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Consolidated Aug. 2, 1881.1 'Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country *, thy God's, and Truth's." SUMTER, S. O., TUESDAY,' JUNE 27, 1882. THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established Jan?, 1*66; ?S New Series?Toi. L No; 4& g - ftiblished ewry Tuesday, 1; * "** - ?BY THE? \fatchman and Southron Publishing \ I Company, l? ^ x.?^ SsUMTER, S. C. TERMS I " Two ?o?lars .per annum?in advance. . ADT8BTI3KM?SIS. One Square, ?rst insertion.-.$1 00 Every s?'bseqT?entiiisertion.................. 50 : -Contracts for threeTaohths, or longer will be made at reduced rates. Alfccoraronnica?onS' which subserve private interests will be charged foras advertisements. ^tT-"0*itU?ries 'and ??batea ?f respect will be %s cnarged/or. v" Marriage notices and notices of deaths pub S?:-i:.$Pot^frb work er contracts for advertising ---address JF&e&^.aB? ?^fcttm^ or apply at Business Manager." . . ?F6r the Watchman and Southron.] A BEVEBTE v On Reading of the Erection of a Mon* " ornent te the Confederate Sollddlers of > - -'-^ - Charleston. ; _. :?""""* Ah ! was it centuries ago, Or only.twenty years ? J; " ?hJvawful page of history's book, Forever stained with tears ! The ?cars across thy breast, fair Soutb, . Noblooming flowers can hide ; Tbymiforgetting lore turns back To thy dear sons who died. Wasjthe cause lost for which they fell ? G.V. ' 04 .pang>of sharpest pain ! I Thy choicest treasure offered up, TBy cos?y offering vain? ; Pansejret a little : Jet us strive To judge where Right may be ; Sooner^or later, there the wreath Of perfect victory. M iWhitfVwjonr cause, 0 young'and brave, I What vision filled your eyes ? - ^,;A^t?uvfaire8t upon, earth, I ^^td^m'ywSr dream arise : A*^^where men should all be true, - ^/k wom'en pure as snow, . Whence should be unstained with greed, ; Wim^jtessions mean and low. Have I the/power to read your Noughts, > - ^a^ve fio^iers, laid to re3t? c And can y^^-totist a heart which beats ^^thin-^to^hern breast? <^3me?s^^^^?t^.'eager pride : Yet would I faSs^betoyejorday ; > ._ That yenCjS?gffet?ft' right. ^ \-Sprfll^???SHw^on blood which loves ljr#9^c^^Su-.be K^oo^rfnogaway your lives to gain P^^Aj^^^Jibje^?; - r . t^^wjt thajBsddesa. s t whose shrine $ i - * ?or whole c^??-coald pray? . Skwn?g^^^^^?l?ed your souls, :', T>j^?^T? w??^I cannot see I ^?^?lrscr^o^^taints the gold ^,3&S*>ia the pes yet to come, Perchance the good you planned, ^-SnPoeg?u^lPtbe ?vil, shall appear ^" ' To bless and save our land. tO Country of my love, at last /J^^y darkness'shall depart, ' - 'p.. Andporer rays of heavenly Kght IHnminate thy heart 1 Kot wealth and power shall be, that day, -Host precious in thine eyes? In lofty character alone A people's glory lies. Empress of nations wouldst thou stand With roonarchs at thy feet ? rWhat;'jw^po? does thy freedorn hold ? That cha?len ge" must thou meet ! Thy loyal sons are those whose hearts Are longing even ^w" That honor, purity,5rat3 truth -Should crown thy regal brow. 0 Southern brothers, do you grasp - Some truth which we forget ? Then come, and take your grand revenge? You shall be victors yet I And where the clearer light Is ours, Ah! be content to le?rn! The finest natures are the first . Their errors to discern. So shall it be-that when you rise -, Beyond your present loss, ^ Yonr.gal?ant deed shall wear the crown ? Which comes but through the cross. - ?-AboYe4heir graves with tearfel eyes . America shall bend? For even to their foes they brought A blessing in the end. A NORTHERN REPUBLICAN. GIRLS. ?" BiH Arp's Opinion of the Feminine Gender. A nice, pretty, sweet girl can toll a ' man a long way off sometimes, and make htm sacrifice a power of time, and comfort and money ; and when she does it all for a purpose and then throws him off, I shall always think she hadn't efter. I never was in favor of a young girl turning up her nose at a clever fel low who was raised in her neighborhood . and running off after an airy chap from away yonder ; but when he does come I think she ought to let him go back quick and cheap or take him. I've al ways noticed that when yonog men go slipping away to parts unknown for a wile it's because those girls he was ^raised with know him too well and d.ov't want him. I didn't go half a mile tor my pard and that showed my good sense, and she didn't go no further than I did, and that showed hero, and if I was a sensible young girl and was wait ing for a husband, I would set my cap for somebody I had known a long time, ~ but if I was a young fool I wouldent. \ The happiest marriages I know of are those where the folks knowd all about one another for a good while, and nary one:was fooled. Romance in love af faire is mighty pretty, aod a solitary Norseman gettiog thrown from his horse is-just splendid, but all this plays out in a few months, and then comes the \ facts?the hard-pan. The earth that is earthy^ and the heavenly vanishes, and the baby bas to be nursed of nights, and the sugar gets low, aod the diamond wedding ring won't bring color to the poor "wife's cheeks, and she is away off from her mother and wants sympathy and love and kind attention, and a good deal of it. As Mr. Longfellow said : .life is real, life is earnest, . And the baby wants a nurse. ? ? ? ? - Laying down the law*?The judge on the point*of resigning. Our Danger and Our Duty. A Noble and Timely Letter From Sena tor Hampton. Mfc The Old Sero Anxious to Retire From Public Life?Our Peril Nearly as Great as in '76?Submission to the wiU of t?ie Majority?An Indepen dent Worse than a Radical?The People Urged to stand firm and be United. Washington, Jane 17, 1882. To the Editor News and Courier: Several friends have written