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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-03-10

A DOCTOR was asked to dance the
"Lancers;' he declined, but expressed a
willingness to lance the dancers.
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Spit Out de Prejudice.

At the public breakfast given in New
York to POO ministers, at which DR.. Ca
ther eXpOunded his scheme of union in
moral science, Rev. Mr.. Oliver, black
man, pastor OF colored church, told
the following story
He said he was delighted with the
meeting, and if they would let black
fellow into the moral science he should
be glad to join. These are good times,
and the good spirit of union brings
Christians of all colors together. He
would illustrate by the story of Jack,
who used to steal chickens and pigs.
When all kinds of cures for theft had
been tried and still the chickens and
pigs kept dropping off, the master says !:
Jack, you rascal, come here; ! am 60
ing to make you Christian, to stop
your stealing pigs. Kneel down now
and say your prayers" Jack got down.
Pray, you black rascal " Don't
know how, Massa, nobody don't tole
me-" " Say this, Jack-Our Father
Jack repeated "Our Father" which
art in Heaven" Is my fader in hea-
ven ?" said Jack. :. Yes, yes, go on, say
it," But, please, Massa, let poor fell
low un'stan' it. Did you say, which was
Ou fader in heaven ?" eyes, you ras-
cal, say it," Your fader an mine,
too? Then, Massa, you an l is brud-
ders, isn't WEI" Never mind that,
Jack, go on with your prayers-Thy
kingdom come" "No, Massa, one
king at a time; is you an brudders ?
Come now I'll spit out de prejudice,
and say it if you will" Great laugh
ter. Here the black man looked
around upon his hundred white breth-
rem of the ministry, and said, " Breth-
rem, | am getting over my prejudices."
The congratulatory hand-shakes which
he received at the close of the meet
ing showed that we were getting over
Ours
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June XVIII~NO. 1s

/ CuARrrr.-We are told is clas.
bic history that an old painter was.
employed to sketch the Macedo-
nisn emperor. The emperor had.
received a severe wound upon the
right temple, in one of his famous
battles, and a large scar was left.
The artist proceeded to the work
assigned him, sketched the mon-.
arch leaning upon his elbow, with
nus forehnger covering the scar
LIS ingenuity was universally ap.
pianded, and lie became more
famed than ever. So it ia with
genuine charity, which I" coyeyeth
q multitude Of SINS" Instead Of
exposing the faults of others, and
h"iding them mp to scorn and rid.
icule, it covers them with the fing.
or OF love, except when truth and
justice require them to be openly
rebuked. They way of the world
is to expose the scars of charac.
ter, and set them off in more than
their real ugliness. They are the
subject of gossip and keen satire
III the social circle, and the sparks
OF fire that are struck around of.
ten kindle into a fame. How
much more beautiful is that spirit
which treats the failure of others
with forbearance, while it does
not excuse iniquity in the earnest
friend ! That is the secret founda.
tion OF all that is good and true
This is the charity which suffer.
eth long and is kind" and "doth
not behave itself unseemly," and
thinketh no evil, -
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es, Intelligence ano the 1ntpropement Of the stat
LE. SOUTH CAROLINA, SEPTEMBER 6, 1s7l.

Up .ne large OrtcK building on the
next square above. Soon after.
wards in 1928, Col. William Tonev
built the Mansion House. Tbese
three houses offered the very best
accommodations to travellers and
VISITORS, Col. Benajah Durham
came here about this time and set
up q blacksmith shop and tin fac,o.
ry. The McBee mills, in tho village
were enlarged and greatly im.
proved.
This beautiful village of Green.
vile, now dubbed a city by act Of
the Legislature, has undergone
great changes since / came here to
90 to school in 1923, almost a half
century ago. The entire popula
alton OF the place has changed.-
There are only tour persons living
in the city at this time, who resid
ed here then. They are Peter
Cautle, Samuel Murphy, Mrs.
Durnham and Mrs. Eliza Pool
Ihen We mad a population of three
or four hundred, and now as many
thousand. With this increase OF
population and change of citizens,
has come a radical change in the
prosperity, manners, habits and
customs OF the city. The limits OF
the village did not then extend
more than two or three hundred
yards in any direction from the
Court House. Now the houses
are pretty closely built for q mile
and quarter in every direction.
The city is two miles and a hall
through on all the streets. In old.
en- times there was not a practicing
physician in the town and only
two in the District. Indeed /
have been ciedibly informed that
there never was a prac:ioing ply.
sician settled in the District till
1915! more than thirty years
after the District was first settled.
DIR. Richard Harrison was the frs,
physician who had eute prise and
boldness enough TO settle in the
District for the purpose of practi
cling medicine. No body was sick,
and hundreds have told me that
they never took dose of medicine
in their lives. 1t is truo and can.
not De disputed, that Doctors and
lawyers create q great deal of bust.
ness in their respective professions.
In courts about one hall of the bus
iness results in nonsuit or verdict
for defendant, and should never
have been brought. On the other
hand, it is said that doctors kill
abo9: as many they cure. A man
who takes medicine ONCE is apt To
have to take it again, and client
who has had one suit is more like.
ly to have another.
CoNTINUEp NEXT wEEE
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A New WAY TO Hive OR DRIVE

