Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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XHB SIJKTEB WATCHMAN, Established April, IS50. uBe Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at. be thy Country's, thy God's, and Truth's." THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established Jane, I860. Consolidated Aag. 2,1881.1 SUMTER. S. 0., TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 1882. New Series?Vol. I. No. 45. i-m 1 L-~T~ Publiahod ovory Tuesday, ^ >--bt' tee? Tjfat&mari and SoiUkron Publishing f Company, v "SUMTEE, S. C. terms : 3Nro Dollars per annum?-in advance. ADTIKTISEMEXTS. :' Oa? Squaxe^fir^iasertioD?..-........Sl 00 "' Bver^subseq?eit iiiserti -. 50 Contracts for three- months, or longer will be made at reduced rates. ^Adl compunctions'which subserve private interests "willbe charged for as advertisements. * Obituaries and tributes of respect will be _ ch^geoTfor. , .1" Marriage notices and notices of deaths pub Itsbe^iree; v. -^For>jjo&w?rk or. contracts for advertising . address; tyatdisaan and Southron, or an ply at t Ae^ce,to v N. a: OSTEEN, s . ... ;. Business Manager. WHAT IS LOVE." What is Love??a rainbow glory, . * f ^Otaaied in a stormy cloud; ' i Glow-worm of a fairy story, Spangled beauty's winding shroud. :?.Born ih-smiles^but .nursed.itLsorrowj Love is^ the ch3d of weeping skies, Though the rose'sbloom it borrow, Soon the fleeting splendor dies. ~ Yet with aH of ev?-round it, - " itke'a jewel darkly set, Dear aslbvirig bearts'have found it, Howcan they its light forget 1. '.<-Tb^refaa;Sweetness in its anguish, >.;.There!sa music in its sigh; Hij^.mayiw^ may languish, -;J5^15iEJives-~it cannot .die. " Though relentless fate may sever ? x- -Seartsthat Love would fain unite, -^'Jfem'ryisstar sbaH linger ever. the fountaof young. delight. i; A^YtHhga fade away, and leave us: f Youth and heal th, and fortune wane. z- ?^?^^iiethkj^ and friends deceive us, - S?Uvwe hug love's rosy chain. _ .Like^th e cloistered vestal,- telling w^Xvtry'hoIy bead with tears, Lbve^ in geatTe^oosom dw'elring, ; Counts the joys of vanished yearsl ?-?? ?-' );:k '-t X>E XATtTiTCR CHUfEE. AS DISCUSSED IK THB CABIN. Hekia pick up?3rbbia* wbarebber he goes By wnkin' de railroad an' washin' ole ^clc^es-; *3He kin lib'bout as cheap as a leather-wing ed bat, watches de rat market keen as a boa^daa* his rations are pretty nigh free, fflfighty smart cuss is de yaller Chinee. rhe*3 iiot gwioe to keer whar you put him to^stey,^ * [a? his.eatrfc- don't cost but a nickel a day ; : wood?t give a straxv . for do fines' jgbotel, . " . . t ar slab-sided shanty will suit him as weH^ a empty old box or a hollow gum tree, |a big hoa'din' house f>r de yaller Chinee. he eats little mice when de blackberries -Sril, ' -de ba'r on his head gets de shape of a ;I tail ; I know by his do*es an* his snuff-culled .ftice . the comes from a scrubby an' one gallns vr' lace j -An*:I*s:trabbled a heap, bat I nebber did see Such a cnxisome chap as de yaller Chinee. ":J?country -was made fur de whites an' de blacks, :Fur dey hoesj all de corn an' pays all de r ' tax: " - a You may think what you choose, but de 'ser tion is true, "Dat de arf cullured furriner nebber will do; v-Fur dar*s heaps o' tough people from ober de ..-. sea, '-: ?Bot de cussedestsort is de yaller Chinee ! ..Sgj 7 . : >Wheit de bamblc-bee crawls in de dirt-dob ' ' ' ber'sbole, "To warm up his fingers and git out de cole, *Dar,s. gwine to be trouble in de family, fr SbV! ?An* -one" de crittera mus* pack up and go ; ^Ari'de Chinerman's gwine to diskiver right soon VJ)at de rabbit can't lib in de stamp wid a coon 1 . ' - ' ' : ; ; ^y"When de woodpecker camps on de mockin' j "j?z!:::-. ^bird's nest, 'r.f Yon, km -tell pretty quick which kin tussle de gr best. ' rBar^s a mighty good chance of a skirmish -I; .' ahead. When"de speckled dog loafs round de tommy ... cat's bed; ' Aa* dar/s gwine to be a racket wuf waitin' to see, . - -When de wurkin' man butts gin de yaller Cbinee. gla-?^eriment on a Jackass. tl McDnffie (Ga.) Jounal: Mr. Paul, a "'r-jlfew da^s ago, read in some sinful news paper that a donkey conld not bray ;,:iritl?out raising his tail, and accordingly a bright idea struck him : He penned his famous jackass up in a corner of . the stable, and climbing np in the ' troogh, a: Dve the dead line of the ani jnaTa heels, he attached! a brick with three feet of clothes line to his (the tail. 'Then he opened the door,, "smile<rv*arirdibly, and waited develop ments. 'The animal walked into the lot, and backed his ears for a yell, but it. was do go. His tail only raised the brick high enough to hit him on the shanks. Then he whirled around and the donnick struck him in the side. Then be flung up his heels and tried to stand on his head, but the fragment of > country chimney lit on the small of bis back and drove him to frenzy. He climbed over tbc* gate and dashed thrbu'^h the field in the direction of . Angnsta, closely-followed by Mr. Paul's experiment. When found he was in stoe of Joel Neal's lot, with a brick .."^ge^jn a crack of the fence, and his backbone pulled out till bis ears had disappeared under bis skin. Mr. Paul Sa^tJiaiUtat kind of treatment may ^erent tfie coarsest of the uoise from f*ee^?gr but it will demoralize the on earth. ?