The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, May 15, 1883, Image 1
WATCHMAN, strtahUebod April, 1850.
Atar. 2: 1881.1
"Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thon Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's, and Truth's.'
THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established ?une, 1866.
SUMTER, S. C., TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1883.
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?glt^^?%*SS OGINO- NORTH. '
.- ll?5pm U0>o
r^^^^^??/^*?top? on IT at Brinkley's,
i ~3^?fim$Jtm Ut Colombia and ?U points OD
".^*^JL,3t-r Cti A. R. R. Stators,
^lljjijhint fl i ?, aad all points beyond. ?boa!d
P^KngOPpnaaB frisen er i for CWi?*: ?
^oiiMW A-Ai HM OO traiat 4S and 47.
?i Ltaaammars ? 4 ?n roko 48 treio frc?
JPfiwgii1 tmjffsliamhia. Angosta fad doondi
? ^?lfj?timt ima solid bat wee? Char?estop ?nd
''JWW'F. ?MViss, General Sop't
, JOsffRSQN? Gen. Passenger Ag u
jOTIRB?IOTBirT>E9 ra OFFICE,
Q ?08THBASTKRN RAILROAD OO.
^^^gjj^M^C^^ Anti! 23, 1883.
j^^i^Ttfier tkit date the foilowiog Scbe
>&sw Ckarkotoa. Arrive Florence.
W 00 ?H-H-?? 4 20 p hz.
*3**m afc*-- 120 A. M.
8 ?0- 'AIUP--~~. 7 00 r. a.
*|?!is^Fle*?nio*?; Arrive Charleston.
- . Tft^?r-6 50 A. *.
Tra?a leaving Florence at 2 SO a. x. wHl
ato? only at Kiogstree and Sondes Corner.
CXSTML SAILBOAT SCHSOTLE.
SUNDAYS EXCEPTED.
XawC^ariestoo..... ..._12 00 m
A Law. ,,,._2 50 p m
^Arrive at Sumter.T.. 5 50 p n
y ^ Lane's. , .".^_ 4 03 pm
J***^y srt'fihasrfaato?.,,___1L___ 6 30 p m
T. M. BT?ERSOJF, J. p. DITINB,
Gca^TieketAgt. Gen?! Soot.
a Railway C?.
O JFebroary 4th. 1883. Pat
will rna ?a Mfeos, sn til far
(S? tr?n? ar? ra on Catad co
ea Sammys)
TO COLCJTHA.
6 45 a ta 4 39pm
j... 8 W ? m 0 35pm
?bi?-ll 28 a m 1? 35 p m
rao? COLOMBIA
8 ?O a o". 0 58 p m
.1! 35a m~ 8 48 p ?a
I 49 p 12 p a
?O CBA2L8?TOS
_9 45 a m 4 30 p m
Laar*Caaadea^Jane*_ 809am 6 ZS pm
Arrrecat Charterten.^.. I 00 p m tl 30 p ta
mox casaxcaro?
Lass* Charleston-70Vam_*35?m
ArHee Cesedea Janell 35 ta.. 8 48 p m
Arrivorat Camden_I 48 p m...I0 12 p m
TO A rt? CST A
Leas* Caradon_6 46 a m 4 30pm
Laavo Camdeu Jone'-8 09 a ra 0 35 p io
Arri*? at Angosta--2 Of p m 7 13 a m
*. - rues ?rc CST A
" ?m,rm..~~. 7 05a mJ?> 00 p m
Jane*._8 48 p m 10 35 a m
X. ... ???? f 12 p m i 40 p m
c?sasenos?.
mad? at Colambia with Colam>
^QvnaariBe Railroad both ways, to ano
F on that Road and on tho Spar.H
r Union ?nd Colombia and Sparenburg
_rvi?? Eailroad?, also with tho Char
Uti*, CoraaabU and Angosta Railroad to and
frees alt points Keith bj trrins leaving Camden
at d 45 a av sad arriving at 10 12 p m.
Connection? mad? at Angosta to ?Tl Point*
Vast and Sooth; also at Charleston with
Steam ?rr fer New York-on Wednesdays and
Safardaya. Ala? with Charleston and Savannah
*?8wey fer Savannah and all points Sooth.
Connection* made at Black viii? with Baro
-^ v JR. to sad from Barnwell by all trains
IHvisioB.
J* ROUND TRIP TICKETS aro
sold to sad from all Stations at ooo first class
rt^ro?ad tr?n-tickets being good ttU
/ no&n, to retara. Kzevrsion tickets
? fof l . day? are regntarly on sale to and
j alf sOi ticas at 6 cents per mil? for ronad
TICKETS to aH points, caa he
*T spfdyiag to James Jones, Agent
D. C. ALLEN,
0?n?ral Paasenger ?ad Ttek?t Agent.
JO?JT B. PECK, General Manager.
Charleston, S. C.
m??Kf AND HARNESS.
J FISRST LEATHER ON HAND Ready
tn be worked ap at the lowest living
_?.
HARNESS of the latest ftyle and of my
t wcrkioAosbfp, at mj shop to sell.
