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Jdrantf. a vxmj rim, Watkins Wife, 0«on«e Co. 6*orgia. W. G. 8T7LLIYAK, trrea «r» rwmm •mjmz.it TERMS: Wniw ■*t « Hz m David Garrick. One hundred and two years ago oc¬ curred the death of David Garrick, un¬ questionably the king among actors. No historiotiie existence ever equaled Gar¬ rick’s. His first appearance on the stage was at Goodman’s Fields Theater, Oct. 19, 1741, in the part of Richard III. His success was instantaneous; no such acting having before Ixien seen, he at once became the rage in London ; no so¬ ciety was complete dressing-room, without him; nobles besieged his of his begging for the honor company at tlicir houses. Pope said he never had an equal, and would never have a rival. The great Mrs. Porter, then retired, went to London on purpose to hear him. Wie said the youth knew more at his first appearance than others after twenty years’ training. The Duke of Argyle declared him superior to Betterton. Even Garrick’s enemies, men who most admitted unjustly charged him with meanness, his wonderful genius. Among those who repaid the actor’s favors with irowus was the unscrupulous Arthur Murphy. what But even he, when asked he thought of Garrick’s acting, af¬ ter a pause, replied : “ Well, sir, off the stage, lie is a mean, sneaking little fellow ; but, on tho stage”—throwing up his hands and eyes—“ Oh, my great Garrick’s first love affair is very amus¬ ing. He became attached to Peg R'of lington, and, with her and Macklin, an¬ other actor, went to keeping house, each to bo m turn housekeeper for a month. 11ns plan early failed, and the love affair was soon cured. A short time after ward he w as married to Madamoiselle V iolette, Garrick a dancer of Vienna. of the s reception in Franco was one most wonderful of his career. AH Paris went wild over him. His pictures adorned the walls of every house. Garrick’s last season as an actor was in 1776. He played “ Richard ” for the last time with Mrs. Siddons, in the pres¬ ence of the King and Queen. His last Felix night on the stage was June 10, as Don in “The Wonder,” and he retired from the stage amid expressions of grief and regret ot the most poignant charac¬ ter. Three years later—Jan. 20, 1779— lie died of a painful malady, and was buried in Westminster Abbey, nobles bearing his pall, while poets, scholars, statesmen and artists stood uncovered beside his grave. The glories of our mortal state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armor against fate; Death lava his icy hand on Kings. Scepter and crown M ust tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor scythe and spade. Stanley, the Explorer. from. Stanley, the explorer has been heard In a letter dated at the mouth of the Congo, September 13, he says that , he lias done much work, and. proposes to do much more, for establishing trade and civilization in Africa. After equip ping one expedition on the East Coast, eral reconstructing districts, another, has exploring sev he come via the Medi terranean, to the West Coast, intrusted with an important mission by the Inter national Society, of which the King of the Belgians is the head. He adds: t*. I am charged to open - and keep open, if possible all such districts and countries as I may explore for the com mercial world. The mission is supported by a philanthropic society which num hers noble minded men of several na ‘ions. It is not a religious society, but my instructions are entirely of that spirit. No violence must be used, and wherever rejected the mission must withdraw to seek another field. We have abundant means, and, therefore, we if are demands to purchase be the very atmosphere, any made upon us, rather than violently oppose them. A year’s trial will demonstrate whether progress can be made and tolerance be granted under this new system. In some regions experience ti lls me the plan may work wonders. God grant it success every where! I have fifteen Europeans and about two hundred natives with me. It is but too early yet to say much of them; most of the natives seem not worth their ra lions. However, patience! We shall see what time will make of us all, and how it will mold us all anew for the good work.” With Stanley s experience and tact, and the large means at his disposal, there is every reason to be hoped that civili zation may soon penetrate some of the most fluent. benighted region of the dark con “There Were Tears on His Cheeks.” “Lord bless you! but I had never given him a second look. I knew that lie was a Norwegian, slow but solid, hardly able to speak a word of English and I /lever cared whether he had a rel ative on earth. Perhaps it looks a bit hard-hearted in me, but I am driven from morning till night, and I must drive tlie men under me. When I want a hod carrier I look for muscle, and when I have found muscle 1 don't look further for sentiment ” “How did the accident happen?” “He stepped off the scaffold.” “And i s badly hurt?” “ Acs, though I think he will pull through. Any man might have blundered as lie did, but since I have learned how it was with him I’ve felt womanish in my “ How was it?” “Well, he had just got liis hod filled with bricks down there when two or three of his countrymen came along and told him that his baby lioy was dead. They had just to come bring from his house on Russell street him the news. He cam" upon the son (fold with his hod, probably intending to notify me of liis affliction. His eves must have been full of tears, and as lie stepped out he missed his distance and went to the ground. There were tears on his cheeks when we picked tered him up, speak and his the dead only lioy’s word he tit¬ wits to name. 1 had looked upon lain only as an old Norwegian, but I found that lie was a husband and father, a wan with love and faith, a father who went home at night to < * NJ with left hia all baby behind ami to kiss tallow the wife biru Wil< o hod I like in/vr a* *«*, and f toil fiat ft-- i mhu m and doing all f tjj* i-1 which ha. come uj w, " JiUc/wnu*. The Watkins ville Advance. VOLUME II. 1I4BBIED FOR LOVE. Yes, Jack Brown was a splendid fellow, But married for lore, you kno.; I remember the girl eery well— Sweet little Kitty Duff.m. Pretty, aud icing. and good, And bright aa a fairy elf, I was rerv much tempted indeed To marry Kitty myself. '• But her friends were all ot them poor, And Kitty had not a cent: And I knew I should never be With • lore in a cottage’ content. So Jack was the lucky wooer. Or unlucky—anrway Yon can see now shabby his coat, And hi9 hair is turniug gray. “ But Pm told he thinks himself rich With Kitty and homely joys; A cot far away out of town Full of noisy girls and boys. Poor J»ck 1 I’m sorry and all that. But of course he very well knew That fellows who marry for lore Must drink of the liquor they brew.’’ And the handsome A u rust us smiled. His coat was in perfect style, Ai-d women still spoke of liis grace, But Andgarehim he thought that their sweetest Jack smile. Brown, And I night of old; said ” am growing X think I must really marry Some beautiful girl with gold.” Years passed, and the bachelor g raw He Tiresome, had and stupid, able and old; not been to find The beautiful girl with gold. And with his fancies be dwelt, Alone in the crowde I town, Till The one friend day he of suddenly his youth, tnet Jack Brown. “Why, Gus !” “ Why, Jack I” Whatameet Jack tng 1 The bachelor was so sighed happy and gay; for content As he followed his friend away To the cot far out of town, Scented Sel deep in 1 its il orchard trees. with eu anti roses. Cooled with the ocean breeze. “ Why, Jack, what a beautiful plane I What did it c wt t" “ Ob, it grew, There were only three rooms at first. Then soon the three were too few, So we added a room now and then; And oft in the evening hours, Kilty, tlie children and I Planted the trees aud the flowers. ” And they grew as the children grew “ And (Jack, Harry and Grace and Belle. ra * where are the youngsters uow ? • “ All happy, and doing well. Jack went to Spain lor our house— His road is level and clear — And Harry’s a lawyer in town, Making three thousand a year. “And Grace and Bdle are well married— But They married for love, as is best; olten our birtlies come back To visit the dear home nest. So my sweet wife Kitty and I From labor and care may cease; We have enough, and age can hriug Nothing but love and peace.” But over ami over again The bachelor thought that night, “ Home and wife, and children 1 Jack Brown was, after all right. Oh ! it in the days of my yottrh I had honestly loved ami wed 1 For now I’m old three's no one cares Whether l’tn living or dead.” LITTLE HUTHc AJST OLD MAN’S STORY. I know I was a selfish old idiot, now, when I look around me and see the mer cies given me in my helpless old age, feel the warm love around me on ail sides, and realize the desolation my own hand reached forth to grasp ; but I was blind to the future in those days when I so nearly wrecked all its happiness, This was how it happened: After Mar tha died—my wife, I mean, with whom forty j happy ]] years children of my life dead were spent .— an( a my were or mar ried, excepting Ruth, there fell upon me the heavy misfortune that has chained .me to this chair, or my bed, for fifteen weary years. I had been a hard-working man all my life—a wheelwright by trade —with a large family to rear, to clothe, to feed, to educate, and, ah me ! one till by one to bury in the old churchyard, only Mary, left James and Ruth, our baby, and were to me. husband Mary married, went with her to the far West, James took liis small fortune of a few hard-earned dollars, and left us for the golden land of promise, California, and only little Ruth was left us. Then the angel of death came for Martha, and only six months later I was stricken help less with paralysis, I am reconciled now to my hard fate, an q can still here good, happily, glad that my evesigbt is my right haijd