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v^HERIPAN, & SIMSI;F:,oprictor.s. SUPSOIUPTIQN. ,One Year.Sl-?O Six Months........1.00 .Ministers of the Gospel.1-00 AlJVKUTISKMENTS. ,l< irst Insterti'on.:....?1 .uo (Eaotl Subsequent Insertion.?? Liberal cpntructs inaclo for 3 month nnd over. JOI3 OiF-FICE 18 rilKPABJSO TO DO. ALL.KINDS OF, fj o 1 > ~P i?i ii ?i rrg A Significant Incident. Jn one of tho battles of tbe late Oivar, young Doctor D-, tbcn a vvolunteer captain, in the Union army, led his men ,up. to a hand-to-hand tight .with a Confederate regiment. -"I never," said the captain, "had hilled a man before. It was a mass , of men I fought?an idea, the Jwholc vSouthr?not the individal. . lk:VVkcn I found myself, therefore, .slashing away at a stout, blue-eyed I fellow, who might be some woman's husband, and some child's father, I confess my courage gave way. I actually shut my eyes as I hacked desperately at him with my sword. His arm fell helplessly, -and be drop ped from his horse. "An hour later, I saw him in the surgeon's tent. The arm bad been amputated and lay upon tho lloor. As the man was carried away I saw on one of the fingers a ring carved out of cannel coal. It looked to me like a child's woik, and I drew it ofr and followed tho wounded soldier, determined to restore it. But in the confusion of the battle-field I lost sight of hini." The sequel to this story is as follows: In the summer of 187?, when the yellow fever was rnging in the South, Dr. D.., ,'was one of the Northern physicians who answered the call for aid. He went to Memphis and labored for weeks. Among the patients brought to the hospital was a Colonel C-, a man with but .one arm, Something familiar ,in the man's honest face troubled our doctor. lie gave his constant care to him, both nursed and prescribed for him, and finally saw him recover. The two men became warmly attached. One evening when tho Colonel was able to leave his bed, they took sup per together. Dr. D- suddenly drew from his pocket a black ring and laid it on the table. "Why, this is mine!" exclaimed the Colonel. "My boy Dick cut that for me thirteen years ago." "Tbcn it was I who cut off your arm," said D-. The men arose and faced each other silently a moment, and then their hands met in a beurty clasp. 'J he strife was over, and the true men were true brothers again. The Negro Vote. The Abbeville Medium says : John [ R. Tolbert, one of the old Radical leaders in this county, was in town last week. He thinks that without a division in the Democracy it is use less for tue Republicans, as Republi cans, to make a fight in this county or State. He says that tbe registration scheme will amount to nothing, and even if an educational qualification is tacked on to the suffrage bill, it will not affect tho negro vote ; for if the act should pass, there is not a colored man in the State who would not learn to write his name in time to register; that they would practice on the plow handles with pokebcrries, or write in the sand with a stick before they would give up their citizenship, in obedience to any legislative enact ment. He thinks tbe Democratic party is going to tbe "demnition bow wows," and is very happy in contem plating its dying struggles. Having given up the national idea, be de clares that its dissolution is only a question of lime. Such talk from a Republican who has never renounced his allegiance to his party is full of suggestions to those of our own rank who affect a contempt for anything like political opposition. A Bachelor's View of It. Man that is married to a woman is of many days apd full of trouble. In , tbe morning bo drawcth his salary, and in the evening behold it is nil gone. It is ns a tule that is told, it vanisheth and no one knoweth whith er it gocth. He riseth up clothed in the chilly garments of the night, and scekcth the somnolent paregoric wherewith to soothe the colicy bow- , els of his infant posterity. He be- , cometh as the horso or tho ox, and draweth the chariot of his offspring. Ho spendeth tho shekels in the pur chase of fine linen to cover the bosom of his family, yet bimeolf is seen in tho gates of the city with but ono suspender. Yea, he is altogether wretched. Jamca G?rden Bennett has a steam launch at Newport, which he is forbid den to use because it contains a boiler of English manufacture. The Two Elephants. Tho Republican null Democratic purtics each secuis to liavo an ele phant on its ha nils, anil what to do with them j3 a question which i3 tax ing the brain of at least the .Presiden tial aspjrants in both parties, all qf whom would .nndoutyly ,feol more supremely happy if these twp dear charmers were away. Grant looms up in the pathway of Blane, Cookling and Sherman, and like Boncko.s? ghost will not "down," however much they and their friends may