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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 Jone, 1866.
SUMTER, S. C., TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 1883.
New Series-Vol. II. No. 36.
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r^?isja??* for New Yf?rk-?o Wednesday? an
r\4Ba?ar?^ir?. Al?* wi:h Charle*ton j?ad Savanna!
?ft|^i?wajf fir'Savanna h end all p?.int? Sou-li.
^ . Conoect^?a made nt^ Black viste with Bi?rn
?ell ?. E. tA sod frost Barnwell bj all train
T> ^?eeP Aaga*ta ?' Dt?iat?>n.
lr. --?a atortaja BOUND TRIP TICK ET S ar
.\-SoM;t<? aad?roto sit Station* at eoe fir*t eta?
-fare for tho naad t?ip-?ok?te being ^*od-ri
0??Mb?y caoo, to ret ero. Kxean-ion tick el
AS^ jjsjt.10 oejs are regnlarlj ea sale co an
>" Ornes ?H *t**Wn* at 5 eeo? per mile f r roos
*fe?THEWCH TICKBTS to sU point?, era I
- JSjrfr^'*^ by appljins; to James Jone?. Aget
-'m&*jgi' D. C. ALLRK.
. '?v&Jkseoeral Paaaeivger and Tteket AgeoL
SOBS B, PECK, Seseral Manager.
' M. Cha Heaton. S. C
AND HARNESS.
yS& F???EST LEATHER ON HAND Bead
W b; worked op at the lowest li vic
--rof the latest 'style, and of ni
own v?rk?iaasbin, at my shop to sei!.
; .. larat^preparcd to do all kinds of Jobs i
}' "soy 4i?e ci bns?oess. All Orders recein
'. " sHlt t? proraptiy aUeoded to, sad with tl
jj cai cut catt.
-A foll line of
: UKI DY-M A DB HARNESS,
~ - SADDLES, BRIDLES,
COLLARS, MARTIN?
?? * GALES, and
? BVBR%*THWG ELSE
pertaioiag toa Firsw?aas^ Har ness Shop.
OLD HARNESS made to look aa go<
?tl REPAIRING Old TR?N?
% SFBClAf/TY.
^ W?l?^ ia say line GUARANTEED
tofjTe 3ATISfACTf05.
ef&uaeo* B^litaa Streets,
sf/
3MJC MS MIS MOTUJSJt AtAWL
?:
't.
Ita mistress of ? pretty hoaee,
And. often do I try
To nuke my worthy, faithful spouse
A dainty apple pie;
Bot when the pie is nlce?y none,.
With crisp and tender ernst.
My worthy hn*ban&, half in faa
Give? me ? gentle thrust,
By stying, u Yon cook well, Irene,
Withontgood Bridget's aid;
Bot oh.! my dew yon d'outd hate seen
- The pie my mother made,"
Ti* jost tte same when I make bread:
Upon my ear doth fall.
Ko praise to make my cheek bitten, red
His mother gets it alL
Bot then it comforts me to seo
Him gobbie what I make ;
Wbelber an apote pie it be.
Or loaf of bread, or casts.
WHAT ** WIF1V MEA XS*
,;8ays Ruskin: "What icio yon:think
the beautifnl word *wife* comes from:
Il is the great word in winch the En?
glish and Latin languages conquered
t?? French and Greek. I hope the
French will some day get. a word for it
u-ptead of femme. Bat what do you
"?ink it comes from? The great raine
: et the Saxon words, is that they mean
-onething. 'Wife means 'weaver?1
Yoe must either be house-wives oz
home-moths, remember that In the
deepeense, you most either weave men's
fortutes and embroider them, or feed
upon^nd bring them to decay. Wher?
ever atrae wife com?*, home is always
ciooii^her- The stars may be over her
Jb^tb? glow-worm in the night's cold
"rass aay be the 'file at her feet, bat
?some is where she is, and for a noble
?womal it stretches far around her, bet
houses-ceiled with cedar or
with vermill ion-shedding its
for those who else are home
... -
I believe, is the woman's
and power.w
^The
dear
axe-put
els*. wh<
atmosp:
I Heve the
ately eond*
latent heat
verted
?ir. and tin
'Maury's Pl
BECAUSE
a citizen of
co^nmitt^d s
of Thoniasse
harbor of
Government
?ame, but
WH8 SO
th*? Jests he
that he with?
terconrse and
I anthropic.
, seek relief in
tempts at i
succeeded
j ?re, in pre
np hia vaiuab
creature s
them.
CALMS UV WINTER.
