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TBX SUMTEB WATCHMAN Established April, IS SO. "Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's, and Truth's." THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established Jane? 1866*. firnisolidated Aug. 2, 1881.1 SUMTER, S. 0., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1882. New Series?Yol. IL M 12. Publish every Tuesday, ?by the? Watch**11 and Southron Publishing Company, SUMTER, S. C. terms: Two Dollar? per annum?in advance. ADVERTISEMENTS. 0?e^5qaare, first insertion..................$1 00 Every subsequent insertion. 50 Contracts for thre^ months, or longer will be made^t reduced rates. ^ All communications which subserve private interests will be charged for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respect will be charged for. Marriage notices and notices of deaths pub lished free. For. job work or contracts for advertising address Watch man and Southron, or apply at thence, to N. G. OSTEEN, Business Manager. STATE DEMOCRATIC TICKET. For Governor: COL. HUGH S. THOMPSON, Of Bichland. For Lieutenant Governor: HON. JOHN O. SHEPPARD, Of Edgefield. For Secretary of State: * HON. J. N. LIPSCOMB, Of Newberry. For Attorney imieraZ : C. RICHARDSON &ftLES, Of Charleston. For State Treasurer: JOHN P. RICHARDSON,* Of Clarendon. For Comptroller General: ~ W. EL STONEY, * Of Berkeley. For State Superintendent of Education : COL. ASBURY COWARD. Of York. For Adjutant and Inspector General: GEN. A M. MANIGAULT, Of Georgetown. COTJNTY TICKET. For Senator. ' Cot. JOS. H. EARLE. J For Representatives. R. D. LEE, F. J. MATES, j H. E. L. PEEBLES, * D. E. KEELS.! For County Commissioners. W.~A. COOPER, R. W. JENKINS, R. E. MULDROW. For Judge of Probate. Col. T. Y. WALSH. For School Commissioner. J. DIG GS WILDER. ooL mmi. TRUSTEES OF THE VARIOUS Districts will open their schools Monday in November, or us soon j as may be practicable. Tbey wiil j .Je&cfeetS' to' include a calendar in each report, before checks are is sued. By order of the Board of Examiners. W. F. REAME, Oct 17 - School Com'r. SALE OF COUNTY FENCE. OFFICE OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, SUMTER COUNTY. SUMTE!?, S. C, Oct. 16, 1882. rpHE SALE OF THE COUNTY FENCE | Jl was unavoidably postponed to-dav, but j ] will positively take "place on THURSDAY, j NOVEMBER 9th, 1882, at the Court House, i and continue from day to dav until disposed i of. By order of the Board. - T. V. WALSH, Clerk Board County Com'rs. | Spirit of the Times and Advance please ! copy. Oct 17_3t i LAND FOR SALE. A DESIRABLE SEA-SHORE PLACE in Berkely County, 18 miles from Mount Pleasant, contaiomg 800 acres, part in culti vation. Situation healthy and land produc tive. 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 & small farm in the countrv. N. G. OSTEEN, (Ang 8 _Sumter, S. C. fo Jy IM aM tie PnMc. BAYING BEEN APPOINTED PUBLIC WEIGHER FOR THE TOWN OF ESYILLE, I am prepared to discharge the duties of said appointment, and will also Weigh and give certificates Oi Cotton weights and other produce entrusted to me. ' I also offer facilities in .connection with above, net heretofore offered in this County. Feeing assured a trial will give satisfaction, I am, very respectfully, ALBERT G. WARREN, Sept 19 At Mayesville Depot. " Bsllemoate Cote Mai's Co. ?OTT?N BATTING PREPARED IN ROLLS FOR COMFORTS, QUILTS AND MATTRESSES. SOLD AT THE FACTORY AND BY merchants in Sumter at 10 cents per pound. Liberal'discount to the ?rade allowed. D. JAMES WINN, Sept 19?fy_President. TO CONTRACTORS. office of the GEORGETOWN AND LANES R. R. CO. Geoegetowk, S. C, Sept. 1, 1882. T>ROP/>SALS ARE INVITED UNTIL E^f^-" Glibber the SisVH^x-? f?r tQe C0Q* direction of the road bed of The-Georgetown and: Lanes Rail Road, as covered by survey and estimate of Maj. Geo. W. Earie, Engineer. For specifications and ail other informa tion address the undersigned. The company reserves the right to reject any or all bids. P. R. LACHICOTTE, Sept. 12-St. President G. & L. R. R. I . LAST NOTICE. ALL persons indebted to the the late Firm I of DARR & OSTEEN, are hereby noti- i fied that tbey must PAY UP, ormakear-j rangemeot8 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, 1 Sept 5, 1882._N. G. OSTEEN. j RUBBER STAMPS name stamps for marking cl0thin6 j with indellible ink, or for printing visiting | Card?, spd STAMPS OP ANY KIND ! for slumping BUSINESS CARDS, ENVEL | OPES or anything else. Specimens of various | Styles"on hand, which will be shown with pleas- i *re. The LOWEST PRICES possible, and orders fitted promptly. Call od C. P. OSTEEN, At the Watchman and Southron Office. WILMINGTON, COLUMBIA AND AUGUSTA R. R. CONDENSED SCHEDULE. TRAINS GOING SOUTH. Dated Sept. 24, 7SS2. No. 48, I No. 40 Dr.Uy. I Daily. Leave Wilmington. Ar've Flemiogton. Ar've Marion._ Ar've Florence._ Ar've Sxtmter...... ...... Ar've Columbia... ........ 10 10pm 11 31 " 1 2S am 2 20 " 4 35 - 6 40 " It 10pm 12 17 ' 2 02 am 2 47 ' TRAINS GOING NORTH. No. 43, I No. 47, Daily. | Daily. Leave Columbia. Ar've Sumter. Ar've Florence. Ar've Marion ...... .. Ar've Flemington.... Ar've Wilmington.... 1 00pm 1 46 " 3 48 " 5 15 t: 10 00pm 12 05 ? 1 32 am 2 38 ? 4 54 " 6 20 ? Train No. 43 stops at all Stations. Nos. 48 and 47 stops only at Briokley's, Whiteville, Fiemington, Fair Bluff, Marion, Florence, Timmonsville, Sumter, Cainden Junc tion and Eastover. ^ Passengers for Columbia and all poinft on C. & G. R. R., C, C. 4. 