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A WOMAN'S LETTEK.
My letter's late by one Jay.
but truth is, Jenny dear,
Ned Grayson came oa Sunday?
It seems he's always here,
lie, and young Fred McKeuzie,
They staid three blessed hours,
And ma was iu a frenzy?
He brought some lovely (lowers.
I mean to tell you, Jenny,
The news and everything,
But I find there isn't any,
Oh, next week, Ned's te sing
With the Mozart Club at Irvin ;
I'll manage, dear, to go,
The Fates and weather serving?
I ..... I,. I
Jen, losers urc a nuisance !
Ocorge brought the ring la*t night ?
A solitaire, like Susan's ;
It gave lue such a fright !
I cried ami wouldn't wear it ;
How, underneath the sun,
l)o girls contrive to bear it?
This narrowing clown to one?
Poor Ocorge, the foolish fellow,
Began to storm and tlisg,
And turned quite green and yellow
1 hate that sort of thing.
New, Ned is always quiet :
T think his cool, gray eye.
Would still an Irish riot.
Or uiake a regitueut tly.
But what's so very funny
Abont him?Ned 1 mean
He hasu't any money :
1 heard fiom Clarence liruen
Just how he's situated ?
Keeps books for Webb & Ware.
Ah, well?those thiugs urc fated !
Heorge owns a million, square
Yes, dear, Fate trims the corners,
Uough-hew them as wo may !
We can't go clad like mourners.
Or weep the livelong day;
ihit, oil, don't breathe it, Jouny !
I'd marry Nod, you sac.
Without one single penny.
If only lie loved me !
All, well?well?well?that's folly,
l>lit sometimes, Jen, I've thought,
lie, too, seemed melancholy ;
Quick glances that I've caught.
Looked full of speechless sadness ;
M There goes a silly tear,
To blot the page -what madness !
tlood-bye, pet, George is here.
We dine at Kiln Johnson's.
1'. S.?I must decide?
lie wont stand too much nonsunso
The crepe cemes full yard wide.
Don't get the hull', it fades so ;
Have train ami split-up sacqu**.
For organdies are made so.
My heart aches. Love to Jack.
?makv Ainuk Dk Verk.
Sffiltmbtr Scrifini>r.
? - Simple
(.'nut: poii Dyspepsia.?Milk
and lime-water arc now IVo?|nen113* proscribed
by physicians in cases of dyspepsia and
weakness of the stomach, and in some eases
are said to prove beneficial. Many persons
who think good broad and milk a great luxury
frequently hesitate to cat it for the reason
v\?nt tUo milk v?iU uot roi\dily ;
Hourness of the stomach will often follow
Hut experience proves that lime-water and
milk arc not only food and medicine at an
early period of life, but also at a later, when,
as in the case of infants, the functions of
digestion and assimilation have been serious
ly impaired. A stomach taxed by gluttony,
irritated by improper food, inflamed by alcohol,
enfeebled by disease, or otherwise unfitted
for its duties?as is shown by the
various symptoms attendant upon indigestion.
dyspepsia, diarrhica. dysentery and
fever?will resume its work, and doit energetically,
on an exclusive diet of bread and
milk and liuie-water. A goblet of cow's
milk may have fonr tab'espoonsful of limewater
added to it with good effect. The
way to make lime-water is simply to procure
a few lumps of unslaked lime, put the lime
in a stone jar, add water until tlte'Time is
slaked and of about the consistency of thin
cream; the lime settles, leaving the pure
and clear lime water at the top (front care
should be taken not to get the liuie-wator
too strong. Keep to the direction as to the
consistency, and when the water rises, pour
it oil' without obtaining any of the lime.?
The lime-water is also very good to apply
to burns and scalds. In slaking tli? lime,
particular care should he taken that none
of the particles fly into the eyes. ? .Ync
York Smith.