A New WAY TO HIVE OR DRIVE
BEEs.-In some Of your papers
you say a man ought to be sent to
the penitentiary who does not
raise clover and who will kill bees
with sulphur. What punishment
do you think ought to be meted
out to q man who administers
chloroform to bees and handles
them like so many dry peas while
under it's influence, and actually
transferred t',em from an old hive,
took the hoEey from them and pu.
them into one Of Arnold's patented
hives, where tEey are working
finely. They revived readily On
air being admitted to them in the
hive. This ! witnessed at Or.
Rellamy's, in Edgecomb county, a
few months since.
Raleigh Sentinel.
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JACK SHEPPARD I,rD1v1,

JACK SHEPPARD REp1v1yCs-A
boy, sixteen years old, named
King, became weary on the sec.
ond night of his confinement in
the lock MP in Lewiston, Me-, and
with a nail made a saw of a case.
knife, with which he cut off the
bars OF his cell. He had nearly
escaped when the police discover
ed what me was doing, aud put.
aim in another cell. In a short
time, he had nearly worked out of
this cell, badly smashing the walls
as we'll as cutting bars. They
then put him in third cell, with
bracelets on lis wrists, and went.
on their rounds. In forty minutes,
King had cut off two bars, and
made his escape.
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A Brief History of Long Branch

a brlcf History OF Long Branch
Long Branch takes its name
from a brook, a branch of the
Shrewsbury river. In the year
1913 the place was inhabited by
Indians, and was styled Lands
End. About that time four men.
named respectively Parker, Slo.
cum, Wardell and Hewlett came
from Rhode Island and establish
ed a settlement there. A consid.
cradle portion of the land which
they OBJ aimed continued in the pos.
session of the Slocums until thirty
years ago, and some Of the land
warrants are still in existence
A few years later other hardy set.
tiers from neighboring p ovinces
bought land ia Long Branch at
twenty shillings an acre, built
dwellings and occupied themselves
with farming and fishing. 1t now
emhraces a population of four
thousand five Hundred.
The Liberty Pole is the name
given to the village, from a flag
staff erected there during the war
OF 1912, while the coast portions
upon which the cottages and ho.
tells are located, is known as the
Shore, fronting the ocean. Land
purchased at the edge of the vii.
lage by Mr.. Samuel Laird, in
1859. for $3.50 an acre, was sold
tor 4 600 In 1870, soon after the
harrington Pathway was opened.
The first hotel erected ct Long
Branch was the Ocean House -
There are now accommodations
for twenty thousand people -
Three years ago Blythe and Beach,
south of the present West End
Hotel, comprised only farming
lands. To-day it is laid out as a a
park, with new roads from seventy
to one hundred feet wide, and
beautiful sites for cottages. OF
these there are now two hundred.
The Greenville enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1870-1873, 1871-09-06

The morbid desire some people
possess to see the bodies of those
who die violent deaths was exhibit
ed in Washington during the few
days that the remains of McCar.
thy, who was murdered in that
city, lay at the undertaker's. 1t ia
said that over fifteen thousand
persons were curious enough to
call and look at the remains OF
the murdered man, a large mum
ber Of whom were females. 1t is
difficult to account for this strange
taste, but there ia no denying the
fact that such a desire exists 10 all
communities
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STICK To ONr Tu,S

