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fMTKK WATCHMAN, Established April, IS50. ?ateA Aug. 2, 1881.1 '?l?i^ -Ol J ii ? It?^ Iii ll ll 1 1 11 Ul' 5 V*4 1 I ll "Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends chou Aims^t ot. be thy Country's, thy Gcd'?. and Truth's." SUMTER., Sc G., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 18S3. *_ New Series-Vol. III. No. 7. _m .LJ_ M ne- negrgaaam sasmeBEgaqgactng aasaa_a i i-nr--r-r"-"T-"T-? - '?? '?? .? . 1 x J" ? ^- ???-""??-??-???-???? ? -? -n II nm --a i g ?a-B-B--a THE T?tUE SOrTHRON, Established June, 186?. ?8 V ? --BY TM j&fc&oMB? an<? Southron Publishing SUMTER, S. C. TEKSiStV per asama-in advance. Mt Square, first icsertioa_......~.....~$? 00 * gj^insertion.................. 50 three months, or longer will rates. which subserve private for as advertise mee ts. otes of respect will be notices an<L notices of deaths pub aiport or contracts for advertising and Southron, or apply St G- OSTERN, Business Manager. DEAR: MOW THE SEASON PEOPLE WANT TO BUY SON U3HTNING SEWER in preference ?o any other SEWING 2CAOSI2TB ? ^E'---" . We will -ell you. iABSE^it has no Cogs, Cams or Gears, it has no Rawhide or Felt SUSS it lias no Cast-iron Parts pain t veritede?et?s. lUSE it does rot shake, rattle or * ??e floor ^arfceo ran at a high iUSS.it bas two sptc^s-ona for fine operator, and the other J, SO that you can do one-third too day than can be dose on any ^(achine. ?B %ron5 Light and Easy. ~ loit motion can be be taken np vw?ar wi thc at changing or pu t pp-rts, which cannot be done roiJier Sewing Machine. ? it -darns r^s and tears. it does the most elegant designs wilhoot an attachment. ! it does not break the thread or , ron backwards. i tell yonforhoorsof its Superiority Iffter Sewing Machines. We Ur;nk it reason why people should >N. It is sold on very easy 21 >? AND SHOE STO?E, SUMTER, s. c. ?j??9&^&?KS CUSTOMERS AND THE ? . :':y^_ P?^ieGENERALLY ?J?wge Well Assorted stock of Bea?y and Fancy Groceries. ? v?<^5i-: y?esh arrivals daily; ^?fe?*?fegoods^ruaranteed) as represented. Crockery* (Jlasjware, Lamps. ? large invoice of Crockery, Glassware and i?tct^of every de8crii?t?oB jost opened. - ' ~?*?sssly and getj^bargains. sm-w^BB. Hy'?ock of Tin-wire is complete, erabrac tog eVerythi:>g io georr*?] use. Special in iociaijfe'efifered to purcbosers. the KitcJi. ss ?f? aod Tht Bann* Sets consist uf ten pieees-t?f t?o-ware, ail n-eful articles, for o?? rtafer, ?i?de with paieoi fire^pooi bo;tr>uis, ind goarao?eer? not to leak. ^tobacco, Cigars, &c. JtfW?mne Smoking and Chewing Tobacco, (ind ?P3ej?ant assortm-j.t of Cigars, ct ra rfcns-brands. The DJJKB 0? DURHAM CLARETS, ?oWy^y the thousand or siogie 1 pactare. Also^Prucd rv^sortnieot of Piles. I Wooden and Willow Ware. A full Ha* offeivd in Tubs, Buckets, Baskets. Wa*b-board?, Seives, Well Buckets, Brooms, TWm BSD SPRINGS. I ?MK stitt making t!ie Twin Bed Spring'. iwHBl?Dg them at the exceedingly low price of $3.50 a *t. One mattress is sufficient to make a comfortable bed whwe these springs vk usu?. Every set guaranteed to give satis? faction, or money refunded. WHB?T-gBA?ANg BICE FLOUE . Always on Baud. The b?st and cheapest feed for stock. Purchaser* will do well to call and examine my stoci: and prices. "Money saved is rc or. ev made.". Ail gooda delivered free of charge to any part of the dty. VtVH. YATES, SUMTER, S. C. Ang 28 Opposite Jno. Reid's. ?a-ail Wi- mi II niam?jw(Mifnniiin WOOD'S 0OOITIII, F?R WHITEN1N6 AND PRESERVING -THE TEETH. Bseps the Breath Pure and Swast and Bardens tua (tans. jghrmnla of Dr. T. T. Moore. :lpRr. C. HSHER, Wholesale Agert, . COLUMBIA, S. C. i for sate in Sumter hy Dr. A. J. CHINA. I and Dr, O. J. ACLD. p ??Y1E01 ?3B8 Your m.. Own BsGtor? j BT jon have a bad taste in y ourson th. sal- | Kntsor yellow color of skin, feel despon- j ttnpid. and drowsy, appetite unsteady, j ?puent headache or dizzine?3, yon are ;'b;l H?L" Hothiog will arouse yonr Liver to act I Band strengthen up your system equal to j ?SIMMONS' HEPATIC COMPOUND i TLIVER AND KIDNEY CURE, EMOYBS^ONSTIPATION, ?RSMOVKS DIZZINESS, I DIS?Bt?SICK HEADACHE. I BANISHES BILIOUSNESS. CORES LIVER COMPLAINT. Overcomes Malarial Biood Poisoning. 1 REGULATES THE STOM A CH. WIL?, REGULATE THE LIVER. WILL REGULATE THE BOWELS, Tte l?rer and Kidneys Gan be kept perfectly healthy io any eli-j nate by ;akiojj,&n occasional dose of H?MOJiSP HEPATIC COMPOUND, \ ' THE GREAT VEGETABLE Liver and Kidney Medicine. I? Sumter by Dy, A. J. CHINA, 36?3fayesvaie.bj Dr. F. J. MAYES. ! I??8hopvinehy Dr. E. Y. McLEOD. D0WJB4 MOISE, Proprietors, Wholesale Dtnggists, Charieslon, S. C. Oct Vi _[_ . ACKVg, ^Hb-tongned Canvassing f? Afc?, to sell"my Book of Poems. A ?Mftkjcaferad. Apply to ^ . . . M. G. KENNEDY, fe^pg^:::,4jjjhe.Snaiter Book Store. BILLY'S LETTER. O?d Farmer Brown stepped down from the train, With bis broad-brimmed hat and his hickory cane; With his homely face and his honest heart, And a bag of cakes, with an apple tart, Pnt up for a lunch by Mother Brown, Ere he started out for a day in town ; With his wallet stuffed with coin and note And buttoned away 'neath his queer old coat So Farmer Brown reached the city. And he worried his way past the long hack line, And a score of lads with their song of ^Shioel" And he "pulled down his vest." and be "wiped of his chin," And he stopped more than once to reach out his "fio" To some nice-looking chap, who had "met him before," And been waitiDg for months to "meet him some more;" And be thought the young man most "un? commonly square" Who brushed the hay-seed from his iron-gray hair, And asked "where he hitched" in the city. So he came at last to a quiet street, Where a nice young chap be chanced to meet, Who grasped his baud with a hearty shake, Saying "Glad to see you, Uncle Jake;" And, "How i3 the wife and the folks at home?" * And, "Why not write you were going to come?" But Farmer Brown only shook his head, And "My name is John-John Brown," he said, "And I don't know none in the city." "Brown-John Brown?