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 traius 48 and 47. All trains run solid between Charleston anil Wilmington. through freight trais. . Daily, except Sundays. Leave Florence. ~.~....12 00 a m Leav? Sutnter . 4 05 a m Arrive at Columbia...*^... 7 25 a m Leave Columbia., ? 6 40 p m Leave Sumter-.10 10 p m Arrive at Florence?.~- 12 50 a m local Freight?(Daily except Sunday.) Leave Florence. 6 00 a id Leave Sumter.M.11 CO a m Arrive at Columbia ....................... 3 CO p m Leave Columbia........... _~..~?m~. 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 H R, CO. SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE, NORTHEASTERN RAILROAD CO. Charleston, S. C, Oct. 11, 1882. On and after this date tbe following Sche dule will be run/Sundays included : Leave Charleston. Arrive Florence. 7 50 a. m.12 30 p. m. 8 30 p. si. 1 20 a m. 5 00 p. si...Arr. Lane's 7 50 p. m. Leave Florence. Arrive Charleston. 2 40 a. m.6 50 a. m. 2 00 p. m.6 45 p m. Leave Lines. 6 15 a. it.8 50 a. sr. Train leaving Florence at 2 40 a. m. will stop for way passeagers. CE2TTEAL SAILR0AD SCHEDULE. SUNDAYS EXCEPTED. Leave Charleston. 5 00 p m " Lanes. 7 52 p m Arrive at Sumter. 9 30 p m Leave Sumter. 4 35 a rn " Lane's. 6 15 a m Arrive at Charleston. 8-^0 a m P. L. CLEAPOR, - J. F. DIVINE, Gen'I Ticket Agt. Gen'l Supt. THE SUMTER M aM Agricultural Pit! WILL HOLD ITS Third Annual Fair On the 24th, 25th, 26th, and 27th, OF OCTOBER 18S2. ?PROSPEROUS Agricu.iural Season gives promise of liberal agricultural exhibits, and a large attendance. Many new and interesting features will be introduced, and every effort will be made to render tfi%Third Annual Fair a complete suc cess. There will be Foot Races, Plonging Match es, Glass Ball Shuoting, Bicycle Races and an exhibition of Fancy Riding on Bicycles. Preroiam Lists containing all particulars will be mailed to the principal Planters, Mannfacturers.and Merchants, in the Coun ties of Sumter, Kershaw and Clarendon. Tbe 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 CHARLESTON IRON WORKS, ESTABLISHED 1844. Machinery and Mill Supplies* Largest Stock in tha South. Place your Orders with Us at Manufacturers' Prices ?and? save agent's c03imissiost. Parties having Machiuery to Repair will fiud it to their iDterest to send us their orders. GEO. W. WILLIAMS, Jr. & CO. j CHARLESTON, S. C. Sep 2G_lm_ 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 Hill Saws, FILES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, Punches, Babbit Metal, Solder. Block Tin, Lead, and Gin Bristles, -ALSO Fratt's Celebrated Cotton Gins, FEEDERS and CONDENSERS Furnished at Manufacturers- Prices in this city by * JOHN C. DIAL, COLUMBIA, S. C. Sept_l 2_3m COUNTY CLAIMS. OFFICE OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS SUMTER COUNTY. SUMTER, S. C, Oct. 3, 1882. THE BOARD of COUNTY COMMJSSION ers of Sumter County, will hold their aunual meeting on November 8th, 1882. All persons holding claims against Sumter County for the fiscal years of A. d., 1881 and 1382, are requested to present same for examination and-auproval, etc., otherwise, under statute, they will be debarred payment. By order of Board, T. V. WALSH. Clark Bd. C Comr's. . Sumter County. Spirit of <.be Times and Advance, copy. Oct. 3?4t "GOOD-BYE." BY Jf ATTIE If. BROWN. "Good-bye," a lover whispers, Standing beside the gate; " "Tis hard, so hard to leave you, Bat we cannot alter fate; Think of me, love, for aye, Good-by, sweetheart, good-by." "Good-by, dear mother ; hold me Close to your loving heart. Ah 1 how it hurts to say it, To know that we most part j" Li9t, list the wild-heart cry, "Good-bye, mother, good-bye." The little wasted fingers Rest calmly in onr own, And baby's bright young spirit, Without a sigh or moan, Steers for its home on high, Followed by oar('good-bye." Bring hither spotless lilies, Roses and milk-white phlox f With loving fingers strew them Inside the rosewood box, For maidens, too, must die, "Good-bye, alas, good-bye." Thus, at each cross and torn, All though the ceaseless^rnsh Or restive, busy life, From morning's earliest blush To evening's latest sigh? Good-bye, good-bjtf good-bye. Mariner on life's ocean, Mourner beside the tomb, Traveler along earth's highway, These words thy path illume: Beyond these changeful skies There'll be no more good-byes. BILL ARP. Sill Arp on the Comet. The comet is a wonderful show and it takes a power of faith to believe what the astronomers say about it. My folks wanted to see it and so I got em all up in time yesterday morn ing and they wrapped up in shawls and blankets and I took little Jessie in my arms and we paraded out be yond tbe grove where there was a clear sight and perused it to our satis faction. The little chaps amused us with their questions, for they havent much idea of infinite distance and we grown folk* got bewildered in trying to take it all in. One hundred and twenty millions of miles away is a right good piece and when a body is traveling two millions of miles iu a day it must make a powerful buzz in the firmament and it is a wonder we don't hear it like we hear these coal burning locomotives, away off in the dead of night. That comet has got some big business on hand, and 1 would like to know what it is. I see that one learned man says they furn ish fuel to the sun, and this one was badly needed right