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The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-09-23

NEVER RETRAcT.-A distinguish
ed editor was in his study.
A long, thin, ghostly-visagsd ia.
dividual was announced.
With an astbmatic voice, bat
in a tone Of stupid civiIity-for
otherwise the editor would assur-
edly transfxed him with fiery
paragraph the next morning-the
stranger said:
"Sir, your journal Of yesterday
contained false information"
"Impossible, sir; but what do
you alIude to-"
"You said that Mr.. NJ. had been
tried"
"True."
"Coudemned."
"Very true"
"Hung."
eyes"
"Now, sir, I am that gentle
man."
"Impossible."
n assure you it is a fact, and
now l hope you will contradict
what you have alleged"
"By no MEANS"
! "You are deranged."
II may be, sir, butI will not take
| it back"
II will complain to a magis-
trate."
GAS you please, but I never re-
tract. The most that l can do for
| you is to announce that the rope
broke, and that you are now in per-
feet health. l have my principles !:
I never retract."
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-09-23
Doetrp.
THE DOWN HE <5UG.


Astory they tell Of 4 lun. man,
Who slid down hill in q ssrming pan.
He steered himselfwIoe ae handle, of course,
And chuckled way all de would to horse.
.,stz. ,-advs$s
His legs, it is II in were somewhat in the
s... way 90 ~
And hissb wSSs:ather tight, if body might
Z LA@
|osrhelanded all right at the foot of the hill,
And for all that know is sitting there still.
You smile at the story, and wonder how
folks
Can get from their brains such q terrible
hoax;
But sliding down hill is many man
On much worse thing than warming pan
Some are going down at full lspeed on their
pride:
And Others who on their StiuginesS slide:
But the strangest way Of taking that ride
Is 20 so, as some do, on a jug astride.
Beware of such coasting, or like Jack and
Gill
You'll make sorry work in gett ing down hill
Beware, for with what other evils you tug,
IT'S nothing like sliding down hill on jug.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-09-23
THE HABIT OF FRETTING.

Fretting is both useless and un-
necessary. 1t does no good, and
4 great deal OF harm yet it is al
most universal sin. More op
less We are all given to it. We
fret over almost everything-ip
Summer because it is too hot, in
Winter because it is too cold We
fret when it rains because it is
wet, aud when it does not rain
because it is dry; when we are
sick, or when anybody else is sick ;
in short, if anything Or everything
does not 60 just to suit our psrtic-
ular whims and fancies, we have
one grand, general retuge-to fret
over it. | am afraid fretting is
much more common among women
than among men. We may as
we'll own the truth, my fair sisters,
if it is not altogether pleasant
Perhaps it is because the little
worries and cares and 7exations Of
our daily life harass our sensitive
nerves more than the more eXteu,
sive enterprises which generally
take the attention of men. Great
wants develop great resources:
but the little wants and wor-
ries are hardly provided for, and.
like the nail chat strikes against
the saw, they make not much Of
a mark, but they turn the edgsA
terribly. l think that if We look
upon all the little worries of one
day as great united wrong, self
control to meet it would be deyol-
oped. But as they generally
come one or two little things at a
time, they seem so very little that
we give way, and the great breach
once made in the wall soon grows
larger.
l don't believe in the can't that
woman must always, under all
and any circumstances, wear
smiling face when her husband
come home, or that she needs to
take her hands out Of the dough,
and drop the baby on the floor.
to run and meet him at the door.
But l do believe-nay, l know,
for I have seen it with my own
eyes among my friends-thatm many
a woman has driven a kind hus-
band away from her, away from
his homo and its sacred influences
and caused him to spend his time
at q billiard-table or in q drinking
saloon, and their profage inhuen-
ces, by ceaseless frettingover trifes
not worth a word much less the
peace and happiness of d home.
I know that many mother has
turned her son against her own
sex, and made him dread and dis
like the society Of women, by her
example, constantly set before
him. l kaoW that many a mother
has brought up and developed q
daughter just like herself, who in
her turn: would wreck and ruin the
comfort Of another family circle.
And knowing all this, my sisters
and brothers too, if they need
it know that We ought to set
our faces like flint against this
useless, sinful, peace destroying
and homo disturbing habit Of fret
ting.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-09-23

A wealthy gentleman, who owns
a country seat, nearly lost bis wife,
who fell into a river which flows
through his estate. He announced
the narrow escape to his friends,
expecting congratulations. One of
them-an old bachelor-wrote as
follows: II always told you that
river was too shallow"
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-09-23

A wag, one evening, pulled down
q turner's sign, and put it up over
a lawyers door in the morning it
read, ':All sorts Of turning and
twisting done here"
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-09-23
LOVE, DRINK AND DEBT.

