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The British Fleet.

Constan,nople Letter to the Phi ladelphia Pr ess
The English squadron, which lies at
anchor between the Princes Islands and
Maltepe, on the northern shore of the
Gulf Of Ismid, is in sight of Constanti-
nople behind the promonotory OF Moda
Bournou, the projecting point OF kadlk-
eny or Chalcedon, into the sea OF Mar
mora. For some time it was moored in
the deep water in front Of the islands OF
Prinkipo and Haiku. The Russians
having objected to its proximity to the
capital, the position was changed:
Maaltepe is a small town on the Gulf OF
Ismid, and in vicinity celebrated for
its abundant springs Of water, its vegeta-
BILE productions and marble quarries.
The squadron is visited by fleets of boats
from the Princes Islands and the Cult
coasts, and lively is the traffic carried
on. The Gulf of Ismid is a beautiful
sheet of water about the same width
and length as the Lake Geneva. II re-
sembles. in fact, a lake rather than a
marine gulf. Its shores are exceedingly
cturesoue-particularly the Aslatlc:
The European coast is dotted at frequent
intervals with villages and castellated
towns of the Greek era and the mldoie
aces while the Asiatic shore rises bold
from the water 10 considerable eleva
tons covered With vineyards, olive
groves plantations Of fig trees and anlil ows'
Beds. The population on both coasts ar are
almost exclusively Greek: 4 At Id d
eastern extremity lies the town OF iSml q,
Turkish corporation Of n S,cGmeaA III,
ono t Of the Roman Empire: Their
a also is one of the minor ship-buildinll
SSiolens a. was on several occasion asi'
shaken to pieces by earthquakes; W VIVA Ia,
the commissions of nature did not de est
the the Cloths and vandals finished ed liner
is is hardly vestige left Of its anc'en
glory.
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GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES.
MY wife.

My Wife.
Ny little wife Is out beyond burn,
see her parasol behind the fir,
And here / am inditing verse to her
$40 a Ere she return.
Ths pretty bird Is happy there copceald
This fragrant chamber smiles peaceful smile
Wig " to sing the joys Of home--the while
aS Ny joys afeld!
My spouse Is mild-she's meek as any nun,
And yet her spiritual calm Is such
Somehow ones always feeling she is much
@EE@ Too good for one.
She thinks I'm wise aud handsome--'ts her creed.
wonder am either! On my word
Sometimes I've wondered " an my bonnie bird -
Thinks so indeed.
Perhaps! for she my homage meier repes;
Perhaps might have loved her half life,
Perhaps--had she but been the little wife
Or some one else.
But why should complain of cross or cares?
While entertaining her (who won't compain)
1t may be an angel entertain
And unawares.
2g$& #E'E"'s Ety. --CornhN Magazine.
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him ne has bad temper, and after
PREF and stormy season Of welded infe-
l,clty the courts again set her free, and
she goes forth convinced that happiness
Is only to be found with a moderate
drlnker who has brown locks or is bald
neaded. Ii her first husband was poet
she Is apt to imagine that literature is
incompatible with content, and to con-
sider only men of business eligible for
her second choice; while clergyman or
a doctor is taken for her third companion
with the conviction that in the learned
professions alone a wise, tender and affec-
tlonate husband can be found-one who
can command wife's respect as we'll as
win her love. The woman who has found
a lean man a scoundrel turns to a fat
man for honesty and kindliness and she
VINO has seen the little man play the
tyrant seeks slave in tall one. It
takes years of suffering to convince
woman that it is not her duty to cleave
to the man to whom she is first married:
but when she has one learned the
lesson Of disloyalty and set out
from her home in the pursuit of happi-
ness, she puts her ideal very high and
roams until she has found a spouse
corresponding to it. For this reason a
woman who is once divorced is very
likely to be divorced two or three times,
and for this reason woman when once
divorced is not likely to be reconciled
to her husband. The case of Mrs. Louise
Q. Fenner, of Chicago, forms a curious
exception to the latter part of this rule.
She was married in 1860 in Oharga,
lroquois county, Illinois, and lived thir-
teen years with her lord and master. Da-
yid Fenner, when she procured divorce
from him on the ground OF cruel and
brutal treatment. Instead of making
use of her liberty and concluding that
the world was all before her where to
choose, she remained single for year,
and the disconsolate Fenner, lonely for
want of something to beat and abuse,
came wooing her, promising that he
would for the future be softer than silk,
milder than lambs wool and sweeter than
the honey of Hymettus. The foolish
woman, in spite of the lessons of her
long experience, put faith in his prom
ises, and remarked him at Joliet, March
5, 1874. For three years she lived with
him in various places, and was from time
to time called vile names and beaten
with great spirit and persistency until
she fled to Chicago and began proceed
ings for second divorce. 1t is grave
question whether the court should grant
her petition. What security is there
that she may not wed Fenner third
time and thus make the judicial decree
a mere nullity? Having thrown away
one chance for new deal offered to her
by the Illinois judges, is it well to hold
out another opportunity? Is it safe to
leave al large a woman who could be de-
luded into matrimony for second time
by man with whom she had lived for
thirteen years? "Who fools me once"
said the Scotchman, "shame on him.
Who fools me twice, shame on me. "
Should not she who married without the
maiden's fond illusions, without the
widows aspiration for better luck, with
out the divorced woman's yearniug for
variety, be left to suffer as warning ex-
ample for all her sex?
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X indness of Animals to One Another.