I a? prepared to do all kinds of Jobs in
tim af nosiness. AH Orders received
be promptly attended to, and with the
.A foti line of
r-MADE HARNESS,
SADDLES, BRIDLES,
COLLARS, MARTIN?
GALES, and
EVERYTHING ELSE
to a First-class Harness Shop.
HARNESS mada to look as good
and REPAIRING Old TRUNKS
-A SPECIALTY.
Li? my line GUARANTEED
SATISFACTION.
% Q. WROTEN,
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 cot and inserted, and
the four shields ready to ba inserted-and
here the fonds have given ont, and the work
most stop onless we can procure $225.00 to
complete the monument. . *
This amount will be required to cut the
names of o ver 400 Confederate Dead of the
District of Sumter upon the three slabs, and
insert the same in tbs Monument. This will
complete the work-iu fact was the object for
which the work was begun.
We now earnestly appeal to all who desire
to perpetuate the names o f Sa si ter's ? il us tri?
eos Deed, and particularly to those to whom
such names are most dear, to aid ns 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. BLA?DING, Chairman.
L. P. L0RIKG-.
S. W. MOISE.
H. HARRY.
GUIGNARD RICHARDSON.
TAX NOTICE.
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OFFICE COUNTY TREASURER,
SUMTKR COUNTY, APRIL 16, 1883.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT
the office of the Treasurer of Sumter
Coonry will be open at Sumter Court House
from the FIRST DAY OF HAY, 1883,
to the FIRST DAY OF JUNE. 1883, for the
collection of State, County, School, Poll, and
Special Taxes for the Fiscal Year commencing
November 1. 1S82.
The rate of levy on all property assessed for
taxation is as follows :
For State Purposes-Four and three fourths
mills oo each dollar of the valuation of the
property represented on ?he Tax Duplicate
for tba said Fiscal Year.
For Ordinary County Purposes for said Fiscal
Year-Two and one half mills on each dollar
of said valuation.
Fer Sp?cial County Purposes-to wit:
For Deficiencies in the Fiscal Year commencing
November 1, 1881. 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 elf said valuation ; also Poll Tax of i
one dollar on each taxable poll, to vit : of j
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
funds, and no other, viz: Gold and Silver Coin,
United States Currency, National Bank Notes,
and Coupons which shall become payable
during the year 1883, oe the Valid Consolidated
Bonds of this State, known ss "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 tn two install?
ments ; one-balf from the first daj of May, to
the first day of June 18S3, the other half from
the 15th of September to the 20th day of
October, 1883. and it is optional with any tax
payer to. pay the whole or one-half cf said
Taxes at the time first mentioned, bat if one
half thereof be not then paid, a penalty of five
per centum will be added thereon.
W. F. B. HAYNSWORTH,
April 16 Treasurer Sumter County.
Mrs. WHITE
-AHT>
Miss MILLEE,
WOULD INVITE the attention of the
ladies generally, to their stock of
Spring and Summer
MILLINERY,
CONSISTING OF
HATS, BONNETS, FLOWERS,
RIBBONS, ?fcc.
HATS PBOM 25 CENTS UP.
Agency for Universal Fashion Com?
pany's Perfect Fitting Patterns.
April 17
ENGINE FOR SALE." ~
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ONE FIRST CLASS 25-HORSE POWER
Portable Eugine, in good order. Will
be sold oo reasonable terms. A pp Iv to
Apr 10_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
THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS are
wasted on physicians' tees by the dyst?eptic,
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
SIMMONS5 HEPATIC COMPOUND
OR
LIFER 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 Cholera.
OH, WOMAN !
Why will you allow yourself to be prostra?
ted, your system enervated, your health com?
pletely destroyed by the gaunt strides of
those insidious and oft times fatal diseases
called "Female Weaknesses," when you can
be entirely 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 every where?
in Sumter by Dr. A. J. CHINA,
Io Mayesvilleby Dr. F. J. MAYES.
In Bisbopville by Dr. R. Y. McLEOD.
DOWIE k MOISE, Proprietors,
Wholesale Druggists, Charleston, S. C.
Oct 17_
Bellen* Cotton M\ 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-ly President.
WRIGHT'S HOTEL,
COLUMBIA, S. C.
rr\ms NEW AND?M?GANT BOUSE,
X with all modern improvements, is now
opes for the reception of guests.
S. L. WRIGHT & SON,
Maj ?. Proprietors
Tile Sweet Country Cousins.
BY J. P. STEELE.
How dear to the heart are the sweet country
coosins,
When dog-days of sommer begin to draw
near;
When bricks have grown hot, and when sun?
strokes by dozens
Fill body with anguish and bosom with
fear !
The green waring fields, the sweet smelling
breezes.
The 'scaping from turmoil to quiet and
calm,
The rich creamy milk which the ready hand
seizes,
And e'en the cousins who live on the farm ;
The plain country cousins, the uncultured
cousins,
The sweet country cousins who live on the
farm !
The sweet country cousins IO, aren't they a
treasure ?
