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.Vj & s IPJ5 SUMTER WATCHMAN, Established April, 18 SO. Consolidated Aug. 2, 1881.1 "Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at. be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's. SUMTER, S. C., TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 1885. THE TRl'K SOUTHROK? Established Jone, 1866 Kew Series-tt?l: IV. ^ So,? 36., Sgp?iod ?rar Tuesday, !* -BY THE ?ffctclkmanz.and* Southron Publishing IA-, lio^r? . . . Company, SUMTER, S. C. . r TERMS : Two Dollars per annum-in advance. 1DV?RTI3?M?ST8. One Square, first insertion-00 livery subsequent insertion...... 50 Contracts for three mon As, or longer will be made at reduced rates. All communications which subserve private interests wilt be charged for as advertisements. notices and notices of deaths pub >jfvork or contract* (br advertising \man and Southron, or apply at the Office, to N. G. OST?EN, Business Manager. nffiff-T??R BAXfflG POWDER TO-DAY! . s? i&% 3 Brand? advertis&d as absolutely par? . # W COITTAlir AMMONIA. 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Neuralgia, and all Chronic and Ncr mm Disorders. : . ?"CARD. e h c fa tl e t! 0 U S ? a a i c a r i t I fi t f t d e G i s \ i t t c i ? i We, the undersigned, having received great and pAF?Mu>eo^^a?6t from the ese of -"COM-. PO?S?) 0XE?aX? '-prepared. ?nd-adminis? tered bj Das. STARKBY k PALBJ?, of Philadel? phia, and being satisfied that it is a' new d is cOTery in medica] scieace, and all that is claimed for it. consider it a duty which we owe.t?cfbe mzay thousands woo are suffering fro?^br<roie-and _8e-caIIed 'incurable" dis? eases t?die ?Wihat we can to make its virtues icTfOwntaid 'to inspire the public with confi? dence.- ;' . * We Save personal knowledge of Drs. Star Wy A Palen. They are educated, intelligent, end conscientious physicians, who will not. we are sure, make any statement, which they do not know or believe to be true, nor pub? lish any testimonials or reports of cases which are net genuine. " W?. D. KELLY, ' Member cf Congress from Philadelphia. - . T. S- ARTHUR, Editor and Publisher'Arthur's Home Magazine" Philadelphia. V. L. CONRAD Editor of liLutheran Observer," Philadelphia. - PHILADELPHIA, PA., JOSS I, 1882. Tn order to meet a natural inquiry in re? gard to our professional and personal stand? ing, and to give increased coc6dence in our statements and io the genu?ness of our testi? monials and reports of cases, we print the above card from gentlemen well and widely known and of the highest personal character. Our uTreatise on Compound Oxygen," con? taining a history of the discovery of and .mode of action of this remarkable curative ageot, and a large record of surprising cures in Consumption. Catarrh, Neuralgia, Bronchi? tis, Asthma, etc., and a wide range of Chron? ic diseases, will be sent free. Address Drs. STARKEY k PALEN. 1109 k lill Girard Street. Philadclpnia., Pa. F. H. Folsom, L. W. Folsom. -ESTAB'D 1863 - F. H. FOLSOM & BRO. Practical Watchmakers and Jewelers, Main-Street, opposite John Reids, SUMTER, S. C., Clocks, Silverware, Jewelry. Spectacles, Cutlery, Fishing Taclde. Violin Strings, Machine Needles, Oils, dec. Repairing of Watches, Clocks and Jewelry promptly done and satisfaction guaranteed. YALLER JONQUILS. Bark, I bear a bluebird sing ind that's a sign of coming spring; rhe bullfrog Hellers in the ditches, ?e's throw'd ?way bis winter britches, The robfn is bobbin* around so merry, [.reckon he's drunk on a China berry, The hawk for infant chickens watchetb, ind 'fore you know it one he cotcbeth; The lizard is sunning himself on a rail, The lamb is shaking his Dew-born tail, rhe darkey is plowing with his stubborn mule, ind gaily hollers "Gee, you fool !" ?ing Cotton has unfurled his banner, ind scents the air with sweet guanner, The day grows long-the nights declining, The Indian summer's sun is shining, The smoky hills are now on fire, ind every night ie's climbing higher, rhe'water warm." the weather fine, ["he time "has come for hook and line; idown the creeks, around the ponds, Ire gentlemen and vagabonds; ind all our little dirty sinners ire digging bait and catching minners, The dogwood buds are now a swelling, ind yaller jonquils sweet are smelling; The little busy bees are humming, ind everything says spring is coming. Written for the Watchman and Southron.] "All is fell That luis fil BY AROD. 'Madge, what do you propose to do rheo Edwin gets married? Live here till V Jennie said to her sister as they rere dust i Dg and patting to rights the amity sitting room for the day. ?o, I do not/ said Madge. 'I have hough t of a plan and when we get brough with our work, I will proceed o lay it before yon.' Madge, the elder of the two girls, was >elow the medium height, plump, fair, ritb bright hair, satiny smooth and ernest gray eyes. A plain, quiet little ou!, a stranger would not have looked x ber the second time, but the plain xterior bid a warm, enthusiastic heart ; 1er friends loved her dearly, and the bildren of ber acquaintance would not iave taken worlds for her. She loved hem too, the dear chubby little wretch s, and thev, discovering their advaD age. pounced upon and dragged her out n ever^jbecasion, making her tell them inhcard-of stories and sing them endless ongs. Jennie was much like ber sister io personal appearance, only being slighter "nd somewhat taller. Their hair and md eyes were alike, except that Jen iie's eyes were bri m full of fun and m?s ?hief, and there was a certain grace kbout ber as she danced