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TIrit>tW.EEKLY EDITI( N.} AYLNNSBO RO. S. C., 8 iAT riU A Y SEP~'llM B 4jInt 21, 1878. IVO~l N.9 AN ACTRESS AT HOME. -o--0 HIR1 L 1 IS UR 1 IMoMB1N TM. Her Great Beauty--What She Saw in Europe--Her Alms and Aspirations. C 1,o.11 the N1w1 York 116r. .d. In a handisono French Ilat on West Forty-socond street, clogantly furnished with doop, wido lounging chairs, theatrical engravings and the bric-a-brae collected during a brief tour in Ikirope, the Icratc representativo found 'Miss Mary; Anderson, the young American tragodienno, residing with her mother, her stopfathcr (Dr. Iamil tou Griffin) and a numbor of young or brothers and sistors. Ifer recep tion at the Fifth 6Avenio Thoatro has boon so cordial, and her popi Jarity in Now York so assurl-, that the family have decided upon iak ing the metropolis their leadquart ers, and havo removed their lares And poiates fron Louisvillo. As ve sat in the tiny drawing-room wait ing a response to our card there caine a burst of fresh, ringing, girlish laughter ; thon a plaintive matronly voice called out, "Oh, Mary, how could you?" ind in a oniont wo woro in the presence of M ry Anderson. Tall as a Grecian goddess, with limbs muirvollously long and as nn vellously proportioned, and a smamll head poised upon a slender nieck, dark grey eys--"Irish eyes"-and dark brown hair, a complexion as clear as alabaster, and a small, ripe, red mouth, Mary Anderson has such delicate features that slheappuars even more lovelyiat a close in spection than upon the stage. HRer face is auiost aristocratic in its clean-cut profile and slightly--curling lip ; but her hans(3 and feet aro republican in Bize. Her figure, not yet fully do veloped, has the unforued grace of girlishness ; her frank, hoarty, ofl hand manner at once captivates the intorviewer ; and, althoighl oi the stago. Mary Anderson is every inch a tragedy queen, in privato life she is best describedi as a represen tat,ivo American girl, full of life and spirit, hier bright eyes dancing wit.i fn, and her rich voice, which brings tears to unaccustomed eyes in Mog Meriles, ready to ripple from con versation into laughter it the .slightest provocatiou. As she stands rogally before us she holds Jn one band the fragments of a bisque bust, wvhich explain the cry that accom panied her entrance, and she begins talking in a free, unaffected stylo that puts her interlocutoyf at his ease necOssitates the most rapid employment of his shorthand pencil. MISS ANDERsON'S HISTORY. "My age ?" said Mary Anderson, .mdinugly. 'I am just nineteen, and, although all the critics speak about my Kentucky style and height, I was born in California. I never .cared to mention this," she con, tinned, in response to an exclamna tion of surpriso, "because tihe Cali fornians' did not treat mo kindly wvhen I appeared there a young actress ; but I have learned better since, and so have they. "Seo !" she cried, running over the letters ia portfolio, "hero are offers from three California managers and con, gratulations from a crowd of people in dear old 'Trisco, and I am sure they will be pleased with me wvhen I ,go back, this year or next. Louis 'ville, however was my artistic birth.. place. There I learnied to love .acting and to .try to act. No, no," she resumed, as a question intern. rupted her story'; "Dr. Griffin is not my father. 'I play under my owvn name. My father was an offi cer in the Confederate service. I .suppose that is the reason wvhy I have been so identified with the South and am alwvays called a Iron ~tucky belle. lIER DEBUT ON THlE STAGE. "Mother will tell you," continued Miss Ander~son, after a moment's affectionate pause, "that as as a ~child I was always acting-studying .about theo house, repeating spees from the plays X had seen or read. ,1 don't ipiow how the notion came .to me, T liked the naen's parts the! best, ad always wanted to play -them. Richard 1II.