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WAt?B?4K^??bChhed April, 1850. vBe Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's, and Truth's." THE TK?E SOUTHRON, Established 9vhS? 1866/ l?g. 2, 1881.1 SUMTER, S. C., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1883. New Series-Vol. II. No. 27. I^^^HSsfrjnnaB at? JP&H? jpn I Karn ?md SotU?nm PubUtking HBF^ 8. C. Vfpk^ Dollars per to Dam-in advance. ^E^^^^^ ^^^^^ ??^s* ^ji^m^t. eTe%??as? ?jfrtsjrsatIffflbsgbargod ?i?sedrerttseoeote. I ^JWmMtAtlr e^i?mer will be ahM?OftYSSP~ " ' ? pTffress^ ss?k^ sad notices of ?ettbs pob B^ J^ ?T^?^T ibia ?a tb* Winding ElTto^U>> 3?JbttTy tbe . whole d?j ^^K-.^*- sahhae saddles are td! j dropped, K IA? tb?? Wrd't wia? that tbe ?tem bas K Jtad eroses j ?j tbe railing ma o'er one, n^pX?? UM ?He*U?d? when tb? work is W^"?r;t?sT * ?itbbbdun tooloo/ jfceUlss tVsn ?i tbe ?deof bil obi ?noe. ^$a> oaV ;hatTies! Incneeftay ??ve, ??S^ dall de j^SaWfbeJaVDd^tJjAt pleats^ o^^tb? tomb a p9t ^t?r tb*t jBMtks ?be^faffing lover ; %T?Mf mp o'er tbt ttemof tbe o?d canoe. J^tes?j? sad ontitgais, ? ^?b^?*tb*b?jtbtbe- rnety chain ; ? tt (I Jg! BUI I jailli of tbe benda of tie?, ^^^^B(*tofaaaew, 4?, BMetj a ?M with ? eeriest head, I W feg id[ it awa> feft? tb? pebWr .trend, " . Aad ae?died st aowa whet? the ?treen? KafttrW ere wild ?nd tbe eddies ere ?~- -7* .' ak I o'er tbe rocking { M b?*?* * ?heferoken tide, tat 4he faces and boots sere, ITO, s ?Utrowed from the old! canoe. , es I' le?* b*ef tbe crvssbiiog side, ; hstow rn tbe siaggisb tide, that I S?M? tbe jrsTer grown, ssa** tba* I best bara szieerr tone, bands that teat lo tbe tight skiff faariBat w|tb sterner thirgs ; lo thiak of tbe bonis that sped, wt?re tbe waves Asir white sed* tena or ut creen grase ^.^?.-.?C ir ? il i .. - et* the aid canoe. October 2?,1882.] Washington Baacroft and Everett were .v-e5ee, tbe iatf-fiamed told bow aller be md?*Tt<f*?*\t*n Ambassador had ?? hmm pswlnM? Her Majesty Queen I Victoria, Lord Melboorne ?utioated tint they woold be expected to join ros game of whist with the Dueness I of Kent. 'I play bat a very poor I csa** myself/ ?aid Melbourne; 'io . anet, f .earcery understand it ; bu t the l?fate^>?5.????ryfotH^offt., 'Andi/ l?l tie IfewpbKtag to Everett, ?amV ^"^gjE^^ ^ cbattce iesrofc? yo?r forbearance io adranceV -T t<b wWeb tbe fresmoaa (tavoy replied tint bwiww very tittle of tbe game ?hiecHL At be pot it, three digni? fies! personages, dad in gorgeoo* at* ore, were solemnly going to play a gase tbey imperfectly understood a?dfor which none of ihem cared in 4be least. Upon reaching the Itacneasa apartments the ambaasa tes were formally preaented and then, at her invitation, sat down to ajay. Af aoon aa the cards were deer,* letfy-in-weiting placed! herself ai tbe back of the Bacheas and tbe saater said : ' Yonr ?xceltenciea will escoaa sae if L rely opon tbe advice of saw friend here, for I moat confess tibbt I am really a very poor player.' This was almost too mach for Everet's gravity ; * gravity undia torbed fef tbe rest of the evening, jfawebe frond playing whist auder eocb conditions inexpressibly dall find playing an un ^dad work when he lost [doable dummy whist to Paris dab: fie paid tbe best grace im ly remarking that he tbe game and it a bad investment next night he met the , played high, played \e? long, and rose from w matt by ?30,000. be wbea tbe game candle, Lord Bacoos ?ver nave been tempted on tbe cards; for, weakness of bis play, red anything like One evening, at the 'arliament was agitating j Empress-sh i p of India, sat down to whist of Wales and asked 'What poinw, ?ir V 'Ob, ? pl naso/ was the tbe Premier's look , Bernai Osborne sir, tbe Premier, would rather have croton points !' The Prince, takiug the joke ?nd the hint, altered the stakes accordingly. Marlborough was not above playing for smaller stakes, though perhaps the Great Captain did not play high out of fear of his loving Sarah, who had' a tongue and knew how to use it ; like the lady whose liege lord con* ; trived that she should not more than ? suspect the secret of his bad boura, until, coming home at 6 in the morn? ing tired out with 'attending on a sick friend/ h? dosed at the break fest table and solemnly passing the j bread, said : 'Cut !' 'That's your sick friend, ia it ?' exclaimed the wife ; and what followed may be imagined. ! : A card haling wife caa upon oc? casion set ker ?era pi es aside. Soon after the close of the secession war General Forrest and his wife stopped ata hotel in Memphis, and upon ex? amining-their purses found the sum tota! ^of their wealth amounted to $7.30. The General, being due that evening at a house where poker was sure to be played, proposed that he should tempt fortune to the foll ex I tent of bis means, and asked his wife to pray for his success. She -would not promise, but he felt she was for him and knew how it wo c id be. Let him tell the rest hf?beif. 