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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, SUMTER, S. C TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1883. New Series?Yol. iL M. 24 B, mod to ifce interest of all oTtbe ftie now ita and three in Georgia. nals> "> &t?!h nf. TbeTwt Mail Bailroad foods the aH lev os forenoon, while its fltirt- Athens dt Hin ?nilSagtend, b?? ?Uo 4> S hegiw ?a ?ixty sixth * >T- It i* HOt ??J?"feHhyU atnd perio*tie?I in the tar-ert in a?t WaiafifaJ m iu appevr ?riajBp. jbg; the aeon. . A F?r ib* JJ*J?r,K bj Con Wwtwf. the ?otbor of rKnmW.' In Mneber. Sp? foe rbe tighter e? |**r Year i ?AGAZLS?, few Tear_U 00 WEEKLY, 0? Yew_4 00 ? - .4 00 a* jear, 10 00 0o? Ye*r-?7 00 PBOPLK. ?m jaar. 1 50 P*OPL*f-r* *? ?EAJFKUIf . SdUAEB ff On?Yeer($J S?mber*) SO 00 Fr*? to ?? loWnltn in the United Magazine angin wtih (he December >f tact year, ?gjyyetfiit? ?t niB oe-nn'teratood nrifrhct te tegin ni:? the HBGPQBT OP THS COTOTTT SCHOOL C0M2C5SI0NSB tO? THB - ComBMndoff XTov. -lt 1881. Ojtics op School (Kommissionbb S?mtkr Co., Svmtxjl S. dj Dec. 15, 1882. pf? NO.i. fs??kR.) : To amt. from last year, $ ? 1 52 To rec'd froru 2 mill tax, 1.112 48 To rec'd from pole tax, 399 31 To rec'd from special tax, 741 99 By paid teachers, $1,558 49 By orders Oft Treasurer, 602 95 By balance, 183 86 $3,34* 30 $^,345 30 NO. 2, (CONCORD.) To amt. from. last, year, $39 90 Torec'd from 2 mm. tax, 360 4? To rec'd from pole tax, 292 44 ^^ tead^rs^ . $ 671 20 By orders oo Treasurer, 18 00 By balance on band* -3 62 ' * X' $692 82 $692 82 . To amt. from last year, $ 32 12 ] To rec'd from 2 mill tax, 430 68 Torec'd from pole tax, 246 20 To deficiency, 22 50 By paid teachers, * $650 00 f&j orders on Treasurer, 59 00 By amt. dne and on paid, 22 50 $73? 50 $731 50 NO. 4. (MANCHESTER.) To amt. from last year} $236 67 ^ To rec'd from 2 mill tax, 122 80 Torec'd from pole tax, 72 11 By paid tencbers, $167 08 By balance, 264 50 .nm r-.~*\' * ? - - $431 58 $431 58 NO^jfHn^M^PON.);; To amt. from last ^year, $270 13 To rec'd from 2 mill tax, 316 96 Torec'd from pole tax, 191 38 Bypaid'teacfcers, ^ $393 00 By orders oo Treasjwer, 33 72 8y amt. doe and unpaid, 20 00 By balance, 331 75 ^ " ^778 47 $7*8 47 | N0.6.(STAT3BURG.) To amt. from last year, ^85.79 To rec'd from 2 mill tax? 544 96 Torec'd from poll tax^ 405 94 By paid teachers, . By orders on TresSorei* -22 90 By balance, J? ;188 T9 *1,036 6?$l,036 69 NO. 7. (PROViDENCtf.) I To amt. from last rjeat, $137 58 - To rec'd from 2 mill tax, 513 15 . To rec'd from poll taaq" 17* 57 By paid teachers, $68h50 By orders on Trcawrer, 1 50 By balance, 142 30 " '$825 30 $825 30 W SO. 8. (RAFTCN CREEK.J To amt. from last year, $201 99; . ?o rec'd from 2 mill tax, 409 81 To Tec'd from poll tax, 256 04 By paid teachers, . $565 00 By orders ooTreasarer, 33 90 By-talaoce/ 268 84 $867 74 $867 74 NOr9. (SPRING BILL.) To a??t. from last year, $ 75 50' To rec'd from 2 mill tax, 433 30 To rec'd from poll tax; 263 34 By paid teachers, $580 00 By orders cn Treasurer, 3 C 0 f*y balance, - 189 14 $773 14 $772 14 NO. 10. (CARTER'S CROSSING.) To ara't from last year. $210 10 To rec'd from 2 mill tax, 362 53 To rec'd from poll tax, 189 08 By paid teachers, $500 00 By order* on Treasurer, 00 00 By balance, 261 80 $761 80 $761 80 NO. II, (BIS3UPVILLE.) To am't from last year, $586 04 To rec'd from 2 mill tax, 408 01 To rec'd from poll tax, 279 99 By paid teachers, $620 00 By orders on Treasurer, 6 85 By balance, , 647 19 _ ' $1274 04 $J274 04 | NO. 12. (MOUNT CLIO.) Toam't from last year, $ 99 22 To rec'd from 2 mill Ux, 379 11 To rec'd from poll tax, 229 41 By paid teachers, * $573 00 By orders on Treasurer, 13 65 By am't due and unpaid, 55 00 By balance, 61 00 $707 74 $707 74 NO. 13. (LYNCHBCRG.) To am't from last year, 00 00 To rec'd from 2 mill tax, 547 3? To rec'd from pol! tax, 317 06 By paid teachers, 595 75 By coders on Treasurer, 75 71 Am't doe and unpaid, 4 00 By balance, 188 97 $864 43 $864 43 NO. 14. (SHILOH.) Toam't from last year, 162 37 To rec'd from 2 mil! .tax, 483 91 To rec'd from poll tax, 279 73 By paid teachers, ... 745 00 By orders on~Trea$urer, 12 00 By balance, 174 01 931 01 931 01 NO. 15. (HAYESVILLE.) To am't from last year. 180 60 To rec'd from 2 mill tax, 314 89 To rec'd from poll tax, 241 42 By paid teachers, 594 00 By balance, ' 142 91 $736' 94 736 90 NO. 16. (SWIMMING fcENS.) To amt. from last year, 36 54 To rec'd from 2 mill tax, 488 91 So rec'd from poll tax, 269 08 y paid teachers, $85 00 By orders on Treasurer, 5 00 By amt. due and unpaid, 45 00 By balance, 59 53 794 53 794 53 I CONTINGENT FUND. To amt. from 2 mil! tax, 745 61 1 By paid School Com'r, 600 00 I By paid ad rert ising, 39 00 i By balance, 106 56 j -j 745 51 745 61 I RECAPITULATION. Total am't on baud from last year, 2,446 06 Total am't rec'd from 2 mill tax, 7,979 96 Total am't rec'd from Poll tax, 4,105 10 Total am't rec'd from special tax, 741 99 Total am't paid teach- ! era, #0,404 44 ! Total am't paid orders on Treasurer, 883 18 i T6tai am't due and an- I paid*, 124 00 ! Total am't paid school Commissioner, 600 00 Total am't paid for ad Tertisiug, 39 05 Total am't on band, general/and, 3,115 88 Total am't on band contingent fund, 106 56 $15,273 11 $15,273 11 This does not include the deficiency in Prirateer, No Note?tea special tax iu No. 1 was for building a school room. BespBCtfeily submitted, W. F. BHAME, CA8ABIANCA. The Digger stood in tbe cotton patcb, Whence all bat him had fled ; The whiffie-trees and traces flew In circles around his head. Yet greasy, sleek and black he stood, As born to rale the storm, A nigger of the blackest blood?