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THE BOUTONNIERE. A boutonniere! A dainty thing Were I a poet I would sing In flowing verso thy beauties rare, 0 boutonniere! Ihe steel clad knight wore on his crest A ribbon from bis lady's breast; The modem lover still doth wear Iler boutonniere. A bud from her corsage bouquet, Some heliotrope in volute spray, A tendril, too, of maiden's hair? Ah boutonniere I Those tendrils wind around my heart, 'Che rosebud's thorns have made me smart; Would I coukl think thou wert no snare, O boutonniere: ?The Argonaut. INTERESTING PARAGRAPHS. A North East (Md.) citizen has had a coffin made similar to the one hi which Gen. Grant was buried, and has requested his family to inter him in it after his decease. A party of New York Bohemians propose to establish a large cigar factory at Sag Harbor, which will give employment to , about 1,000 men and girls. San Francisco boys stole the roof of the new city hall, which is of lead, taking it away piece by piece. Iowa towns are loaded up with oleomar garine sold by houest old Wisconsin farmers as genuine dairy butter. A vessel secured $4,500 worth of sponge In one week's trip along the Florida coast recently. A statue of Guautinioc, now being erected at Paseo, Mexico, will cost the Mexicans $100,000. A Kansas baby has an eye in the back of its head._ A Noted French Writer. Jean Richepin, who has just had a play j brought out at the Theatre Francois, once bo longed to a band of gypsies. The chiefs sis tor fell in love with him and asked him to , marry her, the penalty for refusing being death. He coyly asked for time to think the j matter over, and then fled from the camp and | went to Paris. There he led the maddest Und of a Bohemian existence, played on the I stage with Sarah Bernhardt, whoso most J favored lover he was, and when bo became I weary of her too demonstrative devotion he fled to the Sahara to escape her. Now he seems in the way to become an altogether proper and conventional memt>er of society. ?Chicago Times. Want to Know the Time. One of the features of a Thanksgiving J service in a Minneapolis church was a strik- I ? ingly beautiful cornet solo. After tho service a reporter asked the organist the name of the piece. "It is beautiful, as you say," said tho musician, cautiously, 'but it is so pai ticularly secular that the good Presbyterians hero would be shocked if they knew what it was." This answer was printed, and now all Minne apolis is trying to find out just what that cornet player played. Gold Lands in Africa. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat, referring to a contract recently undo between a London mining company and an American manu- i faciuring firm, says it is oue of the most re markable ou record. The company proposes to work extensive gold lands in Africa, and needing a large lot of machinery, inquired in all the large cities of Europe and America, and finally placed its order with an American firm. There are to be six stamp mills, com plete. _;_ Doctor and Lawyer. St Louis has a physician who guarantees to cure almost any disease for a good round sum, which must always bo paid in advance. Of courso ho often fails, and then the patient ! wants his money bad:. The doctor employs a lawyer for just such emergencies, and pays him $5,000 a year salary. The lawyer is se skillful in pacifying angry imtients and com promising with implacable ones that tho doctor is atlo to make about $6,000 a j'ear above all expenses.?New York Sun. Cure for Snake Bite. Ida Newman, of Quihl, Tex., was bitten by a snake aud died, and Alaj. Henry Brown | writes thus to The Pearsall News: ''I read in your last issue of the death from snake bite of little Ida Newman, of Quihl, and my heart almost blod for her parents, under tho belief that if they had immediately applied a warm, I wet poultice of tobacco the little innocent would havo survived. Two just such bites were overcome in just that way near me at Belton in 1858." An Odd Silver Dollar. Milkman David Whitney is the possessor of a silver dollar on which tho head of tho god dess of liberty stands ut right angles with the ; "buzzard" on tho other ride, as if the old lady had been knocked down and tho bird was ! about to commence a oanquet upon her flesh. I At the Birmingham bank the specimen was pronounced genuine, but