proclaim against a third term. The party itself ap pears to be divided as lo what they idiall do in the matter. Evidently they are afraid to take him up and they arc afraid to throw him aside. If he would withdraw absolutely and unconditionally we believe it would be a great relief lo a large majority of the Republican party. There would,bc a.better chance of uniting the party on some one of the other candidates. And Mr. Tilden stands in precisely the same relation to the Democratic party. If be was out of the way the Democrats would know better what to do. They don't want him and yet they arc afraid of him. He wields a power in the party that makes it dan gerous to oppose him, and there is a weakness about him that makes it equally dangerous to accept him. As for for ourselves, while we could support him heartily if nominated by the convention, we candidly wish he was oul of the way beyond a possibil ity of the nomination. But he is not and we therefore would not be sur prised to sco him our next standard be a rer.?Joh n son Mon itor. Tho Third-Term Syndicate. A Washington dispatch to the New York Heraldsaya : "The determina tion of the Illinois Republican com mittee to .put off the meeting of the State Convention until the 1 Dili of May is felt to be a very damaging blow lo the third-term movement. The plan of the thi.id-ler.ui syndicate, formed while the ex-President was in Philadelphia and promulgated early in January, was that Pennsylvania, New York, Indiana and Illinois should hold their conventions very early, and select solid third-term del gations for the national convention, with a view lo influencing other Slates. The third-term movement has, tlicicfore, entirely broken down in two of the Stales, which, according to the original programme, were to be captured early?namely, Indiana and Illinois, (the former having elect ed a strong Blalnc delegation,) and it lias carried two conventions by pat ronage and machine manipulation by majorities of 22 on a vote of 216 in one case and 37 on a vote of 397 in the other, these narrow successes causing in each case immediate and open discontent and division in the party. That is the net result of the third-term campaign." Malicious Shooting. Last Saturday, on Mr. E. H. Abell's place, Mr. Jesse Simpson, a young white man, was assaulted and painfully wounded by a shot from a pistol in the hands of one Jake Wil liams, colored. The ball entered on top of the young mau's nose, ranging downward, lodged in the throat, whence it was ejected a few days af terward. Tho deed was committed about noon und occurred in the cook room, where dinner was being prepar ed. It appears that the young man was silting on the 6teps, when Wil liams drew his pistol, anil, feigning to oil il, lircd the shot. The victim had previously asked him what he gave for his pistol, and was replied to that it was none of his business. It is sup posed that the commission of the deed was actuated by Simpson's hav ing told Mr. Abell that Williams had stolen something from the premises. A constable, immediately upon infor mation of the commission of the deed, went to the scene, but Williams had lied, aud up to this lime has not been apprehended.?Chester Bulletin. A would be joker in a mixed com pany remarked : "I think Japan is the best place in the world ; I under stand that there arc neither Jews nor pigs there.*' A diminutive specimen, with an unmistakable Hebrew cast of countenance, replied: "Well, mine friend, I tell you vat it is. Let's you and me go there and exhibit our selves. We could ninko our for tunes." ThoWrong Men in thorRighl Place. 'Once upon a, time,' as probably is the case at Ibo present period of writ ing, there were two felloes of the highest and lowest grade at Portland Prison. Tho former was the fraudu lent banker, Sir John Dean Paul, con victed of embezzling thousands ; the other a pettifogging thief, convicted of stealing property to the amount of a few sbillings. The ex-banker was treated with every consideration by the gaol authorities. Ho was employ ed in the laundry, and the utmost ex tent of bard labor exacted from him was turning a mangle. He was well .fed aud .fattened ; And, considering the nature of the place in which he found himself, Sir John Dean Paul, it may be said, lived in clover; but not so, however, as regarded his more humble partner in iniquity. He was well worked, sparingly fed, and expe rienced none of tbosc little indul gences which so materially alleviated the baronet's sufferings whilst, in du rance vile. Being of a poetical turn, the minor delinquent gave expression to bis feelings on tbis subject in the following pungent verse, inscribed on the walls of tho-cnginc-room :? "If I'd oeen a partner In a bank, 1 shouldn't be turning tbis "ere.crank.v Our poetical thief was evidently a shrewd