Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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WATCHMAN, established April, 1850. Aug. 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 Jane, 1866, SUMTER, S. C., TUESDAY, JULY 3, 1883. New Series-Toi. II. No. 46. ' : ?:??*iiji?ti Tut8dA7, Southron Publishing S* C. annum-in advance. M?.?M00 >.>.**?*..>....>* 50 or longer will ^whieb. subserve private for as ad vettiseme n ts. i be tea of respect will be i ?nd notices of deaths pob or contracts fer advertising Scntt?roti, or apply at K. 0. OSTSEN, Business Manager. OF TOCE. i&^ta?- from the. River of rbnarper, fill it high to the friands who passed in their to their shadows, fantastic and ii death on the River of > thea a puff of the air, fragrance to a king? ia treason, life's tor? teare. ? the bower whats my dream? s' day? of gladness and with ray joj, on Tune*! River for ber saH, load laughing I^H^B^tkosft days when the heart was ?&?O tl??ays wheo ray free footsteps ?^^^^itaa4 valley, o'er streamlet ^Milliifjiiaiiiii T played, while their glories jpr^ ?^B^of l?v8rs eye was the gem of ?sw again thali -ooe: ammeo t . return, ^l^^J^^notm^of hi^ sod its garland "^^T ^ down ia the haart the embers that yontb to cere ^^yi^jijji.ti i iinhYt J linn , nm! the seasons ^^^^ikiimatM tho far vears ere bis manhood ^^?^^^Aaf?^; : . ?. .? " ^^t?ai^jg^?et.?s lodg, and his bidding is 5:^ -1. ' iod?WT?iDe>roIling river is compassed if>^ twilights T;>.^^^??raeorf the days, swift-wing'd in ?y?aside care at tho Peata-Arigers Ja^ t?rns to thc past with a far fading -.?1zz^--~??-:. ," .> -.. . ?5 r^^ij?btjili?. genia*?**' be asks'; "where is g?P??;tatenVs reward?'1 *^C-iad-be tra? his gue on the River of by a cold-hearted Tboooity io bra?, and the cri egon to ?S?^?rf?a???te^^pf>;:OB,V-a? { stood on its c .-,' ! . Al^;the^rietJ^ of a day pass bj on the ^t^tsd ? tho good and tho troff undeservedly ?..;?"??OIMWJ - '-A 3 ^ ArnTtne bad and tho boM andeservedly ? i -Hugh Extra*-McDermott. if.;?'. alwtt the close of a bright ..s^?wf?y day. We were all sitting in l^^^broid piax? ?nd Mrs. Arp had r , laielaaid? ber spectacles ar-d was talk fe';^fJ&>Bt the old Hog mountaio that t^-??? fcad been reading abont io Joe B Bsrris's pretty story, -At Teague Po "Why," said she, -that Hog Kjiwliptifn is grote Owinnett, away ap Hpjjjfajfr'fr ^w>es7tlle, and I went ?Bfei?O?i tifere wbe?i I wss a child. P^Bd Aanty Bird taught as, and she was p^-^?j?^.?W;. JOttt I know she is in jt?atsoiJ ?f w^bo?y is, I wonder if it is l^feli?W Hog^moanfcain-bat I don't ^IBgflirier ?iy of the "Potseta/* ^^jSBSlri?aefi, clover Tom Gordon, ^^^ftrjtihwo* few miles above ns, passed ?lp**- we were talking, and Mrs. K memories took a fresh start as ?irasiricd: "He was a good boy, ?wa*, i ?eat to school with bim <?& ' f^fe'jopeaeer, and I know his speech 'I*1M rote forward, end jfiMBtoy an an lions, excised connteo ^^^?i si'iiie stretched forth ber '-r-'ifctsi, "?a the gentleman dene? is be Itmphitij done f ' Mrs. Arp is mighty ^ g??? ?a ?epeech, and ber memory it ? whaler fal, .and to to tell ber along I mii***n& Charley Alden, what was ?.;-:Xk?!?p?G&V* and withoot a moment's r I^I?K^ene took a new position and ^nptdr m of these short neck bowi SD(1 % rfws* ber throat, and repeated with siow sad fOieom voice : ^ T>-:'.>; :*^tittitii, wheo the son wai low, ^^aa Waodl?ai lay the on trodden snow, Aad sSifc ?a maser was the dow ^gOftsarTOiSpf rabidly" ^M?^tim^^W^ ber other little foot :Kfjnrtrd, n? orightsned up aa she eon ? On?tirdOld School Speeches, Com ? and a Hew Barrel of 1 \ hands, for the girls had never set their mother in that role before. "And poor Thad Lowe," said 44what was his speech?" "So from the region of the north," .aid site. "And Kennely Butler ?" said I. "At midnight ia his guarded tent," and she gave us a whole verse of Mar< Boxaris. She likes that and we begg? her to go on and she went through tb: fighting verse where the Greeks eau down like an avalanche and her ma; tia] patriotism was all aglow as st said : I "Strike for the green graves of your sires, Strike for your altars and your fires, God and your native land." Goodness gracious! what a soldi< sae would have made. It was my turn BOW, and 60J put on Jim Alexander's speech at m ?school: "-Make way for liberty, te cried, Hake way for liberty and died." Jim was always cruising around fe liberty, and the speech suited hil mighty well. But Tom, his brothel had a liking for the law and spoke frot Daniel Webster, "Gentlemen, this is most extraordinary case." And th er waa Gib Wright, the biggest boy i school, who caaried his head on on side like he was fixing to be hung, an be .came out on the floor with a floarisl and made big , demonstrations, fixio] his No. IS feet, and you would hav thought he was going to speak some thing from Demosthenes or Ajax o Hercules or the rock of Gibraltar, whei soddenly he stretched forth his big lon? arm and said : "How doth the busy little bee Improve each shining hour. We never thought he would get to be J big lawyer and a judge, but he did. And General Wofford was there too and his speech was that of an Indiai chief to the pale faces, and most ever j sentence began with "brothers;" and h< whipped a big sassy Spaniard by th? name of Del Gardo for imposing on ni little boys, and then went off to figh! the Mexicans for imposing on Uncle Sam, and ever since he has been fight? ing somebody, and I think he had rather do it than not. And there was Jim Dunlap