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R WATCHMAN, JCstaMMied April, 1850. "Be Just and Fear aot--Let all the Ends thou Atms't at, be thy Country's, thy God's, and Truth's." THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established Jane, 1866. Mated Ins. 2. 1881.1 SUMTER, S. C., TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1883. New Series-Toi. il. No. 39. p|?^Jh???tod maj ?a??ft7, - $a?:?' ?. * ' ' --?r ts* J|Sltefaiia?i and Sovthron Publishing rSUMTER, S. C. l?TIKtiaX?lHTS. ^??trS?t?c, first insertion.51 00 ?$v*Qr tgbmgiimi insertion. 50 1 Coatr&cts (br tb ree months, or longer viii %o mr?er?fednced rates. comnsnnications which subserve private JataiecU wiB be charged for as advertisements. Goitnanes and tributes of respect will be errees an<j notices of deaths pnb Jfer job work or contracts for advertising *??r^Ws*ekMOxa*d Southron, or apply at IpiSabta. N G. OSTEEN, * Bowness Manager. WIUfOiaTON,^COLUMBIA AND /AUGUSTA B. R. TRAHIS GOING SOUTH. TRAINS GOING K0RT3. No- 43, Daily. No. 47, Daily. < Tai* K?. 43 stops at all Starion?. ?ad 47 stops only st Brinkley's, Hhifcn iii?, Ber??toc, Fair Blaff. Marion, TIKUM., Taamoasville, Sumter, Camden Jc oc ^j?SsSaB? Sasteeee. ?ataeerge? ?or Columbia and si I points on =?<@^VvJUt?L. C-.C-*. A. R. R. Stations. Altec Jfonctioa, aa j all points bevon**, should taa>Ne, 48 Bight Express. Separate Paltmaa Sleepers for Charleston aadfrr'Aagasta os trains 4$ and 47. fasteagers 0? 4* ean take 48 train from ^lors^sAc.Cala?bta, Augusta and Georgia AB'lrarna run *e!id between Charleston and ! JOHN F. DIVINS, General Sep't. ttea.. Passenger Ag*t. WteN'FB OFFICE, SOSTHEASTERN RAILROAD CO. CBA??BO?, S:C April 29, 1883. dafter this date the following Sehe ~~ "Itarta: j Charleston. Arrive Florence. 12 00 M. -_4 20 r H. socs a..M. Leave Florecce. I 20 A. x. r. 7 00 ?. x. Arrive Charleston. ~6 50 A. M. .8 30 P. M. ?-9 00 A. M. ag Florence at 2 50 A.* M. will at Kiogstree and Moncks Comer. CBBTMTi ftffTffiOrVTV SCHEDULE. SUN DA VS EXCEPTED. Laave Charleston..............._?2 00 m " Lamra.-_ 2 50 p m Arrive at Sumter_5 50 pm . *f< : _ r Leave Sausier-^_ 8 45 a m ** Lune's..-_...._4 03 p m Arrive at Charleston_6 30 pm ,1*. M. EMERSON. , J. F. DIVINE, ?"^36eT1 Ti?fct Agt. Gen'l Supt. Som? Carolina Railway Co. flOMMKNCING February 4th. 1883, Pas . ;Jcan<ir Trains will ran as. fellows, until for taerjietine'. .(No tr?B? are run aa Camden Xcnth oe JSaaday* ) TO COLCXBIA. Leave Camdon-. 6 45 a tn 4 30 p m Leave CteJee Jonetioo... S fl? ? m 8 35 pm Arrive ai Col a m bi?_ ll 23 a m JO 35 p m ntoM COLOMBIA Leave Columbia............ S 00 a rn... 0 58 p m ' Arrive Gooden Jnnrtioo.? I 35 a m_ S 4S p ra Arti TO mp Camden ". I 40 p m...10 12 p m TO TBABLKSTOS Leave Camdon._.845am 4 30 pm Leave Csmdee Jane*. 8 09 a m 6 35pm . Arrive at Cha des ton...... I twp m ll 30 p m raox csABUceroa -Laave Charleston_7 00 a m... S 35 a m Arrive Canden June'...Il 35 a m... S 48 p m Arrive ai Camden.- I 40 p ra... 10 12 p m ' TO ACCOSTA Leave Camden ._"...8 45 a m 4 30 p m Leaf? Camden Jane*- .....S 09 a m 8 35 p m Arrive at A agesta....2 Ott p m 7.13 a m MK? Ana nar A Leave Aagusta-. 7 05 a m...9 00 p m Arrive Caibdee June'-^..8 48 p m 10 35 a m Arpeo Camden..-io 12 p m 1 40 p m % i C0?5ECT?05S. jQoeaectkm? made at Colombia with Coluni l*e aedGreenrjlJe Railroad both ways, to ana . from nil.prints oer that Hoad and on the Spar > ?aafc?rg, Uatea ead Colambia aad Spartasborg aaa Aabvifle Railroad*, also ?iib tbe Char lotCvCehrmbla and A agesta Railroad to and freeaatf peints North bj trains leaving Camden mt, 8 45 a ia, ead arriving at 10 12 p m. ' ?3caneerJ?ms made at Augusta to all Point? tfejt and 'Sooth ; also at Charles too with Haeaeft/sTjyeW York-on Wednesdays and Saraqi^ya ?lao witb Charleston aad Savannah Railway for Savannah and all points Sooth. ?4gesiBactioas made at Blaek ville with Barn, waif R. R. to aad from Barnwell by all trains aa Anger ?a D?*??on. Qi Saturdays BOUND TRIP TICKETS are eoM ta ead from all Stations at one first class ?are lor rho mond trip- tickets being good till Senda j. a*?*a? to retarn. Kxearsioo tickets ??od fer 19 days are r?guUrly on sale to and trosa all stations at 8 eeats per milo for round ' MaOUOH TICKETS to all points, ean be emeaae&tsed bj applying to James Jonas, Agant SXavsaden. D. C. ALLEN. flsoeral Passenger aad Ticket Agent -JOBS B. PECK, General Manager. Charleston. S. C. SASBLERY AND HARNESS nPH3 FINEST LEATHER ON HAND Ready 1 to be worked np at the lowest living HARNESS of the latest style and of my ?rn workaansbip, at my chop to sell. ' tfim prepared to do alt kinds of Job? in m j fine of business. AU Orders received w?ff te promptly attended to, and with the ff u tuc care. A fall Hoe of READY-MADE HARNESS, ' SADDLES, BRIDLES, COLLARS, MA RT IN ti U GALES, and EVERYTHING ELSE pertaining to a First-class Harness Shop. OLD HARNESS made to look as good ?BSV. COVERING and REPAIRING Old TRUNKS -A SPECIALTY. AH WORK in my line GUARANTEED to give SATISFACTION. T. a WBOTEN, i'.vCwn of bia tai BuHbltaa Street?. CONFEDERATE MONUMENT. The Executive Committee would respect? fully represent to the public that they have all the marble for slabs and shields ; have had the inscription slab cut and inserted, and the four shields ready to be inserted-and here the fonds have given out, and the work must stop unless we can procure $225.00 to complete the monument. This amount will be required to cut the names-^ovir .400 Confederate Dead of the District of Sumter upon the three slabs, and insert toe same in 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. BL ANDING, Chairman. L. P. LO RING. E. W. MOISE. I H. HARBY. . G?IGNARD RICHARDSON. TAX NOTICE. -o OFFICE COUNTY TREASURER, SUMTER COUNTY, ?PRU. 16,1883. