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ON TO RICHMOND*
On to Richmond ! The blue and the gray,
j Bet not with the fife and the drum;
To scatter the sweet flowers of May?
i As brothers, we come?we come.
On to Richmond, with love and with heart,
To bind the wounds of the brave,
And play the true, the patriot's part,
At the sbrice of a soldier's grave.
On to Richmond, with banners of peace,
We'll meet in the banquet hall,
Praying our friendship will never cease,
Pledging a bumper for all.
On to Richmond, for right and for man,
We march with a peaceful tread ;
On where the flow of the Rapidan
Murmurs a dirge to our dead.
On to Richmond, to build a home
For the wounded, the weak and old ;
With love as pure as the ocean foam,
And honor as bright as gold.
On to Richmond 1 The gray and t&e blue,
In language of love shall
How each fought. &r his cause brave and
i true;"
Or winded and dying fell.
"Out of the ranks to the camping grouud,
Beyond the sun and the stars?
Where sentinel soldiers march around
With colors of stripes and bars.
! a pamily'teud.
I 'There V said I, 'bow do you like the
j way I have rendered that red autumn
leaf?'
It's capital! said Simon, absently.
Now, I can always tell by my
brother Simon's tone exactly whether he
is attending or not. And this time he
was DOt.
We were up io the garret of the old
Battersiey house, where I still kept my
easel and paints, and lay-figures and
things although it was more than a year
since the agent had warned us that Bat
Battersly was no longer our property, and
compelled us to move into the little cot
tages on the salt marshes.
'I wonder at your lack of spirit,
child, mamma had said, plaintively.
'Oh, what is the use of having spir
it?' I retorted, recklessly. "I must
have a studio.' And there isn't a room
I in this little beehive that has a good
I uorth light I Wasn't I born and
brought up at Battersiey'! And why
shouldn't I keep my studio in the gar
ret, as long as there is nobody else
there but the rats and the ghosts ? I
tell you, mamma, one gets inspirations
in un old house like that! And I am
going to redeem all the family fortunes
with my pencil before I get through !'
But mamma only sighed.
Since the disastrous lawsuit had been
decided agaiust us, she had fallen into
the way of sitting aimlessly by the tire
as if there was uothing left her to do
or think of in life.
But I cared nothing for the judges of
the supreme court, uor for the distant
heir-at-law, who had turned us out of
Batter* ley
I came there every day to dream and
to work, and to build up those casties
in the air which reared their ethereal
piunacles in the morning, aud dissolv
ed nightly, into the thin, gray mist,
through which I walked to the little
sea-marsh cottage.
And this moruiug Simon had climb
ed up the steep, garret stairs, with a
bunch of the silver tresses of the
'Grandfather Gray beard,' which was
now ripeniug about the edges the woods,
and veutured to pass an opinion on my
work without ever lookiug at it.
'Simon,' said I, 'you dou't know
what you are sayiug.'
'Ton are right, Baby!' he said. 'I
wasu't thinking of the picture. Do you
kuow, Baby, you've got to turu out of
this!'
'What for?' said I, calmy sorting
over the clusters of 'Grandfather Grey
beard to get the silkiest plumes. I've
heard thit before. Vtn not to be
frightened away by mere shadows.'
'But, it's a substance this time,' said
my brother. 'Our dear cousiu is here.
He is coming to Battersiey.'
?How do you know' I questioned.
'Jones, the steward, told me. lie
landed in the Barataria on Saturday.'
i 'And this is Tuesday. Oh, he won't
rush out to his new possessions the very
j first thiug!' said I, cavalierly. 'When
he comes I'll go !'
'Whatsort of a man is he, said
Simon thoughtfully.
'What does it oiatter to us?' I re
torted.
'Why, I suppose he has some sort of a
right to Battersiey, or the supreme
court wouldn't have adjudged it to him'
said Simon.
'Pshaw I' said I. 'Law isn't always
equity. He's a selfish, abominable old
usurper, that's what he is !'
'Well, have it your own way.' said
Simon. 'I'm going over to TIawley on
the pony to-day. Don't you want to
j come :
I 'I should like to,' said I wistfully,
j 'but if that picture is to go in the au- !
tunin exhibition there is no time to j
lose'
j So I settled to my work after Simon
bad whistled his dogs away and clat- j
tered uowu the stairs.
The morning had been clear and gol- j
den-bright, but at noon, when I sat
down at the: deep sill uf the old garret j
window to read au old volume of 'Anne
of Geierstein,7 and cat my lunch. I
noticed that dark clouds had swept over I
the sky, aud au uneasy wind w;is rifling
the dead gold of the hickory boughs, j
And long before it was night the gath
ering ffiootu warned me that it was
time to desist from my labors. j
I began to put away my things in a
. leisurely way. I did not dislike the
! old garret at twiiight. I enjoyed the
eerie shadows that peopled its dim re
j cesses, the elm bough-e against the win
dow panes, the creaking groans, which
j seemed ever aud anon, to thrill through
J the old chimney-stack without any ap
! parent cause ; the skurry of the bright
eyed mice across the floor.
