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Vol. II. ^RAN^BjURG, S..C, FRIDAY, FEBRJJA^jST I??, 188Q. ?STo. 7. SHKU1DAN & SIMS, Proprietors. SuusoiuinrioN. One Year.iX.Sli:A.SI 50 rfilx Months.1.00 ;iihd?ter.aof the Gospel. . .1.00 *? Ad^ktiskuenxs'.v iFlr8tfIu8te?ti?i>..:V..r..rt..........?1.00 ..Kaeh SobSeVj'uent Insertion.50 1 Liberljl [contracts made fur 3 mouth and over. .JOB tQ#\Fj:.CJ? t ia, i-jifKi-AU^pjjo.y.o_Ar.i. 'maus o,v One Thousand a Year. ?And you want me to tell you wheth er I can live on one thousand dollars n year, or rather?as I have not been ' asked to do so?whether a girl can ?III ' marry and live on it. I will be hon ' est witti you, no you wish ,this matter ' for publication, and stale that any 'wouiau, no matter(iiow high her posi tion, or how elegant her education,pr Maates, can live comfortably anfl hap pily on that amount, proyded ttiat she gets the right ma?.fpr.a'husband, '.and that they both truly love each other after marriage. Although young in years (pardon my not telling" yofr'tbe exact figures a'W?iliaVs privilege, ybu know,) 1 "have studied human nature enough, 'and the lives of young'jparned coup lea sufficiently, to feel sure that over , one-half of those that marry are dis appointed In each other afterwards. "Tin? is a most (unfortunate slate qf affairs, but both are equally tPiblaipe'i '.'the one for not showing a true nature, the other for not fuliy understanding it, before marriage. "Women, I am 'sOriy'to cay, are more given to deceit before marriage than men, and brutal treatment is frequently their reward. If girls were oily more natural there wonuf b'e less trouble, but women daily marry who arc only dressinak crs' models, and even worse?ihva-j 'lids, who bring to their husbands all 'the cares and (roubles of perpetual clcku'cstf, to add to tlicir business anxieties. !' What' .'man can respect, much less ?love, a woman who is a.constant bur 'den to"liim,"anci' who ijnowingly de ceives him at the altarY jliofore wo-; 'm'anscutcr the'ma'n iage stale, they auoufu be 6ure that ifieir hcallh is such that it will stand the tijl:\ls that are to follow. Men rarely deceive a Vornan in regard to their financial ability to support her handsomely, and this is downright wicked, for it may take a girl away from a home of comfort and luxury, to live in a gar VetV ^fjueh marriages engender bitter ness anci'ultimate* divorce or wot so.: For that rfcason, a ma^'twho tells a woman honeauy now much he can af ford to give", without building "cas 'tlcs in the air',*' which fade before the honeymoou,' dught'to receive 'her ics ? pect and ccuifi'dencc, for these arc, grand foundations to build on. I' contend that no happy condition of 'married life can exist without them.'1 'And yet how many' girls marry every week without knowing anything about their husbands, save that he is ""splendid," and "so handsome," and wake to lind that what they need is not a "pretty boy with a dainty mous 'lache," but a man?a solid creation of llesh and blood, with an honest heart, a clear head and willing hands 'to la'boi1 for the one he loves. '1'hat is my idea of a husband. 1 Such a man will never willfully de ceive a woman, never he guilty of the meanness tu at corrupts so many itocni s natures* ;lt would be paradisfc to lije/^tyll euch a man on one thous and dollars.a year, to existing with one on ten times that amount." This may read liko. romance, but it is stern reality. iT'girls will only take the irouble to investigate for themselves, they will see that money does not al ways bring happiness with it. *?Hap piness, our being's1' end and aiuij'. as , Pope so 'truthfully expresses it?for what is the world to a woman if her ^usband is not her lover, her lriepdy her counsellor, her reliance in the hour of trouble, the sharer of her joys when her anxieties are o'er! Hut I am growing eloquent over the "good" husband ; let us look on lite opposite picture. Of all things most likely to ruin a woman's life, a drunken husband is the worst. I am nbt'going into a dissertation on this Subject. All I have to say is, "Girls, , never marry a man who drinks, if you value your1 happiness." A very clear friend of mine came to me once, and saidi' "What do you think? I ^rnelt liquor ou ^Charley when I kiss ed him !v i