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Wood, supernumerary ; North Greenville, J. F. England; Fork Shoals, II. R. Browne; WiUhiniston Circuit," L. F. Peaty ; Anderson, J. E. Cut lisle ; An derson Circuit, .1. Altawny ; Shallow Ford, L. M. Hamer; Fendleton Cir cuit, W. Hutto ; Pickens Circuit and Mission, S. II. P. El well, J. W. Dan iels ; Seneca City Circuit, to be sup plied by W. A. Hodges; Walhalla Circuit and Mission, A. W. Moore, J. ,J. Neville, supernumerary. Williamston Female College?S. Lander, President. G. W. Walker transferred to South west Missouri Conference, and sta tioned at Lexington, Missouri. Stumbling into a IVIarriage. A comely young maiden, fresh from the shores of old England, ar rived in this city on her way Wes', to join her brother, who lives in a small town in Ohio. When she ar rived here she concluded to stop over one train and visit her cousin, who is employed at the coke-ovens on Mount Washington. After the greetings were exchanged she went to the de pot and found that she. had missed the train. As she was a stranger in the city she determined to return to her cousin's boarding-house and await the next train. She again ascended the mountain, and while on her way she passed around the corner of a stable and stumbled against n stal wart peddler, who. is likewise a Ger man, and bears the name of Latlicr baugb, and who was coming from an opposite direction, lie apologized for the accident, and being struck with the English maiden's appear ance, stopped lor a moment. Then a conversation was had, which ended by Lalherbaugh accompanying her to her cousin's house. In half an hour after they bad reached the boarding house they wore betrothed. The hap py German immediately started out in quest of a minister, and in a lew moments the silken knot of matrimo ny was tightly lied.?Pittsburgh Ga zette. A Stay at Home. The Utddeford, Me., Journal says : I "This item will make a strong draft upon the credulity of our readers, and yet is true, every word of it. Mr. Mark Smith lives near the Melli odist Episcopal Church, in this city, and was seventy-two years old last May. He was never inside of a rail toad car or street car: never visited Old Orchard Reach, three miles away ; never drank a glass of intoxi cating liquor in his life, while there hasn't beeti a day for forty years when there has not been enough rum in Biddeford to lloat a 74-gun ship from Cathanco Landing to Holmes' Hole ; never has attended a show ; and never saw the inside of our phot ?graph gallery until laat Saturday, when he had a haudsome likeness of himself takeu. If any of our cx exclianges can beut this, let them make it manifest in the usual way." ? Information Wanted. My son, Curley Augustus Sanders, lefttriy h?rne on the 23rd of Novem ber, influenced by another boy near the same size by the name of James Cook. My son is 1G years of age, about 5 feet and C inches high, fair complexion, blue eyes and light hair. Ho wore oil" a suit of black jeans clothes and a brown hat. Any'in-, formation of the boy will bo gladly received by a sorrowing and widowed mother. Address me at White Plains, Chesteifield County, S. C; In the year 1700 cottcn was not mentioned in any commercial report, and the first (hat ever was Bhipped was from Charleston, in the year. 1718 and this in the.seed ; apd in .177Q three bales wero shipped fron out State, thrco barrels from North Caro lina, and from Virginia and Maryland four bags. Young Women. A true woman is tho best and most beautiful of all earthly things. Beauty of parson, however, grace or manner, elegant adornments of dress, and glittering jewels, can never, with sensible people, constitute real beau ty. The true worth of woman, is to be counted in goodness or heart, no bility of soul, gentleness of temper, and purity of character. Tupper says, "Beauty is modesty, and grace Is fair retiring girlhood." Beauty of face, of form, and of manner is n dangerous endowment. Beauty of soul is a priceless jewel, which never loses its worth and lustre. The beau tiful in external form, has the greater need to seek, possess and cultivate u loving and pure nature, in order to be belter prepared for the decay of surface attrac ions. Young women of right may hold a constant influence over their young gentleman acquaintances, because there is among young men very gen erally, a conviction of woman's supe rior nature. Let not your manner tend in any way to lower the exalted position which you are accorded, but rather seek to bold continued sway for the advancement of high-toned moral principle. Discountenance the use of wine and cards. Let not re ligion be derided in your ptcsence, and most of all, let your own.manner in the social circle, or in the house of God, indicate that j'otl are not of a vain and trilling spirit. Let your presence bring with it a halo of light. You arc not to weave the woof of life for self. A wise teacher has said, none of 113 live to ourselves. Gentleness and true love, arc wo man's sceptre and diadem. They are the irresistnhle magnetic forces which a'tract and conquer, and let love to Christ be the moving power of}our life. Seek the beautiful adorn ments He gives ; they are more to be desired than gold or the precious gems of earth. Be a true womau ! "The Third Term."