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?Heisted Aug. 3, ISSI.] "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' Jone, 1866. SUMTER, S. C., TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1883. New Seriesr-Yol. II. No. 37. JHb&&*& ?TOT Tuesday, -BY TBS attd Southron Publishing Company, SUMTER, S. C. TEEMS : Dollars per annum-in advance. A?VIET?SK?SNTS. Square, first insertion......$1 00 ' a?bseqrtfent insertion. 50 lets far three months, or longer will at minced rates. ' (ions which subserve private for as advertisements, and tribales of respect will be [for. f loikes and notices of deaths pub free; job work or contracts for advertising Watdma* eatd Southron, or apply at to N. G. OSTE?N," Business Manager. ?OTON, COLUMBIA AND AUGUSTA R. R. COr?DKNSK? SCUK1>?I*E. TWAINS GOING SOUTH. Daily. Ko. 40 Daily. H 10 pm 12 19 " 2 Mata . 2 45 - l No. 43, J No. 47, ?3 - j Dairy. [ Daily. iv*. Oo?o IXt^Tm^ ? SSaamw:^. r F&reweec No- 43 * tops at alf Stations. 4? sod 47 atop? onJy ac Brinkley's, Flemington, Fair Blaff. Marion. ^teaMnajROe, Saatter, Camden Junc Kasto ver. fer Colombia and all points on Gj^JL C. C. A. A. R. ?.. Stations. and a& points beyond, anon kl 4$^igbt Erpresa. 0^ Portman, S?o?-pers fer Charleston on tra?o? 4S and 47. 00 40 caa take 48 train from Colombia. Augusta and Georgia iga filia ni >!? ra? Solid between Charle? toe and JOHN F. DIVINS. General Sop't. j?, KMERSON. Geo. Pa*?eoger Ag*?. 1STEBN R. R. ea. )BN PS O?TICB, NORTH EASTERN. RAILROAD CO. G?LUE?STOV, S. C., Jan. 2r, 1882. and after this date the following Sche? ma ndays included : tve^Charleston. ' Arrive Florence. 8 00 A. M-1-12 25 P. M. ... 4 20 P ll. 1 20 A. M. Arrive Charleston. .6 50 A. M. .-8 40 AM. -4 15 P. x. in leaving Florence at 2 50 A. M. will only at Kingstree and Mondes Corner. Train leaving Charleston at 12 00 m. ill stop only at Mo neks Corner, Lanes and ?ATV ft AHT AT) S3H3DULE. SUNDAYS EXCEPTED. ; Charleston.12 00 m CBsnt?..,,..T.. 2 50 p m .?Wi........ 5 50 p m 8 45 a m .12 30 p m at Charies?oo................. 4 15 o m m at. E?ERSON, J. F. DIVINE, ' Pen 1 Ticket Ag t. Gen'! Snpt. Carolina Railway Co. *^O? ?ENCINO Febrasry 4th. 18S3. Pas J z.ij^tt Trains wiH mn as follows, until for? ker anion. (No trains are ron on Camden ranon on Sandays ) . TO COLUMBIA. .ave Ca Baden-. 6 45 am 430pm eave Camdon Jonction... 8 09 a ra 6 35 p m ?rive at CulumbU........ lt 28 am 10 35 pm ~ - . . rao? COLOMBIA aaa? Colombia.._ S 00 a m... 6 5S p m rrive Camden Jeaetioa~!l 35 a rn... 8 45 p m arrive at Camden_1 40 p m...JO 12 p m P TO CHARLESTON [?eave Camden. 5 45 * m 4 30 p m Usa ve Camden Jane*........; 8 09 a m 6 35 p m Arrive-?* Chariest??- I 00 p in ll 30 p m FRO* CUARLESTDS [?.ara G ar Je.? too......... 7 OO a m... 835am Imve Camden Jene'...ll 35 a c. 8 48 p m Inls? at Camden ........ 1 40 p in... 10 12 p m TO Al CURTA Leave Camdon ........ .^..^.6 45 a m 4 30 pm taara Camden Ju ac'...8 09 a m 6 35 p ni bri ve at Angas ta -....2 00 p m 7 13am '. ROM ACGOTA jeavo Augusta............... 7 05 a M?...9 00 p m Irrive Camden Juoc'._...,S 48 p m 10 35 a m Imve Camden -.IA 12 p m 1 40 p in cosmccriuas. Connections made st Colombia with Colum ?Aand Greenville Railroad both ways, to ana om mil points on that Road and on the Spar nborg. Union and Colombia aad Spartanburg ?dr ?.?SviBe Railroads, -also with the Char- j tm, Colombia aad A agosta Railroad to and om all points North by fm in* leaving Camden j : * 45 a mf ?md arriving at 10 12 p m. Connection? made at angosta to aH Point? ; rant and South; also at Charleston rich j teamer* for New York-on Wednesdays and ot ord aye. Also wi - h Charleston and Sap an n? h airway for Savannah and al) points Sooth. Connections ma-?c nt Blackville with Barn? ett &. R to and from Barnwell by all trains a Angosta Divinion. On Saturday* ROUND TRIP TICKETS are dd to and from all Station? at ?ne first class re for tba mond trip-tickers being good till enday noon, to rom m. Ex com on. tickets lod fer li days are regularly on sale to and mm) aH stations at 6" cents per mile for round ?mH TICKETS to all points, can he d by applying to James Jones, Agent Fit Camden. D. C. ALLEN, General Passenger and Ticket Agent. JOBS B. PECK, General Manager. Charleston, S. C SADDLERY ANO HARNESS. rrm* FINEST LEATHER ON HAND Ready 1 . to be worked np at the lowest living figures, / HARNESS of the latest style and of my ova workmanship, at my shop to sell. I aaa prepared to do all kinds of Jobs in my lino of business. All Orders received will be promptly attended to, and with the greatest care. ? ????A foll line of RS AD Y-MADE HARNESS? SADDLES, BRIDLES, COLLARS, MARTIN \ GAL3S, and EVERYTHING ELSE pertaining toa First-class Harness Shop. OLD HARNESS made to look as good N?W. INO and REPAIRING Old TRUNKS -A SPECIALTY. WORK in my line GUARANTEED to give SATISFACTION. T. 0. WROTENj of Main and Republican Streets. (15,1?J- if CONFEDERATE MONUMENT. The Executive Committee would respect, folly represent to the public that they have all tbe marble for slabs and shields ; have bad the inscription slab cut and inserted, and the four shields ready to be inserted-and here tba funds have given out, and the work must stop unless we cao procure $225.00 to complete the monument. This amount will be required to cut the names of over 400 Confederate Dead of the District of Sumter upon the three slabs, and insert the same io the Monument. This will complete the work-in fact was the object for which the work was begun. We now earnestly appeal to all who desire to perpetuate the names of Sumter's illustri? ous Dead, and particularly to those to whom such names are most dear, to aid