There was a portrait of my gnat j
I grand aunt Battersiey behind the big
red chest?a hard favored dame, whose
j canvas had been rent apart by some uu
I toward accident, nobody knew how,
many years ago, thereby banishing it
j to this unfrequented region. And I
used to fancy she looked at ine by
times, with a curious, icy gaze, as I
went to and fro.
'Hush!" I said suddenly to myself,
with a tin tube of ultra-marine in my
hand, 'there are footsteps jiown stairs.
Somebody is moving about there.'
I knew it wasn't ghosts, Aunt Bat
tersiey to the^contrary, notwithstanding.
"Be Just an<
I did not believe it was burglars. At
the same time, however, I wanted to
get out of the house as quick as possi
ble, for dusk was deepening into night,
and I knew that the tide rising swiftly
over the marshes, would roar like a
wild wolf around my path, if I did not
make haste.
Most probably the heir-at-law bad
arrived Well let him come !
Silently as a shadow, I glided down
the back stairway to the little side door,
which was my usual mode of egress and
ingress ; but, to my amazement, there
was a pile of trunks heaped up against
it which I could no more stir than I
could shake the foundation of the tower
of Babel.
And to reach fr^nt I should
have io cross the great Hall, with its
waxed floor, which was already illu
mined by the glow of a gipsy fire built
in the monster fire-place in the sitting
room.
'No,' said I to myself, with a hasty
survey of the tightly-shuttered win
dows whose bolts and bars were tight
ened by a year's corroding rust. 'I
must just go back to the garrent and
hide there.
In the midst of my perplexity, a sense
of the ridiculousness of my position
dawned upon me. I laughed all to
myself as I glided noiselessly up the
stairs, gcoping my way in the dark.
'Cousin Battersiey,' I said to myself,
'you don't know how near you are to
oue of your relations. The chimney
smokes does it ? Well, I only wish "it
would smoke you out: Damp down
there, is it? I only hope it won't give
your old bones a new lease of rheuma
tism.' j
It was-so dark up in the garret now, j
that I could not even tell whether my
grout-grand aunt's eyes were watching |
me or not.
There was just a 'glimmering square' j
where the hall window was, a moaning
rustle of dry leaves against the mossy,
shingled roof, and a herd of mice pat
tering across the floor.
I sat at the head of the stairs and [
listend, with my chin in my hands.
'He is sending his servant to the inn j
for something in the shape of supper,' I
thought. 'Ah ! he don't know that the j
iun is three good miles off. lie has j
not a bad voice?it is low and pleasant. |
I'm not sure but that he speaks with a I
slight foreign accent. That I don't
like. In my mind Americans should
be Americans. Now he's making cof- j
fee. And it smells delicious! Dear
me, I didn't know before how hungry I
was!'
Here I descended two or three steps.
*I wonder what he is like?' I
thought.
'I've a great mind to slip down and
peep through the crack of the door.
My goodness me, what would mamma
say ? And Simon ?
How good that coffee does smell! !
And the chimney don't smoke any
more now.
Softly I crept down. Goblin-like I j
glided across the hall and to the big
mahogany door, which stood conven- j
iently ajar.
The old room was all in a glow of
ruddy light. Close to the hearth whose
blazing logs cast so bright an illumina
tion around, a wooden chair was drawn
up, and there sat. a young, handsome
mau, leaning thoughtfully back, as if his
dark Spanish eyes saw far beyond the
leap of the flames of the columns of!
blue smoke.
*He isn't Old Crab Battersiey at all,'
said I to myself. 'He's like the hero
of a novel.'
And then I took a second look.
'Then who is he?' I asked myself? j
'and what business has he here?'
All of a sudden the trembling coffee !
pot, which was placed on a bed of coals
boiled over. The hero of romance
stooped to remove it, aud in the change
of position his eyes unexpectedly met
mine.
I took refuge in instantaneous flight
but I was too late. He had seen me,
and sprang to his feet. But the hall
was only lighted by the red stream of
brilliance from the blazing logs, and I
had the advantage of being thoroughly
acquainted with the premises. If I
could once hide away behind my great
grand auut's picture in the garret?
But even as this possibility flashed
across my mind, I slipped on the lower
stair, a sharp needle-like pang of pain
shot through my ankle, and I sank
helplessly on 'the floor. My captor
hastened to the rescue.
'Are you hurt V said he, with solici
tude.
?Yes!' I cried out sharply, 'I have
sprained my ankle.'
'But?I beg your pardou V he said.
T?I don't quite know who you are, nor
how you came here !
