Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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SHERIDAN &, SIMS, Proprietors. SUBSCRIPTION. .Omo Year..;:.81.HO .Six Months....?..1.00 Ministers of the Gospel.1.00 Advertisements. First Instertlon.<.81.00 ' Each Subsequent Insertion.60 Liberal contracts made for 3 month and over. JOB OFFICE 18 PBEVARBD JOJIO AM. KINDSQF Job 3?x?ixiting "J"hc Country .Dootof? Warmly Mngnziuo. For a compressed buudlo of good linrd sense, over.-ttied patience, ne cessitated economy, bluo pills and an' ability to diagnose a case within a day or so, commeud us to that disci ple of JEeculapius who worms his >vsj> through thick and thin under a high-crowned hat and the euphonious appellation of a "country doctor." Far be it from my purpose to ridicule him ; he, of all others, needs my leu derest sympathies and my biggest fees. But he has passed before me, and the temptation to photograph him is too strong, and here he is, in all his lights, just as he is seeu every day in the village. Nalurc-^that freakish old dame? never thought enough of this speci men of the genus homo to smile upon him. She always managed to put an ugly face on an ugly form, and dub that unfortunate creature "country doctor." It may have been that Dame Nature gave him bis ngliucss for a qualification of bis calling. If so, mothers have taken advantage of it, aud many a poor child has been cured-seemingly cured-by the threatened visit of the ugly doctor. Little Tabitha Brown, the freckle faced daughter of old Brown, who counts his wealth by thousands, takes measles. Of course they wait until way in the night, when honest folk are in bed, before they conclude to send for the doctor. And the night happens to be a bad one?dark, rainy or otherwise bad?and the doc tor, tired out by riding all over the countiy on a rickety old horse, has to leave his warm place in the bed, put on his clothes and that awful looking neck-tic, hunt up his slick, and plod on his way several miles to see little Tabitha. He is put out, any how, and old Lady Brown de clares lie is the ^'slowest, pokiest" thing she ever saw. The pulse is felt, a dozen questions asked, and then the saddle-bags, in whose capa cious pockets vials of calomel, qui nine, and opodeldoc have nestled for ages, are opened. A dose is measured, directions given, and the stiff-booed doctor plows his way through mud or snow to home, to be aroused again by Tommy's father. Now Tommy had swallowed a fish bone, and was cutting up all sorts of unties about it. Again our worn-out friend tramps it for a few more miles, to relieve 'Pommy's trachea and the parent's distress. And so it is: one continu al round of tramps and physic from day in to night out. It generally takes our friend of the pill aud "pizen" a month or so to make up his mind to present his bills to old Brown and the numerous oth ers whose children and selves had re quired the doctor's skill and trouble. I say he has to present these hi.Is, for old Brown and the others would as soon think of dying as to pay the doctor before. It always happens that some poor, misguided youth, whose ambition has pushed him into the doctor's office, there to search for medical lore, finds it to. be his duly?arduous though it is?to carry these formidable bundles of itemized accounts ; but the ambi tious youth never collects anything. He can sit down after one of his bootless tramps and relate to the doctor the excuses of his patients for an hour at a time. And the doctor wonders why on earth old Brown and a score of others can't pay him hie trifling bills as well as they can buy ribbons and furbelows and other fix in's for their trilling daughters. It is an inexplicable mystery?an un eolvablo problem?why ? And why is it? Echo answeis, "Why?" Thus he lives. He is a sort of frog, supposed to livo on nothing and "lind himself." He is thought nothing of socially or financially, and is paid nothing for that which years of trouble and expense have taught him. 1 Half the old women profess to know jporo than he does, and they blister with dog-fennel, plaster with poke berry leaves and sweot-gum salve, and their cathartics, diuretics, and tho lite, aye manufactured from all sorts of "yorbs" and roots, and they , go about advising this and recom mending that until the wholo country \a surfeited and made gloriously sick, and the poor unfortunate doctor has ( t-o go around to repair '/lie damage without tho least expectation of a ] cent for hie services. Arid now we leave hira. Wo see him on that rickety old horse jogging along to physic somebody, and wo can tell by the expression upon his weather-worn face that he doesn't ex pect a ceut for his trouble. ?. RlDQES. How the Chinese Seoure ja Pa?tor. February 4th, is