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SHERIDAN & SIMS, Proprietors. Suuscm,i*TioN. One Year.$l.?O Six Months.K.......i......1.00 Mlulstora of the Gospel.1.00 Adveutisismicnts. First Instertlon......,.?$l .0? Each Subsequent-Insertion..!.50 Liberal contracts made fur 3 mouths and over. JOXi OT1> leJit' IS PUL TA II KD TO DO ALL KlKniof ' POMONA "?niPia' ' o? REMARKS Ot" ri??O CS. SHERIDAN Uli FORE THE AB??? H?DY. fteroarka made bet?re (be Pomona Grange- at Its |ast session^ by; report tu* Messrs: H?rpln ftiggs and W. T. Muller, committee of the Grange. , I baiT hoped thut^t?o unfavorable wekttier aWl the evening hour" would excuse tho remarks intended for Ibis occasion, but at your call' V obey leav ing the crude thoughts, scntteringly thrown out to bo collected aud ap propriated as'you may 'deem best. ! This gathering of the farmers with theiy-wives .from the different Sections of tho county is_ono of the best fea tures of the Grange system, giving an opportunity-doc .a free exchange of thought, a community of interest and, a sociability,, the perfection of wtiich is manifest in the gathering about the board as witnessed but an hour since. No where else, or under any other influences could so much enjoyment be-hador bo nidch of hu man virtue be displayed by the mem bers of a community than within.{be walls of a Grange room, or under the., influences brought to bear uppu our conduct by the Grange system. Oili er gatherings and festivals, while they are enjoyable and profitable in a high degree,lack that organized commnnity of interest which is so prominently a feature in this system. Theie the tatlor and unscrupulous have' every opportunity to magnify :i fault, or defame a virtue^ here wc uro taught to love r1 neighbor with all Iiis faults and upon the principle of candor to correct his errors ; jtboce, the unprin cipled^ unwliipped save by conscience, can appropriate the contributions of a friend to his own selfish enjoyment, here the principle of honor controls the social board securing the pleas > ures of the festival alike to rich and. poor; there the visitor listens to hear and goes away, to criticise, but here instruction is given and knowledge acquired to the mutual improvement of; the lowest as ' well as the high-st _inembcr. ? Indeed so pure are tjie ^mo tives and so powerful are the influ ences for good that every man and woman ought to become a Gran cr, if for no other purpose than to give and to receive information And dn tiammellcd by the cohventionablics of society to enjoy the sociability of these festive occasions. By a candid exchange of thought, schemes might be devised and plans put in execution which .would make the Granger independent of the world and ; unaffected by ? the depressing changes incident upon '"what is famil iarly known as hard times. Organi-. zation in farming is the same as any other vocation and will result as cer tainly in ultimate success here as elsewhere. In a farming communi ty there is no need for hard times. Your profession is a quiet and peace ful one, and these two qualities alone are the firmest foundation upon which material prosperity ? may be built. The vicissitudes of trade and the hazard of speculation find no place in a farmer's life, but its earn est pursuit and its gradual gain must and will accumulate a fortune to re ward his labor: There arc but few legitimate causes to pvoducc hard times with a skilled and industrious farmer. War may devastate Iiis country, lay his home, in ruins and blight his fields, entailing upon him all the baleful elfects of hard limes. Of this cause we have had a sad expe rience resulting in debts that have crippled the farmer in his operations and almost indefinitely prolonged the season of returning prosperity. The thousands of. dollars, actual working capital, which were destroy ed as a measure of war, the thousands as a necessity of war, and ^till the thousands more expended in buiLdiug up the burned homes and-' wasted fields, impoverished the farmer by forcing him to accumulate debts from which he has never ;been able to extricate himself. A general fail ure of crops throughout a large scopo of territory j'miay living buffering and even pestilence, ten fohl more disastrous than tho worst phase of hard times. Of this cause wc have had no experience. Our fields have yielded abundantly of tho best crops planted. Our labors have been rewarded, not in dollars it may be, but in bales of fleecy cotton. Indeed* so prolific lias been tho fruitage that the cotton crop has exhibited the marvelous increase from throe and a'half millions to more than five million bales in a little more than half a score of years. Tho cot ton fields have swallowed the corn, the wheat and the rice fields, have trespassed unwarrantably upon the potato and oat patches and have even dared to enter upon, the ,well fortified ?grounds o( ^Indam'e vegetable gar den..