-that -vas my Iavorite par4. The women s charae jters seed too tame for me. I hbad a ti'mendows voice, and, like - nost beginners, I supposed that .shouting was acting, and7 I tell you 1.mdeo uisille howl when I o oxcitod over my little performanco at home. Woll, theso eceontricities attracted imore and imoro attention, and everybody said that I ought to go upon the stago, and the moro my mothor opposed it tho moro popl c.une to reason with her, and at last I m1ado ia public appearalo at Barnoy Macauiley's theatre, in Louis - ville, when I was abut sixteon yearn old. In 1875 was it ? Yes, in 1875 The play was 'lomico and Juliot'-vou (1nw I am going to play it hore this week-anid I just sliouted and lhowled through the picee and wan perfectly delighted. Wihen it was Ill over I was not a bit tired and wantod to howl and shout it all overl' agin. Now you comio and 500o n10 xt Thursdaiy and nark tho diinrence," and hero Miss An, derson throw liorqelf back in ber chair and laughed so monrrily and heartily at the rcollectiol of her first perforimanco that the room seeied radiant with iusical sun. shine, alnd the picturo of Shukos per0 Oil the wall sihook as if with approving imirth at the delicious n'ou'icte of his latest and brightest oXponlent. A BRIEF AND BRIL LIANT NOvIIATE. "You know the rest of the story," resumed Miss Anderson when she had recovered her gravity, "of my! provincial engageien ts. It's all dollars and cents, dollars and cents, and I hate ionev. Ilamiilton (thats Dr. Griffin) attends to all that. First I played a regular engage, mnclt at Joluivillo in 1870, aid then0 )00r, dear old Bn DO Bar engaged mo for St. Louis and New Orleans, and then John T. Ford, of Baltiimoro. Do you know him ? The uan with the stuilu-that sweet smile--took me for a tour through the Sonth ; and then I played it Philadelphita, where the business was pretty bad, and then I went to Boston, where Longifollow was very kind to mo--there's his last poen ; have yon ever road it ? and the more I acted tihe more I loved to act. They woro col(d il Boston-very cold ; so that when I caie upon the stage I felt chilled, an(, for the frst time, lost my courage. If it Id not bei for a. party of friendly f-eces in a private box I don't believo I could have gone on. But I turned up1) the stauge, an.1 kept saying to mny.iclf. 'M try, you 111it do it-.you must make them liko you' and I saw mother's dear, startled face at the prompt place, and when my cuo came I throw I) my arm. so, and I shouted out Ily line, and down came the house in thetmlers of iap pinuse, atnd I was all right again." And very right the houso was, in tile opinion of your interviewer, if Mary Anderson presented such a superb spectacle as she ldid when, fliiging aloft her splendid arm, she ended her anecdoto with a voico full of suppressed passion and resonant with tho nmmory of the triumph sho had won. EXPERIENCES IN NEW YORK. "You see I had only been on the stage three years," said Miss An derson, "when Mr. Fiske oll'ered mec anf appearance at the Fifth Avemne. I liked the manager and I liked the theatre. Every thing possiblo was done for me, and 1)eop)1 tell moc thlat there nevetr wals ant actresi 50 advertised and wvritten about bos' fore. I didn't remark it then, be, cause tile Southeorn and Western critics had all written splendidly about me, and eveni tile old chilly Bhoston papers woero most kind ; and now I fully appreciate all that was done for me, and I am as grateful for it--well, lBrother Fiske knows all about that. What I was going to say is that in Nowv York, for the first time, some critics began to find fault with me, and it opoened my eyes to the real art of my pro0 fession. People told me that the critics only criticised me because it was their duty to find fault and pick flawvs; but I knowv better. MyI sense told me that they woero very often right and I was very of teln wvrong. Tile more they wrote the .more ' studied, Up to that time I had been acting becauso-I liked to act, because something ini 1me made mue unhappy if I dlid not keep on acting ; but I had never thoughlt much about acting as an ari't, a profession, a life study. I could p~lay a part and guy all the time. (You know what 'guy' is ?) But I can't do that any more. You news.. paper people gave me a new idea; I went to Europe withl it; I mixed over there with real artListics, real art students, and I tell you that for nearly a year I have had one word ringing in my ears, buzzing in my head, haunting me day and night, imd that word is 'Improve! Im prove I Imnprove l' When I firs playo,1 in Now York all the crities made fun of my clothes. Well, IHamilton has1p spent thoulsanids of dollar on my costumos over in Paris, and ag'ain my clotlhes don't suit the critics. Isnt it too had? Wait until you see ti coStui.s for Evadiic and Juliot, aid then soo if people airo plelsod. But I tell you 1 do' care so much about dress, and I doni't understand why so much fuss is mado about it by crit ies. Clothes c can't act, or yo ()uld buy your sfitis at any dry .foods store As long as a part is dressed appropriatoly that ought to bo enough. When I an acting I don't stop to think about buttons and banglos, and I don't care whether the velvet I weoar is cottonlback o silk. I don't worry myself much about Imly gowns at home-do I mother ?