the day on which the Chinese select one of their num ber to preside over their Joss houses. The discharge of fire-works consti tutes an important factor in the day's observance. The manner of proceed ing is as follows : The two compa nies here are permitted to have each a certain number of representatives, and the fleetest and strongest men are generally chosen. These dele gates repair to a vacaut lot at the rear of the Joss house. A stipulated number of bombs, each one contain ing a metallic ling, are placed in charge of a committee lb fire off these bombs one at a time. When the ex plosion takes place, the ring contain ed in the bomb is sent Hying in the air. It is the desire of the two fac tions to have their respective dele gates Becurc as mauy of them as pos sible. When the ring drops, there is a general scramble on the part of ull duly authorized to obtain posses sion of it. After the bombs have all been lired the two companies compare notes, and the side having the larger number of rings is entitled to elect a Joss (equivalent to a minister of the gospul with us) from among their number. Chins. The retreating chin is indicative of the want of attachment, and but little ardor in love. The chin in its length and breadth indicates self-control, self-will, reso lution, decision, etc. A narrow, square chin indicates the desire for love, and is more com mon among women. The broad, square chin indicates ardent love, combined with great steadfastness and permanence of af fection. ' Carnivorous animals have the up per jaw projecting, while those of the gramnivorous nature have the lower jaw projecting. In man with a projecting upper jaw will be found large destructivencss and love of animal food; when the lower jaw projects then the love foi vegetable food. A pointed or u round chin indicates a congenial love. A person with such a chin will have a "beau ideal" and will not be sati?lied with real men or women. The indented cnin indicates a great desire to be loved ; a hunger and thirst lor afiection. When largo in woman she may overstep the bounds of etiquette and may make love to one that pleases her. A Dog Drowned by a Coon. On Tuesday last a very valuable dog belonging to Mr. White, of Sau vie'a Island, while strolling around through the limber laud near the slough, came upon a coon's trail, and followed it to the animal's hiding place. After considerable digging and barking, the coon was routed and took to the water, and after it went the dog. The fight was a life and death struggle, but the coon wa6 too cunning. As the dog approached him he seized him by the nose and sank beneath the surface, pulling the dug's head under the water. '1 lie process was repeated until the dog was drowned, and his coonahip swam to shore and disappeared uninjured. Foon Senator Hampton ! Iiis name is taken in vain by all the false political prophets who claim to be Democrats, but who lean out to the Radical party to get ollicc. Hampton allowed re pentant Republicans to come to him. Ho never went over to the unrepent ant Radicals. Ho kept strictly with in the line, while these alleged follow ers of his arc camping out side, and trying to drag the party along with Lhcm.? Winnaboro JJcruid. Gueklisy said the ways to resume was to resume. It is some thing that way with editing a newspaper. The way to edit is to edit. That is all theic is of it. If a man can't edit, why he can't, and that is the end o( it. His paper nnd intcrpriso must sink. No man these days can lloat a, paper successfully, either in a moneyed point of view, or in the sence of ma king a good paper, without some fit ness for tho place. A Shoulder Lick. Tho Spring Held Republican is a model paper in more ways than one. While far from being Democratic, and, if anything, orthodoxically Rad ; cal, in the least offensive sense of that I much abused word, it is, above all I olse, a lover of truth, a atrivcr after i justice, and the quintessence of true iudepeudence. Wo cull from its cdi rorial columns the following para graph, which completely demolishes, in short order and most cifectunlly, the monstrous slanders of u gigantic sham. It says: "The New York Tribune is reprinting and apparently endorsing, Republican campaign doc uments, which follow tho argument that the Democrats must be in a ma jority in Congress wickedly, because the States they represent pay' less tuxes than the Republican States. The statement is not true, as the sta tistician attributes most of the cus tom's revenue to Republican States, whereas two-thirds of it is collected in the Democratic Slate ok New York. In the second place, where revenue is collected is of small con sequence, since it is really paid by the consumers of articles taxed and not by those who hand it to Ihe col