-yes, that's the name, - I thought I knew you, all the same," Tbe stranger said. "My name is Strong, And I used to live where you belong ; But time brings out a iellow so, I s'pose my face you hardly know." "Thar was a Stroog," the farmer said ; "Aa' now ! mind be bed a lad Wat run off to the city. "Qf course you do," said the cice young man ; "And, Uocle John, 'twas a first-rate plan, When you found your wardrobe running down, To take the train and come right to town. I s'pose you brought a fat wallet, too ? You sly old chaps most always, do ; And it takes a pile to go decently dressed." "About a thousand," the farmer confessed, "I brought with me to the city." "And cow you are here, I will show you the town, And give you your pay for comi?g down," Said the nice young chap, a3 ne took the arm Of the green old man from the 'way-back farm. But Billy Malone, tbe errand lad, Had noted the game of the sleek footpad, And knew that the moments were speeding on To Sad both the friend and the wallet gone From Farmer Brown in the city. So be wrote down a warning, strange and qnoer, With pot-hook letters, and nothing clear, On a greasy scrap, with crease and tear, Theo hastened after the unmatched pair. "I've brought yon a letter, sir." he said. Theo whietiing sfood. while the farmer read, How the chap beside him was "only a make," Who would "&ke bis tis, and leare bim broke," With not a friend ia the city. Then a greet light broke over Farmer Brown, As he turned to the chap who would "show him :he town," While his muscles stood out like knotted cords, v And bis fists closed up like ten-pouud gourds ; And he gave him again his toil-worn "fin," And he "pulled down his vest," and be "wiped off bis chin !" And he quietly said, as be knew him some more," "You hain't so Strong as yon was afore, Since you've showed Uncle Jake the city." And Billy Malone, for his letter that day, Received ia the end most fabulous pay ; For "My lad," said the farmer, "I hain't v?t broke, An' you saved me a thousand by one bold stroke ; An' I guess, by yer looks, you baia't well fed. So you'll come with me fer yer board au' bed; I You're aa orphan, you say, an' we've none o* our own, An' bev' sort o' grown tired o' jest livin' alone So we'll both pull oaten the city." -J. Russell Fisher, in Golden Lays. The Cotton Crop. Tbe Financial Chronicle, of Now York, has made its annoa] statement of the cotton crop of tho United States, and contrary to general expectation it gives a result below a total of 7,000. 000 bales. The following arc its Sz ares : Bales. j Receipts at the shipping ports.5.019,733 Add shipments to Tennessee, &c, direct to manufacturers,. 641.408 Total,.....6,651,234 Manufactured South, not included above,. 331 .COO Total crop of 1S32-33,.6,052.234 I Total crop last year, 1331-82.5,435,815 I Total crop io 1880-81,.6,589,329 j The official statement of the cotton j of the United State* for the year end j jog August 31st, 1883. issued by tho I National Cotton Exchange, of New i Orleans, shows a totai crop of 6,949, j 756 bales, including receipts at shipping I ports, 6,009,012; shipments by rail [routes overland to Northern spinners I direct from producers, 641,801. Tho ! report shows that the Southern mii's j consumed 313,393 bales, an increase ; over last season of 26.439 bales. The increase in the total crop, as compared with the previous year, was 1.493,70S bales. The takings of the United States spinners for the year was 2,073, 096 bales, an increase of 108,561. It is not enough that we swallow truth ; we must feed upon it, as insects do oo the leafy till tbe whole heart be colored by ?tts qualities, and shows its food in e*?ry fiber. BILL ARR GSies Seekers and Cince Holders Uneasy lies the head that wears a post office-or most any other office ; especially one that has politcs in it ; more especially one that comes from Washington, where politics is stud? ied as a game of chess, and pawn and every piece has to be moved to pro? tect the king, that is, the president. The player not only catches his adver? saries and sweeps them from the board, but when the king is in danger be will sacrifice his own men who have been fighting faithfully and sweep them away too. It is a wonder to rae that anybody ;vi!l hanker after such a business. Before a mau gets au office he is doing something that makes a living for his family and he quits that and breaks up and loses his j trade or bis custom and begins to live on a salary and feels good for awhile, but suddenly he goes over? board aud has no trade or custom to fall back on. In the meantime his children are growing up, and have got new ways and habits, because pa is iu office and handles more money than he used to, and they must step up a little higher in society, and dress finer, and give more parties, and take a more fashionable pew in the meet? ing-bouse. And so when the fall comes it is a hard one, and the poor I feller don't know what to do. He can run a post office, or collect the revenues, or get after the mooshiners with alacrity, but post offices don't lie around loose, and when a feller ! loses one he can't pick up another ! and keep on in the same line of bu?i- j ness. I The system is all wrong, anyhow, j