The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1878-02-13

asylum, and on the case being tried,
one Of the most important wit
nesses, Who by the way, was! a
cousin Of the plaintiff; swore, as
an evidence of the old wofnan's
idioey, that one day when she went
there to lunch that sheGhad nothing
but Goldfish cakes and pickles, that
there was no mince pie, and she
could not swear positivelyif if there
was any molasses cake or not.
/ We are nota reverential people
neither parents, nor government,
nor God himself seem to have any
rgTerentiai claim on the rising gen
GRAFTON. They treat nothing with
the respect which is'its5due. Boys
of ten, twelve or fifteen years of
age will sit in a street car or a
ferry-boat chewing their tobacco
while women stand with children
in their arms almost ready to faint.
I do not think, in an experience
Of years, that I can recall the fact
of boy ever Offering his seat in
any public conveyance to a person
older than himself; for this their
mothers are undoubtedly to blame,
and it is this lack of paternal and
national reverence whiehis SO shock.
ing to foreigners visiting our shores.
It is this characteristic which is in
strumental in afording us the
shameful exhibitions of the past
week Of four distinguished families
endeavoring to shut up their pa
rents in mad house because they
were unfortunate enough to have a
littleproperty.: '.::.. 4 r.: ~. -
There is g. row in the temperance
camp: DR.! Crosby, who has done
some noble work in histime, has
taken his friends qr1ite by surprise
| by preaching a sermon in which he
declared that a little wine is good
for the stomach's sake. Brother
Mandey, who has been regular
Boanerges in: the ranks of the cold
water army, is about being hurled
from his exalted position, some Of
| his opponents unkindly,- limiting
that Croton water was not the only
fluid that moistened his clay. These
divisions in the cold water camp
have sadly impaired the efficiency
of the force which Brother Murphy
calls the army of the Lord. Instead
I of thinking of water; however, we
are now actively refeeting on
fire, and I trust I may be permitted
to say it without being accused Of
irre7erence, it is fire all along the
line, and getting rather hot. Bro
ther Falmage gave us a roaster last
week, none of your milk and water
sermons, but one of the good Old
fashioned" discourses wherein he
called things by their hard old
Saxon names. He'll was hell, fire
was fire; sulphur was sulphur, and
Talmage was Talmage When I
see so much of cruelty and wick:
edness and crime, so much Of op
preston and cheating and villainy,
I could almost hope that DR.. Tai
mage's version was the true one,
though ] don't care about taking
up permanent lodgings there my
self. The peace news: has had a
very depressing effect upon the
grain market, and holders Of heavy
stocks are sure to 60 to the wall.
The steady decline Of gold, which
dropped to one and a half, repre-
sents shrinkage Of values Of hun
dreds of millions Of dollars. The
wind that inflated our balloon in
1864 is gradually being let out.
mortgages are being foreclosed,
everybody is trying to sell real es
tate, and nobody has money to buy,
OF, if they have, they feel abun-
dainty able to keep it. Never was
seen such sacrifices in dry goods,
and never was exhibited such a self.
sacrificing desire on; the part Of our
females to wear them, and to wear
as much as possible of them; not
able to carry their dimity on their
backs, they now parade the streets
with both hands full, and carry a
load that would stsgger porter
when they would almost faint at
| the idea Of carrying home pair Of
stockings ora hoop-skirt. This is
something which no fellow can find
out, be he never so much of a vic
tim. =
The weather is more seasonable
blue noses and red ears are now
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