How handy to love at vacation time :
And paying one's board is too costly plea?
sure,
When all can be had without spending a
dime.
How pleasant to live on rich cream and ripe
berries,
Fresh golden-hued butter, and cakes light
and warm j
Free use of horses, the carts and the wherries,
Of sweet country cousins who live on the
farm I
The plain cultured cousins, the uncultured
cousins,
The sweet country cousins who live on the
farm 1
How dear are the sweet country cousins in
sommer I
How fragrant the meadow, romantic the
down 1
Bnt straightway your faces begin to grow
glummer
At thoughts of their visit next winter in
town j
The theatre, the concert, the lecture, the
money
Expended in tickets !-the thought gives a
qualm ;
The sequel of summer is not quite so funny
Why don't the sweet cousins remain on
their farm ?
The brown-visaged cousins the great awkard
cousins,
The clod-hopper cousins should stay on
their farm 1
BILL ARR
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN" COUNTRY
RAISED AND CITY RAISED CHILDREN- J
RAISING CHILDREN THE PRINCIPAL BUSI
NESS OF THE WORLD, WITH SOME 'HORSE |
SENSE' COMMENTS THEREON.
On this pellucid day when the sky
is so beautifully blue and the sun so
warm and cheerful, when the jaybirds
are chanting their safe return from
purgatory and the crows are cawing
over the sprouting corn, when the
sheep bells tinkle so merrily in the
meadow and children and chickens are
cackling around it seems like every?
thing in nature was happy and every- j
body ought to be. The darkies are
singing to the mules in the cotton
'field and are happier with a little than !
the white folks with a good deal. The I
darkey never borrows trouble and I j
wish our race would take a few les?
sons in contentment from 'em-not
enough to make us shiftless and with j
no ambition to better our condition., j
but enough to stop this restlessness, j
this wild rush for money, this wear
and tear upon brain and heart that is j
getting to be the curse of the land ? j
wish everybody was happy and had j
nothing against nobody. I wish j
every farmer had fine horses and fat i
cattle aDd plenty of pocket change,
and dident have to work only when
he felt like it. I wish 1 had a winter
home in Florida with orange groves
and pine apples and bananas, and a
summer home up among the moun?
tains, and a railroad and palace cars
between the two, and a free pass over
the line and plenty of money at both
ends of it. I wish I was a king with
a mint of gold and silver at my com?
mand, so I could go about in disguise
and mingle with the poor and friend?
less and lift them up out of distress!
and make 'em happy. 1 wish 1 was ;
a genii like we read of in the Arabian
Nights, and could, at a breath, build
palaces and make diamonds and pearls
and marry all the poor girls to rich
husbands, and all the struggling boys j
to princesses and kick up a cloud o?
golden dust wherever I went. No I
donrt either, for I know now that the
like of that wouldent bring happiness
in this sublunary world. The best
condition for a man is to have neither
poverty nor riches. Old Agur pray?
ed a good prayer and he kuew how it
was
For riches bring a trouble when they come,
And there's want in the homes of the poor,
But it's good for a man to have a little sum,
To keep away the wolf from the door.
Some folks are never happy unless
they are miserable. Their livers are
green and yellow like melancholy and
they want everything they can get
and would rather see mankind going j
to hell than to heaven if they could
stay behind and play wreckers on
eternity's shore. I have seen men
whose very presence would dry up
all hilarity as quick as a slack tub
cools bot iron. Men who never smile
willingly, and when they force one
the cadaverous visage is lit up for a
moment with a brimstone ligbt, and
then released into its natural scowl, j
Such people are a nuisance upon so- j
ciety, and ought to bc abolished or
put into a lower asylum like luniacks.
i've no more toleration for 'em than
for a mad dog, and if there is any
apology it is in favor cf the dog.
How inspiring is the earliest breath
of spring when nature like a blushing
maid is putting on her pantalets and
preparing to bang her silken hair.
How quickly it brings to life the
slumbering emotions which, though
chilled by the frosts and the winds of
winter, were not dead, but only lay
dormant like a bear in his den. What
harmonious feelings spring up in one's
bosom aud gush forth to all mankind.
This balmy weather fills all the cham?
bers of the soul with music that is
not heard and with poetry that is not.
expressed. The very air is redolent
with love and peace. Turnip greens
are running up to seed, the pfum trees
are in bloom, the busy bee is suck?
ing their fragrant blossoms, and by
and by will be stinging the children
as usual. The sweet south wind is
breathing upon the violet banks.
Alder tags bang in graceful clusters
upon their drooping stems. Jonquils
are in a yellow strut and the odorous
shallots are about right for the fryiug
pan. The little silver-sides and min?
nows have opened their spring regat?
tas. The classical robin has ceased
to get drunk on the China berry, and
the ferocious chicken hawk catches !
about one a day from our earliest
broods. Everything is lively now
Over the meadows the new born lambs are
skipping,
Over the fields the little boys are ripping.