now, for the fires were getting low and one can see the dark spots where the coal was burnt to cinder, and if more caloric didn't come 6oon from somewhere our people wouldn't have to go up to the arctic regions to freeze to death. It is a grand idea to think of some mighty Vulcan standing away up in the re gions of space chunking up the old sun's fires by throwing comets at him, but stili 1 would like to know where the old fireman gets his comets and where he keeps 'em hid .out from mortal eyes. I could ask as many questions, I reckon, as the children asked me, and know as little about it afterwards. Jessie wanted to know if a hundred million of miles was as far as across the ocean, and how many times further it was than from here to Atlanta. She wanted to know how much faster it travelled than the cars, and said its tail would make a mighty pretty broom for a giant to sweep the sky with. Carl undertook to en lighten her, and told her that Atlanta was just nowhere to the comet?that the comet was further off than the sky, or the moon, or a rainbow, or a thousand pine trees put on top of one and another, and it was going faster than that flying horse that papa told us about. The wise men say it went within four hundred thousand miles of the sun, and is now getting away from it at the rate of two millions of miles a day. That's business. That's furnishing fuel in a hurry and getting away for more with alacrity, but its a wonder to mejt didn't get its tail scorched. I wish that all you city folks could see the comet, for it's a show that don't come along more than j once or twice in a life-time, *and it never advertises its coming in the newspapers. City folks don't knuw exactly how to go about getting up at foar o'clock in the morning, and if j they did they would find somebody's | house or their shade trees in the way I and would have to walk a mile or so j to get a fair view of it. I suppose I they could get to see it better A top ! of the house, bot they won't do that j for a free show. If old Vulcan had hise curtains up and a door-keeper and was to charge five dollars a sight he would make money and more folks would turn out than now for nothing. The comet is a wonderful thing to think about ; oue mau says that this whole universe is going to pieces, for it all j depends on fire, and the fires are fa ding for want of fuel and the sun is I growing dim and world after world j will drop into it until they have all j dropped, and after that the sun will flicker out like a dying candle, and we would all be in the dark if we hadent been burnt up already before, and so it becomes us to be prepared for the worst, for this catastrophe will shorely happen about four hundred I quintillion years Ironi this date, and j no three days of grace or waiver ofj protest. Jesso! This shows that a j man should always be fortified for j comets. Keep matches on the man- j tie piece and your boots where you J can find 'em, for no man knoweth j when old Vulcan will wrap a comet's j tail around our earth and sling us iu- j to the sun for fuel. In the meantime, I suppose the country is safe for awhile politically, and the people can rest for a few weeks until the races for Congress come around. It looks now like the organized democracy of Georgia has settled things, and the dissatisfied office-seekers had just as weil hang up the fiddle and the bow and come i back to Gideon's band. I'm not going to crow over 'em, for I want 'em all to come back and let old Georgia be a unit for a reform in the government. Let this be a white man's government, and quit all this tomfoolery about negro equality. I don't care anything about republican principles or democratic principles, for one is about as good as the other now, and since Mr. Stephens has been elected governor of course the dan ger of a monarchy is all over; but what we do want is a change of rn lers. The republicans have had their swing long enough, aud they have stole enough to do 'em a life time, and 1 want our people to have a chance aj the public crib. After the democrats get in power it will take 'em twenty years to learn how to steal as much as the other side is stealing now, and it is high time they were begiuniug their education and going into training. Mr. Clark, the late collector, says it is good for a country to have two parties equally balanced. Well, I think so too, but it is not good foi one of the parties to stay in so long and steal so much that there won't be any balance left. The democrats ought to have it now for about fifteen years, for the first ten they would be pretty cautious through fear if not through principle and the next five they would enlarge the bor ders of their governments and make up for lost time and about the* the people ought to rise up and turn em out and. try a new set. Mr. Clark's idea is a good one if it was founded en facts and kept down rascality, but as it don't it's nothing but a romance and besides, the only two parties that we have bad in Georgia since the war or are likely to have are a nigger party and a white man's party and if it suits him to belong to the first he is welcome to his company and his friends. Jesso. Smooth as a Rose Leaf. A correspondent from Paris says there is a lady in this city of wonders an American, who is undoubtedly one of the loveliest creatures that ever were. She is called Mme. Gautherot, and her husband, a Frenchman, is a rich