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.^,"*V . *. -f* 0 ' ' ' ^ - ^ : ~ " = ===== -- ' ?1 ?rir;? -rl ;yr; -^jrr:iff~=-==Z * B* W. JILBB AHO HOOH WILSON. ABBEVILLE S. C.. WEDNESDAY.NOVEMBER 26. )S73. , YOLCME X.\l-NU ? ' L-, , III gggj?ggg ' il .!_) I III I I ,ll'l IB B V OFFICIAL. Tie State of South Carolina, ABBEVILLE COUNTY. In the Probate Court. Ella H. Agnew .and Narclssa "Waters, vi. Dr. John Waters. Miittv Itilev and James B. Aguew. Petition to sell land for partition. SUMMONS: TO Dr. John Waters, Matty Riley and Jane B. Agnew, legal keirs and representatives of John C. Waters, Deceased, whe died intestate, Greeting-: YOU are hereby required to appear at the Court of Probate to be hoki" n at Abbeville Court House for Abbeville County on the 4th day of Deeem*ber, A. D. 1S78, to show cause if any .you can, why the real estate of John C. Waters, deceased, described in the petition of Ella H. Agnew and Nareissa Waters filed in my office should not be divided or sold and the proceeds divided hi tqtfc'l fretwoeu ibe said Ella H. Agnew. Narcissa Wfttet*, Matty "Rilrv and James B. Atrnew. Given under my hand and seal this twenty-third day of October, Anno Pom in J, 1873. ?sfUl*] CHAS. W. GUFFIN, Judge Probate A. C. (Oct. 29, 1873, 29nit Tie State of Soitk Carolina, ABBEVILLE COUNTY. TO Alexander Lee Adams, Jesse Terry Adams, and Vitula Ophelia Adams, Girding: YOU are hereby required to appear at the Court of Probate to be holden at Abbeville Court House for the County of Abbeville on the 17th day of De cemoer, a. jj. 10 ?nuw uiust- n t?uj you can M'liy the real estate of Mrs. ilachael C. Adams, deceased, described in the petition of John A. Adams, filed Jn my office should not be divided or ?old, allotting to the said John A. Adtuis, one-half and the other half in equal portions to the said Alexander Lee Adams, Jesse Terry Adams and Vltula Ophelia Adams. Given under my hand and seal this 4tli day of November, A. D. 1873. ?seal.] C'HAS. W. GUFFIX, Judge of Probata AbbevHle County. Nov. 4, 1873, 30-Gt Citation for Letters of Administration. 7 he State of South Carolina. : abbeville county. By CHAS. W. GUFFIN, Esq., Probate Judge. WHEREAS, L. D. Bowie, Clerk oi tlie Court of Common Pleas, lias made suit to me, to grant him Letters ol Administration with (lie Will annexed, of the derelict Estate of John Enrignt, late of Abbeville County, deceased. These are therefore to'citeand admoniah all and singular the kindred and Creditors of the said John Enright, de- j ceased, that they be and apj>ear, before tv?? tr> tvw. f'nnrt nf T'ruhnfo In be held I III 1*IV VVMi V v% ? at Abbeville C. H., 8. C., on Decembei 8th next, after publication hereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to shew cause, ii 1 any they have, why the said Administration should not be granted. Given under mv hand and seal, thi> twenty-eigfotH aav of Octobcr, in the year of our Iiont one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three and in the ninety-eighth year of American Independence. Published on the 29th day of October, the 5th, Uth, 19th, 26th of November, i Id of December, 1873, in the AbbcvilU Preus and Banner. CHAS. W. OUFFIN, Judge of Probate. Oct. 29, 1873, 29, 6t* , Citation for Letters of Administration : The State of South Carolina. ABBEVILLE COUNTY. ? By C. W. GUFFIN, Esq., Probate Judge. WHEREAS, Nickerson M. Burkhal ter made suit to me, to grant ner Letters of Administration of the Estate and effects of HENRY BEARD late ' of AbbevlUe County, deceased. THKSE ARE THEREFORE to cite ? and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said HENRY . BEARD, dee'd, that they be and ap]war before we, in the Court of Probata, to be held at Abbeville Court House, fcjouth Carolina, on27th November next, after publication hereof, at 11 o'clock, in ; I the forenoon, to shew cause, if any they i I 4 have, why the said Administration should not be granted. i Given under my hand and seal, thi# 12th day of November, in the year of 1 *?our Lord one thousand eight hundred Kand seventy-three, and in the ninety- t peighth year of American Indepen- , licence. . . Published on the 19th. and 26th day of j November, 1873, in the Abbeville Frew and Banner. v- , C. "\V. GUFFIN, 