The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, March 21, 1882, Image 1

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THE SUMTER WATCHMAN, Established April, 2 S50 kBe Just and Fear not-Let all tho Ends thou Aims't at. be thy Country's, thy God's, and Truth's. THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established June, JS66. ?imsoli?ate? Aug. 2, 1881.1 SUMTER, S. C., TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 1882. Nev?' Series-Yoi. I. Xo. 34. %j\z Mailman t? ?m^m l Publi3li?i 67sry Tuesday, -BY THE Watchman and Southron Publishing Company, SUMTER, S. C. TERMS : . Two Dollars per annum-in advance. ADVERTISEMENTS. One Square, first insertion.Si 00 S very subsequent insertion. 50 Contracts tor three months, or longer will be made at reduced rates. All communications which subserve pr?vate nterests will be charged for as advertisements. Obituaries a?d tributes of respect will be charged for. Marriage notices and notices of deaths pub? lished free. For job work or contracts for advertising address Watchman and Southron, or anply at the Office, to N. G. OSTSEN, Business Manager. CHERAW :AND DARLINGTON AND CH ERA W ^ _AND SALISBURY RAILROADS. . :FRESI0KX??S OFFICB. . . SOCIFTV KILL. S. C., M:iv 23. ISSI. ON AND AFTErt THIS DA-TKj TRAINS on these Roads will run ai follows,-every except Sunday. Leave Vfadesboro. 8 40 a ra I Leave Bennett's. 9 00 a ra j Leave Morren. 9 ?5 a m Leave .VeFarlan .?.... 9 25 a m Leave Cheraw.... 10 lo a m Leave Society HUI. 10 50 a DU J Le:;ve Darlington. ? I 35 a m j Arrive at Florence.12 10 p m CP. Leave Florence. 12 ?0 p ra Leave Darlington...... 1 20 p ra Leave i>ociety Hill. 2 10 p ra Arrive at Cheraw. 2 50 p ra Arrive at Wadesboro. 4:15 p m The freight train will leave Florence at 6 SO A ] M every day except Sunday : making th? rou ud trip to Cheraw every day; snd to Wadesboro ns often as may be necessary-keeping out of tue way of passeRger train. ? D TOWNSEND. President. simm mimi, Direct importation. PERUVIAN GUANO, Direct from the Agent -of the Peruvian Gov? ernment. FISH GUANO, 6@8 uer cent. Ammonia. NOVA SCOTIA LAND PLASTER. Sooth Carolina Ground Phosphate, Fine Ground and High Grade. HEMAO?LWIMLE, KERR'S WBARFj CHARLESTON, S. C. Jan 17__3m WOLD RELIABLE ! -ONE O F THE BEST NEWSPAPERS IN THE SOUTH. -o Sensationalism ! &c Immorality ! ATOUSTA (irais aii Ci?Meiailsi 1882. SUBSCRIBE FOE IT ! -o THE CHRONICLE AND CONSTITU? TIONALIST is the oldest newspaper in the South, and perhaps the oldest in the j United States, having been established in j 1735. While thoroughly Democratic in prin- I ciple, It is liberal, progressive and tolerant. \ The Chronicle contains the latest news from I all parts of the world, and is recognized as a ! first class paper. As an advertising medium, it covers the country in Georgia and South Carolina tribu? tary to Augusta. We endeavor to exclude sensationalism. We publish no articles of aa immoral charac? ter. TERMS : Daily, one year.$10 00 Tri-Weekly, oue year. 5 CO Weeklv, one year. 2 00 Address, WALSH & WRIGHT, jan24-td Augusta, Ga. PAVILION" HOTEL, CHARLESTON, S. C. THIS POPULAR AND CENTRALLY located HOTEL having beet- entirely renovated during the past Summer is now ready for the reception of the traveling public. Popular prices $2 and 2.50 per day. Special rates for Commercial Travelers. E. T. GAILLARD, Oct 25 Proprietor. THE AIM?B-?0??SE" CORNER OF Tand?rhorst and King Sts ? HAVING BEEN LEASED BY Reriot, (Formerly of 190 Meeting-St.,] IS NOW OPEN f??r J ?J? accommodation Boarders. Parties visiting Ciurleaton i find this House conveniently sunatcd f.?r hu.-i- i ness, and directly on the ?in? ?.f S:r?vf Kail w?y. j Terras, per day. fr> m $5 25 to $? 50. ** 4* monti), frotn $25 'HI io S:!?' iii), according to location of rooms-5re extra. Feb 13 "HILBEBSTHOUSET 284 King Street, vent to Masonic Tem? ple, Charleston, S. C. Rates Si-50 per day, reduced rates by the week or month, According to location of rooms. This house, so well ar.d favorably known as being a strictly first-class boarding house, is centrally located, accessible to wholesale and retail stores, theatres, and places ot" in? terest, and especially desirable for business men or families visiting the city; nothing be ?pg neglected to make its guests comfortable. Ask for carriage at depot.-Respectfully MRS. 3. H?L3ERS PUOWUSTI?KSS Sept 20- 1*3L_ TBHE GRMlTcmilAL HOTEL COLUMBIA, S. C. HAVING renewed my Lease of "The Grand Central Hotel" fer a term of years, I beg leave to inform the Public that'Ju; House has been thoroughly re-painted, ."nd is now furnished with new and improved Black Walnut Furniture. Wire Spring Beds with best Hair Mattresses, Ve!vet and Brussels Carpets. Electric Annunciators connect v.iib every room, and xh^. Hotel is connected through toe Columbia Telephonic Exchange with every prominent place of businr-ss ; throughout the City. These advantages, with j competen: attendants, war nun rue ir; assuring j the traveling Public as good accommodations as the Sooth can afford. JOHN T. WILLEY, Proprietor. __Sept 20 3m COUTOBIA HOTEL B. N. LOWRANCE, Proprietor co LI: MU?A., s. c. Table, Room.- and Servants First-class. RATES REASONABLE, _Sept 20-2U? _ &??BBSB STAMPS^ " NAME STAMPS FOR MARKING ti LO TH INS wi-h iinde?iible ink, cr for ?rin?iag vieiting cards, and STA33PS OF AXT Kf ND Cat on C. P. 0?TbEN, flt Watfth?35 35d Ssuthroa O?cs, WILMINGTON, COLUMBIA AND AUGUSTA R. R. C>S and alter Jail. 1st. 1SS2. the following / schedule will ba run on this Road : MG ST. EXPRESS AND MAJL TRAIN. (Daily ) (Nos. 47 Weit and 4S East.) Leave Wilmington.10 15 pm Arrive a Florence. 2 20 am Leave Florence. 2 50 a m Leave Sa Titer. 4 20 a m Arrive at Columbia. . 