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? ^^^^ y^^^^ j ^^^^^^ l T { .(....? .? .. ...... - ? . I Vol. i!, OBANGEBTJRG, S. C, FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1879. JSTo. 19. .?? _ ?^??i;-v;,:rt?.iii.:.-!r.;-" SHERIDAN & SIMSj Proprietors. Sunsciueri?N. One Year.81.50 8lx MonUji9.J.a;.U<.r...vf..i.|J..iA-.--l?00 MlnlstcnTof the Gospel..:.].00 At>VlCKTISEJ\IENTS. Irst Instertlon.$1.00 ach Subsequent Insertion:.....50 Liberal contracts maUu tor 3 month anil over. I ? ? I.- '? ? '. " '?" ? ... ,"?'. I'll- w.? - > 11 : * 14 :4 -1 - i i ; j i i J v - ?.u . . T!.', ( ',l/lO IPrWHW MIBNT Um ,? ' ,k ?? ?b? REMARKABLE CAREER OTT A MAN WHO ' "SWjO^E OFF" TAKING F^UI^SEVENTY Recording the death of Asael P. Jrimnn, whose-funeral took place two miles . east of Utica, JST. Y., a corres pondent ,says : Inman was ,a highly 'cccentrio character.. ..Seventy years ago he built a log cabin ?n one of the h?ls that slope to tho Mohawk river. He was then sixlccti1 years of age, Jiad a wife and ?30. Somotirae du ring the first year of his wedded life Inman told his wife that lie intended' to preserve silence for iho remainder of his days,. This conclusion was the result of an exciting dialogue which Inman overheard between his father and a near relative. Expressinga belief that more harm than good is ?wrought by speech, he announced bis determination , to pjacc a permanent padlock on his lips. This was in 1810. The following year his first child was born. When that interesting event was approaching a near climax Inman rode seven miles in the night to Fort Herkimer in quest of a physi cian*. Ho carried slate and pencil, wrote a statement of the situation, and returning with.the medicine man, received the announcement of his pa ternal responsibilities in silence. The following year?in 1812?when the .yeomen of central and northern New York were summoned to the defense of Saokett's Harbor, Inman reported for duty at a post near Adams, Jeffer son county, riding alono nearly 100 miles through the forests to the re cruiting station. Producing his slate he wrote: "I come to fight?not to talk." Some years ago Inman had occa sion to visit Buffalo, and as a suit in law was in prospective he went pre pared for a scige.' Entering one of the leading hotels in Buffalo, the old gentleman wroto : "Best room. No meals. :I.burn wood. Thought you might not havfe enough, so I brought some along.*' The big trunk, packed . with W?0tl, was taken up to his room, and it sufficed to keep the eccentric warm and cook his meals during his sojourn in Buffalo. Kerosene oil was a pet aversion. His theory was that the glare strained the eyes, while the oil left an unhealthy taint in the at mosphere. He was never known to sit by a coal fire, and always avoided gas, and his son, from whom I gather these details, assures me that rather than sit ia a car heated by a coal lire, tho old gentleman- preferred to ride twenty-six miles on the platform on a bitter cold day in winter. His wife, who survives him, says that no woman ever had a kinder husband. The relations between the couple were always pleasant, and Mrs.. Inman has remarked to her neighbors: "If Asael talked as much as I do, the Lord knows what might happen." Mrs. Inman is eighty-eight years old, and vigorous. She states that during the first years of her husbands silence he would fre quently mutter in his sleep. Some of his written replies to the questions ?f acquaintances carious to know why he preferred silence to speech are worthy of mention. One retort frequently used was: "A good listener is to *be preferred to n poor talker." Another was: "I want I to prove that a man can be hnppy and hold his tongue." Another : "I am trying to think of something good enough to say out loud." A clergy man once asked Inman whether he did. not think the Lord gave him a tongue to be used. The pencilled reply was : "The Lord gave mo a mind that tolls me when to use my tongue." In 1842, while traveling with his wife in a stage between Syracuse and Rochester, the vehicle halted in front of a country tavern. A child was sleeping on the porch. Inman, look ing out, saw a large black snake crawl to the side of the infant. Grasping his wife's arm, he shouted : "See!" and, pointing to the snake, sprang from the stage, pursued the reptile and finally killed it. He leaves a carefully written rec ord of his lifo during some sixty years ,of his, silence, Portions of these diaries are quite interesting, but as a rule he enlarges upon the absurd ity of giving utterance.to frivolous thoughts. Ho seems to have regard* cd speech as a sacred gift, to be in dulged in only when it promised ben efit to the human race. Here arc some of his "axioms:" "Most lives arc productive of empty noise." "As