The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, October 17, 1882, Image 1
IHK SUMTE? WATCHMAN, Established April, 1850
ConsolMaJeicl Aug. 2, 1881.1
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SUM TER, S. 0., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1882
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STATE DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
c-V- For Governor-:
COL. HUGH S. THOMPSON,
- : Of Richland.
t<^.. For Lieutenant Governor:
HON. JOHN C. SHEPPARD,
Of Edgefield.
^^^^(FSkretdryof Slate:
t?mmSJi N. LIPSCOMB,
. Of Newberry.
For Attorney General:
C. RICHARDSON MILES,
v ' - Of Charleston.
. For State Treasurer:
JOHN P. RICHARDSON,
Of Clarendon.
Controller General*
W. E. STONEY,
Of Berkeley.
For State Superintendent of Education:
COL. ASBURr COWARD.
Of York. ?
For Adjutant and Inspector General:
.GJBN. A M. MANIGA?LT,
> g ; Of Georgetown.
? --COUNTY TICKET.
For Senator,
Col. JO& H. EARLE.
For Representatives.
R: D. LEE, F. J. MATES,
"B^E.L. PEEBLES, D. E. KESLS.
For County Commissioners.
W. A. COOPER, B. W. JENKINS,
R. E. MULDROW.
For Judge of Probate.
Col. T. T. WALSH.
For School Commissioner.
j: DIGGS WILDER.
Classical School.
I TBE EXERCISES of my School
'will be resumed on the FIRST
IMONDAY of SEPTEMBER.
Decidedly^ my School was the
l?st advanced- Male School in
j, last session,
-f t reforto W. F. B. Haynsworth, Esq., Hon.
T. B. Fr?ser?;Solicitor Dargan, Dr. China,
G. E- Haynsworth, and a hundred or more of
my former pupils. T. P. McQTJEEN.
Sept 12 ,_
SOUTH CAROLINA COLLEGE
Will Open October 3d, 1882.
COURSES OF STUDY?General Science,
Mechanics and Engineering, Agriculture..
Classical Course, L.itin Course.
i J?ARTIAL COURSES, in English Studies,
Practical Mathematics, Practical Agriculture.
Students admitted to any Course for which
they are prepared.
TUITION FREE.
Annual Fee of $10 for repairs. Board, in
private families, from Sl2 to ?15 a mouth. ;
Excellent board in messes at from S3 to SIO. !
Entire expenses need not exceed $125; and j
ought not to exceed $175.
For further information, address
BENJAMIN SLOAN, Sec'y of Fac'y,
Aug 22 Columbia, S. C.
LAND FOR SALE.
i\ DESIRABLE SEA-SHORE PLACE in
jCX. Berkely County, 18 miles from Mount
Pleasant, containing 800 acres, part in culti
vation. Situation healthy and land produc
tive. r Fish and game plentiful.
- "Also my place in the edge of Sumter, con
taining 30 acres, with 6-room dwelling, and
kitchen and pantry.
Also a small farm in the country.
N. G. OSTEEN,
Aug & s Sumter, S. C.
;Td ITy Irien?s STfilSE
EAY?TG BEEN APPOINTED PUBLIC
WEIGHER FOR THE TOWN OF
IAVESYILLE, I am prepared to discharge
the duties of said appointment, and will also
weigh and give certificates of Cotton weights
and other produce entrusted to me. I also
offer facilities in connection with above, not
heretofore offered in this County. Feeiiug
assured a trial will give satisfaction,
I arc, very respectfully,
f-, -ALBERT G. WARREN,
tj^Sq>t.tl& ... .. At Sfayesville Depot.
COTTON BATTING
PREPARED IN ROLLS
FOB COMFORTS, QUII/TS AND
MATTBESSES.
SOLD AT THE FACTORY AND BY
merchants in Sumter at 10 cents per
pound.
Liberal discount to the trade allowed.
D. JAMES WINN,
Sept 13?ly_President.
TO CONTRACTORS.
0vfice of the
GEORGETOWN AND LANES R. R. CO.
G*?ec?iow2r, S- C, Sept. 1, 1882.
POSALS 4Rfi^iNVITED UNTIL
October the list, prox., for the con
struction of therojW bed of The Georgetown
and Lanes Raff/Soad, as covered by survey
and^ estimate of Maj. Geo. W. Earle, Engineer.
For specifications and all other informa
tion address the undersigned. The company
reserves the right to reject any or all bids.
P. R. LACHICOTTE,
" Sepfcrl2^6t. President G. & L. R. R.
LAST NOTICE^
A LL persons indebted to the the late Firm
of DARR & OSTEEN, are hereby noti
fied that they " must PAY UP, or make ar
rangements to do so before November 1st
next, or the Accounts will be placed in the
hands of a Trial Justice. Settlements can be
made with either of the undersigned.
H. L. DARR,
Sept 5,1882._N. G. OSTEEN.
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orders filled promptly.
Call on C. P. OSTEEN,
At the Watchman and Southron Office.
WILMINGTON, COLUMBIA AND
AUGUSTA R. R.
CONDENSED SCHEDULE.
TRAINS GOING SOUTH.
I?ated
Sept 24,1SS2.
No. 4S,
Tvly.
No. 40
Daily.
Leave Wilmington .
Ar've Flemington .........
