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"WATCHMAN, Established April, IS50. "Be Just and .Fear not-Let ail the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's? thy God's and Truth's. r?toated Ans:. 2, 1881.1 SUMTER, S. C., TUESDAY, DECEMBER ?, 1884. New Series^Yol. IV. No. M ?ffory Tuesday, -BT TH? and Southron Publishing Company, SUMTER, S. C. TEEMS: H^S^jK* Bollars per annum-in advance. |?:;Qae Square, first insertion.?1 00 ^R^fei^ysnbseqnent insertion. 50 < Qcrtitracts for three mor.ths, or longer will |K^^*nade at reduced rates. R:;?|?3t<?mmanications which subserve private interests: will be charged for as advertisements. r.-. Obituaries a.od tributes of respect will be ^^;>llac?age notices and notices of deaths pub ^^^riwd:freev ~ |^?^^F^;joO-.Work or contracts for advertising. Wm'"9??nss"l??Ia7tan aud Soidnrcn^ or apply at [?j^Officeyto N. G. OSTEEL,* mtepsia, Catarrh. Headache, Debili ^pheutncdisTii, Neuralgia, hud all W^^Uponic and Nerrmts Disorders. ^^^^^??ive?personaJ knowledge of Drs. Star ^^j^3?y * Palen. 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Ijpfr' NOTIONS. ^^4?Tbere is no need attempting to enumerate the ^^5^r ttArticles in this Department. I keep - r>v* - ' everything. If?- ^T also keep in. Stock, CUTLERY, WOOD &^?jan> WILLOW WARE, TIN WARE, TRUNKS, etc. - . : My Stock of HATS, BOOTS, SHOES, etc.,' s| ia large and will be sold cheap, fe'" v Give rae a call, and my clerks will take ||- pleasure in showing you anything you may |? wjsh to see. B ^^~ H. A. LOWRY, I . Corner Mats and. Republican Streets, j Sept 23 3 I JRMMRIT -BUT ?^??:*'r.f? RESPECTFULLY CALL THE ATTEN ^.^??of my frieads and the public generally to .': Srjrbr??a*id well selected STOCK, consist fef.oT: DRY mess, NOTIONS, CLOTHING, I O?ITS?-BURNISHING GOODS, BOOTS, SHOES, X^M^.L^ HARDWARE, -G80CEK?ES, Ac-, &c. I aoHcit a call and-hope you will give B*y SfOGJL JV cart?n ?jspeetton. I will en ><fwror f ij nmlt It to your interest to give me y oar patronage. Sr/ik W. GARDNER and MB. L. W.. JOYE, win be glad to see their friends. B. J. BARNETT, Oct 7-3_Main Streeton the Bend. A DESIRABLE RESIDENCE ?WELL SITUATED FARM ofone hun? dred and ten acres, about sixty cleared, nutated one mite from Sumter C. H., S. C. A beautiful grove of live oaks around thc dwelling, with, well and fine spring of wa!er. Tata? accommodating. Apply to i JafylS A. WHITE, Agent. FRESH ARRIVAI, -t)f SCHOOL, BOOKS. For all Schools in the County, Teachers and ! Parents will do well to get my prices before purchasing. SLATES, COPY BOOKS, CRAYONS, Book Straps and Bags, Paper, Pens, Pencils, Ink, &c. Patents will please send their children to J. A. SCHWERIN, Live Book Store, opposite Court House. BRUITS, CONFECTIONERY, Ac, in jetton. Oct 7-3 FIRST CUSS JOB WOiifi -, " AT BOTTOM PRICES m TOM BATO POWER TO-DAP. Brands advertised as absolutely pure COWTAIW AMMONIA. THE TEST: Placo a can top down on a hot stove until heated, thea remove the cover and smell. A chemist will not be re? quired to detect tho presence ol ammonia. DOES SOT CONTAIN AHHONIA. IIS HK?LTHFCLXES3 1US NEVER BEEN QUESTIONED. In a million homes for a quarter ot a century lt bsa stood the consumers' reliable test, THE TEST OF THE Q?SS. PRICE BAKING POWDER CO., MAKERS OF Br. Price's Special Emm Biirac?s, . The?lroog?rt,ni0.t dolielous?od nataralflsrorfcnotro,an:J Dr. Price's Lupulm Yass! Hem For Light, Healthy Bread, The Best Dry Hop Yeast in the World. FOR SALE BY GROCERS. CHICAGO*_-_ST. LOWS. LIGHT HEALTHY BREAD The best dry hop yeast in the world. Bread raised by this yeast is light, white and whole? some tike our grandmother's delicious bread GROCERS SZLL THEfft. PREPARED BY TK? Price Baking Powder Co., launs ci Br. Foss's special Flavoring SIMS, Chicago? II!. St. Louis? Mo. BIG STOCK -AND RICES -?T IX STORE AND ARRIVING ON EVERY TRAIN IFMrosla Goods Suitable for all classes. HEAVY AND FANCY GBQCEB?ES. PLANTERS' SUPPLIES. The largest aud best assorted stock in town of CBQCZEEY, GLAS3WAEE, LAMPS, LANTEB?S, &i Elegant assortment of Tin Ware, Wood Ware3 Willow Ware, &c. Ten Pieces" of Tinware for ?1.00. An Endless Variety of Crackers. FRENCH ANO" PLAIN CANDIES, PU LIE AND NICE. Fine assortment of the best brands of CIGARS, CHEWING AND SMOKING TOBACCO, CIGARETTES, PIPES, &c. TRY MY CWPTED BEEF. All goods delivered free of charge to Railroad Depot or any part of Town. Sept 23_ v NOTIOK Having purchased from Messrs. GREEN BROS., of New York Citv, all of the Debts due to late Firms of G ft KEN, WATSON & WALSH, GREEN & WALSH, GREEN, WALSH & CO., WALSH & CO., and E. C. GREEN, I am desirous of making satisfactory settlements, with all who may desire to pay me something, and will be at Sumter from December 1st to January 15th next, for that purpose. A very large portion of above indebtedness, consists of Sealed Notes, execu? ted before passage of the Six Year Exemption Law, and if not satisfactorily arranged by loth January next, I will be compelled to put same in Judgment, E. C. GREEN. Sumter, Oct 14, 1384. 