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N. Qi OSTEEN,
* .Business Hander.
come and kneel low at
$Bod%reat tears of agony,
iring one single pfeg to me,
lifoot?f its |oiet heat.
??beaf-auy w^rd*yon spoke,
e Sound of your melodious
?e through and make my
but ?ow the spell is
?l>g^j|^fe^^mtpg brow
and* speak to
^tj?fvndiie hi alway,"
refoso--I woald not trust you, now.
'pxfty me, writhing in
caress, and I sbould'know
-out the dregs, of j
- -JV
1 IfoJd my Land again.
mair's love, a woman'annde.
tSS&m ??i never caxrSe cross
NjBj^nd th^trust I lost,
.ra the rushing tide.
Mary Anderson, thc Adres*.
the^lrisfa Hate the
r'f ^; jfAe atatufe 40 Edward Iii.
^S^P^Wfctheyear 1366, alliance by
^?|nge, Dormre of infants, and speak
gtj^CTif^'tttd pant*bable with death.
WMjfS&???trhhmacr as a Dorice, was
FjgjiSti?iTi i? fi ni eotering a monastery,
^gy^ij ai< own ancestors, turoagh
jfcwfcole of Ireland; and any in
?b ef.t&is order, subjected ali par
||9 Kckoeroed to the infiiction of the
?nes-of.deaih. And jost here ODe
KjBiiy be mentioned as being es
B-Pj foctby of n ol ice. Upon the
E^fft^f of SIT John Davies, thc
I kr&ey of England, it appears that in
Bfc;&ri?3aae&t rolls which are eftant
Bvtjar.ltt Edward ill. when thc
fl Etes of Kilkeny were enacted, tb
KpBtef King Henry TIL, we Sod
Pc&lrisl?^xa?wred to n?t as rebels, bat
'-"[ m*n\Hniii^-Tae- same high acthori
k?t^*mjs ; *Being enemies they were ont
^;.C^Sfe: protection of the law, so that
?v^ny Engtbihrnirrj might oppress, spoil
^ JIO^'?U them with oat control ojenL'
r'-Tke^fiah wer? forbidden to converse,
CT h*td commerce with any civil men ;
? t?^n or city wit?i
?mt.fer? ot their lives. By the 4th
.^^Ij^. Tim, 25 Henry VT. in
Ifas enacted, Thatif any Irish- ?
mes were found with ., tleir- upper lips
?j unshaven, by the space of a fortnight,
.it flUgfett>e lawful for ?ny man to take
J- them.Z***? their gwds, as Irish ene- i
%jMm^oA they might be pot tc death.
?'^;1ti?28 Henry Vt., three years
later, it was also made lawful for every j
liegeman of the King to dispose of them i
| without judge or jury * and fifteen '
pjjfcWIateF, by a statute of the 50 Ed
p^^iife?^:? chapter -4, it ' was enacted
:j?&st ?oy' Eagiiishxaaii migbt kill any
^?aimen, whether going or coming, in
;<ori??t,uole? accompanied by a man of
f fiW'flame and fame, io English ap
.-j?etv?or>cnt off their beads without
jmjpemJsn&Dt of our sovereign lord and
Ewg. The same statute, indeed,
ofofrd a premium for the murder of the
Irish, ny authorizing a pecuniary re
'?.#Srw" to those wno cut off their heads.
Another iniquitous enactment was pro?
jective qf the most disastrous results to
tir Iris? people. This was called
gW^yriag; and occurred after the
SiajfeaduKin bad labored al! the year to
gradu?e and gather his crops ; when
tie soldiers' of the English would be
**?pi?jr4eredt' upon them, and perhaps
: -coms?me al! the fruits of bis labor in
Oft* night. This practice, it is shown,
revolted io the depopulation, #banisb
eseut. and extirpai io a of the Irish.
I?r> Tiefend describes the free quarters
;'^f^bJrt."a*ay" jost as they are in this.
^?"Hej-aajs: 'That every inconsiderable
?"fi^rtyV. who, under pretence of loyalty,
?ypMMMv?? tfce'Kingfs commission to re
?jcL.lfc? ad^rsary in some particular
Httstrict, became pestilent enemies to
Be inhabitants. Tboir properties,
|M?f??ives, the chastity of their females
^Bete all exposed to these unprincipled
fc?giish, who sought only to glut their
?ratal passiona and? fiendish propeosi
^pea; and who, by their horrid excesses.
--jareiased the curse of God on man/
f 4)geeQ E?rzabeifa, adopted a refinement
e# cruelty which tor ta red both :he heart
aadteonsciecce of Irishmen, by enact
tn% a law requiring them not only to
*aaeot to the doctrine tbat the Kings of
England were the Popes of Ireland, but
r compelling them to swear to it also,
upon pain of death, in case of their
coo-eompliance. By ibis same pr??
teuse more than three thousand Irish
,-fptre Jest to die of starvation during a
period of three months, in the coucty
ia* Tyrone alone. By this pretense,
{&riog the reign of King James I., the
. iMiole province of Ulster, consisting of
$ll,456-eeres of land, were confiscated
;f i^^?ajMsb goveru?neDt, and par
c?led out io. Englishmen : each grant
fce?o?coupled with the condition, that
, ?0- laborer should be allowed to lice
;, ?po tbeat who would not take tbe oath
f :^aupre?acy.
