Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

WATCHMAN, Established April, 1850. 'Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's thy God's, and Truth's. THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established June, 1866. Cons*Moated Aug. 2, ISSI.] SUMTER, S. C., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1884. New Series-Vol. III. No. 29. mar Tuesday, -BT THE ' Watchman aitd Southron Publishing <> .? Garnpang, r:'" - SUMTER, S. C. TERMS: r Two Dollars per annum-io advance. ADT18TI8?M?.VTS. ?. Os* Square,first insertion.............._$1 00 Evory* subsequent insertion._ 50 Contracts for three months, or longer will be Pn| m reduced rates. *ft?c?mm?nication3 which subserve private ? interests wHl oe charged foftas ad ver tisemen ts. Obituaries and tributes of respect will be ? ?abed free. crt ices and notices of deaths pub -V/lNrj&troek or contracts for advertising aiiMi^^ at tte Oace, to N. G. OSTEEN, Easiness Manager. < ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^ POWDER y Pure. never varies. A marvel of tb and wholesomeness. More the ordinary kinds, and can ia-ecmpetitioa with the multitude short weight, alum or phosphate <mhfixcans. BOYAL BAR? CO., 106 Wall-st., N. Y. m m Send 25 cents TO THIS omet for a copj of a new horse book which treats of all diseases jof the horse, and is thoroughly illustra ted with 65 fine engravings, showing the posi? tions assumed by' sick horses better than can betaught rn any other way. It bas a large number of valuable recipes, most of which were originated by -k?:. the author, and never before put in print, lt ts pronounced the best book.ever published for the price, and some - e ; . . prominent horsemen ; AT CtrTlCS have said they prefcr _ ?J vlO. red it to books which < . ? cost So and $10. AGENTS WANTED. nable book will be presented free subscribers to the Watch man and Sotdirtm who pay for one year in advance, and also to old subscribers who pay ali arrears ?nd a year in advance. KENDALL'S 'RAVIN CURE! ? tf?ST SUCCESSFUL REM EDY ever dfeeovtYed as it is certain io its effects and does not Mister. Read Proof Below. g JSrom fae "Spirit of the Tones," Dee. 22,.'83. It io admitted there is a great advance in ?e*ermary science within the past decade, yet many will scarcely believe that a spavin cure is possible.. Fortunate indeed, however, is it i for the poor hors* suffering from lameness of this kind that Kendalls Spavin Cure has bees discorered, as it is certain in its effects and bas worked wonders in thousands of such cjgfefc<"Send for illustrated catalogue, giving positive proof, also for sample copy of Ken? dall's Treatise on the Horse and his Diseases ; bdthfree. Price of the Spavin Cnre, Si. Ad? mito''Dr. B. J. Kendall Co., Prop rie tots, Eoosburgh Falls, Vt. From ti? "Spirit of tie Thies," No?. 17,83. The ppecmful treatment of ringbones, spaTics^and joint lameness has not been plXfltljit J^""t?e veterinary profession, but ^w^'?wT'tnat Dr. Keodall bas discovered a -re^Wt??^^sncb troubles that ?3 doing noble wlwovery where. This remedy is certain io Itseflbcts, ?ad does not blister, but it bas a TTwttr* effect in reducing the enlargement and driving ont the lameness, as hundreds of testimonials prove. Price $1. For sale by druggists everywhere, and by Dr. B. J. Ken? dall Co., Eoosborgh Falls, Yt. SSK2 ALL'S STATUT CTO E. ON HUMAN FLESH. NORTHVILLE, DAKOTA, NOV. 20, 1883. "Dfc/B.S Kendal! & Co., Dear Sirs :-En rjjnfrrl nlrii~r Sud 25 cts. for your hook enti? tled ' A Treatise on the Horse and his Dis? esses.' You maj look for more orders in fbture if it ts as advertised. YourSparin Qurt works wonderful with rheumatism, re? lief is immediate, and its action permanent. - Every person ought to have a bottle of it. ^ ?ave Ind no occasion to use it on my horses yet, bot too much can not be said of its re _ markab le effects on human flesh I used that p?t up for horses, and its effects weie truljr remarkable. Please send the books as soon as pessible and oblige. Yours truly. fir A E.BROWN. Price $1.per bottle or 6 bottles for $5. All dragg&ts have il or can get it for you, or it wip-b? sent to any address on receipt of ? price?>r!tie proprietors, Dr. B. J. Kendall A I Co^?oosburgb Falls, Vt. I f SOLS B7 ALL SSJSSISTS. f ? P. MCKEE & CO , - . SUMTER, S. C., ?r ? DEALERS IN .. FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC liquors, .Wines, Tobacco and Cigars. We have now the largest and best selected stock of ?ter offered ia Sumter. Pure N. C. * CORN WHISKEY and pare N. C. APPLE BRANDY a speciality. Try oar JOBST MCCULLOUGH CIGAR and BLUE JEANS TOBACCO. Parties in need of any goods in our line Wi?l save money by giving as a call. REMEMBER THAT WE L RAN TES SATISFACTION as to quality and price. STREET, one door North B*?ding--8ig* of the Bed ? T.KAP-YEAR EPIS< Gan I forget that Winter night In eighteen eighty four, When Nellie, gentle little sprite, Came tapping at my door? "Good evening. Miss," I blushing For in roy heart I knew And knowing hung my pretty head That Nellie came to woo. She clasped roy big red hand, and fel Adown upon her knees, And cried : "You know I love yon t|l, So be ray husband please !" And then she swore she'd ever be A tender wife and true Ab, what delight it was to me That Nell ie came to woo ! . She'd lace my shoes and darn my ho? And mend my shirts, she said, [ And grease my comely Roman nose Each night on going to bed ; She'd build the fires and fetch the coal And split the kindling too Love's perjuries o'erwhelmed her soul When Nellie came to woo. And