'I am Barbara Battersiey 1' said I,
defiantly,
'My cousin V with a sudden bright
ness in his face.
'Yes, I suppose so V I ungraciously
admitted.
'What, can I do for you?' he ques
tioned, earnestly.
'You can let ::ie alone !' 1 cried con
tracting my brows, as a fresh spasm of
pain thrilled my nerves
lie looked at me, half smiling.
'1 could, I suppose,' said he; 'but
don't you miuk 1 had better help you
in by the fire, and then go for the
nearest doctor, if you will kiudly direct
me to one ?'
His munner was kindly, although a
little satirical. I was heartily ashamed
of myself.
'I beg your pardon ?' I said. 'You
couldn't help my clumsiness, and you
cannot prevent the pain. But ?
At this moment there came a volley
of thundering knocks at the door. It.
was Simon, come to sec what on earth
had become of me.
It's raining like the deluge,' said he
'and the tide is up, and?hello ! who is
this??and why are you so pale? Is
anything the matter V
'I don't know what happened just
then. I believe I fainted.
When I came to my senses, mamma
was there, and the doctor, aud cousiu
Battersley's Italian servant, who kuew
exactly what to do in every emergency.
And my ankle was bandaged up, and
they had made an impromptu couch for
me with two old packing boxes and a
scarlet plush railway rug.
And mamma was crying and declar
ing that she did not know what she
i Fear not?Let all the Ends thou Air
IUMTER, S. 0., TTJI
I would have done if it had not been for
! Rudolph Battersley's kindness and pres
| ence of mind.
We stayed there all night because of
the rain and the rising tide. We stay
| ed there during the next week, because
j Rudolph declared that he never could
: get settled without my taste and wo
man's advice, and Simon's help.
And we concluded to remain there
forever, because Rudolph?who was
only the graudsoE of the cross old kins
man who had sued us and was since
dead?assured us that he saw our shad
ow of right in his grandfather's claim,
supreme court or no supreme court;
and that he should return at once to
S Switzerland, if we didn't agree to live
1 on there, just as if there never had
been any lawsuit.
'There!' cried Simon, laughing;
'Baby has always been sighing for a
hero of romance, and I guxr? she has
found him at last.
Rut, when Rudolf told me, just six
months afterward, that he could not be
happ^ unless I would promise to be
come his wife, I scarcely could credit
my own ears.
'It's because you want to settle the
family disseusions,' said I, almost in
clined to cry.
'No, it isn't,' said he ; it's because I
love you, Baby.'
'But how can you possibly care for
me?' said I, with a sudden burst of
humility.
He turned me gently toward the mir
ror which hung close by.
'Look in the glass, Baby,' said he,
'and see?'
So we are to be married, and my
wedding is to put an end to the quar
rels which have rent the Battersley
family for more than a generation.?
Helen Forrest Graves.
The State of Magnificent Dis
tances.
The distance from Dallaro county, in
the Texas Pan Handle, to Brownsville,
at the mouth of the Rio Grande, is 800
miles, but we can better reaftrtf how
far it is by saying that it is nearer from
Dallam county, Texas, to St. Paul,
Minn.; or to Bismarck, Dakota; or to
Helena, Montana; or to Yellowstone
Park, in Wyoming, or to Salt Lake
City, Utah, than it is from Dallam
county to Brownsville, Texas. It is
also nearer from Brownsville to Guate
mala, in Central America, than from
Browsville to Dallam county. Again,
it is nearer from Lipscomb county,
Texas, to St. Louis, than from the same
county, Texas, to Galveston. And
even Chicago and Cinciuuati are nearer
to Texas than Dallam county is to
Brownsville. It is farther from Tex
arkana to El Paso than from Texarkana
to West Virginia, Old Virginia, or
North Carolina. Suppose a geutlemau
should start from Savannah Ga., on the
Atlautic to look at a tract of laud at
El Paso. After travelling three days
and nights on a passenger traiu he
might arrive at Orange, Texas. Of
course when he put his foot on Texas,
soil, he would begiu to look around to
see how he liked the country by way of
deciding whether he would buy the El
Paso laud or not. But if told he was
not half from Savannah to El Paso, he
might turn back discouraged, but such
would be the fact. Again Texas wants
deep water at Galveston. But it is
nearer from El Paso, Texas, to the
deep harbor of San Diego, Cal., than
from El Paso to Galveston. In fact,
more than 1,000 miles of the Pacific
coast, extending from Los Augelos,
Cal., to Mazatlan, Mexico, is nearer to
El Paso than any part of the Texas
gulf coast.
An Incident.
The late Judah P. Benjamin, who
died in Paris recently, was in Abbe
ville with Jefferson Davis at the last
meeting of the Confederate Cabinet,
and was the guest, together with Gen.
?X. C. Breckinridge, Secretary of War,
Postmaster-General Reagan and Mr.
