Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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SHERIDAN & SIMS, Proprietors. SunsoitiiTiox. One Year.81-30 Six Moni Iis.1.00 Ministers of t he OosmjpI.J .00 A ?V EltTISIiM ENTS. First. Instertion.91-00 Kaoh Subsequent Insertion.*?0 Liberal contracts made for 3 month np'l over. JOI3 OFFICE is I'itEI'ABEI) TO I>0 ALT. KINDS OF Jo~b Printing St. Matthews, Editor Orangehurg Democrat: We were your country cousins once, hut now claim to be your sister, und I wouldn't be surprised if soon we don't become your father, not }'our first father of course, but your sec ond ; and it's always those }'ou know who give the children particular jessy (if you'll excuse the phrase). But very peaceably do wo always hope to live by our respected sister, and in the langnage of Mr. Dick Swivellcri "May the wings of friendship never moult a feather." As you have generously hinted to us that a word or two occasionally of our welfare here in St. Matthews, will be acceptable to you, and as we have not as yet, classed a newspaper organ among our other improvements, (we do not purpose having one until we can fill it with something besides personalities), we greatfully have re course to your kindly medium as a means of making ourselves known to the outside world, or in other words to blow our trumpet. Invaria bly the first remark of visitors to us of late, is to note the improvements that have been and arc almost con stantly acceptably being -made in our prospering little town of Lcwisville. Ah, no ! no improvements in old Lew isviilc ; she, poor thing, is a momorj* of the past with us now. It was with her, the foundation of our prosperity was laid ; but like many fashionable children of the present da)', the plain old parent who gave them birth is thrown aside, and now we arc elevat ed to the more striking appellation of St. Matthews. Probably our worthy legislators entertain the opinion that as our little worlds of wickedness grow larger, so stand we more in need of saintly names to cover what the rich man covers with his money. Well it strikes mo that if we arc to bo represented by the good Saint Matthew, Heaven only knows who will represent some of our big sisters,, unless it be the Deity Himself. There being another Lcwisville in South Carolina, I believe caused the change. Agricultural matters, it is to bo presumed, occupy a most important position at present in the minds of both countrymen and citizens; poli tics, so far, having but slightly taint ed our public atmosphere. That our farmers are hopeful and laying exten sive foundations for the year's growth, is evident from the quantities of fer tilizers being brought into our mar-j kct. That our merchantmen arc like wise hopeful, is very evident from the decided manner in which they are Urning towards those foundations. I j am pleased to note that preparations for corn as well as cotton, nie being made, though coUon certainly prom ises to be the crop. That the fiend, crime, is-^ot unknown among us, is apparent from the crowds that almost daily surrouud our Trial Justice's ofiice,a majority of cases fighting and stealing, a few breeches of contract. Business in that department is somewhat subsiding now, for when tho darkey's money gives out he is more tractable, kinder civilized, we may say, until flush times come again. That we arc a decidedly healthy peo ple here, is quite evident from the scarcity of gentlemen in the medical profession. We are rather a contra ry set of people, sometimes I irnng-^ inc ; one of us can't propose a single new project, or make a single propo sition but what sonic ambitions Solo mon is bound to oppose. There is but one subject under my contemplu tion at present, to which there is no opposition and that is the subject of doctors?it wouldn't pay. That we are an industrious people here, our young men in particular) is evident from the number of new and tasteful dwellings which arc beginning to appear in our midst. That said dwellings arc evi dences, not only of the industrial, but of the domestic tendencies of said young men, is apparent from the number of smiling Benedicts who greet us at their doors, and the rapid diminishment in the number of our gentler sex. Indeed, to such an alarming extent have the domestic tendences been carried of late, that marriageable fair ones promise soon to bo ns raro with us as they were in the far West in its early settlement, and fair visitors need not be astonish ed if on our streets they arc greeted with open mouth wonder by our gay and worthy young gallants, who, in something of the phraseology of the Western miner of Mark Twain re membrance, exclaim : Well, if it ain't a young lady ! But I must not pre sume too fur upon you kind attention for this the first lime, or I may weary you. With respect, 1 am yours, LEI8URE