Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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^S^V ."C\? V'"' ' ULAN, Established Apr?, 1850. ST" i 2, 1881.1 NT lBe Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's, and Truth's.' THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established Jane, 186?. SUMTER, S. 0., TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1883. New Series?Toi. II. Se. 49. n?hmt Publishing poo?in advance. 'ISSlflSTS. Josertion..-$1 00 s_50 or longer will rates. ~ & which subserve private I for as ad vertisemec ts. ISSi^ihotes of respect will be and notices of deaths pub i-^eoatraets forikdvertising and Southron, or apply at K. G, OSTEEN, - Bosiness Manager. of ffc&igs dttxnfi lIl4P8A'*"TirfTW^ k Eamjhf to wo ox wed, tbey?dd; MM?ne^o??.? svtr r name bockte, lata*.* isT OFFENSE. j-room of 2&j a select partj bis birthday, had bees toa* a* to whether integrity should j^gwfy or leniencr and numerou? appeared to lean > crash aB offenses in ihe gentlamau tjrormg people would X either in word certainly be mis on the other punish with e& of temptation, too, have though ?ess t, iff such a manner. ^fe^t?islSwtble. For in "ywyitea a? servant; the 1 character, ft^^^Sj^hex honesty has ^^esa&^j^-W the-test Her iking of the tenip 2t exposing a iel in the habit of leaving , generally in cop aboat in her sitting-room, rshe begins to think that 1 nai always fonnd exactly \ fktspicion fall* 011 tha clean the room amstrees, however, be -forward her accn counts the money caro MQ& the next morn i? missing. No one has bot the girl; her what does her ^Whj, she tarns the girl at an hour's notice; , in conscience, give her a oharac her friends how dreadfully she is; declares there is noth tometit with among ever the depravity oi natcre, sad never dreams oi herself for her wicked?yes, it is in thus con to temptation a young, jjirl; 03?, most likely, whose wt ?rveleped in total darkness, imperfect twilight kn owl right froiri whose door, I ask/' con tin Warmer, H w?l the sin into the lowest deptht , at the door oi temptation in her her into the pitiless of that which oonstitut flf^MmriTnc her hon eharacter; and that eflbrt to reclaim her; with a single opportunity of re and regaining, by fu eondact, the confidence of * ;*: I fear, too much truth in * remarked our benevolent hitherto taken no part in "and it reminds me that occurred in the of my fife, which, as it may the subject you have I yiH relate.* general movement of at a well-known fact that in the town was sur so many old and faithful friend Stevenson, of my basiness career," took into my .employment a to a rule which X stranger en Ipsv-ttcties were of a Iggj^nsibiHiy time had +4 itf* shall call Smith, was of a respectabhi family. He had lost his father, and hsui e mother and sisters in some way de pendent upon him. After he had been a short time in my employment it hap pened that my confidential clerk, whose duty it was to receive the money from the bank for the payment of wages, be ing prevented by an unforeseen circum stance from attending at the proper time, sent the sum reqttired by Smith. ! My confidence was so great in my head j clerk, who had been long known to me, * that I was not in the habit of regularly counting the money when brought to me; but, as on this occasion it had passed through other hands, I thought it right to do so. Therefore, calling Smith back as he was leaving my count ing-house, I desired him to wait a few minutes, and proceeded to ascertain whether it was quite correct. Great was my surprise and concern on finding that i. there was a considerable deficiency. " 'From whom,' said I, 'did you re ceive this money?' " He replied,' From Mr.-nam ing my confidential clerk. *? * It is strange/ said I, looking stead* ihy at him. * But this money is incorrect, and it is the first ?me I have found it so.' He changed countenance, and his eye fell before mine; but ha answered with tolerable composure, 'that it was as he had received it' "*Itisvain/ I replied, 'to attempt to impose upon me, or to endeavor to east suspicion upon one whose character for the strictest honesty and undeviating integrity is so well established. Now, I am perfectly convinced that you have taken this money and at this moment it j is in your possession; and I think the j evidence against you would be thought sufficient to justify me in dismissing you t immediately from my service. But you j are a very young man; your conduct has, j I believe, been hitherto perfectly cor rect, and I am willing to afford you an opportunity of redeeming the past. All knowledge of this matter rests between ourselves. Candidly confess, therefore, the error of which you have been guilty; restore what you have so dishonestly taken; endeavor by your future good conduct to deserve my confidence and respect, and this circumstance shall never transpire to injure you.' H The poor fellow was deeply aSected. In a voice almost inarticulate with emo tion he acknowledged his guilt, and said that, having frequently seen seen me receive the money without counting it, on. befog trusted with it himself the idea had Sashed across his mind that he might easily abstract some vat]ion; memting suspicion, or, at all events, without there being sufficient evidence to justify it; that, being in distress, the temptation had proved stronger than the power of