to me urg ing that I should become a candidate for Governor, and to those I have pri vately given my reason why I could not do so ; bat as the press of the State has in various, quarters broached this matter, I deem it proper that my views should be made known to the people so that there may be no misunderstanding of my position. It is not necessary for me, I trust, to say that I would willingly make any personal sacrifice for the benefit of the State, or that my services can always4 be commanded by my fellow-citizens should an emergency arise demanding them. Butin my judgement no such emergency now exists, and apart from this there are many other cogent reasons why I should not enter the con test for the office. In the first place several gentlemen of high character, unquestioned ability and large experi ence, personal friends of mine, have been suggested for this honorable posi tion, and from that number one can be selected who can fill the place with honor to the State and to himself. Under-no circumstances would I antag onize these friends, and this reason is of itself sufficent to control my action in this matter. But there are many other reasons of great force which iufluence me. I am anxious to withdraw from public life at the earliest practicable and proper moment, and I am therefore un willing to enter upon new duties, or to assume new responsibilities. It was only in response to wbat I re garded as an imperative demand of the people of my State that I consented to be their standard-bearer in 1876 ; obe ; dience to the popular will has kept rue in public life from that time to the present, but I do not conceive that {there will be any necessity for my con I t?nu^ncejn it much longercertainly there canine none for my seeking-* ! place which can be worthily filled by any gentleman who may be nominated by our Convention. I beg therefore : that I may not in any way be consider I ed as a possible candidate. I am pro foundly grateful for the unvarying kindness, of my fellow-citizens, which has,been manifested so often and in so i many ways, and if their kind feelings still continue these can be shown in no I manner more gratifying to me than by ! allowing me to seek the quiet and the I repose of private life, fer I assure them that I shall lay down the responsibili ties and the honors they have bestowed upon me with far greater satisfaction than I assumed them. But while I cannot enter the field as a candidate, I shall shall cheerfully do all in my power in behalf of the nomi nees of our party if the Convention gives us good men and a good platform. ' Every true man in the State should feel impelled by the highest sense of duty ; to do this, if we hope to preserve the inestimable blessings secured to the State by the heroic efforts of the people in 1876. The perils that surround us I now are nearly if not quite j&s great as they were then, and the incentives to I united action are just as urgent. It is only by keepiug our ranks unbroken I that we can maintain home-rule and ! honest government, and it is disheart ening to feeljth?t our present dangers spring not from the strength of our op ponents, but from divisions, jealousies and dissensions among ourselves. . If mistakes have been committed by the representatives of our party, the people hold in their own hands the ab solute power to remedy whatever evil t has been done. No error that has been committed by their party can justify any man who has the interest of the j State at heart in deserting its ranks, for all needful reform can be had within i its organization. I regret therefore be yond expression to see dissatisfaction in any quarter, because of opposition to i some of the measures adopted at the ! last session of the Legislature. With out reflecting in the slightest degree upon either the wisdom or the patriot I ism of that body, I think that their ac ; tion in regard to the Registration law and the Stock law was unfortunate, but my opposition to these laws is no reason why I should desert the only party that has given honest and good government to the State since the war. My concep tion of Democracy is that the majority : should rule, and those who oppose the j measures mentioned will have the op i portunity of ascertaining at the next ' election on which side the majority I stands. Should it be the popular will I that these laws should be repealed or modified, the next Legislature can take ; action in that direction. We may rest ; assured that no redress of any evil can be had by the restoration of Radical I rule, and in the present condition of i races and parties in the State, an Inde \ pendent is, if possible, worse than a [ Radical, for he is an enemy 'who steals the livery of Heaven to serve the Devil in.' In the great fight we are making to preserve the civilization of our State, he who is not with us is against us, and ! no specious pretence of love for the 'dear people' can hide the cloven foot. I Let me therefore, as one who has had every political aspiration more than gratified, and who seeks nothing save j the prosperity and welfare of this Sate, urge our people most earnestly to stand firm and to keep united. Let every lover of his State register at once and be ready to vote. Let us nominate our best men for all the offices. Let us adopt and carry out in good faith the principles which gave us success in '76, and we shall again be successful. I venture to offer this advice to my fellow citizens because of the trust and confi dence with which they have honored me ; because of my anxious solicitude for the preservation of good govern ment; because my public career is drawing to a close, and above all, be cause I do not wish to see the great principles and the grand cause for