IIOLUS. Appeal for Democratic Union. A meeting of prominent Democrats of the city and State was held in New York Thursday evening, to discuss the political outlook and give expres sion In regard to the election of any man to the Presidency for a third term, with or without nn intermediate terra of retirement. Tho meeting, which was largely attended, was pre sided over by Judge Josiah Souther land. An address was adopted de nouncing the third term scheme and appealing to all true men of Demo cratic faith to scenic union for the sake of union, and a union, first of all, of the Democrats in the Empire Stale, "so that its benign influence may go forth from this great centre as light and warmth from the sun, giving piotnise of healthy life at home and assuring vitality and victory to the great Democratic party of the whole Union." lion. KraslusBrooks then addressed the meeting, and strongly advocated the necessity of union among all Democrats. Lieut. Governor Doislicimer also addressed the meeting, and expressed himself strongly against the thiid-lcrm move ment. He said it was the grea* est peril that ever nsailcd the government of this country, and the only way out of the difficulty was for Democrats to unite. He bad no doubt but what they would unite. He would be very sony to be a man to stand in the way of such a union. If they would unite he felt certain that a victory would take place in New York. The ey# of the whole country, be said, was looking toward New York and awaiting a union of all Demo crats.?X. Y. Exchange. The Last Legislature. The last legislature has passed in to history as the weakest and most extravagant body thai has assembled in Columbia for many years. The time was consumed in devising and furthering new schemes for the im poverishment of tho people. In ad dition to the current expenses of the government, ?191,000 was voted to agricultural college; $200,000 in work and S10.000,000 in water power to the Columbia Canal; Sl?,000 to the Cliarleston Canal; 83,000 on the Blair estate in York county was given up ; thousands of dollars of back taxes on the Blue Kidge Road were remit ted ; the Catawba Canal was given a wny ; the tax bill improperly passed at an cxpence to the State of twenty thousand dollars in round numbers and so from the opening to Hie close of its career the Legislature of 1871)-' SO stumbled along. All of these er rors have been the result of a desire to make fair weather with the voting masses and to gain the applause of an unthinking press.?Abbeville Me (Hum. The Right ot an Officer to Kill. The Albany Law Journal has the following, which will be of great im portance to otlicers in the discharge of their duties, especially in Hie mat ter of escaping prisoners. The Jour-\ nal says: "While defendant (in a case in the Tennessee Supreme Court,) a constable, was conveying a prisoner to jail who had been convict ed of assault and battery, the prison er attempted to escape. To prevent the escape, defendant, after giving the prisoner notice to halt, shot and hilled him. The court held that the homicide was not justifiable. In cases where the person slain is ancsted or held in custody for a misde meanor, and he lly or at'empt to es cape, it will be murder in the otllcer to kill him, although be cannot be otherwise overtaken. Yet under sonic circumstances it may be only nian slaghtcr, as if it appears death was not in'cnded. It is considered better to allow one guilty only of a misde meanor to escape altogether than to take his life." Church Fairs. In Augusta, Ga., recently, at the Sunday school room of the First Pres byterian Church, tho question was discussed in the presence of a large assembly of how far a Sunday school or church could go in holding fairs and kindred entertainments without doing harm. Dr. Irvine, Kev. air. Goclchius, and prominent members of the church, participated in the dis cussion, and tbc unanimous conclu sion arrived at was that a church or ganization as a body, should not al low such entertainments, nor admit any that would bring the church into disrepute before the public. Struck Dead. One of the most terrible instances of a scoffer struck down in the moment of his blasphemy was revealed before Mr. Carter at the Kose and Crown Tavern, Fast street, Lambeth walk, recently. The deceased was an en gineer named Thomas Hudson, aged 67, who resided nt 24 Sounders street Lambeth, and had been employed nt Messrs. Mandaluy'a for twenty-live years. He returned home at a quar ter-past 5 o'clock on Thursday even ing, and asked his daughter-in-law to get him an egg from the fowl-house. On proceeding into the yard he be came excited, and after using a frightful oath in reference to his death, he ran into the parlor, vomited blood, and fell dead in the arms of a female who had been nursing his daughter. Mrs. Fall stated that de ceased