Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Title and Wealth. "When tho American girl lavishes her smiles and her preference upon the handsome youth of good family and great fortune, does she prove herself to be a snob? If her feeling could be analyzed, it would bo sim ply this, that silo would willingly marry bira as the condition of an nmplc gratification of her social atn 1 itions and tastes. Her marriage w otild secure her the best social posi ti n, and supply her with tho splen did environment which sho desires. Tl e young English girls sets all her smiles in the same way for a dissipa ted young marquis, let us suppose, ig noi ant, boorish, and poor. But arc not her feeling's and purpose the same as iboso of her American sister? Is not her motive tbo same desire of the bes social position and the gratifica tion of splendid tasteB? And is this wb-t is meant by snobbery? Evi den.ly Thacheray'a lance was thrown at omctbing more than this, and one of i bo shrewdest of women says that vei.' snobbery is worship of rank as inn king a higher order of humanity. Tb ? English girl, says this authority, dot s not look upon the marquis as the American girl looks upon the 3'o< ug millionaire, but she thinks him to I e a superior being and his will ing' ess to marry lier a condescension. Tbi I is the degradation of snobbery, she argues, that a mere accident, or son Pining wholly apart from the cba acter or endowment of the person, like the form of Iiis nose or the color Of Ms hair, should overcome another per-jn as a kind of celestial superi ority. No American girl can under stai d that anybody is her superior me oly because he is of a certain family or or a recognized runic, and she would laugh until sunset at the suggestion that a man called a* duke did her a favor, or condescended to be:, when be promised to marry her. ?n ?bbery, according to thin view, is tb worship of rank?a worship w deb levels all moral and mental di .Unctions and cats up the soul. Bat the desire of mono}* in the case o the American also levels such dis t nctions and in the same way. This i-? not an essential difference between the feeling which impels a woman to marry a marquis because of his rank, however poor, and ignorant, and re pulsive be may be, and that which persuades her to marry a millionaire Iecause ofbi;> money. Snobbishness ia the sacrifice of time,* and labor, and t bought, and energy, in fact, of life, lo mere worldly display. Tbo woman who laughs at the pretensions of so cial rank and noble title, yet who gives herself for a fortune, is no less a snob than her sister who gives her self for a coronet. In the one case the coronet stands for all that the jortune implies in the other. If in deed rank bo held to be indicative of something superior, yielding to it is more respectable than surrender to. mere money. Not many miles from New Bed ford a small company of colored brethren decided to take up a eollec tion. The presiding olliccr offered to pass the bat himself, and in order to encourage the others, be put in a ten cent piece. After the collection, dur ing which every hand bad been in the hat, tbo President approached the table, turned the hat upside down, and not even bis own contribution dropped out. lie opened bis eyes in astonishment and exclaimed: uFo* goodness, but I'zo eben loss de ten cents I started out wid 1" The pre siding officer demanded the restora tion of the ten cent piece. But no body came forward. After an im pressive pause a brother remarked, solemnly, "Dar 'penis to be a great moral lesson round lienh soincwhar." Will ex-Judge Cookc kindly cast bis eye over the county election re turns and then lurnish a diagram of the chasm?the cavity?the hole as it were, that lie made in the Democratic party when ho left it??Greenville News. How to Mind a Baby? First, a man must needs bavc one to take care of. It isn't every one that is fortunate enough to have one, and when he docs his wifo is always wanting to run over to the neighbor's only live minutes, and be has to at tend to the baby. Sometimes she caresses hini, and oftcner she says, sternly : "John, take good care of tbo child till I return." You want to remonstrate, but. can not pluck up courrge while that awlul I female's eye is upon you ; so you pru dently refrain, and merely remark : "Don't stay lp.ug, my dear." 1 Sho is scarcely out of sight when tbo luckless babe opens its eyes, and its mouth also, and emits a yell which causes the cat to bounce out