* Of rough, ungainly form. The .male be kicked?be would not go Without his master's word ; The master in the grass laid low? Bis voice no longer heard. He called aioud : Say, massa, say, Mas* X leVdiamalego?" The master trembled as he laj, And the nigger hollered " Whoa !" rgsr afw ., H "Speak, massa!" once again he cried : 1 'If I may jet be gone V1 Naught but the whistling hoofs replied A8 fast the mole kicked on. Upon his brow be felt their breath, And in his kinky hair ;. He looked from that lone post of death In still jet brays despair. ' * He shouted bat one* more aloud : "My golly i must I stay 1" While o'er him fast a dasty cloud In billows made its way. It hid the nigger from oar riew, - And Si ed his shiny eye, And rose above the cotton, too, Like clouds across the sky. There came at last one mr astroos kick? The nigger-i-where was be ? Ask of those heels that flew so thick,. For alas I I could not see. The work hands ail returned at last, The mole could not be fonnd ; Death beld,ihat nigger in his grasp, Half buried in She ground. PRINCESS ELMINEH. TheWicked Career of the Wealthiest _. * Woman of Egypt. The New York Times of Sunday printed the following history of the Princess Elmineh, of Egypt, who as indicated in recent dispatches, eu coo raged Arebi: Pasha, with money and sympathy in rebelling against the Khedive, and in coatinning the strug gle until completely annihilated by the British : The Princess Elmineh, sister of the late Khedive, is the richest and most noted woman in the East, has great influence with the fellah population, and her's is one of the prettiest, and as certainly the richest, of the places of Cairo. She is the largest land owner in Egypt, and having received a European education, makes good use of her income. She is not what tbe French call passee, being a little over forty years old, and the hot Egyptian sou, combined with a life of dissipation and unrestrained enjoy ment, have played havoc with one who, ten years ago, was called 'tie Star of the East.' Egyptian, like Turkish women, are married by their parents without then wishes ever being consulted, so that, as a rule, there is no pretense of love or even sympathy between them. Thus was the Princess Elmineh, at the age of sixteen, given away to a Turkish Pasha, noted only for his wealth and dishonesty, being old, ugly and ignorant. The wedding took place in Constantinople, where the dowry of the Princess was esti mated at $80,000,000. The Princess received a liberal edu cation ; she speak? three European languages, plays the piano, and'sings well, and is in most respects an ac complished lady, and in thirty days she had seen enough of her husband to despise him and to treat him with contempt No Turk dare enter his wife's private apartment if she rever ses her over-shoes, which every Tur kish woman wears, and leaves them outside her door, and the Princess Elmineh availed herself of the privi lege during the two months she re mained in Constantinople. At the expiration of that time the doctors ad vised her to spend the winter at Cairo, whither she went accompanied by her husband, and where she has remained ever since. Immediately on arriving in Egypt she laid herself at the feet of the Khedive telling him that she preferred death to living with her husband, who was in every respect her inferior, and begged him to pro tect her. As she was a favorite of his he appointed her husband to tbe genera^hip of Souakin, on the Red Sea, and, as he never arrived there, it is presumed he was poisoned on the way, this being the ordinary method by which the Khedives have from time to time silenced their foes. The Princess having thus freed herself, commenced a life which for romance, cruelty, profligacy, adventure and dis sipation has not often been surpassed. The old Shoubra Palace, extending from the Shoubra road to the Nile, was pulled down and the present magnificent structure erected in its ; stead, containing eighty rooms, all of; which are decorated and furnished | in the most extravagant fashion. ! Shortly after the Princess had taken possession of this seraglio many cu rious and incredible rumors were afloat in Cario, which at the time were only whispered, but which sub sequent