imr^eWiately advised her hot lb marry mm, for, I argued, if a man will not respect a woman eh'ough to abstain while engaged, be will not do so after marriage. Ami so il proved, she thought she couldn'udo | without biin, arid so they married,! and moved into an elegant mansion, He Wi'.s rich, but how long did iL last? Jbot t'liree years und now she's a wid ow, with a Sickly child, and lives o/T her psjwjtftff ' ? ' Girls, don't be afraid lo test your " ". i ??. ? i lovots. If they are true and manly i pey will come out "like refined gold." j Get his opinion .on.nil tlje subjects that.concdrn!yoW married ljappiness: Don't trust to Ins dbing'as you wish after marriage.; you hsuu fetter find out whether hisdik'esand dislikes suit you before hand, for married life is mado up of mutual .^pncessiqns, and you will have tp.tfp vour share pf giving way, which fpr.qpc that truly ?loves you, must be, indeed, a pleasure. Another thing, if you don't like to bacco, never marry a man who smokes and chews, for I know a wo man whose husband made her Itfc a ,terror to Jicr by these disgusting practices. I don't intend givjug you any fig ures uliout this housekeeping business, for people's tastes differ. Some would Vie contcqt to live in a twelve dollar house, and keep a splendid table ; others would prefer a twenty dollar house, and live on plainer food. There is no trouble about n man and* 'wife living very comfortably on one thousand dollurs a your, if the wife has any practical reuse. A fool or a sloven can't do it. "How is a man going to find such a woman out?" I hear some readers t^xelaim, "Very easily." The fool .will Ijetray herself 1)3* her nonsensical replies to any sensible questions on lh\p subject that you may ask her, and Ike sloven will exhibit her imperfections in her toilet. A sloven's hair is never tidy or well combed; neither" will she . i 'in Hi brush her teeth carefully. If she is too lazy to do these, her habits generally will be slothful, for if that which eve rybody can see is neglected, what can we expect of that which isd^ipden! An untidy girl generally has d*irty ears. If she reads this, she will wash them, for a week, perhaps? A clean ?ly man will notice there things with out being told, but a slovenly woman will not; so, as the Bible says, "Let him who is filthy, be filthy still," and so will his wife; and his children, and their children; ' ?' ? GMbyoV 'Mr.' Editor] $M ?owl consider- that I have taken up too much spAj^.:.:/^U.cidv)ect isa gloii ous qae, for rit concerns tile future welfare} and'liappiueas of the whole world.** A 3?icactioai. Girl. *> ? , - . .t - ?? Sam Houston's Duel. A correspondent of the Bowling Green (Ky.) InUlligevar unearths an ?ld r^ian of (lie vicinity who remem bers all about "the sensation of the year 1826," the old man being one of the paticipants in the duel that caused the sensation. To settle a spat that came cf hot blood, General Sam Houston, then a member of Congreus from Tennessee, and General White? of Nashville, agreed that ou "Sep tember 23, 182(3," they would "Gght a duel on the Tennessee Jine; time, sunrise ; distance, fifteen feet; we'ap'i ons, holster pistols." Houston got' out of bed ut 3.40 a. on the 23d, and, sitting in' his night clothes, moulded two bullets. As the first fell from the mould a dog named General ^season raised a triumphant howl under the window. When the second ' bullet dropped a game cock crowed iong anil loud from a neigh boring tree. Houston, who was su perstitious, cut the figure of a dog on One bullet' and that of a cock on the other. The pnucipals stood at their jVosla on the second and to the iufch'. White's lead cut a whis tje through the sharp air, but Hous ton stood unhurt. At the same in stant the bullet with the dog mark, passed clean through White's fwwly, so that a si.L handkerchief was drawn b( from one side to the other. After the duel Houston selected as his coul of-arms the famous "chicken cock and dog." i An Ap-orded Reader. In a Dubuquc (Iowa) church, be fore the opening of the Sunday morn ing services, a man in a front pew pulled a paper from his pocket and began to read. He became so wholly absorbed that he did not observe the preacher when he rose to read the biblical lesson, nor did lie luaar the loud and eloquent prayer that was