around the oom, swinging ber broom and duster u every direction, that the quiet move uente of her sister did not show. She tad a gay. sunny nature that seemed ttted to enjoy tbe life that now is, like he lilies of the field taking no thought or to-morrow, leaving things when hey got tangled to grow smooth again, iepending on her sister to manage very thing for ber, and not caring ouch if she was managed herself just so t was kindly cone. They bad lost their mother while till quite young, and since ber death, ?ad lived with their father and their ?rother Edwin who was a little older han themselves. Two years before heir father had died. His will devi? led his property among them equally, jiving the homestead to Edwin. The ;xrls were to live with him in the old ?ome.as long as they wished for no kber. This arrangement worked well for some time. Edwin was successful in voTking^tbeiarmpand gathered in plen ifui baivesfs, "while bis sisters kept louse for bim and made his home pleas mt and'attractive. They were content id and happy, and bow long things nroold bave gone on this way, I cannot tay; bad not Edwin become smitten with he charms of 'the daughter of one of the feighboriog fanners; and having asked .br and objtaiped.her consent to a speedy inion, he acquainted his sisters with ;he fact. ? They did not dislike his swarthy little >weetheart, bot they both agreed that ?hey would not live with him after he vas married acid had some one else to ?are for and support. If they remained sith him, there was nothing they could lo for their own support, especially as :hey lived in the country, five miles from Manville, the nearest town. .Come Madge,* said Jennie when meir morning's work was over. 'Come md tell me your plan. I am almost ?razy to hear what it is. I used to :hiuk there would be no trouble about my future-my voice was to have been my fortune. I thought I would go to Italy and be trained for a year or two md come back a finished cantatrice, but Mr. Scale has dashed all my bright lopes by telling me that my voice is bia and weak, and that I will never snow a note. So come on and let me aear your scheme now-anything will 5e welcome even if it is setting up a barber shop in Patagonia * The laugh ng Jennie rattled on as she threw her? reif down on the lounge with a book ander her head for a pillow. 'Jennie you will laugh at everything (io matter how serious it may be,' said Madge, taking a chair near her aud smiling in spite of herself at her sister's merry humor. 'Well I'll promise you to be very good now, till you get through telling me, unless you make it extremely fun? ny. Now what, are we to do with our precious selves?' Jennie settled her face into a grave expression that did not promise to stay there long. *?ou know Jennie/ began Madge, 'we have the laad father left us-about three hundred asres between us-' 'Yes/ broke m Jennie, 'but we can? not live on it for there's not a single* building on it/ 'I do not propose to live on it. ? want to sell it asid with the money buy us a home near Manville. Y- n have noticed that little house on the right just before you get into the town, I suppose. It is vacant now and I think is for sale. It is just what we want and I think we can get it at a rea? sonable price. There is about twelve or fifteen acres around it on which I will try my 'prentice band at farming, and I know you can get the position of as? sistant teacher in the public school if you try. I only want you to teacb till we get our little farm stocked and get well started and then I think the farm ! will support us.- I do not intend to go to plowing and ?oeing myself, but I mail bo where it is done and hare ?verv.thiDg dose right. L shall plant : out an orchard, grape vines, a st: berry garden, have a vegetable gai and raise lots of poultry-^nnd pigs have got my horse. Jackdaw, and i brown-eyed Mollie will give us ph of milk and butter. .You see we will have so many i j neighbors, we will not be afraid to I alone and we will be near enougl walk to church and to'the post of ! You can have as many pets and flo\ as you want, and I will live the \ life I want to live and have as m confiding sick folks to physic as soul could desire. We will have work harder than we ever did, bu we succeed, think of Ihe independe of it, Jennie. I think that is worth the rest.' 'And so it is ! Hurrah for the < Maid's Lodge V Cried Jennie, toss up ber book and catching it again, think your idea is capital and of coo we will succeed. We'll borrow Je and the buggy to-morrow and go o and spy out the land.' 'Not so fast.' said Madge, 'you i get that we may not be able to sell < land and if we cannot do that the r will have to go undone.' 'Yes we can sell it,' said Jennie, whose sanguine soal the very sugg tion of any difficulty was r?pugnai 'We will get Edwin to attend to tl part, and get it sold for us.' 'But suppose Edwin does not agi to it at all and will not help us.' 'Yes he will agree-you can talk h over to it, or to anything else you wa to. Yonder he comes now and you c tell him all about it, and I will go ai have a race with Floss.