1 J. P. A. C. ] ->0V. li>, 1873, az-zi ' Sheriff's Sale. J. B. Kay and others. ' against S. W. Agnow and D. 0. nawthorno. T)Y virtue of an Execution I will If sell at Abbeville Court House on Salcday in December next, within ' the legal hours, ono tract of land containing 215 Acres, I more or less, bounded by lands of; Itobt. Sharp, Jeff. McKay aud others, I levied on as the property of S. W.J AgneWj dee'd, at the suit of J. B.! . Kay and A. C. Hawthorne. ' ..Terms of Sale cash. J: L. P. GUFFIX, j S. A. C. . . "BherMTa Office, ) Nov. 4, 1873, tf ) ; in. r Sheriff's Sale. i John Knox ' V . I ... . .against .'Execution. i , Awlfj^ V^lson. ) Bi ! ?/ i Y virtno of an Execution to me directed,.! will sell at Abbeville Court House within the legal hours, j on Saleday in December next, ONE BALE or COTTON, leviod on as the property of Andrew Wilson, at the suit of John Knox. ., TE&AiS OF SALE CASH. L. P. GUFFIN, 8. A. C. Sheriff's Office, 1 Nov. 4,1873, 30-4t J Sheriff's Sale. B. M. Martin and wife,") vs. [ Execution. Sam'l A. Smith. j BY virtue of an Execution to me directed I will sell at Abbeville! C. II. on SALEDAY IN DECEMBER next, within the legal hours,j UaN Jti 'JL JLCACJl' vp uaj.\xs wuhiiming 500 ACRES, more or less, hounded by lands of Satn'l Lomax, Mrs. Adams, and others, levied on as the property of B. AI. Martin and wife at the suit ol Sani'l A. Smith, and others. ALSO, the following PERSONAL TRO PERTY will be sold at the residence of B. M. MARTIN, on FIRST WEDNESDAY after Sale Day, 3d DECEMBER, 5 Cows and Calves, 4 Yearlings, 10 Head Hog*, 10 Head Pigs, 1 Road Wagon, 6,000 lbs. Seed Cotton, 250 Bushels Corn, more or less. 30 Bushels Wheat, 1 House of Shucks, 2 Mules, 1 Bay Mare, 17 Head Sheep, more or less, 1 Carriage and Harness, 4 Beds and Furniture, and sundry other articles of HOUSEHOLD AND KITCHEN FURNITURE, all at the same suit.* Terms of Sale Cash. % L. P, GUFFIN, Sheriff A.. C. Sheriff's Office, ) 10th Nov. 1S73, 31-3t j m jap* _ a ,1. ftiienu s Ociie. Sharp, Smith & Co.") against [ Execution. Ned Jones. ) BY virtue of an Execution to me directed, I will sell at Abbeville Court House, on Sale Day in December next, within the legal hours, Two Bales Cotton, levied on as the properly of Ned Jones at the suit of Sharp, Smith & Co. J Terms of sale Cash. L. P. GUFFIX, J SAC Sheriff's Office, \ 2sov. 7, 1873 31-tf. / I Sheriff's Sale. (' BY virtue of an Execution to nic ' directed I will sell at Abbeville [). II., on SALEDAY in DECEMBER ] next, within the legt.l hours, One Bale Cotton, :tnd all the interest Tlios. Myers nnd Seigler have in theCotton iu the fields worked by Myers and Seigler. L. P. GUFFIX, Sheriff Abbeville County. Sheriff's Office, \ Nov. 7, 1878, 31-tf | m Sheriff's Sale. 1 Susan E, Greydon, Lavlnia F. Zelgler, otvninot (IgWIUOV < I Kesiah K. Dunwoody, Ithoda E. Dunwoody. ' Petition to Sell House and Lot for Divirion. BY virtue of an Order from Hon. I Charles W. Uuffln, Judge Probate tor Abbeville County, I will re-sellat Abbeville C. H., within the legal hours, at public outcry, on Saleday in December uext, J a Dwelling Honse and Ten Acres of Land attached thereto. Situate in the Town " af Cokesbury in said County of Abbeville, the late residence of the Reverend Samuel Dunwoody, deceafed. Terms of Sale Cash. Purchasers to pav for papers. 'I'erms of Sale to be complied with the i Probate Judge. 1 L. P, GUFF IN, S. A. C. Sheriff's Office, \ Nov. 7, 1873, 31-3t / Ik State of Soitl Carolina, ABBEVILLE COUNTY. In the Conrt of Probate. ] Ex parte Nancy N. Hutchison and R. F. Hutciiison, Auminisirairix anu Administrator?Petition for the Final . Settlement anil Final Discharge of the Estate of Irwin Hutchison, deceased. , OX hearing the petition In the above named case, it is Ordered and 1 Decreed, that the i 234 Day of tata neit, ' De fixed for a final Settlement of the ! estate of Irwin Hutciiison, deceased, I; Mid that Notice of said Settlement bep jive 11 according to law. j It is further Ordered that I. W. j j Hutciiison, Rebecca Emma Hutchison,;) Joseph C. Hutchison, and Jennie B. |j Hutchison be duly served with a copy of the Petition and this order, accord- J ing to law, and the creditors of said Es-1 tate will take notice hereof, *nd