The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, October 24, 1882, Image 1
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THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established Jane? 1866*.
firnisolidated Aug. 2, 1881.1
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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
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Card?, spd
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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