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The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1880-09-22
international Sports.

ALBANY, N. Y.-At the fourth an
nual meeting of the National Associa-
ton of the Trotting Horse Owners, at
Island Park, the following races took
place:
The Mall stakes of 81 500 was won by
Bergen, who won two heats out of
three. Time-2.40.
Stake No. II, for mares that never
trotted in 2.30 or better, was won by
Saunie G. Time-2.304.
Stake No. 4, for4-year-oIds, $50, was
won by Hawthorne. Time-2.41.
Stake No. 8, for 3-year-olds, was won
by Jupiter. Time-2.55.
PEEKsKILL, N. Yin the Oscow-
ana Island boat race Ten Eyck,
Plaisted and Kanoth were the winners
of the three heats. Hosmer and Lee
failed to cross the line. There was a
fine amateur race, Gaisel winning by
one-quarter of a length.
BASE BALL.-At Cleveland-Morn-
ing game-Cleveland, 4; Cincinnati,
5. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, O; Cleve.
land, s.
At Buffalo-Buffalo, 4; Chicago, I.
At Troy-Troy, s; Boston, 8.
SHEEPsHEAD BAY, C. 1.-The
weather was showery, and the track
only in fair condition, but the atten-
dance was good. The first event was a
selling race, n mile, which was taken
by Warfeld in las, Vera Cruz (the
favorite) coming in last, having again
ruptured a blood vessel which he burst
last season. The three quarter mile
dash for 2-year-olds, with selling allow
ances Gossip getting second place.
Glenmore won the one-and-three quar-
ter mile race for III ages in 800, Moni-
tor (the favorite) coming in third. A
free handicap sweepstakes, mile heats,
was won by Ada Glenn in 1.54a, 1.451.
The favorite (Grenada) only got third
place in the last heat. The handicap
~steeplechase over the short course was
taken easily by Dandy in 1888, Judith
(the favorite) getting third place.
The Times says: 1t is probable that
the competitors in the International
Thames Regatta will be Trickett, Lay
cock, Ross, Riley, Ten Eyck, Hanlan,
Boyd and Elliott, and, perhaps, Black
man. 1t is earnestly to be hoped that
each will do bis best to win, and that
the contest will not give rise to doubts
of the honesty Of the efforts of any of
the competitors.
LoNDoN.-A match game of cricket
began at Kensington between a picked
team of English cricketers and a strong
Australian team visiting here. The
sIish are: Lord Harris, Hon. A.
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The Drum Major.


Why is it that the drum major al
ways monopolizes the admiration of
the small boy? He invariably takes
him for something in mense, and he is
about right. A Chicago Tribune re-
porter describes one of these magnifi-
cent creatures thus: His feet rose and
fell with the regularity of quartz crush
ers; his bearskin was as towering and
fluffy as a cats tail iu spring time.
His gauntleted left hand was glued to
his hip, and his gauntleted right to his
staff, saving right and left for dear
life. Then he reached the second line
of review and prepared to salute. First
he raised the staff shoulder high and
wobbled it four times like the walking
beam of an engine. Then he reversed
it and gave one gilderfuke to the right
and two fabdabs to the left; twirled
the knob seven times, flung the staff
twenty feet in the air, and made a mo-
ton as if he were going to turn a triple
somerset before it came down again.
Instead of this, however, be caught it
deity, tucked it under his right arm,
shot out his left horizontally, crooked
his elbow and laid the back of his hand
on his brow. And he did all this with
such skill, rapidity and pride that the
small boy cried: O., locker him, Jim
my! My eye! don't he look like a
billed lobster nor nothin.n
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fan, a flower and zigza Iashes in the
most irregular manneH&& This style Of
embroidery on cloth Is very tashiona-
BILE and can be easily done at home by
any one familiar with japanese de-
signs, which are copied from pottery
and screens.
The passion for jet has by no means
subsidized; on the contrary judging
from the excessive massive trimmings
and extreme cost, it is On the increase.
These are mostly in very wide appli-
que bands Of branches and flowers,
open worked; the material upon
which they are embroidered in this
heavy manner is cut out underneath.
Some are done entirely with the finest
of bugles, representing long leaves and
sunflowers, tulips, lilies, daisies, or
clusters of smaller flowers, sometimes
a bird or insect the leaves may be
worked in the tiniest seed bead work
or in large fine lance like bugles.
Heavier bands are e ually. or more
elaborate. Some have a border of soft,
satin piping fringe and jet, the centre
showing tuftings of messy chenille
and crescents and stars of cut jet. The
beading is composed Of curling ostrich
feathers.
A wide fringe, a quarter Of a yard in
depth, is of great weight. There is a
heavy passementerie bead-piping top
holding the fringe of fine bugles, cut
jet beads of graduated sizes completed
with long jet droplets. This at whole
sale price costs $50 a yard. Another
style, still more costly, is an elaborate
mixture of satin balls in trellis work,
sprays of fine jet beads with satin buds,
tulips and butterflies of heaviest jet
i work. The new favorite trimming is
called Marabout. To realize the de-
scription, this may be compared to a
fence of alternate heavy posts with
lille "llc "Olh CCu, 1hSoS
| posts are entwined around with fine
seed jet beads ; between these is a lat
tice work in diamonds or squares Of
beads. Each edge is fringed with
curled laminee or ostrich, or chenille
tufted, and sprigs of jet wires. On a
band six inches wide is interviewer a
complication of narrow twist fringe
and jet, chenille with jet droplets and
tufted moss headed by black feathery
grasses and thistles g~littering with jet
and silver dust. Small shoulder capes
not only glitter with the most ornate
bead work and heavy fringes of jet,
but are deliberately mide in the group
ing of jet and gold bead floral designs.
Some Of these of immense weight are
masses of beads, fine bugles, satin balls
and wide fringes.
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A Man Who Breathes Through
His Ears.

