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B I 3!z| s CD *, ? o i> ? 8* i?i " S ? I ? MS GO I: I F ? ? 4 ?d <=-* L. LJ M Oo s f P * I 5 - r 6 ? w ? i? io ^ -J V ? * CS ? g" % m I 2 o I H * ~ S S?J " 1 d <H j? CQ C-K & ? i g ~ ^ o * - r g ? uj ? -< "s LJ p O <?Cheap! Cheaper!! Cheapest!!! NEW GOODS, l.V\T> rniiM run xxu'j? SPRING and SUMMER <> IT 1870. WE invito tlio attention of buyers to our New Stock of SPRING and SUMMER GOODS which have been select el with a view to the requirements of our Customers and which we propose to sell at prices in SYMPATHY WITH THE TIMES. As usual, our store is filled with every thing .demanded by tho wants and tastes of the Country, from the most ELEGANT FABRICS for Ladies' and Gentlemen's wear, to riilXTATION MJ iU'U ES. fall and see our goods and hear our prices, L> l AA ?r HIT xuue oo ifiuuuru.) A pril 2f> 17 If Fans! Fans J ! "\T01T can "raise a breeze" at my Store that I will keep you cool all glimmer, by buying a fan from my large stock. I've got them of all qualities and at all prices S. W. PORTER. May 9 19 tf Gloves, A 1.1/ sizes, all colors and all qualities, at the lowest prices, at S. (V. PORTER'S Cheap Store. May 9 ly tf Fcrnst'nti ?>( ('otits n CJallon, at SPEARS k COT,TON S. April I It tf FLIRTING IN AMERICA. American uieu and American women are, perhaps, the boldest and most uncompromising flirts in tho world. It must ueeds be so in n society which banishes mothers as superfluous, old ladies as nuisances, and any kind of chnpcrounge as an infringement of the glorious Transatlantic birthright aud an insult to human nature. Wc do uot say for a moment that this unchecked uncontrolled intercourse between the youug men aud womcu in America leads to grate mischances ; but we do say that it leads to an organized system aud recognized touc of flirting which strikes us, used to more rcticeuco aud less freedom, aiMxJd, -to wy the least of It, audTcsscntlnllv "DOOwrir^!i? the youth of the day would call it. If au Englishman wcro to permit himself to say to a sicgle favored one anythiug like what an Americau man would say to any girl whatsoever with whom he might couvcrse, society would mark him as dangerous, and careful mothers would keep their daughters out of his way, as watch-dogs guarding the lambs from the prowling wolves. Hut the American girl would and does think nothing of it. She is used to close sailiug aud gives as good as she takes. She has mado ouc of a party of youths and maidens who meet up in tho mountains for a summer, and who pair off day after day and far into the night, among tho lonely valleys and in the dusky glades of the sileut forest; thinking nothing of it and not supposing that any ouc else will think more than she docs.? She has been used to being taken to dancing parties by the young man of tho hour, who eplls for her and is her "friond" for the occasion. The mother docs not go aud the girl is conGded to the care of her male chaperon without hesitation or rcpugnanec.? uumau nature demands gallantry in such circutnstauccs as au absolute necessity?the inevitable overgrowth of the occasion ; and, uulcss she is wcakor and rasher than most, she has to take care of herself while paying back her cntcrtaiucr in his own coin, shielding herself while attackiug hiui, and, above all things, showing no fear, lleuco, flirting becomes, as we have said, both an organized system of intercourse and a recognized fashion among the American youth; and the consequences aro to be found iu a certain dash and boldness nud hardness and discretion all combined, whereby the partics engaged in the pleasant game sccui always ou the brink of danger, and yet secure. Another conscqucnco is, that English men and maidens arc at a disadvantage when they meet with their compeers rrom over the water; for the American men would bo suro to say more than they meant to substantiate to the English girls, and the American girls would lead the Englishmen farther than they meant to follow ; and the chances are that there would be heartaches and disappointments for the more reserved of the two. We have flirts enough, however, among ourselves, and we do as much harm to each other as is ever done by outsiders, whose ways we misunderstand because wo judge of thctn by our own. The serious flirt among us is especially dangerous, and we question if the boldest American or the most impassioned Italian ever did more damage than the quiet, undemonstrative English flirt, who takes scntimeut as his cround of action nml PI*. ton ism as his point U'appui. Soft eyes, that look dark and melancholy in the twilight; a sweet, sad voice that awakes responsive echoes in the imagination of the hearer; a languid, still and self-contained manner, giving the impression of a reserve fund of force, of talcut. of feeling, of capacity for sorrow, of power of sympathy?these arc the various items which majtc up the stockin-trade of the sentimental flirt, and with theso he or she dispenses sweet pain and pleasant anguish to all around. All, that is, who are weak enough to believe and innocent enough to be deceived, and who take tinsel and tinfoil for shining silver and ruddy gold. Xo Tl.MK.?No time, to mend your dress, but when the little hole catches on a nail and becomes a great rent, then you will have time to mend it, and it will be an hour's work, whilo five minutes wouid be enough for a littlo hole. No time to pull up the weed, b it when your garden is full of weeds you will find that you must exterminate them, and will toil in the hot sun for a whole day. No time to tench that little nlitM : " k?