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IHK SUMT?K WATCHMAN, Established April, IS50. Consolidated' Au?. 2, 1881.1 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 June, 1866. SUMTER, S. C., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1882. New Series-Yoi. IT. No. 17. r-^Pul?llslL?d. every Tuesday, -BY THB Watchman and Southron PuU?sJunj Company, SUMTER, S. C. TERMS : Two- Dollars per annum-in advance. ADVERTISEMENTS. On? Square, first insertion..'.-Si CO Every subsequent insertion. ?o Contracts for three raont-hs. or longer will be made at reduced rates. All corarauui^ations 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. Watchman and Southron, or apply at the. Office, to X. G. OSTEKX, Business Manager. TW*^<**,**T***:*' I Hill I I" AUGUSTA R. R. CONDliNSlil* SCHEDLJLE TRAIN'S GOING SOUTH. I>.VTKD j No. 4.S, i No. -it) -/Tr" Xe*. 5. 1SS2 I>a'?lv. j Daily. Leave Wilmington.j 9 50 p m j ! i 10 \< ru Leave Flemington . ll IO ?12 19 " Leave.Marion.' I 05 am! 2 04 a tn Ar*ve Florence.,- j I 50." j 2 45 " Ar're Sumter...j 4 37 ** j . Ar*ve Columbia. ? 6 40 ?4 ?. TRAINS 60?N6 NORTH. ! No. 43. j No 47 1 Dailv. Dai! v. Leave Columbi:i.?10 00 p ra Ar*v? Sumter. . j 12 ('5 Leave Florence.. 1255-pmj I 50 am LeaVe Marion.| 1 46 - 240 ? Ar've Flemington.j 3 54 *' j 4 56 11 Af've Wilmington....j 5 25 .' j ('?20 .. TnnnrNo. 43 stops at all Station?; \No*. 4S and 47 props ??nh at T>rink"?y's, Waitevilie, Fleimugtvny Fair I???J.T. .Mario?. Florence, TtiumonsviUe, Suiater, Camden June lion an?! fiastover. Passengers for Columbia and all points on C. & ?Gv.Jt.lt., C.C.?. A. R R. Stations. Aiken Junction, and ali points Kfty'&tid, should take No. 4S Night Exp rv.ss. Separate Pullman Sleepers for Charleston and for Augusta on tra?na 4$ ?nd 47 Passengers on 40 can lake ?S train fr.>m Florence for Columbia. Augusta ?nd Georgia, po?nts'via Columbia. All trains run soli? between Chaiicston and Wilmington. JOHN F. DIVINE. General Swp't. i. M. EMERSON. Gen. Passenger Ay r. Tfl-EASTERN R. R. CO. ?EBINTENDEI7 P'S OFFICE, NORTHEASTERN RAILROAD CO. nuH:?^^QJSr-Sr~C., Nov. ?, 18S2. On and after this date the following Sche? dule will be run, Sundays included : Leave Charleston. Arrive Florence. 8 00 A. >I _~.12 25 p. M. ll 40 .1. M. . 4 20 P M. 8 30 p. M. 1 20 A. M. Leave-Florence. Arrive Charleston. 2 45 A. M.....G 50 A. M. 2 00 A. M.C 35 A M. 31 30 A. M.4 00 P. it. Train leaving Florence at 2 45 A. M. will Stop only at Kingstree and Moncks Corner. Train leaving Charleston at ll 40 a m. "will stop only at Moncks Corner, Lanes and Kingtree. JDSNT2AL RAILROAD SQH3DUL3. SUNDAYS EXCEPTED. Leave Charleston.Il 40 a hi " Lane?. 2 20 p in Arrive at Sumter. 4 00 p m Leave Sumter.:.Il 30 a ni " Lane's..... 1 25 p tn Arrive at Charleston. 4 00 p m P. L. CLEA POR. J. F. DIVINE, Gen:I Ticket Agt. Gen"i Supt. LAND FOR S?LE. ADESIRABLE SEA-SHORE PLACE in Berkery County. 18 miles from Mount Pleasant, containing SOO acres, part in culti? vation. Situation healthy and laud produc? tive. Fish and game plentiful Also mv place in the edge of Sumter, con? taining 3o with 6-roo:n dwelling, and kitchen and pantry. Also a small farm in the countrv. X. C. OST REX, Ang 8 Sun:ter, S. C. Mea* Celt! Mi Co. COTTON BATTING PREPARED LY ROLLS FOR COMFORTS, QUILTS AND MATTRESSES. SOLD AT THE FACTORY AND BY merchauts in Sumter at 10 cents per pound. Liberal discount to thc tradf allowed. D. JAMES WINN, Sept 10-ly President. RUBBER STAMPS NAME STAMPS FOR MASKING CLOTHING with indeilible ink, or for printing visiting card?, and STA 31 PS OY AX Y K?XD for .?tamping BUSINESS CARI'S. ENVEL OPES or anything rise. Specimensvarious styles on hand, which will U&$nWn with pleas? ure. The LOWEST PRICES possible, and orders filled promptly. Call on C. P. OSTEEX. At the Watchman and Southron '>CieC. 600D NEWS AT LAST ! Walker's Specific Has Never Failed TO CCKB *^eO^?U4IPTIOX, BRONCHITIS, TONSILI? TIS, LARYNGITIS, and SCROFULA Price S2.50, $5.00 anH $10.00, by mail. One bottle of his Rheumatic Remedy cures that disease in any form, in 10 days. Trice by Express, $5 ?>er Bottle. DR. J. W. WALKER, July 25?_Franki i h ton. X. C. M. L. KIN A RD; O LOTHIEE, COLUMBIA, S. C. Our Patrons: The Pc??tlf. Our Study: Their Interests. Our Maxim: Fair DcIinf/. Our Reward: Success. THE LARGEST STOCK .-OF FALL AND WANTER OHiOTHUNTG IN THIS SECTION* KEW GOODS. CORRECT STYLES. MEN'S SUITS, YOUTH'S SUITS, BOY'S SUITS, Gents1 Furnishing Goods, Sept 12 'MASTER'S SALE. State of South Carolina, COUNTY OF SUM TEH: Ix THE COURT OF Coavox PLEAS. Thomas R. Folsom, Plaintiff, against Miriam D. Folsom, and others. Ve fendants-Action for Partition. TX PURSUANCE of an order in this action X hilted October Utb? I will offer for sale at public auction..before the Court IL>;;se of said County, on Sale>day in Decemhfrnext, (Monday. December 4ih. * 18S2) between the hours of ll o'clock ia the forenoon and 5 o'clock in thc afternoon, the following par? cels of real estate, formerly belonging to Benjamin Folsom, deceased : First.-The .house and lot in the town of Sumter, formerly occupied by Benjamin Fol? som as a residence-said lot containing five acres, more or les?, and hounded North by the Public Read from Sumter to Stateborg, East bv land ot Mrs. Earle, West by land of Willis* and South bv land of Smith and Mrs. Earle. Second.-Th?t lot of land situate on Cana] Street, in the Town of Sumter, opposite the Jail, bounded North by said Canal Street. East aud South by lot or' E. W. Moise, and West by lot of M rs. ?J. D. Folsom. Third.-All that piece, parcel or tract of laud situate in Sumter County in said State, on Lhe "New,"' or "Moses Road." containing seven acres, more or iess, bounded West by lands of Dr. J. J. Bossard; North by Prince Dickerson's land, and South-east . by suid Road. Terms of Sale-Cash. Purchaser to pay for papers. GUIGNARD RICHARDSON, Nov 4-4t Master. ~M???T?R58 ?ALS, " ; The State of South Carolina, SUMTER COUNTY. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS John McLuacJdin and others, Plain? tiffs, against Frances Leonora $c<dc and others. D?fendants-Complaini for Relief. BY .VIRTUE of ? Decretal Order made in lhe above stated-cause. I will offer for sale at public auction, on 'ak-duy in Decem? ber next. (Monday, the 4th. ) 1S82, before thc Court House, of said County, between the legal hours of sale, the following described premise*: All that piece, parcel or tract of Land, situ? ate and being in Sumter County, in the State of South Carolin?, known as the Me.Laachlin ?and, and referred to in the Comptait;l herein a??Tract No. 1. containing Three Hundred and Seventy-eight aeres, bounded by lands of Lenoir, Middleton, Elliot and others. Terms of Sale-Cash. The purchaser to pav for papers. G U.I G NA RD RICI! A R DSON, Nov 4-41 Master. Masters Salo. THE STATE OE SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF SUMTER. IN THE COURT OE COMMON PLE*S. : Alfred J. China, Trustee, Plaintiff, against John JJ. China, Lillian China and Marg Touch' err ?j, De \ fondants-Decree, for Sale. Under and by virtue of a decretal order ! made in the above stated cause, by his Honor i Judire T. B. Fraser. I will sell "at Sumter Court House, ou MONDAY. December 4, ISSI, between lhe hours ci* 11 o'clock in the fore? noon aud ? in the afternoon, to lhe highest bidder-, but fi>r a sum not less than Two Thousand. Three Hundred and Twenty Dol ! lars, AH :h*t Plantation or tract of Ia.-:d, situate ; and being in Sumter County, in the State . aforesaid. Con tai fig four hundred a:;d thirty four acre?, m:.:e rr less, adjoining lands now or formerly ot Henry A Rogers, William : Wise. Estate ofiElijah Hodge. Estate of Sabtu el J. Bradford, J. E. Jervey, Elsey Broad LrWav, E. A. Broadway aud others, \ \ in g on Privateer Branch, waters of Black River, and known as the Home Place of thc late Mumford J. Tisdale. TERMS : One half Cash-the. balance on a credit of one aud two ye.<rs : the time portion to be : secured by the iiond cf the purchaser, and a j mortgage of the promises fold ; toe Bond to ; draw interest from the day of sal-.-. Piirchas . er to pav for papers. GUIGNARD RICHARDSON, * N.)v. 6. ISS'i. Master. Master's Sale. ! r ! State of South Car?oina. COUNTY OF SUMTER. j IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS;". ; Fan,ia. If. [[arly. Assignee, Plaintiff, j against Octavia [J. My*es. Reoecva If. Moise, and Ot hr ra. D?fendants Foreclosure of Mortgage. ?N PURSUANCE of an ord- of said Court made in tiiis cause and dared October : I Ith, 1S32. I will offer fer s-.!e at public auc ' tion. on Saleday in December next (Monday ! December 4tb. ?832) before the Court House : of said County, between the hour? of bj \ o'clock in the forenoon and ."> o'clock in the afternoon, the fallowing premises: '.All that puree! or tract of land, situate in ! Sumter County, in sud State, contain? ing <7ne hundred and forty atid one-third ( 140.j/ acres, more or less, and having such shape and form, marks.?am] bounds ?is the ? plat -if James I>. Mell wain. Deputy Surveyor, . annexe*] to a deed of coaveyuucc from G. W. '? Bradford to Andrew J. Moses, Lear;, g even ; date with the mortgage above referred to'' i the same being the trur? of land lying about one mile West of tiie Town of Sumter, known ; us the ''Bradford Mill Tract.'! : Terms of Sale-Cash-Purchaser to pay for ! papers. GUI G N ARD RI C UABDSON, ; Nov 14 Master, i FUE mmmm FOR SALE. ONE OF THE MUST VALUABLE A .ND desirable plantations in Clarendon : County, k;:own as '"SPRING HILL," prop : etty of the Estate of William C. Dukes, situa? ted within one-half (V) mile of the flourishing '? and healthy village of Summerton, contain : tug. in nearly equal parts of open and timber land, nine hundred and ninety-two acres, ?and well adapted for the growth of cotton ; and provisions. ; ? Comfortable Frania Duelling -A.VD ALL NECESSARY OUT-BUILDINGS, I in good repair, on the laud: Terms '-as v. Appiv to . J *. MKS M. CARSON. Executor, Providence. S. Ci, Orlo IIAXNSWORTUS ? COOPER, Sumter. S. C. Nov 14 4t PBOMX IRON WORKS, COLI' 31 ii I A, S. C. P. KIND. 0, DIERCKS, Sttj'vr?ttten'IfiJit. Proprietor. M A s c FA cf t;?: BR o y Steam Engines, WATER AND li URS!-] POW Kits, SAW AND ?;RTST M ? ELS. Columns for Store Fronts, Railings for Balconies. All kinds Of Castings done ai sha,:' no? tice anti loir prices. Work done in good, workmanlike manner. Repairim. of all kinds Machinery and Engines GEORGE DIERCKS, Aug 15 Columbia, S. C. SONG OF THE SCHOOL GIRL. With heavy and aching head, With weary and sleepless brain, A school girl sat in her room at night, And thus gave voice to pain : It's ?tudy by day and by night, And it's study by night and by day. Tilla blur conies over my sight And my brain seems oozing away. The studies are piled so high That the weight is breaking me down; I wish I had wings and could fly Away from iiie school ami tb"- town. Tl's study and study at school, And it's study and study up here, And I shudder beneath thc rule That awaits the failure I fear. All day and all night is my head With figures and facts oppressed ; And at last when I crawl into bed They haunt me and rob rae of rest. It's oh fora romp and a ruu, A game with a hoop or a ball ! And it's oh to be out in the sun, Away from percentage and all 1 - Perhaps I may marry some day, If T ever get through with my life, And what will "toy husband say To a nervous and fidgety wife ? It's study by day and by night, And it's study by night atid by day ; Oh, surely it can never he right To study and never to play. . [Neic York Sun. t-ic-j??tCTj^?