of the door as if something bad stung it. You timidly lift the cherub and sing an operatic air; be does not apprcet ciatc it; and yells the louder. You try to bribe him with a bit of sugar ; not a bit of use, bo spits it out. You get wrathy and shako him. He slops a second, and you venture an other, when, good heavens ! he sets up such a roar that the passers by look up in astonishment. You fuel desperate, your hair stands on end and the pers piration oozes out of every pore as the agonizing thought comes over you, what if the luckless child should have a lit. You try baby talk ; but "litty, litiy lainby" has no effect, for he stretches as il a red-hot poker had been laid upon his spine, and still be yells. You are afraid the neighbor hood will be alarmed, and give him your gold watch as a last resource, just intime to save your whiskers; though he throws down a handful oi your cherished mustache to take the watch, and you thankfully Und un oasy chair to re>t your aching limbs when down comes that costly watch on the floor, and the cause of all the trouble breaks into an ear-splitting roar and you set your teeth and prepare to ad minister persona! chastisement, when in rushes the happy woman known as your wife, snatches the long suffering child from your willing arms, ami sit ting down, stills it by magic, while you gaze mournfully at the remains of your watch,and cherished mustache and muttering a malediction on baby kind in general, and on the image of his father in particular, vow never to tuke caie of a baby again?until the next time. The Lancaster Ledger learns that Mr. Robert Parker, who was sentcne cd to two years in the penitentialy from Union County, for the killing of Mr. Leander Stack about twelve months ngo, and who was pardoned out of the penitentiary ubout two months since, was waylaid and shot with a gun loaded with buckshot while ploughing iu his held on Satur day nvooiug last. Thy assassin con cealed himself iu a patch of woods! and shot Mr. P. as bo turned bis horse at the end of the row. It is hoped that the wounded man will re cover. It is to be regretted that at the closing meeting of the grand cam paign which bad been conducted so successfully by our leaders, that a sad accident occurred at Bennettsville in the presence of a vast concourse of people; There was great enthusiasm but a pall of gloom was cast upon all by the sad accident caused by the ? premature discharge of a cannon. William Bowyor lost both arms and Archie McCall, a brother of Senator! McCall, lost his left arm. They arc both doing well. "She dresses quietly," is tbo com ment of one of the fashion journals on a well-known belle. It is an ab surdity. When a young lady dresses there is more rattling around and banging about than a little, and call ing for this and for that, and slam ming doors and breaking off bureau knobs, and?and?and we have often wondered bow nhe stood it so well. We don't believe a woman ever dress ed quietly. Dancing. Dr. Butler, in his "Land 8f the Veda," shows tho estimation in which the heathen regard dancing : "No man in India would allow his wife or daughter to dance ; and as to daucing with another man, he would be certain to for?akc her forever as a woman lost to virtue and modesty, if she were to attempt it. In their ob servation of white women, there is nothing that so much perplexes them as the fact that fathers and husbands will permit their wives and daughters to indulge iu promiscuous daucing. No argument will convince them that Ibis act is such as a virtuous woman sVouid practice, or that its tendency \f. not licentious. The prevalence of the prnclico iu 'Christian' nations makes our holy religion?which they suppose must allow it?to bo abhor red by manj' of thorn, and often it is cast in tho teeth of our missionaries while preaching to them. But what would these heathens say, could they enter our operas and theatres and sec the shocking exposures of their per sons which our public women there present before mixed assemblies ? Yet they would be much more aston ished, that ladies of vir'ue and repu tation should be found there, accom panied by their daughters, to witness the sight, and thai, loo, in the pres ence of the other sex ! But then thoy are only hoalheiiB, and don't appreci ate the high accomplishments of Christian civilization ! Still, heaven grant that the future church of India may ever ictain at least this item of the prejudice of their forefathers 1 Dancing forms no part of