did not say, "God strike me dead," but he used word of a similar character. The jury found a verdict of "Death from excitement," and the Coroner's experience enabled him to narrate a parallel case. A number of persons had assembled in a tavern at Putney, when a man charged an other with taking from him twopence. Tire man after b ing accused, said, "May God strike me dead if I did it," and he immediately after fell dead. On being picked up, the miss ing twopence was found llrmly clutch cd in the deceased's right band. He would strongly advise men against taking such wicked oaths.?Lloyd's Xeics. The Grant Boom. It is slated on reliable authority, says the Charlotte Obs>rvn\ that for sonic time past there has been a ne gro going the rounds of the cabins in Richmond County, X. C, and repre senting that he is Grant's imperial agent. lie goes to an isolated house in the country and tells the inmates that the election of Grant is certain, and that as soon as he is elected he will be made emperor, and then there will be a glorious division of the lands, goods and chattels, and that a sum anywhere between ten cents and a quarter ot a dollar entrusted to him will secure the contributor a hand some share of the spoils when the good time comes. Those who do not contribute, he is instructed to say, will be cast into outer darkuess. lie has succeeded in raising n considera ble sum out of the deluded negroes in this matter. A Gracelui Tribute. The Columbia Hrgister has an cdi loriul on the present administration, in which, while fully recognizing the weak points, it also commends the general course of Mr. Hayes' policy, and winds up with this graceful trib ute to the wife of the President: "What true Southron is there who has been bred to revere and honor no ble and genuine womanhood who is not prepared to lift his hat and bow low admiration i/thc present mistress of the White IToi .se, Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes? We ca e not what others may say, we would recognize no man as a true South Carolinian whose cheek did not warm with admiration at the mention of the name of her, whose gentle, graceful, conscientious, womanly deportment shall go down to history as an honor to the whulc country, so long as it shall be known and honored amongst men." Droppod Dead. "William Bell, a negro shoemaker who had a shop on the east end of j Tryon street, near the Lutheran Church, yesterday morning dropped j from his bench and in a few moments 1 died. Two men were in the shop at' the time and Hell showed no signs of! anything being Liberty JflpPWrrvW.,found a half-starved lamb. She raised it and took care of it. From that beginning she now has eighty sheep, and has, from time to time, sold thirty head. If this is not a good dividend from such n smnll investment, we would rise to a point of order and ask what is? Reaction of the Sexes. The kitchen is woman's kingdom. Here she works her will?baking, boiling, slewing, frying, j mopping, washing, ironing ; einphalicplly ruling the roast. For ages she bits reigned and wrought unassisted and unques tioned, save by some meddlesome, tasting Soyer, or cadaverous bran and-wnter-eating Giaham. (Naturally bating any innovation, she has been content to do everything just as bor motber used to. Il is only within a generation or two thai science ami invention have secured a place on Ihe heailh-stone ; but no sooner there, than the hearlb-sloue is abolished, the lire-place walled up, and fire in closed in an iron box. Clumsy and awkward as the boxes doubtless were at first, it would have been long be fore women, if left, lo themselves, would have ventured to improve the pattern ; yet the secret history of the j patent ranges, patent ovens, ami the thousand and one neat contrivances that adorn tho kitchen ol to-day, would show that woman's wit, not less than man's wisdom, lies at the bottom of the change. .Steam at last lends its magic lingers lo her toil. Monday morning has lost half its ter rors; for now, instead of the tub, the corrugated board and the bended back, the sole agencies used by our forcinothcrs, a crank is turned, and lo ! the scrubbing is finished ; another crank, the clot lies are wrung ; while anolber returns them ironed. Leave the kitchen ami ascend the parlor. One of its neatest pieces is the sew ing machine. The days of never done, eyes-aching, se.ving, extending from motber Eve lo Elias Howe, are |ovjr at last. A buzz of wheels, a j rattle of the shuttle, and a yard of scam is done. Women probably in I vented sewing by band ; men taught j them lo sew by foot. One can easily i believe that woman first learned ol j the angels to sing ; men made Ihe beautiful piano to accompany her. : Now let U3 just take one glance at the other side. Visit some fac tory or machine-shop^ where Womeji never go. Crease, dirt, and disorder