- - Grant was fifty years old'when he became Piesident the second time. So be is about fifty-seven now ; and somebody says be is the "same old Grant" yet, that lfis character from 1873 to 1877 is his einmietet' to-day. Well, there is one thing that must be said of Grant?be is no fool. IJc is too good a "gambler in futures" to have such an accusation as that laid at his door. With his bull-dog tenacity be has the cunning of a fox and, if he does not make long speeches he is "a good judge of whiskey*' and human nuturo. But we forgot; like old Rip Van Winkle, he has "swored otr." He does not "count this once," however, when it comes to a "third term" Set Grant down as a fool, if you please ; but he has not traveled round the world for nothing. He could see the white House all tho way through from Chi na, and if he succeeds Hayes, and theu has no successor till "life'i fitful dream is o'er," who will be surprised? ?Palmetto Yeoman . - Declines the Title of "Colonel." Mu. T. B. Crews, of the Laurens ville Herald in reply to a paragraph in tho Newberry Herald, in which that paper referred to htm as "Col onel," has this to say : "We did not know before that we'd beeu -promo ted in the military line. Wc beg leavQ most.respectfully to decline the brevetcy. Colonels now are too com mon. There used'1 tcV be honor in such a prefix, but it liaswom thread bare?played out. Too. many of that rank now who never smolt gun powder save on a; Christinas crack Among the several enrious habits of tho woodcock, its practico of car rying its young is perhaps the most interesting. The testimony of many competent witnesses is cited to cor roboiatc the statement. The lato L. Loyd wrote':" "If, in shooting, you meet with a brood of woodcocks, and the young cannot' fly, tho old bird takes them separately between her feet' and flics from tho dogs with a moaning cry.". . . Colonel Wi 1 liamson,? a -noted Texas lawyer, stood up in church and called on a young lady to come forward and marry him. Since that event the Tex as church has been so crowded with maniagcble females that a man can't get standing room inside unless he make sure of being on time by camp ing at the door over night. In Memoriam. William IL IJutsoi*. Whereas, in tlie Providence of God, it haa pleased 4Uira to remove from umong us our esteemed nnd much loved brother, William M. Ilutson, who was long nasociated willi us as a member of our profes sional circle, we the^Bar of Orangc burg desire lo place upon record our appreciation of his many virtues and able talents, our sorrow at the mourn ful event of his deccuse, and our re spect for his memory. William Maine Hulaon was born in Beaufort District in the year 1813, and was a member c.f/i family highly distinguished for respectability nnd worth in that section of the State. After thorough preparation he enter ed South Carolina College, nnd was there the classmate of the late Dr. Thornwcll and of Judge Magralh. lie then applied. himself to the study of the law, add was duly ad mitted to practice in the Courts of Ibis Stale in the year 1830, at Charleston, S. C. -Ho first engaged in practice in Beaufort District, but after a few years removed to Orange burg and formed a partnership with the late Edmund Bellinger, Jr., re siding at Barnwell. About the year 1852, this lirm was dissolved, and Mr. Ilutson continued to exercise the duties of his profession at Orange burg, holding a position among the leading members of the Bar, and especially distinguishing himself i:i Iiis ability as an equity lawyer. The case of Keilt vs. Heuser working the construction of a complicated will and an elaborate accounting; also the case of Cosllcn vs. Felder twice reported, were two of the numerous cases, in which be gave evidence of being a faithful counsellor. K?mest and laborious in the woik of his pro fession und of his careful study of the great principles of equity juris prudence. He was also well ground* eil in nis acquaintance with the fun damental doctrine* of Ihc common law, and ns a C?j^j anccr was cau tious and thorough in research, and very accurate and precise in the preparation of papers. With a short intermission, occa-, sioncd by ill-health, Mr. Ilutson, continued at the Orangeburg Bar until the year 1878 when