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WATCBMAN, Kstabtlrtied April, 1850. Aug. 2, 1881.1 .Be Just aud Fear not-Let all the Ends tho? Alms't at. be thy Country's thy God's, and Truth s. SUMTER, S. Q., TUESDAY, JANUARY 2#- 1884. TBK TRUE SOCTHKON, Established June, 1866. Sew Seiies-Vol. III. No. 26. -^?Y TBS traicionan and JSoiUkreu Publishing ?^^m^mmER. s. e. V 'TERMS ? W^W? B?HSFS per aimum-io advance. ^ x^^?M JIB TIS S XX NTS. :r?^S^^9iemi&nt insertion-."$1 00 ' &?c$a?baequent insertion.. 50 Owjttracts for three months, or longer will -b^^SJWfcde at ?ted aced rates. :--:'^^|^ru|ij?iiiii ilium liii'i subserve private - Iflstaret? trill becharged for as advertisements. <)b?ta*ries ind7 tributes ot ?respect will be '.' ?kaffailbr M M?llMI?( <Viii? i l nnrl notices of deaths nab or contracts for advertising ISSBSStf "n Southron, or aoply at zl^Smm't^ w'^mi o. COSTEEN, j^^"' .. .Business Manager. . ^^^^^^^^?^^^btr a?um^L ph^osu^ .y..^gmfas^Y DEPARTM ENT. ?^"l&^bo^ of the Currency, HHX&BSBJSAS, bj satisfactory evidence pre TPm- aetitsjG'te the undersigned, it has been made to appear thxt ?-THE NATIONAL &?-8?lUg--flF SUMTER-."--in the town of Sum V; ;jfsjg?& ? QjJ? ^? T <^u m ter, an d State of j complied wi'h all the ^ -O#on of the Revised Statutes of the t^S??e? Stages, required to be complied with V-^?o?an association simll. be authorized to Zjjcxmmevc* tte business of Banking : tt XOW THEREFORE 1, John S. Ung westby, deputy Comptroller of the Currency, ~<?? hereby certify that "The National Bank of -&tm*ti" in the Town of Sumter, in the COOOtyof S??ter, una Stateof Soul h ?aro lina, ia sw?boriied to commence the business - ?f Banking as provided io Section Fifty-one ,%o?4red ao*?x*y-ninf of the Revised Stat .%*a^ thaxted Sixtes. S pg?5 IF TKSTftf?KY WHEREOF witness my fenland Se*l of office this 26th day of No <remberr 1883. f<->*v J. S. 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C?oib Cases for eaeh yotmne, suitable for will ba seat by mail, postpaid, on re . by Post-Office or |>raft, to avoid cbaaao of loss, ara nos to eopr this ndrertiso - A? carossa ooior of Btmr ?s> t?tom UAJLfRR ? BROTH ?RS, MY MIBBOB'S TALE. I'm looking at myself to-night, Upon my mirror's face. It is-A foolish thing to do, And yet I may find grace, If, io my inmost heart, I know I search for faults this glass may show. 'Tis not a lovely face I see, Not winning and not young ; It snows the lines and traces of A heart by anguish wrung. A lace o'er which the storm-cloud past, To leave it calm and clear at last. The rosy bloom of early youth, That once bad rested there, Has gone ; a few gray threads shine in The darkness of my bair. This tells me I hare reached the stage Where youth blende with maturer age. I wonder as ? gaze at it, Noting each feature there, How some, in loving-tenderness, Have dreamed to call it fair. Yet love can find a charm and grace To beautify the plainest face. Image upon the truthful glass . Showing myself so ctearl I* Tell me-have low'ring clouds of doubt ; Left deathless traces lhere? : Are lines of cold and cynic pride Seen on the face I stand beside ? Haye lightning blasts of care aud woe Blackened the heart within, And pictured in the dark gray eyes . -Glimpses of guilt -and siu ? 0, tell me nay ! For I have tried To cast all wicked thoughts aside. Jiacb have-1 suffered ; but those days, I trust, have purified My son! ; and driven from my heart AU foolish thoughts of pride. Closely f scan my mirrored face To find upon it saving grace. Icare not for the partial lack Of beauty that enthralls, If on my face the glowing light Of truth and culture falls , J?in ray eyes the sp.arkdivine 1 ?f'l?v? fot all mauicind will shine. ^ will not ask for radiant orbs, : :?r^f?n J?J own Tsee 'X The fiashofirue intelligence, Of wit and'repafct??. I only wish for eyes tharlow With pity for another's woev I'll pass in calm indifference ^ ^ O'er crimson flash and hue, If health but glows upon my cheeks, If curves of lips are true, And shadow fortb a soul too pure To speak false words framed to allure. And thus I'll scan my mirrored face Each day ; and hope to find. . Upon the tell-tale glass to see " ? meek and gentle mind ; If, like a veil of priceless lace, There falls sweet peace upon my face. Lisette C. Btmhcim, m Demor?is Monthly. South Carolina Hoad Law. The following ie a complete synop? sis of the road law of this State show? ing the duties of overseers of public highways, their discretionary powers in repairing roads, and a list of exemp? tions from road duty. Each towLship constitutes a highway district. The county commissioners shall an? imally appoint . a superintendent of highways for each highway district for which he is appointed and liable to road duty, but exempt therefrom by reason of his office, ric shall have superinten? dence of highways in his district, under the direction of the county commission? ers, to whom he shall make a report once in three months of the condition of the roads in his district. Each superintendent shall divide the highways in his district into suitable sections of not less than two, nor more than five miles and appoint overseers for each of said sections. He shall like? wise divide all porsotis