3 FOR SALE. DWELLING in Town of Sumter at inter? section of Church and Republican Sts., fronting on Church and measuring thereon 197 feet, and measuring on Republican 294 feet. Residence contains five rooms, two piazzas, and two pantries all in good repair. Fine well of water on premises, also kitchen and a two-room servant's house, barn^ stables and carriage house. -ALSO PLANTATION Z\ miles from town of Sumter, known as the "Watson Place," con? taining 481 acres-about 250 acres arable. There is upon place d wei ling house contain? ing four rooms and piazzas, barn, stables and other out houses adjaceut, and six tenant houses. For prices and terms apply to BLANDING & ISLANDING, Oct 7 A Homeys at Law. FOR SALE, AND TO BE SEEN at Graham's Stables, a neat jump-seat Buggy; nearly new. Cost SI 25.00. Offered now at S90.00. Used but very little. C. C. BROWN. OUR PREMIUM. Every farmer is interested in the welfare of his stock, and should have on hand, for ready j reference a book describing the ailments his j stock is subject to, and the remedies therefor. lb consideration of this faet we have procured for the benefit of our farmer subscribers a | large number of copies of "Kendall's Treatise | on the Horse," one bf which we propose to* give to every one who X'W* for ^ia /"/per in j advance. The ^- book is one of j great value, as :t is an index of j diseases which gives thesymp- I toms, cause, and ??L~-r's^-J*?' the best treat? ment of each. Il contains a j table, giving all the principal drugs^uscd for I the horse, with thc ordinary dose, effects, and j antidote when a poison ; also a table with an j engraving of the horse's teeth at different ! ages of the horse; a valuable collection of j recipes, and much more valuable information. Remember we GIVE this valuable work to all who pay their subscription in advance. NOBLER THAN ALL. The glittering, golden sunbeams, Dance o'er old Ocean's breast, While scarlet clouds are blazing Away in the fiery West. The song-birds shrill soprano Rings out above the breeze, Whilst lazy, lingering vapors Float o'er the sun-fiasbed seas. But we may dream of vernal groves, And Orientskies of blue, Of the wine-red tint of sunset, With its deep, deep crimson hue. Of bright Aurora's russet robes But dreams will never do ; We must by actions prove ourselves To God and country true. We maj have brave aspirings For the chivalrous and grand ; With bold ambitious longings, To be heroes is fhe land. But yet one honest actiou In response to Duty's call, Despite al! empty vaporings, Proves nobler far than ail ! Grace L?Mrna's Secret. A STORY OF #' TWO CHRISTMAS DAYS* CHAPTER X. LOVER'S REWARD. Seine time had elapsed before Ro? land Ayre could engage the services of a very celebrated doctor, who had al? ready performed several successful op? erations of a kind similar to that which alone could restore KateLilburne's rea? son. The injury wlrich had reduced Kate Lilburne to a condition little better than that of idiocy was, as we know, caused by her fall, the skull being fract? ured. A piece of the skull was pressing up? on the brain, and only by relieving this pressure could tbe organ of reason be made more capable of acting in a nat? ural manner. The dancer was very great, and Mrs. Fairfield over and over again en? treated that Mrs. Lilburne should be consulted before such a terrible risk was incurred. But Roland's argument was that to do as the nurse wished wouldbe to give him unnecessary anxiety and pain with? out doing his daughter one particle of good,-while the accounts which lie in? directly obtained from Silverton Castle described Mr. Lilburne as generally uncheerful and resigned, though sometimes sad and anxious at the cer? tainty of his daughter's fate. . "Ker father would not hesitate for a moment," he said confidently; "and J wish to spare him the terribie dread of failure that haunts me day and . night." As her son was of the same opinion as Roland, Mrs. Fairfield was obliged to yield, though she did so unwillingly and against her judgment. The news of Grace Lilburne's con? templated marriage with Victor Gay heru did more to reconcile the nurse to Roland's views than anything else, and even when she heard that the wedding was not to take place until after Christ? mas Day, her feelings on the subject underwent no change. From this time she quite fell in with Mr. Ayrc's plans, and lent him her hearty co-operation. So the day was fixed upon when Kate Lilburne was to be restored to reason, health, and happiness, or was to depart without further delay to that land to? wards which we sons' and daughters of mortal race are ali slowly but surely traveling. Two of the most eminent surgeons in Europe had undertaken to assist the great Sir Felix Ferris in performing the critical operation, and even their "cool heads and practised hands must have felt some extra strain upou them as they began their work with the con scouness that only the thinness of na? per stood between their patient and eternity. > Tiie case was so critical that no one was allowed in the room besides the operating surgeon and his assistants. In the adjoining apartment Roland I Ayre paced slowly to and fro, his hands tightly holding his head as though it would burst with feverish anxiety. At this last moment he began'to re? gret that he ii ad 3ent for -Mr. Lilburne. But it was too late now, the die was cast, and as he looked at Frank Fair? field and his mother, and saw that their anxiety was scarcely second to his own, he felt that he already had companions enough in his misery. To the three watchers the minutes that pass are like hours before the dooi they watch so eagerly gently opens, and one of the surgeons with a smiling face beckons tl^em into the room. "We have succeeded. Her reason is already coming back to her, said Sir Felix Ferris in a low,tone. And just then Kat? lifted her head, and extending lier hands in terror ex? claimed: - "Grace, I won't hide hero; I tell you I am afraid." She looked about her," but the room was strange, so were the faces until her eyes lighted upon that of her lover. Then the first smile that had wreath? ed her face since that fearful night came over it, and