importer, who came up to Paris from Nantes to 8pe*nd his money and show off his wife. Some say she is from San Fraucisco, or Los Angelos, or Mayesville, or from somewhere along the Pacific coast. I have heard, too, that she hails from New York, from Baltimore, from Lima, from Pan ama?from any lumber of places that ought to be, and I dare say would be proud to own her. The preponder ance of evidence is in favor of'Frisco, and so I am going to write her down as a bright, occidental star which has come to us as a perfect specimen of the kind of women that thrive apace in the 'glorious climate of Californy.' I have see.) her several times, but the best chance I had to adnrre her was a few weeks back in the magnificent saloons of Mrs. Morton, the wife of the American Minister. A j'oung lady from Chicago was leaning on my arm, and we were slowly traversing the rooms, when we came upon Mme. Gautherot, who was standing talking with M. Clemenceau, the famous rad ical Deputy, whose wife is an Amer ican I knew from the way my com panion acted that she was deeply moved by. the lovely apparition, whom she had now seen for the first time, and she whisperingly asked if I knew who the lady was. 'Oh, yes,' I replied, 'that is Mme. Gautherot. She is said to be the most beautiful woman in Paris.' ' Well, they might say in the world. Of all the beauties I have ever seen, she is, in face, form, hair and complex ion the most beautiful.' I should guess Mme. Gautherot to be about twenty-six or twenty-seven years of age. Her head is strictly classical, and she wears her fair wavy tresses in Grecian bandeaux. Her form is faultless. She is the Yenus de Medici transmuted into flesh and blood and covered by the best man or woman dressmaker of the capital. We stood and looked at this, the love liest person that ever came out of the hands of a Paris coaturiere, and it seems to me my companion would never be done feasting upon her splen did beauty. She was dressed that night?the details were told me by Miss Chicago aud I wrote them down ?in corn-colored silk, part of which was covered with a net-work of yel low beads an i small white bugles. She also wore a necklace of diamonds, a brooch and bracelets, with Greek bandalettes in her hair, which is of perfect gold color. Her Vess fitted her form like gloves shou i fit one's hands, aud her skirts clung about her limbs in the most classical fashion. She wore diamond buckles on her slippers. Her pale blue and yellow silk stockings were just discernible. A murmur of admiration greeted heP wherever she went. The crowd opened to let this beauty pass, and | she strolled around the most uncon cerned person in the room. Her eyes { are large and limpid, and as I looked | into them I could not discover the slightest sentiment of coquetry. The texture of her ears, her neck and her shoulders are precisely that kind which the,great Lefevre and the equally great Bougureau paint so magnificently. There is a pink shade which comes through the transparent white skin, and the flesh is as smooth as a rose leaf. A London burglar carried a razor in his pocket whenever he went out at night to conjmit a robbery, not to de fend himself with, but for suicide in case he was caught. His pals knew of this habit, but did not believe that he would ever use the razor. They were mistaken. Being captured after break ing into a house, he promptly killed himself accoi- ing to promise. Russell Sage has ?4,000.000 per an num income, Jay Gould ?5,000,000, and Vanderbilt 10,000,000. Yet none of these men can know the joy which lights up the impecunious countenance when its happy possessor suddenly digs out of the corner of an old vest a long forgotton quarter. Our Northern Boundary. Not one in. a thousand, perhaps, of the 50,000,000 of the people living in the United States knows how their country is bounded, on the line between the United States and British Territo ry. It will be interesting, therefore, to know how the northern boundary has been traced and marked. The work is now completed, except as to the Territory of Alaska, ceded by Russia to os under the treaty of 1867. Ever since the Treaty of Ghent we have been establishing oar northern boundary with Britain until a year or two ago, when the work was finally completed by a joint commission, coo sis ting of Major Donald R. Cameron, royal artillery; Captain S. Anderson, royal engineers and Captain A. C. Ward, royal engineers, for Great Brit ian; and Archibald Campbell and Capt. W. J. Twining, United States army, for our Government. The com mission experienced difficulty in dis charging their duties from the errors committed by former commissioners. In April, 1870, while engaged in locating a military reservation for a post near Pembina, our. engineers discover ed that the commonly received bounda ry line between the British possessions and the United States at that place was 4,700 feet south of the forty-ninth par allel, and if run on west from such an initial point would throw the fort of the Hudson Bay Company at Pembina into tbe United States Here was indeed a difficulty, and the officers at once com municated tag fact to their government. The President, Gen. Grant, sent the in formation to tbe British government, and Great Britian requested the eon sent of tbe United States to occupy the fort of the Hudson Bay Company until the matter could be determined. Of course, euch a reasonable