which brave men straggled so zealously and devoted women prayed so earnestly in '76 lost by apathy, indifference or treachery in '82?or ever. I am, very respectfully, WADE HAMPTON. New Silk Industry. The greatest incentive to engage in silk culture is the knowledge that there is a home market for $15,000,000 worth of floss, which American manu facturers are obliged to import from for eign lauds. The other consideration is, that silk culture furnishes wouieu and children in. the rural districts, with a congenial occupation that does not re quire constant attention, and so will not interfere with household duties. In view of these facts the Women's Silk Culture Association of Philadel phia was organized two years ago, for the purpose of calling the attention of the women of the country to the oppor tunity given them to establish a new industry, both suitable and profitable: and also to give the necessary instruc tions to all desirihg-to engage in silk culture. The success of this pioneer associa tion is remarkable; there has been aroused a widespread interest in the cultivation of cocoons, that must go on increasing until the aim of the associa tion is fulfilled. This fact was most forcibly presetted at the last exhibition of the association, at which the display of cocoons was very fine and interesting. The chief feature of the exhibition was the dis play of specimen cocoons by the twen ty-six contestants for the Strawbridge & Clothier premiums. The first one of which, by the way, was carried off by Mrs. Rebecca Taylor, (mother of the late Bayard Taylor, who is over 82 years of age,.and a sufferer from paraly sis. The association announces that through the liberality of Messrs. Straw bridge & Clothier the well known dry goods merchants of Philadelphia, it is again enabled to offer to the silk cultu rists the sum of five hundred dollars in ten premiums, as follows: first premi um, $100 ; second premium, $75 ; third premium, ?65; fourth premium, $60; fifth premium, $50; sixth pre mium, $45; seventh premium, $40; eight premium, $30 ; niuth premium, $25; tenth premium, $10. For these premiums any resident of the United Stales ^mayi^-jtest_From the ten largest amounts of cocoons", ~?ne ptfu&d will be taken, without selection, and the test of reeling applied ; the quanti ty and quality will be the conditions for premium Applications for competition must be endorsed and the amount, of this year's cocoons raised by the cultu rists, testified to . by some responsible person. Stock must be sent not later than December 1, 1882. Anyone with sufficient land to grow a few mulberry trees can add the rear ing of silk worms to the daily care and find it a source of pleasure aud profit. The work occupies but a small portion of the year and a" child can attend to the daily gathering of leaves and feed ing the worms.. If a supply of mulberry, leaves cannot be had, an osage orange hedge will answer every purpose. The osage orange leaf is admirable food for the silk worms, from which they spin splendid silk. A very interesting event of national interest, connected with this subject of silk culture, has just occured in Phila delphia. The Women's Silk Culture Association selected silk from twenty six families living in fourteen states ; had it spun on a 'Yankee'* reel, made into a web of twenty-eight thousand threads of silk, and woven as a bro cade on a Jacquard loom, requiring three thousand six hundred needles to form the orginai and striking design. This is the first brocade ever woven in America of American silk ; and proba bly the heaviest in texture of any bro cade ever woven. It is known as the Garfield dress, as it is the intention of the association to present this magnifi cent fabric to Mrs. James A Garfield. Silk Culture as a Home Employment. The following is from a circular pub lished by the North American Silk Exchange : There are thousands of women who are unable to labor in shop, field or factory, and have no means outside of their household duties of converting labor into capital. There are thousands of others, who are forced to live in idleness, or to go further, paint bad pictures, write poor sketches, drag their lives out teaching, or marry uncongenial husbands for the sake of a living. And there is a senti ment that it is a species of degradation to a young girl or woman to 'go out* and work?but she will toil at home till her eyes grow dim. Silk Culture for all these people, will be an easy money-making employment at home, as it requires but a small amount of labor and capital, aod is pe culiarly adapted to the delicacy of skill and care which every woman naturally possesses. No special buildings are required, as a room in the house, attic, stable or shed, (with some care as to temperature and ventilation,)wili do for a cocoonery, aud after tLe mulberry trees are plant ed, an oz. or two of silk-worm eggs and a small book of instructions are a? that are needed for a start. This culture does not interfere with the domestic duties. Neither need the growing of trees interfere with the growing of vegetables, as the trimming system keeps the trees so dwarfed they throw but little shade. But the Exchange urges, without qualification or modification, that noth ing but the finest breeds of Worms and best White Mulberry be used. The quality of silk must be the best to be highly profitable. In the South three crops can be rais ed a season, two in the Middle States, and one in the Northern States, each crop taking from four to six weeks. And each crop will yield about one hundred and forty dollars to overy acre of land planted in Mulberry trees. This does not include the sale of tree cuttings or surplus eggs. Can any fruits or vegetables bring better returns.?or