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WATCHMAN, Established April, 1850. "Be Just and Fear not-Let ali the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's, and Truth's. THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established June, 1866. ??Bso?idated Aug. 2, ISSI.] SUMTER, S. C., TUESDAY, MAY 22, 1883. New Series-Vol. II. No. 41. ^tiMteki? ?wry Tuesday, k$Mo? ?M* Southron PvMishinc Company, SUMTER, S. C. De?trsper annum-ia adranee. ASTllTISaXIXTI. -$1 oe ; insertion.~. 5C JSfcttaee moa As, or longer wit t a? reduced estes. which snbserve privat? " for as advertisements, of respect will tx and notices of deaths pcb i'sork or contracts for advertising " Southron, or apply ai N. G. OSTEEN, Bowness Manager. WTJJKK<m>N, COLUMBIA AND L ; AUGUSTA R. B. SCHEDULE. TRAINS GOING SOUTH. . 5, 1882 i Ko. 43, i I Dattr. j No. 40 Baily. TRUSS GOING NORTH. No. 43, Ba?y. No. 47, Daily. at ?Et Station*. 47 stops only at Brinkley's, Fwmiiiglon/ Fair Bluff, Marios, ?tts? So m ter, Camden Jane fmnjui for Colombia and* al? points on "?T?- 'O. HuCtaA. R. R. Stations, SlBiP^saiprion.and alt prints bo-rood, ?hould 3afe?9*> 4$ Nigbt Sxprow. Panana Sleeper? for Charleston oe train* 48 *n<i 47. 46 caa roko 48 train from Aagssta and Georgia CotambU. AB trat? ran solid between Charleston and JOHN F. DIVINE, General Sup't. ' *VJL EMERSON. Gea. Passenger Ag't. i IWfHEASTERN fi. R. CC. L^^^^SrBirDEirrs OFFICE. NORTHEASTERN RAILROAD CO. J i'Ctas?Miro?. 43; C., May 13, 188?. O? and after this date the following Sehe ?fcle arfll be Ria : .dtaave?fcsTlestoa, Arrive Florence. 10 46 A. M- 3 00 P x. 8 sc e. in,;;,,. 1 20 A. if, a ea A. a.i oo p. x. ?eave Florance. Arrive Charleston. 2 25 A. ?T>........6 20 a. x. 2 40 p. x..^.^...6 30 P. x. 11 50 p. x...........8 00 a. X. Train leaving Florence at 2 25 ?. X. will atop only at K?igstree and Mondes Corner. s_ _. CCmiLLHATTiKOAT) SCHW?LE SUNDAYS EXCEPTED. leann* C&arieston.............10 55 a n " Lanes.-.-115 po Arrive at Sassier........5 50 p n J^ss?vo Smter^. Arrive at Charleston... EMERSON, i*l ricket Agt. ...... 8 45 a a 4 05 p B ...- 6 30 pn J. F. DIVINE, _ Gen'ISopt. Carolina Railway Co 4 30 p a 6 35 p o Il 30 p a a m... H 25 an 4 30 pa 6 35 p o 713 a n M EN CIN? February 4th. 1883, Pas ?par Train* wi" ran a* fol ions, antil far tko. (Ny tains are ran on Camdei OS Sunday5 } to COLUMBIA. Camden.... 6 45am 4 30 pa Camdon Junction... 809am 6 35 p a Colombia_ll 28 a tn 10 35 p a PX*?M COLCMSIA Cola ai bi:.- 8 00 a m... 6 58 p n Jonevon..1 I 35 a m... 8 48 p n at Camden- 1 4? p in... 10 12 p u TO CBABLBSToa Leave Candoo ....-. 6 45 a m Leere Camden J a ne'- 8 09 a m Arrivas! Charlton...... f 00 p m ?ox CEABxasroH Leave CbarPwttm. 7 Arrive CBSSSSO June'... 71 35 a m... 8 48 pa Anim ai Camden.1 49 p m ...10 12 p u " TO ACG??TA Leave Camden -6 45 a m tear? Camden June'-8 09 a tn Axrireat Angosta., ...?I 90 p m mox AVOCSTA I-so Angosta.......... 7 05 a rn...2 00 p n Arrive Camden Jaae*.__.3 48 p m 10 35 a o .trriro Caonieo-10 12 p in 1 40 p a COaXKCTIOSS. 'CsnnsetTsni inade at Colombia with Colum ada sod GreenrUls Railroad both way*, to an< ' aB points on that Hoad an<il ob the Spar Union and Colombia and Spartanburj IshTtPo Railroads, also with tbs Char latta, Columbia and Augusta Railroad to an< from sit points North by trains leaving Camdei at- . 45 a ss, *nd arming at 10 12 pm. CsaenM.iica made at A agosta to all Point Wost and . Sooth ; also at Charleston witl flt-nets for Kew Torie-on Wednesdays an gsfrdsyi. Also with Charleston and Sa vannai Ra?lsny for Saranaah and ail point? Sooth. Cana at ti ohs made at Blackville with Barn ?raQ R. R. to and from Barn wail by all train 4JD A agu* ia Div ki an. s. 0a Sarai day g ROUND TRIP TICK HTS ar ?.ld te and frost all Suttons at ooo first eias Jhjaj itt tho roaad trip-tickets being good til noon, to roturo. Kxcar*ioo ticket 19 day* are regularly on ?ale to an i s? stations at 8 eents per mile for rouo< UiH TICKBTS to sit points, can b hy applying to James Jone*. Agen i. D. C. ALLEN, Geaoral Passenger and Ticket Agent. JOBS B. PECK, General Manager. Charleston, S. C. S??M AND HARNESS. ?FI?TEST LEATHER ON HAN? Read; te be worked up at the lowest livia j ?-*? HARNESS of the latest style and of rn; workmanship, at ny shop to sell. I aas prepared to do all kinds of Jobs ii lin* of business. AH Orders receive' be promptly attended to, and with tb ^.eare. -A foll line of r-MADE HARNESS, SADDLES, BRIDLES, "COLLARS, MARTIN? GALES, and EVERYTHING ELSE pertaining to a First-class Harness Shop. CM?!? HARNESS made to look as goo msw, . ?od REPAIRING Old TRUNK -A SPECIALTY. WORK in my Hoe GUARANTEED ' T tajfe*. SATISFACTION, ?. a WROTSN, THE MORTGAGE. We worked through spring and winter, through summer and through fall, , But the mortgage worked the hardest and the steadiest of all : It work on nights and Sunday ; it worked each holiday ; It settled down among os, and it never went away. Whatever ne kept from it seemed aTmost as ? bad as theft; I It watched ns every minute, and it ruled us right aad left. 5 The rust and blight were with us sometimes, and sometimes not ; - The dark-browed scowling mortgage was forever on the spot. The weevil and the cat-worm, they went as ; well as came ; The mortgage stayed forever, eating hearty all the same. 5 It nailed np every window, stood guard at I every door, And happiness and sunshine made their home with us no more. Till with tailing crops