6 lo .a m Leave Columbia.,.10 00 p m Leave Sumter... .12 OS a m Arr?'/e at Florence.. 1 34 a ai Leave Florence. I 52 a m Arrive :it VvVil:nVD?;on. 6 20 a tu Tbi< Train only at Brinkley's, White ville. Flem:n?ion. Fuir LIul?. Marbi?. Florence, TimmonsviRe. Mnyesville. Sumter, Camden Junction ami Eastover. TUR'?Uen KEE JG OT THAIN. Daily, excepi Sundays. Leave Florence. ll 40 p tn Leave Sumter. 2 2S a tn Arrive at Columbi*. .- 5 30 a m Leave Columbia. . 5 00 p ra Leave Sumter.-. S 20 p ni Arrive at Florence. . ll 10 p tn LOCAL F;:I::GHT-(Daiiy except Sunday.) Leave Florence. G 00 a tu Arrive at Sumter.. !0 55 a m Leave Sumter.Jl 40 a m Arrive at Columbia . 4 00 p m Leave Columbia. 7 00 a m Arrive at Sumter.ll 15 a m Leave Su tn ter.12 15 p m Arrive at i ioreuce. 5 10 ? iu A; POPE, G. P. A JOHN" F. DIV IX E. fiener.nl Sup'r._ Columbia and Greenville Rail Scad. PASSENGER DEPARTMEXT, COLUMBIA. S. C.. August 31. ISSI OX AXD AFTER THURSDAY. September 1st, ISSI, Passenger Trains will run as herewith indicated, upon this road and its briacbes-Daily except Sundays : Xo. 42 Up Passenger. Leave Colombia (A).ll 20 a m Leave Alston.._.i2 2C p m Leave Xewbcrry. 1 2t p m Leave IL.dges. 3 52 p ra Leave Belton .. . 5 05 p m Arrive at Greenville.-. 6 27 p m Xo. 42 Down Passenger. Leave fi reen ville at.10 33 a ni Leave Beit?n.il 57 a tn Leave ilodg. s.'.. 1 12 p m Leave Xe w uer ry. 3 47 fi m Leave Alston. 4 4fi p ra Arrive at Columbia (F). 5 5U p tn SJPARTANBCRG, UMOS it COLUMBIA ll. R. Xo. 42 Up Passenger. Leave Alston. 12 40 p ni Leave Sparranburg.S U & C Depot (B) 4 ?3 p m Arrive Spnitauburg R ? D Depot (E) 4 12 p m Xo. 43 Down' Passenger. Leave Spartanburg K <fe D Depot (il) 12 4S p ru Leave Spartanbarg S U & C Depot (ti) 1 07 p ic Leave Union. 2 36 \> m Arrive at Aiston. 4 36 p ci LAUICCNS RAIL ROAD. Lea\e Newberry.?. 3 55 p tr. Arrive ai Laurens C- ii. 0 45 p m Leave Laurens C. II. S 3U a m Arrive at Xewberry.ll 30 a m ABBEVILLE BtiAS?H. Leave Hodges. 3 56 p in Arrive at Abbeville. 4 lo p m Leave Abbeville....12 I5nm Arrive ai Uodges. I 05 p m BLUE lliPGE il. R. & Asi>etts?N L'KANCH. Leave Le:ton... Leave Anderson Lea AV: Pendleton. Leave Sena ca ?C) Arrive at Walhall Leave Walhalla. L"=tve Seneca (L>).... Leave Pendleton . Leav? Anderson. -.1 ? 12 am Arrive at Kelton .114$ a; tn On and after above date through cars will be run between Columbia Olid llenderscnviile with? out cb litige. CONNECTION.'. A-"Wttu South Carolina Hail Road from Charleston,: wirb Wilmington Columbia & Au gusta R R from Wilmington and all points north thereof: with Charlotte, Columbia it Augusta Rail Load from Charlotte and points no?tb thereof. B_Witb Asheville & Spartanburg Rail Road for points io Western X. C. C-With A. & C. Div. R & h. R. R. for al] p< tuts South and West. ^-'.Vith A. ?fe C. Div. Pv. ? D. R. R. from At ia ?ta and beyond. E-With A i C. Dir. R. & D. ll. Ri for all points South and West. F-With r-outh Carolina Rail R?ad for Char liston : with Wilmington. Columbia it Augusta Rail Road ?or Wilmington and the Xortb ; w i h Charlotte, Columbia <fe Augusta Rail Road for C'fcirioire and the Xortb. C- With Asheville i Spartanbarg Rail Road fro m He adersonv il le. ii - With A. ? C. Div. R. & D. R. R. from Cha'lotie J; beyond: Stannard time used is Washington. D. C., which is fifteen minutes, fastor tbau Columbia. J W. FUT. Sup't. A. POPE. General Passenger Agent. An"n>T tit) ISSI tf. ScuiLi Carolina Railway Co,1 C'OMV.EXCLNG FEBRUARY Kitti. ?*S2.-? / Rassenger Trains on Camden Brauch wit! rm: as follows, until ?urther notice: EAST TO CoLUiiBIA. Leave Camden . 7 40 a in Leave Caji ie? Junction. 9 50 a lu Ai rive at Columbia .12 13 p m KK-T FttoM COLUMBIA-DAILY EXCEPT Sl-XDAVS. Ltave Columbia. 4 05 a ra... 4 15 p tu Arrive C???cd?*o junction. 12 i I p m... S Oil p m Arrive at Camden. 2 15 p III... 7 13 p tu KAM" TO CHARLESTON AND AUGUSTA Leave Camden. 3 t'U p sn Leave Camden June'. 4 I9p tn Arrive at Caar?e?ton. ?J OU p m Arrive at Augusta. 7 35 a m WEST FROM CHARLESTON AND AUGUSTA. Leave Charleston. 7 45 a m Leave Augusta. 4 45 j? tit j Arrive Camden June".12 ill p ti: : Arrive at Camden. 2 15 t? m j CbXSeCTloSS; j Columbia and (i?-?envtlle Ra ?road both way?, j for ail points on : ha : ?load ant on the Spar- j tunbtirg. Uni-:? and Co'uiubia and Sparta n.burg j a nd A.-hv?ie Railroad.-, also with tijo Char : ;>.i:c Columbia and Augusta Railroad U and j from a!! pointe North by Tains leaving Camden ai 7 40 a tu. and arriving at 7 15 p m. ?onueetb'iis made al Angus';- i-> all poiais : ''est. and .-out;:: also at Chariest ou with i Steamers Tor Xe? York and Florida-ou Wed ' r.'i.-days and Saturdays ? Trains n Catr.de : R:-a:*ch rmi daily except j Sunday. On main ??ne. Columbia and Ancus a Divisions, trains r u da.Iv. Pullman Cars are : run between Charleston and W}t>l;ii:^t..? on i tr. Ins arriving a: Columbia 12:13 and depart- ? ti.g at 4:15 i'. M. Local sleepers between Charleston. Columbia an I 4'nguMi Cm Saturday.- KO UND TR ii? Ti CR KI'S are j -obi t?< und from all Stations at one lir.-t class j fare lor r'tie round trip-tickets Sicing good titi j .Monday troon, to :eturn. Excur.-iou tickets ? .rootl f.-r IO days :?re regubirly on -ale to and j from ail stations at 6 cents {?tr mile f r round : trip. '?KROL'G?I TICKETS to all points., can bt ? nundi a s ed bv applying to Jumes Jones; Agent j it Camden. " D. C. ALLKX. (Jetterai Passenger and Ticket Agent. JOHN L\ PECiv, (Jene al Manager. Cbarleston, S. C. j H9RTH-E?STERN H. R: 00, QTJFER?NTENDEiSrP/S OFFICE, O XOUTiJEA?TEPiX RA I LRU AD GO. : CHARLESTON, S. ('., Jan. ?:'>. iHS?. On and after this date thc following Sche? dule will be run, Sundays included : Leave <'Marleston. Arrive Florence. 