STICK TO ONE TmNa.-Every
young man after he has chosen his;
vocation, should stick to It. Don't
leave it because hard blows are TO
be struck, or dissgreeable work
performed. Those who haze
worked their way up to wealth
and usefulness do not belong to,
the shiftless and unstable class,
but may be reckoned among such
as took off their coats, rolled up.
their sleeves, and conquered their
prejudices against labor. and man
fully bore. the heat and burden Of
the day.
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WESTERN WAITER G1R1s.-.The
dining room is large, well arrans-
ed, and attended by very dressy
and attractive looking waiter girls.
who display their agile figures in
the latest Eastern fashions not
sighting the enormous head gear.
They move about the tables with
a di gnity and elegance which put
to shame any idea of menial of
fee. With them the vocation
seems a perpetual festival and
their toilettes are as carefully
made as are those OF their Eastern
sisters for any dress occasion.-
This custom is common in the
North western cities, and instead
OF the office degrading the person,
such persons as these dignity tie
office, aid their influence is strik-
ingly manifest in refining the nnap.
ners of travellers, whose former
coarseness the table was q re-
proach to the country.
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REMEDY FOR Low SpIRrrs.-A
philosophical writer says that ex-
erclse foI, the body, occupation for
the mind, these are the grand con.
stituents of health and Happiness,
the cardial points upon which eve.
rything turns. Motion seems to
be a great preserving principal of
nature, to which even inanimate
things are subject; for the winds
waves, the earth itself, are restless,
and the waving. of trees, shrubs
and flowers is knowing to be an
essential part Of their economy.
A fixed rule OF taking several
hours exercise every day, if pos.
sible in the open air-if not, un-
der cover--will be almost certain
to secure one exemption from dis.
case, as we'll as attacks of low.
spirits, or ennus-that monster
who is ever waylaying the rich
and indolent. Low spirits cannot
exist in the atmosphere of bodily
and mental activity.
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JOHN c. BAILEY, PRIOR.
sunsonrrrros Two Dollar. per annum.

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ADvERrrsENEsrs inserted at the rates Of
dollar per square Of twelve Min,on Iioe,
(this size type) or less for the first insertion.
fifty cents each for the second and third inscr.
tons, AMI twenty-five cents for subsequent
insertions. Yearly contracts will be made.
Az advertisements must have the number
nj Insertions marked on them, or they will be
inserted till ordered out, and charged for
Unless ordered otherwise, Advertisements
will invariably be . displayed"
Obituary notices, and all mattops inuring to
10 the oenebt OF any one. are regarded rs
Advertisements.
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The following ia copy Of a poetit.
cal Invitation on the .ign Of iAe Bee
hive, an old ian at Abingdon. Va, kept
by William Honey
Within this Hive we're all alive
Good liquor mskes us. funny;
h yon are dry, step In and try
The favor Of our honey.
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SOME Of the farmers Of Tennes
see are successful in their attempts
to raise opium from the poppy
The yield is from fifty to seventy.
five pounds to the acre,
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TEE newspapers say that Chief
Justice Chase is buying up Rhode
Island. He has alrea dy rurchas.
ed five acres, and ia keeping a
sharp eye on the other fifteen.
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Tan Sr rANIARDs do not like their
new King, because he is carpet.
bagger. This is wrong. They
ought to be happy in the ught
thas he Is not scalawag.
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"REMINISCENCES
OF THE
COUNTY OF GRsEMVIllE
TcoNT1xUEp FROM LAST WEEK I

BY EX-GOVERNOR b. F. PERRY.
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(ooNTINUEp NEXT WEEK. I
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-06-01
Lincoln and the Negro Race.
From the Union and Americana