and sickness we got stalled upon the grade, And there came a dark day on us when the inter?st wasn't paid ; - And there come a sharp foreclosure and I kind o lost my hold, i And grew wc ary aad discouraged, and the term was cheaply sold. 1 The children left and scattered, when they hardly yet were grown ; My wile she pined an' perished, an' I found myself alone. - What she died of was "a mystery," an' the doctors never knew ; ; Bat I knew ahe died of mortgage-just as well as I wanted to. If to trace a hidden sorrow were within the I doctor' J art, . They'd ha' found a mortgage lying on that woman's broken heart. . Worm or beetle, drought or tempest, on a farmer's land may fall, Bat for first-class ruination, trust a mort? gage 'gainst them all. [ -WHIM. Carlton. That Bad Boy j Driven From Home on Account of a Little Joke. 'Say will you do me a little favor,* asked the bad boy of the grocery mau, as he sat down on the soap box aud put his wet boots on the stove. .Well, y-e-s/ said the grocery man, hesitatingly, with a feeling that he was liable to be sold. 'If you will help to catch the villain who hangs up those disreputable signs in front of my store, I will. What is it V '1 want you to lick this stamp and put it on thia letter, lt is to my girl, and I want to fool her,' ami the boy handed over the letter and the stamp, aud while the grocery man was lick? ing it and putting it ou, the boy filled bis pockets with dried peaches out of a box. .There? that's a small job,' said the grocery man, as be pressed the stamp ou the letter with his thumb and hand? ed it back. 'But how are you going to fool her V . 'That's just the business/ said the boy, as he held the letter to his nose and smelled of the stamp. 'That will make her tired. You see, every time she gets a letter from me she kisses the stamp, because she thinks I licked it. Wheu ste kisses this stamp and get s the fume s of plug tobacco, and stale beer, and limburg cheese, and moldy potatoes, it will knock her down, and theo she will ask mc what ailed the stamp, and I will tell her I got you to lick it, and then it will make her sick, and her parents will stop trading here. Oh, it will paralyze her. Do you know, you smell like a glue factory. Gosh, I can smell you all over the store., Don't you smell anything that smells spoiled ? The grocery man thooght he did smell something tbat was rancid, and he looked around the stove and finally kicked the boy's boot off the stove and said : 'It's your boots burning. Gracious, open the dour, lt smells like a hot box on a caboose. Whew ! And there comes a couple of my best lady customers.' The ladies came in aud held their handkerchiefs to their noses, and while they were trading the boy said, as though continuing the conversation : 'Yes, pa says that last oleomarga? rine I got here is nothing but axle grease. Why don't you put your axle grease ir a different kind of a package ? Tibe only way you can tell axle grease from oleomargarine is in spreading it on pancakes. Fa says axle grease will spread, but your alleged butter just rolls right up and acts like lip salve or ointment, and is only lit lo use on a sore-' At this point the ladies went out of the store io disgust, without bnying anything, and the grocerymau took a dried codfish by the tail and went up to the boy and took him by the neck. 'Golblast you, I have a notion to kill you. You have driven away more custom from this store than your neck is worth. Now you git/ and he struck the boy across the back with j the codfish. 'That's just the way with you all/ i 88>t* ?he boy, as he put his sleeve up to his eyes and pretended to cry, 'when a fellow is up in the world, there is nothing too good for him, but when he gets down you maul him with a codfish. Since pa drove me out of the house, and told me to go shirk for my living", I haven't had a kind word from anybody. My chum's dog won't even follow me, and when a fellow gets so low down that a dog goes back on him there is nothing left for him to do but to loaf around a grocery, or sit on a jury, and I am too young to sit oa ajury, though I know more than some of the beats that lay around the court to get on a jury. I am going to drown my? self and my death will be laid to you. They will find evidences of codfish on my clothes, and you will be arrested for driving me to a suicide's grave. Good-bye, I forgive you/ and the boy started fo r the door. 'Hold on here/ says the grocery nan, feeling that he had been too harsh. 'Come back here and have some maple se gar.. What did your pa drive jon a way ?rom borne for V 'Oh, it was on account of St. Patrick's day,' said the bad boy as he bit off half a pound of maple sugar and dried his tears. 'You see; pa never sees ma buy a new silk hand? kerchief, but he wants it. 