us by giv? ing such subscriptions as they can afford. Subscriptions can be paid to Judge Fraser, Treasurer of the Monumental Association, or to either member of the Committee. J. D. BLANDING, Chairman. L. P. LOBING. E. W. MOISE. H. HARBT. G?IGNARD RICHARDSON. TAX NOTICE. -o OFFICE COUNTY TREASURER, ? SUMTER COUNTY, APBIL 16, 18S3. N'OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT the office of the Treasurer of Sumter County will be open at Sumter Court House from the FIRST DAY OF MAY, 1883, to tbe FIRST DAY OF JUNE, 18S3, for the collection of State. County, School, Poll, and Special Taxes for the Fiscal Year commencing November U 1882. The rate of levy on all property assessed for taxation is as follows : For State Purposes-Four and three fourths mills on each dollar of tbe valuation of tbe property represented on the Tax Duplicate for tbe said Fiscal Year. For Ordinary County Purposes for said Fiscal Year-Two and one half wills on each dollar of ?aid valuation. Fer Special County Purposes-to wit: For Deficiencies in the Fiscal Year commencing November 1, ISSI, one-fourth of one mill* and one-half mill for funded indebtedness prior to November, 1879. For School Purposes-Two (2) mills on each dollar ot said valuation : also Poll Tax of one dollar on each taxable poll, lo wit : of each male citizen between the ages of 21 and 50 y ears, except such as are exempt by law. The said Tax?>8 are to be paid in tbe following rands, and no other, viz: Gold and Silver Coin, United States Currency, National Bank Notes, and Coupons which shall become payable during the year 1883, on the Valid Consolidated Bonds of this State, known as "Brown Bonds^ and on the Bodds of this State known as the .'Deficiency Bonds,"-and Jury Certificates, and the per diem of State witnesses in the Circuit Courts, fer Couuiy taxes, Dot including School taxes. The said taxes are payable in two install? ments ; one-half from the first day of May, to J the first day of June 18S3, the other half from the 15th of September to the 26tb day of October, 1SS3. and it is optional with any tax payer to pay the whole or one-half of said Taxes at the time first mentioned. but if one half thereof he not then paid, a penalty of five per centum will bo added thereon. W. F. B. 11AYNSW0R7H, April 16 Tro::p?Jter Sumter County. ENGINE FOR SALE. ONE FIRST CLASS 25-PORSE POWER Portable Engine, in good order. Will be sold on reasonable terms. Apply to Apr IO _C. T. MASON, Ja. FOR SALE FOR CASH. AFINE, MEDIUM SIZE MULE, IN good order and a good second band two-horse wagon and body. Applv at this Office. March 13 FORSALK TWO HOUSES AND LOTS, ON WASH inton Street. Titles guaranteed. Ap? ply at Sumter Book and Varietr Store, to W. G. KENNEDY. -ALSO A Horse and Buggy, Apply as above, to March 13 W. G. KENNEDY. APPLICATION FOR CHARTER. THIRTY DAYS AFTER DATE HEREOF, the undersigned will apply to \Y. H. Cuttino, Esq., Clerk of the Court for Sumter County, for a Charter, incorporating them? selves and their associates, under the name andtitleofthe M A Y ES VILLE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION, as provided for by the Gen? eral Statutes, sections 1,376 and 1,377. J. R. Mayes, S. W. Wilson, J. W. Dennis, W. J. McLeod, Jr., J. C. McKinney, J. H. Garland, J. A. Ma ves, N. G. Du Bose, F.J. Mayes, J. W. Hudson, J. E. Atkins, T. D. Foxwortb, J. B. Cochrane, J. E. Maves, H.H.Wilson,; J. J. Muller, C. O. Wheeler, E. M. Cooper, J. B. Trironal, and others. April 5 lm I THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS are I wasted on physicians' fees by the dyspeptic, I the rheumatic, the billious, and the nervous, when a dollar expended on that unapproacha? ble vegetable tonic and alterative, DR. SIM? MONS' HEPATIC COMPOUND, or LIVER AND KIDNEY CURE, would in every case effect a radical cure. NO REMEDY IN THE WORLD EVER SO FULLY WON THE CONFIDENCE OF MANKIND AS SIMMONS' HEPATIC COMPOUND OR LIVER AND KIDNEY CURE, For the cure of Dyspepsia, indigestion, Constipation and all Troubles arising from the Liver, Kidneys and Bladder. Taken two or three times a day it prevents Fever and Ague, Malarial Fever, Diphtheria, Scarlet Fever and Cuolera. pt- OH, WOMAN ! -?E* Why will you allow yourself to be prostra? ted, your system enervated, your healtii com? pletely destroyed by the gaunt strides of those insidious and oft times fatal diseases called "Female Weaknesses," when you can be en ti rel v cured bv using SIMMONS' HE? PATIC COMPOUND. It will remove Pimples and Blotches, purify your Blood, and make your Skin clear and healthy. For sale everywhere. In Sumter by Dr. A. J. CHINA, In MayesviUeby Dr. F. J. MAYES. In Bisbopville by Dr. R. Y. McLEOD. DOWIE & MOISE, Proprietors, Wholesale Druggists, Charleston, S. C. Oct 17_ Betone Cotton fif? Co. COTTON BATTING PREPARED IN ROLLS FOR COMFORTS, QUILTS AND MATTRESSES. SOLD AT THE FACTORY AND BY merchants in Sumter at 10 cents per pound. Liberal discount to the trade allowed. D. JAMES WINN, Sept 19-1 j President. COXSTAA'VZ. A pearl BO raro That men pearce ever find it, A flower so sweet That angeis in their crowns nave 'tvn?t A song so low Thai few save Love's ears hear it, Though Faith ;u;d Hope In joy et&iid ever near it. As 'mong' fair flowers The lily istthe fairest, So 'moLv life's ?cra8 The pearl of Constancy is fairest. LAXSING, Mich. E ZI VE FJP TO TUE MOTTOES. There is co use in putting np the motto "God bless our home," if the father is a rough old bear, and the spirit of discourtesy and rudeness is taught by parents to children, and by the older to the younger. There is no uso in put? ting up the motto 4 4 The Lord will pro Tide/' "while the father is shiftless, the