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The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1877-03-01

portance' 10 the men who"pay the
taxes, And whatever may be the
result of the Commissions labors
we advise the independent voter to
take courage; he has no need for
anxiety, because xtyearr he will 60
to the polls,i stronger thar, eyer be-
fore, to elect nav Congress.
A PREDICTION AS TO HAYES.
Mr.. Nordhoff, in the New York
Herald says: IF Mr.. Hayes means to
drop the carpet-baggers, he will
select for his Cabinet the Southern
men. of influence. and character. NOT
concernedAin any of the carpet-bag
swilidling in those States, and be able
to draw following after them of
substantial citizens. ALI the politi-,
cal signs make it probable that if he
should become, President he will do
this. The country is wearied and
disgueted with such dirty work and
such international fuss as the Cham
berlains, Pseekkspreds) apdl (Kellogss
make in the South. No administra.
tion can afford to countenance them,
and we cannot doubt that, as a wise
politician, Mr.. Hayes would make
new ordinations in the South,
which would be tor the advantage of
his party as we'll as Of the country.
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Disagreeable Habits.

Nearly all the disag habits
which people take up como at first
from mere accident or want of thought
They might be easily dropped, but
they arc persisted in until they be-
como second nature. Stop and think
beioro you allow yourself to form
them. Thoro arc disagroeable habits
of body, like scowling, winking, twist
ing the mouth, biting the nails, cons
tinually picking at something, twirl-
ing a key or tumbling at chain, drum
ming with tho fingers. screwing and
twisting q chair, or whatever you can
lay hands on. Don't do any of these
things. Learn TO sit quietly like q
gentleman, 1 was going to say, but
am afraid evon girls fall iato such
tricks sometimes. There are much
worse habits than these to be sure;
but we are only speaking of very
little things that arc persisted in.-
There arc habits of speech with 'you
see, or you know now a. ''why a.
don't care 'tell yo now Indistfnc6
utterence, sharp nasal tones, a slow
drawl-avoid them all. Stop and
think what you wish to say, and theu
let overy word drop from your lips
just as new silver coin. Have 8
caro- about your ways of sitting,
standing and walking. Before you
know it, you will find your habits
havo hardened into O. coat Of mail
that you cannot get rid OF without q
terribe offort.-Little Corporal. ..
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The Cheering Outlook.
"PEAoE rs ASSURED AND THE REIGN IF
THE CARPEr-BAGaER Is OvER!"


The New York Herald, says: In a
very few days the country will have
a new President we propose here to
give briefly our conclusions as to the
future.
1. In the first place, whoever be-
comes President, peace is assured.
That is very great gain-the great
est possible tor those who pay the
taxes.
2. Next, it is certain that whether
we are to have President Hayes Or
President Tilden, misgovernmen in
the Southern States, perpetuated by
Federal interference, will cease. The
reign Of the carpet-bagger is over;
no Republican politician, no matter
low extreme his views may have
been, willSbe able to persuade his
party to hazard It's own future and
the peace of the country by any
longer interference in the local af-
fairs Of the Southern States. Thus a
great element of danger and indus
trial depression will disappear. J.Ih
8. AS to the reforms necessary to
purify the government and liberate
the wheels. 'of industry, while it is
probably true that a new broom
sweeps cleaner than an. old one re-
forms are now 80 imperatiyely de-
manded by the country that no party
can afford to refuse or delay them.
No one pretends that any possible
Cabinet, nnder either of the possible
Presidents, will be other than for
hard money, for economy and for a
reform of the civil service. Which
ever party comes i'll on the 4th of
March will greatly disappoint. its
mer @ partisan adherents; politicians
will tall out, the independent voters
will greatly increase in numbers, and
the people will be able to make bet
bargains with their politicians.
4. The country stands at the thresh
old of o period Of great prosperity,
and It will grow rich, no matter who
becomes President. During the next
four years it would require very ex-
traordinary eforta indeed in Fed
eral administration to prevent the
American people from making up
the losses Of the past and becoming
once more the most prosperous and
the happiest nation ia the world
With the Inauguration Of the next
President, whoever he may be, con-
fidence will be restored, and indus
try and commerce, already reviving
will fully awaken to life. While the
political leaders will be striving,ir
vain TO- keep their parties together
and will alead troubled lives, The
people will be at rest and will dis,
cover once more, what has been t6t
long forgotten, b. that the Fedora
Government has comparatively littl,
to dowish their happiness, except t
keep it's hands of.3E3, .g96pmnxpF
8. Hence whoever shall becor1,
President on the 4'h Of March is
matter>of comparatively little i'm
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A Lightning Calculator.