events proved to be true. LIEUTENANT GOLl/s TRAGIC FATE. There was in the service of the Khedive a handsome young Swiss j officer named G?ll, who had been in the Pope's Swiss Guard, and the Princess happening to see him one | day on duty at a palace, became en amored of him, and next day asked j the Khedive to transfer him to her j service, which he did. ?The main gate to her palace was then pulled down, and over a "large arch-way a beauti ful Swiss chalet was built. Lieute nant G?ll took possession of it ^as the Princess's Master of ceremonies. From that time they seemed insepa rable; wherever the Princess went young G?ll accompanied her, and ! those who called to pay their homage | to the great Elmineh were introduced j by him. He had the management of all her estates, became enormously wealthy, and in a short time developed into a public character. He went to Switzland one summer, and returned accompanies by hie titter, who be came the Princess's companion, a unique position for a Christian to oc cupy. About four years after this it was rumored that GoII had formed an attachment for a French actress named Ernestine Leduce, and those of bis friends who knew the Egyptians well advised him to be cautious, as their vengeance was terrible. He, how ever, paid little or no attention to the warning. G?ll suddenly disappeared, leaving no trace behind him, and at the'same time Ernestine Leduce was found strangled in her apartment. Inquiries were made about him in Cairo, and the Princess offered $5,000 for information that might lead to his discovery, although she caused the rumor to be spread that he had mur dered Ernestine and fled. Ten days later the banks of the Nile overflowed and the mutilated body of young G?ll was deposited by its waters in a field adjoining the palace. The bands and feet were tied together, the eyes had been torn from their sockets, and the heart had been pierced through and through. The Swiss Consul demanded an inquiry, which, like most proceed ings of this sort in the East, was wholly a formality. GolFs sister was never again seen in Egypt, though she subsequently appeared in Berne, her native town, where she lives, but when asked about her brother she is wont to say that the subject is too painful for conversation. TRAPPING A. DOCTOR. During the following seven years Cairo was startled by frequent disap pearances of a young gentlemen be longing to the best native and Euro pean families, and these remained un explained until the following incident occurred : A young Austrian doctor named Canelli had been in Cairo about a year. He had been a military surgeon in his own country, and, be side being -thorough master of his profession, was handsome, gay and dashing. One afternoon as he was driving on' the Shoubra road, the fashionable promenade and drive in Cairo, he saw a veiled Turkish lady making signs to him from her carri age. He mentioned this to a friend, who told him it must have been the Princess Elmineh, and that he had better avoid her. Soon after that and at short iutervals, Dr. Canelli received numerous gifts from an unknown benefactor. They took the shape of flowers, fruit, jewels, and even horses and carriages, and he was at a loss to know whence they came. At about 11 o'clock one night, as he was preparing to retire, he beard a - car riage rattle into his yard at a break neck pace, and a minute later his ser vant appeared before him, accompa nied by an elegantly attired eunuch, who said that his master, Kiamji Pasha, had been suddenly taken ill, and that he bad a carriage waiting for the doctor down stairs, as not a mo ment was to be lost. Dr. Canelli dressed, rushed down stairs, and jumped into the carriage. After going some distance the vehicle stop ped, the door was opened, and the ennch, who, up to theu had been sit ting by the coachman, entered, and at the same time another eunuch why must have been waiting in the road,* entered by the opposite door, holding a lantern in his left hand. The car riage immediatelv went off at a tre mendous pace. All this took place in far less time than it takes to relate it. The doctor saw that his case was hopeless ; the looks of his black com panions convinced him that resistance would be useless. The carriage went on rapidly for ten minutes and stop ped under an arch-way. A gale was closed behind them, and Dr. Canelli saw at a glance that he was in the seraglio of the Princess, a prisoner, and resolved to make the best he could of the situation. He was taken to the Swiss chalet, which had been built expressly for poor G?ll, and as everything in it was perfect, he made himself as comfor table as he could under the circumstances. The eunuch administered to his wants, and after a careful examina tion of bis surroundings, he ate a dainty little supper which he found ready for him ou the table, and with out undressing laid himself down on the perfumed bed. He arose ea'rly the next morning, bathed