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?ttS SUMTER WATCHMAN, Establit?ie? April, IS50. 'Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's thy God's, and Truth's. THE TIC UK SOUTHRON, Established June, 1866. ? Consolidated Aug. 2, 1881.1 SUMTER, S. 0., TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1884. New Series-Vol. III. No. 49. $!* SSa?t frotan m? S wi Jpr?iL Pt&lisfcsd orrery Tuesday, -BY THK Watchman- and Southron Publishing Company, SUMTER, S. C. tBRMS: Two Dollars per annum-in advance. ADTSRTISKMS?TS. One Square, first insertion...;...$1 Od f "Bvery sabsequent.insferti?n.......50 Coil tracts for three moo tos, or longer will be made at reduced rates. AU commanications which subserve private Interests will be charged for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respect will be Charged for. Marriage notices and notices of deaths pub? lished free. For job work or contracts for advertising address Watchman dud S?t??rbh, or apply at the Office, te ii. G. OSTEEN, business Manager. i*QBJ$ ifBiitES BOOTH AND H?S GRA-vTE. Shortly after Booth Was killed, lt was re? ported that Mr. Stanton, the secretary bf war, bad ordered his body taken into the middle bf the ocean and there stink, so that there would be no spot of earth that, as he alleged, might be worshipped by Southerners as hold? ing the remains of President Lincoln's assas? sin. Oh t gire him a grave aS broad as the sweep. Of the tidal waves' measureless motion. Lay him to sleep in the anns of the deep Since bis heart was as free" as the ocean. it was liberty slain that maddened his brain To avenge the dead idol he cherished. So 'tia meet that the main, never curbed by chain, Should hold the last freeman now perished. the dust bf' the brave could hot rest in the grate Of a laud where blind force had dominion, But the step of the slave never soiled the proud wa vfe That spurneth the hamper and prison. He who dared break the rod of a blacka more's god, .""AU the hosts of the despot defying, liar not sleep in the sod, a nation's feet trod, That he shamed with his glory in dying. ?ee, hide him away, from the sad eyes of day - In the coral bf sea gte?a abysses," Where the raermaidens gay, as they fly thro' the spray, Shall purple his pale cheeks with kisses. As the ocean streams roll, from the gulf to toe pole, Let them moan him with mn3ical dirges, Let the tempest bel 1 toll, the repose of hi; soul. Hore sublime than the sound of its surges. Be hath written bis name in letters of flame, O'er the pathway to liberty's portal. And the serfs that now blame, now crimson with shame. When they '{earn they have cursed an im? mortal. Oe hath died for the weal, of a world 'neath tbs heel Of too many a merciless Xero. But while there is steel everv tyrant shall feel That God's vengeance but waits for its hero Then give bim a grave as broad as the sweep Of the tidal waves' measureless motion. Lay our Brutus to sleep iu the arms Of the deep, Since his heart was wide as the ocean. BILL AK P. - Politics is on a boon. Fifty mil? lions of people arc going to choose a president, and it looks like most ev? erybody is in a good humor about it. 1 am, and so are my nabors. There basen't been a time since the war that the people felt so easy about an election as the.3 do now. The nation is safe. Both ol the great parties will pot np their best men and th?re is not much of principle or policy to divide them. The country is pros? perous. We are ail doing pretty weil, better than any other nation of people on the globe. There is a good, humble, old fashioned preacher not far away who always prays, "We thank thee, oh, Lord ! that wc live in a land of freedom, Where the gospel is dispensed with. We thank Thee that we have a plat and grant and a blear chain of titles to a field in the promised laud." Well, we know What the old man means, and it is ali right. I wish we all could read our title clear to mansions in the skies. Latid is cheap enough down here on the top side of this green earth, but ' I'm afraid we will find it very dear up yonder. This is a blessed country for the poor. We can't realize how blessed until We read about the old world and talk to people who have traveled. Just think of land renting for $60 an acre in England and $40 ia Germany. Just think of the aver? age laborer working for twelve hours for forty tents sud boarding himself. No wonder they keep coming over here, and they would choose the south instead of the north and west if they Were not fooled by those agents who are paid to work for the railroads and get settlers for their lands. The sooth has got no agents. We tried to establish agencies of immigration and we had pamphlets printed telling all about our climate and productions and the first thing we knew them fel? lers up not th had great big maps printed and stuck up everywhere showing the Dismal swamp to extend from Virgiuia to Texas. Nearly all of Georgia is covered with it. Well, oar folks conldeut make the foreign? ers believe bot that it was all so and they wonldent come. Those not th? em rascals have been swindling us for a hundred years by all sorts ol tricks and devices. But we will get even with them after while-see if we don't. The time was when we had statesman of principle for our presi? dents and cabinets. Who ever heard of a president plundering the government or being mixed up in any moneyed scheme before the war? The war seems to have corrupted thc whole yankee nation and made steal? ing respectable. How came ail these charges against Grant and Garfield and Hayes and Arthur, and ali those chaps connected with the Credit-Mo bilier and the railroad subsidies and the star route transactions? There were no southern men in those schemes. Bat what surprises me now is tc see a big lot of them fellows up there splitting off from the party and say ing they wont support Blaine because ho plundered the treasury. When did Mr. Beecher and Mr. Adams anc the Harpers and Judge Tourgee and th?