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TWO DOLLARS PEE ANNUM. } GOD -A-ISTD OUR COUNTRY. ALWAYS IN ADVANCE SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 2, 1878. NUMBER 4r, VOLUME Y DeTreville & Hey ward ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW ?mtticbnrg ?. II., s. C. IQf* WiU practice in the various Courts W. J. DsTwvillo, James S- Heyward juacS tf. W. B. T3.EADWELL DENTIST WiU attend to patients at their residents either in Town or Country. Address through Post Office or call on me at resi dent Coner R?ssel and Tread well Streets. Prompt attention will be given and satis faction guaranteed. W. B. TREAD WELL. nov3 ly DENTIS ( Syr Dr. L. S.Wolfe can be found athisoflioo over Ezekiel's Store where he is prepared to execute work on the most i in pro v el styles, at short notice and at reasonab prices* All work guaranteed. iuno 30 tf. Knowlton & Wannamaker, ATTQRNEYS AND Orangcunrg C. II., S. C Aig. B. Knowlton, F. M. Wannamaker, Orangeburg C. II. St. Matthews, may 5 1877 tf horseshoeing" AMD BLACKSMITH WORK BY THOMAS RAY, (Russell St. Opposite Ilarley's Corner.) Al! manner of Smith work and Horse ebocing properly done. Fancy Sen II work. Railing for Grave Lot*. A trial solicited. THOMAS KAY: ?ept 1 tf. R R. C0WPERTHWA1T, P?RNIT?EB U ?1 WARE ROOMS, 20? KINGr STRKET, West elds, Poor Honrs above Wcntworili, CHARLESTON, S. C. LARGE STOCK ?f- LOW PRICES. No Charge for Packing and Shipping, sept 15 1877 (5m GIN i GEARING, SHA1TING AND BOLTS CHEAPER THAN" EVER BEFORE i At the FOREST CITY FOUNDRY and MACEIMB WORKS, GEO. R. LOMBARD & CO., AUGUSTA, GA. ENGINES, COTTo: SCREWS, MILL Q EARING And Machinery-AT Kinds Made and Re paired. I oct27 ' 12501 52 ESTABLISHED IN 1874. GEO. B. 3D WARDS, Cotton and ( ciieral Comniin stall liercliunt, CliarJc ston, S. % Prompt attentioi given to sale of Cotton, Peas, Corn, Rice a 1 Produce of oil kinds. Merchandize bofbht free of Commission. Agent at Charles))ti for State Line Ocean Steamships betweet New York, Glasgow, Liverpool, Londonand all parts of Europe. References?Banj of Charleston. Jas. Adger & Co., Charlkt n, S. C. sept ( \m MUSK; rOR ALL. Prof. ANTON ffiRG efTers to instruct on the Piano on thehiort reasonable terms. Nine Lessons for 9.50. Tho greatest carowill be taken to give satisfaction. Ladietnvho wish u linishing touch to their Musii 1 Education have an opportunity to go thiugh u course of Ber tini's and Cronier'H,htrudcs, Mozard and Bethoven's Senates. \ J.NTON BERG, Graduate fromlio Conservatory of Stockholm, sept 8 tf Wctl FlgS, R'iins, Nuts, &c, sold Cheap by ! A. FISCHER. There is a Time For All Things Charles Ray came home from school and said to his brother, 'Gome Henry, you have stayed in the house long enough. There is fine skating on the pond. Get your skates and let us be off. 'Stop and hear me read this story in my little magazine,' said Henry. 'I shall do no such thing,' said Charles. 'We have but an hour to play on the ice. We must go now if we would go nt all.' 'But this is B?ch a nice story that I want you to hear it,' said Henry. 'I will hear it at, the right time, and in the right place,'said Charles. 'It is play time now; and I shall not stop to bear you read, though I am as fond of that little magazine as you arc*' Henry did not give up his wish; and sii be began to read aloud. Then Charles said, 'You nre as bad as the man who stopped to scold a hoy at the wrong time.' 'Tell me about it,' said Henry. 'Get your skates and come along, and you shall hear about it,' said Charles, *lt is worth hear ng.' When the boys were out in the coo' air with their skates, Charles told the tale thus: 'There was once a boy, who, in trying to learn to swim, got beyond his depth in the water, and saw that he must drown if he could not get help I 'Seeing a man on n rock near by, the boy cried out to him to help him. But the man began to talk to him thus: 'My young friend, you did wrong in going into the water before you knew how to swim. You did wrong in coming alone to the beach, and going out beyond your depth. You did wrong'? ?O sir 1 sir 1* cried the poor hoy, 'please help me mom?, nnd scold me after wards. I shall drown before you get through your sermon.' %X)o 'not Bpeak, but hear the voice of wisdom, my young friend,' said the man. 'Let this teach you never to go beyond your depth. If you had been a good, wise boy,'? 'Here the boy sank.' 'Was the boy drowned?' asked ILnry. 'No; he was net drowned. A big wave bore him in, where it was not over his head; and be soon got on his feet, and ran up the beach, und put on his clothes. 'I hope bo gave that man a piece of his mind,1 said Henry. 