are Ihe leading features. Man, how ever he may be an ingenious animal, is, not an over neat one ; and here his deficiency becomes patent. If men know their true interest they will open every door for the advanee I incut of woman lo equal knowledge ; and skill with themselves, and in eve ry department will profit by her keen j instinct, as much as by their own I vaunted science. Gambling. The Abbeville Medium says that gambling is on Ihe inerease in that community and suggests that strin gent measures be taken to crush out the growing evil. It truly stys: "Gambling is very demoralizing. It teaches cxlravaganec, puls an im proper value upon money,encourages lawlessness and oftentimes ends in bloodshed and murder. It brings out the worst passions of the human heart and is one of the most destruc tive agencies of the devil to ruin and degrade mankind. Cock fighting may be elevating and refining but it is not gcueially re aided as a very high moral accomplishment. It should be stopped at oncj ami we hope with all good citizens Ihe proper steps will be taken for its instant suppression.'' Murder Cases. The accounts received from the Courts in the various circuits show that there is Hille danger in slaying a fellow-man in any of the counties, except Barnwcll, where the juries did their duties. Osborn, who shot Mrs. Campion as he rode by her door, at Fair l'tay, has just been convicted of luuwislaughter, and the Moores have Bflt been acquitted on the charge of Sling Bryco. In other counties the Hies have been equally generous to Hose who have killed a fellow-man, Hit the poor negro who may be charg Bl with the stealing of a little corn or H>tlon is generally railroaded off lo Hie penitentiary.?Press and Banner. Inconsistent. I The Now Orleans Picayune ex Presses the opinion that the negroes of the South consume in value per head yearly twice as much sugar-cur ed hams, lobsters, sardines, tobacco and whiskey as the miners, fac'.ory [operatives and poor needle-women of the larger cities of the North. And yet the aforesaid operative ate taught to regard the colored brother, as a poor, down trodden, starved wretch. ???????Mi i? 11 min? ??? ???mil nimmjaiaraa New Ideals of Marriage. It is indubitable that the giiTa I ideal of marriage has of late years greatly changed ; and the ehrtnge.has been produced in part by what she sees, and in part by what she reads. We entertain no doubt that the fe male novelists who have followed in the wake of the late George Laurence j have materially modified the ideal of a suitable lover as entertained by many of their sex. "Onidu," Miss Brougblon, Miss Annie Thomas, and others, have accustomed themselves to ferocious lovers?but we will not waste our time in repca'ing a descrip tion of physical peculiarities of the Adonis of the Period-according to the standard of the female three-volume novel. Everybody knows the sort of hero, half Ajax, half Paris, of their monotonous pages. Grown-np peo ple may smile on such absurdities, but gills are very impressionable, and when once they have adopted such an ideal, it is not easy to expel it from their minds. The person hardly ex ists in real life ; the nearest approach to it being any or every unprincipled man who is prepared to make "fierce love" to any fool he meets. Obv?ious I ly this is not a condition of things fa i vorable to marriage; for while it makes girls more prompt, and indeed eager, to Hi it, it indisposes them to appreciate attentions of a more deli cate but more practical kind. So much for the change produced in the ideals of women by what they rend. The transformation is completed by what they see. While silly novels tell them that a lover, to be worth j anything, must rail against heaven and bite the grass with his teeth, the whole arrangements of society keep daily telling them that a husband is no good at all unless be has a great deal of money. Only a Camp Rumor. Among the stories of Confederate army life, is one recently given to the public as follows: There were two men in a Mississippi regiment discussing the Scriptures. One of the men contended that the Scrip tures were of divine origin, ami the other said they were of human inven tion, and asked his opponent, in one of the arguments which they were continually having, if he believed the story of Jonah and the whale, tp which the other replied, "Yes." "Do you believe that the three Hebrews passed through the fiery furnace without feeling the heat?" persisted the infidel. "Yes," came the answer again. "Do you believe," came short ly, "that Samson slew all iho-e thou sands of Philistines with the jawbone of an ass?" If was just after the bat tle of Shiloh, and the believer in the inspiration of the Bible had just bad some tough experience in the difficul ty of ?gh?ng only four to one. ''Well," he answered hesitatingly to the last