Ar've Marion.
Ar've Florence....
Ar've Sumter.
Ar've Columbia.
10 10pm
11 31 "
1 28 am
2 20 "
4 35 "
6 40 "
11 10pm
12 17 '?
2 02.ara
2 47* '*
TRAINS GOING NORTH.
No. 43,
Daily.
No. 47,
Daily.
Leave Columbia
Ar've Sumter
Ar've Florence
Ar've Marion.......
Ar've Flemington.
Ar'veWilmington.
Train No. 43 stops at all Stations.
Nos. 4S and 47 stops only at Brinkley's,
WhiteviUe, FIeming;on, Fair Bluff, Mariou,
Florenoe, Timmonsville, Sumter, Cainden Junc
tion and Eastover.
Passengers for Columbia and all poin:s on
C. & G. R. R., C, C ?fc. A. R. R. Stations,
Aiken Junction, and all points beyond, should
take No. 4S Night Express.
Separate Pullman Sleepers for Charleston
and for Augusta on trains 48 and 47
All trains run solid between Charleston and
Wilmington.
tbrough freight train.
Daily, except Sundays. _
Leave Florence-...... ...?.-12 00 a m
Leave Sumter .?. 4 05 a m
Arrive at Columbia......... ? ......... 7 25 a m
Leave Columbia..2..., ? 6 40 p m
Leave Sumter-.... - 10 10 p m
Arrive at Florence?-~. 12 50 a m
local freight?(Daily except Sunday.)
Loave Florence.......... 6 00 a in
Leave Sumter.11 00 a m
Arrive at Columbia
3 00 p m
Leave Columbia.~. ............... 8 00 a m
Leave Sumter_.? 1 00 p m
Arrive at Florence. .. . 6 00 p m
JOHN F. DIVINE. General Sup't.
NORTH-EASTERN R. R. CO.
SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE,
NORTHEASTERN RAILROAD CO.
Charleston, S. C, Sept. 24, 1882.
On and after this date the following Sche
dule will be run, Sundays included :
Leave Charleston. Arrive Florence.
7 50 a. m.12 30 p. m.
8 30 p. m. 1 20 a m.
7 00 p. m.11 10 p. m .
Leave Florence. Arrive Charleston.
2 40 a. m...6 50 a. m.
2 00 p. m.;.6 45 p m.
Leave Lanes.
2 15 a. 3t.7 20 a. m.
Train leaving Florence at 2 40 a. m. will
stop for way passengers.
CENTRAL RAILROAD SCH3DULE.
Leave Charleston. 8 30 pm
" Lanes.11 30 p ni
Arrive at Sumter. 3 10 a m
Leave Sumter.12 10 p m
" Lane's. 4 03 pm
Arrive at Charleston. 6 45 p ts
P. L. CLEAPOR, J. F. DIVINE,
Gen'l Ticket Agt. Gen'l Sopt.
TBE SUMTER
Pari aM Ap?al Associatioii
WILL HOLD ITS
Third Annual Fair
On 'the 24th, 25th, 26th, and 27th,
OF OCTOBER 1882.
APROSPEROUS Agricultural Season
gives premise of liberal agricultural
exhibits, and a large attendance.
Marry new and.interesting features will be
introduced, and every effort will be made to
render the Third Anuual Fair a complete suc
cess.
There will be Foot Races, Plouging Match
es, Glass Ball Shooting. Bicycle Races 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 Coun
ties of Sumter, Kershaw and Clarendon.
The good people.of these and adjoining
Counties are earnest^ solicited to seud arti
cles for exhibition. "CHAS. H. MOISE,
Sec. and Treas., S. P. & A. a.
E. W. MOISE, President.
July 18_
CHARLESTON IRON WORKS,
ESTABLISHED 1S44.
Machinery and Will Supplies.
Largest Stock in the Sontn.
Place-your Orders with Us at
Manufacturers7 Prices
?and?
save agext?s commission.
Parties having Machinery to Repair
will S?d it to their interest to
send us their orders.
?E0. W. WILLIAMS, Jr. & CO.
CHARLESTON, S. C.
Sep 26_Iro
MILL SUPPLIES, &c, &c.
Consisting in part of
INDIA RUBBER AND LEATHER
BELTING,
HEMP AND INDIA RUBBER PACKING.
Lace Leather, Oilers, Wrenches,
Machinery Oils,
Circular and Upright Mill Saws,
FILES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION,
Punches, Babbit Metal, Solder, Block Tin,
Lead, and Gin Bristles,
-ALSO
Pratt's Celebrated Cotton Sins,
FEEDERS and CONDENSERS
Furnished at Manufacturers' Prices
in this city by
JOHN O. DIAL,
COLUMBIA, S. C.
Sept 12_3m
COUNTY CUfiS.
OFFICE OF
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
SUMTER COUNTY.
SUMTER, S. C, Oct. 3, 1882.
THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSION
ers of Sumter County, will hold their
annual meeting on November 8th, 1882. All
persons holding claims against Sumter County
fortbeSscal years of a. d., 1881 and 1s82,
are requested to present same for examination
and approval, etc., otherwise, under statute,
they will be debarred payment.
By order of Board,
T. V. WALSH.
Clerk Bd. Co. Comr's.
Sumter County.
Spirit of the Times and Advancej copy.