who used to spread himself and swell as he re? cited from Patrick Henry's great speech : "They tell us, sir, that we arc weak; but when shall we be stronger ? Will it be the?oexc week or the next year ?" And he just pawed around and shook the floor as he exclaimed, "Give me liberty, or give me death !" Jim didn't carry as much weight before him as he carrie* now, but he was a whale and had a voice like a bass drum with a bull-frog hi it. Jim was called on during the war to choose betwixt liberty and death, and he sorter split the dif? ference and took neither, but be pulled through all right. * After this effort, which sorter ex? hausted me. Mrs. Arp recalled Melville Young's speech about **King Henry of Navarre," and Charley Nortou's speech to the eagle, "Great bird bf the wilderness, loueiy and proud/' and Charley Rowland's solemn dirge to Sir John Moore, 44Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note," and then I was called on for my own speech and I bad to stand up and advance forward and make a bow and say : "Mv name is Norval-on the Grampian hills my father fed his flocks." I remember that it took my teacher two weeks to keep me from saying, 4tmy name is Norval on the Grampian hills," and he asked me what was my name off the Grampian hilts, and finally I got the idea that I most put on the brakes after I said Norval and then make a new start for the hills. ? Mrs. Arp then branched off on the compositions and recitations of the girls, and recited "sweet little Mary ; Malthie's piece on the maniac: Stay i jailer, stay and hear my woe," and Sallie Johnson's composition on . "Hope." I "Hope ! Tf it was not for hope man would die. Hope is a good invention, i If it was not for hope, woman would I mighty nigh give up the ship." And that reminded me of Mack Montgomerys essay on money. I "Mooey I Money is a good inven ! tion. The world couldn't get along much without money. But folks oughtent to love money too good. They oughtent to banker after other folkes' money, for if they do its mighty apt to make 'em steal and rob. One day there was a lonesome traveler going along a lonesome road in the woods all solitary and alone by himself, without nobody at all with bim, wheu soddenly io the twinkling of an eyeball out sprang a robber and shot him down, and it was all for money." "When I am dead no pageant train Shall waste their sorrows at my bier." "That was my dear brother's speech," said she, "and it all came true. He was killed at Chicamauga. The cruel bullet went in his brain and he fell with his face to the foe and there was no pageant train ; no kindred ; no sorrows wasted ; no time for sorrow; no loving band ; no burial for a long time. Oh, it is so sad even now to think about the poor dear boy. He was so good to us and we loved him." Our school mates are few and far ; between now. Death has carried most of them away and those who are left ; are widely scattered. How the roads < of life do fork-and some take one 1 and some another. We are all like i pickets skirmishing around, and one by ] one get picked off ourselves by the ; common foe. I had liked to have got < picked off myself a day or two ago. j The wagon had come from town with < a few comforts and one was a barrel of ; flour. Mrs. Arp and the children always j comes to the sooth porch when the i wagon comes for they want to see it 1 unloaded aod feel good for a little t while, and so when the hind gate was c taken off and Mrs. Arp had wondered r bow wo would get out the flour, I c thought I would show her what a man a could do. I rolled the barrel to me as I c stood on the ground and gently eased c it down on my manly knees. My opinion now is that there is a keg of lead io that barrel, for my knees gave ? way and I was falling backwards, and fi to keep the barrel from mashing me cl into a pancake or something else, I p :f0ffc& heave forward and let ber go, h ?i JrM en ? pile of rocks that were I laid around a cherry tree, and they i were rough and ragged and sharp, and ! tore my left arm all to pieces and raked it to the bone. The blood streamed through my shirt sleeve and I was about to faint, for blood always makes me faint, when Mrs. Arp screamed for camphor, and the girls rnn for it, and before I could stop 'ern they bad camp? fire and turpentine fire poured all over i my arm, and I went a dancing around j like I was in a yaller jacket's nest. It liked to have killed me, 6bore enuf, but after while I rallied and went to bed. I haven't used that arm nor a finger on that hand till now, and go about sad and droopy. But I have had a power of sympathy, and Mrs. Arp is good mighty good. And now I'm in a fix, for I can't shave but one side of my face and company is coining to-morrow. Well, I used to could let down a barrel of flour-I used to could-but rolling years will change a man-anno domini will tell. I reckon by the time I get my neck broke I will begin to re? alize that Pm not the man I used to be, but as Cobe says, "if I could cali back twenty year's I'd show 'em." The next time a barrel of flour comes to my bouse I will get two skids twenty five feet long and let it roll out, see if I don't. But it's all right and I've had a power of sympathy, and sym? pathy is a good thing. I would almost die for sympathy I shall get well slowly-very slowly. But Mrs. Arp asked me this morning if I couldn't pick the raspberries for dinner with one hand-said she could swing a little basket round my neck. . What a thoughtful, ingenious womau I