The country is the best place for
children. What a glorious luxury it
is for them to go barefooted and wade
in the branch and go seining, and
climb trees and hunt bird's nests and
carry the corn to mill and run pony
races. It is well enough for a man
to live in a town or city when he is
young and active, but when he gets
married and the little chaps come
along according to nature he ought to
get on a farm to raise 'ern. An old
man with numerous grand children
has got no business in a city. What a
burlesque on childhood's joy it must
be to visit grandpa and grandma in a
city penned up in brick walls with a
few sickly flowers in the window and
a garden in the rear about as big as a
wagou sheet. Might as well try to
raise good healthy, vigorous colts in
a stable yard. There is too much
machinery about raising children now
a days anyhow. The race is running
out, and nothing but country life can
save it. The old back-log is gone and
the big open, friendly fire place, and
the cheerful blazing family hearth, and
now it is a hole in the floor or iron
pipes running around the walls. I
reckon this is economy, but in my
opinion a man can't improve the stock
that way nor keep it as good as it was*
The children will be picayunish and
over nice and sharp featured and pot?
ty before and gimletty behind. They
won't do to bet on like those chaps
brought up around a fire place on a
hundred acre farm.
Raising children is the principal
business of human life and is about
all that the majority of mankind are
working for though they don't know
it. It is the excusa for all the mad
rush ot business that hurries us along
It is the apology tor nearly all the
cheating and stealing and lying in the
land. Working lor the children is
behind it all, and the trouble is that
most everybody is trying to do too
much for 'em and scuffling against
wind and tide to keep up with their
nabors or get a little ahead. Too
many fine clothes, too many kid
gloves and parasols and new bonnets
-too many carpets and curtains and
pictures, and a thousand other things
that run up the outgo bigger than the
income, and keep the poor fellow
always on a strain. I love to humor
'em and play horse with 'em, and tell
'em stories about Jack and the beau
stalk, aud what I did when I was a
little boy ; and I put 'em to bed and
rub their backs and let 'em trot around
with mc a good deal on week days
and all day Sunday, but I'm not going
to waste my slender substance ou 'em,
for it's nature's law that they must
work for a living and they shall. I'm
going to raise 'em in thc country,
for as Thomas Jefferson said, 'the in?
fluence of great cities is pestilential
to health and morals and the liberties
of the people.'
BILL ARP.
"My Maryland."
The Boston Traveller, of a recent
date contains an elaborate article on
the poetry of the war, from which we
cull the following paragraph :
While there was plenty of enduring
poetry written during the war, the
number of really meritorious songs
that were given birth to were few in?
deed. On the whole, we ate inclined
to think that in this respect thc South
was in advance of us, for we certainly
(Mrs. Howe's noble effort aside) do
not possess a single song of the rebel?
lion at all comparable to 'Marylaud,
My Maryland,' and the air to which
it is sung is well fitted to the words.
We remember once having heard it
sung under circumstances that for the
time made us fancy it was the sweet?
est thing we ever listened to. We
had reached Frederick City, in Mary?
land, after a distressing forced march,
wearing alike to man and beast, and
going into bivouac the staff to which
we were attached took up their quar?
ters on the piazza of a lonely man?
sion, and there, wrapping themselves
in their blankets, with their saddles
for pillows, sought needed repose.
Sleep refused to visit us. The night
was a delicious one ; 'twas warm, but
a slight breeze was stirring ; the sky
way intensely clear, and the stars
were many and brilliant. The still?
ness was profound. Everyone around
us was sunk in slumber. Suddenly
there fell upon our ears these words
"The tyrant's heel is on thy neck,
Maryland, ruy Maryland,"
The voice was a mezzo soprano,
full round and clear, and the charm?
ing melody was sung with infinite
tenderness and great delicacy of sba
i ding. We listened almost breathless,
for 'twas the first time we had ever
heard the song, and when it was con?
cluded we arose for the purpose of
ascertaining who was thc singer.
We found lier in the person of a
plump little negro girl of about 16
years, with a face blacker than the
smoke of Vulcan's smithy. As Des?
demona 'saw Othello's visage in his
mind," so we also saw the visage of
this girl only in the sweetness of her
j voice, whi? was of a certainty one
I of the purest vocal organs we ever
listened to.
The little colored girl, like many
white persons, did not repeat the
words correctly. It should be : 'The
? despot's heel is on thy shore'-not
I neck. To leave the world a genuine
version of this song is perhaps the
[ duty of the man who wrote it, the
j more so as the chances are that it
! will survive wbsu he is dead, and be
an echo when his voice shall be
dumb
"When the grass above his grave will grow
as long
And sigh to midnight winds, but not to
soug."
Parnell's Peaches.
An Orchard that has not its Equal
in the World.