free, and that I have learned in my old age to ] ov « books, to enjoy did reading, in the hard-work- and even writing, as I never in those first months i ng days of my helplessness, youth. But when of even to toss and turn in my nervous torture was denied me, my sufferings were simply horrible. No agony of pain, no the torture dread 0 f flesh or bone, could equal ful pressure upon my strong limbs, that held them motionless, them dead, in little spite inch, of my efforts to move ohe j have fainted with lift the frightful efforts I have made just to once the feet that had carried me miles in a day with un¬ wearied ease. But even in that time of rebellious murmuring, of bitterest repining, there was some consolation. First, there was the house and five acres of land, my and very own, free of debt or mortgage, a small sum in the bank, the interest of which lifted us above actual want. Then I had Ruth. She was just twenty when her mother died, and others beside her father thought her face the fairest one for miles around. She bad the bluest eyes, like the little patches of summer sky, and hair that was the color of corn silk, and nestled in little baby curls all over her head—rebellious hair, that would never lie straight under any coaxing, but kinked np in tangles that were full of sunlight. Her skin was white as milk, with cheeks like the heart of a blush rose, and her smile showed the prettiest rows of pearly teeth I ever saw. She coaxed from me my wicked re pinings by coming to me for directions, making rue feel that my head was still needed to direct the work, though my feet woakl never more carry me over the door-sill. Then she fitted up for me a large back room that overlooked most of the farm, and had Silas, onr head man, lift me up every morning and put me in a deep-cushioned chair by the window, where 1 couhl see the barn, the poultry yard, and the well, and the fields of waiving corn wheat. She made me feel my self of importance by giving me thus the mastery over my own little domain; and •he brought up her own meals to cat with me in the room where my infirmity held me a prisoner Ton must Understand what Ruth was to me, or you will never understand the simple him story I her* set mytolt to te lling you. taught urn to use my right WATKINSVILLE, GEORGIA, APRIL *20, 1881. liand. without my left; and if yon want to appreciate the difficulty, tic your left ai m down for one single hour, and try how often it will unconsciously strain at the cords. She brought me books from the village library, and opened to my old eyes and brain a field of pleasure never before explored. I had read my Bible and the newspapers all my life, but I never even knew the names of books, now my greatest treasures, till Ruth thought “reading would be com¬ does pany” for me. Little Ruth, even she not know the world she peopled for me in her loving care for my loneliness. work, When her she was busy abont her house¬ ing, she bakihg, her washing and iron¬ left all the doors standing open, that I might still hear her cheery voice os she sang or talked tome. Then, when all her work was done, she would put a clean white apron over her black dress, and sit close beside me, stitching busily on the household linen, while I read aloud whatever had most pleased me in my morning studies. She devised little dainty dishes to tempt me to eat; she put saucers of flowers on my table, that I might cheat myself into fancying I was out doors, as their perfume crept out on the air; she assured me, petted me, loved me, till even my misfortunes seemed blessings drawing us nearer together. And when she was all the world to me, all that saved me from misery, John Hayes wife. asked I me to givo him Ruth for his could have struck him dead when he stood before me, a young giant in strength, with his handsome sun-burnt face glowing with health, and wanted to take home away child. my one blessing, my only “I will be a true son to you, Mr. Mar¬ tin,” he said, earnestly. “I will never take Ruth from here; but let me come and share her life, and lift some of the burdens from her shoulders.” I laughed bitterly. would I knew well what such sharing be when Ruth had a husband, and perhaps children, to take her time and her love from me. But 1 was not harsh. I did not turn this suitor from my house, and bid him never speak it. to Ruth again, much as I longed to do I worked more cautiously. I let him go from me to Ruth; and when lie left her and she came to me, all rosy blushes, to tell me, with drooping lids and moist eyes, of her new happiness, I worked upon her love and her sense of duty till she believed herself a inouster of ungrateful wickedness to think of leav¬ ing me or taking any divided duty upon her hands. I wept, asked her if she could face her dead mother after deserting her helpless father. I pointed wifely out to her the would unceas¬ keep ing round of duty proved that her that her from my side, and to the duties of wife and child must clash, if