The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, February 27, 1883, Image 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.'
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wasfntl ~nsy<.ensh,
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r their
QLftb, getting
of bet few who
we than a good fair
lien to who are
i Js Stttliai^ The
are always oa a
l^-work bard
aomeiiuw they can't get
are in old
i was even
red about as
>we. 1*be average
|d mo. There's
^Jreezmg, in this
few folks board
bet still there
on in the
; Most c^very
more or less; and
his to lap
merchants say
right now,
mswrcy for the
a general thing
itole dependence. Ifj
got any taon* r he is a bested
where the ad
farmer comes In.
of money and- still
corn and
i&eep and hogs and chick
to wear store
and his
old ones a
sro bare beaded and
et'ai_no company
hare to dress
, whether they
or xy.$. Bat it is a
a living,
I dWt know csaciiy what is the
is not
understand the
try to conform,
are Jost ?bleeged
* Knie and go in debt, and
When the
from the post
afraid to open it for
darned little
Used to
around him like a
HV are mighty
dottt, death and the
? nearly at welcome
A man who was born
to keep so or a
bora poor and has got
know much about the
got roach
class, and is
all to their impru
nt bot the met
oar rich men got a start
9*ro?built cp on. the
society w Rh ;ts ex
bold of 'em. They
now. I know lota of
ff they were to lose
conidff't start now and
They think they could,
; mankind are too
now for an old
any chance,
op in bis first
foney makes money
keep*money after it is
is a slim chance now
16 make money and
b> gan shot of so
eaa'bmtle himself op and
and tani his back
fortune,
moat of 'em
to marry,
op and
common
?faaaajbs girls are
??2mA ao if he spends
?be Is apt to
is* eotaes hoose
hire at: d clothes
Qu a strain. There are
I f?v Atting; rich uow-a-days,
bat when a mas does get a start, he
can ^et richer than they used to. A
half a million now.is about what fifty
thousand dollars used to be. But the
: average man is not going* to get rich*
and I reckon it is the common lot, and
'therefore it is all right. Nobody
ought to distress himself about it, or
hanker after money, bat somehow I
! cant help wishing that our common
j people were a Kttlerbetter off. 1 w ish
they were oat of debt and bad a little
j ahead?just a start. Why the very
j best people I know are about the
poorest according to their position in
[society. Look at our . preachers.
T^yrdon't banker after money nor
luxuries;; but they are entitled to a
reasonable living. I told a man the
other day stoat a man who bad got
rich, and he said he always knowed
be was a shifty cuss. The preachers
don't belong to that class. They are
not shifty. 1 wonder what is the
matter with the churches. They are
always behind. It ain't one in ten
thai pays the preacher. what they
promise. There is always a balance
to lap over, and the laps are never
paid. The chatcb wants repairs, and
there is no mor ey to do it with. I
don't know much about the cities nor
about all the towns in the state, but I
know of but one town that has nice
churches all paid for and well fur
nished and. that pays the preachers
all they promise, and that town is the
nice little village of Acworth. All
the rest that* I know are straggling
a'oog, begging and pleading and
hoping to do better next year. I
know that it is mighty hard to keep
up four or five churches in a little
town and pay lour or five preachers.
1 was reading about this the other
day fh- Scribner's Magazine?aboat
ti>v jew cb urch in Connecticut that
ha* absorbed ?11 others. They call it
the Christian League, and it includes
Methodists and Baptistsand Presby
terians and Episcopalians and has bat
one creed and that is the apostle's
creed. Towns that had four churches
and four preachers' to pay nave' con
solidated into one, .and everybody
goes there and helps' to build it up.
This^ movement begun in New Albion,
three years ago,* a city of thirteen
thousand inhabitants, and has Spread
all over the state until, as the article
said, every town in the State ' has fol
lowed suit. This is a new departure
sure enough, and if it is all true is the
biggest thing I have read about in a
Wnig time. I beard ao old mau say
the other day that cnurch money was
the hardest money in the world to
l^we7a?anietWas-iai^v()r of changing
the constitution of tbel?itfTeU^tai?*j
and have the government to pay the
preachers, like they do in England,
'For/ says he *it gets no better, but
worse; and if it wasn't for the women
the preachers would perish to death.'
He told me about a member who got
mad with another member and wanted
him turned out of the church, and be
cause they wonIdent do it he quit
pitying the * preacher. Jesso. Any
tniiigfor an excu.se. Well, you see
the preachers caa'fc- talk for them
selves, and they don't talk, and have
long since learned how to suffer and
be strong.
The trouble with churches is pretty
much the same that it is in any other
corporation. The members are all
stockholders with the individual lia
bility clause struck out of the charac
ter and no man owes the debt. They
feel like somebody else owes it and
are not' doing their share" of the pay
ing, and I reckon that's so, too. But
alter all, the big trouble is poverty.
The preachers ought to be all rich
and the people, too, and then maybe
Everybody would be happy. Maybe
they would?maybe. But whether
we would or not,, most everybody is
willing to try it awhile and see.