--but whll I am on the stago I want to feel free and uncon strained, so that I can play my part witlhlt stopping to kick 3my train or save my lace If I live," added Miss Anderson, excitedly, "I will maI:Lkje )eople forget how I dress wv'hIen theyI so mo act. But sin0ce I cannot do that yet we'll do our beSt to please the dressmakers and mil lineUrs. Th1a7k fortunue I've no more modern parts to play, and so feel pretty safe. Tm: AMAZON AND AMEIRICAN TRADE. -The survey of tho river Ainozon and its tributaries, which is now being proseceted by Commnm1er Selfridge-o well knowvn tlhrouglh his surveys for a ship canal a1cross tle Isthmus of Tehauntoepec-has bee u11n1derwtakien at the riglt time, an1d cOallmot fail to prove of ad vantago in our commercial initer (0111E with Biazil. The construc tion of tile Madeira and Maiore Rail road, for Which Brazil has given the contiact to thle Messrs. Collins, of Phildelphia, will be a further aid to the extension of our trade not with Brazil, but with Bolivia also. Heretofore the lavagation o f the upper waters of time Amazon, and espoeially of its chief friluiit-aries, has been rendered difficult from tile walnt of trustworthy charts, as well as of proper buoys and lighthousos, while adven turons trIders woro further harasse' and put undei' restrictions by tle shippinlg laws of B awil. These things, it is hoped and belioved, will nO 10w be remedied, and that. by the adoption of a more enlightened policy the grcit navaga ble waters of that eimIire will be throwni open to Amoerican commerce under conditions that will give us a fair proportion of tiat tradu which is ntow lirgely monopolized by Ea ropean miierchiauits. The Grand Canal of China is like ly to share the fato of the Great Wall. This water Way was coil structed by Kublai-Khan and his successors of the Yuen race, and is 600 miles in 1ength. There are 10,000 flat-bottomed boats on this caual, and theso are used in the transportation of grain. The .Echi o stattes thmat thuis great watersyay is an enormnous "wvhite elophant," as it costs an enormous amount every year Lor repairs~, the app~lropriations there, as elsewhore, not being on,~ tirely devotod to the purpose for which they are meant. Junks arc delayed every month while channels are being dug for their passage. This year for thoe first time since the construction of the canal, tihe grain from Nankin, with the consent of the governmont, has boon~ for warded by son, and this f'act hais impelled the Pokin authorities to consider tile expediency of abandoning the canal as aL commnrcial highway. The Raleigh, North Carolina, News is responsible for the follow ing :"One of the family of Mr. N. S. Mosely entered a room in his house, at the corner of Salisbury and Cabarras streots, yesterday, an'd was surprised to seo smoke ascend from the floor, wvith a vividly brighi ray of sunlight settling thereon. Tile causo of tho phonlomnonon was soon1 ascertained. A goblet had been inverted and placed on a win dow ledge. Tile sun shone full on it, and the rays woero brought to a focus by the bottom of the glass. Tile rays, so concentrated, fell on the spot on thme floor, and the heat wvas so intense as to char thme boards. A few minutes later and tihe room would have heeon all onAr. "It is bettor to laugh than 1)0 crying"-decidedly; and to enjoy your baby's laughing society use Dr. Bull's Baby Syrup which re lieves the chief discomforts of baby~ hood without stupefying the chiii denn. Prie 2.5 cents. 