lcclor. Finally, political representa tion is not proportioned by Federal taxation at all. If it were, some j Northern Stales which havo euBloin houses and distil no whiskey would be totally unrepresented in Congress. These arc very primary truths in American politics, and ought to be known to every school boy. It is peculiarly discouraging to see lying assumptions to the contrary paraded before the people in a prominent journal, which is also laboring to iu struct the common mind by articles on the A. 13. C. of Finance." The Paper-Borrowing Fiend. A lady whose patience has been sore ly tried by the class of people who al ways borrow the weekly local paper instead of buying one makes following plaint to a contemporary : "Which I wish to remark, and my language la plain, at least Peter says it is, and he ought to know. Peter is my hus band, dear editors! 1 want to ask a qucston. Cannot something be done to suppress Um terrible nuisance, the newspaper borrower? Here is a field for the philanthropist; a Held ripe for the harvest, and one in which no man has worked. Humanitarians go about the streets looking up harrowing objects of sympathy among the dogs and horses, and I dare say many ci them borrow the newspaper from which they read the account of their prowess. Cannot a society be organ ized for the protection of publishers and subscribers against Ihe ubiquit ous and iniquitous creature? The Difference. Ik a man is on the cars and sees a young lady he doseu't know from Eve and never saw before, trying to let dowu the window, ho throws down hi? paper, lakes oif his hat, bows him self double, smiles clear round to his after collar-button, says sweotly,"Al low me 1" and closes the window with graceful skill and charming courtesy. Ifj his ?ister says, "Tom, won't you please let Ibis window down for me?" he lucks bis paper savagely under his arm, and, stalking serosa the aisle, stands on her feet while lie bangs the window down with a slam that fills her face and hair with dust. And if his wile, holding the baby iu one arm and a lunch-basket on the other, tries to lot down the wiudow, and says timidly and suggestively, "Oh, dear; I don't believe I can get it down," he grunts, says, "Eh? Oh 1 "and buried himself still deeper in his paper. Tub Philadelphia World gets oil' the following horrible slory: Her name was Nelly. They had been in dulging in a waltz, and as they seated themselves on the ocean side of the Sea View, her Charles devoted him self to cooling her oif. Turning and facing hi in she asked : "Why am I like a certain animal in the menag erie?" Ho didn't know, he said. "Why, I'm a Nelly fanned" she said. He immediately asked for the position of keeper, and they will be married in the fall. "It's, a very solemn thing to bo married," said an old lady to her niece who was just about "stepping off. "Yes, but it'a a great deal more solemn not to be," replied the girl, seriously, Suusciunti for the Democrat. Lutheran Reformation. Editor Orangeburg Democrat.: There are three dates conueolcd with the Reformation ofthe Sixteenth Century which will over bo held in sacred memory by all, Christendom, and to which wo pojiit with commen dable pride, because they mark those important acts which led to all roligi ous liberty and in a great measure to tlte liberty of nations. These arc, the 31st of October, 1517, when Dr. Luther nailed the memorable ninety live theses to the church door in Wit tenburg, tho 2.7th of April, 152!?, when fourteen imperial cities drew up and signed a solemn protest against the infamous decrees'of the Romish heirarchy and which led to our being called Protestants, and, lost, the 25th of June, 1530, when tb.o grand old Augsburg Confession, which has be come the basis of all Evangelical Confessions of Faith, was read aud delivered to tho Emperor, Charles the Fifth, at the diet ^pf Augsburg. Around this trio of dates cluster all the grand evcnls and . achievements of the Reformation, ami arc, there fore, justly memorable. When our minds wander back to the Dark Ages, during which, for up wards of a thousand years, the shad ows of ignorance, superstition and religous death hung over our world, and then come back to all the happy memories of the past 862 years, tor gcther with the blessed gospel light and liberty of to-day/wo exult in holy joy, aud glory in The fact that "The word of God is ?not bound." The word 11??formation calls up the trials, faith and work of our fathers, and stimulates to deeds of benevo lence?of heroic effort in the Mas ter's cause. And he in whose heart is awakened no feelings ol faith, rev erence, love, and of holy ambition to press on in the path 'marked out by our fathers, and who docB not glory in tho cause ofthe Refo mation, must bo ignorant of