undertaken under such circumstances as The wero lov’Lg, proposed. tender heart yielded to mo and John was tearfully dismissed. Through the warm autumn months, when the corn ripened and was garnered— when our crops were blessed and the lit¬ tle bank fund was increased by the price of tho farm produce—Ruth grew very quiet and subdued. Siie was not sad, having always a cheery word and a pleas¬ ant smile for me; but the pretty rose tint left her round cheeks, and I no longer heard her singing at her work. When I read the best pages in my liooks to her, I would see her eyes fixed dreamily on some idle, far-away till she thought, her work lying woke with a start at my fretful questions. For I grew fretful and trying in those days. I wanted her to give, up woman's dearest hopes and sweetest affections, and he the same hand sunshiny Ruth her she love was before my tore away dreams. I wanted her to put away all the loving tender ties of wifehood and motherhood, and pass her life in devo¬ tion at the armchair of a paralyzed old man. And when she complied, then with gentle, touching submission, girl, I wanted her to be the bright, happy who had *esigned nothing, and who could nurse sweet girlish fancies, with John for a hero. A i unreasonable old tyrant, wasn’t I ? * The winter in early that came year, and before Christmas everything intense. was frozen up tight, and the cold was We piled up coal in the stoves, listed doors and windows—that is, Rnth did the work, and I enjoyed the result; but there came one cold day—one Friday— when it seemed no coals, no listing, could conquer the cold. Children froze on the way to school that day, aud were found, stiff and stark, leaning against the fences. Food froze on the tables. Ask anyliody in Maine if they remember that black Friday, and see if gome mothers’ eyes will not fill as they think of the little scarlet-hooded figures brought to their doors, white and rigid, that had lifted rosy, round cheeks for a kiss only a few hours before. through On this her cold work Friday, in the morning, Ruth hurried mak¬ ing my room the wannest place in the house, covering my arm-chair with soft woolens, and moving it near the stove. I would have it face the window, for my glimpse of outdoor life was too precious to resign; but I was not, as might usual, near it, for Ruth said there be a draught. When all was done indoors, I saw from my chair Ruth, with a scarlet cloak and hood thrown over her, going to the well with an empty bucket. Bho stepped along quickly over the hard, frozen ground, and I waa admiring the trim little feet and the dainty figure, when I saw her slide to the two steps that were above the well walls and fall, fthe had slipped, and she-lay doubled up between the two wooden steps and the rough sides of the well, as if she could not rise. Two or three times her hands clutched the lower step, and she raised hffHWf half way up, only to fall back again, as if her limbs would not support her. And I could only look the on, powerless of it! to move to aid her. Oh, unable agony To know she was hurt, I screamed to rise, and and I helpless as Silas a log. «>Ued for help. was somewhere, called Joiuflv f oould not tell where, sod I for him. I could see, after a time, that Rnth, after her frantic struggle*, death was growing drowsy with the sleep of cold. The scarlet hood drooped the more well and more, till it rested against lids side, and the blue veined closed over ner eyes. xne sight calk'd from me such a cry of agony as I thought must be heard for miles. It was heard. A moment later John Hayes, panting and eager-eyed, hurst open my door. “What is it?” he cried, “I hoard you calling on the road.” “Ruth! Ruth!” I screamed. “She* is freezing'to He death by the well.” stopped to hear no more. Out up¬ on the hard, slippery ground, down the steps then 1 with swift, rapid strides, and saw him stoop and lift, the little scarlet cloaked figure in his strong arms and come swiftly back, bending his face down over the senseless one on his arm, while hot tears rained down liis brown cheeks. He put her on a lounge near my chair, and then dashed out for snow. “Rub her, rub her!” he said. “I am going for a doctor and for my mother. ” Before it seemed possible he could have crossed the lots to his home, his mother was with me, and lifted Ruth away from the Are to the bed. The doc¬ tor came, and the two worked till my heart sank with utter opened hopelessness the be¬ fore the blue eyes through again, pale or lips. breath fluttered the But it did at last, and God!” John joined me in a fervent “Thank But Ruth had broken her leg, and we knew she must lie helpless for active, many weeks before she could be ourown bright girl again. It was but an she appalling troth for me to face, was not dead, not lying frozen against the rough well curb, and I could not but feel thank¬ fulness far, far above the pain of know¬ it ing pil her suffering. mind; I was understand trying to settle in my to the