should any one go needy when such resources lie at the door ? It has also been demonstrated that silk raising will absolutely pay better with light labor, than cotton or rice or sugar or tobacco with heavy labor. Years ago silk culture was attempted in this country and much money was lost because there were no mills to con sume the silk. Now there are about two hundred silk mills in the United State, and two-thirds of the raw silk which they use is imported. There is no reason why the entire demand of the mills should not be sup plied by cocoons produced here, as the climate and soil of this country, partic ularly the Southern,.Middle and Pa cific States, have been found to be as well, if not belter, adapted to Silk Cul ture than either France or Italy. To those wanting to go into Silk Culture, but who have not the means, the Exchange will furnish lands, plant trees, build houses, and sell the same on installments ; and it will give the highest market price for cocoons, reeled silk, siik-worm eggs, silk producing trees, cuttings, seeds, etc. The Exchange will also, without de lay, erect a Filature, with improved machines, and of sufficient capacity to reel all the cocoons raised in the United States. ... Irish Potatoes?How to Get a Pall Crop. It is often the case that success in certain branches of horticulture depends upon apparent insignificant circumstan ces which are derived only from practical experience. There is little difficulty in producing a good crop of Irish potatoes from the spring crop, if planting is done early in tho-ougbly prepared and well manured soil. The Irish potato re quires an abundance of moisture, and this is usually secured for the spring crop. Indeed this can be secured inde pendently of seasons by mulching heav ily with wheat sraw or pine straw?the former to be preferred. The principal trouble, however, in our climate, is in keeping the first crop through our long summers. They either.sprout or shrivel or both before winter and become wothless as food. The question then is, how to get a sup ply for winter use from our own gardens. This has been accomplished with ut most satisfaction by beddiog the small potatoes from the spring crop just as the sweet potato is bedded, for slips in 'the, spring. When the spring crop is dug, call-out,all of the potatoes from the size of a ben Yegg, -down, and ex pose them to light, but not f?"the diroci,. rays of the sun, for several weekf. ; This will prepare them for sprouting without producing rot. About the first of August prepare at bed a some point convenient to water,.and bed them just as sweet patatoes are bedded, except that no-manure need be used to force them. Spread the potatoes thinly?not nearer than an inch of each other?and cover with three inches of woods mold or light loam. The woods mold or loam is recommended because they will not form a crust over the bed after watering. Keep the bed moist, but not saturated with water lest rot be pro duced. When the bed is watered, wet thoroughly to the potatoes, rather than give a light sprinkle daily, just moist ening the surface. When the plants appear above the surface of the ground, take them up with the potato adhering and transplant both. If more than one sprout comes from the same Luber cut between them and set the parts in different hills. Have the land ready and transplant every few days as a sufficient number of plants appear to justify attention. If the ground is dry, poor a pint of water into each hill around the plant, useing care to cover all moistened soil with dry, to prevent baking By this means a fall crop of potatoes may be grown with as much certainty as a crop of sweet potatoes. The only difficulty about growing a full crop rests in getting the potatoes to sprout in time to make before frost. This may be done generally by mulching heavily just after a rain to retain the natural moisture, but with nothing like the certainty of the plan here proposed. The potatoes planted for the second crop should not be cut as for the spring j crop on account of the greater tendency to rot in warm weather. The crop planted as here directed, is cultivated in the usual way, but need not be dug until needed for as they do not be come watery as the spring crop is if left in the ground. As they approach maturity, however, and before severe frost occurs, enough earth should be thrown upon'* them to prevent freezing. They may however, be dug and stored for use during winter if it is preferred. We have had abun j dant crops grown in this way to supply all needed for the table during the winter and spring, and to plant for five consecutive years. Any farmer or gar dener who will follow the directions here given, may become entirely inde pent of northern growers, both for the table and for seed. The seed might to advantage be renewed from the north east once in five years to secure ear lier maturity, but for no other reason. Those intended for planting the spring crop, should be dug several weeks be fore planting to allow tbem to dry well but we bave dug and planted the same j day with most satisfactory results. . The quality of the fell crop is far superior to that of those grown in the spring, and we think, better than any we can buy on the market.?Southern World. IM? I * - The Candidate. *ITow doth the busj ? ididate tm prove on Keeley's motor in laying plots j and fixing dots to circumvent the voter. ! See how he smiles with wiuning wiles j see how he grasps your flipper, in the I bar-room near he calls for beer or treats you with a nipper, And talks of craps and then perhaps enquires about your wife, and your cross cut saw and your mother-in-law, and your pigs and your j cutting knife. Then he breathes in j ! your car his serious fear, This country j has gone to the devil, and you too will I go if you don't show that your head is all hunky and .level. Your only safe ! plan is to choose you a man who is fit j ted to serve you by nature.' Vote for I this man and save the country. The Code ?'uliy J?ixpiainea. 