afterwards offered. From page to page of the paper the reader glanced, rustling 'the crisp sheet in his" hands until every'eye in the church was at tracted toward him. The preacher was embarrassed and'the congrcga (toned run i led and scrawled', accord ing as they thought the matter funny or sad. Finally the choir struck up the hymn,' 'Give ear, ye sinner,\o (he ca)l,' and the ubsorbed reader drop ped his paper and gave heed. Trust a Hoy, "During the session of Uks lute Epis copal Convention in Boston, the Bish op qf Louisiuua in crossing the.com mon, met a boy whose face he'fancied, and, callirigthim, asked if be had any thing to do just then, to which be said r "No." "Are you a good bey?" Tup" little fellow scratched his head and replied : "I am not a very good boy. I cuss sometimes*;" That can did answer inspired the Bishop with confidence, and then said, after giv ing his name and address: in ' "I want you to go to a .certain place and get a b?ndle for me, and bring it to my hotel. Xbere wijl be a .charge of here' is,the ^nicsr.ey^to pay for it, Jipd botf a (foliar which you ,may keep for doing tue eirand." On his return the Bishop's frier? ds laughed at him for his credulity, tell ing him that he would never see the' boy or the bundle or the .money again, but in half Vfl. hour the yqung chap returned bringing the buiuMc, and a receipted bill for 88.50, the Bishop having made a slight mistake as to the amount due. "How did you man age to pay the extra half dollai ?" be inquired. "1 look the money you gave me for the job. 1 knew that you would make it all right." And ."all right" ! it was made, and I have no doubt the confidence that was reposed in that boy, because of bi?s truthfulness, will do him good as long as he lives. Sad Prenicamenl. Cincinnati, Jun. 22.?There iscon stei natipu to-night among the young men sbotit town. The Vino street opera house, a highly immoral but very enterprising variety show, has } been running for a year or more in defiance of law and public opinion. Ordinances have been passed aimed directly at it, anil the Mayor has with held from it the necessary license. The ; managers, however, by inj unctions and other sharp le^al tricks, have de-( layed enforcement to the ordinances and ccntinue their neghtly pan-nans 'and living staluep. Foreseeing trou ble on the part of the authorities, I Manager Snelhacker has taken the precaution to secure the names of every prominent, citizen of society young man who has visited bis place. lie has over six hundred of these and it being driven to the wall sets up the claim that his theatre is moral in every respect. -?bia he proposes to prove in count by the tcslimon} of these six hundred prominent cili . ? . ? 1 i zens. Fiftv of .them were served sub . t ??? i o pumas Co nighji to appear us witnes ses to-morrow. The qpa^equencc is a sudden exodus of society young men and leading citizens from the city. The morning trains will carry out so many on pressing private bus iness that it w'ae proposed to-night that a special car be chartered and an excursion party formed.?St. Louis Rep?oUccin.'L*' Josh Billings yu Marriage. By awl accancs Joe, get married, if you have a fair show. Don't stand shivering on the bank, but pitch rite in and slick your bead under and the shiver is over. Th?r ain't any more trick in getting married than tharc is in eating peanuts. Many a man has stood shivering ou the shore until the river run out. Don't expect to marry an angel; they have been all picked up long ago. Ucmembcr, Joe, you ain't a saint yourself. Do not marry for bcuty exclusively ; beuty is like ice, awful slippery, and thaws dredful easy. Don't marry for luv, neilher; luv is like a cooking stove, good for nothing when the fuel gives out. But let the mixture bo some beuty becom ingly dressed, wilh about 82?O in her pocket, a good speller, handy and neat in her house, plenty of good sense, toff constitution and by-laws, small feet, a light step ; add to this sound teeth and a warm heart. The mixture will keep in any climate and will not evaporate. If the cork hap pens to be left out'thc strength ain't gone Joe- Donlt marry for pedigree unless it is backed 'by iiank'notcs' A family wilh nothing but pedigree generally lacke sense"! Political Divorce. Mrs. Latham, of