About Bathing. The Royal Hnmane Society of Lon don has just published a list of cautions to bathers, which may well be referred to the attention of our readers, at this season when bathing, either in salt or fresh water, will be freely practiced. The roles are not new, but practical and valuable, as follows : Avoid bathing within two hours after a meal. Avoid bathing when exhausted by fatigue or from any other cause. Avoid bathing when the body is cooliog after perspiration. Avoid bathing altogether in the open air if, after having been a short time in the water, it causes a sense of chilliness with numbness of the hands and feet. Bathe when the body is warm, pro? vided no time is lost in gettiog into the water. Avoid chilling the body by sitting or standing undressed on the banks or in boats after having been ia the water. Avoid remaining too long in the water-leave the water immediately if there is the slightest feeling of chilli? ness. The vigorous and strong may bathe early in the morning on an empty stomach. The young, and those who are weak, had better barbe two or three hours after a meal-the best time for such is from two to three hours after breakfast. Those who are subject to giddiness or faintness, and those who suffer from palpitation and other sense of discom? fort at the heart, should not bathe without first cousulting their medical adviser. Conversation. A ready, easy and discreet talker is one of the rarest characters met with in society. And yet there is scarcely, a single other accomplishment that can render one so . charming as can this. We are filled with admiration for him at once and if be be a person of fair character we ? -d ourselves craving his friendship, that we may revel in the luxury of the words tbnt fall from his lips. Good conversational powers give a man an influence among his fellows that he would never wield without it, and he who would help .to elevate his race can do no better than to cultivate this rare gift. We also are in sorry need of it in cur homes. There is great and lasting good to be accom? plished by the parents in moulding the characters of their children aod devel? oping their young minds, to say ?othing of the important wirk of per? fecting their conversational powers, by conversing well in the family circle. Children are good listeners and admira? ble imitators; they will hear what you say and note how you say it. If you illow your table and fireside talks to be groveling in their nature, or gossip or n any way unworthy of you as culti? vated men and women, yon need expect nothing better of the children than that :hey will talk as father and mother do. [f you indulge iu "expressive" slang, ;o will they, and much also that is neither expressive nor fit for "ears po? rte." Southern Timber Lands. The-New York Commercial Bulletin joncedes that the South is destined to >ecome the centre of the lumbering ndustries of America, and it. predicts hat the annual yieUI of this article in he Southern States will amount to more han ?100,000,000, bringing in nearly is much as the cotton crop, it sees in he late heavy purchases by Northern md European capitalists of large tracts >f Southern lands a proof of this. These corporations and syndicates see he future ahead, and they are wisely aying in their supply of the woodland low. The Bulletin says there is no loubt that now is the host chance for lurchasing Southern timber lands beaply ; for, alung with the rise of Southern prosperity generally, accom >anied or inspired Ly railroad devolop nent, timber lands will advance much ?eyond their present value. It is true hat the lumber market is somewhat verstocked just at present, and not auch is to be gained by increasing the utput, but in the prosperous future head this industry will grow and in rease in the steady development of the ountry. William Schmidt, a shoemaker, at io. 157 King street, Charleston, aged fty-two years, committed suicide Mou ay morning at four o'clock. He laced a pistol to his mouth and blew is brains out. Death was instantaneous. IQ leaves a wife and threo children. v d a 1 y <? That Bad Boy HIS PA HEDGES-A FENIAN SCARE-DYN A MITE CARTRIDGES-THE OLD MAN LOSES HIS TEETH. 'I guess your pa's losses in the sil? ver niiae has made him crazy, haven't they/ said the grocery man to the bad boy, as he came in the store with his eye winkers singed off, and pow? der marks on his face and begun to play on the harmonica, as lie sat down on a stick of stove wood, and balanced himself. '0, 1 guess not. He has hedged. He got iu with the deacon of another church, and sold some of his stock to him, and pa says if I will keep my condemn mouth shut he will unload the whole of it, if the churches hold out. He goes to a new church every night to a prayer meeting or anything, and makes ma go with him, to give him tone, and after meeting she talks with the sisters about how to piece a silk bed quilt, while pa geh in his work selling silver stock. I don't know but he will order some more stock from the factory, if he sells all he has got/ and the boy went on play? ing 'There is a laud that is fairer than Day." 