w- , 1 . ~r: - -_ VOL- tL LAURENS O. IL, 8. C., WEDNESDAY, SK PT KM UER 22, 188(5. NO. 8. WHAT IS TUB SKA-SICPilMONT. \.\ l,\e maj not rehearse lu.re tho long list of circum stantial and detailed narratives of those moro or less eminent men, from Diodo rus Siculns to tho president of thc (don oestor Common Council, who profess to hove Bi cn tho monster in question. Any librarian can furnish tho inquiring read er with a suflloicnt number of these ac count? to keep him ic interesting read ing for two days at hast. Tho narrators include clergymen of all liatioiiallics and creeds, physicians-, experienced travelers, hard-headed business men, naval officers of such repute us our ow n Commander Preblo, and a host of others equally dis interested. * Many of thee accounts must bo not aside as obviously colored up for effect, Jhit oven then there remains nu accumulation of evidence too Weighty tobe withstood. There is, of course, much exaggeration; but after setting a: ide tho "personal error" for w hich trained ob servers always allow, thc general coh? rence of thc details given hi thc e vari ous accounts is indeed remarkable. All the observers have found the animal only ill northern latitudes; all ague that its color is blackish brown above and white beneath; that its prominent eyes arc on tho tup of its flattened head; thal it moves at thu rate of ?ive or six kn ds au hour; thal it is harmless and even timid, and that its undulatory movement is caterpillar like, that is, vertical and not lateral. There is, too, substantial agree ment in placing its si/.e at seventy feet in lenci h and twelve in circumference. This concurrent testimony from hun dreds of witnesses, strangers to each other and often sopnrrtcd by centuries of time, Bllflloiently provi s tho existence of such an animal as they describo. A line of porpoises, a school ol horse mackerel, a mugs of sea weed, an old mast covered with barnacles und toi sing on thc W?VOi, have each been mistaken for a sea serpent many times. Novor thelcss, unless all tho laws of evidence aro Ht fault, there is in actual oxistoUCC reported mar Cui>o Ann. The so called ?ea serpent is not a myth. What, however, as a mutter of fact, is tho animal which boars in popular phraseology this alliterative name? Wc may boldly assert that it is notuscrpont, All observers agrco that it undulates ver tically, like a caterpillar. P?nt any one who take? tho trouble to i uunine thc structure of tho vertebra? of serpents will ?co at tmce that they tue capable of DO other andulatory movoment than a Inter al one. Thora are plenty of sen nor {Mints, but none over live Icol In length, und all havo their tails flattened side ways so that they move through the wator liko eels. Wo have, then, os do .scribed by its observers, an animal utter ly unknown to the zoologist, al leiist as ft contemporary form. Tho only Infor ouoo theroforo is that it is a survival from some group of animals now on thc verge of extmotion. When, however, we ask what this group is, there are two equally go ,cl answers, it may bc a survivor of tho saurians-probably tho onallosaurion --to whoso form, a? known to the paleontologist, it corresponds with suf iloient exactness. Ur it may bo a sur vivor of Homo snako-liko cetacean, siioh ft? tho zemglodon, to whose babita it hugely conforms. Most scientists notably Professors Proctor and Agassiz (Kunu thi I'iMviitenco Jouricl.) inclino i*) til?1 fenner supposition, 'l'h,'iv i , iiow vcr, considerable ground ?or Hic lutter. AU itu motions nie cetacean; it is uniformly described us ti ii tin;, Iiis bend out of water- n cus tom ti) which sperm wholes aro much nd dieted; its undolatory movomout may be seen illustrated by every Eohool of porpoises; it risen suddenly to the sur in., i ir sinks like lead to t he bottom, ns overy whaleman knows his victim can from tho peculiar structure of its lungs; and its hannie: :-ness ia also cetacean, as whales seldom a thick save under excep tional circumstances. iiut whether the so-called sea serpent iso zcuglodon or mi ouoliosaurian, we shall never know for surety till we secure i- ki loton for the zoologist to classify. And very possibly this may yid be done. I oe existcuco of the devilfish was long deni? d, hut finally a specimen was ob tained that silenced all cavillers. Hereto fore observers of tho sea serpent have either stared in childish wonder, run awn.) i:i abject fear or peppered the nu ne d i with harmless sled. Some day mi old whaler witii a harpoon may make a capture that will bring bim fame. lu Ibo meantime we may as well admit that t!ie man who announces tlic roappear iinci of tho so-Ottllod sea serpent is not necessarily a deludid ignoramus or a falsifier. Doubtless many of the mon sters reported hy summer excursionists have no more real existence than the semblance of a whale which Polonius saw in the clouds, but nevertheless there is in actual lifo and presumable vigor n curious, bul harmless, marine animal erroneously called the sea serpent. To believe all the stories that are told of it is credulity, but to dony the possibility of its existence is presumption. i UK (iliK VT ITIAL'U. \:i Ohio |*n|N r iVIl i M hy ll I- .