-Picei?a-n Underneath th.e Ocean. Prof. Vernll Tells of Wonderful Dis -cui: tries Made there. j AX EMINENCE LIKE MOUNT WASHINGTON SUBMERGED OFF THIS COAST AND COV? ERED WITH QUElwl FISH, ODD l'LANTS, AND OTHEit THINGS. Eight subjects were discussed in j the National Academy of Science ?'yesterday in a Columbia College reci? tation room: Cf. F. Becker of tho United States Coast Survey spoke on the cause of the intens? lieut in the Comstock lode. The temperature is not abnormal until a depth of 100 foci, is reached. At 500 feet it is much higher than in most ot her mines, and at 1,000 feet the thermometer stands at 100? Fahrenheit, so that if a miner stops in a puddle of water iL is as though lie scalded his foot in a pail of boiling water, atid if a drop of water falls on his flannel shirt it raises a blister. The latest of tunny theories ad? vanced to account for this intense heat is that it is caused by chemical action in the kaoiization of feldspar. Mr. Decker said that he had experi? mented with the rocks by pulverizing a small mass and heating it with steam in a boiler for six weeks in succession, j but he found no change. Fnrtiier I m (.?re, he could (ind in the Comstock j lode no feldspar, and only a very small ! quantity of kaolin, so 1 e >vas compel? led to doubt tiie truth on the new theory. The tocks aie decomposed in tiie lower levels of the lode rather than on thc surface, and so probably it was the result of volcanic action Observations had been carried to 2, 300 feet below the surface, and indi? cations are that the source of heat is over two miles, probably four miles, below the lowest level, and is lo be compared iu nature with the iieat tit the centre of an earthquake. Piof. A. E Terrill of Yale College described the physical and geological I eiu-.racter of the sea bottom off our j coast, especially that which lies be j n: ath the Gulf Stream. Ile has made 1,500 obseivalions this summer for thc United Slates Fish Commissioners: Lie has cruised from Labrador to Chesapeake Bay, and about 200 miles out to sea. About 00 miles outside of Nantucket is a streak of very cold water, and animals dredged up arc like those caught in the waters of Greenland, Spitzbergen, or Siberia. The water is 50 fathoms deep, and the bed of the ocean is of clay. Boulders j weighing SOO or 1,000 pounds are j dredged up. Prof Vcniil believes j that they are brought down hy ice I berg's from the arctic regions and j dropped when the ice melts. The I boulders are found as far south as j Long island. Further out to sea, 70 j to 120 miles south from the southeast J en: coast of New England; the bof ti>m of the sea, winch has inclined very gradually eastward, Conning a table hand, takes a sudden dip down? ward, so that whereas the water ott lite edge of the bluff is 100 fathoms deep, at the bottom of the basin it is 1,000 fathoms deep. The slope is as high and as steep as .Mount Washing? ton, and on i tc summit, which is !-jv<4, a diver, could he go to so low a depth could not put out his hand without touching a living creature. The bot? tom of tiie sea is covered just there with a fauna iviiich has neve/ been be? fore found outside of the Med?terra noan Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, the In? dies., or other tropical regions. The number of species ol' fish dredged up is SOO, and over ?salt* of them have never before been see:; by naturalists. Seventy kinds offish, ninety of crus? tacea, and 270 mollusks have been : added to our fauna. The aere of many j of the specimens shows that they mus! ! be permanent in that region. The i trowel let down from the ships by ti j mile of rope brings up a ton of living j and dead crabs, shrimp, star fish, ami j as thc ttowel si mp! j scrapes overt small surface, the ocean beti is plain ly carpeted with creatures. Sharks are seen by thousands it j this region, and countless dolphins, j but it senna st rango that not a fis! b me is ever dredge?! up. A piece o; wood may be dredged up once a year, but it i< hoii?vcomhed l?v the bi?r?n?j sholl lish, and falls to pieces at thc touch of the hand. This shows whal destruction is constantly go "og on it those depths. If a ship sinks at sc with all on board, it Would be eater up by tish willi the except ifni of th? metal, .and that would corrode tim: disappear. Not a bone of a humai: body would remain, after a lbw days lt. is a constant display of the law ol the survival of the littest Nothing made by the hand of man was dredged up after cruising for months iu tli<: track of ocean vessels "xccptiug coal clinkers shoved overboard from steam? ships. Here Prof. Verrill corrected himself. Twenty-five milebiroro land ? lie dredged np an Italia rubber doll. Ti?at; he said, was cue tiling the fish I could not cat. j Herc the Gulf stream is 40 milos' j further west I bau any map shows, j Prof. Yerrill conti lilied : and the j stream of warm water from the south I nourishes the tropical Hie near Classa-1 i chusetts. The temperature further! j in shore is 35? in August, on the edge j : of the submarine Mount Washington j ; 52?, and toward the bottom of the j basin 39?, while further out to sea tho ? i temperature of the water grows colder, j j On the surface the jelly tish, nautilus, j ; and the Portuguese man-of-war, with j ; other tropical fish, are found. In this j j belt, ihe tile fish, about which so ? : much was said a year ago, were | j found in immense quantities, but this ; summer, although expeditions have | j been made lor the express purpose of j I catching some, not one could be i taken. Undoubtedly they had been j killed, to a fish, by a storm which ! carried the cold water into the Gulf ! Stream, indeed, it is known that a ; cold current of water resting on the ' ocean's bed may contain arctic fi>h, ; and a