one million is to one, so is sense to sound/' "Ho who talks most fools least." "The fool talks while the wise man thinks." Inman leaves a snug fortune, whioh his son inherits. His last written mcssngo was: "Si lence is golden." His oft-penciled admonition to his son was : "Keep your mouth shut." Envy! There is no passion that finds lodg ment in the human heart more despi cable than this thing called "Envy," and where indulgence is given to its baneful Influence, there is nothing that operates so successfully, as it does, in robbing one of all the con stituent elements of elevated man hood. No person can give acquies cence to its promptings without low ering himself in his own C3'cs, and furnishing a free subject for the ridi cule of his fellow men. That a man can entertain any res pect for himself while he is the slave cf so base a master, as Envy, is at best questionable ; that he receives onlj* sneers and .ridicule from his as sociates, our daily observation places beyond all question. And in the place of such heavy losses what pray does it profit him? Docs it make the object of his envious hatred less worthy of esteem and con fidence ; less capable of winning his way in the world ; less estimable in tho eyes of those who come in social and business relations with him? We think not. By sly insinuations, backbiting and silly exhibitions of his own weaknesses, the envious man may succeed in rendering himself very absurd and disgusting to those with whom he comes in contact; but the person he seeks to injure will not bo harmed by his irrepressible but impotent ravings. Be advised, there fore, O, weak and unhappy man, and seek to root out of your narrow soul the seeds of Envy, that you may give room there for nobler and higher growths! If you find your poor littlo heart, so insubordinate and depraved, that it will not down at the bidding of your better judgment, then nt least keep so vigilant a guard nt your lips, that no Word may escape them which will betray your miserable enslave ment.?Stiniier Watchman. Served Him Right. A young-lady was addressed by a man, who, though agreeable to her, was disliked by her father, who would not consent to their union, and she determined to elope. The night was fixed, the hour came, he placed the ladder to the window, and in a lew minutes she was in his arms. They mounted a double horse, and were soon some distance from the house. After some time the lady broke the silence by saying: "Well you see what proof I have given you of my airections; I hope j'ou will make a good husband." lie was a surloy fellow, and gruffly answered : "Perhaps I may, and perhaps not." She made no reply, but after a si lence of some minutes, she suddenly exclaimed; "Oh! what shall I do? I have left my money behind mc in my room 1" "Then," said he, "we must go back and fetch it." They were soon again at the house, the ladder again placed, the lady again remounted, while the ill-natured lov er remained below. But she delay ed to come, and so he gentl}* called ; "Are you coming?'' When she look ed out of the window and said : "Per haps I may, and perhaps not;" and then shut down the window and left him to return on the double horse alone. Sensible girl. Two young girls of Wilmington, Ohio, were silly enough to follow the members of a minstrel troupe to Leb anon, a few days since, and put up at the same hotel. They enjoyed their escapade and appeared at the conceit in the evening. Their ex treme youth and stylish appearance attracted the attention of the hotel clerk, and with a fatherly care, late at night he lodged thcra in a room and secured them by locking the door. Before morning the clerk was aroused by the arrival of a carriage containing the brother and sister of one of the girls with tho intelligence that her father was on his dcatii bed consequent upon the rash net of his daughter. Roused to a sense of their guilt, the girls wcro soon on their way back to tho homo they had so i rashly nbnndoncd.-2Yii7a<frZp/tia Star. Tho Crops and Other Subjeots. Gatelands, April 28, 1879. Editor Orangeburg Democrat: , It is stated that the Stewart prop erty on Long Island not many years since was not valued at $10 per acre for agricultural purposes, but by lib eral manuring end judicious culture has been brought to such n high stato of fortilit3' as to have produced, last year, 8,830 bushels of oats, 11,350 bushels of corn, 4,120 of buckwheat, 335 of grass seed, 3,400 of carrots, 100 of sugar beets, 2,400 of turnips, and 727 tons of bay. Now, I do not care to hitch any ono "spoiling for a fight," but I am afiaid our brother farmer, "J. C. II.," will never get $10 per acre for his farm unless ho uses more than 15 bushels of cotton seed to the acre as manure for corn, though he may make a bushel of corn for ovcrv bushel of soed. Sure ly "J. C. II." must have been im proving his land previously. At any rate, I am aware he is a doctor, but I am just informed that he practices llomcepalhy. Turn over another leaf brother. 