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To My M-aM fte Mic.
HAVING BEEN APPOINTED PUBLIC
WEIGHER? EOBi THE . T?WN OF
. MA YESVILLE, I am prepared to discbarge
the duties of said appointment, and will also
weigii aua give certificates ef Cotton weights
and otb PT produce entrusted to me. I also
offer facilities in connection with above, not
heretofore offered in thi3; County.- Feeling
assured a trial wiil give satisfaction, :
Lam, ver? respectfully,
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. Sept 19_At Mayesville Depot.
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<}BOBGCTOWK, S. C., Sept. 1, 1882. ?,
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ArVe Flemington ..i_??: ll 31 ? 1217 "
Ar're Marion-..^;.-..?.. - 4 28 am 2 02 a ra
Ar've Florence._. 2 20 ? 2 47
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ArVe Florence? .......... ..
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Ar've Flemington. ?.
[ Ar*ve Wilmington. ...
i 00 pm
146 ?.'
3 48 "
5 15 <:
10 00 pm
12 P5 4
1 32 am
2 38 ?
4 54 "
6 20 ?
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Wb?teville. Flemington; Fair Bluff, Marion,
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dule will be run, Sundays included :
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8 30 P.M. 2SMS?2? 1 - 20 A ii.
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2 15 A. tf..............7 20 A. M.
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CENTRAL RAILROAD SCHSDULB.
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* tsr Lanes..._......ll 30 p m
Arrive a^Sanitex^."....?.?.......... 3 10 a m
Leave Sumter:..................12 10 p m
" Lane's........;...^ ..i-..._ 4 03 pm
Arrive at Charleston. 6 45 p m
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Gen'l Ticket Agt. Gen'l Supt.
THE SUMTER
Pari aiu kpiM Association
WILL HOLD ITS
i ?i?id Annual Fair
On tho. 24th, 25th, 26th, and 27th,
^ 'OF'QCT?TJER 1882.
APROSPEROUS Agricultural- Season
gives promise of liberal agricultural
exhibits, and a large attendance.
Many new.and. interesting features will be
introduced, and every effort will he made to
render the Third Annual Fair a complete suc?
cess. .
There will be Foot Races, Plonging Match?
es, Glass Ball Shooting, B?cycleTiaces and an
exhibition of Fancy Riding on Bicycles.
Premium Lists containing all particulars
will be mailed to the principal Planters,
Manufacturers and Merchants, in the Couu
iies.of Sumter, Kershaw and Clarendon.
The good people. of. these and adjoining
Counties are earnestly solicited to send arti?
cles for exhibition. CHAS. H. MOISE,
Sec. and Treas., S. P. & A. A.
E. W. MOISE, President.
July 18_
SALE OF COUNTY FENCE.
OFFICE OF
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS,
. SUMTER COUNTY.
SUMTER, S. C., Sept. 18, 1882.
THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMIS
sioners of Sumter County will receive
bids for the purchase of the RAIL FENCE
ON EASTERN COUNTY LINE, from Ker?
shaw line t > and on Clarendon Hoe. Bids may
be made for one mile or less, as desired, until
October 16th, 1882. If not then sold, said
fence will sold at PUBLIC OUTCRY ON
MONDAY, OCTOBER 16ih, 1882. Sale to
continue from day to day until all the Rail
Fence is disposed of.
The Board still have some Barbed Fence
Wire to dispose of at 8 cents per pound.
Direct bids to T. V. WALSH,
Clerk Board County Com'rs.
By order of the Board.
Sept 18_4t_
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Circular and Upright Mill Saws,
FILES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION,
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COLUMBIA, S. C.
Sept 12 Sm
[From the (Marion, S. C.) Pee Dee Index.]
CENTENARY, Marion, S. C.,
September 9, 1882.
Mr. Editor: An admirable . volumn of
poems has been published, not long'since, by
! Mr. W. G. Kennedy of Sumter, S. C. It is
' entitled "Ichabod, with other Poems," and
is replete with elegance, grace and beauty ; it
also breathes a spirit of patriotism which is
I only rivalled by spartan valor. Yon must
recall this gallant gentleman and skillful
writer, when he wielded his satirical pen as
Editor of the "Sumter True Southron" during
the height of Radical misrule, and pierced the
corrupt ones of that most hideous period,
with a sword as keen, polished,~ and trench?
ant as a Damascus blade. Eis excellent vol?
ume, may be readily obtained by addressing
him, at Sumter C. H., and its study will am?
ply repay the most cultivated and high-spir
eted of your citizens, because of its patriotic
fervor, skill elegance and poetic splendors.