.untrieVwhere the weather in
is intensely cold, the atten
stranger is called to the fact
bitterest cold days and nights
is always calm and clear;
wind to blow at such time,
nor -beast would be able to
blast.- Clear weather iii
a dry atmosphere, and a
being favorable to ra
[ diat?on, demits the heat to escape from
the earthks ter than the sun imparts it ;
at such (?es it turns cold. There is,
on such apasions, not enough vapor is
tho air io\condensed even into.a cloud
that the weather remains
until the winds, which
lion by some of the agents
;hich give circulation to thc
bring vapor-laden air to re
The vapor is im m edi
into clouds or snow, its
t free, and, this being cou
dble heat, it warms the
nae cold is at an end
Gefjprapfty.
e the name ot* Thomas,
berstadt, Germany, has
de. After the explosion
infernal machine, in the
en, he f-jpiied to the
leave to changa hie
?on was denied Ht
by this refusal and ba?
bear in consequence
wholly from social in?
ure moody and mis
y^hs determined to
and, after several at
hich were frustrated,
g himself. He took
for his end, to burn
so th tt no human
ve benefit from
: EifSROIDEltEDM - Tc
?rash a Soe canoe handkerchief, em?
broidered in co*, 1 silks, so that, the
t solars do not ruthe secret is to wash
in a soap lather vAqnickly, wring thor
jnghly and then i?, so that it dries at
once. There sho-i he no soaking, and
the embroidered taner kept ont o?
che water as nta?h) puss i Me. A little
?lum in the water make the process
toore ?ure. j
TKEb Ca>j WASTE LAND.
Hitheito the alliance of natural
timl>er in this counrl has made it easy
lo dispense with timi: culture, and for
the most part our Ld owners have
taken little interest a such slow-grow?
ing crops. This std of things, how?
- ever, is rapidly passim away. The de*
maud for special wooftor manufactur?
ing purposes-is stead&nd rapidly in?
creasing, while the nial supply is di?
minishing and must ?nate?y become
quite inadequate, Imtime, there are
mi Hons bf acres of lafiiir&ble for tim?
ber culture and for*nAg else, except
poor pasturage, that oj: d owners are
allowing to lie waste ftdle for lack of
a little forethought, afioo frequently
our would-be thrifty fiers will risk
their surplus menus inld-cat specula?
tions, promising bu Aver yielding
large and speedy refis, when the
same money spent iulntiug timber
would soon convert lir worthless
swamps and stony pluclnto valuable
properties. 1
A correspondent, wA from Wis?
consin, tells of s piece <Bud that was
planted with walnut trfi-thrce years
ago. The land was floofivery spring
andsumrocr, and w;ts ufipr any ordi?
nary cultivation. The ls are now
from sixteen to twenty MR through,
and have been sold fofiy^oOO. No
particulars are given as ?the cost of
planting the grove or thenmut of at?
tention it has had durinfie years of
growth. There can belle doubt,
however, that the investra was small
in comparison with the rm*, and the
land would otherwise havAained un?
productive. To the counfihe timber
j crop was so much clear gakt is clear
that oar national resoorcfiiight be
enormouslyincreased by *ilar util?
ization by timber culture olds which
are now left unused and Adactive,
and the planters would fluir groves
a surer investment for thapiri ty of
their family possessions tmuifca,Tings
\\*Qk***Q*k-Scientific M
ROMANTIC, BUT REAL.
THB ADVENTURES WITH WHICH A YOUNG
GIRL MET ON ACCOUNT OF A 8GCRET MAR
j RIAGE.
.If you're in search of romance, go
to rea! life for it/ said a prominent
lawyer to a Boston Globe reporter
! who had called upon him in his office.
'The realm of actual facts is richer in
material for fiction that the1 deepest
recesses of the most fertile imagina?
tion. In 1875 a woman came to me
aud told me the following remarkable
tale:
?In 1861, when ? was still in school
and but sixteen years of age, I was
living with my pareuts in a Massachu?
setts town. Boarding with them was
! a young man with whom I associated
considerably. One day we were
sleigh-riding in a neighboring town
together, when he made to me a pro*
position of marriage and urged ^ its
immediate acceptance and execution.
After some hesitation I consented,
and we went at once to the nearest
minister, who tied for us the matrimo?
nial knot. No one saw us save the
minister and wife, both of whom
wereoyer seventy years of age, and
to whom we were entire- strangers.
We came back then to my parent's
bouse, but told them not a word of
what had-happened. Ostensibly we
lived as before, but secretly in our
new relations of husband and wife.
After a few weeks I mustered up
courage enough to sound my mother
fo r tlie purpose of ^ascertaining how
she Would receive the news of our
marriage should we reveal it. So
Strong a dislike did she express re?
garding my husband when 1 hinted at
the possibility of his becoming such,
that my courage vanished, and I gave
up al! thought of renewing the sub?
ject. But th? necessity of promptly
taking some decisive step was soon
made apparent to me. At this junc?
ture my husband, saying that he had
accomplished his intentions and satis?
fied his designs, basely and heartless?
ly deserted me and enlisted in the
army. What was I to do ? After
j much thought 1 decided that I must
get leave of absence from home on
some pretext or other. Sol asked
permission of my parents, when sum
? mer arrived, to spend my vacation at
the home of a schoolmate in a Vermont
; town. They consented, and I went
to a town of moderate size in Ver
i mont, where I was utterly unacqu&int
\ ed aud had no schoolmate whatever.