current of warm water floating ; over it on the surface may be alive J with'tropical fish. ? j As t'- the quantity of light at the I bottom of the sea lhere has been ; much dispute. Animals 'dredged I from below 700 fathoms either have ; no eyes, or faint indications of them, j or else their eyes are very huge and i protruding. Grabs'eyes are four or : five times as large as those of a crab : from surface water, which shows that ; that light is feeble. : d that eyes to j be of any use must be very large and .sensitive. Another strange thing is ; that where the creatures in those low ! er depths have any color, it is of j orange or red, or reddish orange, j Sea anemones, corals, shrimp, and crabs have this brilliant color. Som? I times it is pure red or scarlet, and in i many specimens it inclines toward purple. Not a green or blue fish is I found. The. orange ?ed is the fish's protection, for the bluish green light ! in the bottom of the ocean makes the : orange or red fish appear of a neutral j tint, and hides it from enemies. Many : animals are black, others neutral in ; color. Some fish are provided with ; boring taiis, so that they can burrow \ in the mud. . Finally, the surface of j the submarine moniitaiu is covered : with shells, like an ordinary sea beach, showing that it is the eating house of vast schools of carniverous . animals. A codfish takes a whole ; oyster into its mouth, cracks the shelis, \ digests th.'4 meat, and spits out the rest. Grabs crack the shells and suck out the meat. Jn that way come whole mounds of shells that arc ; dredged up.--V. Y. Sur: What a Policeman Saw. THE FIRST SC KN E. Just a wee bit of a sweet-faced I ch.ld, with wonderfully clear brown ; eyes shining through a rna*? cf tangled hair that drifted over them. A pair of red lins quivering with the Sobs that shook her slight frame. Soft i cheeks, down which the tears were ! falling like Apii! rains. That was what a policeman saw. j 'I want my mamma,' she sobbed, ; in reply .to a question fruin him. 'She ' lives in a big house way off, Daisy .said. I'm trying to lind her. They : put her in an ugly box and shut her up tight, and papa just cried and said j she was with the angels. Do you ; know where they are ? I want to go to her. Gan'tyou take me V Something in the officer's eyes made indistinct the objects around I him as lie took the little one in his I arms and asked her name, .j 'Oh, it's only Mamie,' she said ; 'Mamma's Mamie, and I know she ' wants me. Won't you take me to I her V lie started with the light . burden toward the station, but before j he reached it she had fallen asleep, talking of mamma and the angels. At the station, her father, anxious and startled, was waiting to greet her, and as he look her she opened her eyes just long enough to sec" who he was and whisper : 'Papa, mamma wants us. 1 know she is lonely ; .Iel us ?0 to her ;' and then the tired eyes closed again and lhe dainty head j dropped to a broad shoulder, fast : asleep. It may be that, the smile which ; made blight her face as she dreamed, I was only the reflection of her angel : mother's as it shone into that of her child. In a lonely ward in the worst part of the city last night, a brawny policeman forgot the long hours as be remembered the sweet face of a dainty bit of a girl seeking her moth? er who is a dweller with the angels. Tiffi SCENE CHANGES. A red, bloated face over which the unkept hair strayed as if to hide ti.e ! marks of sin and shaine -that marred every feature. Eyes that wore once beautiful, bleared with sights of de baucR'S-y -yan dering half question ii:e;:y arunud the apartment. 'Say, . captain, don't put me in a cell, TM! be j quiet. Let me sleep outside the bars i '? to-night. I'm not very well, and the ; cells are close and ill-sme!liu<r.' I ; They granted lier wish, and soon i she was fast asle?p lint in her slum? ber she; talked ol a tender-faced moth? er who bonded above her and taught i , her childhood's prayer. Gradually , ' the hard Ino!-: faded from her face, i and eve:: as ?he slept a tear forced !' it's way from her eyes, and glistened , on that seamed cheek like a jewel. Her dream must have been a happy : one. for after tin; Lear caine smiles t that br??ught. hack some of the girlish i fairness nf a fare that i-. other days i had made a picture of beauty in y i happy, home. She stirred in lier si um ? bei" ami putout lier hands appealingly I ; as she murmured -Mother !' The , turnkey t urned av"ay and buiscd him . seif with the ligios that were already f : shining :heir brightest. Pe rh tip hore ; were tears in hts own eyes that made ! ; them seem dim to him. Who ; ! knows '/ I: He remembered when this wretch ? i cd wreck was an innocent girl with I j every prospect of a happy life, and I i here to-night a thing of shame, bat te red and weary from lier contact with the world, a bloated, disgusting; ob ject she Hos asleep on a prison floor, talking iii her dreams of mother. To morrow in the cou rt-room she will slate grimly at the mocking crowd, atid receive her sentence with uncon? cern. But when again thc gray sha? dows wrap in sombre hues the eily streets, and the night hides in its mantle ofblackness the outlines of hill and valley, the softly glc:?"iiig stars will peer with teiideres-t glance through tiie iron bars that guard I he dingy win? dow and seo a kneeling woman, with flying hair and tear-wet eyes, gazing steadily il caven ward, while her drawn lips, bloodless and thin, shape arid utter in pitiful tone, the dearest nani? on earth-Mother.