This distinguished gentleman has just done
me the honor of dedicating to me the follow?
ing lines, which gives to your county so
proud a distinction, that I am at once in?
duced to forward them to you.
I am with much respect,
. J. PERO?NEAU GIBBES.
TO J. P. G
Glad am I, Friend, that yon have found ...
A home upon historic ground
Among the Sons of gallant Sires
Who lit and guarded Freedom's fires ;
Right glad am I forsooth, to hear
That you inhale the very air
And daily tread, the self-same sod
That Marion aforetime trod ;
To hear yon dwell,' hard .by the lakes
And roam among the tangled brakes ;
In whose~3ark depths, the Swamp-Fox lay .
And whence be pounced upon his prey ;
Methinks, there's something meet and good
In dwelling in a neighborhood,
Where every object wakes to life
Rememberance bf our natal strife,
Where every verdant, smiling vale
Recalls some legendary tale
And every scene the eye surveys
Sets Patriotism all ablaze ;
Where every moss-grown forest-mound .
Echoed of old, the bugle-sound
Of Troopers, who by deed and word
' Defied the wrath, of George the Third ;
Where every hillock marks the grave
Of some illustrious old brave
Wbo helped to drive forever more
The British Lion from our shore ;
Methinks, it is a source of pride
To dwell where giants lived and died,
Whose exploits won a deathless name
For them upon the scroll of fame :
Where heroes, one day ploughed their fields
Trie next day, buckled OD tbeir shields,
Fighting by turns and reaping scars,
In Ceres' ranks and wars of Mars :
Where Cincinnati tilled the soil
To earn their bread, by sturdy toil
Then bared their breast, their homes to free
From a vindictive enemy;
Methinks, it fires one's blood to tread
The land where sleep such noble dead
From whose sarcophagi, arise.
Such soul-inspiring memories ;
To ramble over hill and glen
Traversed by Marion's dauntless mea
And where, of yore, their Bugle's bray
Filled Tarleton's Red coats, with dismay ;
Permit rae. therefore, honored Friend
Congratulations to extend
To one, who claims a prouder home
Than ancient Troy, or Greece, or Rome ;
No people can boast lineage
From more chivalric parentage
Than the old Whigs of big Pee Dee
Who won the figbt for Liberty : . .
They were the men, whose valor broke
The Briton's power and Briton's yoke
And burled bim back, with shame to weep
His vanquished rule, beyond the deep ;
Who* hushed the British Lion's roar
Forever, on this Country's shore
And drove him, bowling with despair
To seek bis traus-atlantic lair;
Who took the Eagle from its nest,
Taught the young bird, to raise its crest
And trained it Heaven-ward to fly
Proud emblem of our Liberty.
The Last of General Sumter's
Men.
-9
BY BENSON J. LOSSING, LE.D.
It was a dreary day in January,
1849, at three o'clock in the after?
noon, I arrived at Mr. Leslie's planta?
tion, within two miles of King's
Mountain battle-ground, in South
Carolina. I had travelled with a
single horse and light wagon the
rough roachtliat skirted thc foot of
King's Mountain. The heavens were
shrouded with clouds, and melting
snow and mud more than fetlock
deep had jaded wy horse. I explain?
ed to Mr. Leslie the object of my
journey, expressed a desire to visit
the battle-ground that afternoon, and
asked him to show me the way.
'Your beast is tired/ he 6aid. 'I
have two good saddle horses in the
stable.'
They were brought out. We rode
to the famous field among wooded
gravel-hills, viewed the topograph of
that strange battle-ground, made two
or three sketches, and returned at
twilight. William McElwees, Mr.
Leslie's father-in-law, had just arrived.
Ile was a stout built man, with an
unmistakable Scotch face, flowing
white hair, blue eyes and as vigo?
rous in appearance as a hale man of
sixty. He was the last survivor of
Sumter's famous partisan band in the
old War for Independence. His re?
miniscences were the theme of the
evening's conversation.
'When did you joiu Sumter?' I in?
quired.
.Just before Clinton took Charles?
ton, and Cornwallis bpgan to overrun
the State. South Carolinians were dis
couraged, and hundreds took British
protection. Sumter would not yield,
but retired into North Carolina. I
followed him. There he gathered a
little band of exiles, and we turned.