\ot Forgiven or Forgotten. (F/cin tho Cincinnati Snr..) A Domocmtio contemporary, which is ? li. posed to take un extreme view of the matter, says it is to be hoped that thc trustees OJ tho Tilden library, when it is established, will make .some provision to exclude Rutherford B. Hayes from the privileges o? the niiuiiilcont establish ment. lt even declares that "Hayes would be likoly to steal the books which IllO late President Tilden provided for the benefit of the people." We quote this matter a specimen of much that is current' in pr ii. i -to show that tho in dignation over tho fraud of 1870 has not. died out. Clouerai Hayes is a mos! re spectable citizen of this State, against whom, personally, wo are not disposed to rail. 1 ie w as an excellent soldier, and acquitted himself well in tho civil ofllccs which ho hold h) Ohio. As a Republi can, ho foll llhnsolf better than bis par ty, but the force of circumstances car ried him along with bis party into tho greatest wrong that has ovor bu n por potrali ll under a republican form ol' gov ernment, (uncial Hayes is, unfortu nately for hhnsolf, tho personal repro sentativo of tho most rascally fraud 1 nown to a hundred years of politics. KM ii his soldior record, his unassailable pi i vate character, and his dignified be havior in Ohio politics cannot save him from the disgrace of 1870. Many of our Republican contempora ries seemed to think that tho death of Mr. Tilden would stop tho cry of "fraud." Tin-re was a degree of Rcpilb I tenn sol f-congratulation on this point tlint bespoko a consciousness of guilt. The demise of tho Democratic candidate of lSTtl Mi nis only to have intensified thc Democratic feeling. Mr. Tilden, though a man of splendid attainment.^ and OBJ CCial value as a leader, was a sec i udary consideration. It was thc Dem ... ratio paris that was defrauded. Mort than that, it was the voice of the pcoph that was stifled. Tilt! Democratic re membrance of the rascality of 187<1 77 i: ?eil buried with the mortal remains ol the D?mocratie .standard bearer. Tin monumental theil which postponed Un a condnnby of the Democratic party ii tho government for eight years w hich m other words, drowned popularacclain for two administrations will be pnrtiou lally jin served in tho minds of Demo crats os long os ono of the principal po litical thieves still undertakes party bur glnry in Ohio, and as long as another o tho unscrupulous "visiting statesmen" i glorified as a Senator of the Unite? .Stabs from the third Stab: in the Union We need scarcely mieeify personally fo mir intelligent realtors. Tho man who remis as ho runs mus recognize Edward F. Noyes as tho origi mil of the first picture ami .lohn Sher man as tho man who sat for the second Tho Ht publicans complain about con staid Democratic reference to the fruin Ot 187(1, but keep tho feeling of (listliU alive by persisting in debauching til ballot hc>X. Since tho work of 70, ii which they were so eminently HUCCCH? ful, they have won a Presidency by coi rupting tho Stab- of Indiana, and in 188 P ey flooded every vating precinct i Ohio with it Corruption fund. They eve undertook to smirch the record of th rural dist riots of tho buckeye StaU? ft: honesty in elections, mid in Chichina tin y carried tho day by organizing a mo of criminals to intimidate peaceable cit zens und murder tho regularly const tated olUcors of tho law. Tho Derm i crats have ground for complaint, diurnal acclaim for a generation of me cannot wipe out tho awful record. An l.lrn for Fairs. A new idea for fairs has boon suecos fully worked out at Islington, Kuglani anti might bo adopted at bazars in th country, when gypsy tents, Christin tices, Reboc?os nt tho Woll and otb. well-known att.motions become undosir blo. At the Islington bazar inteicstii historical buildings were reproduce and their interiors embellished with li orally and tastefully supplied talih pre ided over by ladies in charactei ist costumes. Tho homes of Wycliffe, Ty dale, Shakespeare, Cowper, John Ru yan, William Penn, Milton and Wort: worth were reproduced. A milita camp, with tents and other Uttings, c copied a part