mother is shiftless, the boys refuse to work, and the girls fcasy themselves over gewgaws and finery. There is no use in puttins? up the motto " The greatest of these is charity," while the tongue of the backbiter wags in the family, and silly gossip is dispensed at the tea-table. There is no use in placing conspicuously the motto "The liberal man deviseth liberal things," while the money chinks in the pockets of the "head of the household," groaning to get out and see the light cf day, and there are dollars and dimes for wine and tobacco and other luxuries, but positively not one cent for the church. In how many homes are these mottoes standing-let us say, hanging-sarcasms, which serve only to point a jest and adorn a satire ! The beauty of quiet lives, of trustful, hopeful, free-handed, free-hearted, char? itable lives, is one of surpassing loveli? ness, and those lives shed their own in? comparable fragrance, and the world knows where to find them. And they still remain fresh and fadeless when the colors of the pigment and the floss have faded, and the very frames have rotted away in their joints. TUE 2SOT1IER SUJ?ES TUE WOHLD. It is hard for a young mother, who hits not yet overcome the wayward ten? dencies of her own youthful nature, to realize the influence she exerts over her own little ones. She is constantly sur? rounded by critical imitators, who copy her morals and manners. As the mother is, so aro her sons and daughters. If a family of children is blessed with an in? telligent mother, who is delicate and re? fined in her manners, and does not con? sider it necessary to be one woman in a drawing-room and an entirely differer t person in every-day life, but who is a true mother, and always a tender, charm? ing woman, you will invariably see her habits, of speech and perfect manners repeated in her children. Great, rough j men and noisy, busy boys will always j tone down their voices and step lightly j and try to bo more mannerly when she i stops to give them a kind word or a j pleasant smile ; for a true mother will j never fail to say or do all the pleasant j tidings that she can that will in any way help or lift np and chesr those whoso j lives are shaded with care and toil. The mother of to-day rules the world of fco-morrow. A GiBL astonished an audience in the Gayety Theater, London, two years ago, by junking from a high bridge at the back of the stage, landing gracefully on the floor, and then executing a dance, which was varied by leaps of twenty feet in the air. The performances of Ariel, as she wa* called, were for a while tiie theatrical wonder of the town. They were done by means of a jumping ap paratus, invented by her husband, Wal? ler Dando. He subsequently applied the machinery to other dancers in Lon .lon and Paris, and next season several duplicates of Ariel will be seen in thia ..cuntrv. j THIERS are six cities in California hav I ::\<;< >'....:. 10,000 population, as follows : j j c :w>. uno. SRI: :"rr.:.c>co .I'WA U\ATX \ I <>.<k !?;:d. a*.010 10,000 ! ? Sj.?.%-..??:r?:o. j:{."iK) lfi,2?3 ! ! >.:.. .1 sr. } _V."W S.iJSi' ! ! !... M;S . . -. 11,(00 5,7-J8 >;... fe?-.ltvHtf io,uoo j THETGAM t: OF COMMERCE. [ S?"> often has thu r;;\ii? o? commerce l>een referred to i:i ti:-- social notes from Eastern cities, that sevend inquiries havxj l?ee:i received asking how to play the gaine, and it seems not inappropriate to record a description o? one of thc most pleasant amusements that have en? tertained the fashionables of New York, j Washington, Philadelphia and Chicago j during the long winier evenings. As ? there are comparatively few games which can be p?aved bv odd or even numbers i of people, commerce has sprung into j favor just at tlie moment when everyone is tired of "Don Pedro,*' "rounce," "Pope Joan," and the few other round i games familiar to Americans. Any number of persons may join in the game, ftom four to fourteen, or tn re, and, when a large party desires to j t. ty at the same table, two packs o? i . avis may be used, which gives each j player the chance of holding five of .'i j kind-a hand literally better than the best-and it gives the game to the holder according to the denomination of tho cards. Five cards aro dealt to taeh player and five on tue tabla for "st<<:.-k," which m;.st be turned face up, and from it each in turn, begmning with the player at the left of the dealer, may draw one or more cards or exchange all of his cards for the five ou thc table, Iiis original hand becoming the "stock" from which the next draws, and soon until ono obtains a hand with which he is content, when he raps on the table, or more elegantly eries out : " My ship sails." The others may continuo to draw around to him who is ready to start on his commercial voyage, when the hands are all laid upon the table and compared. The hands are drawn with j the same object and then- relative value is in th? same order as in the game of poker, as follows : 1. A " sequence flush " is a sequence of five cards, and all of the same suit. 2. "Fours" are four of the five cards of the same denomination. i 3. A "taft." is a hand consisting three cards of the same denominai and a pair of another denon ination. 4. A "flush"is ali five cards of same suit. 5. A "sequence" is all five cards of the same suit, but in sequence. 6. "Threes" are three cards of same denomination, but the other of different denomination from a other. 7. Two pairs. 