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WEDNESDAY, - APRIL Vi, 1881.
W. L. HICKS,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
glvcpt UBjllcr the Turbid Waters
Bkanoiivilik, 8. April 7.—
A fearful ease of drowning oeelurcfl
on the Ashley liver this morning, hy
which seven qulof a company of nine
persons m a row boat were drowned.
Abbfit SeVCh o'clock Hie row-boat left
Dennett’s wjinrf for Mr. Jar rev's
plantation, 1m JehnV island. iliie
fioodmide iwita runuingjit fit11.1u-ighI,
llio ;wind blowing; n Rtiff gale and (lie
water was very rough. In addition
to inhuman freight the boat contain*
Ud ah assorted cargo of ten barrels of"
brunt and other Pbrmstd «upjtjioir.
Tlnmvivoru two ladies on Imm'ifi-Miw by feono’a little game t hat nobody
Venus Artdorijon and Diamt Simons,
and the whole party were in high
spirits, singing, laughing and telliug
jokes nl! imcim&CMlis of the hdiriMd
/ale which awaited them. The crew,
•in addition to (he- two ladies, eon-
r*i«lod of Captain Frank Drown,
Benjamin Washington, Thos. Drown*
James Gatling, an aged citizen,
known hy tllio Cognomen of “Old
Man Frank*” and two bright chil
dren. j
When the cruft was in midstream
it WiMI caught by a very heavy wave,
and tho entire company and cargo
.pwepti overboard. Tho scone that
followed was Iioartrondiug. Old man
Frank and Hon Washing! ominniiiigod
to chutb upon the top of tlm keel of
tho overturned hokt, alid there hold,
Uespitorthe lonipcstnon.v tossing c/f
tho wrecked boat. There had boon
ju the bottom of tho craft some
.planks and oars, uml the fra ittic
efforts of tho different persons to
.catch upon those and buoy themselves
Up wore hourtronding, and wore
witnessed by crowds on shore, who
wore powerless to reach them in time
to lend the needed succor. The two
nlnldreu canto up oneo; and sunk
. ont of light; but tho oontortioua i#
tliQ, grown ■ people were wild and
almost superhuman. Homo of the
nu n wi i'O good swimmers, but the
strong tide and cold water, tngdthry
with the lugged weight of heavy
clothing und boots, made their efforts
to ; |)Upy tliQinselvos up futile. From
llio Micro twd of the crow were scon
to giiwp at a floating plunk, and bel li
cuiight it at once, but it was not large
oflHfWlh Jo .boar Mio weight of the
two, and a desperate mad tight
.ensued between thorn for it. They
were crazy with four, and in tilieiV
struggles botli lost (ho plank mid
sank, one after tho other.
The only boat In the vicinity was
a .small, fiat-bottomed affair, and it
was madness to attempt to leave
shore with it; ami so those on shore
had to watch the poor creatures sink
one by one, and listen to the gurgling
OtiU# -for aid. Tho two women
foUglit as lull'd for life us tho men,
■’‘lid, in fact. wei'e the bust to sink,
lankily tliocrioA of distress brought
Vmsar Dalis n;ul tlnftoln Giml-
“ol>, two bravo colored men living at
West Point mills, in a frail boat..
Tl!> o two, at. the imminent risk of
losing theft 1 lives, reached the scene
in lime to save tho two survivors,
who were uoailY frozen, and almost
and of what he was going to do, and
see what bitter satires these utter*
liuces ap|K*ar in the light of the
record of his first month in oniee.
W '# ihr v ’ !, ° wurkcd
for Inin nifd Voted for him and who
declare that tjioir efforts elected him,
and hear I heir (uescmt djunion of the
pei%ouwiW»nlliCyjmide president.
iVitii Maine tmUying and dicta
ting and squaring off at Conkling,
but with his resignation ready writ
ten in his pocket in ease the IhmJjlo
backbone ot the president again gives
away; with Windom visiting Wall
street, and fishing among our bankers
and brokers fora financial policy;
with Wayne MacVongli threatening
to resign if ('handler ho confirmed,
and Phstrniistei;-General .fames or
dered to resign if Robertson be con*
fi.pn.pd: with the senate so blocked
ready io di-q> ’/Vom' their perilous
positions. None of tljo bodios have
been wcovereiC
r '■ ii.V >i’t •
Garfield’* Seeood Month,
fl ii.'mi, (.’.ii-lhihl uiiIaiic
tin Ilu> second, nipiilh of his mini in-
istrai inn. 11 is alleged that ho choso
Mr. Maine for hits.right bower to
furnish him with grit and backbone.