'My dear/ said Mrs. Spoopendyke, examining tbe baby's feet critically, to see if they were both alike, 'my dear, 1 see that one of the strikers, or capital, has been hurt; do you know the facts about it?' 'How hurt ? what did it say T asked MY. Spoopendyke, turning from the glass aud strapping his razor. *I don't remember exactly, but he went down to a slaughter house to get something for his family and somebody shot him in his legs.' That's the way it happened was it?' demanded Mr. Spoopendyke, grinoing through bis lather. 'He didn't go to his family for a pair of legs and somebody shot him in the slaughter house did he ? Nor he didn't go down to his legs for a slaugh ter house, and somebody shot him in the family ! That wasn't the way it read, was it ?' No-o-o, I think not.' replied Mrs. Spoopendyke, dubiously ; 'Fin sure it was something about a slaughter house and legs.. Bo you know how it hap pened?' 'Yes I know how it happened,' mocked Mr. Spoopendyke, pegging away at his visage with the razor. If I hadn't found out away from home I'd always been puzzled about it though. Two gentlemen fought a duel and one got shot. That's all there is in it. *I knew there'd be some trouble as soon as I read about these strikes,' confidently continued Mrs. Spoopen dyke. What's the strike to do with it ?' vociferated Mr. Spoopendyke. Think he struck for another shot ? Got a notion he struck for more legs, haven't ye ? It would have been a bad . idea, that/ soliloquized Mr. Spoopendyke, rather impressed with the combined j originality aud utility of that class of j strike. 'Did he get shot in both legs ?' queried Mrs. Spoopendyke. 'It must have been a cannon ball, or else he held his legs in front of each other.' -j..^_ 'That's the way he did it/ moane'd Mr. Spoopendyke. 'They always do that. When they are fighting a duel they sit down like a tailor or a Turk. What do you think they fight with?forts? Got some kind of a vague idea that they fight with line of battle ships? Who said anything abont cannon balls? Pistols, I tell ye! They fought with pistols, and one of them hit the othor! Roll that information round in your ten acre in tellig?nce !' 'Certiaoly,' faltered Mrs. Spoopen dyke. 'But tell me, dear, Why should one man shoot another for going to the slaughter house?' 'Holy herring !' ejaculated' Mr. Spoopendyke. 'He went there to get shot: It was agreed upon. The man who shot him bad reflected on .bis honor and went there to satisfy it.' 'And did it satisfy his honor to shoot him in the legs ?' asked Mrs. Spoopen dyke. That was as near as he could get to it. I tell you that when a man fights a duel he wipes oat an insult, whether he gets shot in the legs or the ear, it makes no difference.' *I should think it would,' murmured Mrs. Spoopendyke. 'It would to .me. So his honor is all right now, is it?' 'Of course it is,' replied Mr. Spoop endyke, wiping his face. 'Suppose you can reason on the subject without any further information from mc?' 'I guess so,' ruminated Mrs. Spoop endyke. 'As I understand it, if a man's honor is hurt 01 he's got to do is to get shot in tbe legs, though I don't see why he didn't shoot himself, uuless it was that he couldn't reach around.' 'That's just the reason,' roared Mr. Spoopendyke. 'He shot at himself in j the looking glass all the morning, and couldn't make it work, so he hired a man to do it for him ! It took your shot tower intellect to see into it! What you want now is a squint in one eye and some dod gasted friends to in terfere to be a revised editiou of the measly code 1 If you only had some body to chalk off six paces ou you and a squad of police with a beuch war rant, you'd be a regular Bladeoburg ! I'm going out to fight a duel and get shot! Think you'd understand it then ? If I had a bullet through both legs, would you want any more infor mation V 'No, dear,' sighed Mrs. Spoopen dyke, and as her husband tossed his shaving brush into .the baby's crib and slammed out the door, she began to think that a man shouldn't keep his honor in his legs if they couldn't take better care of it. Jewelled Garters. [From the Laramie Boomerang.] The ladies are now wearing jewelled garters. We gain this information from the press, and so state upon oath afore said. It seems to us that this is rather a peculiar move, but it may be all right. What effect it may have upon tbe fall elections we cannot say at this monent, nor what tbe result will be, looking at it from a social standpoint. We mean, of course, looking at the question under discussion, not at the garter itself. Probably tbe next grand stride in the fashion line will be artifi cial rats scattered around in convenient places, so that the wearers of moss-agate garters can jump upon a chair and bowl. This is about tbe only way wc can sec for the public to be benefited by the prevailing style of garter. Diamond studded garters might be huug on the hat rack in the hall, where visitors can peruse them at their leisure, but, after all, that would be a Icind of hollow | mockery. It would be like attending a ballet wher^ the performers wore ul sters overcoats and chappaiejos. - I miM ?- ? 'But I pass,' said a minister recently in dismissing one theme of his subject \ and taking up another. 