* And Jene bounded out to meet ber favorite pet, glossy black setter, leaving ber sister, usual, to make smooth the path her fe were to tread. Edwin objected at first but gave sooner than Madge expected. Wi masculine blindness be could not s why they all could not live togeth just as they were doing, but if Mad' and Jennie wanted to do otherwise, I would help them all be could During the next few days he mac inquiries \n the town, and finding gentleman wishing to purchase uoclea ed land, sold him Madge and Jennie three hundred acres for a snug litt sum. Jennie was now in extravagant spi its, and making Madge go with he went and examined the little proper! they wanted to buy. It was Au tum r the leaves were commencing to fall an the place wore its dreariest aspee When she had seen it Jennie was a most in despair, for the place had bec rented for several years and the careles tenants bad let everything go to wrec and ruin. She proposed to Madder tbs that they should look for soniethiu neater and in better repair, but Madge; spirits rose with the thought of bow s? should transform the unsightly spot int' a thing of beauty. She grew quit eloquent as she discoursed on thc possi bilities buried there, and at last the decided they would buy it. Ed wi found the owner, and having no diffi cully in arranging the price and titles io two weeks more Madge and Jenni were the proud proprietors. Tb-ey went to work immediately 01 their new possession-Madge superin tending the work inside and Jennie th outside. Madge had the house deane? thoroughly and' a new coat of white wash put on the walls. Io the Spricj she m^^tnt to repaint the painted por tions^J^f. Outside Jennie had tin few suSe trees trimmed, the fence mended and the open ground in fron laid off into flower beds, ready for he further operations in the Spring. Th? stained and dingy outside walls were ti be covered with vines as they were no able to have a new coat of paint pu oo. In November Edwin brought hom? Mrs. Edwin. Lock heart and the girli moved-to their new home. Jennie tool possession armed with a box full o flower seed, and with her two pets Floss and a little white kitten named snow? drop. They found that it would have to be scantily furnished, for when they had laid in a stock of provisions, a stove, and some other necessaries, they had spent all. the cash they could spare for such matters. There were four rooms opening on a passage, and a tiny piazza in front. One of the front rooms they used as a sitting and dining room, and in the one just back of it they set np their stove and used it as a kitchen The other two they used as sleeping rooms. It was January before the got settled and everything iu working order. Madge hired a stout negro girl to help her cook and to be maid of all work generally. It was too late when Jen? nie applied for the teacher's . position, the place baring already been filled, but they bad a sewing machine, and subscribing* for a fashion magazine, Jennie bung out her sign as a dress? maker. At first she did not get much patronage, but she did her work well, and after a while she got more than she could do They both liked this ar? rangement as they could now be togeth? er. Jennie took in ody as much sew? ing as would occupy her morning hours, leaving the afternoons free for other things. Madge was as busy as a bee all day long and all her plans seemed to prosper. Summer found thc little place great? ly altered for the better. Madge's farming scheme had proved pleasant aud successful so far, and her laborers worked-well. She had about half her small acreage planted io corn and the rest divided among other things aud on every foot of it there was something growing. Near the house to the right was her vegetable and fruit gardeus and "on the left was her young peach orchard. The rich rank growth of everything around promised well for the. ingathering. The small barn yards were swarming with poultry, and back of the house at a safe distance, was a small euclosur, in which several fat pigs rolled about contentedly. Lozzia, the hired girl, had proved herself a treasure, seconding their efforts as an able ally. Jennie's flower beds shone gaily and she bad almost got thc walls covered with honeysuckles and wistaria. She had bad the piazza enclosed with a lattice which was now covered with green Summer vines, making a pleas ant sitting room fpr. warm, weather. ? They had been generous in the u? the white-wash brush, and palings, buildings, and even the vioe tre] and flower frames shone gleai white. .Madge,' said Jennie one eve when they were sitting on the si resting after the days work was d 'I think I have been happier this than I ever was before, and if I just a few more things, I do not tl there would be anything more to 1 for.' 'What is it that you wish for st said Madge. 'I thought you said had all you wanted when we broi Floss and snowdrop home.' Jennie looked down at her treasu one at her feet, the other iu her with a sigh of satisfaction. 'Yes,' she said, 'I know I did, bul course, I did not mean it, exac Now for instance I want some n furniture for the sitting room and s( more for the bed room too.' .I want the same things/ said Mad 'but we cannot afford them yet, so i have to do without till we can.' 'Madge,' said JeDnie, you remem the day Miss Martha Macfarland cal on us she said there was a huge attic her old mansion crammed full of furniture? Wall I know there is I and lots of it, it is just the thing want and we can buy it for littie nothing. We can re-cover and re-st it ourselves. What do you say to g ting it.' 'We will try and get it. Miss Mi tba seems kind and will understand, think,' said Madge. 'Yes, I know she will,' said Jenn .I was up to the big lonely old pla the other day, fitting on that li basque I made for her when she was t sick to come here, and she asked me come often and see her and tell you do so too. She says her life is ve lonely now, since her nephew Char went off to the medical college, ai that she never sees any young peopl I feel sorry for her for her life used be so very different from what it is no1 I know she feels the change ve much. 