X indness of Animals to One Another.
Hardwicke's Science Gossip publishes a
couple Of interesting anecdotes illustrat-
i've of the kinder impulses which the
lower animals often exhibit toward fee
BILE creatures, even of widely-diferent
species. In the first instance, cat
which had been bereft of her young kit
tens few days before was allowed to
remain at the fireside, where five or six
little chicks ust out Of the shell were
placed until the remainder Of the hron'!
should be ready to leave the nest. Pussy
Immediately expressed the deepest inter
est in the motherless chicks; and wish
ing to see what would take place, the
owner allowed her to come near, when
she began to stroke them down with her
paw, in the most affectionate and tender
manner, and, after awhile, lying down,
gathered them we'll under her" The cat
remained brooding the little chickens in
this manner I'll the day. In the evening
the younglings were taken from her; but
the next day she again brooded them in
the same careful way. On the third day
the chickens were taken from her and
given to the proper mother, who had
now safely hatched her entire family.
In the second instance, a hen was af-
hicted with total blindness, and could
only find food when it was placed close
beside her. She was this way enabled t.
pick up enough to sustain life; hut the
other barn-yard fowls, Observing her dj~-
ability, oppressed her with continual ILL.,
treatment. Shortly before her blindness
the hen had been purchased from a
neighboring farmer, together with an
other of the same brood The latter had
a young family to provide for; but, on
returning at night, she would her
blind sister, and gave the disabled one
shelter, along with her four little chick
ems, under her wings, This wa con-
t.nued for several weeks, or until the
blind hen was killed by a murdcrou>
crew
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FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS.
Merry Rain.

BY FLETA FORESTER. go.
Sprinkle, sprinkle, comes the rain, ,
Tapping on the window-pane;
Trickling, coursing,
Crowding, forcing
Tiny rills
To the dripping window-sills.
Laughing rain-drops, light and swift,
Through the air they fall and sift;
Dancing, tripping,
Bounding, skipping
Thro' the street,
With their thousand merry feet.
Every blade of grass around
Is ladder to the ground;
Clinging, striding,
Slipping, sliding,
On they come
With their busy zip and hum.
In the woods, by twig and spray,
10 their roots they find their way;
Pushing, creeping,
Doubling, leaping,
Down they go
TO the waiting life below.
Oh, the brisk and merry rain,
Bringing gladness in its train!
Falling, glancing,
Thinking, dancing
All around
Listen to its CHEEKY sound.
81. Nicholas
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THERE was a panic at the Metropoli-
ton theater. Sacramento, March "A. A
TX ~ to witness the play surreptltlously
1 hx neeping through the ventilator, MADE az
~ mistake 9 and forced his leg throug the 17
a, nsaa large fragments of which fell
p p,ss the east and lower side Of the par
ouette. The spectators sPrans W ' ;ntn
Feet and began to work their way ~, ins 20
t the S mbols ceiling did not give way and
the small boy was speedily dls sS" sl1a
went on,
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DR., Holmes to n Roy.