8. One pair. When the hands are shown, all hold below a certain value-milich is deon by tue players at the start-are drop] from the game and at the next deal neivc no car s. but make every eilbrl induce those holding cards to speak them, which is forbidden, and if they so they forfeit their hend, ?which is tai by him who has forced a reply, a other efforts are made by the "outs" get in, till some player cries " 2.1y s] sails," when all who \.Lik ^"v w in ti around to him ; the cards are all 1? down again and ali may speak with( fear of forfeit. In tins wav the game continues, cai ing much lang}: tor at tho unsuccessful tempts to keep silent, until only t players are left in the game, all the rt . of the party importuning them with sorts cf questions, hoping at the 1? moment to get even one syllable in i spouse, which would be enough to g? the hand ; and when the merchant .ready ti ie comparison takes plu.ee, ai tho highest hand wins the prize, whi< is carefully concealed until it is wo A pretty gift may be offered, such as book, a painting, some article of bric brac, or a bonbonni?re, and some ladi wishing to make the evening memoral to ail do not distribute the prizes t the close of the evening, when a pr?t souvenir is proser ted to each gues whether they have won a game or nr. Very pretty for this purpose are tl satin tablets much used for menu card an which can be printed some novel d sign with the date and residence of tl ?iver, and the name of the recipient - Chicago Times. THE CHARGE OF TSE LIGHT BRIG ABE, To a correspondent of the Cinoinnai Gazette Mark King, an iron "worker s Ironton, Ohio, gave the following de scripticn of the charge at Balaklava, i which he took part : "I was the servant of Col. Jame Brown, and, though the servant of e? officer does not have any picket duty t perform while in a camp or in a fort, h has to take part in all the fights. Th? British army were in possession of tbre? batteries situated on a bluff, one abov< the other, and the brigade composed i part of their support. As we sat in on saddles that morning, watching tin progress of the 'nattle before us, and sav the redoubts taken by the Russians, tin order c<>mc to advance. It vas deliv? ered by Capt. Nolan. Being the ser "? ant of an oilicer I was near the com? mander when the order "was delivered I distinctly heard Lord Cardigan say, 4 My God 1 how can we do it ?' Then eume the reply, 'There is the order, there sre the men, and there are the batteries.' Nolan also said, ' I will go.' We were then ordered by L'tfd Cardi - an. who led U3, to charge. We had to r.de perhaps e. mile across a marshy ground, under fire all tho time, before we reached the bluff on which were the b tte: le s. But we v.-?nt, I tell you, and went like the wind, the mud from the uwrshy ?round Hying ap behind us in a pr-riect shower. Not a shot was iire.i untii v;e reached the first bat rcry, uhich we rodo right over, tiring v'.:r larga hoi.-e-pistols as we went O? course we iii.: not have time to reload them, and we grabbed our short swords, which vere made sfcnre bv- a io.?p of loath* r over our wrists. On /ill :*?';e.s \>e could see ? men iailing Like grass before a mowing machine, but .j > we went, not daring to show the least l o wai dice, xor we weil knew that th J mle among the Britishers was to shoot the first man who snowed the white feather. Beaching the second battery, th? worst part ot it came, for there it was a regular hand-to-hand right with knives. But we went through them, cutting and slashing on this side and on !-i:tt, killing the gunners and other sol? diers lh:e so many sheep, while the oiood fiowed almost like gaiter down the slope; After taking the second battery, ne were going for tho third, but our n'&nki-; were so thinned cut that it was .oo much for tis, and we wheeled around, retreating past the first two batteries which were instantly manned by rein ior -enj?tits from the Bussians. Hastilv gathering our men together, the order was given to charge again, which we .?jd, taking the batteries the second kine, but again failing to take the third J hen "we were ordered to retreat, which we did, liding down the hill ut break neck speed, txnmpHng the dead and mounded under the horses' feet, and killing all who came in our way. Beach? ing the place from which we had started, what few ?nen v.e had left were faced about; end, raising tln'ir caps, gave a cheer that could be heard for a mile, while the soldiers on all sides of ns cheered wi<b all their might. When we went in1o that charge we had about 600 or ?59 men, and we brought out about !o'i or tOO." " What was thought of the order when it was received, Mr. King?" " WWI, everybody thought it was a mi stake. To us it seemed impossible to even ride across the plain without all be? ing lulled, for the plain was being swept by a perfect hurricane of bullets." A SECRET. The difficulty about a secret is that it takes so many men to keep it. If it has been poured into your ear you wrestle with it for a while, but it is too mucJi .or you. The man to whom you tell it wrestles with it, and it is too much for ' him, also. He tells it, and the man to ri hom lie tells it tells some one else, al v. ;-yy in the strictest confidence, until at itu-1 it t eases to be a secret That Baa Boy His Pa Broke Up-The Bad Boy Spec (dating on Bis Tri}) to Hell. 'Well, I guess I will go to hell, I I will see you later,' said the bad boy I to the grocery man, as he held a j cracker under the faucet of the syrup keg, and then sat down on a soap box by the stove and proceeded to make a lunch, while the grocery man charged the boy's father with a gal? lon of syrup and a pound of crackers. 'What do you mean you profaue wretch, talking about meeting me later in Hades,' said tho indignant grocery man 'I expect to pass by tho hot place where you aie sizzling, and go to the realms of bliss, where there is one continual round of happiness, and angels playing on golden harps, and singing hy ms of praise.' 