweet ss the music of the
spheres, deep as the life of the Eternities
comes with them, and the profoundest forces
of the soul ace stirred within me. They
surely say :
“We have left you, oh ! beloved ! among the
the shadows, and in the darkness of the val.
ley of Death, but the love we bore you lives
here without discord; we chant it a perfect
song, waiting for the time when the shadows
shall fall off about you, and the Star of the
True Life shall rise.’’
The pleasures of reflecting on the sorrows
and joys of other days are the sweetest and
jmrest to our emotioBal nature, And none
are denied the happy privilege. The most
even in this world, the past has become a i gloomy, despondent aud morose cannot deny
realm of gloomy shadows and dismal echoes! j themselves the pleasure of sometimes rever-
Witncss the plaintive lines inscribed upon
the blank leaf of Rogers’ Poems:
“Meiiorjr makes her iufiuence known
By sighs and tears and grief alone
I grret her as the friend to whom belong
The vultures ravening beak, the raven s funer
al! song
She n ils of time mis-spent of comfort* lost
Of fan* occasions gone forever by,
Of hopes loo fen lly none i too rudely crossed;
Of many a cause to wish, yel fear to die;
For w‘iat except the instinctive fear
best she survive, detains me here
When sll “'the life of life is fled”:—
What but the deep inherent dread
Lest she beyond the grave resume her reign
And realize the hell that priests utid beldames
feign.”
But while to a soul thus blighted by
skepticism as is also true in the experience
of those smitten with remorse, memory flaps
the dark wing of the raven or tears with the
vultures beak and talons—t is not yet true
.that all its pains are only painful. The
scenes which brought the briny tear from
the overflowing eye and swelled the heart to
bursting, are the very scenes from the mem
ory of which the purified soul refuses to be
divorced. Think you that the mother of the
noble hoy whoso lately sacrificed his life upon
the altar of human liberty, and whose mould
ering remains, now lie buried far away from
the home of his childhood—hard by the
home of a relentless foe—think you, I say,
that she with her sorrow-stricken heart, finds
no pleasure in the remembrance of the part,
jngscene, when thoughts too big for words,
could find no utterance but in coursing tears
and in the deep “Good-bye my boy.” I teli
you nay. The war-worn coat of her soldier
boy, the blood-stained cap—all have a price
less value. There is a pleasure in her sor
row which she only can feel.
ting to the past.
But the pleasure yielded to our emotional
nature is not all the pleasure afforded by
memory. She has pleasures in store also
for the intellect; for
“Thought and her shadowy brood her
call obey.” By educating the intellect wc
etdarge our capacity to enjoy the rational
rcmeiohranee of noble thoughts well stroed
and virtuous, and worthy pleasures cf our
being. The actions done i«nds enshantmcrit
to the mind. It is the oasis in the desert of
life. Doubly pleasant then is the remembrance
ofuastscenes spent in preparing for real lastin
enjoyment. The memory of a well spent
youth gives a pcaeeaple and elegant pleas
ure to maturer minds.
Tlif IrisluiiHii iiimI the Fi«l«llor.
An Irishman, just came to this country,
had never seen a fiddle. A man came into
the hotel with one under his arm, and began
toscrewitup. One of the screws slipped,
and he spit upon it to nmku it hold, and began
to draw the bow. The Irishman, who was
watching him could stand it no looker, but
bolted across the street into another hotel,
exclaiming; ‘I thought this was a land of
freedom, but the devil take such a laud
where ye abuse the poor children ?
‘Why a man came into the tavern just
now, with a little boy under his arm, and he
began to torment the little cratber. First
he began to pull and twist his ears, then, to
provoke him more, he spit in his face, and
then he drew a briar across his belly, and
Holly Virgin '. how he did scream ”
A correspondent of the Cincinnati Com
mercial, who recently traveled with the Hon.
Jefferson Davis, on a Missisipi River steam
er, writes:
I had not before seen Mr. Davis. I had
pitched him as tall, bony and cadaverous.