one of LiO most thril lingly interesting parts/jf the world's history, and in aou-.cjjj^sure dead to tho Bacred memories 'of the past. The scenes and incidents of the Re formation arc eo interesting and im portant, and fraught with so much good to. the church and the world, that all should interest themselves in the attainment and dissemination of a knowledge of the history of those eventful days?days which would have tried aud done honor to the faith of prophets and apostles?to the mar tyrs and heroes of the oldeu limes. In the interest of such information the 3G2 anniversary of tho Lutheran Reformation will he celebrated at the St. Matthews Lutheran Church in this county, on the first Sunday in November, when the Rev. Dr. Haw kins, one of the most gifted orators of our State, will be present. The public arc invited. S. T. Hallman. A Beautiful Extraot. The glory of summer has gone by ?the beautiful greenness has become withered and dead. Were this all? were there no associations of moral desolation?of faded hopes?of hearls withering in the bosoms of the living ?connected with the decaying scene ry around us, we would Dot indulge in a momcnto melancholy. The sea sons of flowers will come again?the streams will flow gracefully as before ?the trees will again toss their cum brous heads of greenness to the wind ing rivulet, the coining blossoms will start up at the bidding of the guar dian. Hut the human heart has no change like that of nature. It has no returning to spring time. Once blighted in its hour of freshness, it bears forever the innrk of tho spoiler. The dews of utTocliou may fall, and tho gentle rain of sympathy bo lav ished upon it?but the stone of blight ed feeling will uever again awaken into life?nor the crushed flowers of hope blossom with wonted beauty. Tiierb. wa9 n young lady at Now port who rejoices in fifteen complete toilets, including hats, gloves and slippers. If that young lady would only sell thirteen of her complete toilets, and give the proceeds to the poor, the angels would hold a ratifi cation meeting. j Alipe sends us a poem, "Why art thou sad?" Now, Alide, we will bo honest with you. The roason wo are I sad is because ono of our back sus pender buttons has busted, and we're afraid the other one won't hold till I wc get home. Words of wicdom. Fbrhaps there nie few less hnppy than those who are ambitious -without industry ; who pant for the prize, but will not run the race; thirst for truth, but aro.lgp slothful to draw it from the well. Tue grand, and indeed only chra actcr of truto is tho capability of en during tho test of universal experinco and coming uncharged out of every possible form of fair discussion. A great mind is like an elephant in the ancient Hue of battle, the best ally if you can keep him in the ranks, front ing the right way ; but if he turns about bo is the deadliest foe and treads his master underneath his feel. One who is injured ought not to return injury as the multitude .think, for ou no account can it bo right to do injustice. Therefore it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any mau, however we may have suffered from him. It is a hard thing to say, and many an ardent temperament may be damp ened by it, but it is nevertheless true, that it is more honorable to make a good pair of shoes thau to write a poor poem. If this fact could be em phasized some wiople would drop the pen and take up the awl, and the world would be better for the change. Modest}* is a somewhat rare virtue, and yet it is a dangerous thing to pretend to possess qualities or abili ties which you never had. The ad vice which Jerrold ouc day gave to a youth has a meaning for most of us also. It was: "Young man, be ad vised by me; don't take down the shutters until there is something in the window." A Lie. The Indianapolis Journal says: "The solid South is built on a foun dation of intolerance, persecution, fraud, assassination and murder." To this speciman lie the Washington Post replies as follows; "It is. In tolerance developed toward it and its people by tho ruling class in the North filter it hud been forced back into the Union, which it wished to i leave ; persecution by the Republican ' carpet-baggers sent by tho North to seize the reins of powor in its various State government and tyrannize over the citizens; frauds committed on 1 the sacred rights of the ballot-box within its borders, by and in the in terest of those samo ?Radical hell hounds, that grand result of which we see in the piesencc in tho White House of fraudulent President; as sassination and murder of Constitu tional prerogative of Slate sove reignty and local self-government by Federal troops ordered to the work by a Republican President." A Slow Movement. It is reported on good