request was at once granted. The President then sent a message to Congress recommending the establishment of a joint commission to fix the true boundary line between tbe two countries, and Congress assent ed, appropriating ?100,000 by joint resolution to carry out the work. The appropriation was not avilable until 1872, when the work was begun, as above stated, by a joint commission of the two governments. The northern boundary is marked by stone cairns, iron pillars, wood pillars, earth mounds and timber posts. A stone cairn is seven and one-balf feet by eight feet, an earth mound seven feet by fourteen feet, an iron pillar eight feet high, eight inches square at the bottom and four inches at the top, timber post five feet high and eight inch es square. There are 382 of these marks between the Lake of the Woods and the base of the Rocky Mountains. That portion of the boundary which lies east and west of the Red River valley is marked by cast-iron pillars at even mile intervals. The British placed one every two miles and the United States one between evety two British posts. Our pillars, or markers, were made at Detroit, Michigan. They are hollow iron castings, three-eighths of an inch in thickness, in the form of a truncated pyramid, eight feet high, eight inches square at the bottom and four inches at the top, as before stated. They have at the top a solid pyra midal cap, and at the bottom an octag onal flange one inch in thickness. Upon opposite faces are cast, in letters two inches high, the inscriptions 'Con ventions of London,' and 'October 20, 1818,' The inscriptions begin about four feet six inches above the base, and read upward. The interiors of the hol low posts are filled with well seasoned cciar posts, sawed to fit and securely spiked through spike-holes cast in the pillars for the puAose. The average weight of each pillar when completed is eighty-five pounds The pillars are all set fourteen feet in the ground, with their inscription faces to the north and south, and the earth is well settled and stamped about them. For the wooden posts well seasoned logs are selected and the portions above tbe ground painted red, to prevent swelling and shrinking. These posts do very well, but tbe Indians cut them down for fuel, and nothing but iron will last very long. Where the line crosses lakes, monuments of stones have been built, the bases being in some places eighteen feet under water, and the tops project ing eight feet above the lake's surface at high-water mark. In forests the Hoe is marked by felling the timber a rod wide, and clearing away the under brush. The work of cutting through the timbered swamps was very great, but it has been well done, and the boundary distinctly marked by the commissions tbe whole distance from , Michigan to Alaska. Talmage on Temperance. Extract from last Sunday's sermon in the Brooklyn tabernacle: 'I notify the politicians of America that this is coming. Better for them to lead off than follow afterward with the stragglers. Victory will come as sure as t?ere is a God in heaven. I nominate for President and Vice President in 1884, and I care not which is first or second name on the ticket, although one is a Republican and the other a Democrat, the one a Western man and the other a South ern man, both sterling prohibitionists ?Gov. St. John, of Kansas, . and Gov. Colquitt, of Georgia. Oh, my Lord and my God, what a country this would be if there was not a dram shop in it, with no woman in it who has been taken from the home of lux ury to the home of the drunkard, ant! left with shrivelled arm, and hollow eye, and pallid cheek, and consumii<& lung, to fight back the wolf that thrusts its nostrils through the win dow pane, snuffing for the blood of her helpless babe!' From the frequent mention of linen in the history of Scotland, it is evident that tbe inhabitants were acquainted with the process of making cloth from flax six hundred years ago at least. It is related, that at the battle of Bannock burn (fought in the year 1314), 'the carters, waicmen, lackeys and women put on shirts, smocks and other white linens, aloft upon their usual gar meets and bound towels, and napkins on their spears, staves, etc' Trapping Wolves. In Siberia wolves are caught in various ways, sometimes by poisoned bait and again by traps. One of the commotsest kinds of traps in use is a large circular pen surrounded by a high wooden fence. Outside of. this fence is another similar one, perhaps two or three feet distant from the first and running entirely around it. In the centre of the pen is placed a live deer or pig. In the outer fence is a small opening, the door of which swingirjg inward is left conveniently and seductively open. The wolf scents the live bait in the centre of the pen and after vaiuly endeavoring to leap over the protecting barrier and get at" it, finds the door standing open and at once enters in. The passage between the inner and outer fence is wide enough to enable him to move ahead comfortably, but is too narrow to admit of his turning about. Once in he must keep going strait ahead, and very naturally thinking that in this direction lies his prey be presses on, licking his chops in antici pation of a rich feast. Having com pleted the circle of the pen, he arrives at his starting point and finds his fur ther progress completely barred by the door which still stands open as when he entered. Pushing against this, he shuts it close in order to get by, and has effectually made himself a prisoner. Then the crafty huntsman, who has all the time been concealed within, shoots or spears the animal from the top of the fence, draws his carcass within, so as to save it and opens the outer door again to welcome the next visitor. I When wolves are plenty two men or more in one of these pens have a very busy time for a number of days and are scarcely able to slaughter or skin the animals a.