Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, February 08, 1866, Image 4
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Hard of Hearing.
A young Jonathan onoe courted the
daughter of an old man that lived down
East, who professed to be deficient in hearing?but,
forsooth, was more caprioioos than
limited in bearing, as the sequel will tend
to show.
It was a stormy night in the ides of
March, if I mistake not, when lightning met
lightniog and loud peats of thunder answered
thnuder, that Johnathan sat by the old
* man's, fireside discussing with the old lady
(his intended mother-in law) the expediency
of asking the old man's permission to
marry Sally. Jonathan resolved to pop it
to the old man on the next day?"but,"
says be, "as I think of the task, my heart
shrink* and my resolution weakens?he's
so dang'd hard to hear a body."
In the meantime, the old man, who was
hypocritical, so far as hearing was concerned,
feigned total indifference to the conver
sation between bis wife and Jonathan, bat
contrary to the anticipations of both he dis
tinctly beard every word that passed, and
by the dawn of another day, the old man
was to be found in bis barn lot feeding his
pigs. Jonathan also arose early from bed
in the morning and spied the old man feeding
his pigs, and resolved to ask him for
Sally.
Scarcely a minute had elapsed after Jon- I
athan had made his last resolution ere be |
bid the old man good morning. Now Jona
than's heart beat?bow he scratched bis
bead and gave birth to a pensive yawn.? I
Jonathan declared that he'd as soon take
thirty nine "stripes" as to ask the old man. i
"But," says he, aloud to himself, "here
goes?faint heart Dever won a fair girl,"
and addressed tbe old man thus :
"I say, old mao, I want to marry your
daughter."
Old Man?"You want to borrow my baiter.
I would lend it to you, Jonathan, but
my son has taken it off to tbe mill."
Jonathan put his month close to the old
man's ear at.d speaking in a deafening voioe,
said.
"I have got forty five pounds of money !"
The old man stepped back, as if greatly
alarmed, and exclaimed in a 'voice of surprise
"You have got five hundred pounds of
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So much houey ? Why, it's uiure than all
this neighborhood has use for."
JuDathao, who was Dot jet the victim of
despair, put his mouth to the old man's ear,
aud bawled out,
' I have got gold "
To this the old man replied, '*So have I,
Jonathan, and it's the wr.rst cold I ever had
in mj life."
So saying, the old man sneezed <wash-up.'
By this time the old woman came out,
and having observed his uofortuoate lurk,
she put her mouth to the old man's ear and
screamed like a Mounded Zeno.
Daddy I I say, daddy, you don't understand
him. He wants to murry our daughter"
Old maD?"I told him our calf-halter
was gone."
Old Lady??'Wby, daddy, you can't understand
; he's got gold, he's rich !"
Old Mao ?"He's got a cold and the itch,
eh ? W bat's the rascal doing here with itch,
eh?"
So savin?, the old man aimed a blow at
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Jonathan's head with his walking staff;
happily for Jonathan be dodged it. Nor did
the rage of our hero stop at this, bat with
ao aogry cuuoteoaoce be made after Jona
tbao, who took to his heels; oor did Jonathan's
luck stop here. He had not gone ;
out of the barn yard, cot far from the old j
man, who run him a close race, ere Jona !
tbao stubbed his toe aud fell to the >_round,
and be.ore the o'd man could take up he :
stumbled over him Jonathan sprang to
his heels, and with the speed of a John
Gil piu, be cleared himself And poor Sally
! She died a nun. Never had a husband.
Corrv O'Lanus on the Indians.
Indiao summer is a very pleasant style of
weather.
I wish the Indians had tried their hacds
at the rest of the seasons, and giveD us this
sort of weather all the year round.
Not being in the coal business, I could
9t?nd it
The Indians are entitled to general gratitude
for inventing this second edition of
Snmnipp. short as it is.
Their meteorological ideas were good, so
far as they went?about ten days. But it
must be considered that their educational
advantages were limited
They had no public schools, with pretty
female teachers aud an economical Board of
-Education.
"""tJeeTluaTTiTnjwTng" tne roe,'BflU llgrTTIl!^
each other Scalping people wasone of the
most pleading diversions.
Scalping is quite an interesting operation,
except to the party operated upon. It consists
in taking off the top of a man's bead
and the skin with it
Bald headed Americans are sometimes
supposed to be descendants of the original
settlers, who were scalped by the Indians.
There were Indians at one time on Long
Island. Fortunately they had retired to
their happy huotiog grounds before I came
here.
They were not at all suited to this hemisphere.
TKa haKIa t*o aa Kno Krtntnpnr mn/?V? .
1 ur uvuio tawc uuo^ uynoivij ujuvu uv i
generated.
O't account of bad whiskey.
I dun't know what the Indians ever did
for the cigar business, but the only public
interest evioced in the red u?an ia by the i
cigar store men, who are erecting wooden
monuments to the Indians all over the city. |
Thus the memory of tbe Indians is pre- j
served in his native wood.
People who have studied the aborigines
io their native woods, say they prefer the .
Indians in wood to the Indians in the woods
There is one thing more to be said of the
cigar tribe : they are always smoking the
pipe of peace.
V\ here the Indian came from before he
first landed in America, is a question btill
open for investigation. But so far the American
people have been less concerned !
about the Indiao's coming than his going.
The Indian cannot be put to &uy practical
u-e.
His complexion is Dot dark enough for
politics. No body demands suffrage for the
red man.
Massachusetts never took the slighest interest
in him, except to kiok him out of the
Commonwealth and appropriate his landed
possessions.
The South wouldn't fight for him.
The commercial and manufacturing interests
of the country have been slightly
benefited by his taste for whisky.