a daughter's education in India, and never will? unless they become corrupted by Christian example." A Horrible Death. John Turnbull met with a horrible death on tffc night of the 30tb at Monteilb, a small station on the Sa vannah and Charleston Hailroad, and about sixteeu miles dis'.ant from Sa vannah. It is supposed he was try ing to get a free ride on the accommo dation passenger train, which leaves Savannah at 10 o'clock, and that in trying to eccuic bis position between two of the cms he missed his bold and was thrown under the wheels which passed over his body about the abdo men, frightfully crushing him and producing almost instant death. The car was thrown ofl the Irack. The body of the unfortunate uiau was placed in one of the freight boxes and carried to the city. The coroner was notified, and ttpou viewiug the body ordered its removal to the dead bouse at the Hospital and adjourned the inquest until 10 o'clock this morn ing. Shot in Church, A citizen just from Rock Hill! brings intelligence of a fatal occur rence there Sunday night. At the church for colored people during the night service a small darkey was sud denly seized with a desire to make a' contribution. Being without the! necessary funds he bethought him of a dollar pistol which he had in his pocket and taking that out negotiated with anothci small brother for the loan j of a iiickle, giving the weapon as col I lateral. Tbc hohler of the collateral ! was examining bis pledge shortly af 1 tor when it accidcntlly went oil depos* I iling its load under the ear of the or iginal owner named Jim Gooch, kill j ing him almost instantly. A coroner I jury was empanelled and found these i facts.?Charlotte Observer. Mr. W. G. Gooding, Treasurer of Hampton County, S. C, oilers a rc ward of five hundred dollars for the I delivery of ids valise and contents, I consisting of gold and .silver coin, ' United States Treasury Notes, Na- I I tional Bank bills, silver certificates, 'Court tickets, drafts, etc., amounting in all to about 83,055, which was stolen from bun on tho night of the ; 7th of October, at Gitlisonville, in Hampton county, or a proportionate reward for whatever amount may be recovered and so delivered. I A Stranger's Mistakes. A few days ago a Western mer chant who wanted to do some sight seeing and buy his Fall stock at the 8amo;,tituc, entered a dry goods job bing-house on Broadway, and accost ed tue first person he met with, "Are you file proprietor here ?,' "Not exact ly tljc proprietor," was the reply. "At jprcscnl I am ncling as shipping clcrlii.but I am cutting my cards for a partnership next year by organizing noon]prayer meetings in the base ment;" Tl* stranger passed on to a very important looking personage with a diamond pin, and asked : "Arejou the head of the house ?" "W^oll, no ; I can't say as 1 am at prescht, hut I have hopes of a part nership in January. I'm only one of the travelers just now, but I'm laying for a 0200 pew in an up-town church, and that will mean a quarter interest here in less than six months." The next man had his feet up, his hat back and a twenty cent cigar in his mouth, aud looked so solid that the stranger said : "You must run this establish ment?" "Me? Well, I may run it very soon. At present I'm the book keeper, but I'm expecting to get into a choir with Uli old man' darling and become an equal partner here." The stranger was determined not to make another mistake. He walk ed around until he found a trail with his coat off aud busy with a case of goods, aud he said to him. "The porters arc kept piety bnsy in here, I see." "Yes," was the brief reply. "But. I suppose you are planning to invent a gospel hymn book aud sing the old man out of ai> eighth ln te'ro^ti. wcJnt you ?" "Well, no, not exactly," was the quiet reply. I'm the old man him self." And all that the stranger said, af ter a long minute spent in looking the merchant over, was : "Well, durn my buttons I"?Wallstreet 2fcws. Tolerance. Mr. II. J. Pulton published a card denying the charge that he voted the Radical ticket, and we believe him for many reasons. Tho people of our country must learn one thing, how ever. While every possible lawful meaus rmould be used to show our scorn and hatred of the man who votes for n Radical Stale or ^county ticket, that hostility should not be ex tended to the Northern mau who is a Republican in National politics. Good and true men there as we think in error, support Garflcld aud Arthur, and coming among