'What a foolish old man he must have been 1' 'I do not know what the boy said,' paid Charles, '1 only know that the, story ought to teach us that a thing that may be_good at one time may not be so good at another. The man was to blame in choosing such a time such as that to preach.' Bring Jesus Bloro at Home. The little loving charities ofdaily life preach loudly for him who went about doing good. Bring Jesus iuto your home and your circumstances more than you have hitherto done. Illings do not go on well in your household, perhaps, nor in your cir cumstances either. You wonder why it is. Wonder not. It is because you bring the Lord so little into them. How can it be otherwise, with Him so little acknowledged? How can it be otherwise, when you are not cast ing upon Him all that pertains to you? Change your plans. Bring Jesus more into home, and plans, and du ties, and circumstances. Live not on as you hove done, realizing his pre sence so little. Tho name of Jesus is no mere fancy. He is a reality. He is a bosom friend, a tender physician , a loving Father, a gracious Saviour a very present helper. Oh, make him so to you. Live not outside of these precious relationships. How strangely will all things change thon ? How you will bo lilted up above things that once frotted you and hung heavily upou your mind ? How lit tle will appear the things which men arc struggling after and panting for around you 1 You will rise above them into a new element. Try itl Bring Je*us more into everything. Tell him everything. Make him your . constant friend and companion. Make him & reality. Only then will you he gia to know him as you should. Only then will the uuuttcrahle precious* of Jesus begin to unfold itself in your heart. A Good Temperance Tale. Frcm Ohio comes a capital temper ance story. Judge Quary, tho temperance lecturer, in one of his ! efforts hero, got ofT the following: 'All of those who in youth ucquire a habit of drinking whiskey, at forty I year* will he total abstainers or drunkards. No one can use whiskny for yenrsin moderation. If there is a person in the audience before ik*j whose experience disputes this, 1 ot him make it known. I will account tor it, or acknowledge that I am misr takeu.' A tall, large man arose, and folding his arms in a dignified manner ac ross his breast, Raid : j 'I offer myself as one whoso o wn j experience contradicts your state* I inent.' 'Are you a moderate drinker?' I asked the Judge. ?I am.' I 'How long have you drunk .in moderation ?' 'Forty years.' 'And you were never intoxicated?' 'Never.' ?fr 'Well,' remarked the Judge, scan ning his subject close from head to foot, 'yours is a singular case, yet I think it is easily accouuted for. I am reminded by it of a little story. A colored man, with a loaf of bread and a flask of whiskey, sat down to dine by the bank of u clear stream. In. breaking the bread, some of thol crumbs dropped into the water. These' were eagerly seized and eaten'by thjfr nsh. That circtTuistancc suggesteuto the colored JY>~n, the idea of dipping the bread in the whiskey and feeding it to them. He tried it; it worked well. Some of the fish ate it, became drunk, and lay helpless on the water. By this stroke of strotegy he caught a great number. But in the stream was a large fish very unlike the rest. Ho partook freely of the bread and whiskey, but with no perceptible effect; ho was shy of every cQ'oi t of the colored man to take it. 'He resolved to have it at all haz ards, that he might learn its name and nature. He procured a net, and after much effort caught it, carried it to a neighbor, and asked his opinion of the matter. The other surveyed the wonder for a moment, and then said, 'I understand this case. That fi*h is a mullet head; it hasn't got any brains-' 'In other words,' added the judge, 'alcohol affects only the brain, and of course those having none may drink without injury 1' The storm of laughter that follows d drove the moderate drinker suddenly from the house. Make a Gooi> Garden this Yeah.? Let every farmer, who has not been in the habit of paying much attention to his garden, begin now and try to make a good garden this year. It is the most valuable investment that can bo made on a farm. Haul as much manure u^ you can, say 30 or 40 loads on one acre or half acre of ground. Plow deep and prepare carefully. It will soon be time now to plant a number of early vegeta bles. A hot bed ought now to be made to sow the seed of early cab bage, tomatoes, etc?Those not ac customed to having all vegetables on their tables can hardly estimate the comfort to be gotton out of a garden. Cold feet and cold extremities in dicate defective circulation. Accord ing to Dr, E. JJt Foot's Health Monthly. - i .*.