as I, blushing, gave no check To her advances rash, She twined her arms about my neck, And toyed with my moustache ; And then she pleaded for a kiss, While I-what could I do But coyly yield me to that bliss When Nellie came to woo. I am engaged and proudly wear A gorgeous diamond ring. And I shall wed my lover fair Some time in early spring. I face my doom without a sigh And so,forsooth, would you, If you but loved as fond.as I The Nellie who came to woo. - Chicago JV* THE TRIUMPH OP WE. "Does it please yon, Katy fis "Oh, U7s splendid ! I shoa not have suited myself half so well Ad I ! been left to choose/' 1 "Bot yon have not seen thejvir.e cellar yet. It is a treasure of i ta ind. Let's go down again." % They went down the stairs teeth? er, he talking gaily, she with a fonb led look on her face. After ?duly admiring the [,\ \ce she pnt a fmid hand on his erm and said : put, Authur, dear, let's have no wie in "Why?" he asked in surpris! "Because I have resolved if j am ever the mistress of a house lhere shall be no liquors kept in it-nj 'so? cial glasses/ for friends," "Why, Katy, you arc unreas- ible. 1 did not know you carried yo5t tem? perance opinions as far as th.^ Of course I shall keep wine in UP ouse and entertain my friends with ifoo." She raised her face appealing^. "Arthur !" she said, in a tje of voice which he knew how to intgpret. Arthur's face grew clouded. [ "But you cannot fear for mq* he said with balf-offeiided pride. "1 must fear for you, Arthur,jfyou begin in this way, And I fer for others besides-for the sons and hus? bands and fathers who may lern at onr cheerful board to love the pison tl]at shall slay them." They went up the stairs agaij aud sat on the sofa in the dining-rooi for a few moments, while Katy p|t on her hat and drew on her glovesi The argument was kept up. It is . unnecessary thakwe should rep^t all that was said on both sides, lt eided at last as similar discussions ha? en? ded before. Neither was willi? to yield-Katy, because she feWlhat her whole future happiness migf be involved in it ; Arthur, beean* he thought it would be giving wayjto a woman's whims, and would satirice too much of his popularity wi| his friends. Ile had bought this house, pail for it and furnished it hansomely, aid in a few weeks was to bring Katy a its mistress. AH the afternoon they had beenjook ing over it together, happy. asi two birds with a new finished nest. But when Arthur closed the door and put the key in his pocket, in the chill, van ing light of the December afternoon, and gave Katy his arm to see her home, it was all "broken up" betieen them, and a notice "To Let" waaput over the door of the pretty house the very next morning. lt was the most foolish thing tolo : but then lovers can always find see? thing to quarrel about. They parted with a cool "G?od evening." She went up to her rom to cry ; he went home hurt and angry, but secretely resolving to see ier again and give her a chance to ay she was iu the wrong. But he chance never came. When he caled again she had left the town, and ie could find no trace of her. ***** All this happened more than a y Qr before I saw Katy : but we three "fie tory girls," who lodged at Mrs. How? ell's with her, of course, knew nojh ing about it. She came to the factoiy and applied for work. The supern tendent thought her too delicate or i such labor, but she persisted ; and in fact, si ie improved in health, spirts and looks alter she became used ?o the work and simple fare of the facto? ry girls. She was a stranger to us all, anE it seemed likely that she would re? main so. But one day Mary Bas? com's dress caught in a part of ile machinery, and before any one elfo could think what to do, Katy h<d j sprung to her side and pulled li?r I away by main strength from the ta? nbie danger that threatened her. Af? ter that Mary and Lizzie Payne and I were Katy's sworn allies. We all lodged together in the bg "Factory Boarding House." Bu ! Katy took it into her head that we ! should have so much nicer times in a prjvate lodging to ourselves, aid when she took any-thing into h<r head she generally carried it through In less than a week she had found th? very place she wanted, arranged mat tere with the superintendent and hai U3 sheltered under Mrs. Howell'* vine and fig tree. We four girli were the proud posessors of a tolera bly large double bedded apartment with a queer little dreeing-roora attached-"and the liberty of the par? lor to receive callers in"-a proviso at which we all laughed. This was "borne" to us after the the labor of the day. Indeed and in troth Katy made the place so charm? ing that we forgot we were "factory girl?" when we got to it. She im? provised cunning little things ou trifles that are usually thrown a as useless, and the flowers grove in broken pots in our windows we glory to behold. She always ha fresh book or periodical on the ta and, better than this, she brought us the larger cultivation and the i er taste which taught us how to opportunities within our reach. "What made you take to our st of life, Katy ?" asked Lizzie one < ning as we sat in the east wine watching the ontcoming of the st and telling girlish dreams. "Destiny, my child," answe Katy, stooping to replace the li boot she had thrown off to rest foot. "But you might have been an thores8, or a painter; or a-a bo keeper, or-" Lizzie's knowledge of the wc was rather limited ; Katy broke upon her : There, that will do. I was i born a genius, and I hate arithmetic "But you did not always have work for a living?" said Mary. Katy