Arriving at the station, I asked to be
driven to the best doctor's and in his
office I told him of my sad situation
and asked him to find mea quiet place
in which to board. Ile was very
kind, and did for me these things and
more. But I concealed my identity
from him and every one else. Only
thc people with whom 1 boarded knew
of my presence in tbs town. FinaUy
my child was born and adopted by a
gentleman and lady whose kind offices
bad been secured by the doctor, but
who knew nothing of me. Then I
wrote to my parents, saying that I
had been sick, though not seriously,
and had lost a good deal of flesh, but
should return to them as soon as able
to travel. I did soon return, and no
one bas ever suspected the object of
my journey. I graduated from school
and am now employed as book-keep?
er in a store in this city. No one
dreams that 1 am a married woman,
and you.are the only person to whom
I have told any portion ot ray story.
Since my child was born the only ex?
ternal reminder that I have had of
my experience occurred one day when
I was startled by the entrance into
the store where I am employed of the
couple who adopted my child, accom?
panied by the child itself ; and I assure
you that wu en the little one picked
up some trifle from the counter and
said to me, 'Can 1 have that, ladv V
it was the most-trying moment of my
life, and only with the greatest exer?
tion did I retain my self-control.'
'But why do you come to me with
your story this late day V interrupted
h * What can I do for j*on V
'Simply, because,' she answered,
'my husband, from whom I had never
beard since he enlisted in 1861, ap?
peared before me about a week ago
demanded recognition of his relation?
ship. I refused to have anything to
do with him, since which he has been
harrassing and annoying me in every
possible way, and I live in fear that
my poor mother, now an invalid, wi!l
in some way learn the facts and die
in consequence of the shock. I come
to you, sir, to leam if there is a way
by which to avoid this calamity.'
'I considered the matter, and finally
advised her to leave the city on a va?
cation of thirty days, telling no one
wltere she was except her mother, to
whom she should give such reasons
for her departure as would disarm
suspicion. A few days later she
came to my office about 9 o'clock in
, the morning and said she was to leave
for New Hampshire by the J1 o'clock
train that day. She went, but three
days afterward appeared again in my
office, much to my surprise.
' What are you doing here again V
asked 1. *
'She replied: 'You advised me
better than you knew. I left, as I
said I would, by the ll o'clock train.
When it reached a certain city, where
all trains stop, a stranger entered the
car in which I sat, and asked in a
loud voice: 'Is Miss-in this
oar V The name that he mentioned
was my own. I was much startled,
but felt at once that my husband had
discovered my departure and the di?
rection of my journey and had fol?
lowed me. However, not wishing t?>
play the coward alter a fourteen j
years' struggle for independence, I !
resolved to face the music, and re?
sponded to the stranger's question.
'Follow me,' he said somewhat
peremptorily. 1 obeyed and he con
dueled me to a buggy di awn by a
pair of horses foaming with sweat.
We got in and he drove off at a tre?
mendous rate, not saying a word.
Finally he stopped before a house,
which he told me to enter. Again I
obeyed and was met at the door and
ushered into a room where lay my
dying husband, with a lawyer and ;
minister by bis bedside. It took1
but a few moments to explain the
possibility of this surprising situation.
My-husband had come to the city in
which we were, knowing it to be a j
stopping place for all trains, with the
view of boarding every .train till he
should find me. The intervals be?
tween the train arrivals he had spent
in driving about the city m a buggy.
While thus enjoying himself he was
thrown out and fatally injured. Taken
into the nearest house and informed !
that he had but ? short time to live,
"lie hastily summoned a lawyer and a
minister, and dispatched a stranger to
the depot in the buggy from which
he had been thrown, with instructions
to find me if possible. His object in
summoning a lawyer was to make a
win* bequeathing his estate to me. I
declined to accept anything from him
or to recognize him as my husband.
ID fifteen minutes he was a corpse.
Then I burned back to Boston, and
as a result you see me here. As I
said before, you advised me better
than you knew.7
'She went away, and from that
day to this, with the exception of one
occasion when I passed her on the
street, 1 have not laid eyes upon her/
'It is, indeed, a romance,' said the
reporter.
'Yes,* the lawyer answered, 'and I
am sure of its truth.*
"That Bad Boy
'Every time pa says anything,' TC
marked the bad, bad boy, addressing
the grocery man, 'it gives me a new
idea. I tell you pa bas got a great
brain, but sometimes be don't have it
with bira. When be said the other
day that 'I was a terror to cats,* 1
thought what fun there is in cats, and
my chum went to stealing cats right
off, and before night we had eleven
cats caged. We had one in a canary
bird cage, three in pa's old hat boxes,
three in ma's bandboxes, four in va
lises, two in a trunk, and the rest in
a closet up stairs. That night pa said
he wanted me to stay at home, be?
cause, the commitee that is going to
get up an oyster supper in the church
was going to meet at our house, and
they might want to send me on er?
rands. I asked him if my chum could
stay too, 'cause he is the healthiest
infant to ruo after errands that ever
was, and pa said he could stay, but
we must remember that there musn't
be no monkey business goiqg on. I
told him there should not be any busi?
ness, but I didn't promise nothing
about cats. Well, sir; you'd a died.