Otherwise, nothing can ever be made out
of bim.
The Indian, like mosquitoes and public
lecturers, was no doubt created for some
wise purpose.
A North Carolina Witness.
They have a curious specimen of bumaD
nature in North Carolina. Everybody remembers
the celebrated "Cousin Sally Dillard
case," and here is one recently reported',
wbiob is not far behind it. The writer gives
it nnder tbe bead of 'legal proceedings."
Action for work and labor done in cutting
a ditch on defendant's land. Plea:
navment and set off. in bacon and corn
rv-^? :? - - * meal.
Plaintiffs son on - the stand?reoollecta
the ditohiDg perfectly, bat seems to forget
all abont the bacon.
'You say yoar daddy did all the ditoh
ing? Do yon know what he got for it ?'
inquired Col. C. for defendant.
'He never got nothing for it, as I ever
heard on; that's what be never got,' answered
the witness.
'Didn't yoar daddy get oorn and bacon
from defendant in paying .for ditching ?'
Never beard of his getting -no corn nor
bacon '
'What did your daddy and his family
live on last summer?'
'Vittles, mostly.'
What sort of victuals?'
'Well, meat and bread, and some whiskey.'
'Where did he get that meat and bread ?'
'Well, fust from one, and then from the
other.'
'Didn't he get some of it from defendant?'
'He mought.'
<1 know that he mought, but did he ??
That's the question.'
'Well, he monght, and then again, you
know, be moughto't.' . With
considerable excitement, and in
tones of thunder.
'Answer the question, and no more of
this trifling with your oath. Did your dad
dy, or did he not get corn and bacon from
the defendant, for ditching?'
'Well, now, he mought; it didn't occur
exactly, you know.'
Here bis Houor interferes, and with a
stern judicial frown, addresses the witness
thus :
'Witness, you mustaoswer the question,
or the Court will be compelled to deal with
you. Can't you say.yes or no ?'
'I reckon.'
'Well, then, answer yes or no. Did or
did not your daddy get corn and baoon from
the defendant at the time referred to?' inquired
the Court.
Witness now folly aroused and conscious
of his danger.
'Well, Judge, I can't edzactly remember
you know, seein, as how it's all duo been
gone, and eat up; but, (planting himself
firmly, aB one determined to out with it,) to
the best of my reckerlectshon, if my memory
serves me right, he mought, and then
again lie moughtn't.'
The plaiBtiff saved his bacon. Verdict
accordingly.
Who'd Pay for Ye??A Yorkshire
farmer called at the house of a lawyer to
consult him professionally.
"Is t' squeer at home ?" he inquired of
the lawyer's lady, who opened the door to
bis summons.
He was answered negatively. Disappointment
shone in his face ; but after a
moment's consideration a thought relieved
him.
"Mebby yourself can gi' me the necessary
information, as well as t' squeer, seen
I as ye're his wife ?"
The kiDd lady readily promised to do so,
! if, od learning the nature of bis difficulty,
she found it io her power ; and the other
proceeded to state the case as follows:
"Spoaze ye war an old white mear, and
I should borrow ye to go gwaDg to mill,
with grist on yer back, and we should get
no farder than Sarir Hill, when all at once
ye should back up, and rear up, and pitch
! up and kneel down baokwards, and break
' yer dearned old neck, who'd pay for ye ?
j Not I, dearn me if I would."
The lady smilingly told him, as she closed
the door, that as he bad himself passed j
| sentence on the oase, advice would be en*
| tiralv sunerflnftUB.
New Kind op Army Contract ?A
! Chicago paper says: "The boot black boy
[ is an institution peculiar to himself. He
j flourishes in most of our large cities, and
it may be owing to his frequent contact with
; the understanding of others which renders
: bim, at times, peculiarly sharp end witty
; A returning soldier was accosted by one of
I the tribe with the usual salutation?Black
i you boots, sir? make 'em shine !' Looking j
at his nopolished 'gunboats' in a cootem- ;
; plative way, the war-worn veteran replied :
! 'Well, I don't care if you do?fall in prompt- !
1 ? ? ? mi_ L*_ j _ .
ly, tnougn." me utcdid gazea a moment ;
at the soldier, surveying him from his death- j
ers' upwards, and then, turning to a com- i
rade near by, shouted out: "I say, Bill, '
lend us a hand won't you ? I've got an ar- j
my contract.'"
|@~Tbc Richmond Times tells a story about
a wealthy shipowner who was much .
annoyed at having a day in every week on i
which he could get no captain to start to
sea. To disprove the superstition ho bnilt
a vessol in and over which Friday should
reign supreme Ho laid the keel on Friday,
put in the masts on Friday, rigged her
on Friday, launched her on Friday, called
her Friday, found a captain who took her
to sea on Friday, and he says he presumes j
she went to h?1 on Friday, for he never j
heard of her afterwards.
. ?.
Artemus Ward says tbat&r aSon of
Temperance he believes in temperance ho- j
tels?though as a general thiDg they sell
poorer liquors than the other sort.
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? The subscription price of the London
Times is $45 per annum.
? It is stated that orders will be issued
iu a few days for the muster-out of all volunteer
organizations.
? There was onoe a man .so intensely polite
that, as be passed a hen on her nest,
ho said : "Don't rise, madam."
? Some of the women of Kansas have
memorialized the legislature of that State
for the right of suffrage.
? General Sheridan has been instruoted
to punish any United States soldiers that
were implicated in the attack on Bagdad.
? Government agents have been appointed
to inspect battle-fields, military prisons,
etc., and establish national oemeteries in
the South.
? The French Minister at Washington
has asked the State Department for official
information of the recent affair on the Bio
Grande.