Oct. 3?4t
I TEE PECULIAR MANNER INi
WHICH A BURGLAR CRACK- j
ED A BANK.
I _
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I . My profession is not a popular one.
There is considerable prejudice against j
it. I don't think myself it is much
worse than a good many others. How
ever, that's nothing to do with my
story. Some years ago, me and the
gentleman who was at that time con
nected with me in business?he's met
with reverses since then, and at pres
ent isn't able to go out?was looking
around for a job, being at that time
rather hard up, as you might say. We
struck a small country town. . I ain't
ajom' to give it away by telling where
it was, or what the name of it was.
There was one bank there. The presi
dent was a rich old duffer ; owned the
mills, owned the bank, owned most of
the town. There wasu't no other offi
cer but the cashier, and they had a boy
who used to sweep out and run their
errands.
The bank was oa -the main street,
pretty well up one end of it?nice, snug
place? on the corner of a cross street,
with nothing very near it. We took
our observations, and found there wasn't
no trouble at all about it. There was
an old watchman that walked up and
down the street nights when he didn't
fall asleep and forget it. The vault had
two doors ; the outside one was chilled
iron, and had a three-wheeled combina
tion lock ; the inner wasn't no door at
all; you could kick it open. It didn't
pretend to be nothing but fire-proof, and
it wasn't even that. The first thing we
did, of course, was to fit a key to the
outside door. As the lock on the out
side door was an old-fashioned Bacon
j lock, any gentleman of my profession
who chances to read this article will
know just how easy that job was, and
how we did it. I may say here that the
gentlemen in my line of business having
at times a great deal of leisure on their
hands, do considerable reading and are
particularly fond of a neat bit of writ
ing. In fact, in the way of literature I
have found among 'em?however, this
being a digression I drop it, and go on
with the main job again.
This was our plan: After the key
was fitted I was to go into the bank,
and Jim?-that wasn't his name of
course, but let it pass?was to keep
watch on the outside. When any one
passed he was to tip me a whistle, and
then I doused the glim and lay low;
after they got by I gees en again. Sim
ple and easy you see. Well, the night,
as we selected, the president happened
to be out of town ; gene down to tue
city, as be often did. i got inside all
right, with a slide lantern, a breast-drill,
a steel-jimmy, a bunch/of skeleton keys,
and a green baize bag to stow away the
swag. I fixed my light, and rigged
my breast-drill, and got to work on the
door jus! over the lock.
Probably a great many cf your read
ers are not so well posted as me about i
bank locks, and I may say.for them th.it
a three wheel combination lock has |
three wheels in it, and a slot in each j
wheel. In order to or:lock the door j
you have to get the three slots opposite |
to each other at the top of the lock. Of
course if you know the number the lock
is set on, you can do this, but if you
don't you have to depend on your in
genuity. There.is in each of the wheels
a small hole, rarough which you put a
wire through the back of the lock when
you change the combioation. Now, if
you can bore a hole through the door
and pick up those wheels by running a
wire through those holes, why, you can
open the door. I hope I make myself
clear, I was boring that hole. The
door was chilled iron?about the neat
est stuff I ever worked on. I went on
steady enough; only stopped when Jim
?which as I said wasn't his real name
?whistled outside, and the watchman
troddled by. By-and-by, when I'd got
pretty near through, I heard Jim, so to
speak, whistle again. I stopped, and
pretty soon I heard footsteps outside,
and I'm blowed if they didn't come
right up the bank steps, and I heard a
key in the lock. I was so dumbfound
ed when I heard that, you could have
slipped the bracelets right on me. I
picked up my lantern, and I'll be hang- j
cd if I didn't let the slide down and
threw the light right onto the door,
and there was the president. In- j
stead of calling for help, as I thought j
he would, he tood a step inside the j
door, and shaded his eyes with his !
baud and looked at me. I knowed I
ought to kneck him down, and cut out,
but I'm blest if I could, I was that sur
prised.
'Who are you ?' says he.
Who are you ?' says I, thinking
that was an innocent remark, as he
commenced it, a-trying all the time to
collect myself.
I'm the president of this bank,' says
he, kinder short; 'something's the
matter with the lock V
By George! The idea came to me
then.
Yes, sir,' says I, touching ray cap ; j
'Mr. Jennings; he telegraphed to uie
this morning as the lock was out of
order, and he couldn't get in, and so
I'm come on to open it for him.'
'I told' Mr. Jennings a week ago,'
says he, 'that he ought to get that lock
fixed. Where is he V
'He's been a writing letters and he's
gone up to his house to get another
letter he wanted for to answer.'
Well, why don't you go right on,'
says he,
'I've got almost through,' say I;
'and I didn't want to finish up and
and open the vault till there was some
body here.'
'That is very creditable to you,' says
he; 'a very proper sentiment., my man.
You can't, he goes on coming re-urn; by
the door, 'be too careful about avoiding
the very suspicion of evil.'
'No, sir,' says I kinder modest like.
'What do you suppose is the matter
with the lock V says he.
'I don't rightly know yet/ says I;
but [ rather think it's a little more on
account of not being oiled enough.
These 'ere locks ought to be oiled
about once a year.'
'Well he says, 'you might a? well go
j right on, now I'm here; I will stay
till Jennings comes. Can't I help you.