resistance, and he had yielded, "'I cannot now,* he continued, ^prove how deeply your forbearance has frushedtos; time alone can shew that j it has not been misplaced.' He left, to resume; his duties. "Days, weeks and m?cths passed away, during which I scrutinized his conduct with the greatest anxiety, while at the same time I carefully guarded against any appearance of suspicious watchfulness, and with delight I ob served that so far my experiment had succeeded. The greatest regularity and attention, the utmost devotion to my in terests, marked his business habits, and this without display, for his quiet and humble deportment was from that time remarkable. "At length, finding his conduct invar iably marked by the utmost openness and plain dealing, my confidence in him was so far restored that, on a vacancy occurring in a situation of greater trust and emolument than the one he had hitherto filled, I placed him in it, and 1 never had I the slightest reason to re pent of the part I had acted toward him. I Not only had I the pleasure of reflecting J that I had, in all probability, saved a fellow-creature from a continued course of vice, and consequent misery, and af forded him the opportunity of becoming a respectable man and a useful member of society, but I had gained for ray self an indefatigable servant?a faithful and constant friend. For years he served me with the greatest fidelity and devo tion. His character for rigid, nay, even ! scrupulous honesty, was so well known j that 'as honest aa Smith' became a j proverb among his acquaintances. One j morning I missed him from his accus- j tomed place, and, upon inquiry, learned | that he was detained at home by indis- I position. Several days elapsed, and i still hd was absent; and, upon calling at his house to inquire after him, I found the family in great distress on his ac count. His complaint had proved ty phus fever of a malignant kind. From almost the common cement of his attac k he had, as his wife (for he had been some time married) informed me, lain in a state of total unconsciousness, from J which he had roused only to the ravings j of delirium, and that the physician gave j tittle hope of his recovery. For some J days he continued in the same a?*te; at | length a message was brought me, say ing thai Mr. Smith wished to see me, the messenger adding that Mrs. Smith hoped I would come as soon as possible, for sho feared her husband was dying. I immediately obeyed the summons, "On entering his chamber I found the whole of his family assembled to take farewell of him they so tenderly loved. As soon as he perceived me he motioned for mo to approach near tc him, and, taking my hand in both of. his, he turned toward me his dyi?g counte nance, full of gratitude and affection, and" said, 'My dcor master, my best earthly friend, I have sent for you that I may give you the thanks and blessing of a dy'ug man for all your goodlier to me. To- your gener Vty ?nd m::rcy I owe it that i havo lived usoful and re spected, that I <lia lamented and happy. To you I owe it that I leu ve my chi*. drea a nains unsullied by c*;^ae, that in afteryeara the blush of shams shall never ! &ag$ their cheeks at the memoryo? their j I who 'uist meted toothers, do Thou mete unto him.' Then, tmnmg to his family, he sa id: "* My b ' ved wife and children, I intrust you U. Jie care of that Heavenly Parent who has so id, "Leave the father less children uuto Me, and I will pre serve them alive, and let thy widows trust in mo,'-' and you. my dear master, will, I know, be to them as you have been to me?a guido, protector and friend.' " That," continued the kind old man, looking on us with glistening oyas, "though mixed with sorrow, was one of the happiest moments of my life. As I stood by the bedside of the dying man and looked around upon his children J growing up virtuous, intelligent en? up right, respecting and honoring, as much as they loved, their father : when I saw his wife, though overcome with grief fc? the loss of a tender and beloved hus band, yet sorrowing not as one without fcbpe, but, even in the moment of agony, deriving comfort in the belief that she should meet him again in that world where " adieus and farewells are sounds unknown;" when I listened to his fer vent expressions of gratitude and saw him calmly awaiting the inevitable stroke, trusting in the mTcy of God and at peace with his fellow-men; and when I thought what tho reverse of ail this might have been?crime, misery, a disgraceful and dishonored life, and, perhaps, a shameful and violent death, had I yielded to the first impulse of in dignation, I felt a happiness which no words can express. "We axe told that there is more joy among the angels of God over one sin ner that repenteth than over ninety and nine just persons that need no re pentance. With such a joy as we may imagine theirs did I rejoice over poor Smith, as I closed his eyes, and heard the attendant minister in fervent tones exclaim: 'Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord; yea, saith the spirit, for they rest from their labors and theii works do follow them.' " My friends, I am an old man. Dur ing a long and eventful career in busi ness, I have had intercourse with almost every variety of temper and disposition, and with many degrees of talent, but have never found reason to swerve from the principle with