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WkM 5'.v. . .. .?...-* . .Xii - TfiK SUXTE^ WATCHMAN, Established April, 1S30 "3e 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, E?iaMli?lie<l Jun*. 1866. Consolidated Aug. 2, 1881.1 SUMTER, S. C., TUESDAY, MAY 6, 1884. New Series-Vol. III. So. 40. Published sTory Tuesday, L Tfefe&fltcci^ <#w?- Southron Publishing ?K .- Company, W ? ; '. SUMTER, S. C. Kr-: T?RMS; P Two Dollars per annum-in advance. J- AO 7 S ?.T I8?K?ST8. Oa?^ttarei.first ioser?ion...............00 : Brer j sobaequen t insertion. 50 ~. : i fbaXtpf? for threo-won?-as, or longer will Zftti?J* doced rxtes. AH communications which subserve private 5 . interests will b?tcharged for as ad ter tisemen ts. Obitcaries and tributes, of respect will be ? charged for. . -.Marriage notices and notices of deaths pub : ilsaod free. ; - job-work or contracts for advertising I *??fm& W<?tcfrwai4*d Southron, or apply at I tho Office, to N. G. OSTEE>% ? ? ^- . : Business Manager. Absolutely Pure. This powder never" varies. A marvel pf: ~ pnri^7?W?grt/- and' ^wholesomeness. More * ecottomieKHhiin the ordinary kinds, and can L'wot be sold in competition with the multitude . of low test, short weight, alum or phosphate ^.powders, i Soldvxlyinccms. ROYAL BAK |g tN?*?W*>?RCO., 10? Wall-st., N. Y. ? / Send 25 cents TO THIS Vii V OFFICE for a copy of a '" liavD L new horse book which TS? IV Vfl Bm^9 E, treats of all diseases >;t3T^*"f^*- of *be horse, and is * 7? '-1 '-?< yJt^'i- thoroughly illuetra 65 fine engravings, showing the po*i J *tibus ?ssornie? by sick horses better than can _. be taught in any other way. It has a large IOnnii number of valuable villi? recipes, roost of which t; -1 were originated by * the author, ?nd never before pat in print, lt is pronounced the best book ever published for the price, and some -i prominent horsemen . OJT / if l IQ have said they prefer 3?-%??^ red it to books which cost $5 and $10. m " - ' AGENTS WINTED. ' -i? v. r * ? t / - " ?" This, valuable book will be presented free to al! sew subscribers to the Watchman and Soidhron who pay fer on? year in advance, and also to old subscribers who pay all arrears and a year in advance. .?fi :'j?ft??OST SUCCESSFUL REMEDY ever : discovered as it is certain in its effects and - does not blister. Read Proof Below. From ike "Spirit of the Times," Dec. 22,.'83. > It is admitted there is a great advance in veterinary science within the past decade, yet many will scarcely believe that a spavin cure possible. Fortunate indeed, however, is it :ffor--.t& poor horse suffering from lameness of . this kind thar Kendall's Spavin Cure has "been discovered, as it is certain in its effects , laodi^as worked/ wonders in thousands of such eases. Send for illustrated catalogue, giving v positive proof, ah?o for sample copy of Keu daKs Treatiee.on the Horse and his Diseases ; both free- Price of the Spavin Cure, $1. Ad . ?yes?. Dr. J*. J. Kendall Co., Proprietor, * ^noiburghi Fal?s^ Vf. ^fyi?m?t "Spirit hf the Times;' Nov. 17,83. - .The. successful treatment of ringbones, .*^fftvW; and -joint lameness bas not been prevalent in the veterinary profession, but we find that Dr. Kendall bas discovered a remedy for such troubles that is doing noble - , wort every sc here. This remedy is certain in kaeffects, and does not Mister, but it hasa . magicaleftect in reducing the enlargement ?6<1 driving out the lameness, as hundreds of testimonials prove. Price SI. For sale by ^drnggisis everywhere, and by Dr. E. J. Ken? dall Co., Enosbprgh Falls, Vt S?EODALL'S SPA7HT CTOE. y ; ON^?J?AN FLESH. , * * itefcr?vrt?*, Turora, Nov. 20, 1883. /Dr. B. J Kendall & Co., Dear Sirs :-En? closed please lind 25 cts. for your book enti? tled 'A Treatise on the Horse and his Dis? eases.' You may look for more orders in future if it is 7as advertised. Your Spavin i Care works wonderful with rheumatism, re? lief is immediate, aod. its action permanent. "Btf?ry person ought to have a bottle of it. Ha>,e hadji o occasion to use it on my horses yevT^wi f?o ?web caa sot be said of its re? markable effects on human fltsh I used that ^ put up fer horses, and its effects were truly i remarkable. Please send the books as soon as possibjle and oblige. Yours truly, ; A. E. BROWN. Price ?1 per bottle or.6 bottles for $5. All drnggist? have it or can fret it for you, or it will pe sent to any address on receipt of price by; the proprietor?. Dr. B. J. Kendall ? Co., Etiosbtirgh Falls, Vt. SOLD BT ALL DRUGGISTS. E. P. KICKER & CO., SUMTER, S. C., , DEALERS IN [ FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC liquors, Wines, Tobacco and Cigars. Wa have now the largest and best selected stock of ever offered in Sumter. Pure X. C. CORN' WHISKEY and pure N. C. APPLE BRANDY a speciality. Try oar JOHN MCCULLOUGH CIGAR and BLUB JEANS TOBACCO. Parties in need of any goods in our line wilt save money by giving us a call. REMEMBER THAT WE GUARANTEE SATISFACTION as to quality and price. MAW STREET, ont door North of Market Building-Sign of th Red THE BOATMAN'S SONG. Fly, fly, my bark, across the sea ; The san ts on the wane, The last beam lingers misifally Upon the steeple vane ; The reapers are leaving the fields of grain, And a face is pressed on the window pane. Fly, fly, my bark, across the sea ; Dim shadows veil the strand, And twilight hues gfide hazily Across the sea and sand ; Bat I see a form in the doorway stand, And looking this way with a shading hand, Fly, fly, my bark, across the sea ; Leave wind, and wave and roar; The time baa come for yon and me To lay aside tbe oar. Tbere is rest for thee on the starlit shore, And a kiss for