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It seems an amber-colored pathway, where the sun shone upon beautiful flowers, or the stars hung glittering overhead. Fain would the soul linger there. No thorns are remembered above that sweet clay, save those your hand may unwillingly have planted. Her no ble, tender heart lies open to j our in most sight. Yoq think of her now as all gentleness, all beauty, all purity. But she is dead! The dear head that laid upon your bo?ora rests in the still darkness, upon a pillow of clay. The hands that have adminis tered so untilingly, are folded, white and cold, beneath the gloomy portal?. The heart whose every beat measur ed an eferuity; of love, lies under your feet. The flowers she bent over with smiles, bend now above her with tears, shaking the dew from their pe tals, that.the verdure arouri'd her may be kept green and beautiful. There is no white arm over your shoulder : no speaking face to look up into the | eye of. Love ; no trembling lips to murmur, "O, it is so sad." There is so strange a stillness in every room ! No light footstep passing around. No smile to greet you at nigjtfall. And the old clock ticks'and strikes, and strikes and ticks?it was such music when bhe could hear it! Now it seems to knell Only the-hours* through which you watched the shadows of death ga* he ling upon her sweet face. And every day the clock repeats the old story. Many another tale it teil et h too?of joys past, of sorrows shaicd,of beautiful woids and deeds that are rcgisteicd above. You fuel! (), how often do you feel that the grave cannot keep her. Abraham Lincoln ou Gen. Hancock. Mr. James A. NcDougol, a promi nent Republican of Baltimore is re sponsible for the statement that Abra ham Lincoln said to a Rallomorc del egation that lie regarded Gen. Han cock as the ablest soldier in the Northern army. One of the visitors rather demurred, saying that Han cock was "rash," whereupon Lincoln replied : "Yes, so some of the older Generals have said to me, and I have said to them that I have watched Gen. Hancock's conduct very carefully, and I have found that when he goes into action he achieves his purpose and comes out with a smaller list of casualties than any of thorn. Bold he is, but not rash. I tell you gen tlemen, that if Ids life and strength arc spared, I believe that Gen. Han cock is destined to be one of the most distinguished men of the a^e. Why, when I go down in the morning to open my mail?and I rise at 4 o'clock ?I do it in fear and trembling, lest 1 may hear that Hancock bus been kil led or wounded. - ? ? ~ ? . ?" SR Forfeitrd Lands. The Comptroller General has sent to the various County Auditors mid Treasure is a circular, stating that "upon an Inquiry made by the Audit or of Colleton County as to the con struction of the Acts of Assembly Ho cxtnnd tho time for the redemption of forfeited lands,' approved December 23, 1879, and Feburary 19, 1880, being rospeelively Nos. 629, 207, the following endorsment was made; "The intention of the Legislature was no doubt to extend the lime of redemption to 3l8t October. The words used in the Act raise a doubt whether the purpose was uccomp ish ed.- This office is inclined to construe the Act liberally and accept the evi dent intention.'' Upon inquiry at the Comptroller General's office we ascertained that the circular -was .In tended to relate only to those lundfi that were forfeited prior to Feb uary, 1880.?Columbia Register. F. A. Sawyer. Here is another ease, that almost makes one lose faith in human nature. In 1644 there graduated from Har vard University a young man of won derful promise. Ho was 22 years old and the world opened bright and pro mising before him. He was, 1 believe for a time a teacher in Harvard, and subsequently he founded a very suc cessful school in Massachusetts. Sonio time afterwards he went South as principal of a StJte normal schools The war coming on he was driven from the State and came North. At the close of the war he went bank to the Southern State as collector of in ternal revenue. When the State was reconstructed he was elected to the United States Senate, and served with distinction for six years. He was chairman of the committee on educa tion and labor and a member of the appropriotians and other important committees. He. was a vpry strong ana pleasing speaker, and stood, very high among his colleagues. After his term expired he was