WEST POINT, April 3.-Your re?
porter has been recently visiting the
several fruit farms in and around
West Point, and gathering what in?
formation he could about fruit culture
here, and the effects of the late frost
on the fruit. The beautiful weather of
last February acted as a charra on early
vegetation, so much, that it placed,
peaches, peas, plums and other fruits
and vegetables a month ahead of their
usual time. Jack Frost also came in
a month ahead, and has prevented us
saving our peach crop intact, which
was damaged considerably, but only
in certain locations, but we shall have
a good quantity of that delicious fruit,
and a full crop of other kinds. We
had the pleasure of visiting Mr. John
H. Parnell's famous peach orchard,
which contains one hundred and
twenty-five thousand peach trees, be?
sides other fruits. It is now the
largest orchard in the world. Seven?
ty thousand of these trees were plant?
ed this spring. The orchard now
contains over seven hundred acres,
varities in which ripen from May un?
til October. It is situated six miles
below West Point, near the Alabama
and Georgia cotton factory. The
number of trees are now equally divi?
ded between two different locations ;
one orchard is on the northeast and
the other on the southwest slopes of
the hills. This subdivision of trees
will, at the end of three years, enable
Mr. Parnell to have a crop ever?*
year on either one or the other orch?
ard. He has studied these two dif?
ferent locations so well, in regard to
their different seasons for fruiting, that
he is sure of success in the future.
On the tract of land jost planted he
has some orchards which have never
failed to bear a full crop, and he bas
seen fruit on that location when there
has not been any in the South. This
season the early peaches bloomed
first, an unusual occurrence, as it is
generally the late fruit that blooms
first. This is the cause for the early
peaches to be more damaged than the
late ones. Peaches now are the size
of marbles, and wherever they es?
caped will make a full and early crop.
We hope, therefore, to l?ave the first
peaches this season, and to be at our
post ahead again. West Point has
had the honor of being first in market
every year except two in the last ten
years. We are all glad to see what
a good showing the fruit-growers
around Griffin are making, and who
are doing so much for fruit culture,
aud letting the world know how won?
derfully her soil is suited for those
crops.
We wish we could persuade our
West Point friends to try their hand,
and ask in northern and foreign capi?
tal to help develope her hidden trea?
sures in fruit. It is not on account of
deficiency of fine fruit soil, she does
not do more to develop this new
southern enterprise, but she has not
got sufficient fruit growers to further
its cause, but is all left to two or three
individuals. There is as fine fruit
soil here as there is in the world, es?
pecially it is adapted to grapes,
peaches, plums, apples and small
fruits. The Japan persimmon also
succeeds finery here. But if this soil
was in any other foreign country, it
would now be teeming with all kinds
of fruits, whilst cotton culture would
be in the background, as it is in Italy
at the present day. The land here
has so many diversified soils such as
sandy, red clay, gravelly and mulatto,
makes it remarkably suited for all
kinds of fruit, except tropical ; so
that it would not be difficult to satis?
fy any foreign fruit-grower who would
come here to settle and embark in
, that industry. It must not be for
! gotton that West Point was the birth?
place for extensive peach culture in
the South, as Mr. John UL. Parnell first
commenced growing and shipping
j peaches to Northern markets fourteen
years ago, when Southern fruit was
considered a curiosity there. But we
can grow oth?r fruits to perfection
here, as well as peaches. All the
small fruits do well, such as straw
ben ies, blackberries ; also the great
fruit recently introduced from Japan,
the Japan persimmon, which grows
to perfection. Mt. Parnell intends to
plant largely of that fruit, he having
fruited it very successfully last sea?
son, having grown thirteen persim
men8 on a tree not over four feet
high, each one measuring at least nine
inches in circumference. Your re
! porter asked Mr. Parnell about the
j average price per one-third bushel
I crate of peaches, he received in New
York for the last two seasons he has
shipped, and what was the largest
sum he received from a given number
of trees or acres. Mr. P. said, that
iu 1880, he received from one dollar
to ten dollars per one-third bushel
crates, and the largest sum realized
off of 700 trees, on five acres, was
four thousand dollars. In 1882 he
received from one dollar to three dol?
lars per one-third bushel crate, and
the largest sum realized off of TOO
trees, was three thousand dollars.
That last season there was no waste
iu his orchards, because the fruit he
could uot ship green, he evaporated,
for which he realized twenty cents
per pound This proves fruit grow?
ing cannot be over-doue in the South
for a long time to come, if ever.
We only hope now that the exam?
ple of the fruit growers of the South
will be followed by thousands of oth?
ers, both from the North and foreign
countries, who will come and help
build up and develop this great
Southern country. There is land for
all here.
It is better fur the foreign slaves to
make a home here and to become in?
dependent than to be slaves forever
iu Europe.-Allanta Constitution.
- mm) < I ^-mtrnm*
We must learn to infuse sublimity
into trifles ; that is power.
The Other Side of Deadhead
ism.
(Nashville American.)
Since the management of the Uoion
Square Theatre has been afforded an op?
portunity, through a New York Herald
interview, to unburden itself of a griev?
ance on the subject of theatrical 'dead
headism," it is order to give the other
side a hearing, to see if the practice is
solely confined to the street side of the
box-office. It maj afford an opportu?
nity also, to correct a prevalent popular
delusion. In the interview this pas?
sage occurs:
'The worst of the deadheads are the
newspaper fellows,' said the box-office
man, during a lull in the deadhead
business as he changed a fifty-dollar bill
for a lady buying seats. 'New York
gives us least trouble, but the West is
a holy terror.