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Two I)aitino I.kai's Koit IjIkk?A correspondent
at l>aridson College writes us of
an incident which occured two or three days
ago near that village, and which reads something
like the deeds of daring of the days
of Ivanhne, when men eared not to faco
death itself to win the smiles of "woman
fair." A young gentleman, a son of cue of
our well known public men, was out horseback
riding in company with a I dv friend,
when the horse ridden by the young lady
became frightened and ran at lull speed
down a long, steep hill. Our hero immediately
spurred after her. When the horse
of the lady was about entering a thick wood,
with the self-possession of a .Joan of Arc,
she slipped her foot from the stiirup and
threw herself from the flying animal Her
gallant escort was immediately behind, and
his horse coming suddenly upon the prostrated
lady, sprang over her and dashed into
the wood. His rider finding him unmanageable.
and being solicitous for th?
welfare of bis companion, sprang from the
horse while he was going at full speed, unmindful
of the oonserjuences of so dangerous
a leap, and lauded tipon the ground unhurt.
He then ran back and bad the pleasure
of finding the lady wreathed in her
usual bright smiles, and unhurt.? Charloth
Obm-rvt r.
A German dairy maid in Jefferson county
fell hoad first into a tank of soft switzor
eheesu last week. Here it is again. A wofnan
in the kase, as usual.
All intelligent paper in Switzerland a\ -.
that ''Mi?s Mollie Maguir<\ of I'enrisylva
nia, has been hung for iiiidnili.'V in
*" - - L.L!
TO OUR PLANTERS.
Messrs. Kimoits :?Iu uiy last I urged'
that we should rear sheep and goats, as well
as hogs and cattle, and why not breed our
horses and mules? Wo can do it cheaper
than ijuyiug, if wo would raise but half the
cotton we have hitherto done, by sowing a
clover patch, lucerne and millet, which grow
well hero. Lucent" is well adapted to out
hot and dry sunm?e?S7 and is-very
as well as nutritious. Clover is well known
to bo the very best vegetable fertilizer in
colder latitudes than ours. The pea viuo is
perhaps its equal and better adapted to our
climate. As we have found that we cauuot
produce cotton here under twelvo cents per
pound, it costing that price to raise it, why
not turn our attention to the cereals, grasses
and to stock raising ? At least, all we
require for use. I am confident from an
experience of forty-five years in plautiug
and the rearing of stock, that we can produce
our own provisions at a less cost thau
buying rhciii. and live stock also. No one
need fear that he can find a ready market
at home for all the surplus grain, peas, potatoes
and live stock that lie can produce
and roar, and hay also, at remunerative
prices, A more important* item will be attained
by tit is course in tho improvement,
ot hit* lands. L will take the liberty of
quoting n part of a letter frouY'an esteemed
friend and practical planter, living in liichlund
County, and who owns about a thousand
acres of medium Cedar Creek land.?
He is well known as a close calculator and
economist, and successful stock raiser and
farmer before our late war, and a member
of the Legislature. Ho writes. Aug. 21st,
I as follows: "I plant no cotton. 1 am now
l breaking up stubble land preparatory for
! small grain. That is the crop for inc. I
I can make moro money at it than any thing
I else, besides the manifest improvement of
| my lands. All the lands 1 cultivate imj
prove ten per cent, per annum. A mau
| who wears out bis land is a poor farmer and
I a meaner sinner. He is a fool too. That's
! my bank?my very capital. If I exhaust
) that 1 am wasting and waning. Resides, 1
! am bringing evil, hard times and poverty
upon those who follow mo. If 1 improve
my laud. I increase my capital. Production
will not wear out land. Rad, foolish culti.... :
!...? i ....i... e..n
v.tiimi iiut'a ui.ti. i i tin uiirvt; i mi nu|i>
every year, ami thi laud improve too. I
never pasture cultivated land, lie is a fool
who will do that. It is ruinous. I will tell
you what I regard the best rotation lor crops
on hill laud that is liable to wash : 1st
year, peas in horizontal rows; 2nd. wheat;
.'id, oats ; Ith. p as again, stubble to be
turned in August; grain to be sowed and
borrowed in well, with no other plowing.?
No pasturing. That land will improve 1 (T
per cent, per annum. A still better course
I would be : Sow peas broadcast, 2 bus. to
! acre 1st .July ; turn under 1st October, and
i sow oats with harrow. Hopeat this course
! every year, ::J infinitum, ami the land will in!
crease every year 20 per cent. The mass of
| our people in farming are foolish, hopeless,
incorrigible and incurable idiots. Their
I deterioating farms, their empty garners.
! poor stoek, and general indebtcncss and
j poverty prove it. The fanner who dues not
improve his laud and have a surplus over
j all expenses every year is a dolt and a robber."