appointed assis tant secretary of the treasury and was at times acting secretary. It was here that he fell, lie was courted uud flattered and used. Wine, cards and womeu did their part to occom plish his fall. There were some ycry" crooked transactions while he was in ollice, and some way or other the asist ant secretary lost his ollice and land ed in jail. He was speedily got out however, but' he became wretchedly poor and got-to borrowing fifty cent pieces of his old friends. It was a pitiful sight to sec him about and know w at he had been. Finally somebody had him appointed to a twelve hundred dollar clerkship (lie. wrote a beautiful hand)- and it was thought that he might pick up and recover ; but he didn't. He had got a passion for gambling, and whenever he could obtain ihy indhcy he sought the tiger and of course lost it, und soon be lost his little clerkship. 1 understand he now borrows a dollar or two whenever he can and goes in- j to the lowest places and plays until' it is gone. If lie has no nioney, winch is nearly always the case, he will sit where the game is going on and keep the score for the low wretch es that infest the dives he visits. He once had a charming family of boys and girls, but the J -ord only knows j wbero they are now. If there is any- i thing stranger or more revolting than this in fiction I have never come j across it.?Philadelphia Times. Shocking Murders. Two negro men in the employ of Mr. Hugh Workman, of Laurcns County, named Doisey Greer and j Prince Greer, brothers, were founo i in Little River near Mrs. J. Ii. Leo? urd's plantation on tbe edgo of Lau: rens Co., last Saturday, by their fa ther, who was fishing. They had been missing since Tuesday night. Quc had two bullet holes in the breast and back, and the other one ball in the right breast near the heart, .hach one hud a rock weighing about 50 lbs tied to the body. One was (touting on the top of the water, and j the other almost covered with sand at the bottom of the river. The verdict Of .the coroner's jury was that they came to their death by gun shot wounds tired by tho hands of some party or parties to that jury un ! known. i_ j A young man ? in DuUuque; ?Iowa, I lias become partially deranged over a j mustache which refuses to sprout, 1 He waB formerly happy and good i tempered. He is now morose, de spondent, and melancholy. Gnc day he visited a prominent <Jrug store and pin chased all the different, hair res ' toratives to be had. After comple ting tlte rounds he carried the bottles to his room and put them aside for future use. When he left the ropru his sister found over a bundled bot j tics in the bed tick, and all were war ranted to cause hair to grow on the smoothest skin. I Take the Democrat. The ?emoprats Must Har^optedi? ?? . Wo ogree entirely with the George town iHmcain its^M^iHV^^ is no loqger any doubV as to' the course the Republican party of this State intends pursuing "in the ap proaching imwl^mi ^V^iH^ 1 a convention to meet in Columbia 6n. tlie 2d of September, for the purpose of nominating nr. entire Slate-ticket, froiu the' highest to the lowest officori In other * words, th,cy ^ave gtyf/q ftiihj Democrats fair notice of their inten tion to enter the political arena1 with all of their cohorts against them this year, and of their' determination td exert every effort to get the State back into the hands of tbo political plunderers again. This is, tho'issue',, and the Democrats .will have to ;faco it fairly arid squarely... It is to be a fight between Radicalism -ftnd Democ racy ; a contest between barbarism and civilization. In view of such a struggle, harmony arid unity must prevail in'the Democratic party ; oth erwise, wo may expect ignominous defeat to be the reward of our Wran gles and dissensions. If difference exist among us, let us, ns true Demo crats, who have the interest of our county and Stale at heart, lay them aside and enter the coming campaign with a united'nnd solid front, prepar ed to meet and defeat a bold and de fiant enemy. Wei cannot afford to suffer our personal grievances to in fluence our action at the present lime. There are considerations of > higher moment before us than the ac complishment of certain aims or the advancement of the-interests of cer tain individuals. Let . us march against the foe as one harmonious whole, and victory will sit perched ifpon our banner in November. A Collection of Patriots.c . Taken