*er&000 hogsheads of tobacco,' Tslo^^nearly ?2,000,000, have been sold Tri New^York to a representatiye of Ita&nGovernment, BILL ABP. That Bey. Nominating Governors, etc. Sometimes every thing works along smoothly and nice for several days and there is no mishap or misfortune and then again it looks like the old. boy bad broke loose and everything goes wrong. There is nothing settled in this sub loonary life, and a man will never be happy until he can take everything easy and patient and at all times "be prepared for the worst, and about the time he gets so he can do that he is about old enough to die and generally does it. A long time ago I heard an old man make a little talk in Sunday school and 'he had on a great big long tailed coat that he used to wear when he was fat and now he was all dried up and says.be 'my children there is nothing in this world I care for now and I can shake it off and leave it as easy as I can pat off this old coat,' and he sorter straighten* ed up his shoulders and it dropped off on the floor. Mine is not ready to drop yet, and so I must wait and take it, come weal, come woe, and make the best of it. I thought a power of my scuppendine vine, as Cobe calls it, and I had put posts in the ground and plank ed it around to protect it, and it was growing so beautifully and spreading out over the top and the old cow had been grazing around it most every day for a month, and sure enough yesterday she sorter climbed up on the planks and reached her tongue out and nabbed it, and got it all down and used it up bod aciously before we could get to her, and its no ose to try to'express my feelings, for I am no saint, but am a sinner, and last night somebody left the gate open, and when I got up and looked out of the window this morning to see if there was any frost on the ground, the sheep were in the front yard, and I didn't wait to take off my ascension garment or put on my shoes, and stood not on the order of my going, but went for them at once before they had eat up the rose bushes and the unanimous hedge and other ornaments, all of which had been mentioned to. .me from time to time by Mrs. Arp for fear I would for get it, and so I flew around amazin and got the rheumatism again, and have been gruntin' and takin' on ever since as a^cous.ter irritant, and I am getting along pretty well considerin, and the same day I turned the colts in the rye lot to graze and set the little children to watch 'em and keep 'em from fudgin over into the orchard, and sure enough the children got to playing mumble peg in the sand and forgot "the colts, and they stepped aronnd to the orchard, and when I went to run 'em out they kicked op and galloped off and stradled my young June apple trees just to scratch themselves and broke two-of 'em down, and when I got to the house and set down in the front piazzer to rumi nate and get calm and serene, I heard a scream of fire in the back .yard, and shore enough the- black smoke was a pouring out of the kitchen which is in the basement, and the flames were all over the cook stove, and licking the ceiling and we smelt tar, and shore enough Ralph, the boy that is everlast ingly a doing somethiug, was boiling a two gallon bucket of tar to pitch his new boat, and it had boiled over and taken fire, and it was an awful sight to behold, and the boy bad run, but one of the girls rushed in and gathered the bucket with her apron and slung it a rod out of the door, and by that time we all had water, and squenched the conflagration, for which I shall always think the Southern Mutual ought to be thankful, for Fve been insuring in that company for twenty years and the chances are against them now and get* ing more so every day. As it turned out we only lost a coffee pot and a tin pan and the tar bucket?and the boy lost his tar, and in a short time the family got done talking about it and become ail calm and serene. A boy is a great invention. He is so useful and keeps things moving around so lively. ."He shot a mink this morning and has pret ty well exterminated the snakes. He builds fires and brings water and milks the cows and goes to mill and- puts up martin gourds and loses his knife and borrows mine and loses that and digs the potatoes for dinner and carries them in his hat and hunts eggs and pigeon squabs and gets more scolding and less whipping than anybody and don't care a cent what a pound of sugar cost, so he gets, three teaspoonfuls in his coffee. Then again he is so convenient to lay things on and can bear so much and keep fat, and learn so much naborbood news. Where in the world he got that tar I have no idea, but my opinion is that he and his mother are in partner ship about that for she never scolded hiiu nary time about the fire. Well, I think I will go over and see Newt Tumlin. He has moved over to the settlement, and is running a fur nace about three miles off, and the other day he got on the top of the smokestack and called me and I heard him from my piazza. He wants me and Cobe and him to get together and pick> out a man for governor, and write a card and present tbem to the people of Georgia. Newt says that three men has as much right to do it as nine. Jesso, and I thought we would nominate Cobe, but Cobe says be don't respire to such a high perdition. But when a man forms and expresses an opinion be fore he hears all the evidence, it dis qualifies him as a juror and he can't try it. However, if a man don't live in the county I suppose he can talk as much as he pleases, for he can't set on the case no bow, and his talk don't amount to any thing. Well, it does show right smart cheek and a disposition to tamper with the jury, which I don't think is commendable. I don' think that non residents ought to interfere with our af fairs until they move back again, espe cially when they have got no better ex cuse than that they was afeerd of the small-pox. When there is a conundrum to guess, I don't like for a man to plow with another man's heifer. It looks like these nine men were afraid the ! Democracy would nominate Mr. Ste pbens, and they wanted to get in ahead and. shew smart. If they wanted Mr. Stephens shore enough, a considerate modesty would have waited ue'U the regulars nominated him, aud