Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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i WATCHMAN, fCstabUalied April, IS50. kBe Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's, and Truth's." THE TR UK SOUTH HON, Kfetabllahed Jane, 1866. j Aug. 2, 1881.1 :^-iir? i?s> ami Sotttkron Pttllisking spr?sBs s. c. AfiOQcn-io advance. A. ?5*??T IS* KENTS. * ._$1 Oo ton ...??.>.? ?^?...... 50 monies, or longer trill rates. wbfch subserve primate ? for as ad vertisemen ts. tributes of respect viii be Land notices of deaths pub .. ^?r contracts for advertising l?mi Sovikron, br apply at K. G. OSTEEN, ^g?*- Basiness.Uaaager. Mnr, !? ?HDE?SIGHED TS CANVASSING ^Etante? County in the interest of toe t:?aw?d.Company>?*djf j? uke risks *.X$a&r*t SATES 'AS LOW AS ANY S|? -S?BST CLASS COMPANY CAN ??ibesfiad tocali on any one ID any v??4b* Connrr woe* so requested, to i^rjojjal ctu-rey. Office for the ?present cO?te of *inte$??* ?K* Soutkron. m??^??? '?"Ir* ?IV BRAHE. ?ogaJ?S CCST0?SRS AND THE ^^^iaN3,'?SX:SSA?,Y ?inw^'^??)rted stock of ^^^^g^SSt-^rtiT?l*\dailyr ^ ? *?i^??fi?gioisguaranteed as represented. ^Ijb?&a^, glassware, Lamps. ^ A'??^^j?B?toie? of Crockery, Glassware and ?^^^H^^erery description jost opened. ^fe^-?fl? ???y ?od get bargains. .<vr<?|?^^fa?fc of Tin-ware ?3 complete, embrac T^MK^'Uff" t " general use. Special in ^" to purchasers. 7^ Kitch ~$?m~8i&<*9? Tie Earnest Sets consist of ten fcffijffiffifi( ir ii" j' irr ssefni articles, for om ^^Wh^^lirpatt?\6re-proof bottoms, '-y:'?j?.f?QSmoking and Chewing Tobacco, 0M$mL*&&st assortment of Cigars, of va ^Se? bwnda.. The DCKE Or DURHAM ^ciOf?ABETS^sold fey ibe thousand or single ^jid?ag^TA%o? good assortment of Pipes. P^?9^?#^t? Willow Ware. ? M &KroSfer*d in Tabs, Backet?, Baskets, '^mm?^^pS^ Well Buckets, Brooms, 'WWS^t?^^SD SPRINGS. s l?^^^^^:ji*t?^^? Twin Bed Springs," ^^^^?Rp^ftia??ft?e.exceed:ngly low price ^S?s^SJHT-a-?t. Oos ma?reas is sufficient to Iwke a ceajfortable bed where these springs arc.osed. Every set guaranteed to gire satis ^^ft??bo,arnioaey refunded. 'qp^y TO?K Airo BIGS FLOUS ;-, ? ^ Always on Hand. ;?-?I TS? best and cheapest feed for stock. ^Pcefeoe? will do well to call and examine m stock and prices, blooey saved is money ^^^^^ds T?ej'tfrered free of charge to any > K ?ATKSv SoaiTEB, S. C. Oppcs?te J no. Reid 5. Tfy?a have a bad taste io your moa tb, sal towne?s.or yeiiow color of skin, feel despon? dent, stupid, and drowsy, appetite unsteady, Jreqaentbe$^3a?he or dizziness, you are "bil ; loB&?' Norning viii arouse your Liver to act O? at? Strengthen op your s vs tera equal to SIMMONS' HEPATIC COMPOUND - - * ^----.w^ir. y. - on ; MMFBR ARD KIDNEY CURE, lOalOlE?&?ONSTIPAtlON, BBJfOVKS DIZZINESS, DISPELS SICK HEADACHE. V - BANISHES ENVIOUSNESS. \-*ig0KB&U7&* COHPLA INT. OxtSOpines . Malarial Blood Poisoning. ftrjBRQQfcATES THE ?TOM ACH. *' ^*|^TOp?tATr? THE LIVER. m?^miJ^E TBS BOWELS, .?S?-. ISIFGF- and Kidneys Ca*? be kept perfectly healthy io any cli mstejby taking an occasional dose of HEPATIC OOMPOUliD, - 5, - TH? G REA X ?EGET A BLB Liver and Kidney Medicine. Tit Soater bj Dr. A. J. CHINA, lo ??ayesvffle by Dr. F. J. MAYES. " r Ia Bisaopv?HeJby Dr. B. Y. McLEOD. DOWIB A MOISE, Proprietors, Wholesale Drnggists, Cbarkstoo, S. C. Oct 17 _ "WANTED, AN ACTI?E? gltb-tongned Canvassing J\, Agent, to sell my Book of Poems. A .fru?ale preferred. Apply to * VY. G. KENNEDY", ' ? ? At the Sum ter Book Stoie. . Mj 17, 1883._ WOK OTO POE TSE WA&ON . W2S2I THE BELL BINSS ^FEBST ?I?ASS RESTAURANT* KZALS AT ?LL SOTOS. F?ESH FISH, OYSTERS, PR CITS : >; ^ -AND ? TBGETABLES IN, VARIETY, Rectified'Daily and will be Delivered f x <o Customers from Wagon. Prompt attention given to orders. . jgptBBpCK OF FAMILY GROCERIES. Libert/ Street-Nert Door to Rytten ? berg's-Somier, S. C. *Aog 21' * _ta_ SUBSEN.BREWIN6 COMPANY, BREWERY? >. .-AND SOM WATER FACTOR?, CHARLESTON, S. C. GOODS WjfikANTED STRICTLY PURE. Bierfcesb and cool pot op in cases of 3, 4, a?d ? dozen ro shipping order. Also in kegs . of sboot S gM&os at $2.25 and abo a t 4 gal? lo? a*$l. 25 per kejf. ' .-^^'^i Lemon, Sarsaparilla and 4W?g?5^.ssp*raia or assorted, ? dozen in , per ease. Bottles, case and \^?^ot*?V'?!&r*W ?nest anal?y and to tes^a^|J|||^o?tt??. at $1.00 per dozen, ?-fe^^J^lljp.m&owed for bottles if re BMBBWWHBSK^^^^ .'w -..... ^^^^^^^gl^^i^Vx "-fee.;- ^r'.' AKT HUE, COME HOME ! Arthur, dear A. Cur, come home to us now ! The summer is over and gone. Too said you would be in the White House again As soon as hot weather was dune. But cool are the days that October has brought, And frostily cool are the nights, And why should you stay by the far-sound? ing sea When scarce are the bass and the bites? Arthur, dear Arthur, come home ! The whole summer long you have given to sport, And seldom tc duty a day, As if there is naught that your office demands Except to draw promptly your pay. Tour Cabinet, too, bas persistently tried To copy your style and your tone, While many departments were run by the clerks And Brigadier-General Mabone. Arthur, dear Arthur, come home! Perhaps it is true that you prove to the world, As men of your party have said, That tte Government runs just as smoothly and well With no constitutional head; But voters, will say, if yon give up to play The summer and part of the fall, Without being missed by the country you serve,. Then why does it need you at aU ? Arthur, dear Arthur, come home ! A Witness Worth Hearing. Great Consternation at Mathewson's Hotel, Westminster, S, G.