Ac. This is strong language, but neverj
thclcss true. IVas I have found to yield a
j half crop or more sown from 10th to 25th
j.Junc, and I would prefer that titus. and
I turn under 1st to 15th October. I have
| never tried hurr ?wiug small grain, but think
I it would answer well. It would seem, less
than two bushels of peas would suffice for
j an acre of land. I sowed one to one ami a
hall, and thought it thick enough.?SKNEX
ill Xt ir/imy 1 Ifrnhl.
- Tiik
Vai.iik ok Hen Manure.? iii nK
ihe droppings IVnm the roosts by hens he
carefully saved in barrels, and every spring
and lull this manure be composted with any
good soil or muck from swamps, and so kept
a few months, its value for any crop is e<jual
to Peruvian guano, and it may. I think, be
estimated at fifty cents per fowl per annum.
From titty hens I saved about ten barrels of
the pure hen guano during the year. What
1 save from November to April I compost
in the spring with soil. First 1 spread in a
circle soil to the depth of three or lour inches.
Then I spread hen manure about an
inch deep ; then L spread another layer of
soil, and then a layer of manure, till the
heap is completed, using about lour time the
bulk of soil that I do of manure, the iast
I layer being soil. The top of this compost
; heap I make Hat, to catch the rains ; then 1
j LMIU-'I II Willi i? 11 > Il'llinC "??? Ml Mliltt, I IIVI]
place some sticks of wood or boards against
the covering to keep it in its place, and in
two or three months it is ready to use, having
become thoroughly incorporated with
the soil ; but, as the season for planting is
then past mostly, 1 leave the heap till the
next spring, when 1 use it with what I coinpast
in November. Perhaps it would be
better to make a compost in March, where
the climate will admit, and use the manure
for crops planted the last of May or early
in .June; but 1 can discover uo loss by keeping
it till the next season. A gill of this
compost in a bill of corn will be equal in
effect to a half-shovel of stable dung.
--
Brigham Young didn't put on historic
airs when it came to the ' last words." ILis
son asked him if he knew him? liI should
think I ought to," responded the ipdiguunt
candidate for an obituary. This is only
equalled by the historic declaration of Mrs.;
Ward when confronted by her elated bus |
hand, disguised in his regimentals. ' Know .
you '{" said she, "of course I do von old I
fool!"
An old preacher, who had several calls
to take a parish, asked his servant where be
should go, and the servant said. *< I?? where
there is tin' most sin, sir. The prrachrr
concluded that that \\ iB good advice and I
w> at ??' it lie a.' v>.i^ the ni".-t mmc'V 1
THE WILL OF THE P&OPHET.
An Kstate Worth ?2,000,000 Divided
Among Seventeen IFiWs and Forty-four
Children.
Salt Lake Citv, September 3.?Brigham
Young's will was read today in tho
presence ot* all his wivis and children and
a few friends. Brighaui Young, Jr.,
0- Cannon and Albert Oarrington are
as his executors. TUg estate is
largely real estate, and is probably worth
?2,060,000. Tho will was made four years
aijp, and his youngest child, born of Mary
\^u Cott, was then throe years old. Brighqpn
^louug was the father of fifty-six children,
And left seventeen wives, sixteen sons
and twenty-eight daughters. The will aims
to mafic au equitable division of the property
?>'twecu all the wives aad children,
with 00 preference to any.
Most all of them have already had some
tnmg uecueu to mcui. vmi tins a valuation
was sot, and it is to be charged to the recipients
as part of their share, though nut necessarily
at the valuation he put ou it. That
is to be equitably adjusted, when the estate
is divided, upon the youngest child coining
of age. Meanwhile the income is to go to
the various mothers according to the number
of their children, aud they can withhold
pjt if, the children behave badly. All are
provided for as far as their present needs
arc concerned. Ilis first wile and Amelia
are givou a life interest in the Amelia l'alaec?a
large, modern, new, fine, house ; but
he is known to have changed his mind about
that, chiefly because they declined it for
reasons best known to themselves, although
nothing in or out of the will has as yet conic
to light showing it, and they arc not otherwise
provided for except by their share of
tho income. Deceased held many interests
in trust for the church and for individuals.