? Burton N. Harrison, late private Secre
tary of Jefferson Davis, who has for some
time past been ooofined in Fort Delaware,
has been released by the President.
? What is the difference between a bad
boy aod a postage stamp? Give it up7
One you lick with a stick, and the other
you stick with a lick.
? What is the difference between a?
schoolmaster and a railroad conductor 7
One trains the mind, and the other minds
the train.
? The Navy Department has ordered the
fitting out of the ex-rebel steamer Florida
for a twelve month's cruise. The ram
Stonewall is being overhauled for experiments.
? The prompt action of the Government
in bringing to punishment the parties en.
gaged in the Bagdad affair is most satisfactory
to the French Minister, who had demanded
an explanation.
? A gentleman at a whist party, when he
proposed going home was urged to stay a
little longer. "Well," he replied, "perhaps
I may as well; my wife, probably, is already
as mad as she can be."
? A petition numerously signed by members
of the bar throughout the country,
asking the pardon of John A Campbell,
ex Judge of the Supreme Court, aud assistant
Confederate Secretary of War, was
presented to the President on Monday.
? The New Orleans Delta thinks it ominous
that pontoon trains have been ordered
to the Rio Grande. They were ordered
from New Orleans by direction of General
Sheridan, whose chief of staff is now at
Brownsville.
? The last English census develops the
curious fact that there are more Sootoh de
soeBdants in London than in Edioburg
more Irish than in Dublin ; more Roman
Catholics than in Rome, and more Jews
than in Palestine.
? "Have tbe jury agreed ?" asked the
bailiff of a locked up set of twelve, whom
he bad left under tbe care of his man,
Denny Garry, and whom he met upon the
stairs with a pail in his band. "Ob, yis,"
' ' (tt knn ko no onro^o O' nr]
repilUU UOUUJy "kUCJ u?*g a^iawv w ti*M?
out for aaotber half gallon "
? A youngster, while perusing a chapter
in Genesis,'turning to bis mother, inquired
if the people of those,day6 used to do sums ,
on the ground? It was discovered that he
bad been reading the passage, ".And the
sons of men multiplied on the face of the ,
earth.' (
? When our little Clara was about five
years old, she was taken up stairs to see a.
littlo sister, who was dead when only a few i
hours old. She bad many questions to ask i
how it came to die, &c., but received no
satisfactory answer; at length, she said, i
<1 have made up my mind what ailed that
baby?it died of youngness !'
? One of the lurgeet slaveholders in
Southern KeDtacky has gooe mad on ac/>nnn?
rtf thfi liberation of his slaves, and is
dow an inmate of the lunatic asylum at
Hopkiosville, Ky. He owned over two
hundred negroes, and bad accumulated by
their labor a large fortune. He waa probably
worth one hundred thousand dollars, 1
independent of bis slaves.
? A cave, five feet wide and from six to
eight feet high, which is evidently artificial,
has beeD discovered in the side of Lookout
Mountain, Ga , an 1 explored for the distance
of ODe hundred and seventy-five feet.
Stones, pestles, small pieces of iron, hatchet
bandies, and nameless Indian relics are
found scattered all the way, and it is
thought to havg been a refuge for the Indians
in ancient times.
i
Major General Terry, commanding tbe
-a*. n in ? >' ' tfv* -x
mood a general order forbidding civil offi
cera to attempt to execute tbe provisions of
the Vagrant aot lately passed by the Virginia
Legislature IIe says that the reeult
of this law, if euforoed, would be to reduoe
the freeduieo to a condition of slavery I
worse than that from which they have been i
released.
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? The old proverb that "many a true |
word is spoken in jest," was forcibly illustrated
a few Suodays since. A minister
gave out as the morning lesson the fourth ,
section of the one hundred and nineteenth ,
Psalm, aud while the congregation were ,
looking outthe place in their bibles, he took |
out his mull, and seizing a hasty pinob with |
finger aod thumb, regaled bis nose with the ,
snuff; he then began the lesson, "My soul j
cleaveth unto the dust." The titter that ,
rang rouod the church, and the confusion |
of the poor man, showed that the congrega- ,
tion had felt the Psalmist's "piuch." ,
? A Richmond paper states that among i
the untraceable rumors of the week, is the '
proposed early retirement from the position t
of managing editor of the New York Her I
citd, of Mr. Hudeen, who has occupied that I
position for a number of years. Failing '
health is assigned as the reason. Mr. H. I
is considered one of our best, if not the best ?
? *1 :4? 1 -1 _ rr n?. i
newspaper man ia inecuy, ana mc fieraia s i
pecuniary success is mainly owing to bis i
cupablc management, whioh even the indis- i
cretions of the proprietor have not been i
able toconnteract Mr. Putnam, the fioan- ,t
cia) editor of the Herald, and Stephen II j t
Fiske, dramatist, and present conductor of 11
the Leader, are spoken of as his successors. <
HO NOT LIKE TO HE AH HIM PEAY.
I do not like to hear hlra pray
Who loans at twcnty-flve per cent;
For then I think the borrower may '
Be pressed to pay for food and rent,
And in that book we all ahottld heed,
Which Mya the lender shall be blest,
An sure as f have eyes to read
It does not say "uke Interest."
f do not like to bear him pray
On bended knees about an hour
For orace aright to spend the day,
Who know* his neighbor has no flour;
I'd rather see him go to mill
And buy the luckless brother bread,
And see his children eat their fill,
And laugh beneath their humble shed.
I do not like to hear him pray,
"Let blessings on the widow be!"
Who never seeks her home to say,
_ "If want o'ertakesyou come to me."
i natcuie prayer, aoioua ana nmg,
That's offered for the orphan's weal,
By him who sees him cniahled by wrong,
And only with the lips doth feel.