-A Life Saved! It is now his Vade Mec?an Hr. H. C. Erminger of the firm of Erminger k Goldsmith, large Candy manufacturers At? lanta Ga., .cheerfully and gratefully gives us the following wonderful facts: I reached Westminster August the 19tb., that night I was seized with a violent attack of Cholera Horbas. Fifteen actions on the bowels occurred in less than four hours. The pains kept on increasing and the act io.is on my bowels were more frequent. The usual remedies, * Paregoric, Jamaica Ginger, &c. were promptly, vigorously and persistently used, but without avail. The symptoms were growing worse and these remedies were more than useless. By a lucky and happy thought Norman's Neutralizing Cordial was procured and one dose, in a few minutes, brought marked relief and four or five more effected a complete cure. Before I began the use of this medicine, I was in the greatest agony, my bowels unchecked, and I was so completely exhausted as scarcely to be able to speak above a whisper. Th* relief was so sudden and so complete, that I could hardly realize it, and I knew no bounds to the expression, of my gratitude for the remedy that saved noe from impending death. I now feel, I am tining a service to my ferioW'-men in letting theni know its merits that they also may have its ?id in time of their danger. The traveling salesman of the Wholesale Grocery firm of A. C. Wyly, Atlanta, Ga., ??r. Mattbewson the Hotel proprietor, and others will cheerful] v testify to the above facts.?"? Truly and gratefnllv yours, H. C. ERMINGER. A little boy and girl were discussing the siars. The little boy said they were worlds filceours-aad have people on them. The little girl, with att-the disdain she cocld muster, said ; 'They are angel's eyes, 'cause I saw ?oem winkt' * I have been osingSwiftVSpecific (S.S. S.) and find it to be the best remedy of the kind that I have ever been able to get, and I have tried them all. JOHN TISCnER, 3d ?. S. Cavalry. A Michigan cyclone swept through a streak of timber, gathered up several cords of wood, carried it six miles across a prairie, and de? posited it on the premises of a poor widow, who was too poor to buy a stick and unable to carry it from the timber. There were at least ten cords deposited within easy reach of ber home. Ho Grease for Him. "When Greece her knees-Greece her knees -Greece her knees," stammered an embar? rassed school-boy, forgetting the next line of his recitation. "There is no occasion to grease anybody's knees," shouted hi3 teach? er. "Go and study your piece." Neither is there occasion to grease your hair. Parker's Hair Balsam is all the dressing you want. Restores the oiiginal gloss and color to gray or faded hair. Does not soil the linen , not ?dye; good for the scalp,- prevents falling out. It is said that for tweoty-five years no sa? loon has been allowed in Edwards county, Illinois, and that during that time the county bas contributed only one criminal to the pen? itentiary. ' Success. "Whatever you do, by all means try and do it well. The best preacher is he who saves the most souls. The best lawyer takes the best care of his client's interest. The best farmer makes the largest amount of bread. The best and most reliable medicines are those that will do just rehu? they are recom mended for. "Dr. Boykin's Worra Killer" will destroy and remove worms.- "Every? body's Pills" will act gently, mildly, and with certainty, on the liver and bowels. Try them Your druggist has, or ought to have them. Jcl9v. The Colombia Yeoman of last Friday says : 'A negro woman from Laurens county, serv? ing out a life sentence for burglary, died at the Penitentiary yesterday morning. She had already served out two years of her sentence.' Didn't she serve ont the whole of her sen? tence ?-Anderson Journal. In the Pilot House. "Ves, sir; this kind of work obliges a man to keep sober as a judge. Of all men in the world, steamboat pilots and railroad en? gineers should let liquor alone. For on their clearness of sight and coolness of head de? pends the safety of life and property." Keeping bis hand on the wheel as he said this, Mr. A. Brockman, of No. 29i Silver street, Chicago, added : "Of course, some of 'em drink ; but the sober ones have the best positions and the best pay. Yes, the work and exposure sometimes tells on us; bul tor my part, I find Parker's Tonic to be all the in vigoran 11 need. I've got a bottle aboard here now ; never go on a trip without it. When Lhaven't any appetite, or ara ia any way out of sorts, it sets rae up in no time. If drinking men would use the Tonic, it would help 'em to break off (No, that isn't a light house; it's a star, low down near the water.) As 1 was saying, The Tonic is new I ife bot? tled up. You see that flag-staff? Well, with j a bottle of Parker's Tonic in the locker I can keep malaria as far from me as that, all the | time. My wife bas used it for three years for ? summer complaints and colic, and as an in- i vigorant wt?on she's tired out from overwork, j She says the Tonic is a daisy. Good-bye! Don't break your neck going below."" This preparation, which has been known as Parker's Ginger Tonic, will hereafter be ad? vertised and sold simply under the name of j Parker's Tonic. As unprincipled dealers are constantly deceiving their customers by sub? stituting inferior articles under the name of ginger, and as ginger is really an unimpor? tant ingredient, we drop the misleading word. There is no change, however, in the pre paration itself, and all bottles remaining in the bands of dealers, wrapped under the name of Parker's Gioger Tonic contain the genuine medicine if the facsimile signature of Hiseox <fc Co. is at the bottom of the outside wrapper, .