'Why pa says I will surely go to hell, and I thought you would proba? bly be there, as it costs something to get to heaven, and you can get to the other place for nothing. Say, you would be a healthy delegate to go to heaven, with a lot of girl angels, wouldn't you, smelling of fro wy but? ter, as you always do, and kerosene, and herring, and bar soap, and cheese and rotten potatoes, say, and an angel wouldn't stay on the same golden street with you, without holding her handkerchief to her nose, and you couldn't get in there, anyway, cause you would want to pay your entrance fee out of the store.' 'Say, you get out of here, doudemn you, you are getting sassy. There is no one that is more free hearted thau I am,' said the grocery mau. 'Oh, give us a siesta. I ara onto you bigger than an elevator. When they had the oyster sociable at the church, you gave four pounds of nasty crackers with worms in, and they tasted of kerosene, and when the minister prayed for those who had generously contributed to the socia? ble, you raised up your head as though you wanted them all to know he meant you. If a man can get to heaven ou four pounds of musty crackers, done up in a paper that has been around mackerel, then what's the use of a man being good, and giv? ing sixteen ounces to the pound ? But, there, don't blush and cry. I will use my influence to get your feet onto the golden streets of New Jeru 8alm, but you have got to quit send? ing those small potatoes to our house, with a few big ones on top of the basket. I'll tell you how it was that pa told me I would -go to hell. You see pa has been reading out of an old back number Bible, and ma and me ar? gued with him about a new revised ad? dition. We told him that the old one was all out of style, and that all the neighbors had the uewest cut in Bibles, with dolman sleeves, and gathered in the back, and they put on style over us, and we could not hold up our heads iu society when it was known that we were wearing the old last year's Bible. Pa kicked against it but finally got one. 1 thought I had as much right to change things in the revised Bible, as the other fellows had to change the old one, so I pasted some mottoes and patent medicine advertisements in it, after the verses. Pa never reads a whole chapter, but reads a verse or two and skips around. Before break? fast, the other morning, pa got the new Bible and started to read the ten commandments, and some other things. The first thing pa struck was, 'Verily I say unto you, try St. Jacob's Oil for rheumatism.' Pa looked over his specks at ma, and then looked at me, but I had my face covered with my hands, sort of pious. Pa said he didn't think it was just the thing to put advertisements in the Bible, but ma said she didn't know as it was any worse than to have a patent medicine notice next to Beecher's sermonan the religious pa? per. Pa sighed ;.nd turned over u few leave.!, and read, 'Thou shalt not covet they neighbor's wile, nor his ox, if you love me as I love you no knife can cut our love in two.' That last part was a motto that I got out of a paper of candy. Pa said that the sentiment was good, but he didn't think the revisers had improved the old commandment very much. Then pa turned over and read, 'Take a little wine for the stomach^ sake, and keep a bottle of Reed's Gilt Edge Tonic on your side-hoard, and you can defy malaria, and chills and fever.' Pa was hot. Ile looked at it again, and noticed that the tonic cor. mandment was on yellow paper, and the corner curled up, and pa took hold of it, and the paste that 1 stuck it on with was not good, and it come off, and when I saw pa lay down the Bible, and put his spectacles in the case, and reach for the fire poker, I knew he was not go? ing to pray, and ? looked out the win- j dow and yelled dog fight, and I lit j out, and pa followed me as far as the ? sidewalk, and it was that morning when it was so slippery, and pa's feet slipped from under him, and he j stood on his neck, and slid around on ? his ear, and the special providence of; sleet on the sidewalk saved me. Say, do you believe in special providence '? What was the use of that sleet on the sidewalk, if it was not to save sin? ners V 'O, ? don't know anything about special providence,' said the grocery man, 'but 1 know you have got two of your pockets filled with them bone? less raisins since you have been talk? ing, and my '.'pinion is you will steal, j But, say, what is your ?KI on crutches j for 1 I sec him hobbling clown town j this morning, ila* he sprained his i ankle V 'Well, I guess his ankle got sprain- j ed with air the rest. You see my j churn and me went bobbing, and pa said he supposed he nsed to be the j greatest bobber when he was a boy, j that ever was. Ho said he used to slide down a hill that was steeper | than a church steeple. We asked j him to go with us. and we went to j ihat street that goes down by t!:e de-1 pot, and we had two sleds hitched to- ? gether, and there were n or'n a hun- ] dred boys, and pa wanted to steer, i and he got on the front sled, and ' when we got about half way down the ! 6led slewed, and my chum and me ' got off all right, but pa got shut up between the two sleds, and the other boys behind all run over pa and one sled runner caught him in the trowsers leg and dragged him over the slip? pery ice clear to the bottom, and the whole lay out run into a street car, and the mules got wild and kicked, and pa's suspender broke, and when my chum and me got down where pa was under the car, a boy's boots were in pa's shir.