which I set out in life, to temper 'justice with mercy.'" Such was the story of our friend. And I believe there was not one in that company but returned home more dis posed to judge leniently of the failings of his fellow-creatures, and, as far as lay in his power, to extend to all whe might fail into temptation that mercy which,' usder-simil^^rcumstances, he would wish shown to himself, feeling " that it is more blessed to save than tc destroy.'' HE OWNED KP. Even the poor inebriate has a logic oi his own. W;:?n he returned to his dom icile in the early hcurs^ of the morning the words which greeted him were not those of tender solicitude, hoping that he had enjoyed hhfcelf with Iiis friends, but rather words of somewhat severe personal criticism. She locked at him for a moment, as he attempted to exT^ plain that the minister's meeting did notT * i adjourn as early as he had hoped, and k then said, with withering scorn, "John, J j you are intoxicated" Seeing that he was discovered, he threw off all disguise and replied, " Well, Maria, I did the best I could; and, if you had taken as much wine as I did,. ycu would be a good deal more intoxicated than I am.'' CAJZLTJ.E'S KIND HEAJCT. Carlyle walked a great deal in order to make his dyspeptic stomach a little reasonable. But sometimes when the great, homely and grizzly eld man was walking, with his big eyebrows almost showing from under ths brim of his slouch hat; and his long, old-fashioned coat was almost- sweeping the sidewalk, he would stop and pick up a bit of cast ciT bread from the street and place it on tho curbs'one, so that some poor man who came aloifcr might find it. THREE E VIL8. There are three evils under the sun lhat make for man's unhappiness: They are dyspepsia, rheumatism and neural gia. It was Sydney Smith, we believe, who said: "Put your finger in a vise and screw it up as tight as it is possible to bear the pain and that is rheumatism, give it another turn and thut is gout." What is true of the gout is equally true of neuralgia, but blessed is the being who knows neither.?Chicago Alli ance. A Nice Plain Pudding.?One quart of flour ; butter the size of an ogg; a pirit of milk; two tabie^spoonfula of baking powder; one cup of cut raisins, tile : in ose hour in a two-quart dish. I3oii a pint of milk, add sugar, twv ta hic-spoonfuls of flour and flavoring for thy sauce. HEROES AS ARti HEROES. The late Mr. Thackeray had a story, which he was wont to tell with great en joyment, of a novelist whose ? rst manu script was sent back by the^Bpblisher'e reader with a hint that it would be well if he would give even' character a steel or two in rank. The conn'rv Squirt was to be turned into a wer1.thy Baronet; the Knight into a mushroom peer, en nobled for lr.s wealth ; the Earl was t-c become a Duke; and the mysterious artist an illegitimate scion of royalty. Toe scheme was adopted; the novel suc ceeded, and its author, who has sin 5 largely contributed to the revenues ol the trunk-maker and the butterm^n, never afterward introduced a charactei into his stories of less rank t.-aa a Cap tola in the Guards.?MaemiUan's Mag azine. :Iokse:iadis? 'Sauce.?Grate a quan tity of horseradish, boil it in sufficient wat^r to give it the consistency of sau^e, add a pinch of salt and two or three table spoonfuls of tarragon vinegar, then stir in off the fire a giU of cream beateo up .nath the valk of an ezsr. That Bad Boy HELPS HIS PA MAKE GARDEN AFTER IN DUCING HIS FOND PARENT TO COVER HIS FACE WITH SHOE POLISH. 'See here, you coon, get out of here,7 said the grocery man to the bad boy, as lie came into the store with his face black and shining. '1 don't want any colored boy around here. White boys break me up bad enough.'7 '0, philopene,7 said the bad boy, as he put his hands on his knees and laughed so the candy jars rattled on the shelves. 'You didn't know me. I am the same boy that comes in here and talks your arms off,7 and the boy opened the cheese box and cut off a piece of cheese so natural that the grocery ma:i bad no difficulty in re cognizing him. 'What in the name of the seven sleeping sisters ha?c you got on your bands and face ?7-said the grocery man as he took the boy by the ear and turned him around. 'You would pass iu a colored prayer meet ing, and no one would think you were galvanized. What you got up in ?ueh an outlandish rig for V 'Well, I will tell yon, if yon will keep watch at the door. If you see a bald-headed colored mau coming along the street with a club, you whistle, and I will fall down cellar. The baldheaded colored man will be pa. You see, we moved yesterday. Pa told me to get a vacation from the livery 6tab!e, and we would have fun moving. But I don't want any mere fun. I know when I have got fun enough. Pa carried all the light things, and when it came to lifting he had a crick in his back. Gonh, I never was so tired as I was last night, and I hope we have got settled, only 3ume of the goods haven't turned up pet. A drayman took one load over jn the west side, and delivered there to a house that seemed to be expect ing a load of household furniture, lie thought it was all right if every body that was moving got a load of ^oods. Well, after we got moved pa said we must make garden, and he said he would go out and spade up the ground and sow peas, aud radish es, and beets. There was some neighbors lived in the nezt house to Dur new one that was all wimmen, and pa didn't like to have them think he had to work, so he said it would be a good joke to disguise ourselves as tramps, and the neighbors would thiuk we had hired some tramps to iig in the garden. 