The committe was in the library, by
the back stairs, and me and my chum
got the cat boxes all together at the
top of the stairs, and we took them
ali out and put them in a clothes bas?
ket, and just as the minister was
speaking, and telling what great
good was done by these oyster socia?
bles, in bringing the young people to?
gether, one of the old tom cats in the
basket gave a 'purmeo w ' that sounded
like the wail of a lost soul, or a chal?
lenge to battle. 1 told my chum that
we couldn't hold the bread-board over
tbe clothes basket much longer, when
two or three cats began to yowl, and
pa told ma to open thc stair door
and tell the hired girl to see what
the matter was up there. She
thought our cat had got shut up in
the storm door, and she opened the
stair door to yell to tbe girl, and then
I pushed the clothes basket, cats and
ali down the back stairs. Well, sir,
I 'suppose no committee tor an oys?
ter supper was ever more astonished.
I heard ma fall over, a willow rocking
chair and say 'scat,' and 1 heard pa
say something, and a girl that sings
in the choir say, '1 am stabbed,* then
'my chum and me run to the front of
the house and come down the front
stairs, looking as innocent as could
be, and we went in the library, and 1
was just going to fell pa that if there
was any errands he wanted us to run
my chum and me was just aching to
run them, when a yellow cat without
any tail was walking over the minis?
ter, and pa was throwing a hassock
at two cats that were clawing each
other under the piano, and ma was
trying to get her frizzes back on her
head, and the choir girl was standing
on the lounge with her dress pulled
up trying to scare cats with her stri?
ped stockings and the committee
broke up. Well, to tell the honest
truth, pa knew I had something to do
with the muss, and basted me, and
yanked me around until I had lo have
my arm in a sling ; but what's the
use of making such a fuss about a few
cats ? Ma said she never wanted to
have any company again, 'cause I
spoiled everything. But I got even
with pa for basting me, this morning,
and 1 dassent go home. You sue, ma
has got a great big bath sponge, as
big as a chair cushion, and this morn?
ing, I took the feather cushion out of
the chair pa sits in at the table, and
put the sponge in its place, and cov?
ered it over with the cushion cover,
and when we all got set down to the
table pa came in and set down to ask
a blessing. He started in by closing
Iiis eyes and placing his hands up in
front of him like a letter V., and then
he began to a k that the food we were
about lo partake of be blessed, and
then he was going on to ask that all
of us be made to see the errors of our
ways, when he began to hitch around,
and he opened one eye and looked at
nie, and 1 looked as pious as a boy
eau look when he knows the pancakes
are gettiug cold, and pa he kind o'!
sighed and said 'Amen' sort o' snap- j
pish, and got up and told ma he didn't j
feel well, and ?lie would have to take
his place and pass around thesausage'
and potatoes, and lie looked kind o'
?cart and went out with his hand on
his pistol pocket, as though he would |
like to shoot, and ma she got up and j
went around and sat in pa's chair.
The sponge didn't hold more than half I
a pail full of water, and I didn't want j
to play no joke on ma, 'cause the cats
nearly broke her up, but she sat
down, and was just going to help me,
when she rang the bell and called the
hired gili, and said she felt as though I
her neuralgia was coming on, and she
would go to her room, and told the
girl to sit down and help Hennery.
The girl sat down and poured me out
some coffee, and then said : 'Howly
Saint Patrick ! but 1 blave those pan- [
cakes are burning/ and went out in j
the kitchen. 1 drank my coffee and j
then took the big sponge out of the i
chair and put the cushion in the place !
of it, and then I put the sponge in thc j
bath room, and ] went up to pa and
ma's room and asked them if I should j
go after the doctor, and pa had !
changed his clothes and got on his j
Sunday pants, and he said, 'never '
mind the doctor, I guess we will pull I
through,' and for me to get out, and j
I came over here. Say, there is no j
harm in a little warm water is there ? j
Well, I'd like to know what pa and ?
ma and the hired girl thought. 1 am j
the only real healthy one there !
is in our family.'-Peck's Sun.
Cotton Seed Meal vs. Cotton
Seed.
We give below answers to ques- j
tions propounded to the Southern j
Cultivator concerning composting j
with cotton seed meal instead of the ?
whole cotton seed. It will be seen j
that one ton of meal is valued as high ;
as three tons of seed. We call atten- j
tion to the fact that Maj. Dennison j
offers to give one ton of meal for t?vo |
of seed delivered at railroad stations
dr landings on Trent, Tar and Neuse
rivers :
1. Mr. F. C. Furman's wonderful
farming and formula seem to have
created great deal of sensation among
the farmers. Please inform me if it
will pay to use cotton seed meal, and
what proportion, instead of thirty
bushels cotton seed, as it is in Mr.
Furman's formula, for each acre for
cotton ? It is impossible to get suffi?
cient cotton seed here to mix with
|he other ingredients of his formula.