-*?! - Ashes from the recent eruption at Cotopaxi, in Ecuador, are said to have I fallen at a distance of 1,000 miles from the volcano. Worth of a Pig. Mr. Robertson, in bis 'Notes on Africa,' gives the following nnecdoto of theadmistratiou of justice in that quarter of tho globe : At Tantum, the mother of a child was attracted by its cries, which were caused by a pig having stolen something from it of which it had been eating; as was natural, tho woman struck the pig with a stick which happened to bo near. This blow, the owuer of tho pig. contended, caused its death. The affair, however, remained many yeais unnoticed, but it was at length brought forward, and urged with such vigor that many persons were involved iu it who were not born at fhe time tho transaction took place. As tho animal wiw a female, tbo damages were calculated at a higher rate, and the result was that every one connected by the most distant affinity with the unhappy mother, to tho number of thirty-two, husband, children and all that were most dear, were sold as a remuneration for the loss of a pig. The avarice of tho chiefs, who received a proportion of the spoil, wns only restrained when there was nothing more to be dispos ed of. Tho same monstrous practice is adopted ou the loss of fowls, aud the claims calculated in the same way. Whole families bavo been sold for a single chicken. An Essay on Woman. The undomesticated editor of the Newport Local thus relates his matri monial experience: "Awoman is a mighty handy thing to have about the house. Shedoean'tcost any more to keep than you'll give her, end she'll take a great interest in you. If you go out at night, sho'U be awake when you get home, and then she'll tell you about yourself, and more too. <jf course sin will know where you ^Jfyo "tieeTT anff \v!ia,rkepL you out siT late, aud will toll you; yet right after she gets through telling you that, sbo will ask you where you have beeu and what kept you out so late. And after you tell her ehe won't believe you; you musn't mind that; and if after going to bed she says sbo hasn't closed ber eyes the whole night, and then keeps up the matiuee two hours longer and won't go to sleep when she has a chance, you musn't mind that either; it's her nature. It seems to be the ambition of all young wives, to look well when any one calls. The other day a south side bride he ird a ring at the front door. The maid was on t and she rushed up stairs to "fix up" a little before admitting the caller. There was a moment of lightning work bo fore the dressing ense. Quicker than it takes to tell it a ribbon was fasten ed at her throat, a flower stabbed into her hair, a flash of powder on her face, nnd she was at the door, all smiles and blushes. The gentleman snid he had walked from Memphis, nnd couldn't remember that he had tasted food since he left Cincinnati.? Oil City Dcrich. The "Brownest" Wedding.? The brownest wedding we have beard of took place in Tuscaloosa a fow days ago. The groom and bride wcro Mr. Brown and Miss Minnie Brown, and tho ceremony was performed by Rev. John Brown, and the reception was given by Mr. Henry Brown. Miss Minnie Brown has brown eyes and was attired in brown aitfrou$et while Mr. David Brown was likowiso j dressed iu a brown suit. Altogether, the occasion was a brown affair, and the Gazette of Oak City in extending congratulations to Mr. Brown confi dently expresses a hope that the "namo of Brown may ever be perpe tuated."?Dccatua (A/a.) Neics. In Japan a law requires fish to bo sold alivo. They aro peddled in tanks. Kentucky is great. It has a cow that cats chickens, a mule that lays eggs nnd hatches them in a mare's nest. The Jute Industry. A Northern View of One op the Healthy Signs in South Caolina. [From the Nation.] The derangemeut of industrial and social relations in South Carolina canned by secession nnd emancipation was considerably mitigated by the development of the great phosphate interest, aud now, os if to make the return to a healthier political condi tion, the planting nnd manuracfure of jute begin to assume importance. It has been found that tho home of the sea island cotton is also fitted for the profitable culture oi jute, and the Charleston Bagging Manufacturing Company has begun to open subscrip tions with a view to starting a mill which will employ sixty hands, of whom only eight will be men. The experiments made with the plant in the neighbor ? ing States of Georgia aud Florida, a* well as iu Louisiana and Texas, a 11 point to the ultimate success of this new industry, already more extended than those who have given no atten tion to tho subject might suppose. Tho report of the commissioner of agriculture for 1876 contains an e! aba rate paper on jute, by Prof. S. Watcrhouse, of Washington (St. Louis) University wh? has studied its cultivation in Iudia; aud as the ear liest plantings in the United States take place in Apr'l, there is time for all, who wish to inform themselves, to do so. Some of tho stalks grown in the States named reached the height of fifteen feet; the yield was in several cases at the rate of 3,500 pounds to the acre, and the fibre in s^me inst ances was judged superior to the Indian. The seed, too, has been im proved, and is one-sixth heavier than that of India. Many branches of manufacture wjiioh^, nojj. .use jsttfr either sparingly or not at all, would bo stimulated to use it.freely, not only for bagging and baling,but for paper and ail sorts of textile fabrics from carpets down, as the example of Dundee has so well taught us. A product which has become the fourth staple in