-HT. Quad. Bill Arp on Summer Religion. j Rev. Sam Jones says the farmers 1 ought all to <ret religion tins year, I and a heap of it, for they have made j such bountiful crops religion would I come easy, and he said sumet'uing I about scratching a fat hog to make I him lie down. Well, I don't know j that the sc bitching business proves j anything, but 1 reckon that religion is ! easier to get in prosperity than ad? versity, but it is not tiie kind that j I sticks to a mau the longest. My idea i j has always been that it takes trial f and suffering to purify a man, and : make him humble before his Maker, j A state of prosperity enables a mau j to get along with his church mighty ? smooth, and ho can sit np square in j his pow and look calm and serene, j but it don't test Iiis religion. 'Blessed I are the meek; blessed are the poor wi spirit.' True religion is to 'visit the widow and 1 he fatherless in their J affliction,' and to humble thyself uh- j der Che mighty hand of God,' and a j man is not a pt to do tin's with a I pocket full of cotton money, and Iiis crib running over with com. Cioudis j is a character ; he lives in Chatianoo- I ! ga, and is a curiosity Jt is rig lit' hard to tell whether he is a fool for j the want of sense, or for the overabun? dance of it, but I remember that one day he came and sat down by Mr. Hamp Smith, a dignified old gentle man, who was talking to me, and says he 'stranger what mont your name be/ and the stranger told him. 'And where do you keep house !' and he told him. 'Anil you ain't a poor man, tire you V and he sai I'no I'm not poor,' 'Plenty of mo? ney to do yon V yes said he. 'Belong to the church, I reckon V faid Cioudis. 'Yes sir.' 'No debts?' 'No sir,' said he. 'No law snits?' 'No sir.' 'No crippled child V 'No sir.' 'Chil? dren all dein" weli V 'Yes sir. 'And you've got no enemies?' 'I hope not.' j'Give mt; your hand stranger,' said j Cioudis, rising up, 'wc are both in . the same fix, for we have both got a Sort of summer religion,' anti lie left us as abruptly as lie came. I But ot oi.e thing I'm certain, and ! that is that the farmers ought to lu; grateful, whether they are or not The fioids are white with cotton ; tho corn hangs heavy on lite stock : the barns are full ol hay ; the cattle are fat, and the horses feel their pats ; sweet potatoes have spew'd up an J cracked the ground, and Cobe says he can set on the fence of a moon? light night and hear his tato rs tal kin1 to one another, savin' 'git fnrder, make room and quit a scrongin of me.' i Cobe says that roasted taters and ripe I persimmons are the best viltejs lo raise poor children < n in tiie world, and bison an; fat enough to kill right j now. L"ingoing to put up m\ pota? toes in dry dust from the road-a i layer of potatoes and then- fill in all the spaces with dust'and them put on more potatoes and so on, and have a good shelter and cover deep enough to protect against freezing weather. 1 never trhnl that, fc;.t have read about it and believe it will do. Some farmers always keep potatoes through the winter, but most of 'em fail, and lt is high time that a plan WK s found out thal everybody can follow and succeed, for it is a valuable crap and a universal - favorite on thc table. I've been tiyiugto clean the Egypt? ian wheat that judge Henderson sent me the seed of but it is troublesome work to do it by hand, and I don't j know of any machine that would thrash ! it clean and get all the red caps out. except a clover huller. The chi'dren got'em all ont of about a quart and ground it on the coffee mill very fine and sifted it, and then marl? it into bread and batter cakes, and we ail liked it very much, lt makes meal i and not flour, ii. looks something like ! buckwheat, and taste like a mixture of connu ea! and buckwheat flour. It yields about thirl}' bushels per I aero and is no trouble lo cultivate, j If it was crushed by mill rocks aad run I through the bolting cloth, univ be it j would make flour. Fm going to try j it and sec, just out of curiosity, for J 1 tun already satisfied it will never bc j a substitut" for either our corn or our wheat. Judge Henderson thought that may be it would mature in the j early summer, before the usual draught came on, bul it didn't. I . planted it in April and it matured in October. The maize he sent me was j planted the same time and hasn't j matured yet, and I'm afraid Jack j Frost will get it. It is a very vjgo ? rous growth and makes a splendid show. Both of these cereals grow like sorghum, and have similar tops, and I suppose, belong to the large family that includes broom coin and chicken corn and implico. There is ono great thing about tin: Kgyplian wheat slocks-after limy are stripped of (heir seed the top makes a splendid broom. The fibres are tough and wi ar well. I made a broom myself' ami we are using it ; it is a home? made broom and I have seen blooms more stylish, ami I make no profes? sion of being au expert, bul this hi oom is not for sah.? and Mrs. Arp keeps it to brush under 1 he table in the dining room. I've a notion ol making another one for Judge Henderson to take exercise with in the agricultural rooms. I'm afraid he sits too much for his health. The reports from his office are very interesting and very gratifying. I am glad he has brought up the cotton seed to their true value. lt will be world thousands or (lunars to the farmers, no mal ter whether they sell 'em to the oil mills or com? post them at home His reports have put up the price 50 per cent, already in this region. Good farmers are bid? ding up for their tenant's cotton seed, and they are hard te get now nt less less than 15 cents a bushel. Our ag? ricultural department is well organi? zed and doini- a world nf good to the farmers. Now, if we could only in? duce every farmer io take your paper and study it, what a wonderful change would take place in the mode and science of farming in the next five years. The State couldn't make a better investment than to send it free to every man who don't take it be? cause