me at the open door. BILLYER The Confederate Hospital at Rich? mond. Too late-Pm afraid it is too late. There was a time when a hospital at Richmond would have been a great blessiug to the one-armed, one-legged, one-eyed and otherwise maimed and disabled Confederate soldiers, but nineteen years has wrought great changes. Most of the invalids are dead. Those who are living have homes and families and they will not go to-Richmond. I've been investi? gating.a Hitle and can't hear of a Con? federate in Bartow county who would be likely r to go to Richmond, and Bartow sent about as many troops to the army as any other county. The time is past for a national hospital to do the Confederate invalids any good, so far as the states are concerned, ex? cepting Virginia. I suppose that some would go there if they lived near Richmond. It is a patriotic and phil? anthropic emotion that conceived the project and I was glad to read Gener? al Grant's letter, and the speeches that were made by federal officers, for they showed good will and sympathy aud made me feel for a while like 1 lived in the United States. General Gordon moves around among the northern generals like he was as big a man as any of them and they show Lira honor and respect and that does us good down here, for he was as big a rebel as anybody and has never asked forgiveness that 1 know of Ue is one original secessionist that is not dead and has never repented nor gone back on his self respect through fear, favor or affection or the hope thereof, lt has been a curious thing to mc how Georgia got votes enough lo secede considering how scarce the original secessionists are since the war was over. I'm not sorry that General Gordon got up the hospital scheme, for the in? fluence of the meeting will be good and will be felt all over the nation. Good-will and harmony is what we ueed to consolidate and assimilate the people and silence this everlasting abuse that has been going on for years. I don't ?rant to be glad when the devil breaks loose up yonder and destroys peace and defies the law, but how can 1 help it when they keep 1 picking at our people and denounc? ing us as brutes and barbarians. We want to love that people as brethreu if they will let us. Our hospitality is unbounded to our friends. Just let a northern man come down here with good intentions and no prejudi? ces and see how we treat him. Our ? doors are open to all such, and as Col?e says we'll tie up the dog and give 'em the run of the front yard. But the hospital is not what wc want, ?nd if we did want it and need it it is not exactly grateful to our i feeling* to ask northern money to es- t tablish it. We are not on the beg? ging list that I know of. There is not a county in the state that does not provide for her poor and destitute. There is a home and a place for them and they are clothed and fed. Not many go there I know, for most of , our poor have kindred or friends who provide for them and that is the case with our Confederate invalids. They have homes already. They don't go about begging. 1 haven't seen or heard of oue asking charity itt ten ? years. The disabled soldier is hon? ored in our land. Ile is no homeless vagabond. If he wants a little office ? and can half way fill it the people give it to him. They are our constables and policemen and clerks of the courts and tax collectors and they take thc census and get the prefer? ence in many ways. One was run? ning for office upon the Air Line Railroad where Cousin John Thrash? er lived and Cousin John was boom- ! mg for him and so when a man told Cousin John that the other feller could ! spell the best and write the best hand 8a3*s he "spose he can-spose he can, Bili can write good enough. Ile can beat me. Ile writes better than half the signers of the declaration of mde- j' pendence. Ile beats Joe Henry I Lumkin, the chief justice of the su- j preme court, for you couldn't read a j line of his writing. Bill writes ! mighty slow I know but I can read it j and he spells accordiuto nature, lie j beats Aleck Stephens and Gus Wright j and a heap of smart men, but if he I couldent I would vote for him and do j his writing for him for he lost his j writing arm in fighting for mc and j you, and don't you forget it." No it is not the hospital that we j want. Our disabled and indigent j soldiers will not go there. They love their associates and association!?; no j matter how humble. Nineteen years have settled them, nineteen years will settle most anybody, nineteen years j makes thc youngest of our soldiers j near forty years of age and most off them fifty, and but few men will | change either places or habits at that j age. The doctors and the preachers i ? tell us that men rarely reform or aban- , don a habit or get converted to the path after 45, and so this hospital will get no recruits from this section. , What these invalid soldiers want is a pension, a little annuity ol about $100 a year, and I cant see the differ- j ence between providing that much for ] each one in a hospital and giving it in a pension. If it is right for the i northern people to give it as a chari- J ty, it is* right for the nation to give it ? as a pension for then it comes out of ? i the whole people instead of a few, j and my conviction is that if the ques- j i ?on was left to the northern soldiers j j th? ' would vote for it. Honor the dead and take care of the living is a soldier's motto, and onr people have done that as well as they could. The widows and orphans have had a hard time but the worst of their struggle is over, for the children have grown up and support the mother. But the dead are ours still, and the day