'But what wa3 he slipping up street for the other night with his hat off, grabbing at his coat tails as though they were on fire ? I thought I never saw a pussy man run any faster. And what was the celebration down on your street about that time ? I thought the world was comiDg to au end/ and the grocery man kept away from the boy, for fear he would explode. Oh, that was only a Fenian scfre. Nothing serious. You see pa is a sort of half Englishman. He claims to be an American citizen, when he wants office, but when they talk about a draft he claims to be a subject of Great Britian, and he says they can't touch him. Pa is a daru smart man, and don't you forget it. There don't many of them get ahead of pa, much. Well pa has said a good deal about the wicked Fenians, and that they ought to be pulled, and when I read the story in the papers about the ex? plosion in the British Parliment pa was hot. He said the dam nirish was runuing the whole world. He didn't dare say it at the table or our hired girl would have knocked him silly with a spoonful of mashed pota? toes, 'cause she is a nirish girl, and she can lick any Englishman in this town. Pa says there ought to have been somebody there to have taken that bomb up and tbrowd it in the sewer before it exploded. Ile said if he ever should see a bomb he would grab it right up aud throw it away where it wouldn't hurt anybody. Pa has me read the papers to him nights, cause his eyes have got splinters in 'em and after I had read all there was in the paper I made up a lot more aud pretended to read it, about how it was ruinoreuVthat the Fenians here in Milwaukee were going" to place dynamite bombs at every housed where an Englishman lived, and at a given signal blow them all up. Pa looked pale around the gills, but he said he wasn't scared. Pa and ma were going tu call on a she deacon that night, that has lots of money in the bank, to see if she didn't want to invest in a dead sure paying silver mine, and me and my chum concluded to give them a send oil'. We got my big black ingy rubber foot-ball, and painted 'Dinymight" in big white let? ters on it, and tied a piece of tarred rope to it for a fose, and gotgabig fire? cracker, one of these old fourth of July horse scarers, and a basket full of broken glass. We put the foot? ball in front of the step, and lit the tarred rope, and got under the step with the firecracker and basket, where they go down into tho basement. Pa aud ma came out the front door, and down the steps, and pa saw the foot? ball, and the burning fuse, and he said, 'Great God, Hanner, we are blowed up/ and he started to run, and ma stopped to look at it. Just as pa started io run I touched off the fire? cracker, and rey chum arranged it to pour out the broken gla^s on the brick j pavement just as the firecracker went :>ff. Well, everything went just as ive expected, except ?na. She had examined the fuot ball, and concluded it was not dangerous, anti was just giving it a kick as the fire-cracker went off, and the glass fell, and the' firecracker was so near her that it I scared her, and when pa looked around j na was flying across t?e sidewalk, j md pa heard the noise and he thought ;he house was blown to atoms. 0, fou'd died to sec him go around the ?orner. i*ou could play crokay on iis coat-tail, and his face was as pale ts ma's when she goes to a party, ? But ma didn't scare much. As quick she stopped against the hitching I ! )ost she knew it was us boys, and ! me came down there, and maybe she ! 1 lidn't maul me. I cried and tried to ? jain her sympathy by telling lier the ? irecracker went off before it was duo, j md burned my eyebrows off, but 6he j j lidn't let up until I promised to go ! j md find pa. I tell you my ma ought j o be engaged to the British govern- j ^ neut to hunt out the dynamite fiends. { She would corral them in two minutes. ' ipa had as much sand as ma has got, I '* t wouid be warm weather for me. j( kVell, me and my chum went and j { leaded pa off or I gucsT lie would be j * untiing yet. Wa got him up by the * ake sTiove, and ho wanted to know if j ' he house fell down. Ile Raid he I vould leave it to mc if he ever said 2 my thing against thc Fenians, and I ? ( old him he had always claimed that i ( he Fenians were the nicest men in he world, and it seemed to relieve *. lim very much. When ho got homo * ,nd found the h^vse there he w as so ickled. and when ma called him an 2 Jd bald-headed coward, and said it 6 vas only a joke of the boys with a J Dot ball, ho laughed right out, and J aid he knew it all the time, and run ?j o see if ma would be scared. An/ 1 . hen he wanted to bug me, but it c wasn't my night to hug und I went own to the theatre. Pa don't mount to much when there is4couble. r 'he lime that ma had them cramps, 11: ou remember, when j?pt got your ; a near fainting away, and ina said ever since they had been married when anything ailed her, pa has had pains ! just the same as she has, only he grunted more, and thought- he was going to die. Gosh, ii 1 was a man I wouldn't be sick every time one of the neighbors had the back ache, wou-d you V 'Well, you can't tell. When you have been married twenty or thirty years you will know a good deal more thar, you do now. You think you know it all now, and you are pretty intelligent for a boy that has been brought up carelessly, but there are things that you will learn after awhile that will astonish you. But what ails your pa's teeth ? The hired girl was over here to get some corn meal for gruel, and 6he said your pa was gumming it since he had lost his teeth.' 