liable to road duty in his district iuto two compan? ies or 8qwfcds and assign a squad to each .overseer, as far as practicable, assign? ing the road hands to the nearest road, and shall require the overseer to cali out the hands to work the roads, repair aud build bridges of same whenever he may deem it necessary, after twelve hours notice aud shall require each baud to bring with bim a hoe, axe, mattock or other tool, lie shall de? termine the number of days for each wotting and thc tool to be brought, provided not more than twelve days work shall be required of any hand iu a year. For refasiog or neglecting to carry out any work required by the county commissioners, or any of them, the superintendent of highways shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, aud upon conviction, before a Trial Justice shall he fined not less than ?10 nor more than $50. Overseers for neglect? ing to call out bands and work roads, when required by the superintendent, upon conviction in trial justice court, shall be fined not less than ?5, nor more than $20. Superintendents shall jointly divide a highway rn^ning along thc line of two highway districts, and shall assign hands from their respective districts to work the same. Overseers shall require their hands to do such work on bridges, as will preserve them and keep them in order, when it can bc conveniently done. If bridges need such repairs as should be given out under contract, su? perintendents shall report thc same to the county commissioners without de? lay. When any highway shall become ob? structed by storms, or otherwise, thc overseer shall summou a sufficient num? ber of hands to open and repair such highway. Any overseer failing to call out hands, for the space of a day, after application made by any citizen, shall unless he has sufficient excuse therefor, forfeit $15, to be collected in an act iou in thc name of the county commission? ers. Any person liable to work on i highways and neglecting to torn out, on such extraordinary occasions and as- ! sist in opening and preparing such highways, after being summoned, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined ?3 per j day. If any person shall perform more \ flays labor than is required by law, he shall be paid $1 per day for the overplus. j. All able bodied malo persons, be? tween tbe ages of sixteen and fifty years, webbie (Q road doty, except members of the State and county boards of exam? iners, school trustees, members of boards of assessors, teachers aud stu? dents at colleges, ministers of the gos? pel, millers engaged in grist or merch? ant mills, where they are kept open six days iu thc week, aud thc warner for five days. The overseer shall make a list for the warner, requiring him to give notice to each person of the kind of tools to be used, which notice shall be given twelve hours before the time fixed in the notice aud also state the hoar and place of working. If any person, after receiving such notice shall neglect to appear or refuse to work according to the direction of the overseer, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor an J upon conviction before a trial justice, shall be fined not less than ?5, nor more than $10, or be imprisoned in the couuty jail for not less than five days, nor more than twenty days. Any person notified to work can pay the county treasurer $1 per day for the time he is required to work, which shall be received in lieu thereof. Overseers shall allow two days labor for a man working one day and furnishing a horse and plow, or three days labor for any person working one day and furnishing a wagon and two horses or mules or oxen. Overseers have power to cut down and use timber, or use any wood stone i or earth, in or near the highway, bridge or causeway to be repaired, necessary.; foirrt that purpose, but the owner shall be entitled to compensation therefor if demanded. But no over? seer shall authorize the cutting down of j timber trees reserved by the owner, or planted for shade or ornament, either in the fields, around the spring, or j about the dwelling. house or ap? partenances, thc cuttiug of rail timber when other timber can bc procured, or the taking of stone or earth from en? closed grounds without the owner's con sent.'' What Oar Editors Say. ." " 'Kershaw Gazette. Already the country press hus under? taken the ardous ditty of making nomi? nations for thc next Governor of South Carolina. So far the uamcs" of Hon. Giles J. Patterson, of Chester, and Col. W. H. Perry, of Greenville, have beeu proposed, and we may expect a flood of "ftojni nation s in the near bye-and-byc. Wlu?wye think it is yet too early for such talk/'vet as the ball has been opened, we wWdi^?tf^the name of the present incumbent-IIu^ITl?rrS?homp son, who has made a mostcxcellcnN*&-~ cer. The people who. two years ago, called Governor Thompson to the high office which he now fills so creditably, will again elect him to be their Governor for another term. The Newspaper at Home. Palmetto Yeoman. With each day that passes the news? paper grows more and more an educator, and the extent to which it has become so, eau hardly be realized. A few years ago it was considered a luxury, but there are few homes now