The president seems to think the of- j fi~es are all his, when the truth is, I they beioug to the people, and thej people ought to fill 'em. But the j people are helpless, and they know it, j and feel it. If every man, woman and child in Atlanta wa3 to sign a pe? tition to have Mr. Conley, or any other man, appointed postmaster, it j wouldent weigh a feather at Wash- j ington. The Atlanta post office was j created for the Atlanta people, but they are not allowed any voice in the matter, and it is just so all over thc South. No wonder we are all Demo? crats. The Republican party does \ nothing to make us anything else. I will bet that there are not ten federal office-holders in the State who are the choice of the people they rn ie over. Not ten who could get elected if it was left ?o a vote. Tiiere is no Democracy in it, and no republican? ism either, according to the true meaning of that word. Oar people have almost forgot that they live iii a republic. We have lived under tyranny so long we have got used to it, and feel just like there was a king at Washington, and every four years we just swap one king for another, and they are all about alike. ? don't see any difference. They have been swapping the devil for the witch ever si rice the -var. None of thorn carr* a baubee ibr us or o vir rights. We hollered awhile for Hayes to get on his blind side, but he dident have any blind side ; and then we hollered for Garfield until he died, and now it turns out that he wo? mixed up with the thieves and plunderers, and now Mr. Arthur comes along with his pol? icy io one hand and a guillotine in the other, and he don't care any more about what we want or what we think than he does about the Comanchee i Indians. Just think of the heads that have been cut off in the bet few years, and think of the quarrels and fusses between the Radical ins and the Radicals outs because there ain^ enough offices for all. Poor fellows. They follow office like a lost man fol? lows a jack-o-lanteru. I never think of ?ern, but what I unconsciously ex? claim, 'Here she p;oes and there s=?e goes.' One time there was an old tramp going around perusing the country and fooling the people out of a living, and one day he got the odor of a good dinner as he neared a farm j house, and so he pretended ?ie was a I clock tinker. The unsuspecting oid j farmer got him to work on his clock j for his dinner. Wei!, he got his di:> j nor first, and then told the old mun to j stand up in front o? the clock and j watch the swing of the pendulum, and j every time it went backwards and j forwards to keep time with his hand j and say : 'Hore she goes and there she goes,' while he (the tramp) would stan.'* back at the door and g*?t the best of it by his ear. and tell whether it was going too fast or too slow. So the old man stood np and begun ?.ii-: little song, 'Hero she goes and there j she goes,' and he kept it rrp ten min j tites, and on looking rou'i he found j the tramp was gone. T.jesc ?'Hice ? seeke/s scheme and plot arv5, toot first ! one born and then another and bob j up serenely like a kildee on a clod of j dirt until they get an oSice, and j about the time they get fixed in it j good, and have tb^ir loot on l:<-j ban? isters, and a pipe in their month, a ! change has to be made ?'-.nd over they j go. Here she goes and there she j g?,es. j Nov.*, when we Democrats get into j power next year, we uro not going to I do that way. We are going to nm j the machin? on merit and iii noss and i to suit tbe people everywhere. We ! are not going to tum a ?00:; atan out ! just because he is a Republican, il" j the community Ive lives in are satis ? fied with him we will let him stay, i Wo have a power of good intentions : right now, we have. We will make j a few more offices and raise nil <!;<; j salai ?es a little, 1 reckon, for our peo j pie are mighty poor ; nd powerful i hungry, and have waited along time. ! We are going to give protection to j the manufacturers ann free trade to the ! consumers. We are going to buy i the farmers' corn at a dollar 3 bushel, j and seil it to the poor for twenty-five ! cents. Wc arc going to issue ten j thousand millions o{' greenbacks so thai everybody can have a hat fult, and then we will build railroads to every town and (?pen all the creeks and mackadamize all the roads, and give all soldiers and widows and or? phans pensions, and have a general jubilee ail over the country. I'm j going to set Cote np in a photon be- j I hillel a spankiog team just to ?ee him j i ride and-bob up serenely as it springs j j up and down over the bumps in the ; j road. I Ml bot you couldn't drag j j Cube into a photon Av?th a steam en- ; j gine. Re has got a little old truck ? wagon and won't even put a plank I across the body for fear of getting i seasick, but he just sein down in the j j bed and goos singing along : Old Eve she did an apple pull, j And then she filled her apron full ; I vJld Adam he come boobing around I And spied toe peelings on the ground. Old Noah he did build an ark Of whiteoak splits and hickory bark ; The animals they come in two by two, i The elephant and the kangaroo. And then they come in three by three, 'Possum and coon and bumble-bee ; Old Noah kicked bis old tom-cat | For not diskicerin ara rat. And ?ver and anon he punches his j claybank mule and says, 'Peg along, j Tatum.! \ But a nice little office under the j Slate is a good thing, and generally j lasts a long time, fcc our people are kind and considerate and don't turn folks out for nothing. I wouldn't mind having an office that was a sort of a 'sine que non/ as old Major Dade called it-an