Manuring for a Bale of Cotton
Per Acre.
I I have a piece of ground I. want to
plant iu cotton this year?it lies to
the north. Now j want to know how
I must' manage it to the best advan
tage to make me at least a bale of cot
ton per acre, what manure to use,
how much and in what way? I have
been raising on an average one-half |
bale of cotton per acre, bot according
to my calculations, one-bale per acre
'will more than double profits. I will
tell you what I was thinking of doing,
but as 1 am young, and have but lit
tle experience in farming, 1 want
your views. The land last year made
ten bushels of wheat per acre without
any manure; I want to break it with
a two-horse plow as soon as possible ;
I thought I would lay off rows three
and a half or four feet wide, throw
dirt each way with a turner and sub
soil in bottom of furrow, ttien use
about forty bushels of cotton seed per
acre and compost equal to two hun
dred pounds guano per acre. Will it be
best to pot compost in w ith seed on
top or put it on each side ??J. C. H.,
Confers, Ga., Jan Slh. 1883.
Answer.?The preparation you pro
pose to give the land is good, but
yon are not quite specific enough
about the manure you expect to use.
We do not know what the*compost is
composed of. If you mean stable or
lot manure with acid phosphate, we
would suggest that all the materials
be composted together, and we sug
gest the addition of some kainit and
plaster to the materials you mention.
For one acre two hundred pounds acid
phosphate, two hundred pounds kainit,
one hundred pounds plaster, forty bush
els cotton seed, and equal quantity (if
you have it) of farm yard manure. As
said above, it is better to mix these
alt up into a com post and let them re
act upon each other in the heap, if
not, it would be well to put compost
on top of seed and in direct contact j
with them. The furrow in which the
manure is put should be a tolerably
deep one.?Southern Cultivator.
mm* > ?
The poor are only they who feel
poor, sad poverty consists in feeling
poor. The rich, as we reckon them,
and among them the very rich, in a
trae aeareh would be found very iodi
gest and ragged.
THE NEGRO TINGE.
A Startling Sensation in Baltimore
Society?The Child Bride of a
. Wealthy Broker Proves to be a Ne
gress?Suit for Divorce,
Baltimore, February 8.?One of
the most sensational and interesting
divorce suits ever enacted on the le
gal stage in this country will, at an
early day, engage the astute and shin
ing Blackstoue talent of this city.
The romantic details of this peculiar
life drama will certainly cause the
gossips, not only of this particular
locality, but of the entire United
States, to wag their respective
tongues with great velocity and to
roil their individual eyes with earnest
amazement. The story reads like a
romance, but every word is as true as
gold.
I Five years ago, among the 'young
j bloods" of Baltimore, there was num
| bered a young gentleman who, by a
happy combination of art and nature,
j was entitled to a high seat in the
I arena of life. He was youthful, 23
I years of age r handsome in face and
stately and dignified in form. He
was the happy possessor of $100,000,
safely invested ip registered United
States' bonds, beqaatbed to him by an
aged grandmother. The young man
had a very aristocratic and wealthy
mother, and she was extremely par
ticular in reference to her son's choice
of a domestic partner for life.
On a bright frosty morning in the
mouth of January, 1877, the young
man eutered a fashionable kid glove
establishment on Lexington Street,
this city for the purpose of purchas
ing a No. 7 lady's kid glove,, which
was the size that snugly encased his
small and finely formed hand. There,
to compress an individual world into
a few words, he met his destiny.
The young saleslady who waited upon
him was a beautiful brunette, with a
most engaging mein. It was the old
and ever new story. When he an
nounced to hie mother he was going
to marry this young lady there was a
total annihilation of the domestic
peace in that Madison avenue man
sion. As may be imagined the mar
riage caused a serious disruption of
family ties; but as the young lady
behaved so well under the circum
stances, she was so pretty and be
witching and kind in manner to her
mother-in-law, that old lady at last
relented.
Two years later the young couple
were happily keeping house in a lux
urious manner and the joyous pros
pective father was well known as a
shrewd and energetic broker. At
^bfs^en?^6T^th?^oung husband's
existence he discoverecLjhat his wife,
was using large amounts ?fjnoney in
a very mysterious manner. He began
to expostulate with her. "Bear," he
kindly said, "I am wealthy, I^Knoir,
but I cannot stand these mysterious
and heavy dt fla. What do yda"
do or want *with all tbis money?"
she returned confusive and evasive
replies, and the 3'oung husband was
much perplexed by his wife's peculiar
behavior.
About this time the proprietors and
patrons of the 'bucket shops' aud
lower gambling resorts of this city
were greatly amazed by the behavior
aud display of wealth which an aged
I colored woman delighted them with.
