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VAttngggR WATCHMAN, Established April, IS SO. idated Aug. 2, 1881.1 "Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at. be thy Country's thy God's, and Truth's.' SUMTER, S. C., TUESDAY, APRIL 8,1884. THE TRUE SO?THKON, Established Jnh?, 186?. Sew Series-Vol. III. 3i<h 36. |*?:**ttfcHafcod every Tu?3?ay5 ^^/?.-r-r -BT TBK ^WeUchman and Southron Puhlislnng Company |^^:4;^tE?/'s. 'c. ' ' ^ .. TERMS ! ^ ?w^JD^Ilirs per annum-in advance. ???? ?TX*TIS?*SXT8. t^ O^^ware. first insertion..................$1 00 ^,:lrt?^>o^seq<?eat insertion...... 50 "r; Contracts for three months, or longer will r W orn?e at reduced rutes. A&eo??Qmc*tk>ns which subserve private ?f??Ntts will be charged for es advertisements. ?5 e?*roarres ?nd tributes of respect will be ^ir-'3tarri?c? notices and notices of deaths pub V^?^; jt? '.?ocie or contracts for advertising ???PpjetO? Watchman, and Southron, or applv at p*?-Q?ce;to N. G. OSTEEN, -^3H4?? Rosiness Mapsger. Absolutely Pure? ?&r* never varies. A martel, of ^?treopth and wholesomeness. More' -?Convoikal tbnn the ordin?r j kinds, xnd can net be sold in cc-mpetitiou with the multitude si???bw tesi, short weigh t, alum or phospba te [n?w&eu Sold ont* mains. ROYAL BAK "$ERQO^ 106 WsJl-st., N. Y. : . ' Send 25 centSTo THIS ' fi iil'lfcllP OFFICE for a copy of a. ' ^JtfVglf-^W* C new horte book which ??ojE treats of all diseases -'- T* ^m*~^m* of the horse, and is ; " ^ .thoroughly illustra ?. ted??iti? $j Seo ffjprwrangs, showing the posi aJsoned by sick horses better than can ^-;i%>'^ r be taught in any other -i^ffiifli . number of valuable ^^^Slf'wH recipes, most of which *^ were originated by ./.'".. the author, and never before pot Jn print. It is pronounced, the best. -v tWjjfcoTtt published for The price, and some ; ' _' ? prominent horsemen -...Aff; / ?t' HCf hove said thev preferr V i ?r red it to books which cost $5 and $10. AGENTS WANTED. This valuable nook will be presented free iooH new subscribers to the Watchman and '. y<W>t,e?. who pay fer coe year in advance, JW? also to old sobscrihers who pay all arrears sod * year in advance. SUCCESSFUL REMEDY ever disco veted as it is certain in its effects and does m>t blister. Read Proof Below. From Ou "Spiritof the Times," Dre. 22,^83. ts Admitted there is a great ad vance in - ?cienre wiih'm the past decade, yet 'sd?-cely believe that a spavin cure is possible. Fortunate indeed, however, is it for the poor horse suffering from lameness of :t?ns kind rjjuit Kendall's Spavin Cure has ?"fcWjn' disc0 rtr*dy as it is certaiu ic its effects . codi has worked wonders in thousands of such caw.? Send for illustrated catalogue, giving - positive proof, abo for sample copy of Ken dalT* Treatise on the B?rse and his Diseases ; Wtttfsee. Price of the Spavin Core, $1. Ad? dress pr. B.-J. Kendall Co., Prop rie toi s, Koosburgb Falls, Vt. ' *"* ' .Fr*m the "Spirit cf Ike -Times," Nov. 17,83. The: snCcefcsful treatment of ringbones, op&vias, and joint lameness bas not been ' prevalent in the veterinary profession, but we find that Dr. Kendall bas discovered a remedy for sncb troubles that is doing noble workeverjwhere. This remedy is certain in its effects, and does not blister, but it has a magic*! effect in reducing the enlargement and driring oat the lameness, as hundreds of testimoni?is prove.. Price Si. For sale by druggists every where, ?od br Dr. B. J. Ken? dall Co., Eoosborgh Falls, Vt. JCBTOALL'S SPAYIN CTJBS. ON HUMAN FLESH. NOKTKVILLK, DAKOTA, NOV. 20, 18S3. Dr. B. J Kendall & Co., Dear Sirs :-En? closed please fi nd 25 cts. for your book enti? tled *A Treatise on the Horse and hi? Dis es?es.' You maj look for more orders in fefuire if it is as advertised. Your Spavin Cnn works wonderful with rheumatism, re? lief is immediate, sod its action permanent. Beery person ought to have a bottle of it. Have bad no occasion to use it on my horses yet, bot too much can .not .'be said of its re markable effects on naman fltsh ! used that pot op for horses, and its effects were truly remarkable. Please send the books as soon os possible and oblige. Yours truly. A E. BROWN. Price $1 per bottle or 6 bottles for $5. All druggists bare it or can get it for you, or it will be seat to any address on receipt of j -price by the proprietors, Dr. B. J. Kendall & Co., Eeosbtrrgh Falls, Vt. SOLP ST JLLL PSTOSISTS. E. ?? KICKER & CO., . SUMTER, S. C., DEALERS IN FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC Liquors, Wines, Tobacco and Cigars. We have now the largest and best selected stock of ever offered in Sumter. Pure N. C. ?0RN WHISKEY and pure N. C. APPLE BRANDY a speciality. Try oor JOHN MCCULLOUGH CIGAR and BLUE JEANS TOBACCO. Parties io need of soy goods in our line jj w31 sore money by giving ns a call. REMEMBER THAT WE UV ACANTEE SATISFACTION os to quality ?nd price. \ one door North ifs of the Bed _mu - ? ? i-i-i WT "ONE YEAB ?G?7 What ?tars have faded from oor sky, What hopes unfolded bnt to die? What dream so fondly pondered o'er Forever lost the hues they wore f How like a death knell sad and slow, Toils through the soul 'one year ago.' Where is the face we loved to greet ; The form that graced our fireside seat, Th? geotle smile, the winning way, That blessed our life path day by day ; Where fled those accents, soft and low, That thrilled our hearts 'one year ago.' Ah ! vacant is the fireside chair, The smile that woo, no longer there ; From door and ball, from porch and hall The echo of that voice is gone ; And we who linger only know How much we lost 'one year ago.' Beside bis grave the marble white Keeps silent guard by day and night, Serene be sleeps, nor heeds the tread Of footsteps o'er his lowly bed ; His pulseless breast no more may know The pangs of life 'one year ago.' But woy repine? A few more years, A few more broken sighs and tears, ' And we, enlisted with the dead, Shall follow where his steps have led ; To that far world rejoicing go To which he passed 'one year ago.' [ A11 a n ta Constitu don.] Betsy Hamilton's Letter. ?