-, bosom, and another boy was straddle cf pa's neck, and the crowd rushei: up from the depot and got pa out, an<jl he began to yell 'fire,' and 'police,' and he kicked at a boy that was trying to get his sled out of I the small of* pa's back, and a police? man came along and pushed pa and said, '(TO away from here, ye divil, and let the b'ys enjoy themselves,' and he was going to arrest pa, when me and ray churn told him we would take pa home. Pa said the hill was not steep enough for him, or he would not have fell off. He is offul stiff to? day, but he says he will go skating with us next week, and show us how to skate. Pa means well but he don't realize that he is getting stiff and can't be as kitteny as he used to be. He is very kind to me. If I had some fathers I would have been backed, disfigured angel long ago. Don't you think so V The grocery man said he was sure of it, and the boy got out wich his boneless raisins, and a pocket full of lump sugar. The Biting Dog. If vicious dogs used more discrimina? tion iu selecting victims to sample, they would be more popular than they are As it is, there is a genera] prejudice against biting dogs, because they are quite as liable to hang themselves up bj the teeth on the person of a w?ll dressed alderman of good family as lupen the anatomy of a disreputable tranrp or an obnoxious organ grinder. Nobody really enjoys being bitten by a dog. Besides the lurking dread of possible hydropho? bia, it hurts to tow a dog along by his teeth, which he has inserted in your person for that purpose. Why ?should a gentleman pull a dog alonlg the street, when the animal, is well and able to walk ? The biting dog . is a nuisance on general principles. \ He lies about the house as if he werOi the laudlord, and was trying to renfc it. Apparently the biting dog is harmless. He usually makes out that he isaslelep, but he is more apt to deceive than an unloaded gun. Very frequently he w^H wag his tail and strike up an acquaint? ance with a tramp who has invaded th\e premises with burglarious intent, and1, . perhaps, the very same day, he will bito a chunk out of some dear friend of the I family, from whom you expected to borrow money. Like the proverbial un? loaded gun, he is never in working order when there arc thieves and bur? glars about, but when he does bite, be is certain to hurt somebody who does not need it. The average biting dog [ is almost as uncertain as the result of a county convention. However, people will keep dangerous dogs on their premises, hence it be? hooves prudeut persons to know how to act when a vicious, ignorant brute of a dog tries to swallow them alive. There are some rules which, if observed, will prevent the affectionate animal from be? coming too closely attached to your perso~. The first thing you must do when a dog comes at you with his mouth open, as if he expected you to feed him is not to run. As there is a great deal of a dog in mao, just so there is a great deal of human nature io dogs. If you run they will become furious, but if you remain on the spot, as if it belonged to you, the dog will very frequently change his mind, and, wagging his continuation, indicative that he wants you to pat him on the head, and say. 'good doggy, pretty doggy/ Above all things, we repeat, never ruo from a vicious dog. The first im? pression a man has when a big dog comes at him with hostile iutent is to run. If he follows that inclination the next impression he will receive will be from the dog's masticating apparatus, which is always in excellent working order. If thc mau who is in danger from the canine will only reflect, and hold a brief caucus with himself, soto speak, he will perceive that he is at a disadvantage in the coming race. If he will count the dog's legs and then count his own he will become convinced that the dog, as is almost always the case, has a clear majority of two to one in the con? vention, hence the man had better come out in a card, stating that in order to promote harmony iu thc party he will not run. A gentleman who has given the sub? ject close attention furnishes the follow? ing campaign plan to avoid beicg bitten by a vicious dog. which we, in all seri? ousness, publish for the beuefit of those of our readers who may be interrupted by a biting dog while they are stealing firewood, or are in a neighbor's yard for auy other improper purpose : 'If you enter a lot where there is a vicious dog, bc careful to remove your hat. or cap as thc animal approaches you, hold the same down by your side, betweeu yourself aud the dog. When you have done this you have secured perfect immunity from an attack. The dog will not attack yu if this advice is followed. Such is my faith iu this; policy that I will pay all doctor bills from dog bites, and funeral expenses for deaths from hydrophobia. It is the | unknown danger the dog does not like to meet/ Why tho dog refuses to bite the man j who carries his hat in his hand, wo are j unable to say, but such is the fact, j nevertheless. Perhaps the intelligent j and appreciative animal is disarmed by j thc politeness nf thc intruder in remov- j ?og his hat, or, mav be, thc dog be- i contes paralyzed at the idea of the j intruder taking up a collection for some j charitable purpose -Texas Siftings. j 'Which is the deepest, the longest the broadest and the smallest grave in ! the church yard V said a pedestrian to ? his companion, while meditating among . the tombs in a cemetery. 