The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, May 30, 1882, Image 1

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TSE SCMTEB W?TCHMAX, Kstabliihed April, 1850. 4tBe Just and Fear not?Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's, and Truth's.' THE TRCE SOUTHRON, Established Jane, IWfi ConsolMated Aug. 2, 1881.1 STJMTER, S. C, TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1882. flew Series?Vol. I. No. 44? ' -* ?- l ' et??_:*t^ ***ii*]a:iSii"-S ??blii&i& wiry T&wday, ?BY TB?? ytatchvtan cmd Southron Publishing Company, TERMS I 3Vo Dollars per annum?in advance. &:\ i v^fc*&jursK-xri - On? Square, first insertion-;-.$1 00 fi?ery8ubseqaent insertion................. 50 Contracts for three months, or long? will be^made *t reduced rates: ,i;.^;-%v AU comraomcationis which sabserTe private SotM-tSU witt beehaTgedforas advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respect will be ehargedfor. Itarriagt^iotiees and notices of deaths pub "Wm?ffi^% ' > j I^orjob werk- er contracts for advertising address Waickma* and Sovikton, or apply at the^c^t* t . G. OSTBEN, A BBATTTTPUI. POXM. : "Who wrote the following exquisite lines -re 4?not know, but whoever did need nevfr j ?rite anything else to convince the world that bt or she is ft post of the sweetest void tendered, j thoughts in the language. VTe think we hare ntrsr^d aijir^fetodeliciouslj, so entirely j bsaatifttlr ^SetTtheTtose; 5 AU uij pUjm&tti round me dying, And my leaves will soon be lying ;f^?^?r?OWi.. 3 gf| " *But I bar mr Jfotrem coming, ~ Wtoner chamber, : i there ah* December >iteofsnows. If .. Ah, how feeblyTresisted, Smootbed my thorns and e'en assisted, As afrbJusbing I was twisted Offmy tree. 4"A?<?tBtcfixedme in ber bosom, Ml^?tarV " And I flashed there alt the morning, Jasmine, honeysuckle scorning, Parasites forever fawning - That they are. " 'And when erening came she sat me ,In a rase, ^ All of rare and radiant metal, And I felt ber red lips settle . On my leaves till each proud petal ' ' Touched her face. U 'And I shone about her slumber tea light; id I said, instead of weeping, uthe garden rigil keeping, J*}): watch my mistress sleeping Every night. *' 'But * hen morning with its sunbeams Softly shone, ; Io the mirror where she braided Her brown hair, I saw how jaded, ,- Old. and colorless and faded, I had grown., " *Kot a drop of .dew was on me, Xeverone; For m/ leaves no odor started, Ail my perfu me bad departed, I lay pale and broken-hearted In the son. 1 'Still I said, her smile is better. - : than the rain ; Though my fragrance may forsake me, To her bosom she will take me, And with crimson kisses make me Young again. " ?'So she took me?gazed a second? - Haifa sigh? Then, alas i can heart3 so harden ? Wi thout ever asking pardon, Threw me back into garden, Thereto die. . -V?feie jealous garden gloried' - In my fall! How the honeysuckles chid me, How the sneering jasmines bid me Light ths long grass that hid tae fcikeapall. ?There I lay beneath her window In a swoon, HU the earth worm e'er me trailing, Woke me just as twilight failing, As the whip-poor-will was wailing To the moon. 4t {Bat P-hesr the storm winds stirring In their lair. And I know they soon will lift me In their giant arms and sift me . In the ashes as they drift me Thoragh the air. \ " 'So, I pray them in their mercy ' Just to take From my heart of hearts, or near it, [ Tbe last living leaf and bear it I To her feet, and bid her wear it I For my sake.'" : ?Exchange. LITTLE GERTRUDE. In a dark room upon tbe second floor of a large tenement house, which, from its dilapidated appearance, would denote to an observer that it Lad not for many years felt the renovating hand of car penter or painter, sat a young girl be side a straw pallet, upon which lay at pretty, fair-haired boy. There was scarcely any furniture io the room only an old worm-eaten table, two broken chairs, the bed, and a rnsty little stove, on which a tin kettle was kfteaming faintly. i \ The darkness of the room was now growing more intense as the dusk of I evening was fast approaching, and the figure of the young girl grew more and more indistinct; while the wind outside moaned fitfully against tbe windows. The girl seemed to be about fourteen years old, and might be considered handsome; but ber figure was small and slight, and there was an anxious and careworn expression on her pretty fea tures which strangely contrasted with ber extreme youth, and seemed to de note a -premature acquaintance with sorrow and suffering. ' The sick boy was her brother. Her mother had been dead three years, and ber lather was unable, from extreme poverty, to procure a nurse for his son. The neighboring women, therefore, bad taughtiittle Gertrude to feed and take are of the child. Tbe little boy, while be claimed from ber a mother's care, had awakened even thus early, a mother's love. * He was to nsr in pJaow of the toys and recreations of ber youtbt ber pet, her plaything? ?ar?Witt She had watched over him on til her young cheek had become pale and her form wasted. The noise of the wind awoke the child. He asked for a drink, which was immediately given him by his little nurse. After having drank a deep draught of the lukewarm milk? he wish ed to rise. You are too weak, Harry; you must't talk of getting up for some time yet.' : And her voice trembled sudden ly. Little Harry gazed into her tearful eyes with a strange, unnatural look. . *I?I am afraid that I shall never get *ip again, Gerty !' : Be still, dear Gertrude! Press back that gasping sob into thine almost break* tog heart, lest your brother hear it! 'Sister, siog to me,' he said. 'Sing one of the old songs. You haven't sung any now for?