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OOD -A.ND OUR, COUNTRY.
ALWAYS IN ADVANCE
VOLUME VI
SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 23, 1878.
NUMBER. 14
GIN GEARING
SHA1TING AND HOLTS
CHEAPER
THAN EVER BEFORE
AT Til H
FOREST CITY FOUNDRY
AND
MACHINE WORKS,
|GEO. B. LOMBARD & CO.,
AUGUSTA, CA.
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COTTON SCREWS,
MILL ftEAHINd
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And Machinery off Kinda Made ami |{e
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No. 12 N. Eighth St.
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Who hia had RTfulcr experience In tho treatment of tin
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in the Weil, giw'i nie mull. (>r hi. long ami pm'tvailul
practice in hlr two now work*, Juat published, entitled
Tho PHYSIOLOGY OF MARRIAGE
The PRIVATE Wi EDICAL ADVISER
Ilooki that nro really flntitr. nad SclMn.tniflor* In nil mit
ten pertaining to Hnnhuo.l ami H smanliaen.. and itipp'r
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1877
tlioice Uroaklast SlripM. Sold low
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To "* * * * *.?!
?V P. 1?. STAXTON.
You kissed (lie Ho wer? you gave mo ?
The roses sweet and fair I
Von bound them with n band of gold?
li'etl with your yellow hah I
1 pressed them |o my bosom,
My heart the gift reeeives
Si nee your ? weel lips have lingered
Upon their dewy leaves !
'Tis sweet m think -li ar hidy.
J ho' i am naught to thee,?
"i is sweet to think your soft, white bunds
Twine these llowers Du no :
Hut oh ! how loiter lad-. ,
'Die thought dial blends with ii
) on if ill mo! - iii i/tntr him i Hi'/ / tii*.*i
j on null/ .?!?<? i/o ir <?;.-?
Liberia
A cargo i no. i<?s v.lt iei .\ i: i
Carolina in a lew weeks hi ? . - in .
of promise under ih? auspices u'liic
Pennsylvania Colo'ii/.n'ion "vieio'v.
Pur the success ol this expedition
they have voted the sum ol ti e
thousand dollars and -elected the
vessel "Liberia" with a reliable crew.
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been given these negros as were give
here; cotton grows on trees with little
labor, life is longer there than here,
the tKst kinds sell Tor filty cents per
acre, taxes only 20 cents on SI00 dol
lars worth of property, and that a
white man cannot vote, hold office or
own lands. All are going who can
get off on the faith of these assertions.
The better plan would be to wait and
hoar from those already gone from
Charleston, and then, if these reports
aic verified and the colored people
'think their interest demands the
move, why make it; if not, let them
stay where they arc and work out
their destiny as best they may.
Wisdom would seem to dictate such
a policy.
Woman Su?crage.
On the 14th instant Mr. Wadleight,
Senator from New Ham phi re, repor
ted adversely on the proposed Con?
8'itutionai amendment prohibiting
any State from disfranchising any
person on account of sex. Notice w as
also given at the same time that a
minority report wou'd be offered
signed by Senators G. F. Hoar of
Massachusetts, Angus Cameron of
Wisconsin, and John H. Mitchell of
Oregon.
When we remember the insignifi
cant beginning of the abolition move
ment seventy years ago, the persis
tent hammering at it by Northern
fanatics during all that time, and its
n Itimate success, we an- not disposed
to look at this move on the part of
Hoar A' Co., as a light matter. These
gcill lernen are all educated and
thinking neu, not mere theorists,
and their names give a weight to the
movement, under other circumstau
cos, it would not possess.
Jt is not at all likely that female
suffrage will die with this adverse re -
.., i i that its advocates will grow
. i i ?n ibe other i.and,judging
iioiu th< picv . . ?? oht ihdi before
the luiiiitry in Iis n iciids will in
er? n i outtl, by coiisiaoi b .rpiug up
on the niensure, it will finally pass
and become a part ol our Coostitu
tion. Under ii woma will go to the
ballot box, mingl with the corrupt
masses anil more corrupt politicians,
become herself corrupt, lose her ele
vating influence over man, her
modessy, her virtue, and then?.
urn ? ? ?
[For the. Orangeburg Times.]
Holmes Co., Miss., June 4, 187M.
Mr. Editor :
Last Saturday night was one of the
saddest ever experienced by the in
habitants of Kosciusko, for never
since the existence of tho town, has it
been so severely scurged by the fne
fiend. The fire was discovered about
3 o'clock Wednesday morning, issu
ing from Mr. N. Thompson's tin
shop. There being no fire company
in town, tho only way to stop tho fire
in its furious course, was to go
ahead of it, and pull down a building,
thereby making a gap, over which
the flames could not leap. This was
done without delay, and the roof of
the next house, Mr. D. B. Comfort's
drugstore, was kept wet.