8 00 Ar. M.12 55 p. a. 4 40 V. M. 2 00 A M. 8 15 i*. M.1 30 A. M. Leave Florence- Arrive Charleston. ? '_' 40 A. M.0 r>o A. M. 11 :;"? A. M.i ::? v y.. V? 10 A. M.0 2tj A. M. Train ic-:-vi?:g Florence til 2 40 A. it. w? 11 . stop kr '.vny p:isscng?irs. J, I'. DIV IXE, Cen! Sunt. \ i>. L. CLEAT'Oii, G- n-Tl. Ticket Agent. _ timm mum ? sons," I J it Pt) ET Ki., J A .VD DEALERS i.\ Bf?iilts, Wises . anil Wmj 44 South-Slrcct, Baltimore, Md. \ December 9 1 O, TELL ME NOT CP HEAVEN? LY HALLS. 0, tell me not of heavenly halls, Of streets of pearls and gates of gold, Where angel unto angel calls '.Mid splendors of the sky untold : My homesick heart would backward turn To find this dear familiar earth, To watch its sacred hearth-fires burn, To catch its songs of care and mirth. Td lean from ont the heavenly choir To hear once more the red cock crow. What time the morning's rosy fire O'er hill and field began to glow. To hear thc ripple of the rain, The summer waves at ocean's brim, To hear thc sparrow sing again I'd quit the wide-eyed cherubim ! I care not what heaven's glories are I Content I am. More joy it brings To watch the dandelion's star Than mystic Saturn's golden rings. And yet, and yet,-0 dearest one. My comfort from life's earliest breath, To follow thee where thou art gone, Through those dim, awful gates of Death. To find thee,-feil thy smile again. To have Eternity's long day, To tell my grateful love,-why, then, Both heaven and earth might pass away. FLEEING FBOM A FORTUNE. -0 The sun rose propitiously bright on Grace Sylvester's wedding morn; the I air was balmy, the sky blue, and all j nature seemed in sympathy with the \ happy day. Present?}7 a stir awoke j in the household that soon swelled ; into a murmur of consternation. The j bride was missing-. Some one had ] gone to her chamber to awaken her j and found it empty. Immediately a j search was instituted, which proved i fruitless. The bridegroom was sent ! for, but he could offer no explanation; i like the parents, he was distiacted ! with auxiety. Grace Sylvester was a proud, ?m- ? pulsive girl, with a warm heart and I impetuous temper. She was an only j child, and somewhat spoiled, as was ! natural ; but nothing that could be j imagined or adduced could account j for this unheard of freak; she hud not j even fastened a note on the toilet- ! cushion as a key to the mystery, after j the custom of heroines. For a week : previous to this now unlucky day, the ! Sylvester mansiou had continuously j opened its hospitable portals to arriv- j in<r sruests. Friends and relations of, Mr. Frank Howard, thc expectant j bridegroom, crowded to do honor to i the occasion, which the Sylvester ? connection were no less eager to ! embellish with their presence. This ; singular occurrence, therefore, could ! not possibly be preserved a secret, ! and the chagrined and distracted host J and hostess had all the added misery ! of knowing that their daughter's inex- : olicable flight was the "subject of a!I ? sorts of surmises and discussions, by ,: those who, in set phrase, endeavored j to condole with them, and at the same j time hint at insanity as the only solu- i tion of such an unprecedented freak. ; Due a special gleam was soon des- '? tined to illuminate tito darkness, j Grace had not been unmindful of her i dear parents, or of her devoted lover, j A letter addressed to thc former had \ been dropped by her in the post- ; office, lt was brief, and evidently j written under the pressure of excite- j ment : but even in its fragmentary j haste, Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester could j trace their daughter's tenderness:.' and her lover, despite the undispelled j mystery of its tone, took consolation ; from it. Its contents may be render- j ed thus : She had left of her ow:: free will j arid unaccompanied, though she ad-i milted that she would be met at her i journey's end by a worthy guardian, i in whose care she would remain, and r who, at the expiration of a week, j would bring her home again ; until ! then, she begged they would wait for j her explanation, and above all forgive ; any pain or annoyance her hasty dis- j appearance had caused. ] This epistle, though gratefully rc-1 ceived, since it assured them ol' her ! safety, was not, of course, entirely j satisfactory to her parent and lover. ? Despite her promise to return, they j could not remain quiet till the expira-: tion of the time named, but sought j her ?ii every place ' *f as was evi- i dent from the security vf her retreat, ! Grace did not mean to be found till ? after the interval she had named. \ One by one, or in small parties, as ? they had conic, the wedding guests ! departed. They carried to their own ; houses a charmingly inexhaustible . thorne for gossip and wonderment. I Every one heid a separate solution j and theory and thc subject promised : to be one nf unusual variety and en- ! tertainmeut. But only one of them ; possessed any clue to the truth-and ; she, sly, insidious plotter that she was, had laid a train whose success i promised even beyond her hope, She i watched its development in silence. It was not her ene to spf'ak, but to j await the fulfilment of her design, and I so she lingered, professing the inten- \ sest sympathy for all, and at the same ; time contriving to bestow most of it j on Frank Howard, her distant cousin. ! This young lady; May Prescott by j name, had long been hopelessly in j love with her cousin Frank. She j knew that his heart was devoted 1 another, but had never had an oppor- ; t uni ty of seeing her rival li'i the gen? erous and unsuspecting Grace, wish? ing to give both her and Frank pleas- : ure, had asked her by letter to be one ! of her bridesmaids. May's darling object was then gain- . ed. She had unlimited faith in her . own power of creating discord, and j had secretly resolved ti? separate the j lovers and win Frank for herself, even ? at the eleventh hour. Her first interview with Grave cou j vinced her that ardenj/and impulsive . generosity were the ?tro!i? points of lier character. On 'Jieso sin- acted. 