-oh, so long P Covering her face with her hands to hide her anguish, Gertrude tri de to siog one of the old nursery so .gs which, in days long, past, hier mother had sung for her. The children looked into one anoth er's eyes, both filling with tears; then Harry, with childish sympathy, put his arms about her Beck and kissed her. TNow, darling, you must go to sleep,' Gertrude- said. 'You must not talk any mure.* ' - Harry smiled, faintly, and composed himself to sleep; then Gertrude sank upon her knees and resting her arms upon the bed, with her hands clasped, 'she prayed that - God might spare her brother. ^ . . ^ . % Her father had been away since morning searching for work, and: had promised to be home early.; but one hour, another, .and-yet another, had passed,' until the loog evening wore away?rand yet he came not. 'In the solitude that was around her countless thoughts seemed springing into life : her mind wandered back to the little moss covered cottage where she was born ; where the birds sang about the door; that door around which, when a happy little thing by her moth er's side, she had so merily sported, catching the butterflies in the deep clo ver, or listening to the birds which nowhere else ever sabg so sweetly.. Misfortune came suddenly upon her rather, and he was forced to mortgage the little homestead.; and a short time after, her mother became ill. In very warm weather a little brook impercepti bly shrinks and is absorbed, til) some morning we awake and find the channel dry. Just in this way Mrs. Wilson was wasting-?and so was her life, pure and beautiful to the last. Her death was peaceful?almost happy-?but, re signed as she was, it could not bat be afflicting to her departing spirit to leave her husband and little ones. A few months after, the mortgage on the cottage was foreclosed, and they moved to the city. For a few days Harry - wondered' at the change and complained for his old home; but the sorrows of childhood are as evanescent as the joys of matnrer years, and be soon forgot the privat id os in the novel ties of his situation. To Gertrude the change in their circumstances brought no selfish regrets; and, although the I bustle of a city was painful to an ear so , acutely sensitive to the melody of na ture as hers, no murmur passed her lips The house was situated in a narrow and obscure street, the character of whose neighborhood was of questionable respectability. The interior of this place was wretched in the extreme, and it needed no inordinate stretch of the imagination to coscieve its occupants as being among the most wretched, if not the most debased, of human kind. Suddenly Gertrude heard footsteps on the stairs. She went to the door and opened it. As she did so, her father entered, accompanied by a gentleman. Gertrude went over to the mantle and lit -a candle, which was all they had to give them light. Gertrude dear,' said her father, 'this gentleman is a doctor. I brought him to see Harry; and, with God's help, who knows what he may do?' Gertrude instantly arose from the chair. Her cheeks, which before were very pale, became deeply flushed; and as the doctor bent over the cradle, feel ing the sick boy's pulse, and watching his hurried breathing, she stood oppo site him, her .figure leaning forward, her hands clasped, her bright eyes keenly and eagerly fixed, as if to catch from his first glance some presage of her brother's fate. 'Sir,' said she. after a short and pain ful pause, 'will he live V The doctor seemed unprepared to an swer this question, or, willing to evade it, he remained silent for a moment, and then enquired for the child's moth er. We have no mother, sir,' faltered Gertrude; 'she is dead.' 'Well, my- dear, who nurses the child?' 'I nurse him, sir,' she answered; 'there is nobody else. 'Can it be possible that yon have nursed him V 'Yes,' answered Gertrude, with a I heavy sigh, and she stooped over to ar range the coverings the doctor bad I thrown aside; 'I have nursed him, and now he is goiog to?' The poor little nurse turned away and ! burst into tears. Her father endeavored i to cheer her with some hope of her brother's recovery; bat the doctor's silence had not escaped her. 'Oh father!' said she in a whisper. 'The Doctor don't think so?you do not know how ill he is.' The doctor now assured her that there was still a chance of recovery, j which, however, would depend on bis ! being able to bleed the child; and for this purpose directed her father to take Harry upon his lap; but Gertrude in terposed. 'He wouldn't stay with you, father? let me take him.' She now seated herself beside the cradle and took Harry on her lap, hold out his arm and hiding bis face in her bosom, so that he might not see the doctor. When the lancet appeared Gertrude shut her eyes and turned her head aside; yet, although her whole frame i shook, she held him firmly till the op 1 eration was over. , The child bled rapidly and became faint; and the doctor had some difficul ty in convincing Gertrade that he was not Hying. After a few moments, how ever, the relief he had experienced be came manifest. The physician then bade them good-night, promising to re-' tarn the next rooming. As he passed j Mr. Wilson he told him that although the child was relieved be was by no means oat of danger. The poor man sighed deeply. 