and break fasted, and, finding (bat he was under no restraint, strolled into the beauti ful garden, ne was, however, closely followed by the eunuch, who said his name was Kerim Aga, and on ap proaching the outer gate on his re turn, was- politely advised to take shelter from the sun in the chalet. He passed the day in looking over the many well selected books that were at his disposal, and, in vain, attempted to draw the eunich into conversation. The mast singular thing of all was that, besides his attendant, he had not seen a single human being on the premises, and considering that there were one hundred slaves in the prin cess's employ, he came to the con clusion that this man Kerim Aga was her only trusted slave, and that the others were employed elsewhere, so j that they could not see him. As a matter of fact, during the whole of tha twenty-three days that he was a pri soner in the palace, Kerim Aga and the princess werj the only persons he saw. At 7 o'clock that evening the eunuch told him that the sick patient wished to sec him. They departed into the cellar of the chalet, and an iron door beiog opened by the slave, the}' entered a well-illuminated under ground passage, and after g'>iog some two hundicd yards, mounted a small j stair-case, at th* top of which Kerim Aga, opened another iron door, told the doctor to enter and disappeared. Dr. Canelli found himesel in the priu cess* private apartment, where he was welcomed by her io person. The doctor has since said that heaven itself j could hardly surpass the three rooms j comprising this suite, and that in beauty, grace and elegance he doubts if any celestial being surpasses the Princess Elmineh For three weeks, which to hiin appeared but as so many days, did Dr. Canelli remain in the apartments. The more be saw of the princess the more he' thought the world had misjudged her, and he de: termined to become her obamrjioa the ^^^^^^^^^^j^^^__^^aj day she gave htm his liberty, which he imagined he could obtain whenever he might ask for it. HOW THE DELIGHTFUL SLAVERY CAME TO AX END. At ten o'clock on the twenty-second night Kerim Aga rushed into the room 'and told the princess, in an excited manner, that one of. the grooms had just been dangerously kicked by a horse. She asked tbe doctor if he would kindly attend to the slave which he willingly agreed to do. Kerim Aga opened the door by which they had cutered the first time, and which had remained locked ever since, and asked the doctor to follow him- As he was leaving, the princess, kissed her jeweled fingers to him to return speedily. Even as he was descending the marble stairs, although the door had been locked bebind them by the eunuch, he could hear her crying : "Bevines, v?e, mon eher, je H attends zvec impatience." Instead of going by the passage leading to the chalet, and in which direction Canelli knew the stables to be, Kerim Aga opened the door in tbe opposite direction, and unhooking a lantern from the wall en tered a dark passage, followed by tbe doctor, whose suspicions were now fully aroused. lie could hear the waters of the Nile ominously splash ing at the end of the passage. All the tales be had heard of poor G?ll shot through his memory, and he de termined to keep his eye on the eu nuch and to sell his life dearly if foul play *vas attempted. They had advanced some distance when Kerim Aga told the doctor to go before him, which he firmly tefused to do. The eunuch then put down the lantern and in a second rushed upon his victim with a drawn yatahgau, or heavy cut lass, that he had concealed under his flowing robes, but Canelli being on the alert slipped aside, and in doing so upset the light. And now began a dreadful combat in the dark between two strong men, one of whom was armed with a deadly weapon and bent j on murder, the other unarmed and having his life to defend. The eunuch lashed about with his yataghan, follow ing up and wounding tbe doctor, whose whereabouts he could tell by the noise of his footfalls in the vault. The doctor then had the presence of mind to slip off his shoes, and this saved his life, for, although he could tell where the assassin was. his own movements were a mystery to his an tagonist, who, after vainly searching for him, went toward the door in or der to obtain assistance or perhaps a light. lie was closely and silently followed by the doctor. No soouer had he put the key into the lock than Canelli rushed upon him from behind, and, pulling him to the ground, got a grip upon his throat to let go of which meant certain death. The slave did all he could to snake him off, using the yataghan to the best advantage and inflicting two severe wounds. He would evidently have been the con queror had not the doctor dashed his head ngainst the stone pavement with such force as to stun him. Still the doctor held on to the wretch's throat until his heart ceased to beat. THE MOTH RETURNS TO THE LIGHT. Having thus escaped from