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& HERALD. “IF F01! THE LIBERTY OF 'IW WOULD WE CAN DO ANYTHING.” VOL. II. DARLINGTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, OCTORER 7, 1891. NO o. ••UEKEKAL SHERMAN.” By John €. Ropes, in the Atlantic Monthly. Grant and Sherman have always persistently maintained that they were not surprised at Shiloh; but the world has never been able to take their statements seriously. Grant wrote to Halleck, the day before the battle, that he had scarcely the faintest idea of a general attack be ing mad* upon him. Sherman, tlu same day, wrote from Pittsburg Landing to Grant at Savannah that he did not apprehend anything like an attack upon his position. They unquestionably said what they thought at the time. The battle lx“- gan at half past live in the morning. Grant did not reach the lield till sif ter nine. It stands to reason that such tardiness on the part of an army commander to arrive on the field of battle is susceptible of no more natu ral* and assuredly of no more honor able explanation than that he was expecting no battle to occur. Sur prised, however, as was the Federal commander, he was not thrown off his balance. Never did Grant dis play to better advantage the firmness and steadfast courage which he pofisessed in so unusual a degree. Sherman’s conduct, too, after the fighting began, was above all praise. His division was made up of troops perfectly new, who had never been under fire; but he handled them with such skill and ability that he made a reputation on that disastrous Held. As a subordinate commander, Sherman had the rare good fortune of serving under a man whom he greatly admired and in whom he ful ly trusted; and General Grant return ed the confidence which his lieuten ant reposed in him. The perfect understanding between these two eminent men was not only one of the most interesting facts of the war, but it was productive of great good to the public service. It showed in many ways how wise it is for the superior, whenever it is possible to do so, to rely confidently on the sub ordinate; to refrain from undertaking to regulate his decisions sis to matters under his own eye: not to attempt to prescribe the details of his action or to criticise his dispositions in (he spirit of a taskmaster. Cordial co operation in their work was the fruit of this unique relation between Sherman and Grant. While it cannot be said that this part of Sherman’s life was marked by any brilliant successes in the field his reputation with the army, with Grant, his immediate superior, and with Halleck, the general-in-chief at Washington, steadily increased. He was seen to be a careful, energetic, and trustworthy corps commander. But that was all. The army that redu ced Vicksburg had no great battles to light like those of Stone River and Chickamauga. The Vicksburg campaign was won by superior strategy. Therefore Sherman, when summoned by Grant to join him at Chattanooga, in October, 1863, after the latter had been assigned to the command of all the forces in the West, brought with him no such reputation as a brilliant fighter as Longstreet bore when he came to add his veteran Virginians to the army of Bragg. On the other hand, Thomas, who had succeeded Rosecrans in com mand of the Army of the Cumber land, had just won great distinction by his extremely able and courageous conduct on the bloody field of Chick amauga, where he stopped the rout, rallied the fugitives, and maintained his position with entire and splendid success against the desperate assaults of the Confederates, flushed with their victory over the right of the line led by Rosecrans in person. There was no denying that Thomas had not only proved himself equal to the situation, but superior to it. It would have been only just to have entrusted to him the supremeconduct of affairs in that region, and to have reinforced him with all the troops that were available. But General Grant’s great success at Vicksburg induced the government to give him the chief command in the Mississip' pi Valley; and he at once ordered Sherman to march at the head of the Army of the Tennessee to the as sistance of the Army of the Cumber land. Moreover, Grant determined to give to Sherman the principal part in the forthcoming battle, by which he expected to raise the siege of Chattanooga. Sherman, with five divisions, was to attack the enemy’s lipht aud completely tum his posi- i tion; when this should liven been done, Thomas was to attack the centre; Hooker, meanwhile, was to operate against his extreme left. Owing, however, to the unexpected ly difficult nature of the ground, Sherman failed to make any im pression. To create a diversion for him, Grant ordered Thomas’s com mand, consisting of four divisions, to