Mallory, Secretary of the Navy, of the
Hon. Thomas C. Perrin. Mr. Benja
min is described as having been in
good spirits even in that troublous time,
and cracked many jokes at the expense |
of more woe-begone fellow Ministers.
He walked about the garden admiring
the flowers and shrubbery, and doubt
less pondering deeply on the situation.
When the Presidential party left Abbe
ville, Mr. Benjamin entrusted to Mr.
Perrin's keeping two large trunks care
I fully locked. These trunks were taken
! care of for several years, and finally
wheu their owner was securely cstab
j lishod in London aud was winning his
I brilliant reputation and magnificent for
; tune at the English Bar, Mr. Perrin
: sent to know his wishes with reference
I to the trunks. He replied, requesting
! that they be forwarded to him aud gave
i specific directions as to the method of
I sending them. They wore to be ad
I dressed to a gentleman at Norfolk who
i would sec them safely across the Atlan
: tic. Mr. Benjamin's name was to be in
I no way connected with them, for even
at that date, two time and war worn
trunks bearing the address of the Con
federate ex-Secretary of State might
! have been liable to seizure by the
I United States authorities. The trunks
! were sent, the directions being followed
I with scrupulous care by Mr. Perrin.
I Whether they ever reached their desti
I nation is not known. Ic would
! be interesting to know what were their
j contents. It is said they were ijuite
heavy, but whether tilled with Mr.
j Benjamin's private effects or with rc
; cords or other property of the defunct
Confederacy will never be known.?.16
: U rille Medimn.
-? ? ? ? m-? -
A Domestic Inquirer.
'1 went down and looked at that
I house iu Geranium street yesterday,
j dear,' said Mr. Grim son beak to his wife
I at breakfast the other morning. '1 think
! it is ju>t. the house thai will suit us.
I In fact, I have decided to purchase it
I and spend the rest of my days there.*
; -Well, Mr. ('iimsoubeak,' replied the
j wife, decidedly out of temper, '1 don't
: care two straws where you spend the
I rest of your days ; but what I am most
interested in is where you are going to
i spend your nights!'
Mrs. Crimsonbeak's temper evidently
; nad uot been sweetened much by her
i late vigil the previous night.? Yonkers
i Statesman.
us't at. be thy Country's thy God's, a
CSD AY, MAY 27, 188
Prehistoric Man in Egypt;
and Syria
A Gala Meetiog was held by the !
Victoria Philosopical Institute of Lon- j
don in the second week in May, at
which its members gave a worthy wel- j
come to Vice-Chancellor Dawson, C. M. j
G., of McGill University, Montreal, at |
whose instance the British Association j
visits Canada this year.
The Society of Arts kindly lent its
premises for the occasion, and its great {
theatre was crowded in every part long j
before the hour of meeting. The chair j
was taken by Sir H. Barkly, G. C. M. j
G., K. C. B , F. R. S. who?after the j
new members had been announced by j
Captain F. Petrie, secretary?welcom- j
ed Dr. Dawson amid loud applause, j
and asked him to deliver his Address: ;
It was on "Prehistoric Man in Egypt j
aud Syria," and was illustrated by large !
diagrams, also flint implement? and I
bones collected by Dr. Dawson himself;
on the spot during his winter tour in j
the East; Professor Boyd-Dawkins, F. j
R. S., kindly assisted in the claasifica- j
tion of the bones.
In dealing with his subject, Dr. I
Dawson remarked that, great interest j
attaches to any remains which, in coun- !
tries historically so old, may indicate j
the residence of man before the dawn j
of history. In Egypt, nodules of flint j
are very abundant in Koceue lime- j
stones, and, where these have been |
wasted away, remain ou the surface. I
In many places there is good evidence j
that the flint thus to be found every-!
where has been, and still is, used for |
the manufacture of flakes, knives and j
other implements. These, as is well !
known, were used for many purposes j
by the ancients Egyptians, and in mod- j
em times gunfiints and strike-lights j
still continue to be made. The j
debris of worked flints found on the j
surface is thus of little value as an in- i
dication of any flint-folk preceding the i
old Egyptians. It would be otherwise i
if flint implements could be found in j
the older gravels of the country. Some i
of these are of Pleistocene age, and be
long to a period of partial submergence
of the Nile Valley. Flint implements
had been alleged to be found in these j
gravels, but there seemed to be no '<
good evidence to prove that they are i
other than the chips broken by mechau- j
ical violence in the removal of the
gravel by torrential action.
In the Lebanou, numerous caverns j
exist. These were divided into two j
classes, with reference to their origin ; j
some being water-caves or tunnels of:
subterranean rivers, others sea-caves, i
excavated by the waves when the coun- ?
try was at a lower level than at present, j
Both kinds have been occupied by man, j
and some of them undoubtedly at a .