she held out lier hands to him as she asked: "Roland, have I been dreaming? I thought it .was Christmas night, and we were ail playing at? hide-and-seek, and Grace was persuading me to hide in the turret-chaml-:. in the old tower, and suddenly I thought I was falling down some awful chasm, and then I woke With the fright. But where am I? *I don't know this place, and who aro these people?" She asked this in a low tone, not wish? ing to seem rude, but Mrs. Fairfield came forward and asked: "Don't you know me, dearie?" '"Of course I do-Nurse Fairfield, my iSoster-motber; but that isn't Frank?" "It is Frank," was the reply. But now the doctors interposed and suggested quiet and an absence of all excitement. The operation had been Completely successful, but it was well not to put too great a strain upon the newlv ;iwakened intellect. So Ivate was persuaded to try to sleep for a wiiiie, having previously boen as? sured, that everytn?ng should be ex? plained to her in good time, and Roland and Frank went away with the doctors, while Mrs. Fairfield alone remained to guard lier nursling. "The young lady should bc taken to so?v quiet place bv tho sea, and excite? ment of every kind should be carefully avoided for some time tb come," said the great surgeon who had conducted the operation. "For several months!" repeated "Ro? land in dismay; "do you mean that sev? eral months must elapse before it will be safeforher to ninny?" "Most decidedly" was the reply; "un? der very favorable conditions, and pro? vided she is kept free from ali trouble and anxiety in the interval, it may bo safe for her to marry in December, but certa?nlv not before," and it is now the end of July." So the matter was decided, though Mrs. Fairfield shook her head over thc arrangement, but she did not refuse to take her foster-child down to the quiet iisiling village, and remain there with ! her while Roland very reluctantly went for a short tour on the Continent, and on Iiis return to England he embraced a girl who was strangely like the lost Kate Lilburne. Strangely like her indeed. The bloom of health had returned to lier cheek; the fearless queenly dignity that had: de? serted her wit h thc loss of reason, but for which she had boon distinguished '... ? . s before that terrible fall, had come bat to her now, while she was as winning and loving as she had ever been. No trace now remained of the terri? ble ordeal which she had recently pass? ed through. Next to her delight at meeting her lover, and the near prospect of Deing united to him, was the desire to be em? braced by her father, and to dissipate the grief which she knew he must feel at her loss. "I hope we have not been selfish in not sending to papa." she said anxious? ly, as she talked to Roland about her father. "I shall never forgive myself if our silence has injured his health." "You need have no fear upon that account, dearest," he replied somewhat bitterly; "your absence from Silverton will be celebrated this year with rejoic? ing rather than be mourned over with tears. A wedding narty is to be as? sembled, the castle is to be filled with guests, and I am among the number of those invited to the Christmas and wed? din? festivities." . "Yon!" exclaimed Kate in surprise. "Yes; and I have written to your father to say I will come oh Christmas night and bring my bride with me. I thought my letter "would prepare him." "Do you think he will suspect who \your bride will be'?" she^asked with blushing cheeks and downcast eyes. "I should think so," was the answers "for I told him when we parted that I would never enter Silverton Castle again unless I came to meet you 01 brought you with me." She said no more; his devotion touch? ed her deeply, and all her past suffer ; ings seemed as nothing in presence of the life of perfect love that lay before her. It was soon after this and about the middle of December that a quiet wed? ding took place in the parish church o? the village where Kate L?burne had for some months found a home. He was a young man though his hair was white, who gave the bride away, and no one but himself knew how by this act he crushed out the last linger? ing hope that he had uuconsciously cherished in his heart. But Frank Fairfield gave no outward sign of his self-conquest, and he wrote his name in the register as a witness, without a tremble in the signature. The marriage had been conducted with all possible secrecy, but the names of the contracting parties could not be kept from the officiating clergyman or the clerk, and it was from the former, that Miriam Hindman received a liint to the effect that Mr. Lilburne's eldest daughter, whose unaccountable disap? pearance had caused so much consterna? tion a year ago, was still alive. More she could not learn, but she shrewdly suspected that . Christmas would not pass by without witnessing Kate's return to her father's house. This expectation went a great way towards inducing her to accept the in? vitation to be Grace Lilburne's brides? maid, though at that time she had no intention of bringing the bridegroom as L truant lover to lier own feet. The strength of their old love, how? ever, proved too strong for Miriam and Victor to withstand, and they were both resolving that his marriage with Grace must be prevented, when, as al? ready narrated, the doors, were thrown open and Hr. and Mrs. Roland Ayre appeared on the threshold. CHAPTER XI. RETRIBUTION". .Mr. Lilburn? caught Kate In his arms, and expressed his delight at see? ing her, then he grasped Roland's hand and bade him also welcome. "You see I have taken you at your word," said