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT the office of the Treasurer of Sumter Co an ty will be open at Sumter Court House from the FIRST DAY OF MAY, 1883, to the FIRST DAY. OF JUNE. 18S3, for the collection of State. County, School, Poll, and Special Taxes for the Fiscal Year commencing November 1. 1882. 3 The rate of levy on all properly asae&ssd for taxation is as follows : For State Purposes-Four and three fourths mills on each dollar of the valuation of the property represented on the Tax Duplicate for the said Fiscal Year. For Ordinary County Purposes for said Fiscal Yeer-Two and one half mills on each dollar of ?aid va I a at ion. Fer Special Com?ty Purpose?-to wit : For Deficiencies ia tbe Fiscal Year commencing November 1, ISSI, one-fourth of one mill; and one and one-half mill for funded indebt? edness 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, to wit : of each male citizen between the ages of 21 and 50 years, except such as are exempt by law. The said Taxes are to be paid in the following fund.*, and no other, viz: GoH and Silver Coin, United States Currency. National Back Notes, and Coupons which shall become payable during the year lSS3,on the Valid Consolidated Bonds of this State, known as "Brown Bonds" and on the Bonds of this State known as the ?'Deficiency Bonds,"-and Jury Certificates, and the per diem of State witnesses in the Circuit Courts, fer County taxes, not including School taxes. The said taxes are payable in two install meats ; one-half fr??m the Srst day of May, to the first day of June IS S3, the other half from the loth of September to the 2?;h day of October, 1883, 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 balf thereof be not then paid, a penalty of five per centum will be added thereon. W. F. B. HAYNSWORTH, April 16 Treasurer Sumter County. ENGINE FOR SALE. ONE FIRST CLASS 25-B0RSE POWER Portable Engine, in good order. Will be sold on reasonable terms. Applv to Apr 10_C. T. MASON, JR. FOR SALE FOR CASU. AFINE, MEDIUM SIZE MULE, IN good order and a good second band two-horse wagon and body. Applv at this Office. _March 13 FOR SALE. TWO HOUSES AND LOTS, ON WASH inton Street. Titles guaranteed. Ap? ply at Sumter Book and Varietv 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 W. H. Cuttino, Esq., Clerk of tbe Court for Sumter County, for a Charter, incorporating them? selves and their associates, under the name and title of the MAYESVILLE 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. Mayes, N. G. Du Bose, F. J. Mayes, . J. W. Hudson, J. E. Atkins, T. D. Foxwurth, 2. B. Cochrane, J. E." Maves, H. H. Wilson,; J. J. Moiler, C. O. Wheeler, E. M. Cooper, j. B. Trimnal, and others. April 5 lm THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS are wasted on physicians' fees by the dyspeptic, the rheumatic, the billions, 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 tbe 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 Cholera. pgr OH, WOMAN ! Why will you allow yourself to be prostra? ted, your 3jstem enervated, your health com? pletely destroyed by the gaunt strides of those insidi?os and oft times fatal diseases called "Female Weaknesses," when you can be en ti rel v cured hy using SIMMONS' HE? PATIC COMPOUND, lt 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, Io Mayesvillebv Dr. F. J. MAYES. In Bishopville by Dr. R. Y. McLEOD. DOWIE & MOISE. Proprietors, Wholesale Druggists, Charleston, S. C. Oct 17_ 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 thc trade allowed. D. JAMES WINN, " Sept 15-ly President., TOOTUACHJ?. To hay? it ont or not-that ia the question ; Whether tis better for the jaws to stiffer The pangs and torments of an aching tooth, Or to take steel against a bo-1 of trouble* And, by extracting, end them ? To pull-to tuf No more ; and by a vug to fay we end The tc< Chache, and a thousand natural ills The jaw is heir to-'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To pull-to tug To tug ! perchance to break-aye, there's the rub; For in that wrench -what asocios may come, Wh?n we have h&if-d&lodgt-d th* stubborn foe, Must give ns p?use; there's the respect That makes an aching tooth ol' so long a life ; For who wouid bear the whips and stings of pain. The old wife's nostrum, den?fts' contumely, The pan?s of hope deferred, lend sleep Jalay, When he himself might h's quietus make For one poer thiilirg ? Who would fardels bear, To croon un) sink beneath a load of pain, But that tlie dread of bonj<*thing longed within, The linen-twisted forceps, irorn whose pangs Xo jaw at caso returns, puzz'es the will And makes it rather bear the ilia it has Than fly to others that it knows not of ? Thus dcntiii* do make cow ards of us all; And thus the native hue ti resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale ca4 of fear; And many a one, wuose conrade seeks tha door With this record, Jilt- footsteps turns away, Scared at the name of de>itU? AN OLD DREAM STORY. One snowy wi??tcr night an English farmer, camed Robin Cartwright, sitting with his wife Indore his blazing fire of oak wood, fancied that he heard the faint bleating of a sheep outside his door, and, anxious ior his flock, took his lantern and went out to look for the poor creature. Ko sheep was there, however, but instead, close against the door