Sumter called for recruits, but few
came until we struck the camp of
wicked Huck one hot night in July,
killed him, and scattered his whole
army to the winds. Our party num?
bered only one hundred and thirty all
told. Timid men now took courage,
and joined the standard of Sumter.
Governor Rutledge made him a briga
dier, and I was commissioned a lie
tenant.'
'You were engaged in some st:
ring events after that.'
'Indeed I was. We struck Bri tit
and Tory pat ties here and there s
unexpectedly and sharply that Cor
wallis declared that Sumter was h
greatest pleague in the country. B
fore the end of July our little ara
numbered about sis hundred, an
daily increasing. Sumter felt stronj
and determined to attack a Brilif
and Tory force at Rocky Mount,
little west of the Catawba Rive
They were only about two hundre
and fifty stroDg, and were stationed!
three log-houses near the foot of tl
slope, and surrounded by abatis, i
the French call it,-a row of felic
trees, laid brush end forward. W
had no cannon, so we got to the to
of the hill, filled an old wagon wit
dry brush and straw from the abati
fired it, and sent the blazing mas
down the slope against the log-honsei
The British seeing their peril, bois
ed a white flag. At that moment
?hower of rain put out the fire, an
the little garrison defied tis. W
could do nothing, so we withdrew
crossed the Catawba, and pushed o
toward Hanging Rock/
'What caused your defeat there!
I inquired.
.Rum, sir V said the old soldier en
phatically. 'Rum, the deadliest ene
my of mankind. You see we ba'
whipped the British aud Tories con
pletely, and sent them rn niling lik
frightened deer, leaving their cam
and all behind. Their camp wa
tempting, and our men instead of pui
suing, engaged in plundering. The;
drank freely of the liquor found in th
British quarters. Our force becasi<
disordered, and when the British ral
lied, two thirds of our men were to*
drunk to do duty. With about tw<
hundred men, brave Sumter charge<
upon the enemy ; but seeing a rein
forcement for them coming, we rc
treated, with some prisoners am
booty.'
'You were hard pushed at Fishing
Creek/ I remarked.
'Indeed we were ; surprised-badi]
surprised.'
'1 thought Sumter was always wide
awake,' 1 said.
'So he was ; but accidents will hap
pen in the best of families, yon kuow
Sumter had been sent by Gates to in
intercept a British escort from Nine
ty-six. We captured more than fort}
wagons, loaded with clothing ant
stores, and were returning to th?
Wateree, when we heard of the de
feat of Gates, near Camden. So wt
went up the river about forty miles
and halted for needed rest near the
mouth of Fishiug Creek. We did not
dream that an enemy was near. Ai
noon on a hot August day, while oui
arms were stacked, the horses wen
grazing, and more than half the mee
were asleep under the trees, the fierj
Tarleton, with his cavalry, dashec
among us, seized our arms and horses,
killed about one hundred and fifty o:
our men, and made- three hundred
prisoners. Sumter, who seemed
never to 6leep, seeing bis men slaugh?
tered and dispersed, sprang upon his
big white horse, and closely followed
by myself and a drummer-boy with
his drum, both on a bay mare, fled
into North Carolina, nor stopped un?
til we reached Charlotte. We made
a sorry figure when we rode into the
village. Sumter was without a hat,
I was without a coat ; and the drum?
mer-boy, sitting astride behind me,
was nearly naked, having just come
out of the creek in which he had been
bathing. Our horses were without
saddles."
'What then V I asked.
'Action ! Only Marion was then
in the field with Whigs, in South
Carolina. Sumter immediately went
to the upper county, where a few of
his men who had escaped joined him,
and many volunteers flocked to his
standard. We were then all mounted,
and "were soon joined by other parties.
We had an opportunity, presently, to
show Tarelton that Americans could
strike heavy blows as well as British.
He chased us late in November. We
had encamped, at Blackstocks, ou the
Tiger River, in Union District, when
Tarleton overtook us with a part of
his force.- We fought desperately,
and at dusk 6et Tarleton ruuning
for life and liberty, leaving about two
hundred of his men on the field, near?
ly one hundred of them dead.'
'I have heard there were many
brave women in that region,' I observ?
ed.
'Brave ! Why, they helped the
gause almost as much as the men !
There were Grace and Rachel Martin,
Mrs. Dilland, Dicey Langston, and
scores of others in that lonely county
left at home by the men in arms, and
they performed their part jn the con?
test. Grace and Rachel were the
young wives of two^sons of Mrs.