then they could have fallen iotojioe and slid back into the party very gracefully, and got forgiveness. But they wasent the first to nominate him nohow, for Bob Har grave nominated him at Borne, and Rat Johnson non mated him at Carters ville, ami old father Willi'ngham says he has been running him in the Free Fress for several months. There are several fellers scattered about in the ; State who have got ahead of the hounds and are running Mr. Stephens on their ! own hook, all of which is premature, and I'll bet Mr. Stephens don't thank 'cm for it, for human natur is human natur and it don't magnify his popularity for I a few fragmentary friends to be dicta ting' terms to the regulars and veterans in service. I'm- for Mr.' Stephens my ' self when he has been nominated by the Georgia Democracy, for then the case will have been tried and a verdict ren dered, but I don't want the small-pox to scare me into it beforehand. We are all vaccinated now and are no more afraid to go to Atlanta than the Presby terian preachers are. But then I sap pose that politics and preaching are very different things, thongh some folks do mix 'em sometimes. Anyhow, I'm going to keep unbiased till the time comes for maybe I might get caught on the jury myself. Who .knows? A Strange St?ry. For some time past rumor, has had it that two well known LaFayette sisters I were about to be married to two .young gentlemen, one of this-'city and the Other a prominent business man of Chicago. At the earnest solicitation of the young ladies the engagement arid, .proposed I double wedding was kept a' profound 1 secret, or as much so as was possible. I Two weeks ago yesterday was set . for the wedding, and although it was thought to be a strange whim, the im portunate demand of the ladies most j concerned that none but their immediate family' and the gentlemen themselves i should know anyting about it was re spected. At daybreak on the eventful I day the family were up and about, but it was thought best not to disturb the young .ladies until later, although the wedding, hour was set at 8 o'clock. At 7 o'clock the expectant grooms made their appearance, and it was then deem ed best to awake the girls. A younger sister was sent to their room to call them. Presently .she returned with the information that they, were not there". A look of inquiry and dread amazement went from face to face; and then all hur ried to the room. Sure enough the birds had flown, and the undisturbed I bed revea^red^h^F^they^h^ not even j retired. One moment's. brief and appalling | silence, in which the heart-throbs could almost be heard, and then a hurried search , took place that revealed the worst?the. trunks containing all their wearing apparel and jewelry were miss ing, and on the dressing case, under a little iron .photograph holder, was a j brief note merely stating that tbey had j gone, they did not want to marry, and 1 never would come back. Diligent search and inquiry revealed nothing and it was only by accident their where abouts, in a fashinable sporting bouse at St. Louis, was discovered.. A .Lafayette man who was over there this week stumbled upon them in this place. He describes one of the girls as beiag in a pitiable condition, having-been badly beaten and kicked down-stairs by a drukeri bully, whom she had importuned for the money due her. The other seemed much depressed, and both seemed to bitterly realize what they had done. The heart-broken father I and mother left for St Louis immediate j ly, and, for the time being at least, the Courier is pledged to secrecy. No ; cause for their rash step is given?none can be until they themselves make the revelation. They were the loved and petted daughters of fond parents?the affianced brides of honorable and in dustrious men, who are no less grief stricken than the poor parents?LaFa yette (Lid) Courier. When They Died. j -:? A fraction more than one-third of all the Presidents of the United States (not counting the two ex-Presidents I now living nor President Garfield) have died in the month of July. Those who met their fate in this month were Jefferson and Adams (July 4, 1826,) Monroe (July 4, 1831 ,) Van Buren (July 24, 1862.) Taylor (July 9, 1850;) Johnson (July 31, 1875.) Four others?Madjson, Jackson, Polk and Buchanan?died in June. In those two months, therefore, exactly half of all the Presidents the republic has had departed this life. The following list may be of interest in this connection : President. Died Aye. 1 Washington - -Dec. 14, 1797 67 2 Adams - - - July 4, 1827 91 3 Jefferson - - -July 4, 1826 83 4 Madison - - June 28,1836 85 5 Monroe - - - July 4. 1831 72 6 Adams - - - Feb. 23, 1848 81 7 Jackson - - - June 8, 1845 78 8 Van Buren - - July 24, 1862 80 9 Harrison - - - April 4, 1841 68 10 Tyler - - - Jan. 17, 1862 72 II Polk- - - - - Juue 15,1849 54 12 Taylor - - - July 6, 1850 66 13 Fillmore - - - March 8,1874 74 14 Pierce - - - Oct. 8, 1869 66 j 15 Buchanan - - June 1, 1868 77 16 Lincoln - - April 14,1865 56 17 Johnson - - July 31, 1875 67 The oldest President at the time of his death was John Adams, and the youngest James K. Polk. Next to him was Abraham Lincoln, who was assassinated. The average age of the seventeen Preidents on their death was 72| years, and of the sixteen who died from natural causes 73? years. Planting Corn. The following is the result of an ex periment with corn : That which was planted at the depth of 1 inch, came up in 8? days; l|s inches, in 9? days; 2 inches, in 10 days ; 2|",inches, in 1 to days ; 3 inches, in 12 days ; 3^ inches, in 13 days; 4 inches, in 13? days. The more shallow the seed was covered with earth, the "lore rapidly the sprout made its appearance, and the stronger afterwards was the stalk.?GaUowy (Ay.) News. The man who goes into business with the devil soon finds that his part ner is soul proprietor. Spoopendyke's Hen Coop. *My dear,' said Mr. Spoopendyke, as } he appeared before his wife with a broad j grin on his face, 'say, my dear, I've j bought some chickens so we can have fresh laid eggs. Look!' and he held oat a couple of pair of fowls tied by the legs, for Mrs. Spoopendyke's contem plation. 