The kindly autocrat, DR.. Oliver Wen
dell Holmes, has been writing, says the
New York Tribune, pleasant letter to
Master Holmes Dnuani1liaiii , dir eigh t-yta1
old Tennesseean, whose parents SO ad-
mired the doctor that they gave their
son his name. The little fellow wrote
pretty childish letter to the autocrat,
adding this postscript: "P. S.-My lit
tie sister said to mamma, 'As Buddy is
writing to poet, think l shall write to
Shakespeare" And thus DR.. Holmes
answered: "My Dear Little Name
sake: | have so many letters that | can
not do more than answer yours in very
few words. am glad that you go to
school, and have already learned to
write, and do sums, in arithmetic and
find places on the maps suppose you
know where Boston is, where | live. 1t
is pretty large city, but what do you
think / saw this forenoon out of the win
dow Of my library? 1t was a flock of
wild ducks in the Charles river swim
ming about just as much at home as if
they were tame ducks in pond. We
have had very great snowstOrm. Yes
terday 1 saw boy, not much bigger, l
suppose, than you are, standing on top of
snow-drift, and his head was as high as
the street-lantern ON the top of the tall
post where it was placed l am sorry
that I cannot do everything that every
good little boy wants me to. | am sorry
that l cannot write you speech, but you
have written you letter. Be good and
industrious and obedient, and then you
will do credit to the name your father
has given you. Kiss your little sister,
and tell her there are no postoffices
where Shakespeare is now. Your friend,
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
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At this Season Of tho Year,

The human system is liable 70 become diaOrderrd
from the insufficient Efforts of the liver b. discharge
the excess of bile" Ii nature is not assist ed her eff
forts severe bilious attacks. prO>trttng levers
necessarily "iow. causing great suffering nd even
death. Ii tie tim ly prcrauiOn, however, will Pre-
mt all THIS and may he found ia that favurite hur-
hold remedy, Sina.noAs Eiver He ulmtOr.
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Fl1rtiDg.

Girls are sometimes admOnished not to
firt because, however pleasant it might
be to them, it might break the hearts of
those with whom they tlirt. Nonsense.
We have heard of victims of blighted
affection, but never yet came across one.
Time, in this sort of matters, works Won
ders. We doubt whether any man ever
yet died Of broken heart. Men are
more vain than women. There are ex-
ceedingly few of them who are not flat
tered by the idea of some woman falling
in love with them. The lady for the
moment affords them this qualification
of self-love. She makes herself as agree
able as she can. If the vanity of the
man leads him to believe that she has
fallen a victim to his charms, this is his
fault. The illusion has raised him to the
seventh heaven for brief period, and if
the period be short he has been the gain
er. In one of DeBernard's novels he
describes an old captain who lives very
happy because he fancies that, years ago,
some girl died of broken heart because
he had declined to marry her. He car
ries about her portrait, and on all occa-
sions pulls in out and weeps over it..
One day, however, he meets girl, who
had not died, but had married grocer,
who forgot all about the captain. He is
in despair. He can no longer indulge in
the luxury Of grieving over the sad fate
of the object Of his youthful affections.
Flirt on, young ladies, and do not i'm
agine that the amusement will break the
heart of any one. 1t may wound his
vanity, and where this is the only quail
ity the man has, the blow may. stagger
him. BUTT will do him good-show
him his real selfshness. So firt on,
young ladies, but at the same time tenn
per the blow to the tenderness of the
youth who is to receive it.-Bo,o Bells.
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A Horse Story.
Spirit OF the Times