is at hand when we shall make our annual pilgrimage to their graves and cover them with flowers. We know not whether it gives pleasure to their disembodied spirits or not, but we do know that the custom is refining and elevating to us. It is a sign of advanced civilization. It is womanly and heavenly. The women of our land wepe de first to begin it, and they have n?jer failed to observe it. Did I say rae women ? yes, but history tells me that it was a child-a little girl whose name was Lila Williams, the daughter of Colo? ite! Charles J. Williams, of Co? lumbus. Some unknown soldiers were buried near her fathers lot in the cemetery and she took flowers there most every day and called them "my poor soldiers grave." lier con? stant devotion attracted her mother's attention and influenced her to estab? lish a memorial day-a day that has been ever since made sacred by the good people of this broad land. It was the thought and the emotion of a little child. She sleeps near "her soldiers" now and her little grave is nestled close to her father's and her mother's, and there the living gather every spring and sweeten their sad graves with fairest flowers. Not long ago I met General Early on the train and journeyed with him for some time. His talk was chiefly of memories of the war. He wears a patriarch's beard, and shows age both in speech and motion, but his hazel eye is bright and his emotions seem as strong as ever. Ile was laughing freely, botli about men and measures. I should s,ay that he was a man with no secrets. He thinks aloud and talks plow, but talks all the time. Ile put the Georgia troops who served under him in the front rank for cour? age and endurance. He told me about a captain in the 12th Georgia -a man then about 50 years old-who refused to surrender his company and the colors when the regiment did, but cut loose from them and fought a way out, because he said the women give em the flag and he promised to take it back to em. Ile was court-mar? tialed for it, but never punished. On the contrary he somehow got com? mand of the regiment, and on occasion charged the enemy furiously and with success without any orders to do so, and when reprimanded his excuse was that his ammunition had got low and was about to give out. "I won? der what has become of him," said the general. He was a fine officer and a braver man never lived. Ile never was anything but a captain, but I put him in command of a brigade once in an emergency, and he han? dled it well. I've thought of that man a thousand times. Ile made ev? ery man brave about him, and j'et he was prudent and not reckless." Well, lhere were many such men who never climbed up, and there were privates just as heroic, who fought and fell, and have made neither name nor fame. BILL A Kr. Pugs Winch, are Pampered. "Have you a silver dog collar ?" inquired a fashionably dressed young lady as she entered a Washington street store. She bore in her arms a black-nose pug dog of good propor? tions, which she deposited carefully on the floor. "Would you like a collar or a har? ness ? Harnesses are very fashionable and they cannot slip over the head as ollars are apt to do in the case of pug dogs. You see the neck is as large around as the head, and it is al? most impossible to keep a collar on." "Oh, that is delightful," exclaimed thc young lady, as the straps were adjusted. "What is the price? "On? ly" $25? How cheap I" The money was paid and thc girl and dog went their way rejoicing. "Do you have many such customers as that?" inquired a reporter. "Wu have them constantly," was the reply. "Frequently we sell col? lars for dogs that are not themselves worth half the price of the collar. We have fifteen hundred patterns of dog collars, but even at that we fre? quently have customers who are too fastidious to be suited from the stock, and wc have to make something to order. The other day a lady came in and showed a silver bangle bracelet and wanted a collar made for her dog just like it. There is no knowing what a woman will do when she fairly gets tho dog fever. Why, a woman came in here the other day lugging a dog in lier aims, and thc animal had around his neck a collar ol satin, or? namented with violets and primroses, j hand-painted. One woman lias i bought at least $100 worth of dog! eollars within a year past. On the ! oilier hand a sporting man came in the other day with a fine bird dog, worth at least, one thousand dollars, but his collar was not worth one dol? lar. lt is the same principle as a man carrying a watch worth live hun? dred dollars with a shoe string for a chain. Collars arc no protection against dog thieves. They rather in? crease the liability of theft, especially when the collar is worth twenty dol? ?ais and the dog twenty cents." "Do you hear many dog stories ?" "Well, I should say I did. Every man and woman who comes in has a story to tell of the wonderful doings of his or her dog. Of course, I must show an interest in them all or fall forever in the estimation of my custo? mers."-Boston Globe. -m ? ? ? - m I wish I had a neck as long as a giraffe,' said Will, one day, as ho passed Farmer Ploughman's orchard : 'for then I could stand ou the ground to eat the apples, pears and cherries, iud they would taste good all the way Jown my three-yard throat..' Shortly liter that Willie caught a cold. 'Well,' he said, *I guess it's better as it is, for if I had the giraffe's oeck, I phould have three yards of sore throat !