1 think Allopathy the best, judiciously practiced. However, I shall leave it to older beads and more experienced practioners to cross swords with your correspond ent. I am glad that such matters arc discussed through your columns; though tho Demockat is a live paper we all need "more light.," on litis as well as other subjects. Since the cold snap and heavy rains the farmers have been very busy planting over and replanting corn, which is very backward in con sequenco thereof. There is but little cotton up as yet, and planting has not been finished. It was at first thought that the fruit crop bad been totally destroyed by the late frost, but we will have plenty of apples and plums, some figs, peaches, pears, grapes and berries of different kinds. Oats arc heading and looking well since the recent fine rain. Wheat, though looking thrifty up to last week, is in some places showing un niistakcable signs of rust. If it should be further developed, farewell biscuit. I notice that the "Southern Life" and its oflloials have been getting some pretty hard raps from you, and through the press gonorally, and I think jusljy so. A credulous and confiding people have been most shamefully duped, and now the poli cy-holders have just gotten another circular asking Ilium io remit 82 io n lawyer in Columbia, and he will try and got something for them, and then ho will t~> himself appropriate 10 per cent. Sensible people arc not dis posed to "send the hatchet after the handle." Something should be done, however, and it is to lie hoped that wc will finally get some of the crumbs which fall from the table. Send on a requisition for the Paraguay herb by the wholesale. Wc arc in prodigious need of it in low as well as high places. In fact I aver it is needed generally. A long life and great success to the Dk.mockat is the wish of Loxo Orange. How to Smoko a Pipe. To those who arc attached to the pipe it may be a matter of interest to know how their last pufror draught of smoko may be as fresh as the first. It is well-known, that smoking in the usual manner, the last portion of the tobacco becomes damp from the pic tjenco of oil or nicotine drawn from the heated tobacco above, which causes a sickening and nauseating ef fect bitlor to the taste, and unpleas ant and unhealthy as compared with the first half of a well-filled pipe. A contemporary has found the follow ing to be effectual in giving a good, fresh smoke from first to last. Place a small quantity of tobacco in the bottom of the bowl, light it, and when well afire, fill tho pipe, and before each draught, give a light pull out ward through the stem, which causes' tho tobacco to burn upward, all be low being consumed. This is a sen sible wny of smoking the timc-honor cd pipe. "Thanks bo to God for the pros pect of a resurrected body that shall never weary, and for service of love and activity that shall never pause, and never end. O, glorious day of resurrection ! Gladly will I fling into the gravo this poor sinful frame, if at Thv call I may rioc up with a body tireless and puro and glorious and im mortal,? Talmatje. PJZUN AND Kl-NIM. ?o? A GOOD OliD SOUIj WHO KNOWS WIIKN ANIJ HOW TO UK CAKKFUL. She wasn't after hair-dye, cosmet ics, scented soap, or any of thoso giracrack8, but when tho druggist had finished putting up a proscription to euro a long-faced boy of a hacking cough, she turned from tho stove and asked: "Do you keep drugs and medicines and ptzntajB and so on ?" "Oh, y??* we keep all siich things." "And id-nine?" "Yes, wo have quinine."^ "Well, I called in to see abou,t git tin, some pizun and some ki-ninc, but I dunno. So many folk? have been slaughtered by druggists' mistakes that I'm cancmo3ii afraid to even ask for camfur gum, tho' I suppose l ean smell camfur gum farther olf than any other woman in Michigan. Have 3"on killed anybody by putting up morphine for b'akln' powder?" "Never." "Been in the business long?" "Only twenty-one years." "Well, you orter know gum 'Rabic J from sweet oil by this time, but some men arc awful kccrlcss. I've had a brother pizuncd by wrong medicine, and I'm a little shaky. Where is your ki-ninc?" "This is it," he replied, as he took down the jar. She wet her finger, pushed it into the jar and then rubbed it on her tongue. "Tastes like it, but I dunno. Sure that ain't morphine?" "Yes, very sure," "Sure your clerk washed the jar out clean nforc he put the ki-ninc in ?' "Oh,-1 washed it myself." "If this shouldn't be ki-ninc you'd have tho law put to you the worst kind. We've got money