they are hereby required to appear in this! L'ourt to be holden at Abbeville C. H., j i fc. C!., on the day fixed far Settlement of Kaid Estate, at 10 o'clock A. M., for the 1 purpose of protecting their interest in the said Settlement. It appearing to the satisfaction of this Court that Irwin W. Hutchison, one of the Distributees of .said Estate resides , beyond.the limits of this State, and that1, his Post-office Is unknown. It is there- j fore Ordered, tnat service on tno sain Irwin W. Hutchison be made by pubj lication of a copy of this order ouce aj week for six successive weeks in the Abbeville Pre** and Banner, and the Abbeville Medium, public Gazettes published in the county of Abbeville. CHARLES W. GUFFIN, Judge of Probate Abbeville oounty. Nov. 11, 1873, 31-6t Tie State of M Carolina, ABBEVILLE COUNTY. In the Probate Court. Ex Parte Etta IF. A anew, Adtnin intra-! trix. I Petitiou for Filial Settlement and Dis-! charge. OX hearing the foregoing petition in the above named case, on motion by Noble, Attorney lor Petitioner, it is ordered and decreed that a notice of final settlement and final discharge be duly published according'to law, and that the 4th day December next be fixed for a final settlement of the estate of John 0. Waters, deceased. Also Ordered, that a copy of the Petition and this Order be duly served ac- i cording to law on the following parties, to wit: Dr. John Watfers, Matty Riley, Narcissa "Waters and James B. Agnew, who are hereby required to appear m the Court-of Probate for Abbeville County, at Abbeville Court House, 8. C., on the day fixed for settlement of the estate above named, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, to protect their interest in the said settlement, or to answer said petition and tile tin- answer In said Court on or before the time above specified. [seal.] CHAS. W. GUFFIX, Judge of Probate, A. C. Oct. 23, 1873, 29-01 Sheriff's Sale. B. Lynch and others, j against > Execution. Elizabeth Lynch. ) BY virtue of an .Execution to me directed, I will sell within the legal hours, at Abbeville Court Houko, on Saleday in December next, two tracts of land: The HOMESTEAD TRACT, containing 279 Acres, I more or less, bounded by lands of J. W. Black, Capt. Swilling and others, and the KUSSELL TRACT, containing 200 Acres, more or less bounded by land* of John Smith, \V. A. Gains and others, levied on as .the property of EiizaL?< t. T n f krt on i f r\P l^an l Ul'lU UJ I1UIJ* iiU IUU ouiu va jlj> \J I ?J. Lyn'ch, and others. L. P. GL'FFIN, Sheriff Abbeville County. Sheriff's Office, \ \ Nov. 4, 1873, 30-tf / J FINAL DISCHARGE. T^OTICE if? hereby given that John j^( A. Adams and Andrew .Stevenson Executors of the Estate of Mrs. Raehael 1 D. Adams, deceased, have applied to i ] Charles W.. fiuffili, Judge of Probate, in j uid for the County of Abbeville, for a ; j final discharge as Executors. ' I Us "Ordered1, that the twenty-socond lay of December, A. I). 1873, be fixed for liearing of Petition, and a final settlement of said Estate. J. C. W0?SM ANSKY, Clerk Court Probate, Abbeville County. Nov. 12, 1873, 31-tf PILL & WINTER GOODS. Wardlaw & Edwards Dave now in Store, A. large and varied assortment OF 1 GENERAL MERCHANDISE, Adapted to the season, bought in ] Kew York and Baltimore, to which :hey would invito the the attention >f buyers. LADIES' DRESS GOODS,1 SHAWLS, PRINTS, Flannels, Linseys, Blankets, A. full supply of Goods for Men and Boys' wear. j A large assortment of J SHOES,' Other Lines full up. Oct. 8, i873~2G-tf . ] . i " ? ' , WHITE BROTHERS i nave now in Btore and for Sale ? 460 Bushels v Rust Proof Red Oats. ( THEY nre extra fine?pure and ? heavy. The experience of planners who have been most successful in raising Outs is that September is the proper time for sowing. Hear what the Southern CultivTitor Bays; "Fall oats were badly winter-killed this year? . Spring oats have been unusually fine. It will be unwise to conclude from this that Fall oats won't do. Our own expe- ( rience and the best information we can 1 j ?et from all quarters is, that Fall Oats 1 are the most certain crop of the two,! nnd especially is this true, if they are planted on rich land, or if well fertilized." Aug. 37,1S<8. r Kcc Ann 