A Norwich Conn., dispatch to the
New York Sun says: The following
remarkable statement has been jour
neying through the Connecticut press:
"Now it is a Yankee, Mr.. Samuel
Bromley, of Mystic River, in the State
of Connecticut, who announces his
ability to live for ten hours with"his
nose and mouth Theoretically sealed.
Where is this thing to stop?
The individual referred to above is
the popular barber of Mystic, a little
village on the Sound, between New
London and Watch Hill. He has a
unique office in the main street of that
delightful old-time hamlet, and is well
known along the coast as Fat Sam"
Those acquainted with Sam see no rea-
son why he should not be able to ac-
complish what is coupled with his
name, for he is able to breathe for a
time without the use IF mouth or most
trils, communication between his lungs
and the outside world being kept up
through his ears. When smoking a
cigar he often exhales the smoke
through the same extraordinary chan
nels, to the profound establishment of
those who are unaware Of this freak of
nature. Many persons who have seen
the jet of cigar smoke creeping out Of
his ears are willing to testify to the
truthfulness of Eat Sans" assertion.
Though not particularly fond of motor
iety, Sam thinks he al establish his
ability to live practically Theoretically
sealedn for ten days.
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noticed focks of
about half a mile

III SuOTc@d pidCtlCd1 Ooit1o0AS@sOA VI
lie old fable that birds, flying over
The Dead Sea, fall into it dead."-
Lieut.. Gender, "Tent Work in Pales-
tine," II, 20.)
4 So dieth this chimera. AS yet, how
ever, it holds true that fishes cannot ex-
ist in the water of the Dead Sea.
"I have never found any living ami
NAL in the water, though many fish,
brought down by the Jordan current,
.,.s sailed along the shores. "-Lieut.
: Gender, "Tent Work." II, 20.
The same is true at the southern end
of the Sea. There the party of the Due
de Luynes found lagoon, between the
Sea and Jebel Usdum, supplied by a
not salt spring and frequently mum
rIated by the sea. Although this water
nt6engly resembled, in taste and speci-
gravity, the waters of the Dead Sea,
lumber of little fishes, scientifically
own as Gyprinodom Moseas, Cuv.,
LII C. lvnGtus, Ehrb., were living in
it. But, caught with care and living
we'll in a dish filed with lagoon-water,
they instantly died when transferred to
a dish filled with water from the Dead
Sea.
lit cannot fail to be extremely inter
esting to those who claim the bottom
of the southern portion Of the Dead
Sea for the Vale of Siddim, submerged
by a supposed rise of the surface of the
sea, through a presumed increase of wa
ter, to read Lieutenant Conder's re-
marks upon former levels of this body
of water:
The present north shore Of the
Dead Sea is a shingly beach, with a
ridge of pebbles at the top of a some
what steep slope. Some thirty feet
above high water mark a second SINH
lar beach may be seen inland, and
about a hundred feet above the water a
third There can be little doubt that
we see in these raised beaches former
limits of the lake. Above the beaches,
some three hundred feet higher than
the water, there are fiat shelves of mari,
with steep slopes, much worn by water
action. These marks are deposited
against the high dolomitic cliffs, the
tops of which are about the level of the
Mediterranean. The shelves have also
been recognized as former shores of the
sea, and this level may be called the
~Siddim Level. "-("Tent Work in Pales'
tine" II, 49,
Verify, this looks very much as
though the Dead Sea has been contin-
ualy lowering, instead of ever raising
it's surface.
The m~eteorology of Suez does not
Weld to the influences of civilization.
Neither the maritime canal, nor the
Adfty acres of cultivation has any ap'
liable effect in increasing the rain
hsplsee; which remains at about
If inches and often does
: ! = ! |
EKith it's Che
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GREENEILI.E AND COLUMBIA
RAILROAD.