2. 1 have a great deal of rich river
mold or muck on the river bottom,
which I wish to mix or compost for
cotton. Will it pay me to mix 60 j
bushels or more muck with 100 or
200 pounds kainit and 200 or 400 j
pounds acid phosphate for each acre ? !
Will it pay also lo add cotton seed I
meal to it, and in what proportion ? j
My land averages about 350 or 400
pounds of seed cotton per acre with?
out manure. Do you think this mik*
I ture or compost will make cotton
yield well, also prevent it from shed?
ding or rust?ug ?
NEW SUBSCRIBER, S. C.
Cheraw, S. C.
ANSWER.-1. Yes. Cotton seed meal
will answer in place ot whole cotton
seed. Use one-third as much meal
as seed (by weight).
2. If your muck is rich in vegeta?
ble matter, it will make an excellent
compost with acid phosphate, kainit
and cotton seed meal ; add 100 pounds
of the meal to every 200 pounds of
acid phosphate. The more muck the
better-the expenses of handling be
ing the chief consideration, looking,
at the matter from an economic point
of view.-Journal.
ii>i mm
Presidental Fishing,
President Arthur has gone down to
Florida on a fishing scrape. He took
along with him the secretary of some
other acting secretary of assistant act?
ing secretary of the secretary of some
other secretary of the Secretary of
War. It will thus be seen that there
is considerable royal blood in the party.
We expect Arthur wanter! a secretary
along to keep tally of the fish he caught
and the number of actual bites re?
ceived between drinks. The President
is a wholesale fisherman, and probably
requires a good book-keeper to properly
post accounts.
In our mind's eye we can see the
President and his secretary in a little
perogue, the President in the stern and
the secretary on the quarter deck, bob?
bing for sunfish and cussing the sun
and the luck. The 250 pounds of
President lists the perogue so that the
frail craft is down by the stern' and
high in the air at the secretary cod.
No boat can trim well loaded with such
an ill-assorted cargo, aud the chances
are that Florida water will creep over
j the stern sheets of the boat and wet
the President's pants, and he will be
obliged to haul down the President's
flag from the jackstaff and use it to
mop up the bilge water swashing
around in the scuppers and filled with
peices of angleworms, co\ e oyster ca?s,
crab's claws, and gasping, pop-eyed
sunfish. There will be a bad smell
arising from the bottom of the boat
and the adjacent marsh, and tbe Presi?
dent will be reminded of a night ses?
sion of Congress. The President will
do all the fishing, and the secretary will
steer the boat, drink whiskey, keep
count, and bore the President with ap
! plications for a position as clerk in the
Treasury department for the secretary's
wife's brother-in-law, just now work?
ing in a sugar bush out in Iowa. Then
the Presideut will spit on his bait and
saJ? *I guess so ; niebbe, p'raps, dun
no, possibly,'aud throw for another bile j
and a big alligator gar will walk off with ?
the hook and almost pull the President i
in after him, and the secretary will get
excited and crane his neck over the ;
gunwale and the crank perogue will list j
over, fill from the port rail aud capsize '
and the Presidential party will go j
down, down, down into nine inches of !
water and two feet and a half of mud j
OD the top of which the hook has been ;
lying ali the time the President ;
thought there were about nineteen j
fathoms under the keel. Then the j
party will turn to and bail out the craft j
and get her righted again, aud by that ?
time it will be noon, nothing to eat and 1
ten miles from thc hotel. But there j
will bc no hiw agaiust going ashore and j
drying taemsclves on the hot sand and
figuring on the outcome of the star
route trial and the completion of thc
Washington monument. They can do
that, and the fish won't mind it a bit.
The angile sunfish can sport in the j
sun, the hammerhead can hammer the
butt end of a moss-grown, water-soaked ?
cypress, while the plaintive notes of the j
mournful puldoo farther down the j
stream mingle with the shrill cry of!
the startled tip-up winging his ec- j
centric flight athwart the soft and hazy
?ky.-Check
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It is said that Ohio wives do their j
own housework. Now, that is the ?
kind of an no hire idea we like.- j
Yonlcers Statesman.
The Virtues of Hot Water
Gases of Consumption ai
Dyspepsia.
(New York Sun).
A young man who was compel!
to resign his position in oue of 1
public schools of this city because
was breaking down with consumpth
and who has ever since been battli
for life, although with little appar<
prospect of recovery, was encou
ered several days ago in a Broadw
restaurant.
'I see,' he said, 'that you seem s
prised at my improved appearam
No doubt you wonder what coi
have caused such a change. Well,
was a very simple remedy, nothi
but hotwater.'
'Hot water V
'That's all. You remember i
telling rou that I had tried all oft
usual remedies. I consulted some
the leading specialists in affections
the lungs in this city, and paid th?
large fees. They went through t
usual course of experimentation wi
me under all sorts of ? medicines,
went to the Adirondacks in the su
mer and to Florida in the winter; b
none of these things did me any si
stantial good. I lost ground steadil
grew to be almost a skeleton, and h
all the worst symptoms of a co us um
tive whose end is near at hand, J
that juncture a friend told me that
had heard of cures being effected 1
drinking hot water.