homclhrust, "I always re garded that story as a :i:ere camp ru mor." The Chinese Emperor's Plight. Pity the sorrows of the Emperor of China. He is still a very young man yet he has to maintain seventy women in his establishment in various capaci ties, and of course the prodigious duty of clothing them devolves upon the unhappy monarch. This would not be so very formidable a task were the almond-eyed ladies economically in clined, but the truth is they are the very reverse, and their extravagance is said to exceed all bounds. Two hundred and fifty thousand taels, which is more than half of the land tax of the empire, were expended last year in silks, gauze, satin, velvet, pearls, red and gilt paper. But the emperor deserves no sympathy. Were he half a man and really the brother of the sun and moon, as he is called, he would retrench by means of the in troduction of the di ess reform, and behead all those who demurred, even at the risk of being accused of a lack of gallantry. The First Candidates. This week we have the honor to announce two of our citizens as can didates for the ollice of Sheriff. And bv-the-by, the woid candidates is dc-j rived from the latin candidates ? from , Candidus, white?because those who sought ollice in Home were oblged to wear white gowns?symbolical of purity. This is a little sermon of ours! And our two friends, an nounced this week, have begun their race clothed in while, inasmuch ns they have promptly paid their an nouncement fee. ?Alive rtiscy. Conkling's Littleness. A letter from "A Woman in Wash ington" to the Springfield Republican says: "Conkling looks exactly like Nasl's picture of him as 'Jackdaw Conkling.' His face is handsome in a certain wa}', but mean, bad and cynical?be looks like a man who, all sweetness in society, would be selllsii, snarling and snappish at home?in short, like what he has proved him self, a coward ; a man capable of compromising a woman, and then? running away. From the curl on his forehead to the tip of his aristocratic boot, he looks all this?but is no longer 'the blonde Mepbistophcles of the Senate," for be is growing gray fast, and looks as if be baled it. Here is a story typical of tho vain na ture of the man : A hotel keeper in Washington who went to school with him, hadn't met him for years. One day Conkling went to his hotel to En gage rooms, and stood in the office talking to the clerk. The proprietor came down stairs, and stepped up and held out his hanil, saying, 'Ros coc, how arc you?' Conkling took no notice of the proffered hand, and drew himself up, and said, 'I am Senator Conkling, sir.' *Yoti arc a damned fool, that's what you are," was the rcsponc. Conkling turned majestically to the clerk, and said, 'Can I have rooms here?' 'No, sir,' shouted the irate proprietor, 'not in my bouse, nor upon any terms.' " A Land Without Elopements. Elopements are not believed in Lapland, for if a man marries it maid without her parents' consent the pen alty is death. When a' young man has formed an attachment lo a female the fashion is to appoint their friends to meet, to behold the young parties run u race together. The maid is al lowed in starting the advantage of a third part of the race, so that It is im possible except willing of herself, that she should be overtaken. If a maid overruns her suitor the matter is ended ; be must never have her, it being penal for the mau to renew the motion for marriage. But if the vir gin has an affection for him, though at fi st she runs hard to try the truth of his love, she will (without At.an ta's golden balls to retard her speed) pretend to meet some casualties, and volunlatily halt before she comes to the mark or end of the race. Thus,, none are compelled to marry agaiust their wishes, and Ibis is the cause iu this poor country this the married peo ple are richer in their contentments that in other lands, wero^o many for ced matches make feigned love and cause real nnhappinecss. The One Friend. To every woman who holds the honored name of wife her husband must be her friend. Between lhem no one else can come, without a sad alienation. We once knew a good, but young and thoughtless, woman entertain an old friend with a laugh ing commentary on her husband's peculiar weaknesses. He overheard her, and, being a man of strong fecl ingsand fervid sensitiveness, it prov ed tho beginning of a life of utter wretchedness for both. We cannot believe that wives can have no female friends, for we know better; but long experience has taught u3 tnat the wo man who exalts one of her own sex above her husband is on the sure road to domestic infelicity. '-Hide one another's latilts and bear each other's burdens," is a golden text, that ought to be found upon the walls of every house. And "My husband is my fust and dearest friend," ought to be the language of every married woman. Three