'Then I make it spades,' yelled a man from tbe gal* lcry, who was dreaming the happy i hours away in an imaginary game of euchre. It is needless to say that he went out on the next deal, assisted by one of the deacons. in the Nick of Time. The Columbia correspondent of the News and Courier, in a special tele gram to that paper, under date of June 21st, says : Considerable excitement pre vails in Columbia over an attempted duel this afternoon between Johu H. Pearson and John Gr. Mobley. About 4 o'clock this afternoon an affidavit was made before Trial Justice J. Q. Mar shall by the Rev J. L. Girardeau, D. D., to the effect that he bas been informed and believed that at Columbia, in the county and State aforesaid, on or before the 19tlr day of June, 1882, John Mobley and John Pearson did have an altercation of an unpleasant na ture, and that he had good and just cause to suspect that the said John Mobley and John Pearson intend to have a hostile meeting, &c. Upon this affidavit a warrant was is sued by Trial Justice Marshall for .the-, parties and placed in the hands of Sher iff Rowan for service. By the time the warrant was issued the parties had all disappeared, and, accompanied by Mr. W. D. Starling as special deputy, Sheriff Rowan started out upon a vigorous search for the bel ligerent parties. After driving his horse almost to death and a very active hunt of about two hours the sheriff ran upon the duelUng party near Kind's Foundry, which is situated near the Congaree River, in the western part of the city, in a little pine grove as much secluded from public gaze as possible. The sheriff found the parties almost ready for the combat. The ground had been staked off, and all efforts to effect an amicable settlement of the difficulty between the principals having failed they were about to exchange shots. Rushing up to Mr. Pearson and laying his hand on his shoulder the sheriff declared him to be under arrest. Turning Pearson over to Mr. Starling he then went over to Mr. Mobley and arrested him. At the same time Mr. John B. Giradeau, who was acting as second of Mr. Pearson, and Mr. U. It. Brooks, who was acting as second of Mr. Mobley, were arrested.. Mr. Gir ardeau was armed with a Colt's revol -ver^.which was^eized by the sheriff, and Mr. Mobtey-had iu his possession asim weapon, of which the sheriff also took charge. Mobl?y's pistol was wrapped up in paper and on taking hold of it the sheriff was informed by him that it was his property. After the arrests bad been made the parties were all brought to the city aod taken before Trial Jus tice Marshall, who required Mobley and Pearson to give a bond of $1,000 each to keep the peace. The .fight was first arranged for 6. .o'clock, but owing to some little pre liminary disagreement the time was de layed for a few minutes, during which the sheriff arrived and arrested the par ties 'as?above stateuT ,Ine '.. w.c-pns ^wcre Colt's improved navy six-shooting revolvers of the largest calibre. The parties to the duel are very reti cent, and it is impossible now to give any correct account of the causes lead ing to the difficulty. Several reports are in circulation, but nothing is known of a sufficiently definite nature to war rant any publication. Mr. Mobley is a member of the Co lumbia Bar and the law partner of Col. William Wallace. Mr. Pearson is also a lawyer but has never practiced. Mr. Brooks is a lawyer at this place, and Mr. Girardeau is a cotton factor. All the parties are highly connected and the affair has caused a great deal of regret. Col. Cash on the War Path Again. Colonel E. B. C. Cash of Chesterfield on Saturday last, it is reported, had a personal rencontre with Captain Theo. F. Malloy, County Treasurer, at the store of the latter. Mr. Malloy was asked by Colonel Cash if he had stated that Colonel Blair of Kershaw was no better than Whittemore* and upon re ceiving an affirmative response called Captain Malloy a liar. Malloy struck Cash, causing him to fall over a plough, and then sprang on him. After the passage of several blows they were sep arated. Sunday Mr. Mailoy was hand ed a challenge from Col. Cash by the litter's son, but declined to. transact bu siness of that nature on the Lord's day. Monday Colonel Cash .#bd his son went to Cberaw, the son on horseback and his father on the train. Colonel Cash was arrested and required to give a bond of ?400, after which be returned home. Colonel Cash's son was not ar rested, the officers having failed to find him. We have had no news from our Che raw correspondent of.the affair, and, in view of that fact, we are unable to authenticate the news of the difficulty, of which we should and doubtless would have been apprised promptly bad the difficulty really occurred.?Register. A Happy Thought. An intimate friend of the late Rev. Dr. J. B. Wakeley tells an amusing anecdote of him, as follows: Tbc doctor was a most inimitable de lineator, and fond of a good story. He related to me, .with great glee, how he extricated himself once from a most awkward dilemma. Preaching in a Hudson River town on a warm summer afternoon to a congregation of farmers mainly, from the text, 4If any man draw back, my ?oui hath no pleasure in him,' he. inadvertently observed, 'My brethren, sheep never fight.' Those who were awake looked up at him, and showed, by their interest, that the min ister had never seen two old rams try ing to but each other's brains out. The doctor discovered his mistake as soon as they did, but net seeing his way out of it, he repoatcd the statement with great or emphasis Those of his audience who were awake nudged their sleeping brethren, who, on opening their eyes, looked about to see what had happened. This greatly embarrassed the doctor, and he was now sadly puzzled. lie ventured, with still greater emphasis, to repeat the statement, 'My brethren, sheep never fight,' when luckily be saw his way out, and doumblirg his fist, struck it into the palm of the other hand, adding, with