- they would like which rush in unconsciously to their death. It not unfrequently happens that the men are kept in these pens for a num ber of days at a time, being unable to get out on account of wolves, which surround them andLwould tear them to j pieces the moment^hey made their ap- ' pearance. The only thing for the men j to do under such circumstances is to consider* themselves in a stage of siege and to keep on trapping and slaughter- j iag until the animals, starved out and j disappointed, abandon their position j and skurry off to another part of the country. J In localities where the wolves are most numerous wolf-hunting is regard ed as a regal and is also a frequent sport. It is sometimes eDgagcd in by large parties of hunters, and again by one or two individuals alone. Like j most bunting for sport iu all countries, it is principally practiced by the wealth- j ier men who have both the time and the means and the daring to pur sue it. The latter is a very essential j qualification, for the man who en gages in it literally takes his life in his hand. It is anything but boy's play to enter upon it, and a great deal I j of nerve and coolness, as well as skill,! ! is required of the man who expects to come off unscratched. The slightest [ wavering or the slightest misjudgment may at any moment throw the hunter into the midst of the hunted, where no power on earth can avail him for a sin gle instant. The slightest, accident means not I only death in less than a second, but I also means utter annihilation for the ! man upon whom a pack of hungry, in furiated wolves leap; for almost before be knows what has happened, he is torn limb from limb?devoured, hat, j coat, boots and all, so that not a shred is left of him for his sorrowiug friends to hold a funeral service over. It is, perhaps, this horrible fate that is always staring the wolf-hunter in the face that adds, to the fascination of the sport, so that there are few who have the opportunity afforded that can resist the.temytatioa $r forego the exciting sport. nil ? fl - A Bad Old Gun. The Rome, Ga , Courier gives an extended account of a rather remarka ble gun owned by the Crouch family, near this city. The Crouch family are highly respectable people, but this old gun has played the wild in the family household. The gun was made by one of the family before the war, and last Sunday in an altercation Frank I Crouch shot his brother in-law with ! it, perhaps mortally wouuding him. Some years ago G. M. Crouch, the father, shot and killed one of his own sons through mistake. If appears that an owl got after the chickens on their roost, and then both Mr. Crouch and his son got up to kill or scare off the owl, neither knowing that the other was up, and it seems that the son made some noise near the roost, and his father thinking it the owl, shot and killed him. Also, a lew years ago one of the same family was out turkey hunting with this old gun, and likewise through mistake shot and killed his brother. They both evidently were calling turkeys, and unfortunately called each other up instead, and one of them saw the other indistinctly through the bushes and killed him, thinking he was the turkey. Therefore, this gun, made by one of the family, has been the instrument in the hand of the father and bis sons in killing two members of the family and perhaps mortally wounding a third. A Son Worthy of His Father. A number of prominent citizens of Atlanta signed a petition to Governor Colquitt asking him to appoint B. IT. Mill, Jr., to the seat in the United States Senate lately held by Iiis father. T\ifi matter was urged with such earn estness that it became a subject of dis cussion in the newspapers. At this point Mr. Hill felt called upou to an nounce his positiou. He wrote a letter to Governor Colquitt, which for manli ness and honest patriotism this country has never seen surpassed. He posi tively refuses the office. He has too much of the old Ben Hill in him to al j low his head to he turned by such po I litical manoeuvering. Georgia may j justly be proud of the son that carries I the name of B. H. Hill. An Exciting Scene in Mid Ocean. A correspondent who was a passen ger by the steamship Dacca, which left Madras for London, sends from* Aden an interesting account of an exciting scene which he witnessed dnring 8? storm in the Indian ocean. The ves sel encouutcred tbe monsoon a few days after leaving Colombo, and had a rough time of it for several days. Fi nally the gale became so violent that canvas had to be taken in, awnings furled and things made as snug as pos sible. The correspondent describes what followed: *I came on deck at 6 a. ai.; it was , blowing fiercely, and the spray coming over the sheets. There were three of us on deck when the bell struck?a Miss a Mr. and myself. We were hold ing on to our chairs, which were firmly lashed to the inner cabin skylights, under the lee of the ladies saloon. Part of the crew were working hard to get the starboard life-boat in board, when a bigger roll to the windward warned us of what was coming. 