'They had tables^ one was a quar? ter-dollar table, one a half and one a dollar and a hal? I wanted to make my $7 last as long asl could make it, so I sat down to the quarter table. By dinner-time I had won enough to do better, and after we had eaten sat down ^o the doUarand-a-batf table. Sometimes I won, and then again I'd loose, anti! nigh upon midnight, when I bad better lock. ^1 knew Mary iras sitting op anxious, and it made 'me cool. I set my bat on the floor, and every time I won Fd drop the money in the hat I sat there until day broke, and then I took my hat up in both bands, smashed it on my head and went home When I got to my room there sat Mary in her gown. She seemed tired and anxious, ?nd though she looked mighty hard at me, abe didn't say a word. J walked right to her and emptied my bat right into the lap of ?er gown, and then sat down add counted it. Just $1,500 even, and that gave me a start.' . The wife of Bishop Beadon loved whist so weil that wheo the prelate told one of fais clergy ir^he^was able to sit ap half the night playing whist itt the Bath Rooms he must be weB enough co do duty at home, the inva? lided one silenced bim with : 'My Loni, Mts. Beadon would tell you that Ute whist acts as a tonic or restorative to dyspeptic people with weak nerves.' The Bishop's better half would have sympathized with Goldsmith's old lady, who, lyiug sick unA death, played cards with the curate to pass the time away, and after winning all his money, had just proposed to play for her funeral charges when she expired. There hare been stranger stakes still. In 1735, when Henry and James Trotter sat down at the Salmon Inn, Chester-le-Street, to play a game of cards against Robert Thomas and Thomas Ellison, the latter pair staking 5s. and toe former a child, the son of a Mr. and Mrs. Leesh, who, gave up their boy to the winners. ? travel? ler ia New Zealand, spending a night in a squatter's but, was invited to cut in -for a robber of whist. As be took bia seat be inquired : 'What points?' bis partner responded in a tone sig? nificant .of surprise at such a ques? tion : 'Why, the usual game, of course -sheep points, and a bullock on thc robber.' Unless Espartero and his foe Maro ta are much belied, more momentous is? sues were decided by the cards in a lone farmhouse at Berga ra, where they privately mel; to arrange a truce between their respective forces. No sooner did Espartero enter the room than the carlist chief challenged' him to a game at tressiiio-a challenge the Christino commander accepted with alacrity. Espartero first won all Marota's rooney, then his own con? ditions for the truce, article by article, and finally the entire submission of the Carlist army. Within twenty four boura Marota bad paid bis debt .nd the first Carl ist war was at an end. A Mr. Purdy, as the end of his bachelorhood drew nigh, let his old cronies know it was his intention to forswear card-playing after perpetra? ting matrimony. They thereupon put their heads together, and a day or two after the wedding, invited him to. a little dinner at Delmonico'?, at which be was to receive a $300 silver service. Dinner done aod the pre? sentation made, the party made them? selves and their guest merry over some excellent wine, and, when they thought the time had come proposed a game of poker, and after a little hesitation Purdy gave in 'just for this once.V His hosts had fixed things' nicely, and calculated upon winning the price of their wedding gift, the din? ner and tho wine. The game went on till long after daylight appeared, but by that time the intended victim had cleaned every one of them out, be? sides retaining lawful possession of the silver service. Even the sharpest of sharpers may meet more than his match. Robert Houdin happening to saunter into a Continental casino where a Greek was reaping a rare harvest at ecarte, looked on quietly until a seat became vacant and then dropped into it. The Greek, dealing dexterously, turned a king from the bottom of the pack. When the deal came to Houdin he observed : 'When I turn kings from the bottom of the pack I always do it with one band instead of two, it is quite aa easy and much more elegant. See I here comes his majesty of dia? monds And up came the card. The cheat started at the.conjurer for a moment and then rushed from the place without waiting to possess him? self of his hat, coat or stakes. Another of the fraternity, after win? ning ten games at ecarte in succes? sion, tried his fortune against a new opponent, and still his luck held. He ' had made four points, and dealing, ; turned up a king and won. 'My luck it wonderful,' said he. 'Yes/ said his adversary, 'and all the more won? derful since I have the four kings of thc pack in my pocket and the pro? fessor of legerdemain laid them on the table. 'I remember/ said a gentleman who had travelled in Russia, 'being at a ball given by the Empress to the late Emperor, on his birthday. 1 was playing at ecarte when the Emperor, who was wandering about came be? hind me to watch the game. My ad? versary and I were both at four, and it was my deal. 'Now,' said the Em? peror, 'let us see whether you can turn up the king V I dealt, and theo held up the turn-up card, observing, 'Your orders, sir, have been obeyed.'' A dozen times afterwards the Empe? ror asked me how I managed it ; and he never would believe that it was a mere hazard, and that I had taken the chance of the card being a king.' The Czar was as much astonished at the result of his remark as the young gentleman who, looking over a pret? ty girl's shoulder while she was play? ing cards, observed, 'What a lovely hand !' 'You may have it, if you want it,' murmured she ; and all the rest of the evening he waa- wondering what her intentions were. The Day Boarder. 'You take a woman,' broke io the day boarder, 'you take a woman on the war path and it just beats all how deceitful she can be.' Here he flourished his fork over the foundation of what had been a noble pile of buck? wheat cakes with a sort of 'come to my arms love' air which made the landlady shove them away out of his reach. 