'Well, upon my word !' exclaimed Mrs. Spoopendyke. 'Of all things! chickens ! Ever since we've been mar ried I've wanted chickensV and she ap proached the birds cautiously and with a look of misgiving that belied her words, 'Where can we keep them ?' In a coop, Mrs. Spoopendyke, in a coop V retorted her husband, laying the chickens on the bed while he divested himself of his coat and vest. "We might keep 'em up the chimney or in the clock, but we probably, won't. We'll just keep 'em in a hen-coop, and I've got the laths and nails down stairs to build it with. Come down in the yard,' and Mr. Spoopendyke grabbled his new acquisition by the legs and started off, followed by his wife. Do you know how to build a coop ?' asked Mrs. Spoopendyke, as she watch ed her husband dig a post hole in the corner she had reserved for a geranium bed. *If I don't you probably do,' snorted Mr. Soopendyke, kicking away at the spade uutil he loosened his leg. 'Now I put this post here and that one there Then the two fences make the rest, and T only lath up these two?dod gast the post I1 he concluded, as it toppled over on .his ear. 'Can't you hold it up ? What're you sitting around there like a cork in a jug for ? Hold it up, will ye?' Mrs. Spoopendyke grasped the post firmly with both hands and held it at an angle of thirty degrees. Now hold it perfectly still while I dig the other hole,* and Mr. Spoopen dyeke hacked away at the ground again and set his second post. 'I see what you mean,' giggled Mrs. Spoopendyke. 'You "slat it up, from one post to the other and then put the chickens in. My! how nice that'll be!' Mr. Spoopendyke glared at her a moment and then began patting up' his laths, standing between the posts and the fence corner and whistling as he worked. Now,' said he, as he finished, 'what do you think of that ?' Mrs. Spoopendyke examiued the job critically. - - ?'It's a perfect palace!' she exclaimed. But say, dear, how are you going to get out ?' Yah-h-h I' roared Mr. Spoopendyke, bounding into the air. . *Why didn't ye tell me? Wbat'd ye want to let me build myself in like, a mummy for? ain't ye got any sense at-all anywheres? Why didn't ye watch what I was do ing?' and Mr. Spoopendyke grinned horribly through the slats. 'I supposed you were going to build a hole in it,' faltered Mrs. Spoopen dyke. So I am !' yelled Mr. Spoopendyke, jamming his leg through the strocture. 'Want any more holes ?' and be kicked the side half way across the yard. 'Four chickens, four holes I' he roared and the laths flew in all directions. Want any more holes?' and he smash ed the roof oat with the spade. 'Holes constantly on hand 1 If you don't see the hole you want, ask for it!' and he blew out the end with terriffic energy. New goods coming in* at all times! Second-hand holes a specialty !' and he banged out the other end. 'Parties wanting holes to send in the country will consult their interests by applying here before going elsewhere!' and he ripped down the rest of the coop with prodigious clatter: 'Want any more holes in this particular coop ?' he roar ed, wrenching out the posts and slam ming them across the yard. 'Does this hen coop begin to convey the impres sion of having a hole in it?' he de manded, stalking op to his wife. 'Yes, dear,' replied Mrs. Spoopen dyke, soothingly. 'I'm so glad you got out, but where can' we keep the chickens now?' Keep 'em !' ripped Mr. Spoopendyke, with a horrible grimace, and grasping I the wretched fowls by the legs, 'who's going to keep 'era ?' and he cut the lashings.' 'S'pose I'm going to run my business just to gratify every whim of a woman ?' and he jerked the chickens into the air. 'Never mind,' cooed Mrs. Spoopen dyke, as the last bird slid over the fence and disappeared. 'Chickens are a nui sance, anyway. We really didn't need any." . Why didn't you say so before I bought 'em ?' blurted Mr. Spoopen dyke, as he dashed into the bouse. 4I didn't know it,' sighed Mrs. Spoopendyke,, looking around on the wreck, 'and, besides, I don't believe we would have had many eggs, because those chickens were all roosters.' And Mrs. Spoopendyke followed her husband, who stormed around the rest of the evening because she couldn't find the paper of January 12, 1879, which he had cautioned her to save because there was something#n it he wanted to read, and which he had used the next day, in conjunction with the back breadth of her new flannel petticoat, to clean his shot-gun with. - ?. - Just a Common Liar. 'Old B.' says that some years age in a Carolina town a crazy man was brought before an examining board to settle the question as to whether or not he should be sent to the asylum in Columbia. After the doctor got through with his examination one of the committee, an old farmer, said : 'My friend did you ever borrow any bags or jugs ?' *Yes, lots of thern.5 'Did you ever borrow your neighbor's newspaper V 'Yes, many a time.' 'Well, now, whnt became of the jogs, bags :-nd newspapers?' 