All the engravings and photographs given to
the public make these characteristics more
prominent thau his real appearance justifies.
His height is a little if any above the aver
age. His face is well shaped, with regular
features, his nose being neither so promi
nent nor so emphasixed a Roman as is usual
ly conveyed by his photographs. The lower
part of his face is small, uot indicating the
pushing, aggres-ive, or bull-like qualities of
ten noticeable in the contestants of the polit
ical arena, but, on the contrary, indicating
a delicate organization, an amiable disposi
tion and general culture. It is not a face
expressive of genius or greatness. His eyes
are blue, and notwithstanding that the left
eye is defective and almost vi ionless aud lo
the mildness of his face. His hair is quite
gray, as are his thin whiskers and heard, and
moustache, which is exceedingly short, is al
most white. The tones of his voice are pleas
ant, and his speech deliberate and measured
—a quality seldom possessed by one who is
uot a natural or trained orator.
Mr, Davis’ manner is exceedingly quiet
and unobtrusive. He docs not appear to
seek notoriety, but rather to avoid it, aud
the attentions paid him were received in as
as undemonstrative a way as they might be
were he simpdy a well bred country gcntlciiiau
instead of having been the political head and
front of the most memorable civil convulsion
the world has yet witnessed. He is a man
whom accident has forced into a position of
factitious prominence The quality that
makes and marks a leader among men, some
times called ‘personally,’ ‘individually,’ char
acter’—that something which impresses the
mind into the mood of his mind aud carries
you along with him—this Mr. Davis does
possed. Mr. Davis’ heglth has greatly im
proved since his release from confiumeiit.
His friends who saw him during the troubled
and anxious times of 18G2, 1863 and 1864
expressed their surprise and gratification at
the marked improvemciiit in his appearance
cud general health.
President Davis in England and Scotland.
Mr. Davis conversation giving some reti -
spcct of his travels in Great Britain was
deeply interesting Like every educated
American, whose ideal associations with the
things of the past are derived from books, he
seemed to have intensely enjoyed his visits
to the cathedrals and the ruins of moaastc-
ries and abbeys, which carried him back to
the days of early Christian civilization. His
reception in Scotland he 8|e>ke of as particu
larly cordial, and his visits to different points
of interest there as affording him the greatest
gratification. The account of his visit to
the Grant’s Causeway, Staffa, aud more es
pecially that to the Island of Iona, he narra
ted with much enthusiasm. Iona—a little
rocky island which lies a few miles off the
west coasts of Scotland, noted for its curious
basatalic columns and cathedral-like caverns
but new desolate aud barren—he pictured
as it once existed, the seat of learning and
piety, and the point whence Christianity is
said to have spread over the whole Great
Britain. He visited the mementoes of its
p>ast giory, its ruined monasteries, crosses,
aud the tombs of saints, aud ancient kings,
and spoke with intellectual reverence of the
pleasure it afforded him to stand beside the
graves of Duncan and Macbeth.
Mr. Davis’ Future.
THE LAMR SKIY.
More ancient than the golden fleece,
More dignified than htar
Or Garter, is the badge of peace
Whoso minister we are.
It is the badge of innocense.
And friendship’s holy flame,
And if you ne’er give that offense,
It will ne’er give you shame.
Love of God, an Ideal of MaHoncy.
We have in previous articles treated of
Trust in God, aud the Free will of man to
worship God as to each seemeth best, from
which we arrive at the sequence that Love
of God is an ideal of our institution second to
none other.
Every Freemason is taught that God is
the author and finisher of his existence—
that He is the source of every joy and the
giver of every blessing. The grandest ideal
ity of Freemasonry is, that God created the
world, governs all things in it, and will be
the final arbiter of its end and destiny.