Hold your lantern or something of that
sort?'
The thought came to me like a flash,
and I turned around and says:
'How do I know you're the president?
I ain't ever seen you afore, and you
may be a trying to crack this bank, for
all that I know.'
'That's a proper inquiry, my man,' |
says he, 'and shows a most remarkable j
degree of discretion. I confess I should j
not have thought of the position in !
which I was placing you. However, I i
can easily convince you that it's all j
right. Do you know what the presi- j
dent's name is V
'No, I don't' says I sorter surly.
'Well, you'll find it on that bill,'
says he, taking a bill out of his pocket;
'and you see the same name on these
letters/ and he took some letters from
his coat.
I suppose I ought to have gone right
on then, but I was beginning to feel in
terested in making him prove who he
was, and so I says :
'You might have got them letters to j
put np a job on me.'
'You're a very honest man,' says he, j
'one among a thousand. Don't think j
I'm at all offended at your persistence, j
No, my good fellow, I like it,' and he
laid his hand on my shoulder. 'Now,
here,' says he, taking a bundle out of!
his pocket, 'is a package of ten thou
sand dollars in bonds. ?A burglar
wouldn't be apt to carry those around |
with him, would he ? I bought them in
the city yesterday, and I stopped here
to-night on my way home to place them
in the vault, and I may add, that your
simple and manly honesty has so touch
ed me that I would willingly leave them
in your hands for safe keeping. You
needn't blush at my praise.'
I suppose I did turn sorter red when
I seen them bonds.
'Are you satisfied now V said he.
I told hira I was thoro'ig' 7; and so
I was. So I picked up my' uiill again,
and gave him my lantern to hold, so
that I could see the door. I heard Jim
as I called him, outside once or twice,
and I'd like to burst out laughing,
thinking how he must be wondering j
what was going on inside. I worked
away, and kept explaining to hira what
I was a-trying to do. Ee was very
much interested in mechanics, he said,
and he knowed I was a man up in my
business, by the way I went to work.
He usked me about what wages I got
and how I liked my business, and said *
he took quite a fancy to me. I turned
around once in a while and looked at
him a setting up there as solemn as an
owl, with mv dark lantern in his bless- j
ed hand, aud I'm blamed if I didn't I
think I should have to holier right I
out.
I got through the lock pretty soon, [
and put my wire in and opened it. 1
Then he took hold of the door and !
opened the vault.
'I'll put my bonds in,' said he, 'and !
ga home. You can lock up, and wait!
till Mr. Jennings comes. I don't sup- j
pose you will try to fix the lock to-1
nightr' ' j
I told him I shouldn't do anything j
more with it now, as we could get in I
before morning.
'Well, I'll bid you good-night, my j
man,' says he, as he swung the door j
again.
Just then I heard Jim, my name, j
whistle, and I guessed the watchman j
was a-eoming up the street.
'Ah,' says I, 'you ought to speak to I
the watchman, if you see him, and tell |
him to keep an extra lookout to-night.'
'I will,' says he, and we both went
to the front door.
'There comes the watchman up the
street,' says he. 'Watchman, this man
has been fixing the bank lock, and I
want you to keep a sharp lookout to
night. He will stay here until Mr.
Jenuings returns.'
'Good-night again,' says be, and we j
shook hands and he went up the street.
I saw Jim, so called, in the shadow 1
on the other side of the street as I stood |
on the step with the watchman.
Well,' says I to the watchman, 'I'll
go and pick my tools and get ready to
go.'
I went back to the bank, and it didn't
take long to throw the door open and
stuff them bonds into the bag. There
were some boxes lying around, and a
safe as I should rather have liked to
tackle, but it seemed like tempting
Providence after the luck we'd had. I
looked at my watch, and seen it was
quarter past twelve. There was an ex
press went through at half-past twelve.
I tucked my tools in the bag on top of
the bonds and walked out to the front
door. The watchman was on the
steps.
'I don't believe I'll wait for Mr.
Jennings,' says I. 'I suppose it will
be all right if I give you his key V
'That's all right,' says the watchman.
'I wouldn't go away f?r from the
bank,' says I.
'No, I won't,' says he. Til stay
right about here all night.'
'Good-night,' says I, and I shook
hands with him. aud me and Jim?
which wasn't his right name, you un- \
derstand?took the half-pa?t twelve ex- j
press, and the best part of that job was I
we never heard of it.
According to the leading Polish jour- '
nals, no such crowd of pilgrims has j
ever been gathered together within the j
venerable walls of Czecstochau as that j
assembled there the week before last
for the purpose of celebrating the fifth !
jubilee of the sojourn in Czenstochau :
Mouustery of the renowned portrait, j
said to hava been painted by St. Luke !
of the Virgin Mary known to Orthodox
Slavdom as 'The Black Madonda."
This picture was at one time in the j
possession of the Byzantine Empress [
Helena. A Kuthenian Prince named
Laon first brought i1-- to Poland from
Gonstaaipolc, and built a chapel in
Galicia. Thence it was conveyed iu
the year lo<S2 to Czenstochau by Duke
Radislay of Oppein, the pious foudcr
of that famous monastery, and by bim
dedicated to the Holy Mother of God. j
Painted upon a panpel of cypress wood j
iu colors i'jur have blackened in the j
course of ages, the portrait?a half I
"length?is set in a triple frame of solid ;
gold plate, only showing the face and j
two hands of the Madonna. Each of j
these- apertures is thickly edged with
precious stones?one with diamonds j
and emeralds, another with rubies aud (
pearls, and the third with brilliants
only. The nimbus surrounding the
Virgin's head is also of thick pure gold, ,
richly studded with jewels.