'Yes, and Chicago,' broke in an as?
sistant, stacking tickets in a corner.
'She's a daisy.'
'Out West,' resumed the ticket man,
'the editor bas a standing arrangement
with the local manager and when a first
class city attraction comes along he
writes out orders for seats for his whole
office, from the devil up to the chief edit?
or, and they all go down to the box office
and pick out the best seats in the bouse
four or five days before the show comes
along. It's getting to be the fashion
in some parts of the country to start
little papers so as to get free seats at
the theatres. We never give tickets
for advertisements. The deadhead
class is composed of newspaper men,
legitimate and illegitimate actors who
have a night off and want to see a good
performance, lithographers who hang
placards in the windows, and bill-board
owners. The worst in the whole list,
after all are the lithograph men, who
want two tickets for each lithograph.
The bill-board chaps come next. We
give three admissions for each board,
and we have ninety-two boards.'
That there is a plentiful crop of
newspapers of the deadhead class in the
west is hardiy a matter of doubt-so
called newspapers, that is, started by
adventurers, having failed at everything
else, and starting a newspaper with
amuteurish visions of free hash and free
passes on railroads and steamboats, free
passes.to the circus, free drinks and free
cigars, and sometimes a free paper col?
lar from 'our enterprising dry goods
merchant' who has just laid in his 'mag?
nificent new stock.'
Now for the other side. Maj it not
be proven on the testimonj of publish?
ers of reputable western newspapers
that the greediest, cheekiest of all
gluttons for deadhead favors are the
travelling showmen ? Those who start
out from New York with theatrical
'combinations' and star companies' are
not exceptions to the rule. That they
are most unconscionable sponges on the
newspapers is an established truth in all
the provincial newspaper offices of the
west. Their advance agents, taking them
all in all are a bad lot, whose special
mission is to 'work the press.'
Thej come with memorandum books
freighted with gushing notices of the
'star company,' obtained at the cost
of a complimentary ticket from the
verj class of despised provincial
newspaper fellows1 who come in
for so much lofty scorn from
the box office of the Union Square
Theatre. These clipped notices are to
be supplied in nightly installments to
newspapers at other poiuts, to be copied
into their local columns, the considera?
tion being a billet of admission to the
entertainment, marked 'complimen?
tary.' Now, would it not be safe to
say that if the show people were re?
quired to pay for such advertising at
the rates per line which other adver?
tisers arc charged, the receipts in cash
instead of compliments would pay for
the 'complitnentaries' fifty times over ?
Thus it will bo observed that, in the
west, the worst type of deadheads are
the showmen and not the 'newspaper
fellows.' ^ut to puncture a sham and
unmask au arrant hypocrisy let the
'newspaper fellows' in the west set
their faces in future against advance
notices of theatrical shows-write noth?
ing but just and truthful criticisms of
performances and permit no showman to
approach them with the offer of a free
pass-then see from what quarter the
sequel comes first. Tt would be money
in thc pockets of publishers and relieve
the editorial den of one of its most tedi?
ous inflictions-the showman's advance
agent-who always comes at the most
unseasonable hour of the night, when
editors have less time to listen to the
theatrical gabble of the chronicler who
can out lie a gas metre.
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Household Hints.
A pretty ornament for a window
sash is an old hat. Ram it up to thc
brim and trim with Hamburg edging.
-A cheap and pretty bed-room
curtain is made by pinning up an old
shirt by the sleeves.--Never ask
for soup twice. It is very ill-bred to
sit at tho theater and call out 'Supe !'
supe!'-An inexpensive and im?
proved tidy is made from an old dish?
cloth ; trim with taned rope and or?
nament with bows of rod tape. At?
tach a sockdollager fish-hook at the
top and the guest will carry the arti?
cle to his next calling-place hitched to
his eoat-coliar instead of dropping it
in the front hallas usual.-A lovely
toilet-cushion can be evolved from a
large white turnip ; trim with Honiton
lace, brass bugles and passementerie,
fluted up the back and gored in the
center with a polonaise of gunny-bag
g-ing and demi-train of crash-towelling
cut pompadour. This will make a
simple but tasteful addition to the toi?
let table.-- Boston Gommer Bulletin.
- -mjvm mmi -
"Chock Full ol' Soup."
Not long ago a new member of con?
gress was invited to a dinner. He de?
scribes it thus ;
'There wasn't nothing on the table
when I got there but some forks and
spoons and some soup. As I didn't
see nothin' else. I thought I'd eat all
the soup I could, though soup is a
mighty poor dinner to invite a feller
to. So I was helped faur times; fud
then comes on the fiuest dinner I ever
seen, and there I set,' groaned he,
'chock full ol soup,'-[Washington
A TUOUltLExOMB QUESTION.