the bridegroom gaily. "Kate and I were married more than a week ago." "A week! But where has she been all the past year?" "That is too ?on.ir a story to tell now," was the reply; "but where is Grace?" In the general, delight at welcoming back the lost heiress and the new bride, Grace had for the moment been forgot? ten. But they had not far to seek for her. There in their midst she lay like one stricken with death, and people looked at each other curiously as they lifted her, for this sudden swoon looked more like the consequence ct fear than the effect of joy. "Take her to lier room, she has only fainted," said Mr. L?burne to the ser? vants who were called. The order was quickly obeyed, Vic* tor somewhat carelessly" giving his as? sistance. But her father and friends noticed that Kate showed no sympathy for ker sister, neither did she ofter in any way to help her. This was very unlike the Kate of former days. Then she had been the first to hasten to the side of the suffermg and to try to assuage their pain. .But now she only looked after her. sister with an expression on her face of wondering pity not unmixed with aver? sion, and she neither tried to caress uor to receive her. The curiosity of the guests, however, was not to be restrained, and so many questions poured iii upon our heroine that sho at length brieily told her friends that mounding a ?iidingplace the previous Christinas, she had fallen down a trap-door in the disused tower, and would have remained there, and perished, if her foster-brother had not rescued lier. And then Roland told the rest of the story, even down to the present day. "There is something she has not told us," said Miriam Hindman to Victor Gayherd; "she has not told us what hand Grace had in her disappearance. Depend upon it, we have only heard half thc story." Miriam's curiosity was not satisfied, however; only Mr. Lilburne was ever told how Grace had consigned her sis? ter to what she believed would be her tomb. By this time a servant came to say that Miss Grace was conscious, but would not leave her room again that night; though she requested lier guests would not let her absence interfere with their amusement. They took lier at her word; the danc? ing to commenced, and no one seemed to miss thc girl who had been hostess un till now, and who to-morrow was to bc a bride. In view of thc ceremony of the mor? row, tl io party .broke up soon after tho arrival of Mr. aral Ivirs? Roland Ayre. Those guests who were not staying in the house toole their leave, and those who were went oil to their own rooms. Victor Gayherd alone lingered. Ro? land was his* cousin, and he tried to rind out from him tho motive which had made him keep even lier fattier in ignor? ance of her existence for so long a time. "I cannot tell you why, but we had a very good reason," was tho evasive re? ply. "Had Grace anything to do with it?" was the next question. "Grace did not know that her sister was alive any more than you did." "Probably not: she assured me she was dead; but that is no answer to my question. Did Grnoe know that her sister had fallen through tin's trap? door?" "I cannot tell you-I can tell you nothing." "I think it ven- unfair of you not to tell me; do you know I am expected to marry the giri to-morrow?7' "I would rather you than I; but ques? tion her yourself if von have any doubt." "Oh, I know what her answer will be; she is not too careful of the truth, and though she is not tho gceat heiress she was supposed to li?*, still, as I have gone so far. I wouldn't draw back now ifbTwere-convinced that she was inno? cent of nil guilty knowledge of what had befallen her sister." Roland made ho reply. He felt sorry for his kinsman, but he had promised Kate not to expose he? sister, and he felt that he must keep his word to his wife whatever happen? ed to his cousin. "I'll ask Mrs. Ayre herself," exclaim? ed Victor passionately. "You will do nothing of the kind, my dear fellow," said Roland firmly; "my wife has had quite enough to sro through without being cross-questioned about her sister. "Use-your own judgment in the mat? ter. If I loved a woman I should want nobody else to tell me whether to believe in her or not." "And what if you didn?tlove her?" asked Victor grimly. Boland shrugged his shoulders, then he held out his hand, and said: "Good-night." Though he did not say so, he knew quite well what his cousin's decision would be. When he joined his wife and her father in the study of the latter, Kate asked nervously: "You have not said anything against Grace to Victor, have you, Boland?" "Certainly not," was ?the reply; ' 'but he is suspicious, and has been question? ing me." "1 shall not allow the marriage to take place to-morrow," said Mr. Lil burne decidedly. "Grace is unfit to be the wife of any honorable man." "I think she must have been mad that night," Kate said gently; "I nave often thought so since."