She was a veiy light mulatto about
the exact shade, as far as complexion
went, of an ordinary cream puff, with
; a couple of teaspoonfuls of ginger in
its culinary, make-up. She was a
most inordinate gambler, seemed to
be completely carried away by the
; passion of chance, and, while a con
: staut and heavy looser, was never
j short for more than a couple of hours
at a time. She actually appeared to
own a gold mine. Where she got her
money no one knew, and she never
told, but she had it, and that was all
that was necessary for the particular
business she was then engaged in.
I One fine day the broker found him
self the proud father of a red haired,
dimpled boy. He then did not find
so much fault with his wife for what
he considered her extravagant aud
useless expenditure of mouey, and
supreme content and unalloyed hap
piness held high carnival within . his
castle walls. One morning when his
cooing babe, now aged nearly two
years, sat upon Us paternal grand
mother's knee, a colored servant
brought her a letter, fiesh from the
wiry man in modest gray. She
opened it with a smile of peace, read
it with a gasp of horror, and then,
with one wild shriek of woe, she and
the infant simultaneously fell to the
floor. The letter, written in almost
au illegible band filled with an abun-.
dant of phonetic spelllug, containing
the following startling words:
j 'Your son's wife is a nigger. He
married a nigger. 1 am her grand
mother, and i am what they call a
mulatto. You would think she is
white, like you white folks, but she
ain't. If you don't believe me come
see me. I send my address/
A name, number and the name of a
street were at the bottom of this i
dynamite band-grenade. Of course j
when the old lady recovered from her
swoon she refused to believe that the j
I note contained the truth. However,
when the husband heard of the con- j
! tents he immediately began a strict
! investigation, and ?vhen the facts in
j the case became so convincing that
j the wife could deny no longer, his j
j young and charming brunette trea
j sure, with tears of anguish in her j
j beautiful dark eyes, confessed, in her j
! husband's arms, that colored blood j
i did run in her veins.
It8eems that the old mulatto wo
| man gambler was his wife's graml
| mother. His wife's grand-father was
a white man. and her parents were
j white, her mother having been more
I successful at deception in this line
j with her husband than the young j
j wife had been with her young broker I
husband. The beautiful brunette wile I
j then certainly had a very slight negro j
element in her physical make-up. It
I appears that the old colored grand
mother had for years obtained 'hush
money' from the young wife, which
she spent on her ruling passion?gam-j
j bling. The old mulatto was the wo-J
man who had so amazed the frequen
ters of the low gambling hells of this
city. When the young wife refused
to give the old woman money she
would threaten to write or tell the
secret to the aristocratic mother-in
law.
At last the wife, tired and comple
tely disheartened by the frequent de
mands of her purse by the old female
gambler, absolutely refused to give
her any more substantial * wealth,
never even dreaming for a moment
that at that late day the old woman
would carry her vile threat into exe
cution. But in an evil hour the old
female gambler did so, with the dire
results stated. As the voung wife re
fuses to give up her husband, and as
her attorney, one of the leading law
yers of this city, declares that under
the circumstances of the case the mar
riage is legal, it is stated that the
young broker, goaded on by his in
dignant mother, will institute suit for a
divorce at an early day. In appearance
the unhappy wife resembles the
average pretty American brunette,
and no oue not conversant with the
facts as here given would suppose,
even for a moment, that she had a
slight mixture of colored blood in her
veins.
That Bad~Boy,
The Trick He Played on Hit Pa in
Chicago.
When pa and I got to Chicago
said the boy, 'we walked around
town all day and went to the stores,
and at night pa was offul tired aod he
put me to bed in the taverD and went
out to walk around and get rested.
I wasn't tired and I walked around
the hotel. I thought pa had gone to
the theatre, and that made me mad,
and I thought I would play him for
all I was worth. Oar room was 210
and the next room was 212, and there
was an old maid, with a Scotch ter
rier, occupied 212. I saw her twice
aod she called me names, 'cause she
thought I wanted to steal her dog.
That made me mad at her, and so I
took my jack-knife anaV drew the
tacks out of the tin thing that the
numbers were painted on, and put
the old maid's number on our door,
and our number on her door, and
then I went to bed. I tried to keep
awake'so as to help pa if he had any
difficulty, but I rather guess I got
asleep, but woke up when the dog
barked. If the dog bad not woke
me op the woman's screams would,
and if that hadn't pa would. You
see, pa came borne from the theatre
about 12 and he had been drinkreg.