Passenger Trains rur: daily, sunday except
ed. connecting with Night Express rains on
south a:o:ina I;ailr. ad up and down, and
with the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta.
n Wilmington. Columbia and Augusta
Rai,rOat:s.
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Lavater says, Never make the man
your friend who hates music, or the
laugh of 8 child.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1880-09-22

WHAT a quaint way Herbert Spen-
Ger has of putting things. The follow
ing is from his Data of EYhics; but
just as the rampant egotism of a brutal
millitancy was not to be remedied by
attempts at the absolute subsection of
the ego in converts and monasteries, so
neither is the misconduct of ordinary
humanity, as now existing, to be rene
died by upbolding a4andard OF abne-
CATION beyond humarfachievment."
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Lyttleton and Messrs. G. w. Grace,

Lyttleton and Messrs. G. w. Grace,
E. M. Grace, G. F. Grace, Steel, Lu-
Gus, Penn, Shaw, Morley and Barnes.
The Australians are: Messrs. Melon
nell, Graube, Palmer, Bonnor, Sleight,
A. Moule and Alexander.
The game opened with w. G. and
E. NJ. Grace at the bat. At the end OF
an hour and a half's play one wicket
was lost for 9 runs. E. NJ. Grace was
taken at mid-of for SO. At4.D o'clock
the score was 2S1 for four wickets, w.
G. Grace being just out with a total OF
l52. At the end of the days play the
score of the Englishmen was 40 for
eight wickets.
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Food for Rehec tion.