'I like her face,' ssid Madge, 'but have not seen as much of her as y< have. We will go up there one afte noon this week, if we have time.' A few days later the visit was paid Miss Macfarland, and while they we there Jennie bargained for as much o mahogany as she wanted. Miss Marti would take nothing for it but a promii that they would come to see her often Miss Macfarland was a good o maiden lady with no kith nor kio in tl worjd except the nephew who was no off at college. Her family had bee wealthy and numerous, but the drca( fol war-time's had swept away both the numbers and their wealth. She sti clung to the old family resident though, through want of means to kee it io repair, she was obliged to see decaying. After this-visit Madge^an Jennie went often to see her. Sh grew to love and look for them, and be came, herself, a constant visitor at th 'Hanging Brisket,' as Jennie had nam ed her pretty home, on account of il vine covered exterior. Jennie's old furniture proved a good as gold, for it was solid and sub stantial and would stand as much ham mering and banging as she chose t give it. And she and Madge did ban it, and upholster it, until it looked a] most as good as new, and Miss Marth scarcely knew it when she saw it again Three years had passed, since Madg and Jennie took possession of their lit tie farm, and three years of faithfu work bad brought its reward. Th? spot that had been almost a wildernes now blossomed as the rose. They ha< added improvements year--by year a they were able, and now there scemci little more to desire. The barns wer? full, the gardens flourished, ant Madge's orchards had commenced t\ bear fruit. There was ,no longer auj need for Jennie to sew, so she auc Madge divided the work of the plac< between them. In the Summer th< little house was almost hidden in vine.1 and flowers. The sisters were refined and intelli? gent and bad soon gathered around then: a little knot; of congenial friends, among whom were Miss Martha and her neph? ew Charlie Mafcarland, the latter ol whom was the rising young M. D. ol thc town. Madge had grown more womanly and, if possible, more earnest than ever, and the poor and sick had already learned tc call down blessings on her head. Jen? nie was more dignified than of yore, bnt her high spirits were unabated. She was graceful and pretty. Madge was secretly very proud of her sister and very fond of her too, and when she saw that the young Dr. Macfarland was growing very fond of Jennie also, she did not know whether to be glad or sorry. Jennie blushed at his coming and sighed when he went away. Char? lie was a great favorite with Madge, but how could she give up Jennie even to him, and prepare to spend her life alone. As that last thought came over her a happy light brightened her face and she murmered softly, 'But I do not think I shall be alone.' Visions of a dark thoughtful face came before her-a face that lighted up forheras'for no other. Paul Thorn well had been called to fiil the pulpit of the church they attended the second year of Madge and Jennie's residence in the neighborhood of Manville Madge had met him first when on her visits to the poor, bent on the same er? rand as herself. Finding that she was a member of his church he took much interest in her sister and herself. His visits to the 'Hanging Basket'grew fre? quent, and, if Madge would have own? ed the truth, she looked for him and brightened at his coming us much as did Jennie at Charlie's. This afiernoon Madge was alone, Jennie having gone into the town to do some shopping. She wore a soft dark blue dress, with white lace at her throat and wrists, and held some work on her lap, but, strange to say her busy hands were idle. There was a small fire on the hearth, for the days were growing chilly, but she had forgotten to replen? ish it, and it was dying out. Her dreamy eyes were looking out of the window, across the fields to the distant j bills beyond-.-she was thiokirag, think? ing. Presently there was a step on the piazza, a rap at the door. She started and blushed rosy red, for she had learned to know that step from every other. She opened the door and shook hands with Paul Thorn well. After a few minutes talk on different subjects he said, 'I saw Miss Jennie in town, Miss Madge, and knowing I would find you alone, I came down to see yon. I have wanted to tell you something for some time. Can you not guess what it is, Madge ? If Madge had not known already the glance she stole up at his face would have told her. He took her bands and bending low his head be whispered: 'I love you, Madge. Will you not, can you not say the same to me ?' She did say it, and they forgot that Jennie was staying an unusual time away from home. Meanwhile, Jennie had finished her errand and was walking slowly home? ward. The sun was still high and hav? ing plenty of time she was enjoying her walk at her leisure, when she heard thc roll of wheels behind her, and turned to see Dr. Charlie' s buggy draw up and stop beside her. 'Good evening, Miss Jennie,' he call? ed out, lifting bis bat from bis black curls, 'Will you not come and take a ride ? I have dutifully been to see all my patients and my horse is still fresh.' He sprang out and helped Jeunie to her seat, and they were soon speeding away across the country. 'I am afraid Madge will be uneasy about me, she did not expect me to stay long in town.' Said Jennie anxiously. 