4 How odo ly the1, of };??< -aie j distributed,'7 said sb*> vi^>* sigh as j they wen? talk'"ng ti igether trlSJ.''^'^ : before tho wedd?nrr < "one \vNJ?'' think it was enough Uj get a beatvtmrN wife without grasping at a great for? tune, too; but then Fjauk al wa vg. had a keen eye for the main chance." Grace's face flushed a deep, ind nant crimson ; her full, bright e; flashed with sudden anger as she lo ed at -May Prescott steadily. "Pray explain yourself, Miss Pi cott," she said, "I do not u?dersfx you in the least. "What! Have yon never heard the will of Frank's eccentric old T cle Paul ? But I v.m sorry ; perhi I have done wrong in mentioning No doubt he meant to deceive you no, no ! I don't mean that-I mc perhaps he did not wish you know." She affected to be overcome w confusion at her own inadvertem and pretended to regret having si so much. Grace quietly but firn demanded to know all. "You have said too much to cede," she exclaimed, "tell all thc is to ten." This was just the opportunity M desired. She arose to see that t door was closed : then, satisfied th she and Grace were aloco togetln she poured in to her victim's ear t story, whose result was Grace's flig from home. The week passed anxiously cnou? to the three people who were wait ii the wayward bride's return. The a pointed day came, and early in t morning a carriage stopped before t Sylvester mansion, and Grace aligl ed from it, followed by an oid nu rs of whom she had always been fon and whose presence explained tl fact that Grace had been staying her home, not five miles away. Gra< walked into the house with an air mingled triumph and deprecatio After the strange greetings we over, Mr. Sylvester, with attempts sternness, demanded the promise explanation and this was the stojy "Tne night before my wedding da; I learned from some one who tlieugl I already knew it, that Frank wi about to inherit $100,000 upon a vet strange condition. His uncle ha died and left that amount to him, pr vided he married me within a y Qi after the testator's death/' "I had never seen this uncle, bi a^ I learned from my informant, I had met me by chance in one of th New York hospitals, and after takin the trouble to inquire my name, an no doubt satisfying himself of th suitability of the connection, he mad up his eccentric mind iii at Fran should marry me, or lose a large fo tune in the event of disobeying hi command. "Now, tnough I aro deeply oblige for thc distinguished honor meant m by the deceased, I positively dedin to be bartered away to any one at stated price. "It was sufficiently embarrassiu to me to know that the old gentleme was attracted by a whim of mine, an mistook it for characteristic virtue The facts is, during that winter-m; first in New York-I was siezod wit a fancy to vary my round of pleasure by an afternoon among the sick, t< whom I carried the ever-welcome gif of fruits and flowers, and it was whil I was distributing these offerings tha the matrimonial project occurred t< Frank's uncle. Do you not understand, and cai you not sympathize with me ? Had remained here, no explanation couU have altered the ca?o, and I shouk inevitably have become Frank's bride under circumstances alike painful t< my love of truth and selfrespect. i have always declared that I would b< loved for myself alone, not for quai i ties I did not possess, nor the mono} of a whimsical old gentlemen " She drew a long breath as she fin ished her recital, and held out hei hand with her own wiuuing frank noss. "The last week of the year expired yesterday," she said, with and unmis? takable sparkle of triumph in her handsome eyes. "Jf you take me now, Frank, it must be all for love. There's no longer any money in thc question." "With all my heart !*' cried the in? dulgent lover. "Since you have come back to me of your own free will, and have no further objections to make to our union, I consider myself one of the happiest and most fortunate of bridegrooms." Ile caught (j race's pretty, un reluctant hand in his and pressed it raptuously vo his lips, with a smile quite as triumphant as her own and a glance whose intense and mischievous meaning w.as not ex? plained until after the quiet wedding, at which May Prescott was the guest, for Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester's pru? dence and worldly wisdom still con? demned their impulsive daughter's escapade, though their partial tender? ness forgave her. "You .have chosen poverty in pre? ference to wealth," they said, "and so must be content to do without the grand wedding we had contemoiatod." Grace submitted with the best hu? mor possible ; she had tested Frank's love and gained her own end, and all was bright before her inexperienced eyes. After the wedding, Frank asked his bride : "Are yon quite satisfied with your choice of poverty and glad that your marriage occurred to-day instead of a week ago ?" "I am perfectly delighted," Grace answered. "Will you lake a little wedding gift from me, as I have not yet pre? sented you with one ?" Frank asked meekly. "With pleasure," Grace answered, as she extended her haml, expecting j to receive a"jewel case. But instead of t hat, a ponderous legal document was produced, at which Grace gazed j in blank surprise. j Then Frank explained that, des-1 pit<- ?viiss Prescott's kind interest, in j their ?iMairs, the I? .ene was not ! st, ; as she had made a siighi misoaleula-i t.i"i; In dates; and his uncle s discern? ment i?; selecting so channing a wife fir him had made him tho happiest ol': men. * j May Prescott's chagrin at thc fail-1 i?n- of lier conspiracy, and the delight ??ferrace's "[?s^yeu?s rit hei good fori une . easily he KH^?giuod. j ^jtoice bore herp?artial defeat with I charming equanimity, as she was quite convinced, by some mental pro? cess of her own, thst she hud her hus? band's love. So she was reconciled to the possession of a fortune I Sullivan's Challenger. Egan "the Terror" of Troy Pressing tho Champion Pugilist ITarU. j Thomas Richard Egan, who cha!