'Why,' was , thc answer, 'it is that in which Miles ? Button is buried, for it is Miles below | t?,e sod, Miles in length, Miles in j breath, and yet after all is but a Button hole/ 1 Threatened Outbreak in the Penitentiary. Ou Saturday evening and Sunday morning two white convicts at the Pen? itentiary gave information to Superin? tendent Lipscomb of a plot among the convicts working on the canal to make a 'break'aud obtain their liberty. The effort was to be made on Sunday even? ing and four plans were being consid? ered: 1. To break through the back gate of tbe Penitentiary yard which opens on the banks of the Congaree, as the cattle belonging to the institution were being driven in. 2. To capture the guardhouse, take possession of the armory and force their way out. 3. To capture a convict stationed at a certain point on the wall and dig through the wall to the open ground outside. 4. To simultaneously seize rocks while at work on the canal, beat down the guard and escape. The following con? victs were found to be implicated : Irvin Freeman, white, and Henry Mack, Sam Jackson, Sherman Smith, Abram Adams, Pleasant Miller, Tom King, -Huckleberry, Jim Single? ton, Jerry Voight, Tom Coker and Jeff. Robinson, colored. Freeman, Jackson, Smith and Miller were the riogleaders. The cells of the convicts were examined and two or three shoe knives and a tile were found secreted in them. Nearly all of them when charged confessed their implication in the scheme. All except two were lifo prisoners. As a punishment they were j senVr ced to carry balls and chains, and to be locked up io dark cells on bread and water each Sunday for .some time to come. It will be a suprise to the public to know that there are 156 pris? oners in the institution under life sen? tences, and a iarge number under sen? tences of thirty, twenty, fifteen and ten years' imprisonment. This class, par I ticularly the life men, know that they I have nothing to loose by attempts at escape, and they are, therefore, contin? ually planning outbreaks." -i Hens vs. Hogs. In reply to a correspondent, who has doubts about 'poultry and eggs being a cheaper food than pork,' we wonld say that it bas been repeatedly established by actual experiment, that a given amount of food will produce more weight of flesh when fed to poul? try than when fed to swine. Aa to the qualities of flesh produced, as hu? man food, there surely ought to be no controversy. The delicacy, purity and healthfulness sf the one, and the wo- *f thesis characters in the other, makee al! comparison odious. But it is in egg production that the ben as? serts her supremacy. The amount of food necessary to make a pound ol pork will make two pounds of eggs the best known human food. In the name of all that is good to eat, how can the hog and the hen be compared 1 We can live without pork ; but with? out eggs deliver us ! As surely as the physician's occupation would be gone if deprived of calomel, quinine and opium, would the cook be bank? rupt without eggs. Both for virtue and economy, the hen surpasses the hog too far for comparison.-S. Wes tern Poultry Journal. Who Am I, Anyhow. A short time ago, says the Salt Lake Tribune, a bright looking Danish boy stepped into a lawyer's office, and said : '1 want you to tell me who I am,' laying a ?5 bill on the desk at the same time. The lawyer, peeping alternately at the boy and at the ?5 bill, shaking his head, replied : 'It seems you are a funny boy/ 'Not funny at all. You will find it a very serious matter.' .Well, go ahead and explain it.' 'About twenty years ago a wealthy Danish lady, being a widow, came over to this country with her two daughters. There was a Norwegian and his boy. The father married the widow's daugh? ters. One year after, the Norwegian's boy married the wealthy widow. The result of that marriage was another boy, and, if I am sure, I am that boy. The Norwegian's boy died. The Dau ish widow was a widow again, but the old Norwegian married her too. After that the old lady died, and one year ago the old gcutleman, too, after he had : made himself the owner of the third , wife's property. Now when I claimed that property, my sister said: 'Stop, i you can't be the heir at all! You are < our late husband's grandchild. By her ? marriage with him you became your , mother's granchild, too, and after she died we became your mothers, and you . uever can inherit the property before , we are dead. That's what, my sister mothers say, but I think that can't be right, and there must be some mistake i in polygamy. Now, sir, please to tell me what I am-who I am.' The lawyer, thrustiug his chin into bis neck, auswered pathetically, 'You are polygamistake!' j Story of a Will. One has heard of wills written on * bedposts, concealed in h;iy-loft.s and 1 flower-pots, aud many other possible < and impossible plaees. but probably no J will has ever passed through stranger 1 vicissitudes than one admitted to pro? bate yesterday by Sir James Han neo. s The testator was an engineer on board | a Channel steamer, and made his will ] giving everything to his wife, and gave ; '.ho will to her. Sometime afterward ? c they had a quarrel, during which sho tore j c the will up and threw tho peiccs into the i r lire. The husband picked up thc pieces j j aud put them into an envelope labeled ? T .Poison.' but said he would make a new T one. However, several years afterward 2 he died of small-pox on his steamer, and \ on his clothes being searched before g burning, the envelope with the pieces \ of the will inside it was luckily found t and givrn to his wife. This brand t plucked from the burning has now been , placed together, and will be depos;:ed \ at Somerset House ; a lesson to all ? times to wives not to lose their tempers | too far if they do not wish also to lose ] their husband's property, or to save it . only by a lawsuit.