'Welcome,' said he, 'be the will of God ! Bat it will break her little heart. I do not know what I should do if any thing happened to her V As the doctor rode home, he thought how much heavier might have been the burden of that fond father but for that pure faith which, in its deepest sorrow, yet welcomed 'the will of God.' It was now near, midnight. Harry grew rapidly worse, and by bis- side Gertrude knelt, bathing his little bands and moistening his parched lips; she felt no fatigue; her sorrow seemed to bear her up with a wonderful strength. The little sufferer lay quite still, and all around was wrapped in.silence save for the noise of the broken shutters as the gusts of wind struck upon the old building* causing its roof and sides to groan, and threatening their displace ment, if not the destruction of the build ing itself. - " Gertrude saw . the flush gradually passing away from her brother's cheek, until it became quite pale, like marble, and his glazed eyes were half closed. Do you feel better now; Harry Y she asked him, . V 'Oh, much better! Are you not-tired, Gerty?' No, dear/ she said gently. Suddenly he folded his little hands together*and began to say *Our Father.' His voice towards the end became very faint and weak; and as be finished he fell back heavily upon the pillow, with a smile. I hear some one singing, Gerty,' he said; 'look f see !' and he pointed up ward. 'Look at all the pretty boys and girls calling me P And with a gentle sigh he whispered, 'Papa,' then gave I one last look in his sister's face? and j was gone. So softly his spirit bad passed away! How deeply Gertrude felt the loss of her brother It is in vain to describe. It seemed as if the last glimmer that bad cheered her life was now extinguished. But she was not one to sit down content with fruitless repining when it was pos-, sible to act as well as to suffer. Weeks passed away in rapid sucees si on, and Gertrude wandered about like , a shadow. Her father, instead of bear- j ing up gallantly, drooped in "spirit and j I effort, and sought consolation in the wine-cup. In a word, intemperance obtained the mastery over that which was not shielded by pure and high minded principle. ; It was evening, and Gertrude stood at the window anxiously awaiting her fa ther's return. Suddenly she beard a noise as of some one stumbling up the stairs, and the next moment he staggered into the room and fell upon the floor. With a shriek Gertrude knelt down, then started to her feet with a cry of horror. The truth flashed upon her?her father was drunk 1 Ail night she sat beside him, with a painful ly anxious countenance, and watching his every gesture and movement. Morn ing dawned at last, and found Mr. Wil son very ill. - He endeavored to rise, but could not do so. . Poor Gertrude-! There was not a copper in the house, nor a morselJto eat. Ah ! God, who suffereth not a sparrow to fall to the gruhd unheeded, will help thee, poor child! Her father fell asleep, and Gertrude seated herelf by the window. Sudden ly she started to her feet, and crossing the floor softly, went out. She passed rapidly through many streets, only stopping now and then as she went along to read the signs. She halted before the door of a large warehouse, and theo went in, With a trembling voice she asked to see the pro prietor. She was shown into the office by a clerk. After waiting a short time the proprietor entered, and struck by the mournful expression on the counte nance of poor Gertrude, spoke kindly to her. Thus encouraged, the poor girl, sobbing bitterly, related her pitiful tale, to which the busy merchant listen ed apparently with much interest. 'But why did you come to me ?' he asked. 'Oh, sir, because I have heard you are good and kind. Oh, if you will be so good as to procure me some sewing to do I will do it as good as I can.' The gentleman was a practical phi lanthropist, and was kind and benevo lent in his feelings. He smiled at the earnestness of the child, and replied,? Well, I think I may trust your looks that you are not deceiving me; it is a strange story that you tell me, but I will see that you have some work to take home with you at once; and here is five dollars in advance.' It was quite late when Gertrude reached home and she found her father still asleep. After a time be awoke. Gertrude where have you been ?' he said. Earning some money, father. See what I have brought?a nice little sup per for you ; and better than that, fa ther, I have brought the hope of bright er things in the future.' In what way, my dear V 'Employment for me dear father.' And she told him what she done. Mr. Wilson, overcome by bitter thoughts, and weak from illness and suffering, bowed his bead upon his clasped hands and wept those bitter tears which are often wrung by grief and despair from the hardest heart. Think him not unmanly because he wept. This proud man who thus gave way was in all probability one who, on the field of battle, would have led a band of as daring men as ever trod a battle-field ; but he was only human. Never until now bad he kuown the want of money, and his proud spirit was goaded almost to madness by their necessities. I Poor Gertrude worked day and night, ! sewing and stitching, and it procured : her money just sufficient for food, and that was all. Oh, for an hour's sleep! And how her back and heart ached! j Courage, my brave little heroine; cour age yet awhile, and all will be well! Many and long were the days that passed away before Mr. Wilson was hin?self again. At last, one bright morning, be was able to leave his bed and sat opposite Gertrude, watching ber as she worked. So you feel much better, dear fa ther?' Yes,' he answered faintly, 'I feel much better. Oh, my dear child, how can T repay you for all your care and goodness?I, your degraded, dishonor ed father V Hush!' she said gently. 'Do not; you must not talk so.' *I must, Gertrude!' he cried ; 'hear me, and bear witness, as I promise now, before God, that I will never drink a drop of liquor again, so long as my mind holds together?so help me God!' Oh, I am so glad!' exclaimed Ger trude with a sob of joy. 