- j longed John L. Sullivan before his j fight with Ryan, has been persistent ! in his efforts to get up a match be- j tween himself and thc champion ever; since tue mill in tito South. Egan is i in Troy, and is known as "The Ter- j rot." The local feeling is very strong j fri Iiis favor, and it is said that there ; is plenty of money to book him. Ile j is described as a man of great surface ? muscular development, but lacking in j staying power, and decidedly "soft." j "The Terror''" wants to fight lot $2,500 a side, under thc rules of rho j London prize ring, and claims that j Sullivan evades him when he refuses ? to fight for les? than ?10.000 a side. Sullivan has offered "The Terror' $120 to stand up before him fur four rounds in a glove fight. Sullivan also oilers $100 to any pugilist in the world who will spar him four rounds j with gloves. Marquis of Queeusber- ? ry rules, at American Institute Hall, j which he has engaged for Mond ty ! night, the 27tb inst., "to show the citizens of New York how lie defeat? ed Paddy Ryan with ease." Tb these oportunilies "The Terror" ai? rways returns the same answer-he wants to fight with bare knuckles, ac? cording to the rules of the London prize ring and he won't put on the j gloves. In his last challenge lo j which Sullivan has not yet made a j formal reply, "The Terror" says : Ile need not hope to throw me o?r' by boasts about glove fights. Ile states that he has no desire to fight j with bare knuckles, for be fears to | make himself amendable to the law. My challenge was issued long before he made any such statement, and long before he refused to fight for less than $10,000. Paddy Ryan gave him a chance and fought him for ?2 500. Will he give me an equal chance fight for ?2,500, and defend his title ? While a Sun reporter was at the Police Gazette oihee yesterday, Frank Stevenson called and deposited $100 forfeit money with Air. Richard K. Fox, and issued a challenge for his man, C. W. Hadley, the colored pu? gilist, who says : Hearing so much bluffing and un? necessary newspaper notoriety from j Dick Egan, who styles himself the "Troy Terror," I will make a match to fight him with or without gloves, from six tveeks to two months from the time of signing articles, for $500 a side or upward. "lt looks as if 'The Terror' might be accommodated, if he's so anxious to fight," said Mr. Fox, "and lie seems to be. He says he wants lo fight Sullivan badly, and yesterday Sullivan's trainer. Billy Madden, j went up to Troy to see him. Mad- j den wanted Him to come down and put on the gloves before Sullivan, of- j fering him $125 for four rounds, as has been stated, but 'The Terror' wouldn't come. He sticks persistent? ly to his first proposition." "There are not many men who are anxious to get in front of Sullivan's knuckles ?" "Well, no; he's a terrific hitter. I don't think any one on this side of the water can match him. I'm in ne gotia'ion with man now whom I in? tend to send to England shortly to pick out the best man over there. Til bring him over, if he's good enough, and see what he can do with the champion." Horrible Ending of a Joke. A terrible warning to practical jokers is one offered in thc result of j one played on a young Ohio man al- j ready demoralized by reading light j literature of a biood-and-thuiuler kind, j and ready to believe in any m an i tbs-j talions of a supernatural and ghostly ; character. Ile believed tn ghosts and j nightly visitors, and always slept j with ;i revolver under his pillow for j the purpose of giving them a suita- j bio reception. Knowing his weak- I ness some of his young companions, ) after carefully drawing the charges j from the pistol, prepared to frighten ?. him. One of them elad in ghostly ; attire entered his room and wakened j him, slowly muttering. The boy 1 sat upright, trembling with fear. As j lite mutterings continued, he drew i his weapon, anti saying. "If you are ? a man, I shall kill you ; if yon are a j ghost, this won't hurt you ;" tired j the weapon. There was a quick ! motion of the shrouded, arm. and tho! bullet was thrown back, striking the ! bead board. He fired the remaining ? barrels, in every case the arm pre- j lending to catch the bullet, and throw 1 it against the head board. Then, for1 a moment he sat gazing at tho ; "ghost," and with a wild shriek of: terror, fired the last blank Cartridge, : and hurled the pistol at tin? object. With a laugh, tho visitor threw tiff his garments, and in came his com- ' rades, when, to their horror, they j saw on the young man's lace an ex- ; pression which told the story, iii*;' mind could not stand the strain. Ile ; was a raving maniac, and has not yet ; recovered. Game Law For tim benefit of all concerned we ! call attention to the following section i ol thc game law : SKCTIOX 1. That it shall not be law- j lui for any person in this Slate Ix;-j tween the 15th day of .Marc!: ami thc j loth day of September in any year lien tiller tn catch, kill, or it jin.' or to nnrsu.e willi sued intent, or to sc!! fo cxp!