that are so poor as not to count a newspaper among its belongings. In fact, in many houses it is the principal read? ing. A business mau, weary with care, will hesitate about beginning a book. It seems a herculean task to go through with all these pages, attract? ive though they may appear, but he will take up his paper, cull such arti? cles as may strike his faucy, and theu lay it down at any moment without hesitation. Tn the intervals of her housekeeping cares the wife catches it up and reads an article here aud there to learn what, is going on in the great outside world. The boy and girl want each day's news, and so the daily or weekly journal goes the round of the family while the book rests upon its shelf. Do Bar-rooms Pay? Clarendon Enterprise. Of course they do. It looks business? like to sec a large number of mon congre? gated around some open door, loafing and idling away their lime, while their farms aud other places of business need their attention. Aud then it looks so generous for one to iuv?te a number of friends to drink with him and to spend a considerable sum treating, while per? haps his family may be suffering for the actual necessaries of life. His boon companions care not for this. If he goes to a bare home, and maltreats a loving wife whose heart is already nearly broken, bis bar-room friends are not expected to know oreare about that. If the poor unfortunate creature who cannot control his thirst should spend his last cent for the vile, miserable, medicated, poisonous stuff gold as whis? key, it is nobody's business, and then it helps to build up the town. Even if it should cause a number of young gen? tlemen to congregate iu proximity to a Good Templar's Lodge while it is in session, aud by acting like a band of Utes, to disturb these ladies and gen? tlemen so as to make it ai m os I. impossi? ble for them to hold their meeting, what does it matter t It pays thc town, aud makes things lively. What if thc streets should bc filled with roughs and rowdies, and a number of them be placed iu the Guard-house, that i.s all right. The town derives a revenue from it. It matters not if thousands of dollars are spent in buying that which is of actually nu value, and from which no bcucfit is derived, it is still all right, for the towu is paid. Yes, bar-rooms pay. but somehow we don't fancy the dividend. Putrescent Memory. New Era (or gan of thc colored people of Charles? ton.) It is a great blessing to the negro that the Republican party has not the reins of government. Thc contrast be? tween its conduct and what now obtains is as Hyperion to Satyr. Thc debt is fastened on us ; the infamous political measures and suffrage villanies it intro? duced, were a fruitful spring of water, bitter as those of Marah to our people. It is too long and too sickening a story to go over, but suffice it to say, that there are better race relations uow than formerly ; better educational facilities ; more genuine cosmopolitanism, and more hope for Caucasian and Negro, if they will only bear and forbear. We don;t want our cotemporary to confound Republicanism with the Republican party. The latter is a monstrous fraud, that used our people,'as barriers for bul? lets aud expedients, aud theu, unpre? pared left us to the mercy of a fearful situation. But we are working out of the darkness, and we feel the same kiud God that led an ancient people aright, will so lead us. We have plenty of good and true friends South and North, who will cling to us, if we conduct our? selves as wc should. We are lacking in much ; have much to learn, and are mere babes in the grave experiences of life. By and by we shall have wisdom, for experience is wisdom. Remember Job's triumph ! Greenville News. That remarkable monstrosity a femi? nine infidel has at last appeared ou the lecture platform. She is Miss Helen H. Gardener, and lectured in New York last week, being introduced by Robert G. Ingersoll. She said : *A woman should spurn the Bible and endeavor to destroy its influence, and I mcau to do all I can in such a direc? tion. Jehovah stands condemued be? fore the bar of every noble soul. *The Bible might be kept in one's library a curious old literary work, but it should be kept on the top shelf. Don't let the children get at it/ Miss Gardner quoted numerous pas? sages from the Bible, which, she said, showed the little estimation in which women were held, and its geucral ini? quity. She said that it was a disgrace that women did not cast it from them, and refuse to allow their children to bc taught from it. 'I want to do what 1 can.' she said. 4to show women that their mercury of self respect must fall several degrees when they enter the church doors ' For Ingersoll who insults the Al? mighty for an admission fee of fifty-cents all around, we can feel a most supreme contempt; for the unhappy women who sell their souls for money we can feel loathing and pity; but with"what un? utterable horror must we look upon a woman who displays her own hideous moral deformities for hire and earns a living by blaspheming the Saviour whose teachings lifted women from the posi? tion of a chattel to regal place, aud have sanctified and enuobled woman? hood We are glad the South did not pro? duce Miss Gardener. The society that did evolve her must be very curiously aud very horribly diseased. - -i.