-- The'face of the earth in many sections shows broad acres of cotton and narrow stripe, of corn ? huge gin houses with costly machinery attach ed, and small corn cribs with dolapi daled stock houses and loan worVtim inials. rho' whole j)rcsen?ipg :he ap pearance of a country that raises but a~?3higje c$rop from which, is^tb ^^sub sisted tub entire.life of the farm und cancel aueuorinous tax and debt besides.. '.. 11* there be an impossibility in the scientific world, I can conceive of nothing more dcservjmgly entitled to Ilm'name than the power of un expen sive crop like cotton, selling at a low price, to meet the demands of a tax and debt burdened community. It must result eventually in all the dis appointments and suffering of hard times. In Europe where a single crop is raised, a failure is disastrous, and if there be repeated failures, un told suffering among the 'laboring classes must result, and rebound at lust upon the other industries involv ing the whole population in a common ruin by unsettling values and forcing money holders to coffer the' currency. Such seems to be very nearly the condition of a portion of that couutry at the present time. It ought not to be so in a country like ours where every conceivable crop may be raised to make the farmer independent of the outside world,-but with the cotton crop absorbing all others the farmer has reversed the natural order of things and makes himself a buyer in stead of a seller?begging a price for his propucc instead of demaneling it. The result of this Ts, the cotton plan ter buys bis corn from Illinois in stead of producing it in his own field, buys bis bacon from Kentucky in stead of raising it in his own pastures, buys his sugar and syrup from Cuba instead' of l^biliug it on his own .premises, buys his teas from China instead of cultivating it in his own gardens, buys bi<> shodd}', silks and calicos from Yaukeedom instead of manufactutirig it in his own county of bis own cotton, buys his wagons and buggies from Cincinnati instead of from Doyle, Uiggs or Wiles, lu deoil every dollar his labor produces is sent abroad to support and enrich other hu: els and people anil to im poverish bis own. No wonder debts accumulate and the cry of hard limes ta heard in the land. There is something radically wrong here to be corrected by other lessons of a more bitter experience than the past has been. With such a climate, country and soil as this, with such intelligence to control them and such energy to utilize them as we possess every farmer ought to be a banker wita his barns and pastures as banks and his produce and animals his stock in trade, a capital that would not be liable to the fluctuations of currency or trade, and that would bid defiance to the depressions of the market. For a nation to grow rich it must export more perishable values than it imports, so if a farmer he must sell more than he buys, he must produce more than he consumes and what he buys, buy at home. If you wish to drive the cry of hard limes out of the land and court the presence of the Goddess of Peace and Plenty let our farmers become home sellers, not for eign buyers. t ?_ _ A Love Story. \ , .... . ? , , . \ :> 'til! A will, revealing among other things glimpses of a love story, has gone to probate in Eric .County, Pa. It consists simply of a letter from the elcad man to his brother. He had a sweetheart named "Susey," butSusey used to be seen now and then with a nother fellow, whom the jealous lover describes as "that galont." "If I find Susey with that guleut of hers," he writes, "I swear by the halter that shall hang me she shall never enjoy hi r." The letter proceeds with : ?'Give my love to Lldcy W?," who was neither his sister nor his cousin, but apparently another sweetheart. Indeed, he seems to have bad many a sweetheart, for he adds carelessly, "and all the rcsl." Hut "Susey" was best loved, for he concludes with saying : "Ma tho Lord bless you all, and pardon tho deeds I have in con | temptation." TUB NETUODfcTS. ?o? AN INTEKHSTINf; ItKSUME OK THE WOIIK DONE UY THE C11UUCH LAST YE A It. At the late meeting of the South Carolina Conference in Newberry very full and satisfactory reports weie sent up by all the churches under its ecclesiastical - jurisdiction. The II I nancinl standing of the different con gregations, which is the proper test of Christian charity, is- much more favorable than for several years, the total collections within the bounds of the conference footing up an increase of more than fifteen thousand dollars over the collections of last year. We give' the" aggregate'financial standing of each District for the year, stating only the actual collections made. In these figures are included the following items': Pastor's Salary, Presiding Elder's Salary, Conference collections (which goes to the Super anuated preacher's ami the widows and orphans of preachers .who have, died,) Mission, foreign and domestic, Education, Bishops' fund, publica tion of Minutes, .candidates for the Ministry, Sunday Schools, Buildings and repairs and other benevolent pur-, poses. ?" "* " * Charleston District.^18,015.32 Orangeb?rg1 District. 12,381.16 Columbia District. 22,861.37 Sumtcr District. 11,818,11 Florence District. 10.288.65 Marion District...'