The building destroyed, was the
law office of Maj. A Id ham, and was
destroyed by his direction. The I >ss
so far as I can learn, ii ai follow : J.
\V. White's drug utorn and stock,
$5,500, insurance, ?4.000; N. Thump
son's store bouse and sloe*,$3^000,
no insurance; store-bouse and stock
of J. T. Kdey cC Co., S-I.OQO, no in
surance; store-house of Mia. 15. San
ders, S10O, no insurance; two store
houses of P. Porter, S1500, insurance
6700; stock of.I. I. II- :..-. 81,000,
insurance ?500; sti't'.k of < i. ?' Ir'.d
wards, -^7<>'i. insurance, 8 100 ;store
hi ? .:?!?! part of itlafk of G. \V.
tin, 81H00, n > In.-uranee; Maj.
? <! inlii's 'aw .?Iii . $503' ??? ns^r
; ? ? ?? < ip| il e lire i> unknown.
Pl.inp Bryant, a bright and piv j.ts
youth, was drowned at Prondi ''.imp
on last Friday afternoon. Philip was
a scholar in the rf reach Camps school,
.tiid one of the favorites of tho school.
At tin: cl03?? of the school, til ? scll'ji
ais obtained permission to go to the
river lor a swim. Alter bathing for
a short while, tin scholars came out,
and the larger hays, having dressed ,
and went away, they bad net
gone very far, when Philip said, "I
believe I'll* go in and swim some
more." He could not swim without
support, so taking a plank, he plung
ed in, and was soon swimming about
quite merrily, not dreaming of dang
er, but a sudden turn caused tho
plank to slip from under him. The
little boys on the bank ga<rc tffe
alarm, but when help came, it was
too late. The body was recovered,
but all efforts to resuscitate, it
failed.
Our citizens are agitating the
question of building a branch road
from J^.;xington, our county seat, .
Din-ant. Such a road is very much
needed. Lexington has grown as
large as it can without it.
Give my love to Bill Arp,and tell
him to write.
Moke Anon.
Eternity.
Eternity has no gray hairs. The
flowers fade, the heart withers, man
grows, old and dies, the world lies
dow u in the sepulchre of ages, but
lime writes no wrinkles on eternity.
Eternity ! Stupendous thought ! The
ever-present, unborn, undecaying and
undying?the endless chain, compos
ing the life of God?the golden
thread, entwining the destinies of th o
universe. Earth lies its beauties, but
time enshrouds then, for the grave;
its honors arc but the sunshine of an
hour; its palaces are but gilded
sepulchres; its pleasures?they are but
as the bursting bubbles. Not so in
the untried bourne. In the dwelling
of the Almighty can come no foot
steps of decay. Its way will know no
darkening?eternal splendor forbids
the approach of njglit.
The Bankrupt Law.
( ongre>s has pi b ii repeal
ing the bankrupt iuw i. will go into
? Iii (;t September 1, IttiO, and all eases
then pending will be continued as if
the bankrupt act had not been passed.
This we consider, one of the most im
portant measures acted on by Con
gress The bankrupt law was terri
bly abused, and while in many in
stances it gave great relief and was
proper enough, in many othors
debtors only took advantage of it to
defraud their creditors. Wo arc glad
the law is repealed.
It happened in thiswise: They
were coming off the steamer across
the plank together. Sho was afraid
tho plank would tip and she should
fall. Ile said, 'Never fear. In that
case we shall die together.' Sho look
ed into his face and said,'If it's all
the same to Providenee, I should
much prefer to live together.' And
the next week tho knot was tiod.
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A pancful site?A hothouse.
"O, music?take her away !"
Not a Marrying Girl.
They were seated together, sale by
side, on the sofa, in the most approv
ed lover fashion?his arm encircled
her taper waist, etc.
?Lizzie,' ho said 'you mint have
read my heart ere this; you must
Know how dearly 1 love you.'
'Yes, Fred; you have certainly
he on very attcutiv o.'said Lizzie.
'But, Lizzie, my dearest darling,
do you love me ? >i 1 you he my
wife?'
'Your wife, bred I ()(*all things,
no ! No, indeed, nor any one else's.'
'Lizzie, 1113 ;>'.?:i sweet darling,
\vh at ?1 ? yon mean ?'
'Just what I say, I-red. I've two
married sisters.'
'Certainly ! and Mrs. Hopkins and
Mrs. hkiuncr have very good hus
bands 1 believe.'
'So pe ad ? say; l?tt I wouldn't like
to stand in either May's or Nell's
shoes; that's all.'
'Lizzie, darling you astonish me.'