laughed a queer, short lauj "Yes," ?he said, "and that's w I dout know how to get my living any way but this. So behold mi healthy and honest factory girl !" j - She rose, made a little bow ant flourish with ber small hands, and all laughed, although she said nothi funny. "Milly," said she, "please Hg the lamp and get the magazine, wh j I hunt up my thimble and threj Ladies, I find myself under the i cessity of mending my gloves tl evening. Oh, Poverty ! where is t sting? In a shabby glove, I do 1 lieve, for nothing hurts me like tin unless it be a decaying boot. " She sat and patiently mended t little rents, while I read aloud ; ai when she had finished, the glov looked almost new. The next day was Saturday and \ had a half-holiday. Katy and I we to make some trifling purchases ai on our way home stopped at the b boarding house to see one of the gil who was ill. When we came out Katy ran aero the street to get a magazine from tl n vws stand and came hurrying up overtake me before I turned the cc ncr. She had the magazine opcu ai une of her hands was ungloved ; b it was not u til we reached hon that she lound she had lost a glove, was too late then to go and look for j We went and searched the next mol? ing, but could not find it. Katy mourned for it. "It was my only pair, girls," sai she, tragically ; "and it is a loss th; can cot be repaired." ***** What people call a "panic" ha occurred in financial circles in ti spring after Arthur Craig bad lost h Katy, and almost without a day warning he found himself a poor mai Ile left his affairs in the hands of h creditors-haling satisfied himse that they could gather enough froi the wreck to save themselves. Ile had been educated for a phys ciau, though fortune made a merchai of him. Learning from a friend thi there was an opening for a doctor i Fenwick, he came here and bega practice. Dr. Swell had gone off on a vlsi leaving his patients in charge of th doctor, and so it came about that o that Saluiday evening he was on hi way to visit Maggie Lloyd, the sic girl at the lodging house, when, jw after turning thc corner near th news-shop, he saw a brown glove lj ing on tho pavement. Ile was abou to pass it by, but a man's instinct t pick up anything of value that seem to have no owner made him put it ii his pocket. Ile forgot all about it th next minute. But when he had made his call am returned to his consulting-room, ii taking a paper from his pocket, th* glove fell out, and he picked it uj and looked at it with idle curiosity. It was old, but well preserved. I had been mended often, but so neatly as to make him regard mending ai one of the fine arts. It had a strange ly familiar look to him. Little anc brown and shapely it lay on his knee bearing the form of the hand thal had worn it. As he gazed at it there came to him the memory ot an hour, many months past, when he had sat by Katy's side on the green sofa in the dining-room of "their house" (alas) and watched her put her small hands into a pair oi brown gloves so much like this one. Ever since that never-to-be-forgot? ten day the vision of his lost love, sitting lhere in the fading light, slow? ly drawing on her glove, lier sweet eyes filling as they talked-quarrelled we should say, perhaps-had gone with him as an abiding memory o? her, until he had come to know eacli shade of the picture- the color of the dress, the ribbon at the throat and the shaded plume in her hat. Ile looked at the glove a long: time. Ile had thought it had belonged to one of- the factory girls, and he found it near tho lodging house. But it did not look like a "factory hand's" glove. Ile would ask Maggie Lloyd, at any* rale ; so he put it carefully in his pocket until de should make Iiis calls the next morning. Ile had suffered the glove to be so associated with the memory of a past that was sacred to him that he felt his cheek burn and his hand tremble as he drew it forth to show it to Mag? gie, who was sitting, in the comfort of convalescence, in an aim chair by the window, watching the handsome young docter write the prescription for her benefit. "By the way, Miss Maggie, do you know whose glove this is ?" Maggie knew it at once. It was Miss Gardiner's glove. "Miss Gardiner !" The name made his heart beat again. "Is she one of the factory hands ?" "Yes; but she lodges with Mrs. Howell quite out of town, almost; ehe was here to see me yesterday." "Oh, I see !" said he, not the most i Relevantly. "And you can tell me ?ow to find Mrs. Howell's bouse?j I suppose I could go by and restore this glove to its owner." Maggie thought this unnecessary trouble, but she gave the required di? rection and he went out, saying to himself, "It can't be my Katy, of course, but thc glove shall go back to its owner." * * * * * Mary and Lizzie went to church that Sunday morning. Katy declared she couldn't go, having but one glove. I stayed at home with her, and offer? ed to keep Mrs. Howell's children for her, and so persuaded that worthy woman to attend worship with the girls. And this is how it came about, that while we were having a frolic on the carpet with the children in Mrs. Howell's room, we heard a ring at the door, and Bridget having taken herself off somewhere, there was no help for it but for one of us to answer the summons. "You go, Katy," whispered I, in dismay. "I cannot appear." Katy glanced serenely at her own frizzy head in the looking-glass gave a pull to her overskirt and a touch to her collar, and opened the door. Immediately afterward I was shock? ed by hearing her utter a genuine feminine scream