* ' Is Alum Poisonous ? Dr. Hall's Journal of Health, in a recent is? sue says: "This question has caused a good deal of discussion. Alum is used by many bakers to whiten their bread, enabling them to use an inferior flour. It is more extensively em ployed as a cheap substitute for cream of tartar in the manufacture of baking powders. It bas not been considered immediately dan? gerous; although if continued it induces dyspepsia and obstinate constipation. But the fact that many cases of poisoning have occurred from baking powders which con? tained alum puts the question in a more se? rious aspect, and prudent people will exercise caution in the seL-ction of baking powders, s "Under what conditions, then, does this substance-formerly used only for mechani? cal or medicinal purposes-become poisonous? They are certainly obscure, and at present we can only surmise what they may be. We suspect that the cause exists in the individual poisoned; some peculiarity of the constitution ; producing a morbid change in the secretions of the stomach, with which the alumn com? bines and forms an active poison; or the se? cretion may be healthy but in unusual pro? portions, and that these less or greater pro? portions, in combination with the alum, con? stitute a poison. "For example, two parts of mercury and two parts of chlorine form calomel, which is not poisonous; but change the proportions to one part of mercury and two parts of chlorine and we get corrosive sublimate, which is a deadly poison. "Then, again, we know nothing of Ike causes of constitutional peculiarities. Why is it that one person can eat all kinds of green fruits and vegetables with impunity, while the same course might cost another individ? ual bis life? One person can handle poison ivy aud sumac without being in the least affected; another is poisoned if he approaches within ten feet of them. Out of a family residing in a malarial district, some of the members will suffer half the'year with fever and ague, while the others wi IT enjoy excellent health during the entire year. Foods that are wholesome to some persons are actually poisonous to others. This is especially true of some kinds offish. There is no safety in taking alum into, the stomach, as it is shown to be always in? jurious, and often dangerous. Baking pow? ders properly compounded, and containing pure cream of tartar instead of alum, are more convenient than yeast; and bread and pastry made with them are just as whole? some, and far more palatable. We are in en? tire sympathy with the manufacturers of the Royal Bakiug Powder-who commenced and are vigorously conducting the war against the use of alum in baking powder. "Before committing ourselves, however, we made tests of a sofficientnumber of baking powders to satisfy ourselves that the substi? tution of alum for cream of tartar in their composition has not been over-estimated, while a careful examination of the Royal Baking Powder confirms our belief that Dr. Mott, the Government Chemist, when he singled out and commended this powder for its wholesomeness, did it wholly in tbe in? terest of the public. "We do not hesitate to say that the Royal Baking Powder people deserve the gratitude of the community whom they are endeavoring to protect. "Will not some prominent manufacturer of pure candies follow their example, and ex? pose the secrets of a business that is doing untold mischief to little children?" THE OCCUPATION OF TO-DAY, When our grandmothers were girls they knew little about the pleasures of shopping. The less they bought the more praiseworthy they appeared. A dress must wear for years, and then be "turned" and made up in newer style, to be worth buying at aU ; and the pur? chase of a new silk dress was an epoch in life to be ever remembered. In those days, every girl did her own sewing. In closets and presses were piles on piles of well-made, neatly embroidered under? clothes, which occasioned wild raptures of feeling and were a possession to vaunt among her mates. It was her wont to have long strips of linen always on hand to be covered with pretty sprigs and scallops; over this work she dreamed her maidenly dreams, and pictured her probable future. But that was long be? fore the era of culture. Nowadays young ladies are impelled by a loftier ambition-the poetry of youthful as? piration is expressed in plaques and panel-paintings, in gaudy embroideries, in painting shells *nd stones, in cutting out gigantic cretonne dragons and fasten? ing them on fireplace and window draperies, ia simulating cosily India screens. Each season oilers a new va? riety of fancy-work, more brilliant, more effective, more expensive ; for high art in decoration tonds always toward the costliest and rarest; and thc pretty imi? tations of this year are tawdry and cheap the next. Ti .us no wonder that the young women of to-day are compelled to spend their efforts in search after ar? tistic culture, and find neither time nor inclination for precious old-fashioned economies. Four seasons a year they go shoping; and the shop-made suit and linen replace the simple, home-made garments of days gone bv. PEC UL ? A li, A man who has any decided character? istics is pretty sure to be dubbed "pe? culiar" by his friends ; and, strange to say, that one descriptive word rouses vague doubts as to the moral worth ol the man to whom it is applied. That, ol course, is absurd. No two persons are the same throughout, exnctly correspond? ing in physical, mental and moral feat? ures. Idiosyncrasies will be detected in one, which are not noticeable in the other. Of the thousand millions that in? habit this globe, every one differs from every other one. Consequently to say of a person that he is peculiar is a very commonplaco statement, challenging no controversy. The point is oouceded. How g'xjd a thing it is that we are not molded after the same pattern ! Life would become exceedingly tame, people mingling with the counterpart of