of tho hall, and a OTOWnil of tho May Queen and old English spoi formed Hie entertainment of tho fa Adapted for this country, different bavsi might represent. Priscilla's Kitchen, t homet of some of tho poets and ot! hfotorioal buildings, while an Indian > Iago would doubtless be a great attn Hon to any bazar. . -1 ' Oolng to learn to dance, Clautl? "Yes, I vo takcu steps in dud direction.' , v - i ,,'.' ' AN Aioiou UKi.Tl'O ntl IfcKlt. Orlando, Un* Lali-Hl Addition lo tl?' llrltlitli Viv \ . .Io?! l.niuiclii'.t. (Lwid'ii Correspon'ecce of Cincinnati'Knqtflrcr.) Orlando, the liest of the "armor bolted cruisers" building for tho British navy, was launched on tho Tyne ti few days ago by Palmer's Shipbuilding Company (limited.) Bho is 800 feet long, r?<> feet wide and :17 feet, deep, with a normal draft of'21 feet and a toUd displacement of 5,000 tons. ?She is built of mild sh el, with a belt of "compound" or "slecl fOCOd" armor 6j feet deep and 10 inches thick on a U-illoh teak plaiding, which extends for200 feet on each side. On a lovel with the top of thu "bolt"-that is l ! feet above the water line and run ning for tlu> same length, there is a steel deck 2 inches thick, which at a distance of 50 feet from each end slopes down ward at au angle of ?50 degrees, with deck and plates ?1 inches thick. The openings of thc decks aro protected by armor shutters or shell-proof gratings. The engines, boilers, magazines, etc., ure placed beneath this protective deck, ind Hie navigation of the ship and the tiring of the guns will be directed from ii "conning tower" covered with armor plates twelve inches thick, placed at the fore end of the ship, and communica tion to thc various parts of the ship will pass through stiel tubes eight inches thick. Tho ship is divided into one hundred water-tight compartments, the bulkheads in some parts being excep tionally strong. The engines and boilers (occupying four water tight compart monts) are placed in the middle of the fillip, with coal bunkers on each side live feet wide. Bi neath the engines and boilers then: is a double bottom, divided into compartments, to be lilied with bal last water. There is an opon Bpac . bo Iween the bunkers and thc ship's side, t he magazines arc placed in the middle linc of tin' ship, fore and aft of the on orines, with store-rooms, shalt tunnels, de., on cither side. She will have two -et;, of engines, ot. . for each screw, of tho "triple-expansion type," with forty wo-inch steam cylinders, indicating a loise power of 8,000, and will steam uneb en knots per hour. She has four loders, with six corrugated lines each, .apable of working to a pressure of 180 KHUlds poi' square inch, lier steering gear is placed nfl, below the water line, md she has eight tubes for discharging orpedocs. lier iirmanieiit will consist il two twenty-two ton guns, ten live ton .lins and sixteen liotcllkiss qoick-lu'hlg (lins for throwing six and thrco-pound ihot. Tin; twenty-two-ton guns w ill be ?laced on the upper di ck, mounted on llltomatio carriages placed on revolving )lat forms mid protected by steel shields. I'ho six-ton guns will also bc placed on ho upper dock, llvo on cooli side. Of llO small guns fourteen w ill le placed m the main deck ?ind one at tho top of .ach most. IKr ship's company will ioiuist of 120 oiliccrs and nun, for y hom accommodation is provided on he main deck. The builders have made apid progress w ith this ship, as the con rad was only given them in April of ast year. Tlioy have another ship of .xactly the saint: plan now building for he British government. The contract rice for thc hull and engines, euch ship, s .?224,001). Talking of armaments, one is reminded hat thc Victory, Kelson's old llagship at he battle of Trafalgar, was ono of t lu d?ais inspected by the "colonial and [li lian visitors" who were Hie guests of the taval oiliccrs at Portsmouth ton days igo, and a comparison between her imminent and that ol' one of the modern illips illustrates very strongly tho roVO IttlOU that has taken place in naval ircllitoctlirc and ordinance since Hie bo tinning of inc century. While tin* \'ic ory carried 101 guns at the battle of trafalgar, the entire weight ol' ber >roadside was only 1,100 pounds, while me gun of the Indexible will throw a irojeotilo of 1,700 pounds. In other vords, one of the modern eighty hm runs will throw nearly live hundred loilllds more metal than the whole: immi nent of the largos! British ship engaged it Trafalgar. The gross tonnage of the Victory was 2,'20') tons, whilotlioluf(oxi de hos a displacement of ll, UK) tons. The former is a wooden sailing ship of he old "three-decked line of