and seeing her drop to the floor, and that a man, a perfect stranger to me, gathered her up in his arms and began raving over her in a manner that astonished me. He call? ed her his "darling" and his "own Katy," and actually kissed her before I could reach her. I was surprised at myself afterward that I hadn't ordered the gentleman out, but it never occurred to me at the time ; and when Katy "came to" and sat upon the sofa and heard his speeches, she seemed so much pleased that I left them and took the children up to our room, feeling bewildered all over. What shall I say further? Only that Katy lives in the pretty house in the town known as Dr. Craig's resi? dence, where we three "factory girls" have a home whenever we want it. And there are no liquors fouud on her side board nor at her table. One day I heard Arthur say : "You were a silly child, Kate, to run away from me. I should have given up the point at last, I know." "But there would have been the splendid cellar and the ten thousand a year," answered she. "It would have been such a temptation. We are safer as it is, dear." Peck's Bad Boy And His Pa. "Hello, Hennery," said the gro? cery man to the bad boy, as he came in holding his sides to keep them from bursting with suppressed laughter, " what has occurred to cause a young man like you to laugh in that manner ? Has your pa joined the police force ? I saw him driving a lot of hogs to the pound yesterday." "That's what I am laughing about," said the boy, as he put an apple on the stove to bake it. "Fa has gone to the pound after the hogs this morning. You see, I have been taking lessons in painting and drawing and the oth? er day I surprised pa by showing him a picture of a blue cow, with a green tail and old gold horns, and he told me he never saw anything more nat? ural, and he advised me to turn my attention entirely to animal painting. "Pa keeps four hogs in a pen in the back lot, and every day he turns them out in the alley and lets them run, and takes them up when they come horne. The hogs are large white ones, regular beauties, and pa thinks about as much of them as he does of mo. "Well, pa told me to go and turn the hogs out yesterday, and I took my paint brush along and before turn? ing them ont I painted black spots all over the hogs. You never see a lot of speckled hogs, where the spots were put on any better. The hogs looked at each other kind of astonish? ed, and I put them out. "In the afternoon, pa went out to the pen and began to call, 'poig, poig,' and the pigs came running up the al? ley. Pa saw the strange hogs coining, and he got mad and drove thom out of the alley, and then called again, in a muscular, tone of voice, and the speckled hogs carne again, a little slower, and seeming to wonder what ailed pa. They acted as though they felt hurt at being received in such a violent manner. Pa met the speckled hog6 with a broom, and he run them down the alley again, and the hogs stood off and looked at him as though he liad gone crazy. You'd a dide to see pa drive his own hogs away, and talk sassy. He got a pail of swill and called the hogs again, and they came on a gallop, and then pa called a policeman and they drove the hogs to the pound. "I didn't see pa last night, but the first tiling this morning I told him I had taken his advice and turned my attention to animal paint? ing, and that I had painted spots on our white hogs, and made speckled hogs of them, and that speckled hog? were worth a cent a pound more than white hogs. Well, pa didn't faint away, but when it all came over him, that he had drove his own hogs to thc pound, ho was so cross he could have bit a nail. But he didn't say any? thing to mc 'cause I spose he didn't want to discourage my artistic ambi? tions, but he has gone down to the pound after the hogs May be the rain has washed the spots off, and the man that keeps the pound will not let pa ha^e white hogs when he left speckled ones there. However, I didn't warrant the hogs to be fast colors, anyway. Do you think it was wrong to put spots on the hogs ?" Peel's Sun. # -- At a dance near the Owen county, Ky., line, Miss Melissa Collier appeared with a huge hickory club in her hand and asked for John Rudolph, who had circulated injurious reports about her. .Where is the scoundrel ?' she cried, swinging her club aloft. Suddenly es? pying Rudolph she rushed upon him and with thc club grasped in both hands knocked him down and beat him until she was removed by force. Rudolph is seriously injured. BILL AEP He Discusses Miss Hurst The Won? derful Magnetic Girl, I can't help ruminating about Miss Lula, that wonderful girl, who is now astonishing herself and everybody elue in this region. I havn't seen her yet, but I am going to before long, but I'm not going on the stage as one of the jury, for I dont wan't to be tumbled about like a humming top by a girl. When she gets a husband, 1 reckon he will be a very meek man, meeker than Moses. Why Bhe could turn his side of the bed over and spill bim into the fireplace, and lay there and laugh at him while he was pick? ing himself up. But she is a good tempered girl I know, or she would lake satisfaction out of some folks, and bump 'em around smartly, just to convert 'em to the faith, and amuse the audience. All people of strength and power are good-tempered. I have no doubt, whatever, about Miss Lula's mysterious power, and have no idea that munjie has anything to do with it. This is not the first case on record. Newspaper litera? ture has many of them and the stand? ard books on animal