-i i - J_ The Prize Watermelon. ??J'his is ? dialogue between a Consti tutfofrTepcrter and a DeKalb county, Georgia, farm^vS-^--... .'That's alight uicc check 2'" lt. was a hale, contented mau, - with a big strong frame and a frank smile, that tendered the check. Thc check itself was for seventy dollars signed by W. Altee Burpee & Co., the great Philadelphia seedsmen, and payable to J. G. Miller. ?You are Mr. Miller V 'Yes, and that check is the sign of a victory for Dekalbcounty on watermelons over the world. Burpee & Co., offered j five prizes for the largest melons grown j from their seed. There were entries j from all sections, running into the thousands. I took the first prize, thc third prize and the fifth prize making seventy dollars in all. * 'What did your prize melons weigh V 'The biggest weighed one hundred and eleven pounds. The third prizer weighed ninety-seven and the fifth prizer eighty-nine pounds. I planted only twenty hills of melons. I sold thirty dollars' worth from twenty hills, besides what I ate. I made three crops in one season by cutting the vines and routs so as to make them react. On the third crop my biggest melon was a forty-six pounder. I never made three crops in one seasou before. ? can beat the world on mel?os on my DeKalb laud. I got one huudred dollars, in? cluding my seventy dollars in prizes, ou%jy twenty hills.' .WI' ll > fl--1 A Wife's Calculation. Mr. Topnoody lighted his cigar the other evening after supper, just before starting down-town, and Mrs.. Topuody looked at him and said : *?ou smoke good cigars, don't you, Topnody ?' 'I try to, my dear,' 4I heard a lady say to-day her hus? band told her you smoked the fivc-for a-shilling kind.' 'The scoundrel !' said Mr. Topnoody, indignantly. 'I told her I knew you had better taste than that.' 'Of course I have, my dear, and I'm glad you defended me. I smoke only the best, and these cost sixpence apiece wholesale. ' . 'How many do you smoke a day V 'I smoke eely about a half-dozen ; but I give away enough to make it av- ? erage as much as ten a day. There's 1 I nothing mean about me, my dear, iu ! that sort of thing.' ! 'Ten a day,' said his wife, medita- j tatively, '3G5 days iu a year-3,(550 j cigars a year at twelve cents apiece ? amounts to ?400. Topnoody, 1 wanta j ?100 sealskin jaekct.' What? You shock mc! Why, I j can't afford it. I never wear any ?100 clothes.' 'All tho same, I'm going to have it, j and if I have to select it I'll get one for j ?125, Topnoody.' 'But my dear-' 'Don't but mc, Topnoody. You j may be a goat, 'but' I'm no target.' 'Good heavens, woman, you'll bank- ? rupt mc with your reckless extrava? gance.' 'You think I'm extravagant, do you V' 'Yes, I do ; you are extravagant iu everything, from your jaw clear arouud.' 'Not everything, Topnoody.' 'Name oue thing you ain't extrava? gant in and I'll give vou a dozen seal skins if have to mortgage the house to do it ' 'Will jou? Well, I'D tell you mighty quick. 'I'm not extravagant iu my ad- ? miration of a man named Topnoody, and I-' * j Topuody didn't remain over to hear j the conclusion.-Merchant Traveller. 1 j Decadence of City Churches. I Says a Now York letter to thc j Philadelphia Record: "lt is curious to ! note the decadence of city churches ; that have been identified with some great preacher. Tiffany's store on Union square ocoupica thc site of the once powerful Church of the Puritans where Dr. Cheever (hew crowds of delighted hearers a quarter of a cen? tury ago. The abolition preacher is brought to remembrance twice a week now by the distribution of food which one of the graduates of his church, Rev. Henry Kimball, makes every Wednesday and Saturday after? noon, from the steps of the City Hall. The leaven of decline is also at work in Plymouth Church in Brooklyn. At thc annual meeting, a few nights since, only sixty members were present, and assistant pastor Halliday drew a dismal picture of thc falling offin interest and in contribu? tions. OJ the 2,500 members he declar? ed that scores could not bc discovered, and that still more had seemingly lost their interest in the church's work. Mr. Beecher, in his remarks at the same time, spoke with regret of tho possibility that interest in the church would end with his life, and his great work in Brooklyn would become merely a memory. Beecher built up the congregation, and few doubt that it will be dissolved at his death. So it has happened in more than one case in this city. The memorial church, erected to the memory of Rev. Dr. Francis L. Hawkes, the most eloquent preacher the Episcopalians ever had here, passed into tho hands of the Presbyterians under a mortgage fore? closure some years ago, and the con? gregations to which-Dr. Chap?n and Dr. Bellows ministered seem to have lost half their vitality since these great preachers died." A Lawyer's Privileges. "Lawyers," says a suffering citizen, "arc a wonderfully privileged class. Put yourself on the witness stand, fur example. You are an average citizen. You try to pay your obligations. You attend to business. You are a? honest as your fellows. You take a glass of beer now and then, and you know a pretty woman when you sec her, and you wouldn't be a decent fellow if you didn't. But the minute you get on thc witness stand, with a modern lawyer in front of you, you begin to think that you are the biggest scoun? drel in thc world. The lawyer will make you out a thief, a liar, a drunk ard, a libertine, an atheist, and every? thing else that's bad. He may ask you if y ou ever served a term in the penitentiary. Of course, at this the opposing counsel objects, and then ' the counsel says, 'Well, ? don't press thal question"'and.