A great deal has been said and
written about the great mathematical
prodigy, "Renb'' Fields, who lives at
Fayetteville, Mo-, says local ex--
change, and the more that is known
of him the greater wonder he becomes
lie does not possess the simple rudi-
ments Of book education-does not
know a single letter or figure by
sight and yet he can solve the most
intricate problem in an instant, or
can l.eriorm calculation in less than
a minute that would require the work
of an hour by the ordinary modes
For instance: We gave him the day
Of the month and the year Of our
birth and he told, mless than ,halt'a
minute, our age ili seconds, smihu, es,
days and years. Give him the day
OF the month and the year Of any
event, however remote, and he will
Instantly give the day Of tile week:
We spent'two hours with$llim, and,
notwithstanding we have often talked
with him and eeem him display his
wonderful gifts, yet We. always find
something new in him. 2. 49,. u
We'placed a column Of figures mp,
on atpaper, equal in Nlength to the
columns OF. ali ordinary sized ledger
and called them eff to him in rapid
succession, and when the last number
was called he gave the sum without
a moments hesitation. He did not
see The pape!Sa4id would > not have
known a character on it if he had
ODe hour later he repeated those
numbers in tue exact order ia. which
we called them to him. We then be-
gan at the bottom and would call
two or three numbers correctly and
then one incorrectly, aud be would
correct us by giving the proper nun
ber. .~... ......-.. ..,n. -,
More mysterious than this to us is
the factrof his ability to.give correct~
ly the time OF day ornight, whenever
calledE 0pon without amy reference I'd
a timepieee. gpIH 9- Yruuu)
In this place the timepieces'are all
regulated by railroad or St. Louis
time. Ifyou ask "Reub" the time
he will say:, 81. am fifteen, and a
quarter minutes past one; ifyou have
| abroad time you have SO and so,'
giving the exact difference between
sun and railroad time. .,.
Another remarkable fact is that
he gives the exact time of his locati-
ty. If he is in Washington city he
gives Washington city time, if in San
Fratcisco, tue time there. He can.
notfpcssibly do these things by any
method Of calculating the passing
! time, for he will give time as accu,
rately while waking from sleep a
night as iftitswere daylight and th'
sun shining. ~. ~
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farm. ....
1t il a curious fakt that] the more
a man haz to do the less time he kant
do it in.
Old age may have no plezzures ov
it's own, but it hez the satisfackshun
ov knowing that most of the delights
Of outh are q fraud.
The eXcentricities of great men
hav more immitators than their vir-
tews hav.
The poorest compliment yu kan
pay emmy mar, IL to immitate his od-
dities.
If yu want to find out mans true
karacter, watch him when he froliks.
The chief end of man's life is to
earn three meals day, and eat
them.
Theshappiest people have ever
known in the world, have been the
biggest phools. ...
Tho New York World has tho fol-
lowing:
We do not know which ono of the
eight Commissioners who have lust do
clded solomnly that they have no
power to discriminate between right
and wrong, falsehood and truth, fact
and fraud, has tho finest gifts as a
rhotorician. We cannot, therefore
presume to say whether any given
ono of the eight would do moro Just
tice than his fellows to the sonorous
verso of Otway; but we arc sure all
| decent people will ssadmlt that the
circumstances Of the hour would lend
apccular forco and significance to the
following lines from "Venice Pre-
served" delivered standing and in o
white shoot by any one Of them all:
"For all this am n villain;
Yes, most notorious villain,
To sec the .sufferings of my fellow creatures
And own myself man; to see our Senators
Cheat the adeluded people with show
Of liberty, which yet they neer must tasto Of
They say, by them our hands are free from
fetters,
| Yet whom they please they lay in basest bonds;
Bring whom they please to infamy and sor-
row;
Drive US, like wrecks, down the rough tide of
power,
Whilst no holds left to save US from des.
truction;
All that bear this are villains, and one,
Not to rouse up at the great call of nature
| And check the growth of these domestic
| spoilers
That mako as slaves, and us 'tis our charterS
n
We've neither safety, unity, nor peace,
For tho foundatou's lost of common GOOD:
Justice is lame, as well as blind, amongst US,
The laws Corrupted TO their ends who make
thcm)
Serve but for Instruments of some new ty-
| ranny
That every day STARTS up to enslave us deep
| er."
| -~GH-~--
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1t will be remem herod that when
Governor Hampton took charge OF
the Penitentiary and Lunatic Asylum
upon the representation Of the Su-
perintendonts that they had no pro-
visions or money for their further
maintenance, an appeal was likewise
made in behalf Of a third State in
stitution--the colored Orphan Asy-
lum, which was in like straightened
circumstances. Governor Hampton
declined to respond tolthat appeal, on
the ground that the trustees and Of
ticers Of the Asylum refused to re
cognize him 40 Governor, even while
they sought his assistance as such.-
The matter was dropped at that
point; but the officers OF tho Asylum
finding that further delay Of snch re"
cognition would necessitate the clos
ing Of the institution ot an early day,
determined to change their tune, and
Nash, the chairman Of the board OF
trustees, made formal written ap--
plication to Governor Hampton, ad-
dressing him as Governor, again So
Letting aid, which was granted in
the form Of check for one thousand
dollars, which will be suficient to
meet the necessary expense of the
institution for some time to come.
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Brother Blaine refused to- vote for
the Electoral Commission because the
measure was unconstitutional; bat
when he heard that the unconstitua
tional Commission had decided to ads
nit no evidence of fraud, ho rushed
out Of the Senate Chamber and exS
claimed, with that dramatic emphasis
for which he is SO justly celebrated,
"Tho goose hangs highp Brother
Blaine is naturally charmed with d
tribunal which holds, as the first prin%
ciple Of evidence, that witnesses ofa
foring to testify to fraudulent prac4
tices on the part of truly loyal Repuba
licans should be marched out of court
at q quickstep. He would like to be-
tried before such tribunal himself,
Now York Sun. ......-.t ..
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AN AMUSING INoIDENT.-A rather
ain using incident is told as having
occurred recently at church in Oon
necticnt not many miles from Fair
field. The clergyman, it would ap-
per, desired to call the attention of
his congregation to the fact that it
being the last Sunday Of the. month
he would administer tie rite of bap-
tism to children. Pr viou6 to bis
having entered the pulpit he had re-
ceived from one of his elders, who,
by the way, was quite deaf, notice
to the effect that as the children
would be present that P, NJ. and he
had the9 new Sunday-school books
ready for distrihntiou, he would have
them there to sell to an who" desired
them. After the sermon the clergy
man began the notice Of baptismal
service thus: "All of those having
children and desiring to have them
baptised will bring them this after
noon" AT this point the deaf elder,
hearing the mention OF children, sup,
posed it was something in reference
to his books, and rising, said: GAIL of
those having none, and desiring them
will be supplied by me for the sum
of twenty five cents"
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Curiosities in the Dead Letter Office.