I do not like to hear her pray,
With Jewelled car and ullken dress^
Wboee washerwoman tolls all day,
And thrnia asked to "work for leas."
Such pious shavers 1 despise;
With folded hands and face demure,
They lift to Heaven their "angel eyes,"
Then steal the earnings' of the poor!
I do not like auch soulless prayers;
If wrong, I hope to be forgiven;
No angel's wing them upward bears?
They're lost a million miles from Heaven.
I cannot like long prayers to hear,
And studied from the lips depart;
Our Pathcr bends a ready car,
Let words be few?be hears the bean.
The Privilege of Freedom ?Three
Degroes stole a bog from the plantation of
Dr. M., about fifteen miles from Madison,
Fla. They were apprehended, duly tried,
oonvicted and sentenoed to six month's imprisonment.
On bearing the sentence they
all looked somewhat blank; but, after a
short oonferenoe amongst themselves, one of
them, who aote'd as spokesman, said to the
office, "Massa judge, sposen we lake de ole
fash'd whippin an be let go. How datdo?"
The good natured official, smiling, replied
that he had no authority to order a whipping,
nor had he any one to lay jt on if be
did commute the punishment. "Bat massa
judge," said the aspirant for stripes, "sposeD
we gets somebody to do de wbippen,
how den ?" "Very well," replied bis honor,
"If you prefer the whipping, and employ
some ODe to 'ay itoD well, I have no objection,
and will let you off from the punishment."
A colored friend, at their request,
after some searoh, engaged a neighboring
overseer to do the whipping. When the
men were tied preparatory to their reoeiv
ing the preferred punishment and the operator
was about to begin, he said, "Look
here, boys, I can't waste my time and
strength for nothing; I aint agoin to whip
you unless I'm paid for it." "Well," massa,"
said the spokesman. "How much you
ax?" "Three dollars and a half a bead,"
he replied, "aod cot a cent less " Cash
was rather scarce with the culprits. But
with the scrapings of their pockets, supplemented
with what . their colored friends
leut them, the requisite sum of ten dollars
aod fifty ceDts was made up; and the
whipping was fully and faithfully adminstered?they
got the full worth of their
money. Nevertheless, like man every
where, discontented with enjoyments even
under bis own chosen conditions, their elo- j
queut spokesman again thus delivered hiui- j
self. "Masaa jodgo, dia am a bard case ; |
time nee to been wheD we coald get a proper
wbippin for nnfBo, but dey free us and i
now we can't get a wbippen wid oat payin ;
for eai. Massa judge, I wish dey would
make us as we ueen be !" F.
[ Laurensvi/le Herald.
Secret of Magic?Robert Houdon
concludes bis memories with a chapter of
Arab miracles, which he explained. The
Aissaona eat pounded glass. Houdon pouodered
some for himself and ato it, and be
avers that bis appetite for his dinner was
improved by the same. They walk on red
bot iron with bare feet, and pass their
tongues over white hot plates of iron. Prof.
Sementrici discovered that by rubbing into
the skin a solution of alum evaporated to.a !
BpoDgy state, it was rendered insensible to I
red hot iron. He rubbed himself with soap,
and found that even the hair did not burn.
He rubbed the alum into bis toogue, and
lapped the glowing metalio surface without
pain. Houdon himself then tried passing
his hands, slightly dampened, through a
stream of melted iron, and found as others
have done, that itjeft no soar on him.
An English conjuror used to thrust a
sword through his body, shove a knife up
either nostril to the handle, and thus spitted,
sing a song. Houdon bought the secret
of the invulnerable, and now divulges
it. The performer was very thin. With a
waist-belt be strapped bis tender paunch
light down upon the vertebral column,
substituted a card board stomach for the
compressed part, covered all with flesh-colored
tights j between the true and false abdomen
he fastened a scabbard, covered tbc
apertures on tbe sides with rosettes, placed
a sponge filled with red liquid in the scabbard,
and there thrust bis sword, which
hrmiia - L I ???^ ^?
course. The pug-nosed mountebank en j
joyed a physical conformation which permitted
the delicate and frightful perfor-1
manoe.
A Most Distressing Occurrence ?It
is painful to us to record the following statements,
as related to us by a gentleman of
this county. On Friday last,.Mr. .Obadiah
Page of this county, residing near Cedar j
Fork, returned to his borne in the afternoon
much excited with Spirituous liquors. He
was habitual in the use of it to excess, and
when in that condition was unkind to his
family. He had oo other occasions been
unkind to his wife and daughter, and his
laughter bad left her home on account of
t. On this day, Friday, be struck his
wife. His son, AIodzo, a lad about sixteen,
Sad before remonstrated with his father
ibout his treatment to his mother, and on
:his occasion told him, if he repeated his
issaults upon her, that he would shoot him.
rbis excited the father, and the son left {
he house and went to the mill to attend to
lis duties. The father pursued the son to
:he mill aod commenced beating tbe boy.?
The boy attempted to defend himself with
lis pistol, which the father took from him
ind threw in the mill-pond. In the scufle
tho father cut the boy in the head severely
with his knife, and the boy ran home
is soon as Le could extricate himself. Tbe
'ather pursued, but the boy reached home
irst, and seizing bis ride, attempted to fire i
it his father, but it missed lire. He then
:ook a gun and fired bringing his father
iown upon his koees, he seized a second
loaded guD, aod fired, killing his father outright.
The boy is said to have bceo seriously
injured by the out given by his father.
A more sharp rebuke has seldom beeo
given than this, to the praotice of intoxication
and the Deglect of family discipline.?
Seldom has the peaoe of an entire family
beeo more thoroughly destroyed than in
this case.?Ralcigli Sentinel.