what ap peared to be inevitable death he pulled the body from behind the door, and, turning the-key, found himself at the foot of the steps leading to the prin cess' apartment and at the entrance of the passage leading to the chalet, both of which were well illuminated. He found the chalet cellar door locked, and thinking the key might be on tbe dead eunuch's person, he returned and successfully searched the warm body. Then he remembered that Kerim Aga bad opened the door of the cave and that of the princess' apartment with the same key, and thinking that there might be but one key to all the doors of the labyrinth, he took it out of the lock, and found that itnot only opened the cellar to the chalet, but also the outer gate, leading to Shoubra # road and to liberty. Ouce there his first thought was to rush home, but he had not gone one-hundred yards before he was taken with an irresistible desire to see the princess again. He actu ally retraced his steps through the gate, the chalet, the passage and up the marble stair-case. Opening the princess' door he appeared before her, shoeless, his clothes torn to shreds, and covered with blood from head to foot. The princess was seated on a divan, smoking a perfumed narghileh, and surrounded by seven female slaves, and on seeing him uttered a cry, but did not otherwise loose her presence of mind. 'Madame,' said the doctor, 'I have failed to find your wounded groom, but you will have no difficulty in finding the body of your trusted slave and accomplice at the bottom of those steps.' Before she could give the alarm he disappeared. Dr. Canelli took refuge in the Austrian Consulate, whence he was sent to Trieste, where he has practiced medi cine ever since. Brother Gardner's Religion. I want a religun, my friends, dat kin stan* ?emptashun. I want one dat kin meet satan at the doah of do circus an" ; knock him colder dan a wedge I want one dat will let tue play euchre an* yer. keep me from cbeatin'. I want one dat will go wid rae to the theatre au' enjoy what am good an' condemn what am bad. I want a religun widout any dys pepsia or liber complaint in it. If it am de sort of a religion dat a dance am gwinc to peel off I want to know it in timo to look for a kind dat will stick by me frew thick an' thin. A pusson who am afeard dat de mi nit he begins to smile his religion will begin to crack like new varnish must be in an uncom fortable state o' mind. Let me be tempted. If my religun am stoog nuff to resist I shall have dc glory of vic tory. If I am not, let me ax for for giveness, an' tighten up de bolts an' try again. Be good. Respect de church. Reverence true Christianity an' foller de teaching ob de good book, but be kecrful how you clothe your selves io armor dat will be shivered by de sound of a fiddle an' fall to de ground at dc sight ob a circus persechun. Let c now assault de reg'lar order of biwess.? Fm Press. BILL ARPS CHRISTMAS. He Takes His Turkey Aicay From Home. From the Atlanta Constitution. We dined out Christmas. It has been a long time since we dined out Christmas. In fact it has been a right smart while since we dined out at all. We are home folks, we are, and most always have a Christmas for the family and some friends, and have the parlor greened up and a Christ mas tree in the middle of it, and Mrs. Arpand I play the patriarchs of the concern. We don't rnn about much, that is, not both of us at once, simul taneously at the same time, for some : thing would go wrong, certain and shore. But we were invited a month ago, all and singular, and we knew the big pot would be put in the little one, and that the turkey gobbler had been gobbling down dough a long time, aud so we rigged up the big wagon, and the children stuck" ever greens up in the corners, and tied some on the wheels, and on the bridles and harness, aud we took in nabor Duke and his wife and baby, and all went sailing and singing up the road like a passel of luniaks. The horses "caught the infection and pranced high and that made the evergreens thrash 'em around, and all I conld do was to set back on the spring seat with my feet braced against the fore gate and pull hard on the rains and holler, 'Wo, Molly! Wo,' Queen i Wo, I tell you ! Wo, I say V But they couldn't hear narry word, for the everlasting singing and shouting. 