1 told pa of a boss scheme to fool them. 1 suggest ?d that we take some of this shoe blacking that is put on with a sponge and black our faces, and the neigh bors would tl^ink we had hired an .old colored ma;; and his boy to work in the garden. Pa said it was immense, and he told me to go and black up, and if it worked lie would black his self. So 1 went and put this burnt 3ork on my face, 'cause it would wash DiT, and pa looked aime and said it was a whack, und for me to fis him up, too. So I got the bottle of shoe blacking and painted pa so he looked like a colored coal heaver. Actually, when ma saw him she ordered him off Llie premises, and when he faffed at her and acted sassy she was going to throw piling water on pa, but I told her the scheme aud she let up on pa. 0, foa'?. a uide to see us out in the garden. Pa looked like Uncle Tom and I looked like TopS3T, only I ain't Lhat kind of a colored person. We worked till a boy throwed some to Tiatoe cans over the alley and hit me, ind I piled over the fence after him, and left pa. It was my chum, and when I had caught him we put up a job to get pa to chase us. We ihrowed some more cans, and pa come 5nt and my chum started and I after aim, and pa after both of us. He chased us two blocks and then we ?ot behind a policeman, aud my chum told the policeman it was a crazy old Colored man that wanted to kidnap us, and the policeman took pa by the tieck and was going to club him, but pa said he would go home and behave, lie was offul mad, and he went home ;nd we looked through the alley fence and saw pa trying to wash off the blacking. You see that blacking wont wasii off You have to wear it 3ff. Pa would wash his face with soap suds, and then look in the glass, and be was blacker eveiy time he washed, and when ma laffed at him he said the oftulest words, something like'Sweet Spirit hear my prayer/ then he washed himself again. 1 am going to leave my burnt cork on, 'cau?e if 1 washed it off pa would knov^Bbere had been some sraouging somewhere. I asked the shoe store man how long it would take the blacking to wear off, and he said it ought to wear off in a week. I guess pa won't go outdoors much, unless it in the night. 1 am going to get him to let me off in the country fish ing, liil mine wears off, and when 1 get out of town 1 will wash up. Say, you don't think a little blacking hurts a man's complexion, do you, and you don't think a maa ought to get mad because it won't wash off do you V '0, probably it don't hurt the com plexion,' said the grocery man. as he sprinkled some fresh water on the wilted lettuce, so it would loo'- fresh while the hired girl was buying some, 'and yet it is mighty unpleasant, where a man has an engagement to go to a cad party, as 1 ki. -w your pa has to night. As to rr< rting mad about it, if i wen; your pa i would take a barrel slave aud shatter you: castle scandalous. What ki.id of a fate do you think p waits you when you die, anyway V 'Well, I am mixed on the fate thai awaitfi me when I die. If 1 should go off sudden, with all my sins on my hea l, and this burnt cork on my face, I should probabiy be a neighbor to you, way down below, ami they would give me a job as fireman, and 1 would feel bad for yon every i;me 1 chucKed in a mither chunk of brim stone, and tlio't of you trying to swiixi dog fashion in the lake of lire, and straining your ryes to find an iceberg that you could crawl up on tc cool your parched bind legs. If I don't die slow, so 1 will have time to repent, and be saved, I shall be toasted brown. That's what tho minister says, and they won't pay j j him two thousand dollars a year and 1 j give him a vacation to tell anything- j ! that w*as not so. I tell yon, it is : ' j painful to think of that place that so ,' I many preity fair average people here i j are going when they die. Just think ; j of it, a man that swears just once, if j j he dont hedge, and take it back, will I go to the bad place. If a person i ! steals a pin, just a small, no account I pin, he is as bad as if he stole all i I there was in a bank, and lie stands the ! j best chance of going to the bad place, i j You see, if a fellow steals a little j i thing like a pin, he forgets to repent, ! I cause it don't seem to be woith while I j to make so much fuss about. But if | I a fellow robs a bank, or steals a whole j : lot of money from orphans, he knows i it is a mighty serious matter, and he j go^in his work repenting too quick, t I and he in liable to get to tho good ; I pla-;o. while you, who have only j ; stolen a few potatoes out of a bushel j that you sold to the orphan asylum, 1 will forget to repent and you will I sizzle. I tell you, the more I read about being good and going to heaven, j the more I think a fellow can't be too j careful, and from this out you won't | find a better boy than I am. When I i come in here after this and take a few | dried peaches or crackers and cheese, | you charge it right up to pa, and then I won't have it on ray mind and have to answer for it in the great I judgment day. I am going to shake my chute, 'cause he chews tobacco, which is wicked, thuugh