Martin, of Ninety-six District, who
were in Greene's army. These young
women were with their mother
in-law. One evening they were in?
formed that a British courier, with
two guards, would pass that way with
important dispatches for a British
post beyond. They put on their hus?
bands' clothes, provided themselves
with arms, and lay in ambush by the
side of the wood. Late in the even?
ing, the courier and his escort came
along, when the young women sud?
denly sprang before them, presented
their weapons, and bade the travel?
ers surrender with their papers. Ut?
terly surprised, they obeyed, and
were paroled. Returning they stop?
ped at Mrs. Martin's, and craved ac?
commodai ions for the night. On be?
ing asked why they returned so soon,
they said they had been made pri?
soners by two lads, and showed their
parole. The young women allowed
their captive guests to depart the
next morning ignorant that their
captors had entertained them. The
dispatches were sent to Greene.'
'Who was Dice}7 Langston?' I in?
quired.
'A girl as brave and patriotic as
Joan of Arc, and not so old,-only
fifteen or sixteen. She was the
daughter of a Whig in Laurens Dis?
trict, whose son was in my company
in Sumter's army. She was continu
ally getting valuable information
about the movements of the Tories,
and informing the Whigs. At one
time she heard that Cunningham and
his 'Blood Scout' were about to at?
tack a settlement in which her near
relatives lived. She determined to
give them warning. Leaviug her
home at near midnight, she ?ped
through swamps and thickets, and
across running streams, until she
reached the Tiger River. It was
swollen, and the ford was dangerous.
She pressed into the river in the
darkness, and in the channel; neck
deep, became confused. But she
gained the shore, gave the warning,
and when the scout came the inhabi?
tants had fled to a place of safety.
One day shf- was captured by some
Tories, and ordered to give informa?
tion about a Whig neighborhood h om
which she had come. She positively
refused. The leader, placing a pistol
at her breiist, said, 'Tell, or you shall
die in your ttacks. She snatched
off a long kerchief which covered her
neck and bosom, and said, 'Shoot me
if you dare 1 I will not tell.' He was
about to fire when a companion threw
up his hand and saved the brave girl's
life. I might tell you a hundred
stories of our brave women, but it is
getting late/
'Tell me, please/ I said, 'where
you were at the time of the battle of
King's Mountain V
'In it/ he promptly replied. 'I
was at home on parole, and t volun?
teered to-resist Ferguson and his To?
ries. We met him among those
gravel hills you saw to-day. He was
killed, and a large portion of his men
were made prisoners. You saw the
stone that marks the place where he
fell and was buried.
'Yes, and made this sketch of it,'
handing bim my rude drawing.
'On that limb/ he said, pointing to
one on the tree nearest the memorial
stone, 'I saw Tories hung. They
were a murderous gang and deserved
their fate/
'Did you meet Sumter after the
war?'J inquired.
? Often. ' He died only a few years
ago [1832], when he was almost a
hundred years old. I was at his fu?
neral at his home, South Mount, near
Camden/
Turning to a grandchild, Mr. Mc
Elwees said, 'It's nine o'clock ; hand
me th"e Bible/ He read a short
chapter, a hymn was sung, and he
concluded the simple family worship
with a most impressive prayer.
I bade the venerable man good?
night with a feeling of gratitude for
a, rich entertainment.
How the South May Become
Eich and Independent
These are the views of the Agricul?
tural editor of the New Orleans Pica
y une :
The South evidently can never be?
come prosperous and independent
through large plantations and colored
labor. It can become rich through
small farms; mixed farming aod intel?
ligent labor, together with its factories,
its mines and forests. The mud-sills of
the whole superstructure of prosperity
in the South are mixed farming and in?
telligent agricultural labor. This opens
the door to manufacturing, mining and
the unveiling and utilizing of all the
valuable resources of.the South. South?
ern prosperity in agriculture will draw
capital and enterprise from abroad, as
well as create and stimulate them at
home.
But bow is that intelligent labor to
be brought about ? We mean general
and almost universal industrial intelli?
gence among the farmers of the South ;
we do not question that all of these
States have very many farmers whos?
intelligence and enterprise will compare
favorably with those of any other portion
of the United States.
The South suffers severely to-day,
and will continue to suffer, by her neg?
lect to teach Southern boys thirty, forty
and fifty years ago how to work, how to
make a living at farming, horticulture,
stock-raising or some honorable trade,
calling or profession that would make
them useful to society as well as to
themselves. Slavery and African labor
formerly stood as a great impediment to
the proper training of the boys through
successive generations down to the close
of the late war.