: Pari&g the same reign another mil
?^^^^??re9.:werw declared forfeited and
mpxefr?mte? by the English. Another
^pi^af jft^nrg the time of E&Sbetb,
^!jFl''j.'lffl "r ir nnn f" Sk F' ^
eigb. - Ireland's fairest wives and
daughters, bj the thousand, were naac|e
the victims, by ?bree, of the brutal j
licentiousness of the soldier of that same j
England; and any attempts of hes-j
bands and fathers to shield their loved
ones from such pollution, were followed
by all thc terrors and sufferings which
fire and sword could inflict. Ireland's
sons? her noblest, purest,- bravest aod
best; her poets and minstrels, her ora?
tors and statesmen, have been most in?
humanly and cruelly murdered. By
an.order issued and signed in person by
King William, 'men were horribly
butchered in their beds ; women were
stripped of their clothing and jewels;
mothers were killed while defending
their offspring ; boys, imploring mercy,
were shot by officers upon whose knees
they hung ; neither age nor infirmity
.were spared ; all the houses io the val?
leys were burned, and the cattle driven
off and divided amongst the soldiers.
Extinction of the Irish race was com?
menced by King Henry, and tbereafter
wards continued down to the period of
the reformation by his successors ; and
after that event the same methods were
authorized until the total reduction of
the kingdom of Ireland, in 1691, and
the ruin of the Irish race accomplished
[successfully- All the penal laws of that
unparalleled code of oppression, which
were made after that event? were mani?
festly the effects cf national hatred
and scorn toward a conquered people,
whom the victors were delighted to
trample upon and provoke. An un?
wavering trait in the policy of Great
Britain toward Ireland, has been her
selection of such men to govern the
Irish, as were least likely to deviate
: into justice .and liberality. This fact is
conclusively shown, it bas been said,
[by the recall of any conscientious Vice?
roy who manifested the slightest dispo?
sition to depart from the old methods of
prejudice and oppression. That the
terms of/Ireland's mest popular gov?
ernors have been the shortest, and that
the first moments of their popularity
j have been, in general, the last of their
! government, is abundantly shown by
history. An instance may be adduced
when Sir Anthony Bellingham, after
the death of Henry VIII., was recalled
: for not sufficiently consulting the
English interests ; which being inter
; preied means, that be did not shoot the
requisite number of Irishmen. Another
- instance is that of the recall of Sir John
; Perrot for a similar delinquency in
Elizabeth's time. A third, oay be
found in the removal of the Earl of
Radnor, io the reign of Charles IL, of
whom Lord Oxford says: *We are not
told hew he disappointed the King's
expectations, probably not by too great
complaisance; nor wb^'his administra?
tion of the Tri<h. which Burnet called
just, -was disliked. If he was a good
governor, bis removal was not attribu?
table to the dislike of those to whom,
bu tr fro ia whom, he was sent.' .
Further historical research would
show that thc same policy of brutal op?
pression, and prejudice, have disgraced
the'reigns of England's subsequent
J rulers through each successive genera
[ tion, down to the present day. And it
is this persistent practice of intolerable
injustice and cruelly, towards the peo?
ple of Ireland, that bas caused civiliza?
tion to .blush, and humanity to shud?
der and England and Englishmen to
become a stench in the nostrils of every
people whose governments are founded,
upon that righteousness which exalteth
a nation. 'These causes, too, would
seem to* justify the caustic irony of
Tacitus, .when he declared that the
British constitution, with all its boasted
pre-emiueuco, did not exist except in
theory^ How idle to talk about, a union
of Ireland to England. It bas never
existed. There is* it is true, a union
in England to Ireland, which has
proven to be the greatest curse of the
Irish people, during centuries of terri?
ble and. systematic oppression of the'
English government, her ministers, and
dependents. Such a union is based on
a 'covenant with death and a league
with hell.'
The Bad Boy.
'So the doctor thinks your pa has
ruptured a blood* vessel, eh,' says the
street car di iver to the bad boy, as
the youngster was playing 6weet on
him to get a free ride down town.
.Well, don't know. The doctor at
Pewaukee said pa had dropsy, until
he found the water that they wrung
out of his pants was lake water, and
there was a doctor on the cats belong?
ing to the insane asylum, when we
put pa on the train, who said from
the looks of his face, sort of red and
blue, that it was apoplexy, but a
horse doctor that was down at the de?
pot, when we put pa in the carriage
to take him home, said he was off his
feed, and had been taking too much
water when he was hot, and got
foundered. 0, yon can't tell anything
\ about doctors. No two of 'era gueas
j es alike/'answered the boy, as he
turned the brake for the driver to
stop the car for a sister of charity,
and then punched the mule with a
fish pole, when the driver wa9 look?
ing back,.to see if he couldn't jerk
her off the back. step.
'Well, how did your pa happen to
fall out of the boat ? Didn't be know
the lake was wet V
'He had a suspicion it was damp,
when his back struck the water, 1
think. I'll tell you how it was. When
my chum and I run away to Pewaukee
ma thought we had ' gone off to be
pirutH, and she told pa it was his duty
to society to go and get us to come
back, and be good. She told him if
he would treat me as an equal, and
laugh and joke with me, I wouldn't
be so bad. She said kicking and
pounding spoiled more bo}Ts than all
the Sunday schools. So pa came out
to cur camp, about two miles up the
lake from Pewaukee, and he was
just as good natured as though he liad
never had any trouble at all. We let
him stay all night with us, and gave
him a napkin with a red border to
sleep on auder a tree, cause there
was not blankets enough to go
around, and in the morning I let him
have ojfc of the soda crackers I had
in my shirt bosom and he wanted to
go fishing with hs. He said he would
show us how to fish. So he got a
piece of pork rind at a farm house for
bait, and put it on a hook, and we got
in an old boat, and my chura rowed
and pa and I trolled. In swinging
the boat around pa's line got under
the-boat, and came right up near mo.