them? selves r?t every turn. This would be in? tolerable. The condition would beget an intense longing for the intimate so? ciety of peculiar people. They would be? come very winning, if only they were oi pure and noble character. Variety o? gifts, tastes, employments, differences in ? nationalities, education, accomplish? ments, amusements, aro all charming i peculiarities. The world would be dreary ! without them. To call a man peculiar, i then, is to make no accusation against Tlie Bad Boy on a Farm. He Tells the Grocery Man His Dole? ful Experience. * 'Want to buy any cabbages?' said the bad bop to the grocery man, as be stopped at the door of the grocery, dressed iu a blue wamus, his breech? es tucked in his boots, and an old hat on his head, with a hole that let out his hair through the top. He had got out of a democrat wagon, and was holding the lines hitched to a horse about forty years old, that leaned against the. hitching-post to rest. 'Only a shilling apiece.' *0h, go 'way,'7 said the grocery man. 'I only pay three cents apiece.7 And then he looked at the boy and said : 'Hello, nennery, is that you ? I have missed you all the week, and now you come on to me sudden, dis? guised as a granger. What does all this mean V 'It means that 1 have been the vic? tim of as vile a conspiracy as ever was known since Caesar was stabbed aud Mark Antony orated over his prostrate corpse in the Roman forum to an audience of supes and scene shifters/ and the boy dropped the lines on the sidewalk, and said : "Whoa, gol blame you,7 to the horse that was asleep, wiped his boots on the grass in front of the store aud came in and seated himself on the old half bushel. 'There, this seems like home again.' 'What's the row ? Who has been playing it on you V and the grocery man smelled a sharp trade in cab? bages, as well as other smells pecu? liar to the farm. 'Well, I'll tell you. Lately our folks have been constantly talking of the independent life of the farmer, and how easy it is, and how they would like it if I would learn to be a farmer. They said there was nothing like it, and several of the neighbors joined in and said I had the natural ability lo be one of the most success? ful farmers in the State. They all drew pictures of the fun it was to work on a farm, where you could get your work done and take your fish pole and go off and catch fish, or a gun and go out and kill game, and how you could ride horses, and pitch ha}', and smell the sweet perfume, and go to husking bees and dances, and everything, and they got me all worked up so I wanted to go to work on a farm. Then an old deacon that belongs to our church, who runs a farm about eight miles out of town, he came on the scene and said he wanted a boy, and if I would go out and work for him he would be easy on me because he knew my folks, and we belonged to thc same church. I can see it now. It was all a put up job on me, just like they play three card monte on a lresh stranger. I was toook in. By gosh, I have been out there a week, and here's what lhere is left of me. The only way I got a chance to come to town was to tell the farmer I could sell cabbages to you for a shilling apiece. I knew you sold them for fifteen cents and I thought you would pay a shilling. So the farmer said he would pay me my wages in cabbages at a shilling apiece, and only charge me a dollar for a horse and wagon to bring them in. So you only pay three cents. Here are thirty cabbages, which will come to ninety cents. I pay a dollar for the horse, and when I get back to the farm I owe the farmer ten cents, beside working a week for nothing. Oh, it is all right. I don't kick, but this ends farming for Hen? nery. 1 know when 1 have got enough of an easy life on a farm. I prefer a hard life, breaking stones on the streets, to an easy, dreamy life on a farm.' 'They did play it on you, didn't they,'6aid the grocery man. 'But wasn't the old deacon a good man to work for V 'Good man nothin/ said the boy, as he took up a piece of horse radish and began to grate it on the inside of his rough hand. 'I tell you there's a heap of difference in a deacon in Sun? day school, telling about sowing wheat and tares, and a deacon out on a farm in a hurrying season, when there is hay to get in and wheat to harvest all at the same time. I went out to the farm Sunday evening with the deacon andris wife, and they couldn't talk too much about the nice time we would have, and the fun ; but the deacon changed more than forty degree in five minutes after we got out to the farm. He jumped out of the wagon and pulled off his coat, and let his wife climb out over the wheel, and yelled to the hired girl to bring out the milk pail, and told me to fly around and unharness the horse, and throw down a lot of Lay for all the work animals, and then told me to run down to the pasture and drive up a lot of cows. The pasture was half a mile away, and the cows were scattered around in the woods, and the mosquitoes were thick, and I got ali covered with mud and burrs, and stung with thistles, and when I got the cattle near to the ; house the old deacou yelled to me that I was slower than molasses in the winter, and then I todk a club and tried to hurry the cows, and he yelled to me to stop hurrying, 'cause I would retard the flow of milk. By gosh I was mad. I asked for a mos- j quito bar to put over me next time I ! went after the cows, and tho people all laughed at me, and when I sat j down on the fence to scrape the mud off my Sunday pants thc deacon yell? ed like he docs in the revival, only he said, 'Como, come, procrastina? tion is the thief of time. You get up J and hump yourself and go and feed [ the pigs.' Ile was so blame mean j that I could not help throwing