'What do you mean by being on the war path V inquired the blonde dress? maker. 'Gunning for a husband-after matrimonial scalps. I boarded at a private house in Omaha last summer, and the woman who superintended things was ouly hired by the real own? er to run it, bat you wouldn't think to i look at her but what she owned the whole city and had a two-thirds in? terest in the bank. She was just old business. She wasn't high fdr looks, though ; so ugly in the face that cats wouldn't stay in the house. One day a clerk in the post office came to board with us and we ail took a ten story dislike to him the minute he squared himself at the tabre.. But he wasn't there more'n a week before the boys put up a job ou him. After meals we used to pick our teeth in the Iront parlor and loaf around five or ten minutes, and every day we'd say something about the splendid lay out the landlady had in the way of town property and personal effects, and what a catch she was and how much money she laid by in the bank every month, and how long she had been a widow., and how economical she was, and suggest that she wouldn't be as bad looking if she would put on a clean dress once in a while and get some lunar caustic and burn off a couple of seed warts aTongside her nose. The postoffice clerk swallowed all this guff like a tripe-eater with a moibid appetite and gaped for more, and it was as much as five or six of us could do to keep him filled up, he seemed to pine for it so much. 'He began to dislike some of us boarders early in the day, he was .that jealous of us, and we could hear him muttering to himself going up to his room how that such and such a one of us would have to leave when be came to run the house and when one of us would guy him at the table he would choke op and glare at him as thongh he wanted to say 'That's -all right now, but you'll have to trot when I hold the ribbons.' Well the first thing we knowed he popped the question, was accepted on the spot, and it leaked out and we all congratu? lated the poor devil, and they were married the next sunday, and right away after the ceremony he tackled me just as I was going down the front steps and said : 'I guess I'll have to git yon to give up your room after this week. You ain't very pretty, anyway, no great shakes for utility and I hale to see you standing around like a bump on a log, and eating like a parcel of swine, Yes, I guess you'll have to go. I can rent the room easy enough to a gen? tleman.' I told him be must be drunk or crazy ; that he hadn't any control over the house, and he said ' What ! You scuffling parasite !' and just then his wife came out all dressed up in her ancient toggery with a big carpet Back in her hand and a water-proof cloak on her arm, and said if it was alt the same to him they would go out and look up some rooms to rent and then the postoffice clerk said 'What !' again and tried to smile, but he looked sicker'u a boss and his knee pans rattled together like a window sash in a cyclone. 'The mistress of the house told me/ said the new wife 'that I would have to dig out as soon as I got married/ but she gave me an old lounge up in the back attic for a weddin' present. 'Why-why, hain't you the owner of this house, the landlady V chat? tered the postoffice official. 'No, I was only a housekeeper.' 'Well, suffering Lazarus!' said the clerk, 'you've gone and fried a pretty mess of fish, you-you-1 and he , drawed back to strike her in the face, but I caught his arm, and the boys come out and we rolled him down the steps to the side-walk, and kicked him up the street a couple of blocks and left him there to work his way back to the house as best he could. Yes, | you take a woman on the war path ' and she's as deceitful as a house fly in the fruit cake.'-Cheek. The thickest skull on record is an I Ohio negro's. A bullet was fired at < him from a 44-calliber revolver, st a j distance of only five feet, and struck him squarely in the back of the head, ? It was a cold day for that bullet, lt i dropped on the floor flatter thad i a pancake while the negro's skull remained intact, and he turned on his . ! assailant and slugged bim io true Sui- j ? li van style. ] Bagging a Bull-Elephant Exciting Sport with* Jambo that Tore Up Nine-inch Tree* Like Reeds. A correspondent of the Gape Times gives the following account of an elephant shooting expedition undertaken by four Europeans from the neighborhood of Knysna ; 'The party entered the forest and after crossing numerous spoors finally came upon that of a veritable patri? arch, which they followed for about an hour; but the old gentleman's wanderings becoming too tortuous and intricate the party decided on taking a straight course through the forest towards the sea. Finding traces of a numerous herd, the spoor of these was followed until about twelve of our canine assistants in the proceedings lifted up their voices and announced the vicinity of the mighty game. As a warning of approaching danger, such an expres? sion of feeling on their part was hardly necessary, as the noise of fall? ing trees, the cracking of brushwood and the shrill and peculiar trumpe tings of these huge creatures was quite sufficient to cause every one who had not already raised himself to a safe elvation to wish that he bad devoted some of his idle hours to practising the art of climbing. Such a serious view of the case was hardly necessary this time, however, as the herd scampered off, leaving one of their number, a fine bull, to square matters with his tormentors. The party then rushed forward each