I don't see how that can be, when the minister j smokes, but I wari't to be on the safe j side, i am going to be good or burst a suspender, and hereafter you j can point to me as a boy who has seen the folly of an iii spent life, and | if there is such a thing as a fifteen year j j old boy, who has been a terror, get- j j ting to heaven, I am the bear-pin. 1 j tell you when I listen to the minister i telling about the angels flying around ; there and 1 see pictures of them purtier than any girl in this town, i with chubby arms with dimples in the ! elbows and shoulders, and long golden hair, and think of myself here clean ing offlivrses in a livery stable and j smelling like an old harness, it makes me tired, and 1 wouldn't miss going there for ten dollars. Say, you would make a healthy angel for a back street of the new Jerusalem, but "you would give the whole crowd away unless you washed up, and sent that shirt to the Chinese laundry. Yes, sir, hereafter you will find me us good as I know how to be. Now 1 am going to wash up and help the minister muve.; As the boy went out the grocery nian sat for several.miroutes- 4hink~iijg of the change tnat had come over the bad boy, and wondered what had brought it about, and then he went to the door to watch him as he wended his way across the street with his i head down, as though in deep | thought, and the grocery man said to himself, 'That boy is not as some people think he is/ and then he coked around and saw a sign hang ing up in front of the store, written on apiece of box cover, with blue pencil, 'Spoiled canned ham and tongue, good enough for picnics,' and lie looked after the boy who was slip ping down an alley and said :'Con demn little whelp. Wait till I catch him.' The South and Foreign Cap ital. One of the most notable articles of re cent date appears editorially in the Nor folk Landmark. The theme is 'The South and Foreign Capital.3 Atienticnis vigorously called to the fact that Euro pean capitalists have become seriously alarmed at the warlike aspect of a?uirs, and that something of a financial pauie is manifest d. The llothschilda and other moneyed kings have enormously invested in the United States. Hun dreds of millions of dollars have been sent here for the purchase of bonds, lands and real estaie. The Landmark says: I They buy lands for the timber on them, or the tniucrals under them, or the water power they have, or the rais ing of sheep and cattle. They invest in railways, and, in short, strive to put their money in safe places and secure a good return. To ail such persoos the South offers a magnificent field, with one or t wo exceptions. But for these our section would start up in a growth which would exceed that of the tabu lous 'bean stalk' described in the fairy talc. As it is, however, we have some serious drawbacks. We lack boraoge nity of population ; we have au uu seltled political condition ; we have some very bad laws, of which we shall j have a word to say in a moment. But, j notwithstanding these, the South is im ! pr< vjng rapi ily. and it might easily re ! ccivo a now and prodigious impulse by j the wise action of our own people, j Those who seek to invest their money j i among us are shrewd, long headed j 'men, and they understand perfectly j j when they bay lauds, or open wines, or j jsturt furnaces, that the value of] i their possessions must depend, in a ' ! very large degree, on facilities for \ j getting to market. This is plain I i enough ; and it therefore follows that i they look :.t our railway syterns and ! I railroad laws with critic.;! intelligence, j ! Xhev see that the South is the most - - . -. , . .1 I promising country under tue sun lor; I the u\ ,n with money, that is, so far as j I its natura] resources go ; but they see, j j a!<o, that its future development must; J depend, in a largo degree on artificial i j means; thai to develop these res erecs j roads must bo built, arid at (Iiis point i j the forci^u capitalist takes up the rail ! road legislation of the several States, j j He oot only does this: but lie considers i j at the same time the texture of the j ! population, and the character of its i i polii.. tl pa. Lies. j ?'ir contemporary ^ocs on to specify ; J that the Slate of South Carolina, in i i spite of its natural resources, cannot, J j under its existing railway laws, expect i j much development from outside capital. I ! He adds: *lc South Carolina the rail- | i Toad laws should be entitled: 'A Code | j to prohibit th^ putting down ^f rails, ! j and for the further puipose of driving j j off capital No man fit to be outside a j j lunatic asylum would to-day invest) j money in a railway enterprise there, 1 for none but idiots Would make a costly j plant aij}'where to he turned over, bag and baggage, to a set of Star Chamber j Commissioners to deal with at their j will.' Perhaps our Carolina friends do not care to have any of these benefits j and prefer to build ud legislative walls i against them. They completely ob-1 structed Mr. John M. Robinson's com- j petitive air-line, and we apprehend that many other schemes now being 'boom- j ed' will come to naught. Of course, ! the South Carolinians have a perfect j right to turn aside this Pactoiian steam, j if they think proper to do so, but we | hope that Georgia will welcome it j The next four year.