Virginia, sued for a divorce on the ground that her hus M't> i j band had joined the Republican par ty, and she get it. Would the same privilege be extended to a Republi can wile if her husband was to go over to the Democracy? It is said lo be a bad rule fjia? won't work both ways. - - . wggp= ^^ngt^urg County; Tho editor of viie Southern Herald and State Builder, who visited our section sometime ago, writes as fol lows concerning our country : ' We have token pains to examine Orangcburg, which i* a splendid countty. Tue Columbia branch of tho South Carolina .v/^lroad .passes many miles through Ibis One county. The two towns which we have visited are Orangcburg and Branchville, both well located railroad towps. Over twelve months ago we Jpftde a hur ried visit to Ornngeburg, ami ^afler talking with the people otyojjt our scheme of immigration, and .asking their co operation, wo -%we|}t .away somewhat discouraged. Amqr.g ,^hc few subscribers we then got $j}P,Qnty< one native born Carolininji. The pihcrs were Germans who ,|.ad j?al-* ?tief! there. JLn writing about that t 'l I. X. I ? "ff Visit soon niter we said : hat do native jpoulh (Carolinians mean that they do not encourage Uui good work? Do ^jiey mean to dry up and become .ffto^ik. of the fornftcr glorious old South Carolina?" This or some thing else acted like .leven in Or-1 angeburg: for when we returned there .the oil jtyr day nearly every live , man in the place subsqr\hed to our paper. There is life in that old town. They s^peuk of building cot ton factories ; putting ^cu^rnboats on their^mc Jldi&to river; and doing many other things of progress. There resides a Northern gentleman, Mr. U. Kiggs, from Copr^eeiiqut, in that town who, all-scy. is w.orth more than his weight in gold. It was he that raised the bale of jute which look premiums at the fairs. Mr. Riggs has lived in Orangcburg many years, and says i,l;| is a ery healthful and fine climate. Branchvillc, the others town we visited, is eighteen mihs further south in Orangeburg county. It is at the junction of the Columbia and Augusta branches of the South Caro lina Kailroad. This place was once regarded as an unitea 11hfut^c''.r^Aon ; but s'Aqw ithat^pTdCe mTs been more thoroughly drained, it is as about as healthy us Aiken. It is a splendid; uite for a large town. W.e invited a few of the business gentlemen to hearnu lecture on the State building theme one ;^'tci noon ; and they invi ted us to repeat the lecture before a larger auditory of their citizens at uight, which wodid. Dr. O. II. Ott, the chairman of the meeting, and Mr. Edward Carwl^ Ute secretary ; Dr. Gressett, Mr. I airy, Mr. Uujbes, Mr. Berry, Mr. Bruce and others mani fested much interest in the work, and arc ready to arise and go to building, and getting others to come and help, till they torn their town into a city. Mr, Dukes is about ready to com mence n Clement cotton factory in to w?. ^ Border Romance. Mcx Lyman, a prairie sccut, who lived at the White River agency a year and a half and knew the Meckcro inti mately, tells Ibis story to a reporter of the Dubuqao Times; Ouray was in love with the eldest daughter of Agent Meeker, and i'think had not Ibis been the case evary one of the Meeker family would' have been butchered. lie often told me that he loved! the white girl, and it made him feel badly to think that he could nev er marr^ bor. 1 have seen Ouray fol low her round and wt.^eh over lij?r as if she was a child, flc would<io any thing to please her. Ouray's sister knew, that her brother lovecj the Meeker family, and so took good care that no harm should come to them. I was there when the women were brought back, and Ouray was so 'nap py thul he rushed up to the Meeker girl and shoo!: her hand for au hour. He tried hard to stop her from ween ing, but said, "Ouray you knew that this trouble was coming all the time, and 1 can never forgive you." A strange murder and suicide oc curred a few weeks ago at Kogsuu, in " .?? < i A' * Zurich A v.\zn. whose wile had left , \ un> ? oi him on account of bis violent conduct, it ? . hi* ." had followed her to her father's house, flred rjoh^ r.n'd iefj, r.t the inmates, killing uie fuiLer, discharged the re maining barrels of his revolver at the people who tried to arrest him, then defended himself with a piic\:fork, nnd at the last moment the noliec had succeeded in depriving him of Ibis weapon, which was not done before he had severely wounded several of his assailants, ho drew a knife, cut, his throat from car to car and fell dead on the spot. $?