q
4 One can hardly realize that sthere
is q daily average of 1900 or $4,000
dead letters, or about 100000 a
month. Allowing one person to a
letter, there areo4O0,o00 persons ov-
cry month who undertake to send
letters either without stamps, without
addresses, or with Cancelled stamps,
insufficient postage, or illegible or in,
correct addresses. Many Of them
are without either stamp, or address
and often with no signature which
gives the slightest clewi to persons
sending them. There are 100000 q
month received that either lack post
age or address, or else have insuf>
ficient or Cancelled stamps, and
strange as it~may seem, these are
sometimes the most valuable letters,
often containing currency or drafts
for largo amounts of money. 1t is
estimated that there is about $4,000,
600 in drafts and $4,000 in cash re-
ceived yearly through dead letters
This is all returned, if possible to
persons sending it; but if any pore
tion of it fails to find a claimant, it
is turned over to the postofice fund.
Very little difficulty is experienced
in restoring the checks and drafts to
the rightful owners, but the money
generally comes in small sums, and
is usually sent in the most careless,
haphazard fashion, and the loss of
these small sums by the ignorance or
carelessness with which they are
launched upon a journey, represents
deal of suffering and disappoint-
mcnt. Some hard working man may
send twenty dollars, the savings of
a months labor, to his wife and little
ones, when he has had to leave be-
hind him; but, alas! he is one OF forty
Thousand who trust to Providence,
without stamp or address, or else his
writing or photography are beyond
mortal ken, and SO the poor wife
never gets the pittance which is her
all. --.... ....
1t is very amusing to see letters
opened, and guess at their contents,
before they are brought to light
1hree out Of five from a bundle of
unaddressed letters contained money,
one of them a five dollar note. Then
there are such quantities Of dress
samples in letters One would i'm,
agine that all womankind had dis,
covered a language in the inter-
change of these scraps Of dress IA
brics. One half show their prosper
ity in bits of silks and satins and the
other half in bits of sixpenny calico,
and it is only in the dead letter office
that they meet on common grounds.
Certainly every fifth letter contains
a photograph, and ! don't imagine
that any great care is taken to return
lost photographs; but any one 50 be-
reaved has the privilege Of rumaging
among the forty bushels of human
"counterfeits" which have accumula,
ted. =
AN. AMUSING lNoIDENT.-A rather
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Some of the Now York papers are
telling solemnly that, after young
man named Henderson rerently died
in great agony from a cherry stone
swallowed in the, summer, the same
was found 10 have sprouled in tAc
unfortunate youths stomach.
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The Josh Billings Papers.