* other ed fio/s take this new de part??re ? When did they reform: Thsy have tnppostod the whole re publican shebang for twenty i and just ?ow begin to preach p cal ro?rality. There is soraet peculiar about this. The trut Arthur had a slate and these fe) were on it. They were all intcrc in some way in that ring, and they begin to holler wolf. Why; Blaine is about the best man have got. He is the biggest st mau, and has the biggest brain, the grandest way of doing thi Why, even when he Steals thei nothing little about it, and he dit liberally and tells on nobody. I er expected any respectable rep can to find fault with him for plui irig the government. They havi j been doing it so long that We tho I it was a plank in their platform I we have got to take a republicar j president we want Mr. Blaine, j has got enough and wou't want more and he will put a stop to business. He is no little trick; I He wouldent stoop to put a darke j ?s chairman of the great republ convention that was to nominal president-not him. I heard a Bl man say the other day that he h letter from him since his nominat and if he was elected he would n a clean sweep of every darkey I was in office. j But Mr, Cleveland is a refor I sure enough. He comes from I kind of stock. He has got a so I ern name and a southern pedig I His ancestors came from Carol j Cleveland is a Carolina name. T I were the old cavaliers and wouU j stoop to do a mean thing. Clevelands are all about in Caro now, and are still the same proud I noble stock. When Grover GI? land gets to be president he clean up things geuerally. ne following in Mr. Tildcn's lead j will wear his mantle when the I man is gone. I'm free to say tbs I believe Mr. Blaine is the smar man, but Cleveland is the safest : j most reliable; When. Ben I whipped out Blaine in the Audei? ville matter Blaine didn't go off ? pout aud plot revenge but he gav< up nobly and went over and cong u lat ed Mr. Hill and they beca warra personal friends aud could J seen together arra iu arm walking I Pennsylvania aveuue. I like tl It did roe good. Aud when wanted to build c monument to ? Hill he was among the first to sc down a liberal contribution. But has gotten a man tied on to him ti wouldent have done that. ! Logan is dead weight. He ie half Indian-that is he has got Indian's hatred without hie lo .He has been waving the bloody s?i ever since the war. He will do so dirty work if he gets in power, have a contempt for him. shouldent come in my house. j shouldent stop iii the big road a say howdy. He has ueVer said c kind word about the south and woi j put ns all in chains and bondage ii Could. He is a turbulent disturber the public tranquility. He is gentleman, and PH bet ten dolli that Mr. Blaine feels handicapped having him on his ticket. But su is politics. * That was the way wi Garfield. They tied Arthur on him. He was nothing but a wa politician bumming around among t j brothels of New York. History Still repeated. The great men of t nation who wont stoop to meauuc can't be made president. It all go by favors and by rings for pluud laud office. Blaine is a great m j aud I was hopeful of the sign but t respectable republicans are agaii: him. The Tribune is tor him ai that is the leading paper, but you s the Tribune was on his slat Whitelaw Heed is to be minister England, and that is all right. I will make a good oue. He is ?na and bold and has got money enoui to do him and his children. So 1 j him go. Well, we can't please cverybod, and so if we can't get our man, let take Blaine, aud be thankful that \i live in a land where the gospel is di pe used with. I heard a good me say the other day that he knew Blaii was a good man, for he was a Pre by terian. That shows our predjud ces, and it is all right. We get ot religion from our fathers. Ye couldn't make that man believe tbi Blaine isa bad mau. We arc a very selfish and we can't help it not so selfish about money, but aboi honors and office and the like, thonght ofthat when listening to Iii call of counties iii the convention i Atlanta, lt looked to me very niue like it was city against country. W have a great big territory north of til Chattahoochee ; but wc were igtro I ed, there wasent ofiices euough to g round and so the big cities of Atlai ta, and Macon, and Augusta au Savannah had to be supplied firs That ?s ali right and the men are jin splendid, and I honor them all, bi somehow I couldent help feel in mortified when they left out our mai We had a man, and we are a go/M big fragment of a people in null Georgia. We extend from Athel? t? ' Columbus. We thought we kad J right to representation, and \ve pu forward a man who, of all otters, i; the best known man for a jatioua . convention. At the last nationa convention General Young was tin chat rm au of the committee y'u creden? tials, the most important committee o ' ali, und he did his work veil. Ile ii i a harmonizer. He kitfws how tc pour oil upon the trotbled Waters . ile has had more exp?rience in sucl [ malters than anybody and yet ho wat left out severely. Jlhotight maybe . that it was because there were not I five places instead"!' four, but I heat ; 6ome hints of bal faith, and that he ; was tricked out. Well, we will sec what we will iee. General Young > will not be ignored nor Barlow conn . ty nor Cherokee, Georgia We will . be heard fr<?i later for these kind ol ; things must be equalized and harmo , uized. [ Well w3 are through our harvest. [ The wh/at shocks stand thick in the . field, aid are a solid comfort to look I at. Vi looking at them now. Next . thing s the "travelling thrash/' and . / I shall sit down by it with a piece of soft pine in my hand and cut a notch for every measure as it is poured in the sack. There is no politics about that, and everything is calm and se? rene. Cobe is hopeful and holds his I head up. When I asked him last summer about his crop he said : "Major, it's about null and void, and if the weather don't adulterate soon it will be nullor and voider." But ha Will have buscuit soon and be happy. BILL A KP. Elevated to thc Peerage. Caleb Andrews,, a well-known citizen of Arkansaw tells rather au amusiug story concerning family pride. **I was devotedly attn ched to Priscilla Kidman," said Mr. Andrews, "and af? ter being fully assured that my lovo was returned^ I approached old man Kidman; who had ever been a friend of our family and asked ins consent to our union." 