Tnnnrnrn a mt\ Cmrrifl TfTO<nTnO A <1
i ttitiiuur. a?i? oniri u usirl. ? a |
days since, Mrs Heady, who lives in Uoion i
county, Kentucky, sold her land and reoeiv- f
ed some eight, hundred or a thousand dollars
in cash. A day or two after she had
reoeived the money, a travelling stranger
called late in theovening and desired to get J
lodging for the night. The lady declined, t
but the stranger insisted, and Mrs. Heady
consented to let him remain over night.
At the usual boar of retiring, the stran- (
ger prooeeded up stairs to bed. Late in the :
night he was aroused by tb-) lady of the '
house, who told bim that there were three
or four persons trying to break into the
boose, and she believed they were robbers, '
who had come there for the purpose of rob- 1
bing her of her money.
The stranger arose, seized his pistol, told
her to go down stairs and open the door and '
get behind it as she opened it, and be would (
defend her. Placing himself so that he
could distinctly see by the light of the door ,
when one entered, he gave the word, the 1
lady opened the door, and in rushed a mao, '
who no sooner plaoed his foot on the doot ]
sill than be fell dead from a bullet from the j
stranger's pistol.
A second man rushed in and fell dead by '
a second shot. The third appeared and was
severely wounded by the third shot, and )
turned and run off, leaving a trace of blood
behind him. !!
The men who bad been killed were black- 1
ed, and when the blacking bad been washed
off their faoes, Mrs. Heady recoguized f
with horror her own son-in-law as one of the [
men, and the other was a near neighbor t
and friend.
It was believed that the wounded mao ,
was her own son. We did not learn the ?
names of the parties killed, nor that of the c
stranger who so providentially appeared to
save the old lady her money, and perhaps
her life.?Qwensboro (Ky ,) Monitor.
A Western Ghost Story.?The Western
papers tell in good faith an incredible
gboHt story, and back it up by the
sworn affidaeits of several respeotable persons
at Grand Traverse, Michigan. A spiritual
mediumess at that place, whose husbaod
was a stubborn disbeliever in the ,
"manifestations," assured him in her dy ||
iog breath that she should reappear to bim
in her body at bis death to convince him ?
of the truth of her belief. Several weeks
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alter ne was laaeu sick, uuu <* "^uitum c
rampus was kept up iu the house until his {
decease, which soon followed. Just before j
his death, which oocurred at midnight, hea
vy and irregular footsteps were heard in the
hall, the door was burst open, and the
stenchful remains of a human body, reck {
ing putresoence, stalked into the room, and i
in a muffled voice reminded the dying man
of the promiso, and, as be died, fell a horrid
mass upon the floor. An examination
of her grave proved it to be empty. The
story created inteose exoitement, and the
house where the affair was said to have oc f
cured was burned by the friends of the fam- <
ily t
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..... - f
The Man Who Won't Pay the Prin 1
ter.?May he never be permitted to kiss a
pretty woman. <
Mav he have- sore eves, and a chesnutr
V # ' . - (
burr for an eye stone.
May his boots leak, his gun hang fire, and
bis fishing 1ioe break.
May one thousand night-mares trot quar- j
ter races over his stomach every night.
May his ooffee be sweetened with flies, J
and his sauce seasoned with spiders.
May he be shod with lighting, and com
pelled to wander over gunpowder.
May tho famine-stricken ghost of aa edi
tor's baby baunt his slumbers
May be be bored to death with boarding
school misses pcaticing the first lessons in
musio, without the privilege of seeing his (
tormentors.
May a troop of printer's devils, lean, lank I
and hungry, dog bis heels each day, and a
regiment of oats caterwaul ander his win
dow eaoh night.
mown nna.ocorJ orl 1 S
xilay Li ID uauguici o luoiij VU?-VJV/U
tore, and hie eons wed female type stickers.
Ha?~ The demand of the American rail- r
roads for steel rails, ties, axles and crossings and
other similar materials, is increasing J
rapidly, and steel for this purpose is now
considered a necessity by our first engineers.
The steel, it is found, wears twenty times
as lopg as the iron rail, while the ties and
axies rar exceed iron in strength and dura
bility, and, most important of all, in safety ;
The Pennsylvania Railroad has contracted
for 4,000 tons of steel rails, and the Philadelphia,
WilmiogtoQ and Baltimore Railroad
for 10,000 tons. The prime cost of Jsteel
rail is about 50 por cent, above the ft
cost of iron rail-. It is the purpose of the
companies mentioned to substitute steel rails ?
for the iron ones now in use on the sections {?:
of their respective roads requiring repairs. ?
They have determined never to relay their s
roads with iron rails.
Masonry?it numbers to day, within j
its secret pale, more adult males than all I
the religious organizations on the face of R
the earth. It is as wide spread as humanity,
as universal as human language. f?The
Jew, before the altar on the 6acred mount,
the Pasee, in his adoration of the sun?the \ ai
Mussulman, bowing to the East in prayer? j si
the Greek, before the shrine of his divinity .?
AL 1 ? C I . . t r ...
me unrisuan, id aevout raitn at tDe root 111
of the Cross, all aliko koow aod understand
its mystic language." Kings, princes and
potentates of the earth have beheld with
awe its hieroglyphic light, aod have been
prond to wear its mystic emblems. It is ! ^
more powerfal than kingdoms, principalities j J
and powers, and in ages to come will be a
blessing and a protection to unnumbered as
millions. ? [ Washington Home Gazette u,
I6T It is asserted that not less than 6750, _
000 of counterfeit one hundred dollar Uni- ri
ted States Treasury notes are at present in J
circulation. They are so well exeouted as j b.;
almost to defy detection. 1 m
AX OLD BUSINESS It ESI MED. j
THE Subscriber hereby
and VV ATCH?^AKINcf,
SKJ NsfrnMEri^AI. S? at
- " pared to do all thlng>T in
lis line, with neatness and dispatch, and at prices current
iere thirty years ago.