* Washington in Monroe's Ad? ministration. It was a period when the social eti-1 quette of Washington was going through some changes ; the population was growing larger, the classes were less distinct, the social duties of high offi- j cials more onerous. The diary of John j Quincy Adams record? cabinet meetings | devoted to the momentous question who j should make the first call, and who j should be included hi the official visit ing lists. Mrs. Mooroe, without a j cabinet council, made up her own mind j to retrench some of those profuse civili- ! ties with which her predecessor bad j fatigued herself. Mrs. Madison, a ! large, heavy, kindly dame, had retired j from office equally regretted by the j poor of Washington and by its high ! life ; but she had gained this populari- i ty at a severe cost. She had called on ! all conspicuous strangers ; Mrs. Mon- { roe intended to call on nobody. Mrs. I Madison bad been always ready for | visitors when at home ; her successor j proposed to receive nobody save at her j regular levees. The cx-Preaidentess-j bad presided at her husband's dinner j parties, and had invited the wives of all j the men who were to be guests ; Mrs. j Monroe staid away from the dinner par- | ties, and so the wives were left at home. ! Add to this that her health was by no j means strong, and it is plain that there j was great ground for a spasm of unpop? ularity. She, however, outlived it, and re-established her social relations, gave fortnightly receptions, and wou I much admiration, which she probably j deserved. She was by birth a Miss j Kortwright, of New York, a niece of j General Knox, and when she accompa- ! nicd her husbaud on his embassy to ! Paris she had been known there as 'la j belle Am?ricaine.' She was pronounc-1 cd by observers in later life to be 'a most regal-looking lady," and her man-1 ners were described as 'very gracious.' ! At her final levee in thc White House ! 'her dress was superb black velvet ; I neck and arms bare, and beautifully formed ; her hair in puffs, and dressed high on her head, aud ornamented with white ostrich plumes ; around her neck j an elegant pearl necklace.' Her two j fair daughters-her only children, Mrs. ? Hay and Mrs. Gouverneur-assisted at j this reception. j Such was the hostess, but her draw ing-rooms, by all contemporary ac counts, afforded a curious social medley, i The well-defined gentry of thc Ile vol u- ! tionary period was disappearing, and the higher average of dress and man- ! ners had not begun to show itself-that | higher average which has since been j rapidly developed by the influence of; railroads'and newspapers, joined with j much foreign travel aud a great increase j in wealth. It was a period when John Randolph was allowed to come to din- j ner parties 'iu a rough, coarse, short ! huuting coat, with small-clothes and ! boots, and over his boots a pair of j coarse coating leggings, tied with ! strings around his legs.' At Presiden- j tial receptions, in the words of an eye-1 witness, 'ambassadors aud consuls, mero bers of Congress and officers of the | army and navy, greasy boots and silk stockings, Virginia buckskios and Yan-1 kee cowhides, all mingled in ill-assort ment and fantastic groups.' Houses in Washington had become | much larger thon formerly, and a simi- j lar expansion had been seen in the j scale of entertainments. lt is not un- j common to find records of evening j parties at which five or six hundred persons were present, filling five or six rooms. When John Quincy Adams, then secretary of State, gave a recep- ! tion to the newly arrived hero, General | Andrew Jackson, eight rooms were j opened, and there were a thousand guests. It was regarded os the finest entertainment ever given in Washing- | ton, and showed, in the opinion of Mr. ? Mills, of Massachusetts, then a Con- ' grossman, 'taste, elegance, and good J sense' on the part of Mrs. Adams ; and j elsewhere he pronounces her 'a very j pleasant and agreeable woman,' but i adds, 'the Secretary has no talent to j entertain a mixed company, either by ; conversation or manners.' Other agree- ! obie houses were those of Mr. Bagot, ; the British Minister, whose wife was a j niece of the Duke of Wellington, and j M. Hyde de Neuville, the French Min- j ister, each having a weekly reception, I while the receptions at the White House i took place but once a fortnight. At | these entertainments they had music, j cards, and dancing-couutry-dances, ? cotillions, with an occasional Scotch j reel, or sometimes the newly arrived i Waltz, as yet performed only by visi- ! tors from abroad. It was noticed with i some surprise that even New England j ladies would accept the hospitalities of Madame de Neuville on Saturday even- j ings, and would dance on what they j had been educated to regard as holy '? time.-Harp rs Magazine. What Was on his Faco. - 'Is there anything on my face, Jim ?' I asked one boy, of, another, as they ! issued from their mother's pantry, . where they had been sampling thc ; 'Yes,' said the other with a grin. *Oh, where is it?' excitedly, as! footsteps were heard approaching thc kitchen ; is it big ?' j 'You bet; it's immense.* 'Oh, my !' getting out his handker? chief, and rubbing his face furiously. 'IS it off?' .Nope.' .Well, where is it, then? Quick ! I hear ma coming.' 'Right in the middle of your face.' j He made frantic digs at his face,; then whispered : j 'IB it off?' in an agonized tone, as : ma entered the room. 'Nope,' was the laconic reply. 'Well, what is it?' He was fairly shivering with terror, and dared not turn around. 