44 'Certainly, Caleb,' said he. "Cer? tainly, for to tell you the truth I have had my eye on y ott for somo time, because I know that you will make a good husband. Besides that, it is Well that our families should be unit? ed.' ! 44 4When can tho marriage take place?' I asked. 44 40h, anytime, or rather as soon as arrangements can be made.' 44I was delighted with the old roan's frankness. His face seemed a model Of noble expression. My father agreed with me concerning the old man Kid? man* but my mother, woman like, would not agree that ho deserved any credit* and dropped a mild hint that the Kidman family was no better than hers, that her mother was old Major Harvey's daughter, and that none of the Harvey stock need feel elated even if the governor of the stato should grant the hand of his daughter. This was all very well, and quite natural, my mother necessarily being a woman, but with me, it robbed old man Kidman of none of the nobility with which I had surrounded him. Extensive prepara? tions for the wedding were made, and j I doubt that lhere was ever a happier ! clod-hopper than L The marriage was j to take place at noon Thursday. War ? had been declared between the states, j and, after the ceremony, I, as captain of a company, was to march away, re? gretful at such an early separation from my young wifo, but happy in the thought that I would bo envied by all the young men in thc neighborhood. Tuesday evening I went over to Rid man's house: ile did not welcome mo in his usual outburst of 'Why, my dear boy, how arc you?" and I thought that he might be ill. 44 4Mr. Andrews,' said ho, *Iet me seo you a moment." 44There was a chilliness iii his voice and an expression in his oyo which I could not quite understand." 44Ho led the way down to tho pen whero the hogs were eating. Placing his right arm over tho fence, ho turn? ed to me with an air of importance and said: 44 'I believe there has been some little talk in regard to a marriage between you and my daughter?' 441 looked at him in astonishment, j and replied affirmatively. 44 'Such a union is now impossible.' 44 'Why?' I gasped. . 44 *\Vhy!' he exclaimed. 'Why, in ! deed. You certainly cannot have heard I Of the governor's action concerning me. ! He has appointed mo justice of the I peace. A judge, sir, under thc confed? erate government. This war, young man, is intended to define social lines. It is to confirm an aristocracy whi?h for years has been growing. You are quite a respectable young man, with fair education, but you cannot hope io marry into the nobility. Before I was elevated to the peerage, I gave my con ! sent to your union with my daughter, but now, sir, in duty bound to myself and family, I am forced to rescind my former action.' 44My blood arose,' 'Sir!' ? exclaimed, j *you forget that I am a captain in thc confederate army.' 44 4I seek not to rob you of any laurels that you may have won. A captain can make his position honorable, but he is by no mean? a 'squire. If you at? tain tho rank ol general, then 1 shall bo pleased to reconsider this decision, but until then or some similar eleva? tion, I must discountenance your asso? ciation with my daughter.' 44 'Does your daughter share your ! opinion?" 44 \My daughter may nof share, but she accepts my opinion. ?She could not do otherwise.' ?4I went home. 4The old fool!' ex? claimed my father when I told him. *I'llgo over and whale him till he can't stand up,' and it was as much as I could do to dissuade him from his violent purpose. 441 went into thc war without seeing tho girl :vgain. Just before Lee's sur? render, I was promoted to thc rank of brigadier general. After peace was de? clared I returned home. Miss Kid? man had not married, and I was told that ste had never ceased to grieve for me. .One evening I strolled over to see her. The sitting-room door was open, and seeing no one within. I entered and sat down. ShuiHing footsteps told of somo one's approach. Uid man Rid ma? entered, lie looked til mo a mo meat and said: 44 'Have you come back to taunt me?' *4No, old man, having attained thc rank of general, 1 have come back to narry your daughter.1 44 4IIow do you know, sir, that I will consent?' 44 'You said that all barriers should I be removed should 1 attain the rank of general.' 4"Yes, but you arc only a brigadier genoral. Well, as I did not specify what rank of general, 1 suppose it would Lo better to yield. Remember, sir, that I am soon ty be a candidate under the United States government for justico of the peace.' "Wo have been married for years. Tiie old man lives with us. and Is con? stantly engaged in copying opinions delivered uuder authority ol thc con? federare govertiiueiiu" - ArkojL?auj Travdcr. lie Wanted a Chance. Husband--"1)0 you know, my dear, that the men would be happier if tho women would follow some of the cus? toms of tiie Japanese?" Wife - "Why you horrid thing! You wouldn't want me to blacken my teeth, would you?" Husband-44No; but there is on?; thing thc Japanese women do Which, if j you followed might give me a chanco ? to look in tho mirror occasionally." Wife-"What, on earth eau that bo?" Husband-"They dross their hair I only once in four days, darling."