'May God en able you to faithfully keep this resolu tion, for without his assistance the strongest of us are weak.' 'How can I repay you for all my in justice toward you ? I have felt it all as I lay upon my bed and watched your noiseless feet stealing as you ministered to me.' 'Say no more at present, father,' said i Gertrude, gently, 'but lie down, and may your dreams be sweet.' And she tenderly wiped from his forehead the moisture which had gathered there from his excitement. Oh, how happy Gertrude was! She -felt an inward feeling of self-applause, which is the tenant of. their bosoms alone who have done a benefit for a fel low-creature?she had redeemed her fa ther! Her heartbeat high with a prom ise of happiness for the future. Well might John Wilson say. to bis child, 'How can I repay you!' She, a child yet in years, had watched at his bed side, and day after day, night after night, had soothed him in his pain, and beside all this, had earned a sum of money, scanty indeed, but still enough for in dispensible necessaries to prolong their lives. * Mr. Wilson rapidly recovered his health, and he was at once employed by the gentleman who had so kindly as sisted Gertrude. . From humble begin nings, and by untiring energy, he grad ually acquired sufficient to live in an easy and comfortable manner, and also to keep a small bank account. Time passed over their beads pleas antly, and in a few years Mr. Wilson had saved enough to once more possess himself of his little cottage, where, J amid the reviving breezes and tranquil seclusion, Gertrude recovered her health j and happiness. j The cottage was situated in a beatifnl j village, surrounded by lofty bills, .crowned to their very summits with fragrant pine trees. Beyond the cot-, tage lay a meadow, spread out in all its freshness and verdure; and almost in the centre a little brook went leaping and dancing among the white pebbles 1 and mossy boulders like a child at play. It was a beautiful, sonny afternoon, and upon the porch sat a young woman, upon whose face rested a look which would make the heart feel something in its quiet loveliness that breathed of the spirit of a cultivated life. It .was Ger trude, and with her sat her father. How like an angel's sigh of loving pity the summer wind breathed upon her cheek. The very roses that grew over and beside the door seemed to vie with each other as to which should kiss her small white hand ; and her large, sad eyes beamed forth a world of love as she gazed upon her father. . 'God bless you, my child! exclaimed Mr. Wilson with deep emotion ; and a glow of satisfaction lighted his counte nance as he bent down to kiss the sweet face that rested on his arm. And are you happy ?' 'Oh, so happy!' And thus we will leave them. The father as an example of what a man can do when he exerts his reason ; the daughter, a heroine in a field more truly noble and exalted than all the world beside-. The Cultivation of Sorghum. Professor Silliman has written a let ter, published in the New York Tribune, showing the value of * sorghum as a sugar-prodacer. It is a condensation of the reports of Dr. Peter Collier, chemist of the Agricultural Department, the result of several years of painstak ing experimental investigation. It is claimed that in Texas, Louisiana, Ar kansas, Mississippi, lower Missouri and Tennessee sorghum can be cultivated with great success, even though planted after the spring floods, for it matures? according to the variety planted?in from four to six .months, allowing a working period of about thirty to sixty days before the severe frost. It should be fully ripe before it is rolled; other wise the chemical changes will produce an excess of glucose or grape sugar; also, there should be as little delay as possible in rolling it after it is cut, to avoid fermentation; the juice can be treated with lime and sulphur in the same way that cane juice is defecated. The amount of terriory suitable to the safe and profitable cultivation of the sugarcane is comparatively limited, but sorghum can be raised over an extent of country vast enough to supply the whole world with sugar. A case of conscience: It was an Ohio man who, when a terrible storm set in one night, rushed into the bouse of a neighbor and cried out: 'Jones, this is the ending up of earth !' 'I'm afraid so ?I'm afraid so !' was the reply. And what shall we do Y 'Make our peace with Heaven.' The wind blew still stronger, the house began to shake and the excited man exclaimed: 'Jones, you lost five bushels of wheat last fall!' 'Yes.' 'And you have your suspicion ?' ?I have. The man who took my wheat had better own op.' 'Can you forgive him ?' 'I can Y ?Well ?.' Here the wind suddenly dropped, and after a look through the window* the conscicnoe j stricken roan turned and finished: 'Yes, if ever I meet him I'll advise him to call around.?Detroit Free Press. - ? Iii turn- i My wife,' remarked a prominent manufacturer,' never attends auctions. She went once, before we were married, and, seeing a friend at the opposite side of the room, nodded politely, whereupon the auctioneer knocked down a patent cradle, and asked her whether she wished it delivered.' Among the Indians. fFroro the Carolina Sun.J Editor of the Sun: If you will take tbe troable to look on tbe map of the U. S., North of Texas, West of Arkan sas, Sooth of Missouri and Kansas, you will find 'Indian Territory/ This is the home of the so-called five civilized tribes of Indians, the Cherokees, the Creeks, the Choctaws, the Chickasaws and Seminoles. The Cherokees from Georgia, the Creeks from Alabama, the Seminoles from Florida, the Chicka saws and Choctaws, from Mississippi. West of these five tribes are the wild tribes on the great Western Plains. The Cherokees arc the most advanced pi any of the tribes in civilization, edu cation and christianization. The Cher okees are in the northern part of the Territory adjoining Missouri and Kan> sas on the north. They have their own government, and elect a Chief every four years, as the United States elects a President, electing at the same time a second Chief in place of the vice-Presi-. dent, who is to the nation the same as the vice-President is to the U. S. They elect their senator? and councilmen every two years as you do your senators and representatives. These when as sembled are called the 'National Coun cil'of the Nation,'"jost as you would say 'State Legislature. There is a great deal of intelligence in the Cherbkee'Nation. Col. W. P. Adair who died a few years ago iq Washington City, was one of tbe first men of the whole Territory?