magnetism have hundreds of authentic cases. As late as 1867, all ot Boston was excited over a young Irish girl who was hired as a chamber maid near that city and who was at first slightly affected with this mysterious power, and it grew on her until she could not even ap? proach a piece of furniture without disagreeable consequences. The ta? ble turned over with the crockery, the washstands kicked up their hind legs and spilt the pitchers, aud Hie chairs went sliding away from IHT like they were bewitched. The poor girl had no kindred and was afraid of herself and cried and seemed in . such distress her employer took her to Boston to be treated by the physicians and they put her on exhibition as a world's wonder. There was nothin% peculiar in her appearance except a profusion of long coarse black hair that looked like t\vo or three horse tails bunched up together, Samson lost his power when they cut oft' his hair and maybe Miss Lula would too, I don't know, I don't know anything hardly, for thc world is full of myste? ries and I'm not going to say a thing" is not 60, just because 1 can't tell why tis so. Thc hair has got something lo do with strength and will-power and maybe that is tho reason why the fe-1 male sex electrify us so and- make us do jur.t exactly as they please, lt is their long hair that, like the hundreds of hair like tubes in the electric eel are full of magnetism. Those eel? can knock a horse down in the water and never touch him and some women can wither a man into subjection by a look History says that Jupiter al? ways shakes his ambrosial locks when j he gives a command. He is genera? ting magnetism I reckon, but thc wo? man's will is so sweet and so judi- ! cions that we cannot complain, and as for mc I have no idea of using the shears at my house. By no means. I There are mysteries and mysteries, 1 some new ones but more old ones, aud the old ones have become so fa-1 miliar that we don't notice them, and have quit trying to understand or to explain. What makes a seed pro? duce a plant or an egg a bird is the same old mystery, it always was and j there are many just as wonderful. In? deed I cannot tell what power guides my hand while I am writing and no? body else can. Such things are so common we have ceased to wonder. Every few years somebody comes up with unnatuial powers and sets all the world wondering, but these hu? man curiosities are not new to histo? ry. They are all old and have been pondered and written about by men of science and hundreds of books pub? lished and after all tl ere is nothing settled. Nothing about spiritualism nor animal magnetism nor clairvoy? ance nor double conciousness nor the spasmodic shakings of the shaking quakers. In the old times Saul went to the witch of Endor, a medium I reckon, and got her to call up the spirit of Samuel, and he talked with the dead prophet and received his own death warrant. Well, nobody has ex? plained that, except to say it was a miracle. Still later there were men pos? sessed with devils or evil spirits and the spirits left them and got into some hogs and run them down into the sea and nobody understands that, Paul says he was caught up into paradise and heard unspeakable words and he dident know whether he was in the flesh or in the spirit. And ever since then there have been visions and tran? ces and supernatural visitations at in? tervals all over tho civilized world, enough of them in al! conscience to satisfy any reasonable man that. "It is not all of life to live, Nor all of death to die." That spirits do communicate with us at times I cannot doubt but I do doubt their seeking such mediums as tables and chairs and bedsteads or even those human blasphemies who deride revelation and make a mock of God and religion. If spirits do ever choose such people as their agents they are very bad spirits and 1 will not trust them nor believe them. 1 have great reverence for some spiritualists, I believe that Sweden? borg was one of the greatest and best men that ever lived and have no doubt of his intimacy with spirits and angels and he hail a spiritual sight that enabled him to sec far more than tlie human eye can see. It is historically C( rtain that lie knew Stockholm was burning when a hundred miles away and told the very minute when the flames reached the palace of the king. I believe that many devout people have supernatural visions on their death beds and like Jacob of old, see the angels ascending and descending. I believe that a man eau cultivato good and pure emotions until he be? comes sublimated and refined and ex? periences an exaltation of the senses and draws very near to his Maker and to heaven, and a man can indulge in sin and degradation until he draws equally near to thc devil and to hell, and lias not far to go to gc? there. Swedenborg says that whatever pro? pensities a man indulges in ibis life, he continues in the spirit land, and I believe that. But spiritualism ie one thing and animal magnetism is another, and they are no kin. It is just 100 years since Mesmer astounded Fiance wkh his ; discoveries, and France appointed a j commission of five illustrious men to j examine into it and report to the gov- j ernment, and our own Benjamin ; Franklin was one of them, and they j reported in favor of all the facts but j against all of the theories. After that, science found new i friends and made converts of such fa-1 moue men as Cuvier and La Place and | Agassiz and Sir. Wm. Hamilton and j Professor Hitchcock. They declared that there was a newly discovered force or principle