-New York Journal. Art is making great strides in New York, lt has reached a point now where a genuine oil painting 3 feet by 2J eau be painted in twenty minutes. I The pictures arc made almost exclus , ively for the American market. ! MEN WHO WANT TO I?TLL. Homicidal and Suicidal Impulses That, arc Jjikely to Spring Up. "Considering the number of cases of homicidal and suicidal impulse that come under tho notice of experts in nervous diseases," a distinguished specialist remarked, "it is a wonder to me that so few tragodics from that source really happen; Last Week a business man in this city, who owns a handsome country residence on the Hudson, and would be regarded by his acquaintances as the last person in the world to bo possessed by such a whim, carno to mo in a great worry of mind and told mo he had something to com? municate that must be hold strictly in? violate; Tho story was typical. I have heard it witli trilling variations a thou? sand times in five years. Ho had not been feeling very well-rather nervous and ill at ease-for some days. That morning, as he left the house to take the train for New York, ho happened to pass his gardener who was at work on the grounds, and slopped to talk to him a minute. Tho man was stooping over a clump, of ornamental shrubbe? ries, thinning out the dead stalks with a pruning knife. A spado was leaning against the trunk of a tree just at his hand. 'I had never had any quarrel or misunderstanding with the man,' said this patient, tilling his story. 'But tho impulse was upon me in an instant to seizo that spade and brain the poor fel I low on the spot. I trembled all over like a loaf, with a kind of nervous terror that I can hardly describe to you, Doctor. Finally, not daring to trust myself longer, I turned and walked away as fast as my legs could conven? iently carry ine. I believe^ sin that 1 should have killed the man if I had lingered fivo minutes longer. Now, what is to be done?1* Tho doctor advised his patient to avoid temptation for a few days, turn his mind resolutely to something else, and gave him a sedative prescription bromides, of course-with instructions to call again in a day or two. Tho man was sensible enough to act on the advice, and on tho fourth day he dropped in and told the doctor that tho trouble had passed off, and he felt like himself once more. And so a tragedy was averted probably. The physician went on to say that ho had no less than nine cases of homi? cidal or suicidal impulse then under treatment Gi these seven were sui? cidal, and tho other two homicidaL One of tho latter had been on bis hands for three weeks. The patient, a man of some note in literature, had been sleepless for several weeks before the impulse manifested itself. He was a married man, and loved his wife de? votedly. One night, after dozing a few minutes with terrible dreams, ho awoke with a strange presentment of iniend iug disaster. His wife was sleeping quietly. The moonlight, struggling through the window pane, fell upon her face and white, shapely throat. As sudden as the leap of a tiger, the im? pulse seized him to cut thc woman's throat, and he was actually out of bed and hunting for his razor in the bureau drawer, before any realizing sense of the enormity.of tho deed that he was about to perpetrate interposed to prevent thc tragedy. He returned to bed, and lay in a tremble tiil daylight His wife never knew how near she had been to death. He had had no wish to kill anybody else as yet. "One of my suicidal patients," con? tinued the doctor, "was first seized with tho impulse on a Brooklyn ferry boat He had boen across the river on business, and was on his way back. He went on board one of the boats at tito Fulton Ferry, and stood gazing listlessly at the rampart of business houses extending far to the right on Furman street. Ure boat started sud? denly as he stood ruminating. He in? sists that the impulse had its origin in irritation of the retina caused by the movement of the sunshine-flooded sur? faces of brick across thc Optic field, and very likely he was right. 'For an in? stant,' he says, 'I was wild; and when I came to myself my hand was on the railing, and a couple of stalwart pas? sengers had collared me. I had never thought of such a thing as committing suicide except as a coward's resource. Now," added the doctor, "this man was no more mad than I am; it was a typical case of suicidal impulse, caused, perhaps, by long nervous tension." In point of fact, both suicidal and homicidal impulses appear to bo far less frequent with women than men. In all his experience, tho doctor has treated only five cases of the impulse in women, while of tho sterner sex his patients have been numbered by scores. He inclines to the belief that the habit contracted by men of business of al? ways being in a hurry, engaged, occu5? pied, is one of tho principal instrumen? talities, next to malarial poisoning, in producing this typo of nervous disturb? ance. "And 1 imagine, ".he concluded^ "that our former Commissioner of Lunacy, Dr. Ordrounaux, was not far out of thc way when ho declared that ono man in every hundred who walks the streets is potentially a murderer or a suicide; a startling declaration, but oue that my own practice during tho last ten years has abundantly verified.*' Sometimes the impulse is accompan? ied by voices in the ears, urging tho patient to kill; sometimes a red light -lurid, dismal, weird-suffuses the eyes and with ono of the doctor's pa? tients the attack is announced invari? ably by a premonitory shiver or shud? der of momentary duration only, which precedes it by a second or two. It is a curious fact, also, that serious organic troubles with the brain and spinal tract seldom gives vise to these strange paroxysms.-Ar. 1*. Stm. Wildcat 15anh.i:ig. "Wildcat banking days? Yes, I had some little experience of how business was dono, in those timos," said Mr. Will ian; A. Duller yesterday. "Banks used to be started on a capital of land; it was assessed at a certain value, gen? erally about ten times what it was worth, and the bank allowed to issue a portion of the amount in notes. On paper thc scheme was perfection, all the safeguards imaginable-, but it was ail on paper. You sec, wo fellows carne from the cast, ami I imagined tba! foin:.n's were ti? bo madooui ?UTO, but people didn't have any money to do business with. So luis wildcat I money H US issued, ami as soon as a tuan got so.no <>i ii ho was mighty anx? ious to change it [with a laugh]. The man who could change it . juick.est was the fellow who came out best 1 re? member one ?'iniiiv instance. At tho time I was keeping a st?r?; 1 had some bills to pay in New York. 1 had lots of wildcat Money, bul uniorttmatc'v it wa.s no good down east. I bad a neigh? bor of the uau:c of Kilmore who was about ia tho same fix. lie proposed collecting all the moni-..