battle'' y po j tho latter is a twin-screw iron irinor plated turret ship, carrying four ;uns. Tho Indexible took a prominent mitin the bombaHlmcnt of Alexandria. lio? Some of 11 Are Talked To. lt is a foregone conclusion that tho illioi end of woman is to marry. And it J no less true that the question of mar iage is one in which tho women of tile vorld are more nearly Interested than in iiiy other. This being the case, thc won ler grows that there aro so ninny ill issortcd marriages and unhappy homes. * r A little common sense in matri monial aflairs, although it may despoil ho courting days of something of their omanco, is a very good thing. * ' Man, of all animals, is tho most BUS eptible to creature comfort. A loving toort and a caressing limul aro very ah Uring, but they lose somo t)f their cn diantnieiit if they forget to season thc loop and show an utter disregard for diirt buttons and sock heels. * * * A man luis an eye for beauty in his vife. lie notices the soft wave of ber mir and tho lit ol her gown with a sort >f pleasurable pride, even after time and rials baVC dimmed the glamor of lirst ove. The successful wife must represent ? her husband all the virtues; mus! bc ?vmpathi tic, and at thc name time Bonsl ile. Sho must bo bright, entertaining md agreeable at home as well as abroad, md sho must know bow to preserve si onco when it is desirable ' to hold lui otigue, OTODthough she is read-to burst vi tn indignation. If she does aol pos ?CSS these qualities, lot her cultivate tlu III nest assiduously. A woman's natural impulses lend her to ihoose. a ruler and guide in lier husband. v*nry*fow women desire to rule thc man o whom they link their destiny. Tho ruo wife gives to her husband her heart's >ost gift; she rejoices ii. him, ut proud of lim, and w ishes tho whole world to be in lynqNithy with her. But lot her not err n thinking that lier love caa hold his. I'lio love which prompts un sci tish ness, houghtiubicHS and consideration is very (OOO, so*far as it goos; but it must bc em pored with common sonso, so that in it? absorption it docs not neglect thc comfort of tho house and forget to be igrooable and daiuty.--Philadelphia Ro sord. TIIK l'IIKSIDKNT'S ItKTUKN. UK is i:xr.:n Georgetown Heights, information re ceived here yesterday indicates that he will start homeward thin week. During his absence tho repairs on the cottage have been pushed forward to completion, and thc interior thoroughly cleaned and burnished, SO that all is in readiness tor thc reception of the Presiden! and his wife should they arrive lu te to-inor I'OW. I' is the intention ol'the President to occupy his cottage until cold wcathor sela in, and oven then he will probably spend his winter Sundays there. The return of tho President will, of course, be tin' signal for tho homo-coming of thc cabine' and other prominent ollicinls, who reel thal they are not entitled to fl longer vacation than the head 0? the Oovornmcnt. Postmaster-General Vilas will return from Ins home in Wisconsin thc later part of the present weil;, al though his wife and tinnily may delay their return to Washington .several weck? lougor. Nothing definite is Known about tho intentions of Attorney-t ?eiierul (larlnnd, bul at tho Department of Jus tico ho is ox pee ted herc heforo the first of October. ?Secretary Whitney has no tified his steward to have the I street residence ready for occupancy by tin latter part of noxl week, and also tc straighten up things at tho snmmoi house, near tho President's cottago, Sec rotary Lamar will bo in Washington when the first cabinet meeting is called, Ho enjoys taking his vacation in driblet, whenever the spirit moves him. Scoi'0 tary bayard has remained at his post all summer, and it is probable that i ? wil take a brief but much-need vacation dur ing tho month ot i Ictobor. Ho will scol a secluded spot, where ho can have abso late rest and au opportunity to rcouper ate. S13CRKTAKY MANN IN? i's RBTllUttniNT. Tliero are but few persons who oxpec Secretary Manning lo resume his seat a the cabinet t.ible. His personal friend and those who an in frequent conuiumi cation with thc members of tho Mnnuui| family assert positively Hud his dccisioi to retire from the Treasury Depart men is thud, and has been unchanged sine lie forwarded his resignation to thc Prot ident. The latter waa and is now avers to losing Mr. Manning from his ollioiti family, but he real i HOS the true conditio: of Mr. Manning's health, and thorcfor cannot conscientiously insist upon his rc mailling. Had Mr, Manning's resigno tioli lu i II promptly accepted when lilt tendered, then: are bundie s o? anti administration pi opie who, it is ch iinctl would have sci/.eil upon the oppor. unit to charge ?hat thcro was a pol?tica' ?lc agrccmchl between the President an lushest friend and most vahad politic! adviser. As soon us Mr, Manning's fan ?ly physician diagnosed thc case, he ai mimiced that it would be almost as niue as tho patient's lifo was worth for him t attempt to tax his brain with tho can and responsibilities, to say nothing ? the physical duties, of Secretary of til Treasury. As much as the President r? gutted to make a change in his Calline he was obliged t?