he don't feel abie. I would rat lier see the State's money go that way than to give it to colleges, for it will do more good. So. Cultivator. A Bareback Eider's JKasb. A Young Girl of fndivnajwUs De? ceived Oj/ a Jjfi?.partffled. Apollo. Alexis E Sea tm rd, a bareback rider itt O'Hncn 's circus, left th is city on Tuesday very suddenly and is now j on?hi< way to Cuba, ile leaves bc-1 hind him two young ladies, whose ; attentions and confidence the gay j tumbler had obtained, and who now i mourn th?; loss, ont; of a lover and the ! other of an intended husband. Miss i ida O'Neil, the step daughter of Di. ! \Y*. D."Tolley, of No, 769 North Mis-j sissippi street, Indianapolis, is one of those unfortunate young ladies, looting and pretty, with admirers by the score, and a comfortable and hap? py hoirie, ii seemed as though her life was to be one of unclouded hap? piness. Bittali this suddenly changed i In the early part of June O'Brien's | I circus and menagerie entered thc cit}' \ of indianapolis, and the flaming pos j lers willi wonderful cuts of men per? forming all sorts of impossible feais on horseback induced her to visit the entertainment one night. She sat spell-bound over the marvelous riding I of Scafiord, who was billed as 'the j greatest bareback rider in the world.' Being a man ol' splendid physique and handsome features, she became enamored of him, and before the show j had vacated the town she sought his acquaintance. Ile readily met her and vowed eternal love. The foolish girl, blinded by love, believed all his words, ami after he left the city kept nj? a e<?rrespondence with him. This I emt inned fur some time, his letters j always being very aile clio nate, when j une day she received a missive telling I her thal Ive would bc at Lebanon, I nd., i the following week, and asking her. I if possible, to come and see him. j Telling her parents that sue intended to visit an aunt in Chicago, she went j to Lebanon and spent a day with Seatiord. Here he repeated his vows j and told her that he would marry her j as soon as the season was over. She subsection tl v visited him while he was performing in a -small town in O Ivo, giving the satne excuse for her absence tu her parents as she had when she made lier previous exour I sion. Ile kept lier informed of his route, and letters parsed between them almost daily ; he having sent ! her one hundred and eighty letters, .couched in tlie most tender and e:i ! dearing language, from the time she I lirst funned his acquaintance np to j dav before vesteidnV. IXVITKD TU CO.MK II?KE When the circus season was over ! and tue show on its wa}r io its winter ! quarters, in Frankford, Philadelphia, j he wrote her a letter reiterating; his . lovetbr her, and with the promise of I marriage, requesting her to come to ! this city. Ile wrote 1 hat she should j meet him here on Nov. 7. Upon the I receipt of the letter, delirious wi) ii J happiness at the prospect of meeting j him again, she once inure deceived . her parenis by telling them that she j intended visiting her aunt in Chicago, ! and hastened to meet her lover. She I arrived last Sunday, thinking to J pleasantly surprise him by arriving loo ! days sooner than he expected her. I Stopping at the Commercial Hotel on j Sunday night, she went out the next ! morning to his boarding house in j Franklin street, where he had written ' he would meet her. Tho landlady in ! formed Inn'that Sealion! was not stop j ping there any more, ?eeing the dis . tress un the girl's face, she drew her '. story from her timi kindly permitted : her tu stay un!il the circus rider ! should bc heard from. The next day i Scafiord called, and expressed much : surprise that she should have, arrived j sooner than he had expected. Ile ! acted in a very kimi manner, and the ; poor girl felt that she was repaid for ; all the trouble she had taken tu sec j him. I hi Wednesday he called again and told Inn- he had secured her a situation with a French lady tit No. . ^bestial street, where she could I earn a living by making artificial 1 flower?. She wan somewhat sur? prised at this, but still lull of cotift di?nce in lion, she willingly consented tu gu Fleem ing a carriage he sent . her with Inn' baggage to the place mentioned, bidding her au ui?"?e!?oii 'ate farewell: Sumrfliing in his man? um aroused her suspicions, and she asked 'I will see you often, will I nut V '.Why certainlyhe replied in a soothing tone. Satisfied, sin; went t" tiie place, but rem a i neil only lill Thursday nioihing, when sin: came back to the louise un Franklin street, saving that her room was cold and l;are and thai she had been almost fro/jen ni night on account ol' ns su fil oie lil covering. Tin: holy then allow? ed her tn remain at Lhe house that night. Yesterday Miss O'Xei! re? ceived a letter from ScafTord, dated from New York, tel!in?; her te remain where sin; was until his return, a month hence. Ile asked her to write t-j lum sn that the letter would reach him in New York abrmt November 14. at his add'-! ss the St. (maries Uolci. Feeling Iii t something was wrong, sim went lo Knmkiord and made in? quires about him. She then dis? covered tim! he was engaged to a respectable young lady of that place. Visiting the house, she heard from the lips of the young lady's mother that uns was um. im; LI ur. ?>ow onie wi Seaford"? villainy, she further ascer? tained that tic had left for New York on Thursday morning and sailed from that port on 1 he same afternoon with thc Leon troupe for Ila vana, Cuba. Almost wild with grief, she entered the railroad station w:Mi the inten? tion of following her recreant lover. She was here discovered in a state bordering on insanity by Sergeant Becson, of the fifteen th District. Af? ter telling her story she was advised to return to her home. 