'I consulted a physician who hi
paid special attention to this hot-wat
cure, and was using it with many f
tiento. He said : 'There is nottiin
yon know, that is more difficult th;
to introduce a new remedy into mei
cal practice, particularly if it ia
very simple one, and strikes at tl
root of erroneous views and prejudic
that have long been entertained. Tl
old schcol practitioners have tried f
years to cure consumption, but thc
are as far from doing it as ever.
'Now, the only rational explanatk
of consumption is that it results fro
defective nutrition, it is always a
companied by mal assimilation
food. In nearly every case tl
stomach is the seat of a fermentai ic
that necessarily prevents proper c
gestion. The first thing to do is i
remove that fermentation, and put tl
stomach into a condition to recen
food and dispose of it properly. Th
is effected by taking water into tt
stomach as hot as can be borne, a
hour before each meal. This leav<
the stomach clean and pure, like
boiler that has been washed ou
Then put into the stomach iood tin
is in the highest degree nutritioi
and the least disposed to ferment
tion. No food answers this desc:i|
tion better than tender beef. A litt!
stale bread may be eaten with i
Drink nothing but pure water, and a
little of that at meals as possibh
Vegetables, pastry, sweets, tea, coffe
and alcoholic liquor should be avoidec
Put tender beef alone into a clean an
pure stomach three times a day, an
the system will be fortified and buil
up until the wasting away, that is th
chief feature of consumption, ceases
and recuperation sets in.'
.This reasoning impressed me.
began by taking one cup of hot wate
an hour belore each meal, and gradi:
ally increased the dose to three cups
At first it was unpleasant to take, bu
now 1 drink it with a relish that
never experienced in drinking th<
choicest wine. 1 began to pick uj
immediately after the new treatment
and gained fourteen pounds withii
two months. I have gained groum
steadily in the trying climate of Nev
York ; and I tell you, sir, I feel on J
sure way to recovery.'
Here an old gentleman who har
been standing near, and evidently
listeuing to the conversation, turnee
to the teacher and said : 'The remedy
of hot water drinking has attractec
my attention for some time. It hat
been of immense service in relieving
me of a terrible dyspepsia that tor
men ted me for many years I tried
numerous able physicians, and there
is probably no medicine that is pre?
scribed for such au ailment which was
not given to me ; not one of them
gave me any permanent benefit. But
the simple remedy of drinking hot
water, accompanied by a rational
regulation of my diet, has entirely
cured me, advanced though 1 am ?ii
life. It was not the dieting alone
that did it. 1 had tried that before.
It was the use of hot water t hat cured
me, for that made it possible to derive
benefit from a judicious diet. 1 have
also found this treatment of great
benefit in kidney diseases, which are
largely owing to mal-assimilation of
food.'
The teacher listened very atten?
tively to the old gentleman's.remarks.
'1 am glad to learn that your ex?
perience,'* he said, 'agrees so fully
with mine. I have become acquaint?
ed with various cases in which this
simple method of treatment has effect?
ed permanent cures after all the efforts
of the physicians had failed. 1 am
convicted, simply from what 1 have
seen, that almost any disburauce of
the human system that results from
disorders of the stomach can bealle
viated, and, in most instances cured
in the same \^sy. The simplicity of
the thing may cause some to hesitate
about attaching much importance to
it : but like the proper ventilation of
your dwellings, it may prevent dis?
ease and effect cures where all the j
drugs of the pharmacopoeia will fail.' :
A number of yens ago gambling bo- ;
came such a rage in Eaton ton. Ga., that
tb? gaand jury returned forty indict- j
ments at one term of the court. Among !
those arraigned were a number of promi- i
neut lawyers. After pleading guilty ;
Judge Coue fined each of them ?10 and |
costs, and lectured them severely upon i
the uselessness and immorality of such
habits and thc viciousness of the exam- j
pie which they were setting for the I
youth of the couutry ; then, command- j
ing thc defendants to take their seats, !
with a solemn face, but a merry twinkle !
in his eye, he turned to the- clerk and
said : "Now, Mr. Clerk, enter after
these cases. 'State of Georgia vs.
Judge Cone, gaming-special informa?
tion by his Honor ; plea of guilty ; and
fine him $100 aud costs.'
The Convict System.
The correspondent of the Augusta
Chronicle writing from Columbia says,
of our system of hiring out convicts :
f The present system of hiring out
the convicts of the State is meeting
with almost universal condemnate n
by the people and the press. It is
pronounced brutal and inhumau and
contrary to all the higher principles
and refinements of civilization, and
it is considered a reflection upon the
Christian character of the people.
While all of this is certainly true and
I endorse every word of it, the ques?
tion arises what is to be done with
these people at present ? The Legis?
lature made no appropriation for the
support of the penitentiary, but re?
quired it to sustain itself, and in ad?
dition to this maiutain 200 convicts
at work on the canal and expend in
this enterprise $15,000 of its earnings.