anxious to se? cure for himself the best chance of a shot, but their ardor was somewhat chilted by a sudden and angry trum? peting on the part of the elephant, which always indicates that he is in the act of charging. Then followed a succession of extraordinary manou? vres on his patt, the huge brute tear? ing up trees, (some of them actually nine inches in diameter. Two of the party had just gained a friendly branch for the purpose of reconnoi? tering, when the elephant persecuted by the dogs charged straight up to thc tree and stood right under the branch upon which they were stand? ing. In this position it was consid? ered inadvisable to fire, as if death had not been instantaneous the ele? phant might have easily caught them. Almost immediately the elephant was seen coming straight towards the party. On he came in good style and after a fashion that left little doubt as to his intentions. There was no cov? er of any kind so the party stood their ground. The elephant was now, within less than twenty yards distance and one of the party fired but the shot failed to stop him. The matter was getting rather serious ; he was now within eight yards, making straight for the party. Another gpn tleman, who was armed with a double gun of powerful calibre, now fired but having only an imqerfect footing on the stump the recoil pushed him off and he fell right in the enemy's way. His shot though splendidly aimed, passed as was afterwards as? certained, through the elephant's trunk, snd glancing off under the ear did him little actual damage. He was now within a stride of the stump upon which all were standing The others who seemed to be reserving their fire too long, now let him have it and six ballets were pot into him ; these told, he turned outside of the tree and stubbornly retreated. So close did he pass that almost every one of (be party could have touched him with their rifle. As he retreated the gentleman who fell had recovered himself, and gave him a parting shot in the side, the result of which was a perceptible stagger on the part of the elephant, and was the first symp? tom he had yet shown of getting the worst of it. He now charged at the dogs, and having covered a distance of about thirty yards was again brought to bay ; this time he received a volley of bullets and dis? played as much indifference about the matter as if he only received a shower of mealies. Up tofthis he show? ed great coolness and command of temper. Another volley at about fif? teen yards' distance effected a wonderful change. Then commenc? ed such terrific screams and yells of rage-the brute knocking over every? thing he came in contact with-as surpass description. He was now thoroughly aroused ; the firing . be? came general and it was every roan for himself Right and left he charg? ed, the thick bush giving away before him like bulrushes before the wind. His course could be easily seen by the swinging motion of the trees as he pushed by them or smashed them beneath his feet. This, the first real? ly serious exhibition of temper on his part caused the entire party to draw together. They took up a position between two small trees, upon an old stump about eighteen inches high. It took ten more shots to finish him. He made his last stand at the foot of a large yellowwood tree against which the sagacious brute leaned for support. Three times he charged from this tree, and as many times re? turned. He was now showing signs of weakness and his trumpeting be? came less frequent. Collecting all his strength, he made another rush for bia enemies. This time he was bit hard ; he staggered, trumpeted once more, and with a tremendous yell sank heavily to the ground and died in a few seconds. He had twen? ty-seven bullets buried in him. -_^?,-?*. - Did you erer think, asks a Paris paper, how many male and female an? cestors were required to bring you into the world ? First, it was necessary that yon should have a father and a mother -that made two human beings. Each of them had a father and a mother that makes four human beings. Each af those four must have had a father ind mother-that make* eight human being?. And so we must go back fifty six generations, which brings us only Lo the time of Jesus Christ. Thc cal-, culation thus resulting shows that 139,245,017,489,534,970 births must have taken place in order to bring you I into the world!-you, who read these i linea. I A Story of a Quarter, An Old Sea Captain Who Found a Wonderfvl Difference "Atwixt Women." 'I gave you a quarter, sir,' said an elderly woman with au acid smile last Saturday, as she glanced through ber glasses at an old sea captain who had just doposited ber fare in the cash box of a Madison avenue stage. He started ap and rushed to the box just in time to see the quarter disappear through the trap. He turned around in confusion and said that be didn't notice the money, and that he thought it was all right. Then be hammered at the glass opening for tbe driver, and asked for twenty cents in change, but the driver wanted j to know how he was going to get dowo j into the box and get out the quarter, j He was sure he wasn't going to pay it ! out of his own pocket, and trust to luck j to get it back from the company. If i the passenger wanted it she could go to the office and get it. The old mariner said, 'Blast your eyes, if you be so mean, 111 pay for my mistake/ and he began to fish in his pockets for the money, while the woman looked like a picture of injured inno? cence, aod asked another passenger in a bitter tone of voice if the one who bad ? taken her quarter was not connected with the company. 