'Tother day ma got one of those orange-col? ored handkerchiefs, and pa imme? diately had a sore throat and he wanted to wear it, and ma let him put it on. I thought I would break him of taking everything nice that ma got, so when be went down town with the orange handkerchief on his neck, I told some of the St. Patrick boys in the Third ward, who had green rib? bons on, that the old duffer that was putting on style was an orangeman, and be said be could whip any St. Patrick's day man in town. The fel? lers laid for pa, and when he came along one of them threw a barrel at pa, and another pulled the yellow handkerchief off his neck, and they all yelled 'hang him,' and one grabbed a rope that was on the sidewalk where they were moving a-building, and pa got up and dusted. You'd a dide to 8?e pa run. He met a policeman and said more'n a hundred men had tried to murder him, and they had mauled bim and stolen his yellow handker? chief. The policeman told pa his life was not safe and be better go home and lock himself in, and he did, and I was telling n^. about how I got the boys to scare pa, . d he heard it, and he told me thal settled it. He said I bad caused him to run more foot races than any champion pedes? trian, and had made his life unbear? able and now I must go it alone. Now I want you to send a couple of pounds of crackers over to the house, and have your boy tell the hired girl that I have gone down to the river to drown myself, and she will tell ma, and ma will tell pa, and pretty soon you will see a baldheaded pussy man whooping it up toward the river with a rope. They may thiuk, at times, that I am a little tough, but when it comes to parting forever, they weak? en. 'Well, I ara going down to the river, and I will leave my coat and bat by the wood yard, and get be? hind the wood, and you steer pa down there and you will see some tall weep? ing over them clot hes, and maybe pa will jump in after me, and then I will come ont from behind the wood and throw in a board for him to swim ashore on. Good bye. Give my pocket comb to my chum,' and the boy went out and hung up a sign in front of the grocery, as follows : 'Pop corn that the cat has slept in, cheap for pop com balls' for sociables.' Peck's Sun. W?liam and the Widow. 'I am back again from Jasper's stormy shore/ said Bill Grant, as he laid his quilt from off his broad shoul? ders, 'and it is my opinion that in sound judgment and right down, sharp sense, woman is far superior to the monarch man.' 'Why so V we inquired. 'Well, you see, in the past twenty years I have made more brick and been refused by more women than any ten men in Georgia. 1 thought I had the thing dead at Newton factory until last night, when I asked a well-to-do widow if she could warm over a few of her buried affections and make room enough in ber heart for a second husband. She said she would never marrv another man unless she liked i f the way he walked, j 'William,' she sweetly said, 'the j moon is up, the night is clear ; now, come out and get in the middle of the road and step toward town, and ii I admire the style of your gait I will call you back and marry you, promis? ing to cook for your brickyard crowd all the day s of my life, remember if you stop or look back before I call you, you are never to darken my door again.' 'Thinking I had a soft thing of it 1 went out into the road, threw my head back, placed my arms 'a kimbo,' and promenaded up the road. I con? tinued to walk, thinking surely she would call rae back. Well, you see I'm here, and it's twelve miles from where 1 entered the road to walk for a wife. Why do you suppose she failed to call me back V 'Couldn't see your style,' said we. 'Hanged if Judge Banks didn't say the same thing when I told him about it just at day, and my opinion is she didn't intend to call me back from the beginning. You see that walk the little widow put on me convinced me of the superiorit}' of her sex over my own.'-Detroit Free Press. The Main Question. A negro planter came to Vicksburg the other day, sold his cotton, put his money in his pocket, and started down the river. Leaning too far over the guards as the boat backed out he fell overboard. His portmonnaie, which was in his side pocket, fell out and rode with his hat on the surface of the water, while the current carried the negro away. The yawl was lowered and assistance at once started toward the drowning man, who, preceiving his treasure floating off, raised his voice and shouted : 'Save dat pocketbook.' His head went under and he dis? appeared. As he rose up again he gasped : 'ivar's $138 in dat pocketbook.' Scarcely had he uttered the words before he sank a second time. The yawl came within reach just in time to save the drowning African as he came to the surface for the last time. As soon as the water was wiped from his nose and mouth so that he could speak he said : 'Did-did you save dat pocket? book V . 'No,' was the response. 'Well, den,' said the negro, regret? fully, 'what was de use of savin' me V To wash colored table linen use te? pid water, with a little powdered bo? rax; wash quickly, using but little soap, and rinse in tepid water contain? ing boiled starch ; dry in the shade, and when almost dry iron. j A Suggestion to the E. E. Commissioners. The News and Courier, Greenville News, Anderson Intelligencer, and other newspapers have given the railroad commissioners liberal advice as to what they should do> The Ob? server has a suggestion which it begs lo make to the commissioners. That suggestion is, that the commissioners require every passenger train to car? ry a barroom along with it ; or, at least, a drinking apartment. There are FO many men to whom it is im j possible io travel even a short dis j tance on a railroad without taking something to drink ; and they ought J ?ot to be subjected to the embarrass ? ment, which any gentleman must ue ? cessarily feel, of taking vut his bottle j and gulping down his liquor in the j regular passenger coach iii the pre ! sence of old men, young men, and j ladies and children. The necessity of some such provision as we