jamb, a basket lined with wool and covered with a blanket, in which lay a very young child. There were footsteps in the snow which led up to the door, and other steps which led away from it Holding iiis lantern low, the farmer followed these until they ceased abruptly beside the margin of the river, which lay at the foot of his ?and. Lifting his lantern over his head, the good man shouted aloud half a dozen times : "Hullo !" he cried-"Hullo!" but the deep silence of the winter night alone answered him. As he stood listening in vain, a shudder ran through his stout frame. His im? agination pictured a young woman, trembling, unhappy, saame-stricken, who, having laid her infant at his door, had sped away towaid tins dark water to hide her woes within its bosom. "Friends here !" he shouted again. "Friends here! Only friends!" But ag*in he heard no sound; and, after searching the banks carefully, he re? turned to Lis cottage. His wife, meanwhile, luid taken the ? i child to the fire and cared for it kindly. It was a pretty little boy, dressed in good end comfortable g;uments, and fastened about its neck by a cord was one-haif of a very peculiar silver clasp cr buckle. It seemed evident that tho clasp was intended to Be a token by which the in? fant's identity might one day be proven, and the farmer's wife put it away care? fully. Inquiries were made in the neigh ix>rhood, brit they led lo no discoveries, and Cartwrights keA>i die child, though j they did not deem it wise to adopt him j as th'.-ir own. He was kindly cared for, j but brought up as a servant. He had been j christened Rc^er, and knew no other j name. j A> er or as he was old enough he was j put to outdoor work, and, though taught to rend and write, was otherwise on a par with his fellow-laborers. He had never seen any place more elegant than the farm-house parlor, nor any dress more costly titan that his mistress wore to the church on Sunday; yet his dreams, wliich he was fond of telling, were all of magnificence and splendor. Often in his sleep he found liimself in an elegant room, furnished in yellow satin. There vere old portraits on the walls, and beautiful ornaments every? where. Here he always saw a lady dressed in black, but weering diamonds, who was very beautiful, and who often wept, and a gentleman who wore some? thing on lii> Invast -as he explained to Mrs. C*riwr:g'?t. 'Mike your best breast? pin, but v-.'.'. f -t?'??.!;Muir/* Hms describ? ing an order, as it seemed. He j?eared 2d ways to be himself invisible, ?nd ce a man in 3 livery, who had ?eily one eye, seemed to walk straight through him without knowing it Mrs. Cartwright always believed that these dreams "meant something," bu* her husband laughed at the matter. "Poor Hoger is no nobleman's child," he used to say. "No doubt his mothek drowned herself the night she left him here-poor soul!" So the boy's sixteenth birthday came, and on it he dreamed this dream; He thought he was in London, and stood before a row of rough stone houses, which were plainly very old. Across the front were some raised let? ters, quaint and queer enough to puzzle him, but be made out the words: "Zsidy Anny ta ge." Before him was 0'J6 of the low doors with the number ten on it, and at it stood an old woman | with a black silk cap on her head, and a I ! Hr Me black shawl over the shoulders of her purple calico gown. She held something in h^r hand and showed it to him. It was a piece of a silver buckle. "Bring mo the other half," she said, " and I'll tell vou a tale wfli please vcr/' I t .... Then the lax! awoke, determined to go 1 to London. Ke was so excited by the j dream that he could scarcely wait until j morning to tell it to his mistress, who, j on hearing it, at once brought out the I silver half buckle that she had kept ever since he had been left at hor door, and vowed that she would go to Loudon with liim to see what came of this strange dream. Together the woman and boy made the journey, and, after many inquiries and much wandering about the strange ! city, they learned that there existed in its very heart an old-time charity called, queerly enough, "Lady Aimytage's j twenty-four old wives." Twenty-four old wojpen, who had ! been reputable wives and mothers, were ; fed, clothed and lodged in these build- j inga-the funds for the purpose having been bequeathed by a certain pions Lady ; To this row of buildings the country folk made their -way, and boy cried out with something very like ror -when lie saw the houses of his dre and on ono low door the number that he had read in those very white tera. He knocked at it with trembl hand, and an old woman in a black cap, purple gown and a little bl shawl, opened it at once. She mad courtesy such as humble EnglishwoE give their superiors, and said : " What can I do for you, ma'an And the boy staggered back against door-post, too faint to speak ; but Bi Cartwright walked bravely into the p little apartment. "Dame," she said, "we've com? long way to ask yon a little questi Have yon the other half of a bit o buckle"like this?" The old woman looked at her a i m e?t and answered : "I have, ma'am, and a parcel, t for one that shows it to me. Sit do and TU tell you about it." Mrs, Cartwright seated herself; boy drew near. The old woman w to a chest which stood in a recess, i locked it, and took thence a parcel, v tied up. " There's two of us in this home ways, ma'am," she said. " The last ( died here. She was an old nurse-wc an-Hannah Glegg she called hersel and, in her last illness, she was grea put about by something that was on 1 conscience. Before she died she gi me a card, with a name and place on and this parcel. 