/Ju?t Revived Him. "They want you to come around the corner to No. ,1.1, to shave a man that hasjjqn.c jJejajV' whimpered a litl|p bpy^as^b.c opened the door of the barber's slipup, and aim wed, the half of a Very sputty^^a?p,_wjiu one sin lul eye in it. The barber lathered the deceased, and dreaming?dream ing that he had been awarded the, professorship of rhe tphj^ia^qkqir jn some celebrated college, .o.pd ,forget ting that the man was dead and not in a mood just then tp talk, remark ed ; Remarkable winter weather this. Docs the razor hurt you, sp ?" and continued shaving, when sudden ! ly the dead man raised himself up in 'bed and exclaimed; Ha, ha, ha? j that voice?the only thing that"couId 'arouse me from this stupor that re sembles death, because it was that voice threw me in the trance?ha, ha, ha. Oh, how I have waited to hear that voice again.! J/or three days I have been on thia bed.; I could hear pcople^ornc.nnd gp, and the day: go j down under the hills and the nights come hurrying up with their tioops of stars, and every instant I listened fojTjthc pnly^piqp that could s^.ve me from the grnsp of this trance monster.! Four day ago?it seems ages?I was shaved in your shop. I ventured to remark that it was a,tine ,\\\vi\pi ng, ut which you commenced to talk and continued talking. I staggered home in a dazc,and fell asleep. Now. bar ker, go on .dli^ving, but don't speuk undpsayou want to throw me back1 Mito the old trance nnd los2 me forev er. The barber tied a towel around his mouth, sjhavod his customer, and tiptoed Jiack .to his shop, contrite in spirit and a reformed man. A man falls from a scaffold. The reporter hastens to the spot and L\\\ah*l ?es his way A > ihe man's side. ^ "My life voyage is xeuitly ended," whispered *thc>dyJ,ug jp.an, ^as he held the reporter's hand.. / k^y"Jioiul, like y all nnYinistjed **oral*t, is h|cmgHswcpl j from its earthly mooting, and carried out iidp the great pathless ocean of j eternity. Oh, how unprepared i am for this journey! How my spirit shrinks from embarking upon that silent, solemn sea! I have a wife and beautiful child who^ill mourn my absence ; and now that I see no future, nothing but the dark impenc trable. shadow -of death, which will soon hide me from earthly eyes^ the world looks more beautiful, and I long?oh,iiow 1 Ion?; to slay. Good hye, good?farewell. Pre?perpare for this-.'* His head dropped. "Courage, courage," whispered the reporter, while lears as big as hickory nuts chased each olfcer down his nose: "hut business is business. Courage," he fchiapered , "how?bo^ do you spell your name ?" Didn't Like f ashionable Customs. The Raleigh, (N. C.) Obseru>r re lates that in the vicinity of Apex, a few days ago, there was a grand wed ding among the colored folks. Afle. the ceremony had been concluded \n handsome style, the grpom, who re sided iu another part of the country, put his bride in a wagon, and prepar ed to take her to his borne. At this stage of the proceedings a darkey, who had traveled, and said he kjjew a thing or two about the customs of elegant wpjtc folks, dialed that it was always the style to throw fdioes after the bride as she was driving ofT. The idea took immensely. As the happy couplo moved away from the door the darkeys jerked oil' thejr shoes and hurled lueiu at the vehicle. One dm key, who was the possessor of a No. 15 foot, threw a shoe with too unerring aim. 1 he great missile flew ? IK. ... . -U s through the air, aud, striking the I'm u2b in i>. in * 3? Ti? ' ju'ido 8 cjatll, ^pocked her senseless to the bottom of the wagon. The groom jumped put and ga've the thrower of the shi^e a thrashing, and cursing civil ized customrj witji all his heart. A llpajpn lady, whose hu&b^am} was frequently nfllictcd v/j^ nightmare, was one night awoken by a noise, and to her horror sawtljor husband silling up in bcij sying ^n a whisper : "Now 1 have him, he can't ^escape!" an.cj pointing his pistol at an imaginary burglar. Iiis finger was on tho \f\Q and he was aiming directly at the ger bend of the