> bow to tho inovitabli lt was determined, howovor, that thoi was no necessity for hasty action, i Acting Secretary Fairchild was full competent to manage tho financial braue of the government. In tho mcantinv the extent of Secretary Manning's ph; nicol hliimiiticfl has become apparent I all reasonable persons, and ho will rollt tautly retire from public lifo. K XT lt A WORK l'oit TUB CLERKS. One night lastwcck, Chief Clerk Yo mans wont down to tho Treasury Dopai ment about IO o'clock, and found a lar? lona1 of clerks at work in tho ollicos thc First Comptroller and Treasuror. . such an occurronco was somewhat ll Usual, Mr. Youinniis asked a chief division why the clerks were working such a Into nour. The chief frankly i formed Mr. Younians that the sottlcmo of the Alabaran claims had imposed large amount of additional work upi tho bureaus interested in adjusting t claims referred to. Besides thc oxl work imposed, much annoyance and ?. lay in the work have been occasioned tho frequent visits of claimants and tin attorneys, urging that the cases in win they wore directly interested should made "special." Thc rules ?)f the ? partmont require that all porsonssecki information relative to public hlisllli shall bo granted a respectful and pata hearing. Many of tho Alabama clai ants, it ia said, presume upon this rule occupy the tuno of the clerical force endeavoring to push the Rottlemout their respective cases ahead of ollie This class of claimants resort to thc in adroit of methods to get into the frc tiry Department af ter the regular visiti hour, which is'2 P. M. Every hour half hour w hich they consume in lippi ing to clerks to make their cases "s ciftl" delays tho work on other cases t! Hinch lougor. To avoid any furl I trouble and delay by visiting ckiimai Mr. Younians has issued a special on which will prevent such persons fr entering tho Treasury hui.ding afte o'clock. Unless authorized to do so tho Secretory, no cases of this charin, will bo modo "special," bittali of th will be settled in tho order in which tl were passed upon by tho auditing offlci For the past week tue clerks in Treust Jordan's 0ill00 have worked extra he drawing drafts for the payment of tl claims, which are promptly signed ? registered and mailed to the rospec claimants. The principal clerks of thc Navy {rnrtnient aro said to bo dissatisfied \ thc prosont mles govoraing the purcl of supplies. Secretary Wait ney dis? crod some, timo ago that the chief oh of bureaus wer. in thc habit of ignoi i-?mm ? Ti rn- ;i ??.....? eontraotors who uro muh r ngrci mont t<1 furnish supplies to tho department nod procuring any nrticlos tiny wislicd in open market. Mo issued nu order nf oneodirecting Ilia? all supplies should come from tlie department contractors. Thoordorat Cost was not obeyed. Ind after several of tho dorks wore forced I" pay for the articles purchased in viola tion of it, they came to the conclusion thai Secretary Whitney was dcb rmhied. KKK VTOIM \IJ I'lMIIKKMKX. 'Iii ni r favor Ile Itmorl ni l?ol?l ol i" ? i iii ,Unr\ I ft ntl Aloillttlltl (OorrcHpjndcnco of tl illili U>li>i>it I'ini ?., POINT OF HOCKS, Md., September 1(5. -Along the Potomac mar this little mountain station is one of thc ihn st Hulling places in tho South, il i: only thirty miles from Washington and has long licou tho favorite rcsorl o? legisla tors who have a penchant lor tin rod. Three rooks jutting up from Hie stn un an? known as Hie "Senatorial Hocks" and ono furthor down as tho 1 Pr< ?den-1 tial Kock." Tho people of thc vii! . arc ever cager to tell ot' the famous llsh- ' ing excursion hore thrco years a? o, when President Arthur and Senators lltiinp ton ami Vest sat on those rock.