carry the rifle-pits at the foot of the enemy’s position. In an incredibly short time his troops had executed this task. But they could not stay in the works they had won. Vet they had no orders to go forward. They took the matter into their own hands. Without orders, and to the amazement of the commanding gener al, they clambered up the slopes of Missionary Ridge, and after a brief and brilliant tight they stood victor ious on its summit. It must be confessed that in their accounts of this great battle, as of Shiloh, Grant and Sherman have al lowed their personal feelings to color if not to distort, the narrative. Sherman has stated that the object of the attacks made upon the flanks of Bragg’s position by General Hooker and himself “was to disturb him [Bragg] to such an extent that he would naturally detach from his centre as against us, so that Thomas’ army could break through his cen tre.” And Grant, in his Memoirs, obviously intends to convey the im pression that this was his plan of battle, and that the battle was fought and won as he had planned it. Yet the dispatches and reports prove conclusively that the move ment which Grant ordered was in tended merely to relieve Sherman by distracting the enemy’s attention; iind that it was limited to the cap ture of the rifle-pits at the foot of the Ridge. General Grant’s original orders to both Sherman and Thomas how that he intended a joint attack to be made by their united commands when Sherman should have carried the north end of the liidge. Instead of this, Sherman failed, owing to un foreseen difficulties, to accomplish his part of the programme. Grant, thinking him hard pressed, ordered an advance to carry the rille-piis at the foot of the Ridge, in order to re lieve the pressure on him; this diver sion was all that was intended by this move. But the gallantry of the troops and the fortune of war turned this incidental operation into a bril liant success, which resembled in its execution and consequences the fa mous assault on the hoightsof Pratzen which decided the. battle of Auster- litz. The glory of this unexpected victory belongs mainly to the troops themselves, and specially to the men of Sheridan’s and Wood’s divisions, and cannot properly be claimed by either Grant or his lieutenants. To Sherman, however, as Grant’s favorite officer, was given the chief command in the West, when, in the spring of 1864, the new lieutenant- general was placed in control of all the armies of the United States. In May of that year a new career opened for General Sherman, that of com mander of a large army, and the fam ous Atlanta campaign began. At the same time, General Grant, ac companying the Army of the Poto mac, under General Meade, crossed the Rapidan and advanced against General Lee. The objects of both commanders were similiar. They were laid down clearly by Grant himself. On the 14th of April he wrote to Sherman: “You I propose to move against Johnston’s army, to break it, up, and to get into the interior of the enemy’s country as far as you can, inflicting all the damage you can against their war resources.” To the same effect, substantially, he wrote to Meade on the 9th: ‘‘Lee’s army will be your objective point. Wherever Lee goes, there will yon go also.” That Sherman clearly understood his chief’s intention is certain. lie says in his Memoirs: “Neither At lanta, nor Augusta, nor Savannah was the objective, the‘army of J >s. Johnston’ [sic], go where it might.” There can be no doubt as to the soundness of General Grant’s view. If the two armies of Lee and Johns ton could be destroyed, there would be an end of the war. If these armies should not be destroyed, the occupation of the Southern cities would avail lietlc. New York and Philadelphia, Charleston and Savan nah, were held by the British in the war of the Revolution; but so long as Washington and Greene were at the head of armies in Net.’ Jersey and the Carolina* the rebellion was not put tlowu. Guut’e idea of the true objects to be accomplished by him-1 self and Sherman was nnquest iona-! bly sound and clearly stated. It is, j therefore, rather remarkable that neither he nor Sherman succeeded, I in the campaigns -which they lieguu in May, 1864, in accomplishing these objects. At the close of that year THE BRIDE OF DEATH. How a Daughter of Governor Pick ens was Killed at the Altari During the tumult and excitement of the late war one of the saddest in cidents that occurred was the mar riage and death of Annie, eldest the main army of Lee lay in its lines (laughtl;r of ( iovuruol . Pickens, of m front of Petcrslmrg and Kioh-j .SmRh CaroUna. In the midst of the mond; only that part of Lee’s army j g|vat 0V) , Mts of the u , u . 