spirit OF the ines.
A most miraculous display OF animal
endurance has come to light in lnlepcn
dence, Mo. On or about February 18th,
one of Messrs Larkin 4 Sons large bay
bus horses mysteriously disappeared
from the open commons directly in the
rear of their stables, on Rock street, and,
although a thorough search was made,
no trace of the missing horse was found.
They finally advertised the horse as
strayed or stolen, and offered reward
for his recovery, but still no trace could
be found until Monday last.
Mr.. H. c. St. Clair had Occasion to 60
into his carriage-house for the first time
in several weeks, and, on opening the
door, beheld to his great establishment
the missing horse, which had undouhted-
ly been shut up ever since the day of his
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS davS-with-
out a single drop of water, and all the
food he had had was about 250 lbs of
bran, which Mr.. St. Clair had placed in
the carriage-house short time before the
disappearance of the horse. The bran
was entirely consumed, and the greater
portion of the box which it had been in
had been eaten by the starving horse,
which had also eaten its own manure, as
none was found in the house.
1t is supposed that the horse, in its
wanderings, had found the door of the
carriage-house open, gone in, and the
door had blown shut, and fastened, and
as no one had occasion to enter the
house, it had been a prisoner ever since.
When Mr.. St. Clair discovered the horse
it was very much emaciated, but was
still upon its feet, and rushed for the
door as soon as it was opened, and made
its way directly to the stable of its own
ers. That it had not had water during
the twenty-eight days imprisonment is
known to be fact, as there was no wa,
ter in the house, and no one had been
there during that time.
The Cardiff Docks.
At the time that the father of the
present Marquis of Butte came into pos
session of the town of Cardiff, it was 8
little unimportant village at the edge OF
large tract of desolate moorland, which
had never been utilized in any way
Finally he resolved to supply the town
with docks, and is said to have risked hi:
last penny in the enterprise, but it wa:
successful, and Cardiff is now busy anc
thriving seaport. A great income is de
rived from these docks, which is all ap
piled to a further expansion of CONNER
cial facilities. The present Lord Butte il
also the owner of large fields of thu
smokeless coal, that is so extensively
used by navies.
FRANKLIN, Ind, has an eight-year ole
murder case on the docket.
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WAR OF 1872 &OEDRERS
And Widows pensiuned for 4 days srrNl~r " Il.
Col. L. BINGHAM 4 Co., Attys Westminster. u
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The Cardiff Docks.

FRANKLIN, Ind, has an eight-year old
murder case on the docket.
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rsrn,c4 free, 2. ~. RSEEEoE:D y >0Ae
B0At0fI.
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iRowx's BRONCHIAL TRocHEs for cough and colds
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AGENTS., READ THIS !

CLOCKS .: .: 8:
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CAMDEN, S. c., NOVEMBER !, 1878.
Enough Joy for One Day.

On Tuesday evening last the glorious
sun of heaven :hrew its last rays upon
Us as redeemed, q d;senthralled and
happy people. The warm and impul-
siye hearts that had so enthusiastically
beat for weeks, and which on that day
moves higher and higher as the pulse
of the patient does when his fever is
eliminating, rests easy now in its vic
tory, and so joyous do we all feel that
in this bright hour We can truly pro-
claim, "peace on earth, good will toward
men," As we 90 to press the full
returns are not to hand, but We know
enough to know that all is well, and
kershaw, our home, is once more our
OWN, for the first time since our brave
soldiers turned their swords into plow
shares. Thank heaven for all of this.
May the despoller's foot never again
press upon our necks; may home rule
give US prosperity, and may new fu'
ture be ours. Let us in this hour oil
JOY be as all brave people arc-tolcrant
and forbeariug. 1t is true that we
have stood much, bnt as we are con-
querors to-day We can afford to be
charitable, and when We look upon our
defeated enemies, we can with mercy
repeat those sublime words of Pope:
"Teach me to feel another's woe,
To hide the faults / see;
That mercy to others show,
That mercy show to me-"
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The Almighty Dollar"

The casual observer Of history will
not fail to notice the yet uncontradlcted
fact that nations have Aourished, con-
auerors have flashed their swords
in royal splendor, and human lite has
been as ashes when government, power
and existence have had the "almighty
dollar" as the pivot upon which to turn.
The student of religion, when be reflects
upon its gigantic strength, must for a
= time, stand amazed and look deep into
tho solemn research of his studies before
he can With implicit faith believe that
Gods word is above all things else, and
that that word is the rock which no
storm or tempest can reach. 1t is Sc
rious question for reflection, and when
ST. Paul said that "tho love Of money Is
the root of all evil" he SO condensed
this powerful passage of Holy Writ,
that to thoughtless reader it falls as o
as the eye would upon the terrific GAL
vanic battery. For its want govern
ments and monarchies, whose very cor
nsr stone were virtue, liberty and public
veal, have crumblcd and fallen into
dust. Lowd kings, harlots and oil
rarchies, whose only claim to authority
was their licentious and blishting inau.
ence, by this gOe1 have aourished like a
uidespreading bay tree, and as they threw
out their great limbs, brought under
their "Upas" shadows the damning
blast of disease and corruption. When
we take into consideration all OF these
facts, sometimes we are forced TO ask
ourselves whether or not moro OF hu-
man nature has not been typlfied ~ the
betrayal Of our Blessed Saviour BY Jua~
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NEWS ITEMS.