office with good, fair pay and not much to do but boss. I always did like to bose. Bossing comes natural to the Anglo-Saxon. They like it. A few years ago the Rome railroad let ont a contract for a thousand cords of wood to two fellers, and they sub-let it in jobs to eight other fellers, and they sub-let ir again to some niggers, and there was ten darkeys doing the work and ten white men bossing tiie job, and all of 'em made some money out of it and were happy,-so that was all right all round, but ? much rather play boss than nigger-hadn't you 1 An incendiary Eat. On Thursday morning a nephew cf Alr3. T. H. Pope, who lives on MeBee Avenue near Maia street, caree down stairs, lie smelt something burning ami notified his aunt, who soon shared h?3 be? lief that a tire was at work in sore part o: the house. Every room on the first Soor was searched thoroughly but not a spar!; could be found. The ex? amination of the rooms on tho second floor was then begun. No discovery was made un1 il the door of ac unoccu? pied roo? was opened. Tho apart? ment was Siled with smoke. In it was stored a quantity cf clothing and bedding belonging to Prof. Wilson of the G. M. I. who had leis it there by Mrs. Pope's permission when bc left to spend his vacation elsewhere. Mrs. Pope had covered the bedding with . a co;:iibrt io prevent injury by ?est. The comfort was taken tare:; of; and tho fire was lound in a servant's peilet, ruade of hay, which was stored with the other household goods. Thc fire was at. once j extinguished. Mrs. Pope could not ascouui for its origin us the house had been securely locked cz nicjhi. and the position of the comfort was exactly as she had left it. The bedding wail unal iv removed and thea the incendiary was discovered in the shape of a der.d rat lying under rhe pallet. A parlor match had no doubt been carelessly left j by the servant in her bed. His rated;;p being hungry had gone to wonk upon the head of the dangerous little stick. Tc ignited and thc rodent was suffocated with smoke before he could get out. This is strong evidence of the fact that disastrous fires, the origin of which is mysterious, ar4 due to thc mischievous quadruped wibi) has a home in ruosS buildings. If the fire in Mrs. Pope's residence had beeu started an hour ear? lier the building would no doubt have been consumed. Too much care can not, therefore, be observed in the use of parlor matches.-Greenville lutes. A Good Investment. The Misses Cater bought a Jersey heifer hist Jnnnary, for which they paid $00 to Mr. Calvin Prassiv at Ono West. Ic April a calf wai born to the cow. Dod she began ie- give mils. Last week, the etdf was sold for ?50 cash to Ur. Marshall, and it is said that i? is wei! worth double the moneys The Misses Cater have been offered 0250 j for the cow. Int they refuse to sell lier I at. any price. She is a fine little cow i of beautiful figure.:;:! easily kept, and ? has famished enough milk to snake a I pound of butter every ?cy since last i April. She is perhaps tho fir.est co? j which has ever been in Abbeville, ex I cept the one owned by Mr. ?John W. ! Sign, who has .tn anima! of the same 1 O y j variety and which is equally as 2ood ir. every way. Everybody abuUt eerc is Jersey-cow-struolc. A drove cf Jersey co^s would not. satisfy the demands of oar people-if they only had the cash with which to buy them. A two-year j obi Jersey wc nhl command more j j money than a fine horse, if the rais- ? j or.s of Jersey CJVAC do not go.* rich, wo j shall bc ranch surprised. Wo really j believe that a farm weil stocked with j these animal* would bc moro proej:'.;'j<; than a country printing oi5cc. --Abbe- j ville Press; and Banner. Put iTThar" When ibo stranaer remarked that ! he was from At kansas, uno of the j passengers suddenly Lunn;'] and j asked : 'Yon are, eh ? Maybe you arc from j 1 Crittenden county V j 'I nm ?Ut.' j i 'Perhaps from James Landing V i I 'That's i'. exactly P i .'j ;: n maybe, you know my brother ; ? IV il?iarn Henry Jones, from Peun Yan, ! ?this Stater ! 'Stranger, pul ir thor V exclaimed j ; the Arkansas traveller, ns Sm extend- 1 : i.i band and led ali over, ''inst ? my buttons if ! didn't help hang your ; brother for catt!? stealing, j?st before j 1 loll h ?.mie - iVali -Street Metes. j ! lie that cover ch:?!)??d any of his j opinions never corrected any of hts mistakes ; and ho who was never wiso enough to find out a ey mistakes in himself will not, i-e charitable enough to excuse whawbe reckons mistakes in others. T?G Bad Boj Gets a Frog. And Puts thc Littl9 -Tamper ic his Pa's Sed. 'Uncle Ezra says pa used to play tricks on everybody,' remarked the bad boy to the grocery man. ;i may be mean, bet I never played jokes on blind people, as pa did when he was a boy. Uncle Ezra says once there was a party of four blind vocalista, all girls, gave an entertainment at thc town whore pa lived, and they stayed at the hotel where pa tended bar. Another thing, I never sold rum, eith- j er, as pa did. Well, before the blind j vocalists went to bed, pa caught a lot i of frogs and put them in the beds j where the girls were to sleep, and J when the poor blind girls got into j bed the frogs hopped ali over them, j and the way they got out was a cai"- ! *tion. It is bad enough to have frogs ? hopping ali over girls that can see, ! but for girls that are depiived of their ; sight,-and don't know what anything ! is, except by the feeling cfit, it looks j to me like a pretty tough joke. I j guess pa is soi ry now for what he did, ! 