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The Failures Of Great Men.

Brother Gardner, of the Limekiln Club,
Detroit, recently made the following re-
marks in introducing Grapeshot Snow
ball, LII. D., of Tuscumbia, Ala. /:
"Gem len, dis extinpuished poet,
leckturer, housepainter, filosopher, and
shoemaker am arreve heah on his way to
Montreal, where be am gwine to fill a
first-class engagement. He was received
at the depot in due form he hez bin
booked heah in reglar order, an at my
earnest solissy tashum he will no deliber
a speech, de front name of which am
DE Failures of Great Men 7"
After the applause had subsidized the
gentleman came forward. with boil on
his neck and broad grin on his face,
and began
"Frens, I am befo' you on dis occa-
shun to initiate few suspicious remarks
CLEANED from de broad pages of history
You hev all heard of Socrates. He was
n great man. He wore No. 10 butes,
carried a silver baccy box, an he wiped
his nose on q handkerchief with stars
printed on de co'ners. He advised de
world lie made rules for society he
whooped up flosophy till de folks had
de nightmare in de daytime. Yit, my
dear frens. Socrates didn't invent de
long-handled shovel, de garden spade,
de clothes pin, nor de paddock, which
STAINS between de tramp and de hams in
the smoke-house. He war dead
failure"
Applause, during which Waydown
Bebee bit his tongue.
can dar was Napoleon de fust," con-
tinued the speaker. 60 He killed off
heaps o. men, made trouble for lots o.
nashuns, learned de world how to sbar-
pen lead pencil wild an old case-knife,
an'-but he stopped right dar. He didn't
invent de peach basket which kin be
made to hole eight quarts or only two,
Just as de peach man strikes q customer.
He didn't invent doze long, fat brandy
bottles, which kin be cared in de pocket
widout suspicion. He didn't build de
fust ice-house, turn de fust cider.mill,
nor put up de fust sign of Sample
Rooms in de door of low-down dive.
Cato was great man. De hotel folks cut
down de price of board for him, he got
his shirts washed for 10 per cent. off, and
when he went up to see de races he was
posted SO dat he could bet ON de winnin'
boss. Yet dat man Cato couldn't mend a
pig-hole in de fence; he couldn't sharpen
an AK he couldn't put down carpet,
an he neber voted but once on lexshum
day. Shakespeare writ BOOKS, but he
couldn't cord up bed, nor oil up
clock, nor splice rope. De woruld
hez known OF dozens of odder great men
de woruld hez witnessed DER failures.
What am de moralp What am de les
sonp 1t am this Bein great am simply
film out cloze. Bein' industrus, per-
SEVERN an pashient am what puts poetry
on de tombstun an mem'ry in de pub
lie heart"
After the usual applause accorded to
all eminent men, Brother Gardner said
"We will now infiict homewar3s.
Keep de har short. de eyes open, de
ears up whar' natur' growed 'em, an
time will give us de best seats in the
parkay circle"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-07-26
When There Was No Soap.