'Can Anybody Tell Me Where Nancy's Gone,' aud all such hilarious tunes. I thought I heard Mrs. Arp exclaim something ever and anon, for the road was rough and the wagon bounced over the roefcs and in and out of the ruts amazing, and so I ventured to look back and she was a holding on to the rounds of her chair with a desperate grip and her face had the most pitiful and resigned ex pression I ever saw. All along the way white folks and niggers give us the road and stoppod and looked and wondered. One old woman looked at us over her spectacles, and I heard her say,'Is they all crazy and jest been a drunk in,' and a darkey hol lored out, *Dem folks is selling de 1'zzard oil.' But we got there all safe and had a glad welcome and the men folks went a hunting and the young mothers compared babies and the old ones t:>ld 'cm all about how to raise 'ejfr, and by and by we all got ? SEATED AKOCXD THE FESTIVE BOARD and eat turkey, and pie, and custard and so forth, and felt at peace with ourselves and all mankind. The Christmas gifts were all exhibited and admired. The bracelets and earrings and pins aud that same big chair cushion. I found a pair of slippers up there that just fit me, and now every night 1 am strutting around like a Iitterary gentleman And I've got a new inkstand and a box of cigars aud a big fine cup and saucer, and Mrs. Arp got a writing desk and a fine linen table cloth, and the children got a lot of little things that have made them ever so happy. And then came a box of oranges all the way from Florida, and I told Carl arid Jessie to sit down by it and eat just as many as they wanted for one time for they never cost any thing but love, aud I wanted them to get enough for once in their lives. When I was a boy oranges were very scarce and very high and we children thought a half of one a liberal allowance and so when I got to be a youhg man and visited Mobile and saw the golden pyramids of beautiful fruit piled up on the wharfs I bought me a dozen for a quarter and camped beside 'em until 1 bad got anough and didn't want any more. \ Relieve it is a good idea to gorge ac. Ad sometimes on good things fortlie? don't hanker after it so much after that. Set the sugar bowl down on the floor by the baby and let it eat all over its face. Christmas is a gay time in the country as well as the town. It be longs to everybody alike. It is a weeks rest for the year that has gone ?a year of toil and trouble and care and it helps a man to spend it merrily and happy if he can. The darkey still thinks it belongs specially to him, and he wouldn't work all the I week for five dollars a day. Says I j to one of my tenants, 'Tom, you are I awful behind with your cotton, and ! this is mighty nice weather to pick it.' I Old Tom looked amazed and said, 'Pick out cotton Christmas! My Lody?I never done de like of dat for my old master, and I ain't gwine to do it for myself I know. Can't pick cotton Christmas,' and he gave a grunt of indignation at the idea. They are hunting rabbits by day and going to frolics at night, and the white folks arc doing the same pretty much. THE B0Y*8 DOGS. Our dogs and guns are in demand now. I never did like dog6 much ex- j ccpt old Bows and he is dead and 11 never expect to find his match again, | But Ralph has slipped in on me and | his mother some way inch by inch until there are four dogs here now? j nearly as many dogs as sheep. He got a fice dog first and we let jiim keep him because he was a little/one and was well behaved and dident do | nothing but set on the brow of the j hill and bark as everybody wTcnt by. Next he went crazy for a setter dog, j and we finally give way on his prom-; isc that the dog should never come in j the house, never. Well, that dog j won't sleep anywhere but under some | bed, and they have to poke him out j with the broom most every day. He is a setter, 1 reckon, but he got to i setting rabbits and squirrels, and so j Ralph borrowed a nabor's dog to set with him and train him and he fed the nabor's dog so well and so high j that he won't go home at all, but sets j about here all the time waiting for his vittals. He is a handsome dog, aud he knows it, and will walk through the hall.forty times a day without wiping the mud off his feet, and if they throw the broom at him he looks back indignant, as much as to say if you do that again I'll leave here and not hunt with Ralph any more. And now there is one more to mention. A pup that don't set nor stand but lies by the fire and runs after the chickens and fights with the cats and carries off hats and shoes and gloves and chaws 'em under the house. But the dog and the cats please the children and so it's all right I reckon?it's all right. I re member the first rabbit I ever caught and how proud I was when I twisted him out of a hollow tree with a forked stick. THE NEW YEAR. The new year is at hand and I hope it will be one of peace and happi ness to everybody. They say it's bound to be a lucky one for you can't divide it by any number but seven but I reckon it will be lucky to thpm only who woik and are dilligent in business and prudent and honest and do unto others as they would have others to do unto them. I shot a nabor's cow the other day when I was mad for I had driven her out several days and she is a fence break er but I am socry for it now and will pay him the damages if she don't get well for he is a clever man and I don't believe he would have shot mine. It is better to bear these little aggrava tions than to loose our temper and take revenge in haste and repent of it at leisure. So