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ONE DOLLAR PER ANNUM. } GOD A-iSTD OTJIR CO TJNTRY VOLUME VII ALWAYS EN AD VAN THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 3, 1881 N UMHER 3 SPECIAL NOTICE. Now that tho holiday season is over nnd everything has gone pros perous aud happy; every one better off, and a bright fertile year ahead, at no period iu the history of our business life have we been so thor oughly prepared to meet the wants of the trade and the requirements of the people, as we are now. We shall continue to place upon our counters from day to day, bargains ini every depai tnicnt at LOWEST PRICKS, and shall always be found using our best endeavors to_prevent extortions and uphold the CASH SYSTEM Our entire stock is now offered at. REDUCED PRICES. We ask 3 ou to call and inspect our goods. We guarantee to please as to quality ani price. Look can fully over this list of a few articles mentioned : Gents 4 Hose, white, 5 ami 10 c. " striped 121 solid color* 121 double heel & toe 121 Eadics^hose, white, 8, 10, 124. ?? striped, 10 " solid colors. 121 " balbriggan, 15 *' finest qua'i ty, 25 < hihlrcn's hone, colored, 5, 8. 10,121 Eadica tjRunllets, dark colors, 30 c. Berlin gloves, embroidered hacks, 35 u kid" gloves, 4 buttons, "best makers, 75 Gents br.ckskiu gloves, lined 75 driving V 30 Derby su iting, 10 figured, 121 Caduncres, beautiful colors, 163 Merinos, beautiful colors, 10 Flannels, red, white and b'ue, 25 to 35 cents. Nubia*, cry pretty,'30 e Ladies Hoods, new styles, 40 looking Glasses, bureau size, SI extra large SI.50 " oval frames 00 and 80 cents Silver plated tea spoons, SI 25. Table " 1.75 Forks 1.75 " Knives 3.75 Glas.SjSetls, handsome, 4 pieces, 50 Glass Preserve Stands, 00 Gobleta, 75 ct per doz Tumblers, GOJct per doz Lumps from 25 toto75 eta Large assortment Ladies, Gents and Children's fchoes from the finest to the cheapest, Men>i.d Boys Hats, 40, GO, 75, 1.00 1.25 to 83 Meu and Boys Caps from 25 to 50 Eaney Box Paper, Envelopes and Statiouery. Agent for the Largest Tobacco Factory in the United States, we offer bargains iu tltis line. Agent f<>r Manufacturers of Soaps and Concc. t .ated Lye, we defy coin petition. We have the Largest and Cheap est Stock of BROOMS AND BASKETS in the Market. Agent for the Celebrated Town Talk BAKING POWDERS. These Powders have stood the Test by ihe best Chemist, and pronounced PUKE, when bought iu cans. Prof. Mott, the Leading Chemist of the World, says the worse adulterations occur when Powders ate sold loose or in bulk. Remember this and get TOWN TALK from Headquarters Yrour attention is asked to the re duction in our CARPETING, put down to 25, 35, 40 cents. Pocket Knives from 5 cts. to $2.. Buggy Whips, 25, 50,75 cts., $1, $1 25 $2. Yours respectfully, C. D. KORTJOHN. t&r Always notice this COLUMN for CHEAP GOODS. [Written for the Orangcburg Times.] WHITE ROSES. BT KL'TII GOODLKY. ClIAr II. Aftor a few weeks my sister re covered sulHeiently to Ik; assisted to tho i'rotil porch, where she would sit and admire the white roses which em bowered it. Sometimes she would press my own Tittle Rose to her breast, with lb ml caresses, and wish for her a happy future. We never mentioned her husbands name tohcr, and he made no attempt to sec her. I had resolved in my heart that she should never return to him, and if she died, I intended to shoot him. The improvement was only tem por?re. We became convinced that all our loving care could not keep her, and we saw that she was slowly sink ing i::to the grave. Not a murmur escaped her lips. She was the same gentle creature she had been all her life. I had removed her from the bed to a couch near an open window, aud was about to leave her, when she took my hand and said, "I want to talk to you." Involuntarily I sank on my knees beside her. Putting her arms around my neck she said, "My dear brother, there is revenge in your heart. 1 sec it iu your eyes." Yes, I said, my heart is filled with it, and a day of reckoning will come; your death shall not be uurevenged. How teud?rly she pleaded that I would put all bitterness out of my heart! I could not forgive the man. whom I considered her murderer. Had he not killed her, by breaking her heart? When I made an effort to rise, she detained mc. "I cannot let you go," she said, "until you promise to leave him to repentance and to God." Will you refuse the last request your White Rose will ever make? I i cannot die happy without your promise. .Mother came iu just then, and in a tone which touched my heart she ex claimed, "Oh! mother, my brother has refused my dying request!" No! no! I said, I will not refuse, I promise everything you wish. "I am so happy," she said, "seal the promise with a kiss." When I took my lips from hers, she smiled sweetly, then closed her eyes, ami we knew our Rose had gone to bloom in the Paradise of God. 1 placed white roses around her, in her collin, I strewed them on her grave, and even now, a bower of white roses covers that sacred spot. I have never heard from my sister's husband, and I have never had his name mentioned to me until she men tioned it