Classes of Men. "Men," said one of Theodore Win throps character*, "arc divided into three classes?them as grabs their chances, them as chucks away their chances, and them as lets their chances slide ;" and he might have added that each of the last two large ly outnumbers the first. Boys are throwing away their chances in life every day by shirking and lazing and twndling and deceiving ; and they arc I "letting them slide," through hced lessncss, inattention, and a fatal don't care-ativeness. "I don't care," is one of the worst mottoes a boy, or a man cither, can have. It is the boys and men who do care, and care rightly, who win. In every day, practical, material affairs, as truly as in spiritual things, and it is they who nro faithful over a few who are made rulers over many. Bill Arp on the Press. Your paper is a great comfort to me: in ever number I timl something to put away in mind and memory; something that I did not know before, and which will be of advantage to me in time to come. If a man can read he can get a good education by tak ing one good paper ; he can keep up with the world, and make himself an entertaining member of society; he can talk up a little on most an}* sub ject. Book learning is a very guod thing, but I know a man who has a power of that, but he never reads the paper, and he passes for a fool in his neighborhood. Some papers are not much account to appearances, but I never took one that did't pay me in some way a good deal mote than i paid it. One time an old friend star ted a little paper away down in South western Georgia and sent it to me, and I subscribed just to* encourage him, and so after a while it published a notice that an administrator, had an order to sell several lots of land at out cry, and one of 'he lots was in my country. So I inquired about the lots, and wrote down to my friend to attend the sale, and run it to fifty dol lars. He did so, and bid oft* the lot for me at thirty dollars, and I sold it in a mouth to the man it joined for a hundred, and so I mude sixty-eight dollors clear by taking that paper. My father told me that when he was a young man he saw a notice in a pa per that a school teacher was wan ted away olf in a distant county, and he went down there and got the situation, aud a little girl was sent to him, and after a while she grew up mighty sweet and pretty, and he fell in love with her and married her. Now if he hadn't took that paper, what do you reckon would have be come of me? Wouldn't I be some other feller, or may be not "ba at all? ?Dixie Farni'V. A Mistaken Woman. Among the young ladies who sat at the receipt of customs in a Wes tern church fair, aud retailed kisses at. the nominal value of ten cents each, was a vinegnr-visaged old maid, who had crowded herself in on the gauzy pretence that she felt it her duly to do her share toward helping along the good cause. When it came time for closing, the young ladies turned over to the church treasury from $5 to ?10 apiece, while the an cient female handed in n solitary dime, the value of one kiss that sho received from a blind man whoso taste was so vitiated by tobacco chewing that he was unable to detect the imposition.?Kansas City Times, Old Bob. Gen. Robert Tombs has lately been visited, at his Georgia village home, by a coricspondcnt of a Boston paper, who describes him as "a man worn out with years anil a passionate ex istence, but glorying in the fact that he is not a citizen of the United States ; that his political disabilities have not been removed, and that lie is tho only and unrepentant rebel." He was the guiding mind of the Geor gia Constitutional Convention of 1877, but that is the only public of fice he has held since the war. His closest friend is Alexander II. Ste? phens, with whom he discusses poli tics by the da)*. The Grant Boom The prominent representative mon of the Republican party in Illinois have recently held a conference at; Chicago on the subject of the opening campaign, which evidenced the fact) that the tido of public sentiment which has swept over New York and Pennsylvania aud has led them to de clare unequivocally for Grunt, baa reachd, aud is acting upon the politi cal elements of that state. The meet ing gave marked evidence that tho Republicans of Illinois do not pro pose to desert her eminent citizen, but to cast their votes solidly for Ulysses S. Grant at the national Con vention? ?St. Luke tells us that Zaceheus sought to see the Master, but "could not because of the press." Wo sus pect however, that these people who had secured all the front sea^s wcro no legitimate members of the press at all but a fow of that innumerable army of dead beast who give the press a bad name by crowding into any and all places where something can be got fur nothing, and whose only contribu tions to tho press arc to the prc?s wastc-baskct.