9, rn JRJORJXU 00 LU. Family Grroceries. WE are- receh'ing and will keep: constahtlV'On band, TEAS, SIT- , GAR, COFFEE, LARD, BACON, \ Oakland & Co.' Eagle Brand Sugar-Cured Hamn, Soda, Bice, FLO UK (Best Family.) SALT, SOAP, STARCH, BLUEING, MILK LUNCH CRACKERS, MOLASSES, (Fine New Orleans) APPLES, CANDIES, and a General and Complete Stock of FAMILY GROCERIES. NO, 2 Cothran & Wilson's Range. June 1,1873, 6-tf 1873. FALL & V WE take pleasure in announcing to 01 now receiving our Stock of GO< Tit APE, and are confident of our ability a Cftll, both in price and quality. In our STAPLE AND FAN Hosiery, Gloves, Gorsets, Ribbo] morals, Shirts, Shirt F and many other articles too numerous to Wo would direct special attention to o Boots an< We make this line of Trade a specialty, that those who favor us with a call can 1 complete Stock of READY-MADE BOTH CHEAP In addition to the above, wo keep on I GROCERIES AND And have at all times a SUGAR, COFFEE SOAP, BA CHEESE, Giro us us a call, and we will certainly srssfos * _ Sept 10, 1873 22-tf v BARG, IN CLO' A T axr&RLES & \yho have the largest and FALL AND W1N1 they have ever brought tc GENTLEMEN'S FUR COMPRIS HATS, HAND-SEWED BOOTS AN] Gloves, Cotton and all all Wool Un< iVe .ire constantly receiving fasbionablo ; ladies. Also GROCERIES ANI . ? ' OF TEE BEST ftUARLES& Sopt, 30, 1873, 25-tf IN CUARG Miss Jane WHO will always bo found ready WELL-SELECTED STOCK OF HATS and BONNET! Hair Goods and He Unas, Flowers, Plumes, Corsets, ] in every variety kept J. T. RO] LATE MI Oct. 8,1873, 2C-tf f. B & W. J ROGERS A lirOULD rcepoctfully invito . the VV attention of their friends and he public to their stock of ? v 1 IT Confectioneries, u i' i. : i fruits, Nuts, Cigars, &c. .Vo havo on liand the finest CRACKERS that has ever been in Abbeville. >Vo will take pleasure in showing iur Stock of Goods of nil descripions. Come one, come all, we know ve can please 3*ou. Oct. 1, 1872, SUPERIOR LUMBERh " w 1 w For Sale. rllE subscriber is prepared t<i fill in all orders- directed to him in (J] Columbia, for the supply of first-class "I jUMJJEII at reaaonablo rates. Isaiah Haltiwangsr, ( COLUMBIA, S. C. , ^Fct. 29, 1873, 2D-tf ' - EsW" 1 RETURNED before me on the 2oth h of October, Vi'3, by G. W. CRO- nr "" 4 " ' " "?'tt tiwr\ frwxr MKit as an estray, ?> -i WITH A CALF. The oow is about ten ^ /ears old?marked with upper and un- . ler bit on right ear and under bit on eft. She is a small cow with crumpled pi lorns. The calf is a bull with white as ind red spots. fo The cow and calf are appraised at ten w lollars and may be found at the resiience of G. W. Cromer. Robert E. Hemphill, Trial Justicc. Oct. 25th, 237,3 20-2in C mm. 1873. v ir.friends and the public that we are 3DS for the FALL and WIKJER - to please all who will favor H^fith Slock may be found full lines of CY DRY GOODS, qs, Edgings, Insertings, Balronts, Collars, Cuffs, j mention. urt.Stock of d. Shoes. apd can and will offer inducements jot fail to buy. Also, a full and 1 'CLOTHING, AND GOOD. land full lines of H PROVISIONS, giod assortment of r!nw TT.nTTP TOBAflfiO. kWAl ) Jk AJ Vf V * W I w w y ftte. jflease you. ?&iim SINS FmMG' i i mumro, [ best assortment of I : > h. ;,; '"TV /NT AmTTTUT/"I Eli (JLU lililN U i ; i this market. Also, NISHING GOODS, IXGr D SHOES, SHIRTS, HOSIERY,. Wool Drawers, and m I dar Vocfc ULVA V VWVMt and substantial goods to suit tbe \ PROVISIONS QUALITY. ; PERRIN. 111! E OF 1 . i. j i Barney, lo exhibit a HANDSOME AND " TRIMMED AND UNTBIMMED | 3 of the latest Styles, i :ad Trimmings, * X? . < ' i ' ' Bustles, notions, Fancy Goods,' i in this department. : I BERTSON, | LLER & ROBERTSON. J ^, RE YOU' INSURED? .' ' * r ? IF NOT,.CALL ON' * I LtoJjJre & Pevrin, AGENTS,.. , ; . who represent The Georgia Home, of Coimbus, Ga. The Germania, of New York. The Home, of New York. The Old Dominion, of Eich ond, Va? hose capital and assots aggregate Ten and a half Millions, : < ($10,598,573.00) "We write on Merchandise, Buildgs of every description, Furniture, fa HOUSES, COTTON, &c., at, Joard Kates." DuPre & Perrin, Jeneral Insurance Agents. Abbeville, Oct. 22, 1873, 28-3t .' i- . : Brina: ForiarS Yoir Cotton. ?1TT1 id clill Hfolill. pnuu vi wnuiu . [ ing,and every