'Me? exclaimed the honest old blun? derer, whose confusion was increasing because he could not find bis change. 'Bless you, I don't belong on land. Til pay you back this money, though ; but I don't believe I've got a cent.' He completed his vain' search, and, picking out an old memorandum book, asked her for her name and address, saying that he would call there that night and leave the money. 'Oh, never mind,' said she in a minc- j ing way ; 'it only teaches me a lesson. | Hereafter I'll pay my own fare.' 'Oh, I'll bring you the money, ma'am, j I just happen to be out of it now,' and he placed the memorandum book upon his knee and said politely. 'What's the name? I'll get the money to you.' 'Oh, well/ she said, 'let it go. It's all right. I've learned a lesson. I'll pay my own fare hereafter.' She repeated this several times with an air of one who know she had beeu ! swindled, and wanted others to know it. The old Captain, with flushed cheeks, asked again for her name, aud she at j length gave it, but as a parting shot, repeated that she had learned a lesson. 'Well, ma'am,' he said. *I am ready j to make all amends, but I get a lesson j too ; and while I'm not a saying wbat j it is so much, I've got it all the same.' j A pretty young woman, with eyes j that began to snap beneath the shade of j a big fur hat, could not repress her de- i light at this, and she said, in the soft? est tone of voice, to thc old Captain : .I'll tell you, sir, what to do. We'll collect all the fares that come into the ? stage now until we make up this sum, and that will save you further trouble.' The old Captain took off his hat and looked volumes of thanks. He was too j happy to speak, and he kep an eager lookout. 'Fiere's one coming, he said. The stage stopped, and a well-dressed j woman got io and opened a sealskin j purse. The young girl explained what I had happened, and the new passenger j said. 'Why, certainly.' Five cents ! went into the purse of the woman with j an acid smile. 'Fifteen cents more, j now,' said the old Captaio. shaking his i head, 'and we're safe.' He sighted two j more passengers, and his glee increased. They both laughed heartily in sympathy ? with the joy of the old Captaio, as he ! saw his debt decreased to five cents. The remainder was soon collected from another passenger, and finally the in? jured woman alighted without a softened glance or a parting courtesy. The old Captain looked after her and said. 'That wor a stress of weather. I didn't go to do it, but I'd got her money to her this night. I didn't tell her the lesson I learned, but I hope she ll re-1 member the one she learned.' There was a laugh, and as thc young woman who first suggested the way out1 of the difficulty was about to leave, she smiled a good-by at the hearty old j marineer, and he took off his hat and said. 'Thank you. Merry Chris'nias, j miss/ Then he leaned over and said : in a hoarse voice to a man sitting op ? posite : 'What a difference there is 'atwixt j women ; wonderful, ain't it?*-N. Y. Sun. -?e-??-e?^ A Man Without Fear. 'Bravery !' an old British officer of j marines said lately, when talking over the newspaper reports of the daring of ? some of our soldiers in Egypt; 'very! often bravery only means Satan getting j into you, for the time. You lose your j head-and your fears. Now, the brav- ! est man I ever knew was a convicted j thief. He oad smuggled himself into j the marines somehow, without letting it j be known that be was a ticket-of-leave . man. My lieutenant had once to take ; my men on shore to garrison temporarily a small fort near Girgenti, near Sicily '. i among them was the ex-thief. Hardly were our men landed and in command i of the guns, than two of the enemy's ; ships hove in sight, and soon they were j launching a landing party under cover j of the ship's guns. We were but a handful and no match for the boatsfull attacking us. Our fire was kept up ; steadily, but so was the fire from the j ships. The men in the forts were drop- j ping fast. The thief had a leg smashed. 1 At last-I am forced to confess it-the two or three marines who still had whole skins took to their heels into the 1 scrubwood behind. Poor chaps, there was some excuse. Certain death was i crawling up the hill upon them iu that j landing party, which neared the ram- I part with rounds of cheers. 'Shame !' | cried thc thief after his running com? rades ; and up he pot. loaded a gun, and fired it right in tho enemy's face, just two seconds before a sword thrust put him forever out of pain from his broken j leg. The man had always been a sneak? ing fellow on board, and we were sur? prised enough at the heroism of his end. When his loss was reported ? home, it came out, through some rela- . tive, that he was a convict. Poor ! wretoh ! he made a plucky ending, at j any rate I* A Boom in the Matrimonial Market. Our statistics of marriages in the State are of course liable to modifica? tion by the official tabulation of the census, but we will hold until other? wise persuaded that the number of ! weddings in South Carolina has in I creased in a ratio far greater than the yield of the corn and oat crops and the augmentation of manufacturing establishments. And, as the mar? riages pile up their glowing records, we find that the untenanted houses in the ?tate correspondingly shrink in j numbers. As regards the priority of the va- j rious counties in this matter we should conclude that Anderson, Ab-1 neville, York