HOTT is that question of social eth
ever to be settled as to the initiative
the matter of recognition when a m
meets a woman in the street? AE
bert Spencer might *olve the questa
by going back to the origin of ceren
nial worship. Should the man bow fi
to the woman or the woman to the ma
Different people have different manne
The Paris Figaro, who may be ratl
demi^mondane, says that in France t
rule is positive that the man shall ft
bow to the woman, providing that th
social relations are the same. In I
gland it is the opposite. The lady bo
first, the inference being that by her J
j she grants permission to the gentlem
! to return her salute. Both custoi
I have, however, the same advantage, a
that is that the woman remains miste
of the situation. When in a drawii
room a man is presented to a woman
may converse with her by the hour, a
when ehe meets him next day in t
street she may be supposed to be nei
sighted, and, though he may sue for re
ognition in the most imploring mann?
she may give him the go-by. On t
}ther hand, the man might bow to ?.
ground and be snubbed by having :
return made to his respectful homag
In the other case the weaker sex has tl
advantage of the stronger one, and tr
is exactly as it should be. Of course,
man who does not return a woman's re
ognition, save under the most exception
circumstances, is both a cad and a sno
It is, then, quite evident that a wornt
alone holds the right of recognition, ai
custom accords her the privilege to <
according to her good pleasure. Ai
bother about this matter is hard
worthy of consideration. It is rare th;
a well-bred man or woman can not te
instinctively whether a recognition is 1
be mutually agreeable. A man is utte
ly deficient in observation who does n<
appreciate by intuition whether his se<
ond acquaintance with a woman is to c
accepted by her. There was a very e<
centric ducal lady in England, wh<
when she rode through London parki
j because she was near-sighted, neve
I could recognize any one, though th
people took off their hats to her. Th
j newspapers took it up, and taxed he
I with want of courtesy. Then this lad}
! having read the charges made agaim
; her, determined to try and do bette]
and her three footmen were instructed t
? take off their hats whenever any on
bowed to their mistress. Very unfortn
nately, this made matters worse, for pee
pie would not accept return bows lr
hired intermediaries. Still, if it wer
? possible to pay for the services of som
one who would stand in the place c
Kings, Emperors, or even Presidents, o;
certain occasions, their services would b
in great demand.
IXDIAX ARROW-HEADS.
A young man in the Smithsonian In
stitutc, writes the Wellington corres
pondent cf the Cleveland Leader, ha
made public the discovery cf the methcx
employed in making the stone and vol
eanic nrrow-heads, daggers, knives, axe
and razors of the pie-historic race. U]
to this time this has been a great prob
lem to all antiquarian students, but n<
theory has been advanced showing ?
practical results as Mr. Cushing's. Hi
started to solve tho difficulty by placing
himself in the identical position of tb
Aztecs or mound builders, without an^
thing to work with except sticks, vari
ous-shaped stones, such as he could fine
on the banks of any stream, and hi
hand*. After making some rude instru
ments by chipping one flint with an
oilier, he discovered that no amount o:
chipping would produce surfaces lik<
those he was trying to imitate. He thei
came to the conclusion that there wai
another way of doing it, and by chane*
tried pressure with the point of a sticl^
instead of chipping with the blows of f
stone, when he found he could brea!
flint, stone and obsidian in any shape hi
choose. Soon after he made spear head*
and daggers that would cut like a razor,
as good as any he had before him wfcici:
he picked up from all over the world
Be a littlo more observation he found
that the "flaking," which ho calls his
process, on the old arrow head lef'i
grooves whicli all turned one way. He
produced a like result by turning his
stick the easiest way from right to left
He therefore concludes that pre-historio
men were right-handed people just like
ourselves. This conclusion is reinforced
by the fact that < ccasionaUy an arrow
head is found which has the flakes run?
ning from left to right, showing a left
handed person. The importance of the
discovery is that it shows that the early
races were able tc do this work without
the uso of iron or bronze, a thing long
doubted.
CHIXESE BEDS.
There are two kinds of Cliinese beds,
und both are arranged for a complete
shutting in by means of hanging cur?
tains and tapestry. The expensive kind
is like a sort of cage, having a flat wood?
en roof, just tho size of a l>ed proper,
supported at a height of about eight
feet from the floor on four corner posts
and two intermediate ones. Then there
is a sort of frieze or entablature work
running around horizontally, above and
below, so that when you are in bed you
are safely penned in a sort of cage, and
cannot possibly tumble out. The carv?
ing ou these heads is sometimes very
rich, and th? ? cost much ; but the or?
dinary and cheaper kind is made of two
frames cf wood shaped something liko
;he skeleton of an old-fashioned "set
?le," which are stood up on the floor fac?
ing each other. A mattress is placed on
the projecting parts of these frames,
and a couple of slight sticks across the
top ; then curtains or hangings shut all
in. and make it look as pretty as tho
taste and money of the owner are able,
[r.side, there is a cot ron quilt, laid on the
.natlrosfi frame. The occupant of the
bod lies on this, having a little roll of
stuff for the head, and for covering a
very thick cotton quilt.
A SPEING SOIfG.
De spring of de year is creepin' along,
An' de he dove coos on de dead oak lim' ;
But de she dove's got no time far a song,
Fer she's oat tryin' ter make a libin for
him.