'O, about the teeth. That was too bad. You see my chum has got a dog that is old, and his teeth have all come out in front, and this morn? ing I borrowed pa's teeth before he got up to see if we couldn't fix them in tue dog's mouth so he could eat better. Fa says it is an evidence ot a kind heart for a boy to be good to dumb animals, but its a darn mean dog that will go back on a friend. We tied the teeth in the dog's mouth with a string that went around his upper jaw, and another around his under jaw, and you'd dide to see how funny he looked when he laughed. Ile looked just like pa when he tried to smile so as to get me to come up to him when he wants to lick me. The dog pawed his mouth a spell to get the teeth out, and then we gave him a bone with some meat on, and he began to knaw the bone, and the teeth came off the plate, and he thought it was a piece of the bone, and he swallowed the teeth. My chum noticed it first, and he said we had got to get in our work pretty quick to save the plate, and I think we were in luck to save them. I held the dog, and my chum, who was bet? ter acquainted with him, untied the strings and got the gold plates out, but there were only two teeth left, and the dog was happy. He woggled his tail for more teeth, but we hadn't any more. I am going to give him ma's teeth some day. My chum says when a dog gets an appetite for any? thing you have got to keep giving it to him or he goes back on you. But I think my chum played mean on me. We sold the gold pLite to a jewelry man, and my chum kept the money. I think, as long as 1 furnished the goods, he ought to have given me something besides the experience, don't you ? After this I don't have no more partners, you bet.7 AH this time the boy was marking on a piece of paper, and soon after he went out the grocery man noticed a crowd out? side, aud going out he found a sign hanging up wich read, 'Wormy Figs for Parties.' an-tgapfgai mm IIIIIHI?IM Th9 Great Bridge. The New York and Brooklyn Bridge, which was opened to the public on the 24lh of May, is un? questionably the most magnificent structure that human skill over brought to triumphant completion, lt is too grand an object to be limited to a local pride and praise. It has a national relationship, and the whole nation is proud of this achievement of beauty and grace, of grandeur and in? conceivable ponderousness, and ever? lasting solidity. Few people who gaze with admira? tion and wonder upon this structure, have any conception of the magni? tude of the work in .detail, or of thc difficulties that had to be overcome, from the laying of the deep founda? tions of the towers to the completion of the beautiful aerial span tbat unites the two cities. A full description of the bridge would require an extended space, hence, only a mention of some of ihe promirent features can oe made. The illustrious engineer, John A. Ro- j beling, who was appointed to con? duct tliis great undertaking, did not live to see the accomplishment of his plans. Fortunately he was succeed? ed by his son, Washington A. Rebel? ing, a mau of great engineering abili? ty, who Had been associated with his father in many of his principal works. The work of preparing the site of the foundation cf thc Brooklyn tower was commenced in January, 1870. The towers are built at the extreme warf line in deep water. The depth to the 8ulid rock bed below the river bottom rendered the task of laying the foundation of the towers a most arduous and difficult one, and the en? gineering skill involved in this work j t is truly marvelous. The total length ? s of the bridge is 5,039 feet. The L length of the aerial span from tower i j Lo tower is nearly 1,600 feet, the ccu- [ j tral altitude of the span being 135 feet ibove mean high water mark. The immense steel cables rest on the top of the tall towers and are not fastened to them, but are aucbord in arid at a distance of 930 feet back from the towers. The anchors are of j j solid masonry and weigh about [ 30,000 tons each, sufficient beyond j c di measure to resist the pull on the j v ;ab!es. The weight of the central t) >pan-that is the suspended struc-1 j ;ure-is 6,140 tons. The four large j v ;al?les are 15 3-4 inches in diameter j md are constructed of wires in 18 )arallel form, and "bound together by j i continuous wrapping of wire. Each I ^ 'abie contains 19 strands of 278 wires j ^ ?ach. There are five avenues on the >' idge. Th- two outside ones, nearly j y .9 feet wide, are for the use of ve- '1 l?eles. The central avenue, used for i foot way has a width of 15 1-2 feet, md is 12 feet higher than the side ivemies. Tho cost of the bridge is >15,500,000. Thc view from the iridge is very fine, as it takes in New fori:, Brooklyn and all the adjacent iountry.-Thu South. N. Y. The Sentinel says the Barnwell train un over a flock of terrapins last week ; i he engineer approaching6aw the daug?r ' tl nd slackened speed iu time to prevent j S Old Si on Colored Conven? tions. Old Si was mustering the electro? type 'ads' cn the standing galley for general inspection when the political editor asked him : 'Si, why don't you get elected a delegate to the great colored conven? tion iu Washington City?' Thc old man turned slowly around and looked at his questioner with an injured expression. 'Hez enny ob you ketch'd on ter enny signs dat my mind ar' gibbin' way ennywhars ?' 'Not at all.' 'Hab you notis'd dat I'se got to for gittin' tings an' turnin' 'roun' in de rode widout makin' er cross-mark and spittin' in de middle ob.hit Y .Certainly not.' 