the ollice of Master having been revived, he was appointed by Governor Hump ton to that responsible position, which he continued to liil until Hie time of his death. During the recent war he was unable from feeble health to serve the State be so much loved in the tented Held, but was appointed Provost Marshall, and was everar-| dent and ide voted in his adherence to the doctrines of State Bights, and to the cause of the South, during that struggle which has now passed into history, ns a righteous, but lust cause. This tribute to the memory of Wil liam M. Ilutson would be incomplete indeed, did it fail to make mention of that' nice sense of honor, which al ways actuated his conduct, and that unilorm-courtcsy which he exhibited In his intercourse with his brothers of the Bar, and with all his fellow-citi zens, and which marked him as a high-toned Christian gentleman. The melancholy event of his de cease occurred on the 18th day of July, 1879, at his residence in this place. Be it, therefore, Jit-solvedy That the Orangeburg Bar deeply deplore the death of Wil liam M. Hulson, who was for years one of its ablest and most accom plished members, and lately the Mas ter of the Court of Common Pleas for Crangeburg County. Iteaulvcd, That this memorial be presented to the Court at its next session, to bespread upon the jour nals thereof; ami that the members' of the Bsr wear the usual badge of mourning during said term in respect to his memory. Resolved^ That a copy of theso resolutions be sent to the family of the deceased, and that they be pub lished in tho newspapers of this coun ty. In behalf of the Bar of Orangeburg. T. W. G/lovbr, \ T. B. Whalkv, \ Committee. S. DllUJLK, j ?'Pears to mo you've got a putty slim fire, Mirandy," said a spindling youth, the other night, as he eat ic front of the (ire-place by the side of a buxom young girl who had no earthly use for htm. uYea," she said, as she wickedly looked at tho floor behind him, "it's about all you nnd the firo car. do between you to get up a ro spectablo shadow." Philosophy no! Pi?tols. 'Tis sweet 10 love. Hot ah, how bitler, To Jove n girl Ami then not, git her. As evidence of the above, says n Philadelphia paper, think of young Mr. M.t of tins city', who has loved to desperation all summer a pretty Chestnut street girl; think of the ma ny lines of love burdened Jorc ho poured into her willing ear; think of the theater tickets he has invested in ; think of the boggy rides, the llowers, the photographs, the ice cream treats, the rings, the lockets, etc., ad inJini tum, that have been hers nt his cost! and then meditalc upon his disap pointment when, a few days since, the fair creature informed his in a sub limely innocent manner that her wed ding would take place with iMr. S., of Kalamozoo. Did young Mr. M. drown himself? Did he snap a pistol at his lacerated heart? Did he take laudanum, arsenic, or lock himself up with a charcoal furnace? No! but ho acted like a philosopher, lie re ferred to his diary. lie procured two sheets of commercial paper. He made out an itemized account of the money he had spent upon the "gal who flung him," and sent in to the old man. The young lady pronounc ed it all "O. K." and young Mr. M. received a check for tho amount (C^'O. 32) upon a prominent bank, where lie obtained the money, and is noW bit terly happy. What He Said. "Jennie, darling," he said, as they sat cosily side by side in the big old fash oncil chair, whose generous arms had often encompassed a similar pair ; "my sweet girl"?and the fire blazed and crackled, and snapped its lively glances of light out into the darken ing room ; "my dearest ouc"?and the fitful shadows came and went iu the apartmc t, making grotesque Gg urca upon its handsome walls; "light of my life"?and her pretty head nes tled confidingly against his manly vest, through whose folds the beating tug'of his tender heart was audible ; "my beacon light"?and he pressed in Bis honest palm her little hand? oh, 60 little!?as he said, "my little pet;" and outside the wind blew fierce, while the dashing lain smote hard agaiust the pane, heightening the peaceful influence of the glowing grate ; "my own dear girl"?and the tremor in his voice was borri of the purest love?"my guiding star," he said?he said?well, blest if wc kuow what else ho did saj\ but that was enough. With a woman's intuition she knew his meaning, and she scoop ed him in. Ingratitude. Among the sins of the world there arc none greater than ingratitude. He who forgets to return favors be stowed, or who willfully refuses to acknowledge such favors, is unwor thy of the confidence and esteem of any body. There is no sublimer thing on earth than a kindly act of benevolence, bestowed in an hour of sad misfortune, and tho imagination can