I don't know what possessed me, but
I took hold of pa's line and gave it a
yank and pa jumped so quick his hat
went off in the lake. 'Stoper/ says
pa, Tve got a whale/ It's mean in
a man to call his chubby faced lit?
tle boy a whale, but the whale yank?
ed again and pa began to pull him in.
I hung on, and let the line out a lit?
tle at a time, just zackly like a fish,
and he pulled, and sweat, and the
bald spot on his head was getting
sun burnt, and the line cut my hand,
80*1 wound it around the oar-lock,
and pa pulled hard enough to tip the
boat over. He thought he had a for
ly pound muscuiunger, and he stood
up in the boat and pulled on that
oar-lock as hard as he could. I ought
not to have done it, but I loosened
the line from the oar-lock, and when
it slacked up pa went right over the
side of the boat, and struck on his
pants, and split a hole in the water
as big as a wash tub.. His head went
down under water, and his boot heels
hung over in the boat. 'What you
doin V 'Diving after the fish V says
I, as pa's head came up, and he blow
ed out the water. I thought pa be?
longed to church, but he said 'you
damidyut.' I guess he was talking
to the fish. Well, sir, my chum took
hold of pa's foot and the collar of his
coat and held him hi the stern of the
boat, and paddled the boat io the
shore, aud pa crawled out and shook
himself. I never had no ijee a man's
pants could hold so much waler. It
was just like when they pull the
thing on a street sprinkler. ' Then pa
took offris pants and my chum and
me, took hoW of the legs and pa took
hold of the summer kitchen, and we
rung the water o?t. Pa wasn't so
sociable after that, aud he went back
in the woods with his knife, with
nothing on but a linen duster and a
neck tie, while his pants were drying
on a tree, to cut a switch, and we
hollered to him that a party of pic?
nickers from Lake Side were coming
ashore right where his panis were, to
picnic, and pa he ran into the woods.
He was afraid there was some wire?
men in the picnic that he knowed,
and he coaxed us to come in the
woods where he was, and he said he
would give us a dollar apiece and not
be mad any more if we would bring
him his pants. We got his pants,
and you ought to see how they was
wrinkled when he put them on. They
looked as though th?y had b?'cn iron?
ed with waffle hom. We went to
the depot and cairne' borne on a freight
train, and pa sneezed all the way in
the caboose. Well, I get off here ai
Mitchell's bank,' and the boy turned
the brake and jumped off without
paying his fare.-Feck's Sun.
Insane Kissing.
'Let me tell you an incident that
happened not very long ago. On one
of my runs out of Chicago we had on
board ar. old lady who was insane,
and such a weird looking soul I n.ever
set ??yes on before, and hope I never
shall again. Old, wrinkled and wild
eyed, yet very strong, and lively as a
cricket, almost, as we found out after?
ward.
'?he was, of course, in charge of a
kenper, but he had her in the smoker
where she could do no harm, and let
her roam at will. Well, he had also,
?fu the smoker, a la-de-dah young
j chap, you know, one who knew
everything, and smoked cigarettes.
? Well, the old lady caught sight of
bim on one of her trips up and down
the aisle, and she stopped short and
looked at him for a time, attracting
every body's attention, making them
think something was up.
'Well, the old lady stood there for
some few minutes and then she cried
'Here's a pretty boy. I must kiss
him.' If you had seen the look of
astonishment and dismay which earns
otrer the lace of that young sprout,
you would have done the same that
au the rest of us did-yell till the
noise could be heard in the next car.
Everything was taken so by surprise,
yoju see, that for haifa minute you
could have heard a pin drop. Then
thk fun of the thir;g occurred to
eveiybody as soon as they could get
their breath, and such a shout as went
up yon never heard. The old lady
was not dazed a bit, but she went
for that fellow, determined upon car
ryiag out her insane freak. Then the
fun really commenced. Nip and tuck.
Fir?t one and then the other. You
see; she wont right into the "seat
wit* him and he had all he could do
to keep her back. She had more
strength than any woman I ever saw,
and would try to get near him to put
her arms around him, while he would
be using all his strength to keep her
away. Finally, he saw that the only
way to gee rid of her was to get. out
of tie car, and he made a clive past
her into the aisle, and started toward
the loor. The old lady was onto
that hacket and away she went after
bim.j Well, sir, would you believe it ?
Befoie he reached the door, and he
was oil a good run too, she had raised
him ?three times. Yes, su-, i mean
she kicked him three times, ;:nd if he
didn't get out ofthat door in pretty
quick^order, then ? um mistaken.'
'lute view with a conductor L>v tl.',
Cleveland Herald.
Attempt at Po:i-or;i-;g.
i
COLCMUIA, August G.-A dispatch
from ?partanburg to thc Dan ?j Regis?
ter says the family of Andrew D niel,
a plapter, while at breakfast, ihs
covere? something#vrong in the taste of
ihe co*fee. The coffee pct was emptied
toto a ilop bucket in arder to draw a fresh
pot. Two dogs drank fr a tho bucket
and shortly wont int" convulsions,
wi?i?h, however, did not result fatally,
owin? to the dilution . f the coffee with
the corten ts of the bucket. A search
rev?ale^ the fact; that a bottle of strych?
nine. Girchased for tho purpose of
poisoning rats, was missing. Two ne?
gro t;?':i a?i a colored house girl have
bee- arrested on suspicion -and lodged
in ja:!.
I A Oil mBO BISEf?
;' Plain Talk frora Tc in Hamilton i
the Men of Iiis Hace.