have spoken of was impressed upon us last Thursday while going from Newberry to Columbia. First a diummer got out his flask from his valise, and he and two of his confreres stood up in the car where all the passengers could see and hear them, and many could not j help it, and passed around the bottle, while the fumes of the brandy spread themselves all over the car. Then another individual, in a 6hort time, dived down into his valise and brought out his flask, and he and another stood up at the water tank and quenched their thirst with the juice of the corn, while its fumes mingled themselves throughout the car with the fumes of the brandy. If there had been a bar-room car along j these men could have gone into that ; and taken their liquor without the I necessity of making themselves of I fensive to the gentlemen and ladies in the coach or setting a bad example to the young men and boys. The two I inslauces we have mentioned are not isolated-ones. Dram-drinking in the first-class coaches of the railroads is a very common occurrence ; it is done i every day. Therefore we suggest ! that the railroad companies be re-, j quired to run a bar-room car with j their regular passenger trains. If I they cannot do that, then a cattle car j might answer the purpose.-Xewber ! ry Observer. Improvement of Roads. The present movement is hopeful 1 above any previous one, because it ! extends over the whole country, and j public sentiment seems to be unaui ! rnously in favor of some better plan of ? working the roads. Permauent im j provements are now demanded, and I this means the setting aside of the j old slip-shod method of mending the j highways one month only to see the j work washed away the next. lion, j John Landrigan, the president of the j Illinois Board of Agriculture, thus discusses the importance of perma? nent improvements: Next in importance to drainage to ; farmers of this State is the more per ! raauent improvement of the highways. ! In many portions of the State the sui j face water must find au outlet by the ! roadside ditches, in which cases the ! improvement of the roads must pre i cede tile or surface drainage. There is uo question but that every I dollar judiciously expended in con j structing what are termed permanent j roads, adds much more than the j amount of lands adjoining or accessi? ble thereto. . The fact that farming lands in other states where good roads have been in use for years are worth two or three times as much as better lands in this j State, adjoining equally as good rnar I kets, is conclusive evidence that our j people have not investigated this mat j ter. It is well known to the farmers of many sections of this State that ac the most leisure seasons of the year, when farm products generally sell" to the best advantage, tLat the condition of j the roads makes it impracticable to market the crops. The increased revenues to the farm? ers resulting from good roads soon furnish the means for better buildings, i stock and various other improvements, i as well as encourage more extended farming operations. The pecuniary advantages result? ing from well constructed pnrmanent roads are only part of the reasons which should stimulate every com-1 munity to proceed without delay in the work of constructing good roads. Good roads have been ranked among I the first of civilizing influences, as they not only make it possible but pleasant for farmers to attend church, visit neighbors and friends in the town, send their children to attend good schools. Many objections against the farm? er's occupation could not be urged in a section with good roads where the usual isolated condition would not be felt by an enterprieing and worthy class otherwise favorably impressed with this calling duty. It is recommended that a committee of this Board be appointed to aid in securing any needed legislation in the road laws, as well as to prepare an address to the public, showing the necessity and importance of a gene I ral effort in thediiection of construc I ting leading roads of the most per I manent and substantial character. ! Mr. Jay Gould hus been pretty well ; knowu as an abstainer from alchoholic j drinks, and it may bc due in some measure to this that he lias kept a clear enough head to attain his present prom? inence as a financier at a comparatively early age, for he is not yet fifty. Col. Fordyce, well known in connection with Hot Springs, Arkansas, once played a joke on Gould at that place. Gould was ailing and Fordyce recommended brandy or whiskey, but could not in j duce him to take any. Finally, he J persuaded him to try a glass of 'rock ! and rye,' which did him good, and I Gould said that the man who owned the spring that produced that water had a fortune in it. It was a long time before ho learned bow be bad been sold._ Useful Information. If you will cut this out and stick it in your memorandum book, you will find it convenient for reference, and be spared the trouble and expense of writ? ing letters of inquiry to the newspa? pers. On and after October 1, 1883. letter j postage will be two cents for each half ounce or fractioual part thereof between all points in the United States. The rate will then be the same on drop letters and all others. No changes have been made in rates on other classes of matter. On and after the 1st of July, 1883, you can obtain at any money order of? fice postal cotes in sums of ?5 and un? der by paying a fee of 