-->? . "IN TIME O* MEET/IN'." DKAR COUSIN : The fourth Sunday is Uncle Hagaas day-in-course at the Cross Roads. Most ever'body wants to go some*? on a Sunday, and a big crowd ingtonerly getbers over thar to meetin'. Some goes jist to have some place to go-"hontio' np Sunday," as Jake Loftis said to buddy when he met him gwine to see Maliody Jane Trot? man. He didn't want to tell no body whar he was a gwine. Baddy ax? ed bim, says he: 'Whar you bound for Jakef ?Oh! I don't know. Tm jist a brawn* around nuntin' op Sun? day/says she. Some folks goes to m e e t i o ' to see and be seed, aud to whisper and giggle, and some to go to sleep ; and then agio thara others that goes for the p'jore good Of - the preachin'. Old G ran maw Gooden . bas got the right name; to be shore she goes to sleep some times in rueetin' but she hears more of the sarmoot than half of 'em that stays awake all the time. Old man Madison allers goes oil to sleep while they are singiu' the fast Lime, and snores with his mooth wide open the endarin' time of preachin*, and never wakes ap tel they let in on the doxology ; when be rubs bis eyes and smacks his moth so load you can hear him all over the house. But he allers says: *Wal, wal, thafs about the best sa noon t ever I listened at/ Old Miss Pink ney nods too-they say its bekase she eats so mach. Old ?rtninty Pon? der grass is the great tenor singer, and comes oat two words behind tothers on ever* line, and bold ou tight to the last word tel she looks all around to see if ever'body sees ber. Old Miss Green and old Miss Fresh ou rs dips snuff, and whispers, and old Miss Simmons allers manages to git close to 'ero, and puts in a word once't and a while, sich as : 41.say it! You dou't sesso? I never hearn tel o' the like ! Well, I wished I may die!* etc., like it was all mon? strous strange and bran new, when mebbe its oothiu* more'u she's hearn all ber life. The little boys whisper and giggle, and sometimes git to scuffiiu' over a string or a taw marvel, or a hickery whistle. The big boys scribbles in the hime books, whittles on the benches, and chaw tobacco add spit on the floor. Old Brother Jeremiah Cole had been axed to preach that day, bat Uncle Hagan sung the fast song through by bis self (he allers does,) then he lined oat another for t'others to sing. Broth? er Cole hadn't farly sot in good on his sarmoot tel two dogs got to fightin' over a chicken leg that one of 'em had snatched oat'n little Gabe Thump's son's band. Old man Simpson is pow? erful long legged,-he riz his foot and sot op a turible howl amongst 'em. He kicks oat all the dogs ever Sunday, and Gooden's dog has got so he yelps and moves the minute he sees Old Simpsou start, toward him. Old Broth? er Cole * pea red to bc used to dogs, and to babies yellin* too-be preaches right on io spite of 'em, and old Sister Strong she sot in to shoutin'-she aliers shouts whether its time to shout or not, and the loader she shouted that day, the loader he preached. This is his SA RMONT : 'My beloved bretheriug and sistering I've como out'o the pulpit bekase I don't mean to preach no reglar Burmont. I don't aim to take no reglar text. While yoa'ans was a singin* of that song, these words come into my mind : *Go to the ant thou sluggard.' Now bretbering, I aint shore whether them words is io the bible or no, bat I will endeavor to tell you all I know about the meanin* of 'em. First, bretberiog, that part whar it says: 'Go to the ant.' Now, brethefing, if some of you haint got no aunt to go to, you needn't think your ancle will do jest as well, fur he won't, ar. If you're in trouble don't go to no man to help you oat'n it ; that's why it in pertickler says your aunt bekase it means a woman, ar. Now, if you baiot got uo aunt of your own to go to, why you must go to some good old 'oman you call aunt, and she ?ill help you git out'n your trouble, ar. Bretheriog, right thar, I'll relate a little yarcantstance. When I was a boy no big'rn that little boy over thar in the cornder, why I was the outda cionsest boy in the whole settlement, for all you see. me a preacher now. Why, I robbed all the bird's nests I could lay bands on. I clam the highest trees to git 'em ar, and I stole water millions, and them I didn't steal I cut open open in the patch ar, and left the fence down bretbering, so the hogs could git in and devastate ar. I cut my mammy's warp thread ar, in her loom ar; I hid her spectacles ar, and was the occasion of ber a cussin' of me about it ar, thar by causing a second person to sin ar, which is wusser bretbering than to a cast, myself ar. To this day, brethering, it fetches the water to my eyes to think about it ar, bat I tell you bretberiog, in them days ar, she fotch the water from my eyes ar ; bat breth? ering and sistering too, it was not on account of the cassin ar, bat from the seasoned biokry that she kept for the pnroose ar. Hit was ar, on a occasion like this, bretbering when she had flog? ged me tel I was mighty nigh out'n breath ir, that these words come into my mind I ar : Go to your aunt ar, so I run awa; j brothering ar, and swam across th ! creek ar, to my aunt ar. I went a bel lowing and a ervin' ar, and when I go thar, my