&o ?ou, the poor witness, arc left, half the audience thinking that you ha^c been in the penitentiary, li"you are a new comer to the place, with only a year or two of residence, you are sure to be dis? graced. If you appeal to the Judge, he will tell you that j*ou are not obliged to cr minute yourself, etc. A cowardly lawyer may abuse and brow-beat a brave man on the wit? ness stand, and there is no redress for the witness. If he avenges his wrong outside the court-house, and knocks his persecutor down, the brave man is sent to jail, for the members of the bar stand together like a band of bandits, lt is not alone in the courts that lawyers have a license that makes them a privileged class. There is scarcely anything that a lawyer can't do under the cover of Iiis diploma. Ile can arrange conspiracy, perjury, bri? bery, and a dozen crimes, for which he cat.not be punished, because be is a lawyer-'counsel.' lie can take a fee for anything. If it is crooked, he is all right, because he is 'counsel.' If a journalist should do the same things,.he would be sent to the peni? tentiary." -^fp- -4??- ^^?W Dying of Thirst. Did yon ever suffer extreme hunger or thrist ?" was asked o? a Kentucky Colonel who had been relating some solid stones about himself. "Well," he replied, "I never suf? fered what might be called extreme hunger, but no man knows how to endure the agonies of thirst better than I do." "I remember the time well," he continued retrospectively. "I was on a fishing excursion and became lost in the woods. For three days not a drop passed my lips. My lengthened absence finally caused alarm, and a party was sent in search of mc. They found me lying in an unconscious condition on the bank of a little trout stream, and it was hours before any hopes of saving me were entertained." "Was the trout stream dry ?" asked one of the interested listeners. "Dry ? Certainly not. How could I catch fish if the stream was dry? "Well, I don't seo how yon could suffer from thirst with a stream of water close at hand." "Water close at hand!" repeated the Kentucky Colonel. "And what has water got to do with a man's being thristy ?"-Philadelphia Call. . - - ? i p -?o- - M ? i - - - No trait of character is more valu? able to a female than the possession of a sweet temper. Home can never be made happy without it. It is like the flowers that spring np in our pathway, reviving and cheering us. Let a niau go home at night, wearied and worn by the toils of thc da}', and how sooth? ing is a word dictated by a good disposition! lt is sunshine falling on his heart. He is happy, and the cares of life are forgotten. A train from Wellsville, N. Y. lo Bradford, Pa., ran into a stream of oil flowing over thc track from a broken tank on Tuesday. Thc oil flashed into a blaze and thc train dashed through ir, ignited and torc down thc steep grade at forty miles an hour, a mas* of flame, beug finally thrown from thc track : The engineer stuck to his post and was probably fatally burned. Three women, passengers, were burned to cin? ders and eighteen other persons injured, sis of whom will die. What the Tobacco Mone: Bought. Between seventeen and twenl three there are tens of thousands y<nmg men damaging thcmselv irretrievably by tobacco. You eilh uso very good tobacco or very che; tobacco. If you use cheap tobacc 1 want to tell you why it is chea It is a mixture of burdock, lampblac saw-dust, coltsfoot, plantain-leave fullers' earth lime, salt, alum aud little tobacco. You cannot afford, II young brother, to take such a me as that between your lips. If on tl other hand, you use cosily tobacc let me say 1 do not. think you Ci afford it. You take that which ye expend, aud will expend, if you kee the habit all your life, and put aside, and it will buy you a hons and it will buy you a farm, to mat you comfortable in the afternoon > life. A mercbaut of New York gav this testimony : "lu early life smoked six cigars a day at six and half cents each ; they averaged tba I thought to myself one day, 'I'll jui put aside all the money I am eonsun ing in cigars, and all I would consum if I kept on in the habit, and I wi see what if will come to by compoun interest.' " And he gives this tn mendous statistic : "Last July con ploted thirty-nine years since, by th grace of God, I was emancipated fror the filthy habit, and the saving amour ted to the enormous sum of $29,102 03 by compound interest. ?We live in the city, but the children, who lia learned something of the enjoyment of country life from their annual visit to their grandparents, longed for home am ,ngthc green fields. I iouii a very pleasant place in the countr for sale. The cigar money now cam into requisition, and I found that i amounted to a sufficient sum to pm chase the place, and it is mine, wish all American bo3rs could see hoy my children enjoy their home as thc watch the vessels, with their Whit sails, that course along thc Sonne Now, boys, you take your choice smoking without a home,or a hom without smoking.