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Business Manager.
DEAR:
MOW THE SEASON
PEOPLE WANT TO BUY
SON U3HTNING SEWER
in preference ?o any other
SEWING 2CAOSI2TB ?
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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
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>? 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