clothes was wet ar, and mud dy with the creek water ar. I snubbei and cried ar. and told her that I bat been beat like like a dog ar, and breth ering thats why I tell you to go to you ! aunt ar, bekase bretberiog she neve uphelt me in none of roy devilment ar although I was as wet as a dog ar, ant had been beat wusser'n a bonne] doj ar, she tuck me in her bouse ar ; I wa a ervin' ar, and a hollerio' ar, and sin stuck a ginger cake in my mouth ar and lhat stopped the ervin' ar. Thei she turned in, she did ar, and put ; par of my uncle's pautloons on me ant one of his coats ar Of course the] was too big for roe ar, but they mad roe look solemn like ar, and as I so and hushed a ervin' ar, and eat the gin ger cake ar, my beloved brether?og shi sot'down she did and told me how to di ar. my hearers she told me to preacl ar, she tock a bolt of my baud and saic how se ncc I was dressed up in then clothes ar, I looked so much like tbi old mao that used to preach for hei some thirty years ago in old Georgy that she knowed I could preach ar; si I tuck her advice brothering, apd yoi see if it hadn't a been for my aunt ] i never would have been a discoursin* tc you to-day ar. I know some of you'um ! ain't as high larnt as I am, and fur th* j benefit of them which haint got the edi ! fication that I've been blessed with, Tl splauify what that part of the tezl means whar it says 'thou sluggard. We will siparate the words, fust 'thou my beloved hearers is a Greek work and means 'you' ar, and 'sluggard/ i: a Latin word.and means 'boy' ar, and not only boy, but a bad boy ar. Il means jest the kind of a boy I was in them days ar, when I wasn't afeard ol nothin' on the face of the livia'' yeth ar. Maoy is the time brothering when I've been at school ar, in the long sum? mer days ar, when the teacher'd jerk me up to whale me ar, for killing flies ar, and cbawio' up piper in little wads ar, and fiingin' of 'em agin the wall ar-as I was a gwine on to say ar, he'd jerk me up suddeot ar, and with every lick he'd fetch ar, he'd call roe a 'sluggard* ar, and thats why my be? loved brothering, I larnt so yearly in life the roeanin' of the word ar. Now my brothering and sistering I've tried to tell you the trae meanin' of the text ; I've tuck it up and showed it to you, what each part meant ar ; so now you understand what is meant by 'go to the ant' aud you also understand what is meant by 'thoa sluggard.' Now io conclusion my brothering you must take it alltogether, and the advice of the text, the whole text arr *Go to the aunt thoa sluggard,' which means, go to your aunt you hoy, or in other words, you bad boy ar, and you must not give up and git dowu-hearted when you git iu trouble ar, for look at me ar. I followed the words of the text ar, I went to my aunt ar, and if it hadn't a been for my aunt ar, I'd a never been the preacher you see me to-day ar Finally brothering and sistering,, all of you that feels that you've been benefit? ed by what you're "hearn to-day ar, make it known by givin* me your right hand ar, and, all them what's hardened agin it I leave 'em to their own resec? tions ar. 3|C s)? ?je ?j* 5jC - 3$C Most ever'body went op and gin him ther right hand, and some of 'em cried tumble. We'uns rid critter back thar that day -me and Caledony and Malindy Jane ; and we al] ketched a beau a piece gwine back. I and Iky Roberson rid togeth? er ; Cap Dewberry, he rid longer Cal? edony, he axed me for my company but Iky was ahead of bim, and Jake Lof ti s he rid with Malindy Jane, and when we got out in the big road, I and Iky was behind totbers and Cap he hollered back 'Less all race ; Iky he lowed, 'Waal,' and gin me the hint to let 'em race if they was a mind to but we wouldu't. We'uo8 taken our time and rid slow ; Iky ailers wants plenty of time when he is long'er me. No more at the present, Yourn, BETSY HAMILTON. Topnoody. Air. Topnoody sat at the supper ta? ble Tuesday evening as his wife clear? ed away the things, and after a mo? ment's silence he remarked ; "My dear, do you know what day the day after to morrow will be ?" "Of course I do ; it's Thursday." "I don't mean that, my dear. Do yon know what anniversary it will be ?" "I don't recall." "Why, my dear, don't you know that it is the anniversary of our mar? riage ?" Ou that day, thirty-five years ago, we were made man and wife and-" "And I've had a grudge against that preacher ever since," interrupted Mrs Topnoody. "And," he continued, not noticing it, "since that day, hand in hand, we have gone along the pathway of life, gathering its thorns and its floweis, bearing one another's burdenf and sharing one another's happiness. Whatever of sorrow we may have had, my dear, has been lightened by dividing it between ns, and whatever of joy has been doubled by a mutual possession." "That sounds like you had been reading a novel, Topnoody." "No dear, it is merely the out? growth of a pleasant retrospection. Do you know, my dear, it seems to me but yesterday since I saw the orange blossoms in your hair, and heard the music of the mystic words which joined two hearts and lives in a unity blessed of Heaven. Has time sped on winged feet for you, my dear?" "Not hardly, Topnoody." "But dear, how long do the joyous moments seem to you ?" "Well, Topnoody, I haven't figur? ed it out quite "as fine as hours and moments, but taking it in a lump, I should say it had seemed about four thousand yeats. I might throw off an hour or two on an exact calcula-1 tion, but no more than that, Top-1 noody." Mr. Topnoody didn't ask for an ex- j act calculation.