. 15,577.13 Spartanhurg District. 12 026.45 Cokesbury District.> 13,223.56 Greenville District. 1 ?,-123.3-1 Total.-.SI 27,815.23 In 1877 it was. 111,983.40 Increase.815,831 83 The total collections of this year for the various purposes above nam ed were as follows : Pastors' salarv.....804,505.33 Presiding Elders' salary...'] 8,615.74 Conference Collections. 3,765.36 Foreign Missions. 2,471.42 Domestic Misions. 3,723.31 Education. 1,023.42 Bishops' Fund.? 772.38 Publication of Minutes. 324.08 Candidates for Ministry... 111.81 Sunn ayT "S chop Is.. , ?.... 3,739.0 7 Other Benevolent purposes 7,715.84 Columbia District paid most for building and repairs, ?0,929.81; Florence District, least, 81,159.00. Charleston Disliict paid most-for the Pastors and Assistants'-Salaries, ?9, 009.55 ; Greenville District least, S5, 373.70. The average salary paid was 8410.10?the largest by Bethel church iu Charleston?81,500. The Presiding Elders averaged $1,183.07. The S. C. Conference contains 44,291 members; 155 traveling preachers; 222 local preachers: 559-chtirohes? value, 8515,144.81 ; ? parsonages? 892,075, college and school buildings to the value of 893,705. All Prospering but Elizabeth. Mr. Becehcr received 1,300 calls yesterday?300 more than lastyear; whose new year fell on a much picas anter day. It speaks volumes for the affectionate fidelit}' of the human heart that so many good men and women have followed him up and down the ragged edge of despair, lived with him in the cave of gloom, seen him on his knees before Theo dore Tilton, and rend his passionate self-accusation without losing confi dence in hum. Bui Frank Moulton is popular with his friends, loo. I saw him a moment yesterday making calls, -red-beadedj breezy, agreeable as ever, and bo is getting rich ; and Mrs. Moulton, that "slice of the Day of Judgment," is the centre of a large and admiring social circle; and Til ton lectures to big audiences; and' Bowen's Independent stands at the head of religious newspapers; and Leonard Bacon, the Mephislophiles of the whole affair, flourishes in New Haven. So, hurrah for everybody! ?ah, everybody, if you please, except tbo poor'woman who, whatever the facts, was the victim of the tragedy ; who lives in the depths of woe, de serted by Mr. Becehcr and repudiated by the Plymouth Church, which at first supported her, fed by the con temptuous hand of charity extended by [him who was once her husband. It is pitiful!?Ntiw York Letter. A young man who gets a subordi nate situation sometimes thinks if not necessary to give it much : ttenlion. lie will wait until he gets a place of responsibility, and then he will show people what he can do. This is a great mistake- Whatever hrs situa tion may 4ie, he should master it in all its dctuijs? | aqcFj&rfornij a^l ib) duties faithfully. Remarkable Masonic Incident. When we consider the great pas sion that sailors have f?r tattooing themselves, w,u cup- in.a mcKuro un derstand Uiofollowing uccjoU'JKf Avbich eiu^L^trj/foUbe pages -o'^W^ Cana dian Craftsman. In speaking of the first Masonic funeral that/y'Cr/-'.was solemnized in California, U s staled that the body was washed upi^ thobay of San Francisco in 1810, ami that upon the person of the deceased was found a silver mark of n&3$0h,'on which was engraved the in'lials of his name. On further investigation the most singular exhibiUona'of Ma sonic emblems ever drawjOfpo'ri the human skin was revealed. Beauti fully dotted on his left arm, in red Hnd blue ink, appcarcil alF^ihe em blems of an Entered A?j)rentiee. There was the Holy Bible, tlie.square and compas, the twenty-5^' inch gusge, and cpmmpO^gavrfrjThcre was also the Masonic pavement repre senting the ground lloor of lying Sol omon's Templej the indented tessel iwhich surrounded it, arid tnji blaming star in the centre. On hiajlelt at m, and artistically executed inutile same indelible liquid, were the. "-emblems pertaining to the FcIlowcraBt Degree, viz : square, the level, and the plumb. There were also the live ordcis of architecture!?the Tuscan, jfui'ie, Ion ic, Corilhian and Comp?dte. On removing the garment fiora the bod}', the trowel picsenled itse-f, with all tue other tools of'one'"alive*Masonry. Oycr his heart was the pptvuf incense. On the other parts of his; body were the beehive, tie "Book of* Constitu tions" guu'dcd by a Tyler's sword pointing to a naked heart, the All Seeing Eye, the anchor and ark, the hour-glass, the scythe, the forty-sec ond problem of Euclid, the sun, moon, stars, nnd cornel, thee "5t?