- he could get On ono bank and gcttiug il .-exchanged. He was pretty sanguine about the >ue cess of his scheme, but i wasn't; at any rate ? 1< !-1 him wc would try it. Elimo:'' got all his money on a Lapeer bank-, an vi I got mine on three wildcat banks in Pontiac Wc drove out next day, aud Kilmore left me at Pontiac to go to Lancer. I did what I could and manageu to got $200 or $300 for all thej notes I held; . tho bank wouldn't pay! any more. When Kilmore- returned I asked him how ho had made out, and he said ho had got his notes redeemed in full. I was surprised to hear this, because the Lapeer bank was consider? ed thc meanest in the whole state. He said ho had a draft on Detroit which | would be paid all right; When he got to Detroit he ..ook his draft to get it cashed* and soon afterward I saw him Come up to his stoic with a handker? chief full of money; he must have had a peck of it; Well* sir* the man on whom the draft was drawn had paid him all in Lapocr bank notes, the same ; thing; that ho had so industriously col? lected aid taken out to the bank." "How long did wildcat banks flour* Ssh?" From about 1837 to 1839. if I remem* ber rightly.-Detroit Times. A Yankee in Red Paint* Tho campoodies southeast Of toWn were the scene of unusual excitement yesterday. It was acoidently discover? ed that one of tho hoad sachems, who had lived on the Walker river reserva? tion for years* was a white man. How the discovery was made is not stated. The Indians were so worked up over the discovery that the renegade, fearing I for his life? came to town. Upon being | interviewed by a reporter, lie said he ? was a native of Massachusetts and for* j ty-soven years old; He became en- I tangled in a scrape when he was eigh* I teen years old* and? running away from home* followed tho sea tor two years. Arriving at San Francisco he joined the rush to the mines; After a pretty rough experience going from camp to camp, he linally, after tho col* lapse of the Meadow lake boom, joined thoPiutos at thePyramid reservation. Ho remained there until he had fully mas? tered tho language and habits of his dusky friends, and thon, painting him* self and assuming the garb of the red men, came to Walker lake, where* in consideration of his able advice in the councils of bis tribo, he was elected a chief and allowed throe wives. He says that although ho sometimos longed for news from the Bay state* ho was per? fectly content to remain whore he was, as he found tho roaming; independent life of the Piules just the thing for a man tired of tho busy scenes of civiliza? tion. Now that he has tho paint wash* ed ofi and has donned a docent suit of clothes, ho is a very intelligent looking man, and it is a wonder that he could have kept himself from his raco so many years. Ho will probably return to the home of his youth in a few days; Walker, (Ncc.) Bulletin. ? Magnificent Mast. A magnificent mast has been sent from Verona to tho agricultural de? partment of the Turin exhibition. The tree grow in the woods of Cadore, and five other majestic pines had to bc hewn down before the ono destined for the mast could be removed. When tho lower branohes lind been cut off this fino tree-trunk was divided into two pieces, tho bottom part measuring more than 120 feet, and tho top part, still adorned with its green branches, 18 feet The weight of the tree, after being thus prepared, was 41 cwt. On ex? amining the base it w:;s found that that part was 205 years old, while the sum? mit was only 83 years old. Tho mast wag dragged from the forest to the sta? tion on two wagons, drawn by eight horses, and the whole of it took up seven railway trucks; Throe days were employed in tho transport by rail, as tho special train could only travel by daylight, proceeding very slowly on account of the Curves* and had to stop continually, not being able to pass another train; Tile mast is slender in comparison to its height, being Go cen? timeters at tho baso and 15 at the sum? mit. The stem preserves an equal width up to the height of about 90 feet, after which it diminishes rapidly. Including tho expenso of transport? the mast will cost more than ?50.- Naples Cor. London Daily News. Congressional Furn A scone occurred on tho floor of the house to-day, during a discussion on the Wood-Peters contested election case, such as is rarely witnessed. It was cranks' day in the house and they made the most of it. The fun bogan with a two hours' speech from Mr. Wood, the cou testant. He read his speech in the central aisle, displaying a portly figure of a man about 50 years of ago in a bob-tailed coat and with a country grocery air. It was tho great? est cifort in Ins life. But this was the bluest of skim milk by comparison with that which follow* od. Judge Bennett, of North Caroli? na, had made a minority report in fa? vor of Wood, the rest of tho committee on elections being unanimously ton the other side. Ou his report Judge Bon? net made a speech nearly two hours in length, in which ho discussed constitu? tional law in the most florid stylo and pompous manner. Ile is a large man with a towering bald hoad, the hair having apparently all slipped down on his chm, aud has a voice like a bull. He raged and roared with pondorous fury, and was constantly guyed by the whole house unmercifully. Every time he misquotod thc law the law? yers laughed, aud every time he slaugh? tered Latin a groan went up from the scholars, which set the whole house in a roar. This amused the house so imfc mensoly that one member after another got up and gave Bonnott additional time, until they wore him out He then convulsed the house by asking permis? sion to rest awhile* filling in with Mn Pettibone. This was granted, where? upon Pettibone amused thc house still more, his harangue being more fitted jEgr field service than for the house of represent at ives. When Bennett had a<rain run down the house look a vote, which was prac? tically