paint no act of baser treachery than stupid indifference to the magni tude of the deed or debt of ingrati tude owed. Deed* of mercy, charity and true benevolence arc bcsiowed iu an hour, in a week, or in a month, that a long life of riquiling love can never fully reward. One of the grandest, noblest acts of one's life is to succor those afflicted and suffering from pain and disease. It is equally noble and sublime to give full recog nition of such faithful services. Nev er can the reward he too great. Never such deeds too kindly or amply re quited. A Demagogue. This is Ilolyoke's picture of a dorn agogue: "A demagogue is a man voluble and vehement in speech; more plausible in advocating meas ures than wise in choosing them ; un scrupulous in his alliance with all who will serve his immediate objects ; j extreme in his views ; magnificent in j promises ; ready with theories and ! proposals of sweeping change ; rest less in agitation, but impatient of ob scure labor ( aiming at immcdiutu and jjhowy results which may kocp up his popularity ; loose und random in his way of living ; not safe in pecuniary affairs, although ho may have no in clination for deJiberoto dishonosty.' Young man, don't fool around tho girls next year. IL will bolcapyo.ir, and the giils will be loaded, Huf i'ii i i i iii m MMmM-fcara-?nt?gMMBtMCBr?t*f?rjp A Horse's Revenge. The Society for the Protection of Animals against the cruelty of Immun animals is not remarkable for its ac tivity in this country. The police appear to think it no business of theirs when carters or conebmeu bru tally maltreat their horses in the strcots, or when boys amuse them selves by torturing dogs am) cats, or whatever other creatures have the ill luck to fall into their hands. Tbc horses would appear to be aware of the Bupineness of their supposed pro tectors, for the matter in their own hands, or rather into their own teeth and feet. A tarter, by dint of hard Hogging ut his three horses, pcrsuud cd them to drag sixteen ions of coal to the foot of the steep bill which leads to the Boulevard Bessier'es, but his powers of stimulation utterly fail ed to induce them to proceed any fur ther. A thick stentn rose up from their panting sides and nostrils. ?-Budge !" said the bond ; and straight way the carter began to lash and sweur. A crowd gathered around the ferocious beast, who abandoned the lash and began to bang his slick into their heads and kick them with hob-nailed boots in the sides The leader of the team took it upon himself to protest against this ex Lieme measure. He turned uround, I seised rhu carter's arm with his teeth, * tossed him to the ground, and tram- I pled him with his hoofs ; then seized i him again and tossed him about, j The crowd and the police, which bad looked on approvingly while he tortured the horse, interfered for i the protection of the human mon ster, who was with great difficulty i torn bleeding nnd mangled from i the just equine resentment. He is i justly punished ; but surely some pen- i ally should be inflicted on the railway company which sent out this heavy load of coal to be drawn up hill by three horses, when twice the number would have barely sufficed for the work. The carter lias paid his penal ty; let theirs be now inflicted. Why should not the polico ho armed with full power to dispatch to the fuun'icrc any vehicle loaded beyond the power of the horses harnessed to it. Woman. If a woman once errs. Kick her down, kick her down: If misfortune is hers, Kick her down; Though her to/irs fall like rain, And she ne'e." smiles again, Kick her down. If man breaks her heart, Kick her down, kick her down ; Redouble the smart? Kick her down ; And if low her condition. Un. on to perdition? Kick her down! Aye! pass her on the other side ; speak no word of encouragement to her; measure not her full by her tem perament, or her temptations, but by the frigidity of your own unsolicited, Pharisaical heart. Leave no door of escape open ; close your homes and your hearts ; teach her that the Bible and religion a^e a fable; check the repentant prayer on her Magdakte lip; thrust her back upon the cro? J tender mercies of those who rejoice at her fall; send her forth with her branded beauty, like a blight and a mildew. "Stand aside, for thou art hoiier;" holier than the sinless, whose feet were bathed with her tears "and wiped with the h-iirs of her head.'* (Just tho "first stone" at her, oh, thou whited sepulchre! though those holy lips could say, ??Neither do 1 condem 1 thee?go and sin no more ! The Single Thought. Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that'hil! and coo; Be said ?'