observer of men and manners, and probably knew, to bis cost, the truth of the old proverb, which tells us one man may steal a horse with impunity, whilst another will be hang ed for looking over tbe hedge at it. Sometimes the law, bags great offen ! ders, as in the cuse of Sir John Dean Paul; but, gcnncrally speaking, if tbe public mind can be pacified by the sacrifice of the minnows, tbe big fish contrive to escape out of the net. Mrs. Richardson and her Husband. The Rev. Ilcniy Richardson, of Sea Cliff, L. J., who was arrested on Saturday onboard of the steamer Rio Gramie on a charge that be had abandoned hia w.ife, was yesterday arraigned at Glen Cove before Justice Frost. Lizzie Lowther, the sister of Mrs. Richardson, who accompanied Richardson, was in court. Mrs. Rich ardson proposed to make a charge of ! grand larceny against her, but on her I promising to leave the country she decided not to do so, and will pay her sister's fare to Liverpool in a steamer which will sail to-morrow. On Sunday Mrs. Richardson had sev eral interviews with her husband, but be refused all overtures for a recon ciliation. In court yesterday Mrs. Richardson asked permission to with draw the charge, saving that she did not desire to compel her husband to j live with her if be did not wish to. Justice Frost refused to grant her re quest unless it was concurred in by Overseer of tbe Poor.?JVeto York World, Olli instant. Judge Field. Judge Field, of the United States Supreme Court, is beginning to loom upas a probable Democratic nominee for the Presidency, and his friends claim for him peculiar strength, be fore the people. He is unobjectiona ble to the South, was a strong Union man aud War Democrat during the recent unpleasantness, can certainly carry the Pacific slope in an election, and perhaps stronger in the Slate of New York than any other man the Democrats can nominate, from the fact that he is very friendly with both Tilden and Kelly, and would be cheerfully supported by both. He has made an upright, fearless and able Judge, commanding the confidence and respect of all parties. His prU j vale life is pure and honorable, so that the opposition would, taking ev rything into consideration, find him a strong und dangerous competitor. Youltp There is nothing like youth. The sunshine streams upon the flowers. The blood rushes wildly through the veins. Tho air is full of music, and echoes of happy laughter arc borne on every breeze. All the world seems wrapped in golden mist, and hope, a white-winged angel, shines in the rosy heaven of the future. For age, the rustle of the dead leaves! For sor row, tho wail of the autumn wind, the sad November twilight, nnd the lone some splashing of the rain ! What have age and sorrow to do with life? Let them thrust away their doleful gloom?while for youth and beauty, nnd love nnd mirth, the silver bells ring, tho wine sparkles, and the earth is strewn with roses. "They Say." "They suy" is such n very Indefin ite and irresponsible.authority that it is not only unsafe but really peril ous to quote information emanating from so questionable a surec. It is well indeed that, iu mingling with the world, we meet with those possessing a high sense of honor and justice to a degree that at once repulses the at tempts, the mouthiuga of a deceitful unrefined strata of society that would tear down the firmest temple of char acter?crush the brightest hopes and fairest prospects?all lo gratify a de basing taste for inventing and form ing into proportions unfounded and unsupported rumors and reports dc rogaloay to the character and stand ing of those whose prominent, envia ble position in society apparently ren dered them a target for the class al luded lo ; a class,, apparently, igno rant enough to believe that any appe tite thus gratified, any lemporay ad vantage thus guinea4"*, gives them a higher status. Poor creatures? leeches on socio'y?for they are noth ing more. They are Ihe ,4worm upon Ihc bud." Let us pity them, fur they certainly are objects of pity. We find them in many instances with tal ents for useful occupations, in some cases discharging the duties of positi ons of trust, but beyond a business or I official standing they are unsafe asso ciates?with their promises lo gossip and do mischcif they mingle with so ciety only to sunder the closest friend ships ; to sadden happy hearts and to marl: their course by sowing seed of distrust wherever they go. Put sooner or later ihc reaction comes as a tidal wave, as if it were j the work of a rule of "divine dispen sation," and tjere we find them in j their pitiable but true sphere?t-uu J happy mortals?only recognized through courtesy but, never confided in. Shunned?; without near friends of cnobling influence?truly they are to be pilied as wcll'as avoided. < Night. What ia more lovely