3 cents. These postal notes will be made payable to bearer without corresponding advices. They will be made payable at any money order office within three months of the date of issue. After the lapse of that time the holder can obtain the par value only by applying to the postoffice department at Washington. On and after the 1st of July, 1883, you can obtain a postal money order for as large a som as ?100. The present limit is ?50. The rates on and after that date for orders will be as follows : Not exceeding ?10 - - - 8 cents. From 10 to 15 - - - - 10 cents From 15 to 30 - - - - 15 cents. From 30 to 40 - - - - 20 cents. From 40 to 50 - - - - 25 cents. From 50 to 60 - - - - 30 cents. From 60 to 70 - - - - 35 cents. From 70 to 80 - - - - 40 cents. From 80 to 100 - - - - 45 cents. The postal notes will, no doubt, be found more convenient in one respect than the fractional currency was, since they can be obtained for aoy number of cents under ?5. There will also be less liability to loss by theft than there was when fractional notes were used for transmission through the mails, especially if the department uses judg? ment in prescribing the size and form I of the notes and in selecting the paper on which they are to be printed. On the other hand, they will be . less con? venient in that they can only be ob? tained at money order offices at a con? siderable sacrifice of time, especially in large cities. It will be observed that after the first of October the cost of sending any sum under ?5 by postal note will be 5 cents-2 cents postage j and 3 cents fee.-Chicago Times. Peter Cooper's Illustration of Usury. Mr. Cooper was always a careful and prudent business mau. He was always opposed to the methods of many mer i chants, who launched out iuto extrava? gant enterprises on borrowed money for which they paid exorbitant rates of in? terest. Once, while talking about a project with an acquaintance, the latter said he would have to borrow money for six months, paying interest at the rate of three per cent. 'Why do yt>u borrow for so short a time T Mr. Coop? er asked. "Because the brokers wiil not negotiate for longer.' 'Well if you wish,' said Mr Cooper, 'I will discount your note at that rate for three years.' 'Are you in earnest asked the would-be borrower. 'Certainly I am. I will discount your note for ?10.000 for three years at that rate. Will you dj it?' 'Of course I will,' said the mer? chant. 'Very well,' said Mr. Cooper ; 'just sign this note for ten thousand dollars, payable in three years, and give me your check for ?800, and the transaction is complete.' 'But where is the money for me V asked the aston? ished merchant. 'You don't get any mouey,'was the reply. 'Your interest for 36 months, at 3 per centum per month, amounts to 10S per centum, or ?10.800 ; therefore your check for ?800 just makes us even.' The force of this practical illustration of the folly of paying such an exhorbitant price for the use of money was such that the merchant determined never to borrow money at such ruinous rates, and he frequently used to say that nothing could have so fully convinced him as this rather humorous proposal by Mr. Cooper.-Ar. Y. Evening Post. ?in? ? i - A JJtah Fish Story. They sat around the White House stove yesterday swaping lies, and when Jackson had exhausted his store Jones opened his sample case and be? gan. 'I was down in water canon, south? east of Nevada, last fall, near Mormon Spring, where the water rushes through and under a mountain thirty five miles across-' 'Tunnelled perhaps,' said Jackson. 'No, it's a natural water course, and comes out boiling on 'tother side, then runs off in a big stream.' 'There's a series of beautiful falls, with nice steps leading down, then a deep pool as clear as crystal, with plenty of mountain trout sporting at the bottom. One day a band of Apache Indians pitched their wicki? ups near this stream, and an old buck and his squaw, hearing the rushing waters below, went down the natural stairway to the stream. The old buck seeing the trout in the bottom made his squaw dive for them. 'And did she do it?' asked Jack? son. 'You bot, for Indian bucks won't stand foolishness. But tho squaw didn't come up. She won't clear un? der that mountain and came out 'tother side, thirty-five miles.7 'Did it drown her ?' said Jackson, who had become very much interested in the fate of tho squaw. 'No; she carno out dripping wot with a two-pound trout in her mouth and one in each hand.'-Salt Lake Tribune. - -- Concerning Samuel J. Tilden's agc thc Louisville Courier-Journal says : 'Tilden is a year older than Bismarck and five years younger than Gladstone. He is nearly seven years younger than Disraeli was at the time of his death. He is a year younger than Andrew Jackson was at thc expiration of his ?