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Year: 1878




COLUMBIA $. c., Nov. s. 1878.


Governor Hampton met with serious accident
yesterday afternoon, while out hunting deer by
which he had leg broken just above the ankle. The
Governor had agreed to meet some friends at point
about sixteen miles from Columbia for the purpose
Of driving deer. and when he reached the camp about
three o'clock yesterday afternoon he found that the
party had all gone the hunt Knowing the stands
and where he expected TO join in the hunt.
the Governor mounted large mule which had been
left at the camp and started to take his position few
hundred yards distant As he arrived at the
place designated for him deer came by in full chase
and Governor Hampton fired his gun, which fright
ened the mule. The bride broke and Governor
Hampton jumped on the animal to the ground. In
the fall his leg Was brOken AZ already stated Both
bones were broken and protruded through the flesh
II is q horrible wound, and will prove more serious
ON account Of Governor Hamptons illness this fall
from which he has never fully recovered.
After the accident happened the Governor fred his
gun many times and blew his horn frequently to get
the assistance Of his friends but of the gentlemen
supposed that there any ythng serious thinking 1t
WAS some not belonging to their party. as they
We're. not aware of the Governors presence, in the
woods. After hour or his friends insisted
finding ont what the matter and going in the
direction Of the firing discovered the Governor pros
trae the ground with his head against tree and his
hat thrown the bleeding wound. Surgical aid
at once summoned from this city and the Governor
was brought here at a late hour last night The acc
dent was not known to the public until this morning.
and great regret is expressed by every serious
results feared account Of his age and recent
sickness. The Governor is doing very well this morn
ing however and has not lost his cheerfuness under
the pain
Year: 1878

Gen. w. T. Sherman made a silly
speech the other day at West Point at
a dinner given after the graduation OF
the class of 1873. In this speech he ut
tered the following ridiculous phrases:


"Mr. Hayes appeared to many to be a
mild-tempered gentleman ,and so he was I;
but also Mr.. Hayes was also something
more. If the time should come when he
would be required to defend his right to
the place he now occupies, he would be
found to have the requisite nerve and de-
termination he knew his right and dar-
ed maintain it and, what was more the
army, sworn to defend the constituted
authorities, would see to it that he was
sustained in the effort"


Gen. Sherman's idea of the army being
employed to defend Fraud and maintain
in the office of President man without
any right to hold it, might pass muster,
perhaps, in an after dinner speech where
the libations of champagne had been
abundant, but this is not the sort of Ian
guage which it becomes the General of
the Army to address to the American
people.


This is a country of law, not of force,
country of public opinion, not of bayo-
nets. If it is concllsively proved that
Mr.. Hayes was never elected President,
that his tenure is based on fraud only ;
and if public opinion becoming unani-
nous and earnest upon this proef, tells
him that he must go, he will have to go !;
and all his own readiness to fight with
the weapons of war, and the readiness
of Gen. Sherman, in war paint and feath-
ers, to fight with him, will not avail to
keep him in the enjoyment of ill-gotten
power.


If Mr.. Hayes should be arraigned upon
articles of impeachment, and, being
tired by the Senate in accordance with
the law, should be found guilty, does
Gen. Sherman fancy that his sword and
gold lace and plumes, with all of Hayes's
nerve and determination, could resist the
judgment of that court Why should
man of Gen. Sherman's years and eX-
perience talk such nonsense ?-San.
Year: 1878

The Republican City Executive
Committee, met last evening at their
headquarters, 404 Market street, there
being a good attendance present. The
Committee that were appointed to draft
rules for the government Of the party in
the coming campaign, reported the same
as those last year, which on motion were
adopted.
Year: 1878

The commencement exercises of the
Wesleyan Female College takes place at
the Opera House this evening.


Remember the excursion to Cape May,
next Tuesday, under the management of
the ladies of Grace church.
Year: 1878

There is an hour when brooding silence
A net OF sadness round the heart OF man;
When joy dies out, and naught to him re-
But desoiation's stiffness and his thoughts
And these thoughts are not ones of trivia
weight,


Which, when the noise of the intruder's ster
May rouse the mortal from his lethargy,
Shall pass away and 10 the busy mind
Recur no more; but they are such as do
Leave lasting impress on the thinkers soul


They may be thoughts of home,
whose friendly shelter once the wand rel
Where peace, and love, and joy did always
Where gieeful sport and thoughtful learning
But which, aIasl In an iII-fated hour,
He left in anger, and the strange world


sought.