*, as the Landmark j says, will be 'indeed full of meaning, of good or ill, for all the States South of the Potomac. aud feeling that these grand commonwelths have a right to peaceful ?!?<i*m:nity for their heroic sacrifice, and gigantic losses, we trust aud pray that they will be wise in time, and so ' shape thc-ir legislation as to secure a generous influx of the golden tide.' Our people are clamorous for railway development. There will be nodificul ty in securing it, provided safety and profit are held out as inducements. The States of the South that present the best field for capital, in ail direc tions, will reap the richest harvest and be the leaders Id the race for wealth. The Price of Blood. A curious case has been exciting considerable interest in oue of the New lork courts, involving the marketable value of hum an blood. The parties in the case are Charles Okerbcrg and Edward BaDks?a full blooded negro. One night last February Okerbcrg took a room in a hotel. Early next morn ing the smell of gas was detected coming from his room. Entrance was effected and Okerberg was found on conscious upon the bed with the gas escaping. A physician was summoned and Okf;rberg's jase was so desperate that it was decided to resort to trans fusion of bloud a3 a remedy. Banks, a porlor in the hotel, signified his willing- j ness to give up a portion of his blood ! and the operatiou was performed. The account before us, says : Dr. Garrigucs made an incision in a branch of the basilic vein cn Mr. Okerberg's forearm and took from him about eight ounces of dark blood. I While the Hood was flowing the i breathing improved SO QIC Vt" hat. Dr. Valentine, who was feeling the pulse , on the other arm, reported that it was becoming faint, and the bleeding I was stopped. Theu Dr. Garrigues in- I serted into the vein that had been!' opened the nozle cf-& transfusion ap- | puratus and injected very slowly about j six ounces of the blood taken from 1 Banks. During the injection, which in took about three-quarters of an hour, | Mr. Okerberg's pulse became fuiicr j < and less rapid, aud the breathing, j although still frequent, resembled that j ; of natural bleep, At half-past seven j o'clock the pulse aud respir:;tiou were j1 uormal: tie patient laughed and chat ted cheerfully and had ODly a slight headache. As a " caution he was or dered to be awakened evey hour ] daring the night. The nest morning j he bad completely recovered. About j the spot upou the forearm where the j 1 skin was punctured, hewever, there ! ' was a black spot about the size of a sil ver dollar, aud this rcmaius to the present day. Banks very naturally regarded him self as the savior of Okerberg's life and the obligation seems to have been ac knowledged by the latter in the first emotions of gratitude. But it turned i out to be another case of The devil Was sick, The devil ?. saiut would he. The devi] w;>s welt, The devil a snint was be." With returned strength Okerberg consid- red five collars full remunera tion f .. the services rendered and prof fered that sum in payment. Banks asserted that he was to bo raid ten cents a drop for the blood he had shed in Okcrherg's behalf aud brought suit. The court is now occupied in deter mining the price of the life giving principle. There are many charitable com modities, but blood has not heretofore j been considered among them, in the abstract. Soldiers who fight for pay, it is true, put up their lives against j gold, but the transaction is called en listing. The murderer v.rbo as?as:-in ates his victim for the pelf he has about him does not stop to consider ! tit at he is really putting a price upou i blood. Hero, however, is a Si::ion pure case of actual sale, a man who '-pens his veins and sells the crimson tide at a tixed sum. Whether the Court will decide that ten cents a drop is a fair price remain's to be s^cn. The Woman Who Claims New Orleans. I see Myra Clark Gaines received last week another deci. ion from the United States Court compelling New 0. leans to levy a tax of ?2,000,000 to ! satisfy her last judgment, aud that the City Council say tney will go to jail i before they will obey it For the j last fifty-eight yTears this indomitable | woman has fought for her rights in j the courts of the United Slates. Her j ease is one of the most remarkable ones on record. It involves the tide to millions of doiiatd of property ill j New Orleans, and it will probably j not be finally settled as long a* the j city ean legally 5*rht against it. It \ is now eighly-two years since Daniel j Clark, a handsome polished you-.g man who had been for some j'ears leading the life of an Indian trader in Mississippi, came to Philadelphia to I spend the winter. Clark was a g %y fellow and he took in all the pleasures I of the then metropolis of America. ! In his rounds he met a French beauty, I and foil in love with her. This wo- i man's name was Zulime Carrier, and 1 at that time she was living with b! Frenchman named La Grange. Ulark met her. Whether she was married to La Gran- : or not is one of: the points in question. The defend ants claim she was his legal wife, f At any rate when Clark met her in j 1805 she left La Grange and went to I live with Clark. The Supreme Court of the United States has declared that she was privately married to Clark and that she was merely La Grange's mistress. In 1809, seventy-seven years