let us all set in with the new year and see how naborly wc can be. Bill Arp. A Great Country. Gen. Bradley T. Johnson, of Balti more recently delivered an address in which he said : 'Florida is as large as New York, New Jersey and Con necticut. Texas is larger than all New England, New York, New Jer sey, Pennsylvania and Ohio. The unsettled Northwest beyond Min nesota will make twelve states as large as New York. All this terri tory is virgin. There is more land belonging to the United States in Mis sissippi than in Kansas, Nebraska or Minnesota. The Southern country is less known than the new territories. In old Virginia, within three hundred miles of Washington, there are de posits of minerals and metais more abundant, more various, and more val uable than in any other equal area of territory on the continent of which we now have knowledge. One county there, of six hundred square miles, has no wagon roads, and no wheeled vehicles has ever been in it, unless such a one has been there in the last twelve months. I venture to say that the mountain regions of North Caro lina, in soil, in climate, in diversified wealth of mine and forest, is unex celled upon this globe. In the fine lands along the Virginia and North Caroliua line, the labor of a single man will produce from $2,000 to $2,500 worth of tobacco, and in Mississippi the market produce of one laborer in cotton is near $2,000- This incalcu lable wealth of soil and climate is of fered to the labor of the world almost for asking. The toil of a single year will provide a man with a freehold and a home." Haile Gold Mine In the Engineering and Mining Jo'irnal published in New York City, we find the following concerning the Haile Mine : At this mine, which is located in Lancaster County, and which bas been successfully worked for the last three years by New York capitalists, a recent strike of great magnitude has been made. The vein, which was much broken up near the surface, has just been cut in depth, showing a width of forty feet of vein-matter, the regular average assays from which rnus from ?7 to $12 per ton. On the foot-wall of this deposit lies a second one from ten to fifteen feet in thickness of sulphides averagiog over J40 per tou. The de velopments are goiug on with great rapidity. The twenty stamp mill treats about forty-five tons per day of this ore extracting the free gold, while the sul phurets are run off and concentrated. Some of the concentrates from the table run orer ?500 per ton, while none of them is much lower than $65. The company, after having long experi mented with the Manhattan Company's furnance for roasting the sulphides, is now erecting a very large and com plete one, under the personal supervis ion of Mr. Thomas George Walker, the inventor. This furnace will be com pleted within the next few weeks, and then it is expected that the Haile mine will come to the front as one of the lar gest gold-producing mines in the South. - ? ? Typographical Terrors. Typographical errors are funny things, as well as most exasperating. In a local paperat Newport the re porter wrote of a new apparatus for 'washing windows in second stones.' The compositor left out a single letter, and the article appeared under the heading 'How to Wash Widows in Second Stories.' A still funnier mis take also occurred in a Newport pa per. Wishing to pay a distinguished citizen, who was abroad, a pretty com pliment, the editor wrote that he was enjoying himself at Paris?at a con vention?with prominent savants and radicals. The printer caused it to be announced to us that our distinguished and most upright townsman wa3 hav ing a good time abroad in company, with eminent 'servants and rascals.1 I wrote something once a^^it 'nug gets of gold.' To my hoit^Lit was printed 'bags of nutmegs.' A^keain, writing of the delicious rostftn^^frwe found lying on the pine needles in the Georgia forests, the printer made me say that I took ray daily siesta on a 'bed of fine needle?.' One can get i used to almost anything; but I re member well how, in my early days of ne wspaper work, I used to be over come almost to fain loess by so Jie ter rible typographical error now and then. i|| i?? irf"? -- Ooe pound of learning requires ten pounds of common eeose to apply it. AN OLD, OLD QUESTION. A spirit that fror.' earth had just departed Lingered a moment on its upward way, And, looking back, saw, as though broken', hearted, Its friends and kindred weeping o'er its clay. "It seems tbej loved me dearly. Had I known it My life bad been much happier/' itsa"id\ "Why only at oar parting have they shown it? Their fondest kisses keeping for the dead V Harper's Magazine: How to^Grow Carp. *s Hints Picted up by Aiken at a Lecture in CK Chicago, December 14.?I was terly called from duties to tbe North west, and returning through this bee* hive this morning I concluded to spend a day in attendance upon the Nations? Agricultural Association, which f knew