-Merchant Traveller. , A Talk With El Mahdi. [Condensed from the Kansas City Star.] Dr. Irvin B. Tenny, a widely travel? ed and highly cultured gentleman of I Baltimore, Md., who has been visiting j i for some weeks with friends here, is | I perhaps the only American who ever j saw El Mahdi. Said Dr. Tenny yes? terday : *I saw him tn 1878, before be was heard of outside his own province, ! and I shall never forget the profound impression he made upon me. lt was j oue evening, while I was near Seunaar, j traveling with Rufob, my interpreter. El Mahdi was then a mau of, I should j judge, thirty-four, and although he j stood some sis feet high he was so spare I doubt if he would have weighed 130 pounds. His complexion was dark olive, bis beard coal black and his eye deep set and piercing. His bearing was severe and there was .undeniably j that intangible something called mag- . j netism about the man. He was cloth- j j cd in simply a white tunic that left the arms partly exposed and fell from a belt j at the waist straight to the feet, j ! Around his head was a many-folded- j tunic. 'He gave a keen glance at my Eu- ! ropean.costume and then assumed his apparently vacant gaze straight ahead. 'I had never seen a real prophet be? fore and was rather embarrassed to know what to say. Finally, in sheer j desperation, I told Rufob to tell him ! that I came from across the sea where j we have no prophets. 'I am not a prophet,* he replied j I through the interpreter;. 'I ara the | mouth of Allah/ j ?What is the faith you teach ?' I asked of the mouthpiece of the Deity, j 'That Allah will give his people what j ! belongs to them.' 'The Prophet scrutinized me sharp- j ly and surmising that he might take me j for a spy sent there to pump on his ' political views I changed the channel j of my inquiry. 4What is man's great? est fault?' I asked. 'From the phrase that Rufoh used I believe the Prophet understood me to j ask what was man's greatest tendency j or inclination, and answered: 'To gratify his vanity.' 'I put the question again and after j pondering a moment he said : 'Selfishness.' 'These struck me as rather broad views for a humbug Pagan seer to en- i tertain and 1 asked him what he con? sidered the future of his creed" and country. 'There is one God, one Prophet and one people,' he said ; we will cover thc j face of thc earth.' j 'There are several million people in j the world,' I suggested. 'There are millions of drops in the ! river, but they come at last to one sea.' j 'Where do you hold converse with j the Diety ?' I ventured. 'The Prophet looked at me proudly j and exclaimed in a loud tone defiantly ' for the benefit of the crowd : .I am with Him always ! He is I, and I am He !' 'At this the crowd of natives began ! uttering loud cries and a great many j of them threw themselves upon the j ground. We were silent for a moment, j and he took up the strain of questions. ; '.Where does my lord live Y \ .Across the waters. Two hundred times as far as from here to Cario,' I replied at a venture. j 'The Prophet pondered for some ? time over this immensity of space and then asked : ' What is this water like ?' 'This rather stumped me and finally I pointed up to the sky and told him that if it was reversed it would be something like the ocean. A flash of intelligence shone in his eyes and he I nodded gravely. 'How many people are there in your country ?' j ' .Millions and millions, rich and hap- ? _ _ > py The prophet evidently regarded this j as a deep-dyed falsehood and signified j with a wave of his hand that the inter- ! view was at an end. Turning then to j the natives, he addressed them iu a j dull, one-keyed voice that grew loud- j er and louder in pitch, with strauge I and sudden breaks, when he stopped j altogether, and closing his eyes, seem? ed to be in a trance. While he wa? in I the midst of this extraordinary pro- j ceeding Rufoh all ouce clutched my ! sleeve and hurried me off ' Diamond Cut Diamond. A rustic looking man sat in the smoking car of the Omaha train last Monday night, when another rural looking person came in. "Is this seat taken ?" asked the new : comer. "No. sir ; sit right down, sit right ? down," said the other, making room \ next him. Soon the two old farmers were in ! conversation. "Where are you from ?" "I live near Buda. Where do you ! hail from ?" j "Fm a pretty near neighbor of j yours ; live near Kewanee." "Farming?" ? "Yes. Are you ?" "Yes ; fanning and stock." "Been to town with 6toek ?" 'Yes ; brought up a hundred head of ; steers.' - "I brought hogs." And so the conversation ran on un? til just before the train reached Men- i dota, and the two old fanners were ? right well acquainted. Presently an- : other man, who looked like a mer? chant, came in and waa surprised to I see one of the old farmers. "Well, well, well," said the new | man, "I'm glad to seo you ; maybe ! you can help me out of a little em bar- ? rassing trouble. I want to pay a man j a little bill on the train before I get j off at Mendota and I haven't enough, j If you'll let me have $100 on my; check I'll be very much obliged." "Certainly, I'm glad to do it," and ! out came the farmer's pocket-book, j But, alas 1 he had only $40 in small j bills and a beautiful crisp $500 bill, j "You're perfectly welcome to the ! $40 if that'll help you out, or to the $500 if you can get it broken." j "Perhaps your friend can help us ! out ; the $40 will hardly answer," ? said the merchant, and then apologized for making so much troubl?. "Well," said the farmer, who until now, had been silently looking on, "I can't change a $500 bill, but I can give you another for it, and 1 think it came out of the same batch and was printed