TIME-KEEPERS of all kinds, and escapements, which
ire of the better qualities ; and when thoroughly REPAIR
JD by the subscriber, will be WARRANTED in all his
rVORK for their good performances, for the space of ONE
fEAR, if well used, and their ownership remain uncban[Od.
Ticr.hs?CASH, OR BARTER.
E. A. CRENSHAW.
AGAIN.
ALL small Cutlery, Surgical Instruments, MetaJie WriIng
Pens, itc., Stc., will be GROUND, POLISHED, or
itherwise put In good WORKING ORDER by the subocrller.
T?rms?CASH, OR BARTER.
E. A. CRENSHAW..
YET AGAIN.
SOME matters required will be MADE, and Surveyor's
Compasses will he REPAIRED, and their Needles MAGNETIZED,
together wftii some other Mathematical Instruncnts
made and repaired by the subscriber.
Tkrms?CASH, OR BARTER.
E. A. CRENSHAW.
MOREOVER.
SILVERING by luna cornea, and PLATING Wtth Silver,
and GILDING with Gold, together with LAUUERING
>n Metals, will bo done by the subscriber.
Terms?CASH, OR BARTER.
E. A.- CRENSHAW.
October 12 26 tf
PROSPECTUS OP
'The North Carolina Guardian."
The undersigned will Issue, commencing on the first day
>f January, 1866, In the cltyof Charlotte, N. C.. a daily
lud trl-wcekly newspaper under the style ana title of
IHE NORTH CAROLINA GUARDIAN,
which slinll be devoted especially to the dissemination of
he latest news, and the guarding, with an eagle eye, the in*
erests of the State under the Constitution, aid in couformty
with the laws ot the United States.
There will also be Issued, from the same office, a weekly
taper under the style and title of
THE CATAWBA WATCHMAN."
The terms for the DAILY GUARDIAN will be, for one
rear, ?7; six months, ?4; three months .?2.50; any less
Iftiv $1 per mouth.
The TKi-WEEKLY GUARDIAN will be supplied to
ubscribers nt ?3 tor twelve." months; ?3 for six months;
11.75 for three months, and 75 cents per month for any less
imc.
RATES OF ADVERTISING.
Ordinary advertisements, occupying not more than ten
ines (one square) will h>- inserted III uilher of the above
publications at seventy .We cents for the first insertion and
iity cents for each subsequent Insertion. Larger adverisements
in exact proportion. Liberal discounts will be
nade for contract advertising.
THE WEEKLY WATCHMAN
rill be furnished to subscribers at ?2 per annum, single
opy, and to a club of five for $7 50 ; to a club of ten for
112 50; and to a club of twenty for ?20, with an extra
opy to the getter up of clubs.
All orders should be addressed to
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Editor and Proprietor "Guardian,"
Charlotte, N.' C.
December 1-1 35 tf .
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January 18 39 U
). F. Flkmino..Sam'l A. Nelson..James jtf. Wilson
D. F. FLEMING & CO,
Wholesale Dealers
IN
Boots, Shoes, Trunks, &c.,
2 Hayne Street,
COR1VER OF CIIFRCH STREET,
CHARLESTON, S. C,
Having Resumed Business
AT their old .-tand, 2 Haync Street, Comer of Church
Street, are now receiving A LARGE AND WELL ASSORTED
STOCK OF
BOOTS, SHOES, TRUNKS, &C.,
Which will be SOLD AT THE LOWEST MARKET
MUOE. The patronage of former friends and the Public is
cspeetfully .solicited.
January 4 37 3m
NEW STORE-CHEAP GOODS!
CARROLL, (URU .'vCO.,
?_ TAKE this metliod to
^nfortn jhelr^ friends and
fglv?y,b.-1 Vi^V- yJltlf tuoi uihlho. uiai
; y Uiry ^ imvc AEdUMt^D
-^51 owning! in onc^l^1^?
yfr# ' DRY | STORE ROOMS adjolnWVrnnncl-Pxl}
"'? HOWE'S HOTEL,
V tT 'i^T _ -RHriljV 'T a large and well selected
A&RJfr^ Mock of STAPLE AND
FANCY DRY GOODS, j
* * 1IOOTS, SHOES, HATS,
IARDWARE, GROCERIES, RAGGING and KOPIN'uj
igeihcr with anv and every article which can usually be
iuiuI in a VARIETY STOKE.
Their GOODS were selected in New York, by
MR. JOSEPH W. CARROLL,
Itli great care, especially lor this MARKET, and having
ecu purchased for CASH, they can aiford lo sell as
HEAP, If lint CHEAPER than any other concern in this
ction of Country. .
Give us a call and we will use our best endeavors to give
ATISFACTION, both as to QUALITY and PRICE of
OODd.
CARROLL, CLARK & CO.
November 2 29 tf
X THE COURT OF ORDINARY,
YORK DISTRICT.
obert L. Lindsay, Applicant, vs. James M. Lindsay, P.
W. Lindsay, A. F. Lindsay, M. 8. Lindsay, Martha J.
Lindsay, Mary C. Lindsuy, Paulina A. Lindsay, Lucian
D. Lindsay, William E. Lindsay, and James M. Erwln
and wile, Eliza Erwin, legal heirs and representatives of
Moses Lindsay, deceased.