connected with our being, and they named it 'Od/ and in? cluded animal magnetism, somnambu? lism and clairvoyance and exaltation of the senses. They declared that some persons were constitutionally j susceptible to this influence and otb- j ers were not, and that it has positive j and negative qualities like the poles of an electric battery and may be ac- ; cumulated in the system to a wonder fal degree. The experiments made by men of j science were so astonishing that a ! new commission of five learned men ! j was appointed in J 825 and they de? clared unanimously in favor of this mysterious power of man over man. Since that time there has hardly been an interval of 20 years that the world has not been exercised by more dis? coveries on this line. About40 years ago there were experiments in most every town, and we used to put per? sons to sleep and mesmerize them to our absolute control. I remember a little darkey named 'fobe that was a daily victim to Dr. Alexander and Dr. Gordon, of Lawrenceville and most any of us could make a machine of him in two minutes and stiffen his limbs j into iron and make him insensible to his own pain and sensible to ours. Ile had no taste or smell or feeling or sight but that of the person who mag- j netized him. We have seen these ! things too often to doubt, but they are still as mysterious as ever. 1 have j seen persons who could not write at all, write a good letter while blind folded and follow the lines and cross : t's with educated accuracy. Dr. Braid-j picked up an ignorant girl in New York, a girl who knew nothing of the Swedish language aud nothing of mu? sic and she was made to sing a Swe? dish song in public with-Jenny Lind, and she sang it well and gave the correct time and accent to the words. These things are hard to believe but they are not more wonderful than the sad experience of Governor Hampton j of South Carolina who told his own: story in the Charleston Press and said ? that while he was in Tallahassee, Fla , ! he saw in a vision of the night his dwelling in Columbia on fire and 6aw the effort to save his children from the upper windows, and was concious of ! every particular and hurried home to find it all true, even to the exact time and minute incidents. With all that has gone before, we have no right to sport with these things as we sport with frauds and tricks of legerdemain. If we cannot ex? plain we can wonder and wait. Not long ago, there was a man in Liver? pool who, the London Times sa>s, sat j, blindfolded in a dark -ed room sur-1 rounded by men of science and in his { mind followed one of them around several blocks and saw him hide a pin under a window blind, and he told where it was hidden while setting in his chair. You see he went double with that man. Ile got his identity. He swallowed him, as it were, and absorbed his will and his mental being. But this is enough and too much I reckon. Miss Lula may have more powers than she is aware of, and Pm going to wait and see. Certain it is that she is too young and her family too honest and humble to have plan- j ned any fraud or deception. BILL A RP. A Terrible Tragedy, HOT SPRINGS, ARK., Febnary 9. A terrible tragedy was enacted on the main street of this city this morning. At about ll o'clock three brothers named Frank, Jack and William Flynn were proceeding home in a hack. A party of seven men armed with double barrel shot-guns and Winchester rifles stepped from the door of a saloon and opened fire. The Flynns were armed, but the attack was totally unexpec? ted. Jack Flynn was shot through the forehead by a ball from a Win ! chester rifle and died in a few min? utes. William was shot through the breast and the wound will probably prove fatal. Frank received a shot j through the hand, inflicting a slight j wound. Frank Hall the driver of the hack, was shot through the nock, and died shortly afterwards. Robert Har? grave, a bystander, was shot through the breast, and will probably die. J. II. Craig, a prominent lumberman, I received a charge of buckshot through j the back, and his condition is con- j eidered precarious. The difficulty I originated some weeks ago in an ef? fort of Frank Flynn to prevent one Doian from opening a gambling! house, lt culminated at the time by Doran making a cowardly attempt to j assassinate Flynn, failing in which he j tied the city. He returned a few j nights ago, but Flynn was unaware , of 1rs presence in the city until j the fatal volley opened on him. The j seven meu svho did the shooting j were arrested, and aie now in jail. | The most intense excitement pre? vails, and strong threats of lynching the prisoners are made. The citizens I arc loud in their condemnation of the | murder. Judge Wood has been tel- j egraphed to by thc leading citizens requesting him to adjourn court at ? Malvern and return here and hold a j special session to try the murderers. If j he consents the law will probably beal- j lowed lo take its course. If not, the ! citizens boldly threaten to burn the jail and han? the prisoners. i What Our Editors Say. Greenville New*. Wendell Phillips was probably as bod and dangerous a man as the United States ever produced, and wc see no cause for anything but a sigb of relief at his death. Ile was a boru fanatic without the courage of fanaticism, for he was ever ready to urge a war and never ready to engage in it himself. He did his utmost to arouse hatred against the South and to excite thc Federal soldiers aud negroes to the most diabolical excesses, but he always care? fully shunued thc vincinity of