?
? Do the Blades Qtce, Angthing to the 1
\ publican Parly ?-?The Plain Fa
j of thc Case- The true Flatform j
j the Negro.
BEAUFORT, S. C., July 23, 1883.
To the Editor of The News a
Courier:-I desire to correct an en
in your report of the recent Neg
Convention by which I was made
say that I objected to negro men dri
ing white men's carriages. Possib
something of the sort may have be
said by somebody else in the Couve
tion ; but I certainly made no sm
remark. What I did say was that t
word 'Republican Parly' should !
stricken out because thc negro w
j used by the National Republic*
parly only to keep such men
Mackey, Taft and Johnson as ovc
seers of the negroes. All that tl
negroes get for their fealty to tl
Republican party is some minor a
pqiutments, such as boat-hands, &c
which nobody else wants. The on
good pi sidon which is held by a n
gro in South Carolina to-day is th
held by Mr. Wilder, postmaster*;
Columbia, and he is kept lhere t
Senator Hampton, who is a Bemocra
All the oilier Republican office-hoh
ers in the Stale, with the exception
the underlines aireadv referred to, ai
white men.
I hold that the negro owes Radica
ism nothing. Ad milting, for tb
sake of argument, that he did owe
something aller the war, (which
deny,) he has given it twenty yeai
of the most active service cf his liff
and during these'twenty years lb
party has brought such disgrace o
the negro name that it will take gei
erationfi lo wipe it out. When th
Republicans controlled this State a
that the teachers could get for the
certificates was fort}* cents on th
j dollar ; now when the State is coi
trolled by Democrats they are wort
one hundred cents on the doilai
Education is the one great need c
the negro race, and the parly whic
has given the most aid to educalio
is the one which the negro* shoul
support, lt is folly for die Reoubl
cans, in Congress to give as an el
cuse for not voting for the EdtiCi
tionaj bill that the money would b
put into thc hands of Democrat :
superintendents of education. W
must iadge the future bv the pasi
What has Republicanism done in th;
! Slate towards educating the negr
j youth? Everybody knows that th
! Republicans deliberately stole th
i money intended for education and af
j plied it to fast horses; gold waichc
? and diamond pins, and 1 venture I
say that if the money were Lurnei
j over to the same class of men aga*
i by the Government for educations
purposes the negro wo ul'i neve
profit by a cent of it. Govcrno
Thompson when suped ute ndent o
j education did iar more towards cdc
J eating the negro youth in {bur year
j than the negro I; aders did in ten, am
j his Democratic successor is following
! his example.
Now, why should I be calle;!
traitor, if I aided at all iu pulling lin
State into the hands of the Demo
crate ? Is nut the negro benefitted b'
it? ?SMiot the school teacher bene
fitted by it ? Are not thc juries, wit
nesses and all the officers of tin
cou ris benefited by it ? Is not the
policeman who guards your life am
property while you sleep beuefittet
by it ? Then why should a man b<
abused and villified if he aided in an}
way in bringing about such results-;
I moved in tue Negro Convention
to strike out the word 'Republic.!!
party,' because thc negro is twice a.
j well off under 'Democratic administra
I tion. The negroes received more
j than twice the amount of educalior.
i and the teachers received almost
! three times as much for their cerl?f?
?.cates, while jurors ami witnesses gel
i twice as much for their tickets.
I Why then'should a negro be ashamed
or afraid to join the Democratic party \
j or why should they be ashamed oi
j afraid tu cut loose from the Republi?
can party and stand as a party by
! themselves, holding the balance ol
j power so as to throw it on thc side
i that will give them the largest mea?
sure of substantial benefit and recog?
nition ? It is nonsense for the negro
to cling to the Republican party.
Stalwarts and Half-breeds are all Hie
same. Pat either of them in power
j and they will give white men the
choicest places, while the negro, io
j whom they owe everything, must
? content himself with the leavings,
i Can the Democrats do worse ? lt is
j high time for the negro to have done
! with the folly of being frightened at
I the word 'Democrat.' Ila has but
! two questions to consider now. First,
I what is best for (he negro ; second,
t what is best for the country. Not to
j speak of Postmaster Wilder, who
? owes his retention in office lo the ia
j fiuer.ee of Senator Hampton, look at
j Lieut. Fordham, of the Charleston
I police, riding the streets with his
J shoulder straps as OIK; of the eily
j officers. Here is a colored mau who
j was elected by Democrats and who is
j kept in pu:-"'i >u by Demociucs simply
j for his merit. Is not this at? ttvideueo
I tiiat if the negroes will ;;l!y them?
selves \v il h the native white people
i : i>d d ' sv.*a\ with jiiesc contemptible
[.vb it mau vu** i;?vtr.co:ii?j do wu here
j us mere b ; .is ; passage , that they
j will get substantial \usi.:, ? ? N'<:!;;.?-y
{ ol?jo;-i.-: to Xor{-. ? .. u .vid:.: roen c<..:?< ?.?g
j South and ideutiJ") ing tken?s?ives vi.
us, and .1 they happen deserve
Ouice let them g. i :i. But : ?io ob
iject, and never will lend my . i or
j influence i:? any w?y lu ah} class of
I men- leaving Washington with th err
i appointments in their pockets and
couiv: here io rah among native
j Ca!--.!i:::;:'-s. What are me plain
I iacts? There :>.u- about ono hnndri u
and fifty whit. Republicans ::i the
State; and about one hundred and
thirty of them hold Government ap
j poiiiimeiiis. Those who are not in
! ofiice are in business and invariably
j vote the Democratic Stale ticket,
i Ex-Governor Scott, the first Republi
; can Governor the State ?ver
\ supported Governor Hampton
! his ticket, on the ground that in
? publican party was so corrupt
j the people could no iongtsr stand
! It is easy to show that the neg
j net fallowing the Republican p
j intelligently. There is no man,
j ing or dead, to whom the negro
iso much indebted as to Ho
; Greeley ; yet when he became a
j didate for President wo all know
j the negroes foolishly deserted hil
I vote "for Gen. Grant-a man
! never voted a Republican ticket
I bis life until he was on tho ticket 1
! self. They did lins ut the biddin
i the leading Republicans, deser
! their best friend and supporting
j Copperhead.- But now the lapse
fourteen years ought to have ope
their eyes to their true interests.