'No she will not' said Charlie, 'for I saw Mr. Thomwell going there soon after you left, aod I kuow he is as anx? ious that you should not go home as I am.7 'And do you think Madge would not want me at home either?' Jennie asked, her heart hurting a little at the thought. He caught sight of her eyes dimmed with tears and his black ones danced mischievously as he answered : 'Of course she does not want you there, she will not miss you,' and sud? denly bending towards her he said, 'Take me for a consolation, Jennie, darling. Will you?' Jennie quickly became absorbed io contemplation of the buggy wheel in its swift revolutions. 'I love you Jennie. Can't you love a fellow a little too Y Charlie pleaded and growing bolder he put his arm around her, and bent his handsome head to hear her whispered 'Yes.' Twilight was falliog when they drew op at the home gate and Madge had just come to herself and was fearfully wondering where Jennie could be. Jennie sprang out, and at the gate met Mr. Thomwell. They exchanged greetings and she went in. .Good evening, Mr. Thomwell.' 'Good evening. Doctor.' .What success Y queried Charlie laughingly...,. 'She will be mine and I am thank? ful,' he said simply and earnestly, 'I hope you have been as happy.' 'I have,' said Charlie triumphantly, as he touched up his horse and sped away homeward. When Edwin brought his infant son and heir to see its aunties for the first time it was to grace the occasion of their double wedding. Jessie, Edwin's little wife, did the honors of the house for them in her queenliest fashion. Miss Martha was there decked in smiles and.ber handsomest brocade. ?Tbe bridegrooms, both handsome, both happy, one gay and altogether lovable, the other grave, and every inch a man. The girls they led forth were dressed exactly alike and no one could say which was the lovliest bride. -Madge persuaded ber husband to give up the bleak, lonesome looking parsonage and come and live in her own cozy little home. Jennie gave Madge her interest in the little farm, and she and Charlie made the old man sion of the Macfarlands wake up to life again. What the Papers think of Pearson's Appointment. Mr. Pearson's Appointment. Al r. World. The decision reached by the Presi? dent in the case of the New York Post office will no doubt disappoint and dis? please many Democratic politicians. But it will receive the unqualified ap? proval of all who desire to see the busi? ness offices of the Government filled with capable and reliable men, and no longer regarded as the personal proper? ty of the party in power. Although this particular appointment has been made the subject of some heated discussion, it has presented only simple questions. First, ls the New York Postmastcrship an office so identi? fied with the general policy of the Ad? ministration as to render it desirable that it should be held by a person in political accord with the Administra? tion? Next, being a new appointment, had not a Democratic applicant a better claim than Mr. Pearson, provided he was equally well qualified and equally honest ? There is no evidence whatever that any Democrat as well qualified as Mr. Pearson is known to be was in any sense an applicant for the appointment Certainly the uames that were mention? ed in connection with the office wore not such as conveyed the idea of recog? nized and unquestionable fitness. Mr. Pearson's appointment is em? phatically a triumph of Civil-Service law, it is a recognition of a faithful and capable official extended by an Admin? istration with which ho is not in politi? cal sympathy. Pearson Has lt. K. Y. Sun. President Cleveland yesterday nomi? nated fleury G. Pearson to be Postmas? ter of this city. This he docs after a careful consideration of the whole case. Wc are bound to believe that his mo? tives were conscientious, and that ho thought it to be right, to prefer this Re? publican over any Democrat who might bc found. In our judgment this appointment will produce a considerable shock in the Democratic party of New York; yet perhaps we are mistaken It will cer? tainly please the Independent Republi? cans; in fact, it is the one thing (hat they have asked for and insisted on. Considering that without them Mr. Cleveland could not have been elected, their recompense is not very large. Our Democratic friends may console themselves with the reflection that, while they have a Republican for a Postmaster, he will make as good a Postmaster as any Republican could be expected to make. To borrow the lan? guage of the Chinese poet: "We ma? be happy vet, You bet'!" Pearson in the Kew York Post office. Columbia Register. The appointment of Mr. Pearson to the New York Post Office is a very im? portant step of the new adminstration. If the incumbent was deemed, without reference to party lines, essential to the best interests of the great commercial metropolis, we suppose bis retention in office will be fully justified before the people and the Democratic party, how? ever heavy it may lie on the stomachs of the "unterrified." But it is going to be hard to show that Mr. Pearson was such a business necessity. It is true, that the New York Post Office is an immense establishment, and Mr. Pearson has the reputation of having conducted it so far with marked success. This, however, comes very far short of proving that just as efficient service could not have been secured in the per? son of a well chosen Democrat. Wilmington Star We are not disposed to indulge in any harsh criticism of the new Admin? istration, and we believe it will prove to be so clean, so