Son of mine! the world before you
Spreads thousand secret snarcs
Round the feet of every mortal
Who through life's long highway fares.
Three especial, let me warn You,
Are by every traveller met;
Three, TO try your might of virtue
They are Love and Drink and Debt
Love my boy, there's no escaping,
IT'S the common fate of men;
Father had it; have had it,
But for love you had not been.
Take your chances, bnt be cautious;
Know a squab is not dove;
Be the upright man of honor;
An deceit doth murder love.
AS for drink, avoid it wholly;
Like an adder it will sting;
Crush the earliest temptation,
Handle not the dangerous thing.
See the wrecks of men around us
Once as fair and pure as you
Mark the warning! Sh2n their pathway.
And the he'll they are tottering through.
Yet though love be pure and gentle,
And from drink you may be free,
With yearning heart warn you
'Gainst the worst OF al; the three!
Many demon in his journey
Buoyan's Christian Pilgrim met;
They we're lambs, e'en old Apollyon,
To the awful demon Debit
With qusking heart and face abashed
The3wretched debtor goes;
Re starts - shadows, lest they be
The -aaG S ofmen he owes.
Down. silent streets he fur.ive steals,
The face Of man to shun,
BE shiyers at the postman'S ring,
And fears the dreadful dan.
Beware of Debt! Once in, you'll be
A slave foreyermore;
II credit tempt you, thunder "No"
And show it to the door.
Cold water and l or uSt Of bread
sMay be the best youth get;
s Accept them like man, and sWear-
tPn never run in debit"
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-09-23
Misrelluneous.
co
From the Temperance Advocated
JOHN BELTON O'NEALL,


The son of Hugh ONeall and
Anne Kelly, his wife, both of whom
were members of the Society Of
Friends, on Bush River, Newberry
District, South Carolina, and con-
sequently was, by his birthright, a
member. His ancestry, on both
sides, were Irish, his paternal great
grandfather belonging to the an
cient house of O'Neall, of Shanes
Castle, Antrim, ireland. His ma
ternal grandfather, Samuel Kelly,
was of Kings County, and his
grandmother, Hannah Bolton, was
of Queens County, Ireland, so that
he may rank as a full-blooded Irish
American. He was born on Wed
nesday, 10th April, 1913, about half
a mile below Bobo's Mills, on Bush
River. At his earlies; recollection,
his father removed to the mills, and
there his boyhood was spent. He
began to go to school when he was
five years old. Young O'Neallearn-
ed rapidly, but his subsequent life
satisfied him that he went to school
atleasttw two years too soon. Anattack
OF nervous fever, when he was three
years old, rendered his hand so un-
steady that he could never write a
good hand, though taught by the
best teachers of penmanship. The
other children of his father were
girls. They were all remarkable
for talent. His eldest sister, Abb
gail, went to school with him, and
learned more rapidly than he did.
She married John Caldwell, ESQ.,
His two next sisters were named
Rebecca and Hannah. His young
est sister, Sarah Ford O'Neall,
is q member of the Society of
Friends, 1850.
In 1904, a Library Society was
organized at Newberry, Of which
his father was a member. This
afforded to young O'Neall an oppor
tunity of reading. He recollected
to his latest day the avidity with
which he read the first books placed
in his hands, among them the
''Pilglim's Progress
He continued to go to English
schools, with slight interruption,
until 1903. He was occasionally
employed as a clerk in his father s
store. where he learned to abhor the
LIQUOR traffic. He acquired great
facility in memorizing promptly
whatever was put in his hands. lie
committed to memory, in an hour,
the 9th chapter of I'd Kings. In
May, 1908, he became a pupil Of
the Newberry Academy, under care
of the Rev. John Foster. He pushed
his young pupil forward much toe
rapidly; by January he had him
reading Virgil, without at all un
derstanding it. In 1909, Charles
Strong, of the class of 1908 of the
South Carolina College, became his
preceptor, and in the next year:
young ONeall became thorough
Latin scholar, and was sufficiently
instructed in Greek, and all the
branches of English, to prepare
him for the Junior Class in tht
South Carolina College. During
this time he acquired the habit O
eztemporaneous speaking, by prac
Using to speak every night, afte:
he had got his lesson for the mex
! day, before his uncle AMI grant
mother. with whom he boarded, a
Springfield. In the year 1910 hi
father was deprived Of his reason
! .,5 IL;e kont him home from schOo
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-09-23
A NIGHT IN A BARN WITH
WOLVES.