indication is that c price will not be higher for daj's' id probably for fonths to come, for! f the price of cotton is low when; it little is being brought to market, )w can wo expect to rcalizo higher i iccs when the receipts aro heavy,; i must bo the case soon. So bring: rward your cotton at once, and we; ill either buy in settlements of acmnts. or ship, at the option of the nrraer. QUARLES k PERRfN. >jt. 22, 1873. A . i INNOCENCE. i BY N. P. WILLIS, . i ' . _ - ShoroBe from her*untroublcd'sleep,. And put away her poft brown hair, And,' in & tone as low and deep As love's first whisper, breathed a prayer; Her show white hands together pressed, Her blue eyes sheltered in the lid, *rho folded linen on her breast Just swelling with the charms it hid: And from her long and flowing dress Escaped a bare and slender foot, Whose shape upon the earth did press, Like a new snow-flake, white and mute; And there, from slumber pure and sweet, Like a young spirit fresh flom heaven, She bowed her slight and graceful form, And humbly prayed to be forgiven. 0 God, if fiouls unsoiled as these Need daily mercy from thy throne? If she, upon her bended knees? Ourjoveliest and our purest oneShe, with her fyce so clear and bright,U oAmn c f POTT rtViH/l nf )VC UCCIU UU OV1UU on aj vuiiu v/A .lights ; If she, with those soft eyes in tears, ' Day after day. in her first years,Must kneel ana pray for grace from ' Thee? What fair, far deeper need Iiave we? How hardly, if she win not heaven,. Will our wild errors be forgiven ? ; i', . ^ . l * - how; Perhaps I am a little too hasty, a little too ready'to light uj^at a min-. uto's' notice; but thci'o are fl'obe word* that Boem to carry an especial grain;,pf gunpowder jn them, and,.the. above is one o' the sort. To fyaveia person, after you have b^en ' through a long1 explanation; p&t bis nngerr to* his menial ears and query youi thus, or, worse still, "Haow ?" is too;oxasperating for human nature to bear. But that this is what John Stringer did to mo, bending his head ; a littlp nearer, and speaking in an absent, aggravating manner that tantalized mo beyond words. ' Yon see, John Stringer and I were ingagea; we a Dccn Dccn cngagea for a long time, and perhaps Jiaid got to be a little too matter 6 cbiiteo to each other.' * fei " Wq. wero sitting.there over the 6re, atter the old folks, had. gone to,, bed, and I fell to telling him about, Sophie--Mills's wedding?her white' silk dress, her bride cake, and her bride maids frosted all over to match i it, and I ended this way : "But it don't make any difference, John, to people that love each other; all that's o' no mora account than last year's snow-drift. They could be married in calico and homcspun, with their feet on a rag carpet like thjs, and love oach other just as well,"- "How?" said John, absently. 1 He was watching the coals flicker up and die out again, and picking up a stray chip now ayd then to fling on, the embers?a fashion ho had when he \vas thinking. ? "* 1. iu l.^j Jt.^( "J>fOW X na'i 11ZIU Liiu irciiuavini uu . dnyyand I#uess I Vas rather more tindery than usual, .though I didii't thiuk so then; but when John bent bis great broad shoulders over; as if be hadn't beard a word ! said, and in fact, hacj something better to occupy liis mind, I just tired up, first, and then the blaze died down' into sulks, and when wo parted that night John and I had had otir first and last quarrel... , My heart did not' misgive me that when I saw John's 'great tall figure ?oingout the door, it was the ;Ia'st time he'd lift thg latch for many a pear; but so it* was. " . ' L You seej ! held1'my liead pretty high in those days, and I wouldn't ihow that I was a bit cut up about f so I naircd off with Mrs. Plumber's Jesse, a likely, spruce young fellow ??ough, butr.o more to be compared with John tbana cockle-shell. is to a brigantine. . ; ; Ob, well, mother sigb^d, and tried right bard to bring us together again, but it wasn't {o be. John was a powerful muscular man, and f used to see him go up the road many a time wheu I was out in the ihed milking, and, peeping out athijn through the chinks, I thought his broad shoulders stooped more thun over, and his figure'; was growing more stalky liko. Such an awkward fellow as John wast I came 'lieac rushing out on him once, in my sunbonnet and with my Blceves rolled up, and flinging my arms right round i? Tnlm lil.