'cause when Uncle Esra told thc- frog ! story, I brought home a frog and put j it in pa's bed. Pa has be?n afraid of j paralysis for years, and when his leg ; or anything gets asleep, he thinks that is the end of him. Before bed? time I turned the conversation onto paralysis, and told about a mai; about pa's age iiaviug it on the west Bulb, and pa was nervous, and soon .>fter he retired I guess the frog wanted to got acquainted with pa, 7cause pal yelled six kinds of murder, and we ; went into his room. You know how j CO?d a frog is. Well, you'd a dide to : see pa. Ile laid still and said his end j had come, and Uncle Ezra asked him ; if it was the end with a head, or the j feet, and pa told him paralysis had ; marked him for a victim, and he could I Kel that his left leg was becoming ? dead. lie said he could feel the coid, j clammy bend of death walking up \ him, and he wanted ma to pitt a bot? tle of hot waler to his feet. Ma got tiie bottle of hot water and put it to j ' pa's feet, and the cork came out and j ? paid said he was dead sure enough, ; i now, because he was hot in the ex- :{ tremities, and that a coid wave was j ? geing up his leg. Ma asked him | ? where the cold wave was, and he j | told her, anti s?e thought she would j: rub it, but sh? began to yell the same j1 kind of murder pa did, and she said a I < snake had gone up her sleeve. Then : < } thought it was time to stop ihe cir- : ? cns, and i reached up ma's lace I ' sleeve aud caught the frog by the leg ! and pulled it out and told pa I guess- ! ed he had taken my frog to bed with ] him, and I showed it to him, and ; then he said I did ii, and a boy that would do such a ti ing would go to j ? perdition as sure as preachin, ard I ! asked him if he thought a man who \ ?? put fi ogs in the beds with blind girls, ? j when he was a bey, would get to !, heaven, and then he told me to lite. , out, and J lit. i guess pa wiit feel i ? better when Uncle Esra ^oes away, j ; cause he thinks Uncle nzv.i talks too j mr.cb about cid times. Well, her- j cornes our baby wagon, and I guess j pa has done penance long enough, j and I will go and whee! the kit:;, awhile. Say, you call pa in, after I ; take the baby wagon, and tell him ! you don't know how he would get j along without such a nice boy as me, and von can charge it in our next month's b?IK*-Feck's Sun. As Unusual Engineering Feat. ' At one time it was obvious that the j Washington i>?onua:eat f?us?&tion j needed to be strengthened, and Colonel j Casey addressed himself to a task which a good many engineers would have pre? ferred not to undertake. Going down below the foundation already built, he dug under it all around a core of earth ! forty-four feet square, directly under j the center of the foundation and menu- j ment; and tbe 71.500,000 pounds of j weight stood on tai., pillai of earth.'j Thc new excavation was of a 2optt of j thirteen feet, a::d made a cellar under ! the foundation 158 feet square. Ti:i> was ?lk'd with solid masonry, exempt where the core cf earth stood, whbh I was not ren:'-V(. 1. Then tue ' '. les of j the old foundation above wove tore lown : for a considerable distance angler the : wa';? of tbe shaft, rebuilt of bettor ma- j tcrials, and spread out further over thc ! new br.se below, thai d:s-ributio<? thc ! pressure over a much larder area. So instead of a. foundation only 80 feet square, that is, extending only 12^ be- : yond each of thc four faces, there is now a foundation 12G feet square, extending j 25 feet beyond each face and running j to feet deeper. A good roany ehgi- ? ricers ioivc come at di?ercat times to j visit the mon amen t and inspect this in- ! teresring work. One of thom looked . ac it a long time without saying any- ? thing. Thou he remarked quietly ; ! * Veil, that's easy enough to do. hut ? : don't ktit'W one engineer in a thousand ; who would want to try it.' The result ! proves how well the work bas been dfoe. Since the laying, of stone was renewed 29.255 ?ons of stone have boen added to the pile, and thc settlement of j the shaft due to titi;: load has been just i ono and a quarter nico;::-. Thc settle- j ment is so even that the greatest varia- ; tion in the sinking of the four corners j 'a a difference of rour-ouc-huudrctbs ot I ; an inch between the southwest and i northeast, corners. The other ?wo have I j settled exactly alike, even lo the hun- . S dreth part of an inch. Tie fini press- ; ? KO? . -.rnc by the !?. d of foundation ? lis 74.37! tons or ninety-two pyx cen? of the whole pressure that .?'ii! ho placed! upon it -Washington Lc'ter. -.vrj- . o- .<-- ? ?? . Vc;;: on She W-as?jiogron monument \ will oe resumed ; : sat ; ^cloner ?s!. win n ' a? roany mon as ear possibly !-c used ? will be employed the expectation that : the mon um cn t. would reach a height of . feet before the close the season ; ii hardly likely to be realized, as ooo- j rations have been seriously delayed by j ?.he failure to obtain sume frota che original contractors. Under the present contract an average of ?en blocks arc received each day. Nicety stonecutters are nov employed at the monument's base, and as soon as the stoue-sctting : commences there will be nothing to de- ? lay the rapid progress of ?^touctioc. No^rs and Gossip. Twenty-six million dollars have boon fain out for pensions by the Treasury during the past month of August. This sum ls an enormous one e^en in these V. raes of pension prodigality, and of course represents the amounts occurring during several months ; but it is not long agc that twenty-six millions would have nearly covered a years pension expenditures. At the opening of the court at Cam? den on Tuesday, Judge Aldrich re? marked to the Grand Jnry that he sym? pathized with them upon the present apparent condition of Kershaw County. Before the war it stood second to no county in tho State for its wealth and its generous hospitality ; but on Monday the clerk o? thc board of coun? ty comuiissioncrs sect nu order for a few pounds of ice for the court-room and it was refa?ed. A correspondent: drseribes thc follow? ing sire.