2O IuJ S ;EN -E11 1.1t 1rER Al. Tho Wonan Who Has a constant Struggle to Keep from Falling to Piocos. [IPoin I/i Brlinglon Jiuckeye, Ihnne Tallr. ] Sho came to the station a little lato and had to mako a rush for tie train. Whlen sho reached her scat her hat fell off. She got it on, but it toppled ovef- to on1o hide, and whlen sho tried to stiiighten it hor lihir (1am1 tu1bllingi doyni. She lost bor1. ticket twico bofore 0he conduc tor reah'ledil hr, aid yoild have lost it again if he hadn't takce it away fromiI her. Sho rotiched u) to plut a bundle ill the crack abovo her head, and14 burst the coll-bIttoll ofl' her duster and stuck bor finlgers onl four pinS in h1(erV dross before sho could find one that sho dared t-ke out to repair th damgo '..'o jus~t ats 1ht thoughit She had got comfor)t b111y settled her little hanid valise, picked to bursting vitli oliough thmliis to load a Saratoga trunk to the iiuzzlV, exploded, and she nearly worked herself into fragieits got - tog it together agaei. Then by the time hgot tihe valiso shut ill) her hat tunbled oi igain, and by the time shOe got tihe hat straighted back into its plaeo her hair tumbled down g. l, and as soons she8c got her hair twisted up and liarpooied it with a couple of hair pins, the valiso went ofr, and wohen she got off at New Prague she tuckod the gasping valise under her arm, and tried to corral her topp)ling hit and wander ilg hair wiith ino 11:nd, and as shlo went Iilutteoil)g and straggling into the depot, ol( colidn'i. hp think img' that it would be saIfer and lIorc convenient to rini her in soet"ons and flav her against everything. I have seen this vomin on1 several other trains, and she has ie ver been able to keep hersolf together. Thero seoms to be more hu0 imanlity about her than thero is about hor neater sister. She isn't so aggravatilg, but she keeps you ill a state of igo, nizimg suspellse, for you never know where she is going to give way next. SH ERM AN LNCOURAoEn.--Some days since the agent of the Associated Press sent to all of its papers in the South the followin' : "The secre ttry of the treasury has just issued a circulhr giving notice that the standard silver dollar will be sont to parties desiring, at the expense of the governlIlmellt, ill sums not exceed ing $10,000," leaving Out the ill portant point that a certilicate of deposit of legal teodes for the amount of silver desired would first have to be secured. To-day Mr. Sherman received a letter from Grilinl, Ga., inlclosing the paragraph aid sayimg "This looks like the wind had gqt in the right direction at last. Have had an abidg faith that our turn would come, and so it has-and have been satisfied that all would be right ill tile end. Have no place to put it all at prosen'ft ; so please send to each of us $6,000 por ox, press, and place reainming $4,000 to our eredit in bank. Yours, &c. (Signed) -E W. Hammond, 8. 0. ton Lciter to the Iariford T/ime.. ODRPORAL PUNIsnMENT IN ENGLAN1j. --Ini England the (ptiostioni of cor poral punishment is still in the foreground. A charge of assault, arising out of the canling of 0110 of tho scholars of the Preston Gramn mair School, was preferred against tihe head master, the Rev. A. 13. Beaven. Tihe lad had (1011 an exor~cise carelessly and1( was s truck four timies 0on the hack wvith a cane. The assistant masters expressed, in ovidenlce, their conviction that such chastisement could not b~e dispensed withI in the school. One young gentleman, who was caned at thle same time as tihe complainant, Can didly avowed that lhe had undergone tile operation so often, and 'had becomo iso perfectly well accus tomed to it, that hoeno longeo~r re gard~ed it as a puhnshmlelnt. The bench, considering that no undue chastisement hlad 1~eQIn inflicted, dismissed the caso. A SENsITIVE WAITER.-The peda gogical plate-passer in the White MonlntainsH is surpassed in the Chicago restaurant. While a ens tomner wvas oxpressing bis 'views somewhat strongly to a waiter, the proprietor, stepping upj, remarked: "Don't talk to him that way. He used to be Governor of Oregon, and such treatment naturally hurts his feelings." Snodgrass says tile prettiest sew-. ing machino he ever saw vas about seventeen years old, withl ~short sleeves, low-neck orss an'1 gaiter booLs. A RAILWAY IN THE HoLY LAND. Tihe (Jonstantinoplo Al -.awaai of tihe 140h instant says: ".We are assurold that a mixed coinpany has obtained it concession for laying doi it railroad botwoon Jaffa and Jorltsallem ; also to construct at harbor for shipping at