and Marion are in the j forefront of marital progress, with i Oconee, Lancaster, Lexington and j a dozen other counties close | seconds in the race. The Pee ! Dee section, we are gratified to state, show8a really surprising increase, which is probably greater than that of i any other quarter of South Carolina. Returns from several counties-no? ticeably Horry, Clarendon and Beau? fort-are quite incomplete ; but we j have no reason to judge that the epi demie has overlooked them, and i must attribute their apparant back- j wardnes8 to the impossibility of find- j ing space in the local papers for all of i the announcements. Supplements to the journals of those counties will, we are sure, be soon issued to catch up with the accumulated sweetness of these delayed advertisements. A significant feature of the situation is the fact that in Oconee, Greenville and other counties of the Piedmont region the local supply of preachers bas proven entirely inadequate to the j demand of matrimonial solemnization, as is shown by the calling in of trial justices to assist, to the extent of say 29 per cent. Taken in connection with the large emigration of negroes from various counties, these facts af? ford plausible reason for the expecta? tion that in a very few years South Carolina will have a comfortable white majority. And there is no broader sign of prosperity in the old State than this widespread investment in marriage, for it shows that the young men feel themselves wealthy enough to support wives, and that the deli? cate sense of the young women has coincided, coyly but heartily, in this conclusion. It tells of good crops and good salaries, and expresses a confidence in the future of the State which could in no other way be so eloquently expressed.-News and Courier. Wholesome Advice to Young Men. NEW YORK. January 20.-Robert J. Burdette, of The Burlington Haickeye, delivered a lecture, entitled 'Advice to a Young Men,' at Association Hall last evening. 'I have had a great deal of advice,' j he said, 'given me by older people than j myself. In many instances I know I j would have beeu much wiser had I fol- j lowed that advice. When a boy I was ! told to keep away from the canvas of j the circus tent, but I didn't. I am : wiser now. Although a circus man's j arm is not as swift as lightning, yet it i is mach more likely to strike twice in j the same place. Young men, you must ; be somebody to begin with. I dem't mean by this that you must be born of ' some big family, for ancestry don't ! count for much in this country. If you j have got the idea into your head that it does, you ought to be stuffed and set : up in front of a cigar store. When the j world wants you, my soo, it will find you. It won't ask who you grandfather was, for it don't care. People soon forget the names of the ancestors bf distinguished people in this country. I don't believe there is a man present here to-night who can tell me the name of Brigham Young's mother-in-law. [Laughter.] Make up your mind to do a great desi of hard work. It won't kill you. It's the intervals between work that kills people. It's after one of these 'intervals' that you wake up and find your bat four sizes too small and your coat several sizes too big. It's the recreation that kills. Ob, but it's only once in a while, you say-a very small matter. Well, although a bum? ble-bee is not as large as a dray horse, you mustn't haodlc him carelessly. Then try to get acquainted with your? self. A good many men die without having scraped an acquaintance with j themselves. If you are going to be j honest from policy don't be honest at all. The kind of honesty that can be bought and sold isn't worth much. Don't believe that cheek is better than j modesty or merit, because it isn't. If ; you never do anything else in the world, | marry. Don't be afraid your wife won't j look after you. You'll find she will be j able to do that to perfection.' How the Montreal Girls Dress. *I roust tell you how these girls dress," said a New York woman to uer husband. 'First they start with flannel from head to foot-and such flannel ! Why, it's an eighth of an inch thick. ? Then they go o?v like other women, ex- j cept that they put on more skirts, aud ; usually a quilted one that's hotter than j a wood fire. Theu they put on a dress, and over that a chamois jacket that fits ; like a shoe in the mud. Then they put ribbed woolen stockings over their stockings, and arctics over shoes. They don't care any more about the looks of j their feet thau the St. Louis women do. Then they put on knit wristlets, then gloves, then a fur or cloth dolman, ? then a fur cap, and finally a coil of j worsted comforters. When they are j dressed, if they are hurled at a speed of j a mile a minute from a toboggan they are unhurt. If they fall through the ; ice they are not wet If the therraom- ? etcr drops to fifteou below, they read of j it at the time. 'Didn't you tell me, tir, you could ! hold thc plow V said a farmer to an ; Irishman who he had taken on trial, i 'Arran, be aisy now,' said pat; 'How i the deuce eau ? hold it and two horses drawing it away from me ? But give ? it to mc in thc barn, and be jabbers I'll j hould it wid anybody/ [For the Watchman and Southrou.] A Chapter on Bees. Now that the time has come when every one 19 studying economy, the farm, the fireside, both alike are strain? ed to find the best and easiest mode of making or saving money, it is strange that we in the South have not studied the a?