BILL ABP.
The Baby-The Ruler of the Household, j
The poet hath said that "a baby in j
the house is a well spring of pleas- j
ure." There is a bran new one here,
now, the first in eight years, and it j
has raised a powerful commotion, j
Its not our baby, exactly, but it is in
the line of descent and Mrs. A rp takes
on over it all the- same as she used to I
when she was regularly in the busi- j
ness. I thought maybe she had for- \
gotten how to nurse em and talk to !
em but she is singing the same old |
familiar songs that sweetened the j
dreams of half a score and she blesses |
the little eyes and the sweet little i
mouth and uses the same infantile lan
guage that nobody but babies under
stand. For she says "tum here to
its dan dm udder," and "boss its little
heart," and talks about its sweet little j
footsy-tootsies and holds it up to the j
windows to see the wagons go by and j
the wheels going rouny-pouny, and
now ray liberty is curtailed for as I
go stamping around with my heavy
farm shoes she shakes her ominous
finger at me just like she used to and
says don't you see the baby is asleep,
and so I have to tiptoe around, and
ever and anon she wants a little fire
or some hot water, or some catnip,
for the baby is a-crying and surely
has got the colic. The doors have to
be kept shut now for fear of a draft of
air on the baby, and a little hole in
the window-pane about as big as a
dime had to be patched, and 1 have
to hunt up a passel of kindlings every
night and put em where they will be
handy, and they have sent me off to
another room where the baby can't
hear me snow, and all things consid
ered, the baby is running the machine
and the well spring of pleasure is the
center of space. A grandmother is a
wonderful help and a great comfort at
such a time as this, for what does a
young mother with her first child
know about colic and thrash, and
hives, and hiccups, and it takes a
good deal of faith to close em with
sut tea, and catnip, and lime water,
and paregoric, and soothing syrup,
and sometimes with all of these the j
child gets worse, and if it gets better
=l've always bad a curiosity to know
which remedy it was that did the
work. Children born of healthy pa
vents can stand a power of medicine
and get over it, for after the cry
comes ihe sleep, and sleep is a won
derful restorer. Kock era awhile in
the cradle, then take em up and jolt
em a little on the knee and then turn
em over and jolt on ihe other side,
and give em some sugar* in a rag and
after awhile they will go to shop and
let the poor mother rest. There is
no patent on this business, no way
of raising em all the same way, but
it is trouble, trouble from the start,
and nobody but a mother knows how
much trouble it is. A man ought to
be a mighty good man just for hi:-*
mother's sake if nothing else, for
there-is no toil or trial like nursing
arid caring for a little child, and there !
is no grief so great as a mother's if
all her care ana anxiety is wasted on '
an ungrateful child.
But the times are not like they us
ed to be wheu niggers was, and there
was in almost every "family a good
old negro mammy who knew exactly
what to do with the baby, and was
trusty and patient and watchful, and
who loved to set in the chimney cor
ner and nurse, and took more than
half the burden off of her mistress.
Those were good old negroes that we
used to have, and the memory of them
is pleasant. They are all dead, 1
reckon, for I never see any now-a
days, and there are no more coming
to take their places. The rising gen
eration are too good to nurse, or to
rock, or to wash, and what else thev
are fit for I have not discovered, for
they don't work in these parts. I
have just give one of my tenants no
tice that if he don't take his chil
dren out of school and put 'em :n the
cotton patch he can't work on my
land another 3Tear, for his cotton is
falling out and before long the rainy
season will set in, but he don;t care
a cent for he thinks I will support
him and carry him through, and I'm
not going to do it anymore, never.
I hired his wife to do our washing
this year at a dollar a week, and
she struck for higher wa2rc3 though
there is less washing to do, but she
said it would take a dollar and a
half a week to pay for her children's
schooling and because I wouldn't do
it she is setting up there doi?g noth
ing. I was reading your account of
that United States court that is going
on in Atlanta, where they had eight
niggers and four white men on the
jury, and I would like to know how
that happens. Who makes up the
jury box in that court, aud what do
they put more niggers than white
folks in it for, and haven't Uncle
Sam's officers got sense enough to
know that the niggers are not fittcn
for jurymen, and can't they see that it
degrades and belittles the court, and
is Judge McCay going to drag Iiis er
mine through the same sort of a mud
hole ? There is no excuse for it ex
cept a hatred of the Southern white
folks or an ignorance of the nigger's
qualification and I know that the
judge is not subject to either of these
and therefore I have hopes of him.