-second Presidential term, and about a year younger than was Buchanan when he steped out and Lincoln in/ News and Gossip. Lay by a good store of patience, I ! be sure to put it where you can find in ease of emergency. The Town Council of Johnston ba offered a reward of ?100 for the pr< to convict auy person of selling wh key in that town. A contract has been signed for t sale of the Grand Central Hotel Columbia, Mr. CC Habenicbt, bei: the purchaser, for the sum of ?35,0(1 Joseph Pulitzer, of the St. Lot Post-.Dispatch, bas bought the N< York World, paying ?400,000 for The paper will continue to be Dem eratic. A little boy in South Carolina h sent ?100 to the Southern Presbyl rian .Board of Foreigu Missions, t proceeds of the sale of canary bir raised by himself. The Baltimore Doy says : The su cession to the seat of Senator Wa Hampton, who will not be a candidal j is said to be between Gen. James Co ner and Ex-Speaker Charles H. Simo j ton, of Charleston ; Chief Justice V D. Simpson, Columbia, and W. ] Wilson, of York. Cabbage worms may be killed 1 sprinkling the plants with water near boiling hot. The plants will not i injured if the water is not too abnn ant. A tea made of cayenne pepp sprinkled on twice a day will destn the worms. But the pepper (groun* sprinkled on in the dry state while tl dew is on the plants, will prove moi effectual than thc tea. V. Richards & Bro., an old ai prominent dry goods firm of August Ga., have assigned to J. C C. Bln< of Augusta and John G. Long of Ne York. Liabilities ?100,000; asset in stock, real estate, notes and a counts, ?88,888. There are no pr ferred creditors. The debts are di mainly in New York and Baltimore. The Rock Hill Herald says th? Messrs. Ivy & Feweil shipped froi that place a short time since a car loa of five hundred bushels of corn whic they purchased of planters of Yor County, and they say they are buyin ten bushels of corn from their eui tomers to one that they are selling Some planters are even paying for the: guanos in corn. The Supreme Court of the State hi decided in the case of Scruggs vs. Fo< that the Prob?is Court has jurisdictio to sell land, at the suit of a creditor, t pay debts of a d?cident where the pei soual assests are insufficient. This d( cisi?n will throw a great deal mor business into the Probate Court, wher estates, especially if they are insolveu' can be settled up more expeditiousl and at less cost than in the Circu Court. Ou the 2d, the Columbia Board < trade pledged ?500 to enable Sout Carolina to take her place in the Bos ton Exposition next fall, and adopte a resolution asking the State Board c Agriculture to lend a helping baud We hope that the State will be repre sented, but we cannot see that th Board of Agriculture has the authorit to make an appropriation for that pur pose. The Board should not let th press force it to do what it has no righ to do.-Newberry Herald. The latest example of brotherly lov is from Dallas, X. C The Rev. Mr Wetmore, an Episcopalian clergyman ?was on his way to hold service iu ; mission church, but was stopped by ; swollen creek. Thereupon a Baptis minister took Mr. Wetmore on hi back and ferried him over, thereby pre venting him, it may be remarked, fron becoming more wet. This may be ac cepted as an illustration of the readi ness with which Baptists take to th< water. The returns of the progress of th< cotton planting show that work is latei than usual in every state, and indicate! that on May 1st, 74 per cent of th< proposod area was planted, when the usual proportion is said to be 84 pei cent, in Virginia and North Carolini it was very late. The per ccntagci were, Virginia, 15 ; North Carolina. 85; South Carolina, 75; Georgia, 73: Florida, 9G ; Alabama, 83; Missis? sippi, 82 ; Louisiana, 81 ; Texas, 75 : Arkansas, 72 ; Tennessee, 67. General Beauregard looks as if he were good for twenty years yet, which would only make him eighty-two. Il is not generally known that he is the first of his family called Beauregard. His father was old Jacques Toutant, who lived about twenty-five miles be? low New Orleans on a sugar plantation, where tho general was born. His proper title was Jacques Toutant, Count de Beauregard. If he had been a Frenchman he would have been a count, for he was one of the oldest noble familes of France. The gener? al's full name is Gregory Pierce Tou? tant Beauregard. Since the War he has dropped the second name. The Standard Oil Works in Jefferson ' City were struck by lightning and burnt up last week. It is thought that the loss will exceed ?1,500,000. Twelve large tanks, eighteen cars, six barges, a dredger, three docks and five brick buildings wore destroyed besides several lives. The quantity of oil con? sumed is not known. Among tho losers, besides the Standard Oil Com? pany, are several other oil firms, who each lose from 400 to 700 barrels of cylinder oil, which was stored in one of the warehouses. It is difficult to imagine a more horrible situation than that of tile six men who were burned. They were throwing wafer on a huge tank of oil wheo another, SO.:JC distance behind them, burst, and a flood of bla? zing oil ran towards them. It cut off their retreat on two sides while the river was on thc other with burning oil floating all over its surface. They fled for thc only opeuing, but before they had gone ten steps thc tank on which they had been working exploded, hurl? ing huge mases of fire upon them. The party searching for their bodies found among thc ashes and debris, several white particles, only one of which was larger than a ten cent piece. These were decleared to be bits of human ? bones. The largest piece was what appeared to be the bail and socket of a knee joint. THRIFT ly FRANCE. The sense of economy and thrift of the French people is especially striking to those who have lived much in other countries. Nearly everybody possesses something in this- country. If anybody does not, you may be pretty sure it is his own fault Love of economy often j verges on avarice. Go into any house j in Paris, question the servants, and you ? may be