WOLVES.
We find the following in the Pts
cataqua Observer. Silas Wood, a
true borD Yankee, tells to "the
squire" one winter evening, the
story Of his wolf adventure in
Stockville, Vt. He had been hired
by one Dea. Nathans, to watch a
newly raised barn frame all night,
and while there a prowling wolf
scented him and called together
a pack Of twenty or thirty to help
eat him up. lie says:
"The varmints were now close
by, and just when I had given up
all hope, | felt something touch
ag'in my head-it was rope as
had been fast to one ofthe rafters.
l guess, Squire, if that ere rope
had been foot shorter, Id not
been here now tellin' this story d?
The way l went up that rope,
hand over hand, was a caution.-
And Id barely swung myself on the
ratter and began lashin' myself
to the beam with a rope, when,
'squire-it makes my blood run
colo to tell 1.-THE barn was alive
with wolves, yclpin,' leapin' and
talIin' over each other. I could
hear them routin' among the shay
ings; and in a minute they had
them allspread over the barn floor.
Then they began to muzzle the
earth and scratch it up with their
paws.
At last one Of 'em scented me,
and told the others with a yelp.-
then Of all the yells l ever eheardl
Squire, l most swooned away !;
and if [ hadn't lashed myself
10 the rafter, Id ha' fell right
down among 'em. Oh, such yell
l never heard afore, and hope I'll
never hear agin!
Though l knowcd they couldr' t
get at me, it was dreadful to be
there in the dead ofthe night, with
pack Of hungry wolves lickin'
their sla7erin' jaws, and thirstin'
for my blood. They ran round
and round the barn, lcapcd onto
each others backs, and sprang in
to the air; but it was no use; and
at last I began to get kinder Easy
and l looked down on the howlin'
varmints and bantcred them.-
Squire, you'd ha' thought they
understood a feIlcr. Every time
[ hollered and shook my fist at
them, they yelped and jumped
louder than ever.
For all this, I wasn't sorry when
1t began to grow a little lighter
and about half al hour before
dawn they began to see it was no
use so they give me one long,
loud farewell howl afore they went.
But, Squire, the most curious
part Of the story is to come. Some
time after they went, it had grown
so light l could see 'cm plain, and
an ugly set of beasts they was,
and no mistake. Well, l noticed
one wolf separate himself from
the pack and try to stink away
He had his tail between his legs,
just like dog when he's beaten
and had a cowed look, as if be were
ashamed and afraid alike. All at
once be made a spring out of the
barn, but the rest Of the pack was
after him like lightnin'.
esquire, continued tie Yankee,
laying his hand upon my sleeve,
you may believe it Or not, jest as
you please: but beyond some hide
and hair, they didn't leave a piece
Of that ere wolfas big as my hand.
He was a scout as give the signal
to the others, and they devoured
him out Of hunger and revenge,
cause they couldn't get me-
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-09-23

This is the beginning Of a Judges
charge in Iowa, recently: ''Gentle-
men Of the jury, you must now quit
eating peanuts and attend to the
case"
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-09-23

Five of the sweetest words IN the
English language begin with H,
which is only a breath: Heart, Hope,
Home, Happiness, and Heaven.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-09-23
WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER %, 1874.

1946, at Anderson; another on Pub
lie Speaking, in 1851.
He has published the Annals of
Newberry. He gave the people of
South Carolina digest on the Ne
gro Law, in l549, and. in 1859, pub
lished his Bench and Bar of South
Carolina.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-09-23

Measure your green according to
your black.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-09-23
ADVERTISING RATES.

Done with Neatness and Dispatch.
Terms Cash.
The Grange advance., 1874-07-22
The Now Postal Card.