'Look here, Fred; I've ha 1 over
twentydive rides this winter, thanks
to you and my other gentleman
friends/
Fred winced a little here, whether
at the remembrance ofthat unpaid
livery bill, or the idea of Lizzie's rid
ing with her gentleman friends, I
cannot positively answer.
'How many do you think my sisters
have bad? Not the sign of a one,
either of them. Such pretty girls as
May and Nellie were too, and so much
attention they use to have?'
'Now, Liz/.ic?'
'1 am fond of going to the theater
occasionally as well asa lecture or
concert sometimes, and I shouldn't
like it if I proposed attending any
such entertainment to be invariably
told that times were hard and my
husband couldn't, afford it, and then
**??? ha'-'a him. s'?":'.k off alono.'
'Lizzib, Lizzie?'
'And then if once in a dog's age, he
did condescend to go with me any
where in the evening, I shouldn't liko
to bo left to pick my way along the
slippery places, at the risk of break
ing my neck, he walkiug along un
consciously by my side. I'm of a
dependent, clinging nature, and I
need the protection of a strong arm.'
'Lizzie, this is all nonsense.'
'I'm tue youngest in the family,
and perhaps I've been spoiled. At
all events, I know it would break my
heart to have my husband vent all ill
temper which he conceals from the
world on my defenseless head.'
'But, Lizzie, I promise yeu that
I?'
'Oh, yes, Fred; I know what you
are going to say?that you will be
different; but Mary and Nell have
told ine time and again that no bet
ter husbands than theirs ever lived;
uo, Fred, as a lover, you are just per
fect, and J shall hate awfully to give
yon up. Still if you are bent on
marrying, thore are plenty of girls
who have not married sisters, or who
are not wise enough to profit by their
example, if they have. And don't
think about me, for I've no doubt I
can find some one to fill your place?'
But before Lizzie had concluded,
Fred made for the door, muttering
something 'unmentionable to ears
polite.'
?There !' exclaimed Lizzie, as the
door closed with a bang. 'I knew he
was no hotter than the rest. That's
the way John and Aleck swear and
shun doors, wheu things don't go just
right. He'd make a perfect bear of
a husband, but I'm sorry he came to
the point so soon, for ho was just a
splendid beau,'
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A Noble Revenge.
The coffin was a plain one, a poor
miserable pine coffin. No flowers on
the top; no lining of satin for the palo
brow, no smooth ribbons around her
course shroud. The brown hair was
laid decently back, but there was no
crimped cap with its neat tio boneath
tho chin. Tho sulferor from cruol
poverty smiled in her sleep. Sho had
found bread, rest and hoalth.
'I want to see ray mother,'sobbed a
poor child, as tho undertaker screwed
on the top.
'You can't; get out of tho way
Why don't somebody take that brat V
'Only let me sec her one minute,'
cried tho helpless orphan, clutching
the bide of the box, as he gazed into
tho rough face, agonized tears stream
ing down the cheek on which a child
ish bloom ever lingered.
Ob ! it was painful to hear him
cry :
'Ob, let me see my mother?only
once !'
Quickly and brutally the hard
hearted monster struck the boy away
so that he reeled wirb the blow, for
a moment the boy stop panting with
grief ar.d anger, the blue eyes dis
tended, his lips sprung apart, a fire
glistening through bis tears, as he
raised his puny arm, and with the
ni?1 unchiidish voice, cried :
'When 1 am a man I will pay you
for this !'
There was a coflin and a heap of
earth between him and this poor, for
saken child. A monument much
stronger than granite was biti 1 1 in
that boy's heart to the mom >ry of this
heartless deed.
* * *.?? *
The courthouse was crowded to
suffocation.
'Does any one appear as this man's
counsel ?' asked the judge.
There was silence when he had
finished until, with lips tightly press
ed together?a look of strange intelli
gence blended with haughty reserve
upon his handsome features, a young
man stepped forward with a firm
tread and kindly eyes to plead for the
erring and friendless.
He was a stranger, but his first sen
tence there was silence. The splen
dor of his genius eutrauccd?convin
ced,
'1 be man who could not find a
friend wi s acquitted.
'May God bless you, sir?lean
not !'
'1 waut no thanks,'said the strang
er.
?I ? 1 believe you arc unknown to
me.'
'Man, I will refresh your memory.
Twenty year* ago you struck a
broken hearted boy away from his
mother's coflin. I was that boy.'
The man turned livid.
'Have you rescued me, then, to
take my life ?'
'No, I havo a sweeter revenge. 1
have saved the lifeofamanwiio.se
brutal deed has rankled in my breast
for twenty years. Go ! and remem
ber the tears of a friendless child.'
Tho man bowed his head in shame;
and went from tho prcsmco of a
magnanimity as grand to him as it
was incomprehensible.
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Honesty Rewarded.