*c ii> uuuiis or ncntncss and show it what is right and what is wrong. No time! Ah, but you will have time enough in after yoars to bewail your forgctfulncss of that little immortal soul entrusted to your keeping. Wo all have time for twenty things a day which we do not do, busy as we may think ourselves. Burning True Stumps.?Tree stumps arc said to bo easily removed by boring a two-inch holo cighteon inches deep into the stump. Fill with a concentrated solution of salt petre, and plug up to keep out water. By spring it will have permeated every part. Then fill the hole with kerosene, set on fire, and the whole stump, it is said, will be consumed, even to the roots. It would seem to be feasible, and it is certainly an easy way to get rid of stumps. The ashes will 'remain to fertilize the soil. HOW TO SET A HEN. The nest should be uiade as near the ground as possible. Many poultry men say it shouid be on the ground, but their practice does not correspond with their preaching. YVo have used largo roomy boxes, say 18 x 24, inside measurement, with excellent results. YVe sometimes uso a common flour barrel, with two of the staves out awuy between the inside hoops. Either of these make ns good nests as tho most exacting hen can rcquiro. In tho bottoip of tho box, barrol or whatever may be used, some two ioohesof fine, dry earth should be placod, made slightly coustraw, shavings, uioss, leaves, and maoj other things c-f a similar character, arc sometimes used, but should not be, if possiblo to procure the proper material. Do not mnlto i the nest too eoueavo, for the eggs will "ride" ouch other and get broken. Put froui eight to fifteen eggs iu the nest, according to the size of the hen and tho season of the year. A small hen should never have more than teu eggs, and a large one not more than fifteen. A less uuiuber should be given during the winter than iu the late spring or early summer. Spriuklc finely sifted coal ashes among the material of the nest, upon the eggs and through the feathers of the sitter. If coal ashes cannot be obtained, use flour sulphur iu moderate quadltty. Lice, the greatest pest of tho poultry raiser, arc the direct cause of numerous failures to hatch. Every hen is not a good sitter. Some are nervous and fidgety, comiug off at unsca- . sonable hours and making a big fuss on the slightest provocation. The observant house- 1 wife will readily select the quiet kind that may be depended upou witli mathematical , ccrtaiuty. It is best to be ccrtaiu that they are ready for business before giving , them eggs; so it is wise to allow theni losit , on a dummy till they will find the nest, . very readily, after each absence. , The sitters should be isolated from lay- ( ing hens aud from each other. Pure water , and sound, sweet food should ln> iilw?v? easily accessible. Corn is the best for this , purpose. The dust bath must he provided, j in addition to the preliminary precautions, j Coal ashes are the best; hue dry earth is , good. Wood ashes may bo sparingly mixed | with dry earth, but we doubt tho utility. , Something in the shape of gravel must be . provided or the digestive organs will become , seriously impaired. In dry, warm wenthcr, occasionally sprinkle the buy of the nest with water; not enough to wet, but to slightly dampen. After fifteen days use tepid water ou the eggs direct. This keeps tho inner incuibrauo of tho shell soft and pliable and tho chicks have no difficulty in receiving light at the proper time. Do not use sulphur iu the nest or ou the hen while hatching. Sulphur blinds the young chicks. Coal ashes are safe at any time. It will not do to grease or oil the sitter at any time during the iucubating period, as these substauccs close the pores of the egg and smother the chick. I)o uot disturb the hen until you are quite pertain that the hatching has becu comcleted. Keep her as quiet as possible, and if her nest can be darkened, so much the hotter. Dot the chicks remain in the nest till they are, at least, twenty-four hours old, aud we prefer a longer period. If the little fellows will cluster around the hand i when it is put into the nest, they may be I lightly fed. The practice of'pipping' them, or taking off the little scale adhering to the point of the bill, is wrong. Nature provides for its removal in due season.? Our Home Journal. Tiie Cheapest Meat.?The cheapest meat for the farmer is mutton. It may safely bo said to eost nothiug, as the fleece from a sheep of a good breed will amply pay for its keepiug. Then, for additional proGt, there are a lamb or two, the pelt of the animal if killed at homo, the excellent manure from its droppings, and the riddance of the pastures from weeds, to which sheep are destructive foes. With the exception of poultry, mutton is also the most convenient meat for the farmer. A sheep is easily killed aad dressed by a single hand in an hour, and in the warmest weather it can be readily disposed of before it spoils. Science and experience both dcclaro it the healthiest kind of meat, and a foolish prejudice alone prefers pork, which, whether fresh or stilt, is the unhcaltbiest of all.? When people gain more wisdom, farmers will keep more sheep. 