than night, more picturesque and romautic, when the starlit canopy of heaven is sprink led with the laughing sparkling jew els, as they cluster around their su periors in the immensity of infinite space? Or the soft dalliance of the moon which smiles with such placid UC66 on the grand beautiful works of nature. It's beams shooting here and there over Ihe mountains summit or in the quiet vale below, shining with so much lustre and brilliancy on every object. On the [pacific bosom of some lovely stream, or on the snow covered peaks, as she ascends from her bed over the crest of silvery clouds bordered with I hone of a gold en hue, giving light to guide the err ing footsteps of degraded man, on this terrestrial ball, and fills every heart with celestial blisd as her ethe real rays descend with such heavenly influence upon us. O ! what is more grand than infinite night, seated upon her diamond throue, clothed iu her robes of ambrosial splendor and mag nificence, guarded by the twinkling stars while they their vigils keep. In the death of duy, comes the birth of night, and as she grows from a mere shadow, deeper and deeper, dispell ing the receding glimmers of day, until her majestic veil is fu'ly drawn, giving rest to the weary travellers of lime to eternity. Let It Bo Known. That tho Democrats intend to win. That they intend to do it fairly ; that they will neither cheat nor be cheat ed ; that they are all patriotic and true; that they cherish the Union of our fathers ; tint they will preserve it intnotjthat they will not brook in sults ; they will turn out to a man at the election ; they wi'l vote for none but the true blue ; '.hey will not bo rode over at tho polls; they will not be bullied nor browbeaten ; they will bring out honest candidates, and will stand by them until elected; they will put none on guard but the faith ful, nnd will hold up their hands and fight; they will rid the party uf oillee grabbers, and will take honest men from the people. Let this be known as the determination of the Democrat- ' ic party in 1880, and victory will perch on our banner. T|ik editor of the Richmond State] says a great "deal of fuss is being made over the expense of burying six dead Congressmen, nnd, ns for his part, he thinks the country would be glad to bury about two-thirds of those remaining at the same price each. Judge Lochrane's Romance. "Do yon want n romance from real life?" said.Judge .Locliranc the oilier day. "All right! here is one. Many years ago there was a young fellow named Bigelow sent by his father to Yale ^College. The .father was very rieh and the youngster lived in grand style at the university. Suddenly the old gentleman broke and .had to with draw his son from college. The boy, however, felt the necessity ofnn.edu cation, and determined lo have one anyhow. lie. therefore, went to work and learned a .trade as a machinist. While be was at his work-his old as sociates cut him and refused to have anylhing to do with him. Tbe young ladies with whom he bad been n great favorite failed to recognize him when they met him. One day while going from his work he met a wealthy young lad)' who had been bis friend, lie bad his tin dinner-bucket over bis arm, nnd suppose she would cut him as all the rest bad done. She smiled pleasantly, addressed him as "Tom," and insisted that he should call aud see her as he had always done. She said : "There is no change in you as far as I am concerned." The years rolled on. The young work-boy became immensely wealthy, and is now the mayor of New Haven, with an income of ?100,000 a year, and owner of a factory in which 1,500 men and women are employed. The young girl grew to womanhood and married. 'Her husb..nd borrowed a large sum of money from Mr. liige low, and died before he had paid it, leaving .his family with but little property. Mr. Bigelow sent her, with his condolence, a receipted note for her husband's indebtedness ; and now the son of*Mr. liigelow, Urn millionaire, is going to irarry the (laughter of the one woman who was faithful and true to the young work boy at college.?Atlanta Constitution. Combat lor a Brjde. A curious affair occurred recently on a farm near Little Kock, Ark. Abe Gotland and Tom Ross, young colored men, were both in love with the same dusky maiden, and she, with more than her rightful share of coquetry, made each believe that he was the favored one. Tbe wedding day was appointed and tbe rivals ar rived at the house simultaneously. Each was fitted out gorgeously for the occasion, and it soon became appar ent to each that bis rival expected to become the" husband. They turned upon each other with tiger like fury, but the old man of the family inter fered and said if there was to be a light it must be a fair, one, with their lists. Tbe combatants repaired to the yard and, on the word being given, a set-to was commenced. They Were matched as lo size and weight. Finally Abe threw Tom, and when be spiung up ng?in he was felled lo iho ground by a mighty blow, which decided the light. The girl tended her prostrate knight, ami while bathing bis face from a basin of water, announced that she would marry the whipped man, and not the conqueror. 