Our Heavenly Father has presented him
self to us in many ways—first, in the beauty
of the world, clothed in the very perfection
of glory and grandeur, which excites our
admiration; next, he has covered the sur
face on the earth with his mysteries (for no
man can solve the problem of a blade of grass)
and this excites our sentiinents of wonder of
one whom we cannot demonstrate, and He
has filled the Universe with such awful rep
resentation of his majesty and power by the
creation of myriads of worlds, so full of the
fearful exhibitions of a supernatural power
that nothing but tiie merest fool will stand
unawed before the fearful wonders of the in
finite mind which created them; and this ex
cites our worship of Him who made us and
holds our fate in his hand.
be where Sidon aud Tyre are to-day buried
in darkness. Wc hold, therefore, that “Love
to God” is an ideal of Freemasonry, which
is as sacred as its existence.
Komcthiiig Coming.
A ( olumn of Magnetic Light from the Sun
Stretching out towards the Earth.
The sun’s atmosphere, says the scientific
men, is in a highly excited condition. A
column of magnetic light is shooting out
further and further from the solar sphere,
and it is now stretching out forty-five mil
lions of miles. In other words it has nc-
Popiilation of the Globe.
There are on the globe 1,288,000.000
souls, of which:
360,000,000 arc of the Caucasian race.
552,0*10,000 are of the Mongol race.
190,000.000 are of the Ethiopian race.
176,000,000 areofthe Malay race.
1,000,000 are of the Indo-Ameriean race.
There are 3,642 languages spoken, and
1,000 different religious.
The yearly mortality of the globe is, 33,-
333.333 persous. This is at the. rate of 91,-
554 per day, 3,730 por hoar, sixty two per
the sun, the interesting question, and one on
which, perhaps, wo do not wish anymore
light of ita character, is : How long will it
be before it accomplishes the rest of the dis
tance, and bridge the gigantic <-hasm be
tween the earth and the sun? It is a mes
senger sent out to snatch us tip as food for
the iosatiato monster that keeps himself
warm by devouring planets, and whose firo-
eating propensities this whole earth would
satisfy for a few days only. If so, how long
will this emissary be in reaching us. and car-
ryiagtke globe away as if we were a gigan
tic lump of coal for a roaring furnace ? This
column of light at intervals indicates its ap
proach by flushing and corruscnting with
fresh brilliancy. So decided are its effects
that two astronomers, one at Ixmdon and
the other in Oxford, and neither knowing
the experiences of the other, supposed that
the dark glass of their telescopes bad been
hi oki o ■*.. range, hi strong was
upon the vision.
Admiration, wonder and worship natural?! If any one of our readers are therc-
ly beget that finite sentiment of love for one i disposed to complain of the weather and
whom we can neither know, sec nor under- j''h*-ourthqnnkcg, let tbe^) remember that,
stand, but whose works tells us that wc are j by this time next year, they may have an
his children, and the especial creatures of • c “tirc new line of experiences te explain
his care and protection. T £pnd to endure, in comparison with which
The first degree of Masonry points us to * j the Winter aud rough, rude Aut umn
beautiful morality of life which takes' i.- ; ’' P ’. , ’-J a yp may socm like a June naming in
A i* *1 C* A I a.. 11* _ * Kcv . ' ; - V r.vt«vlr,n*c k.'seJ- «V. .Y
coraplished half the distance between us and miaute - To pulsation of the heart
marks the decrease of some human creature.
The average of human life is thirty three
years.
One-fourth of the population dies at or be
fore the age of seven years.
One-half at or before seventeen years.
Among 10,000 persons, one arrives at tho
age of 100 years, one iu 500 reaches the age
of ninety, aud one in 100 lives to the age of
sixty.
Married men live longer than single ones.
In 1,000 persons, ninety-five marry and
more marriages occur in June and December
than in any other mouth of the year.
One-eigth of the whole population is mili
tary.
Professors exercise a great influence in
longevity. In 1,000 individuals who arrive
at the ago of seventy years, forty three are
priests, orators or public spoakers ; forty are
agriculturalists, thirty-three are workmen,
thirty two are soldier or military employers,
twenty-nine advocates or engineers, twenty-
seven professors, and twenty-four doctors.