unanimous against him. In the vote to give Wood the scat, only Bou nctt and Calamity Weller stood up against the whole house, which result was hailed willi shouts of laughter. Washington Cor. Fhiladtlphia times* "ls this beautiful little girl your irraudchild, Mrs. ierger?'1 asked that demented creature, Gilhooly. Kxas- | ?crated, aud stung to thc quick at not j being taken for thc child's mother, Mrs. Yerger unthinkingly retorted: | "Is that child large enough already to I be takeu for a grandchild?" In Russia a child is born every eight j seconds, and a human being dies over}* eleven seconds. Sixty per cont, of tho j young children die before they ure five yor.rs old. Tho Cleveland, (().) Herald is en- ! raptured by a remarkably generous j New Yorker visiting that citv who ! threw V >0 in silver change for thu news? boys and bootblacks to scramble for. "1 was n bootblack myself on co, boys,1' ? it quotes him as saying, -.and I know j what a hard time you have to get along. I was a bootblack in New York when I ! was a boy. and 1 got my first start han- j diing the brush. Now I am rich and I j like to lieip \kti poor boys along? 1 What Our Editors Say. The State Convention. Aiken Review. The State Convention met and ad? journed on Thursday last, and trans? acted its business with such singular unauimity as to even surprise itself. Notwithstanding the fact that many delegates were positively instructed to vote against State nominations at this convention, the motion to go into an election was carried with a rush, 190 voting in the affirmative and only 90 in the negative. We regard this ver7 much in tho light of a parallel ca. to that of an old lady who had made up her mind to administer a dose of physic to her children upon the first favorable opportunity, and who ac? cordingly gave them a party and dis? tributed worm candy all around, which, under the influence of the glee? ful occasion, was partaken of freely without the necessity for holding the nose of a single patient. We hope this summary disregard for the wishes of thc people and this premature nomination of State o3i cers, in order that the entire old ticket might be foisted upon the people, may result in nothing worse tbau to make them more carefnl in the future as to how they instruct and whom they elect. The fact of the matter is that as the Democrats are the supreme masters of thc political situation in this State, it becomes all thc more im? portant that the rank and file, in other words the people themselves, should take more interest in their primary assemblages. If this is not done, the party will soon become a huge ma? chine run only iu the interest of those who can get near enough to pull the levers and turn the cranks. Tho late Convention is simply another illustra? tion of the facility with which a con? vention can be managed by a few adroit and industrious workers, and affords another argument in favor of the necessity of extending thc Pri? mary system to Congressional and even, if possible, to State nomina? tions. The shrewd wire-puller knows that in a body of convenient size, like a convention, all that is necessary is to induce a few of the bell weathers lo take the leap, and the rest will jostle each in their anxiety to follow. But when it conics to a race before the cu? tir? party, the situation is sufficiently modified to iusurc at least a reasonable amount of individuality and considera? tion. Greenville Navs. Thc bews from Washington is good. The probabilities daily become stronger that the Democratic convention will not allow Johu Kelly to dictate the nomi? nee for Presideut, and will deprive him of the power to betray aud defeat the party. Whether Mr. Kelly sold out Han? cock iu 1880, as he is charged with doing, or not, there is abuudant evi? dence to show thai he is not trustwor? thy. It is an undisputed fact that he ran agaiust the nominee of the party for Governor of New York in ?S79 and enabled the Republicans to win by drawing 77*000 votes from thc demo? cratic ticket. Thc Blaine managers have ample inducements to offer for treachery, and the experience of the past proves that they will offer them successfully if Mr. Kelly is left in a position where his treachery will bo worth the purchase; We do not know whether Mr. Kel? ly is a delegate to the national con? vention from New York or not. if he is not, no attention at all ought to be given |him or his pre'ereuces. Ile should bc notified to take his place in thc ranks or leave the party altogether, and that it would bc better if he would leave. He would not be dangerous as an avowed Republican. He is dangerous as a preteuded Democrat. Pea Vines as a Fertilizer. Cuiten iyla7tt. Enough has been said in previous re? ports from this Department to impress upon farmers the importance and value of peas as a renovator of the soil. The practical results of experiments on this linc have fully sustaiucd every reasonable claim that has been made in favor of this method of in? creasing the productive capacity of thc soil. The growing of peas, clover, etc., is unquestionably a cheaper and more certain method of improving laud than any plan that involves the purchase of commercial fertilizers, or transporta? tion to thc fieid of composts and fer? tilizing material of auy kind. Com? mercial fertilizers and chemicals are good in their place, and when judicious? ly used, and composts have been re? peatedly and strongly recommended by this Department for the past eight years. But the great cost of commer? cial fertilizers must necessarily limit their general use to ibu purpose of merely fertilizing the current crops to which they may be applied ; while com? posting material.- cannot be generally had in sufficient quantity, or ?rausport ted with economy of time and labor, to briug up large fields and farms to a high and more or less permanent state of productiveness. The resort, must be to thc growing of ameliorating crops on the soil itself, and for this purpose there is ne plant that may bo as quickly, easily, cheaply, and universally grown thau (ho cow lK';l The seasons of iain which follow the harvesting of wheat and ??ats should be availed of to plantille Gelds in peas, planting in rows and fertilizing, it th? soil is thin, with acid phosphate, lt is not necessary t?