the former placo. General Mott, of the United States army, and a moeuber of the Red Cross Society, is the ropro - sentattivo of the CoIpany lfO. He saile(l last Fritlay for Paris to con stilt with the conipany with regard to putting the oconcossion into im miieliato execution." The same journal states that ao Veral plans for railroads in Asia Minor have been suilitted to the Porto, but thius far nothing in that iospect has been oflicially decided. The Grand Dnko Nicholas Con stantinovitcli, the Czar's nephew, has been <lisinissed from the army, tuil the eighty-fourth iegiuient of Infantry, of which he was the hion ovary chiel', has boon forbidden to boar his naie. His crinjo was em bozzleinont. VEGETINE Purillesi the Blood niud Gives Streigthi. UIl (jvol*N, IrI. a .21, 1818. MN11. It. It. S FVI\ss: DRIa Sir-Yo r "'Vegeli n" 1111 been 0 doing wIonderns for mile. 1i1v boel) having the Chills nl''ever. co) tract (l in tit! s4wa1111)mi of tthe :4otith, notuhing giing lil relIef until I began lil 1tse of yo1 Vget 11, i giving me1(1 immedl ale relieit, to ning ip ny sy3sti ein, wirifying ly blo-. q.iving al rengt . wireas a 1 other medi cineos weadkend'l mne and1 tilled 1113' systei with Sim11m ; mut I amti at1:<ied ihat if families tiat it vo In the agle (list riets of the dl0ttil and West WoitthI thlrope l'e Iwo o1 reP tim1es a week, I hy% wiiIld not he itrobled wIth ha Chills or ite m:lignai, FLevers that, prevail it certarin t lm)., of I the year, ave doti 'Lor's bills, and( live to a, goot ohl age. lhespecltftlly voitt' .J. H. MITChELL A ffren1 Hentderson's Loomns, St,. Lottis, k10. Ai.. IsFAsMs OP TIM 1r.0on.-If Vegotino will r1,liv1-N11 In, 'l-anI'S purIfy, and cure SItch d1isea1 resloring the ipatnt. to perfect h,!.Ia(t h after I ryin dIfferenIt phyisicians, manny rellaedles. stiffrl' ing tor, years, I) It- not conlitl sive prof, tl you 71re' a sufferer, you caln be cilred ? W III s thim inedicine performlig insucli ieaI cutres ? It works it the blood, l4 t 10 ocir etlating tild. It can truly be called the e rseat itlool I'ttriller. The groat'sourec of die as' oiginoates in i he blood ; 1111d no m1ed11iciO hat. dos not. lict, direcl1 tpon it, to purify and rienovate, has just claim 1in upon pubUc attention'. VEGET INE Ias Eutirely Curol Die of Vertigo. A 1R0, I LL., Jan. 23, 1878. Ih"ar Sir-1 have used several bol,10 of 'VEt ETiINE " it, has crt' Iirrly enred mne of Ver i;go. I have also used It, for kkidlucy Col plaint.. it Is the best, medicint tQt kidney complaint.. I wduld recoxmmnid it as a go blood puri der. N. YOUM.F, l'AIN AND UIsKASm.-Can we expect to enjoy good lhealth When bad or corrupt humors cir cttlati with the blood catsing ptiin and disease: 1aa;11t ihtese hitnors, 0 ing deposited through tlq tI Ir' body, produeo pimles, oruptionsi, ulcers, Iuligeslt on, co)st~ieess, beadaches, neuralgia rimiatism and ntimerous other comrulaln ? Ito'pve lih eauise by caking Vegetine, tle llost. ruliable reiedy for clalnsing and purify Ing the blood. VEG ET INE I Believe It to be a Good Redi (.1310. Mn. MT v NS: 0., March J, 1877. )efir SIr--1 wish to Inform you whtat your Veget ia iis tone for 1me. I have beoh aillet ed wit INeuralgia, and ftner ltsing three bot, t1i4of the Vegetino was entirely relieved. also foulnd tmly gncrfl health n)t;04 linproveu. I belIeve it, to be 4. god medliin. YOt1Irs truly', Jilt El DHA IitlsTlICK. Y~ouTmNtc i.horolighly eradicates every king of hutmaor, andmo resItres tile ent~Ire system to a heatlt.hy' cond~itton. VEGET INE. Druggist's Repor't. II. It. STPEV'ss: Dear' Si'- We have been selling your "Vege l~ine fat' the past nighteen rnontbs, and0 we' take ipleasu're itnstaing that, In every case, to our knowledge, It, has glven great satisfanctton. BUK& (owVGIL, Ulckman, Ky. VEGETINE Is 'JIpE Jpi1sT Spring Meolicine. Prepareli by Ii. BR. STE~yENS, B~oston, Mass. Vegetine is Sold by all Druggists.. set,t2-dwsj TIHE WINNSBORO HOTEL1 -BY 1,etwoffer's and~ gtlarauteos to t~Ie pulic indcucemeonts ,unsurpafssed by .any >ltor hlousot i thl. place. Table sup, plied wvith theo -bent in the market. Com Fortable ,rooms and polito at),ention. Perg-$2.00 per day. pug 9-tf P~rsh Crackers I Fr'eshi rackers j JUST ARRIVED. 1 hbl. tSinger Snaps, 1 " Pearl Oyster, 1 " Nick Naek, 1 " Plain Soda, 1 " Cornhiil, 1 " Blutter, seni,12 . . iM TR