on the 6ame press." And turning to the oilier old farm? er, he added : "Ifyour partner hadn't comeju8t as he did, mine would have been here in a minute. I've been getting ready to' work you on the same game ever since we left Chica go." At Mendota four very much dis? gusted confidence men stepped off the train, and stood around in the cold, waiting for a train returning to Chicago. - - - - - A Pleasant Picture. A Graphic Description of a Man's Life Before and after Marriage. You grow unusually amiable and kind ; you are earnest in your search of friends ; you shake hands with your office boy as if he were your second cousin. You joke cheerfully with the stout washerwoman and give her a shilling overchauge and insist upon her keeping it, and grow quite merry at the recollection of it. You tap your hack man on the shoulder very familiarly and tell him lie is a capital fellow, and don't allow him to whip his horses, ex? cept when driving to the postoffice ; you ask after the health of his wife. He says he has no wife-whereupon you think him a very miserable man and give him a dollar, by way of con? solation. You think all the editorials in the morning papers are remarkably well written, whether upon your side or upon another. Ton think the stock mar- \ ket has a very cheerful look, with Erie-of which you are a large holder down ro seventy-five. You wonder why you never admired Mrs. Ilemans before, or Stoddart, or any of the rest. You give a pleasant twirl to your fingers as you sauuter along the street, and say not so loud as to bc overheard : -"She is mine! she is mine!* You wonder if Frank ever loved Nelly one half as well as you love Madge. You feel quite sure be never did.' You can hardly conceive how it is that Madge has not been seized be? fore now by scores of enamored men and borne off, like the Sabine women in Roman history. You chuckle over your future like a boy who has fcund a guinea in groping for six-pences. You . read over the marriage service, think? ing of the time when you will take her hand and slip the ring upon her finger and repeat after the clergyman: 'For. richer, for poorer, for better, for worse !'-a great deal of 'worse' there will be about it, you think ! Through all your heart cleaves to that sweet imsgc of the beloved Madge as light cleaves to-day. The weeks leap with a bound and the months only grow long when you approach that day which is to make her yours. There are no flowers rare enough to make bouquets for her; diamonds are too dim for her to wear ; pearls are tame. -And after marriage-the weeks are even shorter than before. You wonder why on earth all the single men in the world do not rush tumultuously to the altar. You look upon them all as a travelled man will look upon some conceited Dutch boor who has never been beyond the limits of his cabbage garden. Married men, on the contra? ry, you regard as fellow-voyagers, and look upon their wives-ugly as they may be-as better than none. You blush a little at first, telling your butcher what 'your wife' would like ; you bargain with the grocer for sugar and teas and wonder if he knows you are a married man. ITou practice your new way of talk upon your office-boy; you tell him that 'your wife' expects you home to dinner-and are astonish? ed that he does not stare to hear you say it. You wonder if the people in the om? nibus know that Madge and you are just married/and if the driver knows that the shilling you hand to him is for 'self and wife.' l\ou wonder if " any? body was ever so happy before, or ever will be so happy agaiu. YTou enter your name upon the hotel register as 'Clarence-and lady,' aod come back to look at it, wondering if anybody else has noticed it, and thinking that it looks remarkably well. You canuot help thinking that every third man you meet in the hall wishes he possessed your wife, nor do you think it very sinful in him, to wish it. You fear it is pacing temptation in the way of covetous meu to put Madge's little gaiters outside the chamber door at night. Your home, when it is entered, is just what it should be-quiet, small, with everything she wishes, and noth? ing more than she wishes. The sun strikes it in the happiest possible way ; the piano is the sweetest toned in the world ; thc library is stocked to a charm, and Madge-that blessed wife-is there adorning and giving life to it all. To think, even of her possible death is a suffering you class with tho infernal tortures of the Inquisition. You grow twain of heart and purpose. Smiles seem made for marriage, and you won? der how you ever wore them before. -- mm ???????~mmm--.. Common Sense in the Post Office. A letter was on the 13th inst., sent from Norfolk to New York, being ad? dressed to New York instead of Rich? mond by mistake. On the 16th the letter was received in this city by the firm it fas intended for. On the en? velope are stamped these words : 'De? ficiency in direction supplied by New York Post Office.' Now, why cannot the same practical good sense bc shown by the department as to all letters V Why forward a letter to the Dead Let? ter Office because it. is directed to Kanawha Court House instead of Charleston, when the postal officials know that both names bolong to the same place ?--Richmond Dispatch. ----~^mmm>- -mmm^~ 'I pride myself on my descent,' said a spinster of uncertain age, recently. 'One of my ancestors came over with the Conqueror.' 