radesire a live correspondent |postoffice in the county, who wn brief items of NEWS as it airs |h neighborhood. | ~Write plainly." the iene opisa DAY, JaNvaRy 16mu, £896.FPpest they. Shean ~Bay enough good- Remarking upon some, recent, statis-~ties which, go to the credit, of the South-as showin g its material progress, ~thePhiladelphia Press says: : oThis ~pros~pective development of the South willbe woleomed by the North, ~for it must | Preact beneficially . ~upon this. ueighbor-hood , and. she whole, copmtry., The~Sonth® willT thenT beT no donger aclog upon the progress of tlie nation, as~it has been for a generation.�» ,. .This is tolerably . low-lived fae theoManufacturers�, Hestté & -o well�'to. re We: quote} °wee ie Anes Saas= the ~simple ~iteuaeal ~that since |valued at $4,000, 000, 000, while shesetae a wheat. and , flour ~¢om-binec ame ri have been 82-on eins 'Morey tte, during Gh same oper: s been about $3,2( 200,000, b otheresa Aiference i in favor of « cotton of $1,-ing into poe vein, the Re.SMB NOE: has dythat after all: perhaps the}pia sade eg u- the Segui ~ShipBulkng Com.a"ply with the1875 ourexports of cotton have béen}been native of, a oeselves ad pa us. ;_ Some other sage, philosopher ortatesman. also said something about)listeney being a jewel.�a ~Another trite saying is never for-get the bridge that carried you safelyover the stream"or words to that ef-bale:y We are forcibly reminded of these pumbers of. incidents within] |gs ast year and previously.| thincertain emergencies"that i is toshen mthey: are opecuniarly interest-g head letters. Th suchthings about us; but their memory: isvery much like the old darkeyTs mule"awful thickT hide and extremely short]memory. | They forget, that in order toet in a position to aid them we must].blish a paper all the year round. Toio this takes money and lots of it, yet},these friends, when they get in a posi-tionT wheh' they want work: done forwhich ~they: know . th.y will, have; to[pay, they are not in evidence at this}otfiee, In~ other behind after ae ato 8 tree horse, until hea isjacw! here to hire another...t may be noted, ~also, that even in\the Way 6f advertising in this paper| these people naire, no in. alte, a it, erwh or, as the old pew sail. oGen�us down, or at least, try it."Greensboroee itHow Factories Make Cities.| "The Greenville, S.C; News? makes |: thie mention ¢ of the car-loads of North.| Care nian who. ~recently passedington for Pelzer :oProbe ably th the la et number of im-'8 cies that haf ever come into. ~SouthOpole inT one body since the daysen the first settler came in ships ar-Nest at Pelzer recently. The partywas brought in a special train of fifteen~bears from North Carolina, and consisted | |(ofl ,940 people, besides. a number ofchildren who did not pay fare. They, and came: direct fromthe: farms and will work ~in the cotton[mil ;act wen ape at fightning aWola: hater our friends by-theenterprise a and want it heraldedv~| Were gat ered in three counties of: fifteenth century, when Louis XIa| aking. « DianeT the beautifal"~ re airy name of the Chateau duP: er her butterfly days were over. |of, the Butterfly is a silk factory~ i 1 | ital in the countryside, and the old| with silk prow and a key, ta ee neering his body, and the fee te) besecured to the junction of the rib-bon and string to serve. a8 a con-duotor from which he might draw || the sparks of celestial fire if it came. |went out on the openPhiladelphia and faced death"faved |the tremendous power of the light-ning stroke, before which all peopleof all ages had ¢ in terror,faced what most of the world thenbelieved to be the avenging blow of |an angered God. True, he believedthat electricity and lightning werethe same thing and therefore had nodifferent properties or effects, but hedid not know it.The best existing theory which| accounted for electrical phenomenaat that time was his own. The laws |of electrical conduction or resist- |ance, now so familiar, were not evensus Who could predict that. the lightning would obey any law?Besides he had produced tremendousshocks with his Leyden jars in seriesand had killed birds with them.~More than that, he had_ been terri-bly shocked himself by the samenned_ into insensibilityand. nearly killed. ~He had saidagain and again that an electric}~shook, if strong enough, would biotout life, though without a pang. If} D~his idea was correct, if his convio-tion was true, he was now about toface an electric discharge besidewhich that of the most powerful ofman made batteries would seemweak and insignificant. .All the world kuows what bap-~| pened. The kite soared up into theplack cloud while the philosopherstood valmly in the drenching rainwatching the string until finally hosaw the little fibers of the hempraise themsolves. ._Then without 2tremor he touched his knuckle totho key"and lived. oPor the sparkcrackled and leaped ~to his finger isharmlessly