entirely unique and ' unexplainable.?Ansunia (Conn.) Sentinel. Destitution In tho Mountains. There is said to be much destitution among the whites in the mountain region of Giles county, Va. Many peoplo live in open cabins, which afford less shelter in winter for their occupants than do tho barns and other buildings iu the north used for tho shelter of livo stock. In winter the women and chil dren are without shoes and stockings, and havo scarcely sufficient clothing to cover ! them.?Chicago Times. Superstitious NejrroeH. Several years ago a young girl near Aiken, S. C, was in tho act of placing a pitcher on a ! fence post when she was struck dead by light- ! uiag. Since then the pitcher has remained on the post, safe by superstition from the touch of negroes, who believe that the arm which touches it will bo paralyzed. Storms and cy- j clones and earthquakes have not displaced it, 1 although the post which holds it is fast crum bling with decay. An Explanation. If any readers have received postal cards mailed at Atlanta, Ga., and written any time between 1SS3 and last week, they may hero | read an explanation of the delay. The post master the other day found over fifty postal ' cards that had fallen under a board of tho ? letter box. Some of them were three years ! old. There was nothing to do but to mad them, as it would be a violation of the law to j destroy them. Died in Disgrace. Several Russian engineers were recently tried on a charge of having defrauded the government. Among those who were found guilty was the chief of the department, Col. Bernard. When he wa^ put into the prison suit and his decorations were removed from his breast, ho was struck with apoplexy and died on the spot The Noted Confederate. John S. Mosby is a slight, bent, blonde man, with a cold gray eye containing no more ex pression than a boy's marble. He talks slowly, never gets excited and does not know what fear i?.?Detroit Free Press. Have you paid the Printer ? AMONG THE WARRING BIRDS. Blucjays Who Acted the Part of Peace maker.-?A Curious Story. A resident of Memphis erected on his lawn a large bird house, intended as she sum mer bouse of a floelc of martins. It was a three story affair, and three varieties of birds inbabir-.d it?martins, bluebirds and spar rows. The numbers were about equal. Tho mixture of breeds did not appear to cause discontent for a long time. Each bird nation gathered stic ks and straw and other material for nests, and harmony prevailed for weeks. One day. however, the gentleman's family discovered that there was something wrong with the inhabitants of tho airy house on tho lawn. There was unusual commotion, a squealing, pecking and flattering which de noted trouble in the hitherto happy family. A close watch brought the further discovery that the martins and bluebirds had joined forces and were making a mighty effort to drive the sparrows oh" the premises. The sparrows battled pluckily for their home, but were hi the end doomed to defeat and an ig nominious flight. Opposite the lawn in a neighbors yard stood several large oaks. A small colony of bluejays had pre-empted homes there. The sparrows on being forced from homes and nests took refugo in the oaks. Their advent was followed by bird chatter, and chirp and squall, participated in by both sparrows and jays. The noise attracted the family, and now two households wore watching with in terest tho actions of tho wingod tribes. Shortly the sparrows, seemingly escorted by a number of tho jays, returned to tho lawu and house. This was followed by a convention of bird music, m which tho jays took tho prominent part. By and by the bed lam of voices ceased, and the jays did the talking or chirping. They soon returned to tho oaks,- leaving quiet and peace on tho lawn. Tho three bird colonies worked all summer without further jar or disagreement. Did the jays act the part of peacemakers4? KxokukCor. Globe-Democrat ? A Will to Negro. Isaac Simonds, a negro, of Boston, Mass., is turning white every day. He is over fiO years old, and was once a slave. Kino years ngo, while visiting in Louisville, Kv., he took sick, and after a three weeks1 illness recov ered. But ever since then his skin has been gradually losing its ebony color, until now ho would readily pass for a white man. Hire* a Substitute. When a wealthy Chinaman is sentenced to ueath he repays the judge with a bland smile and a low bow, and theo yawns and stretches and goes home. He can in most cases hire a substitute for ?