honest and so conser? vative that, in all essential features, it will be worthy of the support of the Democratic party. We think, however, the President bas made a mistake in appointing Mr. Pearson Postmaster of New York. While this is a position of vast responsibilities, it is also a position of vast patronage; and while we are prepared to believe that Mr. Pearson has made an efficient officer, we believe still more firmly that there are many New York Democrats who are at least the equal of Mr. Pearson in honesty and efficiency; and to one of these we think the position should have been tendered. A Narrow Escape. Our exchanges contain an account of a marvellous case that shows bow it is impossible to be too careful in caring for the dead. A little girl was put ina coffin, dead as was supposed, and kept for two days. If she had been buried within twenty or thirty hours it would have been a case of the most horrible kind. From a lengthened account we copy the following: "Then the friends commenced discus? sing the propriety of burying her. I While the discussion was going on 1 some one went into the room where the child was lying, aud after looking at the corpse for a moment put his fingers on the pulse and was surprised to feel a frpble fluttering. The pulse beat slow? ly, but- it indicated that life was there, - and means were at once used to fan the vital spark into a flame. The doctor . was again called and restoratives ap plied." Although respiration returned and the action of the heart increased, yet consciousness did not return tty the, girl, and all efforts to restore her were : fruitless. She remained in this state of torpidity for twenty-six .days; aud on the evening of the twenty-sixth day she opened her eyes and feebly asked for a drink of water. From that time on she . rapidly gained strength, and is~now . able to go about. A Boy's Composition. Ma is roy mother; I am ber son.' Ma's name is Mrs. Shrimp, and Mr. Shrimp is her husband. Pa is my father. My name is John George., Washington Shrimp. Therefore pa's name is Shrimp, so is ma's. My ma has a ma. She has a grand? ma. She is mother-in-law to pa. My pa says mother-in-laws ought tu be ve? toed. I like grandma better than pa does She brings me ten cent stamps and bolivars. She dou't briog any. to pa. Maybe that's why he don't like her. Aunt Jerusha is my aunt. When pa was a little boy she was his sister. I like little sisters. Dicky Mopps has a little sister. Her name is Rose. I take her out riding on my sled. Aunt Je? rusha dou't like her. She calls her that Mopps girl I think Aunt Jeru? sha ought to be ashamed of herself. Aunt Jerusha lives with us. Some? times I think ma would rather have her live with somebody else. I asked Aunt Jerusha once why she didn't marry somebody and set up for herself. , She said that a mau wanted to marry her, but that while poor Susan Jane was in such a state of health she couldn't think of leaving I 'Besides,' she said, 'what would become of your pa V Aunt Jerusha has a state of health, too. On washing-day she has the headache, and does her head up in brown paper and vinegar ; aud I have to make.toast at thc kitchen fire. I make some for myself, too.? Aunt. Jerusha says nobody knows what she has done for that boy. That, boy's me again. I told pa what she said. Pa said it. was just so. No? body did know. Ma paid Aunt Jerusha means well, and that she is pa's dear sister. I don't see why that's any reason she should always scold me wheu I cat cabbage with knife. How aa Editor Popped. Editors have their peculiarities as well as other people. They practice and inculcate brevity, which is a virtue. They arc absent-minded; which is a failing, it is not stratige, then, that one should send a note to his lady-love like thc following. "Dearest, 1 have carefully analyzed the feeling I enter-, fained for you, and the result ip sub? stantially as follows: I adore you. Will you be mine? Answer." Then, after a moment of thought, ho added in a dreamy, absent way: "Write only on one side of thc paper. Write plain? ly and give real natue; not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith." --- - i- - Starch black calicoes with starch made of weak cuff?:e. What Our Editors Say. Crime,, IVffliamehur? Record. . i1 That paper, in speaking of the alarm? ingly large number of incendiary fires in parts nf Williamsburg County, says : We had no conception that as, many cases pf . arson had occurred . ju. the entire, county as is specifically given by our correspondent as occuring in the small scope of country mentioned by him. The frequency and repetition of these fires leave but little doubt, if any, that they are the work of the incendi? ary. To bring them to justice and punishment demands the utmost vigi? lance and effort of every citizen, and the officers of the. law who are charged with this duty. The peace, security and tranquility of the country never will be in a settled condition until the laws are more vigorously and rigidly enforced, and the punishment of such a nature in its severity as to deter the idle and vicious from committing crime. The citizens will have to become more vigi lant and active in their efforts to detect the guilty parties, and when they are detected to see that the law shall be en? forced. It is generally the case that when a man's house is burned or his property destroyed by these law-break? ers, no one takes any interest in the matter save himself, and the perpetra* tor of the deed goes free. The victim oftentimes is not able to make much of an effort to