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SUMTER, S. Q., TUESDAY, JANUARY 2#- 1884.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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*