-Pail Mall Gazette. \ News and Gossip. Business failures for the past week number 180 ; Southern States 41. A long and costly war between France a?d China is said to be proba? ble ; tbe latter will perhaps bave SD European ally. Joe Brady, tried at Dublin for the murder of Cavendish and Burke, has been convicted and sentenced to be hanged on the 14tb of May. A negro attempted an outrage on a white girl in Bertie Co., N. C., last week, and on Wednesday afternoon was taken from jail and lynched. So mote it be. La6t Tuesday six more of the forty immigrants who arrived io Camden io January last left for other climes. Of the forty only one family still remains in the County. Miss Lube Clay Bigbie of Tennes? see, who gave a reading in the Music Hall last Winter, was married at Mil ledgeville. Ga., on the 27th of March, to M. I. Brock of Anderson. W. H. Day, master car builder in the railroad shops, was elected Inten? dant of Florence. His opponent wa? Belton O'Neil Townsend, a lawyer. The vote stood : Day 265, Townsend 215. They have discovered a new and effective preventive of small pox. or profess to have, in New Orleans. It is by innoculation with the virus after pass? ing it through cow's milk ; and it is said to have proved efficacious in many cases. Cornell University has received a specimen of a rare aod curious plant, Schinus molle, from South America. It is called thc 'insect plant,' as the leaves, when placed in water, will dart about on the surface like 'skip-jacks.' Rev. C. A. Stakeley, pastor of the Curtis St. Church of Augusta, Ga.' has been called to the pastorate of the Cit? adel Square Baptist Church of Charles? ton, and will probably accept. He is twenty-five years of age and of ac knowleged eloquence and ability. Dr. Cox. of Laurens County, S. C. boasts of a cow that gives six gallons of milk a daj regularly, leaving a suffi? ciency for the calf. There are said to be men in Texas who own thousands of cows and yet) use condensed milk to mollify their coffee. A California ^strich farmer was kick? ed at by one of the birds, bot missed, and the blow brojke the neck of a horse, The South Carolina mule will have to look out for his laurels. They are in danger of being wrested from him by feathered foreigners, v Owners are wanted ol$10,575,000 bonds of the United States n^w past doe. The Treasury officials think & bonds have been mislaid or destroyed, ii is" also stated that $15,000,000 of the $49,000,000 of fractional currency used during the War, and some $26, 000,000 of greenback notes issued since 1863, have been lost. The contract for building the mon ar? ment at Yorktown. V., bas been award? ed to the Hallowell Granite Company/ of Maine at $66,752. The monument* is te be 97 feet in height and to be cov? ered with an allegorical figure 13 feet* high The work is to be completed by October 18th, 1884, the anniversary of the surrender. 'What's the crowd about ?' queried a strauger, as he noticed a stream of vi? sitors going into a fashionable residence. 'It's a silver weddin,' obligingly re? plied his informant. 'What's a silver weddin Y 'Why,' a chap's been married twenty-five times, and he's a celebrating of it ?' Colonel Haskell is now in New Yorfc for the purpose of buying iron for ex? tending the track of the Chester and' Lenoir Road on from Maydon, its pres? ent terminus towards Lenoir. There are now ready nearly enough cross ties* for the entire length of the new por? tion of the line, and the work of track laying will probably begin at an early day. The Postoffice Department has issued" an order amending the postal regula? tions KO as to provide that ail letter? upon which one full rate of postage bal? been prepaid and all postal cards shall bo forwarded from the office to which they arc addressed to any other office at thc request of the person addressed or of thc party whose card is upon the en? velope or whose name may be signed-to* the postal card, without additional charge of postage Such forwarding must be continued until the party ad iressed is reached. The following paragraph is from- a* Western paper : 'The author of 'Sweet [lome' died iu New York last Friday. He has gone over to enjoy the holy grandeur thit was so vividly depicted lu his world wide composition-one that tvas familiar to almost every mind/ The editor of that paper is probably the same fellow who met an inoffensive- Is -aelite on the street and without the slightest provocation knocked him down' ind kicked him. When the astonished lew picked himself up he demanded of he man the cause of his assault. 'Yon iillcd Jesus Christ, damn you !' was the* .eply. 'Holy Moses, man ! dot was ugh teen hundred year ago !' 'I don't ?are,' said the bruiser, 'I only heard of t yesterday,' and he went for bim again . Jay Gould is forty seven years ol<$ md reputed to be worth $100,000,000-. Ie is supposed to have fleeced at least 10,000 lambs. A New York man who mows bim well ^escribes him thus : I io not think this country has ever pro* luced his equal. Gould is the greatest ailroad wrecker we have had. His >o!icy has not been to purchase rail oads out and out. He strives to get )ossessiou of a majority of the stock of i railroad, or newspaper, or whatever ie wants, and having done that, he tops. He has got then ail he wants, >onds, stocks, mortgages and every hing, and he immediately seeks anoth? er victim. He is just like a hungry nan with a basket of oranges. He ;akes one up, und, piercing a hole in it, sucks all the juice out of it, puts it jack in his basket, and takes another, [u this way he goes through the lot. rhen he is ready to sell them Lo any? body who comes along.