authority, says a Washington special, that the recent movement instituted in that city to reorganize the Repuplican party in the South has panned out so badly that several of those engaged in it have concluded that it would bca| prudent thing to withdraw. Among them arc said to bp ono or more oflicc-holders. It is understood that the Secretary of the Treasury became satisfied that the material participa ing in the movement was not exactly tho kiud to work up the Sherman boom, and has been moved to disown affiliation with it. The following was evidently utter ed by a true farmer: "The country home can be made very pleasaut by fixing up the yards and houses more than they aro. Farmers should be without debts, aud then they caii make farm life very pleasant. The farmer should read and study several hours every day. He should have good laborers, and have them under stand that his interest is theirs. Plenty of reading matter should be kept on hand nt all times. Instead of straight lines around tho place de vote more space to landscape garden ing. The keeping of good stock will always add to tho pleasure of farm ing. Farmers should get out, and interchange views with each other." Beuoi.d the lilies of the field ; they toil not, neither do they spin ; yet Solomon, in all his glory, was not ar rayed like ono of (these, and Jones says ho thinks it was a good tbjng ho wasn't. It's bad enough, he, says, to appear in an umbrella and a pair of spurs, but tho lily style of garmcn tu re is altogether too scant for res pectability. Hon. Horatio Seymour. He has been interviewed by a re-] porter of the New York World in re gard to the Presidency, but unlike Gen. Grant, on the Republican side, the old Democratic veteran says : "I havo a horror of a scu?lo for power or place around the edges of the grave; should feel like one of the figures in Holbori's dauce of death." Of course Mr. Seymour's friends' would be glad to see him nominated, and in all propability he would show in the race more strength then any other New Yorker, but in addition to his feeblo hoalth, he would have to hear upon his shoulders the weight every defeated candidate bears. This of itself would likely influences num ber of delegates to the National Con vention, and cause them to throw their voles in favor of another. Mr. Seymour has always been admired by a largo portion of the Southern De mocracy, but ut present we do not think the majority cof tho Southern States would prefer him. His honest und frank expressions though, when interviewed by this reporter of the World, leaves little room for his name to be placed before the nomina ting body when it assembles. Wheth er in public or in private life, Hora tio Seymour, of New York, will al ways remain in possession of the con fidence and respect of a large por tion of this Union, and when life ceases to exist the loss of an honest man will be mourned.?Barniudl Sentinel. A Practical Lesson. A young man stood listlessly watching some anglers on a river bridge. He was poor and dejected. At last, approaching a basket filled with wholesome-looking fish, he sigh ed : "If now I had these I would be happy. I could sell them at a fair price and buy me food and lodging." "I will give you just as many and as good fish," said tho owner, who had chanced to overhear words, "if you will do me a trifling favor." "What is it?" asked the other. "Only to tend tips line till I come I back; I wish to go on a short cr I rand." I The proposal was gladly accepted. The old mail was gone so long that the young man began to get imputi pnt. Meanwhile [ho hungry fish snapped grpedily qt the baited hook, and tho young map lost all his de pression in tho excitement of pulling them in ; and when the owner of the line returned he had caught a large i number. Coupling out from them as many as were in the basket, and pre senting them to the young man, the old fisherman said: j "1 fulfill my promise from the fish t you have caught to teach you when ever you sec others earning what you need, to waste no time in fruitless wishing, but to cast a line for your self." Wandering. "A good name is rather to be cho sen than great riches." It is, is it. And when "wo reflect that when Solo mon wrote that he was the richest man in the world, and carried money enough loose in liiQ pockets to pay the national debt, and silver "was accounted as nothing in the days of Solomon," and he won Id't sit upon, ride in or eat or drink from anything but pure gold, and was raising a family of the worst boys that ever troubled Israel, we?but this is not the sermon department of Ibis paper, what we wero thinking of was that? perhaps wo don't make it very clear, hut Solomou'8 head was level, after ali. . That may be what we started out to say, but it is