-n/T fn sne fol&fl IliailCUit, una u ? ? ticfy, and I toever did it. . ' "'Jesse Plumber was tho bean o' the village?dapper, neat and dainty as you please : and all the girls thought I had come to my senses when I ousted 'em 'o Jess. And byand-by it was Jess that came-sparlnng o' nights, and sat o' winter evenings evenings"over the embers, and he was so soft-spoken and pleasant that even mother forgot her vexation. (SrtTalways set store by John,: mother did). "Well, in the.spring we were married, Jess and me, ana I had a' string of pearls and a real silk bridal dress, and fcltlcind o'lifted like jvhen the girls crowded round mo and hoped - - - 1 ? . .1 ? , ?. r. I'd bo happy, x ijopt a du ?,w, jl, wasn't sure of it.Kcmepibering, tbc days that camoi after, I can't recall one hard word Ij over heard from Jess. Wo weren't' near enough to each other to quarrel; ( we just laid apart like two odd volumes tiiere wawn't any fire 'twixt us, nor anything 'twixt us, either love or laughing, whereas John and I h:id alwaj-s been bubbling over oneway or another. I worked hard, for my silk dress and.necklaco were all I hud of riches j and I cut up the gown one day to rnakoji cloak for the baby. You see I couldn't givc'up my pride, and wa? just as Iiigh*qviritcd ' afc'%ver. But ""f fnrm didiit prosper, and Jess didn't prosper^ nnd Mrs. PtiiYnbeP came to, Jive with us, to look after things, she sa,id; and, she got to pit}:ing him every how and thph for marrying a poor wife, and?oh, well, what's the use of talking??sometimes I couldn't help wishing John Stringer's, strong shoulders were at.7 the wheel, when \ was working myself to death morning and night for nothing. ' " * ' ; ' Then when baby grew bigger 1 V- '? ~~ took a teaching an A B C class, as I used to before I was married;' bot what little I knew bad run wild since then, and Ifltpuldnft keep tho boys straight somenow j and the girls didn't care about samplers, for the sewingmachine had ridden right over everything. Then Jessie fejl ill o1 the fever, and with all the fuming and fretting' and nursing of his mother, and with all my watching day and night, somehow lie slipped off between us. And I found myself a widow, with the illfared, wasted farm on mv hands, and Mother Plumber drizzling and mauntdering after Jess in a way to break my heart, .! , : ... JBut I kept my spirit up yet, and I advertised half the place for sale at the court-house; for if I could sell it we should skin through somehow on an acrc or two, I thought. Wolf, who do you suppose catr.o over one sunny afternoon as I wan standing in the kitchen? Who, to bo sure, but John Stringer, large as lifo ?a little gray mavhap, and a little moro angular, but keen and strong as ever. Ho'd a. U6e for a bit of iaad, it seemod,; and had. bad his eye on it along back. "Always was wanting what waan't his," Mother Plumber said. She. owed him. a grange for being more forehanded than Jess. It took a deal of lookinRafter and lawyering" 'fend surveying': knd' ihe' Lord'knows what to settle * it ;ato'd I ased to isce 'Jolvn 1 Stringers stooping shoulddiis "arid broad felt bat down juat beyond the rise of thoifceadow time-and again. Bot,he scarce ever came near, the door, till one day?I can't toil how it was-rwhen the set-, dements-were to, be matfe, I.just took baby up Stairs and had a good *crjr; for. that bit o' land had been jeasie's favorite piece,'and Mother Plumber Iiad been harrvinff me all dav ahout ? ^ O , * it. jj i , . ... .. "The ways o' Providence are bo strange!" said Mother Plumber, layfng her spebs down atop o' the big Biblo,and pntliog on1-that awfully patient air which, jwas wearing me to ski^vaad. ..bone-^'pfwt finding out: Now if jess'.Tiaa married Sophie Mijila that was, and you?"? ( But I (lid not waft to hear aoy more, As 1 eiiy, I' jtist' caught ijp baby and ' went off to the gainst; And while I sat by the cobwebbed w.indow Mi;s. 