doctor’s words, while Mrs. Hayes and the doctor lifted Ruth to her own room, that opened into mine. They were away a long time, and John sat beside me, hold¬ ing my hand in liis, and comforting me as if I had not taken tho very hopo of his life from him. “Don’t grieve so,” he said, gontly. “She will live.” “ Thanks to you,” I said. “ Oh, John, if she gets well, she is yours. Give her your strong arm for life, John, instead of my helplessness. nearly I seo to-day whore my selfish lovo has cost her her life.” “Do you mean that?” John asked, with a little trembling in his voice; “do you really mean that ? ” “I do, indeed. Let her stay here, John. I will not be a burden on your purse, for the house and farm and all I have saved are Ruth’s; but lot her givo me what time and love she can spare from you.” “Gladly,” ho answered ; “ but we will not wait till she is well, Mr. Martin. Let me have With Ruth broken for my ieg, wife sick, now, helpless?” to-day." r a r Does she not need me tho more? Give her to me now.” But he had to wait until the bans were called in church three times, though ho came to us that day, caring for me with the tenderness of a son, while his mother nursed Ruth. They wero alone together, as we were, and they had shut up their house, and come to live with* us, never to leave again. For one morning, propped up with pillows, Ruth was dressed in white by Mrs. Hayes, and we had a wedding in the little room. My chair was moved in, and the neighbors came from far and near to hear the solemn words that made John and Ruth man and wife. And happiness has shed its true light upon our homo ever since. Evolution In Plants. Darwin, in showing that thore animals, was evolution in plants as well as in points out that there are certain species which decoy insects into the folds of their leaves and crush them, actually feeding on the insects, while a plant in India will masticate a beefsteak, a rabbit, or a chicken. These plants, being in a wild state, of course are effeminate, but if cultivated could be brought to wonder¬ ful tended, proportions and given physically. all the food If and carefully drink they required, with a horrizontal bar to practice on, there would seem to be no reason why they should not join a tur¬ ner society and .might carry off a prize of a silver water pitcher, ferocious Mr. Darwin claims that all plants are to a degree, arid only need to lie denied their cu tomary sustenance and tempted with animal life in order to have their savage natures developed and brought to light. Home wealthy people, followers of Dar¬ win’s school, are already making experi¬ ments in this direction, and it is when possible that the day is not fur distant the traveler, who is forced to travel through a lonely wood, will find himself suddenly confronted by a murderous band of cucumbers, and he will bi forced to yield. If the wealthy savauts pursue their experiments to th e fullest possible extent it may be no unusual sight, semi time in the next century or thereafter, to see a carrot arraigned in court on a charge saloon, of stabbing a parsnip, of lifteen-ball in a rr w in a over a game pool. When the savage developed, nature of what plants shall become fully a terrible revenge may the be descendants expected from of the cornstalk upon all those who are now connecting its SSsSii'jni sugar-producing shrub of the the coun try. We trust, however, that the corn stalk will not bear malice, and will be srr«s£ trouble enough driving and away marauding bands of tomatoes, their allies, tho onions, without giving unnecessary of fense to plants of other varieties. Re see now how it is that of President Hayes has always made a pet the pumpkin, and sought to curry favor with the Hubbard squash. He was making him self solid with these vegetables. This is also proved by his appointment of so many Ohio men to office. He fears the time when their ferocious natures will lie developed believing that he will live a thousand years, as m his shown by the way he takes care of money. Ho desires to get along and peaceably, would not and for agree¬ the ably with all, hands with jnlos world stain ins tbs of (he best, or chop a rod oabbage into tour krout Peek’s Sun. “Who inaugurated *1 # fi.ll campaign’/ ’ inquired a “Adam,” teacher in quickly one of onr public schools. responded the sharp youngster. NEWS GLEANINGS. In Mississippi there are 5,021 public schools and 969 private schools. The little county of Wythe, Va., pro duced last year $1,000,(XX) worth of iron. The Houston (Texas) Post says that over 100,000 people petioned the Legis¬ lature on the prohibition question. During Match the yellow pine lum¬ ber shipped from Jacksonville, Fla., amounted to -1,831,779 feet. Tho Vicksburg (Miss.) Herald says that the cotton factory at Water Valley, which has been idle for some years, will soon be put in repair and run again. Col. James Crook, one of tho A labama Railroad Commissioners, told a reporter of the Atlanta Constitution that