'Why, I carried them all back.' The old farmer gave a blow almost as loud as 'Nancy Hart's' whistle and said : 'Gentlemen, he's no lunatic! Just simply a common liar, and all the asylums in the world won't cure a man of lying.' The JHodern Printer. The Man is at the Desk. He is an Editor. What is that in his hand ? It is a Microscope. What does the Editor want of a Microscope ? He is looking for bis salary. See the Elevator. It is not running. How the Man swears. lie is an Editor. Do Elevators ever run ? Oh, yes, when they are first put in a Building, and be fore they are Paid for. This is the Man who has had a No tice in the Paper. How Proud he is. He is Stepping Higher than a Blind Horse. If he had Wings he would Fly. Next week the Paper will say the Man is a Measly Old Fraud, and the Man will not Step so High. Here is a Yalise. It does not Weigh Four Hundred Pounds. It is the Va lise of an Editor. In the Valise are Three Socks and a Bottle and a Book. There is Something in the Bottle. May be it is Arnica for the Editor's Sore Finger. The Book is Baxter' Saints' Best. The Socks got into the Valise by Mistake. Perhaps the Bottle will get into the Editor by Mistake. Behold the Printer. He is Hunting for a Pickup of half a Line. He has Be:n hunting for Two Honrs. He could have Set the half Line in Twenty Seconds, but it is a Matter of Principle with Him never to Set what he Can pick up. The Printer has a Hard time. He has to Set type all night and Play pedro for the Beer all Day. We would Like to Be a Printer were it not for the Night Work. Is* this a Corner Lot ? No, it is a Towel. It has Been serving an Appren ticeship in a Printing Office for the Past four Years. The horses are Drag ging it away. A man will Take an Ax and Break the Towel into Pieces and Boil it for Soap Grease. Then he will sell the Towel for Tripe. If you Find a Piece of Tripe with a Monogram in one Corner, you may Know it is the Towel. Here is a Man who has Just Stopped His Paper. What a Miserable Looking Creature He is. He Looks' as if he had Been stealing a Sheep. How will he Know what is going on, now that he has stopped his paper 'I He will Borrow his Neighbor's Paper. One of these days he will break his leg, or bc a caodid-ite for office, and then the paper will say Nothing about it. That will be Treat ing him Just Bight, will it not, Little Children ? Has the Printer Tobacco ? He has, But he will not Tell you So. He car ries it in the Leg of his* Boot, and when he wants a Chew he Sneaks down in the Back Alley where Nobody can See him. When he Spits tobj^co^it^soands like a Duck diving in the Water. The printer is a Qaeer man. He is a Fickle person. Sometimes he Has ten thou sand Ems on the String, but they are Always his Dupes. If you are a Prin ter do not be a Blacksmith, or you will get Fired. Here we have a Knife. It looks like a Saw. but it is a Knife. It belongs to an Editor, and is used for Sharpening pencils, killing Roaches, opening Cham pagne Bottles, and cutting the Hearts out of Bad men who Come into the . of fice to Whale the Reporters. There, is Blood on the Blade of the Knife, but the Editor will CalmlvLick it off, and then the Blade will be as Clean and Bright as Ever. The Knife cost 70 Cents, and was imported from London, Connecticut. If you are Good,-perhaps the Editor will give it to you to Cut off the Cat's Tail. Here is a Castle, It is the Home of an Editor. It has Stained Glass win dows and Mahogany stairways. In front of the Castle is a Park. Is it not sweet? The lady in the Park is the editor's wife. She wears a Costly robe of Velvet trimmed with Gold Lace, and there are Pearls and Rubies in her Hair. The editor sits on the front stoop smoking an Havana Cigar. His little Children are Playing with Dia mond Marbles on the Tesselatcd Floor. The editor can offord to Live in Style. He gets Seventy-Five Dollars a month Wages. map I 9 i ? A Sad Case. Illinois has a sensation. Mrs. Lay of Sandwich is dead from starvation, a victim of deception and fanaticism. Her husband set himself up as a religious prophet, and he published a magazine called the Prophet's Warning. He claimed to be a modem Elijah, and be succeeded in bamboozling some fools in the "North, bis poor wife among them. He made his wife believe she would give birth to a holy child if she fasted a certain number of weeks. She had a son who was a prophet also. Between father and son the woman died. The Chicago Inter-Ocean of the 22d says: 'This son looked forward .to his mo ther's death as one of the possibilities ; of the scheme, and the world is treated J to the astonishing spectacle of a de mented woman starving herself at the instigation of and under the encourage mentof her sod, and with the conniv ance of her husband. The woman died. The question of what shall be dene with such men now demands an answer.' The North looks down with painful commiseration upon *the p?or South,' and yet that self-same complacent North seems to bo the chosen home of hum buggery, knavery, dclusiou, supersti tion, fanaticism and general badness.? Wilmington Star. me-? -- am Housekeeping Horrors. A merchant's wife recently gave her husband the following letter with in structions that it should not be opened until he got to his place of business : I am forced to tell you something that I know will trouble you, but it is my duty to do so, I am determined you shall know it, let the result be what it may. I have known for a week that this trial was coming., but kept it to myself until to-day, when it has reach ed a crisis and I cannot keep it any longer. You must not ccusare me too harshly, for you must reap the benefits as well as myself. I do hope it won't crush you. The Boar is all out. Pie''i send mc some this afternoon. I thought by this method you would not forget it. Darkness may as well put on the name of light, as a wicked man the name of a Christian. An important Act. Heretofore parties selling or dispos ing of personal property on which a mortgage or lieu existed were subject to be indicted only by the person to whom sold. It will be seen that the party who purchases property on winch a mortgage or lien exists is rarely ever the party who is iojured, but