certain that almost every one of them has some small treasure in the shape of cash or bonds. It is the saving of every day. The old servant in the house will often consult his master about how he is to employ his money. The head servant of a private house here, who has often filled my glass at tibie, has saved enough to bring him in ?700 a year. He has been for twenty-five years in the same situation, and does his duty as strictly as he did the first day of his service. He seldom goes out, never takes anything between his meals, and all he gains is carefully put aside. I have met with so many examples that I am bound to believe this thrift to be the rule. A careful observer, who has occa? sion to mix with the middle classes in France, will be even more struck by the qualities I have indicated. The whole mode of living is made subservient to the children ; the babe has hardly seen daylight before the parents are already saving for him. Every cliild's future is provided for at his cradle by the earnest efforts of his parents, and it is rarely their fault if they do not succeed. There is a curions exception to this al? most general rule-the workman, the j artisan. Here you find many, and es- j pecially the better paid, in towns and cities, who have not preserved the good qualities of their fellow-countrymen. ! Here you find drunkenness, improvi? dence, and with them Communism. Still it may be confidently declared that these are a small minority.-Times. BED-HOT IRON IN THE MOUTH. Prof. Semantini, of Naples, after va? rious experiments upon himself, says that he found that by friction with sul? phuric acid, diluted with water, the skin might be made insensible to the action of the heat of red-hot iron. A solution of alum, evaporated until it became spongy, appeared to be more effectual in these frictions. After having rubbed the parts, which were thus rendered, in some degree, incombustible, with hard soap, he discovered, on the application of hot iron, that their insensibility was increased. He then determined on again rubbing the parts with soap, and after this found that the hot iron not only occasioned no pain, but that it actually did not burn the hair. Being thus far satisfied, the professor applied hard soap to his tongue until it became in? sensible to the heat of the iron; and, after having placed an ointment com? posed of soap mixed with a solution of alum upon it, boiling oil did not })urn it. "While the oil remained on the tongue a slight hissing was heard, similar to that of hot iron when thrust into water. The oil soon cooled, and might then be swallowed without danger. Several sci? entific men have since successfully re? peated the experiments. TUE FATAL BUCKET. " It is much easier to get into a quar? rel than to get out of it." In the year 1005 some soldiers of the common? wealth of Modena ran away with a buck? et from a public well belonging to the state of Bologna. This implement might be worth 1 shilling, but it produced a quar? rel which was worked into a long and san? guinary war. Henry, the King of Sar? dinia, assisted the Modenese to keep possesion of tho bucket, and in one of the battles he was made prisoner. His father, the Emperor, offered a chain of gold that would encircle Bologna, which is seven iniles in compass, for his son's ransom, but in vain. After twenty-two years'imprisonment, he pined away. His monument is now extant in the church of the Dominicans. This fatal bucket is still exhibited in the tower of the Cathe? dral of Modcna, inclosed in an iron cage. HIS MAIDEN EFFORT. Disraeli's first effort in Parliament is thus described by one who saw and heard it : "When Mr. Disraeli got up to reply to the great Irish athlete, Daniel O'Con? nell, who had just sat down, he looked as collected and pleasant as a bride? groom on his nuptial day. There was a moment of intense silence highly flat? tering to tho youthful politician. He began in sn oasy flow of graceful execu? tion, and his voice was clear and strong. I looked forward to a triumphant dis? play of his powers, when, of a sudden as if it had been concerted, as doubtless it was, a loud chorus of discord? ant ejaculations broke forth from tbs Whig and Radical members that rose in volume and dissonance till the voice of the orator was quite drowned. He seemed in no wise disconcerted, but per? sistently began again and again. At last he appeaeled to the refractory mem? bers, and said that, as a matter of fair? ness, if not propriety, they ought to allow liim to proceed, at least till he gave cause for interruption, and that nothing would induce him to take part in treating any honorable gentleman in the manner in which he w:*s assailed. He saw at last it was useless to struggle against the uproar, which w;is only in? creased by the stentorian efforts of the Tory side of the house to sustain him ; so, gathering himself np to Iiis full height, with his eyes emitting fierce flashes of indignation, and iu a voice of proud defiance, he exclaimed, as he brandished his right arm : 1 Though I sit down now, the time will come when you will hear me."' A NATURALIST has discovered that monkeys may bo taught to dance. Taught to dance, indeed ! We have seen them dance a hundred times at pawties in the fawncy dawnces. GOOD sailors, given rope enough, can make ever so many knots an hour. DRY WINE. A mild curiosity might be excited,, possibly, over the question as to bow' many occasional, or even