-t of getting the vast stores of natore's sweets that are annually wasted in tbe open air. i It is questionable whether any one of the industrial arts has received a greater impulse from the progressive spirit of the age than that of Bee-Keeping in the Northern States and Canada. While we in the South are satisfied with a few box hives with a couple of sticks across the iuterior to strengthen the combs. There can be no interfer? ence with thc inside of these hives and the bees are left pretty much to their own devices; they swarm at will, work when and how they please and yield up their treasure to man ouly at the cost of their lives. Our boney harvest is com? prised of a few surplus boxes that strong colonies may till in a good sea? son, and the contents of such .hives as are to be destroyed with a brimstone match, the sulphurous fumes of which puts an end to the bees ; by this sys? tem of barbarism the bee-keeper comes into quiet possession of whatever honey might have been collected in the hive. In modern Bee-Keeping things are very different. The movable frame hive takes the place of the ancient box ?.or straw "gum." The beautiful Italian, with its golden bands, have taken the place of the more inferior race of Bl?ek Bees, leaving them as far behind in the race for the boney field as our best blooded stock would the common road? ster in a half-mile heat. Close upon the heels of the movable comb hive came the discovery and use of the Honey Extractor. The combs being nicely made in the frames of the' im? proved hives are placed in the Ex? tractor where by the action of centrifu? gal force they are emptied of the honey as fast as it is gathered. Just as long as the flowers yield honey, the instinct of the bees impels them to keep the combs filled, thus the combs are filled by the bees and emptied by the bee? keeper. In modern Bee Culture man controls thc swarming, at his pleasure checks drone production ; selects his queens and causes breeding to take place when it best suits his purpose. Under the new order of things the honey is dou? ble, treble and even quadruple what it was at its best in the old style. It is a wtll approved principle that "what man has done, man can do," and what has been done in the North with bees can be done in the South. There are many who are making handsome livings in the North from the little "Busy Bee." Every farmer should have a few hives of pure Italians and not iu the old style, but io movable frame hives, and especially when the Ital? ians can be had so cheap. A few years ago a pure Italian queen would cost from J10 to ?20. Now they can be had for ?1 to $3 each. It will be asked, "how are tho bees croatrolled while all this work is being done in their midst ? The reply will be given in another article, as well as a description of the new hives, a chapter on queen rearing, and how to Italianize all your bees together with a few directions how to manage bees. BEE-KEEPER. The Habit of Saving. Children who have a little money ought to practice saving something Many boys and girls of to-day hardly know a higher use for money that comes iu their hands than spending it for some foolish things as quickly as possible. To such, a lesson in self denial and economy is very important. As goes the boy's pennies and dimes, so very likely, will go the man's ?dol? lars and hundred by and by. With? out having the spirit of a miser, the person accustomed to save has more pleasure in laying up than a spend? thrift ever knows. The way to keep money is to earn it fairly and honestly. Money so ob? tained is pretty snre to abide with its possessor. But money that is inherit? ed, or that in any way comes without a fair and just equivalent, is almost certain to go as it came. The young man who begins by saving a few dol? lars a month, and thriftily increases his store-every coin being a repre? sentative of good, solid work, honestly and manfully done-stands a better chance to spend the last half of his life in affluence and comfort than he who, in his haste to become rich, ob? tains money by dashing speculations, or the devious means which abound in the foggy regions lying between fair dealiug and actual fraud. Among the wisest and most thrifty men of wealth the current proverb, is *money goes as it comes.' Let the young make a uote of this, and see that their money comes fairly, that it may long abide with them. _ i- -".<?. - - Our Bodies After Death. Within a very near approach to truth, the human family inhabiting the earth has been estimated at 1,000,000, 000; the annual loss by death is 18, 000,000. Now. the weight of the ani? mal matter of this immense body cast into the grave is no less than 634,000 tons, and its decomposition produces 98,000,000 cubic feet of matter. The vegetable productions of the earth clear away from the earth the gasses thus generated, and decomposing and assimi? lating them for their own increase. This circle of changes has been going on ever since man became an occupier of the earth. He foods on thc lower animals and on thc seeds of plants, which in due time become a part of himself. The lower animals feed upon the herbs and grasses, which in their turn become thc animal; then, by its death again pass into tho atmosphere, and arc ready once more to be assimila? ted by plants, the earth or bone sub? stance alone remaining where it is de- j posited. ^ No matter if your income is small, bc strictly honest. The man that will cheat his neighbor out of a few dimes, is preparing to do somethiug worse. Strange Visitors: Considerable excitaient was produced" on the