6avs u,,. which he had nt into the Shennu Liuliess t'ottou. been doah Valley had This certainly had been affected i»y| Sheridan. Sherman, also, reached, | occupied, demolished, and left At lanta without destroying the army of Johnston and Hood. That task he finally abandoned to Thomas, who executed it in the memorable and decisive victory of Nashville. Lit us briefly examine Sherman’s movements. Sherman undoubtedly started out with the intention of lighting, and if possible overwhelming, Johnston’s army. He had with him about a liundnd thousand men, under Thomas, McPherson, and Schofield, three very able commanders. His opponent, General Joseph E. John ston. was, next to Lee, the best general in the Southern army. His army was probably about sixty thou sand strong. It was well intrenched at Dalton. We cannot, of course, follow this most interesting campaign in detail. Sherman lost, at the very outset, the best and perhaps the only chance he had during the whole summer of in flicting a decisive defeat upon his antagonist. Had he followed Thomas’ advice, had he marched im mediately, with the great bulk of bis army, through Snake Creek Gap and seized the railroad in Johnston’s rear at Resaca, instead of sending McPherson through the Gap with a comparatively small force, he might have ended the campaign with a sudden and brilliant victory. But he missed this opportunity, and ids wary and skillful opponent presented him with no other. Sherman was compelled (o turn his adversary’s positions and force him to fall hack without ever being able to bring him to bay in a situation where the supe rior numbers of the Union army would tell. Sometimes, in his en deavor lo tind the weak places in the enemy’s position, Sherman lost more men than he need have lost; and it must he said that his assaults at Keuesaw Mountain did not do credit to his tactical judgment. In his desire to bring matters to a crisis, he failed to recognize that his orders could not be carried out, and that his losses would not only be severe, but fruitless. Nevertheless, on the whole, he husbanded his army. He cannot lie charged with having adopted the wasteful policy of “at trition," which Grant tred during May and June, 1864, and which cost the Army of the Potomac so many thousands of valuable lives, with such meagre results. And in point of caring for stores, supplies, ammunition, and subsistence, Gher man was a marvelous provider. No one could march a large army through an unproductive country more successfully than he. But so long as Johnston remained in com mand of the Confederate army Sher man could not get at it. When Johnston was superseded by Hood, Sherman had indeed to repel the latter’s lierce attacks upon him, but, from one cause or another, he could not or did not force Hood to a gener al battle; and when he had, by un- other turning movement, caused the evacuation of Atlanta, the Confeder ate army was still intact and stili formidable. TO HE COXTINI KII. i Atlanta Constitution, such tragedies destroyed. - wm . coiuparr.livcly unnoticed but now, that time has calmed the trou bled sea of strife and contention’, a picture of the scene will he of general ' llilunutcl . t , llall thl . interest, and will awaken a chord of sympathy in the hearts of all who read it. On April 'Si, 1863, hi Charleston, The production of this peculiar .variety of the cotton plant is not confined to Spartanburg comity. On last Saturday Mr. Albert C. Moody, a brother of State Senator T. C. Moody, who is engaged in farming about seven miles north of this place, brought a stalk of this remarkable product to The Star office w Inch he accidentally discovered growing in hiscotton field. Thestalk L slender, about three feet in height with 38 developed bolls or pods which arc ibout as long, but much smaller in avcraec cotton S. ('., at the residence ot tiovernor Pickens, a party was assembled to witness the marriage ceremony of Annie Pickens to Lieutenant lat Rochelle. It was a time when terror and an guish were prevailing throughout the entire South, and the booming of the Union gnus then roared in the harbor, but the little number who had determined to smile,even though their hearts were aching and they were trembling with terror. Beneath the soft, light of the chandelier the clergyman stood with tiie habili ments of the church enshrouding his venerable form. Before him was the noble young Lieutenant in his official uniform, while beside him leaned the beautiful and stately woman who was to become his wife. There she stood, regal and proud, possessing everything that prestige of birth, rank and wealth could give. “Are you ready ?” asked the minister, unclasping the book, “Yes,” said La Rochelle, taking the hand of his bride. Scarcely was the answer ut tered when there was an awful crash. A shell from the enemy’s