-a man of fine natural ability, well educated both in the Nation and in the States/ and of the finest personal appearance. He bad long been a representative man among his people, and a delegate to Washington. The Cherokees have very fine educational advantagesthey have a large intrusted fund in the United j States Treasury; the interest is paid annually as an educational and orphan fund. They have two seminaries or high schools, male and female, besides abont one hundred primary or common diet schools. They have an orphan Asylum, where there are from one to two hundred of the Nation's orphan's fed and clothed every year and* educated at tbe Nation's expense. These insti tutions are will provided for; they are large, fine brick buildings with ample accommodations for at least two hun- i dred pupils in each, with as good teach-j era, (mostly natives) and as fine collec tion of books as to be found anywhere. ? If accent able, I will give particulars of the othefThijes-^some future time. The Cherokees publish a national paper at the capital, Tahlequah; I send you a copy. ??~/- Eunacba. The Tokay Vineyard. The Tokay Vineyard, near Fayette ville?planted about twenty-five years ago by the lato Henry L. Myrover, .more for a pastime than for profit?has been extended every year, until, under the proprietorship of Col. Wbarton J. Green, it has assumed huge proportions, as one of the great industries of the State. Col. Green, a gentleman not only of fine culture and attainments, but of much business talent and energy, has now a wine trade which even his great wine cellars can scarcely supply. His Concord wine is pronounced by connoiseurs to be equal to the Claret; his Scuppernong, Delaware and other wines command a ready sale at home and abroad, while he manufactures, 'champagne' that is as good as tbe large proportion of what is bought in this country as 'Dry Roderer' or 'Green Seal.' Before the Scuppernong matures, the early grapes come on, and Col. Green ships thousands of boxes of Delawares, Concords, lonas, &c, to New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore. The table varieties are not grown as the Scuppernong, on arbors, but aretrellis ed, and kept pruned downed 'year after year. When the Scuppernong is ripe alljthe women, boys and girls?white and black?through the surrounding coun try, who are in need of work, are em ployed to gather the harvest, and they go over tbe ground, with great cloths which are spread upon ground, and the fruit is carefully picked or beaten off, and conveyed by hundreds of bushels to the vats and presses. One Scuppernong vine, alone, at Tokay bears every year, it is estimated, 100 bushels, and there are many which produce from 25 to 40 bushels. _ A Dog and Cat. Here is a story, for the truth of which we vouch from personal knowl edge, and which we commend to Mr. Darwin. It concerns a terrier and a cat. The dog's part was chiefly passive, but he must have possessed remarkable qualities to awaken the affection which the cat had for him ; so we record with honor the name of Pip. We do not know the cat's name, which is a pity, for she deserves whatever immortality a newspaper can bestow. Thus, then, it fell out? Pip fell sick, and for several days lay languidly in one place, eating nothing. Again and again the cat brought to him bits of food given to her, and tried to coax him to eat, but in vain. At last, one day, a woman, sitting in the room where they were, saw the cat, who had been watching Pip with evident anxiety, dart suddenly out of the window, and rush across the street. In a moment she .came back carrying something in her mouth, which she brought to Pip, and laid it down. Pip got up, sniffed at it, then turned away and lay down again. The cat dragged it close to him, and thrust it under his nose. Thus per suaded, he tasted it, aud ate half of it. Puss then carried the remainder to the grassplot, and herself fell to work on it with good appetite. It proved, on examination, to be a hot mutton chop 1 The person who had watched the affair went to the house across the way, and asked in the kitchen if they had bad mutton chops that day? "Yes," was tho answer; "and as the dish stood before the fire, in rushed your cat, and before we could stop her she carried off one of the chops!" We are happy to add that Pip got well.?Christian Union. Dispose not thyself for much rest, but for great patience. I sou tu uaronna s uespoiiers. The story of the men who robbed Sooth Carolina, and despoiled and op pressed her people is a confirmation of the faith that God is a God who remem bers and punishes. Scott has just es caped a felon's cell, and bears the brand of a murderer in Ohio. Moses lingers in the Toombs in New York, a prematurely old, disgraced aod ruined man. Daniel H. Chamberlain has felt the finger of the Almighty, and is abroad fleeing from the freezing, wither ing blight of paralysis. Hubbard, who