[From the Springfield (Mass.) Republican,
The post Office department. have, for
some time, contemplated radical
change in the design and character of
the postal card, and preparations are
in progress which will insure the
change during the present quarter. The
present card is printed from steel plates
furnished by the department., and while
they would have done good work had
the product been numbered by thou
sands instead of millions, as it is, their
work has never been satisfactory, not
giving uniform impressions. BY d.
rection of Third Assistant Postmaster
General E. w. Barber, designs were re-
ceutly submitted for new card, and
determination has been reached, subject,
perhaps, to some variations. Two
plates were submitted, in eight different
colors. The design which is most
favorably received, and will doubtless
be selected, retains the vignette nearly
as on the old card, but the words
s'United States Postal Card'' will be
printed in plain letters, and there is to
be no scroll work on the
card. The direction, ''Write the
address only on this side-the
message on the other" will be printed
in white letters on the narrow border.
The ink will be handsome aniline or
black; the choice is to be determined
by the result Of thorough experiment.
Bond stock will continue to be used for
the material of the card, though the
color probably will be lighter; the
price Of the card and the contract price
at which the Morgan envelope company
furnish them will remain the same. The
expense of the change, by the way, will
be borne by the contractors, the con-
tract providing that they should make
such changes as the department, from
time to time, should order. The new
cards will be ready, probably, in Sep
tember. Circulars will be sent to every
postmaster in the Union notifying him
Of the change, and to sell all old cards
before ordering new, and the manufac
turers intend to have 20,000,0O0 cards
ready for the first rush Of orders. The
demand for the present cards continues
increasing, and this quarters bushes:
will exceed that Of any preceding one
The Grange advance., 1874-07-22

Wing, Ainnasata and Il = I. Mann, ,,rssid=:
ing at St. Paul, Minnesota; and E. J.
Hodgson, residing at Red Wing, Mime
sofa.
Sixth. The names of the first Board
Directors are: T. T. Maun. B. B. Herbert
and &. J. Hedgson. And the government
OF said corporation and the management OF
its affairs shall be vested in board Of three
di' ectors, who shall he elected the first
Monday in July in each year and the Off
GERS OF said corporation shall be presi
dent, secretary and treasurer.
Seventh. The number of shares in the
capital stock Of said corporation shall be
one thousand Of twenty five dollars each.
In testimony whereof, we have hereunto
set our hands and seals this, 18th day of
June, A. D. 1874.
(Attest.)
W. H. Purs41, 7. 7. MANN, (seal.j !
HENRY c. JAMES. E. J. HoDcsos, Seal J
E. s. GoRMAN, as to T. T. MANN.
State of Minnesota,
County Of Goodhue. 3d.
Be it known that on the 18th day OF
June, 1874, before me personally appe IT.
ing came B. B. Herbert and E. J. Hodgson,
to me we'll known to be the same persons as
the signers and sealers Of the above and
foregoing instrument, and they each in due
form Of law acknowledged that they exc
cuted the same for the uses and purposes
therein expressed.
w. C. WILLtsroN,
Notary Public, Minnesota.
State Of Minnesota, GO
County Of Ramsey.
Be it known that on this 10Th day of June
1874, before me personally appearing came
T. T. Mann, to me well known to be the
same person as the signer and sealer of the
above and foregoing instrument, and IL
in due form of law acknowledged that hi
executed the same freely and voluntarily
for the uses and purposes therein ex
pressed.
HENRY c. JAMEs,
Notary Public, Minnesota.
The Grange advance., 1874-07-22

Z hoped that with the brave and strong
My portioned task might lie;
To toll amid the busy throng
With Eypose pure and high;
But God has fixed another part,
And He has fixed it well;
4 said so with my breaking heart
When first this anguish fell.
These weary hours will not be lost,
These davs Of misery,
These nights of darkness, tempest-tossed,
Can I but turn to Thee;
With secret labor to sustain
In patience every blow,
TO gather fortitude from pain
And holiness from woe.
If Thou should'st bring me back to life,
More humble should be,
More wise, more strengthened for the strife,
More apt to lean on Thee;
Should death be standing at the gate,
Thus should keep my vow,
But Lord whatever be my fate,
Oh, let me serve thee now!
lame Bronte.
The Grange advance., 1874-07-22