He says everybody drinks when they
go to Chicago, even the minister. Pa
looked at the numbers on the doors
all along the hall till he found 210,
and walked right in and pulled off his
eoat aod threw it on the lounge
where the dog was. The old maid
,Jrfe"a$tesp?NDut the dog barked and
pa said, ThaTclrSSed boy has bought
a dog!' and he kicked the dog and
the old maid woke and said^ 'What
is the matter, pet?' Pa laffe&^and
said, *Nuthin' the mazzer with nic^
pet,' and theo you ought to heard
the yel?Dg. The old maid covered
her bead aod kicked and yelled, aod
the dog snarled and bit pa on the
pants, aod pa had his vest off aod his
suspenders unbuttoned, aod he, got
scared and took his coat aod vest aud
weot out io the hall, aod I opeoed
oar door aod told pa he was io the
wrong room and I koowed it, "and he
came io oar room and I locked the
door, and the bellr boy, the porter
aod the clerk came op to see what
ailed the old maid, aod she said a
burglar got in her room and they
found pa's hat on the lounge, and
they took it and told her to be quiet
aod they would find the burglar. Pa
was so scared that he sweat like
everything, aod the bed was offal
warm, aod be preteoded to go to
sleep, but he was wondering how- he
could get the hat back. In the morn
ing I told him it would be hard work
to explaio it to ma how *he happeoed
to get ioto the wrong room, and he
said it wasn't ^accessary to say any
thiog about it to ma. Then he gave
me $5 to go oat and bay him a new
hat, and he said I might keep the
change if I would not mention it
again, and I got him one for ten shill
ings, and we took the eight o'clock
train in the morning and came home,
aod I 'spose the Chicago detectives are
tryiog to fit pa's hat oo a burglar.
Pa seemed affully relieved* when we
got across the State line ioto Wiscon
sin. Bat you'd a died to see him come
out of that old lady's room, with his
coat and vest oo his arm, and his sus
penders hanging down, looking scart.
He daseo't lick me any more or I'll tell
ma where be left his bat.'
IIIS PA KILLS HIM.
'Say, what was your father running
after the doctor io his shirt sleeves for,
last Suoday morning ?'[j?aid thejgrocery
man to the bad boy. 'He looked scar
ed. Was your ma sick again ?
'Ob, no, roa is'healthy enough, now
she has got a new fur lined cloak. She
placed consumption on pa, and cough
ed so she liked to raised her lights aod
liver, aod made pa believe she cooldn't
live, aod got the doctor to pcrscribe a
fur-lined circular, and pa went and got
one, and ma has improved awfully.
Her cough is all gone, and she can
walk ten miles. I was the one that
was sick. You see, I wanted to get pa
into the church again, and get him to
stop drinking, so I got a boy to write a
letter to him in a female hand, and
sign the name of a choir singer pa was
mashed oo, aod tell him she was yearn
ing for him to come back to the church,
and that the church seemed a blank
without bis smiling fac and benevolent
heart, aod to please come back for her
sake. Pa got the letter Saturday
night, and he seemed tickled, but I
guess he dreamed about it all night,
aod Sunday morning he was mad, and
be took me by the ear and said I could
come no 'Daisy' business on him the
secon?Vtimc. He said he knew I wrote
the letter, and for me to go up into the
store room aod prepare for the almight
iest licking a boy ever bad, aod he
weot down stairs and broke up an apple j
barrel and got a stave to whip me witfc, j
Well, I had to think mighty quick, bat.
I was enough for him I got a dried
bladder in my room, one that me and
my chum got to the slaughter house,
and I blowed it partly up, so that it
so that it would be sorter flat like, and
I put it down inside the back part of
my pants, right about the spot where
pa hits when he punishes me. I know
ed when the barrel stave hit the blad
der it would explode. Well, pa came
np and found me crying. I can cry
just as easy as you can turn on the
water at a faucet, and pa took off his
coat and looked sorry. I was afraid he
would give up whipping me when he
seen me cry, and I wanted to go on
with the bladder experiment, so I look
ed kind of hard, as if I was defying
him to do his worst, and then he took
me by the neck and laid me across a
trunk. I didn't dare struggle much
for fear the bladder would loose itself,
and pa said: 'Now Hennery, I am
going to break you of your foolishness
or I will break your back,' and he spit
on his hands and brought the barrel
stave down on my best pants. Well,
you'd a died if you had heard the ex
plosion. It almost knocked me off the
trunk. It sounded like a firecracker
away down cellar in a barrel, and pa
looked scared. I rolled off the trunk
on the floor and put some flour on my
face to make me look pale, and then I
kind of kicked my legs like a fellow
who is dying on the stage after being
stabbed with a piece of lath, and groan
ed, and said : 'Pa, you have killed me,
but I forgive you/ and then I rolled
around and frothed at the mouth, cause I
had a piece of soap in my mouth to make
foam Well, pa was all broke up. He
said : 'Great God ! what have I done 1 I
have broken bis spinal column. 0, my
poor boy, do not die V I kept chewing
the soap and foaming at the mouth, and
I drew my legs up and kicked them out
and clutched my hair, anu rowled my
eyes, then kicked pa in the stummick
as he bent over me and knocked bis
breath out of him, and then my limbs
began to get rigid, and I said : 'Too
late, pa, I die at the hand of an assas
sin. Go for the doctor.' Pa tbrowed
his coat over me, and started down
stairs on a run, saying : 'I have mur
dered my brave boy, and he told ma to
go up stairs and stay with me 'cause I
bad fallen off a trunk and ruptured a
blood vessel, and went after the doc
tor. When he went out the front door,
I sat up and lit a cigarette, and ma
came up and I told her all about how I
fooled pa, and if she would take on and
cry when pa came back, I would get
him to go back to church again and
swear off drinking, and she laughed
and said she would. So when pa and
the doctor came back, ma was sitting on
a velocipede \ used to ride, which was
in the store room, and she bad her apron
over her face and she just more than
bellowed. Pa be was pale, and be told'
the doctor be was just playing with me j
with a piece of board, aud he beard
something crack, and he kind of
thought my spine- got broke falling off
the trunk. The doctor wanted to feel
where my spine was broke, and I open
ed my eyes and had a vacant sort of
stare, like a woman who leads a dog
"bya string, and looked as though my
mind^was wandering, and I told the
doctoMfrere-. J^asno use setting my
spine, as it was br^e"lrr-se-V^faJ places,
and I wouldo't let him feel of the'3?Te4
blatter. I told pa that I was going to
die, and I wanted him to promise me
two things on my djing bed He
cried and said he would, and I told him
to promise me that he would quit drink
ing and attend church regular, and he
said he would never drink another drop,
and he would go to church every Sun
day. I made him get down upon his
knees beside me and swear it. and
ma said she was so glad, and ma
called the doctor out into the hall and
told bim the joke, and the doctor came
into the room and told pa he was afraid
pa's presence would excite the patient,
and for him to put on his coat and go
out and walk around the block, or go
to church, and ma and he would remove
me to another room and do all that was j
possible to make my hours pleasant.