genuine unction, 'except they first draw back.' [From the Cleveland Herald.] Gov. Sherman, of Iowa, who is visit ?t Elmira, N. Y., said to a reporter there the other day : 'I saw President Garfield a day or two ago in Cleveland. You need not look astonished ; I really saw him?not his fpirit, but his own form and features. I had visited his tomb'to do homage to the spot where the martyr President was sleeping. Tbe watchman in charge, on learning whence I came and who I was, asked me if I would like to see the President. I was as greatly surprised as you can be". He simply showed me he was. in earnest, invited me fnto the tomb, un screwed and removed the lid from that sacred casket, and there lay Gen. Gar field before me, just as he looked the' day of his funeral?as if in a weary, unrefreshing sleep. I was surprised, for, despite the emaciation of those oo -ble features, I was at once struck with their likeness to the General as I-had seen him afive. Ipweume that years will pass ere the preserving traces of the embaluaer's work will have been re moved from all that is left on earth ofGarfield.' A reporter of the Herald, with the above extract in hand, visited Lake View Cemetery to make an inquiry in regard to the.matter and learn if it was true that the remains of the dead Pres ident had been exposed to view even to satisfy the curiosity of the Governor of Iowa. The sexton being interrogated about the matter, said it was true that Gov. Sherman had been allowed to view tbe remains of tbe dead, but that he had nothing to say or do in the case. Tbe keys of tbe vault wereiu possession of Lieut. Van Vlietofthe Tenth Tinited States Infantry, the officer in charge of the detail of soldiers guarding tbe tomb, and the Lieutenant unlocked the gate of the vault, unscrewed the lid that covers the glass plate set into tbe top of the coffin, and allowed Gov. Sherman and party to view the remains. A Hovel Where History was . Made. Ten miles south of Sheffield, in the little English village of Whittington, staods a tumble-down cottage, with a swayed thatehed-roof all overgrown with J moss, and quaint little windows. It is tenantless and fast falling to decay, it was a village inn, 'the Cock and Pynot,' nearly two hundred years ago, when one afternoon three gentlemen,.their horses wet with bard riding, drew up at the door and entered to seek refreshment. They were tbe Earls of Devonshire and Dan by and Mr. D'Arcy, who according to one account, bad met in council on tbe moor and been forced by a storm to seek shelter?according to another had followed .the Earl of Devonshire's har riers to a meet arran^?d for on^thej moor and h?d-clipped away *-oio tneir ?lends absorbed in tbe excitement of the chase. What is certain is that they pnt up at the Cock and Pynot and oc-1 copied a room called to this day 'the plotting parlor Danby answered for the. Tories and Devonshire for the | Whigs at this stealthy meeting, the re suit of which was the invitation over of the Prince of Orange, the abdication of ' James IL, and that great event, the ! revolution of 1688.. In 17$,. the ccn-| tenary of the revolution was celebrated at Whittington by the descendants of the houses of Cavendish, Osborne, Booth and D'Arcy, a great procession being formed, headed by the Duke of Devonshire's coach, drawn by six horses trapped with orange, one of tbe most conspicuous figures beiog a cobbler named Cornelius Crich, said to be 101. years old. The Revolution House? the sign of tbe Cock and Pynot was long ago transferred to a more modern ion across the road?narrowly escaped being brought to the auctioneer's ham mer in 1880, but it was purchased by Mr. M. F. Wells, a Derbyshire gentle man, and it is now announced that the Duke of Devonshire will erect on its site, when the crumbling building has been removed, a fitting memorial of one of the greatest of English historical events. How Alligators Eat. An alligator's throat?and especially the throat of a Black River or Smith Creek alligator?is an animated sewer. Evertbiog which lodges iu his mouth goes down. He is a lazy dog, and in stead of hunting for something to eat, he lets bis victuals huut for him. That is, he lies with his great mouth open, apparently dead, like the 'possum. Soon a bug crawls into it, then a fly, then several gnats and a colony of mos quitoes. The Alligator does not close his mouth yet. He is waiting for a whole drove of things. He does his eating by the wholesale. A littlo later a lizard will cool himself uuder the shade of the upper jaw Then a frog will hop up to catch the mosquitoes. Then more mosquitoes and gnats will light on the frogs. Finally a whole village of insects and reptiles settle down for an afternoon picnic. Then all at once, there is an earthquake. The big jaw falls, the alligator blinks one eye, gulps down the entire menagerie, and opens' his great door again for visitors. Eye and Barley. Mr. W. C. McMillan has a patch of barley and another of rye sown in No vember which he has cut several times like big millet and from which he has constantly fed his horses and cows. He says it is invaluable and the philoso pher's stone to our farmers since the pas sage of the stock law. Do not fail to try it. As rye will not. stand the heat of Sum mer he thinks it would be best to sow tbe barley in August or September, so as to have it earlier and have a succes sion. Prickiey comfrey planted iu the early Spring he has found comes in just after the rye is exhausted. Men who were sutlers in the army became colonels and generals at the close of the war.?[New Orleans Picayune. Correct. We met with one tlK other day. He is now a M?jor General. Chatged us at Harrisons's Landing $;> for a bottle of logwood and $3 for a bottle of mixed pickles. That is to say, charged it up.?