-Rev. T. De Wi Talmage. . - i ?# Chloroforming a Furious Lion. A blood}' scene was witnessed a Chicago Wednesday morning in bani on the West side, in which th participants were a ferocious lion an a diminutive Shetland pony. Charlie the lion tamer, when the winter set ii stored his animals in this barn ont: the opening of the circus season i the spring. His menagerie consistin, of a fine horse, a Shetland pon; valued at $1,000 and two Africa lions of huge proportions. Weduesda morning he entered the barn accon panied by several little children, lady and Mr, Harris, and prepared t enter the cage. Before doing sc however, for some reason he mad the children go out of the barn When all was ready he opened th cage and quickly stepped in, arrange? with Harris to close the door, bu this important part of the programm was forgotten by Harris, and whei the tamer raised his whip and com manded one of the Hons to leap ove it the beast dashed under the legs o Charlie, leaped to the floor of the barn and with a single bound was astride o the pony, which was crushed beneatl the lion's weight. Sinking his teetl in the neck of the pony, he tore i into pieces. The cries of the inoffen sive animal were frightful, but verj brief, while the lady, Harris and thc tamer were frightened almost beyonc the power to take steps to preserve their own lives. As quickly as possible Harris anc Charlie got out of the barn, and pro curing some large sponges, satnratet them with chloroform, tied them te long sticks and applied them to the nostrils of the lion, while he was bus i ly devouring the pony. Ile was soot stupefied ; after which they summoncc assistance, and succeeded in replacing him in the cage, where he soon reviv ed. The escape of the lady and Mr Harris was almost miraculous, anc attributable, possibly, to the presence of the pony, which the lion must have regarded as legitimate prey. -- .i-ra- uj ? - Huify People. One eff the e>ddest things to witness if not one of the most disagreeble tc encounter, is thc faculty some people have of taking offense when no e)ffenso is meant-taking "huff," as the phrase goes with reason or without making themselves and every ono else uncomfortable for nothing deeper than a mode or more than a fancy, Huffy people aie to be met with of all ages and in every station, neither years nor condition bringing necessarily wis? dom or unsuspiciousness. But we are bound to say that the larger por? tion will be generally found among women, and chiefly among the;se who are of an unsocial disposition, or who are unhappy in their circumstances, not to speak e>f their tempers. Huffi? ness, which seems to be self assertion in what may be called the negative term, and which the possessors there? of classify as a high spirit of sensi? tiveness according as they are pas? sionate or sullen, is in reality the product of self distrust. The person who has self-respect and nothing to fear, who is of au assured social status, and happy private condition is never apt te> lake offense. Many ami great are the dangers of action with huffy people, and you are sure to Hounder into the bog with them, while you are innocently thinking you are walking on the solidest esplanade. The dange'is e>f jesting arc, above all, great, lt may be laid down as an absolute rule which has no exception anywhere, that no huffy person can bear a joke good humoredly, or take it as it is meant. If you attempt the very simplest form e>f charling, you will scum be made to find out your mistake, and not un frequent ly the whole harmony of an evening has j been set wrong because a thin skin- j ned, huffy person has taken a pleasant j jest as a personal affront and either blazed out or gloomed sullenly, ac- ? cording to his or her individual posi lion, anti direction of the wind at the j lime.-House?iold. 1 Scientific Miscellany. _ j Of the fourteen scientific expcc j tious soul out by the leading gover monts ol'the world to make observ ti is at different stations tn the A ret regions during the year end ir j August 31, I8?0, eleven have safe j returned, and three-including th j of the United States at Lady Franki j Bay-will continue theirobser valioi j for about another year. j Luminous creatures are probabi ? much more numerous than is genera j ly supppsed. According to Prof. ( ; Collingwood, every class of anima except that of birds includes represci tali ves which, under certain circun stances and conditions, have bee proven to be capable of giving 01 light. Mons. Erichsen, of Copenhager has produced from asbestos an cnaa? for walls, pipes, etc., which resist the action of fire, water, frost an oxygen. The coating materiel i prepared by powdering the asbesto and mixing it with soluble salts-sue as silicate of potash-and mineral o other colors which properly cornhill with silicic acid. Dr. Monkman has shown that light balanced body is attracted by