'Which one was it,* cried a oruel wit, 'your father or your mother V What Our Editors Say. Greenville News. Speaker Carlisle's address to th Free Trade Club is so manly, clear and strong that there can no longer be an room for speculation as to his views. There is no skillful evasion or equi vocation about his remarks. He plain? ly tells the country that the tariff must be reformed and gradually reduced un? til it is a 'Tariff for public purposes.' Speaker Carlisle is not a violent reform? er. He deprecates revolution, but favors reformation. Let us hope that the platform adopted by the national convention will have as true a ring as the address of the Speaker. I State Conventions. Aiken Journal and Review. A number of our exchanges are ad? vocating the wisdom of holding only one State Convention for the comiog campaign, instead of two ; that is one in June for* nominating dele? gates to the National Conven? tion that meets in Chicago on the Sth of July to nominate Presidential candi? dates, the other to be held in August for the nomination of State officers. They argue that the June Convention can both nominate candidates, for the State officers and at same time the del? egates to the Chicago convention, and that by so doing it would be a saving of expense to the delegates. Forourselves we are heartily opposed to thc nomi? nation of the State officers in June, it would be the part of wisdom to wait un? til the campaign ha? fairly opened be? fore the State nominations are made ; and, as to the expense, that is a small matter, there are in every county plen? ty of men capable, willing and ambi? tious enough to pay their expenses as delegates to both conventions, if select? ed. Hon. S. E. Randall, Kershaw Gazelle. .We have not been among those who during his candidacy for the Speaker? ship were disposed to throw mud at this distinguished gentleman. But we fear from repute he is placing him? self ou the tariff issue in a very unevi able light. If it be true that he con? templates going with the Republicans to defeat the Morrison Bill be should bc dealt with: most summarily and forced either to support that bill, which is a party measure, or driven to seek alliance with the Republican party. We are loath to speak thus of a man who has beeu the friend of tho South when she needed friends, the foe of corruption and the advocate on all occasions of retrenchment and econo? my. If, however, he prefers to jeopar? dize ?he party which has honorod him in the past and is willing and ready to honor him in the future by turning his back on the Tariff issue and diving aid and comfort to the enemy, he must be handled without gloves, for the unity and success of the party are of too much cons?quence to permit any man, however pure his record or distinguish? ed his services, to wreck its future. As to how far too much agitation of the tariff may be wise is another question. This the party will decide, and if it will not down at anybody's bidding, but is thrusting itself iu a living momentous issue ou the country, then all true Democrats must accept the determina? tion of the party and act in accordance with it or leave its rauks. The time has certainly come for a bold, decided aud yet prudent course. Egregious Nonsense. Yorkville Enquirer. The most absurd idea possessed by a portion of the Democratic press, head? ed by the Ishmael Dana, of the New York Sun', which \< neither fish, flesh nor fowl, aud whose utterances on so vital a point as affecting Democratic prospects iu the South, should be taken with great allowance, is the effort to get. up a boom for Tilden as the next Democratic nominee for President. Two propositions, if no others could be adduced, render all the talk on the sub? ject absurdly ridiculous. First his age and bodily infirmity. If we mistake not, he is near, if not quite, 70 years of age, and all accounts agree iu repre? senting him as bodily infirm almost to helplessness. Secondly and more potently, if interviewers are to be re? lied upon, he has said, and reiterated the statement, that he does not wish the nomination and will not accept it if tendered. This should close the ques? tion aod remove all doubt in the premi? ses. But it does not. The AtlaDta Constitution of a late date contains what purports to bc an interview between one of the staff of that paper, and Mr. Til? den, io which the latter is made to say that he will not accept the nomination ; aud yet the very same paper is labor? ing industriously to manufacture a Til? den sentiment in Georgia. With all the needed physical qualifications for j thc office-his mental abilities are not | denied-we doubt if he would be ac ceptablc to a majority ? !' the Democratic j , party, and when he says emphatically . that he does not want the nomination, we think that political sentimentality is reduced to a fiue point by the persisten? cy in which his name is urged on the , plea that it is due to him, he having ! been defrauded out of his election eight years ago. We arc not pre- ( pared to say that he was not elected then ; but with this much in his favor to start with in the next Presidential campaign, ho would not prove an avail? able standard bearer. He did not en? thuse the Democracy to any great ex? tent eight years ago, and his nomina? tion now would fall upon the party fiat and ensure defeat, where, with a man adapted to the times, victory is possi? ble. Tariff Reform. Abbeville Jlress and Banner. The newspapers and politicians of Democratic persuasion are still talking of the tariff. About one-half of them seem to think the main thing is to play hide and seek, with an eye single to the office of President, while the other half seem disposed to declare for a principle and stick to it. We are in? clined to thc opinion that our people should be allowed to buy goods in the markets of the world without let