.n Life il short, but if it waz shorter
it would be better for menny people
Don't cry for split milk, young,
man, but pix up yure pail and milk
in stool and go for the next COW.
Ednkashun has the Same effekt
vpon talent that policing haz upon a
hill of lima beans; it sets it to klimb-
ing. .
There is no slavery so terrible as
to gro old and be kontinually lament
ing about it. ..:.
A gay old bachelor is ever pleaz-
ant sight to me. He cheers me up
like sheltered sunfower leaning
over garden wall after winter has
fairly sot in.
The man who is willing to hv hiz
life over again haz probably got moro
confdense in himself than hiz ma
bors hav.
Thoze folks who are alwuss pray
ing for long life, are generally tue
ones that the world kan spare the
best.
We are all of us apt to think that
we are absolutely necessary in this
lite, if we should cum back after an
absence ov two years, the world
would probably be more surprized
than delighted to see US.
The best way to subdew our pashs
uns is to crafty them honestly.
Economical wives make fond and
indulgent husbands.
Don't never trust man at the
rate ov fifty cents on a dollar. 1t
you kant conGde in him at par let
him slide.
Thare IL lots ov things in this
world that [ wouldn't kno if could
Cupid il the Gcd of luv, and Gu
pidity il often its ruling pashun.
The devil was the father of lies
but he neglected to take out pat
tent, and thousands hav taken ad-
vantage of bis invenshun.
Nobody il fit for solitude who il
tit for emmy thing else.
Don't never try to refuse lies; lies
are like hous fys, they will all die
off when their times Gums, and yu
kant kill them off befor, try az hard
az you will. .u q: a,erz&,j. ..
Sum people are 80 ill-naturned
that they kant do q kind akt without
spiling it; i have seen kows Civ
nice mess ov milk and then Xix it
over. ,'v.'H.... 4'o-a1j
Well bred persons are thoze who
are eazy themselves and make every
body else feel eazy.
Just in rasho that q man makes q
good husband he makes a good citi~
zen, and he who amt worthy ov q
wife ain't worthy ov ennything.
1t il hard work to find lie that
il ten years old. ',... ...s,.
Wives in olden times were the
create necessitys ov life, but in these
days they are the great luxury.
aStubbornness has ruined az menny
people az extravagence haz. ~
Did you eyer see an old bachelor
who wasn't self-copceited critteri
Mi advice to all il to marry yung
and gro old together. ..''.l :
If a man haz got real merit mod
esty)beknms him. the best, if ho haz
no merit it seems to be almost ne
cessary that he should be impudent.
1t seoms to me that the plan ov
modern edukasIrun liz to make the
young learn more and kno less.
Misers cheat themselves and never
seem to discover the frand. ...,. .....
Nobility don't, cum BIZ birth emmy
more. than putty duz.
knowledge iz verv glib at making
truisms, but experience il the author
ov all the lasting precepts.a
Novelty and trnth combined il the
graf art ov amusing and instructing
the world. -y <.".,... .:....
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"What would you do, madam, If
you werea gentlemang' "Sir, what
would you do if you were one9' .,
The Russellville Democrat., 1877-02-08