ferret out the guilty one. He has no moral support and encour? agement from his neighbors, and be submits quietly to bis fate. This is all wrong, because the incendiary who es? capes so easily will soon renew his ne? farious work on some one else. Every man is interested in bringing these house-burners to justice, and if they ?knew that the eye of every citizen was 1 looking out for them, and that there 1 was very little cKance of escape from \ detection, not half the crime would be 1 committed that is now rife all over the ' State. The expense to the people of this county by reason of the criminals that arc in it is enormous, and calls ' loudly for reform. How can this be . done ? We answer first by proper and ; severe punishment to those who violate j the law, with a certainty that they will be so punished if they commit crime. * But one of the surest and most potent remedies, in our judgment, to prevent crime, is the enforcement of the law in j this county, which never has been en* forced, to our knowledge-the vagrant law. There are any Dumber of persons ' roving about the country, doing noth- \ ing. with nothing to live upon, and work is the last thing in the world they ; traut, if the vagrant law were strictly 1 enforced it would either keep idlers ?D ? the Penitentiary where they could not 1 commit crime, or it would make them go to work and make se me th ing to live on. "He Was Not a Coward,*' Lancaster Ledger. In the trial of Wm. Freeman at Barnwell, last week, for the killing of Mr. John Clayton, Freeman was con? victed of manslaughter and sentenced to ten'years at bard labor io the peni? tentiary. When Mrs. Clayton was asked the question by the solicitor 'was your husband in the habit of carrying a pistol?' she promptly, and scornfully replied: 'No, sir,my husband was no coicar?,1'iii? burst into tears. A scarce-, ly repressed murmur of applause moved the audience, who were at once touched and instructed by the keen and unaffect? ed sarcasm of the rejoinder. ' Ko Shad in tbe Wateree. : Camden Journal. : ft is a mystery to many of the fisher? men who live along the Wateree River as. to why they cannot catch any shad now? whereas in former years they have taken . a. ?reat many from this river. Some of them believe that wire nets have been stretched across the river somewhere in the low country which have thus stopped all the fish down there. If such- nets have been used to stop the fish, we trust that the persons who are guilty of the offense may soon be discovered and severely punished for their act, as it is a clear violation of the law.. In order to solve the mystery we believe it would be a good idea for a party of men to get in boats and go down the river to its mouth, aud if they find any such obstruction to tear it out at once and let fish pass up. Such a scheme has been carried out in former year?, and we see no reason why it can? not be done again. j Fairfield Xetcs and Ihrald. Highlands, a small town in North Carolina, is considerably stirred up over the action of some men in the vicinity. The town is situated near the borders of Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee, and they claim that desperadoes from these States gather there in winter to the great annoyance of the public. They have been engaged in illicit distilling in the wild regions around the town. A few days ago some revenue officers .made arrests of the ringleaders, and shortly afterwards a mob from Georgia attacked the posse and considerable scrimmage ensued, killing one or two and wouuding others. The Governor has directed thc solicitor of that circuit, together with the a ij? t ant-gen oral of tho State to proceed to Highlands and investigate the trouble, and if necessary to the preservation of peace to call on him and he would furnish troops to suppress the trouble. "How do the Commissions Foot Up, Eh?" Xetcs and Courier. H. II Kimpton has been committed to the care of the Commissioners of Char? ities and Corrections in Philadelphia for examination as to his sanity. He was formerly a well known broker in Wall Street. New York, and wa? worth about ?2.000,000 at one time. He has beggared himself by his drinking hab? its and will probably end bis days in au asylum, a pensioner upon the bou Qty of the people in Philadelphia. Kimpton was a. conspicuous figure in South Caro? lina during the Rule of the Robbers. He was the fiscal agent of the State, the confederate of Patterson and Moses and Parker in the raids that were made upon thc State treasury, an unscrupu? lous lobbyist who used the uiouey of a j corrupt ring tc furtberttbetf. schemes of plunder, and a fugitive ...?rr? ? justice. The Chronicles of Kimpton. in; South' Carolina arc written iii. j the=:Book of Frauds, His, crooked life..lias beeii rounded off bj bis .deliverance tb the Coui missioners of Qb ar i tics. f > . ,. >The men, who flourished ,in South Carolina during the. Radical regime " have been pursued bj a relentiess fatel ?lust think ?of it!. Scott wirb his bands stained with ins'qcent bjoo4 ; .Mopes an outcast and a wanderer, the consort of the vilest ?omen, and covered at last with the stripes of a-con?fc^ and.. Rnn-{ He. sleeping, jn suicide's grave i Scores of; others who fattened at the public crib? in this State, f^arjflg .?he darkest days of pur . political. degrada* tion have either passed away >by Violent hands, or are dragging opt theirs exist: ence in poverty and obscurity. Yft?jt "The milla >of God:?H?? slowly, yet they grind exceedingly small." t?ie torst Tur?. VaH?T?ijUm News. .. OD Tuesday