Pa he cried and said be would put on
his plug hat and go to church, and he
kissed me and got flour on his nose,
aud I came near laughing right out to
see the white flour on his red nose when
I thought bow the people in church
would laugh at pa. But he went on
feeling mighty bad, and then I got up
and pulled the busted bladder out of my
pants and ma and the doctor laughed
awful. When pa got back from
church and asked for me, ma said I
had gone down town. She said the
doctor found my spine was only un
coupled and he coupled it together and
I was all right. Pa said it was 'al
mighty strange, cause I heard the spine
break when I struck him with the bar
rel.' Pa was nervous all the afternoon,
and ma thinks be suspects we played it
on him. Say, you don't think there
i? any harm in playiug it on the old
man a Itttle for a good cause, do you ?'
The grocery man said he supposed in
the interest of reform it was all right,
but if it was bis bov that had played
such a trick he would take an axe to
bim, and the boy went out apparently
encouraged, saying he hadn't seen the
old man since the day before, and he
was almost afraid to meet him.
-II mn -
An elopement came to a sad end at
Charlotte, N. C, last Tuesday. The I
parents of Miss Stella Martin were op- I
posed to her marriap'1 with Junius
Harrisbugg, and the lovers planned
that the young lady, who lived in the
country, should go to Charlotte, where
she would be met by her lover at the
depot, when they were to proceed to
Coticord and be married. The girl j
escaped from her father's house in the j
night and went to the city. Her lover,
however, proved Taithless and did not j
meet her. She remained at the depot
from daylight until dark, not daring to
leave the place for fear of mishing her
lover. As night came ou she recog
nized that she hud been duped, and
when a policeman came to suggest that
she had better leave the depot, he found
her a raving maniac.
The Kentucky journals are mention
ing, among other pathetic incidents of j
the present floods, the fact that three
hundred barrels of whiskey were swept
away from the city of Frankfort the j
other day. [
An Engineer at a Concert.
I was Ioa6ng around the streets last
night,' said Jim Nelson, one of the
oldest locomotive engineers running
into New Orleans, 'and as I had noth
ing to do I dropped into a concert and
heard a .?lick-looking Dutchman play a
piano that made me feel all over in
spots As soon as he sat down on the
stool I knew by the way he handled
himself that he understood the machine
he was running. He tapped the small
keys away up one end. just as if they
were gauges, and wanted to see if be
bad water enough. Then he looked
up, as if he wanted to know how muoh
steam he was carrying, and the next
moment he pulled open the throttle and
sailed out on the main line, just as if he
was half an hour late. You could hear
her thunder over culverts and bridges,
aod getting faster and faster, until the
fellow rocked in his seat like a cradle!
Somehow, I thought it was old '36'
pulling a passenger train and getting
out of the way of a special.' The fel
low worked the keys on the middle
division like* lightning,, aod theo he
flew aioog the North end of the line
until the drivers went around like a buzz
saw, and I got excited. About the
time I was fixing to tell him to cut ber
off a little, he kicked the dampers un
der the machine wide open, pulled the
throttle way back in the tender, and
Jerusalem jumpers! how he did run !
I couldn't stand it any longer, and yell
ed to him that be was 'pounding' on the
left side, and if he wasn't careful he'd
drop his ash pan. But he didn't bear.