were unanimously adopted, tht preamble of which 1 lay bcfors you as a part of this communities tion.
 In accordance with the tenor ol the resolution, Messrs. Wm. H Hayes, Geo. w. Stanton, Jr., J. l. Macanly, Henry G. Marquand, and R. L. Cutting, J., were named IS committee for tEe purpose contemplated.
 1 am in receipt of a communi. cation from these gentlemen, stat ing that they desire to confer with the executive upon the present if nancial condition of the state, and requesting, with q view to avoid any delay in arriving at an under standing, if one be practicable, that I correspond with them free ly upon the subject, by telegraph, at their cost.
 Under these circumstances l would respectfully suggest for your consideration the advisabili- ty of deferrng any legislative ac- tion upon the subjects involved for a few days, and until such cores .pondence can be had; this not merely on the ground of consider ation due to creditors apparently disposed to generous compromise, but, in the hope that some ac- ceptable proposition may be re- ceived which may result in such reestablishment of our credit abroad, and consequent prosperi- ty at home, as. ..has attended simi- lar negotiations in our sister state of Georgia. and bids fair to result as favorably for others of the states of the south.
 w. R. MILLER, Governor.
 Executive Office. Feb. ?. 1877.
The Russellville Democrat., 1877-02-08
 BONDED INDEBTEDNESS

Last Saturday morning Cover nor Miller transmitted the fol- lowing message to the two houses of the General Assembly:
 To the Senate and House of Rep
 rescntatives:
 1 deem it proper to communi- cate to you information received at the executive office which may affect the question of the settle ment of the financial affairs of the State.
 On the 25th ult. large meet ing, composed not only the hold CTS of southern securities, but of others of the most prominent bus mess men of the community, and other distinguished gentlemen, was held in the city of New Yolk to consider means for the relief of the southern states of the union, embarrassed in their financial con dition. The names of signers of the call and of the participants in the meeting are such as fully war rant me in expressing the opinion that their action calls for most respectful consideration upon the part of the people in whose inter est the movement was made. At this meeting resolutions
The Russellville Democrat., 1877-02-08
Tribute of R expect.

 To the Worshipful Master, Wardens and BrethI en, Galla Rock Lodge, No. 172, F. & A. M.
 Your Committee appointed to draft resolutions on the death of Bro. Thos. Read, respectfully sub- init the following:
 WHEREAS, It has pleased the Grand Master of the Universe to summons from our midst our below ed friend and brother Thos. Read :, calling him by His omnipotent will to that judgment that awaits all liv- ing without one stain upon his name as man or Mason, and,
 WHEREAS, The ties have been sev- cred that bound us in mystic fellow. ship and departed Brother, no more to be reunited until that great day when the grave shall yield up its dead. Therefore, be it
 Resolved lst, That in the death of Brother Read this Lodge has lost a devout member and his family a kind and aflectionate husband and father.
 2d. That we deeply sympathize with the Iamily and relatives of our deceased Brother and tender to them our consolation in this their sad be- reayelnent.
 3d. Thatwe will cherish his mem ory in our hearts and devote page of our Lodge journal to thezrscord of this tribute.
 4th. We will wear the usual badge of mourning thirty days, that copy of these resolutions be furnished the family of our deceased Brother and copy be sent the Russellville DEM ocRAT for publication.
 D. M. MOURNING,
 A. P. SCARLETT,
 E. A. DAkR,
 Committee.