at ?0?5 A. M. Mr, j"; Frank Early, Secretary of the Darling* ton Manufacturing Company, in the presence of the President, members ot the Board of directors and : mah'f, citi? zens, turned steam on the factory cb-, zioe. The big wheel commcnccdrslow? ly to turn faster and faster, until mr j Goold ?nd the machinists were satisfied that the engine wbil ld do its work: Ob Monday afternoon the fire apparatus was set to work and was found perfect,, the hydrants throwing a steady stream an the highest part of. the roof", ?n the 2nd day of Jone, 1884, ground waa* broken for the foundation, abd on the. 17th of the same month the first bride was laid. On the Bist of March, 1880r the building is completed; the motive power, shafting and water works in or-. ler, the tenement houses are ready for occupation, the machinery ?so?ing rap idly put into place, with several hun ired bales of cotton waiting to be. worked up. The Factory bas been a buge undertaking for oar people, bat. iiaving become convinced of the neces? sity of diversified industries, they have, set to work and now see their u'ndertak-. ing nearly accomplished, and have the best and most cheaply built factory in the South. An old gentleman, walking on ft. slippery way, bad Bis underpinning knocked from under bim by ? running boy. He fell, but not far ; he might bave been hurt but for the hoy beneath. ?s the upper person slowly rose, he looked at the flattened boy and calmly said : One of us should apologise, and is you are rather out of breath, r guess TU do it. Tm very " sorry my son, that this unseemly accident occur-, red.9 The boy gasped oat: 'Betcber life-old chap-ye-ain't-balfe ror ry's-I am !' A hawk, near Aiken, S. C., under? took to pounce down upon a brood .of chickens. The mother, a very game ben, made fight in defence of her "brood and quickly laid the crooked-hill bffd' of prey dead at her feet. The hawk measured jost 4 feet from tip to tip, and was carried to Aiken and.e*hibj^? , JL lucky blow Crom the beak of the! hen entered his eye' and penetrated the brain. ' Bringing In 4t Verdict, ??T At a little backwoods settlement ?a Vancouver's Island, an Lidian had", been stealing potatoeslrom*a?-lftrfn be?, longing to Air. Sproat, the, local Jua ti ce. One day, in order to frighten . this li? dian, the man in: cnargev "who- - a? Western backwoodsman, fired ins qgnn, vagnely in the direction of. the. _ field. To his astonishment he fot that he had shot the native dead." * An inquest had of course. to te held. >^llie woodsman, did not lr?knpon &eslate Indian as a very great affair; anff'sev-. eral came to Mr. Spoat and said; V??ou . are not going to trouble Henry about this, are you, sir?" Mr. Sproat being. not only the man's master, but a m!a^. istrate, had to reply that however much' he felt for the man's misfortune, he. must let the law take it's course: "I&ut,. where was a surgeon to be found.to. make the post mortem, examination? A careworn looking man stepped oft a pile of lumber where he was working; and said he was a surgeon. This state? ment naturally received with some hes*, itation, he produced from an old army^ chest a commission, his- degree,;?nd. ample proof of not only haying been, a* medical man, but of having once been , a staff surgeon. He performed the! post. mortem, and soon produced a .shot . from the lung and proved that the In?.. dian had died from gunshot wound? in" the chest. Other evidence was forth? coming, one of the witnesses testifying", that the prisoner had said, "Jack, iVe, shot an Indian." The **judge" laid , down the law to the jury, which ^as composed of twelve of the most intelU- . gent of the men, and they were sent mto another room to consider their - verdict. It was nearly half an hour be? fore they returned. Thc foreman then . said: .'.We find that the Indian ?was* worried by a dog." "A what?",' the judjre exclaimed. "Worried by a dog,. sir, said another juryman tbihkrhg - that the foreman had not spoken plain-?; ly. Assuming a proper expression .-of magisterial gravity, his worship point cd out to the jury the incompatibility ? of their verdict with the evidence, ana ; again went over the case, and calling " their particular attention to the mofl?- . cai evidence, and to thc production of the shot, by the doctor, found, in the body of the Indian, he again dismissed / them lo their room begging .themto. come back wi? h a verdict reasonably, connected with the facts. They 're-., mained away longer ..than before. .. When they atlast returned, the judge ! drew a piece of paper towa?ds~ him to. recoxd their finding. ?*Now^?n?whas. dp you say?"" Their decisive answer was, "We say that he was Idlled^^y. falling over a" cliff." The judge;shnf-. lied his papers together, and told the jury that they might go to their. work, and he would return a y?rd?ct.for them, himself. " For a full mile m every: di rection 'from where the d?ad!pody. was r found the country was as level as a ta- ; blc. The jury was not so conscientious^ as another in the same part" of " the ; world, composed of .the friends of son?. J people accused of. stealing pork: .*;\1TeJ rind the defendants not gT*ili}~ Wt be? lieve they hooked the pork."1 _ The Hungarian Ministry of Infernal Communication has issued orders that^' only officials of the rank of a ministerial ' councillor shall be allowed to . stcj?t on the staircase carpets, arid that' aft.o"Jn- . cials below that rank must 'mount "orv descend on the uncarpeied strips'gf/*ne>\ staircases. These important orders ari'* intended to save the srate c?rpete.""