in the bank, and we'd never settle on ?10,000 !" "I know it to be quinine,'-' "Well, then, gimme 15 cents' worth, and I want down weight, too. If I'm treated well I'm a great hand to trade at one pjacc, but the minnit I sec any stinginess orjehcatin' a yoke of oxen couldn't pull me/jnto tjmt store again." [Ic weighed out the ({rug. labelled it with great care, and then she said : "Now, I want 10 cents' worth of pizun to kill rats." "What kind?" "Why, the pizun kind of course. Pizun is pizun the world over. Don't seem as you were used to handling ?cm." "Do you want arsenic?" "Certainly, hut you want to be powerful kocrful! I'm a woman of fifty and I've nnss'd the sick ever since 1 was a girl, but I never han dled pizun without a chill crcepin' up my back. Where is it?" He handed down tho jar and she smelt the stopper, shook her head, turned the jar around and whispered ; "That looks a powerful sight like eream-a-tar-tcr!" "Oil, no?that's arsenic and no mistake." "Well, I've got to take the chances, I s'posc. I'll tnko ten cents's worth .?down weight. Any one who will be stingy sollin' pizun will be stingy in other things, and I do hate a stin gy person. My first husband was powerful stingy, and he was struck by lightning.'! When the poison had been weighed and 'nbcllod she carefully took up the package and said : "Now, then, write on this that it is to be kept in the old china tea-pot, on the third shelf in the pantry, and that it'j for rats. Then write on this ki-ninc that it is to be kept in the old coffee-pot in the cup-boord, and that its for chill?," The druggist followed orders, and the old lady put the "pizun" in her pocket and the "Id-nine" in her reti cule, and went out saying: "It may be all right, but I dunno. If my old man is took olf instead of the rats, I'll begin a lawsuit next day after the funeral."?Detroit Free Pi'caa. Practical joking is not always un attended with danger to the per petrator, as is evident from an event which recently occurred at Suzc, Sarthe, France. A man named Verio wrapped himself in a white sheet to frighten some girls, and so far succeeded that they all rat) away screaming except one, who aimed a revolver at the pretended ghost and fired six shots. Vcrlc fell dead, one of the bullets having passed through his heart. Ruined. Not long ago John S. Morton was sentenced ,{n Philadelphia to ten years' imprisonment in the Kastern Penitentiary. As he left the court room, his friends?for the most part fashionable and wealthy men?sur rounded the Judge, clamorously de manding that ho should be driven to jail in a carriage instead of the pti son van. This llt,tle incident and the story of the prisoner is worth the attention of young men beginning commercial life. One short year ago Morton was a leading citizen in Philadelphia ; not a leader after the fashion of Tweed or Fisk, but a refined, cultured gentle man, the descendant of a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and of a long line of judges and lionora bles, energetic in business, and in .ali philanthropic and Christian enter prises. lie was one of the foremost projec tors of the Centennial Exposition, was President of the great permanent exhibition, and his name was brought prominently before the people as a candidate for Governor of Pennsyl vania. He had everything which could give a man a solid, honorable foot ing in tho world, but unfortunately he fell into the society of a clique of fashionable people, of tho sort who would think the riding to prison in a van a worse disgrace than the crime which drove him there. In his haste to gain money and to vie in splendor with these friends, Mo:ton was led to dabble in Blocks then to gamble in them, and finally, in order to make up his losses, to is sue fraudulent stock in a railway company of which lie was president, to the amount of two million dollars. The man had not the hardihood of a villian born in vice, for, pn discove ry, be pleaded guilty and fainted in the cQurt room. A Fatal Wave. An accident most distressing in circumstance, and causing tho death of Mrs. M. Klinkinbeard, of Marsh field, occurred in Choos County, Ore gon. With a party of friends the lady had gone to the ocean beach to view the storm angered waters, and while standing ft little distance from her companions, near an immense tree trunk stranded on the beach, nearly washed away by the waves, which, following each other, came higher and higher, she pointed to the sands at her feet and repeated : "Thus far shalt thou come and no further." The next billow chine with resistless force, lifted the trunk by her side, dashed it against her, and killed her. Her companions fortunately recover ed the body. Mrs. Klinkinbeard was forty-six years of age, and was one of the pioneer women