|.,? emblem atic of youth, manhood^ <^and age. Admit ably executed Was a weeping virgin reclining on a brokii: column, upon which lay the "Botdiof Consti tutions." In her left hajd she belt" tlra p?t of iucense, lire jn^tTi'iic"ijhi,i blem cf immortality of/tl.e soul. Immediately beneath her stood wing ed Time, with his scythe by bis side whiclrcuts the brittle thread of l'fe, and the hour-glass at his feet, which is ever reminding us that our lives aie withering away. The with ered and attenuated lingers of die Destroyer were placed among the loiig and graceful (lowing ringlets of the disconsolate mouiner." From this description wc can well see the grandeur of the conception which blended the em'dems of mortality in one picture, anil that the execution was quite equal to the conception; Probably never before was such a picture beheld, and possibly never will again. Wc arc also tdld that the brother's name was never known. The Mothcr-ln-Law. This paper is the only one that has evor taken up the cause of the moth er-in-law. And yet there are de mented persons who say we make ?iame of women. The mother-in-law feels herself under everlasting obli gations to the son-in-law for marry ing her daughter. This having been the object of her life, aud she having been racked wfth hopes and fears ever since her daughter came into her teens, lest the marketable time might slip by, she feels that she cat) never repay the man who came to her dtlivdrancc. She. becomes a devotee to him. She coddles him with warm slippers and wadded dressing gown, and with hot drinks when he has a cold. She multiplies her attentions when ''important business" has kept him out late at night, nnd fears that his devotion to business will wear upon him. She finds out the dishes that tickle his appetite, and makes them with her own hands. With her he has two worshippers at home. She encourages him to smoke. Sho smiles on his bachelor friends. When his breath i mells of spirits on his late returns, she knows that it was to brace himself up after the fatigue of businessj Sho makes her daughter cheerful while he is at the club or other places. Shu minds, the baby while they go to entertainments, and 1 never wan.a to go. She praises him to all as the best of husbands. She continually enjoins upon her daughter that she can never be lhanulul I enough. Sho is a constant sunbeam in tllo household, which makes mar riage without a mother-in-law but half what it should be.? Cincin'nat Gazette. A pEBft NAVAL SCANDAL. the serious chauuks thatconfront admirai. l'orter. i i r 1 )' ' ' Washington's choice hit of scandal just now concerns that old salt, Ad miral Porter, who is charged with keeping Mrs. Wettnore, tho wife of one of his subordinate officers* as mistress; with making Wettnore pay the woman $2,000 after he got a di vorce from her; witli being partner with government contractors while acting secretary of the navy, and with trying to sell infernal machines I to the Germans during the Franco Prussian war. The scandal got some airing some live years n*o, when tho Wet mores were suing (or divorce iii the courts, and showed Porter up as a ceucdiled cozeomb and gay Lo ithal io, but it is made much more, prominent now by the war Wet more is making on the Admiral to recover the $2,000 he claims has been cheat ed out of him. Wet more shows the document to back his story, which is quite circumstantial, lie was le eqi der of the board of naval in?pec tors of which Porlcr was president, and had so little manhood that he al lowed the Admiral to bully what part of hi-j month's pay out of him lie was pleased to turn over to the divorced wife. When Wetmore lost the posi tion of recorder also, he was plucky enough to take another at the old tar's hands, and pay him for getting it, though Wetmore had got divorced from his wife because of her infideli ties with Porter, and knew that they still kept up their intimacy. Nay, more, Wetmore made a cat's-paw of himself to sell the Germans the tor pedoes Porter wanted to dispose of for use against the French, hav ing already made money himself out of naval contracts got through Por ter's influence, though Urs project seems to have fallen through because tho Prussian minister would not "plank down" the money to take Wetmore to Berlin to complete the negotiations. The letters Wetmore shows seems as damaging to Porter's reputation as somu of those in the Becebcr-Tilton trial, but it is signifi cant that the injured husband's sense of his wrongs and of (ho .Adniiials 1 infamy was not aroused till Porter was no longer able to furnish him with a government position, but; used his influence instead to keep him out of a place. Eli Perkins. We copy the following from the News and Couiier : It is hardly worth while to go about proving Eli Per kins to be a liar, but it may be as well to Confirm the accepted belief on this head as olten as occasion re quires. Ilaving lied, as usual, in reporting pretended interview with Senator Cameron, in which ho referred to Mr. Gunnison as being present, and, of Iiis own knowledge, confiuning what was said on that occasion, Mr. Pel kins was brought up with a short turn by both Senator Cameron's and Mr. Gunnison's published denial of all bo had charged them with Saying. Mr. Pcrkin's lias recently reaffirmed the statements made by him in tho first instance, and the following let tor from Mr. Gunnison, in reply to one from M j. Hampton, Jr., is now iu order: New York, Dec. 26, 1878. Wade II<i?i;>lun, Jr.: Dear Sin?I am in receipt of your letter written several days ago. 1 presume, long before this reaches you, you will have read my denial of the report of "Eli P rkins" as fur nished by him to the New York Sun. i ! I regret that it has been the occasion ! I of any unpleasant feelings, particular ly at this lime. Allow me to congratulate you on the improved condition of your fatb er's health. 