The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-11-20

"OLD ST." CONSIDERS TIE FALLING
: STARS AND HAS DEMOCRATIC HOpEs.-.
Old 81 camo into the Office and laid u
small yellow pamphlet before our
eyes:
"Now, dar's dis ycahs salminack wild
de hoss an dc dragoOn on do outside,
dc man In dc mcnagory on do inside,
an &c Dalze-ince sun am ebervting all
r,cglar, 'ccptin' be prognostskashun
dat psc huntin, ftlrr
"And what is that2"
Bout dc shoOtin' stars-de mite Oh
dc 'formancc an de our oh do Pumina-
shunl"
cit is billed to come off tomorrow
night, at one o'clock in tho morning"
"Dcn wy didn't dcy put hit in dis
alninaks?r But hits all rite now dat I
knos Gle programme"
"Do you intend to sit up and sec tho
show?"
"Dat docsl haint miss nary wun
sense 1888 onlcss hit war durin' ob dc
wah an 'sk,tsivclcss got up fur lie foxes
on &c norf side of Mason and DiXums
lincV
is "Thcsc displays must interest you
very much?"
$50 does; gifts moughty interest
cd in 'cm, fur, yer sees, / fahns bv dc
scczcns, plants by dc moon, | goes q
fislin' wild dc tide am | make up my
mir bout whar's swino ter happin by
&c way dat dc stars lnovcsI"
"!hen you nre sort Of astrolo-
ger in your waysW
"Wcll, | don't kno' bout dat; rud-
der tink Psc on dc fence jess ut dis time.
But Fsc gwine ter watch dem stars to-
morrow mic, 'kasc cz dcy tumbles
oars gwino jess scch CT mighty change
III dis 8ub'mcnt, yer hcah met Dar's
politics fer do millyun in dom tallin'
stars nowl"
GLOW do you make out that start
| ling tactr
| "W'y, Psc watched 'em an cbcry
tlmo dc stars hcZ fell wild anything like
generality dar's follcr'd CT change in
&c gubmcnt, sho'l Dc las shown
| WIZ in 1866 an' Andy johnson was
President, but den come long dc pub
licans wild Grant an jess ta'rly cleaned
dc dcckl DC time hcz come fer dc
noN' shown, an &c change ar jess be-
him hit, lemmc tell ycr!"
bc?" " ~
"Dar now! I glib it up, tell dc show'r
passes. AM den wont knoll Kasc
&c dimocrats hcz got kongrcss, dc pub
Leans got dc President, dc grcenback-
ers got dc goose, an darfo' dur's no
tcilin' which way dc change arc COM
in'! Do bcs' conserlashun I kin git
now ar ter tink dc bigger dc fall ob stars
dc biggcrl be lcdimocrat majority mex
yeah! Ain't dat yo' han'?"
Wc agreed that was tho size Of the
signs.-Atldnta Constellation.
A STRANGE SroRY.-"Notlong ago."
says the London DAILY Ielegruph, IA
well known collector Of curiositics
able sums of money to the gathering
together Of bank notes ofall countries
and all values, became the posscssor Of
a Bank Of England five pound note TO
which an unusually strange story was
attached. This notc was paid into a
Liverpool merchants Office in the or
dinary way of business siXty-onc years
ago, and its rcccip:cnt, the cashier OF
tho firm, while holding it up to the
light to test it's gcnuincncss, noticed
some faint rcd marks upon it which, on
closer examination, proved to be semi
ctlaccd words, scrawlcd in blood be-
tween tho printed lines and upon the
blank margin of the note. Extraord:-
nary pains were to dcciphcr these part
ly oblitcratcd characters, and cvontu-
ally the following sentence was made
out: :-''if this note should fall into the
hands ofJolm Dean, Of Long Hill near
Carlisle, he will learn hereby that his
brother is languishinga prisoner in
Algicrs." Mr.. Dean was promptly
communicated with by the holder of
the note, and heappca!cd to tho govern
mcnt of the day for assistance in his
cndcavor to obtain his brothers re-
lease from captivity. The prisoner,
who, il subsequently appeared, had
traced the above sentence with splin-
ter of wood dipped in his own blood,
had been slave to the Dcy Of Algicrs
for eleven years, when his strange mis-
sive first attracted attention in Il Liver
pool counting house. Ills family and
friends had long believed him dead.
Eventually his brother, with the aid Of
the British authorities in the Mcditcr-
rancan, succeeded in ransoming him
from tho Dey and brought him home
to England, where, however, he did
not survive his release, his constitution
having been irrcparabIy injurcdby OK
pos,Te, privations and forced labor in