Confed? erate bullets. There are some dead whom it would be blasphemous hypo? crisy to speak only good of, aud he is oue of them. Picken* Sentinel. Fitz John Porter, who commanded a portion of the Federal army at the second battle of Manassas, and who was court-martialed for disobedience to or? ders and dismissed the service, and made the scape-goat for Pope's incom? petency, has been seeking redress at the hands of Congress for many years. Recent investigations have proven that Porter was innocent of the charges brought against him, and that he was not responsible for the defeat of Pope's army in that battle. A bill to restore him to the army and remove thc stig? ma from his military character, has been before Congress for several years, but no ffnal action has ever been taken upon it until last week, when it came up in the lower house and was passed by an overwhelming majority. The Senate will probably pass the bill, and after 21 years Fitz John Porter will have his great wrong righted. It is said that the bill would have passed before uow had he not been a Democrat. South Carolina Industries. Wilmington Star. The prosperity of our neighboring State, South Carolina, is full of en? couragement. The exhaustive review published by the Charleston Ne>r$ and Courier of the resources of each county is interesting and enterprising. The recuperation is remarkable. South Carolina was probably the worst govern? ed and worst plundered of all thc South? ern States after thc war. Political op? pression and rascalities threatened to ruin the people for all time. And yet they scorn to have recovered and made progress. This recuperation is not the work of fifteen or eighteen years as io Virginia and some of the States, but it has been done in some five or six years. Our Place. Newberry Herold. We are inclined to ask whether it would not be a good thing for the South to take care of the States and let the nation take care of itself. We have stood in line with the national Demo? cratic party for years, or rather we have blindly followed the lead of that party ; we have sneezed when it took snuff; wc have fought its battles and done its drudgery; we have furnished three fourths of thc electoral strength of the party, and shouted, till we were hoarse, for Northern nominees; and it is high time to change this all-work-and-no pay program. The South is expected to do all these things, but she is not. even allowed to 'tail the ticket,' or to open her mouth in thc nominating con? ventions. There arc always specious arguments to show why the ticket should be composed of Northern men, Western mea and Eastern men, but never a Southern man. We have no idea that a Southern man would give sufficient weight to the ticket to enable it to win, but we are equally far from believing that he would take much weight from it. Judged by results, the Democratic ticket has had little weight, these twenty years-it has invariably 'gone up * We have small faith in those political prophets who predict Democratic success in the near future, and wc fear that their pro? phecy is born of desire ; but., while thc fun is going on, we Southerners ought to have at least thc satisfaction of toss? ing up our hats and shouting for a Southern nominee. A Southern candidate for Vice Presi? dent would excite some enthusiasm in the South, though he might not come within drum-beat of victory. And, apart from the novelty, we think we are entitled to some of the meagre hou ors of thc party. Mr. Morrison's Tariff Bill. Kew York Times. Mr. Morrison's bill is an honest, simple, practical attempt to jelieve the people of burdens which rest on every industry, every trade, every household and individual in the land. It is not a theorist's bill ; it is not in effect, though it may be in intent, a political bill, and it cannot be made one except by thc mistaken conduct of party leaders. It does not receive the support of the Democrats as a party, nor reflect their views or policy or tendencies, lt is bit? terly opposed by a powerful faction iu the partv, and cannot now be ciaimed as a Democratic measure. It does re? present substantially thc views of a large part, if not of thc groat majority, of the Republican party, lt starts j from the Morrill tariff. It stops short ' of the avowed intention of thc last Re? publican Congress. It is proposely 1 framed to meet thc position to which thc Republicans are committed. There : is no reason why it should not receive the support of conservative Republi- ' cans, except that it comes from a Demo- ?1 craLic source, and thc fact would, by j! such support, bc deprived of all political j : significance or effect. Regarding tho ( principal and expressed inteution of the : bill-and if it be found, on examina? tion, not to eouform to these, it can be made to do so-it is the plainest dictate of duty and policy to adopt it. If, on the other hand, the Republi? cans oppose it utterly, or if they offer in i place of it some such foolish device as j the abolition of the sugar duty, they I mu8t suffer the penalty of conspicuous j folly and bad faith. They will then j force thc Democrats into the position of j moderate and practical reform, and as- j sume for themselves thc indefensible position of indiscriminate support of high taxes for the benefit of a few fa? vored interests. No sane man caa doubt what the choice of the taxpayiug voters would bc between parties holding these respe rtive positions. ' It is idle now to talk of making the issue between free-trade Democracy and Republican* protection. The Morrison bill is nof free trade, and opposition to it is not, in any decent sense, the support of pro? tection. Thc bill is, in effect, a moder? ate and conservative attempt to deal with tho actual and pressing needs of the business of the couutry. By treat? ing it fairly and intelligently the Repub? licans can serve the country with ocr harm to their own party and no decided advantage to their opponents. 