'Then Abe become furious, and swore that he bad been whipped ; but as he could not prove it, Tom was wedded to her without further delay. Burn Off Your Lands. Mr.W. C. Richardson, of Dalton, Georgia, writes to the Citizen that the warm wentber of this winter has hail the ClfeCt of producing and unusual number of bugs and insects, and that much damage fiom their ravages is threatened to planters and gardeners, lie, therefore, advises everybody, 03 soon as possible, lo burn olf,all lands where there may bo sufficient accumu lations of trash to enable ihcm to do so, and the bugs and insects which may escape tbe fire will likely die of exposure to the cold and wet which may be expected in the month of March. Don't judge a man by the clothes be wears. God made one and the tailor tbe other. Don't judge him by bis family con noctions, for Cain belonged lo a very good family. Don't judge n man by his failure in life, for many a man (alls because he is too honest to succeed. Don't judge a man by bis speech for tho the parrot talks, nnd tongue is hut an instrument of sound. Don't judge a man by the house he lives in, for the lizzard and the I rat often'inhabit the grandest struct ures. Beautiful Extracts. J saw a temple reared by the hand of man, standing with its pinnacle in the distant .plain. The storm beat upon it?the 'God of "Natuve hurled. IJUs thunderbolts against it?and yet it stood as iirm as adamant. Revel ry was in its halls?the gay, the hap py and the beautiful were there. J returned nnd the temple was no more ; its high walls lay shattered in ruins ; moss aud wild grass grew there. The young and gay that had reveled there had passed awny. ?I saw a.child rejoicing in his youth ?the idol of his mother, the pride ol his father. I returned nnd the child ,had become old?trembling with the weight of years, be stood Jiie last of his generation?a stranger amidst the desolation around him. 1 saw an old oak standing in all its pride on the mountain?the birds caroling on its boughs. J returned ; the oak was leallcss and sapless.; the winds were playing at their pastime through its branches. "Who is that destroyer?" said 1 to .my guardian angel. "It is time," said he. When the morning stars sang together in joy over the new made world, he com menced his course, and when he shall have destroyed all that is beautiful ol this earth?plucked the sun from its sphere?veiled the moon in blood ; yet, when he shall have rolled heaven and earth away as a scroll, then shall the angel from the throne of God come forth, and, with one foot on the sea and one on the land, lift up his hands toward heaven eternally and say : Time is, Time was, but Time shall be no more. Anti-Grant Boom. It was learned yesterday that, nr-j rangemcnts are making amoug the opponents of the third term fur the holding of a mass convention in St. Louis at an .caijy-day, to give an em phatic expression of the sentiments on that question. A number of very prominent Republicans arc enlisted in the movement, and it is likely that a large number of signers will .be pro cured to 'lie call, which will -be-circu lated as a preliminary step in the anti Grant boom. in this connection it is not out of place to state that a prominent Re publican, one who has been honored with high ollicial position by the par ty, is very pronounced and hostilu to the third-term principle. Thegentle tucn says that a resolution will be ottered, and pressed, by the opponents of Grant at tho Chictigi Convention; This will cause a break in the conven tion, and if he should he nominated, which ho undoubtedly will be, a holt, in which case should the Democrats nominate a candidate who is sound on the money question und whose Union record is unquestioned, he will receive the vute of the nnti-Giaia Re publicans and bo elected as sure as the sun lises. Grant, he says, has been very successful!, but un the de feat that is sure to await him, the glamour that surrounds his name will fade away as it did with Ncpotuon on his disastrous retroat from Moscow. ?St. Louis Keptiblicun. The Price of Paper. I An order for printing paper cost ing 810,000 eight months ago would now cost 818,000. High tariff and protection papers, as well as tho free trade and revenue tariff advocates, appear to be of one opinion on this question and it becomes Congress lo I act. Tho members will find that tho I people are now demanding newspa pers, and tluy will not lavor Con gressmen who stand in tho way