If I and my colleagues were WT
in going* into the Wallace House
1876 and casting* our votes for G
eruor Hampton instead of for Govi
or Chamberlain, believing- it was I
for the people of the Stale, both wi
and colored, if iliat was wrong, w
are we to say of the letter of Gev<
or Chamberlain himself aunouuc
that the civilization of the ronudh
and the Cavalier was in danger ;
calling upon all good citizens to st:
together in defence o? the digr
and character of the State agai
curruption and barbarism ? Gove
or Chamberlain was a Republican i
an oiSccr in the Federal army. W
should he have called Soulhern cl:
airy to his aid if it was not ncedc
When aman like Governor Cbamfc
lain, with all his ability and edncatn
could not reform the Republic
party and keep it together in Soi
Carolina, how can a man like E. 1
M. Mackey expect to do it '!
When I visited the Teachers' ]
stitute in Columbia the only t'
white men I saw there to give us ?
couragemenl were Goveraor Thon
son and the Superintendent of edin
t?on, both Democrats. What liad 1
come of your Taft, your Mackey, yo
Johnston and your Brayton, the I
publican bosses who control all t
Federal appointments in South Ca
lina ? They were net there. Nt
we want President Arthur and 1
Cabinet to understand that there a
moro men in South Carolina th
Mackey*, Taft, Johnston and Baryta
That the native Carolinian is her
; that the German is here; that t
Irishman is here, and that the r.eg
! is here. We know cur rights, a:
I we will all combine in one comm
j cause to protect and defend the
i We don't intend in the future to
bossed over by any stranaer. Tn
I is what seems to nm to be the v~:
\ platform on winch thc South Carolii
I negro snouid stand.
; THOMAS HAIITI.TON".
\ THE SSA SZ?.?EIvT NOWHES:
; North Carolina "Takes t?e C$l:<
j with a Tale cf an Iceberg ai
I an Esquimaux.
j _
f A iel;er to the Iscw York Wor<
I from Cant. Lookout, N C., sa vs : Ti
; en.ire population of this district are c:
! cited'v discussing a remarkable erei
! ive ich happened here yesterday. Thr<
; pilots, who were lying in their t^a's ?.
; the iig?i-house, were suddenly attrac
I ed by the appearance ot au ?rnmen:
1 iceberg at a lillie disiauco out at se;
I The spectacle was a grand one as tb
j enormous white mass glistened in th
I sunlight, and its loi'iy columns, re?ec
f tiu^ all the tims of the rainbow, floate
; slowly past.
? The pilots hoisted their anchors an
' setting sail ran a race to the ieobers
i which was gained by the foremost i
j seventeen minutes. An exploration c
I the iceberg revealed a Greeulaud kayne
I or a beat made from the skins of rein
j deer, inside of which lay the body of a:
! Esquimaux, who had apparently buei
[ frozen to death. A spear lay uesid
; him, and some fish-bones were founi
I imbedded iu the ice. It was eviden
I that, in addition to the cold and expo
sure of au Arctic sea, the man had sof
feted the tortures of hanger, for hi;
b vi o is were eaten duwn co the heels ant
the sides of hissliiu bout were al ul OS
! gnawed away.
I The perfect condition of the body led
j the pilois to suppose that life might aol
i be entirely extinct, so they took tin
j Esquimaux ashore and placed him be
j fore a big tire and subbed him vigorous'
j ly. As life and warmth seemed to br
returning to the almost lifeless body,
one of the men placed a bottle of North
Carolina whiskey to the lips of thc little
I stranger, and forced him to gulp dowu
; about a pint of :he liquid. Thc Esqui
? maux opened his eyes, kicked the fire
and gasped: 'Good, captain, Kapsi
mi brat.' lie wants a 'sperm-oil cock?
tail,' said one of thc sailors who had in
younger days been i;j the Arctic whale
: fishery. 'Haven't got it," said Captain
Cramp. 'Give him another pint of
whiskey.' This was doue. Thc Esqui?
maux seemed to recover, lie sat up,
stared around, muttered, 'Kumi. kumi,'
many times, thou lay down as if weary
gave a night gasp and expired. His
body was buried hero to-day, af td* hav?
ing been viewed by people frc: i all
j parts of the country. The pilot who
first reached the iceberg iosis son kecp
j ing thc boat and spear and pr poses to
I tow the iceberg to Charleston, where ice
j at this season brin;;* a good price.
A new York letter says: Jay Gould's
! ! mb is to cv?st ?.<."...!.:.;> and ' '" have
j i .?.un for six icen pe. sons. In .<h'>!;:n
j . . i i . ? ? j . j i
! i fi is .'.mortuary coa pol. as .t-ac t-utluer?
; are "proud to call i*. ... miniature
I Greek temple of polished gran:tc. li
' :s to be twenty-feet wide, ti:?; ? v feet
long, ;;:ni ti .{-I,ed ?vi?"- column?, ci;':..