1 When I'm dead,' ? said, 'not before, write to that place a i. "H you want the other half IL, ..uckle, come to me." When a one comes, if they show you hali c silver buckle, give thom this parc*!/ "It's all she said, ma'am. Shed: very soon. Of course ? was upset, ai when all was over, I found that, thou I had the p:ircei *afe. I had not j card ; that was gone. I've been thin lng to go to the minister and show t parcel to him, for it's full of writirj and there's a bit of a buckle in it, tc But it seem* some one must have tc you about it I think it's yours ) right, and I should give it over." The farmer's wife was wise enough keep her own counsel. She gave a g to the old woman iiiat made her feel he self paid for any trouble she had ha and took the parcel away with her. 4 the hotel where they stopped for tl night the two anxious travelers read ti paper it contained. It was to ti effect: I, Martha Grey, who have been living in t City of London for ten yearn or wore, uno the name of Hannah Giegg, do hereby swx and affirm that sixteen years ago, being Eli employed a?j nurse for my Lady Marlowe, Marlowe Hall,-shire. I was de?ir JU* o? pn ishing Lord jlarlowe for trifling with the ?ffe tiona of my niece, Kate Grey, who died, as know, of a broken heart, because of hi3 Lor ship's fickleness-for he had no mind to mar a poor, ignorant girl, but only to make love her-and being nurse to my Lady Marlowe, cae night contrived to steal tho child and loa the place with it unseen ; aad, faking a boat, rowed, with my own hands, stopped near tl house of one Robin Cartwright, farmer, ai laid the child at his door, and then departed I came, knowing well that it would be be?ev? that the mother who had left ber child hi drowsed herself, fcince this I have chang? my name and lived unsuspected ; cut, being dread of death. I now make confession, lest be punished for the deed m tho world to wbic I am going. The half of the buckie, which in this parcel, will mate that which I hung aboi the child's neck, and my Lady ilariowe wi know it well, since it is a family heirloom. This statement I ?wear is tru> ; I nuke it c my death-bed. MASTJ?A Gust. Of course the poor boy, who had bee led so far by this strange dream, lost n time in going to-shire, still cared fe by good Mrs. Cartwright. They found Marlowe Castle easily and on entering it the boy's visioc again came into tho story, for tho om eyed footman opened the door for then Ail was famL'iar to the young follow The stairway, the passages, the yellow satin drawing-room-he had seen thei all in his dreams. Ha had no dont whatever that he stood in his father3 home, or that his mother would prove t he the lady of the black robes and dia monds who had seemed so beautiful i him, And this in fact was actually the case the grief which the Marlowes had sui fered for years on account of the strang' disappearance cf their child being wei known by all the county. The lette and the clasp proved his identity, an< the servant boy became the heir to ? fortune and a title, and found parenta love and tenderners at last. The stor waa not univerodly known, but it i carefully recorded in the private diar; of Dennis Archer, then Vicar of Mar lowe Church, who avers his belief in iii truth. A FISH S JOZi Y. A man has an artificial pond with ai least 3,000 fish, each weighing from hali a pound to two pounds, more or less. He also has a little girl, 5 years old, who has succeeded in* training the fish so that she can go to the edge of the pond, and with a handful of crumbs feed them from her chubby hand. They have learned to jump out of the wa'ter and snatch worms from her fingers, and they are extremely fond of their little mis? tress. One day sue lost her balance, and pitched headlong into the water where it was deep. She says that when she went "away down," she called lustily for help. Her cries quickly at? tracted her parents, and they were hor? rified at seeing the little girl floating upon the surface of the pond. The father rushed to the water's edge and reached out for his pct, and as lie raised her from the water a perfectly solid mass of trout was found beneath her. These faithful subjects of the little Queen, as she fell, quickly gathered be? neath her, rind tims showed their love for their T s I v holding up her body until :.:<! 1 vu .-, flu;.-* preventing her from ?-.:.? a watery grave. Whiti hal Tit/it THE first newspaper published in America was the Boston ivett's Letter, bublishtd at Boston. Mass., in 1704. That Bad Boy His Pats Marvelous Escape. Got any vaseline V said the bad boy to the grocery man, as be went into the store one cold mornirjg, leav? ing the door open, and picked np a cigar stub that had been thrown down by the stove and beguo to smoke it. .Shut the door, dag-gan you. Was you brought up in a saw mill ? No, I havn't got vaseline. What do you want of vaseline V said the grocery man, as he set the syrup keg on a chair by the stove where it would thaw out. 'Want to rub it on pa's leg,' said the boy, as he tried to draw smoke through the cigar stub. .Why, what is the matter with your pa's legs ? Eheumatiz' 'Worse nor rheumattz, said the boy as he threw away the cigar stub and drew some cider in a broken tea cup. 