the mortgagee or lienee or party who holds the mortgage or lien is generally the one injured, but who has heretofore had no redress on the crimnal side of the Court. To remedy this defect, the Legisla ture, at its last session, passed the fol lowing act, which we think will be worth thousands of dollars to our citi zens. Be it enacted, etc. : That from and after the passage of this Act, any person or persons who shall sell or dispose of any personal property on which any mortgage or other lien exists, without the written consent of the mortgagee or lienee, or the owner or holder of such mortgage or lien, and shall fail to pay the debt secured by the same within ten days , after such sale or disposal, or shall fail in such time to deposit the amount of the said debt with the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the county in which the mortgage or lien debtor resides, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemean or, and on conviction thereof shall be imprisoned for a term not more than two years, or be 6ned not more than $500?or both, in the discretion of the Court ' Provided, That the provisions of this Act shall Dot apply in cases of sales made without knowledge or notice of such mortgage or lien by the person so selling such property. Recording is constructive notice, and any person selling personal property on which a lien exists, with such notice or actual notice, lays himself liable under this Act.N: Chicken Cholera. In The Breeders'.Gazette Dr. Salmon gives.the following in relation to the prevention and arrest of the progess of this disease : The practical points id suppressing such outbreaks are briefly as follows: 1. 'Recognize the disease on its first ap pearance. 2.' Remove sick and dead fowls beyond the reach of healthy ones. 3. Disinfect the droppings of sick ones. If cholera is in a locality, every farmer s should be on his guard; and if he loses a bird, or has one sick, be should sus pect this disease. ,-After a little .expe -rie?ce, the "droppings may ?be relied upon to determine if the affect?on is~ really cholera. The droppings of fowls consist of the kidney and bowel excre tions, mixed; the former, in health, are white, and are easily recognized. In cholera, the droppings are almost en tirely the excretion of the kidneys; they are serai-liquid, and have a yellow ish or greenish color. This is charac teristic of the disease. Many people, I find, are very care less in. regard to their fowls, and if one of their flock, by some chance, happens to take a particle of contagion into its stomach and contracts the disease, this first bird, when it1*dies, is allowed to remain where its fellows can feed upon its flesh. There is no more certain method of communicating the disease than this, and it is not surprising that, within the next week or two, three fourths of the flock are either sick or dead. When taken at the beginning of an outbreak, the disinfection is a very easy matter Three ounces of commer cial sulphuric acid are added to four gallons of water, and all droppings of the sick fowls are thoroughly saturated with the mixture, by sprinkling from a common watcriog pot. Iffchis is prop erly done, it almost invariably stops the disease ; but, if other cases occur, the disinfection must be repeated. If many fowls have died, the well ones of the flock must be placed by themselves on a fresh run; or, in case none is at hand, the old one may be safely disinfected with the same solution. This solution of sulphuric acid, first recommended by Pasteur, is absolutely certain in its effets; it destroys the germs of the disease, and accomplishes this within an hour or two after comiog in contact with them. It should not be forgotten, of course, that sulphuric acid should on no account be allowed to touch the hand or clothes ; but when diluted to the extent recommended above, it is perfectly safe. If enough water is added by the druggist to the three ounces of acid to make the whole measure a pint or a quart, it may be carried with much less danger of acci dent. Pruning in June. We have tried pruning in almost all months of the year, and on the rhole prefer June. This being about the busiest mouth of the year, there is usu ally little time for pruning, and so the favorite time is early in spring, and many of our old orchards, in their rot ting limbs and decayed trunks, bear testimonv to the mischief wrought by the ill-timed use o^the saw and axe. Small limbs, an inch in diameter or less, can betaken off at any time with comparative safety. But the thorough pruning called for in a long-neglected orchard is best done in the early sum mer. The sap is absorbed by the rapid formation of wood and leaves; the wood laid bare in pruning large limbs soou becomes seared, the healing process around the edges of the wound begins immediately, and in a few years the wound will'be completely covered with new wood and bark. There is no chance for decay as when large limbs are removed in the early spring. There is far too little pruning done in the farm orchard. A dead limb should not be suffered upon the fruit tree. Good pru ning leaves no stubs, but cuts close to the trunk or branch bearing the excised limb.?American Agriculturistfor June. A stranger in a printing office asked the youngest apprentice what his rule of punctuation wjis. Said the boy: *l set up as long as I can hold my breath, and then I put a comma ; when I gape, T insert a semicolon, and when I want to sneeze, I make a paragraph.' xne uonamg ?jngiisn fiction-1 ary. Undisturbed by the jarrings of poli tics, the strifes of parties, the headlong rush for gain, a company of devoted scholars of our language have been dili gently at work for a quarter of a centu ry in preparing an English dictionary