.time anterior to the Phoenician occupa- ;
tion of the country, aud even at a time j
when the animal inhabitants and gco- j
graphical features of the region were j
different from those of the present day. j
They were thus of various ages, rang- j
ing from the post-Glacial or Antedilu- \
vian period to the time of the Phoeni- ;
cian occupation.
Dr. Dawson then remarked that
many geologists in these days had an
aversiou to using the word 'Antidilu- j
vian,'on account of the nature of the;
work which, in years now gone by. un- ;
learned people had attributed to the
Flood described in Scripture, but as the ;
aversion to the use of that word was, :
he thought, not called for in these ?
days, he hoped it would pass away, j
Speaking as a geologist, from a purely j
geological poiut of view, and from a
thorough examination of the country
around, there was no doubt but what !
there was conclusive evidence that be- i
tween the time of the first occupation j
of these caves by men?and they were !
men of a splendid physiche?and the j
appearance of the early Phoenician in- I
habitants of the land, there had been a j
vast submergence of laud, and a great]
catastrophe, aye a stupendous one, iu j
which even the Mediterranean had becu j
altered from a small sea to its present i
size. In illustration of this, the cav- j
erns at the Pass of Nahr-el-KcIb and j
at Ant Elias were described in some
detail, and also, in connection with these, \
the occurrence of fiint implements on !
the surface of modem sandstones at the i
('ape or lias near Bey rout; these last ]
were probably of much less antiquity j
than those of the more ancient caverns. \
A discussion ensued, which was j
taken part in by a number of distin- j
guished Fellows of the Royal Society, j
including Sir II. Barkly, F. R. S.,
Professors Wiltshire, F. R. S ,War-|
rington Smith, F. lt. S., Rupert
Jones, F. R. S. ; Colonel llerschel, ?
F. R. S., the talented sou of the late
Sir John llerschel; Dr. Rae, F. R
S., the Arctic explorer; Dr. Dawson,
F. R S. ; Mr. I). Howard, the vice- j
president of the Chemical Institute, j
and other geologists.
The meeting afterwards adjourned to i
the Museum, where refreshments were j
served.
The Baptists. j
About ninety delegates from South j
Carolina attended the Southern Baptist J
Convention at Baltimore. The Home \
Mission Board reported that the total
contributions for the year were ?56,
41-1; from South Carolina, ?2,'JSS.
The Foreigu Missiou Board reported
the total contributions, ?89,0-5. Of
this amount, South Carolina contribn
tcd$7.690. There is reported a bal
ance on hand for the first named board
>f Jjvv)42, aud a balance on hand lor
?oreigu Missionsof ?9,566. The next
meeting of the Convention will be held
at Augusta, Ga., iu May, 18S5.
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The State Press Association met in
Charleston last week and was royally
entertained by the Xc'ws and Courier
and the city authorities. The follow
ing officers were eleeted : President,
T. B Crews; first vice president,
Maj. M. B. McSwceuey, of Hampton ;
second vice-president. Col R. A.
Thompson, of Ocouee ; secretary, F.
P. Heard, of Camden ; treasurer, Col.
Franz Melchers, of Charleston.
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An old Edgcfield farmer wrote to an
editor askiug how to get rid of moles,
aud received the reply, 'Plough them
out.1 He answered baek, 'Cant do it
?it's ou my gal's nose.'
rid Truth's."
4.
What Our Editors Say.
May 20th.
Wilmington Star.
North Carolinians have a right, to be
proud of what, the men of Mecklenburg
did in May 1750. Even if there was
nothing doue on the 20th, as the scep
tics affirm, there are the famous resolu
tions drawn up by Dr. Ephraim Bre
vard that are glory and honor to any
people. The sceptics do not question
in the least the genuineness of the Res
olutions of the 31st of May and for the
best of reasons, but we have not space
at our command in which to state them.
All honor to the Men of Mecklenburg !
The 20tb of May should become a day
of general celebration throughout the i
State
Carolina Spartan.
The annual meetiug of the stockhold
ers of the Clifton manufacturing com
pauy was held lust week. Four years
ago this company was organzied, D. E.
Converse, being the leading spirit in
the movement. It was owing to his
energy and fine business tact that the
place was selected and the money rais
ed to start the mill. It was decided at
this meetiug to purchase 3000 addition
al spindles for the mill, and this will be
about its full capacity. After these are
put in, it will contain 23.288 spindles
During the last year it has run 306
days on full time usiug 0,505 bales of
cotton, producing 7,$04,107 yards of
cloth and 1,227,402 pounds yarn.
The gross profits, fur the year amount
ed to ?95,480 51 and the net profits,
?09,818,76. It will be seen that the
uet earnings amounted to uearly four
teen per cent. This is an excellent
showing, and it should encourage eth
ers to turn their attention to investments
in cotton mills. Our people may differ
in opinion as to the exemption of man
ufacturing capital from taxation, but
all will agree that factories are very
desirable and that fourteen per cent is
no mean dividend.