They may be thoughts Of HER,
Who, when the hope Of his young heart was
FilledRll his being with her presence bright;
To whom, in all the faith of his pure soul,
He whispered words of love, and limited cen
But who, when expectations tide ran high,
Was claimed by death.


They may be thoughts OF sin
That fell destroyer of the human race
Who smothers every Joy, and crushes hope,
And poicons with his fetfd breath the world;
To whom, perhaps, he Is q helpless slave,
With Misty gnRwing at his aching heart,
And from whose cursed hand he might be


free,


Could he but have the faith.


They may be thoughts of God,
Great Ruler OF the world, whose mighty


power


All mustconfess at last; who in his wrath
Shall Danish from his presence they that sin
In that great Judgment Day, when all the
r,oe1,o hTs fE,ropa uboII sfopd


They may be thoughts of faith,
Bright thoughts, which from the darkened


earth


Mount upward to the heavens, and with one
And mighty sweep stand up before the


throne


or God himself, and there lay claim to all
The precious promises which he has given,
Aye, claim them all, and with one voice inn
Their quick bestowal on his needy heart.


Thoughts they may also be
or that bright meeting on the other shore;
Of all the joys of home again restored;
OF HER sweet face among the angel thTOng,
To welcome him into the heaveD-wOTld-
When all the bonds of SIN are cast aside,
And God, the judge of all, is reconciled.
Year: 1878

Sunlight, says the Cottage Hearth, is
even more necessary to health IN sum-
mer than in winter, for one among other
reasons. that disinfectants of all sorts
are more necessary in summer than in
winter. The rays of heat quicken the
vital powers, the chemical rays exert
their mysterious and potent influence,
and the illuminating rays independently
of the others, as has been recently
proved by Mr.. Crooke to the satisfaction
of the ablest scientists, communicate
motion. The exhalations from our
bodies in warm weather are more copi-
Gus than they are in cold weather, and
If we shut out the light from our houses
we remove the most efficient of all
agents in destroying what is unwhole-
sOme. The noxious vapors which free
admission of air and light would re-
move, are absorbed by carpets and up
holstery, and become productive OF dis
ease. Those who are accustomed to the
darkness and dampness of close rooms
may not consciously suffer therefrom,
but that they sustain real injury is evi-
dent in their pallid faces, their tiacGld
muscles, and nerveiess movements. Inc
contrast between them and those whose
lives pass in the open air is too evident
TO need comment. 1t may not De nee
essary to expose during the day every
room in the house to the direct rays OF
tbe sun. but there should be frequent
onening of doors and windows, 50 that
he solar beam may perform its benef-
cent office. Bedrooms and other rooms
in constant use should receive most care
f1l attention in this respect. Sick rooms
especially require thorough summing and
ventilation, and if possible, should
always have southern aspect. More
patients die on the north side of hos
pitals than on the south side there are
more deaths on the shady side of any
street than on the sunny side. A nota-
BILE southern housekeeper, observing
strictly the following rule during the
summer months, kept her house per-
fectly sweet and cool and dry from May
to October: Until ten o'clock in the
morning all the doors and windows were
opened wider then they were closed
until four in the afternoon then opened
again till nightfall. This rate might not
do for all localities, but such a use of it
as would secure free access Of light and
air to every part Of the house at least
once day could but be productive Of
good results,
Year: 1878

No subject connected with the history
Of birds furnishes more interesting
material for study than that of instinct
Young birds of different species show
that they have very different degrees of
instructive knowledge. Some are able
to take the entire care of themselves,
and do not need a mother to watch over
them; others, on the contrary, are per-
fectly helpless, and need teaching before
they can do anything for themselves ex-
cept breathe, and swallow what Is put
into their mouths. The young chicken,
a short time after it leaves the egg,
knows how 10 take care of itself nearly
as well as does the year-old bird. 1t can
run after its mother, use its eyes, pick
up food, and answer the call of the old
hen; and it does all this without instruc-
tiOn. How different it is in all these
respects from the young barn-swallow
This is blind, and unable to run, or even
to stand, knowing only enough to open
its mouth when it hears the old bird re-
turn to the nest, and to swallow the
food placed in its open bill. Far from
knowing by instinct how to use its wings,
as the young chick does its legs, it does
not learn this until it is well grown, and
has had several lessons in flying; and
even then it flies badly, and improves
only after long practice. After it has
learned to fly, it is still very helpless and
baby-ike, and very different from the
active, bright-eyed, independent little
chick of the barn-yard,- d,-and, indeed,
the young of all the Rasores or scratch
ing birds, such as the hen, the quail, the
partridge, the pheasant and the turkey.