'Your nose,' colly answered Jim, as I he opened the back door and skipped. ! - Waterloo Observer. Gen. Lee asked a straggler one day, ! whom he found eating green pereim- 1 mons, if he did not know they were un- ! fit for food. I'm not eating them for I food, General,' replied the man, 'Pm ? eating them to draw my stomach up to j fit my rations,' 1 The First Inventor of Print? ing. Mr Ireland, in bia "Picturesque Tour through Holland, Brabant and part of France in ??89," gives the following account of the inventor of printing, when describing the city of Haarlem : "Haarlem claims the invention of the art of printing. It is attributed to Lawrence Koster, an alderman of th is city, in 1440, whose house is yet standing in the market place opposite the church. "Amsuing himself one day in the neighboring wood with cutting the bark of trees into letters that formed th? initials of his name, he ia said to have laid them on paper, and, falling asleep, when he awoke observed that, from the dew, their form was impress? ed on the paper This accident in? duced him to make farther experi? ments. He next cut his letters in wood, and, dipping them in a gluti? nous liquid, impressed them on pa? per, which he found an improvement; and, soon after, substituted leaden and pewter letters, erecting a press in his house, thus laying the founda? tion of the noble art which has thence gradually risen to its present excel? lence. "The art, it is said, was stolen from him by his servant, John Faustus, who conveyed it to Mentz, and from the novelty of the discovery soon ac? quired the title of doctor and conjuror. The original specimens are now shawn at the library in the Town Hall. The first is on a leaf of parchment, and the second and third on paper, printed only on ono side and the cor? ners left blank for capitals. At the top are wooden cuts, representing the creation, and, as it is called, Lucifer's Fall " A Snake Story-Expert Tes? timony. The Berrien County Nows comes to thc front with the snake story of the season. According to the News, a man was out deer hunting near Alapaha last week, and while moving around in the bushes he was bitten on the calf of the leg by a hugo rattle snake. Parties near at hand corded the leg above the bite and went three miles after a doctor. On the return with medical aid the parties found the man "sweetly sleep? ing" and the swelling in the leg en? tirely gone. Around the patient lay a hali" bushel of dead mosquitos-they having of course sucked the poison out. The man got np entirely well. This reminds us that th.it neighbor? hood is famous for remarkable men and things. Some years a<?o there lived a country doctor in the settle? ment who was famous for his scien? tific skill. On a certain occasion a lady was found dead in her house with a wound on the head. A coro? ner's inquest was held over tho body and the said country doctor was sum? moned to examine the wound. After a careful inspection he testified that he had ascertained by the character of the wound that a certain mau in the neighborhood (naming him) had dealt the blow and was therefore responsi? ble for her death, and upon this "ex? pert testimony" the jury found that she had come to her death by that particular mau. The fellow was har? nessed and had some trouble in satis? fying: the people that he knew noth? ing about the death ot the woman, ?t was afterwards ascertained that she fell from heart disease and bruised her head in falling.- Valdvsla Georgia Times. Worth a Licking. Somo years ago, in Georgia, that band of Christians knowu as Ascen tionists were having a graud revival. Oue day, when the meeting was in full force, a storm came up, and a young geutleman who was out huuting, with his servant, took refuge in the church door. Being curious to see the service, the two men crept up into the gallery, and there hid iu a place where they could observe without being observed. 'Come, Lord, come, our robes are ready. Come, Lord, come,' cried the preacher, while all present gave a loud 'Amen.' 'Marsa Gabo,' whispered Cuffy, lift? ing his hunting horn to his mouth, 'let me gib dem j ist oue toot.' 'Put that horn down or I'll break your head,' replied the master, in a whisper. Thc horn dropped to his side and again the miuistcr cried : 'Come, Lord, come ; we are ali ready for thy coming. Come, Lord, come' *JL)o, Marsa Gabe-do jist lemme gib 'cm jist one little toot,' pleaded Cuffy. I'll whip you within an inch of your life,' whispered the exasperated master. 'Blow, Gabriel, blow ; wc are reedy his coming. Blow, Gabriel, blow,' pleaded tho minister. Cuffy could no longer resist the temptation and sent a wild peal, ringing from end to end of the church ; but long before its last echo died away his master and himself were the only occu? pants of the building. Ts ready fur de lick in,' Marsa Gabe,' said Cuffy, show?D? every tooth in his head, 'for I 'clare to gracious it's worf two lickings to sec de way com? mon farm cattle kin git ober de ground wtd skcared 'iScensionists behind 'em.' - Harper $ Magazine. A Judge Shaking His Head When Lord Mansfield ouce exclaim? ed to Mr. Dunning, as he was laying down a legal point, 'Oh, if that be law Mr. Dunning, I may as well burn my law books !' 'Better read them, my lord, was the ready retort. In a similar manner, an Irish Judge shook his head as Mr. Curran was elaborating ono of his points to a jury. 