Greenville Xeirs.
The people of this and every other
county ought to require of the men who
want to represent them in Congress and
the Legislature clear and decided de
clarations of their opinions on the liv
ing, vitai questions of the time. Make
them speak out. We want men with
definite aims and political principles.
It is better to vote for a man we thiuk
has wrong views than for a dough faced
candidate who has no opinions or is
afraid to express them. The man who
will hide or change his principles to se
cure his election will do the same thing
to secure some other advantage to him
self after he is elected.
Mak? the candidates talk, and make
them talk plainly and say what they
expect to advocate aud oppose.
Prohibition.
Times and Democrat,
The following from the Newberry
Observer we commend to the careful
perusal of our n-aders. The Ouscrcer
very truthfully says that wheuever a
reform movement gets well under way
and begins to grow popular, au over
zealous friend is more to be dreaded
than an out-and-out opponent. One
kind of the over-zealous friend wants to
put himself in a conspicuous position
and inarch along at the head of the
column with the air of a leader, and
thus gain to himself credit that docs
not belong to him. It gratifies his
vauity. Another friend is perfectly
sincere iu thinking the column is not
moving fast enough, and wants to
doubrc:quick to meet the enemy. He
is the impatient aud impetuous kind,
with more zeal than judgment. Both
these friends should he suppressed, and
made to keep in the back-ground. We
make these reflections because some of
the temperance people in the State are
urging a prohibition campaign, aud we
think it untimely and unwise. When
the legislature provided for local optiou
it went as far as it was prudent to go,
evcu judging from the prohibitionits1
standpoint. That amouuted to total
prohibition outside the incorporated
cities aud towns; and under the law
many towns in the State have already
secured prohibition by a popular vote.
It seems to us that very satisfactory
progress has been made, and is making,
toward prohibition ; that in trying to
grasp at too much there is danger that
what has already been gained would be
lost, aud that it is the part of wisdom
to let well enough alone.
Xcicbcrry Herold.
The Abbeville Press and Banner,
having ascertained that a majority of
the negroes in the Penitentiary have
beeu to school, concludes that, educa
tion does not improve the negro. By
iuquiring still further, our contempora
ry would doubtless find that the majority
of the convicts of this State have been
to church ; would it not therefore con
clude that Christianity does not improve
the negro? It is just as fair to assume
that the negro who has been to church
is a Christian as to assume that the ne
gro who has beeu to school is educated.
ChrouirJc and CvMliiutivnalUt.
Senator Voorhccs thinks there will be
an old-fashioned Democratic love-feast
at Chicago, aud that the reunited party
will make a big tight ami probably win
;v big victory. The Senator no doubt
eouti.lcntly expects Messrs. Randall
and Morrison to shako hands aud make
friends for a common good. Well,
stranger things have happened. We
can remember the time when Gen.
Too tubs would not have spoken kindly
of Grant, as he does now.
Wibuihgton Iterietc.
The Philadelphia Press calls atten
tion to the fact that among the signers
of the 'business man's call' for a meet
ing to declare for the re-election of
President Arthur tiie following names
appear : tleorgc I. Seney, president of
the Metropolitan National Hank, which
closed its doors last Wednesday ;
Ceorge McG'?urkey, vice president ot
the sann' institution ; I). R. [latch, of
the linn of Hatch & j-'oote, brokers,
who went to the wall earlv in the iigi't.
aud Joseph C. Williams & Co.. who
I failed early iu the day. and helped to
lead the stampede which Followed.
Alluding to the announcement that the
meetiug is to be strict*^ 'a spontaneous
THK Th
New S
demoDstration of business coofideuce iu
the administration/ the Press suggests
' co
that 'in view of recent experience there
might be some propriety in revisiog the
list of gentlemen who are to furnish the
spootaniety.1
Greenville finlcrjirirc and Mountaineer.
The race for Congress is growing
warm. Messrs. Ball and Fergusou
have been mentioned from Laurcns, j
Messrs. Monroe and McKissick from
Union, Mr. Gaillard from Fairfield,
Messrs. Wallace, McMaster and You
mans from Rieb laud. Spartanburg
has no man in the field, and, so far,
there is no oue announced from Green
ville. Tt is well known, however, that
Col. W. If. Perry will be urged by
his friends to take the field. While no
office seeker, we are sure that he will
not decline to be tho standard bearer of
his County, aud it is very certain that
the County Convention would give him
a hearty endorsement.
Sickness.
Vr'innthoro Ntws and Herald.