41.1 ? rvna tnai will be when .Legislators arc not afraid to tax dogs. Wiio Can Eat Twelve Soda Crackers in Twelve Minutes??Souio ono in New York wagered a friend the other day that he could not eat twelve soda crackers in as many minutes. The forfeit was 8500. In Scott & Hobson's barber shop, while a number of gentlemen were discussing the matter, one of the barbers succeeded in getting an associate to uudertakc the task. The crackers were procured and the contest began at G o'clock, the unfortunate man being Edward Clay. At the expiration of twelve minutes he had succeeded in disposing of only ten crackers, although he had eaten as rapidly as his jaws would permit him. Sl'hkadinu Manurk.?Tho ?Id fashioued method of plowing under manure has become obsolete. Good farmers now no longer follow old fashions because they are old, bat having become used to think lor themselves, and knowing much more of the science of their art thau was known a score of years ago, they are ready to strike out new i paths for themselves. The cummou method with manuro now is, to keep it as near tho surface, and to intermingle it with the soil, as much as possible. Wo have discovered that in feeding plants we must not only placo the food within easy reach of the roots, but must also supply tho best food in r nuro in as finely divided a condition as possible throughout the upper three or four iuches ol the soil. The host nnotipn >a f -) ?v " "? UIUIIurc upon the plowed ground, and to work it in with the harrow. This is uiost conveniently done by having manure in a fine conditiou. Fine manure may be made in two ways ; either by piliug it and rotting it in the heap, or by using only short litter. It is found iu practice that it pays to cut the litter with a fodder cutter, 60 that it will not only absorb more of tlio liquid manure, but that it can be easily spread whou fresh. The ordinary harrow will then mix the manure with the soil in the most effective manner. With long manure the woik is not so easily done, but it may be accomplished by persevering. The mauurc will be drawn into heaps, doubtless ; but by freeing the harrow and spreading these, aud harrowing again, and again if necessary, the desired result will be attained.? There are some improved kinds of harrows which do this work much better than others. The sloping tooth harrow acts favorably by pressing the manure into the soil, and drawing the earth over it; the flexible chain harrow ha9 the same effect; but the steel disc harrow not only docs this, but it cuts aud breaks up the long litter, and. reduces ll. In fninmnnla 'I'KIo 1. ....^uivnw. jl mo uunutr cou?is>ts of a scries of thin, sharp-edged discs, which revolve upon axles in a different direction from that of the movement of the implement. Each disc thus not only cuts into the soil, but it throws up a small furrow of light soil behind it, this latter effect being assisted by the concave or saucershaped form of the disc. The result is very satisfactory either when sod has been turned down (and this comes under the head of manuring), or when coarso manure is to be Rprcad ; the soil, too. is left in a very favorable condition for sowing or planting.? These short hints may be found seasonable at any time, because the making and use of manure is a work of every day^in the year in one way or another, or ^hould be.? A m erica 11 Agriculturist. ()r,n Cows and the Fence Law.? They say in .Mecklenburg, N. 0., that the stock law has bccomo so much a necessity in that couuty, that the old fence law could not he rc-eslahlishcd without a revolution ! The tardiness, the foolish inertness of thft people of the up-country of rfouth Carolina on the subject of the fence law, is euough to drive away all enterprising farmers. Take any neighborhood between Greenville and Colllllihin nnrl if will 1 ?, ?...% .v *t 111 mg iuuiiu (hat ten to twenty miles of fencing has to be kept up nt an expense of ?1,000 or ?2,000 per annum to keep a half dozen old cows out of the fields of the farmers who have their own cattle fenced in their own pastures. The people have submitted to this thing so loug that it is hard to convince tlicui that they have any rights to their own land not under fence. It is a fact within our own observation, that the single cow of an old preacher down in a middle county in this State roamed all the lanes for a living and required the farmers in the neighborhood to keep up twelve miles of fencing at a cost of not less than ?1,000 per annum. If the farmers had bought the old cow and knocked.her in the head, tho preacher would have bought another aud another and another as often as he could sell his old cow ?v.? .. ?:? IVI n ^v/UU pi Il/C. Tho people of this up-country have been for thirty years paying more for fencing aud fenco repairs than would pay tho taxes on their lands, and buy up, twice over, all the poor half starved cattle of the country. When we count the cost of the old system of fencing out other people's stock, it is no wonder that farmers cau't make cotton at 8 cts. a pound. The only wonder is, they have not ull been sold out by the sheriff long ago. Tho township of CJrcenville alone expends not less than from 83,000 to 85.000 per annum for want of the new fence law, to say nothing of the trouble and vexation of watchiug and dogging