It appearing to my satisfaction that William E. Lindsay
id James M. Erwin and wile, Eliza, two ol the Defenmts
in above stated ease, reside without the limits of this
late, It is therefore ordered, that they do appear and ob?
... .. >1... r?.nl nam. nl ,\l.ul,.w l.lrwt.
y, deceased, oil or brfnre the 5th day of March, 1866, or
eir consent to tin; same will be entered of record.
JOHN A. BROWN, O. T. D.
November 30 33 dm
NEW GOODS]
Opposite King's Mountain Hotel.
pilE UNDERSIGNED IS REL
CEIVING direct from Northern cities a LARGE
d VARIED assortment of GOODS, such as are usually
unit in a well appointed store. From Ills long experience
a merchant, he flatters himself to be able to please all
Ito nmy favor him with a call. "Short Profits amd
l'tck Salas" is my mono.
G. 11. RATCHFORD.
September 11 22 tf
pilE SOUTHERN GUARDIAN^
L. I PUOPi ?SK to revive the publication of this Journal, |
Columbia, S. C., as soon as mall communications have i
en restored, and tile uccessary arrangements can be
ide. CHARLEsi P. PEL HAM.
Fovcmber 30 03 tf
THE STAMP ACT.
ONE OF THE TAX LAWS OF THE U. STATES.
There are probably hut few of the readers of this paper
who know the details of the Sump Act. Yet, there U no
law, Bute or National, the provisions of which are more
Important to the people. Here are such of its proceedings
we think bs will prove most Interesting and important to
the reader:
SCHEDULE B.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT?of deeds exempt
AFFIDAVIT 5 oents
in suit ?r legal proceedings exempt
AGREEMENT OR APPRAISEMENT?for each
sheet or piece of paper on which the same la
written 5 cents
ASSIGNMENTS ORTRANMFEKS-of mortgage, s
lease or policy of insurance, the same duty as on I
the original instrument.
Of patent right <5 cents
BANK CHECKS, DRAFTS OR ORDERS, 8cc.,?
at sight oroM demand - > 2 cents
BILLS OF EXCHANGE, Inland?draft or order,
payable otherwise than at sight or on demand,
and any promissory note, whatever, payable on
demand or at a time designated, [except bank
notes issued for circulation, and checks made
and intended to be, and which shall be forthwith
preeented-for payment] for a sum not exceeding
$100 .. 5 cents
For every additional hundred dollars, or fractional
. part thereof 5 cents
BILLS OF LADING?of vessels for ports of the
United States or British North America exempt
Or receipt of goods on any foreign porta 10 cents
BILL OF SALE?of any vessel, or part thereof
when the consideration does not exceed five
hundred dollars ' 50 cents
Exceeding S500 and not exceeding $1,000 $1,00
Exceeding $i,uuu, toreacn $500, or iractionai
part thereof t SO cents
Of personal property [other than ship or vessel] S cents
BONIX-persoual, for payment of money [See
Mortgage]
Official ' ' $.00
For Indemnifying any person for the payment of
any sum of money, where the money ultimately
recoverable thereupon Is $1,000 or less 50 cents
Where the money recoverable exceeds $1,000,*
for every additional $1,000, or fractional pan
thereof 50 cents
BONDS?county, city and town bonds, railroad
and other corporation bouds and script are subject
to stamp duty. [See Mortgage.]
Of any description other than such as are required
In legal proceedings, and such as are not
otherwise charged In this schedule. 25 cents
CERTIFICATES?of deposit in bank, sum not
exceeding one hundred dollars a 3 cents 1
Of deposit in bank, sum exceeding $100 5 cents
Of stock In an incorporated company 25 cents
General 5 cents
Of a qualilicatlon of a Justice of the Peace
Commissioner of Deeds or Notary Public 5 cents
Of search of records 5 cents
That certain papers are on file 5 cents
That certain papers cannot be found 5 cents
Of redemption of land sold for taxes 5 cents
Of birth, marriage and death 5 cents
Of qualifications of school teachers 5 cents
Of profits In on Incorporated company, for a ram
not less than $10 and not exceeding $50 10 cents
Exceediug $5? and not exceeding $1,000. 25 cents
Exceeding $1,000, for every additional $1,000, or
fractional pirt thereof 25 cents
Of damage or otherwise, and all other certificates
or aocumeuts issued by any port warden,
marine surveyor, or other person actingasauch 25 cents
CERTIFIED TRANSCRIPT?of judgments, satiBfastion
of judgements, and of all papers, recorded
or on file 5 cents
(N. B.?As a general rule, every certificate
which lias, or may have, a legal value in any
court of law or equity, will require a stamp duty
of 5 cents.)
CHECK, DRAFT OR ORDER?for the payment
of any sum of money, exceeding $10, 'drawn
upon any person other thau a bank, banker or
trust company, at sight or on demand. 2 cents
-CONTRACT?(dee Agreement.]
Brokers. . 10 cents
CONVEYANCE?deed, Instrument, or writing
whereby lands, tenements, or other realty sold
shall be conveyed, the actual value which docs
not exceed $500 50 cents
Exceeding $500. and not exceeding $1,000 $1,00
For every additional $500," or fractional part
thereof in excess of $1,000 50 cents
ENTRY-^-of any goods, wares or merchandize at
. any custom house not exceedlng$100 In value 25 cents .