Food Tor Reflection.
Lavater says, Never make the man
YOUR friend who hates music, or the
laugh of a child.
IN THE SHADOW.
Ilove to see my darling's happy smile,
As her young husband parts her golden hair,
And takes from her sweet lips the kisses
there,
And yields contented to her pure shy vile;
love my idle hours to beguile
With the bright babe, that, fresh and rosy
fair,
Links in golden bond that joyous pair,
Like a long sunbeam down a cloistered
aisle,
Their gladness filings across my arid path
Its little glow and glory; but l pass
Out of its lustre, where the hand ofdeath
Throws its uniting shadow on the grass,
And crouching down amid its chill l say,
Here lies my lot; outside is hope and day"
Good resolutions are an honor to
every heart that forms then. But
that honor takes to itself a new lustre,
and that heart is nobler still, when the
resolutions are not broken.
Death comes equally to us all, and
makes all equal when he comes. The
ashes of an oak in a chimney are no
epitaph of that, to tell me how high,
or how large, it was it tells me not
what focks it sheltered while it stood,
no. what men it hurt when it fell.
The dust of great persons graves is
speechless, too; it says nothing, it dis
tinguishes nothing. AS soon the dust
of a wretch whom thou wouldst not,
as of a prince whom thou couldst not,
look upon, will trouble thine eyes if
the wind blows itthither; and when a
whirlwind hath blown the dust Of
the churhyard into the church, aud
the man sweeps the dust out of
the church into the church-yard,
who will undertake to sift those
again, and to pronounce, "This is the
patrician, this is the noble flower, and
this the yooman, this the plebeian
n."-Donne.
WHAT I LOVE.
love the ploughman's whistle,
The reapers cheerful song,
The drover's o~ft-repeated shout.
Squirting his stock along;
The hustle Of the market man,
AS he HES him to the town,
The halo from the tree top,
AS the ripeniDg fruit comes down;
:. The busy sound of the threshers,
As they clean the ripened grain;
The husker's joke and catch Of glee
Meath the moonlighton the plain;
The kind voice Of the drayman,
The shepherds gentle call
These sounds OF pleasant industry,
I Lowell love them all.
We do not arrive at the sublime by
degrees, for infinite distances separate
it even from the beautiful.
MY THEME.
"Dip your pen in the ink" she cried,
"And write me a song that shall live for
aye"
She slightly laughed, I softly sighed,
And Love was the theme l chose that day.
Love was my theme, Love was my song,
When the sun crept out from the clouds that
day,
The fragrant winds, drifting along,
Whispered the same sweet, passionate lay.
Her cheek waxed white, her cheek wa1ed
red, u
And the tide Of her heart stood - With a
- sigh;
"'Tis not the song you ave writ" she said,
But the theme you LAY chosen shall
never die"
Her cheeks waxed white, her cheeks waxed
red,
AS I said, "Let me teach you the strength
of my theme"
mo need Of teacher, sir" she said,
"For it comes to our hearts like a tender
dream"
MARY STRATToN HEwErr.
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RAILR DAD.
GREENvILLE EXPRESS.
GOING EAST.
Leave Columbia. .......4.i5 p. IN. t2.l5 p. m.
Arrive at Charleston: 800 y. IN. 80 p. M.
*Daily, except sundays. tSundays only.
GOING WEST, DAILY.
Leave Charleston a. I'M.
Arrive at Columbia.............."-..-1O.@ g. m.
WAY, FREIGHT AND PASSENGER
TRAINS.
GOING EAST DAILY, EXCEPT sUNDAYs).
Leave q. m.
Arrive at Augusta ....... -.....-.----5.Zo p. m.
Arrive at Charleston p. III.
GOING WEST DAILY. EXCEPT sUSDAYsl
Leave Charleston "9!D a. m.
Leave Augusta SUI q. m.
Passengers leaving Columbia or Charleston
on these trains will have to change cars at
Branchville to reach Charleston at 200 P. N.
or Columbia at 5.7 P. NJ.
NIGHT EXPRESS TRAINS.
GOING EAST, DAILY.
Leave Columbia p. m.
Arrive at a. III.
Arrive at Charleston .o.o d. IL.
Passengers taking this train will have to
change cars at Branchville to reach Charles
ton at $50 A. NJ, If not in Sleeper. Regular
Accommodation train will arrive at s A. NJ.
GOING WEST, DAILY.
Leave 7. NJ.
Leave Augusta p. m.
The Grcenville and Night Express Trains
run daily all other Trains daily except Sun
day. Sleeping Cars are attached to Night
Express T~rains-berths only ~Sl.5o-between
Columbia, Charleston and Augusta. On Sat
urdays and Sundays, Round Trip Tickets are
sold to and from all stations at one frst-class
fare for the round trip, good till Monday noon
to return. Connections made at Columbia
with Greenville and Columbia Railroad, and
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad, to
and from all points on each road; at Charleston
with steamers for New York OH Wednesdays
and Saturdays; also with Savannah and
Charleston Railroad to all points South. The
train leaving Columbia ata.aOP ?. N. and ar
irving at 6.lO A. NJ. makes close connections
at Kingville with the New York Express
Trains, to which Ia attached a Pullman Sleep
ing Car, running through between Augusta
and New York without change. Connections
are made at Augusta will Georgia Railroad
and Central Railroad to and from all points
West and South.
Through tickets can be purchased to all
points North, South, East and West, by apply
ing to A. B. DESAUSSURE, Agent,
Columbia, S. {.
JOHN b. PECK.
General Superintendent.
ID. G. ALLEN Gen. Pas. and Ticket Agt.
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Lauren Train leaves ~l.aurens E. ii. at s!s
a. m. and Newberry at 400 p. nj. daily, except
Sundays.
Ahbcville Branch Train connects at Hodges
with down and up trains daily, Sunday ex-
cepted. Leave Abbeville $50 a. H., leave
Hodges at 40 p. m.
In and down trains on the main stem make
close connection at Columbia with the up and
down da, Passenger Trains on the South Caro-
lima Rail- uld. and tile through Passenger
Train on the Wilmington, Columbia and Au-
gusta Railroad; at Aston WITH trains OF
S~partanbure, Cnio nand Columbia K. r.
J.. w. FRY, General Supt.
T 2. MEREDITH Master transportation.
JABEZ NORTON, Jr., Gen. Ticket Agent.
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RELIGIOUS.