the p:or cattle that make a living at the public expense. The cost of fencing, in tho middle and up-country of South Carolina will not fall short 81,000,000 per annum and yet our people hesitate about the new stoc^t law.? Greenville News. . ?? - A California paper says the Tapancso will win universal respect by n sort of) heathenish habit they have of minding their own business. chubchk8 im london. London, May 12,1879. To the Editor of the Newt and Courier? In tny lust, 1 think, 1 said, 1 notice that the London churchep aro ovidently made for use. Every rector or vicar who has any prcteusioos to being ulivc seems to havo his1 church open daily for morning and cvoniog I prayer. It is the cxceptiou in London j when there is not n celebration of the Holy n - " * vyuuimuoicaiion every Sunday morning at 7, or 8 and 11 o'clock. At some churches the communicants arc to many that there arc three celebrations, at 7, at half-past 8: nud 11 every Suuday. There is just round the* corner from me what is called a Low Church Parish. They havo a surpliced' choir and a weekly comuiuuion. I mention this to show these are not here considered' new badges of churchtnanship, but rather cvidcncos of vitality. I notice, too, the plainness of the benches. In tho handsomest churches tho pews are really only benches. There are no carpets in them. There arc littlo kneeling cushions, one fur each pew, and I ain glad' to say they are used. Everybody kneels. They do not sit down, and lie down ou tho pew back in front. The aisles only havo drugget on them, and all the chancels aro tiled with Milton tiles. This is no wonder: The churches arc in such incessant use by such crowds that no carpets could possibly stand the wear. I notice everywhere not only aro the alms presented, the people all standing, but tho people staud all the whilo the offering is being made, and it is very striking. Tho: nag, not on long polos, but a small bog, is' started nt the front pew and is handed from one person to another and then passed back to the pew in the rear and scarcely conies back iuto the hands of the person who has. churgo of it till it gets to . the end of tllo' churoh ; thus every individual in the congregation actually has the fact brought tohis attention that giving is as much a part' of rplininn on ? XT-L-i ?w |/>ujnu^. riuuouy can turn his head the other way when Mr. stands at the head of the pew with the platoin his hand, and goes on row after row without even a five cent piece as their offering to God for Ilis church and;for Ilis poor.? The custom nbovo referred to as prevailing' here applies to all churches. I have been in the most aristocratic as well as the humblest. England has somo reverence for an- an->tiquity which is real, but she has gotten rid; of high-back square pews and thtec deckers, and all that type, which belonged to a state of things in the church which happily haspassed away from every section of it'where" there is any spiritual life. I had the pleasure of hearing the Bishop of Easton, Bishop Say, preach at St. Peter's, Bclsize Park. I fear he docs not go home as well as wo would have him. My next shall have souio * illustrations of English home lite, A. Toomeii Ports it. A Drunkard's Body after Deaths ?A post mortem, examination of noarly 70 persons who had died from the excessive uso of nrdcut spirits showed the following fact:. 1. Congestion of the scalp and of thomembranes of the brain, with much serous (watery) effusion ; the substance - of. the brain white and firm, as if. it had lain in? alcohol for one or two hours. 2. The lungs not always, but frequently, congested or inflamed. 3. Thohoart flabby, enlarged, dilated and.; loaded with futon the outside, the blood in. it of a cherry-red color, and with no tendency to coagulato. 4. The stomach perfectly white, and; thickened in some cases; in others, having, patches of chronic inflammation. In the worst cases the larger portion of the stomach covered with that species of inflammation which causes the blood to be poured, from, the minute veins. 5. The liver enlargedi?in old dtunkards weighing from six to twelve pounds. G. The omentum?a sort of, apron which immediately covers tho abdomen iu front ?loaded with a gray, slushy fat. 7. The kidneys enlarged, flabby and infiltrated in numerous spots with a whitish matter. 8. The small int^stincs-fillod with bile and coated with tennoious mucus. 9 Tho blood in a very fluid condition, having but little fibrinc, but much albumen and fat. 10. The whole body, except tho brain, decomposing very rapidly. | Is it a wonder, that "a drunkard hath woes J"?[Youth's Companion. Pkkvajlino Hospitality.?Tiio Titusville (Pa.) Herald extends the following cordial invitation to butnmcc boarders :? "Here every breezo is laden with tho fragrance of an hundred gardens, and ovcry sound the echo of a busy industry. When our hotels are overrun, rooms can be had in the most respectable private houses, whera the geraniums ever bloom, pianos ever thrill. Come, ye sick and disconsolate 1 and with a mouth's board in advance we will open our hospitable arms to you, give you a front room looking off at morn and eve on tho mist-crowned and sun-kissed hills and far i away, or a back room gazing on the tall I chimneys of our workshops, tho dog snoozing in his kennel and the cat and rooster I trewing and crowing on the tall fence !"