Those who devote their lives to the prolon
gation of that of others die the soonest.
There are 336,000,0(10 Christ: ms.
There are 5,000,00*1 Israelites.
There arc 60.000,000 Asiatic religionists.
There are 190,000,000 Mahoiumcdaus.
There are 300,000,000 Pagans.
In the Christian churches :
170,000,000 profess the Roman Cotholic.
75,000,000 profess the Greek faith.
80,000,000 profess the Protestant.
Jt»l> prpartnunt.
Tlw above Depart weal win b» promptly at
tended to, and all w ork la this line execute,
the most sutisCictory term*. W* will Turalxh a
short notice
LA IV BIAXKA.
UAXD BILLS,
POSTSHS
C1RCUT.ARS,
m 'SlXESS CARDS
VHl/iUXtS CARDS
DILL HEADS,
r.'.ttrtiLkTK
LAE 111.
AH Job Work will be Cam oo delivery.
Mrs. Parker’s
D RESS Trimmings and Fancy Goods u
now open and ready lor sale.
Fringes, Gimps, Huttons, and handsome S'
Cloak Buttons, Children s All-wool Soldi Vis.
Hose, Nubias, luclies’ and Childrens’ woo!
Hoods. Ladies’ Woolen Fanchions, very pret
Infants* crochet shoes. Linen Tape tritom .
Cash’s Frilling. Cornetts. Sic., also one piece
very pretty plaids. Iter Millinery stock is con
plcte.
MRS. PARKER
M STILL make up walk’ng auks for ladies •
children ; she will receive Patterns 1:
the North each month during the season.
Oct ‘27 2
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the flash ’.-; -
It i» pro. ' i . • 1 "die end of next
year .
earth distinctly foil.
ill havegot near
mediate and ac-
W in consequence we may
expr ■ .'see phenomena that have never
or known before by the human
A woman in New York has cleared
000 by picking pockets.
*35,-
I understand it to be Mr. Davis’ intention
in due time to give to the world his version
of the political affairs in which he isso prom
inently figured. He will employ a phonog
raphic amaneuensis to facilitate his labors,
and as he has already accumulated a goodly
store of materials, its publication may not be
long delayed. Mr. Davis is blamed for ma
ny things respecting which it will he interest
ing to hear him in his own defence. I
know he has been censured by many in the
South for the prolongation of the war. 1
have again and again heard it said by South
erners that, after the battle of Gettysburg,
General Lee urged measures of compromise
to the eud of obtaining peace, which Mr.
Davis persistently opposed. The family of
Mr. Davis is still iu England. Of his ’iwn
future he did not speak positively. His
fiends believe that the United Stales will be
his future home, aud that he will not return
to Europe save to bring home Mrs. Davis
and his children.
A little b.>y having broken his rocking
horse the day it was bought, hi* mama began
to scold when he silenced her by inquiring :
‘What is the good of a boss till it’s broke ?’
About fifty business firms and shopkeeper!
were burned out by tho fire at Galveston,
Texas on the 3d. iust. The Merchants’ Mu
tual Insurance building, a theatre, and the
Metropolitan Hotel were among the buildings
destroyed. The boss is variously estimated
at from 81,000,000, to 81.500,000.
type from the perfect beauty of godliness.—
The second degree unfolds the loaves of na
ture and adapts them to the demonstrations
of science which tells the mjjtd that educa
ted intelligence rises ptWUW-Uuf
and common natural ius'ihetsyand ^1,“
ihnt be kaa power; fill; .rior to tbo brufo-Oru-
ation; and the third degree, roftliziug
the candidate is a man of b- tins, soul and
heart, it unfolds to him t’ie wonderful mys
tery of the immortality of the soul and teach
es him that there is an immortal spirit with
in him which hears a close affinity to the
Supreme Intelligence and which shall never,
never die, but that the God who made it
and the universe of souls, will aggregate all
to himself, aud iu the end become the one
grand soul and existence of all, as God the
creator, God tho preserver, and God the sal
vation of all He has made. .