And how are boys taught farming
and useful trades now, in 1882, in the
South 1 Who are their teachers, and
what useful and practical lessons do
they study in the great industries of
the South ? How many generations will
be left to acquire agricultural knowledge
without teachers, acquiring habits and
erroneous ideas that will plague them
and keep them poor as long as they
live?
'Highly intelligent farming will form
and fashion beautiful farms, and great?
ly improve the rural architecture of the
South, and this will make farming more
and more attractive to the young men.
The character and habits of Southern
boys, as being formed to-day, will in a
great measure be the character of the
South thirty or forty years hence, or
sooner. If we had thousands of indus?
trial schools in thc South at the present
time, most of them agricultural schools,
with efficient teachers, tbey would do
the country an amount of good which
could be represented in part by bun- ,
dreds of millions of money; but the
benefits to coming generations, morally,
politically, socially and religiously,
would be far greater than that which
may be rcckoued in gold/
* The fact is familiar to all, that an
ordinary envelope may readily be open?
ed by moistening the paper over the
gum, after which operation, if done
neatly, tue conteuts may be noted, and
thc missive again scaled and sent to
its destination. A perfect safety enve?
lope, however-not one admitting of
any such manipulation-may, it is said,
be secured by treating that part of the
paper covered by the flap with a solu?
tion of chromic acid, ammonia, sul?
phuric acid, sulphate of copper, and fine
white paper. The flap itself is coated
with a solution of isinglass in acetic
acid, and when this is moistened and
pressed down on the under side of the
envelope, a solid cement is formed, in?
soluble in acids, steam, water, &c.
Wedgefield.
A Beautiful and Progressive Town
The Advantages It Offers to Business
Men and Capitalists-The Resources
of Middleton Township, Sumter
County.
WEDGEFIELD, S. C., Sept. 9, 1882.
Colonel A. P. Butler, Commissioner oj
Agriculture, Columbia, S. C.
Dear Sir : Haviog received a letter
of inquiry lately as to the general ap?
pearance of oar portion of country, the
adaptability of our lands to agriculture
and stock raising purposes, the pros?
pects for other business, churches,
schools, society, &c, I beg yon will
publish my reply to this inquiry, so
that any person desiring to change
their place of residence, and who may
be passing along our two lines of rail?
way, and be attracted by our rich lands,
beautiful scenery and thrifty appear?
ance, may find it advantageous fo stop
and dwell with us io this most highly
favored portion of the State. Some
years ago a gentleman, in passing,
greatly admired the red chocolate col?
ored soil that lay uncultivated and mat?
ted with grass around Wedgefield. He
purchased four thousand acres at two
dollars per acre ; he laid ?ff streets near
the depot ; erected pretty and attractive
cottages of from two to four rooms, a
tastefully built store and steam gin,
and finally a beautiful residence, fitted
up with all the modern improvements.
His cottages are all filled with steady,
thrifty farmers, who rent this land,
which has been greatly improved by
the aid of cotton seed, pea vines and
commercial fertilizers, at from three to
eight dollars per acre. His plantation
tamworth now thirty dollars per acre.
Other live men have since moved here
and built nice houses and stores, and
to-day there is not in the State a more
progressive and flourishing village than
Wedgefield-where thc face of a loafer
or the blear eyes of a drunkard are
never seen. The roads are bard clay
graded and ditched on either side, the
principle one being the old State road,
leading, in days prior to railways, from
Camden to Charleston. Going North
from Wedgefield yon rise one red hill
after another, and on either side of the
road aro great oaks arching the way
and festooned with oar peculiar long
gray moss. At intervals are beautiful
views of the wide valley through which
runs the Wateree River and swamp,
the broken and picturesque outlines of
the blue hills away over in Richland
County. In the distance of three miles
are ten or t\?elve very nice and extra?
ordinarily pretty country residences,
making an almost continuous village to
Stateburg, which at o?e time came in
in one vote of being the capital of the
State. Here, in a grassy yard, ter?
raced to the road and surrounded by
grand old oaks, stands the Episcopal
Church-tbetpride of the country-a
beautiful Gothic structure, with its tall
steeple, stained wiudows and tile floor
ing-the prettiest country church in all
the South, From the village, looking
Northward, the eye ranges over a vast
and beautful landscape, rich. fields of
level lands, from the foot of equally
productive hills, across the river and
swamp and over into Kershaw County
as far as the eye can reach. The soil
is red clay loam, easily worked and
susceptible of the the highest state of
improvement, many of our formers
making from fifteen to eighteen bales
of cotton to the horse, besides a supply
of provisions. At the foot of almost
every hill bold springs burst out and
send a cool, rippling stream meander?
ing through fertile fields to the
Wateree River. Both our well and
spring water would scarcely be improv?
ed by ice, and where we have such
pure water to drink you may know the
health is proverbial. The country is all
naturally drained, with no stagnant water
whatever, and absolutely without any
cause of malarial disease, excepting im?
mediately bordering the river swamp.