guns had penetrated the mansion, bursting in the midst of the marriage scene and scattered its deadly missiles around. Men trembled and women scream ed, mirrovvs were shivered, and for a moment the walls seemed to rock to mid fro. in a few moments, quiet reigned, and it was ascertained that the only fatal wound received was in the left temple of the waiting bride, who lay like a beautiful crushed flower in the arms of her agonized lover. Laying her on the lounge he bent over her, and, in a moan of des pair, played that even in death she would become his wife. Her quick- drawn breath melted in a sigh as the lips smiled assent. There she lay, pure and white as the cluster of camellias at her breast, while th • crimson life tide oozed in heavy drops from the death wound in her brow and coursed its stream over the lovely check, marring the snowy clouds of her bridal veil that en veloped her. The ceremony was of a few words and the “yes,” was mur mured in a dying whisper beneath the husband’s kiss. In a moment all was over; a little struggle uml she was dead. Rev. Bam P. Jones, the evcngelist, assisted by Rev. G. M. Stuart and Prof. E. O. Excell, will commence a series of meetings at Wilmington, X. C., on Saturday, the 10th day of October, 1891. boll, and packed with smooth seed of a dark brown color about the size of apple seed, except plumper, and fully as destitute of any suggestion of lint. The trouble in the way of making the cultivation of such cot ton a paying crop is the difficulty of preserving the seed after maturity until they can be harvested, as. there being no lint to adhere to the boll after it opens and restrain the seed, as coon its the boll cracks open upon its development, the seed fall to the ground. Judging from this speci men, the enormous yield claimed for this new variety is also a gross ex aggeration as the amount of seed is about the same as in the common cotton, about the only difference that the one produces lint in addition to seed and the other don’t.—Marion Star. The Young W idow. For Different Fanries. My Boy Kill!, It is impossible for a man doing I Do you think I’ve forgotten tiv d.r. many things to do all well. 1 carried him at my breast-' T ] Many fair childri n I’ve loved sinci Millies seldom hit the nail on the| then head; they are more apt to hit the; But I think I loved him best, nail on the linger. ^ For he was our first-born child, John. In all heathendom it is estimated 1 \ luVl j llot , ' r " iil t , , , ... ! lo love hini'ess; wbiite'i-r inav conie that there are not less than l,(..>t),0(8), ^ ]nv Uv Kti |; converts. j , , , I remember when he was a little bid: ieaehers salaries in the l lilted 1Iwv ho used to climb on mv Un Mui.-s annually amount to more tin.:. | JImv . WL . Wl .„. „ r hh , ;j;60,(too,(M)0. . Of his wit and his iiiiiiiicrv. , Gos i’icos the Ob'-l'asliiciH-.l Girls. Bishop Gosgrnve, of Davenport, fa., delivered a notable sermon in that city last Sunday on the immoral ten dencies of (Ik- time through the breaking liinvn of safeguards which once protected girls ami young v.iau-.-ii. i :• lie' forth lisinjr geiuva: n.n ; 1 "ulii lashii-c- ago in tin was a title Bis charming! She is modest, but not bashful, Free and easy, but not bold; Like an apple, ripe and mellow, Not too young and ni*t too old; Half inviting, half repulsive, Now advancing, and now shy— There is mischief in her dimple. There is danger in her eye. She has studied human nature; She is schooled in all the arts; She has taken her diploma As the mistress of all hearts. She can tell the very moment When to sigh and when to smile; Oh, a maid is sometimes But a widow—all the while Are you sad!-' How very serious V£ill her handsome face become! V’-- vain artgfy? She is wretched, I-ionely, friendless, fearful, dumb!'' Are you mirthful? How her laughter, Silver sounding, will ring out! She can lure and catch and play you, As the angler does the trout. Ye old bachelors of forty, Who have grown so bald and wise: Young Americans of twenty, With the love-looks in your eyes; You may practice all the lessons Taught by Cupid since the fall; But l know a little widow Who could win and fool you all. —Songs of Society. The Bailey Yotlon. Our Early History. Wc have received Carolina Historical lar letter in regard to the Legislature at from the South Society a cireu- inciuorializing its next session to take steps towards obtaining and publishing the colonial and provincial records of the State. As stated in the letter, “the State alone e;..i achieve so desirable a result, private influences cannot,” and the co-opera tion of the people in every county in the State is asked. It is an impor tant undertaking, and the State should undertake it. North Caro lina has recently completed tills work, ami has published ten volumes covering the entire jieriod of her Capt. J. X. Wigfall went down to Charleston last week and disposed of three bales of Bailey Cetton. He is much pleased at the success of this cotton, lie says when three years ago he bought a bushel of Bailey seed anil paid i-iiT.t for it, his friends wanted to get up a subscription to (send him to the Asylum, but he told them to wait awhile. Now when c-oitou is so low and others arc get ting 7 cents in Augusta he received ill and 10 cents in Charleston.