Siog, er bow-leg Ben, an' er reel-foot Tom,
an' a ole Guinea nigger en' a goat ;
An' ?r knock-kneed Bill, an' er pigeon
toed Tom, an' a woolly little nigger
an' a shoat.
De ole man lissens fur de blowin' ob de hom,
An' flings up his eye an' looks at de sonf
De blackbird's tryin' fur to scratch np de
I corn,
An' de plowboy's gone ter de house for de
Ran.
j Sing, er lazy ole Ike, an' a cois old Bbb, anf
a sassy old Jule ac' er wren ;
An' a sore-toed Silas, an' a rbeumatiz John,
an' a thick-lip Phillis an' er hen.
De nigger's mighty glad when de san's
done set,
An' it tickles him down ter de bottom of
his soul ;
An' he wipes from his brow de cornfield
sweat,
AnJ goes ter de house fur ter eat de hog's
jowl.
SiDg, er pock-mark Dick, an' er high-head
Ceph, an' er shindig Jonas an' er
ham;
An' er lirapin' ole Peggy, an' hoppin' ole
Peter, an' er fox-eyed nigger an' er
dram.
-Arkansan Traveler.
THE EXCHANGE FIEND.
" Have you my paper to-day? " says s
Broiling man, stepping gently into tba
sanctum.
" What is your paper? ** asks tho ed?
itor.
"Why, the Cincinnati Enquirer, yon
know."
Of course I knew well enough; he
has been here regularly for the last
month. He is that terror-that scourge
- known as the Exchange Fiend. He
got the paper at first willingly, then po?
litely, then coolly, then abruptly, thea
grudgingly, but rebuffs chill him not,
he becomes a journalistic old-man-of
the-sea, who can't be shaken ont The
laws of Michigan unfortunately make it
n crime to kill him, although if I were
tobe tried by a jury of twelve news edi?
tors I would risk it.
"You've been getting tue Enquirer
for a month now ? "
" Wvll, off and on, I guess I have."
" Why den't you tithe it regularly? ?
j can get them to put you on iheir daily
I list"
"Can you, honest?"
I " Why, of course ; we newspaper mea*
i have a sort of Free Masonry among us,
! Besides, I know McL ean first rate. Splen
I did mau. He'll do it in a minute for
me ! "
"Well, now I am under deep obi-."
"Dorl .ntionit. Let's see, what's
your * .*me?"
1 A. Sucker-got that down?"
"Sucker-yes."
" No. 3,741 Elizabeth street east."'
"Street east-yes."
"Detroit, Mich."
" AU right For a year-daily ?n
If you please. I tell you that kihef
of Free Masonry is a bang-up thing, but
I suppose you would do the same for
him?"
"For Mac? bet your boots. That
will be $12."
"What!"
"Twelve dollars. Journalistic Ma?
sonic initiation fee. That's cheaper than
you could join the Free and Aecepteda
for, not to mention quarterly dues. But
then if you don't happen to have the
money, call up to-morrow, or just drop
McLean a note, with another note for
$12, and mention me, and hell send his
paper right along, and just say we'll be
hapr>y to do the same by any of hie
friends."
He never called again, but another
just like him did and always will.
"BREVITY Iff THE SOUL OF WIT."
The fallowing amusing story, which
was told by Franklin, ought to be read
and acted upon by all correspondents
communicating their thoughts to the
newspaper press. A young man, on
commencing business, proposed to paint
over his shop window. "John Thomp?
son, hatter, makes and sells hats for
ready money ;" to which was added the
sign of a hat One friend suggested
that, as he made and sold hats, the
word "hatter" was unnecessary. It
was therefore struck out and the sign*
remained, "John Thompson makes and
sells hats for ready money." Another
friend advised him to omit the phrase
" for ready money," as there would oc?
cur occ?i-ions for selling on credit ; and>
so the sign read: 44John Thompson
makes and sells hats." It was then
hinted that the buyer of the hat did not
care who made it, and that the sign
would be better if it read : " John.
Thompson sells hats/' But another
amputation was in store still, for a critie
pointed out the uselessness of the phrase
"sells hats," "for," said he, "no one
would ever suppose that the hats were
to be given away for nothing." Thus*
at hist, this a' . ing tradesmen com?
menced business, like ninny worthy sue*
censors, under the modest sign of "John
Thom] von."
A NEW feature in some of the leading
schools of Xew Jersey is placing daily
and local newspapers in the highest de?
partment for the use of the pupils. The
students aro required to give an occa?
sional abstract of the news of the day as
gleaned from their columns.
ONLY A RELIC.
A New England woman was the much
?isappointed wife of a Harvard University
geologist She was all poetry and im?
agination ; he was all paleontology and
geological research. Upon a certain oc?
casion when his scientific accomplish
?..louts were being prised in thc pres?
ence of a stranger, the latter turned to
her and said :
" May I ask, madam, what y our hu?
band is?"
"Certainly," she answered, frankly,
" he is a relic of the stone age."