The accommodations within its walls
are not sufficient to utilize the entire
convict force, and if all those now
hired out were to be withdrawn it
would not only deciease the revenue
of the institution, but add a large
amount to its current expenses, so !
that it might be seriously embarrass?
ed. The directors, of some of them,
and I think a majority of them think
that all the convicts should be kept
employed within the walls if the
penitentiary, and the superintendent
strongly favors this plain, but they all
realize that it can not be done until
further praparatious for carrying this
plan into effect can be perfected, and
I am sure that this will be done at the
very earliest practicable time, and
what many people now consider a
reproach upon our good name will be
removed.
David Davis's Toe.
Some two years ago David Davis
was surTeririg with a severe bunion
on his left foot. At least the Senator
supposed it was a lunion, although
as he hadn't seen his feet for a gen?
eration, it was pretty much a matter
ofgn^ss work. However, it hurt
him more than the Republican sue
cesses, so he called in a chiropodist,
and when that specialist inspected
the damage and carne to the surface
once more, he reported that the ex?
crescence was about as big as a ten
cent loaf, and that nothing but the
most careful treatment would save the
foot. Mr. Davis accordingly procured
a shoe of the six-day-go-as-3'ou-please
description, the toe of which he conld
almost see himself when he kicked
ont pretty hard. It was a sad sight
to watch the presiding officer of our
most dignified body hobbling up the
Capitol steps supported by a big cane
and the leathe^toedestal referred to
for six mon^j^Wter that. It was a
new edition of Bunion's Pilgrim's
Progress, bound in calf. Sometimes
the bunion would grow better and
sometimes worse. Meanwhile the
corn doctor sent in his bills regularly
'for digging out the Senator's founda
tion,' as he facetiously called it. At
last the sufferer became imbued with
an absorbing desire to visually inspect
the cause of his torments, and, one
day yielding to a suddeu impulse, he
limped iuto a photograph saloon, pried
off lu's shoe, and requested the opera?
tor to take a tintype of his foot. When
it was completed be almost fell off his
seat in an appoleticfit of rage, for the
picture disclosed a small clamp at?
tached to his little toe, the screw of
which the chiropodist evidently
tightened or looseued at pleasure.
The Senator determined upon a fright?
ful revenge, and the next> morning,
when the corn doctor knelt to re?
move the shoe as Usual, the man
of weight deliberately turned around
and-sat on him
But why dwell upon the sad par?
ticulars ? Thc corn doctor was re?
moved to the hospital, where three
months after he died to slow music,
after having made a full confession,
and in the full hope of a glorious im?
mortality.-San Francisco Post.
Georgetown has two railroads in
prosptct, thc Georgetown and Lane's
Narrow Gauge Road uud thc old rail?
road to Lancaster. A meeting of the
stockholders of the Georgetown aud
North Carolina Narrow Gauge Railroad
was held ou last Saturday. Mr. H.
Blanchard a wealthy New England
capitalist, aDd representing a syndicate
of Boston capitalists was present and
addressed the meeting. He stated
that he and the capitalists whom he
represented bad understood that there
was a charter in existence authorizing
the construction of a narrow guage rail?
road from Georgetown to Lancaster and
thence to some point on the North Car?
olina line ; that it was their object to se?
cure an outlet from Cincinnati and Chica?
go by the shortest possible route to the
Atlantic Ocean, aud that they had
fouud that this could bo done, with a
saving of two hundred miles by making
Georgetown the objective point. They ?
were prepared to take the charter as it j
stands, and carry thc road throu<r!- to j
Lancaster, lie had recently wade in- j
quirie? iu Charleston as to whether]
there was auy probability that the bar j1
of Georgetown would b; deepened if j
there was business enough here to rc- |
quire the use ot* deep-draught vessels ;
and from the information received he
had reason to believe that thc improve- 1
ment would be made. If uot, they I
would then continue the road from '
Georgetown over the Mount Pleasant f
and ?Saufee route, which they had ar-j1
ranged to cootrel, for ilie purpose of j 1
;:ettin2 the deep water at. Charleston for , 1
all surplus freight that could uot bc J
transhipped at this point. He desired j j
ro know if the people of Georgetown j
wanted the road and what, they were j '
willing to do to assist, in its construe- [
tion. They proposed to take the exist- |J
?og subscriptions and all additional aid j 1
that could be obtained, make up the:'
deficiency and build thc road. A com- j
oiittee wa.s appointed to re-open thc sub- j '
scription books Mr. Blanchard sub- :
scribed fur 500 shares of the capital i1
stock. Another meeting will be held j
cu April IT. j
Assafie?da is DOW on the free list, j
Limberger cheese alone being able to j
compete with it. 1
News and Gossip.
Two hundred Hungarians hu?-? set?
tled in TazeweJ" conory, Virgin:*
Cotton picking ig still goiag '>'? io
Haiuiitor: rt,unly, Jexas
Two Frenchmen will establis : an
ostrich farm in Medina coauty, Texas.
Texas produced 200,000 more bales
of cotton last year than Mississippi.
A West Point cadet begins with the
same pay which a Prussian captain re?
ceives after twenty years of service.