The swamp is subject 'to overflow, at
other times is high and dry, so that the
fine timber is easily hauled out. Quite
a business is done here in shipping
square timber and staves. There are
majestic oaks, measuring often as much
as eight feet in diameter and from
twenty to thirty feet in clean clear
stem free from knots or limbs. Splen?
did long sleek hickories, measuring
four feet in diameter and from twenty
to thirty in length, in quantities suffi?
cient to make buggy spokes and hubs,
axe helves and single trees for all the
world. Beach trees of any size and
size and length- almost that one could
desire, sufficient to make saw handles,
planes and shoe lasts for this and thc
coming generations. The swamp also
furnishes the richest pasturage for
horses, cows, hogs, sheep and goats.
All these animals keep sleek and fat
through the whole Spring and Summer
months, and the cane will keep them
through the Winter in the same condi?
tion in which Winter found them. We
have quarries of sandstone soft enough
to saw, but when expossed to the
weather becomes hard and makes fine
building stone. Rock, rich in iron
ore, gneiss and slate, and on the high?
est bills can be found quantities ol
rock, which are only masses of sea
shell and bones of extinct animals
cernea ted together, needing only to bo
analyzed to know whether wc have a
phosphate or a marl bonanza. I lately
bought twenty thousand brick, made of
the clay bordering the river swamp.
A loaded wagon driven over them
would not break them. They were
thrown from the wagons on to a com?
mon pile, and out of the whole number
I don't think I bad a hundred broken.
Fruits of all kinds nourish here
and rarely fail. Some of our
neighbors ship their peaches ; but
shipping fruit for market, as yet, is in
its incipiency. Our cultivated fruits
are apples, peaches, pears, figs, grapes
and pomegranates. Our. wild fruits
are plums, cherries, persimmons, crab
apples, grapes and haws. The crab
apples make fine preserves, marmalade
and jelly. Thc baw makes a beautiful
transparent jelly, but little, if any, in?
ferior to guava. Plums, cherries, per?
simmons and grapes all contribute to
swell our stock of preserves.
There are several private schools in
the neighborhood, and a flourishing
public school at Wedgefield. There
are also two churches, in one of which
there is service held every Sunday.
The society is the very best-steady,
sober, intelligent industrious men,
pretty, refined and elegant ladies.
There is no place in any country where
a refined family can find more congeni?
ality, and no land where perseverance
and industry will return a surer re?
ward. Yours, very truly,
H. R. THOMAS.
The Dentist.
The modern dentist is not like the
dentist of long ago. The old-time
dentist did not repair teeth ; he sim?
ply uprooted those that were decayed.
It is only of late years that the den?
tist has occupied a recognized posi?
tion in the department of minor sur?
gery. Some dexterity and considera?
ble muscular strength were the chief i
qualifications of the dentists of our
childhood. When a patient called on
one of them the dentist would put
his finger in the patient's mouth, and
after feeling around among the
stumps shaking them one after anoth?
er until a howl from the patient de?
monstrated that he had hold of the
right one, he would say, laconically :
"lt's got to come out." Then he
would go for his instruments.
These mechanical appliances were of |
a very primitive character. They
consisted of several pairs of things
like bullet molds ; those of the lar?
gest size he used on adults and the
small ones on children. While he
was engaged filing the rust off his in?
strument the sufferer had time to note
the contents of the room On a shelf j
was a rope, with which nervous pa?
tients were tied in the operating
chair ; on another chair a basin, and
a pitcher with a broken handle, con?
taining water, presumably for the
purpose of washing away such gory
evidences of butchery as the opera?
tion might leave ; on a broken-legged
desk, propped up with a brick, was a
skull with a cracked jaw-bone, which
was too suggestive to be pleasant or
scabing ; in the window-sill theaden
tis^Wibrary, consisting of a copy of
WedlVPathology of the Teeth and a
portion of a volume of Moore's melo?
dies , in front of the operating chair
on the wall, was a steel engraving
representing Napoleon on the Island
of St. Helena. The picture was evi
enlly put there with a view of dis?
tracting the patient's attention from
thoughts of the agony in store for htm.