'Pa has got the worst lookiDg hind legs you ever saw. You see, since there has been so many fires pa has got awful scared, and has bought three fire escapes made out of ropes with knots in them, and he has been telling us every day how he could rescue the whole family in case of fire. He told us to be cool, whatever happen? ed, and to rely on him. If .the house got on fire we were all to run to pa, and he would save us. Well, last night ma had to go to one of the neighbors. Pa he got asleep, and slept till about eight o'clock in the morning, and the blinds were closed, and it was dark in the room, and I had waited for my I breakfast till I was hungry as a wolf, and the girl told me to wake pa up, so j I went up stairs, and I don't know j what made me think of it, . but I had some of the powder they make red fire with in the theatre, that me and my j chum had the Fourth of July, and I put it in a wash-dish in the bath room, and I touched it off and hollered fire, j I guess there was too much fire, or I j yelled too loud.' cause pa jumped out j of bed and grabbed a rope and rushed through the hall toward the back win? dow, that goes out on a shed. I tried to say something, but pa ran over me j and told me to save myself, and I got i to the back wiudow to tell him there was no fire just as he let himself out 1 the window, f?e had one end of the | rope tied to the leg of the wash-stand j and he was climbing down the back j side of the shed by the kitchen, with i nothing on but his night shirt, and be was the horriblest looking object ever was, with his legs flying and trying to stick his toe-nails into the rope and the side of the house. I dont think a man I looks well in society with nothing on j but his night-shirt. I don't blame the hired girls for being scared when they saw pa and bis legs came down outside the window, and when they yelled I went down to the kitchen, and they ! said a crazy man with no clothes but a j pillow-ease around his neck was trying j to kick thc window in, and they rau into the parlor, and I opened the door j and let pa in the kitchen. He asked j me if anybody else was saved, a?d, told him there, was no fire, and he said be must have dreamed he was in hell or somewhere. Well, pa was astonish? ed, and said he must be wrong in the head, and I left him thawing out hy? the stove while I went after his clothes. His legs were badly chilled but I guess nothin' was froze. He lays it all to ma, and says if she would stay at home and let people run their own baby shows there would be more comfort in the house. Ma came in with a shawl over her head and a bowl full of some that smelled frowy, and after she had told us what the result of the visit was she sent me after vaseline to rub pa's ? legs. Pa says he has demonstrated that if a man is cool and collected, in ! case of fire, and goes deliberately to | work to save himself, he will come out j all right.' 'Well, you are the meanest boy 11 ever heard of,' said the grocery man. 'But what about your pa's dancing a clog dance in church Sunday. The minister's hired girl was in here after some codfish yesterday morning, and she said your pa had scandalized the church in the worst way.' .0, he didn't dance in church. He was a little excited, that's all. You see, pa chews tobacco, and its pretty hard on him to sit all through the ser? mon without taking a chew, and he gets nervous. He always reaches around when they stand up to sing the last time, and he feels in his tobacco box and gets out a chew and puts it in his mouth when the minister pronounces the benediction, and then when they get out of doors he is ready to spit. He always does that. Well, my chum bad a present on Christmas of a music box, just about as big as pa's tobacco box, and all you have to do is touch a spring and it piay's, 'She's a Daisy. She's a | dumpling.' I borrowed it and I put it j in Pa's pistol pocket, where he keeps i his tobacco box and when the choir got [ most through singing pa reached his I hand in his pocket and began to fumble j around for a chew. He touched the spring and just as everybody bowed i down their heads to receive the benedic- j tion, and it was so-still you could hoar a pin a drop, the music box began to play, and in the stillness it sounded as loud as a church organ. Well, I thought ma would sink. Thc minister ! heard it, and he looked toward pa, too, and pa turned red, and the music box kept up 'She's a Daisy,' and the min? ister looked mad and said, Amen, and j people began to put on their coats, and | the minister told the deacon to hunt up I the source of that wordly music, and I they took pa into the room back of thc pulpit and searched him, and ma says I pa will have to be churched. They j kept the music box ; and I have got to carry in coal to get money enough to | buy my chum a new one. Well. I j shall have to get the vaseline, or pa's leg will suffer. Good-day.' The workmen in turning up the earth j in Marion Square have come across a I number of old coins. The most curious is a brass piece about the size of a one cent piece bearing rhe ?ate of 1635. On oue side it has ahead and thc word ! "Caczar," and curiously enough on thc other side has the words "E Pluribus ! Unum." The coins have all been pre- j sented to Mayor Courtnay.-t?ics and j Courier. Is He Correct? A reporter of the Atlanta Constitu? tion says : I asked Judge Bleckley the other night what he thought would be the di? rection of inventions and progress in the next thirty years. 