>0 in American money to suf fer in his stead, and is only troubled because the trial interferes with his routine daily life. ?Detroit Free Press. A Wooden Legged Cow. Some eighteen montl* ago ou English former successfully amputated ono of tho hind legs of a valuable and well bred short horn cow, the object being to retain the cow for breeding purposes, while a wooden log was RflLvcd to tlie stump. The cow is now a mother, and has a fine bull calf running by her side._ Candidates' Nur Scheme. During the last canvass in St. Louis the candidates instituted a new scheme. Thoy kept a record known as a "black book," in which they wrote the names of the "bleeders" and "no goods," who are in the habit of work ing candidates at election time.?New York Tribune. ' , Tho Great Frondo Myth. In speaking of Professor Norton's recent work on Carlyle The St. James' Gazette says: "The Carlyle fable?the great Froudo myth of the dyspeptic literary monster and tho martyred wife?was never thoroughly believed in by a largo number of persons." In Chicago, of Course. Bridget?Ma'am, Oi've tuk tho crape ofTn th3 dure. Phat will Oi do with it? Chicago Widow?Put it away carefully, Bridget It has already served on two of these melancho'y occasions, and we cannot tell what may happen.?Rambler. Went All tho Way Down. A negro -well digger in Leesburg, Ga,, was alarmed at the disappearance of his crowbar, which he was using hi the bottom of a well. Investigation showed that a thin crust of stone was between him and a pool of cold water twenty feet in diameter. ? Jektiro Miller. Justice Miller, of th? United States supremo bench, is tho John L Sullivan of that learned body. It is said that his skill with Indian clubs and boxing gloves has won him as much respect as his knowledge of musty laws,?Chicago Times. Badly Scared. Joe Demones, 15 years old, and black, went down to the landing at Jc.Tersonville, Ind., to seo a steamboat go out. As he stood look ing she blew her whistle viciously, and imme diately the boy lost the power of speech and hasn't spoken since. A New Trick. A New York sharper, who only had desk room himself in an office, "rented" the rest of tho place to an Englishman for $500 a year. Tho money was paid in advance, and tho sharper is now some distance in advance of tho officers._ An Expired Treaty. The treaty with Mexico which permitted troops to cross from either country into the other in pursuit of hostile Indians expired re cently. United States troops now crossing the line must go as citizens instead of as a military force. Locusts in Mexico. Large swarms of locusts are again spread ing d"vasiat ion in various parts of Mexico. The inhabitants are engaged in a combined efTort to extinguish tao pests, and thousands are killed daily.?Chicago Times. Wanted Moral Suasion. A lad in South Boston having handed his teacher a note reading, "Licking don't do lids boy no good; talk tc him," provoked an in quiry that led to tho discovery that he had himself written tho note. Wages in (i er in any. For n day of ten hours a woman in Ger many working in the fields gets 15 to 30 cents, a man 20 to 511 cents, seamstresses 20 to 50 cents, machinists and carpenters '."i cents to SI, and masons $J. A ?Ig Nugget. A gold nugget weighing thirty-live pounds and valued at $6,000, is on exhibition in San Francisco. It was found in the northeastern part of the state, and is the largest and finest one ever unearthed. A Strange Disease. John Snyder, tho hoosier whoso only relief from the effects of n strange disease is in al most continual walking, shaves as ho walks, and takes his meals on tho go. Don't borrow your neighbor's paper. THE GOOSE BONE'S PROPHECY. A Farmer Soya It Promises an Open Winter and a Good "Wheat Year. ??You may depsnd upon it," said ft Rode land county farmer to a reporter last week, "we will Lave an open winter and a good wheat year; the goose bone says so," The goose bone is accepted by many Rockland county people us bettor authority than Wig gins, or their Hackensack friend, De Voe. In many farm houses it will soon be found hanging in the hall, and upon its predictions some men placo the fullest reliance. The real prophetic