'Hold on !' some one shontcd. We held on. The chairs rur-hed forward on their lashings. The deck stood upright. In came the sea over the gunwale, over the taffrail, up to our waists, lifted tbe lifeboat o?'t of its shackles, carried it overboard, smashing away stanchions and davits, and out to sea. Then came the horrid cry of 'Man Over board V The helm was put down, the engine reversed, and back we went on a search?all the more so as sharks had been seen round tbe ship earlier in the morning. The boat was presently seen some 200 yards off, keel uppermost. Soon after the two men were observed clinging on to it. Then came an excit ing two hours, during which we steam ed after the boat, which was drifting rapidly toward tbe east. But turning a ship like the Dacca is a very slow busi ness, and as she hung in the wind's eye a jib was hoisted to briog her round. By tbe time this was done the boat, with its pitiful-looking crew, was away two miles and more to leeward, and we were rolling heavily and unmanageable. At last the captain decided to lower a boat, and the order was given 'Stand by the boat,' and soon after 'lower.' 'Who is going in ber ?' he shouted. 'The first officer, Mr. Ingram, sprang over the side, caught hoid<of the davit ropes and slipped down, but just as he got near her a great roll of the ship lifted him clear of the boat twenty feet in the air. As he came down again tbe boat had drifted for ward, and he was plunged down in the boiling sea for five or six seconds. Up he came again as the ship heeled over, still hanging on, and missed by an ace having his skull mashed against the small boat's "side. It was really a ter rible sight, and we shuddered as we looked on, the boat all the while being lashed up and down by the violence of the waves. But at last his opportunity came, and he dropped into the stern. At ooco he was followed by the boat swain, two firemen and two European sailors, the native crew hanging shame fully back. One of tbe passengers, a young English officer, Lieutenant Wolff, of the Seventh Fusiliers, a son of Sir Drummond Wolff, volunteered at once. But the officer in charge would not accept a passenger's service while men of the crew could be got. At last the boat shoved off and the oars were got out, and in a terrible sea tbe.y set out for the missing boat. Directed by the motions of a man aloft they got alongside her, and took the men aboard. Then began a hard row back. We lost sight of her again and again wondering bow she could live in such a sea. But still she held on and got at last under our lee. By the help of a case of oil scattered over the waves they were comparatively stilled, a ladder was let down and when the last man step ped on board such a cheer greeted him as told him what we thought of his pluck and that of the gallant fellows with him. Captain Burkitt was per fectly cool the whole time, and man aged his ship with great skill. When the first officer got a change of clothes and came down to tbe cabin, be receiv ed all kind of congratulations, and his health was drunk in bumpers of cham pagne. On Saturday morning we got under the lee of Cape Guardafui, and so ended our brush with the southwest monsoon. ? < ^ A Good Cow. The ooly way to raise a good cow is to choose a good calf, feed it well and judiciously, and feed it faithfully, and do not get weary in well doing. It is held by some that a calf fed upon such food as stimulate milk secretion will be greatly influenced iu the formation of milk glands. Certain it is that milk ing traits are hereditary, and this can only be secured by breeding under tbe farmer's own supervision?selecting the fittest, and feeding to attain the end sought. By raising his own cows the farmer has two chances as against one where he buys his cows. If he fails in selecting a good cow it usually happens that it takes her body and the milk credit she has made to equal the pur chase money, not counting the summer's labor in .nilkiog her or the keep. If tbe heifer fcrls tbe farmer turns ber into beef; tbe funds received are added to capital stock, the actual conversion of so much grass, corn and hay into money ?Ohio Farmer. ? > ? Harrowing Wet Ground. Avoid harrowing the ground when wet. It is also of little benefit to work it when dried hard. The best time is between the two, wheu the gro'uud will work up easily and become mellow. Some soils require two harrowings at a time to get the desired effect. Use the j harrow pretty freely rather than spar- | ! ingly. It the land is to be stocked j [ down sow the seed before the last har i rowing. We must have a favorable I look so far as the dry seasons are coo f ccrocd. With the wet it is more diffi | cult. Fortunately we are not much j j troubled with an excess of wet, our sea ' sons in this respect being more favora ble. It is with dry weather that we have most to do, and this not to prevent the loss of nitrogen but of water; and the mulch of fine soil must be the means to accomplish this. News and Gossip. The Central Railroad is doing an im* mensc business. Cotton is going into Charleston ai the rate of 6,000 bales per day. To October 7 there have been re^ ceived in Charleston 79,288 bales of cotton. Observation respecting a style: The fashion of short sleeves never made pretty arms, but it is more than proba ble that pretty arms made short sleeves. A Chicago minister makes a note of the fact that he has never seen a lady reading a newspaper in a street car; What does he suppose a lady rides iu a street car for ? She can read more 'fashion notes' by careful inspection of other women in the car than any marl can find in the most ultra magazine. Whose statue is that?' asked a well known meaber of the New York judi ciary of his companion as they were ri ding through the park one Sunday last Summer. 