'Den what's de meanin' ob dis heah 'tack on me, widout springin' yer rat tie ter gib me wahnin V 'Why, the question seems to have upset you. What's the matter* 'Kase yer all kno's dat if dar's wun 'bominashun 'buv ernudder dat I 'apises bits er nigger kunvenshun ! Hits mos'ly med up outen las' yeah's .iinen dusters an' er conkergashun ob plug hats dat went to protess 'bout de time dc Freedmon Bank busted ! De niggers what inhabits de gyrmints is mos'ly ob de two-dollar bran' on 'leckshun day an* is s'ported by dere washerwoman wives de balunce ob de time.' 'And you don't propose to run with that breed of patriots ?' 'No, sah. I hez grate kunsarn fer de 'pr-renient of de cullud people, but I ain't lookin' for enny ob hit on flat forms at kunvenshuus an' de pow? wows ob er lot ob coons in summer coschume. De only kunvenshun dat kin help de cullud people, put bred in Jere tray, shoes on dere feet, roofs on dere houses an' respecks for dem in de minds ob de fokes at large-is de wun dat hits hardes' ter git 'em ter flock ter !' 'And what is that.' 'Hits cr labor kunvenshun, hilt in seckshuns, whar de stompiu'-grouns is in de fields an' every delegit ar er kommittee ob wun on er hoe-an' de oney rezurlushun ar' sun up 'till sun down, six days iu ebery week-dat'll fetch relief ter de nigger, an' hit's de oney ting dat will !' And the old man borrowed a dime and shuffled out.-Georgia Major. An Important Errand. A conductor on a Missouri, Kansas and Texas train approached a swell looking colored woman, arrayed in all the glories that ribbons can lend, and asked her for her ticket. 'Go way furn yah! Doan' bodder me with none yo' foolishness!' she ex? claimed, bridling with indignation. 'Come, give up your ticket!' re? monstrated the conductor. 'I tole yo' go way furn y'ah ! I done got no ticket, an' I dun' want no fool? ishness !' 'If you don't give me a ticket or pay your fare, I'll put you off the train I' growled the exasperated func? tionary. 'Yo' don* put me off no train, now, I tole yo' fer suah !' retorted the darkey. Ise got biziuess down yere dat yo' can't postpone. Ef yo' put me off de train, yo' done got in a fuss, euah's yV bo'n !' 'Where are you going, anyway? What's your business Y demanded the conductor rather impressed by her manner. 'I'se gwine to de hangin' a piece down yere, an' mo'n dat, I'se gwine aa' yo' can't stop me !' 'Who are they going to hang?' asked a, passenger, who had become interested in the discussion. 'Dev's gwine fer ter hang my hus? band, and I'se to be de only lady present. Go way furn y'ah ! Don' Fool with me ! Ef yo' think yo's jwine ter get me off dis train an' beat rae out'n dc last chance o' layin' over ;hat nigga's mudder an' sister, who jau't get in and won't stay out, yo' lou' know cothiu' about dc strength of i wife'-? devotion ! Go way furn y'ah !' Etudder dan lose de chance of breakin' lem nigga's hearts, I done put dis heel mder yo' railroad an' lift it over de State line ! Go way furn y'ah ! The conductor let ber ride free, but whether to save the railroad or let her ast opportunity to get square with her aotber-iu-law, was not apparent on )is returns.-Detroit Free Press. De Naist Lady. At a negro baptizing the other day, i slim preacher took a fat sister down nto the murky waters of a bayou, fust as he dipped her under the water, he slipped iVoui bis grasp, and gliding I aider the root of a large cypress tree, j rom which sad entanglement it was j mpossible to extricate her until life ras extinct. The preacher, without j he slightest show of embarrassment, aised his hands, and turning to the : rowd on the bank, exclaimed: .The Lawd gibbeth an' de Lawd aketh away, an' blessed be de name ob \ e Lawd.' .Pat's all right, so fur as de Lawd's ; ' onsarned,' replied the drowned j ? roman's husband, 'but what's I gwine j 1 sr do ? I ain't go" no 'jection ter de iawd takin' her away, cf he 'vides me rid anoder wife, 'bout dc same size.' \ 'De Lawd knows his own business,' t aid the preacher. ' 'lliit dat ain't de pint,' persisted the 1 asband. 'I wants a wife, an' I wants j 1 er right heah. ?erse'f tuck dat < )man inter de water, an' I'se gwine : f ;r hole yerse'f ' sponsible. I'll gin ! s er ten minite ter git mc a wife, an' ef s t de eeud ob dat time you ain't done t jade de 'rangements, I'll maul yer till I cr couldn't baptize a cat. Does yer i eau?' 1 I The preacher reflected a moment, t ad addressing a sister, said : 'Sister 11 Late, ter keep down a 'sturbance, 1 on't yersc'f marry de gen'leman V e The sister agreed that immediate t latrimony was somewhat in her line s DJ the grief strioken husband, turning t i the preacher, exclaimed: "De set- c ^ment am satisfactory, brudder. i Duse de naixt lady.-Arkansaw Trav- a er. {? Red Brazilian Artichoke. THE CHEAPEST HOG FOOD KNOWN. The plant was introduced into the United States two years ago and dis? tributed by the Agricultural Depart? ment at Washington in small quanti? ties to farmers in different patts of the country as an experiment to test their value as a stock food. The ex I p?riment has proven to be of more benefit to the agriculturists of the Southern and Western States than anything the Department has ever done for them-it being demonstrated by all who planted them as yielding' more food per acre than anything ever introduced in the country. This plant is very different from the old Jerusalem Artichoke 1 hat grows spon? taneous over the country. It grows on medium land in fertility from 8 to 10 feet high, furnishing heavy branches and foliage, which enables it to ieed heavily on aerial food, caus? ing it to be less dependent on the ground for sustenance. Its heavy foliage also causes it to keep the ground clear of grass and