Our Northum masters have l.ad sev
enteen years of experience with the
nigger and ought to have found him j
out by this time and let him aTone
and it is high time they were letting
us alone to<>. The first thing they
know they will have the Southern
people as hostile to their government
as. the Irish are to England. Judge
Underwood says that a fellow came
before the tariff commission over in
St. Louis, and said he represented the
five great manufactories of quinine
in the United States and they wanted
protection from foreign competition, j
and the judge asked him if quinine)
was not used all over the country by
the poor and the rich and especially
in the South and West and he said }
yes, aud the judge asked him if these |
five great houses that made it were ]
poor folks and he said no they wore j
rich and prosperous and then the
fudge let in on him and made him feel
bo mean he retired prematurely in bad j
order. And there was sonic lumber j
dealers from Saginaw who wanted |
protection on their white pine and j
they said there was no other pine in
this country better to build houses of!
and the judge told em about our long
leaf pine in the South and they said
they had heard of it but it wouldent
hold paint and the judge told told em j
we had painted houses down here a j
few and our people were now ship- j
ping lumber to Louisville and Cincin- j
nati and they seemed very much as- {
t?nished. He says every little rat
trap of a concern up North wants pro-!
tcction and they have had it so lengj
they want more of the same sort and
they have all got rich through the op- j
evations of the tariff and we at the j
South have got no benefit for we j
dident have the manufactories and
now the way for us to do is for us to
go to manufacturing the same things
and get even with cm. Well it is !
working that way now for I hardly
ever take up a paper that don't tell j
of some new enterprise in a Southern
town and this shows that our people
arc prospering and laying up money
which they wish to invest. Wove
got the land and the climate on them
fellers up North and now if we can
only caich up in money we will
bo all right. I wish we had a Jay
Gould down here just to see him
wake em up and make the fur fly.
Bill Arp.
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A True Snake Story.
A few years ago, an immense ana
conda or water-boa was received at
the Gardens in Regent's Park,
brought iu a barrel on board a steadi
er from Central America to Liverpool,
and forwarded thence by rail. Tin's
rep lite is the largest of the serpent
tribe, inhabiting the swamps of Trop
ical America, and sometimes attaining
a length of thirty or forty feet, it may
bo much more. It is one of the Con
strictors?that is to say, it is : non
venomous, and kills its prey, like the
boa and python, by crushing it with
in the convolutions of its powerful
body. The subject of my tale meas
ured twe ly-three feet in length, and
in girth was equal to the circumfer
ence of a man's thigh?-a formidable
customer, capable of swallowing a
shcf*p. Prepared for his reception,
wi h the floor graveled aud a tank
with water, den number three on left
side of the reptile house, counting
from the entrance door, was aSloted
to him; aud within the cage is a
stunted tree, up which these large
serpents are wont to climb. The
top of the cask unscrewed, the creat
ure was allowed to find his way into
the cage through the small aperture
behind.
Roaming about in the full enjoy
ment of bis new-found liberty, he
presently turned round between the
tree and the front of the cage?a
>p;ice of several feet?to use a seafar
ing expression?lay within this space.
Here, feeling the contact of the glass
on one side and the wood on the oth
er, he suddenly expanded his coil,
probably in the sheer luxury of being
able to stretch himself, and pushed the I
front of the cage out! Not simply
the glass itself, which was not bro
ken, but the heavy framework iu
which it is fixed, was forced from
its connection with the surrounding
beams. Hereupon, severaj of the
j spectators had the presence of* mind
to rush forward and catch the sash
before it could fall to the -Soor. In
this way they supported it as well as
they could with hands and knees un
til fresh assistance arrived, for tiie
! weight was too great for them to lilt
it back into position again ; while the
reptile inside, excited by the shout
ing and commotion, was dashing
about furiously in all directions.
This scaterted the gravel about, and it
was then found impossible to return
the frame into its proper place, as the
groove was choked with the small
stones. Mr. Frank Bnckland, aided
now by a number of men from all
parts of the of the Gat dens, still kept
the glass from descending, while the
keeper and carpenter, who got into
the cage from behind, having thrown
some blankets over the sivake and
pushed him into a corner, proceeded
to scrape away the gravel. But the
anaconda, now thoroughly enraged,
contrived to extricate his head from
the covering, and before the men
could escape flew at the carpenter
and seized him by the shoulder. The
keeper courageously turned, gripped
the serpaut by the throat, and forced
him to let go, but not until the unfor
nate man's arm cvas terribly lacerated
by the powerful, lancet-like teeth.
Luckily, the door of the reptile
house had.been locked when the first
cnnfrefc7)tjj$ took place, so that no cas
ual visitors were witnesses of the
scene; otherwise, fainting women
and horror stricken men would doubt
less have added to its confusion. By
this time the groove was clear, and
the frame temporarily secured, so
so that the carpenter made good his
exit, while the keeper, watching his
opportunity flung the creature from
hira and jumped out.
But it afterwards became very
tame and tractable, and I established
very friendly relations with it. Many
a time have I stood at the door with
Holland, the keeper, and allowed it
to rear its great black-spotted head
out of the tank tili it flickered its
tongue against my face, while I pat
ted its shining scales with my hand.
Towards Holland it was most affec
tionate, and would always coinc up
to the grated ventilator to see him
when he was sweeping out the pas- j;
sage behind, though it took no notice j,
of the people in front.? CftainOer'sl
Journal.
A jeweler long dunned a lady of |
fashion fur the amount of his bill, bat j
in vain. When he rung the bell the j '
footman answered politely bur. firmly : j'
'Sir, the Couutess only receives en
Tuesdays.'
'I don't care'when she receives.'
thundered the ivarc and long suffering !
creditor, 'what I want to know is the
day that she pays cn r
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The first grain elevators of Amer
ica were built iu Chicago eleven years 1
ago.