'I sec, gentlemen, the motion of his lordship's head ; common observers might imagine that it implied a differ? ence of opinion, but they would be mistaken. It is merely accidental. Believe me, gentlemen, if you remain here many days, you will yourselves perceive that when his lordship shakes his head there's 'nothiog in it 1' ' What Our Editors Say. Carolina Spartan. Several true bills were found against Marshal Blythe of Greenville in the United States Court at Charleston. It looks now as if Blythe would have to be sacrificed. When he came into the office he found certain plans of business practiced. He claims that he did just what his predecessor had done. Blythe is not so much to blame as his party They have had their whisky rings, their star route rings, revenue rings and rings of all. sort. It was understood amongst them that the Government would always protect its own officers in their swindling schemes, and that no one was to be punished unless it was necessary to have an example or two just before an election, lt seem? that a scape goat is needed now, and Blythe not being worth much to them in a gen? eral election may have to go. He is as good as any of them, and infinitely better than the traitorous crew of natives that helped to plunder and debauch our State from 18G8 to 1876. Lexington Dispatch. No Democrat who desires hone?t ex? penditures and who wishes to prevent Bill Chandler from turning all the navy yards into electioneering camps for fraud and corruption at the ballot box in this year's election, will vote a single dollar for the construction, com? pletion, or ornament of ships at this this time. We have expeuded nearly four hundred million dollars on thc navy since the war, and have nothing to show for the money. We can afford to wait, at all events, until this election is over before we make any further appropriations. Let the Democratic watchword be, not a single dollar for the Chandler-lloach jobs and an election corruption fund. Who Pays the Taxes. Palmetto Yeoman. Wm ll. Morrison's speech on his tariff bill : Estimates based on the cen? sus statistics show that as many as 1S, 000,000 of our people do some work or are occupied in some business, and that thc average earnings of at least 16,000,000 of these do not much exceed 0300, andar? wholly consumed in means of daily subsistence. These too are the millions who, in shop and field, strike the blows of all production. All thc accumulations of, aud boasted additions to our national and individual wealth go to one-tenth of those who earn it, and of these a few appropriate the great mass of the savings of the people and are enriched by the profits of the labor of other men. Like esti? mates will show that the few who pro? fit most from the labor of all contribute little under the system of unequal taxa? tion-not more than two per cent of their savings-while the great mass of the workers, including the dependent poor, pay the bulk of taxes, all of which in substracred from their too scauty means of comfortable living. Sentimental Suicide. Aiken Recorder. A paragraph in the Columbia Yeo? man states that '.Mr. Tillman endorses Senator Butler's opposition to the Blair Educational Bill, and may speak as he will vote against it.' Whenever we learn authoritatively that Col. Till? man is opposed to this bill, wc will furnish some very interesting reading written by this gentleman May 7, ISSI, and published in the Aiken Journal and Review of May 25, 1881, and while we w.*re editing its columns. If such a thing were possible, Mr. Tillman wrote in stronger terms than even Senator Butler in favor of just such an appropriation as thc Blair Bill provides. But perhaps he too has fallen by the wayside before the reac? tionary sentiments on popular education. To all such men we say, beware that the day of reckoning cometh not sooner than is looked for. Let them remem? ber that our owu white children ueed common schools, and that they are en? titled to them-not as a benefaction, but as a right which the State owes to enable them to properly discharge the duties and unctions of citizenship. The amendments to the Constitution of the United States forbid such a discrim? ination as would permit public schools for the whites aud uone for thc negro. Therefore it is follly to turn our backs, from motives of prejudice, on a great measure which proposes to iucrcase the common school facilities for our entire population. We regard Southern opposition to this measure as a species of sentimental suicide, without, one mitigating ingre? dient of common sense. To refuse a wise and legitimate appropriation by thc United States Government iu aid of our common schools, when the people of the State are being taxed annually two mills for that purpose, besides the proceeds of the poll tax, is a glaring inconsistency that finds no parallel in political history, lt will next be in order to obj ct to an appropriation for thc deepening of Charleston Harbor. Wit m ingle n Review. Recently wc alluded to the opinion nf Tilomas Fortune, editor of the New York (Hobe, an influential organ of the colored race advising his people at the South to make com mon canse with thc white people on thc question of home rule, honest government and a free trade tariff, and predicting that when they adopted this policy, where they supported honest white men for oificc, and make the cause of good government and fair representation the issue, they would be iu a position to receive jus? tice. Thc views of the Globe are sustained by the Old Dominion, H paper publish- > ed in Norfolk in the interest of thc : colored people^ The editor of tho Old Dominion, contends that the 'only salvation for the colored people of the i South is to endeavor to make terms with the white citizens in their section and go along hand in hand with them, for through them and their State gov- i ernments they can secure their rights and protection. What the Federal Government did do for them was done very reluctantly, and was coerced by necessity, as a war measure, and to punish the South, and was not actuated by a sense of humanity, justice or equity to the colored brother. If a colored man