1 ' ? , ; i ' . . i?
? eaCu Stu (J J.?: i lOui OU . t?0 COUS. .<!.
stone used ii', the construction is to bc
i leas ti.;;.i six icet sj;,a;'o r.. > and
j the roofstoacs arc to be ^i^ fcc? wide hy
i fifteen feet long, weighing several tons
! .-.piece. The do< rs of rho cha] el are to
I he of bronze, inside the original plan
was to close each of thc sixteen com
J par tm en ls wirb a slab of polished marble
j to be cemented in place. Thc latest in
j tcntion, however, is to finish the chap 1
?in bron:.-1 as being more desal?e than
marble. Facing ?he door of the chapel
i is to be-a window of stained glass, pro
j bably by Lafargc, representing the
I Resurrection.
Senator Butlers Pian.
i _
i The improvement, of our roads
I the system by which they aro c
structed and maintained is one of
most important subjects that the r.
pie of this Stale can consider,
ask, therefore, a careful examin?t
by our readers of the plans submit
by Senator Butler, printed to-day.
By thc Senator's calculations
annual means for working the ro
given by the axisting law consist!
twelve days work of 150,000 'n
equal to ?1,800,000, valuing
labor of each man at one dollar a d
It is proposed to substitute for tl
three days lal or of 150,000 m
equal to ?450,000, and $15u,000
cash, a total available sum in cash a
labor for each year of $600,0
The means at the command of I
road services are thus reduced by 1
equivalent of $900,000. .
The questions presented arc :
Will the $150,000 cash andi
450,000 days of labor provided for
the proposed new law, nccompl
more than, or as much ap, the 1,80
000 days of labor provided by the c
ono ?
Will the $150,000 cash and t
450,000 days of labor be less burdt
some to the people than the 1,800,0
days of labor ?
The first question may bo cc
sidered in the light of the follow!
facts : The average road tax of ea
of tue thirty-four counties would
say; $4,500. The salary of the ov<
seer would take gSOO of that, Ieavii
?3.800 tu provide and maintain t
outfit of carts, mules and tools ai
pay the force of bands. Twen
hands at $30 a month each would 1
^GOtfa month?. The first year tl
outfit would cost ?1,000, and the i
suit be four or five months work
twenty hands and tour teams, sn
plemented by three days of lab
from each road hand. The difficul
would be that the progress would 1
necessarily so slow that9 the great
portion ol each county would be st
fet ing from neglected roads, while
sn: all section was enjoying good one
and that no permanent good!road cr
be made in our country without tl
free use of stone. There would I
no obstacle to the perfect success i
Senator Bntles's plans if a road ont
in good condition would remain s
But the fact is, no dirt road will I
tit to travel without constant atte
tion after thc winter rains and freezt
have began and when the heavy loa(
of cottou are ponstantly passing ov<
iL willi the wheels wearing ruts a:?
digging holes in the softened soil.
it is doubtful whether the peop
will patiently snbtnit to a cash tax Ti?
the roads, and ii is very probae
that a iargs proportion of thc 150,0'J
men subject to road duty will chee
fully pay the penalty of three da}
work in preference to the dollar. I
the practical operation o? the pr;
posed law the $150,000 income wou'
be greatly reduced bv this cause, an
we would bc about where we at
nov/. The law would also work ii
justice in many instances. The pe<
pie of a neighborhood where the road
are well and faithfully worked, woul
be required to pay for the shortcon
ings of other neighborhoods wher
the roads are neglected. A vcr
large body of citizens wiil find i
much easier to give six ot* twelv
days work at different idle times i;
Ile year than a dollar in cash.
Tiie need of our State is a roa<
force extensively distributed, quick!;
available at weak points on shor
notice, and competent io repair break
and bad places wherever they occur
Such a force is given us by our pre
sent law. It can be made availabh
by a few additional sections fixing tin
responsibility on thc County Commis
sinners, Trial Juitices and such othe
officers as ca:; be readily used.
Permanent improvement must b<
gradual. It can be secured by re
quiring that some small section o
permanent road of stone (or wood ii
the low country) bo built by the roac
hands every year.
Senator Butler's proposed plan, ii
seems to us, would, ii put in cxvcu
tion, really add to the burdens of thi
people, cause never ceasing dissatis
faction and injustice, ani accomplish
nothing except temporary and expen?
sive improvements du limited sectiom
of road. It might do possible injury
to the work it is intended lo aid by
removing the slight ?(ji:\hig of re
sponsibility felt for the condition oi
their roads by the people of each
neighborhood. Every man who had
paid his dollar tax would rest on the
consciuusness of having dene his fall
duty to the reads, and charge ali
faults to the Overseer or Supervisor.
If we will provide means for en
forcing the existing laws and elect
ofiiccrs who will do their duty, we
will not need radical changes or ex?
tensive addhivna.-Greenville News.
. 'Can't we get a Rest ?'
We think it about time to stop say?
ing that fae eondiuou of our public
roads is an index to our civilization.