No one heard me. Everything was
flying and whizzing. Telegraph poles
oo the side of the track looked like a
row of corn stalks, the trees appeared
to be a mud bank, and ali the time the
exhaust of the old machine sounded
like the bum of a bumble bee. I tried
to yell out, but my tODgue wouldo't
move. He went round curves like a
bullet, slipped an eccentric, blew out
his soft plug, went, down grades fifty
feet to the mile and not a confounded
brake set. She went by the meeting
point at a mile and a half a minute,
and called for more steam. My hair
stood up like a cat's tail, because I knew
the game was up. Sure enough, dead
ahead of us was the head light of the
'special.' In a daze I heard the crash
as they struck, and I saw cars shivered
into atou)s, people mashed and mangled
and bleeding and gasping for water. I
heard another crash as the Dutch pro
fessor struck the keys away down on
the lower end of the Southern division,
and then I came to my senses. There
he was at a dead standstill, with the
door of fire box of the machioe opeo,
wipiog the perspiratioo i-ff his face aod
bowing to the people before him. If I
live to be 1,000 years old I'll never for
get the ride that Dutchman gave me on a
piano.' And Jim and the boys walked
around the corner and took something.
Xeic Orleans Times-Democrat.
The workingmen's National Conven- j
tion at Cleveland, Ohio, and the Ceo-;
tral Labor Union, which held a meet- j
j ing at New York a few days ago, both
I oassed vigorous resolutions deuouncios I
J those "philanthropic protectionists who
! have endeavored to hire and import j
i pauper labor from Europe at pauperi- j
I zing prices, for the express purpose of!
pd^fr^lidin^Ajm^rican labor of its fair j
share in thermUual^^^ contem
plated by a protectiveita^H^' The |
point here made by the Ameri?23r
workingmen is not without significance
and suggestiveness, The advocacy of a j
high tariff has been principally on the j
ground that it was for the benefit of
American labor; that it was the only |
protection American workiogmen had
against an influx of foreign goods manu
factured by ' the pauper labor'' of Eu
rope. There was something so plausi- |
blc in this that Amcricau workingmen
took it for granted that it was true,
although many of them have been puz
zled by the experience that has been coo
staotly coming home to them that the
comparatively higher wages they re
ceived instead of enabling them to lay
by money, were absorbed by their house
bold expenses. Still, without consider
ing the fact that tariff increr^ed the cost
of almost everything they c. .sumtd or
used, including their tools, their furni
ture and their domestic utensils, they
have been taught to believe that a high
tariff was a protection to them, and that
those who supported it, even though j
they profited by it were their best j
friends. There are two things to which
all great industries are subject, and J
they have their origin io the fluctuations
of demand and supply. These are j
"strikes" on the one hand and "lock
outs" on the other. The strikes are j
workingmeu's means either of exactiug
an increase of wages or of resisting an
attempt to reduce wages. "Lock-outs"
are the closing of works or mines on the j
part of great corporations as a means of i
bringing workingmen to terms. But
into these customary contests between
capital and labor a new element was in-!
jectcd last year, when, to meet the ex- |
tensive strikes that then occurred, j
foreign labor was imported to take the
place of the strikers. It was not until
then that the workingmen and labor j
unions began to declare that it was de-:
lusive to say that the high tariff was a
protection to American workingmen if
foreigu labor could be imported "duty
free" as a substitute for borne labor' and I
as a means of forcing it to come to !
terms with employers. Without enter- '
ing into the merits of this particular
question, which involves qucstious of
policy distinct in themselves, it is cer
tain that such importations have given |
great offence to the labor unions, and
that their iudignation is beginning to
find vent in utterances such as we have 1
quoted at the beginning of this article. '
They find that a high tariff does not j
protect them from the competition of j
skilled and unskilled workmen from
abroad nor from high prices at home. j
Fourteen children were crushed to j
death during a panic in a school house, !
caused by a trivial fire, in New York
City on Tuesday. The school was attach
ed to the German Catholic Church of the |
Most Holy Redeemer and taught by
Sisters of Charity who temporarily loht1
control of their pupils when the alarm
was given. The children were crush- j
ed on a stairway, being piled in a heap i
and trampled by their schoolmates.
Extent of the Damages by the
Floods.
Cincinnati, February 21.?The lar- |
gest actual loss by the flood, is to the
gas company, ?100,000 besides the
loss of a week's business. The loss to
the coal interest is ?100,000 ; to the
city from broken streets, etc., ?10,- !
000 ; the railroads actual and indirect, I
half a million. The personal losses so J
far as gathered amount to hundreds of I
thousands but no complete estimate can j
ever be made. ;
. Louisville, February 21.?Since
daylight the water has been falling an
inch and a half an hour, and now marks
j 36 feet 8 inches at the head of the canal !
j and 61 feet 8 inches at the foot of the j
! falls. Many of the overflowed houses i
j are beginning to show up with liberal
I coatings wof mud, and in a week busi-1
; ness on toe river front will be rcsum
I cd. The Point, Portland and Ship- j
I ping Port are not so fortunate as j
j it will take weeks of labor and j
j thousands of dollars to put them on I
j the same basis as before the flood, i
j The damage to the cut off dam, alone,
j is estimated at ?20,000. Other public I
! works in the same locality have also
i suffered, while below the break in the
j dam the water will have to be pumped
; out at the expense of the city before
I the houses can be repaired or cleaned
j out. Nine-tenths of the inhabitants
will have to completely refurnish their
homes. Without unremittiug attention
from the charitable, the most iutense
suffering will continue for weeks.