weeds, making cultivation light, and the shade furnished also keeps it from being so severely damaged by drought. All farmers that have seen it growing think it to be as good a renovator towards enriching land as clover, as it grows luxuriantly on thin land, and the heavy foliage turned under would amount to as much or more than a crop of clover ; besides, the crop of roots furnish? ed would amount to more than a crop of corn for your hogs, and you have no trouble in getting a stand, which farmers often do with clover. The roots grow and resemble the Irish potato, both in size and shape, it being more palatable. They will lie in a half inch of the surface of the ground all winter without sprouting or rotting. This euables the farmer to allow his hogs to run on them all win? ter and gather their own food. Its average yield as we'll as the testimony of LeDuc, is from 800 to 1,500 bushels per acre. This is from 20 to 30 times as many bushels of arti? chokes as yon could raise bushels of corn on your best land, and 20 to 30 bushels of anything that stock relish and fatten rapidly on is certainly worth more than one bushel of corn, besides it doesn't cost half as much labor to cultivate and no labor at all to gather. They should be planted early in the Spring, from 10 to 12 inches apart, in rows three feet apart ; cover and cultivate as you do corn. This is undoubtedly the most prolific and desirable plant ever introduced in the country, as it furnishes a winter food for hogs that has long been wanted and needed by the hog raiser. This information is furnished by Mr. John J. McGavock, of Nashville, Tennessee. Wnen to Cut Grass. The Lancaster (Pa ) larmer, treat? ing on this subject, says the method < of curing grass varies gveatly among i farmers, some drying it more thau i others. Too much drying impairs < the feeding quality of the hay. In < curing, some put hay into the mow i while green in color, but not so green I in condition as to heat. This method < was deemed the best. One day of ? curing of grass that had been cut free < from dew, was ordinarily enough to i cure the grass. When or at what t stage of growth should grass be cut * for hay was a question often discussed. I It was generally conceded that early- t cut grass made hay of a better quality t than that cut late. Early-cut fodder was more digestible than late cut, the j digestible nutriment being the mea- i sure of value. Young plants were s richer in prot?ine than late cut, and I therefore more nutritions ; but not j only quality, but the quantity, from 'J a given area had to be considered, \ which complicated the problem. The t prot?ine, after the grass blossom?, ? was transferred to forming seeds, the r stem or stalk. As thc woody fibre a was forming, the prot?ine increased n in both leaves and stalks. The older li the plant the less digestible it was. p The increase of quantity was at the t expense of quality. Seeds were not t masticable, and for practical pui poses g hay that was fully ripe was little, if ! o any, better than straw. If but one ' a crop had to be cut, the cutting ought ! ii to be done when the plants begin to ji bloom. The results of experiments are given to show that it has always proved more profitable to cut two or j ^ three crops of young grass than one j ' crop of ripe grass ; in practice, how- j P ever, it has to be remembered that j j? the fertility of the soil, the length of j the season and the cost of labor are ^ all clements that must enter into the . calculation. No general and inflexi- <. ble rules could be laid down in this matter. Early cutting favors quality; . while late cutting favors quantity. - The quality of a second crop varies ! .l according to the richness of the soil and the time of cutting the first crop, j ! If cut at a comparatively early date | of its growth, and properly cured, it | ^ is a valuable fodder for milch cows j ?md sheep. It requires more skill and ^ care in culing than the first crop, or . it suffers loss in quality. Judge Fraser made at Lexington last J ffeek two rulings which are somewhat j fr it variance with those of several other j $ Circuit Judges, and which will have to j to )e determined by the Supreme* Court, j pl I3y the first he held that the Solicitor j m !Ouid not attack the character of a de- j co endaut when he was put upon the j w< itand to testify in his own behalf, but j fi* ?hould do in making out his case for m he State, so that the defendant might J io lave the opportunity of contradicting. ? fe< \. different course had hitherto been | P< mrsued. By the second he held that til he wife of a defendant is not compe- ca ent to testify in behalf of her husband w< Fuis doctrine had been held by the po ntire bench of South Carolina since pl! he adoption of the Code until the ses- oi< ion of the last Legislature. But since ar hat session-two ot the Judges have de- | an ided that a wife is competent, and it s admitted that a man was recently j B< cquitted of murder at Orangeburg j Cl ourt by the testimony of his wife.. j of Dont Deceive Children, ^Nothing can be a grrater mistake than to consider young people as destitute of understanding; their understanding should rather be appealed to and con? sulted. Do we'not all remember how, when young, we were imposed upon ? how our elders sought sometimes to put us off ; how they gave us evasive an? swers or explanations ; how they told us some plausable story as an excuse or as a reason ? And do we not remember that even in