ago, Myra Clark was born. She was the only child Zulime Carrier had by Daniel Clark. At this time Clark sent Zulime to New Orleans and acted as a bachelor. He engaged himself in marriage and j formed other connections producing j other offspring. He denied the fact that he had married Zulime, and j when she came back and pushed the | - case in the Philadelphia court, she fj was unable to succeed. She finally j took up with a Dr. Gardette and lived with him until he died. But while Clark would have noth ing to do with the mother, he took good care of the child. Myra Clark was weli educated by him and was treated by him as a daughter. He went again into Indain trading at New Orleans and amassed a great fortune. In 1813, just seventy years ago, he died, and a will was produced show ing that all of his property was left to Iiis mother and the city of New Orleans. Myra Clark, then only seven years old, was apparently peni less and the executors took charge of the estate. When Myra grew up to the age of twenty she married a Mr. Whitney, and then she began to contest the will. She claimed she was the only legitimate daugher of Daniel Clark, and that his property was hers The claim was at once hotly contested, and Mr. Whitney died before it was tried. The widow continued to prosecute the suit. Shortly afterwards she married General Gainesand he en tered into the case as warmly as her self. The case was tried at New Orleans. It was lost. Jt was car ried to the Supreme Court at Wash ington. It was again lost. In 1852 it seemed a hopeless fight, and at this time General Gains died. But Myra Clark Gains was not dis-. couraged, and shortly after this time she discovered a will executed by her father certifying that Myra was his only child and creating her bis sole heir. Upon this will she again went before the courts in New Orleans. She again lost. She again appealed to the Supreme Court afr-Washington, and here, in 1861, she obtained a judgment confirming the will and giving her the whole property left by her father and the rents thereof for th? past thirty years. Then the war broke out, and justice was again de layed. Since then she has, I think, received somethiri^JVraritk^^tY. but She i^Ww^^^^^^^^en years ofj *ge and will be perhaps the richest womau in the United States if she ever comes into the property for which she has so pluckily fought for a lifetime.? Washington Letter. The Cholera in Cairo and Elsewhere. Cairo, July 17.?The Sanitary Uoinmission is endeavoring to purify Cairo and to isolate theAouses where cholera has appeared, but if the dis ease takes a firm hold to the city, it is probable that it will be allowed to take its course, and that general pre cautions only will be taken to check its progress. Baker Pasha, having expressed the opinion that ih 3 cordons round the city are now useless, they will probably be shortly all removed. There is reasons to believe that many scattered cases occur in the villages dailv, which the natives conceal so as to avoid the imposition of a co-don. London, July 17.?A Daily JStws Cairo dispatch says: 'It is very ap parent that the number of deaths from cholera there has been much greater than has been stated. It is believed 50 or 60 deaths have already oc curred. The railroad from Cairo to * Alexandria, it is expected, will dis- 1 Qpntinue operations immediately.' fi Alexandria, July 17.?The cholera c is spreading generally throughout the country. The Sanitary Commission is taking steps to isolate Alexandria. One case thought to be cholera, was announced in Alexandria to-day. Twenty-eight deaths from cholera occurred at Damietta yesterday, 38 at Man surah and lo at Sanmuoud. Madrid, July 17.?The govern ment has introduced a bill in the Cortes for a credit of one million pesetas to defray the cost of the adoption of all possible measures against the introduction of cholera into Spain. A lexandria, J uly 17.?Twelve deaths from cholera occurred at Cairo yesterday and -?'2 at Menzalch. The Sanitary Commission has rejected the proposal to isolate Alexandria. A Buggy with but One Wheel. A reporter yesterday investigated the 'Chicago Single-wheel Buggy Com pany,' whose incorporation, with a cap ital of ?1,800,000. was telegraphed from Springfield. He found Mr. Fred Biuuer, one of the ^corporators, to be the smiling dispenser of amber lager beer in au Adam street saloon, and through him bi came acquainted with Mr. Win, Voficl, the inventor of the single-wheel baggy. Both gentlemen | j admitted that they were interested in ' the gl,800,000 enterprise, and did not deu) -oat they expected to ",akc moun tains of money with Mr. Vogel's inven tion. The latter consists of a wheel which will 1 e attached to a horse by means of ? pair of baggy shafts, and which wiil carry at the *>ther end a buggy sear. The inventor claims that by means of his new contrivance, absolute safety in dri\ing is secured, as the wheel can only tip or turu over in case the borte does the same thing. Besides, he i 1 claims that his new vehicle can get any where where a horse can get, anH that the horse will be able to make greater speed in this contrivance than in any sulky of the old pattern. Mr. Vogel expects to make a drive through the streets of Chicago in hi: single-wheel buggy next Saturday.?Chccago Trib une. News and Gossip. The bank of Anderson pays 75 cent* for trade dollars. Glenn