. Tbe early writings of tha Greeks and
Ietins make no reference tn soap, and
they, no doubt, used the alkaliesiD wash-
ing, rubbing with stone or stick, and
bleaching the fabrics by prolonged ex-
posure TO the suns rays In the Chris
tian era Plinv speaks Of soap IA original
ing with the Germans. the males OF whom
used itfor dyeing the hair reddi-h yell.
low. History repeats itself inversely In
this matter.
By the close of the first century the
manufacture of soep was carried on in
Rome. and in Ponp ii have been found
beneath the ashes sosp-hoiling Factories,
and the remains of the soap itself. In
Central and Northern Enrops this
material was sparipgly used, pride be-
ing taken in the number and quantities
of perfumes rather than in Ike, ping
clean.
Tn the sixteenth century its nse spread
into England. in 1924 the first factory
being established in London, prior to
which time it's production had been of Ia
dom stic nature entirely.
In England, in 1926, patent was
granted 70 make soap by barilla, pro-
cess long known on the continent. In
1920, the period of the South-sea bub-
bles. project was formed for making
j ppt and CASTLE soaps. The true clew
TO sosp-making was discovered in from
1913 to 1923, when the chemical con-
stituents of fats were determined. In
1910 palm and cocoanut oils were largely
introduced by French soap manufacture
ers, and in 1920 they came into use for
candle making. The year 1898 was a
great epoch in soap-making, Leblanc's
method of producing soda from common
salt having revolutionized the trade.
The process is now carried on in England
on all enormous scale, and nearly all
the soda used for making soep is thus
obtained. In 1881 the process of freak
ing up fat and separating the acids was
discovered, and the consequent more
really combination of the oleic acid. In
1S42 this process came into active use.
La 1851 q M rked advance was made
by manufacturers buying their caustic
alkali instead of making the old lime
solution.
Glycerine is added to toilet soap OF
account of its soothing, emollient action.
Soluble glass or sllicate OF sodium, the
addition of which was p itented i'll 1855,
Is feeble alkali, and has considerable
detergent power itself and acts me-
chanically. Borax, borate of sodium,
immense quantities of which are pro
duced in California, is added to soap
with gr at advantage for laundry pur-
poses. Other articles, as illuminate of
sodium, made from cryolite, lower the
intrinsic value of soap.
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teen Of the latter we're killed, and twenty-five
wome4 and children and seventy head Of
horses captured. "a "a ~
st. Louis has had Q fatal case Of yell
ow fever. &
Twenty thousand people attended the
Soldiers and Sailors reunion at Newark, Ohio,
last week.
M. @. Hickey has been bounced from
the Superintendency of the Chicago police,
and is succeeded by Capt. V. A Seavey, who is
said to be the first native American TO occupy
the place in period of fifteen years.
south.
Farmers about Alexandria, Va, have
been greatly troubled by inroads of tramps
upon their premises, and few nights ago one
OF their favorite rendezvous was surrounded
by special police from Alexandria, aad seven
teen tramps captured, nearly all Of them
strong and able bodied. They were taken be-
fore the authorities of the city and committed
to Jail for seven days, where they were or
derei to be kept in close confinement aud fed
on bread and water.
lntTt ~ COIliOo Vi uuehOiipJ IL
South Carolina between the State and United
States courts, the former refusing to transfer
to the Federal Court the cases OF some reve-
nue. officers charged with murder.
Parker, Postmaster at New Orleans,
and brother-in law Of Ben Butler, has been re-
moved.
The Potter subcommittee in Louis
lana has signifed its willingness to summon
and hear all the witnesses on intimidation re
quested by Secretary Sherman.
Sam Bass, the notorious Texas train
robber, is dead. He refused to the last to in
form against his accomplices, saying it was
against his profession.
The entire business portion of the
town OF Cattettsburg, KY, has been swept
away by fire. The loss is estimated at $780,
600, upon which there was but small insur-
ance.
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DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
East.