'I should say,' he replied, 'the appli? cation of the principle of the telephone to the other senses, A few years ago the distance at which you could hear a sound was limited. Now it is practical? ly without limit. You can smell a f.ower only at a short distance. I do not see why a telephone for the nose might not enable you to smell a rose in New York, even though you were loca? ted io Atlanta. So of the taste and touch. A new application of thc prin? ciple of the telephone might enable you to remain in Atlanta and kiss your wife in London, or taste a berrj in Paris. The telescope has already maae a clum? sy step in this direction for the sight. We would have thought the man crazy a decade ago who said you could stand in New York in 1883 and hear every note of a concert in Boston. Quite as crazy as the man who now predicts that in 1903 you may sit down in Atlanta, see a theatrical representation in Cincinna? ti, smell a bouquet in New Orleans, taste a fresh oyster in Baltimore, aod shake hands with a friend in Savannah, all at the same time. In these days it is only the impossible that happens.' Losing a Wife in a London Fog. A few days ago a countryman friend with his wife, who is young and hand? somer than he is, essayed to go out for a little shopping. The fog was dread? ful. In attempting to cross the street they got cut off and separated by an intervening cab. The husband landed on the opposite curb and supposed his wife to be at his heels. Astonished to find she was not, he rushed back. Meantime his wife had crossed in pur? suit of him. He became alarmed and ran up the street and down again in fruitless search. The aid of the police was invoked, and after a vain search somebody suggested that 'Mad? am might have take a cab and gone to the hotel.' Visions of an elope? ment haunted the mind of the jealous husband, but he drove to the hotel. Madam was there, and she was in a 'state of mind.' She was mad, very mad, and anyone with the usual ex? perience can image kow tropical she made it for him. He told me confi? dently that the little episode cost him well on to fifty pounds. Of course apolo? gies have no commercial value. Noth? ing less than one of those fifty-guinea Regent street fur dolmans restores har? mony in such a case. Nothing less did in this, at any rate. Moral: Don't go out shopping in London on a foggy day without having a string to her.-[Lon? don Correspondence New York Tri? bune. Wanted to Know Whether Enoch's Chariot Was a Two Horse or a Single Horse Wagon. A well-known minister exchanged pulpits with an interior preacher the other day, and the town preacher de? clares that while he is willing to struggle for the suppression of sin, he is not willing to distribute gospel facts to a congregation of such pole? mic inclination. During the sermon a man whose most prominent feature of wardrobe was a checked shirt with wooden buttons arose and said : 'Cap'u, wush you'd reshuck that last pint.' 'I don't understand you,' replied the preacher.' 'I ax you let out your back band a little on that last statement.' 'My friend, I am totally in the dark as to your meaning.' 'You 6aid that Enoch went to hea? ven in a chariot of fire. Strip a little more of the bark off and let me un? derstand the timber better. A chariot is a sort cf a wagon, ain't it V 'Yes,' replied the preacher. 'Was it a two horse or a single horse wagon V 'I can't tell.' 'Wall, you must tell. Some time ago a fellow driv a wagin over one of my hogs and killed him, and when I fotch up a suit, I couldn't tell whether it was a one or two horse wagon, and consequently I didn't rekiver damages. Siuce then I'se been more careful. So I want this chariot business set? tled right here.' 'My poor friend-' 'I know I'm poor, without enough corn to run me through the nex crap, but settle the wagin question/ 'I say that the chariot makes no difference, so far as our interest in heaven is concerned. All we need to know about it is that it ascended up to the home prepared for the bliss of the servants of the Lord.' ?That talk sounds well enough, parduer, but when a man comes into this neighborhood with pints, he's got to specify. If you say the wagin had two horses, we'll accept your state? ment and let your business go on, or it wi i I be the same if you say that the vehicle only had one boss. All we want to know is that the thing has been settled. Oau you square the difikilly, cap'n V 'I cannot.' 'Then come from behind the box/ The minister obeyed, and the ques? tion remains un8ettled.---^4rtot&a^ Traveller. - - ??????.?? Um*? - What a Lady Gets. 'What has become of my silk hand? kerchief V howled Mr. Grinley, turn? ing angrily to his wife. 'I don't know, I'm sure. I saw it on thc bureau last night. .What's that the negro woman's got on hor head ?' referring to the cook who had entered the room. 'Aiu't that my handerchicf that you've got there?' 'I dunno, sah. Neber seed no name on it ' .Where did you get it ?' 'Foun' it on de bureau, sah, but rather dan hab any 'scussion 'bout it yr ken hab de thing. Dat's what a Indy gits by workin' fur po' white folks.'