* "She was thoroughtly bad," returned her father gloomily; "she is only too like her mother." Soon after this they retired to rest, Mr. Lilburne grateful and satisfied at the recovery of his best-loved daughter, and she happy beyond the power of words to teil m the blissful possession of her husband's love, and her restora? tion to her father. The only cloud that cast a shadow upon the perfect contentment of both was the treachery of Grace, and the question as to what would become of her. . When the cold grey morning dawned the snow rustled at the windows as it had done a year ago when the eldest daughter of the Lilburnes was lost and could not be found. Grace sat up in bed, and wondered if the past year liad been a dream; but the sight of her wedding-dress spread out on a couch at the further end of the room convinced her of tue reality of all that had passed. But she would not or could not think, neither would she allow herself to real? ise the possibility that Kate's return would in any way interfere with her own marriage. She meant to carry everything with a high hand, to deny any charge made against her, and to def y her sister and her sister's husband to prove anything against her. In this frame of mind she rang for her morning cup of tea, and the maid brought the tray, on which, besides the tea and toast, there was a carefully sealed note. For a second or two she did not break the seal, but when the waiting-woman had left the room, she tore the letter open wildly and read its brief contents. "Your own conscience, Grace Lil? burne, will probably tell you why I re? fuse to fulfill my engagement to marry you this morning. I offer no further explanation or excuse for the step I am about to take, but am ready to bear all consequences which you or anybody be? longing to vou may tliink fit to inflict upon me. "Dy the time this reaches youl8hallbe on my way to London, where, as soon as the law will permit, Miriam Hindman will become my wife." This was signed "Victor Gayherd," and had evidently been written with a total disregard for the feelings of the wretched girl to whom it was address? ed. lier reason had been tottering on its throne for some months past, though neither Grace nor her friends knew it, and now the last bolt liad fallen, and she started up madly from her bed a wild and dangerous maniac. The servants met her as she was on her way, shrieking and gesticulating frantically, to the disused tower. They secured her and a doctor was sent for, and all that care and skill could do for her was done, but nothing could save the unhappy girl. For a few days she lingered in great pain and mental agony, but as the old year was dying she likewise drifted away into the unknown. Her death was a relief to all who were connected with her. Another year swiftly passes by and Christmas Bay is again upon us. But this day is the brightest of all the tluree for Kate and her husband and her father. To Mr. Lilburne a grandson has been born who will bear his name, and he is, if possible, more proud of the tiny boy than are his fond parents. Nothing indeed is wanting to com? plete Kate's perfect happiness, though even now she sometimes remembers, with a shudder that awful moment when she was a victim to heartless treachery. THE END. j "Where would wo be without wo? man?" asked a writer. We would be all right; hut tho little pug dog where would it bc? Things one would rather have left unsaid: Dearest friend (admiring the new portrait)-"How sweet! How charming! How pretty! And yet so like!" ? 1 * 3 A Connecticut man had to entertain his own mother and his wife's mother for a week at tho samo time, and he says ho is now ready to join any show as a lion-tamer. Mistress to new cook: "Wednesdays and Saturdays I shall go to market with you." New cook: "Very well, mum; but whose a goin' to carry the basket thc other days, mum?" A Louisville lady has sued lor a di? vorce, asserting that her husband has not done any work for fourteen years. There are some women who want a man to be on tho jump all tho time. "What will the coming woman wearP" asked a fashion magazine. If she's anything like thc present woman, and you take her word for it, sho will have "absolutely nothing to wear." "No," said Sylvia, "Hattie would not admit that she had young Mr. Bonniface at her feet, though ho is a singularly handsome man and very popular. You seo hois a chiropodist." Stylish young ladies aro wearing lit? tle gold kangaroos on their watch chains. Oh! tho artful things. Tho moment a man sees a kangaroo ho can't help remembering that it is leap year. The man who can thoroughly enjoy himself at a fashionable reception after discovering that the bow of his whito tie is under his left car is superior to tho pomps and vanities of this wicked world. "I hope," she said to the now boy in school, "that you do not indulge in tho wicked and filthy habit of smoking cigars?" "Naw," replied tho new boy in a burst of proud disdain, "g?mmo a clay-pipe nnd sonic niggerhead tobacco when you want mo to enjoy comfort Nono o' your fancy smokes for me." And then she knew that tho new boy usod to clerk on a raft-Burdcitc. Mr. do Browne-"May we ask in what direction you ladies arc going?" First Young Lady-"Wo aro goin^ to look at some poor people's dwellings near hero." Algernon (aghast)-"Just fancy! Oh! 1 couldn't manage 'slumbering.' I shouldn't be wide enough awake, you know." Second Young Lady-"Ah! 'Sluni'-bcring^ is; moro in your line, then.!'