The physicians in Wiunsboro and
throughout the county report a great
deal of sickness, both among the white
and colored population. For the exis
tence of so many forms of disease it is
difficult to fiud explanation. The gen
eral prevalence of diseases, perhaps,
might be attributable to the sultry hot
ncss of the spriug days and to local
causes. Fairfield county is ordinarily
one of the healthiest regions in the
State, and before the war Winusboro
was a health resort for huudreds of in
valids from the low country.
Keeping Bees,
Keeping bees seems to be a remun
erative bur-iness for women, aud can be
entered upon with very little outlay of
capital. For a hive of bees is a kind of
merchandise that will iucrcase rapidly
aud continually, askiugof you only that
you give them room in proportion to
their numbers. These ezcellent little
foragers want but half a chance, and
they will feed themselves and you, and
your friends and neighbors, and proba
bly compel you to seek a market for
their extra products. We do not know
much of practical bee keeping, but.
there are numerous impressive books
published on the subject, any one of
which will give ample information ou
the subject. We have observed a friend
as he experimented at bee-keeping for
pastime. His business required his
time and means, so that he felt
that he had little of cither to spare;
but be bought one swarm to siart with
and morning and evening he gave this
the little attention it needed. In a few
weeks, however, he had a new family
on his hands demanding a home The
fates were propitious, for he found that
his next door neighbor had three hives
lying iu his barn that he was glad to
seii for uext to nothing?he did not be
lieve iu lees aud never had since he
invested a hundred dollars in a colony
of fancy breed and attempted to con
duct the business of bee-keeping on a
grand scale, without a day's experience.
When these were filled aud there was
still further need of hives Mr. Brown
found a very simple style that sold for
little money, and answered every pur
pose of the more complicated and ex
pensive ones. We cannot remember
now just how long since this gentleman
bought his first aud only hive of bees
he ever did buy, but to-day he has, in
stead of that one, seventeen stands of
bees that furnish honey enough for his
large family the year round, and a con
siderable quantity beside, for which he
finds ready sale. Bee-keeping is light
work that may be carried on iu coun
try, town or city, any place indeed
where flowers of any kind are accessi
ble. And as we have said, the sum of
money absolutely necessary for the
enterprise is so small, that almost any
one can command it. Few persons
wishing to keep bees for profit would
care to start on such a small scale as the
acquaintance mentioned, but if you can
get that much and no more, take
courage and begin with a single hive
Ue sure that you apply every dollar of
the proceeds from the business to en
larging it. and the result will surprise
you and your friends.
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An Inevitable Anecdote.
During his recent able speech in
the Senate on the school bill, Senator
Vance, of North North Carolina, in
dulged in much pleasantry, some of
which was very good. None can
relate an anecdote like be, and he
could not resist the temptation to
perpetrate a couple of bis inimitable
jokes, even in tho presence of digni
fied and sedate Senators. Illustrating
the point that the North, especially
New England, and more particularly
Massachusetts, was originally respon
sible for slavery, Senator Vance said:
I "If I may be permitted to disturb
' tho dignified solemnity of this body
[ for one moment, I will state of what
! it reminds me. 1 heard once of an
old maid who gut religion at a camp
met ling. Immediately after she ex
perienced the change she commenced
exhorting the younger and prettier
women in regard to wearing jewelry
and gew-gaws, and warned them
against the pernicious consequences
to piety ol such vanities. Oh. girls!'
siie said, 'I tell you, I used to wear
ear-ror^s and linger rings, and iaccs
aud furbelows like you do, but 1 found
they were dragging my immortal soul
down to hell, and 1 stripped them
every oue off, and sohl them to my
younger sister Sally.-' j Laughter (
Thai is the way Massachusetts reliev
ed herself from slavery. That is ilte
way she preserved her whiteness ol
soul."
The verdict of the Coroners jury in
the case of W. B ('ash, was ?"That
deceased came to his death on the morn
ing of the 15th of May, 18S4, at his
place, from gunshot wounds at the
bauds of Deputy Sheriff K. T. King
and no>sc while resistii ; arrest/
Mr. Madden, of Pike County. t?cor
ffia, owns the largest jrrapc vino in the
United Stales, which is eighteen
years old, a tjuarterof a mile long, and
thirty-four inches in circumference at
its base, and bears five wagon load's of
fruit.
4
Ufc SOUTHRON, Kstabliwhed J?ai?, 1866.
eries*?Vol; III. Ifb; 43.
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Wielding th? Gr?veL
The Washington orrespondentof the
Cleveland Leader says : The Speaker's
desk is a sort of marble pulpit, bebind
which Mr. Carlisle sits in a great arm
chair, and holds in his right hand the
ebony handle of an ivory-headed gavel.