James Gordon Bennett, of the New
York Herald, has returned from Europe, where
he has been sojournirg ever since his duel with
young May. near Baltimore.
Several cases of yellow fever, some of
them fatal, have occurred in the Brooklyn navy
yard.
Peter Bresnaham, now confined in the
Canton IN. " jail, awaiting execution, has
confessed to having murdered four men.
A. NJ & r. Davies, umbrella manu-
facturers, New York, have made All assignment
for the benefit Of their creditors. Total liabil-
tiles, 100000.
Andrew j. Kerwin, q prominent New
York builder, has failed for s2,OOO,OOO
The workshops of the new State
prison. at Concord, Mass, have been destroyed
by fire. Loss, $3.50, 900.
The Boston Betting Company has
suspended payment in consequence Of def
CLERGY Of 80 5000 in the accounts Of the late
trsasu er, John g. Tappan.
West.
George Leggett, the best known
gambler in Indianapolis, was murdered, the
other day, by John Achey, another gambler.
The monument to the memory of the
lamented Stephen A. Douglas, which was begun
by citizens of Chicago, shortly after his death,
has Just been completed. 1t is located on the
grounds of the Chicago University.
There were 159 fatal cases of SUM-
stroke in st. Louis in one week
The boiler in Davis planning mill, at
GAINESVILLE, Ohio, exploded few mornings
ago, destroying the entire building, ard killing
three persons outright. Three more we're
fatally and several badly injured.
A sad accident happened near Johns
town, Ind, "a few days ago. While moving steam
tbresher ON the farm Of John Shackley the
boiler exploded, killing John Shackley, Frank
Jones, Patrick Johnson, and John Clauhence,
and dangerously woupding Albert shackley,
Henry ASHER, James Dixon. Alex. Humphrey,
Thomas Smith, and two others.
Rich placer diggings have been dis
covered on Colorado river in Arizona, about
tu entv miles above the town Of Aubrey.
A Baher City (Ore } dispatch re-
ports a battle between friendly Umstilla In
dams and band Of hostile Bannocks. Seven
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-07-26
Victor Hugo in His Glory.

Victor Hugo made a grand Grafton be.
fore the international Literary Congress
in Paris at its opening session in the
Chatelet Theater. The meeting at
tracted a very brilliant gathering of men
aud women from all parts of the world,
and it was said to be the most cosmo-
politan assemblage ever convened. The
great orator was at his best, and here
are some of his notable sentences
San army of 1000, 900 of men passes
away the Iliad remains Rome is hut
city; vet, by Tacitus, Lucretius, Vir-
gil and Juvenal, that city fills the world.
You are here as a constitutional assem-
bly, of literature. You are qualified, if
not for enacting laws, at least for die
tating them. Say the just thing, enun-
ciate the true idea, and If, by some rare
blunder, you are not listened to, you
will have proved that legislation is in
the wrong. Literature is the govern
ment of human kind by human mind.
This glorious year proclaims, by the
Exhibition in Paris, the alliance of in
dustries by the Volraire centenary. the
alliance of philosophers, and, by the con
gress here assembled, the alliance of
literatures vast declarations of labor in
all its forms august edifice of human
fraternity which has for its base the
peasant and the artisan, and for it,
crown the men of genius Industry
seeks the useful, philosophy searches
for the true, literature seeks the beauti
ful. The useful. the true, the beauti
constitute the triple effort
Of the human being; and the triumph
Of this sublime effort will be civilization
amopg all people and peace among all
men,"
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WONDERFUL TwfSs.
Two little Girls strangely Joined 2 To
sstnsr'

From the New York Tribune.l
A pair of twins is now on exhibition
at the Aquarium. and is attracting much
attention from physicians and others.
The two children are girls, and were
born Dec. %, 1877, at San Benoit, a
town about forty miles north of Mont
real, Can. From their heads to the
first lumbar vertebre, the children are
possessed of perfectly-formed and en-
tirely. distinct members, but below that
point the bodies become one. There is
not the slightest deformity about any of
their organs. They have two distinct
sets of internal organs and four arms,
but only one abdomen and two legs.
Each child controls one set of organs,
but only one leg. Piercing one leg
with pin will produce signs of pain in
the face of one child, while the other
will be perfectly free from any sensa-
ton. They do not act in unison. While
one laughs and plays, the other sleeps
or cries from hunger. Sometimes they
both sleep together, and when both are
awake they have the greatest desire to
play with each others hands. The feat
ures are very regular, and the race OF
each child is very pretty for baby only
7 months old. The limbs are as large
as those of an ordinary child. Where
the two bodies grow into one the bulk is
not increased, but gradually decreases
into the usual size. They were exhibit
ed to number of physicians on Satur-
day, who pronounced the pair to be one
of the greatest freaks of nature they had
ever seen. They thought the two bodies
were merged into one most naturally,
and believed the children would live to
the average age. The children have
been named Rose and Marie.
The parents are Sim and Anne
Drouin, who were born in Marseilles,
France. Their grandparents are still
living there. A few years ago Mr.. and
Mrs. Drouin emigrated to San Benoit
and engaged in farming. They are
both 26 years old, the husband being
four days older than his wife. They
have only one other child, girl who is
years old, and who enjoys the best of
health and suffers from no deformity.
The father is tall and stout. He weighs
1S0 pounds, is 6 feet high. and has the
appearance of farmer. The mother is
short and stout, and weighs about 30
pounds less than her husband. Both
parents are of dark complexion. They
speak no English. One child looks very
much like its mother, while the other
bears striking resemblance to the
father. A very neat cradle and canopy
covered with blue silk have been con.
structed at the Aquarium for the twins
Several elaborate silk dresses have also
been prepared for them. Two rooms
have been fitted MP in the Aquarium for
the residence of the parents.
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Wanted fancy.