-, through four long hot ?lays ami caught m arly tour hundred lisli. Nearly every ? during this summer ono or more Sonn tors have been seen pcrcht ll on tin- rock;, angling for tho sportive swimmers. Ac cording to the testimony of the villager::, Senators Wade Hampton, Vcsl and Kenna aro tho most persistent ami suc cessful nuglcrs, with Edmunds, Fryo and Gorman as good seconds. Hampton was hero four lime , during the spring and early slimmer, ami stopped over for two day- aller Con gress adjourned. Ile is the most .silent, of nil the Senatorial iishcrmcii. While his negro body servant keeps the booksi bolted and a mysterious dark Husk i vcr at bis master's hand, tho Senator is con stantly bent forward, with cyesiutt ul on tho sparkling, except when tho p King tish biles. Thou, unlik< mo : Senatorial Qsliormcn, ho does not get excited ami! give the line a tremendous jerk which I throws the tish high into lin' cir andi' baok again into tho water. Aa it afraid I of hurling tho swimmer, ho elevates Hie pole gently until it is above tho Burfacc, draws it in slowly, I ds the in gro detach it; liten in a moment the lino i one more sinking in the water and the Sena-1 tor is bending forward as if his lin do pended on catching oy?ry nu Hon of thc .string', lt is said that ho has never lo ! a Ash in getting it old of thc wah r, and that no man wno has iver appeared oil these lishing grounds has been more cessflll than he. A catch ?d' sixty fish ni ? 1 ono morning is credited io bim, From those caught, he selects a dozen or BO for dinner and gives tho rest to any one who will take them. There arc some queer stories atloatl hereabout his servant going into tin village three times a day to replenish tho mysterious dark Husk, bul no cyo-w iii., of tho occurrence could lu- found. Hu skies it was a time winn Senators Vest and Blackburn, ol Kentucky, occupied the adjoining rocks, so if tin re bo guilt Hampton should not In a:- it nil. Vest is hardly inferior to the South Carolina Senator in handling tho roil. Occasionally lie gives way toa littlo ex citement when there is a particularly .sharp nagging at his line, but, generally speaking, be i? a calm and Rciontitic lis1, j uriiinn. Ho was tho teacher of President Arthur in the science ami titi? accounts l for the warm friend, hip which exbhs bo- : tween the two. dust before Congress adjourned .Mr. Arthur wrote to tin Si li nter, saying that as KOO ll as his health i permitted ht* would like tn have am tin r I week at Point of thicks. Senator Vc t | is not so silent, lb- intersperses Iiis j catches with stories about his tish sue- I cesses in Missouri and out at Yellow - , < stone Park, but all the time kn ps a t lose watch on his lino. He has, perhaps, tho finest fishing tackle th.it has been set n in these parts. The roils are of a pecu liar cherry colored root! and his n i ls aii silver. The sot cost, h is saul, about $150. Kenna, of West Virginia, who was out on tho river yesterday, bas thc ri prut.t tion of being tho champion angler of I West Virginia. Unliko ovory other tish? orman, Senatorial or otherwise, lie car ries a real bait bottle. This may bo ac counted for by the fact that he is a tem perance man in private lifo, Tl 0 West Virginia Senator goes about fishing ill regular backwoods style. Dressed in jean trOUSOl'S tucked III boots, a blue; shirt and a short rusty alpaca coat, liol looks like the typical dweller oil the i banks of tho Potomac. Hedi:'-.In own bait, attends to his own honks and manipulates his catches with his own hands. In fact ho believes in carrying out tho role to tho letter rather than 1 playing tho gentleman angler. Ile lovi S to tell stories about his gn at doings on j the Kannwha, and the truth ol his tales aro corroborated hy Ins home people. ! Ho ranks next to Vest as a Ilsll-story teller and is infinitely more truthful. Senator Edmunds, who is liOW up in Maine handling tho rod, is known to every villager about hore. What is strange to Washingtonians, thoy spoak of him ns the "jolly old bald-headed fel low." Ho is certainly bal l, and bis looks justify his being called old, but just how the people got the impression that be is jolly it is hard to guess. Per haps lui thaws out away from tho dignity of tho Senate chamber. Perhaps the mountains and tho river and tho simple country people recall tho days of his childhood ami stir the sluggish blood ii' his veins to its youthful vigor. Perhaps the Senate restaurant-keener kindly puts a good supply of cold tea in bis valise for use on the Potomac, or perhaps but after all it is all only guesswork. The Venn nt Senator is like 1 lampion in silent contemplation of the waves nm' like him, too, in scientific management of his rod. In the latter part of July last '?a "might fifty-six tish before noon. His attire while on the river la the sam li, he wears in the Senate chamber, with exception of a big, broad brimmed straw hat, which is pulled down over his ears. Fryo and Gorman havo gained fame at Point of Hocks also, but they aro too busy with their homo campaigns this summer to