All over the country wherever Ken
tuckians are to be found, they show
that they have not forgotten their
native State. The ladies of Louisville
j are tireless in their good deeds.
"Incidental Protection''
I Is the singularly beautiful name invent
j ed for the seductive process by which
money is conjured out of the pocket of
the farmer into that of the man behind
the little table in the great national fair.
Everybody is full of life and activity,
j there is hurrying to and fro, there is
laughter, there are cheers aud merri
ment and jokes and lunches and corks
popping and immense prosperity; aud
the farmer feels the influence of the
place and jingles what is left of his cash
in his pocket and knows he is having a
I good time. And when he stops before
j the little table and sees the thimble
j put over the pea and the dealer asks
j him blandly if anything could be fairer,
i be feels almost, ashamed to say he knows
where the pea is, the thing i- so plain.
And he does know all about it, but he
leaves the rest of his cash behind bim,
for the pea isn't there ; and his friend at
the little table tells him that he is better
off than if it had been, for now he is?in
cidentally protected against being rob
j bed, till he scrapes together some more
money and falls into bad hands. They
used to call it thimblerigging, but that
was before Heaven sent a party of moral
ideas with a bucket of whitewash for the
fences and an unlimited supply of flam
I ing posters for the dead walls; and
none but truly good men are allowed to
handle the little inker.?Ar. Y. WorV.1
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Manures for Irish Potatoes.
1. Is cotton seed hull ash, or mu
riate of potash, best to mix with cot
ton seed meal for Irish potatoes?
I 2. In what proportion should the
I ^o.tajU^fee^rnixed with cotton _gse4
| meal ? Fertilizes-te e^?a>?uTpounds
! per acre?600 pounds of cotton seed
: meal, 200 pounds potash ; will potash
! be too much ?
3. If potash is too much, would
any phosphates be beneficial ?
4. If no. phosphates, what other
fertilizer would you recommend ??
W. H. U., Memphis, Ten*,., Jan. Zrd,
Answer.?1. Either good ; proba
bly cotton seed hull ash is the better
of the two, but we have no direct ex-!
periment8 bearing on the point. A j
good man}' have been made where j
muriate of potash waR applied to Irish
potatoes, and the results wcie quite
uniformly favorable
2. About 100 pounds of muriate
potash to 200 pounds meal is a good
proportion. No danger in applying
200 pounds muriate potash to one acre j
of potatoes.
3. It would be better to substitute !
phosphate for some of the meal?say j
200 pounds phosphate, 400 pounds I
meal, and 200 pounds potash.
4. No better combination of ferti- j
lizcrs than the last named could be ?
had for the same money.?Southern
Cultivator.
Furm?n's Method of Com-1
posting.
- i
I notice in the October number of!
Southern Cultivator, an address by I
the lion. F. C. Furn.n, of Baldwin;
county, Georgia, on Intensive Farm-!
ing. I wish to try his method of:
making compost piles and would like j
more information on the subject. lie j
says cover the compost piles with six j
inches rich earth. First, is it really
necessary to cover the compost piles
with earth? Second, are the piles j
made under shelter? Third, please j
give me the address of the Hon. F. j
C. F'urman ??T. C, BenneltsciJle,
Marlboro county, S. C. Jan. 9th, 1883. |
Answer.?1. It is better to coverj
compost heaps with earth, for two
reasons : One is it keeps the upper
part damp, and dampness is essential j
to proper fermentation. In the se
cond place, some gases of value al- j
ways pass off from a fermenting heap
and the earth absorbs and retains
these.
2. Most writers direct that com-1
posts be sheltered from rain ; we do
not think it necessary and never'
cover them in our own practice. We i
fiud that heaps four feet high, with I
perpendicular walls, never loose any-;
thing by leaching from rain water ; I
on the contrary, the rain that falls on
one does not more than keep it eufii- i
ciently moist for a well regulated fer- j
mentation to go ou. Heat is always |
developed during fermentation, this
tends to dry off the mass and the rain j
about counteracts this.
3 Mr. Furman's post-office is Mil- i
ledtfoville, Ga.?Southern Cultivator. \
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- na fi?
Let every man strive to add a good j
? me to his other capital. i
News and Gossip.
^ Immigrants from the Europe to the*
United States now come for $20 each*
on the ocean steam er.
An exchange says it makes a woman"
sick to keep a secret. He mast have*
guessed at it. as it has never yet beetf
put to a practical test.
A Vass?r college miss reads the'
prayer-book response thus: 'As it
was in the beginning is now and ever
shall be, world without men. Ah,
me!'
The death is announced from the'
western coast of Africa of KingOmora.
ne leaves 703 widows. Of his 95'
children 75 are alive'. His oldest eon*
has 400 wives.