His executors are directed to turn them
over properly. The church is forbidden
by law to hold moic than $50,000 worth of
property ; and so it was largely hold by
Brigham Young in trust His friends will
not entertain the notion that he ever abused
that trust. There is no inventory of the
property on the estate, and it is widely scat-Lorrd
With the country prosperous and
lull of money, it would be worth twice the
above valuation. Kccently Brigham Young
endowed an academy Willi lands at J'rovo
ami another at Logan ? the latter with 12,000
acres. Ho hail determined to endow
one at Salt Like, hut did not live long
enough to do so. A person present at the
reading of the will says it seemed to he
SOMETH]
| U>1>10W rt
I NEW STORE AT r
! TAMES H
HA VI Nil purchased tlie entire interest of lii
Store, respectfully announces to the old
I
l^rioitdhi ant
of (he former owner that lie v
GROCERY
At tlio < )
nnd will always keep a lull
PLANTATIO
Table and other Cutlery,
Plows and Pic
Ct
wool >10]
A h L 15 11 A N 1) 8 O F
which he
1? 11 1 C K H T O W 1J
1 respectfully invite the old fri
nnd any number of new ones, to
C A L L A X j
You will iind two '"Live young
?to.wait on you, and what we cam
asking for or having.
Csill at t lio 1 *o<
II' you want good bargains, pol
j tion.
TO TIIOWKHAVING
sold out my entire interest
anxious to settle up all outstanding in?
any way indebted to ino to come forward an
My Books and Accounts are still at the H
James II. Hodger, is empowered to make
March 2
\ ^ ATTENTION OUT
You can savo TIME, TI
By using the Celebrated
WEST'S GUANO
11 A I 4 l<: INTINM'H < '
niliillfiicliu <1 If i;ie. 6 o\
W A NICHOLSON
Muivh I' .
very satisfactory to all concerned.*' It will
be probated as soon as possible. It will be
wonderful if some dissatisfaction docs not j
creep in withiu the ucxt thirteen years.
A Snake Story.?At Cox & Brown's <
mill, some three miles from Belton, a small
snake, belonging to the tribe known to a 1
great many as the "king snake," has taken |
up his abode regularly, and amon^ the rats ,
and mice he is a "fell dostroyor." He .has i
become quite tame and gentle, and ofteu, :
when the keeper of the mill takes a uoouday
uap, his suakeship will crawl around
and over him, and frequently lie quietly
upon his bosom. We have frequently heard,
rather traditionally, that this species of serpent
was harmless towards man but was a
relentless enemy towards all other serpents,
auu as suusuinuutmg tins luoa we win relate
a further iucidont concerning the suake
under discussion, which cotucs to us through
au authentic source. One day reeoutly a
medium sized water moccasin was seen lying
on the sand below (he mill, and ere long the
king snake was seen approaching hiiu cautiously.
He crossed the small stream which
ruus from the race below the wheel and very
slowly nearcd the uioccflfiu, all the while
swaying his head tYoui the right to the !?'t.
This motion was more and more contracted
the nearer he approached, until Vhcn within
a lew inches of his victim, he lay for
some tune perfectly motionless. Then suddenly
he darted upon the moccasin, caught
him by the back of the neck, and proceeded
to coil himself around hiui. When he had
made several coils he freed his mouth hold
upon the moccasin's neck and by making
loops of his body and inserting his head
th rough them, lie tied himself in two or
three or four knots around his victim's body,
which must have beeu very tight indeed,
for when he had remained there some ten
i minutes he loosened himself and crawled
j triumphantly back to the mill, leaving the
! dead body of the moccnsiu upon the sand.
? Amfrrsoii Journal.
v ..:?i ? i.: t 1:1.1 1 it.
.v iiinu^iii ?vj?? it:<iuiuug nur iikic urom!
cr the Loid's Prayer, and, when she had
j said : Give us this day our daily bread," he
j suddenly called out: "Pray for sirup, to,
| sister; pray for sirup, too."
If you don't want a woman to go astray,
the sooner you provide her with a baby the
better. A blue eyed boy will do more tow,
ards kccpiug Mrs. Gadde's morals sweet
' than all the sermons that wero ever preached
[NG NEW
llli !-S(0)TV.
VI IE OLD STAND.