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A Fearful Trotting-match.
During the Chicago Fire.
On the morning of that terrible I
Monday, when one-third of the Gar
den City went down in the maelstrom
of fire and flame, there occured one
of the strangest, and probably most
fearful trotting races on record. It
was a race wherein the fire-fiend and
storm-king went in double harness
with death for the driver against Mr.
Fred Blackmar and his brown mare,
Kittie. It was a single dash of less
than a mile, contested with all the
firmness of fate on one side, and only
a hope of salvation on the other.
Kittie, who had become a well-known
eqino to all those who frequented the
boulevards, was stabled in a barn on
Dearbon street, almost opposite the
post-officer The fire had eaten far
into the city, and was rapidly
swallowing building after build
ing in its rapacious jaws. South
ward aiid northward along fam
ed Newspaper Avenue,as Dearborn i
street was sometimes called, the fire
was driven by the fierce gale which
sweep in eddies from over the prai
res.
Blackmar who lived in the west di
vision, had gone down early in the
fight to assist in saving property from
the store; aud it was not until late
on Monday morning that he thought
of brown Kittie. Then he started for
the barn, only to firid the front of the
building was one vast sheet of flame;
Nowhere could he see the hostler.
Through the back door he rushed
into the stable, and there stood his
pet shivering in e\ery limb. With a
cry of joy she recognized her master,
and, while he was unfastening her
halter, the grateful creature placed
her nose against his face and gently
rubbed his cheek. A moment later
and the mare was hitched to the light
road-wagon, the back door .was
thrown open, Fred sprang into the
seat and, while the burning hay drop
ped down upon him in flakes, he drove
forth into the hell of flame. There
was a narrow alley with buildings on
fire on either side of it for him to
drive through and faster than
Kittie ever went before, went
she through that gauntlet of flame.
Once a tongue of flame reached
across the alley, and scorched poor
Kittie's handsome mane, and almost
burned out one of her bright eyec,
which were almost human in their
expression ; but Fred spoke gently to
her, and, with never a skip, she went
onward aud onward across State
street, and no chance to return to the
right nor left, with buildings blazing
up in front, and death, witn the dou
ble team, crowding him closely in the
the rear. Now Wabash Avenue was
reached, and, like lighting, the little
darling turned the corner, and flew
with the speed of thought southward
along the broad thoroughfare, whose
westward side was already one long
row of flame. With a straight road
before him, perfectly level, and laid
with Nicolson pavement, Fred sent
the mare along faster and faster.
Away off toward Jackson Street he
could see the black smoke" and the
red flames reaching across, trying to
seize upon the opposite side of the way
and, should they succeed before he
passed the spot, then all escape was
impossible. "Gently, Kittle, gen
tly \! They were the first words he
had spoken for some time. "Now
then my little lady/7 and for the first
time in all his life ho touched her
with the whip. The mare broke into
a run, and there was no stopping
her. Like a thoroughbred she sped
before the wind, and almost in a trice
she had cleared the fir*, and was still
running desperately to the southward.
Presently Blackmar succeeded in pul
ling her down to a trot, and finally
she jogged along at a pace so slow
no one would have supposed her the
best little equine in Christendom.
Fred wouldn't take thousands of dol
lars for her now; and when a few
days after the fire, he drove round on
Ashland Avenue, and told another
her of his escapade, handsome Kittie
was patted and caressed by fair ladies,
her owner was fain compelled to wish
it possible a change of places might
be affected between himself and his
brown mare.? Corr. JSTew X'orh
WoM
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Another Comet "
Washington', October 11.?The
Smithsonian Institution has received
from the Academy of Vienna an aa
oonucement of the discovery by
Schmidt, at Athens on the 8th of Octo
ber, of another comet four degrees
southwest of the great comet with the
same motion iu ri^ht ascension aud ue
elination.
Rociiestftv, N. Y., October 11.?
Dr. Lewis Swift, director of the War
ner Observatory, says the new coruet
discovered by Dr. Schmidt, at Athens
is unquestionably a fagmcut of the
<rreat comet broken orTat its perihelion
passage. This proves that the great
comet must have grazed the sun and
hence parsed through a terrible crisis.
This is the second instance on record of
a comet being disrupted, the first one
being Biola's comet of 1846.
Of Webster, the English actor who
died recently, it is related that one day,
when at the point of death, two of his
eld friends had called to see him. The
end, they though', had come, so they
reverently covered his face with a sheet
and went down stairs to console them
selves: They found out his whisky and
cigars and had sat down to make a j
ight of it under the dead m?u's roof, |
when suddenly the door opened. There !
stood Benjamin Wehster in Iiis wind- j
lag sheet. 'I am not dead yet,' chuck- j
led the inevitable old man, 'bet I j
see you know how to enjoy yourselves." !
The obliging visitor, to show that he
is fond of children, aud that the dear
little one is not annoying him in the
ieast treats the kid to a ride upon his
knee. 'Trot trot 1 trot ! How do you
like that, my boy! Is that nice?'
'Yes, sir.' replies the child, 'but not so
nice as on the real donkey?the one
with four legs.'
News and Gossip.
Frogs7 legs may be broiled, but tbey.
are very nice made into a fricasce and
seasoned with tomato catsup
Marion is coming to the front as a*
live town. Four buildings are now iu
course of erection.