to-night. That man is my sister's murderer, although his crime is one which the law docs not reach. You may tell him the lady he saw, and heard sing is Rose .Mailland, (that was his wife's name,) and warn him to keep out of my sight. For eveil after the lapse of years, I was afraid to trust myself, 1 might possibly have for gotten my promise to the dead. The next morning Norris told me James Cord ray had left for Paris. If he had remained, I should not have stayed another day. I heard nothing more of him, but the old hatred had revived, and I was made very uncomfortable for some time. We continued our travels for sev eral months and then returned home. Two years after, business called mc on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail road. There was a terrible accident. The train was precipitated down a high embankment, and I was among the few wdio escaped uninjured. The scene was frightful. The screams of the wounded and the groans of the dying were heart-rend ing, and the lion or of the spectacle was increased by the cars taking fire, I was attracted by the cries of a man who was wedged so tightly under the debris, that it seemed impos sible to extricate him. The flames were approaching und I was working with nil my strength, when he begged me to shoot him, j rather than allow him to be tortured by being burned to deat h. I did not know until t hat moment who I was trying to rescue. There was the man I had wished to kill years ago, but I did not for a moment think of taking his life then. I looked on him as a Biifferiug hu man being, and there was no bitter ness in my heart; it was all put out as my sister had wished. He recognized me and asked if T know who I was trying to save. Yes, I replied, you are James Cor dray, and I will save you if possible. After great effort, I succeeded in drawing him out, but not until my hands were burned and my clothes singed. When I saw his mangled hedy, I' only felt compassion for him. I made every effort to relieve his sufferings, but he was so much injupp cd, he (lii tl in less than an hour. I had his remains taken to his home, ami there interred. I comIcj' uot place him beside iny White l\ose2 the end. V HEAT. Editor Onngeburg Tinten Why is not whont cultivated in Orangeburg County? Because cot ton is on the brain, and farmers arc ignorant of the mode of cultivation; or in other words, do not understand the plant food in right proportion, to apply to the soil in order to succeed. Critic admits, that the natural soil will not produce wheat to pay, neith er will it produce cotton,ornuyother crop. Critie intends not only to prove to the farmers in this letter that wheat is a paying crop, but to demonstrate in the open fields, the fact. c'irst, to remove the erroneous tions held by'iariners'^that' wheats? too uncertain a crop, that it will rust four out of live years. We ltdtnit this to be the case, but it can be remedied. Now, .Mr. I'M it or. 1 armors are mis taken about the cause of rust iu wheat. They attribute it to clima tic influences, which we will refute, by bringing up Mr. ("barley Culler and William,]. Snider, who made, the one 25, the other 2'J bushels per acre. Climate had the same eifert on their wheat as the man who math; a complete failure. We know that wheat is cultivated in the torrid mid frigid/one successfully, ami nliv not iu the temperate? We must look tosonieotbereau.se for rust. What is the principal cause of rust iu wheat? I answer, a want of/?nie in our soil. I would not have farmers believe that lime is all the plaut needs. As I have often repeated, to cultivate tiny crop successfully, we must understand its habits, and the plant food in proper proportions, that it needs. M. Vi lie; the French man, has proven, that large crops of wheat can be taken oil'the land year after year, when, lime, potash, phosphate of lime, and ammonia exist in the soil in good proportion. Dr. Ravenel, with the cow pea and ash element, furn ishes these element of plant food to the soil. He has brought the coast hinds up to thirty bushels of wheat per acre. This is proof enough to satis fy us that your lands, which are physically superior to the crust hinds, will remunerate us handsomely in wheat. Another fact should be re membered in planting wheat, that It is a deep-rooted plant and should not be planted in lands in which the sub soil contains stagnant waters. The coast lauds are underdraiued. The secret of success depends consider ably 011 the variety of seed selected. We should select the variety from a hot and not from a cold climnto, which has been the custom, and is one of the causes of our failure to .successfully cultivate wheat in this County. Chitic. BE ECU EK OX CHURCH MEMBERSHIP. Thert are multitudes of people who have joined the church and that is about all that they think necessary to make them Christians. They re gard the church as a sort of railway train, and having got on board, the engine must do the rest. Some try to get a place in a first-class parlor car; others are content to go second or third (lass; but, having got upon the train and put themselves in charge of the