of their not getting ihom at reasonable prices. ?Ilartjord Times. I A Charlotte, N. C, young lady teacher in the Presbyterian Mission Sunday School offered a reward of ten cents to the members of her class for every new pupil they would bring. On the next Sunday one of them pre sented a young African with the re mark that he could not find a white child who was willing to join the hand, but he hoped she, would consid er the negro worth live cents anyway. The "New York <S?n, lately one of the strongest advocates of Tilden on the ground that he was defeated by fraud in 187G, now says that "where cver Mr.Kelly may bo found when election day comes, one hundred thousand Democrats of that Stale will never again vote for Suiuucl J. Tilden." A Most Ungrateful Son. The fuels connected with the incen diary affair at Claysville, Pa., recit ing the particulars of the attempt of a young man lo (ire his father's house, are as follows: Juines Waiicll, the son, and tbe perpetrator ?of the 'unnatural crime, was studying for the ministry, and 4 few evenings before the lire led in prayer meeting. It seems that Iii? desire for money had become a mania with him. Some time preceding the fire he stole several ?of his fat her4? -sheep and sold the pelts, and then in nocently helped his father search fur the sheep. A short time after this the house was robbed of several huy dred dollars, James claiming to losu 82 by the robbery to ?blind tbe folks lo ibe fact that the robbery was in reality committed by him, which cir cumstance has leaked out since tbe incendiary fire, and the fixing of the guilt upon the most unnatural son. It was stated that one eistcr and the father were locked up in the burning bouse, but it is now learned that bis five sisters were locked in their rooms, and that after the house was set on fire by James, one of the sisters es caped and fled across the country to warn ibe neighbors, Who -arrived in time to rescue the rest of the family. It is said young Warrell tried to poi son tbe family some time before the fire. The young man is said to bane escaped into Ohio, assisted in bis llight by bis father, who, through all, has tried to shield his son from the indignation of his neighbors. Tbe affair has created a decided sensation in Claysville, where the family are known, and tbe facts were only learn ed by the persistent inquiries of tbe neighbois, who demanded to know the name of ibe incendiary. i Experience. Farmers sometimes grumble at their calling. Well, a majority of mankind are inclined lo growl at Ibeir condition, and prospects in whatever line of business they may be employ ed. Yet there arc exceptions, speci men individuals, who, while pursuing their avocations with industry, skill and perseverance, have no time to grumble over their lot in life, and who achieve marked success in their undertakings. Tbe country makes but little parade, over its farmers. Their sayings and acts are seldom spread before the public. Success in farming tloes not convey tbe same grand accumulations of wealth and power that are associated with suc cess in railroads, in mercantile life, or in manufacturing ; but it means an independent life, a quiet,' peaceful, happy home, an honest consciousness of being a producer of real preperly, and a satisfaction of aiding in tbe progress and improvement of the age. Duel at Sandbar Ferry. We condense the following from an account in the Agausla Evening " Ncivs of a duel fought ot Sandbar Ferry, on the Georgia side of ibe riv ler, between two men from (Jolletun . I Two Curoiinians arrived on the morning of the 2d, and repaired to the dueling ground iu the afternoon accompanied by. seconds and friends. -~ One of the principals was a onc-arai man and heavily built, while the oth er wna smaller. Pistols aud twenty paces were the terms. At the word tho smaller man lired immediately, but the other, using his left and only hand, took deliberate aim and fired, ibe ball grazing his opponent's shoul der. They then shook hands, appar ently satisfied at the result, return ing home on the next outgoing trains^ -one ever the Port Reysl and the other South Corolinn.Kailroad. The names of the principals arc O'Brien and Applcby. There arc over seven thousand, Americans studying in German schools and universities. The Amer ican consul at Wurtemburg estimates that over four million five hundred thousand dollars are thus annually ex pended by Americans in Germans. This amounts, he thinks, would go a long ways toward building up and sustaining similar institutions at home. A five-year-old Utile girl was taught to close her evening pruycr during tho temporary ahsencq of her lather with : "And watch over, my papa.'' H sounded very sweet, but tlu: mother's amazement mny l?o imagined when the child udded : "And you'd better keep an cyu ou mamma, too."