individually and collectively Ike .patriots who were invited to New York lo moat the Credit Mobilicr can didate for the Presidency were pecul iarly adapted to the man and to the occasion. Ex-Governors, ex-Sena tors, ex-Secretaries,' ex-Commission ers, ex-Ministers, ex-Generals, ox CoIoucIb, ox-Clerks,' arid oilier extra ordinary persoringes of the past, to gether with a few present dignitaries,, made up the nun ley assemblage at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Landaulet Wil liams, Sccor Robesou, Relknap, Ranks, now United States marshal, and a patriot of many sides ; Hullock, the notorious ex-Governor, of Geor gia ; GotiQVer, cx-carpet-bag Senator ; War mouth, ex-carpet-bag Governor of Louisiana; Synhor, ex-carpet-bag Congressman; Orth, the Venezuela jobber; Storrs, who defended linb cock in the Whiskey Ring trial, and now fitly defends Garficld in the pav ing job ; Filley, ex Postmaster at St. Louis, whom Schurz pursued to the biltcr end; Dorsoy; ex-carpat-bag Senator; Pinchback, whom the Re publican Senate refused to admit to a seat, afterward voting him seventeen thousand dollars for more than three years . of salar}*; Clerical-Error Stoughton, and other distinguished personages, were conspicuous in tiie throng around: the Credit Mobilicr y.-.ndidutc. John Sherman, with a specially detailed force of collectors and revenue ?ftlciuls ?s his staff,'-gave a festive sir to the occasion.?Neio York, Sun. ... . We wore inistaken in supposing Dr. Tanner to be an American. Do is an Englishman, and unless some fool of an American shall fast forty cue days and nights, the eagle bird of tbis glori ous Republic will tuck his tail between his legs with shame. uThe crowned heads of Europe" have tbeir scornful eyes upon us. Englishman have learned to beat our rillenian and now a "bloody. Briton" lias more notable stomach than any , Yankee ?r South erner. Alasd '.; .'.i ~?!r '?? , i r, tr?j >? t .i? -, Many poisons who rake through another's chnractor with a line?tooth comb, to discover a fault, could lind one with less trouble by going over their own character with a horsc I rake. ftmier*?1'Resolution's; > ?dT BOTg" or ;cer^^taliA^ff-Mipn^.B^tryjoSj o? F. W. Wagner &,Go.< ?f Charleston* Si ?l, have threatened the latter .with discontl^uHrlfee ?f ^atriira^30 iF said thqIP. farmers ^ojt'jJJda; iCpu^y^ a^9 whoreas, il'is Ute indfepptablp rig^t of frcemed^h?WPV?r'hubiblbv t? 'trade parties if?famkfe f?A^ffS$$Mi may indicate ; therefore, be iL resolv ed by the farmers of: Middle Fen Township, *?* mW meeting1 assenr -bled,' '7?. ,!ff1om ' ! ' Jrf'*'7 /? 1o fir/fib t?a ;:F|rst. That wq!enter!our.)3.9^mn; t * ''?IIA \ IHK? v Y ' i originators, and sunpprfprs, " Second.^Thut, we' reaar HU* measure norancc, extortioners^ who are ? disgrace tp civilization. ' ,. h. , "7'* **,IJ Third. We pledge QtiirW hold our patronage fr'orA5ihe origina tors and suppoiters'of this disgrace ful measure ; "an<J. w^'V&lI1 upjoV'tpT, farmers, and evefV Grange in 'JlMc1 county to aid us in o(ir efforts t]pj make the'p(hpet,rators of thiB sna'me f\d 'measure.Tcel'what they so'ltahly: deserve. V ' . jJJ* Fourth. That a copy of these pre ambles apri resolutions, be published in the county papers and the Neiua and Courier., * ' u ; XV. M^Anim^ -v 1 ?EfM-?r? >.** ?t 7?i TvfU) .r. ii.i \-J -\ O?tLVVJ Ornngaburg.jS. C.? Aug.; 2,4, 1T ,. j ^ Error ^Jfife^JI^^ Gnco wedded for life to an un\vor^ thy partrtdH'nri erfdr ba^'been'^irtde1 which will rob it of all sweetness:or possibility- pf<.joy., hex, the, youn? think of this, a d let them walk eure- j fully in a world of snares, and take heed to l\\?r steps lest in;: Ihe'mtistj critical event of lifo they go, fata?y astray. But hero we must *giiard against another error. Mauy people think they have made a mistake in marriage, when the mistake is only in their own behavior since tbey*werc married. Good husbands make good wives, ond good wives make good husbands; and the scolding and in temperate, or slatternly, pnrtnor of ten has but himself or herself to blame for the misery that clouds the life aud desolates the homo. Multi tudes who feel that their marriage was a mistake, and who make their exist ence a lifelong misery, might, by a little self-denial, and forbearance, and gentleness, and old-time courtesy, make their home brighten like the gates of Kdcn, and bring back again the old love that .blessed the happy golden days j gone by. ..And what