The Freemason who has not the soul, the
heart and the brains to realize this co-exist
ent and eternal spirit of God, and cannot love
him ns the embodiment of the Love, the Jus
tice and the Truth of the world, has entire
ly nii:-apprehcnded the sublime mysteries of
Freamasonry.
Tho Freemason who can conscientiously
sny at his initiation that lie trusts God, and
yet as a man, docs not love God. is himself
a mystery and a paradox.
He who loves God, loves the truth loves
mercy, loves justice, and no man can trust
in God as the embodiment of those attributes
without loving him The inventions of men
have piaced a thousand scaffolds between
God and man simply because God is a spir
it and cannot be seen; hut the true Mason
will See God in every good work and deed,
iu every wonder and glory of the world; and
as a faithful Worshiper, he will find a shrine
at every step, whereat to offer up heartfelt
oblations and incense to the common Father
of all. Every moment of time belongs to
God, for he gave it; every comfort wo enjoy
is his gifts
It is c mimoii for men to he truly grateful
for one night’s rest, or one good entertain
ment at the house of a friend, and they will
probably repay it by a present which be
speaks the sentiments of the heart, and yet
it is common for those very men to spend
“three score years and ten” in the world-
housa—the world-temple of God—and never
thank him once. This is not Masonry.—
Freemasonry teaches us that (iod gave all—
and God alone can recall all He alone is
from everlasting to everlasting. Nations,
Umpire, Kingdoms and States pass away—
millions of people have lived and died, but
God has overlooked and governed all. and
the sublime mysteries which teach his truth,
his mercy, his love ami his justice has exist
ed from the dawn of light, and will exist,
protected by him, till all the puny powers of
earth and men shall puss away and be swal
lowed up in the vast ocean of oblivion and
error.
The miserable and contemptible fanaticism
of tbe world (and begot of ignorance) wliieh
to-day wars against our beloved Fraternity,
)!■=&* • tv roeafj^v :ntic
pf(«.li«e.
Lightn
oradlo £■■ ; ■' -
/. VA# *
‘anr* makes a comparison
Nil ^ t “’Mned from the report of
\o-neultural "llureau at Washington.
it that “Dixe is mighty
ani1 v-uo*) rt finds that Illinois
yields corn ft §ig.3’2 an acre.^hcat
at 822.45, ansi oa-tej at g23J>^ i^---cre.
Kansas yields corn at ez.6.64, wheat at
$19.80, and barley at 825.92 per acre. Mis-
fouri yields corn at S17.95, wlieat at $24.80,
and barley at 830.80 por acre. Turning to
the South it finds that Virginia yields a
higher average of corn than Illinois, say
S17.60, also tobacco at 886.25 per acre.
North Carolina yields tobacco at $112.70
per acre. Louisiana and Mississippi yields
sugar cane at $100 per acre. South Caro
lina and Georgia yields rice at $95, and Sea
Island cotton at $140 per acre. Aud the
twelve cotton States yield upland cotton at
an average of §60 per acre. In conclusion,
the Netes assumes that the value of tho lands
of the West is really far more speculative
than intrinsic, and that the advance in price
been because of the vast tide of immagina-
tion which always flowed towards the West
and rapidly settled np the country. It ad
mits that the old institution of slavery dis-
cou ugt immigration, and so impeded the
material progress of the South. But now
that slavery is dead, and with an open chance
for the competition of free labor, it antici
pates that immigrants will pour into that sec
tion and soon raise the lauds to their true
value.
An Exlruortliiijiry Ntory—TIiolHo.wt
Hcmarkiible Fatlier iiimI Non.