> plow the:1.: under [tideed it is claimed, with good reason, thal belter results will follow it tho soil is not disturbed-after the crop is grown -until thc next Spring. Hogs may be turned in to consume ?he ripen? ed peas, or tiiey may be gathered. In cither case the peas themsvlv<s will usually more than repay all the expenso of theirK?Ultivaliou, and the soil will respond next year, as if it had been treated to a very liberal application of the best commercial fertilizer or com? post. The beneficial effects cf such tvof.l ment nf the soil will not bc surprising when the fact is considered that one too of green pea-vines-roots? stems and leaves-contains the identical elements, and in almost thc same percentages, as a ton of good stable man ore. It is true that the inorganic, elements that are found in the pea-vines, are drawn from the soil itself; but a large pro? portion was before in an isoluble condition, or so deep in tho subsoil as to be'unavailable to the ordinary crops. Shall the Common Schools Perish ? Abbeville Medium. War against progress and knowl? edge has been inaugurated in the at? tempt to kill the two mill tax for school purposes. Shall the common schools perish is the important question for our people ? It must be answered in no uncertain way and we believe the response will be ou the right side. The two mill tax for schools is a providion of thc Constitution. The amendment was made iu 1S7G when the State was re? deemed from the misrule of strangers and aliens, by the supreme effort of every lover of liberty in the State. In that hour of trial, thc promise was made by Hampton and other leaders, from oneeod of the State to the other, that the schools would be kept up for a longer time, with less money and to better effect than ever before. This promise was made tn solemn earnest. There was no mental reservation. It was Dot a deceit and a snare. The 'Democratic party wa9 boaod by it. The people sanctioned the tax by an overwhelming majority. The legisla? ture eodorsed it almost without a dis? senting voice. The whole people of the State, are pledged, in the most un? equivocal manner, to the support of the common schools It would be bad faith to recede from our uedcrtaking. We would not ouly forfeit the confi? dence of the whole country but we would sink under the consciousness of a breach of public faith. Some good Democrats have never approved of this tax and their views are worthy of respect, but this docs not justify or excuse us in crushing out the common schools. Shall thc coonoon schools perish 7 ?ur Home Candidates. Marion S'ur. lu thc first place to give entire satis? faction candidates should be nominated by Primary election, so that every voter can go to the polls and say for himself whom bc wishes to represent him in thc Legislature ; whom ho wants to be Sheriff or Clerk, or School Commission? er or Judge of Probate or County Commissioner. In a convention the people caunot speak out for themselves -there they are generally sold out, aud our best aud most worthy and deserv? ing men do not fill tho positions to which they are entitled, by brains, worth and education. Our people want men of fair minds and broad views in office, even thc most humble office within thc gift of thc people, and not incomp?tent, narrow minded gassy parrots who can only say "Polly wants a cracker," because they heard some one passing by say so, and really, at thc same time, do not kuow whether they want a cracker or a pea? nut. These "Polly want a cracker" candidates can and generally do suc? ceed in Conventions, when there would not be a scintilla of a chauce before thc people cn the huskius, whore they tuu-t cou-pcte with their superiors. l?rass beats brains in a trading convention, all hollow, whereas before the people, thc honest yeomanry will soon sec of what metal Polly is made. Every office carries with it both hon? or and money, more or less, and they should bc filled by men who arc com? petent, capable, who have minds of their own, who have decision of char? acter in all their communications with their fellow men, who are houest and deal honestly iu their busiuess. ' Wc know of no office within the gift of the people that require? a pecuniary sacri? fice to accept, aud we knew of no strict? ly houest, industrious, energetic, busi? ness mau who would sacrifice his time aud money for the public good. Our people generally are too poor to make sacrifices. It is thc houor and tho money, more especially the latter that men who accept office want Shoru of these and you will find no mau so self sacrificing and patriotic as to spend his owu time and money for the public good, lt ia the name of Ute thing and the money in it, that candidates have an eye single to, aud thea as a stepping fctouo to higher positions. How to Preserve Fruits. We take from a Now Orleans paper the following in refxrucc to preserving fruit published for ihe benefit of those having aud wishiug to exhibit the same at the approaching Exposition in that city, and which we reproduce f>r tito beucfit of our own fruit growers, at thc same time repeating the information conveyed iu a paragraph tu Sunday's Slur, to the effect that Mr. J. M. Forshee, Chairman of the State Kxpo sitiou Committee, has come into pos? session of a now process by which not only the fruit but its origiuai color and proportions arc preserved : 1. For preserving strawberries, rasp? berries, blackberries, currauts, goose? berries, plums and cherries, when thoroughly ripe, use proof alcohol. "J. For poaches, pears, tipples, plums, currauts and gooseberries, when not thoroughly ripe, use one part water and two parts prout alcohol. V). After the fruit stands iu thc alco? hol three or four days, pour off aud add fresh alcohol as above dir? clod, until the coloring matter has bcou extracted : then put the specimens for permanent uso iu one part alcohol aud oue part clear water. 