or hindrance. We hope, then that the Democratic party may declare for free trade and bold fast to the faith, whether we win or not in 1884. The free trade doctrine is bound to win sooner or later, and if it never doe? win, it would be better to adopt a principle. A Wicked City. Mayor Rhett, of Columbia, has been | re-uoniinated for the same position I again. The preliminary canvass has ? been somewhat exciting and in the i course of the contest some very damag? ing things have been brought out as to the state of morality in Columbia. In a communication published in the Yeoman it appears that there are forty eight bar-rooms in the city, licensed and in full operation. The writer says : 'It is said that there are now 48 bar? rooms in full operation. What citizen from abroad will invest in real estate, aud bring their families here to enjoy the advantages of our system of educa? tion when he is informed that 48 bar? rooms are licensed by the City Coun? cil? The temptation of drink to young men and temptation of gaming make it more advantageous for parents to educate their children in the country where such pernicious habits will not be acquired.' But bar-rooms are not the only evi? dence of the sad state of affairs in the city. The young men are fast being debauch? ed und ruined by gaming. Even one gaming house, the writer says, *is a hot bed of ruin and destruction to tbe rising youth of the city.' A call is made upon the good and moral meu of the city to work against the continuance of this state of iniquity. Now if all the things are not exag? gerated Columbia is a bad place for young men. It is no suitable place for a school or college. There must be some truth in the allegations or the Yeoman which a respectable journal would not give them circulation. We are not surprised for such things are the natural outgrowth Of the bad exam? ple set by the State when money is' voted to keep up the State Fair where horse-racing aud other inducements to gamble are permitted dud encouraged. -Abbeville Medium. A New Year's Idyl. The Wadesboro (N. C.) Intelligen? cer says: A few miles from Chcraw Major McNeill keeps a country store, ind for some time he has had in his smploy as clerk a very estimable young mao of Chesterfield county. The young man, however, was lacking in one vir tue-courage. He was afraid of the womel: folks, and though he had long been enamored of a certain fair daugh? ter of Chesterfield, still he procrasti? nated. He called, and time and time again he dallied, and though be approached, yet he never touched the ill-important subject. At last the poor girl grew desperate. On the 24th ult., she got into her father's buggy and drove direct to Major McNeill's store, where she found her lover engaged in manipulating a sack of flour. She took bim apart from the crowd, and coming direct to the point said : Thomas, if you ever intend to marry me you must do so now. It is this day or never.' Thomas was more frightened than if he had heard the rumbling of subterranean thunder beneath his feet, but the sooth? ing accents of his charmer restored him and he stammered forth, 'Dunno, but I reckon so.' He dismissed the crowd, closed the store, scrambled into the bug?v and tLe two drove to Cberaw just in time to meet thc up train They boarded the train and came to Wadesboro, and in tbe Drake hotel at the depot they were that night made man and wife. lu the morning they returned to Cheraw, and now Major McNeil has two clerks instead of Dee. Trying his "New Gun. Tom O'Neil, aged "eighteen years, of I'oal Castle, a small mining patch ibout eight miles from Pottsville, Penn., ?lad a new fowling piece and took it jut to try it. He met a party of ?maller boys returning from church at Minnersville, who threw their hats in tlie air for him to shoot at. He tried ;o hit them several times, but failed. A.fter loading his piece again he shoul? dered it and was walking away. The boys laughed at him and offered them? selves as targets. At length O'Neil to scare them, he says, brought the piece up to his shoulder and exclaimed, Til shoot you.' Oue of the boys Patrick Mc An ny, aged fourteen, replied, 'jSlaze away.' O'Neil says he thought the gun was at half-cock and would not 50 off, but he pulled the trigger. The full charge struck MeAnuy in the face, md nearly tore halt' of his head off. He dropped dead, and his terror-strick? en companions were so frightened that they fled from the scene O'Neil went br a doctor, but medical aid was use? less. A Coroner's inquest was held, but the jury acquitted O'Neil of any blame. Ile was arrested, however, and after a hearing before a Justice was brought to Pottsville aud lodged in jail. - - ? ? - Old Spectacles. Mr. Wesley Washington, of this place, a day or two since, showed us a pair of spectacles worn by bis grand? mother. Mrs. Lean nah Nelson, of this' County, during the Revolution, aud are consequently more than a hundred years old. The frame is made of steel, and co?tai ns material enough to make haifa dozen pair of the present size. The eye-glasses are round and perfect? ly souud, without flaw or crack, the j glass being clear as crystal, and would yet do many year's service if called into use. - Lanrensville Herald. - - nan - -^mmwm^ 'Pap, how old was Adam when he was born ?' .Adam wasn't born. He was made by the Good Man, and he was made a young man." .Well. I'll bc dog-goned if I wouldn't like to know why the Good Mau didn't keep on making' 'em young men when they're horned, then a feller wouldn't have to rock the baby every time he wants to go out to play.' - amm *m^> - Two boys quarreling : 'My pa is a preacher and will go to heaven.' 