Springs is filling cp rapidly, and every day adds to the crowd. Tbur famous SpriDg is becoming more popu lar every year. The case against ?. B. Whites, the* defaulting ex-treasurer of Newberry 30unty, has again been continued in the Court at Newberry. At a recent examination at Wesf Poiut Military Academy, Cadet John Towers, of Anderson, stood fourth n a class of ?inety-two. Oscar Wilde describes the American ?irl before his London audience as a "pretty oasis of unreasonableness in a* lesert of common sense." The Cadets of the Citadel Academy rill be fourloughed about the 28th in stant until October 1st, tbe Summer mcampment having been dispensed with or want of camp equipage. William Page, the American artist, vho for many years was the leading American portrait painter in Home, is ieriously ill at Tottenville, Staten [sland. He is seventy-two years of ige. John H. Livingston, of Orangebarg, vas on Tuesday, the 10th inst., ap )ointed by the President, United States narshal for the District of South Caro ina, vice Absalom Ely the, resigned. One hundred and seven couples ap )lied for divorces in the Connecticut Supreme Court during the first six nonths of this year. Is thisthe *civt ization of the school-book and the Bible?' y Michael Peetsr*gdT"l7 years, while eading a Bible io bis house near Alba iy, N. Y., Thursday afternoon was truck by lighting and killed. His Nothing was stripped from his back and tis flesh lacerated. Judge Hoadly alludes to General )ublin Ward, his defeated opponent, >s a 'grand old hero,' whilo General iVard, on tbe other hand, refers to radge Hoadly 'as a Democrat without t record.' Yale, Harvard and Dartmouth col* eges bave all conferred the degree of L?L. D. upon Senator Bayard. This s a good send>off for the Doctor, and nay help materially bis bloom for the Residential-nomination next year. John P. Thompson, brother of Con ;ressman Pil. B. Thompson, pro iounces Col. Frank Woodford, of Southwest Kentucky, the ablest and ciost eminent liar in that State. Rath r personal I The followiu^is j^e-^aHy work of 3liftoju..<eotf?D factory, Sp&rtanburg oanty: Cotton worked up, 32bak^; am produced, 4,500 pounds; cloth oade, 28,000 yards. Clifton is a Nourishing town of 1,400 inhabitants. Mrs. John G. Carlisle, wife of the Kentucky Congressman, is said to be jusiderably taller than her husband, rith a reddish complexion andScotch rish features. Her manner is dignified, ud she is amiable and sweet in dispo ition. If Roscoe Conkliog is not dead, it. eems that be will at least be permitted o sleep soundly for some time to come, . ior does bis indomitable rival, James ' t. Blaine seem to be much better off. The latter, however, it most be ad aitted, possesses the remarkable facul y of turning up when and where he is east expected. Mrs. Langtry and Gebhardt were nssed while driving at Coney Island a ew days ago. Tbe Lily has given ber eif up sc exclusively to the society of hat infatuated idiot as to forfeit the espect of ail people who have a sense >f propriety. She seems as indifferent .s he to public opinion. "When I see tottering old men," aid ex-Governor Seymour, "upon the >rink of tbe grave, engaged in an un eeudy scramble for office, I am always emiuded of Holbein's picture of *The )ance of Death.' It shall never be aid of me that I took part in such a lotillion.'** Gea. Crook does not believe in the management of the Indians by the .'ndlan Bureau or the Interior De >artment. He summarizes bis views m this subject in this way. Speaking >f tbe Indian agent be said: "When he Indians are bad he is afraid of hem, and when they are good ho iteals from them." At the last term of the Greenville rourt a rule was granted by Judge Wallace against J. T. Nix, a lawyer . jf that place, to show cause why he should not be disbarred. Tbe case ;ame up last Thursday before Judge Witherspoou. Nix had employed IToumans, of Columbia, Thompson, of Spartaoburg, Gco. D. Bryan, of Dharkston, Perry & Perry and J. M. Bryan, of Greenville. Solicitor Orr (ras assisted by C. M. Furman, of Greenville. It was charged that Nix jad defrauded clients; that he had. swindled jurors and witnesses in the purchase of tbeir tickets; that he had taken titles from negroes instead of Mortgages; that he had passed conn-. :erfeit money. The charges were such, | is to make the public believe that Nix ivas the greatest scoundrel that ever practiced law. These charges were supported by affidavits. They were mswered in the same way, some of the. same affiants submitting affidavits on Six's side. About fifty citizens sub Mittcd affidavits expressing confidence: n Nix's honesty and professional in egrity. The Court was engaged in .earing these affidavits all day Thors lay and part of tbe day Friday, and ben the lawyers began their arguments^ ind they talked, and talked, and talked, [tV??ay night came and fouud them talk ng. Court opened Saturday morning to, :he tune of tbeir talk. They kef t up all lay, and whe.: they finished the Judge, look tbe papers, about three bushels by Measu-e, and said be would consider he case and 4see them all later,' or Fords to thai eifeet. This seems to be i very big case with very little in it. When a decision h> rendered Nix's op ponents will be of the same opinion, ind his friends wt? stitt believe that he is a fair, average member of the Green ville bar?only a little sharper than the