13y bliud adherence to the tariff as it is, ex? orbitant and oppressive, partial and un? just, they can do themselves great in? jury and greatly help their oppooentsv Cl?n. Grant. Chronicle ond Const?uiionalist'. If we arc to credit what appear to fte authoritative reports as to Gen. Grant*? conditiou, that eminent person is eith? er very near the end of his life journey or he can remain upon the stage of ex? istence only tbs physical and mentar mockery of his former self. The acci? dent that befell him would not have amounted to anything very serious had the General been a healthy maa. Ifc now is evident that he was really dis? eased and radically so. His liver andi' kidneys are badly involved, and the physicians are striving with a poor show of encouragement to reduce theso refractory organs to a normal condi? tion. We suspect that the General, by high living and drinking since thy war, and almost constant narcotization with tobacco, has hopelessly iujured the mechanism of his stomach. His blood has become deteriorated and he now finds himself in the condition almost universally ascribed to persons who can? not stand shocks to their system or re? sist them successfully as temperate in? dividuals do. If the Geueral has a good margin of rallying power in his constitution, he may recover and be no worse, so to speak, for his sickness. If that margin be exhausted or incapable of repair, he will not long survive or what remnant of life he has will be worse than death. The grim spectre of paralysis haunts him. and the crutch is, in case of survival, destined to bc bi? future companion. Possibly General Grant himself would rather die than exist for any length o? time as a para? lytic. We suspect that an immoderate use of tobacco has menaced the great commander with imbecility as it wreck? ed and killed General Frank Blair. Tlte potent Virgiuia weed bas becomo the conqueror of the conqueror. - mm ???????-> News and Gossip. Mr. A.B. Williams, of thc Green? ville News, has been made Chief of the Fire Department in Greenville, Chief Kennedy having declined to serve. The number of commercial travelers in the United States ts, according to statics, 200,000. The average cost to thc employers is ?3,000 for each sales? man, or an aggregate of ?600,000,000 per annum. At a recent ball in Atlanta a new figure was introduced, which caused quite a sensation. It was the figure of an irate parent who took his son by thc ear and waltzed him out of thc ball? room in a quick-step movement. J. S. C. Blackburn was chooscn for Senator in the Democratic Caucus of the Kentucky legislature. Ile receiv? ing (53 votes to 57 for Cerro Gordo Williams Speaker Carlisle's name was withdrawn before the final rote was taken. The agent and operator of the South Carolina Railway at Fort Motte, Orangeburg County, Sheetz by name, disappeared several days ago with about ?000 of the company's money. Tho fact of the loss was kept quiet and offi? cers were put on the track of the d?faut ter, but he has not yet been captured. The contract for furnishing the tax books and blanks for the present year was lately awarded by the Comp? troller-General to thc Presbyterian Publishing House, of this city, they being thc lowest bidders for the same. For some years this work, involving a good deal of printing, ruling and bind? ing, has been done in Charleston. The row amoRg the women of Wash? ington over the question of precedence is supremely silly. If the statesmen of the country cannot keep their wives from squabbling in public, they had better send the whole cackling flock of them home to dispute with nurse-maids for precedence in weilding the slipper. Fred Donglass finds that his ago does not exempt bim from the rude shocks that so often follow close upon love's young dream. Miss Sprague, his house-keeper having since his mar? riage brought suit against him to recov* er for services for twelve years. The sum that Louisa demands is ?2,$80. a pretty large figure to pay for marrying the wrong woman. A pearl necklace owned by a New York lady is valued at ?100,000, and yet the pleasure she derives from wear? ing it is as skim milk beside golden cream when compared with the pleas? ure thc Dakota girl experiences while wearing a necklace composed of a strong, honest arm. This is semi-of? ficial, but it can be relied on as being correct. It. is a subject of curious speculation, ?ays a Washington note, in the Senate wing that the officers of thc Senate are forbidden to give out tho names of tho Senatorial Secretaries. Who is a Sen? ator's Secretary will hereafter be a State secret. This was found necessarry to rovpr nepotism and to permit the allow? ance for a secretar}- to go to a coach? man or bar-keeper or to thc Senatorial pocket. The Aiken Recorder, says, ?More bacon has beeu raised in Aiken county this year than in any two previous years since thc war, and the hogs weigh more and thc meat is of a finer quality than usual. The reason is evident. Thc hogs have been well fed at small expense, right under thc master's eye. This is one of thc blessings of the stock law.' What report can Marion make on this greasy subject?-Pee Dec In? dexe,