of Oregon, having reached the .State in the fall of 1817. She was the mother of thirteen children, several ol them be ing still young. Mr.8. Blaine's Piano. The Hon. Jas. G. Elaine is a thrif ty man, as all who know him will ad mit, but wc hardly think the public has ever been informed how he made bis substitute do double duty in the days of tho war. Mrs. Blaine desired n new piano, and her husband told her she should have it. The days came and went. At that lime Maine's "idle son" was not as he has become since. One day he called to his wife : "Sue, here's your piano." She look ed out and saw a mau coming up the walk, but he bore no visible relation to the musical instrument in question. "What do you mean?" she asked. "I mean," pathetically replied James, "that 1 liave hired this man to take my place in the army. If he doesn't go, I must. If he goes wc cannot afford,tho piano." The history of the substitute is familiar to the coun try. We trust that Mrs. lllaine eventually got her piano, and that it was a better quality than the vicarious warrior.?Boston J'osl. "Did you over" notico the poor chap that stands in the first picture of the almanac with a fish, and sheep, and scorpions, and bulls and twins, etc., around him? Did you ever notico thny ho was naked and bad nothing in his stomach? Well, that poor fellow used to edit a coun try paper and take his pay out in "I'll pay my subscription next week." Professor Warren DuPre. Tlje death of Professor Warren DuPre, President of the Female Col lege at Abingtcu, Virginia, will bc sad news to his many friends iu this State. Professor I). A. DuPre, of VVolforti College, received a telegram several days ago, Informing him of the serious illness of his father, and he .went on immediately, reaching AbUigton before his death, which oc- . currcd on May 25. Up to the limo of going to press, we have received none of the particulars of his death. Though not altogether unexpected, the news of his death has cast n gloom over many a household in this community, where he spent so many years of his life. Professor Warren DuPre came to Spartunburg as Pro fessor of the Natural Sciences at the first organization of Wollbrd College, twenty-five years ago, and filled that professorship with marked ability un til about three years ago he resigned that position to accept the presiden cy of the Female College at Abing don, Virninia, to which ho had been elected. His removal from Spartan burg was universally regretted, for ho was beloved by our entire com munity. Highly educated and culti vated, he was distinguished for the many notable traits of character that go to make up the finished scholar and the Christian gentlemen, lie came as near filling our beau-ideal of a perfect man ns any one we have ever met. Ills death is a calamity not only to the institution of learn ing over which he presided, but to the world of letters and to the coun try at large.?Spartunburg Herald. Another Murder. We learn that a murder was com mitted at Ellenton, in this count}', on Monday. The circumstances as far ns we havo been able to learn are these: On Sunday evening last a man named Casey was in company with one Jordan Green. Casey mar ried n sister of Greens, and on this occasion Green seems to have been drinking. They staid nt the ? house of an old negro wonfan and scorned to be perfectly friendly. Next morn ing early Green said he had lost his pistol and the two went in search of the same; the old colored woman went a part of the way with them ; Green told her he wished to see Casey privately ; after she had left them n short time r.hc heard two pis tol shots; upon going jLo tl)0 place she found that Casey had been. shot, lie only lived a few minutes. Green has been arrested and lodged in jail. Wo make no comments as ho will .soon hi tried.?Aikcn Review. Mutual Admiration. It's a nice mutual admiration so ciety they have down in Washington, "they" being the saviors of the coun try's unity and the dcspoilcrs of its treasury. While Conkling was say ing his piece on Thursday General Sherman entered a door in his rear, while the Seriator was in the very midst of his eulogy of the army. It had been neatly timed. Conkling paused in the midst of a sentence to cordially greet the General of the army and point him to Senator Dav is' ohair. A correspondent says in nocently : "General Sherman's face meantime Hushing purple at the un expected conspicuonsncas of his posi tion. During the debate Sliprman had occasion to try to look uncon scious, and blushed, again, ns Conk ling referred to him by name in a complimentary manner, and called him the man noted for his courage and practical common sense." Who Are Bjeb. The man with good firm heuUh is rich. So is the man with a good clear conscience. So