'Why, that's Humboldt/ replied the other. 'What in thunder did tbey want to give Helmbold a statue for?' said the Judge; 'he never did nothing but invent buchu.' Edison tried to light two thousand houses at one time but failed. Thus far it is only possible to light fifty, houses at a time. There is no doubt of the perfect success of the electric light, but the last discovery has not been made concerning it. Ten years hence; we may not doubt, either the incandes cent or a better light still will be id general use. A Peking newspaper tells of the sale of a Chinese wife by her husband She had fallen in love with the purchaser, who agreed to pay ?130 for her, bot he neglected to bring the money when he ealled to take her away, and so the husband refused to give her up. In that emergency the enamored pair drug ged him, forged his signature to the bill of sale, and eloped. They were arrested while eating their wedding breakfast, and put into dungeons, where both committed suicide. Dr. Bliss undoubtedly injured him self seriously by attending upont Presi dent Garfield. He says 'For three months following Garfield's death I was* afflicted with secondary abscesses, caus ed by septic poisoning. I "hud nine id rapid succession. I am gradually re gaining my strength, but I will never, be the man that I was. Woodward and Barnes are even worse affected than I. Woodward will never be a well man' again as long as be lives.' Perhaps- it would be best, after all, to pay the. Doctor his bill. If really afflicted, as he states, the money consideration will not make amends for his loss of health and practice ?Chronicle and Constitu tionalist, "f.. A few days ago two negroes crossing Santee lliver in a canoe witnessed quice~_ a commotion quite different from, any thing they had ever previously seen. The splashes would, for a time; subside and the combatants disap pear beneath the surface, and anon, re appear, locked in apparently deadly conflict. Upon paddling up they found, to their amazement, that the trouble was between a ten-foot alligator and a monster buck. Anticipaiing "a feast of fat things." they laid hold on the off antler?the 'gater with fierce, determin ed, dangerous look and sweeping tail, having seized the other. For a while* it was "pull Dick pull Devil," but, con cluding that prudence is the better part of valor, they pushed for the shore, where at a safe distance, they constitu ted themselves spectators of the fight; They thus report: The buck succeed ed in landing his terrible opponent on' the river bank, where they had it "rough and\ tumble" for a time, but he, in turn,, was drawn back into the deep by his" determined foe, where it was an up and down fight for a while. Again the_ horned champion forced hisplate-arro oreif opponent into shallow water^ where, by a lucky blow from his sabre-bayoneted feet, he completely disembowied his enemy, raised his flag of victory, and dashed off into the woods?so did the negroes. The mutilated body of the crocodile has been seen by gentlemen of respecta bility and truth.?Corr. Berkeley Ga zette. A Reproductive Comet The present comet in the Eastern sky, which can be distinctly seen by everyone at early morning is certainly the most remarkable one of all the modern comets. Prof. Lewis Swift, director **of the Warner Observatory, Rochester, N. Y., states that the comet grazed the sun so closely as to cause great disturbance, so much so that ?t" has divided into no less than eight sepa rate parts, all of which can be distinct ly seen by a good telescope. There* is only one other instance on record" where a comet has divided, that one' being Biella's comet of 1846, whit-lr separated into ctto parts. Applications have been made on Mr. H. H. Warner by parties who have noted these come tary offshoots, claiming the ?200 prize" for each one of them. Whether the' great comet will ^continue to produce' a brood of smaller comets remains to be seen. Scuppernong Molasses. We have had sent us by Mrs. Ira' McDaniel a sample of molasses made' from the grape juice that is simply de lightful. It costs less than half the* price of ordinary molasses aud the chil dren love it. Truly, our people are' I getting independent, and they are j obliged to when they raise what they eat at home.?Bennettsvixk Farmer 's Friend. - ?m , , ?, When I was your age,' remarked a' Wall street father to his son, 'I had to' get along on five dollars a week, while you throw away fifty and demand still more ; can it be that there is such a dif ference in the tunes V I 'Dou't think it, governor?don't?hint I it,' was the cool rejoinder 41 think t ie difference is in our personal style. I can't slump along the way you did? can't possibly do it and hold my bead up in society, and you ought to see the difference between the g-rl yoa married and the one who is mashed on me. Come down, governor?don't be aaeaa with me V