Teat oil idea has beeu bandied about
for :i hui dre ! years aud within the
last ten years wo think it has been s:dd
about twenty million times. Can't we
get a rest ou that ?dc:' ? Another mat?
ter :ib;>ut which we think (.hecilizeu hag
a right to cotiiidain is tho eternal agi?
tation of the subjeetof the 'Negro as a
labor rr,' ac : the occesshy of importiug
i'> -.i.-.iti go: : lernen and Ss ich scholars
'.; black oar i >...:- and <;: ?ry our horses,
i Another mailer which has become an
intolerable boor ts the discussion of the
' ?' : ?.: .." sie* S. attr. ?lu people, to give
! ^cocotira'jetnc?L* to immigrants to como
hi i r. Tids is a ?Vee country, and the
j inj migrant who wants moro 'encourage
j rj??i? t* rh an is offered bj thc excellence
I of our soil, ix aeficertce of our laws
.it . ? ; u>e he-abb of our climate is not
j worth Ids v.. I .iii. ia saw-Uust, and ir
! would bc better for u--. if bc rem ai it cd
;..! i;oa?c#. Can't wc ?id a rest on these
j worn-out subjects ?-Abbeville Press
\ and banner-.
-- .MU?.Ig~ -0<-- -'."?TA..- -
i Twenty In i girls from the wos
\ tern par! of North i "ina. are to bc
educated ai Judson College, at tbc ex
[ pense of thc United States Government.
Stretching.
A New Method Discovered hy Fash
I ionable Women for Increasing their
\ Hei?t.
If the London World is to le be?
lieved-and tn spite of its name it gen?
erally tells the truth-the fashionable
women of England have really discover?
ed a way of increasing their height, not
I by the fictitious aid of high-heeled
boots, but by actually stretching their
bodies.
By degrees women have learned how
to 'make themselves over,' as if they
were old dresses. If teeth and hair are
missing, they can be replaced by artifi?
cial teeth and hair, while legs, arms
and eyes almost as good as those sup?
plied by nature can be bought io the
shops. The female form can be pad?
ded until it is round and shapely;)
paint can hide au undesirable compos?
ion, and a year or two ago a German
discovered how to change at will the
color of the human eye. Hiiherio,
however, the small woman has been
totally unable to add to her height, ex?
cept by wearing high.-heeled shoes. If
she happened to be little she could
never make herself tall. There was
really no hope for the 'dump* woman
no way in which she could correct the
error of nature.
At last the problem of adding to a
woman's stature has been solved. It
occurred to an intelligent man-who
was presumably a physician, and was
certainly married-that the human
form is to a certain extent elastic. We
are taller in the morning than we are
at night, because the body while rest?
ing in a horizontal position regains by
its elasticity what it has lost in height
during the day by the operation of
gravitation. Moreover, the use of the
corset has demonstrated that the femi?
nine form is elastic. * The waist may
be'eompressed, but a compensating ex?
pansion takes place-in other parts of the
body. Whenever a cubic inch of flesh
is pushed away from the region of thc
waist by thc corset it makes its appear?
ance elsewhere. In fact the ** :set re?
arranges irs wearer and diffuses her
waist instead of partially annihilating
it. Now, if half a woman's waist can
be transferred from her belt to her
shoulders, why should it not be possible
to increase her height by squeezing ber
whole body iu an elongated corset?
This is what the intelligent inventor
has done, and it is by a combined sys?
tem of pressure and stretching that
short wemen are now made long.
The woman who is to undergo this
process is incased m a very tight corset,
and her feet are placed iu shoes weight?
ed with fifty pounds of lead each. She
ts then placed in a machine consisting
of a ring which encircles her waist and
is suspended from the ceiling at such a
height as to prevent her feet from
touching the ground. Thc pressure of
the corset forces the upper part of ber
body upward and the weight of the
shoes stretches her from her waist down?
ward. Of course the bones of the
human body cariant bc artificially elon?
gated, but thc joints can be stretched.
It is estimated that the extreme length
to which the spine'can be stretched by
the process thus described is two inches,
and that the knee, ankle and hip joiuts
can be stretched an inch and a half
?nore. Thus three inches and a half
can be added to the height of almost
auy woman who has thc courage to un?
dergo the trouble and pain necessarily
connected with a stretching process
lasting, with brief interruption, during
five or six months. Three inches and
a half will, however, in many in?
stances, transform an insignificant wom?
an into a graceful and even majestic
woman, and there are few small women
who will not be ready to be can verted
into comparatively tall women at the
cost of six months of seclusion from
society.-N. Y. Times.
A Hard Case.
The Governor of New York has
recently pardoned James McDougall,
who in. 1877 was sentenced to ten
years' imprisonment un a charge of
burglary in the first degree. The
Governor gives the following rea?
sons for his action, showing that his
conviction was a fraud upon justice :
.The wife of the convict left him, and
for some time he could not discover
her whereabouts. lie learned that
she was living with another man, os?
tensibly as a domestic, but as it now
seems to be conceded, actually in a
very different relation. The hus?
band's repeated requests that she
should return to him, and restore ?n's
child which she had taken with her,
were refused, and his efforts in that
direction were resented by tho man
with whom she was living. The
crime of which the prisoner was con?
victed consisted in his bursting into
the house where his wife had taken
up her abode in the night, apparently
with the id*?a of reclaiming her and
his child. He was confronted by thc
man who had aljenatcd and was har?
boring his wile, and was by him shot j
and nearly killed. As soon as he j
had sufficiently recovered of his
wounds to appear in court he was
convicted of burglary in the first de?
gree and sentenced to prison for ten
.ears. Nearly six years of his term
of imprisonment having expired, I
had but little difficulty i:. agreeing
with the Judge who sentenced him
ami the attorney who prosecuted the j
indictment in their opinion that bel
should be released.'*
Baby had been forgotten al table, j
lie . >?iec:s a moment, and thou turu- !
inc to his neighbor, s.iid :
'Would you kindly give mc a ?iitic
li X X, .