*se for s.:le> any wild turkey, ! partridge, dove; woodcock, or pheas? ant:; and any person found ge.!;! -, thereof tmaH bo lined mn 'ess ii ian . ten dellars or li'- imprisoned not l.-ss than ten days_?; ;:::<.. if imposed,, si: .! go one-half thereof to the ^rf'Ma?M i' and Iii*-: Other half thereof {<> the school hind ol' the County wherein j the offense wss committed. Aa Arkansas Guiteau. "Parson Timothy," saul 1 lie Judge to a colored man who had just boen arraigned, "you are charged with stealing Deacon Thompson's wife. 1 have known you fir years, and had always considered you an upright man And now, sir, that you are ar? raigned on so terrible a charge, with such overwhelming proof against you, I must confess that my faith in the colored part of humanity is greatly shaken by a severe chi? ?Voin the dark s ?vantps of deccpiion. As you ex? pect one flay to bc arraigned before a Uar from which there is no appeal, tell me, if you are guilty '{ Did you run away with Deacon Thomp? son's wife ?" "Jedge." replied Timothy, alter several minutes' reflection, "it. would take me some time to splain dis mat? ter ter de satisfaction ob de ' Court. But I'll try. I isa preacher, as ver? seif well knows, an' has assisted many j a man in tind?o' the Lamb-" "Yes broke in a witness, "'au" vcr j io uri' my sheep an7 stole it last fail, ; an' I ken probe it." "Silence?"' thundered the Judge, "or you will be stood on your head. The prisoner shall be protected- The Constitution of the United States de? clares in Holies that*prisoners are en? titled to the respect and Qoral tributes j of every man, woman and child in the country." "You are mighty Cou fed, Judge," said the prisoner. "As I was going to remark, ? love Deacon Thompson like a red mule loves oats. Yisitin' Iiis house often, I seed dat his wife gib him a great doa! ob 'noyance. I seed, sepentor some?hirr was done, dar would be split in de family. Arter studyin' de question seberal days I was inspired to remove A 'oman. De impulse was so strong dat I couldn't shake it off. Affairs grew wusser and wusser. At last I went ober ter de deacon's house an' reme ved de 'oman." The prosecuting Atterney then read several aflectionate le?crs that had been written by tho prisoner. "Judge/-' exclaimed the prisoner, "that Prosecuting Atterney is a fool an' I owe the witness ten cents for board. (Sensation in the Court? room.) I was inspired to remove woman." "Were you ever crazy ? asked the counsel for defense. "I should remark," answered the prisoner "I flung a hatchet at ole master 'fere de war, an' afterwards butt mv head agin a beech tree iii! - o it throbbed like a stono-brnse. J is a high-toned niggar, an' ef I hadn't come ter Little Rock I might bab staid away. Don't let bow-legged ike testify, fur I borrowed a shirt from him.'' Here a frisk}- negro stepped up ami struck the prisoner with a hoop pole. The prisoner in his excitement called tin; Judge a liar. Recess was then taken, Cturing which time the prisoner ate a boiled cabbage. After recess the prisoner acknowledged that he owed another witness ten cents. Then the Court adjourned. Lillie Hoch Gazelle. Must Guiteau Hang? A rica f?r a Commutation of his Sentence. To thc Editor nf Tuc JS'avs (md Cou? rier: lt cannot be denied that a great revulsion of feeling has come over the people of our country, both North and South, concerning the un? fortunate man, Guiteau, who is await? ing death in the United Stat?:-'a jail at Washington. Those who six months ago clamored for his death, are now beginning to say, "Poor fellow ! I am sorry for him !" and inasmuch as this is true, and. many have Come to be? lieve that his a:*t of violence upon our noble President was superinduced by a disordered brain, it does seem that something should be done to save the lunatic's life. That he is a lunatic has been fairly established. His actions since July last have bespoken nothing else; ami many of those whom we -nay call dis? interested persons who saw bim dur? ing the trial have boldly declared thal he is insane. The jury, however, who had his life in their hands, felt impelled by public opinion to pursue, the course they have tb!lowed. They realized that, in a spirit of^vindictive? ness at least, the American people were demanding Gniteau's death and borne away by the idea '.bat they could only please the people and gain popular applause by bringing in a verdict of mu; der, they did so. But will it not be ashame upon us to in? flict death upon the poor creature who believed he was acting under divine gai id an ce and inspiration when he tired the fatal bullet I But if anything is done to save him, and consign him to an asylum lor the insane, it mits* be ?loue through the voice of the Am rican people. Pres ide:it Arthur would not 'hive to com? mute his sentence or pardon him un? less the voice of the people demand? ed if. Therefore let us enter our protest. Let petitions be gotten up in every Slate in the I nion anal for? warded ti? Washington. Let us say that while we deprecate the crime, we are yet willing to pardon and save thc poof cr?mim?! who. sn.Hering from a disordered brain, eui off a great and nobie man b? the midst of his useful? ness. Tile writer beiives that we j should thus be accomplishing ;i great work of charity, and aiding in carry? ing out the strictest laws of justice anti truth. sn: sc v. In looking over ac old paper, a few days ago, we came across tho fellowing prices which prevailed darin:: the ivar, en vi which wdi carry tho minds of j many 'nacl; ta rho tino tsbieh trie"! j m. ti's son's, and re.-? k.?is, too; .]* teen. : fy? ,,; pet j.V'Und : fros!; beef. 70 o ;?r> ; :M:I:..? : ii. nu*. S !" ocr ha md ; corr. 1 un .?!. ft-l.oO nov bushel ef o<i pounds : ' rice. ?