baby in its crqdjja. Quick as lightning, his wifo said ,iu a low tone; uTco low j njm higher!" lie raised the pistol, sho onatehpd it from his hand and, the danger was over. .A Cbild.'s iRequest Gpfded. A little wtyf away dpwn in Maine wrote a letter and placed it in a glove which she had been knitting for a manufacturing linn. It was found by one of the salesmen of a Ch'cago fan cy goods house, and w.aa read aloud tn his associates. It ran : "I am a little girl only;eight years old. My name is ^Corn^Jorwopd. I live in Bucks pqrt, JVle. IJjjnjt these gloves fur cigh^ccn^a pair, jl wish llje gentle man who/biiys thejn ^'/pujj! stind ine a wax ijpll^ur^iQhrjp^m^S'presept as 4I want qnp very badi" Tho clerks' jpipiedintely u4nrcju\scd splendid wa^c (joM andfforwj}rdedj(t to her by the tUnilcd?tatcs express. [The way bill was .filled a.B follow^.: d'Consign ors, Keith Bros. & Co., Q|iicoj>ot<Il}l." Address, "Cora S. Nqrwoyd, jB^iqks port, Me. Collcct=-Qp^Uog. pre paid with love. Heinaiks: Beikappy." Across the face of the bill was writ ten : "The letter pasted on this way bill is a request found in a pair of gloves, and this box contains the de sired wax doll being the gift of the employees of the firm selling the glo\QS. Pleuse let this way bill go ^trough Ojjul lie delivered with the doll.. Those ^oiUandle^tljc way .bill, may indorse on the bauk their Happy Ncwpfear. B. Schermerhorn, Agent." When the young lady received her doll the way bill bore testimony to the good w^liestif We i^RMCV c.le,lK8 all along t,\ie \\\\Q. . To a Young Lady. You think you love the young man who is coining this Simdayjnig^t to vi?1t you. SupposeX^3,(ldecIau.Cjp?liiiu-i self," and ask you to become his wife. Are you prepared to say to him," I love you and will IriiBt you through life with my hnpp'rness and the lives and weal of our children?" ' )?^</}^y ^'Vv handsome, and all the .d^rts j^f Cnui.d are twinkling and^flparkling in'tos^ye-; ;b,ut wHl thofee eyes always find expression from too joye^of a true ?o,nl? To Tfight lie"'s.'iys many pieasant things and draws many pretty picture- for the ^future, poej be go to-morrow to a work yvh'tch gives promise of a ful li^men,t ,0,1'your desire in life ? l)o hie ambitions and achievementsso^s fy you? l)ocs his every -day lifeline wifck the ,nol)le en,<,\cnyprs of a &\u.&t wortby man? ff yon ijbj^ ??d .(J.esj? a companion ;n your fthlnking?-one wlio can t^rdqc.k ^tbe .d,ept^? pf your mind, to wbftt strata pf humanity docs he belong ?n the scale of excvelleppe and morality ? Is he doing all he can to build future usefulness and happi ness in which you can share and feel blessed? These are questions which the experience of after years njake, many wom,2p weep Jn thjj bitterness of soul that they were p,ojL ^bought of before they answered "Vcg." A Peddler's Love. For a couple of years a yosng 4ady belonging to a weh) Known family in this city has been annoyed b,y th,e re ceipt of ntq^crpus letters, whose au thor expressed unbounded admiration for her. These letters were written from varions points, and some of them processed to be in answer to missives from the ypung lady herself. Orje was recejyed the other day dated "Memphis,!! and the young lady's brqtficrs, whp fyad \\cen quietly trac ing t})e anther fipally found their man tS JltP RPF?Rn HHe ![acou Bernsten, whp happened {,0 ^e {j|)e.f)fjjpg the hoi-, idays in tho city. If. was on investi-' gallon, shown that tk," jjoor fellow was jpoi-e to be pitied than bjnrnpd. He confessed that he had seep }jp,p fjn the streets, and became inf?tua}.ed, that he had written the letters ip obe dience to i resistless impulse. He promised that if released he would leave ^jcmpkds at once and gi^'e no further annoyance. T||js ssdjefied, the family, nlMl i?vp-)0i'n p.ftddler de portpd.?Memj?