— Aiken Review. iu a Sulkey to California. A Close Call. <*ii last Saturday evening, Mr. John Avant, in shooting a chicken in his yard accidentally shot and wounded his little child who hnppend, un known to his father, to be concealed in some weeds near the yard and be yond the chicken lie shot ut. The little fellow was considerably pepp 'i> ed in the hack; but luckily, the wounds an.- not serious.—.Marion Star. The old pedestrian, Capt. Robt. W. Andrews was in to sec us on Thurs day and says thai his latest idea is to make the trip fmoi Sumter to Cali fornia in a sulkey. He will take along with him, his faithful dog, “Fido,” the same one that walked to Boston with him some years ago. Capt. Andrews will shortly visit Columbia and will there make ar rangements for this trip. He is now 103 years old and is very erect and could easily pass for a man of about] pilot, He says that lie has seen nearly! light coast. School Commissioner Wardlaw of Anderson county, has been appointed the represeutativeof South Carolina in collecting and forwarding educational exhibits to the Southern hitor-Stales Immigration Exposition to beheld at J aleigh, N. 0., October 1st to De cember 1st, 1891. The purpose is to | present the educational advantages of the Southern States, and the ef ficiency and progress of the schools. Exhibits will consist of photographs or other representations of the school and college buildings of the State, pubiic and private, portraits of presidents, professors and teachers, catalogues, reports, papers, maga zines, nmp drawings, essays, ad dresses and whatever else is represen tative of the educational work of our schools and colleges including agricultural, mcch.-niica!, kindergar- i ten, drawing, painting, (all Kinds) j trothed instead of his business card, es- profe.-.-ioual and technological work. I thllt 1mj >vi»rescntod that _ tablishuicut. The merchant examined When the Japanese hitch a horse it carefully, remarked that it was a in the street tiny do so by tying his line establishment, and returned it four legs together. Hitching posts are never used in Japan or Corea, except by foreigners. Cnpt. Mary who managed to the astonished and blushing traveler saying: “I hope you will soon be admitted into partnership.” —St. Louis Globe. colonial and provincial history, and to use the words of Rev. Dr. I’inck- ’ .. . , 11 ...... every I resident of the I nited Stub ney, the i'resident ot the S. < . His-1 , llr .. . , . . | from the time of Washington. Ij tor cal Society, “has set an example j . of wisdom and patriotism which, wc 1 " , ' trust, our own State will not be slow! section over 75 yeari to emulate.” 1 Advance. a stage coach through Ihi ; ago.—banner Miller, the woman a steamboat on the A report comes from Florida that Mississippi for seven years and then phosphate miners in that State are secured a Government license as in a bad way. They are cun has applied for the place of i operations and shutting down their house keeper on the Gulf works in some instances. The Savuii* She is an intelligent and ] nah Xews publishes this statement ; rather prepossessing wouiuii. Her ami shows that the miners them- hiisln-.iiit is still an active navigator, i selves are lo blame. Low prices- and ! and is running a stoitinboat on the i inferior rock put on the market 1 UuU. You will find it less easy to uproot faults than to choke them by g-iiu- ing \ in lies.—Ritskin. In the Solomon Islands the marketable quotation on a “good quality” wife is 10,000 cocoanuts. The University of Miehigan has { determined to add women professors and lecturers to its faculty. ; The soul has no pillow on which to repose so soft and sweet as a good conscience.—< 1 regory. The wealth of the United States is estimated at S71,000 000,000, that of England at $50,000,000, and t hat of France at $36,000,000. A German expedition has been organized to explore the African lakes. Lake Victoria will be sound ed and its banks thoroughly ex plored. Who would suppose that the chosen recreation of the greatest of American Greek scholars, Gilder- sleeve, was the composition of Mother (loose melodies? The Legislature in Maine has enacted a law which requires all pub lic school-teachers to devote some time each week to teaching kindness to animals. Ten years ago Tennessee potatoes were scarcely known in the Northern markets. Now the crop annually brings into Middle Tennesssee from $1,500,01)0 to $3,000,000. Land lias reached an enormous value in Loudon. A piece of Crown land on Ball Mall has just been leased at a rate based on a selling pi ice of $3,500,000 per acre. There are a great many things which God will put up with iti a human heart; there is one thing he will not put it)) with—a second place. He who gives God a second place gives him no place.