*v con's nov pound ; peas. So 50 ? :;>cr busbcl of nen m's: su car. orr neuro : coi too-, ;<0 per pound : cv: dies. lld por pound:: soap, S: per pound: vinegar, ,S- 50 per gal ion : s:dt, ! '?0 cents per pound.'-- Walhalla Courier, j Sweet Willie cn a Down Market. Tho 7)0X1 man was a short, stout, harshfaced chap, who had worried through the Winter without an over? coat; uni! perhaps without changing his linen. '.Xo use to ?sk if this charge of vagrancy is true, remarked His Honor as he surveyed tito prisoner. "Xot a bit of use, Judge: yon know it's false ?" was the ready reply. "W hat! do you deny that you are a vag ?" "Certainly ? do!" "Then what are you ?" "A gentleman and a speculator, sir. If you'll give me few minutes of your valuable time I'll make the most satisfactory explanation of my pres? ent appearance and financial embar? rassment." "(io ahead." "Well, sir, my name is Guilliame Epplic. To begin with, no vagrant owneel such a name. I am a specula? tor in grain, bonds; siher stocks ?and other things. When I make a strike I dress ?ike a prince and live high. When I lose I sieep in alleys and cut my expenses close. My iast specula? tion was a lose; therefore i am econ? omizing." "Four hundred shares, at. $10 each, in an invention to hatch fish by j steam. My partner ran away with ali the funds, arid left me fiat. In thirty days 1 shall be on my feet again." "How?" "I am after one li urn! red shares in Union Pacific. They are down to hard pan. and must react, (jive me thirty days and 1 will be in clover again." "I'll give you sixty," said the Court, after a pause. "Good ! I am a thousand times obliged. Everything is perfectly sat? isfactory." "Yes-sixty days in tho work house. April showers will be invig? orating the earth when yon come ont." "That was a base trick," said the prisoner, as he fell back ; and when out of ear shot of the Court he told Elijah that if he lived to serve ont his sixty days lie would send his Honor an infernal machine, and blow him five hundred feet high. She Wanted Comedy. Three months ago when a new ser? vant girl came to a Brase street fami? ly tho mistress said she desired to post tho girl in advance on otic cer? tain little point. She and her hus? band belonged to an amateur theatri? cal company, and in case Jane heard any racket around thc house she must not imagine they were quarrel? ing. Tiiey would simp!y bo rehears? ing their parts. The "piny" began on the third evening of the girl's en? gagement. The husband taunted his wife with extravagance, and she said he played poker for money, ami [ chairs were upset and footstools kick? ed around and threats were made of going home to mother. Next morn? ing thc mistress said to rite girl : "Did yon hear us playing our parts in the 'Wronged Wife' last night ?" ! "Yearn." "It was simply a rehearsal, you ? know, and you mustn't think strange { of my throwing a vase at my husband and calling him a vile wretch." ! Three or four nights after that the curtain went up on a play called "The Jealous Husband," and Jane heard sobs: sighs, protestations, threats and exclamations. The next play was en? titled '-Coming Home Tight," and was mostly played in the front hali. Thon followed "The Depths of Des? pair." "Threats of Divorce" and .'Such a Wretch,'-' until Jane was at last tired of having 3 private box and being thc only audience. Tho other morning she appeared in t->e sitting room with her hat on and her bundle under her arm, and sai': : "Please, ma'am, but i'm going this m orning." "What, going away ?" "Yes'm." "For wi tat reason. !" "Please, ma'am, but Fm tired of tragedy. I'm a girl as naturally likes to see hugging and kissing and icve-making* on the Klage, and when Marks, the lawyer, comes in on the \vh:il-d o-y ._?u -eal ! - it. Fm sure I'll bo indcied to death. I think Fi! try some family where they rehearse comedy anil ?hv'? a good deal of kissing, and perhaps I may come ii: as a supo and get a small share of it for my? self ! ;'-Vd roi! 1' ree Prc**. strange if True" Story About Santa Anna. Judge Major, of Kentucky, recent? ly related the following story of San? ta Atm:?, the .Mexican Dictator: "Did you ever hear.'"' he said, "that ho was a Kentuckian ?" I confesod that I never had. .'Well, that is believed by many old people about Frankfort ; 1 have hean! H from boyhood, it is san! that Santa Anna, afterward Pres? ident of the .Mexican Republic, was an illegitimate sou of one Xat San? ders, of this county. While a youth he went ?o New Orleans an a flatboat, and was never afterwards heard from. WlVcn captured at S.?.n Jacinto, in 1^:17, he was brought through this place on his way to Washington, and j was rec? gnized by the San dors, who recognized him as their illegitimate and long lost relative. ile did not deny it. He spoke English like a Kentuckian, and with a Ken; .icky ac- ? cent. One of tho Sanders had deter- ? mined to kill him, on account of Use j death of a relative in the massacre ?vt ; the Alamo, but abandoned his pur-j :-ose win ii Ive was convinced thal ; th ev were blood relatives. Tue uK-th-i er ol' Evan V. Settle, ofihv.-ni.cn, was a Sanders, and ie b?ai? a nvaikc'? re? send ver fe So oietures of S:r:t:>. ; Anea. Fark?n F. Sanders. Feo re sou tat ive from Carrol! ?t-ounty to tue (d?lierai Assembly, belongs io ?he family, ac als? did thc noted George X Sanders, who ugnred se- pio?u? ncully in politics during the adminis? trations of Pierce and Buchanan. NEWS ITEMS. -o The ?ora) fair of South Carolina will be bold io Charleston ia April. The Northern settlers in the town of Aiken have i introduced thc fashion of painting thc outside of their houses green. Sunday School Teacher: 'Who was tue strongest man V Boy : 'Jonah, be? cause the whale couldn't hold him after he got him down/ Of Daniel Webster's family only two arc now living-children of Iiis daugh? ter Julia-Samuel Appleton and Mrs. Jerome Bouapartc. Tho first colored man admitted to thc ministry of the Episcopal Church ia South Carolina is Bcv. Thaddeus Salters, who was ordained at Charleston two weeks ago by Bishop flowe. . 