The scratching birds are not the only
ones which can take care of themselves
at an early age. This is true of the run
ming birds, such as the ostrich and the
same is the case with many of the wad-
ing birds, such as the woodcock; and
among the swimming birds, there are
several kinds that take full care of
themselves soon after leaving the shell.


Far from standing in any need of in
struction, young ducks take to the water
by instinct, even when they have been
brought up by hen; and they know
that they are perfectly safe upon it,
although the anxious hen tries in every
way TO restrain them and to call them
back.


There are many ways in which some
Of our young birds show their really
wonderful instincts, but there is moth
ing more curious in this respect than
the habits of the little chickens, which
most of us have opportunities of MOTTO
ing-if we choose TO take the trouble.
These little creatures, almost as soon as
they are born, understand what their
mother "clucks" to them; they know
that they must hide when a hawk is
about; they often scratch the ground
for food before they see their mother or
any other chicken do SO theV are care
and they show their early smartness in
many ways which are well worth watch
ing.


But, sometimes a brood of these
Youngsters nlo s1nietnlng % I 1Hds PIaLl5s I5
shelled beetle, who looks too big to eat
and yet too small for playmate.
Year: 1878

A parrot has been assassinated in San
Francisco. A faro banker named Farv
does business by night and sleeps by
day. His lodging place is the upper
floor of a three story house near the
city hall. A fortnight ago a family
moved into apartments on lower floor.
The gambler lost his sleep, for the new
dodgers had a parrot of unusual hngual
abilities, and each morning it was placed
out on a porch in the rear Immediately
under his bedroom window, and woke
him up and kept him awake with the
ceaSeless and senseless chatter and its
domaniac laughter. He stood this until
he had vainly hurled at it $3.50 worth
of boot jacks, shoes, spittoons, tobacco
boxes and empty soda bottles redolent
of gin, by which time he concluded he
must do something effective to abate the
nuisance. Being an ardent trout-hsher,
he fitted his beautiful fishing rod to-
gether, reeled out three stories of line,
and having adjusted very taking and
highly-colOred Mayfly as the proper
bait for the season, went whipping
through the window for his enemy.
The device was eminently successful.
The parrot made a dab at the deeeitful
fly, and with an artistic switch the fish
eTman fastened the barbed hook in his
gullet and reeled in his fluttering and
screeching prize. Releasing the hook
he twisted the birds head three times
in one direction and its body five times
in another and then insultingly dropped
the corpse into the porch below. But
his crime had been witnessed, and he
was subsequently arrested, but was tri-
umphantly acquitted.
Year: 1878

Come, now, what internal barbarity
is this-leaYing clothes-line out after
dark! A great deal of funny comment
has been made upon the custom by
thoughtless people, but it is a most
serious matter, and it is high time the
tomfoolery was abolished. We are Just
as ready as anybody to see the funny
side of thing, but we have ceased to
observe anything amusing in being un-
expectedly sawed across the face by
clothes-line. 1t is time there was
legislative enactment to either hang
elothes-lines sixty feet above the earth,
or make the leaving them out over
nightfall a state-prison Otfense. 1t Is a
most incomprehensible fact a clothes
line is always hung across the garden
path. If the ward was ten miles square
and a path two feet wide crept along
close to the fence, and the woman had
but eiplPt feet of line, she would manage
TO cover the path. Whether this IS be
cause she is perverse, or cannot help It.
we do not know. We only know that IL
is SO. and that it is an appalling evil.
No home circle is safe where the custom
prevails. It matters not how good ma
tnred man is, it matters not how care
f1Ily he has been educated, it matters
not how lofty and noble are his aspira-
tions-the moment clothes-line catches
him under the chin, especially if hethas
a nan of ashes under his arms, that
moment he sinks with awful velocity to
the level of brute, and proceeds to act
out the conditions thereof at once. In
its proper place a clothes-line is a
valuable companion, but across a path
after dark it is simply brutalizing force.
Year: 1878