—John Ruskiti. When you make a mistake, don’t look back at it long. Take the rea son of the thing into yourown mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past, can not be changed; the future is yet in your power. There is an immense garden in China that embraces an area of 50,0(H) square miles. It is all meadow land, and is tilled with lakes, ponds, and canals. Altogether it i% as large as the States of New York and Penn sylvania combined. An exchange says: “Girls, don’t ln- iievc all the young men say to you on a moonlight night. Moonlight and truthful speaking don’t travel to gether, If a young man tells you on a night that is stormy threatening that he thinks a great deal of you the chances are thatheis telling the truth. Whenever you commend, add your reason for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools. Be wlu.t you would have your child to become. The child will obey your character more than your couinuind. “And you say you would die for me? I’mafrihl you’re not as brave as that.” “Am I not? Why, 1 show my fearlessness of death every time 1 come into your presence.” “How is that?’’ Because you always look so killing.’^ That settled the busi ness. A commercial traveler, by mis take, handed a merchant upon whom he had called a portrait of his be- •II lie's lop pit lured the nd g'o l. of thirty rear# rodov. mg words- “Stic girl until site was fifteen >■! years old, ami sic liel|ied her moth er in her hoiiM-hold duties. She had her hears of jil.-iv and enjoyed her- self to t lie f iiRest extent. She never said to her mot her: “1 can’t--I don I wan t to, ’ for oiii-dience to her was a cherished virtue. She arose m tin- morning when i-alli-il, as we do not . iinpose she hail her hair -lone up in a paper and < l imping pins, or banged over her forehead. She didn’t grow into a young lady and talk abon i nor beau betore she was in her sill .1, 1 not read dime iiicying a hero y lie met. The vas modi s! in her ui ic; l-dHeu slang ■die i id -:ot laugh :i And I know quite now. With a wild and stubborn will: But whatever he is to you, John, He’s my boy still! He was just like sunshine about the house, In the days of Ins happy youth; You know we sitid that with all bi- faults He hail courage and love and trut h. And tho’ he has wandered far away, I’d rather you’d say no ill; He is sure to come hack to his motlier; He’s my boy still. I know there was never a kinder heart. And 1 can remember to-day How often he went with me apart And knelt at my knee to pray. And the man will do as the boy did. Sooner or later he will; The Bible is warrant for that; so lie’s my boy still! A mother can feci where she can’t see, She is wiser than any sage; My boy was trained in the good old way, 1 shall certainly get my wage. And tho’ he has wandered far away, And fo s wayward will, 1 know w , ivherever he is, He’s my boy still! The price of school books has re- cuitly been considerably mliii id bv the American Book Company, which is a combination of all the leading houses. The reduction is from the list price to what is called the intro ductory price; which amounts to about 15 per cent. This change will benefit those who have to bnv the books a great, deal. [ We clip the above from one of our exchanges, and are very glad to note even this small reduction. Wc sup pose the publishing houses reap a rich harvest, we know the book sel lers sell them ata very small advance on cost, from their ‘'ale, as no reason lias ever been given why they should sell for so much more than other books of the same size and binding; but it is just the simple fact thai they do, and it is a pretty se'ere tax on the people who have several children to send to school. It can’t be because of the small sales, be cause some of them are used all] over the country We have no idea | vo(|llge8 , „„ lt j, an lulmisaion that anybody profits by this ^'Pt: Virginia,,he mo.bei-of the to- the publishers, and while they are! k..co.i m , i ,. . * , ’ ,, . - : bacco States, Hint here m Smith Car- entitled to a reasonable profit, sonie means oug' the books used in our public school —E». Hi:i:ai,i>. who went to bed in season, said '•rs, slept the sleep of ini.