'Oh, 1 can? not: [ cannot I' she exclaimed. *I want to see him. I must fellow him. Ile has not deceived nie, has he?' she said, pleadingly. 'I will wait for him. ? know he will come back and marry me. Ile is lop good, too no? ble to desert me in ?his way.' Herc she again broke into a paroxysm of tears. After a while she been me more cairn, and consented to return to her boarding house. Her oxcile ment did not leave her, however, and as she appeared almost demented by her misfortune, the Secretary of tue Midnight "Mission, on Locust sUeet was notified. Sim was taken to the Mission last night and placeo under the treatment of a physician. Fur some time she talked in a disconnect? ed strain, bul rallied shortly. Sh" soon lapsed into her old state, how? ever, and her reason was almost des paired of. By careful nursing it is expected that she may be restored to her proper senses and sent. home. Her parents will be telegraphed tu? rf ay.-PitiladelpUia Pre**. Knowledge of the Ancients. We talk of modern progress ; we gaze with pride upon this invention aud that, j which wo fond ly believe originated tn j our day and generation ; we consider i ourselves, in fact, sui generis. So short ? sighted are we. or so heedless, that we ; fail to acknowledge our debts to the past. The railroad dates backte Egypt; says Wendell Phillips, and A ra go ; claims that they hail a knowledge of steam. Humboldt in his 'Cosmos' says that the Chinese 1.000 years before our era had magnetic carnages with which to guide themselves across ibo great plains of Tartary, on thc principle o? thc compass. The Romans used mova? ble types; a magnifying lense-the origin of the microscope-wa* found it: Ninevah ; expel itu en ts foreshadowing photography to be made more than three centuries ago. the principle of thc stereoscope was kuowo to Euclid ; modern tunneling was anticipated by that under the Eupuates at Babylon. Aristotle's mental philosophy has hard? ly received any new suggestions ot marked improvements from modern j thinker?. So-called spiritual m a ni tenta? tions, such as table turning and spirii writing, have be<m practiced in China from' time immemorial:, before Confu? cius wa- boru. Egyptian sculpture cnn hieroglyphs dcinonsteate the existence of mesmerism iu those car!}- days. Ba? laam evidently consulted a clairvoyant -'a man iu a trance with his eye.? opened.' A man appeared before Aris? totle who could road on on" side of ? I brazen shield what was wrinen on titi other. Plautus in one-of his play! says: 'What and alt hough I were bj my continual slow touch to make bin as if asleep?' The principles of ijVnri cris m are discussed in rite afessiom of Augustine.' Ev-n thc iced nobblers: upon which we pride ourselves as origi? nal eoucoctors. were described $evera ccu tu rios ago: -A cup of snow watei into which was sprinkled sugar, anc mixed with it the juice of grape.' Mar? cus Aurelius was in favor of free gov? ernment-to use bis own words-'tin idea of a polity in which there is thc same law for all, a polity adtuinisterec with regard to equal rights and cqna freedom of speech, and the idea of t kingly government which respects niosi of all the freedom of tue governed.' Jr Pompeii, during the process of exhuma? tion, a room was found filled with glas: of every description-eur, ground am! stained. The Neapolitans were eleven ? in their imitations thar: wo arc to-day, Thuir glass gems deceived tiie mo. practiced eyes, and the celebrated vas of the Geneva Cathedral, which wa; considered a solid emerald, according tc the legend was thc gift of Sheba's Queer to King Solomon, and thc cup out oi which the Saviour ale his hist supper, was discovered to be rm precious stunt at all, only a clever, wonderful imita? tion. Leather cut in ornamental I designs for wall decorations were found in Pompeii. Table draperies embroidered in applique were discovered in thc tombs of Egyptian queens. ! Spectacles and several magnifying glasses must have been used as far back as Ninevah's proud reigu : how otherwise could an entire treatise on mathematics be engraved on a stone ' twenty incites long and ten wide? Cic I cm said he had seen the entire Tl liad j written ou a skin, so that it could br rolled up in the compass of a nutshell, the writing of course so fine as to Le in i distinguishable to the naked eye! The ? Po m peta n red glows as richly to-day as j when put on by the artist who lived I when Christ was bern Nero's retreat j built over fifteen hundred years ago, ?'flashes out the und?m? ?d colors of its j painted walls, when modern light is ad ! nutted, while eur pictures and raiment j fade during the lifetime of a generation, j Damascus blades are as perfect to-day ! as when they cn mo from thc maker's : hands, eight centuries ago, yet out' ; steel must be gilded before ir. can stand I tho atmosphere nf Asia. Wo eat. dessi? cated fruits ::nd fish and meat, with the pleased assur?mes that the process is ti'i outgrowth.of Yankee ingenuity : but in the tutnb of the Ptolemies was found the dessicated liver of the great wamali Pharaoh of the eighteenth dy? nasty.- ty<islttU'}foii Riptihti'co.n. A young married couple by the name of hukA living iu Crittenden, N. Y., were awakened from their slumbers ono night recently by the furious harking of the dog. Mrs. Luke call? ed to her husband to get up and see what thc trouble was. saying. *lf you di n't, 1 will ;' and she did. Sha sal? lied forth into the night and found the dog had a coon up an apple tree. She climbed up the tree, shook off the coon, which the dog quickly despatched and she bore it in triumph to thc house. -LUC JUJ.C4.XJ. X- ? I JJ 1 Ly - O. VVJL reetlon. T?ie following paragraph ha? been published in several newspapers, and requires a notice in behalf of justice: "The Blair family ot Camden, S. C., ha*-o a .?ad record. iss Blair, a beau btifui girl, hr.