used to boast of having aided in the murder of Mrs. Surratt, creeps about with paralysis and imbecility combining to curse body and mind with a curse more bitter than the deepest anathemas of his enemies could have devised. John Patterson suffers under domestic afflic tions that it is needless to recite. Worthington is abandoned by bis old companions, despised by his new ones, and lacks a friend or hope Bowen fills an unhonored grave. Wbittemore has -relapsed into the. obscurity from ! which he originally rose like some foul spirit to scatter misery, blood and fire through the middle country. Elliott is a poor political hanger-on depending on the chance bribes of some petty office in I payment for the use of the remnants of I bis influence among bis people. One by one they have withered under the blight of old crimes, and only a few re main of all the crew who held gay and reckless carnival in our State and plunged their arms to the shoulders in the Treasury. Taft, Gorbin and E. -W. M. Mackey, we believe, are the only members of the loathsome crew who can show to-day a dollar of the rem nants of their plunder. Tbe curse of the yeoman's unrequited sweat, the wid ow's tears, the sorrowful sighing of the prisoners in unjust captivity, and the blood of white and black has rested heavily on it and them. The money has gone,. where nobody knows, and the inexorable wheels of time md fate slowly overtake and grind them down ' to testify with racked bodies and tor tured hearts that the Almighty does not forget and cannot be escaped. There is ample reasons for belief that tbe des i perate bands of maddened men were with herd from striking the life from | their persecutors that the Lord might deal with tbe flaunting violators of all His laws. Probably no body of men has ever had so many deaths and disas ters in proportion to number in six years as the Badical rulers of South Carolina.?Greenville News. ??? ??< >? How the Indians Farm. A gentleman just up from Standing Kock agency said the Indians were en gaged in planting. lu answer to an inquiry as to how the reds were pro gressing in the peaceful ways of grang ering, be smiled and said their manner was odd. Every year they seem to know less about how to farm. This is attribntabie to the fact that tbey are learning the ways of the whites too rap idly. They begin to understand that as soon as they can grow crops their rations will be cut off, and hence tbeir growing ignorance of agriculture. If they are given a bushel of beans to plant, they will eat nine-tenths of the amount and plant one-tenth, and the one-tenth will be dumped in three or four holes in the ground. Last spring they were furnished with five bushels of onion seeds. They couldn't eattbem, and consequently planted the eotire five bushels on a piece of ground fifty by one hundred feet. They were too lazy to prepare a larger patch; besides it would have been contrary to tbeir poli cy of maintaining the ration system. When the onions came up it was a curious^sight to see tbe young stinkers crowd each other. The whole dry, naked surface of the ground was raised up on top of the sprouting plant*. It is our informant's opinion that the present generation of Indians will not' make successful grangers. The Lime-Kiln Club. 'How wicked we am when we sot down and fink it ober,' said Brother Gardner as the voice of the triangle struck tbe hour of 7. 'While I keep tryin' to believe in Heaben, I keep won derin' how any of us wil eber git dar. We mus' not envy, an' yit we do envy We mus' not b'ar false witness, an' yit we am for eber stretcbin' de truf. We mus' not lie, an' yit it comes so bandy dat we can't help it. We mus' not steal, an'?an' some of us don't- Dat is, we doan' get inter a posishon to bandle de funds. We mus' not be jealous, an' yit when de women across de way, whose husband aims $6 per week, sails out wid fo' new bonnets a a yar, am it human nature' fur my ole woman to look arter her an' not wish she had hold of ber back hair ? We mus' not sw'ar, an' and yit what am I to do when I strike the eand of a side walk plank wid my fut, or whack my thumb wid de hammer? Am it to bo supposed dat I will calmly sot down an' sing a gospel hymn ? When we trade bosses wid a man, we cheat bim. When a man wants to borry half a dollah of us, we lie to him. We play keerds, dance, go to de theater an' circus' an' we doan' turn our backs on a dog-fight. I tell you we am all poo', weak human bein's, an' eben while we flatter ourselves dat we am slidin' 'long to'rds Heaben at de rate of a mile a minute, we am all ready to pass a lead nickel on a street kyar com pany, or pocket de ?5 bill foun' in de Postoffice. When I sot down at night an' pull pull off my butes an' put my feet in de oven an' git to thinkin' of how hard I try to be good, an' how pow'ful easy it is to be bad, I become so absorbed in my thoughts dat de ole woman has to bit me on de ear wid a 'tater to bring me back to airth an' start me-out arter an armful of wood. Gem'len, let us con tiner to try to be angels, but let us count on wrestlin' wid Satan about fo'ty times a day, an'' oo bein' frown flat on our backs ebery blessed time. We will now irritate de usual order of bizoess.' -?muw?'