ua ao selUeiu or visitors should be welcomed and made comfortable and happy. It ie only the oaipetdmggers seeking cilice, ami the inalignanls, native or foreign, who associate with negroes, slander us, and seek to put thieves over us, that should be made to feel the weight of public wrath. Let the lino be sharply drawn?the utmost tolerance and freedom in National politics, but a speedy punishment for supporters of local thieves and ignoramuses. We want immigration. Only (he men who will spend their lime in arraying negroes against whites and promo ting l.'ic destruction of the State arc itnwelcome.? Greenville News. The Columbia licyisler is responsi ble for the following : "One of Gar field's coloied supporters was arguing on Main stiect yesterday that the reason Hancock was not elected was becnuso he was an Irishman. This in tclligent suffragan swore that he could produce a man who had the pa pers that would show that General Hancock was an Irishman, ami that he was born in Rhode Island. ! It was reported on Wednesday in the up country that .Judge Cooke had been killed in Greenville on the day of election, ami some of his friends were very uneasy. It afterwards transpired that the .Judge was politi cally killed only. Bishop Doggott. ? After a protracted illness, Rev. Da vid Seth Doggctt, D. D., Bishop of tho Methodist Episcopal Church* South, died at his home in Richmond, Va., Wednesday night, October 27, 1880. This intelligence will occasion grief and mourning throughout the church and country. Bishop Doggctt was a line scholar, an- able minister, and humble Christian gentleman, and was justly held in high esteem as a wise and an impartial Superintend ent of the Church. His death, which, at any time, would have been a pub lic calamity, occurring just in the midst of tho sessions of the Annual Conferences, and when his remaining Episcopal colleagues have scarcely tin e and strength to meet their own appointments, falls with peculiar and atllicting weight on the Church. The members of the South Caroliua Conference have been greatly pleased at the prospect of having him to pre side at their session in December. However well bis place may be filled by another the South Carolina Con ference will feel sad and sorrowful when they assemble next month in Marion, and find that the beloved brother, Bishop Doggctt, is not there. God has taken bis faithful servant to himself, and would thus remind the laborers remaining in the vineyard to work while it is day, and to be also ready. Bishop Doggctt was born in Lancaster County, Va., 1810; entered the ministry wbeu a young man ; was elected Bishop in 18GG, and was about 70 years old when he died.?Neighbor. A spirited shooting affray of short duration took place at Helton, Ander son County, on lust Tuesday. It appears that a negro from Honea Path, who had been seeu at that placo in the morning, attempted to vote at Helton at about half.past 12 o'clock. His vote was challenged by a wbito man who* hud seen him at Honea Path and who had reason to believe he had voted there. The ne gro dcuied the fact and gave the white man tho lie, when ho was slap ped in the face. Tho negro then drew a pistol and fired it, when pis tols were drawn by white and color ed and several shots were fired. It was supposed that two of the negroes, including the one who started the trouble, had been wounded, but noth ing was known about it late in lite af ternoon, as they bad run oil" and could not bo found. Two white men were slightly touched but not injured by the (lying missies. All was over in a few moments and the voting continu ed as though nothing had happened. ? As to slouehy wives, we have no charity for them; we would ignore their existence if we could. Many wonder at the great reluctance on bUU pldblM _) willig IJICIl Ul VJ-viuj luui rying ; uut when we see the frowsy heads, the untidy dressing of the wives of the young men who are married, we cease to wonder. It is a little singular that women think it ne cessary before marriage to "fix up" and look always at their best to win and keep the loves of their sweet heat ts, but think it altogether unne cessary after marriage. Were women as particular to keep themselves looking becoming and to bo always in the best of humor when wives as when sweethearts, we would have fuwer slighted and misused wives in our land. And a tidy, painstaking' I wife will always make a husband less1 careless and slouchy. A man with a slouch wife, bo he ever so "starchy," never cares much for his own appear ance. The Census Bureau has issued n bulletin showing the results of the first count of the population of the Stale of South Carolina according to the schedules returned by the enumc I nators. The total population of tho I State is 995,306, of which VA0?2.rH I ate males and '504,979 females; : 987,964 are natives, and 7,642 for Jeijin born. The wjiiies number 381, 1071, and the colored people.001,325. Shooting at DueWe?C^u W. R. Dunn, white,, w'dd "shot at Due West on election day Iry CytUA^. Wimbush, colored. Mr. D?nn:*?fc'Jl coming into town and Wimbusk waa leaving and met in the upper part of . tho place near Prof. Hood's when tbe^, shooting occurred. One ball grazed,, i the side of Mr. Dunn's faco andione" passed through his Coat ,in,: fr^?tr"'J across his breast. He made^.uitr^^ | escape. Wimbush lied and aftcv lerwards surrendered himself to thai ; authorities and was brought to jail Tuesday night where he'a^afwiuifa'. St clal investigation pt J. jtfyfTjjCtiajf^^j^* against him. Wirobnsh, is a colored. politician of some notoriety. Mr.,? \ Dunn is a successTul'farmer nhd lives o near Donaldsonvillb.~3/c,dntm.,? ???oilll -1*??Ua ?Montr1, Im? 90( A sewing machine agent 1n drying u through Monroe Coahtyj Kentucky? J a. drew up before a cottage and asked a ; 'I beardless sixteen-year o\?\botfe'ianff-1' J mg in the yard if his mother, was ,0?,^ home. "She is, but she dQo'<biliY& i here," he answered. "I'm the bead^iu of this house." Finding th&bby; ttHFa1. ried, the agent wont inside' ajf$Jfh*^ countered a child, whq said ^hdWkd\ the boy's wife, and that when she wosm i raanied she was not eleven years old. "What on earth did you marry forr* 9 asked ths agent. "What do' M(ia'li folks marry for?" the cUi^ci ,^epl/p4M*.a The boy said that he inteuded to buy;: aeewing machine for his wife wiwhlui she got old enough to sew. ^Gdmif1'"1 around iu three or four1 ye&V&'hV'0 ?in i ?tu .1 t'? ?* Tumi said, "and I'll take one." .,? VJii lloqo fc Mnrk Twain said to Geiij1 f^^m^t ? Hartford: "When Welling^ nffrW?i?f Waterloo, a battle about on?dr. lavebi j* with some dozen of your :vrdtorieVit*' sordid England tried* to pa^ tyn1Htor'nl that aervico with . wealth ajud ^anid-^* cur; she made him a duke end,gnyq ? him $4,000,000. wif you hmlrfttamtn and suffered for any other1 country < * what you have doue and suffered fov your own you would havo bee- affron ted in the same sordid wajj*, ? will probably rank as Mark's b^atjqitq^^ Grant has been often "affjontecV'.bjtnc having sordid things offered bim\ aud >! we have yet to hear of ?ny '/or th^r?OT "affronts" being refused:-' . 1 'V"H Judge Kersbaw, who W^prtifcW^p* of an anti-duelling society, sail! irj'^ia .'^ charge to a Sparlanburg Grand Jury*ni "If the duel is to bo tolerated at alla it 19 due to our people that it ?h??l? - bo oponly legalized and 1 ie^Mle'fl1* under the. law, and the Cod,p qf.Hon^ or, so-called, in some form sproagMj upon the statute book.- If thuxiuel i were thus sanctioned byHWOm^VwV* this form of homicide ^ga^Ze'd^Wc?1* would nt least comprehend tliq nec^-^ sity of training our sons from infancy ? to the skillful use of the: pistol,>re-> verse our ethical system, and omit' from the Lord's prayer so miipb/'kV* dot.)) teach us mercy' " .7*'"** f55 _J .11 'lUd'Jl bu Tub Western women wb^ffO^'fif* Boston to kill the author , of,rtyenjpi/^ lowing story must go to tke.->oUlfj{M|f? the Commercial Bulletin? **Iaf <youY? programme full. aHoo n^4^tr,?!e^f*J asked a young man ot a W^jBterri damsel who had just struggled out of the refreshment room with disappoint ment in her eye and nn ;4,rtrdop?iofl dances" in her hand. "lVbgtamme* full?" said the ^augllf^r^l^^^lOT? Sun, "Waal, I guess not.J,:,,^ (ja'pajf had nothing but a piece-of ?akoMtinj| an ice cream, nn' th?t dOrM go<?ft4a toward filling my progrdriinibi ^'rifrTrf ? b?ni 'iliiinf tut \? 1(5,1 y?u- _ . ? ... ..ul j?4uj On Saturday la?t, In. tlm.rjf ighbor liood of lJlairsville, Deputy., Sdjoriir Thomas II. Glonn, nssiMed by J. Carroll and Robt. ' T.' Riggings** tempted to arrest Isaac Ca,sll6&,r?& ored, on a warrant sc'?'i.fo ^'^M^ of this county from. Chester.^p^ac at tii st dented his idunlity,;but, wh^a it was (ully established,'U*?lrJ?e*l?4 Colt's revolver and attempted totects tlwt pfNwe, vriKs*- Carrollrir^h jlife pistol at Isaac, inflicting ^''aiigljt wound. He was then arro^Uidiarfl brought to this place and committed tojaU.?l'orfcviVic Enquirer, < t?. .)