a burr dock bur against the side of the cow | he was milking, and it struck her right hi the flank on the other side from where the deacon was. a Well you'd a dide to see the cow jump np and blat. All four of her feet were off the ground at a time, and I guess most ot them hit the deacon on his Sunday ve6t, and the rest hit the milk pail, and the cow backed against the fence and bellered, and the deacon was all covered with milk and cow hair, and he got up and throwed the three legged stool at the cow and hit her on the horn, and it glanced off and hit me on the pants just as I went over the fence to feed the pigs. I didn't know a deacon could talk so sassy at a cow and come so near swearing without actually saying cuss words. Well, I lugged swill un? til I was homesick to my stomach, and then I had to clean off horses and go to the neighbors about a mile awav to borrow a lot of rakes to use the next day. I was so tired I al? most cried, and then I had to draw two barrels of water with a well buck? et to cleanse for washing the next day, and by that time I wanted to die. It was most 9 o'clock, and I began to think about supper, when the deacon said all they had was bread and milk for supper Sunday night and I rasseled with a tin basin of skim-milk and some old back num? ber bread, and wanted to go to bed, but the deacon wanted to know if I was heathen enough to want to go to bed without evening prayers There was one thing I was less mashed on .than evening prayers about that min? ute, but I had to take a prayer half a hour long on top of that skim-milk, and I guess it curdled the milk, for I hadn't been in bed more than haifa hour before I had the worst celie a boy ever had, and 1 thought I should die all alone up in that garret, or the floor, with nothing to make my last hours pleasant but some rats playing with ears of seed corn on the floor, and mice running through some dry pea pods. But, oh, how different the deacon talked in the evening de? votions from what he did when the cow was galloping on him in the barn yard. Well, I got through the colic and was just getting to sleep when the deacon yelled fur me to get up and hustle down stairs. I thought maybe the house was on fire, 'cause I smelled smoke, and I got into my trousers and came down stairs on a jump, yelling 'fire,' when the deacon grabbed me and told me to set down on my knees, and .beiore I knew it he was into the morning devotions, and then he said 'amen' and jumped up 1 and said for us to fire breakfast into ! us quick and get to work doing the j chores. I looked at the clock and it was just three o'clock in the morn? ing, just the time pa comes home and goes to bed in town, when he is run? ning a political campaign Well, sir, I had to jump from one thing to another from 3 o'clock iu the morning till nine at night, pitching hay, driv? ing reaper, raking and binding, shocking wheat, hoeing corn, and everything, and I never got a kind word. 1 spoiled my clothes and I think another week would make a pirate of me. 'Now, you take these cabbages and give rae ninety cents, and I will go home and borrow ten cents -to make up the dollar, and send my chum back with the horse and wagon and my resignation. I was not cut out for a farmer. Talk about fishing, the only fish I saw v as a salt white fish we had for breakfast one morning, which was salted by Noah, in the ark,' and while the grocery man was unload? ing the cabbages the boy went out to look for his chum, and later the two boys were seen driving off toward the farm with two fish poles sticking out of the hind end of the wagon.-Peck's Sun. Walking Bound the Dome. An unknown man, evidently a stranger aud a very daring one, per? formed a feat one noon recently at Washington which chilled the blood of every one who witnessed it. He ascended to tho dome of the Capitol, and, producing a pair of opera-glasses, mounted the railing surrounding the dizzy-heighted platform hundreds of feet above the ground, and walked deliberately around the narrow foot? ing viewing the city and surrounding country through his glasses. Several persons in the parks below, who wit? nessed the man spider outlined against the sky like a speck almost in the clouds, rushed in and told Cap? tain Allbaugh, of the Capitol police force, and he immediately dispatched an officer to the dome with instruc? tion to bring the foolhardy man clown. The officer, upon reaching the top, commanded the strauger to get down. The command was obeyed by the aerialist, who remarked ?n a cool man? ner, 'Why, that's nothing ; I am used to that sort of business.' Ile refused to give his name, and desceuded in company with the officer. The dome top is nearly 400 feet from the ground, and to even look down from behind the railings would make the average mortal quite dizzy.-Pram ?he Louisville Courier-Jour ned. A Father's Hoax. A clergyman, a widower, recently j created quite a sensation in Iiis house hold, which consists of seven grown- j up-daughters. The reverend gentle? man .was absent from horan fora num? ber of days, visiting in an adjoining county. The daughters received a letter from their father, which stated that he had 'married a widow with six sprightly children/ and that he j might bc expected home at a certain time. Thc effect of the news was a great shock to the happy family. The girls,-Jioted for their meekness and amiable temperaments, seemed another set of beings, there was weeping and wailing and tearing of hair, and all manner of naughty things said. The tidy house was neglected ; and when the day of arrival caine the ? house was anything but inviting. At last the Kev. Mr. X came, but he alone. Ile greeted his daughters as ! usual, and as he viewed the neglect? ed apartments there was a merry twinkle in his eye. The daughters were nervous aud evidently anxious. At last the elder mustered courage and asked. 