Gen. Gordon owns 270,000 acres of the finest coal lands in the world. Gainesville (Ga.) Southron: The gold mines of Northeast Georgia are yielding large dividends, with all the drawbacks of a winter and spring unequaled for se¬ verity in half a century. The rainfall in March and April largely surpassed that of any season within the memory of the oldest inhabitant. Memphis (Tenn) Appeal: With the citv-debt bill in force, and also the State debt hill, the rate of taxation in Mem¬ phis will be as follows ; State-debt com¬ promise on the $100, fifty cents ; city debt compromise on the $100 fifty cents; city taxes for all purposes, $1 60; State and county tax, seventy cents; total amount of tax, $6 30. Columbus (Ga) Advertiser: Numbers of our planters are now paying high prices for hay to feed stock on, and in a short while will be paying nearly the same per 100 pounds to have the grass killed in order to make a bale of cotton to an average of three and a half acres of land. This is one reason why our far¬ mers can accumulate no money, and in a great measure accounts for the many poor horses, cows and hogs to lie found in this country. Emigration has set in from the Valley of Virginia to Piedmont, Va. A num¬ ber of farmers in the valley have recent¬ ly sold out and bought farms in Fauqui¬ er and Piedmont counties. At Warren ton, last week, a farmer arrived from Rockingham county seeking suitable farms for twenty-five neighbors in that county. The cause assigned for the change is that Piedmont (Va) lands be¬ ing cheaper, the farmers can own lajger tracts, Tuscaloosa (Ala.) Times: Tuscaloosa has three newspapers and one magazine ; a Methodist, a Catholic, a Presbyterian, a Baptist, an Episcopalian, and several colored churches; a University, two High Schools for boys, and a number of good schools for small children; two banks, one national and the other pri¬ vate ; two cotton factories, two planing mills and furniture manufactories and it cotton-gin factory; an Insane Hospital, and a Theological Seminary for colored preachers; and fifty business houses. Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution : Mayor English told me yesterday that the in crease in city property this year would go sharply over $1,900,000. Boh Griffin, one of the assessors, estimated that of this amount fully $. r >00,000 was in new houses that had been added during the year, and the ballance in increased va! ues. This is a capital record for a young city and puts our total assessments above $20,000,000. The debt of the'eity is about ten per cent of the total value, but it is decreasing while the city is growing. Mayor English thinks that in three years the debt will have shrunk to sev¬ en per cent of the total value, which is highest rate permitted. The outlook for building next year is quite as good as last. A writer in the Reidsville (N, C.) Times, speaking of the birthplace of Ed Richardson, said to l>e the richest man in the Mouth, says that he was born in Scrgeansville, Caswell county, N. C. He and Enquire Harnuel 8. Harrison were born not half a mile apart and within two weeks of each other. The ..... ladies used , to say that , when , one died of old ago the other would quake w ;th fear. His name is Edmund K ’« a **’ t ‘"it a young man clerking in Dan ville at Sullivan’s Hotel, the “Old Bell Tavern.” Forty years ago he drove all and there wasn t a railroad ^ to lie , seen Mr . ; now see the difference. They wsnted him for Governor, but lie wouln’t hear 10 It - When spoken . to about . , it .... he said . , it was the very last place he should think of; he would as soon have the U)Wn ^table's.” Columbus . (Ga.) ,,, Enquirer-Bun ... . a ..., R he : the grange was a flourishing institution j n Oglethorpe county, some years since ^ customary, 3 when a member want ed credit for a committee to examine in¬ to his solvency. If found solvent the officers of the grange would give him s written recommendation. In numerous instances these debts were not paid and now the officers are being sued. J f the ,.„ U rl decide that lb.«- written re....... meudatious are binding, the officers will 1# bankrupt. NUM BEK 8. Orangeburg county item in Hilaries ton (S. O.) News and Courier: Theques tion of ... fencing slock , dis crops or was clissed two weeks iigo-at a meeting of tho citizens of Pine Grove township, and a vote ol those present taken to test the sentiment of the people on the question. lhe result was an almost unanimous vote in favor of tho law as it now stands, and it is thought that there ave not move than twenty or twenty-five citizens of that section who favor the new law, ’ that . fence , in the stock and not tlie is, crops. Tampa, (Fla.)Tribune: Capt. James P. McMullen, living near Bay View, in the Clearwater section, has a citrus tree which boars both oranges anil lemons, which was never grafted and bears the characteristics of the sweet orange tree. What is further remarkable about it is that some of the oranges aie