bone, it 13 claimed, can only bo obtained from a goose that was hatched out in the spring, and the goose must not 1)0 killed until the Indian summer has passed away. A bone taken from agooso hatched in May lost year has a row of dots around the keel of it, indicating the tem perature; aud the darker tho spots" the colder the weather. It is claimed that tho marks dividing the bone in dicate tho throe winter months,. De cember beginning at the front. Those who havo read this year's bone carefully say it indicates more regular weather thar that of last year, and not so severe. There will will not bo many days during which running water will freeze. The coldest weather will occur during the first half of January, and in that time there will besereral days of freezing. It will be the severest part of the whole season. Near the point of the bone the discoloration is a littlo heavy, thus showing that the first day of winter will give proof of the season's change. This will bo followed by rising temperature and falling weather for Christmas. January will be ushered in with cold and the oold will strengthen as the days lengthen, tho coldest day of tho winter being Jan. 6. Tho severe weather w'll be brief, followed by rising temperatures .i javy thaws, and tho last half of the '.. ..ui will seo many rains and snows. During February there will not bo any very cold weather, but it will be a rather disagreeable month., with snows and rains. A few cold days will be all that Feb ruary will contribute to winter. An early and decided thaw is among the promises of the bone The February thaw wilr1 overflow the mountain streams, and disastrous floods may be looked for.?New York Tribune. PEOPLE OF NOTE. Lewis H. Stanton, the only surviving son of the great war secretary, is visiting in Wash ington for tho first timo in several years. Mr. Stanton lives at Morris, Minn., where ho has a large stock farm in the delightful park region which extends over the western and northern part of that state. He is a young man, considerably less in staturo than his father, but resembling him very much in face and mental characteristics. He lives a quiet, uneventful life, shunning politics as he would a prairie fire. Mr. Heron-Allen, the palm reader, who is now the object of fashionable adoration in New York, is a great traveler. His hobby is the orient and tho eastern question. He is the author of many of tho "Queer Stories" that appear in London Truth, anc in addition to his literary acquirements is quite a linguist He is a close personal friend of Capt Burton, ! the African traveler, and is twice as hand some as Oscar Wilde. William Lockport Hunter, tho famous Texan hero, who was ono of tho fourteen sur vivors of tho massacre of Goliad, died a few days since at Austin, Tex. He was also ono of tho three men who left the fated Alamo in the hopo of securing help for the gallant gar rison. At the timo of his dofitn he had reached his 80th year. Capt Billy "Walsh, of tho Salvation Army, attracts considerable attention whenever be takes his wallts abroad, for on tho front of his red ehirt nro tho words, "Jesus calls you," and on the back, "A burning hell awaits the careless," and his belt is labeled, "Eternity." The captain picks a banjo extremely well Mrs, Margaret Jerome, widow of Gen. Jerome, the dashing Confederate officer, died in a New York tenement house recently', hav ing existed for several years past in abject poverty. She persistently refused aid from tho charitable, ami is said to havo died cf a broken heart A cousin of Charles Dickons, who is said to be living in New York under very straitened circumstances, absolutely refuses to sell valu able autograph letters of the great novelist, though handsome prices have been offered by collectors. Gerald Maxwell is the stage name of a son of Miss Braddon, tho novelist, who is a mem ber of Wilson Barrett's company. Ho is very clover, and promises to become a good actor. Richard H. Davis, who is coming to tho front as a writer of stories for children, is said to inherit his literary talent from his mother, Rebecca Harding Davis. M. Gounod U being pushed by his friends for a chair among the Forty Immortals, but ho docs not himself covet tho honor, and it is even doubtful if he would accept it Postmaster General Vllas takes his noon day lunch at a dairy