While he was wondering if Napoleon
ever had toothache, and if he ever
burned the inside of his mouth with
creosote and oil of cloves in his ef?
forts to deaden the pain ; and while
he was wishing that he could change
places with Napoleon for a day or
two, the dentist grasped him by the !
hair, threw his head back, inserted
the can oponer in his mouth, and be?
gan groping around for the bad tootb.
When he found it his usual plan was
to crush it into pieces and dig out the
fragments one at a time. During
the operation the sufferer groaned and
moaned and yearned for death.
When the dentist got his grappling
irons around the root of a double
tooth, and braced himself up with his
foot against the wall for a long pull,
a strong pull and pull all together,
the patient thought that the end of
all things was at hand, that an explo?
sion had occured in the cellar, and
that the heavens were rolling them?
selves up as a scroll, while the top of
his head was being broken off, and
his vertebra was being jammed down
into his legs. When he was calmed
with a glass of water he found that
the alarming sensations he had expe?
rienced were caused, as the dentist
put it, by "the extraction of the
molar from the alveolar cavity."
The modern dentist is a different
kind of an aggravated outrage. He
has a college diploma that he keeps
hanging on the wal! In a tin case.
He usually has a nicely furnished
operating-room, where he has an
elaborate chair, working on pivots
and hinges, that he planes the patient
in when he is pulling his tooth, and
another to be used when the tooth is
to be filled. He has hundreds of in?
struments-diminutive augers and
gouges and scrapers, and one vile
liing that seems to make about seven
hundred revolutions a minute, and
with which he bores into the nerve of |
your tooth until you feel as if your
immortal soul was being tampered
with. But the modern dentist sel?
dom pulls a tooth. He prefers to
fill it with some gutta percha sort of
composition, or with gold. You see
the filling'will, in the course of time,
come out and then be gets another
job putting it in again, whereas when
he pulls out a tooth it ends it; the
owner of the tooth seldom cares to
have it decorated or to squander bul
ion on it after it is out. He usually
carries it in his vest pocket for two
or three days, and then throws it
into some vacant lot. When a man
has an aching tooth that tries to jpush
itself into prominence, that seems to
swell up and get in the way of every
ihing he eats, and to take more of his
thought and attention than he can
spare, he can go to the modern
dentist, who will fill him up with
gas. until he imagines that he
is a balloon, soaring up almost
as high as the dentist's charge
for the operation, and when he comes
to earth again the tooth will be gone
and there will be a vacant place in his
jaw that will seem to him to be about
the size of a town lot. The painless
dentistry of to-day is less exciting
than the painful dentistry of the past ;
but it is otherwise an improvement
on the old style.-rearas Si/tings.
The New York gamin is a quick
eared musician. If a catching bit of
music is not carried into every home ou
this island it is because the inmates are
deaf. The composers have no more
appreciative friends than the gamins that
fill our streets like cock sparrows. They
whistle away day and night, until they
wear a tune threadbare, and then they
drop it for a new favorite. Thc gallery
gods who look down at the footlights are
tbe most attentive auditors at a new
operetta, and they quickly decide which j
is the best music. Indeed, the merit '
of such a production may to a degree be
determined by the amount of whistling
it receives in the streets.
News and Gossip;
Dennis Kearney is a drayman at ti
San Francisco custom Louse.
The new comet looks like a fed-heat
ed girl approaching the earth with he
hair down and flying behind ber.
A missing Albany girl has been foon
in a neighboring town doing hon?
work. It is a great discovery wheo
girl is found doiog house work.
Lemuel W. Livingston, the yoanj
colored mau who was disappointed i
I his West Point aspirations, has obtain
ed the appointment of principal pf th
Union Academy at Gainesville, Fla.
It is estimated at the postofibc de
partaient in Washington that there wi!
be a surplus of about $2,000,000, ii
the appropriations made for the Star
route service during the last fiscal year
A woman's medical college bis beet
opened in Baltimore. It begins wit!
ten matriculates, who come from th<
States of New York, Pennsylvania
Nebraska, Maryland, Virginia, Wes!
Virginia and North Carolina.
Machines are now made which wi!
cut from a roll of wire, pins of the righi
length, head them, point them, polis!
i them, sort them out with their points ali
! one way and stick them in the paper, 01
rolls, faster than one can count.