one-half yellow and one-half red, each color be¬ ing confb ed to one hemisphere, and the line of demurkalion between .he two col¬ ors being as distinct as if the coloring had been put on with a painter’s bru-li. Capt. McMullen sent us several speci¬ mens of this fruit Mr inspection. Columbia, (8. C.) special dispatch to the Charleston News aud Courier: Ten immigrants arrived this morning, anti a party of eight or more will reach the city to-morrow, it will Iks seen that arrivals are of almost daily occurrence, and they are promtly engaged. Of those not hitherto disposed of, J. W. Davis, of Ridgeway, Fairfield county, takes seven; Edward P. Mobley, of Fairfield, three; anti C. C. Montgomery, of Richland, sev¬ en. Two of these gentlemen had obtain ed members of the first party, and was so much pleasetl with them that they have secured more. Reports come iu that they tlo twice ns much daily work ns the negroes, and do it well. From March 18 to (late (about three weeks) 144 immi¬ grants have been received and settled by Col. Butler. This does not include those who will arrive to morrow. Col. Boy¬ kin will probably leave here to morrow for New York in place of Col. Butler, and will make a personal examination oj the method of securing immigrants to the Castle Garden and familiarize him¬ self with the work before him. Strange Forms of Fungi. A gentleman who reeontly had oc¬ casion to explore the chambers, drift* and caverns of the old deserted Ophir and Mexionn mines says fungi of evory imaginable kind have taken possession of the old levols. In these old mines, undisturbed for years, is found a fungus world in which are to bo seen counter¬ feits of almost everything seen in our daylight world. Owing to the warmth of old levels and to tho presence iu them of a certain amount of moisture the tim¬ bers have been made to grow some curious crops. Homo of the fungi in tho old chambers are several feet in height, and being snow white, resemble sheeted ghosts. In places are what nt a little distance appear to be white owls, ami there arc representations of goats with long beard, ull as white ns though carved in the purest marble. Tlie rank fungus growth has almost closed some of tho drifts. The fungi aro of alrnort every imaginable variety of growth. Home kinds hung down from tho timber like great bunches of snow-white hair and others aro great pulpy mosses. The last generally rise from the rock forming tho fbior of the drifts and seem to have grown from ground something dropped or spilled in on the at the time work was progress in these mines years ago. These growths have in several places raised from the ground rocks weighing from ten to fifty and even one hundred pounds. Home of tho rocks havo thus far been lifted over three feet from the ground. In the higher levels, where the air is comparatively dry, the fungi aro less massive in structure than below, and are much firmer in texture. Home re¬ semble ram’s horns, at they grow in a spiral or twisted shape, while others, four or five feet in length and about the thickness of a broom-handle, hang from the cap timbers like so many suakes suspended by the tails. One kind, after sendiug out a stem ot the thickness ot a pencil, to the length of a foot or two, appears to blossom; at least produces at the end a bulbous mass that has some resemblance to a flower. In all the in¬ finite variety of these underground fungi it is somewhat strange that not one was seen at all like those growing upon the surface in the light toadstools of day. mushrooms Nothing in tlie nature of or waa found. Men Are Liberal 10 Be Seen or Men. An a eminent 2 * British clergymen . _ waa severely opposed to what ha called ten rational methods gatherings oolleo faons. He denonneed the practice of baxes or baskets through tlie oongregatton, and said it waa anscnptural. lie believed that giv mg ought to be done on principle, with out special impulse, and without appeal to the feelings. Ho determined to pnt his views into practical operation in bia own way So he told hi* people that for one for missionary year they might put their donations work into two large boxen, which ha placed for the purpose in the church vestibule*. Thera boxes, which were made of stoat oak, were securely ocked, and would not be opened onto! the close ofthe year, when he hoped they would be full of money. He wanted riief!d’lv^mrein thel JthT w!h D ill tail two shiliSil rndto inZ^rZin. The eminent clergyman still believes that hi* theory of iwuevolenee is the oor root one. But he tralieve* that he is In advance of his age, for he it persuaded that nraetioai tlie people will not put his view into operation. Cfa ’SHafftiMmlle ^dcmta. 