vibrating taning fork ; also that tw smoke rings traveling abreast attrac each other, and two paper rings o disks revolving close together in th sante direction attract, while if revoh ing in opposite directions they repel Some of the mines from which th inhabitants of England in the stott' age obtained flint for their weapon and implements may still be traced Their age is estimated by Mr. S. J B. Skertchly to be not less than 400* years. Mr. S. N. Rhoads has given cvi dence which proves that turkey-vul tures are directed to their prey fron ! great distances by their sense ol smell and not by sight alone. He parti; uncovered a spot where a horse am , a cow had been buried some year before, and in a few. hours buzzard were attracted to the place in grea numbers. They must have beei guided by smell, and, as Mr. Rhoad could detect no odor when directly over the burial-place, it is shown tha j their smelling power is marvellously j delicate, (rosse relates an instanc j in which vultures circled round ; j house in Jamaica where somespoile< j meat was hidden. j At the laboratory of Mons. Amagat i in France, the heat of furnaces is meas j urea by means of a current of wate flowing through a spiral tube. Tb? water, passing at a moderate rate, i warmed only a few degrees evett whei the tube is made very hot. The flov is kept at a constant rate, and th< temperature of the furnace is caleula ??.?ted'Very accurately from the increase it causes in the water's heat, as indi cated by an ordinary thermometer This water pyrometer has proveu ver ; reliable in measuring temperatures o j 2000 degrees Fahrenheit and higher ! Several instances have been record ed of probable injury to the brain ai a result of too little activity in som< part of the body, and a case of brain I wasting arising from the amputatiot j of a limb has recently been communi cated to the Paris Academy of Medi cine by Mons. Bourdon. A soldier who lost his left arm some forty yean ago, lately died, and a post-mortcrr examination showed differences in thc two sides of Iiis brain which indicated that one side had been afiected by th? removal of the arm. Toward the dost of the man's life his left leg gradually became lame, in consequence, it ii supposed, of the injury done to thc i brain. Dr. J. J. Wild. F. R G. S., sum? I np as follows the results of recenl I investigations into the causes of thc j color of the sea, and of the apparent I discoloration of the sea-\* ater in cor ! tain arcas of the ocean : "The various ? tints of blue and green which consti ? tute what may be called the prope; color of sea-water are due to a great ?er or lesspropottiou of salt held in I solution, the color being an intense j blue when the water is very salt, and ! changing by degre es to a green-blue, j or blue-green, and green color as the I water becomes mote fresh. On the I other hand, the abnormally colored j red, yellow, brown, and inky seas owe their appearance to tim accumulation ! of large masses of sea-weeds, from the I gigantic Algae, which fringe the I shores of oceanic islands, to the oii j croscopic Diatoms ; but almost as I frequently the discoloration is caused I by myriads of animal organisms I collected in shoals at the surface of j thc ocean." ! A letter'from Mr. Edward Why nv ! per to Prof. J. Norman Lockyer, the ! English astronomer gives some inter? esting particulars concerning an erup? tion of thc South American volcano of Cotopaxi which occured in ISS0. At the commencement of the eruption Mr. Whymper was making his famous ascent of Chimborazo, and was more than 16.000 feet above sea-level, and about sixty-live miles from Cotopaxi. A dense column of smoke was seen to lise suddenly from the volcano to a height of about 10.000 feet above thc sea, when it was borne westward some twenty miles by a strong wind, and then gradually spread in all direc? tions. In a few hours the cloud pass? ed between tue observers and the sun, and color effects surpassing iu vivid intensity those of the most gorgeous sunsets were then witnessed, the sun itself appearing green. As the cloud passed overhead and surrounded the | mountain-climbers the brilliant colors ceased to be seen, while an exceed? ingly fine dust fell upon everything. This remarkable observation seems strongly confirmative of the view that late unusual sunsets and other atmos? pheric phenomena have been due to volcanic dust floating high in the air. Wc met a young married matt "and asked him how he was pleased with his change in life. Ile took a long \ breath and turned up his eyes as if! trying to think of some expressive j word, and then said : "Oh, sir. I i wouldn't take a million dollars for j myself." * | News and Gossip. I John Sherman- is believed io Wash j iugton to be fully iu the race for I President. So far the horses are Arthur, Blaine and Sherman. Tbe Lousiana sugar planters are to* hold a couveution. They are weary about the tax on sugar aud are afraid* that 'it will go.