! . BILL ARR i ? He Feels Good, Then Sad, Thi Feels Good Some More. : It is carious how a roan can ft himself. Two or three days befe the election I had made up my mi and became reconciled to defeat, ? I had been reading both sides pr?t close and had given it up. So I mu tered up all my philosophy and ii agined I was prepared for anythfn But I wasn't, I was fooling myself, wouldn't go to Atlanta Tuesday see the Constitution's jack o-my-la tern, I went to town and voted ai came back home early for I dide want to stay and hear bad news. Ne morning I went out on the big ro: to fix a broken gate and I thoug maybe somebody would come aloi and tell me the news without u asking, but nobody came but a dark< and he didn't know anything. I we to the house and ruminated and tri? to be calm and serene but I coulden and kept looking down the big roi for somebody to come and break tl news and I was afraid someboc would come, and the news would 1 bad. I've been to the dentist's afoi now to have an aching tooth pull? and was glad to find the door locke and the dentist gone. So I waite another hour for somebody to cou from town and ihen went off to tl field to work. About noon a ma came along in a buggy and bailed u with a hurrah for Cleveland, and h hurried on before I could ask him tl news. But it sounded favorable an hoped me up some. At two o'cloo another man came by and said Cleve land was elected ; but I wasent sath fied and so I dident cut up nor eve lute, but by and by when I got m mail and read 'Victory* *in great bi letters at the head of the column, was overwhelmed with a thankful an a joyful surprise. There was nc a soul at home but me and thc do and the cat, and in as much as the couldent understand any gymnastic I just kept my seat placidly by th fire and felt good all over all by my self as I read the crowing and th chuckling and the rejoicing that fille the columns of the Constitution. was just thinking about going over t tell the news to nabor Munford for b said that if Cleveland was electe he knowed he would have a fit and wanted to sec what kind of a fit i would be. General Young told rn? that the first thing he would do woul< be to indulge for a day or two in som artificial elation and then subside ant reform and join the church, for reforn was the watchword of the party, an? we all ought to reform out of grati tude. But it docs look like the gooi things of this life dont last long. ] hadent rejoiced very long before I go to feeling sorry for tbe other side Sorry for some clever men who wen in office and would have to step dowe and out. I was even sorry for Mr, Blaine. The good book says we must rejoice with those that rejoice ace weep with those that weep, and I wai trying my best to do both. I don't care so much about thc men but it hurts mc to see their wives and chil? dren disappointed and distressed. When a good man is in office and needs it for thc support of his family I don't think 1 could turn him out. I don't think I could and that is one thing that made me like Grover Cleve? land, for they say that when he was first elected Governor of New York he never turned out but one man. Well, that may do in New York but it won't do at Washington. Thc ras? cals must all go and there are lots of them. Mr. Cleveland will be doing enough for them to pardon them out of the penitentiary when they get there. Beform is what the nation wants. The tariff is a little thing com? pared with it. But while I ruminated on these things and was feeling comfortable and complacent over my own gene? rous feelings toward a falles' foe, a feller came along with the news that New York bad goue for Blaine, and so I just collapsed and wilted and felt as bumble as a dead nigger. I lost all my philosophy in half a min? ute and felt like I dident have a friend in the world. Mrs. Arp was away off in Borne and tho girls were in town and the children were at school. The dog come creeping in to the fire and I kicked him out and then I got sorry for him and called him back again. When the children came ; home I dident indulge in my usual I loving greetings nor ask who was head and bow they got along but. I moped around and looked solemn until Jessie said, Tapa, you are sick aint you Y \ By and by nabor Freeman dropped I in. I knew he would come if Blaine was elected for he is sorter on that side of the fence and I never join issue with him in an unpleasant way about it, for be is a good nabor, and that beats politics, and he has just as much right to bis opinion as ? have to mine, Bot I knew that if be found out that Blaine was elected, he would come down to jubilate a little and see what I had to say about it. So I never let on but brightened up and made out like it was just what I expect? ed and it dident make any difference either to bim or to roe. ? never gave him any chance to crow over me, but I was home-sick all the same. I cant bear to be lifted away up yonder and have all the props knocked from under. I dont mind coming down on a sliding scale but it hurts me to 1 fall so far and so heavy of a sudden. 1 Now here it is again, another paper ' and the same old 'Victory' at tho j mast head and both sides claiming it. But my faith is now shaken and I'm 1 going to stay down on the ground un- k til I know more than I do now. Fm * sorry for nabor Munford for they say 1 he has a fit every morning because ( Cleveland is elected and another in 1 che evening because he aint, and Gen-1y eral Young is in a bad fix, too, and 1 nobody knows when he will be ready a to join the church. c But there is no sense in mourning c and cavortiog over politics. If Blaine 8 is elected I'm going to make the best c of it and be like the feller who swam v around old Noah's ark and asked to be 8 let in and when old Noah shook his bead be ?warn off to a floating log and Btraddled it and said he dident be? lieve there was going to be mach of a shower no how. Roland told me to-day that politics dident bother him much in time of peace, but he heard that Bob Toomba said there would be another revolution before long and he reckoned they would let a poor man fight a little when it did come. That's so. They will let a poor man fight. BILL ARP. Cleveland's Ancestry. It ls not generally known that the bones of one of Gov. Cleveland's dis? tinguished ancestors lie mouldering io New Haven soil, and that he was for? merly well known and highly esteemed here. Such is the case. In a bright nod cherry room at No. "125 Wall Street a Register representative was in? troduced to the widovf of the late Abijah Cleveland, of this city. She is a pleas? ant spoken elderly lady, and a daugh? ter of David Breed, of this city, who very many years ago lived on George Street. Mrs. Cleveland is a life? long resident of New Haven, and Pro? fessor Dwight and Bishop Coze are both cousins of hers. Mrs. Cleveland has an excellent memory. 