/iis Aydynsjie. A number of cojorcd poeplo who had gone frqm tjns state to Kansas, return Jest .night on the south bound passenger train over the Central rpad. They numbered thirty-three, men, women and cb^dren, and bad gono from \V.aGhinglon county. They stopped at Farsous, and were thoroughly disgusted wilih ^.po^ntry and the promises /that had, been held out to them, and were gln,i\ \o( get back. Sandy Osborn, who appc^re^ ; to l>c the linder, said that those of bis J race who could, were leaving ever day, and there was groat Buttering ' among those who remained.?Dal as ttfepae) JleraXd; A ihawyer's Peroration in Behalf of a Female Client. A lawyer in Cleveland, Ohio, wan defending a ver^' handsome young woman accuser of stealing frojn .a largo unoccupied dwelling iu the night time, nnd thus he apokc jp con clusion : "Gentlemen of the j.n^y.,I am done. When I guze with cnrr.p I lured eye on the matchless beauty of I this peerless maiden, on whose re splendent, charms suspicion never dared to breathe?when I behold her ,radiant in Ibis glorious bloom of lus cious loveliness, which angelic sweet ,pess .rqight envy, but could not eclipse^ b^fpre which the star on the brpjv qffttie .nightgrows pale, and the t}iamqp|ls.pf il^i ttcil are dim, and the/i iqHc.Qt upon the utter madness and lolly of supposing that so much beau lyjaj.d .gentleness could expose itself to the'terrors of an empty building, in the (cq|f), damp dead of night, j whqp iunocqnqc.hke her's is hiding itself among t-he tpilloayj of repose.-^ gentlemen of the jury, my feelings arc too overpowering for expression, and I throw bei into your arms for protection against this foul charge,, which the outrageous mulaqe of a dis oppointed scoundrel has .invited to blast the fair name of this lovely maiden, whose smile shall be the re ward of the verdict which I know you will j?ive! ^enllerqqp, you may h.a.ug lae ocean oq a gra^e-^tpe to dry, lasso an avalanche; did a nnp ,kup ct,p the mouth of a volcano.; skjm the clquds .from the sky wilh a tea, spoou ;Lthrow salt.on tjbe tail of our uuhle Au\er\can eag\e, whose sleep less ,cy,e.,evY,er watches over the wel fare of lhe,/iation ; paste "For Iienl^" upon the moon and stars?but neve/ for a single moment delude 3our selves with^tbe idea lhat this charm ing j?irl is.jjuilty of the charge pry ferred against nejv The jury ^qquiitei her without leaving Iheii se;.L -. ^ ;A-County (%* in ToWn. "* She is charmingly fresh, wholesome ;iai,c body, is this miss from the country ; a (lower of the Held con trasting agreeably wjth Urn flowers of. Xhc garden among which she is found If or coloring is .d.-lieious. The .coun try aftr and. the country $ua, not lo ffifpt her e$ecl .0/ piK?ltiness lo the \vholcsome(Country life, have given her a peach-bloomy face that is all in harmony with her blue eyes and corn, ailk hair. It is ftpjt her fault that the good Mother Nature, under whose especial care she has Luyn reared, has dealt less kindly with, her feet aud hands ; that Jtb^csje, toy fiberal use, b, ay.e gained in .extent at the cost of ,Ui,e finish?the feet losing Ute arching ? instep as they have grown unruly in breadth nry} length, the hands, l&e* wi$e expanding with a stumpy ab ruptness in perfectly deveioyed nails. * ? ? Certain it is. That the strangeness of (surroundings con strains her to adopt a habit of troub lous reticence that is not a little piti ful to contemplate ; a habit that ren ders any attempt at converse with her a matter of rare difficulty, not to be overcome save by one possessing an usual amount of tact and much kindliness of heart.? Philadelphia Times. The Farmer as a Citizen. Judge George, of Starkville, Miss, spqajiing of tho farmer q? a citzeen, says ; I think the infhienpp p,f ngffr :;jjl?.ii-j;ts ought to be increased in public atfairs. I would not like to see, legislature composed txcluisvely qf far/pere and mechanics, nor would it he for the public good thut there, should be no representatives of thesq interests in lhat body. There should, be it every legislature men skilled i;} the laws of the state ; there ought also to be thero an influential body of men connected with the leading industries of thc?latc, familiar with, the wants nnd wishes of Ihe gieat mass of the people. \( \\$y ?\\wUl draft no laws, if they s^ftp^d, iiiaogor ate no new and '?p/rru.d policies, still there would be that in the very at mosphere in which such a body of men move which will influence bcnelicially the ac^^p, </f the legislature." \y hen you see a man with a gun pn his shoulder nnd three dogs at hi.: keels making across tho country, you needn't feel bnd for the rabbits. He'll miss a cow or two, Hud a few frozen apples, (all into a creek, anil return home, believing he has had a thundering good big time.