* Mr. Dacchell an engineer, is exhib? iting in London a new pattern of elec? tric railway to transport light weights at a speed of 150 to 200 miles an hour. The train ru.is oo only one rail, but is balanced by a rail overhead which acts* as a cooduetor of the electric carrent from the generating station. A sixteen year-old boy and a thirteen year-old girl-0. J. Smith and Aman? da Klase-created a sensation in* Lehigh Co., Pa , by eloping aud get? ting married. The parents were very mad but finally forgave the youngsters. We saw a kerosene lamp burning on Saturday night, the 5th inst., while the oil in the lamp was a solid lump of ice. It was a cold night for these parts. Spartanburg Herald. The laws of South Carolina require ail physicians who graduate in mediea? colleges outside the State to pay afee of ?20 before they are allowed to- prac? tice iu the State. Treasurer Wyman on thc 12th re? ceived ?1,000 -for tho conscience fund7 iu an euveloped postmarked New York. The contribution was in the shape of a ?1.000 United States note, and came ? through the open mailsv While Mrs. Cabell, the wife of Col. tl. Coulter Cabell, a prominent citizen of Richmond, wasdressiug in ber cham? ber thi.?* morning Jan. 11th, her cloth? ing caught fire from the grate, and before assistance reached her she was enveloped in flames. She died at a' late hour late hour that night. Jacob Mulliken a 'grand old man' among bis ueighbors, at Dunstan's cor? ner, uearvSaeo, Me., was one buudred years old a few days ago. His first vote was cast for Mr. Jefferson for President. Mr. Milliken is as lively as a June cricket. Mr. John Garison, of the Ii;d?a Hook neighborhood, is 78 years old, is yet quite active-moves about over his farms and walks to church, a distance of one mile. What is most remarka? ble about the old gentleman is, he has lived all his life on the same farm and has plowed every year for sixty-nine years.-Rock Hill Herald. The army of pensioners amounting to 3U3,658 arc classified as follows : Anny invalids, 19S,64S ; army widows, minor children, and dependent relatives, 74,374 ; navy invalids, 2, 408 ; uavy widows, mmor children? and depeudeut relatives, 1,907 ; survi? vors of the war of 1812, 4,831 ; widows of those who served in the war of 1812, 21,336. Senator Plumb has suggested a rath? er magnificent sort of scheme in the Senate. It was no less than the build? ing of lecves along the whole length of the Mississippi river, surmounted by a railroad. We suppose it will be a double-track road, with one track OB each side of the river. We are curious, however, to know how the road is to cross the mouths of- the various large streams emptying into the Mississippi? Fresh water fish are reared on every Japanese farm where there is a pool or brook, with as much care as poultry are in French cottage yards. Girls, go iu the evenings with long wands to drive the fish into roofed tanks, where they are locked in for the night to keep them from birds of prey. Tbe Senate contains eleve? mea who were formerly Governors of other States? They are : Henry R. Anthony, of Rhode Island ; Joseph E. Brown and Alfred II. Colquitt, of Georgia; Rich ord Coke, of Texas : William Cullom, of Illinois ; A. H. Garland, of Arkan sns; James B. Groome, of Maryland; Wade Hampton, of South Carolina; Ishaui G. Harris, of Teunessee ; Joseph lt. Hawley, of Connecticut, and Zebulon B. Yance, of North Carolina. H. B. Morgan, of Lynchburg Tenn.,, receutly bought a large Mosler & Bah man safe, and while examining it went into it and instructed a colored boy to close the door desiring to see if it was tight. The negro closed thc door and turned the combination which was known to nobody but Mr. Morgan and a telegram was sent to the safe makers and it was hoped at last accounts that Mr. Morgan would be re? leased before he starved to death. He has air enough to live on. A slightly absent-minded but highly respectable gentleman living near the suburbs of Columbia started out for a stroll yesterday, and after getting a short distance from home he discov? ered that he was attracting great attention. Somewhat surprised ho took an iuventory of his personal appearance, when he was horrified to behold that he had on his best coat and hat but had forgotten to put cn his pants, and it was his red flannel drawers which attracted so much atteution. The geutleman hastily escaped to cover, and kept in thc house all the next day.-Register. The Washington monument is the wonder of Washington, aud its beauty thc admiration of both Americans and foreigners. Already over 350 feet high, it rises from the banks o? the Potomao a great, white marble shaft, piercing thc clouds and backed against the blue of the sky. It is already the grandest obelisk the world has ever seen, and in tho aeons of the future, should the na? tions of t!;e day pass away, leaving no more records of their progress than the mighty ones of the Egyptian past, it would surpass the pyramids in the won? der of its construction, lt is already higher than the third pyramid, and within a hundred feet of the size of tho second. It is taller than St. Peter's cathedal, and wheu finished it will be the highest structure in the world. To? day thc cathedral of Cologne. 512 feet high, is the tallest in thc world. Next comes the great pyramid, 483 feet high ; theu the ?Strasburg cathedral, 473 feet; then the secoud pyramid, 453 ; then St. Peter's, 430, St. Stephen's at Vienna, 443, and St. Paul's at London, 384 Cleveland Leader*