The Eufaula Ala., oil mills have
sold this season 3,101 barrels of cotton
seed oil, and 1,400 tons of meal.
Corn can be raised cheaper than it
can be hauled from town, even if the
merchant were to issue rations gratis.
The bides of all the cats in America
would be worth $10,000,000 to com?
merce. And it's a fearful shame to
have so much property lying idle.
The makiog of sassafras oil is now a
leading industry in many parts of Vir?
ginia. The raw root costs a dollar and
a half for a thousand pounds.
The little town of Port Gibson,
Miss , of not over 1,500 inhabitants,
has recently raised $50,000 for a cot?
ton factory, ?20.000 for an oil mill
and ?30,000 for a railroad.
In New York the other day a Jer?
sey bull calf, two months old, sold for
$12,200 and a three year old heifer for
$10.000. This shews the estimation
in which this excellent breed is held.
The cotton seed oil made by the mill
io Greenville is rated by dealers in
New Orleans as 4the type of prime.' A
second order of one hundred barrels has
been filled by the Greenville mill.
It is a custom among the Chickasaw
indians to release convias ander sen?
tence of death cn parole of honor until
the day of executiou. It is a tradition
among the tribe, that no one nuder such
circumstances has ever failed to appear
at the time and place appointed for the
execution.
The Monticello Fla., Constitution
prints a statement giving tbe names of
owners and number of trees or cuttings
each one has, showing 6,686 LeConte
pear trees, from one to six years old,
and 74.200 cuttiogs, growing in Mon?
ticello and the immediate vicinity.
Chancellor Johnson's fine Jersey
heifer furnishes him with sixteen quarts
of rich milk daily, and reserves enough
for her calf. Every family in the
County should have a similar heifer
It costs no more to feed a fine 16 or
20 quart Jersey than it does to feed a
piut piney woods cow.-Marion Star.
The Anderson Journ I says that
South Carolina is entitled to the highest
number (57) of delegates to the South?
ern Baptist Convention of all the States
to be represented, from Maryland to Tex?
as. This is on the basis of one delegate
to each $100 paid to the board of
foreigu missions.
The question as to whether a hus?
band has a right to exact that bis better
half shall ouiid the fire is to be settled
in Indiana. A minister's wife has
raised the issue in a suit for divorce.
The jury in the case has a very solemn
duty to perform. This is a time r?un
married men should stand together.
George Dick, representing a syndi?
cate of Northern capitalists, has pr
chased the patent of Dr. D. M. Bute,
of Wilmington, N. C., taken out forty
years ago, for extracting oil from cot?
ton seed, fish, wcod or other substances.
It is understood that a mao uV,tory for
putting the patent iu use will be estab?
lished immediately.
The coronation mantle of the Czarina
will be a marvel of fine art. In heral?
dic embroidery nothing equal to it has
ever been attempted. Tbe grouod will
be solid cloth ot" gold, from which the
Russian black eagle will stand out in
relief, bearing on its chest the arms of
Moscow, while the arms of the provin?
ces of Cazan. Siberia; Poland, Astra?
khan. Georgia, and Finland and of the
grand dutchies of Kief, Vlandimir and
Novorod, will be emblazoned on the
wings.
The most astonishing claim yet
made in behalf of electricity is that it
has been proven possible to convey
by it vibrations of light, so that it is
practicable not only to speak with a
distant friend, but to see him. Ac?
cording to the Otago Times, Dr. Gui
drab, of Victoria, has invented an ap?
paratus, called by him the electro?
scope, which accomplishes this. The
paper in question says that a public
test of this instrument was made in
Melbourne in the presence of spme
forty scientific and public men. 'Sit?
ting in a dark room, they saw pro?
jected on a large disk of white burn?
ished metal the race-course at Flem
ingham, with its myriad hosts of ac?
tive beings. Each minute detail stood
out with perfect fidelity to the otigi
nal, and as they looked at thc wonder?
ful picture through binocular glasses
it was difficult to imagine that they
were not actually o.i thc course itself,
and moving among those whose ac- ...
{.ions they could st) completely scan.'
While nosing abort among the
Second hand book stores in Philadel?
phia, in ISoi), i^r. Landis, of Dan?
ville, Ky., picked up for a few shil?
lings an old volume, printed on vel?
lum, and dated 1490. This was a
copy of the works of Anselm, the
great chemist and celebrated physi?
cian of the fourteenth century, who
is more ?fenerallv known as Parade
sus. Dr. Landis did not suspect the
full value of his prize until he found
that among the contents was the long
lost and much-disputed letter of the
great chemist, which had for years
been the subject of controversy in
literary and scientific circles. Not
daring to trust even his own keen
judgment upon so important a matter,
he sent the book to the British Muse?
um. It was found tc be genuine, and
he was al once offered $5,000 for the
work. This offer was declined, and
Dr. Landis kept the bo:>k until his
death, a few weeks ago, and willed
the volume to the Central University,
a Presbyterian school at Richmond,
Ky. Tfie book -vould now probably
bring $10,000 at public sale, and is
one of tue most valuable volumes iu
thc world.