'Where is our- mother V 'In heaven,' 6aid the good man. 'But where is thc widow with six children i whom you married V 'Why, I mar? ried her to aDotber man, my dears.' ! he replied, highly delighted at the success of his little joke. ' The 'Anything to Beat Butler' Campaign. The 'anything to beat Butler" cam? paign in Massachusetts is a miserable affair on its face. If Butler is the choice of the people of Massachusetts and his occupancy of the Governor's seat is so disgruntling to thc 'blue bloods' of the Bay State, do they not see that their issue is not with Butler but with the people of Massachusetts ? The question then is reduced to the prob? lem how the 'blue bloods' aro going to elect a Governor of Massachusetts with? out the votes of the people of Massa? chusetts ? We look on with interest to see how it is going to be done. Can the lordly owners of factories drive their employees like cattle to the polls with votes against Butler put in their bands? The chickens have come home to roost at last, lt was nothing when Cham? berlain and his crew charged the good people of South Carolina with every brutal crime of the decalogue. Then the outrage mill ran ditch water morals with a vengeauce, and these same Re? publican saints, who are now scanda? lized at Governor Butler's having the manhood to search out and hold up to biting condemnation, cruel aud abomi noble abuses perpetrated on the poor in Massachusetts public insiitutious, were the most loud mouthed admirers of Chamberlain, who packed his cold? blooded lies on thc heads of our suffer? ing poor whilst they were being starv? ed out of house and home by the re? forming crew who were shouting at the heels of the man who sat in the Governor's seat of South Carolina. The man whose duty it was to protect and defend the Sta lost no opportu? nity to traduce her to the world and to bring Grant's minions to our State House with fixed bayonets to fix the political situation for him. He goes to the free people of Massachusetts to de? cide the issue between the people and the political saints who have so long held the Bay State and her people in the hollow of their hands. He stands squarely up before that people for their endorsement or condemnation. Ile asks no quarter. Already has he been renominated amidst the shout's of Mas? sachusetts freemen, as thc man who is not afraid to reform abuses in the bosom of Massachusetts, let whose repu? tations suffer that may. It is a grand position if it is trudy taken. This none but the people of Mssachusetts are com? petent to decide. If Butler is merely playing a part, the people of Massachu I setts will surely condemn him. If he , is acting on the square, they should stand by him, they will stand by him ! or Massachusetts must bang her head ? as a whipped slave that dares not cham? pion a good and noble cause *We shall watch this campaign ; the Union will watch it. j If Bulter is sustained then it be? comes the duty of the people of Mas? sachusetts to give him a Legislature which will not balk the needed reform. We shall see. The platform reported endorses the Tewksbury investigation as proper and needful, and denounces the abuses dis? closed and 4,the indifference to human feeling and suffering by subordinates" ? as striking 'the people of Massachusetrs j with grief and indignation.' It reaf? firms the platforms adopted at Ciuciu j nati in 1880 and that iu Boston last year. It goes on to say : Thc Democratic party of Massachu? setts believes in the supremacy of the nation aud the integrity of the State: in equal rights as regards the sexes ; io^a thorough reform of the civil ser? vice ; in a tariff limited in amount to a : sum necessary and for revenue ; in the abolition of excessive war faxes; and in a still further reduction of extravagant State expenditure. It opposes all sumptuary laws which infringe the per? sonal liberty, and favors the introduc? tion of Boards of Arbitration fc the purpose of reconciling differences be? tween employers and the employed, in order that a better understanding may exist between capital aud labor.-Co? lumbia Reg ister. A Girl's Story. I never shall never forgot a lesson learned by my sister and myself iu early girlhood. We were the elder of a large family, aud as father I was not rich mother did the work for ali of us. She was one of those domestic burden-bearers who never cousidcr their burJen so heavy that they can add another trifle ; and like many another good and uuseifish, but unwise mother, ?ho allowed us our own way, an-i spoiled us through in? dulgence ; and as we had often heard her say she would rather do a thing herself than to take the trouble to teach us how, we felt as if we were actually conferring a favor upon her by letting things alone. To be sure we could sweep, dust, wash dishes and make beds, and were familiar with some of thc minor details of cookery, but there our knowledge ended; so thai when, ou one never-to-be-forgotteu, occasion, mother was called from home for two j or three days, we found ourselves facing a mountain of difficulties. Oh, that weary, weary, weary day ! But only thc beginning of many similar I ones that, followed it. How we longed for mother's skillful hands to straighten out the tangled threads our awkward fingers had managed to produce 1 There was something to bc done from early morn until late at night; so that no sooner than did we faucy ourselves free for half au hour than some duty i undone would stare us in the face, for the children would come in "starving" for dinner, and must be attended to at | oueo. But our cup ran over whet? wc dis- j covered the heaped-up mending basket ; I and then for the twentieth time siuce j her departure, we wondered how our patient mother hud managed it all. 