. KOI)GEE
* father, Mr. JOHN itODQKII, in his Grocery
[1 Customers
rill continue the
BUSINESS
Id Mtand,
stock of all kinds of Groceries,
N SUPPLIES,
>w Steel,
inned Fruits, Meats, Oysters, &c.,
X WAHE.
TOBACCO, & c & c
will sell at
i t t 11rr i m k s .
ends
and customers of the house,
I) T 11 Y M E.
men," standing ready at all times
lot show and sell you is not worth
lj? or < >1<1 Staiid
ite attention, and perfect satisfacJAMES
II. RODGER.
I 1 > KISTKD.
in the (irocery Business, to my son, I am
lehtcdness. I, therefore, call upon those in
(1 make settlements immediately.
;torc. and if 1 am not presaat my son, Mr.
settlements.
JOHN KOPGEH.
8 tf
TO^ PI.A1NTKH8!
*oubl,e and money,
"FARMERS" FRIEND'
DISTRIBUTOR,
(?TOiN PfiA NT ion,
?v lineiii.iA. (aeeiHiiie. s.
I, Agent, Union C. H
In '-III
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CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
Passenger Trains run daily, Sundays except- *
cd, connecting with Night Trains on Seuth Carolina
Railroad up and dewn. On and after
MONDAY, May 20th, the following will be the
schedule:
up.
Leave Columbia at 7.45 a m
Leave Alston 9.30 a m
Leave Newberry 10.50 a m
Leave Cokesbury 2.17 p m
Leave Helton 4.00 p m
Arrive at Greenville 5.85 p m
. down.
Leave Greenville at 8.05 a m
Leave Helton 9.55 am w
Leave Cokesbury 11.33 a in
Leave Newberry 2.40 p m
Leave Alston 4.20 p in
Arrive at Columbia 5.55 p in
ANDERSON BRANCH AND BLUE RIDGE
DIVISION.
down. up.
Leave Wallia)la....0.15 a iu Arrive 7.15 p m
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M11M1.A.1 IM U>.\M I..\1>,
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June 0, 187?>. 28 tf ^
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MAI IV STREET,
SPARTANBURG, So. Ca.
S. 13. Csilcutt,
(Formerly of I'alnictto Houee^^sSpC^
Proprietor.
HOUSE WELL VENTILATED,
U00M8 NEWLY FURNISHED AND CARPETED?TABLES
SUPPLIED WITH THE
BEST IN MARKET?ATTENTIVE
SERVANTS?OMNIBUS
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PAINTS AND OILS.
Linseed Oil. Raw and Roiled.
Machine Oil,
Turpentine,
Kerosene Oil',,
Colors in Oil,
Varnishes,
Window Olass, Putty,
~ ?.1 All f - *?- *
mum M H[iri MIMI UIH/JfPH I'llllll S.
For Sulo by A. IRWIN & COMarch
'2 K tf
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Attorney ?< JLaw ||
AMP
TRIAL JUHTICE,
l iiion II., S. C,f
WILL practice in the Circuit and Probate
Courts.
All business in the jurisdiction of a Trial Jus
ticc attended to with promptness.
Special uttcntion given to collections, &c.
Ofliee for the present, third door to the left in
the Court House.
March 2 8 tf
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Ettenger & Edmond, ^ >
RICHMOND, VA. sw
31 at it a? l*n <m t it 1* ?' i* h <> f
Portable and Stationary Engines,
KOILF.KS OF Abb KINDS,
CIRCULAR SAW MILLS,
UK 1ST MILLS,
MILL OKARINU,
SUAl'TINd, l'ULLRYS, kc.
AMKRK'AN T1JRKINK WATKR WIIF.KL, ^
CAMKROYS Sl'KCIAL STKA.M FUMl'S. #1
Send for Ciitnlogue. ^
Nov. 10, 1870 4ft ly
Scuppernong Wine.
\\TII1TK Imperial SeuppernonR Wine nt
VV A. IRWIN k CO S.
March IV If
liiiipe liraiItaly.
]>l' ItK (Irape brandy for medicinnl purpose at
A. IRWIN & CO S.
March 80 12 if
Pure Corn Whiskey.
1> II. I! M 111, f in" . in V. In-Key, I hi* medicinft
pill p I - lie ill
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