'BaiTCt-rrSophie Mills J that was?went riding by in their new spring wagon, she and her hqlf dozen enuuren, ronnu ana rtwy ut? ? barrel of apples. Sop hip nodded and smiled to some one coming up the road; and looking alert#, I saw John Stringer Walking, thoughtful likp, n'ght;up to our gate, justasiie o^ed to come in courting days?fpr Jphn nev?r had'any foolish ways about hiili. saw Sophte lobk back at birrt as she and the children, with their fluttering 1 ribbons and gay ginghams, disnpfeared at the turn$o' the road, Tben^ Smoothed ray hair and washed up my faC6 and went down: The tin)e : of settlement had come, I knew. . j . t, "Mary Ann," s^id John, gravely, i "the lawyer will be here, presently} ; but I reckon we can make all cloar in our own minds without-his beJp,; And ' 1'vo?I've settled it, in fact, tha^there aro certain conditions oo which.I^Jl tako ttio land?if you agree." Tlien I fleW- into apassion. "You've been loDg enough making up your j mind," says 1. "l don't tnrow my land at any body's feet, and I haven't i asked any favors of yon, leastways, i John Stringer,". / n?-< , < "Softly, there, softly I" says John, i puUing out his hand. "Don't be in a , flurry, Jittlo woman.** "John Stringer," says I, all in a heat, "yon're just the sumo man 'you 1 was years ago whep you thought I ' was always tiring up every time you got out o' temper yourself" "And weren tyou, littlo woman?" said John, quite gravely. "Don't women folks always like their own way better than anything else ?" "You don't know anything about women," I-cried, i'any more than you did then. You thought I wanted silks and furbelows more than?than?" "Than you did me," said John ; "and right enough you wag, too, if you could ha' got 'em. I always said so, Mary Ann." , j :/ "Any mnn with half an eye would have fcnown better," says I, hotly. "How ?" said John. His great hulking figure lifted itself up, and ho look ed at me with those sharp brown eyes that used to give mo a start in the old time*,- "How?" he repeated, , softly. "Do you mean to say I was mistaken years ago?'' His big hand was all of a tremble as he held it out < to hie. "Little woman, little woman," i said hp, "iei/a lia' dono with it all < now, and let it all be as if it neter I was.".. ' < Presently Mother Plumber pat her 1 head in the door. "Pears to me that : lawyer's making a long spell of it," ' says she. "Bcii't you a'most tired o' waitin' for him, Mr. Stringer?" < "I guess we've settled it pretty 1 much without tho lawyer," stys John, rising; "and that is tho condition I 1 had to propose, Mary Ann?to take | vou and tho meadow land together !"|; And ho did. .. 1 "Thirty-two cents!" echoed ii wo- , man yosterday, when her grocer charged her that sum for a pound of butUr. "Yes, urn,4' ho replied with a bland smile. ^You see the grocers can't carry mnch of a reserve, and wo cant't turn our collaterals at a sacrifice. If the government calls in the tfonds due in 1874, and the imports of bullion tend to case the money market a little, butter must find its level with everything else; Butter is very panicky just now, but T *U!-1- A??A? ^ RfftA rin\(\ l 'liiiim tilt nui 01 id vt??> wuv tho money withoot farther growling. . A > i?fj The Edgefield Ac'rortiser says: Monday last ought to I dve bogun our November court, and Judge Carpenter was promptly on the Bpot to see ifi anything could be douo; but of, course nothing could, for want ofju-j rors. The Curse of the Hour.- ^ There is too tnQch'. iyjjigj^tto every hand we meet wi^bj exaggeration, equivocation, deception. WO call it iyitig, and every'mati &* "*<>man w ho varies one ipt ?.>?? the atrietest fact or tratby;iii^ilMte?d a liar. . ..M.-v./t.i te.mftn The expressman-gg?pes most sol- ^ emuly to deliver a truuk fo?|jou atfe a certain hour. He deHvfcito|$t a day after the hour promis^a./T?jhe grocer promises to send ySSSKr' best tea in thei markets jHe^ttkeg the first his band fatie-cpon without any care for the <|uajUju dispatches it to "yon withotfrartwinge. The tailor agrees lo deliver a suit of clothes without fail by sijr*n the evening. You get thenar i?* the morning. The dentist pledgeafiiis word that your teeth, ?a? filhi<Jtby him, will be all tight fo* ja flolen ?? rpu^ fill: : _i _i_ 'li.mi jcuio. J. uc uiiing -cuiire# ojn^in six months.' A rimn'dve^the- fsray is in need of ^ You. lend him a small $$^J{j8eb he promises to return ajjj a.given time. }An auctioneer.tellayoajtaat a certain picture is ifl^er artist, when he knows it was parted by a fourth-rate paftiteif: ^ Her is not worthy of-trust. A salesman lies about his goods. A boot-maker lies about your boots.