A most remarkable ease of consanguineous
affection nud sympathy is that of a father
and son living in tho adjoining County of
Fleming. The father is about forty-five years
ol age, ami the son is uot yet twenty. When
one has any complaint, the other is similarly
affected. If the fither has the hcadaehe-
thc ton lias it at the same time: if one suf,
fers with the toothache, the other abosuffers
with it; when one gets a cold, tho other gets
it also; and so it goes on through all the cat
alogue of ordinary complaints. But the yet
more remarkable still, is the similarity of
their appetites, temperaments, a: d general
actions. What one likes and cats, the oth
er likes and eat-s; and what one dislikes and
won’t cat, the other dislikes and won’t cat.
If one becomes angry, or gloomy, or happy
to the same degree and at the same time, is
the other angry, or gloomy, or happy. We
might go on and enumerate many other in.
stances of the relationship existing between
this father and son, though the above are
sufficient as showing how strange aud re
markable that relationship Is.
Carlisle (Eg.) Mercury.
A Queer Wedding.
Rev.
Moaij*
a Methodist minister stationed at
oc years ago, one evening, re-
. Stating that a couple living in
‘ •' - j he city desired to be united j
TIMMONSVILLE
CARRIAGE
AXD
BUGGY MANUFACTORY.
T HE ituilersignetl respectfully
informs the eitisens of Dar
lington awl fidjoining Counties
that he is prepared to put up in the best s\
ami at the lowest rates.
Baggies, Carriages. Wagons
OA.HT3, <3cO-
Repairing done with naatne^s and diepat
He respectfully tsollcit? a share of public pati i
J. A. McEACHERK,
TiuiUK’USVillc, JS. t
Sept 1 48 lx
Onward! Upward!!
"T" ~T** A VINO met with aucces*, far b<
JL JLour expectation, in the publicatn >
the
CHARLOTTE OBSERVER,
we hike thin method of offering our papers,
Daily, Tri-weekly and Weekly
V among the best advertising mediums iu Vi»
ern^sorth Carolina.
Ailctrtlument* Solicited-—Terms Motlera'e
PREMIUMS! PREMIUMS!!
We offer FIV'K valuable ^Agricultural Prcr
urns to persons getting up Clubs fur the Week.
Observer. Addreen
SMITH, WATSON & Co,
Charlotte, N*. C.
Aug. 2ft 47 tl
ARIjINCJTON
Life Insurance Company.
INSURE YOl’H LIFE!
Insure in Arlington Company ’
*•-(< K»a trlniony, and rcqueniod
j? “ < 'l' x ’h “• the morning. At
'-jffijffjp* 1 ,,t '‘ w ent to tho house des
igTG'feuft-v'V'^fored. He inquired or a
young Indy who was busy washing dishes, if
there was a couple there wishing to be mar
ried. “I am the lady,” said she blushing.
“John will be in in a momedt.” The min
ister was surpyieed to sec no preparations,
and stepped to the door to view the surround
ings. Two men were hard at work grind
ing scythes in the yard, and another, who
proved to be the ‘John’ was tending a cow
and calf. The young lady came to the door
pretty soon, and shouted, “John, John, hur
ry up, the preacher is here! John leaped
the fence and rushed to the house, the girl
wiped her hands upon her apron, and after
joining bauds, said they were ready. The
1st. Because It is the Best c«»npat*s
l 2ml. Because it is the Cheapest.
3d. its Dividends arc Dither Uni"
any other.
4th. It is purely Southern and z
; home enterprise.
T O Deg teuve to cull the attention of fl.*'
public generally to the subject of
LIFE INSURANCE.
It i» the imereddutvof every one to Insure !
Life, f*u that his family may not suffer from pov
erty after his death. The uncertainty asp per
ef these lawless times, auj the ccrviuty of dealL.
admonish all to make
Immediate and Sutv Iforblon for
their Loved dines.
The success of the AtlLISIGTON COMPANT
is unparalleled.
Let Southern Men Patronize
INSTITUTOINS.