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Louis girls object ,. to . rubbers, ,, **the>y draw the feet so.” It must be an awful load, even for India rubber. Adjectives aro the millinery of litera¬ ture, and like the trimmings of a dress, they should not be allowed to obscure tho original fabric. If Americans would sit longer at din ner-table and be happy while they eat, they would have religion. less dyspepsia and a move eheorf ul It is a groat pity that old. some It people grow hitter as they grow seems na though the more teeth they lose, the more they want to bite. .Toaqoin MiIjI/Kr thus describes a remi¬ niscence of an old California friend: "Dear Dave Colton. I hoar he is dead. Wo first got acquainted each one night iu Yreka while shooting at other.” A Milwaukee published clergyman, asking of a cor¬ rection in a report “I do one of his sermons, remarks: not mind so much being taken for a heretic, but seriously object to anything which will condemn mo as a lunatic." A BitrDGEronT carpenter, while in a fit ot anger, throw a hammer at a follow workman, and swallowed a screw lie had in liis mouth. It was an unfortunate af¬ fair. but it swallowing was hotter than hummer. throwing the screw and tho “Yes,” remarked a musical critic re¬ cently from Kansas, “the fiddlin’ was lmlly, but I toll you, when tho fat chap with the big mustache laid hold of that buss fiddle and wont for them low notes iu tho violin-collar, I just folt as if a buzz saw was a playin’ ‘Yaukee Doodle’ on my back-bono.” A Texas girl wouldn’t cross a river to reach the only minister who-could marry her and her lover, and tlie minister on arriving at the brink of ewollen stream refused joined to cross hands to and them. They shouted there¬ upon river they the service across tho to one another. That’s tho kind of "high-toned” wed¬ dings they have in Texas. A traveler out West stopped at a farmer’s well to get a drink of water. Tho water was warm and brackish, and the wayfarer remarked to the farmer that tho well was not a vory good one. “It’s well enough for me,” replied the granger, somewhat gruffly. “Then I guess I will let well enough alone here¬ after,” was the traveler’s rejoinder. Mr. BEEcnER says that one-half the human family immigration, aro eaters, not I prtxlucers. Speaking of 10 says that there is no fear so long as our institutions have the assimilatin ingpo wer, and when the lion eats the kid he does not turn into kid, but tho latter turns into lion. When tho children of immigrants get th rough the puhlio school thoy are all A mericuns. The greatest needed revival is not of religion, of tomimranco, or of commerce, but of common schools. Three cotton mills near Augusta, Ga., have during the past four years, with a capital of cash #1,600,000, paid and their their opera¬ tives in $1,560,000, stock¬ holders $540,000 in dividends, besides expending $5,673,000 for the purchase of cotton and other material for manufac¬ turing purposes. Such substantial figures as but these intelligent ought to laborers attract not from only capital points where work is scarce. A New Way to Make Hair Grow. T do not think I have yet told you of a new system to make Jiair grow on the head, even at the most advanced eighty age. It lias been tried on persons’over nr ninety years of ago, and has always succeeded as yet. But it requires great patience and time. You must rub I ho head for half an hour every day, either morning or evening, as you wish; then, if your head be dry, rub it another half hour head with a stimulating pomatum. If the be moist, rub into the roots of the hair a stimulating wash, roadaof rum, quinine, cantlmrides, etc., which any eh emist will easily aud cheaply make up for you. The great thing is to rub, rub, rub the head for fully half an hour before applying the medicament and for half an hour afterward. Sometimes, after one hundred hours, you may Itegin to see the liair ready to shoot np from the most slowly ivory-looking but pate. and The liair grows months surely, it takes as many to rc-gro w as took years youthful to fall. Suppose, then, you lost your locks twenty years ago, it will take twenty months for them to grow again to their original length and thick¬ ness. Tho newly grown hair, also, is of the original color of the hair before it began to fall Thoee who have the time will certainly try J the ThU experiment, at leant for a month or tw 0 . who have ladies’ maids may B , Te themselves tlie trouble, leaving the care to the maid; but the person’s own hand is better. Beveral Roman doctors are going to try the experiment, as the inventor of the Hair-dressers system is a disciple of Hahnemann. are also try iDg it on those customers who consent to ma k a th* trial, and several very remark able cure* have already been effected, _ R(me utter in Philadelphia Bui Mistook <hc Animal’s Agq. E . T . Hapi-ersatt, ‘X’ily, a farmer residing ncar P , ain his Ohio, barnyard who is near sighted, went into )>e and »ee j njf w h*t he presumed to a favorite F‘ ,red for8 ,n the W *“ d c0 <- about the face ‘ > *' “ t * rm ’ il *nil cam* and corrected bjr dn “® in K hhn ou ‘ o£ lho 3 “Mr bat plan, said one actor to an oth *G "•hall i adopt to fill the lipase at my benefit ?” “Invite your creditors,” waa the surly reply,