'She has almost worked herself to j death,'said my sister; 'that is how ? she managed it. She is au intellectual woman, with a mind capable of rare j devolopmcnt. But how much time do | you suppose she has for reading and j reflection beyond the wants and necesi- j ties of her large family? And don't, you know how often we have excused ourselves from reading aloud to her, let? ting her sit digging away into ibis very basket, solitary and alone through the I long evening hours? I fairly hate my- ! self when I think of it. But that is j all over now ; henceforth wc will be what, wc should always have been-her j loving helper-and she shall do no more I hard work unaided.' And I am glad to say that she never j has. - mu? i ? -i The New York Morgue There is a small wooden building at the foot of Twenty-sixth street, East river. It is one of the most un? pretentious little structures in tho city. One would never suspect it of i being what it is-that must terrible | and gastly of places-the morgue of a ? great city. In that part of the build ing which is the morgue proper, the | unknown dead are laid out, in an al? most nude condition, on marble slabs, on which jets of water constantly play. The bodies are kept on exhibition for purposes of identification for three davs. When I visited the- morgue there were three bodies there-repul? sive, bloated, dreadful objects. I asked the man in chat ge if he could tell me what seemed in most cases to be the cause of the death of those brought there. 'Suicide.' 'But what form of suicide is most common V 'The river,' 'You think a majority prefer drown? ing V 'Yes most of thc sf'ffs we get come from the river.' 'What other forms of suicide are usual V 'Weil pistol shots come next and hangers count third. I would say that hangers and morpliiues are about a tie.' 'Many identified V 'Some. The pistol shots are the most respectable sort, have friends to huut them up. A goo l many of them are claimed. Thc hangers, too, are identified sometimes, but the tiver stiffs-them as suicides-seldom is. They are mostly hard cases tramps, or friendless girls. The river, you see, is the cheapest and easest way out.' 'Does there seem to be any differ? ence between the modes of suicide chosen by men and women?' 'Oh,"yes ; women mostly lake the river or poison. Men mostly the pis toi or a rope.' Ile was an uncommunicative man, and destitute of all sentiment ; all who came to the morgue were, to him, simply 'stiffs.' In ever}' great city there are annu? ally taken to'the morgue, and carried from its ghastly portals to unmarked graves, hundreds of unfortunate and homeless waifs, who, tired of the struggle against trouble and misfor? tune, prefer the uncertainties of the future to the sad certainties-the hunger, the misery, the wretchedness, or the disgrace-of the present. Texas Siftings. - -ine.- -^Baw How to Make a Good Coun? try School. Elect none but live, educated men directors. Have good schoolhouses, neatly built and well ventilated, and thoroughly supplied with good furniture aud appa? ratus. Have the school year commence the first Monday in September, aud contin? ue, with the holiday vacation till the first of May following. Kmploy none but trained teachers, or those qualified to lead, rather than mis? lead thc young. Ketain thc same teacher throughout thc school year. Pay said teacher enough to enable him to live and have a little money to spend for fitting* himself for higher use? fulness iu his calling. Don't employ a teacher because bc underbids some one else, for in ninety nine out of a hundred case4 he is worth? less. Cheap teachers, are like cheap jewelry, arc not made of good material. Avoid them. Let parents, officials and others visit thc schools frequently, uot to find fault, but to cucouragc bulli teacher aud pupil. Don't be afraid that your schools are costing too much. Your childreu, parents, aro more valuable thai? your horses and cattle, the theory of many school patrons to the eoutrary notwithstanding.- Good Templar. Tons of Gold. One of thc richest strikes known in the mining history of California was made three miles south of this place on Saturday. A pocket of quartz of almost uupandleled richness was found less than one hundred feet from the surface, iu which was contained from ?75,000 to ?100,000. and about two tons iu quantify. .Much of this might be termed chunks of gold instead of gold-bearing quartz. Some of these pieces of solid gold were about as heavy j as a man could lift from the ground, j The largest piece was an oval, sixtecu ? by twenty-two inches and six or seven j inches thick. This gold is almost ? black and of thc sa?r.c character as thc former rich strikes found in the same mine. We have no doubt that this is the richest lind of gold ever knowu in the United iStates at one time. During Friday a ton of this gold freighted j metal was taken out. It is not so rich j as the gold streak taken out some time j ago, but there is vastly more of it. i The value of this bonanza is estinfited j at from $50,000 'to ?100,000 Thc ledge is live feet wide, and thc whole face of it was held together, as it were, by spikes of solid gold. Altogether j three thousand pounds have been ? take?) from this bunch of ore, and j tbe end is not yet. The very rich ! streak from which this mass of free j gold has been taken ranges from au i in eli or so up to twenty inches in width. J The previous seam varied from th 3 { thickness of a knife blade to three inches.