Several years before Chief Justice
Taney's death, the Government Print
ing Office at Washington had occasion to
send him some proof slips of an import
ant decision, and they were intrusted to
printer boy, who appeared at the
Judges Office and before the Judge
with, Is fancy in 2"
presume you wish to see the Chief
Justice of the United States p
" don't care cuss about him. I've
got some proofs Tor fancy"
] am the Hon. Roger b. Taney."
You're fancy, aren't you?"
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POLITICAL POINTS.

Charles Foster has been nominated
for Congress by the Republicans Of the Toledo
(Ohic) district.
The Democrats of the Third Con-
gressional District Of Illinois have nominated
James R. Doolittle, Jr. (son Of ex-senator Doc
little), for Congress.
The Democrats of Colorado have NOM
mated W. A. Fl. Loveland for Governor, and
Thomas NJ. Patterson (present incumben) for
Congress.
Charles Foster has declined the Re-
publican nomination for Congress in the To-
lsdo (Ohio) District, and will make the canvass
in bis own district
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which have produced five and half
tons to the acre. Gu unp,anurec !and
the farm Yields fourteen bushels of
wheat 10 the acre, but with barn-yard
manure the yield has risen to thirty-five
bushels, which is as we'll as the mineral
manures can do.
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81 am rot, fellow. I am the Hon.
Roger Il. Tapey." a
" Then theproofs are not for yeu. :"
and the unrerenonious messenger would
have gone off with them if the Judge
had lot admitted himself to be fancy
simply. H
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The most substantial and elegant lace
for underclothing is knitted by men in
the prisons of Mexico.
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NOTICE.
$1,000 ?SeYFIT ON $ItO

Made any day in PUTs nhd CALLS. Invest
according to your menns. $40, 500 or, $500,
IN SyocK PRIvILEGEs, has brought a. small
fortunct TO the careful investor. We advise
when and how TO operate safely. Book with
full information sent free. Address orders by
mail and telegraph to BAXTER s. CO.,
Bankers and Brokers, II Wall ST., MY.
; May II, 1877 80 .ly
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TO CREDITORS.

4 LII persons having any claims against
~ the Estate Of Jackson Arter, deceased,
arc hereby notified to present their claims
TO the undersigned at his house, properly
itcmisod and proven. or TO leave the same
with Il. 4. Child. at his office, Mt Pickens G..
IT,, S. c., on or before the 10Th day Of Jan
uary 1878. All persons failing to produce
their claims on or by the time aforesaid
properly attcStcd, will not be taken into the
pro rata payment to be made on that day.
.....a a..' W. T.. WELBORN, Executor.
- Dec Is, I8I7 II S
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Atlanta Medical College,

ATLANTA, G.1. =. ..
EENHE Twentieth annual Course Of Lectures
Il will commence October 18TH, 1877. and
close March lst 1878.
FAcULTY--J. G.. Westmoreand, W. F. West
moreIand, W. A. Love, V. II. Taliafcrro, John
ihad' Johnson, y. W. Calhoun. J. H. Logan,
J. 7. Banks; Demonstrates Of Anatomy, G.
W. NuttIng. dl . ...'. ...:.,.,...
81 Send for Announcement, giving full infor..
nation :.'" .:'"7 ,5.e'Ti ~.
.d@'a .tJNO. TnAD. JOHNSON, bean,
o. aug 2, III 48 3m
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Sherif's Sale.
STATE OF SOUIH CAROLINA.
COUNTY OF PIoKENs.
IN THE PROBATE COURT.