:neE .:, waszaits necessary he eompEehende.d
herbut too we'll.
1.-THE day after Tomorrow" he replied.
:'Father, must b. there"
my Flavia, my dearest daughter!'
Father, must be there! Do you re-
member your jest? All, it has come tP
Nor would she be pacifed; she PIE
sisted. Her physician at length urged
them to give her her way. 1t would, he
said, be less dangerous than denial.
Near Tyburn seats were erected. VIM
dows, balconies to be let out to hire. One
ofthese last, the most private, was secured {;
and on the fatal morning Flavia was taken
thlther in close carriage, accompanied by
her parent and her aged cousin. She
shed no tears, heaved not a single sigh, and
suffered herself to be led to the window
with strange, immovable calmness. Soon
shouts and the swelling murmur Of a
dense crowd reached her ears. The pro-
cession was arriving. The gallows was
not in sight, but the fatal cart would pass
close. came on nearer, nearer-m0re
like triumph, that dismal sight, than q
human fellow-man hastened to eternity.
She clenched her hands, she rose up,
straining her fair white throat to catch a
glance Of the criminal. Yes, there he was,
dressed gayly, the ominons nosegay daunt-
ing in his breast, dull despair in his heart,
reaching from thence to his face. As the
train passed Flavia's window, by
chance he raised hot, bleared eyes
they rested on his bride, his
pure virgin wife. The wretched
man uttered yell Of agony and cast him
self down on the boards Of the vehicle
She continued gazing, the smile frozen or
her face, her eyes CLASSY, motionles, fixed
They never recovered their natural in
telligence. Fixed and stony, they bore
her, stricken lamb, from the dismal scene
Her old father watched for days by hel
bedside, eagerly waiting for a ray OF light
token of sense, or sound. None came
She had been stricken with catalepsy. anG
it was q blessing when the snchainet
spirit was released from its frail habitatio,
when the pure soul was permitted t.
take its flight to happier regions Poo
Mr.. Hardcourt sunk shortly after into
state of childish imbeoility, and soon fathe
and daughter slept in one grave.
The Grange advance., 1874-07-22
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF THE
G1AN0H ADVANO4 PRINTING CO.

Know all men by these presents: We,
the undersigned, do hereby associate our
selves together and become incorporated,
and do hereby adopt the following articles
Of incorporation pursuant to the statute iu
such case provided, to-wit:
!, First. The name of this corporation shall
be the Grange Advance Printing Company.
The general nature Of its business shall be
tho printing and publishing and selling Of
newspapers, and a newspaper to he known
% the GRANak ADVANCE, and job printing,
and the establishing and carrying on of !
Grange publishing; house, and . genera
printing &nd ;publishing business, and
book-binding, (, and blank book manufac-
turing. and the selling thereof, and the
principal place Of transacting its business
shall be at Red Wing, Minnesota. =.
. Second. The time OF commencement Of
said corporation shall be the eighteenth
(1sth) day of June, 1874, and the period Of
continuance thereof shall be twenty years
from and after said date.
| Third. The amount Of capital stock of
said corporation shall be twenty 1--we thou :
sand dollars, to be paid in in such sums
and at such times and in such manner Is
I1na{ Be provided by the bylaws ot said
foodpany. 4ta u ,a-.Eas- s-~.3:&
Fourth. The highest amount Of indebt.
edness or liability to which said corpora
ton shall at any time be subject shall b<
)12. 000) two thousand dollars. ~.
Fifth. The names and places Of resi-.
dsnoe Of thelersens forming this corpos.
l,ion are: B. =. Herbert; residing q Rex
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0COUuVES1S. S<AlO 0I. 08COCOUEts
lease my SON." ...
The men laughed. One Of them was
examining the::necklace of Flavia !; it con-
tanned diamond in the centre worth =
ransom. ':Where did You get this, miss I"
he said .:Iy-.,..j. IT,. ..., U.s.,
Her friends answered, for the: terror
sticxs. girl was inarticulate, 'Ar. Now
bray's Wedding gift" '''''
! y ,sOh,s oh = This was the diamond Lord
St. Hilary was so mad about. BY your
leave," and the gem WAS removed from the
neck it encircled, r.r;.,.. -, ;r.,x. .:, T.
she comprehended something terrible.
tShe found speech: Whom do yon take
Nr. Mowbray for ?" said she. n:};' 49,
WHOM iasWhy the renowned Captain
de Mont,noreney." s.,... ..:,4. ..:5<!
A shriek-so fierce in its agony ~ to
cause the criminal to reboune struck on
the ears Of i'll present; insensibility fol-
lowed, and Flavia was removed. So VA
her bridegroom-to Newgate. Il, .....,
The trial was concluded-justice was
appeased-the robber was doomed. And
Fhis innocen ntt and unpolluted 'victim;--.
For days her life had hung on = thread.
But youth and health close for . short
Tim: the gates Of death. She recovered
Reviving Is from dreadful dream, sh<
could scarcely believe Ii the terrible event
which, tornedo-AfS, Had swept over her
She desired her father to repeat the cir
oumstanoes. Weeping. and his venerable
graz hairs whiter With sorrow, II. Hard
court complied. She heard tho recital II
Il tAsnoe. Presently claeping hsr father,
, hand; Dear parent" J" abe said, sswhsn-
i16sn p She could not utter no naoes