- just committed suicide; ?her great grand-father was hanged; ?her grand-father committed suicide; : her fat her. L. W. li. Blair, ras tried i fur murd; :- and escaped only to fall VJ a : perso ns ! encounter wirb Capt. Ilaile a ! short ::me since. Of e of her brothers j is now in the State Penitentiary, serv I ing out a life sen tc nee for murder." i 1 desire to state shat Major Bochelle j Jllaair wasmarried to Miss Workman ; in 185?: ;ibc was the daughter of Mr. ; Wai. C. Workman, a highly esteemed i citizen and merchant cf Camden. S. C., j and grand daughter of Kev. James -Jenkins, a mos? zealous minister of the j gospel. Mrs. Binir herself wa? one of ! the uiost earnest Christians-always ac j tive an J zealous in all good works1, j This marriage was blessed ly a family I of five daughters and one son. The j ton is now seven years of age. It ? seems strange that any human being, : with the slightest spark of sympa thy or ; humanity, could take pleasure :u ma . iigning ami misrepresenting thc dead, i and in crushing und taunting a helpless j family of ladies who arc plunge?] in thc deepest grief by the 'ragic death of two I uf their dearest Rod nearest loved ones, j Major Blair's family coexists o: five daughters, the eldest scarcely out of her teens, and the only son is er;ly ?even years of age. yet the write- of the above malicious paragraph states thai '*2vliss . Blair, who in a deep m.-huichoty, the i result of the sheck of her father's death, ; had ended her own life, bas r brother j serving a life sentence in the Peniten I ti a ry for murder.'7 Ced knows thc wo:s of this anfortu I ante family are. enough to excise the deepest sympathy of -.ven generous j hearts. ? trust the above statement wiri be as generally published in the i newspapers, and circulated as freely as the false statement has been. My ob ? joete writing this article is simply to [piace the truth before the public. A LADV'AXD A DEMOCRAT. Jumbo on his Muscle. j Jumbo took it into his capricious head last, night that lie would like a j tittie more liberty, and so he braced j himself, and placing his enormous head I rgainst the side of the building, walked j through it apparently as easily as if it j were paper. Previous t" his - retara . j with the traveling show the corner de ' signed for him in the elephant quarters ? was overlaid with plank, crossed and ? j recrossed, spiked and bolted, until .a - wall uearly a foot thick had been form t cd, and it was thought that no:' ;ng On ' this earth could tear i: down. A?t he : j prien off the boards with hts tusks, and . j made quite :i hole in that way. TtVn . j he went through what was left with ;he t greatest ease. fle wasn't a bit"ugly ? about it; ic was only one of his p tay fui ? freaks. After he reached the open au? be, was as quiek as a lamb, stud walked 1 all around the grounds unconcerned!y, in charge of Mr. S?ott, Ids English :- trainor. His prodigious strength can j hardly he realised, tie will suj.p of? a j beam six inches square with great ease, j and perform otliec pleasant tricks of ? like nature -Bridgeport Furnier. .....-~MB3~ -f-I-89* ? Curiosities. j Mr. Joe McSwecn brought us a ? package of cariosities, which were J washed from unoer tim inundaron of Lewis' mili, on Black creek, when ?the mill was torn away by the water some \vceks Cfzo. ..There are theeth of fish closely resembling these of the shark, a tusk, one piece of bone with raindrop imprints on one side, and two pieces of cone closely resembiiug such as are found i?: the human skelton-one' ap 1 parentiy the radius of the ann. and thc j other a parr of the spine. The pieces j of this collection ate all pc-nficd. and ! we suppose they belong to a period in thc carly history of n;ju. There-?s a study for tue geologist io this lind - Florence Times. A couple of Texas cowboys, visiting i the cast with a I- ad of cattle, saw a ! party of college students, and rcinark ! cd that they wouldn't fur the world i live in a region infected by such j roughs. [ Elihu Stevens, aged 81, of Middle I town, last week dislocarod his hip. j Eighteen years ago he broke bot:; j wrists and almost o roko his ne \\ wi:.eh : was seriously injured At am-her j titre enc of his legs was ir. ken. :.;d he ? has twice br?>ken one or more ribs, be ! sides his nose. In all he has had i twenty-six bones broken, and yet he j is a tempi rance man. i When young Ben Hill WJS making hi': trial speech before the Georgia Legislature be fainted. This was caus? ed by recent illness and his reference to his father's death, tie rallied and finished his speech with case and energy. Of late years our wmen have devel? oped a great interest in field sports. We have seen ladies who -vere far be? yond the average quad sh or, and others who could throw a Hue wi'is more than the ski!! of the average angler. Tii-y have grown fond of walking and driv? ing. Some of the more progressive even fence and sp^r, although we con? fess we do not like to sec a wc:uan with thc "mufflers" on. No matter about the foil In thc hands of man or woman, when skillfully handled, it induces more grace than any other pas? time. tlev Dr. Jessup, of Bcyrout, states that about 15.'"'00 children are receiv? ing education in mission schools ia Syria n d Palestine, of v.-hoir upwards of 7,00J arc girls. The Bible is thc first and the last book in all the schools, lie contrasted th- present state bf Bey rout as the centre wiri? what it. was when tic first landed in Syria twenty seven years ago, as seen in tho fact rhat during that period thc total number of children in all mission schools in the country has .Isen fron; 800. There is hui one eternity, and the word occurs but once in the Bible.