sweeter mission in life than that of reclaiming the weak and sinful! Locating the Equator. An excellent instance of the way in which the children in the average pub lic school learn without learning is related by Barnes* tfdwatiohal Monthly. A leacher in one of our public schools has been uqeUBtpuicd to [rtnire her pupils to say : "The equa tor is an imaginary line passing round the earth," otc. It never occurred to her that the boys and girls of her school had no i,h'u what,an imaginary I line meant, until one da}* a visitor asked thorn how pride they thought the equator is. Some thought it was 5,000 miles wide, others 2,000, and others said, they could jump over it. The visitor then asked how they I thought ships -yot'oVe'r it? One i u pil said he thought they got out and drow Ihem over, and another said he hud 'road that a can a J had been'dug 'through it! "What is the naroC of this canal ?" > "The Suez canal IV was the answer. ? ? ? ? . iittt i -Trr.iirTir"-':-^ : ?Bellc-f*>*TM8 holly in ray hair wants a litll6',; relief, it's too red.'" Aunty?"Wellr"1 *vby not.put in a sprig or two of raistlatoo, dear?" Belle?uNonsense, aunty., J why, 1 should have all the young men kissing me." Aunty?"Indeed, no my dear ; they'd do nothing of the kind ; I've tried 'em." ? '??"?? Tribute of Respeot. ,? - ... i At a meeting of the Sunday School o? JJethlchem >M. E. Church, bold on -tboijjpthf day of 4?% 1880, the fol lowing preamble and resolutions were unanimously adopte&r-'i! on ?iLam l.a* '^Wiipreas/ it jhath pleased Almighty. iQqv)^in the dispensation^ of; His 'all? wisou providence', to remove from our. mi ?ist and ' from car tidy labors to & glorious reward abovc our well-beiov eij nsipter, r Margaret Myers ; and, ,whereas, sister Myers was an active and eflioient worker in our Sunday School,- as well as;a faithful and- exK e'j^pjjityrehmtran sin/all* <of Ufa's: walks, Therefore, be it resolved, .. . iK>F?f8lfc.Tliati while we bow 'with Christian submission ;tp Ihe decree of opr. JrJes1Y^e.nlyi:jKaiher, wjho doeth all ,things wisely and well, we Mff ever cherish tlte'merii?ry of sister* My?rsj' and endeavor to imitate her many virtues; , avjidlMuui . . ni Second} That we extend to the be reaved family our sincere and deepest sympathies iri this their gVbAtfafflic Uon, and 'point themxtf the great ComIbrtcr whoso grace will be r.-uUi cient for tlmm. un^f10?ui) |Jna Ihird. That these, resolutions he published In the county papers. ,:.JS E:J.\S^K^;'81iperintre,nHcnt!.A (.^jAu'Izi.XBj SeerethVy;"-- *i*aibi>U but lOU Uiuoo?/ i ,.nt;i?aiol h! ?Joj U II);nn,yoodQoi8m. ... y. The three negroes arrested in Ala bama for digging up dead white peo ple and taking their bones na charms, Were visited by a mob and shot to death. They gave an account of their proceeding and motives: Among Oj^jr slaVemcnts was that to acquire "card charm," three or more go 16 a grave; biid tlnCcfs at the head and prays; bile or more stand at the foot and-cur'ae ; the balance dig down and j get the bones abd fill up the g^rnvej again, Ijtio drnyii^ and ci|i:8uig going j onal' tile While. 'Then'all'Join in a1' game of, cajds on the grave,' arid ail have acqiiiied the ''clmrm.^'Tdie^ put the bones in a poke or string them, and wear them about the body, and, n3 they expressed it, "We have good luck." They" lick dust 'of hu man bones, and wet the tips of their fingers while they handle or play cards, and havo "good luck." They rob the cards against the bones about, their body for "luck.*' And they swallow dust for "good luck" in any undertaking. _'._LL'_L_; ' After Marriage. > The happiest marriages ore IhoB* in which a liigh type of friendship fol lows love. Friendship of a sublimat ed sort is what love becomes after'ft year or so of marriage; and he who is friendly to the very depths of his soul enters into this state happily, and is ready for all the delights that follows. But a man who" is capable of nothing but that fleeting affection, which ever pursues a new object, and cares for no woman when she is won, hates the domestic t'cs and becomes detestable in consequence. * It is the man who would die for his friend, and |for whom his friend would die, who makes a miraculously happy wife of tho woman lowborn he scarce ly kneW how to make love when he coqrted'her. ' ' No Change. It would seem that the love of the. Republican party for tho negro is not altogether of the earth earthy. ''Sup set" Cox has interviewed anogio who went to hell in a dream. "Was there any Democrats there?" "Yns, ri^hl smart sprinklin." "Any Republicans?" , ?4tIiell war full ob um." JL*|What were they doing?" "Iloldin' de niggahs 'twixt dem and de fire." - *'..