! am oor sugar plum, Whose sugar plum is oor?" There arc moro than two souls with a single thought round our way. There's a half dozen. The thought is where are we to get provisions and fuel from unless our subscribers "tip up" to the amount of their dues. Ae tho rat said to tho frog to which he was tied : "It may be fun to you, Mr. Frog, but this staying under wa ter is death to roe!" Thk year 1880 has been indicated as the proper time to cole bra to the AOOth anniversary of the publication of WyckiifTs translation of tho Bible. That year has been chosen because tho New Testament was then publish ed, although tho complcto Bible did not oppeor until a slightly lator date. WyckiifTs translation was tho first copy of the entire Bible that appear ed in tho English language. Value of Hope. Among till the many revolutions in the hearts of men there is none so in spiring, no thought so cheering, as that o( hope, when tossed to and fro on the sea of life. Mars, Saturn, Ju piter and nil the other illuminating bodies, may combine their brilliant rays, but pluck the star of hope from man's future prospects, and the Heav ens themselves will become as black ss midnight gloom. Hope nerves the planter to face the winter winds of a dark, dreary day, and stimulates him beneath the rays of an August sun. Jt builds our towns and rears our cities, and fills thetn with thronging millions. Hope has stretched'- the electric wire and is in close Contact with the most remote portions of the earth. It lannchcd the first steam vessel, and bade it plow the dark blue sea in spite of the dashing wavea? 'Twns hope that stretched the steel rails across vase continents, and placed the iron horse upon his track with the (light of a soaring eagle, as it out strips the tornado in search of food. Strike the word hope from a man's vocabulary, deprive him of the. privilege of dwelling upon its bean* tics, and he will become at once a rov ing maniac. The sound of the-ear. peutct's hammer would cease to be beard, and the wings of the flying lo comotive would rust and decay. The buzzing machinery wouki be hushed in despair, and where skill and ener gy now prevail, indoUnce and vice would reign. Jn fact, earth itself would become n vircck and tile a bus den to the living. After all, if hope accomplishes so much for those who exist So* this life only, what must it have in store for those who live for eternity? What a ray of light it cast along the Chris tian's paths ; what a halo of joy it (brows about his care-worn face as he treads the narrow road to his father's habitation 1 Ob, ye tempter of mankind! When the care-worn soldier lies dying upon his bed, bring forth your millions of temptations and cast them before him ; but if he has the gem of hope, pluck from the es sence of Cavalry, and can see by faith through the pearly gates as they turn on their diamond hinges, thou art laboring in vaiu. And when be arrives at n new world he can look back upon hope as the rock on which he built the calculations for his im mortal soul. A no mew IIii.i.man. The Hazels, Nov., 1879. A Prediction. In a pamphlet recently published, the author, Prof. Grimmer, asserts: From 1880 to 1887, will be one universal carnival of death. Asia will be depopulated, Europe nearly so. America will lose Qfteen million people. Besides the plague we are to have storms and tidal waves, moun tains are to loss their heads through tho choicest valleys, navigators will he lost by thousands, owiug to the capricious detixtnres of the magnetic needle, and islands will appear and disappear, iu mid-ocean. AH the beasts, birds and fishes will be dis eased, famine and civil strife will destroy most. of the human beings left alive by plague ; and; Anally two years of lire?from 1885 to 1887? will rage with fury i:: every part of the globe. In 1887, the star of Beth lehem will re-appear in the Cassiopia'a Chair, the immediate result being universal war and portentiotis Hoods und shipwrecks. North America is to he involved in a civil war, unless a Napoleon rises nip to quell it; but during these terrible days the Pacific Slates will be a perfect Paradise of Peace compared with the hellish strife that will be waging through out the world. Tho few people that may manage to survive till 1887 will have reason to be thankful. A man who stood on a platform before a big crowd down in Texas the other day declined an invitation to address the audience on the ground that he was not accustomed to speak ing in the open air. Two minutes la ter the bottom dropped out of the I platform and the men strangled to ! death because he couldn't touch tho I ground with his thee. This should be I a warning to orators who complain that they arc not accustomed to speaking out of doors. I-. V The only jokes which women liko to read are those which reflect ridi cule upon the men. On taking up n paper a woman invariably turns to the marriago column.