THE American Baptists opened a
new church in Rome on the 3rd In
slant.
THE failures of business houses in
Scotland, on account Of the Glasgow
Bank failure, continue.
THE Russian journals report a large
number Of suicides and attempts at sui
eide in the Russian army ir Bulgaria
THE minister of the italian war Office
recently resigned because the King re.
fused to have q soldier shot after con-
viction of criminal iusubordinatiou.
THE yellow fever in New Orleans is
very near the end. Nine deaths are
re ported for the 4th inst. There have
been 13, ,2s6 cases and 1857 deaths.
FoRrY-N1NE Indian children from
the different agencies in the West have
been sent % Hampton, Va, to be edu'
Gated at the expense of the Govern
ment.
QUARANTINE against the cities that
were infected with the yellow fever has
been reised since November 2, and al
lines of travel between them and other
cities have been re-established.
WESTERN, the great American pedes-
trian, who started last week in the great
international walking match in London,
left the track with a sprained ankle.
Oorkev won the race, scoring 52l miles
in six days. There were nine compet'
tors.
THE London Observers dispatch
from Paris says that James G. Bennett
left Paris Friday night, for St. Peters
burg, en- route for Afghanistan, taking
with him Juan Woistyne, who will be
the Heral.ps correspondent in the event
of war.
IT is officially denied that Russian
officials are participating in or couniVlne
at tho Bulgarian insurrection. Gen
Todleben has issued fresh orders tc
| Russian commanders on the East Rou'
melian frontier to prevent the organiza'
ton of iusurgent bands aud watch the
movements ofinsurgeut committees.
THE Count of Bismarck Bohlen
cousin of Prince Bismarck, committed
suicide lately in Venice. He seemed
determined that his work should be
thorough, as ten razor cuts wcro found
upon his limbs, two upon his arms, and
two upon his throat. Covered with
blood, and leaving trail of it upon the
floor, he dragged himself to his 1ed'
and, after lying down. shot himself in
ths head. His agd was fortY.slz.
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The Acquittal Of Oliver.

We see from our Fairfield exchanges
that Z. w. Oliver, the murderer Of Carl
Schultzs, has been acquitted. 1t is
seldom that We ever comment upon the
verdict of petit juries, but we as journ-
slists have right to our opinion, and
We will not at any and all times hesitate
to express them. We were thoroughly
conversant with this case. We knew
all about it, and, in our judgment q
more diabolical murder has never dark.
ened the annals of South Carolina's
history. A weak, poor, defenseless
man in the peaceful walks of bis daily
pursuits sits quietly under his own
roof, and there, with his needle in hand
is shot down like wild beast, by a man,
whose reason is drowned by passion,
and whose every impulse springs from
the devil alone. a little over o year
ago in the courts of this place crimi-
nal by the name of Isaac Turnage was
indicted for and convicted ofmurder. We
knew all about this case and in this com.
munity the verdict was regarded asright'
eous. In our opinion there is no compari
son in the two cascs-Olivcr's being so
much tho more heinous. Turnage.
poor unhappy wretch ekc's out miser-
able existence with ball and chain in
dungeon in the Peuitenttary, while
Oliver basks in the sunlight Of freedom,
awaiting, as surely he does, the avenging
wrath of an angry God. What COM
mentary upon juries. They are the
safeguards of our society. To them We
look to stop this tidal wave of crime
which for ten years has blackened this
and: Such verdicts give premium to
murder, makes home with all of its en-
dearments unsafe, and tears into a
thousand atoms the safeguards thai
should be thrown around human life.
Ut is our duty to speak when we see
such dangers around us, and we shall
not hesitate to do so. In heavens
name, We ask for the common good Of
our country that our jurymen will re-
fleet in future when criminals are
brought before them.