give any time to angling. Frye never eames any rods with him. With a common lino wonn ; around la bit of wood ho .'tul for the river and cul* a p 'le mi t he way down. In fact, ho goos al>ont tho matter much after Un man ncr of n sohoolboy and seems to cn joy it all with a thoroughly youthful ap - predation, ile waa ono of President Arthur's favorite companions, under tho preceding administration. Bonator ( lor mau lives only n row miles from Point ol Bocks, and frequently brings his guests up boro for a days' (tabing. Ile is oxcoi cliiigly fouil of Ibo ?port. When bo in ike au unusually largo catch bc is ;;s gil fill IIS tl child. * Willie oil his Wily from Hagorstown to Baltimore, a few . i: i ago, bo had to stop over boro for itali an boar to await his train. Ho spout Iii A'liolo time down at Hu- river bank Inokiug longingly al tho "Senatorial Ll ku." Ile said that as noon as tho political conventions ill .Maryland wore . roi' ho would cone lu re for a week and bring tho President with him, if tho lat t. r luid aol got onougli of tho sport up in the Adirondacks. M. n. n. THU SOI I. Ol' MOOII IN li VIL. Purni1 Unid) .oui lli'iiulHiil Uxtrai'lM from mi Olil Lct'lliril ?>> l'un! ll. Mayne. Beyond tho orbit of Longfellow's "rod planet Mars," wheeling in circles w hich metimos interest ouch other, astrono mers di covered between 1800 and 1H07 [our > ' . 1:111 planetary bodies, to which Sir John Herschel has givon tho mime ol asteroids. Doviatiug so much from lin palli in tho beavens described by tho other tenants of our solar system that the zodiac roust bo expanded live times its breadth in order to include their ?rbita, beurina with thom traces of atmospheric phenomena and gigantic li : and what is most remarkable, pre st titing to tho observer's oyo not tho form ol' nu oblato spurid, but edges rugged and uneven, lt has been con jectured by Prof. Olbors, of Berlin, that these bodies originally united in one grout planet, must by sonn- strange ex plosion have bivii scattered into space, whcilover tboy gleam upon us now with tho light dimmed amt mournful of a fragmentary existence. A doom akin to this may bo resting Intent in tho bowels of our own earth. Sometimes wo hear tho demon muttering iii- mysterious language and lulling his thunders underground, and then, un chained for a season, ho riots in carth ipiak? i or soars upon tho fumes of vol canic exhalations. Pompeii and Herculaneum were buried in a :,; '.ht. Lisbon, with horthousands, , valli. Iu d like one of those dissolving ; ..earth bubbles" to which Bouquo com- j pan ? Ibo wind sisters in Macbeth. Uivi v that have ?lowed for ages with in their appointed bounds are precipi tated into now channels, or swallowed up in tho vortices of lire and smoke; . fertile phuns shiver Uko glass beneath tin beet ol' some malign enchanter, and thc whole glube trembles as with throes ol' lili sollltioll. And yet, in the economy of nature what aro tlicsu convulsions but tho nor mal ve.its wlnre through tho earth's . overcharged heart relieves itself of thc P . un iit humors -thc consuming heats which seethe mid boil about tho core of ber vitality'? A few days, months, or i year, and her scarred visago assume again tho lovliness ol'old; from thc site ni her lava burials ami the chasms which show where her sick agony was ali but mort il, a riclier verdure courts thc airs ol' heaven and vaters more brightly I K imi ii'u I Hash back tho splendor of sun ligl i ami stars. Tho earthquake, thc tempest, tho pas dun ? I \i -callie eruptions, ure therefore J I ; : i ? \ ol'mercy, Were it not for (heir strong agencies, wp too might have been rolling through ihu "voids im mense," shorn ot our birth-right of lifo uni gl< ry! Desolation for an hour; itabilily tor CCIltlirics; tho upheaval of luci* nt landmarks to-day, and to-mor row the beginning of a new order of 1 Harmonious law, which progrosses fruin .pooh to i pi ich, along pathways of beneficence and lovo; sudden deaths to hundreds of thousands, and the fullness :>f life tu myriads, perhaps of genera tions! Such are thc sublime compensa tions i,i Providence. Who, then, can iloilbt that our wonderful physical sys tem, balanced and controlled by tho omnip lit arin, is but a typo in its per il el advancement of that moral, spiritual 1 mid political world within whosi obit humanity is called upon to act Hu ninia . i its destiny. In the conceit of theoretic reason wc may ask: "Wherefore, O Hod! hast thoa done thus and thus?" I >r with tho Spanish sceptic's audacious hardihood WO may ailinn that "if (?od lia?! only consulted us at tho creation, kve could have favored him with hints to * Ids ndvantago;" bat, despite man's blasphemy and folly, tin kind "All t'atber" i.