conductor, they think that they have done enough?all that is required of them. But pro fessors of religion arc not always posessors of religion, and a man may be in the Church and not have quo of those qualities which consti tute a Christian, and he may have all of those qualities and not belong to any church. I have known churches where those who conducted them wore so devoid of religion that a conscientious man ought not to have gone into them. Still, most men arc helped a great deal by joining a church. A man outside of a church trying to live a Christian life, is like a pear tree out on the high-way?the wheels rub it, the boys rob it and the hogs gnaw its bark and it bears very 'few pears, but that tree if planted in a garden and cared IVA* properly would yield abundantly. Still, join ing a Church docs n?>t make a man a Christian. A man may be active in good works and yet no Christian; he may be efllorcsceut uud emotive?it only shows that ho has an emotive nature, but it is no proof of Chisti anitv. Persons that overflow with feeling arc not better than others, although they may be more useful. A man may be conscientious and just and always try to do right, but that is uot the whole of religion; it is too angular, too cruel. Young saints are the devil's toad stools, they come up in a night and urcgoiieina night, for it is a work of ^-'jiii_roJjiMouie t ho possessor of saint ly qualities, and this ought to lie au encouragement to you that are dis couraged because 3*011 arc not perfect. No one ever was Christ did not say, ?Come to nu perfect.' but, ?( ouie to me and learn.' Conversion is very much like courtiug. and a Christian life is very much like living after marriage. There is much in learn ing how to live together and no man ever learned how to live with another without giving a great deal and tak iug a great deal. THE* Wil'K. A judicious wife is always nipping oil" from her husband's moral nature little twigs that are growing in wrong directions. She keeps him in shape by continual pruning. If you say anything silly she will affectionately tell you so. If you declare that you | will do some absurd thing, she finds some means of preventing you from doing it. And by far tue chief part of all the common sense (Were is in this world belongs unquestionably to women. The wisest things a man commonly docs arc those which his wife counsels him to do. A wife is a grand wielder of the moral pruning knife. If Johnson's wife had lived then' would have been no hoarding all up of orange peel, no touching all the posts in walking along the streets, no eating and drinking with a disgust ing voracity. If Oliver Goldsmith had been married he never would have worn that memorable and ridi culous coat. Whenever you lind a man whom you know little about, oddly dressed, or talking absurdly, or exhibiting eccentricity of manner, you may be sure that he is not a mar ried man, for the corners arc round ed off?the little shoots pared away ? in married men. Wives have generally much more sense than their husbands, even though they may be clever men. The wile's ad vice is like the ballast that keeps the ship steady.? Rusfein. Boxing, the manly art. is a sort of I hand to mouth way of getting a liv 1 ing. 4,187 pounds of seed cotton yields 1,740 pounds of lint. Editor Orangeburg lima: I hauled to Dr. Donald R. Barton's j gin 4,487 pounds of seed cotton, I which yielded me after the toll was paid, four bales of cotton, weighing 435 pounds "ach. This I think is the best turnout of lint to the seed ever made in the County. The Dr has a steam gin, on the junction of the Molman and the 9G Roads where this turnout was made. Who can beat this? Don't all speak at once! I tl ink this will cause n revolution among gin men, to secure the best gins. Farmick. 15cod advice to y?un? mex. The following, from an exchange, is true to the letter: The most, un fortunate day in the career of any young man is the day on which he fancies there is some better way to make money than to earn it: for from that feeling spring the many ixtrav agant and visionary plans which are indulged in for the purpose of gain ing a livelihood without labor. When a young man becomes thoroughly in fected with this feeling, he is ready to adopt any means for the accom plishment of his objects, and, if he i foilcd in his efforts, upon the crest of the v ave which has already mounted, and in full view, is the temptation to crimes, to shield him from the dis grace which he thinks must inevi tably follow in the wake of defeat. To those he yields, aud the first he realizes he finds himself the violator of the law, and a criminal in the eye of the community, and the inmate of a prison, waiting trial, all brought about for t he want of a little manly firmness in the outset of life to prompt him to choose an avocation where the penny earned would bring with it its sure reward. the indian^su-mmek of life. In the life of t lie good man there is an Indian summer more beautiful than that id' the seasons: richer, sun nier, and more sublime than the most glorious Indian summer the world ever knew ? it is the Indian summer of the soul. When the glow of youth has departed, when tin- warmth of middle age is gone, and the buds ami blossoms of spring arc changing to the sere ami yellow leaf: when the mind of the good man. still vigorous relaxes its labors, and the memories of a well spent life gush forth from their secret fountains, enriching, re joicing and fertilizing; then the trust ful resignation of the Christian sheds around a .sweet and holy warmth, anil the soul, assuming a heavenly lustre, is no longer restricted to the narrow confines of business, but soars far beyond the winter of hoary age, and, dwells peacefully and hap pily upon the bright spring and sum mer which await within the gates of paradise forevermorc.?Prcxbytcrian Banner. 