gets any sort of decent treatment or courtesy in the city of Washington outside of President Arthur, Senators Logan or Allison, he has to go to a Southern Senator or Repre? sentative ; for as a rule, they have no practical, personal or other use for bim except just about an important election time and when that exigency passes awny they have no more use for him than the devil has for holy water.' It is frank advice, like the above, says the Norfolk Virginian, that causes us to hope that the colored people in j the South will yet shake off the yoke 1 of political slavery which now degrades j them. They are at present the menials ! of corrupt men, who only use them i that they may reap the bencSts of office j and spoils. The negro of the South, j save in rare instances, bas always ! placed himself iu solid antagonism to j the men who represent the intelligence, j worth, honesty, wealth nod enterprise of the States of the South-the men who pay the taxes, contributing to the support of the schools and institutions that educate the children of the colored people, and who give then? their em? ployment. This should not be, and we bail with satisfaction such good advice as is given in the columns of the Globe aud Old Dominion, from the pens of representative meu, who have at heart the interests of their people. ?Egg_1_ ,.? ? The Emperor William's At-1 tacliment to the Corn- j Plower. The Emperor William is a great friend of the corn-flower (the bachelor's button). In regard to the cause of this preference the following old and pretty story is told : 'One day-it was at K?nigsberg, and in the gloomiest period of Prussia's history-the Queen Louise sat in the garden of the Louse j on the 'Hafen,' which the royal family j then occupied, when a young girl ap- ! proached, and without knowing whom j she had before her, offered a bouquet of j fresh corn-flowers for sale. The Queen, j full of sympathy, spoke kindly to the j think clad child, and learned lhat she I bad a sick mother at home who could j earn nothing. She thereupon, with tears in her eyes, took the flowers from her, rewarded her generously, and then called her children, who were playing I near by. She showed the Princess j Charlotte, afterward consort of thc Czar ! Nicholas of Russia, and the Prince j William, how a wreath could be made of the flowers without shears, called the attention of the children to their simple beauty, and then drew the moral that iu nature, as in human character, plain- j licss and simplicity coexisted with beau- ! ty. This lessou, taught by the royal mother in such a graceful form, to? gether with the pretty wreath, which she finally placed on the head ?f the Princes? Charlotte, made the blue cyane the favorite flower of the future Empress of Russia and her brother, the present German Emperor ; and when a few years later, the Queen died the corn-flower became for both a memento j of their sanctified mother When, in j the year 1817, the Princess, in com pa- I ny of her brother William, journeyed j by way of K?nigsberg to St Petersburg j as the bride of the Emperor Nicholas, she fouud her room in the castle of the first-named city richly decorated with corn-flowers; and as they both crossed the Russian frontier the Princess wore on her head a wreath of such flowers, which had been handed to her at the last Prussiau station.-Harper s Maga? zine for Mag. mm -Wi - Eggs as Food. Many people probably do not fully comprehend how valuable eggs are aa food, that like milk an egg is a com? plete food in itself, containing every? thing necessary for i1 . developement of a perfect animal, as is manifested ! hom the fact that a chick is formed | from it. lt seems a mystery how j muscles, bone, feathers, and every-1 thing that a chick requires for its perfect developement, arc made from j the yolk and while of au egg; but such is the fact, and it shows how complete a food an e?g is. The av? erage egg weighs a thousand grains and is worth more as food than so much beefsteak. Indeed, there is no more concentrated and nourishing food than eggs. The albumen, oil, j and saline matter are, as in milk, in the right proportion for sustaining animal Wk-Poultry Monthly. ---MMMV- . . -? Neatness In Women. A woman may be handsome or re? j markably attractive in various ways ; j but if she is not personally neat, she j cannrt to win admiration. Fine ; clothes will not conceal the slattern, j A young woman with her hair always in disorder, and her dollies hanging j about her as if suspended from a prop, I is always repulsive. The bringing ; up of daughters to be able to work, j talk and act like honest, sensible I young women, is the .special task of ? all mothers, ami in the industrial ranks there is imposed also tho prime obli- j gation of learning to respect house-j hold work for its own sake, and the comfort and happiness it will bring in j the future. Housework is a drudgery, ! but it. must be done by somebody, j and had better be well than ill done.- j Domestic Journal. -m- j Thc good people of former days had a queer idea of what constituted a sin- : ful posture. Thc New Haven colony | in 1609 passed a statute with the fol- ! lowing clause : 'Whoever shall inveigle ? or draw thc affections of any maide or i maide servant, either to himself or} others, without first gaining the con seut of her parents, shall pay to thc plantation for the first offense 40 shil? lings ; the second ?4; for the third he j shall be imprisoned or corporeously j punished.'