streets on Monday bj toe ap? pearance of a queer looking traveling party who came from the direction of Charlotte and were making their way in the direction of Charleston. The party turned oat to be a man and wife and their four children who had left their home in one of the Northern Provinces of Turkey and reached New York about five months ago, since which time they have been tramping in' this direction. The man led a young trained bear/ the boy bad a performing monkey ano thc woman led an old gray horse, opon* which was packed the household goods, including a young "turkey" securely. ensconced io a pannier on each side of the pack saddle, after the manner adopted by the Sioux squaws for trans? porting their M papooses'* when on af journey. The darkies followed them in troops" through the streets, manifesting as much wonder as if they had been visi? tors from a distant planet, and seemed! in doubt whether they were 'Mormons,' *Inguns' or 'Gypsies.' It was very apparent that they were* professional nomadic beggars and had' possessed themselves of sufficient 'pig-" eon English" to serve their purpose tri" urging their plea for money. On th?' whole, they were the hardest looking' party of travelers we have ever set eyes' ou.-Columbia Register. A Chance for Biz! Wc would advise some of oar enter? prising citizens to establish in this town a 'Collecting Bureau,' after a fashion of those now in successful ope? ration in New Orleans and other cities aod towns. The plan is to employ a corps of honest, reliable boys, aod bills sent to the ceutral office for collection will be placed in the hands of the boys, who will be instructed to dun and weary not in dunning. The boys will be uniformed io blue and yellow, and will wear red caps. If a mac does not respond to the bill after their second call, they will sit in front of bis place of business or residence on stools, with which they are provided, and stay there until the bill is paid, or the man's credit is ruined. There would be a fine chance for such a 'bureau' in this'place, the only drawback being the large number of boys that would be required, in order that one should sit io front of every door where bills are unpaid. It would use up the entire stock of boys now on hand, and additional ones would be required. There is more-money in such an institution than in matrimo? nial insurance companies.-Flortnee Times. Alligator Business. The business of catching alligators provides occupation for quite a number of persons in our State. The hide of a large alligator is worth $1 to $2. It is almost a day's task to skin a large one. Alligator oil, which has at first a most unpleasant' smell, is much valued as a remedy for rhuematism. Fisher? men sometimes eat portions<of the ani? mals body. The flesh of the tail, when cooked is said be like veal in look and like pork in taste. Yoong one? are bought by dealers at from $2 to $4 a dozeo, if not over one foot tn length. They fetch a mach higher price wheo retailed, as they are hard to keep alive. There is an increase io the selling price of fifty cents to $1 for every additional foot over a certain length. Alligators sixteen to eighteen inches loog are often found by dozens io shallow water, and they may be handled without croo? ble, provided the old one does not take alarm. Most.alligator Ashers are usu? ally turtle hunters as well, polling oct ttie animals from holes with a booked' pole.-Jacksonville Times. - in -? Saloon Keepers Sued for Dam-' ages. Mrs. Margaret Johnson, a widow liv? ing in Atlanta, bas started ont to test Georgia law on a point that seldom figures io the Courts. She has filed suits against several saloon keepers for dama? ges each in the sum of $10.000. Mrs. Johnson has a son named James, who' is cigeteen years of age, and whom she alleges has been made a confirmed drunkard Prior to the commence? ment of bis career of intemperance he was a mechanic, and earned $12 per-" week. She seeks now to get damages from those who are supposed to have" worked her son's ruin. A Rat TaiL A gentleman of Newberry tells of a' remarkable occurence showing intelli? gence in a rat. On discovering that a certain kind of oil was mysteriously ilissapearing from the bottle in which he kept it, he watched for the cause of its* disappearance, and was astonished to* 5nd that it was drawn from the bottle' by a rat. The rat clambered to the' top of the bottle, which was uucorked, aud lowered its tail into the oil ; it then' withdrew its tail and ate the oil that clung to it. This operation was repeat? ed until the rat was satisfied, or the oil1 was exhausted-or the performance was interrupted. That rat had, be? sides a taste for oil, something uncom? monly like reason. This tale is not 'of record in the* clerk's office,' but if you doubt its cor? rectness, the clerk can set you right. A tramp offered to drink as muofrlr ]Uor as anybody in an Evansville (Ind.)* bar-room would pay for, and proved it by emptying a full tumbler. Be then said he would drink twelve glasses of beer as fast as they could be drawn, ?nd succeeded in that undertaking. A few minutes afterward, in another sa? loon, he drank two brimming tumblers' af whisky. Then be died. The Philadelphia school boys who' embarked in silk cuitare two years ago* have enlarged their cocoonery in the' city to accommodate 80,000 worms*, with a branch at Swcdesboro, N. J., for the cultivation of mulberry trees. They have i "?vented a machine for winding thc silk from the cocoons, which they have bee* exhibkwg Wt public fairs.