Every man thinks newspaper a fair
game. If society or any body of men
get up a concert or ball, or any other
form of entertainment, the object of
which is to put money in their own
pockets, or, if the proceeds are to be de-
voted to charitable purposes, to add to
their own glorifcation, they become
very indignant if the proprietors of
newspapers do not assist them with a
series of gratuitous advertising for sew
eral weeks before the event takes place.
These men, says an exchange, should
remember that literary men, in this
practical age, work for money as well as
for fame-principally the former, how
ever-and the business manager of a
newspaper, if he wishes to keep on the
safe side of the ledger, conducts his
charge on the same principle as the
head of any other business establish
ment. People who are getting up ball
would feel chary of asking present Of
a pair of gloves from a merchant on that
account. vet asking and expecting to re-
eeive a gratuitous advertisement is
similar demand. The editor of the
Marlboro (Mass.) Journal stated the case
very plainly when he informed his
readers that, "We long ago adopted the
plan of charging our regular reading
notice price for all editorial announce
ments of entertainments to which an
admission fee is fixed. We make no
exceptions to this rule. In the way Of
new topics, We freely and gladly insert
sketches of all entertainments after they
have become matters of history. 1t is
only the preliminary work, looking to
the drawing out of increased patronage
from the public for which We expect
compensation" 1t costs money to con-
duct paper, and printing offices must
have support, the same as churches OF
charitable institutions,
Year: 1878




Col. F. D. Curtis thus writes on the
desirability of mutton. Thirty years
ago but few fat sheep went into the
markets. Now more than a million are
required annually to supply the de-
great staple meat food of the cities Is
beef, while in the country districts it is
the flesh of swine. Farmers cannot
keep whole carcasses of beef on hand,
and if preserved in salt, as they do their
pork, it soon gets hard and unpalatable.
A carcase of mutton being so much
smaller, even in hot weather a consid-
cradle portion of it can be used fresh
and the balance picked in salt. Mutton
will keep longer in a fresh state than
any other meat, and when corned is
equally nutritious with beef, and far
more wholesome than pig meat in any
form. For persons of sedentary habits,
and at all afflicted with weak digestion,
a great deal more healthy than beef or
pork. Many people who cannot digest
either of the latter without distress, can
eat mutton and experience no unpleas-
antness whatever. tits the cleanest and
purest meat food in the whole animal
kingdom, as a sheep will starve before it
will eat any thing dirty or tainted.
Mutton wastes less in the pot than beef.
The bones are lighter and finer in pro-
portion to the amount of meat in we'll
fed sheep, and this alone is an important
item to those who have to buy. The
less shrinkage in cooking is a consider
able percentage in favor of mutton.
The great reason why more mutton is
not eaten is because Of its poor quality,
which is the result of no general system
practised in the production of this i'm
portant staple.
Year: 1878

A friend of mine went recently to
have tooth stopped. The dentist adj
vised him that he had better have the
tooth taken out, and assured him that
he would feel no pain If he took laugh
ing gas.
my friend.


ut simply makes you total y lnsens.
ible.D remarked the dentist: don't
know ANYTHING that takes place"


any friend submitted, but just pre-
vious to the gas being administered, he
put his hand in his pocket and pulled
out his money.


"Oh, don't trouble about that now" !"
said the dentist, thinking he was going
to be paid his fee.


mot at all" said the patient II was
simply going to see how much l had
before the gas took effect"
Year: 1878

One Of the most curious facts con-
nected with madness is the utter alb
sence Of tears amid the insane. What
ever the form of madness, tears are con-
spieuous by their absence, as much in
the depression of melancholy, or ex-
oitement of mania, as in the utter
apathy of dementia. If patient in a
lunatic asylum be discovered in tears. it
will be found that it is one beginning
to recover, or an emotional outbreak in
an epileptic who is scarcely truly insane,
while actual insane persons appear to
have lost the power of weeping, It is
only returning reason which can once
mole unloose the fountain of their tears.
Even when a lunatic is telling one in
fervid language how she has been de-
prived of her children, or the outrages
That have been perpetrated to herself.
her eye is never even moist. The
ready gush of tears which accompany
the plant of the sane woman contrasts
strangely with the dry-eyed appeal of
the laxative lunatic. 1t would, indeed,
seem that tears give relief to feelings
which, when pent up, lead to madness.
1t is one of the privileges of reason 70
be able to weep. Amid all. the misery
Of the insane they find no relief in
tears.
Year: 1878