-[Arkansaw Traveller. j News and Gossip. Prof. Henry Morton of New York, has showed by experiments that elec? tricity is a motive power that can be used at slight expense, not merely to propel street cars, but to run the most complicated kind of machinery. The energy stored in a box a cubic foot large could take a car full of passengers from one end of New York city to the other. The Abbeville Medium suggests that the Legislature provide for the regular employment of stenographers in all the Circuit Courts of the State. The sug? gestion is a good one. As an economic measure, the presence of stenographers is highly expedient. The actual sav? ing, in the per diem of jurors and wit? nesses, would go far towards making up the salary, while the convenience and the interests of ali parties would be promoted. We trust the Legislature will act favorably upon the suggestions of the Medium at its very next session. The New York Sun says the English tories are bitterly disappointed by the action of the Irish League convention in Philadelphia, having expected action in favor of the dynamite policy which would justify the repressive legislation desired against Ireland. The London Times dwells on the fact that the only mention of dynamite war by the con? vention was an attempt to palliate \z by speaking of it as caused by English atrocities and having English prece? dent. O'Donovan Rosea refuses to talk but says the dynamite advocates are un? dismayed and active and will soon be beard from. Baltimore Methodists are excited over a new departure of the Mount Vernon Place Methodist church, which bas adopted a ritual including the sing? ing of the Gloria Patri, the repeating of the Creed and reponsive reading of the Psalms, standing, as in the Episco? pal churches. The congregation was decidedly awkward with the service which was bad for the first time last Sunday, but approves the innovation and is being steadily drilled by the Pastor. They indignantly deny that they are as charged by their brethern of other churches, 'going over to the Episcopalians.* There is an old gentleman living not a huodred miles from here who bas a mortal fear of mad dogs. Once on a time be was walking along the road and he saw coming meeting him a large dog. Although armed with a big hick? ory stick, he concluded to take a tree. When the dog got underneath the aforesaid tree, the old gentleman con? cluded to give the dog a scare and gave the limb upon which he had sought re? fuge a shake, the limb broke uncere? moniously and our friend came down at once. No one knows which was scared the worst, the man or the dog. It is said that both hollered. A Miss Martin, living near Auburn, Mass , being thrown upon her own re? sources for support by the failure cf her father, who was at one time very ? ealthy, determined to go into the busi? ness of pickling and preserving. Her friends, knowing what an excellent house-keeper she was, took all she could make the first year. The second year she made more, and sold all. The third year she made more yet, and was unable to supply the demand. The fourth year she increased her facilities, and her reputation by this time spread so far that she did a very large business, and even sold to some of the larger stores of New York. Now her profit from pickles and preserves reach the very comfortable sum of ?6.000 to ?10, 000, and she only works from May to November. So depraved and unprincipled are the dynamite conspirators who are exten? sively engaged in efforts to blow up public buildings and destroy innocent lives in Europe, that they cannot trust one another. Informers are ready to betray their associates in every case in this miserable business, and the details of the plot given in full. Two weeks ago the London police discovered a ni? tro-glycerine factory almost under the shadow of the court of St. James. A few days ago a man passing by the name of Norman was arrested as one of the party engaged in the dynamite busi? ness. He at once turned informer and has given in detail the scheme for de? stroying ail the government buildings iu the city. He testified that his name was William Joseph Lynch, that he is a native of the state of New York, and sent there to engage in the work of death and destruction by O'Donovan Rossa aud his league in New York. He stated the money to carry on the work is furnished by contributions in this country, and the conspiracies are formulated and their execution directed from the city of New York. A party of North Carolina negroes have reached their old bornes from Liberia, after an abscence of two years. They were deluded into going to that God-forsaken place, and but for kind white friends in thc South would never have been able to return. Their suf? ferings have been incredible, and none of the promises held out to them original? ly were realised. On the contrary, they lived like dogs in that inhospitable clime and drag back to North Carolina frames racked with disease, filth, and all man? ner of wretchedness. We are told by the Journal and Observer that 'their feet are strangely afflicted, being swol? len to three times the usual "size, pre? sen nog a mass of ugly looking sores. Some of them had lost their toes, that had dropped off as if through leprosy. This strange disease is said to be caus? ed by a certain species of insect which attacks the people of Liberia. In some instances these iusects attack the whole body of a person, but as a general thing they are confined to the feet.' They are evidently afflicted with what is known as elephantiasis, or it may be that thc maliguant chigger insect of the torrid or tropic zones made a lair of their extremities. They stated that many Southern negroes had lost their feet al? together, many had died and many were in despair and degradation in Liberia. | lt certainly was very kind of the North j Carolina people to bring these colored people back. It is to bo hoped, that after such generosity and when cured, they will not return the benefaction by helping make North Carolina a Re? publican commonwealth. DOMESTIC ECOXOMY* MUFFINS.-One pint of sour milk, piece of melted butter size of an egg, two teaspoonfuls saleratus, flour enough for a stiff batter. CAULIFLOWER.