*, scene in Brazil : 'I noticed a ?ray young dandy driving a smart Eng? lish dog cart while his negro servant ?at beside him smoking a cigar. As? tonished st such a -sight, ? turned to sue of inc bystanders ior an explana? tion, wher: I- was still more astonish'd Lo I-ear thai the negro, whom I had Lu'u..'i3 for the servant, '.vas the master, md tba? the white dandy was. a cockney Iriver imported ?rom London expressly "o mars: the wealth, fashion and impor? tance of his sahie master.? Among the curious lawsuits arising from the Casamicciola earthquake is thc Allowing: A couple of married people, ls. and F. B. perished under the ruin. They were worth about ten mil? lion fracas Now the relatives of G. : 3. say that he died after his wife, F. !>. The relatives of the wife say that die died airer her husband G. B. rJfP.ce the fight. The exhumation of ?he bodies has been ordered, and a .taff of doators wii'i tnake a necroseopi ;al examination in order to determine .7ho died the first. The Boston Advertiser (Rep.) says: 'A solid South is hud, but a South for 5;dc in open market is worse. Winy do act these men (speaking of Maheno ? Co.) join the Republicans. This whole Lousiness smacks of the spoils system in its worse estate. These plotters will r.r.?vevcr, find that bidding is dull.' Such talk on such a subject ts refresh? ing indeed in these days of rotten poli? ties, and coming from a Republican srgan, a lesson is offered Mahone. Cash ..s Co., free of charge, that it might be w*j!i to take homo and profit thereby. The General Superintendent of the Western Union Telegraph Company bas issued an order fixing uinc hours as x day's work a ad ?even and half as a eight's work, allowing extra pay for Sunday work and increasing the pay of ru?ny operators ?5 and ?10 a month. This is practically all the strikers asked for, except the piardog of tornen on an [..quality with the men, a i'd causes great surprise and delight amo?:g the open? ers. The conc-ssi^ns are believed to have been forced by the alarming un? animity of public sentiment in favor of building ap rival lines and the govern? ment control of the business. 3arnwell People : A gentleman who has just, returned from a ride though that .-ec?inn of Lexington county in which auti-stock law men burned barns and committed ether violations of the ?aw tells us that a perfect ?tate of terror prevails. Zdaoy mea have left their homes through fear of arrant, fields are deserted and women and children sus? pect every stranger to be a Sherill ia disguise. In oce instance a merchaut was arrested and carried before a Trial Justice, for examination because he had ?old goods ro some of the originators of the trouble and was supposed io be in sympathy with them. A Georgian, speaking of the charac? teristics of General Robert Toombs, s ii j s. regarding thc State constitutional convention cf IS?7, 'that he refused to bc reconstructed, arid therefore, had j nu yoi-- e in thc convention ; but he was j on hand m ;nip*:'.n. Kg thc delegates and his measure west through, and ir. was a good one.1 T' '.- true that he refused :o he reconstructed and that i.c never was hm-- .:, but for all th st he was a delegate that c- n venslee; participated in its-deliberations, ind had more iu Sueuse where::; than any ether member. That be was a delegate hy election in Ii If- ovfu county and senatoii&t district shows how useless amendments to the Fed.-ral constitution are practically in under-'iihing to prevent one from hold? ing a State oince.-JkUttm?r* Day. A tabulated statement of the receipts and expenses ot the average cost et \ edle.: ?ng one dollar of revenue in ail of the custom districts of the United States for tue fiscal year ending o uno 30th, 1SS3, lias been pre? pared at thu treasury department. Prom this statement it appears that ?2x6,780,869 was collected at a con of ?0.44:!, 127. The cost of collecting one dollar ranges in the different dis? tricts freon one ceut and eight mills in IS cw York to fifty and eighty-four cents in Atlanta, the average cost in all of thc districts being two emits, nine mills and a fraction, in twenty-nine of the one hundred and thirty districts the cost of collecting one dollar was more than ;i dollar, and in thirty of them it was less than ten ceuts. Report? which have been received from thc North and Northwest inform u.i that killing frosts visited those sec? tion* on ?ho night of the 9rli instant., ami that the crop of corn wits he mate rod; ri laced in consequence, if the .....:..?;:.< ar? trun ii will be a sad d;sis ? rr, for a snort production of ?..o n will cause pr? ?vi sh ? ? ot "ll kind to advance in price. Lt is be hoped that th c ? fae^s are not near so bad as the reports ? indicate," and'ii is very probable that ] thc damage i<< cot so great as re- ! ju rte?, that there will not be enough ra ?? raii ? in thc country for thc needs of thc people and were it not for the greed of specnlators, who arc the most pitiless creatures in the world, there would bc no occasion for any great ad? vance io prices of brcadsiufra. But such reports, whether substantial or not, are their opportunities and they know how to make the best of them and wili do so, no watter who tuny suf? fer iu consequence of ihtir rapacity. TOILET RECIPES. To BEHOVE PUTTEES.