as did ~that from his old~familiar electrical machine and al-}lowed him to charge his jars with itwith the same impunity. ".He sent the story of what he haddone. abroad without a particle oftrumpeting. He was not a disoov-erer for revenue. No stock markets |ulreddiaima; no newspaper stood peers to~plaze forth his achievement in theinterest of the money jugglers. Hisown narrative barely fills one of the~little columns of The GentlemenTsMagazine for Oct. 19, 1752, and ithas at its end only the initials B. F."Park Benjamin in CassierT s Maga-zine.a "Diane de } Poitiers,oWhile the abbess of Soyons, beingstil] untried by the stress of battle,went sinless upon her still orthodoxway there lived just across the riveron the manor of lTEtoile a sinner of~a gayer sort"Diane ~de! Poitiers.The castle of the Star dates from thedwelt there as governor of Dauphinyand was given lessons in ho w tothemost beautiful,T as Francis I gal-|lantly called her"transformedfortress into a bower and gave to it(or accepted for it) the appropriate-i aeillon. ~There she lived long aft.There, even, she received the visitsof Henry II, her dead lover's son.~And a & way, although . the Castle~now, she lives there still, just as an- |er light ladyT beautifal, Queen)Provence, for DianeTs legend still is~still talk about ber asT: : ~the Were alivé"among them ee ,~of the Duohesse de Valentinois, ~bat |! |by her love title eeby her; $5,930 and would hhave been more hadhoy ese gerne rahe oe of tick-When the thunderstorm broke, he |common near | || Western North Carolina Conference,| ment; and hé sent him to ~RockT Springjand ~sent Mr. Stovall fo ~the ~Vacant |the | Coliseum.OBSERVERse of Naples, lives on in bearby |be ERs ger? egete eeteams and cut and delivered twenty-~seven cords of wood to the Resa aMov. Homphiy Ward lives, ian inthe country, at Aldbury, « a sleepy Eng-lish villiage of 800 people, under the.Chilton Hills. oMrs. WardTs residenceis called StackTs Howse.volumes of German works have beenprepared in raised type. The books willbe lent out for a small fee.A farmer went into Richmond - onset. it, on fire.was called out.The Fire DeThe father of si badGazette.In speaking the other day of his &feat at the recent election Wat Hardin,of Kentucky, said: oI am too proudto whine, and too good to curse; andTas my remarks wouldT have to come un-der eo heads, I pass.�enon aiDeclined to aera Their Preacher.Last year Rev. J. T. Stovall, of theM. E. Church, south, was in charge otRock Spring� cireuit, Lincoln county, |For some reason his people were ditsatisfied with him. At the close of theyear they paid him up in full in hopethat the ~Conference would send himelsewhere ; but the bishop promptly f~turnedT him toT the ~sameT Cireutt. VE 8}people, ohowever, declined to _Fepeive |Mr, Stovall aud the bishop, Wils COUl-pelled toT omake an exchange. Hefound another minister whose wife wasdissatisfied with her husbandTs appoint |charge._ What the trouble was between Mr,Stoval and his people i is not made ~pub-|lic but the occurrence is an unusual onein the Methodist Church. The Methtm, Q., last week, twen-|ty-seven ~men ~turned. out with theirVienna has established a circulating |library for the blind, for which 400 | §Saturday, with a load of hay and a boy )boy paid damages, says the Alexandria behrae 2} £33:A ae ins heySayae yoo e.* ys: mo is + = * oee 40 ~ S ee A.Good.......-. es TtodFine... vente ens edt 015: one en Py aeips cray- baBeeswax. 7.Below a Norfol ol of cand peanu yesterdy furby Cobb Bros. & ~Com ston.chants of Norfok : sede oe. :| Good Middiing = | & 8-16Mid ingT ST 1-16ood Ord aa ay * Pone"steaPEANUTS.| Prime . ae *| Extra Prime MB,Spanish $1 buroe eeGreenville Market.Corrected by S. M, Schultz. || Batter per lb 16 to 25Western Sides inSugar cured: Hams T2 to 183Corn . Bi to 60Corn Meal " o60 to 65Flour, Family _ 3.75 to 4.25oe $1 to 40 ©~| Sa ~ 4 tob1Co 16 to 26Salt per Sack 80 tol 16Chickens 194 to 20~Eggs per doz ae 3 :& -. KING),On Fiftit o1 yeh near Five. Puna. ami, ee eenRagenPassengers carsied pt any.int at reasonable rates... Veeorses, C6 protorsghie Vehicles.odist generally submit to the Conference | Haporterdiscipline and endure whatever is giventhem for a year at least. StatesvilleLandmark. |- Bricks,There is ~no building material soen from the buildings in Ninevebdecay or disintegration, yanthe ancient did not burn or bake |them, but dried them in the sun.The baths of Caracalla and of Titus |in Rome and the Therma of Diocle-~time far better than thes stone of theoThe Charif 2 Char t| jne ee :EO eR Rsi~NovtitT ~CaroltiaTsbooldurable as well made bricks. In|the British museum are bricks tak- |and Babylon which. show no sign of |}tian have endured the ravages of | 7& %v* 7®ed4a.ou Weoo| WERELY, |, temohigevil ,hor 10 Bs home,home,, the~4 PO Mg at ba)Pea es be : bs~itegeadil and fearless ; biggerT and | cour) hy re ene _ it will be antire3h