-This is a very pretty addition to a jar of pickled cabbage, but it must be put in salt and water for two days first before it is added to the cabbage. TEA CAKE.-Four cups flour, four cups sweet milk, two eggs, two spoon' fuis cream of tartar, one teaspoonful sal? eratus, emali piece of butter, sweeten if you like. WHIP CHEAM.-Half a pound of powdered sugar, juice of two lemons, one gill of sherry. Mix and add one pint of thick, rich cream. Set on ice, whip to a strong froth, and serve in glasses. CRAIGUE TOAST.-Three eggs, beaten well, one green chili cut fine, the inside of two tomatoes cut into small pieces, s little milk and one ounce butter, all mixed together with a little salt, then heated and served on hot toast SEPJQIP SAUCE.--Take half a pint of shrimps, pick out ali the meat from the tails, pound the rest in a mortar with the juice of half a lemon and a piece of butter ; pass tl.o whole through a. sieve. Make a pint cf melted butter ; pnt the meat from the tails into it, add a dust ol cayenne, and when the sauce boils stir into it the shrimp butter thr.t has como through the sieve, with or without a table-spoonful of cream. PORK CHOPS.-Cut some cutlets from - a neck of pork, trim them neatly and take cf? the chine bone; give them a few blows with the bat, and grill them on or m front of the .ire ; sprinkle thea with salt and arrange them in a circle on a dish, with mashed potatoes in the cen? ter and the following sauce round them: Put a large piece oi butter, rolled in flour, in a stewpan. slightly rubbed with garlic ; add mushrooms and a little chopped shalot ; moisten with equal quantities of vinegar and broth ; add salt and grated nutmeg ; strain, boil it up; add a little mustard, stir well and serve. APPLE COMPOTE.-Peel, core and halve six large apples, trimming them so aa to get them ali of a size ; drop them as they are done into cold water with the juice of a lemon squeezed into it to prevent theirturning brown. Have ready a strong simp (made with one pound of sugar and quart of water) boiling hot ; put the apples inio this, with the thin rind of a lemon and two or three cloves. As soon as they are cooked-great care must be taken that they do not break-take them out and dispose them, concave side up? permost, on a glass dish ; place a piece of currant jelly cr quince jelly in th? hollow of each apple, then well reduce t?ie sirup and when cold pour as much of it as is necessary under the apples. ICED CAKES.-The following mode oi icing cakes was taught many years ago by a clever cook : Pound some loaf sugar in a mortar, then sift it till it is like fine dust. Beat some whites of eggs to a froth, and mix the sugar with them till the whole is a stiff paste. Take a little of this paste aad place it in another dish ; add to it a very little pre? pared oatmeal, just enough to give it a pink tinge. When the cakes are drawn from the oven lay the v.-ute ioing smoothly all over ; then, through a cone of stiff notepaper, squeeze the pink ioing in patterns on the top of the white. Stand the cakes in a cool oven for ten. minutes, then put away in a dry place. To give greater consistency to the icing, some people add powdered starch, but it is not, of cours?, so nice to eat. Th? proportions are, for the icing described* one-half pound of sugar to the whites of two eggs. For safe traveling the cake should be pa-ked in a round cake-tin which fits it, that again being inclosed in a wooden box. TBE FRIENDLESS PRISTES*. The Washington correspondent of the New York Evening Post vouches for the truth of the following story: A great many years ago, before the pres? ent Government Printing Office wa? established, three printers engaged on Government work who were fast friends and constant ass< li?tes. They neither bad nor cared to have other acquaint? ances. One day, ono of the three fell sick and died. Then the question was who would perform the usual rites of friendship for the dead. Nobody out? side took any interest in the matter, sc* that the two friends were obliged to care for the body themselves. Now, all these pruner* wore very fond of liquor,, and, though they were never to be seen in public bar-:-.oms, had many a bout by themselves hi a quiet nook. The two remaining friends then sat up with the corpse, and to ".chile away the time brought their pack of cards and bottle for company. Eucher waa the game and they played for a stake, the winner to drink on scoring the game, and the loser to stay dry. The luck ran one-sided. Seated on either side of the cori>se, with the coffin l>etween them as a table, the. players played and re? counted the virtues ot their dead friend. But the one who never won was getting more and more thirsty. Tho cards had run steadily against lum, and not a drop of liquor had passed his lips. Finally the luck changed, and, slapping down the right bower on the coffin, he ex? claimed : " There, now it's my turn P With a hasty motion he reached for the bottle, but ai that instant coasternation filled the breast of Loth friends as the supposed corpse rose up and said, "Not a <lrop till Fve had mine." With a scream of horror the two friends jumped np and rushed, one to the door and the other to the window. The latter leaped to the ground in his terror and broke a leg, the other gained th > street without misadventure and disappeared. Years have elapsed. Both the watch? ers have died, but the fri?n! who was supposed to be dead still lives, an ec? centric, aged man, who Ls now a com? positor in the Government printing house.