4. Thc proportions lor peaches, apples and pears will answer for all kinds of vegetables. 5. Alcohol once used and discolored eau bo filtered and used on other fruits and vegetables or for permanent spe? cimens.- Wilmington Star. m -m * <. * . dm - A Vermont man has a hen thirty? nine years old. The other day a hawk stole it, but after au hour came back with a broken bill and three claws gone, put the beti down, and took an old rooster io place of it. News and Gossip. Kx-Senator Gordon, of Georgia, ia now taking contracts, it is said, to build railroads iu South America. The Palmetto Railroad is a new line' under construction from Hamlet, 1ST. C . to Cheraw, S. C., a distance of 17J miles. The work is being pushed rap? idly and it is contemplated to have tho* grading completed by fall. Butler's canvas at Chicago will be illustrated by ten thousand pictures of himself, preparations for the distribu? tion of which have already been made. The pictures of Butler will make his prospects of a nomination look worse than ever. When thc trait; of cars crosses thc bridge at the Needles in Colorado the sou tul ts heard in Cottonwood Island, 84 miles distant. The drum at Fort Mojave is heard as far away, whilst the sunrise gun is heard 06 miles beyond. A Chicago merchant, 'whose safe is often used as a depository of political tnocev,' says that se ve? ty ?fi ve votes ia thc convention for Blaine were bought and paid for. The manner of Blaine's nomination was doubtless corrupt, and his campaign will be as corrupt as any the country has ever aecu. 'Why do they always paint angels as bloudes ?' asked Mrs Krank of her husband, as they stood looking at a picture in the art gallery, "Because,'* answered Mr. K., looking at his wife's hair, 'artist's wives are generally bru? nettes ' There's a frigidity in the at? mosphere about the Krank mansion now. An old lady from the country, who* attended opera for the first time, enter? ed the Academy of Music justas thc troupe were all singing together hi chorus : 'Ah !' she remarked, 'they have our money. See, they are all singing together so that they can get through sooner.* A little giri came from Sunday school in a high ttate of indignation because her Sunday school teacher had told lier that Jesus was a Jew. "Was Ile a Jew, mother ?" said she? in great excitement. "Why, yes, my dear," said the mother, a little doubtfully, as if unwilling to concede the objectionable fact, but unable to deny it ; "1 suppose he was a Jew." "But I thought he was the Son of God." "So he is my dear," "I don't see how, then, he can be a Jew," responded the young sectarian, "fof God is a Presbyterian."-Christian Union. The frenzy (wc can think of no bet? ter name) for tall houses, stores, offices, milis, in fact structures of all kinds, that has been sweeping over the coun? try for several years, seems to have reached tts Huait, and a returning wave of common sense is taking its place. We kare juot read a paper from Mr. Kdward Atkinson, the great cotton factory man, that is astrong^plca for low buildings for factories, based main? ly upon economic reasons; and aflora few more hecatombs of peoplo arc sacrificed to the fiery god, in ten and twelve story buildings, common sense will point out the propriety of reducing those abnormal structures to a more practical si?o. Mr. William tl. Vanderbilt's treas? ure vault, iu which he recently stowed away ?100,000,000 iu securities, is one uf the most redoubtable works of de? fence on the American continent, though you may not be entirely certain of that by surveying his mansion from tho outside. Its foundations were blasted out of the rock ; thc front wall is five feet in thickness, and the side aud rear walls three feet, the materials used being pressed brick with brown? stone trimmings. The beams girders and main pillars are iron, encased iu fireproof material Tho doors, win? dow frames and miuor portions arc iron, marble and glass. No wood is to be found iu thc structure. The great vault is thirty-six by forty-two feet, of wrought iron, steel and Franklicitc iron, is imposing in strength aud pro? portions, aud is situated on tho ground 'door. Its four outer doors weigh pounds each, and have every effective and known improvement in defensive devices. A massive wall of masonry surrounds the ironwork. The vault, which is burglar, fire, and water-proof, constitutes a distinct building rn itself. The eye of the world may bc dull and careless aud all that, but it takes note that the drinking man is going out cf style. There are few men be ! tween twenty-live and forty in bnsiuess j for others who drink. Uudcr that ago a good many young fellows indulge, hut they must go out of business or quit ol?. Employers do uot want mon who drink, and thev do want sober men. The dom aud for sobwr men bringa the supply. The young u?an>^ m:!y as well make up his mind to quit, if ho drinks ever so little, or stay in tho rear of the procession of sober meo who fill the business column. Is there a driukor iu thc employ of a large es? tablishment ? Ile is the first ma?''>o be lard off in dull times aud tho la be taken ou again. He is the first to feel the reductions of retrenchment aud the last to feel the liberal benefits of return? ing prosperity. The sober man is at tho trout, and he will shortly occupy the whole field. As thc world is going IL will bc no great period-, till the young mau must give up his liquor or abaudou all hope ol success. 'I'd give anything to have your voice,' exclaimed the delighted yeuug Crimsoubeak after Miss Fussanfeather had tested her luc^s us a fire alarm the other evening. 'Well,' replied the lair maiden, slightly drooping her head, 'you cac have it for the asking.* 'How sor' quickly responded the young man, little suspecting the girl's meaning. .Why, propose, Mr. Crimsoubeak, propose !' was her r.nswer ; 'you can thou have my voice, bat you've got to take me along with it !' Crimsonbeak mildly hiutcd that if they were wed he would run the risk ot netting too much of her voice.-?S?at<% mad.