restaurant, where ho gets a mug of milk and a piece of apple pie for fifteen cents. Gen. Ncal Dow, who was on the bond of his fton-in-law, W. E. Gould, tho defaulting Portland cashier, has paid the $20,000 ho was responsible for. It is said that ex-Queen Isabella still clings to tho hopo that she will some day again bo seated on tho throno of Spain. Secretary Lamar considors James Russell Lowell tho best writer of pure English now living. Ex-Senator Roscoe Conkling never put a farthing upon a bom race, and does not know how to gamble. Mark Twain is now caid to be worth some thing like .1 million and a half. Mr.?. Theodore Tilton is in n Protestant convent at Newark. Levy is going to play his cornet around tho world. An Intelligent Dog. Connecticut has just lost in tho death of Carlo, a dog of Farmer Tucker of Oxford, one of her most intelligent residents. It is said that it was common for Mrs. Tucker to send dinner by Carlo to men at work about a milo from tho house. The workmen would send him homo with a pail fcr water and ho would return with it. Two of the men after cutting wood on ono sido of tho mountain went over on to the other side. Carlo find ing an ax, and thinking it left by mistake, brought it home, a hnlf milo or more He would lend a horso by the halter. Ho knew different tools by their names. He knew n few fami?es by name. Mr. Tucker, one day, holding a letter in his hand and saying, "I wish Mi-s. Chatfield could see this letter," Carlo, unbidden, advanced, took it in his mouth and carried it past several houses to the houso of the person named and presented it to her.?New York Sun. Answered Every Purpose. The Virginia Free I^ais was bound to illus tr?te its report of the election returns, and as it had no rooster, flag, cannon or eagle cut it used tho remainder of a probably unpaid cir cus bill in the shape of a flno giraffe. This paper only ?1.50 per^uium. nno gir perjBu ftT , THE AFRICAN RACE. We recently met with a well-known colored porter of a Pullman car, who runs from Atlanta to New York. His name is Augustus L. Grant, and he lives at No. 250 Hayne Street, Atlanta, Ga. He said: " I would like to publish for the benefit of consumptives and tor the comfort of their friends, how I haye been rescued from a consumptive's grave. I know that many people think the colored people do not have consumption, but I know from experience that it is a great mistake. Seven years ago I became a subject of this forlorn disease and was so pronounced by my physicians. My lungs became badly affected, my cough was awful, at times almost shaking me to pieces. My general health broke down and so declined that I became helpless and reduced in_ flesh almost to a shadow. Terrible night sweats; no appetite or digestion; more and more pain in my lungs. I suffered more and more; my cough became exceedingly exhaustive, discharging great quantities of pus and consumptive matter. I had in the meanwhile the best treatment; some of the best physicians prescribed for me and became interested Jn my case. But after two or three years' treatment, finding that 1 continued to grow worse, they one by one abandoned the case until at last they were all agreed that .it was only a question of time with me, and the time was thought to be very short. In this condition, with oae foot as it were in the grave, and making my preparations to go through the dark waters cf death, one of my physicians mentioned to me a remedy which might be tried as a last resort. His reasoning was that consumption being nothing more than ulcers on the lungs, why is it that a remedy which will cure an ulcer on the body will not cure ulcers on the lungs? At his suggestion I procured a bottle of Swift's Specific and began to take it. I felt so much benefitted from the first bottle that I persevered in the use of it, and 1 iv improvement was almost as rapid as it was wonderful, My appetite came back to me, m; digestion was good, my strength was rapidly regained, my lungs healed over nicely, my cough left me gradually, and I went to work with a new lease on life. For the last four or five months I have not lost a day's wages nor felt a symptom of that terrible disease that had brought me SO near the brink of the grave. My physician three months ago pronounced me sound and well?not a trace of lung trouble. lie to-day, Tuly 