*.: The jfctteler liesjibQut your watch, ThQ.gpssiper at the dinner table t^lje exqggerated'st&ie^'to' astonish" .the la- , dies/ find nothing'ifodfeflhm a liar. * Tliefldrisfc asauces yoo^tKat liia' Anicapa Wara tviaItim) /trv. Alt a AiiO ' V? w f (Wtv JJiVIWVI ' 4 IV ?IJ\> morning, whe;n they aro. ^o -days old., lie lies., ana will .Ij^afout anything. Thebook-publisfrfer advertises that his 'bodk is seflitfg; by tens ofthoo&irtd&j whefi hc feashiot sold a thousand. He is a liar,'and not one door fram.&? Everywhere, Everywhere wejipar ' lying, lying. Men ana wojnen/wio woaTd'Knock yon dowtr if ypu'Haned them liars, lie every hour. ' D^ption is the rule rather than' ih?; exception. ^Canvassers %. abent; insurance companiesj Brokers ab^nt stocks. Editors about . pplifas Exaggeration ana misrepresentation, rale the hour and arfeitedjVfee. Gentlemen?ladies-^whji cannot the truth be told always.Unci Why all this deception and Jying? Why so muclr falsifying ancfcfrefltiqg ? Ill the name1 of all' thai. id good we beg you to do asyoo agrtte! ':jr iokt91? The Resources : of Georgia? ~ Georgia has a ve*y? j udicib us Ifcwr, wbten instructs tji tax gathers, ^intervals, to collect stytistyps^of tlie resources of'the&fatei Returns From"tfi ese * collectors havb1 teen compiled for tb? ^rfe^ent the statistics of the entifce State being reported, excepting fromtwelyfli,of the smaller counties. It QDDears that this year 1,702?169 acres were planted ln^ottoii,'- rind I,79i,'4tS8 acres in com, showtng a dHtoMs&ce in favor of the latter, andthWi'tfhe people of G?orgia, at least, fopve heeded the counsel to grow.their own gorii. There were, besides, over one hiillieon acres pTaifi^ff ?in other good crops, a^d their rc&iffU regarded by the Georgia papers "as giving the assurance that tfcepeople of the State, for the next twelve naonths, at least, will not have.to look abroad for their food supply. The Georgians also have iwdrHr a million and three mlnrtera hejitt' of cattle, sheep, and bogs, ineurtng-fln ample supply of .meat and jlaily products. The industrial resources of the State are growing, the ^"'being twenty-five cotton factories,'RVe woolen factories, and ten-iron" furnaces. Fijty. Cents on the Dollab. ~ During the panic of 1857 a tyr^o number of persons in Philadelphia had their boots blackened by aft old negro at his cellar on Spruce strofct, who delivered his work promp4ly every morning at the doors of their hotels and boarding houses, radiant t.hA liritrhfnat. nf Pronnlivtlknir*!! Ono unhappy morning these people got up and found no boots '?jjrtbeir doors. After a proper amount' of blasphemy, equipped in old shoestmd odd slippers, tbey set out for Sambo's shop. On reaching it they discovered a placard on tho cellar door bearing the inscription quite familiar 011 the bank.doors of that day, "Suspended." After many thunderous kicks, Sambo at lebglti opened''his portal. "Where are my' boots, ATou black scoundrel/" said -one. "Hand over my shoes, you sOnlof charcoal," 3aid another. The artist flf the brash, with a smile worthy of a defaulting artist of Wall.street, calmly handed over one boot and one shoe, with tbe remark: "Gemmen dis house has suspende J, but we pays fifty per cent." : . A elcrgyman writing to a friend says, "My voyage to Europe is indefinitely postponed. I have discovered the "fountain of health" on this side of the Atlantic. Three bottles of Peruvian Syrup have rescued me from the pangs of dyspepsia." Dyspeptics should drink from this fountain, g6f Mr. II. H. Kimpton was in Charleston Friday, to answer to subpoena of the United States Court, P. J?,J ? u: 11 fiUrl K., 1UUIIUCU UII ik U 111 111 V??U1*JT UltU J the Greenville and Columbia Railroad, charging him with a fraudulent eonveraion of property while acting as the financial agent of the company. V 1 CX , Mrs. Mary E. Uof^ at"Spartanburg, is anxious to see or learn something concerning tho whereabouts of hor brother, Mr. Ilarvey M. Skinner. When last heard from he was in Edge, field Counly. .