-Amador Dispatch. Thc camels introduced into Arizona j some sixteen years ago have so increased in numbers as to become troublesome, and it is proposed to hunt them. SOM HARD WESTERS. The winter of 18-12-3 hos passed inte the records of Northern Illinois as ** the hard winter." The early settlers of the nor diem part of tho State remember ita early snow-fall, commencing Nov. 7 and continuing on the 10th; the pinching cold of the long winter, the scarcity of food for stock, and the loss of iv: any cat? tle from hanger and cold, owing to that scarcity and the lack of barns and sheds for a protection. At that time the country was new, the settlements were sparse, and it was often miles across the dreary stretch of snowy prairies between settlements. The houses of the settlers were many of them poor and open, without a brush, tree or shrub to protect them from the driving winds and penetrating snows. Hence that winter has passed into history, and is now referred to as " the hard winter." During that winter the snow averaged thirty indies deep. It fell before the ground froze np, and lay in such a body thaf the ground did not freeze at ail ex? cept in occasional places. During the snowfall it piled into great drifts, so that it was even with the tops of the rail fences. It then soon froze so hard that it bore cattle, horses and men on its sur? face. During that winter great slaughter was made among the deer ; men hunted them with dogs, and the snow being so hard that it bore these up, while the deer would break through in trying to run, they feel an easy prey, and were slaught? ered without sense or mercy. In fact, the forests were cleared of them. The next severe winter was that of 1848-U The first snow-fall for that winter was, we believe,. Nov. 9. It fell before the ground froze up, and lay in such a heavy coat that, like the ground froze only in spots. The snow-fall that winter averaged two feet, and furnished most excellent sleighing. At that time there were no railroad con. nections with Chicago, and the entire grain crop of the Northwest (which was then principally wheat) had to be taken to the lake by teams. That winter waa a peculiarly favorable one for the farm? ers. Thg roads were constantly lined with teams and sleighs loaded with grain for Chicago or lumber for the in? terior. It was no unusual sight to seo 100 or 150 of these loaded teams in ona line. Duiingthat winter the writer of this article made eight trips to Chicago, one to Milwaukee, and one to Littlefoct (now Waukegan), ten in all, each trip being made with a sleigh. It was the almost universal custom in the " coun? try taverns " to keep a big black bottle sitting on a convenient shelf behind the little counter or desk in the corner, which would be set out with a rumbler as each man paid his bill, with a " Will you have a smack before starring ?" Very few, however, partook;, and it waa a rare thing to see any one of that im? mense throng of farmers and teamsters under the influence of liquor. Whisky at that time was only worth about 25 cents a gallon, about the same price aa kerosene aud benzine now. Tho winter of 1880-1 was a much colder and harder one than either of the two above mentioned. The cold weath? er set in as early as either of the others, but before the snowfall the ground, in places not protected by straw or stubble, was frozen to the depth of ?ve feet. Rockford (ill.) Journal. As A young man, late at night, wa? sitting by his window for a chance to hurl a missile at the cats that worried him, a neighbor passing by said to him, "I suppose you have an object in view in sitting up there so late." "Tes," waa the reply, as he held up a bootjack; "and I also have an object in hand ready for the object in view." THE owner of a toy watch called la Faith, because it was without works, and therefore dead. Br looking into physical cases oufi ??linds are opened and enlarged. A NEW ENGLAND PIE. To make this excellent breakfast dish, proceed as follows: Take a sufficiency of water and a sufficiency ot flour, and soustruct a bullet-proof dough. Work this into tho form of a disk, with the edges turned up some tliree-fourtha of an inch. Toughen and kiln-dry it a couple of days in a mild but unvarying temperature. Construct a cover for this redoubt in the same way and of the same material. Fill with stewed driedi apples; aggravate with cloves, lemon peel and slabs of citron; add two por? tions of New Orleans sugar; thou solder on the lid and set in a safe place till it petrifies. Serve cold at breakfast and invite your enemy.-Mark Twain. A NEW WRINKLE ZN DENTISTRY. It often happens that a front tooth ia broken off even with the gum, while tho rest of tho teeth remain good. This ro* =t may be removed and its place sup? plied with a sound healthy tooth, pre? viously removed for that purpose, and marie to grow and |>erforni all the func? tions of a natural tooth. A number cf operations of this kind have been suc? cessfully performed by Dr. C. B. Stod? dard, of Austin, Texas. As a rule the teeth are selected from the mouths of healthy negroes, and the price paid from ?3 to ?10. .Soine of the most fastidious ladies in Texas have had this operation performed and are justly proud of tho fact._ DISCONTENT is the want of self-reli? ance; it is the mhxaiitviif sill*. - A PHYSTV. IAN writing ,a communication to the Medical a)id Surgical Reporter on the relation of sex to the consump? tion of the lungs gives figures which show that in the United States there aro about twice as many deaths from con? sumption among females between the ages of 15 ard 29 as there are among males of thc same age. He thinks the mode of life is the main cause of it, that young women have less ouixloor exer? cise, fresh air, sunlight, and the activity of mind and body which is td uocoasary to health. _.