From the Union and Americana
In his memorable debates with MI
Douglas in 1858, Mr.. Lincoln took
st~pag ground in favor ofthe suprem'
ID otthc white race, Read the follow
inc from Mr.. Lincoln's opening speech
at Charleston, ILL.,. Sept. l8, 1868, which
we copy from a work entitled "Poltl-
cal Debates Between Hon. Abraham
Lincoln and Hon, Stephen A. Douglas,
in the memorable campaign o fls5S, in
Illinois, Mr.. Lincoln said:
While ] was at the hotel to day, an
elderly gentleman called upon me to
know whether | was really in favor OF
producing u perfect equality between
the negroes and white people. While
had not proposed to myself en- this oc-
casion to say much on that subject, yet
as the question was asked me, thought
! would occupy perhaps five minutes in
saying something in regard TO i. ! will
say, then, that | am not, nor never have
been, in favor Of bringing about in any
way the social and political equality OF
the white and black r%aces--that am
not, nor cyer have been in favor OF
making voters or jurors Of negroes,
nor Qualifying them to hold office, nor
to intermarry with white people and
will say in addition to this. that there
is u physical difference between the
black and white races, which | believe
will forever forbid the two races living
together on social and political equal
ity. And inasmuch as they cannot SC
live, while they do remain together
there must be the position Of supersor
and inferior, and /, rs much as any
other man, am in favor Of having the
superior position assigned to the white
race.
Subsequently the Republican Nation
al Convention nominated Mr.. Lincoln
for President, and thus accepted an(
endorsed his position on the question
OF the supremacy Of the white race
and against negroes voting, serving OF
~jurics and holding Office. The sell
same con"ention which did this, adopt
ed the following as Il. s ction OF thu
platform on which Mr.. Lincoln wa.
elected
"That the maintenance inyiolate o
ithe rights Of the States, and especially
the right Of each Statc to order anc
control its own domestic institution
accordirg to its own judgment cxclu
sivcly, is essential TO that balance o
power on which the perfection ant
endurance Of our political fabric de
ponds and We denounce the lawless
invasion by armed force of the soil 0
any State Or territory, no matter unde
what pretcXt, as among the gravest 0,
grimes"
How does that sound in connection
with the Ku KluX act?
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-06-01
The Tribune and the South.

Once more the Tribune is forced, by
the testimony Of its own correspon-
dents, to- confess that the South has
heen reduced to ~exasperating vassal-
age by Radical reconstruction. In
its issue of May II the Tribune declar-
ed that "the most Intelligent, the in
fluential, the educated, the really use
full men of the South, deprived of all
political power, have come to look
upon themselves as the outraged sub
jects of a despotic c%onquaror. Taxed
and swindled by a horde of rascally
foreign Adventures, and by the. igno-
rant class Which only yesterday hoed
the fields and served in the kitchen,
they care nothing for politics only to
throw off the oppressive yoke. n y
The refuse of Northern cities, who
went Southwark after the war. out.at-
elbows anG destitute of character and
education, now rol! in splendid CARR.
ages. drink rare wines, and glitter in
diamonds as big as Fisk's. 1t is no
wonder that the impoverished planter
growing poorer every day, the Exon
federate Officer who fought sc bravely
for a cause in which he honestly be-,
the professional men accustom-
cd all their lives to hold office and lead
the public sentiment of their commu.
look on such things with ran
hearts. They might submit to
be ruled by soldiers who had beaten
them in battle: but here they r plum
dercd by suffers and camp followers"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-06-01
Wendell Philips on the Situation

Wendell Philips, the most remors
less of oil the advocates of the KukluX
Bill, has recently used concerning ii
the following significant language:
CHOW / believe that unless President
Grant has made up his mind to stretch
the long arm Of his power into the cen
ter OF the Rebel States and strange
this rebellion of'assassins by court mar
till, he will never have u Republican
successor. And when | say that, | am
only repeating the words OF the Sena
torial counsellor who stands nearest to
the right hand Of the President. am
only repeating what the man whose
opportunities are the largest to inves
,igatc and whose political cyesight is
the keenest to discover. and whose
closcncss to the President renders him
the very best Of authority, confessed
to me with his own lips, supported as
it was by the concurrent testimony OF
half dozen of his assistants. II the
Congress had adjourned without giving
Grant even that measure of power
which he has to day, and left Is to
meet the 4th Of December as we stoo
or the Is. Of March, there never would
have been Il Republican successor to
General Grant in the White house.
Philips acknowledges that the South,
crn Democracy held the balance of
power before the passage of the Ku-
kluX bill, and that the object of that
bill was to enable Grant to emasculate
the Southern States and secure the tri-
umph of the Radical party in the next
election.
TO meet the issue thus presented,
no other alternative is left to the De-
mocracy but an appea! to arms and to
the God of battles for justice.
Nothing but a civil war eau save the
Democratic party from destruction,
and unless this war begins before the
next Presidential election, we would
mot give a fig fol the chances of the
Democratic nominee.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-06-01
jefferson Davis.