-Two ounces of bi-carbonato o? soda, one drachm of glycerine, one ounce of spermaceti oint? ment. FACE WASH.-Two grains of bi-chlo ride of mercury, two, grains of muriate of ammonia, eight ounces of emulsion of almonds. CAKE or THE NAILS.-Brush them carefully at least once a day, according to one's work, poshing baek the flesh from thc na?, thus avoiding hang-nails. Under no circumstances bite them, but trim with either Eoissors or penknife. Do not cut the nails shorter than the fingers, or both wLl soou have a stubby appearance ; and clean them vita a bluet, not sharp, peint FciCTYJcyo rar? SGSATH.-Foul br?ate, is usually caused by un unhealthy state ot the stomach or poor, teeth, si caresed by the first, the physician should be called upon ; if the hitor, apply to the des cist If from neither, take chlorate o? Ihne, seven drachms ; gani arabio, Sve drachms; to be mixed with warm w?ier to a st?f'pesie, roiled and cut into ioTengea. These will arrest decay in the feeth and neutralize acidity of the stomach, and *.'.! also remove all trace o? tobacco fro a: the breath. CABE OF TTTE T?ETE.-They should be brushed caivfu?ij after each meal, and particuiarly "iter supper just before go iag to bad, as what particles as may be lei;-. on the teeth after eating very soon destroy ihc-iu. Brushing the teeth once a day wiJz pure white cast?d soap will L??p them clean and white. Ii yon can? not, remove -he tartar that may accumu? late by the use of a brush, take pow? dered pumice stone, and, with a small stick made into a fine brush at the end, rub the teeth carefully with the pumice stone. Once a month will do for this, because, if practiced too often, it is apt to destroy the enamel. RESTORING THE COLOSO? THE HAIE. When the hair loses color, it may be re? stored by bathing the head in a weak solution cf ammonia-an even teaspoon? ful of carbonate of ammonia to a quart of water-washing the head, with a crash mitten and brushing the hair thoroughly while wet. B?i thing the head in a strong solution of rook sait is said to restore gray hair ir. some cases. Pour boiling water cn rook salt in the proportion of two heaping table-spoonfuls to a quart of water and let it stand befcro using. Ammoni;*. if used too often, makes the hair lighter, and, if in a strong solution, burns and splits tho h*ir. WOMANLY RIODZSTT. Man loves the mysterious. ? cloud? less sky and the full-blown rosa leave him unmoved; but tho violet which hides its blushing beauties behind the bush, and the moon when emerging?rom behind a cloud, are tc him sources of in? spiration and ci pleasure. Modesty is to merit what shude is to a figure in painting-it gives boldness and promi? nence. Nothing adds more to ftniale beauty than modesty. It sheds around the countenrnce a halo of light that is borrowed from virtue. Botanists have given the rosy hue which tinges the cup cf the white rcse the name of " maiden blush." This pure and delicate hue is the only paint Christian virtue should use. It is the richest ornament, A woman withou* mryipsiy is like a faded flower diffusing an unwholesome odor, which the prudent gardener will throw from him. Her destiny is melancholy, for it terminates in shame and repent? ance. Beauty parses like the flowers, which bloom and die in a few hours ; but modesty gives tho female charms which supply the place of tran? sitory freshness of youth. A LEAPING oculist of Boston is report? ed ss saving that he has more patients j from the Law School at Cambridge than from any other source. It must not be snppcsed from ?hi?* thai the young mon injure their eyes by excessive applica? tive, 'Von bad ventilation and gas heated air of th? lecture rooms cause j the trouble TZAIXIIVG CIROCS BLZ&HAXIS, j "How do you train elephants to do their funny business, standing on their head and oil that sort of thing V* a New i Haven reporter queried. "Use the 'mechanic,'" explained TUT. j Hutchinson. " We put a Osnd about j the hind legs cf an elephant when we j want to teach biro to stand on his head, j Then we put a pillow under his Lend, j At the other end of the tackle is another j elephant, and, when the word of com- ! maud is given, off ?oes tho elephant on ? th8 outside of tho ring, and the fellow on the inside is obliged to stand on hie ? head whether he will or no. Tin's is re- j peated until finally the beast knows j what's wanted, and then at tho word ot | command up ho goes on his head. And it's so with all other tricks. It's persis? tency that does it." He explained further that when once j they had received instructions und were ? chained hack ia their places txey would j work at their tricks apparently trying to perfect themselves in them. It is, Mr. Hutchinson says, much in? ?re amusing to see them then than at any other time, j JMPR:.s.<IO\Sm Spirit of the press-How long can th? i ink stand ?- Keokuk Co:ixfi (titian, j Dunno. Kow long o :* che pen holder? : -/7..'/.;'/ '/.v.v il'j.T'k-Kye. Tell as how? long ii:., pencil sharpener, and v.Vll ? answer that. -- (j/rtnh : Republican. They are all right as long n> the weather i remains rtationery-Omaha Daily Bee. ! Tor?V p..ns are enveloped in obscurity. Thai's no wafer to get "if jokes. -De? troit Free. Pres*. We W-lieve you write in : tris opinion.-Cumden Pout. Our penchant run that way.- Yonkers Ga- j zettc. Send ah !-Boston Globe. Gum, j now, it hardly paste to print such para-1 ;.? : ;pbs. Host on GoniTtirrtrial Bulletin. We >h< Jvd Hke to wax why -.=!, if ques? tions are ?