'Do you know in what month of the year my wife talks least?' 'Well, I suppose when she catches cold and loses !?er voice.' "Not at all. It is io Feb? ruary.' 'Why is that ?' 'Because Feb? ruary has the fewest days.' Wooden shoes are wore i? thc West, and enough of them are sold to keep a large manufactory going at Green Bay. They are cut ont of green basswood, smoked and dried like hams, and aro s .: ; at 35 cents a pair. J. IT. Sledge, until recently roprc smiting Lamar, Kau kin & Lamar, the At? lanta druggists, was killed by thc cars, near Cusseta, Monday morning. He fainted aud fell between two cars while the train was in motion. Xie leaves a wife and two children, the former a sis? ter of Hon. Albert Cos, of LaGrange. The Mississippi river from Cairo down is reported to Lave an average width of forty miles ; the icrees are either washed awsy or covered with water. D ita, La , hasbceD abandoned to the flood, and the people are leaving as fa.^t as they can get away. The Southern Relief Commission at St. Louis appals to the citizens generally for con tri e-iit ions for the relief of the sufferers by (he overflow. When Robertson, the dramatist, after many hard struggl OS j Sit w fame and for? tune atlast within his grasp, he said to a friend : '1 have just got every thing I want. I have known every kind of trouble, disappointment and discourage? ment, evco hunger, and now I have every luxury-just as I am going away.* lie died a month afterwards. Whib James Pyott, an American engineer, with six Mexicans, was run? ning down a steep grade on a band car, on the National Railroad, they turned a curve and came suddenly on a bridge on which were two men. One man jumped, but the car striking the other was tbrowu into the chasm. Pyott and three of the Mexicans were instantly killed and the others are fatally injured. Council for Sergeant Mason has pre? sented to Judge Wylie; of the District Supreme Court, a petition for a writ of habeas corpus for their client, alleg?Dg waot of jurisdiction of a Court Martial in time of p:?ace, and that if the Court bad jurisdiction to try the case it ex? ceeded its jurisdiction in the excessive sentence pnssed. Mason started for Albany to-day, handcuffed, with a guard of four soldiers. #Tbe court room at Dallas, Texas, was altogether too small to admit all who desired to be present in the breach of promise case of Ev-ms versus Cranby, when thc love letters of the plaintiff were beirj? read. A great crowd gath? ered outside the building, and a mau at a window obliged them by repeating, in a loud voice, thc sentimental senten? ces as they were uttered in court. Evans was a popular man about town, and the choice passages of his effusions were greeted with cheers. Lady Haines, tbc wife of the Indian hero, is credited with a mot too good to be thrown away on account of prudes, [laving stated her ini-oniion of going to a fancy bali as -Old Mother Hubbard,' ..in enthusiastic admirer of hers vowed frivolously that lie would take the char? acter of the "cupboard.' 'You cannot,' said lier ladyship, quickly. She added, after a telling pause, 'the cupboard was bare.' The Maine girl, tall and ruddy, kisses as though she was taking an ici uross'ou in the chewing-gv-m of her native S'are. Thc Massachusetts girl kisses ia rite Greek style, flavored with brown bread. The New York girl goes at it as if she were dabbling in a Wall street speculation. The kiss of the Mew Jersey girl is Scry as a taste of apple y.:c'.i. better known as Je rsv lightning. Little Delaware's girls are as soft as the peaches which grow there. A Mary? land kiss is rich aud juicy as a terrapin stew. The gold axe of King Koffee of Ashantee, lately sent, for an unex? plained reason, to Queen Victoria, bas been deposited in the South Kensington Museum, it is a triangular blade of iron, apparently cat from a piece of boiler plate, roughly stuck into a clumsy handle of African oak. The handle is covered with leopard skin, part cf which, mediately above the blade, is deeply sailed, apparently with blood. Bands of ili'm gold, enriched with uncouth chevrons and lunettes, are placed round the handle. Tho sheath cf the blade, which is of tiger skin, accompanies this hideous implement, and attached to it is the sol j element which has anything like artistic merit. This is a non? descript object ' f beaten gold, shaped 'ike a large cockle shell, with curved burns extended from thc hinge, and decorated with linos and punctures and opea work of ouasi-seroils. Ar a sale of rare coins at Clinton liait, in Now York. March 14th, tire interest of bidders centred in a silver ball dellar issued from the mint of the Confederate States at New Orleans ia I Sol. it is asserted to be o.ne of four. Of the titree other coins one was said to be. in possessio'.: of Jefferson Davis at tiie lime of Ids capture : it luis noi. since b cn heard of The coin offered yester? day was sent te \'rc B. F. Tcylor. Chief I daer of ti:-: Cor.federate States, and wa* obtained by Mr Scott from him. Thc bidding was started at ?200 and bids of ten (H: s rs readily jumped thc Sevres a;, to ;*.>70, at winch price it was sob: to -South ' No dealer knows who 'South1 is. and the agent wb;. bought it said he could not reveal th$ name.