is the parent of vigorous, happy children. So is that wife who has the whole heart of a good husband. So is the clergyman whose coat the little children of his parish pluck, as he passes them in their play. So is the littlo child who goes to sleep with a kiss on its lips, and for whosc'waking i\ blessing waits. So is the maiden \vhose horizon is not bounded by tho "coming man," but who has n purpose in life whether she ever meet him or not. So is the young man who, laying i his hand on his heart, can sayt "I have treated every woman I over saw as 1 should wish my sister treat ed by other men." A BATTLE Wp^fFilD. ?o? AN EXOITIHU BCENB IN A WKQTBjbV OMUt<?i The r)erformacco at Cole'a eircue , lost.night v,-n!4 cloned Ji)j-.Georgo:Conk lin, the lion-tamer, who entered tho den with two large liqns^nder'Olii'bi curnstancca that would, haw made A man with less nerve .quake wljtyV/f^.1 ^ It will ,bc renjombered that * ?Mr days ago a large,leopard that oq/ca^^ pied the same cage with the lions jb??*-_ came involved in a alight mioundqr> j standing with his room mates, anfl; 1 was summarily torn to pieces^ ): iSfie??^,, terday a fine Brazilian leopard was placed in the cage, aud occupied* quiet corner during the parade. It was the intention of Mr. Conklih-to train the animal to peform wit,b j.ho lions, and between 4 and*5 o'clOek'itt tho afternoon the lion tamer entered the cage to put the trio through a course of sprouts, in order to sec bow (i well they would work together. He1 ? anticipated trouble, as ^he lions bad shown a disposition to oo uiu'rjendly ; to the new leopard, and the latter ; was evidently pi epared to fight at tho first favorable opportunity. . :;<> Mr. Conkiin had been in the coge? but a few ipoments when the leopard attacked one of tho lions and put bjsy teeth through one of bis enemy's .,, paws. Mr. Conkiin interfered, and Urn leopnrd sprang upon him, scratch-; ing him severely behind hid rigl.t gpv. Mi .Conkiin threw l\\a ani.w~l violently to the Jloqr of tho cage and put himself -,. on the o}o(ensive. Three times tho.iu luriulqd bca&t sprang at him, .but did not succeed in jn#icUng any injury. ,, upon him. The lions became extyt' . ed and Mr. Conkiin became aware that his position was an, extremely i: dangerous one. Quite a number of,,.,, the circus attachces.gathered around the cage and offered assistance, but Mr. Copk'in told them to keep back/, and he would manage the affair , alone. .. .. i.t.i ( in fit ?btott Tho leopatd \ny fqy, a moraont crouched upon the floor, Iiis ,e$*es Hashing fiercely, and uttering a\ovq \c threatening growl. . Gathering "H hio strength he sprang at Mrj Conkjin,j? who struck him a side blow on |lieilv head with the handle of a, heavy whip. Tho blow proved more power- . ful than was intended, and killed tho beast instantly. T|ie body: ;Was dragged out of the cage, and after, . paying his respects to the Hons to %1 show them that he was master of tho ( Ijeld, tho lion^lamer left the cage, The leopard was four years old, ami was sent to ]\Jr, Cole from Brazil about three years ago. He was.a.., beautiful specimen of his .species, and was valued at S&QO.?St. Louis Times-_ ThTwife. Jfyou wish to be happy and have peace in the family, njxyor reprqvp your husband in company, even if that reproof be ever so slight. *f,*i^ be irritated speak not ah o,ngry word. Jndiflercnce wjll ao.njetimeB produce unhappy consequences. Al ways feel an interest in what your husband undertakes and if he is per-' plcxed or discouraged, assist Ipm.'by your smiles and pheasant words. If j the wife is careful how sho conducts, and speaks and looks, a thousand happy heaits would cheer and bright.-1 en our existence, where now there ij nothing but cjouds of gloonj, sorrow and discontent. The wife, above all others, should study to p^pasp her husband and make home attractive. All Taken. Our attention was called to a cir? cumstancc last week which at oncQ appeared to our mind as an pjoqnent argument against the law. A, "farm er lin.il given a, lipn to one of our busi ness firms for advances to be made to/ him to the amount of $75," in order, to enable him. to parry on agriculto? ral operations du,ring \ho current year. Last week,, ho pnmo to. town and besought his creditor to extend the amount of advances ; he had, al ready "taken up" tho amount ?lgrPP4 J on, and not a seed yoL out of the. ground. What a commentary I And yet wc learn that this is not the only caso of the kind occurring so early in the season. The lien law should bo repealed.?Kershaw Gazette. Wk notice that "Hug mo to death darling," is the name of a new song. We are ready t,o i\o? owing to who she is, though. If she is handsome and sweet wc will bo on hand if she advise, us when she is "ready to go to press."