<..' agiiinsi tho .u . - Yatecoi titruu&fm GLACIAL AMERICANS. There have been Americans who havq seen the valleys of thia continent filled with glaciers, and even tfee mountain, tops buried in them. The Natural His? tory Society, discussing recent discov? eries in the Trenton gravel beds, seems to have about agreed from the chipped stone implements found at the depth of sixteen feet below the surface that a race of men lived in America at the same age that the most ancient dwellers in Europe laid down their stone shovels and hoes fer future reference. We have been in the habit of considering America tho and of big things, but it has most wonderfully dwindled, peaked and pined since those days when the Delaware river flowed a mighty stream, about fifty feet higher than its present level, ancj mastodons were among the game in the New Jersey forests, where men now hmit deer and such small game. These con? tinued revelations cf the prehistoric population that occupied America be? fore the red Indians, who begin to look: like quite a lot of immigrants, reveal also the gap between those races and that which we call the "aborigines." This gap is a portentous fact in AmeriT can history, and proves that the human race has not so good a chance on thia side of the planet as on theother, where the continuity of the race was never so completely lost. Starting even as the two hemispheres did, in the palseolithio or neoiitldc age, to judge from these dis? coveries of the crude arts of the epoch, the American world "petered ont" com? pletely perhaps at the very time when Egypt and India were in their glory. With ice 1,500 feet thick in the Delaware valley, then containing 6,000 aquare miles (as Rev. Mr. Wright, ot Andover, opines), and other glaciers where other rivers are now drying np, man was still able to exist here as in Europe. But something worse befell the 4 ? Western'* than the "Eastern" world and crushed ont human life here, or at least shook off its grip upon tho earth for ages.-?etp York Herald. LOAFEliS OF MJ.YF LANDS. "There is our friend, the loafer," said the tall, t?iin passenger, as the train halted at a way station; "an old ac? quaintance he is, the loafer who is al? ways at tiio station, and whose collar in never the same color or material as Hs shirt" "And the loafer, yon remember," said) the fat passenger, " who always wears a black frock coat and jean overalls, so that yen can't tell whether he is going to a dance or to work." "And the loafer who always, summer and winter." said the man on the woodr box, " wears a plusfc. cap with ear-flaps, tue string always broken, one ear-iky pulled clear off and lost, and the othej standing idly outat an angle cf 48degrees? koks as though the cap was trying to fis away, but couid'nt because it only worked one side and had stopped on the center.r "And tho loafer," said the sad passen? ger, "who always climbs on the plat? form, of the car, flattens his dingy nose against the glass in the door and stares vacantly in at the passengers until the brakeman runs over him and the train start.*, when he jumps off like a woop ^tove fulling down stairs." "And the loafer," said the fat p -?sen ger, "who is always h^^^^?^ just in suspense ove^r^nenormoas quid) of tobacco, whicbThe only chews at sur? ly intervals, in. a defiant, buMogged. way; the bully of the station platform, who often snarls bat never ? one; never shaves a?<3 seldom washef his lace, and thc last timo his hair wai com bea was when it was cut." "And the beau loafer of the country sta? tion," said the sad passenger, "with curly l;air combed down close to his eyebrows, oiled into reeking glossiness; wears his hat away back on his head, and tangles himself np in a brilliant comforter twen? ty foet long, with tho enos dangling in careless ?race down his back." "Ana ?he loafer with the clumsy boots," said the cross passenger, " who is always dancing a fearful and wonder; fe! clog of two steps, with a natural rrraee that nearly scares the engineer oil &e track." "And the shabby, genteel loafer," said the bashful passenger, "who wears the suit he was married in, has an apolo? getic iook about bim. alwavs trien to took ay though hs was going somewhere, ?eep* Ids euit buttoned and pinned close np to his threat, and is devoured by a sneaking envy of the loafer with the- curly hair." "And the loafer," said the fat pas? senger, " who always goes in his shirt sleeves, even in the coldest weather; an overshirt, maybe, lilted in at the waist is his only ulster; broad shoul? dered, with narrow hips, straight legs, and close-fitting boote; a well built, athletic fellow, and he knows it, and so d'. : ires to show off his figure. Doesn't like to waste his strength in too nineh work, and likes to exhibit himself when (?ic train comes in." 44 This loater," said the sad passenger, "always looks best in his working clothes. He moves in thom freely anti naturally. The awe-inspiring fit cf a SH suit of store clothes destroys his .Aflno . thA coat is alwavs too narrow for his broad shoulders, and flares out ht tte hips, owing to hts Sunday habit of carrying apples in the pockets thereof to church, or peanuts to the girl he loves. Ilia store pantaloons are always too short, and arc cut perfectly straight at the ankles, as i\ough the legs had been sawed orT with a cross-cut saw. His good clothes always destroy hi? natural good looks, ?nd develop in a thrilling and superlative degree all his naturai and amazing awkwardness, giv? ing him bunches wliere erst he had joints." "And the loafer," said the woman who talks bass, "who has nothing to do but make remarks about other poor pie. "-Berlington Hawk-Rye. " IT is only after long reflection go to an entertainment with any j man." said the maiden to her mm