a great deal bet ter. An K.nglish statute for the preven tion of crime provides that a convict on boing released from prison, be fore his time expires, shall take out license which compels him to report every month at the neatest polico sta tion his address and mode of life. Failing to do this, his license is re voked, and he is. sent back to prison. We wish wo bad such a. good law as this in South Carolina, for it is a no torious fact that three-fourths of the releaspd convicts return to their old practices. An agricultural paper thinks that what this country needs is fewer pol iticians and moro mules. We have not yet been ablo to draw tho line between tho two species. The Broken Hearted. About ten years ago, I took up my residence for n few weeks in a country village in the eastern part of New Englund. Soon after my nrriw al, I becamo acquainted with a young lady, apparently about 18 yca*a o/ age. She bad lost the idol of bar heart's purest Iovo, and the shadows of deep and holy memories were rest ing lik.e the wing of death upon h?f brow. 1 first met her in the presence of the mirthful. She was, Indeed, .a creature to be admired ; her brow wxts garlanded by the young year's sweet est- flowers, and her black tresses were hanging beautifully and low upon her bosom; sum I she moved through the crowd with such floating unearthly grace, that the bewildered gazer looked almost to sec her fade away into the air, like the creation of a pleasant dream. She seemed cheer ful, and even gay ; yet I saw her gaiety was but the mockery of her j feelings. She smiled, but there was something in her which told me that its mournful beauty was but J.h.0 , bright reflection of a tear; and he jeyeiids at times pressed heavily down, as struggling to reprfis the lide of agony that was burs ling up from her heart's secret urn. She looked as if she could have left" ihe scene of festivity, and gone out, be neath the quiet stars, and laid her. forehead down upon the fresh green . earth, and pour out horstiicken soul, gush after gush, till it mingled, with the eternal fouutain of purity and life. I have lately heard that the young lady of whom I have spoken, is dead. Tbc close of hor life was as calm aa tho falling of a quiet stream; gentlo as the sinking of the breeze, that lin gers for a lime round a bed of withered roses, and then dies from very sweetn ness. It cannot be that earth is ?tau/^ only abiding place. It cannot be th,ryt our life is a bubble cast up by the ocean of eternity, to float, a r^ouient upon its surface", and then sink ^uto, nothingness forever, EJso, v{hy is. i\ that the high and glorious aspirations, which leap like angels from the tem ple of our hearts are forever wander ing abroad, unsatisfied? Why is it lhat the rainbow and cloud come over us wilh a beauty that is not of earth, and then pass off and leave us lo muse on their faded loveliness? Why is it that the stars which hold their festival around the midnight throne, are set above the grasp of our limited faculties, forever mock ing U3 with their unapproachable glory? And finally, why is it that bright forms of human beaoty are preseuted to the view, and then taken from us, leaving the thousand streams ol the affections to flow back in Alpine torrents upon our hearts? We are born for a higher destiny than that of earth. There is a realm where the rainbow never fades; where the stars will be spread out before us like the islands that slum ber on the ocean ; aud where the beau tiful beings, tha,t here p:\ao before us like visions, will stay in our prericneo forever.?"Gf. ^Ven^&q. Scratching the Man and Brothar. We would be glad to be informed by some intelligent, truthful Ohio Sialwart what the Ohio Republicans mean by scratching the colored Re publican, George W. Williams. If he is not a sufficiently intelligent aiu\ trustworthy citizen, why was he. nominated over the many worthy white Republicans which it is oa^d, Ohio abounds willig Was it lo catch the colored vote or to give color and shape to tho Radical pretense "otj equality between, tjio races?. If, ou, the contrary Williams was a fit and proper nominee, what do these Re publicans mean by scratching tho man and brother? Came, up.w, geu tlcmcn, let us hear fioro. you. Sure ly "what is sauce for tho gooso, should be sauce for the gander." \l won't do to treat the colored people, you claim so to love in this cavalier fashion. When they put up a repre sentative man of their race, they have the right to say to you : Qui m'aimeK aimc mon cnien."?Love me, love my dog.?Columbia RegipUr, Tub Emperor of Russia Is suffer ing from mental fatigue and is said to be constantly growing worse. Next to editing a newspaper, wear ing a crown is said to bo the most trying profession in the world,.