-> leading him through proces ses lu- cai.not comprehend to tho noblest fruition ol' his hopes, "lt suits nut," -ays the archangel in "resins," !t suit I not tho eternal laws ol' dod That evil bo immortal! Vet on this temporary, partial stage of human action it is often through evil dunc Unit thc highest possible good is .volved, and in proportion to tho magni tude of tho evil may be thc vital grandeurs of tho benefit, Those arc truths that WO should all leeply ponder. 1 ho b mptatioil to utter skepticism to ..curso Clod" in our hearts ami "die" rises upon too many with a terrible force, Vet fruin the depths ol sorrow and pain, if we listen aright, comes the voice of a beautiful consolation which seems to ly: "From tho ashes of corruption spring the Howers of verdure, thc rich blooms of earth, and so in tho loatbo Homcncss of Bin and error and all "things 0V?," lies hidden away, but slowly gath ering its powers for resurrection, the im mortal "soul of good." A I lirtOHD ('AHM Of lillliilllf-HM. Dr. Widmark, a Swedish surgeon, h wing as a initient a young girl in whom ho w.n unable to detect the slightest pathological changes in thc right eye, bul win? was yet completely blind on that side, observing considerable do feots In tho teeth, sent ber to M. Skogs hoig, a denial hurgOOIi, ?bo lound that all tho upper and lower molars wcro completely decayed, and that in many of Hiern tho roots were inflamed. Ho i (trnoted the romains of tho molar on tho right side, and in four days'time tho sight of the right eye began to roturn, and on the e.eveiith day after tho ex traction ol teeth it had become quite normal. Tho diseased fangs on tho other sido wore subsequently removed, lost they should causo a return of tho ophthalmic sifectlon, London Lancet. If Ids love hi's dreaming will she toll thc truth when ?he is awake? A Hell " Fix- Hundred \ mn.. Tho eily of Breslau celebrated tho flvo hundredth auuivorsary of an ooourrenoe whicli was memorable, in tho history of the town und is known v horovor Ger man poetry finds n home. Tho boll which bungs in tho southern tower of St. Mary Magdalen's Church und is named "St. Mary's bell," but is usually known as "the poor sinner's bell," nmg out morning and evening on tho 17th of July to remind all who heard it that it was cast on that day live hundred years ago. Next day (Sunday) thc preacher reminded his congregation of tho pathetic story which nus made it singu lar among hells, bow, when all was ready for casting, the bell founder with drew for a few moments, leaving a boy in charge of the. furnace, warning him not to meddle with the catch that un cured tho seething metal in the caldron. But tho boy disregarded tho caution, and then, terrified on seeing tho molten metal beginning to flow into thc mould, called to tho bell founder for help. Rushing in and seeing what bc had in tended to bo his masterpiece rained, aa be thought, angered to madness, ho slew tin; boy on tho spot. When the metal had cooled and the mould was opened, the bell was found to be an exquisite work, perfect in finish, and of marvelous sweetness of tone. Coming to his senses, ho recognized Iiis bloody work and straightway gave himself to thc magis trates. "Blood for blood" was tho law; ho was condemned to die, and lie went to his doom while his beautiful boll pealed an invitation to all to pray for "the poor sinner," whence its name. \V. Muller bas enshrined tho sad story in a hallad of touching simplicity: "War einst oin Glockcngicszcr Zu Breslau in der Stadt. ' Tiondon Times. bord Randolph Chun hill, replying to the directors of the Scottish Protestant Alliance, who recently criticised his an swer to their remonstrance against the ap pointment of .Matthews, a Roman Catho [ic, to tho Home Secretaryship, says bc must decline lo discuss the matter, lie adds that if the views of the Alliance were pushed to a logical conclusion, they would involve the repeal ol all those Acts of Par liament removing thc political disabilities pf Catholics and the rc enactment of penal laws, which a vast majority of the british people arc anxious to forget. THE LAUKE?S KAU. FOHN 0. HASKELL, N. U. D?AL, Columbia, S. C. Laurens, S. C. HASKELL & DIAL, A T T O RN E Y S AT L A W, LAURENS C. II., S. 0. J. T. JOHNSON. W. lt. KIClIKY. JOHNSON & KIClIKY, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, UVFICE- Fleming's (Joi ner, Northwest side of Public Square. LAURENS C. H., S. C. J. C. OAKLINGTON, A T T O R N E Y A T LAW, LAURENS 0. II?, S. C. Office over NV. ll. Garrott's Store. \Y. c. 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