habitual, trine drinkers know the meaning of the word " dry " as applied to wines. As a rule,,. it would seem to be much more justly applicable to a man himself than to any-. thing in the bottle or glass before hiT It is strictly a "trade term," but ii: has a sufficiently distinct ?nd definite meaning. When a wine has been permitted to. continue the process of its fermentation until it has converted all of its natural sugar into spirit, and has properly de veloped all of its natural acid, it becomes, techinoally, a "dry wine." When, however, a wine has been at all sweetened, or has had it? natural fer? mentation arrested by the addition of spirit, it is not a dry wine. A3 applied to champagne of any brancl * whatever, the term "dry" ia a practical "misnomer," for there are no cham? pagne wines in existence to which mote or less of "rock candy" has not been added in the making. The only difference, for instance, be? tween a "thy" and an "extra dry" champagne is in the amount of liqueur which has been added to the grape juice. For the finest brands, the French make a liqueur of brandy and rock candy, and in most cases they also add a delicate flavoring extract, j These things may indeed promote j "dryness " in the drinker, eut they do j not increase the amount of natural acid I in the wine itself.-Dewey's Wine j Journal. SIXTEEN CHILDREN AT OHE BIRTS. A man in Illinois, having sent to a Washington journal a photograph of five of his children who frere born on tho same day, asserting that "no other man can show a picture of five," tba news? paper quiets him with the following statistics : "Instances have been found where children to the number of six, seven, eight, nine and sometimes sixteen have been brought forth at one birth. The wife of Emanuel Gago, a laborer near Va?ladolid, was delivered the 14th of. June, 1799, of five girls. The celebra? ted Tarsin was brought to bed in the seventh month, at Argenteuil, near Paris, 17th of July, 1779, of three boys, each fourteen and a half inches long., and a girl, thirteen inches. They wera all baptized, but did not live over twen? ty-four hours. In June, 1799, one Maria Ruis, of Lucena, in Andalusia, was successively delivered of sixteen boys, without any girls. Seven of them were alive on the lGth of August follow? ing. Li 1535 a Muscovite peasant named James Kyrloff and his wife were presented to the Empress of Russia This peasant had been twice married,, and was then 70 years of age. His firs? wife was brought to bed twenty-one times, namely, four times of four chil? dren each time, seven times of three, and ten times of two, making in all fif? ty-seven children who were then alive. His second wife, who accompanied bim, had been delivered seven times-once ol three children, and six times of twins. Thus he had seventy-two children by his two marriages." I geeps a leetle shtore down Proad way, but I don't got much shtock in ter shtore. Der gomes once a gustomer in. vot toldt me of a shentlenians who got some goots to sell scheap ; so I write to ter shentlemans und ask him for ter re? fusal of dot goots. He gafe me ter re? fusal ; dot is, lie say I couldn't hal dem, but he would come ono day to my shtore, I und if we was in gcot shtanding we might do together some peesness. Von morning, ven I was my gounder pchindt, there gomes in a shentlemans, and he say, " Mister Schmidt, I peleeve." I say " Ta. " After a leetle, he look my shtore i 'round and he say, " Mr. Schmidt, you j don't got much shtock in ter shtore.* i Now I vant to make some goot imbres I sions, so I tell him, " You dou't suppose j it vas possible I got more as dree dou I sand dollars in ter shtore, ain't it ?" He ? say, "You don't toldt me." Now 3 j didn't mean that it vas possible, pecause j I didn't vant to be like Sheorge Va^ning tons, ven he cut ter big elm on Boston j Gommon mit his lecdle hatchet down, j and den vent and toldt some lies about ' it Ter shentlemans he takes a leedle j book from his pocket oud, nnd he say, j "Veil, Mister Schmidt, you ought to j know better as anybody how much yon j got in ter shtore, so I put yon down dree I dousand dollars," I say, "Vat you mean by put me down dree dousand dollars?** Den he dell me he vos one cf dose dax men or assessors, und he sheke me py der handt and call me honest Dntcher ever vos, pecause I didn't try to scheat ter Govennends. I dell you vot, I fee) ! more sheaper ss 50 per cent, van dot ! man leaf my shtore. THE BICYCLE BULE, One of the rules of a bicycle club j reads: "A horse should never be passed ; on both sides at once." We suspect j that when a bicycler attempt? to pass j on both sides of a horse "at once,** he j is expelled from the club. He would I certainly be dismissed from a temper j ance organization. -Norristown Herold. ! OXE AS BAD AS THE OTHER. ; Bill Pitz and Joe Nagel had a $5 game I of billiards in thc "Gently Dreaming" I saloon, on Galveston avenue. Bill lost ; the game, but instead of paying the $5 . he said: " I haven't got a cent of money ! with me, Joe." ??The-you haven't! Whatsoilof j a way is that for a gentleman to do-to ! come into a saloon and play without a i cent of money in his pocket? How now; ? am I to pay the barkeeper what I, owe. j him?"- Galveston News. j OF a miserly man somebody wrote.: " His head gave way, but bis bund never ! did. His brain softened, but his heart j couldn't.'* j To OPENLY offend virtue is to c?ande%. 1 tfnely defend ?mu^rslity._