'Yes,' said she, in response to an in? terrogation, 'Grover Cleveland's great grandfather died in this city and was buried in the Grove Street Cemetery. His name was Aaron Cleveland, and he was a Congregational minister and a poet. The Cleveland family descend from good stock. The first Cleveland I knew_ of was Rev. Aaron Cleveland, who was pastor of the Congregational Church at Hadcam, in this State. This man was Grover Cleveland's great grand-father He afterwards conform? ed to the ch arch of England and be? came a missionary and went to Dela? ware. He died at the house of his very dear friend Benjamin Franklin, in Philadelphia, in 1757. He was a Harvard graduate. His son Aaron the one I started to talk about and who is buried here, was a minister in Norwich for many years. There be roamed into thc then numer? ous and famouMamily of Breed's from which Breed Hal! there is named. This woman was his second wife and she was my grand-mother. When I was about two and a half years old my father moved to New Haven and my grand-father Cleveland came to live with us. This was in 1815. I was sick and he used to take care of me, and soon after be also sickened. He died September 21st of that year? and he is buried in what ia now Wm. Frank? lin's lot, in the old cemetery. 'Grover Cleveland's grandfather, the son of the above, was William Cleve? land, a deacon in the First Congrega? tional Church on the old Norwich town green. He was a goldsmith. 'This man's son, Richard F., was Grover Cleveland's father. He lived in Norwich for a long time, graduated at Yale College, and used to spend much time with bis New Haven rela? tions. Then he married'and went oat into the Middle States. 'Yes,' contin? ued the old lady, 'Grover Cleveland's ancestry is such that he can well afford to bc proud of it.' In the work entitled 'The Poets of Connecticut,* published in 1843 by Rev. C. W. Everett, extensive mention is made of Mr. Cleveland, the clergy? man who died there, and his collection of poems are published. Among them is one on slavery. Mr. Cleveland was a clever and social man, very quick at repartee. The mother of Wm. E. Dodge, thc New York merchant, was a child cf this. man.-New Haven Register. Gen, James W. Moore. Legislative biographies being in fashion, the Hampton Guardian gives the following sketch of the IiTe of Gen. Moore, : Gen. Moore was born on the 25th of February, 1837, atOoosawhatcbie, then :hc county scat of Beaufort District, South Carolina. He received bis pri? mary education at the Beaufort District Academy, located at Gill ison vii le, nuder ;he tuition of such able wat ruc to ra as Wm. Correll,Francis W. Fickling and [jeRoy F. Yeomans. His collegiate course was taken in the University of Georgia at Athens, from which'institu? tion he graduated at the agc of nineteen, akin g the highest honors and acknowl? edged thc most accomplished and finish? ed scholar of his class. In January, 1859, he was admitted to thc bar, and loon after began thc practice of law in \ copartnership with Francis W. Fickling it GUlisonville, then the court house of. Beaufort District. He had scarcely got airly launched in his profession when be war broke out, and he at once laid lown the pen for thc sword and voran cered for ser vico with toe Beaufort District Troop of cavalry, of which Troop be was a member, and though roly a private had shown andi thorough icqua?n tance with military matters as o bc appointed drill master. This Troop wcut to Virginia as part of the lampton Legion, carrying with it the ?ame officers they had at home. The lighest vacancy was for First Sergeaut, md to that position Gen. Moore was appointed. He performed the arduous ind difficult duties incident to bis office o tbe satisfaction of all, and was elected lieutenant on the first vacancy. On the ame day of his election he was appoint d by Gen. M. C. Butler (at that time dajor commanding thecavalry of the Le ;ion) Adjutant; and when tho com oana1 was raised to a full regiment inder the name of Second South Caro? ma Cavalry he was made Adjutant f that regiment. He was an active articipant in all the great battles of firginia, Maryland and Peunsylvania ip to the spring of 1864, when thc Second Cavalry was sent back to South Jarolina to recruit. He was exceeding y beloved by his regiment ; they would o anything for him or follow him any rhcre. An instance of their devotion ras shown at Uppcrville: Adjutant locre having ridden some distance in dvance to reconnoitre thc ground ver which the charge was to be lade, his horse was killed by the sharp bootcrs of the enemy and fell on him, rushing him underneath it. It was nth thc greatest difficulty that thc first quadron could be restrained from rush og forward io a body to His rescue. Co!. Lipscomb sent oat a Lieutenant and five men, who succeeded in bringing bim off. Again at Brandy Station, while in advance of thc command, be became engaged, single-handed, in an encounter with six United States dra? goons. His horse was killed tinder him and himself desperately wounded. A small detachment of bis regiment seeing bis danger rushed to bis aid and brought him from the Seid. From this