Tho selection was a good one for that
JUBflpose; »Uid jf Mr. Dlui no is allowed
to rnn tho governmoHt tho* supply
... will 'inubtks Jio abundant.
■/imI AVw.
can 1)0 confirmed, or rejected; with
the sfftlwarts sharpening their toma
hawks for the half breeds and the
half breeds throwing mad at the
stalwarts now, more 1 than oyer, the
true patriot, the lover of bis country,
I he followiiigof .Jefferson, may thank
God that lie is a democrat 1
Thus stands the record of Garfield’s
first month in the white house, ami
this is the lesson which it touches.
Tho Cltlo Kart liquake.
London, April fi.—A (.'onstanti-
rfople dispatch to the Reuters says:
Tlio latest iiccouiit from Ohio esti
mate t he number of victims at 5,000.
All the fbrbigii meti-of-war staliou'ed
at Smyrna have started for. Ohio.
The United States minister, Long-
street, lias ordered llio Galena to
proceed thither with succor for the
sufferers.
The superintendent of the Eastern
telegraph company, at Smyrna, tele
graphs under dido of April 4, that
Company's office at Chio reported
that the continued shocks of earth
quake wevo dcpLrpy.iug the. houses
injured by the first shock on April Sl
it is said to ho utterly impuWl)lo to
outer the town. The telegraph of
fice is nearly destroyed ami t he oper
ators are working temporarily from
the landing pluecuif .tluuwhlu,—Food
and she!tor are urgently needed. > A
steamer chartered hy the municipal
ity of Smyrna, left Monday with
medical aid, provisions anil louts*.
It is feared that tho number of killed
ami wounded will prove to be enor
mous.
0,1/1o, April G.—Occasional shocks
of earthquake nro still felt here. All
the open spaces in ihe town are filled
with the wounded, runny of whom
lire in a hopeless condition. There
are numerous dead and wounded
still under the rniiiaffiThe. survivors
aro emigrating in all diioctions.
Thorn are far move victims of damage
in tlm villages than in the town.
Supplies arrive daily but they are in-
sutilqient, to oopo with tho destitu
tion. The crew of a French man-
of-war rendered valuable assistance.
Sjta'iitl (U*pr,tch Ui Tho Vonxtitutwn. u ‘
London, April G.—A telegram to
the. foreign officer states Abut the
authorities at Ohio asketPlor four
thousand tents. Only fifty houses
are loft standing, ; On all sides cries
of distress are heard fmin tho ruins,
but nobody daros Lo approach to ren
der assistance.
Tlioru is no suppressing your genu
ine poet. Spring won’t come to his
IpssisUnco, but Winter cannot frecae
him out. As ovidunco of this the
poet editor of the Sonoia Farm mid
until*« pu in isnes t «W lorro wing ode ‘oh
winter :
“The wind now blows,
And then it snows;
Su notking grows,
.For tho ground is fror.o,
And so's our nose,
Our heels und tots.”
Now that .Tnstico UliffoM has lost
his mind, and cannot be worried by
l*'us.,hm whom«ib^h'bllehni>Hy
i" strongly it com mended to the
people, ht the last election. How
does'his ttnhd.
During ho ifinfith holms hojie-’
les'iy ilivided the ropnblic.'fn' iHitty
in important stales; sijlilit up’his eab*
i»u't ihto hostle cliques; incurrcp the
•ijieu hostility of the stalwart loaders,!
Wo have had mt*- month of the lawyei's Amt dry eases, he may live
foV a ml Hi her of years. The worst of
it Is that lie is not able to writo a
letter resigning his position on the
supreme lionch. The easo is a sad
one in all ways. Jmlgo ('lifford,
however, is not the first official who
actually did not kuow enough to
resign.
How Is This For High?
“One day last week,” says the
Tbonmsvillc EnterpriM, “wo were
in tlieco-.inUngroom; of a j;pomini nt
husincss house, when one of our best
and most successful farmers came-in
with cotton to sell. The piricc offer
ed was very low—about seven ■ ceiit»
and a fraction—and of course the
farmer wanted "more, if possible.