The Radicals and Greeabackers of
Darlington propose holding a County
Convention this month..
Coon oysters are beginning to appear
in the Charleston market, bringing
twenty-five cents per quart.
The editor of the Merchant and
Farmer has succeeded in finding five
Grenbackers in Marion County.
Fogg, who had been fed on pie for a
day or two, informed his landlady th?t
he was not fond of pasteboard. Fogg
was given his walking papers.
The South Carolina people are the
ojjly people in the world, we suppose,
who regard with indifference, if not'
absolute contempt, the circulation,
amongst them of Cash, even when it
appears in a hard form.?Arigusta
Gcogia has a new cure for dyspepsia.
Webb Burrow, of Athens, cured him
self by eatiog white sand from a
branch. He argued that if it aided the
digestion of fowls it ought to help man.
This is no patent medicine, and you
are at liberty to take it when yod
please.
Hyman Moses, a pioneer Hebrew
citizen of Cincinnati, once brought
home a handful of earth from the Cave
of Machpclah, where the remains of
Abraham and Sarah are said to rest.
At his funeral a'few days ago the clay
from the Holy Land was sprinkled
upon the coffin.
The London Lancet says. *No man
who respects himself drinks before din
ner, and no man who respects his din
ner driuks after il' The editor of the
Lancet agrees with us, that a cocktail
before breakfast is the proper caper.?
Augusta iVe>rs
A French chemist reports that water
made slightly salt, and to which, when
boiling, bran in the proportion of one
quart to every gailou has been added,
has been found in a series of experi
ments to increase the yield of milk
twenty-five per cent., if given to the
cows as their ordinary driuk.
An Indianapolis girl, forbidden by
her parents to marry the man of her
choice, pretendted to be abundantly con
soled by the promise of a grac4 birthday
party. When ail the guests were as
sembled on that occasion, she walked
in on the arm of her lover/ who had
within the hoar been made her husband
by a clergyman round the corner.
An Austin boy who is very selfish
and wants everthing he sees, no mat
ter whether he has any use for it or
not, was seen on the avenue a few
nights ago with an umbrella hotstei.
*Iq the name of common sense, "boy,
what have you got that umbrella spread
for, when there is neither rain nor sun
shine?' 'This is the only time I can
get to use it. When it rains or shines
the old man is so mean that he uses it
himself.'
One day last week a white child liv
ing on the place of Mrs. Colcman, in
Laurens countv. near Nash's Mill, suf?
; fered a most sad and remarkabtedeatb.
A quantity of seed cotton wnrch was
somewhat green had been stored in a
house and a large hole or openicg~<Tug"
in it so that it would dry out more read
ily. The child climbed up on the pile
and suddenly fell into ibe~hollow head
foremost, and before it could be res
cued was smother to death in the cot
ton which fell upon it.
Alexander 111, the uncrowned Em
peror of Russia, is the possessor of an
unrivaled collection of royal diadems.
The most ar<-ient is probably the
crown of Consfantine Monomachus,
which was sent from Constantinople
to the'Lord of Kiew,' in 1116. The
Emperor is now adding to the seventeen
palaces of his father, a new one at
! Pererhoff, over-looki?g the GjjjJf_of
Finland. Its foundations are to be
! completed this Fall, at a cost of ?300,- v
! coo.
I Firemen on the Virginia Midland
Railwav tell wonderful stories of the
nightly appearance of a ghost on the
track of that road, uear Otter River,
where a tramp was killed time ago.
' His gbostsbip first appeared on two'
white horses, but becomiug more bold
of late, the spiritual stranger, in the
j form of a man, has dispensed with the
steeds, and has severai.titnes, unattend
ed, taken a position on the track in the
attitude of the road bull, and defied the
iron horse. One night last week the
fireman of an engine discovered what'
was supposed tu be a man on the track.
The engine, which was at a high rate
of speed, struck the man, and apparent
ly killed him. The train was stopped,
and several hands were sent back to see
what daa:age had hceu done. The
body was seen a short distance down
the road, bat upon to3 men reaching it,
it disappeared. At other times the
ghost has appeared in the cabs of cn
giues, and, after surveying things gen-'
orally, ju?t stepped out iuto space".
Brigham Young's grave is looking*
as bare and desolate as a boulevard
now. At first, while her grief was
fresh, his widow used to walk out
there five abreast and just naturally .
deluge the grave with scalding tears,
and at that time the grass grew luxu
riantly and the pig weed waved in
the soft Summer air, but as she learn
ed to control her emotions the humid
ity of the atmosphere disappeared
and griefs grand irritation failed to
give down. We should learn from
tliis that the man who flattere himself
that in marrying a whole pvecinct
during life he is piling up for the.fu
ture a largo invoice of ungovernable
woe. is liable to get left. The proph
et's tomb looks to-day like a deserted
bu&uo wallow,,while lus widow has
dried hir tears and is crying to make'
a mash on the Utah comniiosion.
Be thankful for what you have instead
of yearning for. a great wealth of wife.
Then the life insurance will not have
to be scattered so, and onr friends
will be spared the humiliating specta
cle of a bereft and sorrowing herd of
widows, turned loose by the cold
hand of death to monkey o'er your
tomb.