?. Under this law, at a court I held iu May, 1619. Jacobeth Murtine i and Sarah Tuttle were prosecuted "for setting down on a cheslie together, his arms around her waiste and her arme apon his shoulder or about his neck, ! and continued io that sinful posture I about half an hour, io which time he kyssed her and she kyssed him, or they kyssed one another, as je witnesses tes? tified.1 Liquor Drinking in Maine. [Brunswick (Me.) Telegraph J Anybody who knows anything about the drinking habits of the people of Maine to-day knows that liquor is drank in parlors, in offices of law and medicine, and to a limited extent in the studies of the clergy, in kitchens and workshops, in the cars, on steam? boats, and, if one wishes to observe, he will find that travelers by every means of conveyance in the State take the poison with them. The express companies bring it into the State upon every arrival for private consumption and con? siderable which escapes detection and goes into sale in some smaller country to#ns. In many of the cities and some of the larger towns the sale is free in bars and saloons, not tn open defiance of law ; for that statute which public opinion does not support is no law at all, and cannot and never will be en? forced. The sooner this fact is recog? nized the better it will be for the cause of temperance, which is advocated upon sensible grounds only by the better representatives of the reform clubs. It is no pleasure to us to report such a state of thing?, but so far as our obser? vation extends we know our statements to be true. We detest deception, let it come in where it may, and Neal Dow is so committed to prohibition that he wouldn't tell the truth if he could, and couldn't if he would/upon the subject of enforcement ta this State. We don't assert that some strictly temper? ance communities cannot be found in Maine, but we do assert that rum is in far too general use all over the State, and we know that some of the bett temperance men here regretfully admit the statement. Lying won't rub out the facts. - UUP ???? -I A Great Preacher's Poverty. Jonathan Edwards fought a hard battle with penury in his last years, and was sorely perplexed to find food for his large family. Dismissed from tile church at Northampton, Mass., over which he had been pastor for a quarter of a century, he removed to Stockbridge to labor among the In? dians. He was obliged to support Iiis family of ten children on a mere pittance. In his seclusion he wrote his treatise on the "Freedom of the j Will," wit ich is regarded as a mas ; terpiece in theological literature. So great was his poverty at this timo I that the treatise was written largely ou the back of pamphlets, as lotter paper was beyond his means of pur? j chase. His daughters, ail young wo j men of superior mental powers, made lace and pointed fans for the Boston maiket, that they might add some? thing to the family resources. A Match Found For a Bos* ton Quiz, Two Boston gentlemen while tramp? ing through the White mountains the past summer came across a lonely - but ! among the hills from which the pr spect was particularly fine and extended. The proprietor of the establishment was hoe? ing in a small garden, and the travelers began to quiz him. Said one : 'You have an excellent view from your house.' 'Purty fair,* replied the farmer. 'I suppose,' continued the first speak? er, winking to his companion, 'on a fair day you can sec almost to Europe V 'Kin see further 'n that,* returned the man, 'How so?' was asked in surprise, 'We don't think nothin' of seeio* as fur as tho mu ne.*-Boston Courier Excusable^ A gentleman in Richmond Virginia, had a servant named Joe. One morn? ing he lay in bed till nine o'clock, but no Joe and no fire. The impossibility of shaving with water thirty degrees below freesing-point brought impreca? tions on thc tardy domestic's head, when tho door opened, and Aunt Polly leisurely began to light the fire. 'Where in thunder' (the historian is nothing if he is not accurate) 'is that son of yours ? I've been waiting for bim two blessed hours.' 'Now, Marse Trav, you must 'cuse Joe,' said his mother in her wost con? ciliating tones-'you really must 'cuse Joe dis momio'-Joe dead.'-Editor's Drawer, in Harpers Magazine for May. - imm ? . t The Seedless Watermelon. A writer in the Tulahassee Floridian says ; 'It may be a matter of interest to your many readers to know how to produce the seedless watermelon. A* soon ns the vine has attained the length of three feet or more, place under it, about midway the vine, the amount of compost you would put in a hill, todo which it is best to excavate thc earth, and bring to a level with good com? post. Place the vine over this, and cover to a sufficient depth to prevent drying, leaving out as much as possi? ble of the bud. As soon as it has taken root cut it loose from the parent stem. If there should be bloom, or bloom bud, before it takes root, in the pl.-icc of seeds there will be white pulps, but none afterwards.' The question 'What shall I wear !* never worries thc average country edi? tor. What puzzles him is to find some clothing house willing to advertise and .trade it out.' The lives of all newspaper men are made happy at some time or another by some delightful person who likes to warn the company with 'Better look? out-he'll put your name in the paper. .Why did you put that nickle with a hole in it in the contribution box !' ask? ed one man of another. 'Because t couldu't put the hole tu without tho nickle, and I had to put in some? thing. The father gazed at the triplets, the first born, snugly reposing in the cra? dle, and remarked to the nurse: 'Aro they boys or girls?' 'All girls, the lit? tle dears. What treasures they arel' 'Yes. little fortunes, as it were, little Miss-Fortunes.'-Detroit Free Press.