White the discussion was going on
we heard the agriculturist say: ‘Well,
1 brought a load of, cotton and a load
of barns to town last week, and I got
very nearly double its mtroh for the
hams as 1 did for the cotton.’ We
had not paid lunch’attention to tlie
conversation, but that remark chal
lenged our attention and, like the
merchant, Vvc were n little ineredu-
ons; but when our friend went on
to say that there was about 1JJOO
pounds of cotton and a little inort of
the hftniaputd I hat I is cotton brought
only siv uml a quarter cents, while
the hams Woiight over eleven cents
per pound, wo saw that he was right,
Now, then, think of 1 it, a mini toils
all the year round to inako cotton,
that when it is made it i's not worth
as much as bacon. True, our hogs
are 1‘cliabliTto disease, and the meat
is apt to spoil in sonic of our winters
bat then how many daivgers threaten
a cotton crop from the time the seed
is'put in tho ground until it is actual
ly sold tuul the money received ?
Failure to get a stand, washing rains
gritss, shedding, rust, catcrpilhws
and rains and storms in tlio picking
season and the danger of lire a|tot
it is gathered and put in the gin
house. Is hog raising any more
rasky P Make arrangements to fill
your crib and you.r smoke house and
then raise all tho cotton you can
without, neglecting those, and, like
the gentleman wo talked with; Rev.
J. li. Battle, you will get along
smoothly all the time, in oven these
blu'd tiine.t”
The MtiDuJfic.' journal says/
“About a year ago Virgil Bacon,
oohmid, of t his comity, was the sub-
jeefc of a singular o:\perionco. Re
turning from work imo night, he
(t. lvLjuii.Uiy.it At litijlU A
them in a,comer of the room. Into
one of these boots his little son drop
ped a small pocket knife. The next
morning Virgil put on his boots and
wore them through tho day without
experiencing any inconvenience from
the prosonco 'of the knife, but when
be pulled thoin off at night, tho knife
dropped out; and it was foufid that
one of the hUd/s was gone. Virgil
examined his foot and discovered a
small cut in the bottom, but, as it
did not pain or trouble him ho paid
no alteniion to it. several months
afterward a painful protuberance ap
peared on the back or side of his
heel, for which ho was tumble to ac
count, and so ho applied to Dr. Dur
ham for ad vice and t reatment. The
doctor soon discovered the presence
of a foreign body in tho negro’s heel,
and making an incision cMclosed aml
drew out the missing blade of the
knife which had boon dropped into
Nirgil’s boot. The strangest thing
about this occurrence is that tho full
length of tho knifo-blade could have
penetrated and worked through the
foot without giving him pain or oven
attracting his notice.”
Hedging.
Amctwto,
’This is to inform Mr. James
Qu difi-rUlftv ftDgRMHli *. formerly of
Texas, if lie lie in the fleslwthat. wo
uta not rejoice when the nows of his
sudden taking off at Las Vegas, Now
Mexico, came. Wo felt real_ sorry
that so omincut a citizen should
have fallen by the wayside,, so to
speak.
Hyperion toi n Satyr.
lit® F
Tlie miifi who tloes
not-iidvcrtim.’-.
\ @ I § 1
(tw)
’Hie man who does
advertise
and lux
mid is
geveni)
dcniotU
IBs did
Read
tlui-
tbs fiui
to n deadlock,
ti| cr.rpy on die
ipjK'alipg to '
The better class of colored men in
Atlanta have inaugurated a move
ment for the reform of the worthless
* • ... , iKirtion of their mee.
**' ^ ' ■ -«r - : ‘ : .
nlties. Fw ». ddiheratc suicide, Mitt
over, mnv, tho fine prom ikes i 11 at Hu Kenell, Hie Iowa faster, is
o made hy him and for him, the longest about it we ever heard
things that weni sniil cf him.*.of.
iglit life scum
o\v powerless
Lie nartv
Lord Bcaeonsficld seems likely to
rival Tins IX. as a disiippoiliter of
the obituary writers.
Senator Cameron, of Wisconsin,
was at one time in his life a school
master. and Senator McPherson, of
No# Jersey, was ono of his pupils.