-i rose up in tin capable ofgi now if then llloi'lll'i-j teens, anil sli novels, nor >, as in every plough old-fashioned -. i Ji-im aie a-, or used i v* at old people not* make of crip ples. She hau respect for her elders, and was not above listening to words of counsel from those older than her self. She did not know as much as her inotliu'. She did not go to parties by the time that she was ten years old. and stay ;ili after midnight dancing with any change young man happened to be present. She her pray- eeiici, and happy and ‘g happiness. And be an old fashioned girl in the world today may heaven bless and keep her and raise up others like her." Tobacco io South ( aroliua. 'I he New York Journal of Com merce, in its special tobacco report dated Richmond Kept. 13, savs: “Thi best matured and finest sam ple of bright tobacco seen at date is that of the new tobacco be!! around 1* lorcnce, S. C. This crop was cut before the August rains, in good, ripe condition, and a large opening sale of tobacco of that new Southern product will take place October 1 next. This will probably lie the best tobacco saved this year. A higher complement than this could not he paid to South Carolina’s to n reasonable profit 0 ; ilHgaftc ,. ; / vorv fl , v u , ar , uf '“ it b> be devised to cheiqien; inp|ltati(m> Wl , a „. ^during the best All Original Verdict. It is said that a jury of sitting on a case of supposed poison ing, recently rendered the following verdict, which is remarkable for both its correctness and originality: “That the deceased came to bis death from what was the matter with him before he died.” quantity of the most profitable va- ] rioty of the fragrant weed. l-'loivnce has already gained rejm- Italion from the introduction of to- iuquest | biico growing and manufacturing. It remains for the whole of South ('aroliua to follow her example. Here :n Richland excellent iobuct.-n lias been, and now is, raised with profit, and The State hopes that next year the new industry will he fro ly intro- j duced by the planters of this section. One hundred and ten thousand (Tobacco raising and manufacturing French soldiers are now engaged hr, • ... . ° * being very profit, lighting sham battles by wav of prac- ' , j j i : many acres should he tiee in the use of new military weap-j , ' . , • 1 j uiiproluabli- coUo-.i ons, materials and tactics. ; caused the trouble m part. industries, besides Ide ones. Next year i banged from lo profitable to- bacco—-.The State. Mr. N. K. Chandler, one of Flor-1 The Evangelical Lutheran Synod cnee county s most aiili-tantial and 1 of South (Mroliua meets iu Augusta, prosperous farmers, was in the city j October 31. at Holy Trinity church, Monday, and on being asked almiit j a ‘ I’- ni - his sugar cam crop, said he had not; statistics show~~tthat South Caro- quite an acre planted, that ""iihl ]j lla manufactured 170, 537 bales of make an average Held, ami froi.i j L ,,,(||, U (fin-ing ,iic past comnuTcial wliii- North Caroliu which he will lealize six barrels m syrup and molasses, and twelve hun dred pounds of sugar. This heats six cents a pound. raising cotton at —Florence hues, 34th ult. nia.m;- factured 137,683 bah-1 and Georgia 154,875. South Carolina is there fore the “Banner State” iu this im- llliuois has a divorce law. It af fords a cheat, and convenient method for breaking the marriage B : portant industry. The Tennessee courts have to de cide whether a mini can select bis own Sabbjitb. or rest-dav. \ 8 venth- iiiakes it above as easy to get unmnr ried as it is to get married. Yet we should not like to see South Caro lina adopting the iiliuois law. The Birmingham Age-llcnild says: “The radical difference in divorce laws that prevails in different parts of tin- country has been strongly demons trated by two incidents occuring i day Adventist. \\li<> insisted on keep ing Saturday as hi-- rest day and working on Sunday was indicted. He was convicted in a county court, but an appeal lias gone up to the higher court. Mr. \V B. Stevenson, an energetic young farmer who lives a few miles north of the city, has shown us sam- within the past week. The Supreme pics of his crop of “sojali beans,” a [Circuit] Court of South Carolina new product that is being introduced has affirmed the time-honored custom into this sei-iion. It is.> iim-i excel- of that State in not allowing divorce! ient food, either in a .v.-n or dry under anv conditions, vibile in Chica-1 condition for stock, it .veil can go a north side belle was married to | two men in one week.. These two] instances also illustrate Hi-differem-e ; in the people of South Caiulina and Illinois.” vested as forage,or left in tin-tii 1.1 un til the beans are tlioi iiughly ripe, v, lien they can ea ily hi gathered. Mr. Steven 1 on lias live aer--- in i'lvic beaus.—Autlersou intelji^cuu-t'.