Here is probably the shortest Court
ship on record: A miner in California*
fell in love with a girl at first sight.
She was equally smitten with him, and
the entire courtship was: 'My pet'
'You bet.'
Colorless women should wear no*
j blue, save the very dark, shunning the
I electric and cadet shapes.?[Fashion
\ Journal. That's all right. Now tell
j us what a colored woman ought to*
j wear.?[Philadelphia News.
j Prof. Dufour has presented * new*
; and interesting proof that the earth is
j round The images of distant objects"
i reflected in the Lake of Geneva in cabn
j weather show just the degree of distor
j tion which a careful mathematical cal
j culation would predict on account of
I the shape of the earth.
j The Lancaster Ledger says the
j amount of cotton yet in the fields in
I that county is astonishing, and cites as
j one instance a farmer in Indian Land
! township who has one hundred acres
j that remains untouched io the fields.
I The scarcity of labor is attributed fas
j the cause.
I Gloves are no longer fashionable.
! Men gave up wearing them to balls and
j the opera two years ago, instigated
! thereto by the Prince of Wales, fi?t
! some wicked women, with pretty bands,
j brought it about that all the other
j women should keep their bands bare
I whether they were pretty or not. and
i they have to keep them clean?which is
j the worst of it.
I The Mormons have been thirty years
j buildiog a granite temple at Salt Lake
j City, and it will take at least ten years
j more to finish the work, in case it is
j ever carried into completion, which Ii
I now considered doubtful. There is dif
! ficulty in gathering the taxes levied
upon the believers for this purpose,
and the Gentiles already count on turn
ing the structure ioto a state house
when Utah is admitted into the Union.
W. C. Hawkins, living in Saluda
i Township, has invented a plow stock
j which can be used as a double foot, a
corn coverer, and by means of a rake
i attachment can be used as a cultivator
j and corn hocr at the same time. His
: plow has beeo examined in the patent
j office and he was officially notified on
i the 12th of January that a patent
would be allowed on his plow.?Green-*
ville Neics.
A bride aod bridegroom, b?ving
been shown politely over the White
House the other day by one of the pri
! vate secretaries or other men in 'wait
j ing, the groom, in taking leave of him,
phanded him a dollar bill and cried out:
-Taketn^jjlr. Arthur; if Fd have
I come and seeli^ou before election,
j darned if I wouidi?T4ra^evotcd for
you,' and the secretary kept ffor~d??3L
and the compliment without a word.
You see he hated to deceive the happy
j fellow and deprive bim of bi3 supposed
j pleasure in having seeo President
Arthur.
. Frank McNamee, "Dutch" Pillet and*
Levi Chew, the latter a colored man,
were lately arrested in Philadelphia,
i while driving a wagon containing five
dead bodies to the Medical College*
The bodies had been stolen from the
Lebanon Cemetery, a burial ground for1
colored persons io the lower part of the
city, Robert Chew, the superintendent of
the cemetery, and Andrew Mullet bate
also been arrested. Fuur of the bodies
fouod in the wagco bave been identified.
One of them is that of Hans Jorgenseo,
who shot himself io the head on Novem^
ber 29 and Hied on the 1st inst. The
prisoners were held in ?5,000 each for
a further bearing.
The late transit of Venus curiously
proved the accurate calculations of the
ancient makers of that, famous horologi
cal curiosity, the Strasburg clock. A
few days before the transit, tt^T^Amer
ican Register tells ns, visitors to the
eathedr?! inspecting in tbe planetarium
attached to the clock, noticed that one
of the small gilt balls r presenting
Venus was gradually moving toward a
point between the sun and- the earth,
and on the day of the passage the ball
stood exactly between them. Old Con
rad Dasypodius, the Strasburg mathe
matician, superintended the manufac
ture of the clock and its accompanying
planetarium some time between 1571-^.
the dates differing according to various
authorities; and it is interesting to
note that, after three hundred years of
existence, the clock faithfully fulfils the
calculations of its dead inventor.?Loin*
don Graphic.
The Mahdi, or False Prophet of the
Soudan, is described as one Mobamed
Ahmed, a Doogoliao. He is illiterate,
but has studied religion, has beeo or
daiocd a Sheik, aod has gained a repu
tation for sanctity by playing the her
mit. He has increased his influeoce by
marrying numerous wives among the
wealthy families, keeping within the
prescribed number of four by a resort*
when necessary, to divorce. In May,
1881, he openly proclaimed himself to
be the Prophet foretold by Mohammed,
preachiug universal equality of law and
religion, with community of goods to
all believers, and death to all who re
jected him. LiKe most prophets, he
was denounced by his own townsmen,
who proclaimed him mad. In ap
pcarance he is tall and slim, and wears
a black beard. He reads and writes
with difficulty, is head of a local order
of Dervishes, and has shown much tact
in uniting tbe discordant tribes. Tbe
number of tribesmen who fellow him ia
estimated at about 338,000 souls.