SOUTHERN
Its terms are so liberal, that all may paitak
minister proceeded, and had just got through
questioning the young man, when the old la- i of ‘ ,4
dy rushed into the room, shouting, “John.
John, you didn't turn tho cow away from !
the calf 1” He let go his sweet heart’s hand !
instantly, and rushed into the barn-yard, put '
the old cow through the bars, and then re- ■
turned to the house, again, took his position j
when the balance of tho ceremony was gone !
through. The minister Went on his way,
John went to the hay field, and the young Ln iucs,. since the lute fire, aiol keeps coustau
irticuinrs cell on
B. C. Normont,
AGENTS.
March fl 22 It
MMMILiK WORKS
>' •** undei .signed informs his friends and Iik
kjL public generally that he has resumed h.
lady resumed her dish washing.-
(/*(.) Republican.
Income Tax.
„i on hand a fine and select stock of
IvH -A-1?, 33 lalEL
And is prepared to fnrnisli and pul up at! kiVui
of work iu his line, vis:
It was generally supposed that the income
tax for the fiscal year would amount to be
tween $32,000,000 and $35,000,000. Ac
cording to Commsssioner Delano, however, |
it will not exceed $26,000,000. Still this i
is an increase over the amount, received last i
year of 3,000,000. The internal revenue ‘
report shows that the reduced tax on spirits
and tobacco increased the revenue, in cix
months. $21.000,000 for the fiscal year end
ing June 30. 1869. For the next quarter
the total increase was, overlBGS, $23,834.-
868 Next year Mr.
nue of $.">0 000,000
Monuments Tombs, Mantels,
MURAL TABLETS, BAPTISM.'.
FONTS,
HEAD STONES,
Of all descriptions at the Lowest possible rai
Iron Railings furnished to order, and gen* .
satisfaction guaranteed.
All orders will receive prompt attention. *
vanecs will be required on all work
Persons wishing anything in my line nbr.
consider the difference of freight between i
point and that of Charleston.
J. II. VILLENET VE.
Market-slice:
Delano expects a rove- j 0 HER AW, S. C.
from distilled spirits. . -J M- Y*<><iDWAni 1 . Agent at Darlington,
Iu Virginia a will ‘written wholly by the
^ccauso it teaches the truth of'God, shall soon [testator’ requires no subscribing witnesses.
That officer opposes any alteration of any tax
income or otherwise, which, by any posibili-
ty. will reduce his income. In reference to
the income tax, which expires with the as
sessment for 1870, he advises its renewal as
or* the whole more equitable than any tax
that would bt likely to Like its place. The
tax-payers do not.
Tho question of excluding the Bible from
the schools is still before the Superior Court
in Cincinnati, and much interest is felt in
the result. The arguments will close in a
day or two, but the decision is not expected
for two or three weeks. It will b« remem
bered that the School Board decided to-ex
clude the Bible, and an injunction was
asked to prevent it* exclusion.
The. young women of Lewiston, Me., have
formed a society pledging themselves not to
kiss any man who use.-> tobacco.
receive prompt att
j orders th!t>Uf;li tfi i in 'vill
lion.
AprilJ _ 27 fir *
South Carolina State Agriculture
AND
Mechanical Magazine.
( Ojfeial Organ of the Seuth Carolina Sta!
Agricultural and Mechanical Society.)
A t an fault hate, the ritbsciubei
will publish the first number of a Mom
Mapirine, devoted to the development of the u
terial interests of this Slate, and the » hole Rout
sn<l will distribute five thousand copies grate
tously, so thst every one may gee wh„* it i.
fore subscribing. They intend to make it i
best and handsomest industrial magaiise er,
published at the South, sud they ask the cord.*,
eo-opers'inn of every good eitiicn in this mir
prise, « bud* must redound to the public wclfsr
Versons wishing copies of the first numb*
will please send their address to
Walker, F.vass A Cng-swt II,
Charlettlon, N. C.
miylli 82 ,/