-, AAN LIE J hODA II " y III.
Robert Trotter. vs.. James Trotter ct. al.
.HQf virtue Of an order from Hon. w G..
~ Field, Probate Judge for Pickcns County,
- will sell TO the highest bidder before the
Court House door, at Pickens Court House,
;6n MopaayEtbc 4th day February, 1878, be-
tweelIkthe legal hours of SALE The following
REAbsESTArE of James Trotter deceased,
divided into two tracts, to wit:
- Tract Mol,
The Lower or Home Place, containing 21S
acres more or less, adjoining the upper tract
hhds of Tyler Hill, James i. Hester and
dshac Williams, Sr.
: Tract No. q,
Or the Upper Trac,, containing 348 acres
more tor lesss adjoining Tract No i, Nancy
Mrs!3 Duffy Simmons, Soloman
4iaySs and bthsrs, Sold for partition. ! =
- TERMS: The costs ofPartition and Sale on
day 'of sale; one half the balance on credit
Of twelve months, and the remainder on n
credit Of two years. Purchaser to give bond
and security and n mortgage Of the premises
TO- the Probate Judge, TO secure the purchase
money, and pay extra for titles.
" JOAB MAULD1N, s.p.C.
= jan 10, 1873 is, "A
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Sheriff S Sale.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLYN A
COUNTY OF PICKENA.

,pY virtue of an execution to me directed
~ will sell to the highest bidder for cash,
NJ Plckens Court House, in front of the
Court House steps, on .Saleday in February
next
: All that Piece Parcel or Tract of Land,
containing Three Hundred and Sixty five acres
Land on Saluda River, in Pickens County, on
which there is good Grist and Saw Mill,
adjoining lands of Robert Trottcr, William
Nlayt1eld and others. Levied on as the props
eriy Of Charles a. Carson, at the suit of James
Lewis.
TERMS CASH. Purchasers TO pay extra
fortitles.
. :: >. j. 80 JOAB MAULDIN, srC.
b Jan 10, 1878 IS
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Notice to- FfdHciaries.

- \ LIo ors,, Executors, Guar
"a. diahs, and other Fiduciares who by
law are required to- make their returns, to
tho 5ndse of Probate, are, hereby notifet to
'dolso during lhs month, of January, orstIIe
HShtaSnY D W. G. FIELD
.7s2saaa .,T3ns9 Judge Of Probate,
sJSh 10 1878 .ssaI tao 18y,,,,,:, l.,
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2 IN ORDER. Ii TO TO RUN oUraouR
Spring and SUMNER STOCK, to make
room for our extensive Fall and Winter sup4
plies, we offer for the next 90 days. the fol-,
lowing Unprecedented bargains: ,,,,,..l g..
Calicoes, Remnants, anything we cam pet io,
them; IL .t.,':t. '>>,. .,..,rN'.f.,
Oottonades, TO-, Is, 20, and 25 cents per yard;
Summer Shoes'from rs cents up;'" 1."HN''
Saddless from 1928 up; ',,..r ...
Hind Brides 75 to SIPS;
Open Brides proportionally low; 'Hilu
Ready Made Clothing at ~ per cent above
cost and carriage.
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..,.-fi Prosperity happiness and, ,contenta
gsan disefsern' "Epos gradually
aap2SSllsBsc?ly returning to1 our pq9bM
AiItH& y athe frpits of4 an hone4b
Just and economical government. =
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