'Yes, an* my pa is a doctpr an' cao kill your ole pa.'-Arlcansaw Traveler. News and Gossip. Sam Randall and Abram Hewitt do not speak to each other. One-half the haman family die nader seventeen years of age. Mrs. Mary Brown, widow of John Brown, of Harper's Ferry notoriety, died in San Francisco recently. There is an old-fashioned bar post in Union County that was made by John Savage, the man who fired the first gun at the battle of the Cowpens. A pair of knitted socks 2,000 years old bas been discovered in an Egyp? tian tomb. They are loosely knit of fine sheep's wool, and the foot is finish? ed in two parts to allow the sandal strap to pass between them. It takes more religion, cheek, bash? fulness, brass, cuss-words, patience and money to run a county newspaper than it does to conduct a national elec? tion.- Tattler. People talk about the 'new moon* when there isn't any new moon. Ia is the same old moon with a tallow dip nose, that has been circling around this world for ages. ; The Maying on of hands cure* is not the failure some persons believe it to be, many a wise and excellent mother has used it with great success in the treatment of a refractory offspring. Parson Newman, in his last sermon, called attention to the fact that the American people spend $S<*?0,000.000 annually on rum and only .$12,000,000 iu the support of the clergy. John O'Brien, the Republican ma chiue leader of New York, is describ? ed by one who chatted with him the other day : O'Brien is a young man of medium size, becoming a little stout, with dark eyes, a mixture of modesty and humor, his darkish hair now turn? ing a little gray, like bis moustache and he says they have grown gray in the service of the Republican party, being up all night to get votes and up nearly all next day to get abused.' Thu President has sent to the Senate the nomination of Aaron A. Sargent, now Minister to Berlin, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten? tiary to Russia, vice Wm. H. Hunt, deceased. Also. Robt. T. Clayton, of Georgia, to be United States Consul at Para, Brazil, and John ?gan to be postmaster at Pensacola, .Florida-. The Renate confirmed the nomination of ' Mr. Sargent to be Minister to Russia without referring it to any committee. Mr. Robert Conrad of Chester Coun? ty is farming in a way that would make the country rich, if generally adopted. He makes nearly everything he uses. He makes his corn, flour and bacon j also his own molasses, and some tc sell. He raises plenty of rice to nse as & daily article of food-not just a little to "set down when somebody comes." He gives employment to the busy bee and has enough of honey to eat and sell. He is also engaged in carp culture and expects soon to furnish his tabl? wit?i fresh fish. Women as Oyster Shuck?flg. The female shockers who pick ot?i the larger part of oyster meat at the* Fair Haven shops have bad plenty to do the past season. There bas been a good demand for stock, and in some of the shops the people have worked over time. The stock bas been in good or? der, so that the shuckers have not bad much trouble in their work. Shuckers* make from six to thirteen dollars per week. At the opening of the season, some dealers paid three and one-half cents per quart for opening, bot the general rate at present is three cents; same as last year. The ah acker* hqpif work at 7 o'clock in the mornm^^and" -T leave off at o ooo, excepting on Thurs? day and Friday, when they work until 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the largest shipments of the week being made on those two days. The shuckers furnish* knives, hammers, and cracking iron*. Most of the women are married. aon?e having worked twenty years for ote finn. Some can shuck one hundred quarts in ten hours. The shuckers measure the meets by beer measure, and dealers sell sro is by wine measure. The Providence shuckers are all men. Virginia plants and native stock open much easier than Virginia oysters, the latter having very thick shells, which are hard to crack. Providence shock? ers open by the stabbing process, driving the knife between the shelis upon tho ?ide. Women are not strong enough to shuck oysters in this manner. At Fair Haven the thin end of the oyster it placed on a cracking iron attached to ? block of wood, and the little iron ham? mer with two or three blows knocks off the end of thc shell, so that the thick, strong oyster knife is easily inserted between the shells, and by a dexterous twist the oyster is opened.-New ffavcr. Palladium. Crushed. .How stupid I am/ said Birdie McHennepin, languidly, executing at the same time quite a respectable yawn act. ?That's true,' remarked Gus Dc Smith, rather impulsively. .Sir!' exclaimed Birdie, 'you aro impertinent. " 'But you yourself just now asserted that you were stupid.' *I only said so without thinking,' said Birdie, petulantly. .Yes, and up to the time yon spoke I had only thought so without saving it.' Hang crape on the ?door of Mi?s Birdie. Another lover scratched off the list of one of the Austin belles. Texas Siftings. - mmm 11 - It is one of the ks rdest things in the world for a man who slips down 00 a banana peeling and tries to burst nj: a, whole section of the side-walk, to get up saying the Sunday school catcoltism. If you don't believe it try it and seo how it is yourself. In a recent ooo test between a man and woman, the former to thread a needle and the latter to sharpen a lead pencil, the man won ; time, 14 minutes and ll seconds. However it is fair to state that she might have beaten bad sh? not io the thirteen tb minute rsa out of lead pencil.