This, in a case of disorder, which very
often occurs, he brings down with a
thundering rap upon the board top of
the marble pulpit. It sounds when
used with vigor like the shot of a pistol,
and is the terror of long-winded speak
ers. Mr. Carlisle uses the gavel light
ly, but little Sam Cox when be gets in
the chair, brings it down with all his
might, and once when he was raisiug it
up for a mighty stroke the head came
off and it flew to the floor. Often the
gavel b eaks ahi then a new one is
procured. Sam Randall was very hard
ou gavels, and broke a great : many
during his term as Speaker. He,has
the remains of these in a cabinet at
home, which he shows to visitors as a
sign of his former power. One of these,
is a beautiful one which be got daring
his last term as Speaker. It was made
by a Georgian mechanic of 110 pieces of
hickory wood.
Old, But Good.
The old story going the rounds about
the Senator from ArHab'sas who ate a
chunk of soap disguised as a caramel,
and never winced over the dose, brings
to mind a litdc incident that once oc
curred?or is r>aid to have occurred??
in Virginia City, though the story is
not particularly new. It was the cus
tom in those days, to set on the tables
in the restaurants, as a condiment, a
dish of little but very hot pepper berry,
known as the 'chilicopena.' Two
Irishmen walked into a restaurant, and
seated themselves at a table.
?Phwat's them, Pat V said orJc, point
ing to the chilicopenas.
'Berries, I thftk,' said the other.
Pat put a couple of the berries in his
mouth, and *n a moment the tears were
streaming from his eyes. r
'Phwatareyou cryiu' about, mon?*
asked his companion.
'Sure said Pat, *I got 4 letter to-day
that me oujd mother is dead.5
While Pat was spying this, the other
man was chewing on some chilicopenas,
and the tears were coming into his ey"es
also.
'And pbwat are ye cryin' about?'
asked Pat
Sure, I'm cry in' to think that youtv
mother didn't die before yorj wereboftf.'
? )VeeJdi) Magazine.
The Greely squadron are at last ah
off on their errand of mercy^ The
Bear, the first to start, must pow 5ba
well np to the Greenland cqast.. The
Thetis has been reported st St. Johns,,
taking supplies, and the Alert sailed
from New York a week or so;ago. The
three vessels will meet at Upernavik,,
and the northward voyage will begin
about the first of June, heading .ft?*
Creely's Station on Lady Franklin
Bay. The squadron is composed of
staunch vessels, plentifully supplied
with every appliance which will be
nseded, aud manned with officers anct
crews particularly fitted and disciplined
for their work. Besides this official
search, the bountiful Government re
ward has already started quite a fleet
of whalers into that inhospitable region,'
so that we may expect to hear tidings
of the gallant Greely and his party pos
sibly before another winter sets in.:
That the search will be sucessful wiij
be every one's wish ; at the same time 1*
is to be hoped it will never be necessa
ry to institute another search for any
one in that region.
The daily papers state that a 'grand:
chicken main' between two counties
in North Carolina?Alamance and
Mecklenburg?is being fought in Co
lumbia. We have heard the qW^tion
asked, 'Why do the people in North
Carolina come to South Carolina to
fight chickens?' And the answer was
given, 'The laws cf North Carolina
prohibit such things.' If this is true,
North Carolina is to be commended..
But what shall be said of a city that
licenses such cruelly't It is high time
that such things were banished be*
yond civilization.? Christian. Neigh
bor.
In prospectiug for nominations for
offices, says the Christian Sa'ghbor,
let no nomination be accepted by the
people where the nominee is a: man
that docs not pay his debts. Honest
men are more in demand that either
'Democrats' or -Republicans.' If this
suggestion were carried out, we would
have a much smaller number of candi
dates than we do.
Frank Wright, of the. Chanriing
drove at Mount Royal, Fla., picked
aud .?hipped this season from twenty-one
trees 50,000 oranges, and yet tfjere are
a number of oranges oii the t;ecs. The
oranges averaged about one hundred
ami forty to the box, which brought
from ?3 to ?5 each.
'Is tunkiutel better than cake or can
dy, ma?' asked a little boy. 41 do not
know of anything called tunkintel, mf
dear. Where did yon hear about it't
'Well. 1 heard oar Lizzie telling he
bean last night, that she loved him
more than Tunkintel, so I guessed it
must, be something bcttter than cake or
candy
[ The man who will regularly read a
' borrowed paper, in order to save the
expense of subscription to it, may be a
I very estimable citizen, but we should
vote against his handling tlie collection
I plate in the church to which we belong.
? i i m -
Mr Fred Douglass is reported to be
in permanent political eclipse in the
eves of ins race ou account of the color
I of his new wile. The colored brother
i is making a mistake by setting au ex
: ample of proscription on account of the
1 color of a fellow's wife.
I _m ri WI_
j A young lady of Syracuse, N. Y.,
while skating, ran ioto a young man
and his teeth scratched her nose. She
is now suffering from blood-poisoning.
This sbonld teach young men who go
skaking,to driuk a less poiso&oiw brand
. of whi&key.