“Ijjtto HpdyAho Philadelphia Times
reocutly puhlhilicd nu article on titled;
*l|o the, wives qf piv^ideivts . lily#
8W I should smilc.*'-~if
li. fltfges.
The Men In Congress Who Do
the Talking,
There arc few really good talkers
in congress—that-Js. men who aro
distingiti In I for their oratory and
rhetoric. Senator Conkling heads
the list of the best. Conkling’s
speeches never need ^revision. Sen
ator Edmunds makes his speeches
und then is done with them, lie is
so careful of .whatW says and does
that lie can never be picked up on an
utterance. The brilliant •Matt. Car
penter was always in a peek of trou
ble ivlieu he made a speech. Car
penter was averse to study, and re
lied upon his memory, which grew
to be funity, lie always revised bis
speeches, tore them to pieces and re
built, interlined, crossed out, and
made a frightful-looking proof.sheet.
Then hGjjd ways j usisted upon get
ting the messenger from the printing
office “full” when the latter was
sent for hjs copy. Carpenter always
demoralized tho-Congressional Rec-
eonj office upon a night when lie
would make a great off art in the sen
ate. Judge Thurman's speeches
never needed revision except to see if
tlio quoted authori ties were correct
Senator Bayarjl is onp of the most
pleasing speakers on tho democratic
side, and ho generally glances over
the proof to see that no mistakes
creep in. General Burnside repeats
himself in about every, ten sentences,
and is apt to become nervour, Ben
Hill (ires uyyay in a sledge hammer
style of oratory, and, no matter how
trivial this matter may be, wifi work
himself up to a fever boat and ex
pend as-much carpcstuess as if great
tlii-ngs were to bo accomplished.
Morgan, , of Alabama, is another
democratic orator possessing the dis
tinctive peculiarities of the talkers
of the South. A gallery lounger
can tell in a second from what sec
tion of the country a speaker comes.
The peculiarities of dialect are mark
ed in the representative men tho
same as in the lower classes of society
in their vicinity. Over in tho house
•‘Sunset” Cox causes trouble to
the printers. lie always pre
pares his speeches, and revise them.
ILu writes op |til sorts of pa
per. One page may be yellow,
another white, a third a leaf from a
hook. Thou his handwriting is not
letter press; so Cox is dreaded.
Randall, revises every speech lie
makes. General llarry White,had a
habit of sending for books during
debates until his desk was littered,
and he could scarcely be seen. By
;tlio time lie found the authority de
sired debate would bo exhausted, and
he would produce a scare, nothing
more. This was an old trick of
White’s. • The most remarkable in
stance of the effect of talking is that
which Jlli. Blount’s voice has upon
a journalist who is well known here.
Blount-has the pure,.unadulterated
southern accent, and ii inclined to be
harsh without meaning it. A, few
years ago a young man, who was a
student at. the Anuapolis academy,
was detected in a hazing scrape. The
matter came up before congress, and
Mr, Blount, made a violent speech
against the naval cadets. One of the
yorng men occupied a seat in the
gallery, and the effect of Blount's
speech, coupled with tho thought of
being dismissed from the academy,
was such that ho became violently
ill and had to bo carried from the
eapitol. Later on in hiscareer he
branched out as a journalist, and was
assigned to duty in the house gallery.
Hlmiut arose to speak u>u xuuui*
lections of past events came so
vividly to tho young man’s mind
that ho again became ill. lie tried
in vain, day after day, to conquer
Use feeling, but it was found to bo
impossible. Every time Blount spoke
lie became sick. At last he was
compelled to relinquish his position
on this account. Even to this day
that gentleman never appears in tho
house giille’ry for fear of Blount.
The great debaters tut confined to
the 8enato, and Tho crop is being fast
thinned out there.. The retirement
of Wallace, Thunmm and Blaine
and the death of Carpenter took
away four of the m6st brilliant men
at a swoop.' u *■
it costs $50,000 per year for tho
mere jotting down of tho remarks of
tho congressmen. The crops of offi-
cial stenographers, both in ihe senate
and house, is probably the best 'ii
tlio United States. Every word ut
tered is recorded, and many a con
gressman is surprised the next mbru-
uig to find in .the Ccmgi-ossjonul
Record some remark which was
hardly intended foi* ! publication. It
requires a resolution to expunge the
aunoviug jwmgmph, a fast which
requires members to he ca.-ofnl what
they say..
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