1 believe "Eli Perkins" does not hear a very enviable reputation :.mo ng newspaper men for the correctness of his reports. Extending to you the compliments' of the season, I am fraternally >ours, K. Norman Gcnnisox. Tho oldest inhabitant, as he comes forward these mornings for his liitle tod, tries hard to smile and look un concerned, as ho tells you that this weather is not at all cold compared tvith that which he remembers to have experienced in the winter of 1700 ; but the sungs of the oldest in habitant chatter with cold as ho tells 'you about it, and Eto can't look you .straight in tho eye. The oldest ln | habitant lies. Judge Lynch in Nebraska, "This is Iho twenty-sixth murder trial over which I have presided," saiu Judge Gastlin, "and the oriiW is Jibe most atrociouB of tlfttiff' nlL | The jury might ptopuriy have brought I in a verdict of murder in the first de gree." The jury, however; had only convicted the prisbuers, Jackson and Martin, of murder in the second de gree. This was a surprise to the people of Nebraska city, and tho'in d ig nation was ho great inlit tue jurors and the lawyers for the defense were threatened with violence on their Way home. Jackson and Marlin had de liberately killed an old nian in his bed for the purpose of robbery. Prep arations to lynch them were conduct ed with secrecy. A: meeting was held in an engine house, wlure the matter was talked over and the chief executioners chosen*-' At. nigfiS >? a1 masked mob went to the jail, carry ing a heavy timber, which!thoy used as .a battering-ram to break down the door. The prisoners -begad to dress Ibeinselve on hearing the noise' and Submitted without a word of protest, when their executioners entered, to j having their arms pinioned. They I were led to a large tree near the jail. ! There was only rope enough to hang I one at a time. A noose was placed' first around Martin's neck, and he was ordered to pray : "Lord, have mercy on my poor murderous soul!" He objected U> the wording of the prayer, but his spiritual adviser wa3 inexorable, and would permit r.d al teration. Jackson laughed heartily at that, and his merriment lasted all" the while that Martin was dangling. He changed his mi. d after his own neck was noosed ; and his last words were curses. No move has been made toward punishing the lynchcrs, and the local journalist says that their action is approved in the com munity. The Capital of a Good IMarrto. How true tt.is that a good name is capital in itself. Such a capital, like every* solid accumulation, is not built in a day, but is the result of years of continuance in well-<'oing. No man can hope, by a spirit of good nature or honorable dealings to acquire an enviable reputation, which is implied in the possession of "a good name." Little things done and observed in a seiics oT years, the trifles of which life is made up, if done conscientious ly, are what contiibute to the result, and win for a man the confidence of his fellows ; and wheu one has thus acquired this good name, men 1 seek him in business, rely on his word, and prefer his goods. Such a capital is within the reach of the poorest. It commands confidence, and helps one in securing all that is desirable in life, and as it is not to be acquired without delay, docs not depend upon birth or influence for its attainment. It is wonderful ao many prefer to travel by crooked ways, which, though they may seem short cuts to success, do not lead in that direction at all. Terrible Prediction. Tho fact that so many fish are dy ing off the coast of Floiida call to mind the awful prediction of Prof. Knapp. From the juxtaposition of certain planets to our earth, he pre dicts that one-half of the population of the world, including man and all kinds of animals, and even vegetable life, will perish before or during the year 1880. In a lecture delivered several years ago, he said that this desolation would commence by the fishes of the sea dying, and pestilence 1 and famine occurring in more south lern latitudes. The famine in China and yellow fever scourge in the South, and now tho fearful pestilence among the fishes in Southern waters, are. so many steps in tho fulfiliuieut of Prof. Knapp's prophesies. Tho Last Nogro Congressman. Senator Bruce, of Mississippi, it is said, will probably be the only negro in the 4Gth Congress and once he gets out, he'll slay mir, and as the "poor negro" has only tho newspaper and election sympathy of their north ern friends, Bruce will probably be tho last colored man in Congress. And yet in 1870, there wero nine there; in 1872, the number was re duced to seven ; in 1871, to four; in 187fi, to three; and in 187'J, the prospect is that there ivill be but one, and after that one comes out, it is probable that there will never be another to represent the colored race.