>. ? i p rj U'?K,divj alf it .j AI I ) d< ? *(if/ ,1 A yankce came .running down to a pier just, as a steamer was starling.' The boat moved off somo four or five yards and he took a jump, and, com ing down on the back of his head o;n deck, ho lay stunned for two or three rfiinntes. When he came to the boat hod gone the best part of a quarter of a mile, and, raising his head, ami looking to the shore the ynnkee said, ?'Great Jehosaphat, what a jump !" Tanner Eolipsod by a Womgn> ' x Yesterday morning Mrs: Chatter mug, a lady living in Nevada street; got excited over the account of Tan* nor'n fast, and ?oanounced that- she would' refrain from talking for forty days.4 i SUe qegan at 9 o'clock in the mornipg yeoterday, apd lO.dp/ner*! pulse Was so feeble fronp exhaustion that the physician feared she would die at noon. At 11 her heart beat 2G a minute, and her respiiations were hardly noticeable.. Her ftjends ^ere urged bar to, discontinue her. terr task* and ,t#ld her some gossjp about' ( a neighbor, . On Idling it.she imme diately rushed from the bouse and going across the.B.treet^njet, a lady triend and ta)ked7 nuw o^?O^fa^sC ' night? and, ja, no^^y 0?fer?^. ? !fterf ( record, of nearjyj.^two (^^ra , and ia ( quarter of absolute silence now takes n}S> place at the lop of the Hat.. Con- ' gratulatory letters are pouring in from qll sides, and she has had several Offers, to take the lecture field.? Car*-. 'speculhro' about'wliile passing ttirougb 'ife. It1 is^ingmar ' thai,, m'sn^'] tbe bu^J is tine oblv anlm'at tnSt requir es am?semerV^ '^ifo other aptm'ai 'brf '' the |(&ce of the earthiis driven tb 4 tlie: 1 base expedience wf?c]fj man 1?T com pelled to resort for diversion. ' Man**, the1 plia^ removing bljoed^'m^s^^eeofs '' kill time; and, if tb6 criminal law .?..rTo ij Mil 7o ? ea ourTll -?tJJ lo were1 Ito select outoflbo murderers ? "1*?* Ici.i, r.U Jo *?i..fj jilJ uL m those who commit crime for the satte of something to, do, it would be found that a yas,t^nmbcr of innocent vie-, posed victim was pooi Si* "JJ :'? ? Ti'TuUji?) .ft* 1-OllT -?f|l To "?/! 'Why the time .of jtugse hu^an oeioga , sh?uld be created and given into their harnTs ;^Pr 'tfem^o kliits^a1: thing which the Creator thereof can, alone explain. t The Greenville News very pertin ently says i "A correspondent writing to an exchange from Anderson, de plores the luck of Democratic enthu siasm in that country. This is as it should be. Where enthusiasm is re quirt-d jii3t now is in the cotton field?. I When the big bales arc. rolling in the people can turn to and devote them selves to piling up the majorities for Hancock and I lagoon with a clear , conscience. Very little artificial aid j is required to bring a man to his post ' in Ibis section when the lime comes. I We will have yelling and working {enough during October to satisfy any ! body. Election day is two months off lyet.? ~ ? 1 Wimen, being by nature ty us iful and ignorant of evil, is the predestin ed prey of the peddler. When'he as sures them that lie is offering them an opportunity to buy valuable artictes at a ridiculously low rate,' they has i ten lo buy. Wii?t i? Tcaiiy; ir??Cph 'euble is the fact that, though u wo | man may be cheated by six succes - ; si ve peddlers, bIic never permits her j experience to lead her to distrust the ? seventh. This faith in peddlers'; ris ing triumpliantovor every other obsta cle, is sublime ns weil at touching, * and is a distinctive trait of? fill good women. '* " .^????h?.{ "Wjikn the rebels sought to, break up the Union, tho Republican pnity rallied as a man to the flag," said John Sherman, at Washington. Did. Editor Clapp, that man of blood of the Jiepubliwn, who ran the meeting rally anj ? How much did Jim Maine, of Maine, rally: , Whp, saw, Roncoo Conkling hurry to the ^UJ) or without a shot-gun? Where,,wae it that the grisly John Sherman rallied and how far? What flag (and where did tho gory Arthur wrap himself around??Greenville Neida. - . -* * ?.' ? ??. - ?"If I have ever used my unkiftd' words, Hannah," said, Mr. Smiley, rq? lketively, "1 will take them all.back." "Yes, 1 suppose yOu want to use them, over again," was the riot very soothr ing reply.