our youth and simplicity we were quite capable of seeing through their manouvres? Dowe not all re? member how, when any one endeavored to keep us in ignorance of some pro? ceeding of which we were made acci? dentally cognizant, we could divine very correctly the real motive for sending us1 out of the way with some false excuse ? Now, in a case cf this kind, which comes within the pale of parental au? thority, the will of the parent alone ought to be sufficient to control the child. But there should be DO stifling of truth and no relaxation of duty. If, asoftenaswillbappen.it is not expe? dient or proper for children to know a particular fact or incident, they should be told so with frankness and kindness, but at the same time with firmness. We are apt to overlook the intelligence of these little people aod address our? selves to their stature. We forget mind, which is invisible, in the presence of matter, which is seen. The treat? ment of children must always," for their own sakes, be different from that of full grown men and women ; our manner of addressing them must also be differ? ent; bat there does not seem to be any reason why we should not give them full v?-edit for the amount of intelli? gence they do possess; and we may every day see children with more dis? crimination, greater good sense, and better regulated moral deportment than many whose tall figure or riper age bas invested them with Jthe consequence of men and womer; -Arthur's Some Magazine. When Jumbo arrived in New York be was lank, lean and tall. He has since improved from weight 18,650 pounds, height 12 feet 9 inches, girth 24 feet 5 inches, to 20,190 pounds in waight, 13 feet 4 inches in height, 25 feet 1 inch io girth; an increase of 1,540 pounds in weight, 7 inches in height and 8 inches in girth. It is said that when a Marlboro man wishes to invite a friend to "take a mule" the conventional expression is "let''s ginger up" whereupon the two friends pour Jamaica Ginger down and then gasp for breath. A recent visitor to Bennettsviile imagined that this aro? matic plant was a ns e of Marlboro-, is he alleges tha^ alu st every man he met was perfumed wi a its odors. The Annual Joint Summer meeting of the South Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical Society and of the State Grange, will be held in the town of Marion on the 25th of July instant. AU interested in agriculture and me? chanics, and citizens generally, are respectfully invited to attend the meet ins and contribute to the interest of the: Dccasion. Prominent gentlemen from diff?rent sections of the State will sub? mit essays in the interest of the coun? ty at large, upon which a full and free iiscussion is expected. Agricultural Societies in the State and the various Granges are invited to be represented n the meeting. It would be well for ihose who expect to attend the meeting ;o notify Junius H. Evans, Esq., Marion, as early as practicable in order hat quarters may be provided for hem. New York merchants are calling this i cotton season, on account of the domi? nance of cotton fabrics over silk, linen md wool. No reason is given for this. i is an old saying that there is no dis >uting in matters cf taste among women. To the question why such a thing is 7orn, it is a sufficient answer to say bat it is fashionable. But die cotton, Iresses bousbt are as much^ore na oerous as they are less expensive, and re loaded with decorations that wilt lot wash, so that they promise no re ief to tho wallets of those who have to? tay for rhem. An able shopper says hat the stores were never more at? raed vely stocked with pretty satins, inghams, cambrics, batistes, lawns and auslins. All this i displeasing to thc lacufacturers of si , whose millions avested in machinery and product are ist now yielding no return. A pearl fishery of great promise was ome time back reported in the Gulf of l?xico. During the Winter fishermen rospectors have found some pearls of reat value among not a few smaller ems. Thc first was taken from the trell of a pearl oyster in December ist, 1882. It is believed to be the irgest ou record. It weighs seventy ve carats. A jeweler offered ?14,000, hich was acce pted. That sum is very ir below its real volae. Another of irty-seven carats is s:nce found, perfect t form and finely tinted. It is valued a the spot at ?5,000. A third peart ? forty carats, yet more beautiful, was thibited at La Paz, where ?3,000 was id. This success of the first serious cploitation is justly regarded as evi? nce of extensive deposits of pearl jaring oysters, and great excitement ?rvades all the fishermen in that gulf.. The gold belt of Georgia extends om Virginia and North Carolina to lorida aud Alabama. It is from 120 140 miles wide. Thousands of peo e support themselves by working the ines. In one place alone, Lumpkin unty, twenty-six stamp mills are irkini:, each of which employs from re to fifty men. Some of these gold ines have been worked for years, and places the earth is dug away sixty et. Some of it is very rich in ore. )ur hundred acres were sold some ne ago for ?5,000,000 to English pitalist8. AU the mining is done by ialtby capitalists and there are few or men in the belt. It ia a busy ace. Good wages arc paid and the ea are industri?os aod sober. People e flocking there from the fer West,, d even from Australia and Mexico. The total contributions to the eight >ards of the Northern Prcsbyieriaa lurch, were ?1,584,962, an advance, ?171,167 over th? previous yea?..