-ro clean off the ugly scratches len
On paint by lighting matches upon It,
emf a sour orange or lemon in half
snnlv the cut half to the marks, rub
hing for a moment quite hard; then
wash off with a rag, dipped first In
water to moisten it, and then in whiting.
Rub well with this rag, dry thoroughly,
and nine times out of ten the ugly
marks will vanish. Of course, some
times they are burned in so deeply that
they cannot be quite eradicated.
Year: 1878

"SHUF Your MOUTH" H."-Catlin taught
the world the importance of shutting
the mouth and breathing through the
nose. 1t would seem that his little
book entitled Shut your Mouth, is bear
ing fruit in Germany where new thoughts
receive more attention from physicians
than anywhere else in the world. Res
piration by the mouth is easier than by
the nose, but it is not so safe. The nose
to a certain extent fits the air for enter
ing the lungs. The sense of smell warns
us against breathing an air loaded with
poisonous vapors. The moisture Of the
nasal cavities to some extent satuFates
the air, and makes it less irritating to
the throat and larynx. The mucus Of
the nasal passage and the hairs catch
the dust before it goes far enough to
harm. On the other hand, breathing
through the mouth dries the throat and
in children may cause false Group,
catarrh, and it may so effect the Eusta-
chian tube as to cause injury to the ear
and deafness.
Year: 1878

When the neshy side of the green buf.
falo hide is exposed to the sun the skin be-
comes as hard as iron. Four years ago
party Of Texas cowboys caught horss thief
on the border Of the Indian Territory. As
there was no tree handy on which to hang
him, they sewed him up in a green buffalo
hide, and left it on the plains, under the
burning sun. year aiterward the hide
was found, The skeleton ratified within il
as do dried peas in a pod. Il was cut open
with an axe, and the remains Of the unfort-
innate horse thief were identified by the
clothes.
Year: 1878

THE Democratic Congressional caucus took
characteristic action Friday. 1t stated its be-
lief that the honor of the American people
requires thorough investigation of the Pres
idential election of 1876, and then resolved
that no investigation should be made. The
Democracy is not in the habit of doing any
thing to maintain the honor of the country.
Its course is based on that of Senator Voor-
hees who introduces a resolution that the
public credit must be sustained and then
makes speech advocating the destruction
of that credit.
Year: 1878

CONGRESSMAN II. B. Wright, whom the
argus pleasantly describes as making long
speech Thursday night to an audience COM
posed of the Speaker, official reporter and
two or three pages, is the man who expects
to be the Democratic candidate for Governor
Of Pennsylvania, on platform of economy.
His speech cost the country about two hum
dred dollars, that being the cost of the gas
consumed. But perhaps it was worth the
price as an illustration of the difference
between Democratic economy in profession
and in practice.
Year: 1878

If Edison could only contrive some attach
ment to Democratic Congressman so that
they might consume their own gas instead of
compelling the country to pay for their
speeches at the rate of two hundred dollars
an hour, he would confer benefit greater
than the telephone or the phonograph.
Year: 1878

WAIT few weeks and we shall find the
Greenback papers attributing to contraction
the injury to the flour interest caused by the
destruction of the Minneapolis mills. They
will either do that or claim that the reported
destruction is device of the Money Power
to distract the attention of the people from
the currency question.
Year: 1878

THE sturdy agriculturalists of Brooklyn
look upon the Agricultural Department as
humbug. They once planted some seeds of
tropical plant sent them and the seeds didn't
come up. Ever since they have confined
themselves to raising the deuce whenever
the name of the Commissioner has been
mentioned.
Year: 1878

The Republicans have fair prospect Of
securing the next House. Eleven districts
were carried by the Democrats two years
ago by less than five hundred majority. OF
these eleven, seven were carried by less than
hundred The Democratic majority in the
House was only seven until by turning out
Republicans who had been elected
it was increased to fifteen. So the Republi-
cans unless they lose some districts already
held by them, stand good chance.