? If vou see a brother fall Lend a hand. There will sometime come to all Error's fall or sorrow's moan. Lire not for youreelf alone, Lead a hand, oyuaey duuwi uumuuo. A PATHETIC PLEA FOB FREE TRADE. [ Congressman 8. S. Cox's Speech.'] The little girl cannot play with her doll, nor the boy whiz bis top, nor the mother wash her offspring with soap, except at an expense of from one-third to one-half of their cost for the domes tic privilge [Laughter.J If the mo ther gives her child castor oil, she pours down 148 per cent- advalorem [laugh ter ;] if the child does not enjoy the dose there is a 25 per cent, bowl as the recipient of the contents of its ten der stomach. And though ehe 'wash it with niter and take to it much soap, yet the iniquity is marked before me,' saith the Lord, for the soap is taxed 40 per centum ! God help the child! Mr. Towsend, of Illinois: How about candy ? Mr. Cox, of New York ; I am com ing to that in a moment, my honey. [Great laughter.] If she wraps the little dear in a plain bleached cotton night-shirt, it has a nightmare of 5? cents per square yard specific, [laughter,]- when tbe child awakes in the morning fretful she combs its little head at 35 cents ad valorem, [laughter;] if she would amuse.it, she rolls it, over a Brussels carpet at 90 cents per square yard, - or gives it confectionery made of refined sugar at 4 cents a pound tax and 25 per cent, ad valorem ; if it tears its lit tle panties, the gentleman from Penn sylvania (Mr. Kelly) sews them op i with spool thread taxed a t three-quar ters of its value. [Laughter.]. Why, if she used a shingle to bring tbe little 'toddling wee thing' to its senses, as tbe honorable gentleman can recall, the cost would be enhanced at the rate of 17 per cent, taxation. [Laughter.] If the youngster has a patriotic incli nation on onr fourth of July his fire crackers are taxed as a patriotic luxury at $1 extra a box, aod" the bunting which furnishes tbe flag, though but 23 cents a pound, cost 121 per cent, extra, while the band plays on instru ments taxed at 30 cents. She takes him to the menagerie to study natural history. There is the zebra, symbolic of a mixture ad valorem and specific [laughter,] and tbe stately giraffe, high protection [laughter,] the royal tiger and unicorn of Holy Writ at 20 per cent.' and the procession of elephants, every one 20 per cent. True, jumbo, for purposes not to be mentioned, is excluded by the affidavit of a consistent protectionist. But the log chain that holds his huge legs binds the monster in protective chains. [Laughter.] The Persecution of the Jews. The regular corespondent of the New York World writing from Yieona^Slay 6, says: The reports of the horrible* outrages perpetrated on the unfortunate Jews of Balta and Hozolo which reach us 1 are almost incredible Moved by these reports the wealthy Jews of Vienna are coming to the aid of their brethren gen- ' erously. An Austrian physician, who visited a Jewish hospital in Odessa where about 150 of the victims of Balta were received, tells us that their Wall ings and cries of pain were unendura ble. The one-year-old baby of one young woman who had suffered extreme violence herself, had both his eyes put i out by a heated iron. Tbe incensed husband drew a revolver to protect his wife and child, but be was bound aod carried off, his young wife being kept in ignorance of his fate. An old wo man was scourged for hiding her grand- j children, and when the children were I fouud they were cut to pieces before her eyes. A child of six^bad her ears cut off for running away with her baby sister aod died soon afterwards. Io one room of the hospital was an old man whose arms had been thrice broken while he was being tied to a pole oppo site his house and made a witness to the burning in its flames of bis wife and children. Another man had both feet sawn off and thrown to the dogs in his presence. It appears that in all there are 3,000 \ children who by these atrocities have j been deprived of their parents. AI-1 thongh subscriptions are being raised io all quarters there are not means suf ficient to provide all these poor crea tures with the very first necessaries of life. Many of them are to emigrate to America, and a proposal has been made for sending them to the fertile districts of Palestine. But is is said tbe Turk ish Government does not favor the plan. In many parts of Russia - the ruffians, when they have finished massacreing the Jews, begin on the German colonists. The police, io some cases, have made common cause with the rioters instead of trying to stop them. A Yonng Colored Woman Murder ed by Her paramour. Passengers by the steamer Passport yesterday report a most foul and brutal murder which was committed at Orton plantation, about 18 miles below the city. Bella Jones and Dave Sykes, both colored, have been living together as man and wife for some time past, and for several days Sykes has been unre lenting in his demands for tbe woman, to marry him. For some reason the woman persistently refused and Sykes became jealous and angry and while she was in her house, with no one with ber but a little child, caught her and cut her throat from ear to ear. Tbe woman fell to the floor, and Sykes then placed the child on its mother's breast aod left. When the murdered woman was found the child was asleep on ber body. The murderer is supposed to have come to this city, and officers were on the lookout for him last night. There is a strong feeling against the man and, it is thought he will be lynched if caught.? Wilmington Review. ????^mm- ??? Here is tbe Kabyle s idea of a 'tale:' An old man had seven sons. His wife died, and ho remained a widower. Once his sons were seated and talkiog. The youngest one of them said to bis brothers: 'Come, O my brothers I lot us sell some goats, and with the price of them marry our father again.' They dropped the subject of conversation and passed to another. Tbe old man said to them: 'Let us return to tbe conver sation about tbe goats.'