the exports of India, yield ing precedence only to cotton, opium and rice, may easily take a cora | mensurate rank with us. We appear to have in abundance the hot and j moist climate and good soil it afiects, and wo certainly have the ingenuity I to compete by machinery with the crude and cheap labor of India or the skilled labor of Scotland. We wish success to the Charleston enterprise. Be and continue poor young man, | while others around you grow rich by fraud and dishonesty; bear the paia of defeated hopes, while others gain tho accomplishment of theirs by flat tery; forego the gracious pressure of the hand, for which others cringe and crawl. Wrap yourself in your own virtue, and seek a friend and your daily bread. If you have in such a course grown gray with unblemished honor, bless God and die. Among the friends of Lord Broug ham was a lady who always expected a present when sbo received calls on the anniversary of her birth. Lord Brougham, called upon one of these days, forgot his present, but with ready presenco of mind seized upon the finest ornament ho could find in I tho anto-room, wrapped it carefully j up in a pieco of paper nnd presented it. Tho lady was excessively pleased with tho gift, and never discovered that she had possessed it before. Herr Zoitteles has devoted clovon years to tho study of tbo phylogeny of tho dog, and comes to tho conclu sion that neither wolves nor foxos nro involved in tho descent, but that jackals and tho Indian wolf woro tho original canine ancestors. Tho author recently read a paper bofore tho Dresden Naturalist's Society "Isis," giving a sketch of his research es and tho reasons for the conclusions at which he had arrived. Ground routs?Earthquakes. At a lato hour one evening a wo man about forty years of age, and apparently greatly excited, entered a Michigan aveuue drug store and cal led out: 'Let me have ten grains of mor phine and a glass of water?quick V ?I couldn't do it,' calmly replied the druggist.) *You can't! Then, for heaven's sake, give me a glass of eoda-v?ater, for I've had a fight with ray hus band and my troubles are greater than I can bcur 1' *The fountain has been closed for the season, madam.' 'No morphine, no soda-water 1 and I'm racked to death with mental tor ture! Oh, sir, if you have any mercy in your heart for an unfortunate wo man, do hand rae out a stick of gum V He passed it out, and she hadn't set her teeth in it over four timoa when her burden of sorrow began to lift and herfacc to light up, and she went away a comparatively happy woman. _ n The mother of two sous mot one of the brothers in.a field ono morning: 'Which of you two hoys am I speak ing to ?' nsked the mother; is it you or your brother ?' 'Why do you ask ?'inquired tho lad, prudently. 'Because, if it's your brother, Fd box his ears,' answered tho mother. 'It is not my brother, it is I,' said the boy. 'Then your brother is wearing your coat, for yours had a hole in it' 'No,' mother, I am wearing my own coat.' 'Good heavens !' cried tho mother, looking at him intently; 'you is yoar brother, after all.' "Sound," said tho school-master, "is what you hear. For instance. }ou cau not feel a sound." "Oh yea, Wilson," retorted the pedagogue, "how do you make that out? What annul can you feel ?" "A sound thrashiug,-' quickly replied the smart boy. "Correct," said-* the school master. "Come up." And that smart boy felt and smarted. "He Does Not Come."?The fol lowing lines were taken from a young lady's hymn-book, a few days ago, which she thoughtlessly left in church: "I look in vain?ho does not come; Dear! dear! what shall I do? I cannot listen as 1 ought, Unless lie listens too. He might have come as well as not? What plagues those fellows ate I I'll bet'.ha's fast asleep at home. Or smoking a cigar." How busily the town cow goes For the fodder of her country foes? Line climbs into the wagon box Regardless of the well-aimed rocks, And eats her till of straw, the while She wears a peaceful, pensive smile. Refined sugars are cheaper now than evor before in tnis country. During tho past year 135 tons of amber wero dug up in Prussia. It is a fact that 243 English per sons went mad from love last year. Pittsburg has a dog that can watt at table. This must be Old Dog Tray. Archibald Gordou Grauvillo, N. C, is the father of twenty-seven sons by one wife. A short time previous to the death of Pougo, tho famous gorilla, the di rectors of tho Berlin museum refused 812,500 for him. A Cincinnati 'society' reporter say* 'there's no end to balls.' Balls, wo believe are always rouud.?Nbrrittown Herald. TAKE NOTICE. The undersigned respectfully informs tho Citizens of tho Town and Connty that he to prepared to do up and mako Mattresses on tho shortest notice. Also will conduct no Upholstery business. Prices wiil be as low as possible. Orders solicited. JOHN ORQEN. juna 0 tf That largo and commodious Brick ?tor?, formerly occupied by Mr. C. R. Jonas For terms apply to MRS. M. E. MCNAMARA' aug 11 tf.