worthy our tODgue and our literature? a work that will take rank by the side of the great French dictionary of Littre. In common justice, let us set out by stating that the coming dictionary of our language, which will probably be finished within the present decade, was originated in Eogland by Englishmen. Twenty-five years ago the English Phil ological Society set itself the task of gathering material for the needed work. After the labor had been fully arranged and the various branches got accustom ed to their duties, the director of the work, Herbert Coleridge, died. With out the head, the hands went busily on in their duties until 1876; Dr. Murray, then took the position of editor. After three years of diligent preparatory drudgery, he found that he bad at bis j disposal two tons' weight of material, and the important pledge that the Clar endon press, of Oxford, would print the work. Several hundred volunteers, diligently at work for so maDy years, have thus far supplied 360,000 slips bearing valuable information for the lexicon. He has in his possession 2,500, | 000 quotations, collected by eleven hun dred readers. These and other needed I material are stowed iu an iron building erected for the purpose ; the valuable material, the fruit of so many labors, is all classified and arranged in several j thousand pigeon- holes. Americans have ! in recent years given Dr. Murray sub [ stantial aid, and to the praise of our countrymen be it spoken, not for any pecuniary compensation, but, as the English editor glowingly expresses it, from 'an ideal love of the English lan guage as a glorious heritage, and a pride in being intimate with its grand memo ries, such as one does find sometimes \p a classical scholar in regard to Greek ' The enthusiastic Doctor goes on to ex plain that there are hundreds of writers constantly at work at home and abroad elucidating important lexicographical points not touched upon in any cf the dictionaries we have. The first four hundred pages, con taining the letter 'A,' are finished, and will be printed and published in the present year. If the work is printed in accordance with the portions now ready j for the press, the completed dictionary j will consist'of twelve quarto volumes of 2,000 pages each. .Reductions may. however, be made in the length of the I quotations, bringing down the entire , work to four tiines the size of Webster's (Jnabrid'gea^^'d^oTre-*nd a-half times larger than' that of Littre*s*^ttlike most other works of the kind, the draining complete English dictionafjririiT be the* well-considered labor df many hands, instead of the resultant toil of one mind. As soon as the first portion of the dic tionary reaches the United States we shall, see what the- crowning lexico graphical work of the age is like, and its editor and co-Iaboreis be iu a betkr position to decide whether it is advisable to print all their material for each letter, or condense quotations and -abbreviate lengthy authorities. A Pretty Story-Perhaps True. A Paris newspaper tells a pretty anec dote about Ambroise Thomas, the com poser, and his dainty villa of Argenteuil, which, in September, 1870, be was compelled to abandon on the approach of the Prussians, without being able to remove any of his artistic treasures or curios. As soon as the village was occupied a young staff-officer, charged with quartering the troops, appeared at the villa and asked of the trembling concierge who occupied the lodge, M. Thomas having locked up the main building ere leaving for Paris: 'Who lives here?' *M. Abroise Thomas.' 'The composer?' 'The same.' The offi cer took a card from bis pocket, pencil led a few words upon it and shoved it under the fastened door; then, obtain ing a piece of chalk, inscribed some words on the panel and departed. No soldiers were billetted there, and when a new regiment eame np and the villa was visited, the quartermaster read the chalked inscription and passed on to another house And so all through the siege, to the wonder of the care-taker. When the armistice was signed and Paris' gates were opened, M. Thomas hurried off to Argenteuil with a sinking heart, being sure that his dwelling had been profaned, if not plundered. To his surprise, however, he found it just as he had left it, and on opening the door discovered the card of the young Prussian officer, inscribed with his name and rank, and the words 'Nephew of Meyerbeer.' - -^mm. - Health and Poultry Raising, j A young woman whose health failed j in the close confinement of the school room went to raising poultry because she I was obliged to do something for a liv ing, and because the doctors advised mental rest and as much active outdoor exercise as possible. In two years her health was firmly re-established, but in the meantime she had found poultry keeping so pleasant and profitable that she refused to teach again. She has been in the business five years, and is earning a fortune as fast as ever a pair of woman's hands earned one. Hot alum water is the best insect destroyer known. Put the alum iu hot water, and let it boil till it is all dis solved ; then apply the solution hot with a brush to all cracks, bedsteads and other places where insects are found Ants, bedbugs, roaches and all creep ing things are killed by it, while there is no danger of poisoning the family or injuring property. Bad breath may be cured by taking a teasponful of the following mixture three hours after eating: Chlorate of potassa, two drachms; sweeteued water, four ounces. Wash the mouth occa sionally with the same mixture and the breath will become as sweet as an Jnfant's Figaro says that there is in Paris a writer who does the descriptive part of novels for novelists whose genius docs not lie in that line of writing. From him