.Some sait!' says the mother
.What aie you going to do with it my
~3aby casts bis eyes d-nvL and replies
timidly :
.I o) going to put it on my meat
when you give me some T
Emerson said 'all healthily things arc
sweet-tempered.' So we are invited
to believe 'hat when a robust bulldog
cats chunks out of us be is simply ex?
hibiting a sweet canine temperament,
and is overflowing with innoceut mirth
at our expense. Mr. Emerson died
none too soon.
News and Gossip.
FioraMoorer, colored, died in Orange
burg county recently, aged 110 years.
She was brought from Africa about the
time of the Revolution.
There was an attempt to organize a
Spanish Republic at Badajoz on San
day, the soldiers of tho garison declar?
ing against the Kiag. A body of
troops went against the insurgents, who
disbanded and fled to Portugal.
The South Carol ina Rail way Company
has notified the Railroad Commission
that it will ask no change in the pas?
senger rates fixed by the Commission,
and very slight modifications m the
freight tariff.
There is to be a shooting match at
Columbia on tho Fair grouuds the 15th
and loih instants. Special rates have
been made with hotels and railroads,
and the Columbia club hopes to wel?
come sportsmen from all parts of the
State.
A Northern correspondent states that
"the fast set" of giris and women
smoke cigars and cigarettes. The use
of tobacco in these forms is said to be
common at female academies, *n spite of
prohibition. The most ingenious de?
vices are employed to evade and defy
the rules.
John J. Bell, of Exeter, N. H., a
member of the Legislature, met an irate
constituent on June 23, who derisively
asked him when they were going to
elect a senator at Concord. Mr. Bell
solemnly informed bim that this would
occur on the fi: 2^ Thursday in August,
on the third ballot. His prediction
was literally fulfilled.
Orchardists in California are talking
of cultivating squirrels to kill off the
sparrows by sucking their eggs.
When the job is finished cats will be
employed to kill the squirrels, and
small boys will the cats. If cigarette
dou't kill the small boys, high living
may. *
A young lady just graduated was ask?
ed how she was going to use her learn?
ing. She said she would use it in get?
ting married. She deserves a good
husband for so tersely expressing the
truth, and no doubt she will get one for
it takes a smart woman to get a good
'husband.
Mace's giant Maori prize fighter Slade,
does not seem to amount to much, as
Sullivan knocked him out in three
rounds in a si ove f?ght at New York on
Monday Dight, the 6th. Between ten
thousand aDd twelve thousand people
were present. About one hundred po
licsuneu kept order ia thc garden and
many more stood around the entrances.
Once upon a tiir.c when a great flood
swept, down thc Missouri a settler re?
leased his hogs from their pen and
drove them to higher ground. When
he returned to rescue his wife' and
children he found that they had been
swept away by the flood. After gaz?
ing apon the scene a moment he re?
marked to a neighbor ; 'Well an all
wise Providence has left me a prime lot
o' pork, anyhow.'
Thus did Henri Watterson welcome
the presidential party at Louisville :
' We turn over to yon our houses and
oar horses, and there is the jug, and the
sugar, and the ice, and the mint Wo
even surreoder to you thc hip-pocket
play-things with which we are wontsome
times to amuse ourselves, and if you
can't make yourself at home and pass
the time plcsantly, may the Lord have
mercy on our souls.'
An intelligent young Englishman of
good family," a baronet's son, who has
been investing largely in lands in Texas,
was asked how it was that sc many of
his countrymen were buying land in
this country just at this time. 'I will
tell you,' bc said : .'there is a very gen?
eral feeling that there will be a great
change in England soca, equal to that
made in thc South by your civil war.
Although they would laugh at the idea
if you suggested it, niuo out of ten
men in England believe that Albert
Edward, Prince of Wales will be the
last King Eugland will ever have. A
revolution is silently.but surely prepar?
ing that will uproot ali the remnants of
the old feudal system.'
If people will drink stimulating
liquors let them use good brandy, whis?
ky, wine, or beer. Why use stimu?
lants which arc sure and quick poisons?
lt is said that thc use of absinthe is
greatly on thc increase in this country.
Absinthe is thc distilled essence of
wormwoud. Its effects arc similar to
those produced by thi use of opium.
It acts on the brain very much like ibo
deadly India drug vr.lcd hasheesh. It
produces delirium .r.-.i softening of the
brain. Its taste is that of peach kern?
els, or rather prussic acid, of which it
contains a largo quantity. Its very
color-a singular green-indicates its
poisonous qualities.
There is a'man named J. D. Rhodes
who is anxious to die like Webb. He
offers to do it between now and the
.26th of September. He will use an
armer of his own invention. A dispatch
from Lockpovt, N. Y., says: "Captain
Rhodes in 1S77 dived from a staging
100 feet high uear the ferry landing on
the Niagara River, and Lc now writes
to Superintendent Neilson, prospect
Park, Niagara Falls, thal he will uso
his armor aud give ?1,0CC bonds to
swim the rapids and whirlpool, doing
this at any time between now and
September 25 Ho desired to make
arrangements with tho l ark Company,
offering to deposit ?1,000 with them as
security."
Tho young ladies have m.nde a new
departure ?a Pariingiou county. A
short time ago a fair maiden of respect?
able family, with a good education and
un sta in td character, rose from her bed
between midnight and day and walked
six miles to i':e house where her heart's
desire was sleeping. She arrived there
before daylight and first encountered
some savage dogs, out, as of old, Cupid
fears neipfer locks, nor bars, nor barks.
She made her way to the house, aroused
tho skcj headed swain, and then they
twain walked six miles to a preacher's
houst^ where they were made one. It
is said that Darlington mothers are
locking op ?hejr sons at night, now, to
prevent thc girls from runing away
with them.