George and Harry worked in the
same shop; but as the working sea
son was almost over, and there would
be little work to do during the sum
mcr months, their employer informed
them as they settled up on Saturday
evening, that he coukl only give one
of them work thereafter. Ho was
sorry, he said; but it, was the best he
could do. He told them both to come
back on Monday morning, and that
he would decide on the one he wished
to remain. So the young men re
turned to their boarding house a good
deal cast down; for work was scarce,
and neither oue knew where he could
obtain a situation if he was the one to
leave
That evening, as they counted over
their weeks wages, said Harry to his
friend?
'Mr. Wilson has paid me a quarter
of a dollar too much.'
'So ho has me,' said George, as he
looked at his.
'How could behave made the mis
take?' said Harry.
'Oh, he was very busy when six
o'clock came; and handling so much
money, he was careless when became
to pay our trifle,' said George, as he
stuffed his into his pocket book.
'Well,' said Harry, 'I am going to
atop as I go to the post office awl lianri
i t to him.'
'You n re wonderful particular about
a quarter,' said George. 'Wlidt <1 ?es
he cure about that trillo ? Why, ho
would not come to the door lor it, if
he knew what you wanted; and I am
sure you worked hard oneugh to earn
it.'
Bui Harry called and handed his
cmj loyer the money, who than ked him.
for returning it, and went into the
hon30. Mr. Wilson had paid e ich of
them a quarter nioro than their Wages
on purpose t?test liioi;' honesty.
Si, when Monday came, he seemed
to havo no difH eulty in determining
which one he would kacp. Ho chose
Harry, aud entrusted tlio ssli >p to Iii.-;
care for several in mths., .vh in he w.h
away on business, and was so well
pleaded with his nmnagement, that,
when work commenced in the lall, he
gave Iiim the position of superintend
ent. Five years n (forwards', Marry
was Mr. Wilson's partner; and Cieorgc
worked in thf same shop again, hut.
as a common laborer.
There is nothing like a good c'iar
aetcr when you want employment.
Some young men can a! way tret work,
no matter how dull the times are;
while others can lind nothing to do
when hands arc scarce, simply beeatue
they cannot be tru.-tcd.
The Experience of a Lusky Man.
Mr. Geo. It. Gornto, the lucky man
of Princess Anne County, Va., who
drew the $30,000 prize in the Louisi
ana .State Lottery, was heavily in
debt, with a mortgage on his farm,
and things going behindhand with
him generally. Ho got hold of a copy
of the advertisement of the Lottory.
He determined to make a venture.
He had but $5.15 in the world. Ho
wrote to A. M. Dauphin, P. O. Box
G92, New Orleans, and end >sed &2in
the letter, and was Suit ?^?LL^io^?iMB
it off to the Post. Oi'llce by a bo^Jf
when a negro hand of his called on
him and demanded his wages, which
just amounted 10 $?">. Ho offered the
man the $*? lie had left, but this was
declined by the darkey, who threat
en cii to leave his work just at a criti
cal time unless he got the whole. Ho
took the letter, and the two dollars
out <-t" it, which, with the S3, he hand
ed the man.
Thus was he with but fifteen cents
cash in the world; and- while in this
melancholy frame of* mind, about tin
hour afterward, a negro man drove
up and bought a load of foddsr,
amounting to 81.0t), not onough to
pay for the ticket, hut with Len cents
in his pocket he made up the amount,
and rcwiote the hitter and enclosed
?2. The next thing that turned up
from that 82 was the gratifyiug
intelligence that his tickot had drawn
a prize of$30,000j more than enough
to alter his cur rout of b id luck, en
able him to raise the mortgage, stock
his farm well, and put him on his
pins again. Such i- luck. ? Norfolk
Day lino!:.
A Powerful Voice.
Just beforo the thunder storm on
Saturday evening last, a Whitehall
man steppe?! into the telegraph offico
at thi' phico,i and requested the privi
lege of talking through the telephone
with his wife, who was visiting
friendsat Troy. Mr. John W. Eddy,
the gentlemanly assistant managor,
granted the request, and the Whito
haller began operations. He couldn't
be prevailed upon to believe that it
was really his wife who was talking
to him, and she so many miles away.
Ho finally risked her to say or do
something known to themselves only,
that ho might he convinced that it
was her. dust then a rambling streak
of lightning enmd in on the wires*
keeling tho husband over on his head,
when ho jumped to his feet and
exclaimed :
'?That's the ole woman, sartin'?
only -die's grodo a l e e Ttlo moro
powerful since she left hum."
Bashful lover: 'Ah miss, I?I
wanted to see your father. I've some
important matters to proposo to him.'
Benevolont young lady: 'Well,
I'm sorry father is not in?but can't
you make the proposal to me?' Tho
wedding cards suon followed.