[New York Commercial Advertiser. ? Seven of the employees of the Atlanti post office are negroes: Gat-field's biography is selling iri England at the rate of 2,000 a month. Sergeant Mason is making shoes at Albany, N. Y. Borne, Ga., has the reputation of be? ing the prettiest and most nicely situa ted city in the Sooth. A Boston paper speaks of a certain: : sharp woman as an *impostrix.' What next? ~ The new cotton mill at Charleston;. South Carolina, will have a capacity of 25,000 spindles,, and will cost $500,000. Atlanta, Ga., is to have a watch manufacturing company, with a capital ? stock of $100,000. A .South Carolina lady has made fath er fans of the lalue of $1,000 for a New" York firm. ~ ' - Arthur's ambition is said to he more' social than political. He is looking out . for a second term of matrimony. The census returns of Japan show a population of 35,353,994. Of these 18,423,274 are males and 16,935,82ff, are females. 4Talmage on the North Pole' is the* caption of an articj^ in an exchange. V Should think he would resemble a ' jumping-jack in that position. Owing to the large and constantly increasing stock of print cloths there, if talk of shutting down the'mills at Fall : R\ver, Mass., for a brief period, andT^. thus relieve the market. The genuine Colorado beetle has ap peared in North Carolina. They were; introduced in Northern seed potatoes which were extensively used last season. If you have Summer clothes you can now lay aside the ulster until August. Yenuor has ordered 'a sharp frost' along about that time. The late James- Yiclrr^?oeccster" seedsman gave away $10,000 a year. - After the grasshopper invasion in Kan sas, he gave $25.000 worth of seeds to - the sufferers of that State. The entire expenses at Yorktown eel- * ebration?per bill audited and allowed by Congress?amounting over $7,000, % was for fine old wine and whiskies, cigars and fine-cut chewing tobacco. - Intelligence from the South Coast of % South. America is to the effect that 'A Ecuador i$Tn~theTir?oe.fl of revolution, Peru in anarchy and ?^rder, W?^^ Chili smitten by epidemics and cufl by brigandage. I President Porcher, of the South Cfl oliua Historical Society, claims tfl Whitney did not invent the cotton n I after all. He has found a letter-pateS granted by Gen. Washington to -HoH der- Holmes, of Georgia, for a simi*H d-^fc^^liiid^eproduced in 1796. I l^^^^^I Mjondj^P Danville Syudi^l^H^h^^iyneaH have dissolved copartnership, an*! that^ a railroad war is among. Che possibili ties of the future. "fne parties inter ested have nothing to say on tBe sub I ject, a'nd there is no way to get at the<"~ truth of the matter. It seems that the troubles in Egypt?; will diminish the cotton supply from*-? that country for English mills. This should cause better demand and higher f'pftces for the American product* How closely the world is bound together by by the great ties of commerce ! The Governor is receiving numerous applications for appointments to Cadet ships from different parts of the State. Each county is entitled to two appoint ments, and in return for their education each.beneficiary cadet is required to teach for two years in the public schools of the county from which he receives* the appointment. A New York lawyer has earned per haps the largest fee ever won. Tha~_. ruling of the Supreme Court of the, United States, taking off 50 per cent, specific duty on hosiery and knit goods into which wool enters, refunds to the importers $11,000,000 of the taxes, previously paid. The lawyer get half ?$5,500,000?a nice contingent fee. The manfacturers of hosiery in this country complain loudly of the injustice of the decision, taking off ail the pro tection from their work. A member of the Legislature who' voted against the purchase of Huddle's picture of the ex-Governors of Texas by the State, gave' the following unique reasons : 'Two hundred and fifty dollars^ apiece is too much for them oil-paint ings. Oil ain't so dear as all that, for I bought some the other day at two bits a quart. Besides, chromos are a heap cheaper. I bought a chromo of Wellington Crossing the Alps, and thar was a hoss in the picture, and it only cost a dollar and a half. None of the pictures of these Governors of Texas has got a hoss in it.'?Texas Si/tings. A farmer in Southwest Virginia, having visited a neighbor to pay him $70 which he owed him, was persuad ed by his neighbor's wife, on account of the storm to stay all night. During the night he was awakened by a noise, . and, pistol in hand, went down stairs to ascertain the cause. In the room below ; he found his neighbor's wife dead, with her throat cut, and two men just escap ing through the door. He emptied his revolver, killing both of them. Tho neighbors gathered, and when irr* ? bodies of the robbers were examined ' they proved to be those of two women, disguised in men's clothing, who were' calling that afternoon and saw the farm er pay the money to his creditor's wife. The other day a colored lady of stand ing, Mrs, Simpson, purchased a Gains borough hat, aud visited Mr. Fennel. It was evident that Mrs. Simpson pos sessed a few airs which she wished to display over Mrs. Fennel. 'My hus band,' said Mrs. Simpson, 'wanted me tor git a finer hat den dis, but reflecting dat the $20 bills in the bottom of do drawer was gitting sauter scarce, like. I concluded to content myself wid a $5 hat.' 'Wall, you Was savin*/ remarked Mrs. Fennel, and then stepping to tho door, exclaimed : *Tildy, take dat $1,000 bill away from that chile. He tore up two yesterday. Dar aiu't sense in allowin' chillun t^ppieifoy money dat way.' Mrs. ^p^oii re tired, realizing that her bat was a fail ure.?Little Rock Gazette.