wouod bc never fully recovered, his bridle band being enter?ly useless iii service afterwards, but be was back iii the saddle in six weeks and remained there to the close of thc war., When the war was over Geri. Mooro* resumed the practice of law, has had a large and lucrative practice, and bas been for some time regarded as tbtf leading lawyer of the Hampton bar; In his practice bc has been noted, id addition to his legal ability, for his lib? erality and fairnesss and for bb success everi in the m?st desp?rate cases. Ho* was a member of the House of Repre? sentatives of 1865-6, bot Reconstruc? tion suspended his political life fdr d time. Being In Beaufort, His brilliant talents attracted the Republican leaders' there, but to all bis overtures bis an? swer was an indignant refusal. Ho neglected no opportunity to make ari effort for a return of good governmetii{ and in 2870 be canvassed Beaufort county in the interest of the Reforrri party. In 1876, as county chairman1 of the Democracy, he made a most com? plete and exhaustive canvass of Beau? fort county, after having thoroughly organized bis party from the Barnwell linc to the coast. He spared t?o labor or expense, laid aside his professional duties, and gave himself up entirely td. the work. He had the gratification ot seeing'every vote polled that could b# for the Democracy, but overwork ana exposure caused an illness from which' be did not recover for months and which came tiear putting a pre?attfr^ end to his useful life. He was more than any one else in? strumental in th J creation of Hampton county. Since the county bas been iff ?existence he bas represented it as Sens tor, sod io that capacity bis distln*; guisbed services are well known, both ' to the county aud^the State. - Saved by a Load of H?# A Bradford (Penn; j correspondent o/ the Philadelphia Times writes : ;I telt you what, boys. Tve railroaded it foi years and beep mixed up in ail kinds of disasters,. but I hope to croak righi here if X want to be the eye witness again of such an awful sight as I was ? day or two ago.' The speaker was a brakeman on tho* Brie. .A day or so ago,' he continued, '? tall and handsome woman got into tho ladies' Car at Dunkirk. With ber wai a bright and interesting boy, possibly two years of age. The child languid and crowed and played with the pas? sengers. When the train left Cat ta? ra a gus the woman, who seemed nervous, got out of her scat, picked up thc baby and started for. the rear end of thc* coach. A short distance east of Cattai raugus is a long, deep gulf over which the railroad bas built a high trestle. The distance from the top of thc-trestle to the wagon road below is perhaps ono' hundred feet. A sharp and short curve" leads to the trestle. Ab the trait? rushed over the gulf a woman's piercy ing shriek was beard. I looked and saw an object leap from the pktfonif into the rocky gulf. That object, sir; was the lady passenger, and in her arm*1 closely clasped to her breast waa bar infant. I pulled thc bell cord aad tbe train came to a halt. Ho? it happened I cannot say, but at thc time thc lady jumped, a Toad of bay, drawn by %t pair of oxen, pasee? under the trestfe/ Mother and eh?? landed squarely in the center of the hay and were thus saved from a horrible death. Tho farmer was so horrified that he jumped from his wagon and darted up the hill. The woman, win was not-burt nt ttei least, said ber name was Mrs. Adan* Scell and ber home in Michigan. S?re was on her way to visit friends in the' Oil country. Hers was indeed a mirac? ulous escape. Mrs. Scell said that afro could not explain her action. When near the car door she was seized with' an insane desire to jump from the train/ The farmer, as be drove along, waif thinking pf his dead wife and daughter.* When the visitors came through tbe clouds as it were, and landed on bis bay be thought that the dear departed barr come b&ck to earth to revisit h tte. The Baneful Cigarette. Says the Boston Herald : *Too muclr cannot te said agate st cigarette smok? ing by boys,' said a well-known physi? cian, wheo asked his opinion upon the subject, '?ad we mean to have more to"' say about it in the future. The evil is3 certainly growing rapidly, 1?& is ?oe* that we find bard work in combatting. Boys have every means of smoking' without the knowledge uf.tfeetr poxgnts, and oftea have their full consent. Cig? arettes may bc obtained by them at any little variety store, at two or titree for a* ceut. These arc sure to be made of thc' vilest tobacco, or no tobacco at all. Well recognized brands are not much* better, and I have good authority for' stating that one brand of cigarettes, which is perhaps more extensively' smoked than any other, is largely man-' ufactured from clippings from b!ockr paper soaked in nicotine. The paper' wrappings in the best brands are per? haps net injurious, but in others add another feature to the harmfulness/ *What remedy would you suggest?* .Let a law be passed prohibiting thc' sale of tobacco' in' any (brtn1 to boys" under a certain age . Such a law is iff effect in New Jersey, though of course" the difficulty is in its proper enforce? ment. Parents should always keep s' sharp eye on their sons. When a boy' slinks into the house for bis supper try? ing to look unconcerned', yet very fishy" about thc gillis, and not eating anything, you may be sure li? has been down the' back alley wrestling with his cigarette. A Massach usctts paper says that alF Texas citizens wear their hair overbneir ears. How do you suppose they'd look if they wore them under their ears ?-' Burlington Free Press.