16th, made another examination, and tells me that my lungs are as sound as anybody's, f feel perfectly well, and I know I am entirely cured, and that I owe my life ro s. S. S., which was prescribed by the physician. My advice to every man, v ,>man uni child who has weak lungs is to take S. S. S. It cured me sound and well after all the doctors and all other medicine had failed, and I want every sufferer to know it." Treatise oa Blood ? Slia Diseases mailed free. The Swift Specific Co., Drawer 3, Atlanta, Go. The "GOLD" SHIRTS ARE MANUFACTURED -FKOJI Watnsutta or New York .Mills Mus lin and the best 2200 power Loom Linon. They have four-ply raised edge Linen fronts, Linen lined pat ent reinforced backs, four-ply neck bunds with hand-made buttonholes and continuous lacings in back and sleeves. Warranted and for sale by GEO. If. CORNELSON. THE TEA POT !Peter C. Branson Announces that he has opened the TEA POT UNDER WAY'S HALL, And invites an inspection of GOODS and PRICES. I have determined to start out by giving the BEST VALUE for the LEAST MONEY. Anything in the Eating Line, from the fresh Teas to a pound of Flour will be sold at the Smallest Possible Margin. You will certainly get fresh Goods and Guaranteed at Lowest Prices. Re sure to call on ine when you want Groceries, and you will save Money. aug. 1.1880. PETER C. BRUNSON. UNDER WAV'S if A LL. J"ames Van Tassel, CHOICE FAMILY GROCERIES, Wines, Liquors and Segars, A T MY ESTABLISHMENT CAN DE FOUND ALL THE STANDARD -i'V arricles i>f GROCERIES at Hock Bottom Prices, as well us purest find bent WINES, UOl'OKS. Arc, .-<?hl anywhere. Also the choicest SKOAL'S AND TOBACCO to be found in the market. JAMES VAN TASSEL. OLD BAKER A A A A RYE WHISKEY Distilled Spring 1 878. -00 MILD AND MELLOW WITH AGE. PURE AND WHOLESOME FOR FAMI LY, MEDICINAL Oil OTHER USES. FOU SALE ONLY BY W. T. LIG-HTFOOT BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, CAPS, ALSO QROCTR1KS, l?StOVISB?RS. Ac. ISiiMMcll Street. 237" A call and inspection of goods solic ited. BRADFIELV'S A Specific for all diseases pe culiar to women, such as Pain ful, Suppressed, or Irregular Menstruation, Leucorrhcea or Whites, etc. FEMALE If taken during the CHANGE OF LIFE, great suffering .and danger will he avoided. REGULATOR! Send for our hook, "Message to Woman," mailed free. BRADF1ELD REGULA TOR CO., Atlanta, Ga. Sept. 15-lmo. WILLIAM RAVENEL, Piiesidekt. Stoiio PhosDiiate Coipny, CHARLESTON, IS, G. Established 1870. Iflgrb Grade Fertilizer*. SOLUBLE GUANO, (highly ammoniated.) DISSOLVED BONE. ACID PHOSPHATE. ASH ELEMENT. FLOATS. - GERMAN KAIN1T. HIGH GRADE RICE FERTILIZERS. All orders promptly fdled. ? R. M. MEA.NS, Treasurer. Oct 14-8111_ REMOVAL. I have removed to Dr. J. G, Wannamaker's old stand next door to Messrs. Vose & Salley, where I am ready to sell you anything in the way of Lamps, CROCKERY, TIN AND GLASSWARE at the lowest possible prices. I have also added to my stock a line line of CIGARS' AND CANDIES. Country Merchants will do well lo call on nie for Tinware, Candy and Cigais which I pro prose to sell them at wholesale as cheap as they can buy it for in Charleston or elsewhere. J. SORENTRUE. Jan 21-lyr_ Charles A. Calvo, Jr., BOOK AND JOB PRINTER ?AND? BOOKBINDER ?9 RICHARDSON STREET, COLUMBIA, S. C. \ LL KINDS OF PRINTING, KCL - v. ing and Binding done at low figures and in the very best, manner. Catalogues <>f Schools, Colleges and Church Associa tions a specialty. Lawyers' l)iiefs?lper printed pajje fur 25 copies. OUI Honks Re bound and Repaired. Cash Rooks. Ledg ers, Day Rooks Journals &c.. made to order at short notice. Orders solid ted an * satisfaction guaranteed. 237" siuhseribe Tor TheCoi.umbia Wkek i.v Recustki:?e'mhl paces of fresh reading matter--the lab si telegraphic news?clea large print. Only one dollar a year. I''or S;ile. rPHOROL'(;iI 11ii K I) J EUSEY * Calves. < )ue yearling registered Jer sey Bull. Registered Ayrcshirc lieifcrs. Several grade heifers as also several Milch Cousin milk. Applvto E. N. CHISOLM, Rowesviile, S. C. <'lay l.niiil for Sale. ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY or two hundred acres of clay land for sale at a low figure. Distant two mile' from Fort Motte, on the Belleville Roa This is one of the best cotton farms in tl countv. Apply to W. C. HANE, or J. K. HANK, Oct. 28- ' Fort Motte, S. C