was in session here. The day has been' one of much interest to me, and the most interesting portion of it was spent in listening to an hour's talk upon the question of fish culture by one Capt. Pearce, of Pennsylvania, and while waiting to-nigbt for my fain, with his speech fresh in my memory, I thought the time might be well spent in dotting down for publication those ideas most essential to your rea-lers who are at tempting to grow fish, many of whom I know lire in the Third district. The speaker, Capt. Pearce, seemed to intimate that he was a master of his subject, and what be did not know about fishes was not worth knowing. He said, let those who have the time and spare money attempt to grow trout and other fishes, but the masses must grow only the carp. This was the fish for the people, and about which the people knew but Hide, and were at tempting to practice the culture of with* out knowledge, aud consequently going directly in the face of what wss correct. Tbe carp is a native of Asia, where it has been cultivated, grown and kU tened, even in wash tubs, for centuries'. Six hundred years ago it was introduced by Jesuits into Austria, thence into Germany, Prussia, and Italy, in which countries to-day hundreds of thousands of acres of ponds were devoted to their7 culture, and upon which almost millions of people subsisted. The carp is a timid fish, and should never be in a pond with other fishes"; Big carp never destroy little carp. They*' hybernate at the first cold weather in the fall and come out when tbe son grows warm in tbe spring, exactly tbe same size they were in the fall, having lived through the winter with their whole body buried in the mud head downward. They grow only when the water is warm. They should never be. fed, but 'pastured' upon the natural vegetation of the poud. They do not spawn in sand beds as other fishes, but the female spawns upon growing vege tables and the males lash these growing plants with their tails throwing the milt over tbem. There are usually three males to one female. They grow more the second than the first year, and should not be eaten till they are three years old, when they will vary in length from a foot to eighteen inches, and in weight from six to nine pounds. They can be grown as cheap food for the mil lion, while it will cost nearly a dollar to grow seventy-five cents worth of any other fish. There should le three ponds, imma terial whether they were togethcr.or not. They may be miles apart. One for the spawn and yearlings, one fbr the' two year old's and one for the eating fish The pond should be as shallow as possible, never more than five feet deep in the South, and as much shal lower as possible. An average of two feet is the best depth. Tbe bottom should be mud if possible, and if tb?, pond is a ravine with pT^Sitous sides it should be filled up to prevent deep water. The dam should be so con structed as to enable the owner to draw or? the water from tbe bottom, and all water escaping from (be pond should go through a grate at the bo'torn of the* dam, so as to let off the cold water, there being at least twenty degrees^ beat difference between th^pr't and fifth foot of water in a pond five feet deep. There should be no shade trees near the pond, aud every eucourage ment given to the growth of all kinds of mud or water grasses. There should be a planked vat about two feet deep and ten fcet^square just inside the dam, in the deepest portion of the pood,- so* that when the water was drawn off to catch the fish they would all ^eek that vat, and could be dipped from it in a basket or net. The Captain said much more tba? was new and interesting, bat Fvc given* the essential points. To-night we had two very Interesting 'talks' on 'Sheep growing' aad 'The Hog with a streak of lean and a stfeaJF of fat,' which I wish I could report, bot have not the time, for in half bo** more I expect to be wending my waiy* Washington ward. D. WvATrAi?fcr. Extensive Feet Ex-Congressman Bill Slcmmtmds tells of a pair of feet thftt must hatfe* been objects of great regard in? tlieir day. One day a party of men includ ing Jackson, the man of big* feet; were preparing to attend a political barbecue. It was soon discovered that there was no way of conveying Jackson, as all tbe vehicles were full. "Let me ride that mule over there V asked Jackson. "There isn't a man In the world that can ride that animal. He'll work te a buggy or plow, but no man can stay on his back." -? "I'll try^darsn^ way," and the d< termined man instructed several ue\ to catch the mule and hold him./The animal plunged and kicked. buL?nally Jackson secured a seat in they saddle. Every one expected to scc^^mm dashed against tbe ground, but/the mule looked around, saw the roan/s feet, and walked peacefully away. JHe thought he was between a paieYof shafts.?Arlcanssw Trav?efi \ til-gotten g*hp* have tbe corse ?I God upon them.Nand therefore prosper. Beware of Ute?j