'hFfou*tat. Here is an amusing bit of eccle siastical tit for tat. Two young men were chums and intimate friends in college. One became a Baptist minister, the other an Episcopalian. They did not meet again for years. When they diil it was in the pulpit of the Baptist, for whom the Epis copalian preached to the great satis faction of the congregation. Sermon over, the two divines ducked their heads behind the breast-work of the preaching desk ami held the follow - ingcolloquy: 'Fine sermon, Tom: much obliged. Sorry I can't repay your kindness for prfttciting by ask ing you to stay to communion. Can't though, you know, because you have never been baptized.' 'Oh, don't concern yourself about that, Jim. I couldn't receive the communion at your hands, as you havo never been ordained.' The grand affair of the inaugura tion of Gar field takes place this week. Tin- Louisiana planters who have substituted Italian for negro labor are reported as quite enthusiastic over the result of the change. The first batch of t heseemigrants reached New Orleans just before Christmas, and were sent to several plantations north of the city. They learn readi ly, and seem w illing and able to do a full day's work for the pay offered thetn. There is a question as to whether they will be able to with stand the climate of Louisiana, and until they have been there a year thai questiou will remain undecided. Heretofore the Italians have gone chiefly to the South ?mWican repub lics where tin' clime quite like that of Sout hern 1 taly. The A*< ica and Courier very proper ly goes for the Hoard of Agriculture fur refusing to give the press an ac count of their proceedings last week. It says, the Board is supported.by the people, ami they have a right to know what i going on. No account has beer, give.i of how the $10,000 appropriate I lor immigration is to be used, nor who is elected Su pcrinteudenl of Immigration. Wo only hope thai if the lioard has acted unwisely in excluding the press, it wii 1 nut act unwisely in so important matter as immigration. Let every dollar appropriated for this cause bo put where it will tell. A good deal is being said )>)?" and cow, in rci'i renceto allowing members of the Cabinet to participate in the debates in ('ongress, without the pow er to vote. It is difficult to see what harm could result from the granting of such a privilege. The custom pre vails in all European Parliaments Cabinet Ministers may be able, at times, to impart some very use ful information to Congress, and if they cannot vote upon any meas ure they will have no greater power than at present. We coincide with the views of the Palmetto Yoeman, that the editorials of the press should be more varied and not so continually devoted to politics. It seems to be the opinion of some people that papers should be devoted to nothing else but politics. Wfc think it would bo a little refreshing and quite an improvement to sec edi torials written on other subjects. There is too much politics in the, land. A rest from it would boa ben efit audji pleasure. ??? ? ? ? tM III ? i "ii - ISx-Mnyor Cooper is mentioned as the Democratic candidate for repre sentative in (.'ongress in place of Fernando Wood, deceased. .lohn Hardy, who' has run twice as an indc pi ndent candidate against Mr. Wood, and shown a great deal ?f strength, is almost sure to be again a candi date. Who will be his Democratic and Republican opponents is not yet certainly known. Speaking of the rest of the Sab bath, the Omaha Herald says: "It is only the recluse and fanatio w ho sees impiety in harmless delight. In the social current which ripples in the sunshine of laughing hearts there is more religion than in a world full of clouded brows and groaning spirits." ? - ? - j?i ? Rev. M'illis offered the Lord's Prayer in the Sonate. When he had finished Doolin .caned over to Ham mond and remarked: 'He stole that prayer, and I'll bet on it. I heard the same ideas expressed in Eureka at a funeral over two years ago." "Why don't men swear when they arc alone?" asks Mr Tnlmngo. "Did Dr.Talmage ever lay around a fence corner and sei- a lone farmer pick up a bumble bee? What did the farmer Lexington. Gil., is just beginning to put on airs because Gen Winfield Scott passed through that town on his way to the Indian war and spent t he night t here. The banana ripens in Florida dur ing evcrv month of the year.