they purchase, cash down, every kind of description of Paris scenery. jsews ana u-ossip. Some time ago it was announced thai Beatrice, youugest daughter of Victoria, was engaged to the eldest son of the Landgrave of Hesse. This is now offi cially denied. Complete anarchy prevails in Egypt. The Khedive's life is threatened, and all efforts to form a ministry have failed. It seems as if. France and England would have to take part in settling the djsturba nces existing there. While New York city is fighting despo rately against skim milk dealers, Gen* cral Schenck, of poker fame, announces that a diet of skim milk has cured him of Bright's disease. Dr. Kendall, a practising physician of Syracuse, New York, was recently found dead in a cemetery near a grave which he bad been robbing. No one knows who the murderers were. There is one poor mm living near Camden who kcep3 eight dogs in bis yard, and it takes more to feed those dogs than it does his family, yet he complains of hard times. Can he *ex* pect anything but hard times as long as he keeps those dogs ? . As a rule the negroes seem to be wonderfully impressed with tue necessi ty of registering. Very f^w will fail to comply with the requirements of law. From the action of the blacks the whites may take a hint. Let no Democrat lose his. right to vote, but register. If he does,- he will be an instrument of turning over the State to- those who before plundered it, as eiT(atigplly as did the Reconstraction Acts ofwougress in 1867. Under the caption 'Benefit of the No-Fence Law* the Marion Star says: Miss Rosa McGill a colored maiden, of the beautiful villiage, of Selkirk, gave birth a few days sgo to three girl :chH- ' dreu, all of whom arc living and doing well. \, < .. . Get out your slates and go to - cipher* . ing on the redistricting problem'. It will amuse you several hours arid then it will do no possible harm. Represen tative Gray, of Greenville puts down Beaufort, Lower Colleton,. Berkeley, Surater, Williamsbnrg and Clarendon, as the 6th District. Highly colored* The white man is determined to keep the negro under. The latest outrage is the assertion of the editor of the Macon Telegragh that 'no case of delirium tre ments has ever been developed in & -: pure blooded negro.* What ie the 15th amendment worth to the dark race if, they cannot have all the privileges en joyed by their white brethren ? In accordance with a new law the screens in front of barrooms are being taken down, throughout the S t?te where licenses arc granted. Members of the various churches-and temperance-Advo who iudulge in the sparkling wine . drink will have . to take theirs b&?n^^he 4?or or get^rejnir. keeper to mj^e^tlt^airs A young.'gentleman told \Ar yonnj lady recently while visiting- her at her residence, in this city, and who taunted him with the reinarjs.that there are plen ty of men who paint and powder, that it was all so, but added, they do not .wear corsets 'Of course not,' responded the fair one; 'but they use something else in getting tight.'?Palmetto Yeoman* The Union Times -says: 'We are sorry to learn that some white men in this county are inducing democrats not to register. Look oat for them. They have registered themselves and will very likely be found as candidates, with their names sandwiched in between, radical negroes and white greenback* ers, on a mongrel ticket.' Col. A. M. Speights has sold out a half interest in the Merchant's Hotel to Mr. W. C. Parker of the Hotel at Union, S. C. Mr Parker with bis fam ily is here and be will give his time and atention to the house and if these two famous hotel keepers do not work the Merchant's up to a high standard it will be a surprise to their friends. ?Carolina Spartan. Impure water is often a cause of sick ness. By degrees a well may become very unwholesome, when the family^ using it will hardly suspect anything wrong. Be sure that there is nothing in your well that will render it im pure. If you have doubts, get a good band to clean it out for you. It may save a doctor's bill. Young Mr. Arthur, a son of Presi dent Arthur, caused talk in Washing ton the other day by appearing on the quarter-stretch of a race course in a loud?not to say thunderous?costume. He WGre trousers with tong-like legs padded on the side with bucksin, a red necktie, a la-de-dah English plug and an Oscar Wilde sunflower. Six uncompleted war vessels are now rotting on the docks in several ship yards. Their keels have never touched water and never will. Yet Upon these hulks have been expended ihe enor mous amount of ?9,434.674. For the greater part of this steal Robeson is re- ." sponsible. Yet be is to-day the leader of the Republicans in the House, and its actual speaker?Keifer being a ' mere figure-head. Susie Green says a contemporary, bad her pick from among the young men of Lexington, Ky., for she was handsome and rich ; but she preferred a gambler of the flashiest kind. He was known to her for a month as a stock broker, and at the end of that brief courtship she married him. They stopped at a Louisville hotel on thei* bridal tour. He brought her a lemo- ~ oade in her room, and she found it bit ter. He had put an opiate in it. When she was unconscious he stole her purse and ?1.500 worth of diamonds, and deserted he. Mr. Ben Wood, of New Torjc, claims to be a Democratic Congressman He is abseut from his seat almost all the time. The deadlock in Congress * brought him to Washington, whereat he signalized himself by voting with the Republicans. After two days work of this kind be has returned home to the satisfaction of all parties. Ben is somewhat malodorous on gene ral principles, and bis vote would make it appear that ho wears John Kelly's collar, as that worthy is now training Tammany with the Republi cans.