William H. Vanderbuilt is having
built two dwellings on Fifth Avenue
between Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth
streets at a coat of nearly $1,000,000
for his two daughters, Mrs. Dr. W?
Seward Webb and Mrs. fl. McK;
Twonbly. :'^J
Everymao who has arrived at tue age
of 40 years has lost at least ten um?
brellas worth %\ each. Estimating the
number of losers at 11,000.000, and
granting that one-third of them hate
stolen seven umbrellas worth ten shil?
lings each, what do you make the total
loss? - ;
Gen. Alexander Moulton, an old
time Governor of Louisiana, predicts
that New Orleans will gain thc whole
trade of the Gulf of Mexico. Said h?;
with poetic fervor: 'Cut ddwir* ? tree*
on the Amazon River and one st St.
Paul and they will meet somewhere in
the Gulf of Mexico.*
The Richland negroes are much dis-,
gusted because thc white men controll?
ed the Greenback county convention
and nominated a pure white ticket-,
two of whom pay no tax at all, not ?veil,
polls, while the stock of the others, ac*
cording to tax returns, h as Increased in,
number and value since the stock law:
began, and their taxes have been re?
duced just thirteen cents in the last:
year.
Col. R. B. Watson, of Ridge Spriog.
was attacked on Monday by a Jersey
bull some three years old, and narrow?
ly escaped with bis life. He averted,
what might have been a fatal gore by
holding the furious animal by the horns
while lying under bim on the ground.
He was anally rescued by some negroes,
who happened to be near by.
On Monday evening an Englishman
giving the name of Jno. Nelson was ar?
rested at Wilmington, Del., for drank*
en ness. Upon being arraigned be io*
formed the Mayor that be was not as
drunk as he might seem to. be, but that
he bad taken poison. No credence was
given to this declaration and he waft;
locked up. Next morning lie was found
idea-Jin his cell. Nothing has been
learned of his antecedents.
The Democracy is a b-a-d party^=i
v-e-r-y b-a-d party. Repnb?tcanism ie
a good party, a party 4 with a- conv
science,' a party of 'moral ideas,' tb?
party that 'saved the Republic,' 'struck
the shackles from, four millions' en?
slaves,' etc., etc., etc. Still, people
who live in this part of the world maj
as well bear along with them in life the
following fact, namely to-wit: Thaf
none of the Star Route ringstcrs belong?
ed to the Democratic party j and, more?
over, none of the whiskey ringsters be?
longed to the Democratic party ; and/,
furthermore, that all these estimable-'
gentlemen did belong to tire aforesaid
'party with a conscience.'-St. Loui?
Republican.
Germany and Itally^have. promised',
says the N. Y. Mail and Express, ?to
ask Spain to participate in a conference
of the great powers as to the Suez Canal,;
and England is said to have consented
to the arrangement. C-:stilian pride ie
i much gratified at the prospect of Spain's
I restoration to ber old rank as a power.
King Alfonso is reported to be fully
conscious of the limitations which tnd
poverty of the Spanish treasury imposes
upon bim, and he will instruct his
ministers to avoid a policy implicating
his kingdom in international strifes.
All Spaniards are eager to have ' tn'?v
govern meat regain possession of Gibral?
tar, but that result is to be sought by
diplomacy rather than by force, ana'
Spain is to enter the conference as a
promoter of peace. Her elevationr tit
the rank of the seventh great pow?r^?
under these circumstances, to be rt*;
garded with universal satisfaction.
There died in Delaware County,
Pennsylvania, one day last week, a
prosperous and generally esteemed
farmer nearly 100 years of age, wfitf
for forty years had ?ever spoken a word
to his wife, nor had she to bim, cor
had any one of their five etri?dr?n* of
wbom three, with their " mother, are
still living, spoken a word to any other
member of the family. And yet they
all lived peacefully under one roof and
were in full possession of their faculties.
Forty years ago, it is said, the wife wa*
i bequeathed a small sum of money by ?
relative, which her husband desired to
use io purchasing farming implement*
and otherwise improving the property*
She said no. He vowed that tinless he
was given the money he would never"
speak another word to ber. TbiB vow*
he steadily kept to the end of his life.
The three daughters, then quite young, af
first tried to reconcile their parents, but
failed. Then one sided with the father,
another with thc mother, and the third
became disheartened with the whole job.
So they quarrelled, the two ?ons died,
and never again a word was_ spoken in
the household save to visitors. The
death of the husband and father baa
made no change in thc situation, and
the survivors move about the house as if
utterly oblivions of each other's presenee*
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