AUGUSTA, GA, May 26.-JefIerson
Davis arrived last evening, when he was
serenadcd at the, Planters House, and
to-day held o reception. Mayor Estes
rendered the hospital tiles Of the city.
In response to repeated calls and
cheers, Nj. Davis made his appearance
on the balcony Of the hotel, whc!e he
was introduced by Henry w Hillyard.
Mr.. Davis said that he recognized the
peculiar claims Georgia had upon him,
and oil himself upon Georgia, for in the
ancient city Of AIgusta, his father had
identified himself with the Revolution
AIRY struggle for liberty. If the late
struggle for the principle OF constitu-
tional liberty had beep Il crime, it was
his misfortune, for which he had fully
suffered. Aware Of the eagclness with
which every word he might utter was
watched for and misreprcscnted, he
would be SILENT, not from apprehension
OF the result to himself individually,
but as his uttcranccs were made to
affect the interest of the Southern peo.
pie. He did not conceive that the
principles of the lost cause we're dead.
or that truth should remain crushed.
He counselled fortitude and patience
believing the South could afford to be
patient under her wrongs till the return
Of Justice achieved the rights of every
freeman, q period for which he conf
demtly looked. With his feelings he
was fearful to trust himself to speak,
because he could not think one thing
and speak another. He looked for,
ward, however, TO the time when he
might with propriety speak to his fel-
low-citizens as his heart moved him
and babe them farewell, expressing the
hope that God would be with them.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-06-01
Abuse OF the Right of Challenge.

"a Barrister Of thirty years stand
ing" apropos ofthe difficulty of I'm.
pancNng a jury in the Foster ease, writes
to the New York Herald:
"The practice Of challenge, l am
sorry to say, has of late run into a mere
farce. A juryman is asked under oath
if he has formed an opinion Of the
prisoners innocence or guilt. If he
answers he has, hai!s asked what that
opinion is. ,fys he. thinks him
guilty, the prisoners counsel objec'sto
him, and his objection is held good II
he says he thinks him innocent the
State prosecutor objects. Now, sir
the Court should instruct jurors that
they can only form an opinion, in con-
temptation oflaw, from the legal evil
dence to be offered, which necessarily
undergoes q close scrutiny by counsel
court and jury. No sane man tit from
education and intelligence to serve on
a jury can arrive at an opinion OF a
mans innocence or guilt from mere
heursay evidence. This is unques-
tionably the true meaning and intent oil
thc"law in conceding the right of chal'
lcngc. If / were challenged by either
counsel and asked i'll had formed al
opinion rs to the prisoners guilt or IN
nocencc | should answer, unhesllatlng
Ily, No. and no cross-eXaminatlor
could shake my reply. Wherefore this
answer in the face ofso much news
paper evidence Of the mans guilt
Simply from the fact that | divest my
self Of all my knowledge, as well a
prejudice, and determine to be guidct
wholly by the evidence that shall be
piven before the court ald jury who
are sworn to try the case. But a largeI
number of men seek to shirk the oner
Gus duty of sitting in cases involvln!
life and death, and shape their answer
pulposely to get rid Of the task, Ihl
is all wrong. The result in many case
is that our juries are not composed o
the best, most impartial and conscien
lious mcn, or such as possess the high
est order of intelligence,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-06-01
The Atlanta Sun tells the following

The Atlanta Sun tells the following
story about one Of Geofgia's Superior
Court Judges, who is not remarkable.
for his good looks: 1t seems that a,
man was indicted and put upon trial
before the Judge, upon the charge Of
playing Klu-Klux. One of the princi
pal witnesses was a negro man. In the
course of the examination q question
was asked which this witness declined
to answer. The Judge was appealed
to to compel an answer. The day was
Il pretty cold one, and the Judge vas
well mufiled up in his shawl, and had
escaped the eye of the Cushite. In
leaning forward to order the witness
to answer sthe question, the negro
caught sight of him, and no sooner
had he done so than he exclaimed. 'By
golly, dece's o KuKluX now! and at
one bound he cleared the bar, and in
q moment more he was out Of the court
house, and running as if all the Kuklux
Khan we're at his heels. The negro is
still oftheo pinion that a member OF the
Khan was on the bench that day.