?Barkclaxft JAft in Algeria. ?bw? ouu \jvoai}j. I-. . Two mad ddgs were tilled jusi ?bdat Camdeo last week.?Journal, A New York detective bat just over hauled an English thief named Woods and got $69,000 of stolen securities. The Queen of Italy has a nice sense' of the picturesque, and in sammer oer er wears a bone et if sue can helft if*. She takes her afternoon drives with her . beautiful head covered only by the man* tila or black lace veil. Mr. J. A. Anderson, who Hves near Athens, Ga., has a gourd that has h<l<flL in use to hold pepper aod spicevfif?? 200 years. The genealogy of the gewi. is clearly traced. Tbe Rev. Henry Ward Beecher says that a disordered stomach will prevent a man from being good more than two* hours in the day. Thar old gentle man g;:ows easier on sin every hour he1 lives, i ' At the close of the late war two* women of Pen field, -Ga;, began farming with an old blind horse; -Now they own a good plantation, well stocked. Our women of to-day should learna let son from this, and at the close of the next war procure an old blind bone and begin fanning. Reports from all portions of Georgia and South Carolina show that an immense oat crop has been made. The planters will be in a better condition next winter than at any time since the war. If they will follow the same plan next year they will be independent. The London Saturday. Review la * afraid that the population pf the United States will become too dense after awhile and cautions the country against too much immigration. Our British cousins need not be anxious about us. We have territory and resources suffi cient to support 500,000,000 of peo ple. The people living in the city of New York are complaining of what they call the* church bell nuisance.' They don't want church bells rung on Sundays, and declare that since clocks can be had for a dollar, the necessity for church bell clangor no looger exists. It is quite likely that the music of church, bells will in tbe near future be forever hashed in the city of New York. It has been decided to dispose of the" crown jewels of France, and expend tbe . proceeds in works of 'public utility/ or establish a relief fund for sick and dis abled workmen.' The proceeds have been estimated at ten to twelve million francs. The date of the sale baa not yet been announced. This will prove a legacy from royalty to those of the people most needing it. But, without a republican executor of the estate of * 'thVtteceased, it is doubtful if the poou- > Iars heirs l?^e^^hrone of authority would ever have recwv^A^feesouveniri? or their equivalent. ~ ~Nw?~* Miss Mary Hanrehan met with a sin gular accident several days-ago. While riding on a street car she was seized with a sudden fit of sneezing and bunt one of ber eyeballs, from which she has since been suffering the most intense *j pain. Her physician says that such an occurrence is very uncommon;-especial ly when, as in tbe present case, .there was apparently no ulceration of the eye or disease of tbe organ sufficient to cause it to burst. He says that proba bly tbe sneezing was so rapid that the eye lid remained open, and this would have greatly increased.tbe effect of the sudden strain. Of course the young woman lost tbe sight of tbe injured eye, ?Indianapolis Times, It is rumored that at the recent pic nic of tbe young ladies of a certain col- -> lege not over two thousand miles from Macon, four of the ladies strayed off from the crowd, and, finding a secluded place on tbe bank of a pood, disrobed and enjoyed a bath. While disporting themselves one of the processors walked up and caught them in the act. He de? clared he would report them to the fac ulty, but on the train coming borne tkt girls put on a brave front, and told the President of tbeir venture, and be, good soul, forgave them freely. It it said that the girls boasted to the other girls of haviog stayed under tbe water two minutes, diving like a fish, etc.'?' Macon Telegraph and Messenger. Our Consul at Shanghai entreats us " to cuitive tbe bamboo, which will .grew in onr Southern States. Some years ago, George D. Roberts, koowiog^ita value, planted 500 bamboo root*0 on Andros Island, in the Sacramento. They grew luxuriantly during tbe year, and next Spring they formed a dense thioket over twelve feet high, and .thick] as ones wrist, giving proof of the adap* tion of our climate to tbe growth of this valuable plant. Unfortunately the island was submerged by a flood and the plants were drowned. Our Consul enumerates over 500 uses which the bamboo serves in China. There are sixty varieties. One grows 40 feet high and 6| inohes in- diameter. This, as it is round and polished, makes building timber, and the exact size ia>-< readily found. Next year new growthlp springs from the roots, which also are utilized; the leaves also. This plani 'r will thrive everywhere South, and its multifarious uses commend it to univer* sal cultivation*. A curious story of a nun who was ill* treated in a convent of- Cracow is told, and has caused some sensation. It ap pears that Sister Salomea, who is de scended from a wealthy Silesian family, refused to obey certain new rules introduced into the convent by a young confessor, and that she was pun* ished accordingly. Sbe was not allow* ed to bave any new clothes or linen; during seven years, and tbe straw-?1^, her bed was never changed during all that time. For a whole year she was locked up in her cell and was not allow* ed to speak to any of tbe sisters. Her , cell was not even once cleaned duping the twelve-months. Her brother found ber in a very emaciated condition and wished to take her away with him, but the convent rules forbade' this and he informed the authorities of the facts. The superior of the convent denies tbe charge of cruelty, although sbe admits haviog punished Sister Salomea severe ly for being disobedient. The Govern or of Cracow has taken up the case and - will have it inquired into. - --'- '??? "- -_-yau?