lowing words are strains Of music,
Dearly priced n treasured long;
Like the echoed tones that hnger
when the bird has ceased its song,
Fey are treasures, golden treasures,
Taking brighter all our pleasures.
The fear of future evil is in itself the
--latest of evils.
The use of character is to be a shield
against calumny.
George Macdonald says:-"One
thing is clear to me, that no indulgence
of passion destroys the spiritual nature
so much as respectable selfshness."
With every exertion, the best of men
can do but a moderate amount of good,
but it seems in the power of the most
contemplate individual to do incalcul'
able mischief Washington Irving.
1t is a vain thought to flee from the
work that God appoints US, for the sake
of finding a greater blessing to our
own souls, as if we could choose fol
ourselves where we shall find the full
ness of the Divine Presence instead OF
seeking it where alone it is to be found
lin loving obedience.-George Eliot.
Worry not, dear friend, at the cloud.
AS the storm departs, upon its bacS
will hang the bow of the promise. AS
s<61rsts the sunshine through the gloom,
80 may fall the light of a merciful
heaven upon your pathway. AS sings
the robin at the CLINT of dawn, after a
long and stormy night, SO will sing thy
heart after the darkness is past forever.
American Wesleyan.
BIBLICAL RESEARCH.
In the middle ages, and days when
men made wonderful pilgrimages to
the Holy Land, it used to be a story
that fowls were never seen on the wa
tiers of the Dead Sea, and indeed, that
birds could not fly over it alive.
"The name of the Dead Sea is de-
rived from this circumstance-that it
does not sustain any kind of living
thing; forthere are neither fish in its
depth nor waterfowl swimming upon
Its surface. And bulls and camels float
upon it-(Beda Venerabilis, "De Locis
Sdnctu," CHI. xi.)
3@The Lake, destitute for norishing
or sustaining fishes, as well as fowl ac-
customed to frequent waters, even by
its pestilential air kills birds that may
happen to be flying about it."-Zullart,
SIC Tres euot Voyage de Jerusalem"
Liv. Nv, p. 16.
Here is a fantasy which has better
basis than many others and as good
claim to everlasting existence as any
among the marvellous things reported
ofthe Terra ancta;; but, unfortunately,
now and then sensible observer looks
at things just as they are and stupidity
tells the exact truth.
"Lost several hours waiting for wind
near Rain Lut. Saw a flock of black
birds at rest On the Dead Sea, a white
bird flying over, and afterwards a fight
nsea-gulls."-(Le Due de Luynes,
Exploration d la Mer Aorte,
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ACCOMMODATION.

G. R. TALCOTT, SUIT.
JNo. r. M>CMURDO, General Passenger
and Ticket Agent.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1880-11-12

Sixty MILES MINUTE ON A TIN PAN.
Arthur Fitzpatrick, who returned from
Colorado short time ago, gives the follow
ing glowing account of an occurrence in the
mining districts, of which he was an eye
witness: ga miner and some companions
were crossing the Continental Divide whom
it was covered with snow. Three miles be-
low them, down decline of forty. five de-
grees, deeply covered with frozen snow, lay
the spot they desired to reach, while to 20
around by trail was fifteen miles. The mi
ner took tin pan, used for washing gold,
spreId bis blanket over it, got in himself
in squatting position on his launches,
tucked the blanket around, held his rife
aud other traps over his head and got
one of his companions to give him a
push. He Informed me he went down at
the speed of sixty miles a minute, and shot
far out into the valley at the foot Of the
mountain. When he stopped he found the
soldering of the pan melted from friction,
his blanket on FIRE, and it was his impress
sion that had he gone much further he
would have been burned up, together with
all his traps" s."-Pittsburg Telegraph.
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DEFECTIVE CoTroN SEED.--Three was
a widespread complaint last spring of bad
stands on account Of damaged cotton seed
The trouble grows out of careessness in
handling the seed after ginning. The GUS
tom of seeding cotton before ginning has
gone almost into disuse, and the result is
that the seed are green and frequently damp
when they fall from the gin. Allowed to
lie in heap as is generally the case, they
are heated and damaged. This may be
obviated either by thoroughly drying the
cotton before ginning or by moving and stir
ring the seed after they are ginned. This
precaution should always be taken
with those seed which are intended for
planting. As rule, first pickings should
not be taken for planting unless they are
selected. Diseased and inju ured bolls arc the
first to open. BY taking pains, however,
to make selections of fully matured bolls
the seed may be such improved if the first
opened bolls are picked by themselves.
The early maturing qualities of the seed are
thus increased-an important consideration
in protecting it from the worm.--N. Y. Cot
ton.