Exceeding $100, and not exceeding $500 In f
value * - 50 cents "
Exceeding $500 In value $1,00
For the withdrawal of any goods or merchandise,
from bonded warehouse 50 cents
GUAGEK'S RETCRff?tf for quanlity not exceeding
500 gallons, gross, 10 cents
Exceeding 500 gallons 25 cents
POWER OF ATTORNEY?to soil or transfer
stock or collect dividends thereon 25 cents
To vote at an election of Incorporated company 10 cents
1 To receive or collect rents 25 cents
To sell; or convey, or rent, or lease real estate $1,00
For any oilier purpose 50 cents
PROBAfE OF WILL?or letters of adminlstra
tion, where the value of both real and personal
estate does not exceed $4,04)0. $1,00
FOr every additional $3,000, or fractional part
thereof, in cxeess of $2,000 50 cents
Bonds of executors, administrators, guardians
* and trustees, are each subject to a stamp duty of $1,00
PROTEST?upon bill note, check or dralt 25 cents
PROMISSORY NOTE?[See Bills ot Exchange,
inland.]
Renewal of, subject to same duty as an original
note.
RECEIPT?for the payment-of any sum of money,
or debt due, exceeding $20, or for the delivery'of
any property 2 cents
TRUST DEED?made to secure a debt, to be
stamped as a mortgage. Conveying estate to uses
t?Bfcatagii$ed as a conveyance.
WAKCttUUKKaKbUiuri?lor any goous, wares
or merchandise not otherwise provided for, deposited
or stored la any public or private warebouse,
not exceeding $600 In value 10 cents
Exceeding $600, and not exceeding $1,000 SO cents
Exceeding $1,000, lor every additional $1,000, or
fractional part thereof, in excess of $1,000 10 cents
For any goods, fee., not otherwise provided for,
stored or deposited in any public or private warebouse
or yard 26 cents i
WRITS It LEGAL DOCUMENTS?writs oroth- 1
er legal process, by which any suit la commenced
in any court of record, either of law or equity SO cents
Writ or other original process issued by a court
not of record, where the amount claimed is $100
or over* 50 cents
Upon every confession of judgment or cognovit,
for $100, or over, except in cases where the tax
for a writ has been paid 50 cents
Writ or other process appeals from Justices'
courts, or other courts of Interior Jurisdiction, to
a court, of record . . 50 cents
. Warrants of distress, when the amount of rent
claimed does not exceed $100 25 cents
When the amount exceeds $100 50 cents
INSURANCE?Marine'inland and Fire. Where
the consideration paid tor the insurance, in cash
premium notes, or both, does not exceed"$10 * 10 cents
Exoeeding $10. anduot exceeding $50 , 50 cents
INSURANCE, Lm?when ihe amount insured
does not exceed $1,000 25 cents
Exceeding $1,000, and not exceeding$5,000 50 cents
Exceeding $5,000 $1.00
LEASE?oi lunds or tenements, where lbs rent
does not exceed $300 per annum " 50 cents
Exceeding $300,jor each additional $200, oy fractional
part thereof, in excess of $300 50 cents
Ferpqtual, subject to stamp duty as a conveyance.
Clause of guaranty of payment of rent, incorporated
or indorsed, Are cents additional.
MEAdUKERd' RETURN?if for quantity not ex
ceedlifg 1,000 bushels 10 cents
Exceeding 1,000 bushels 25 cents
MORTGAGE?trust deed, bill of sale, or personal
bond (or the payment of money exceeding $100,
and not exceeding $500 50 cents
Exceeding $500, for every additional $500 or
fractional part thereof, in excess of $500. 50 cents
FAWNERd'CUECKd 5 cents A
FAddAGE TICKET?from the United States to J
any foreign port, costing not more than $35 50 cents '
Costing more than $35, and not exceeding $50 $1.00
For everyodditionai $50, or fractional pan thereof,
in excess of $50 $1.0
GENERAL REMARKS.
Revenue Stamoa mav be used indiscriminately upon any
of Hit matters or things enumerated in schedule B, excep t
proprietary and playing card stamps, for which a special
use has been provided.
Postage stamps cannot be used in payment of the duty
chargeable on instruments.
it is tile duty of the maker of an instrument to affix and
cancel the stamp thereon. If be neglects to do ao, the
party for whose use it is made may stamp it before it is
used; but in no case can It be legally used without a stamp
and if used alter the 30tb of June, 1864, and used without
a stamp, It cannot alterwards he effectually stamped. Any
iallure upon the port of the maker of an instrument to appropriately
stomp it, renders him liable to a penalty of two
hundred dollars.
Hulls are commenced In many States by other process
tlmp writ. vir; summons, warrant, publication, petition,
at?., in which case these, aa the original process, severally
require stamps.
Writs of scire facias are subject to stamp duty as original
processes.
The jurat of an affidavit, taken before a Justice of the
Peace,. Notary Public, or other officer duly authorized to
take affidavits, is held to be a certificate, and subject to a
' stamp duty of S cents, except when taken in suits or legal
proceedings.
Certificates of loon, in which there shall appear any
printed or written evidence of any amount of money to be
paid on demand, or at any time designated are subject to
stamp duty as "Promissory Notes."
The assignment of a mortgage is subject to the same
stamp duty as that imposed upou. the original instrument;
that is to say, for every sum of five hundred dollars, or
any fractional part thereof, of the amount secured bv the
mortgage, at the time of its assignment, there must be affixed
u sBLmn or stamos. denoting a dutv of fifty cents.
When two or more persons join In the execution of an ,
instrument, the stamps to wbicb the instrument la liable ^
unilcr the law, may be affixed and cancelled by one of the
parties.
in convey an ota of real estate, the law provides that the
stamp affixed must answer to tlt? value of the estate on
interest conveyed.
No stamp la required on any warrant of KUney accompanying
a bond or note, when such bond or note has affixed
thereto the stamp or stamps denoting the duty required,
and whenever any bond or note is secured by
mortgage, but one stamp duty is required on sucb papers,
such stamp duty being the highest rates required lor such
instruments, or either of them, in such case a note or
memorandum of the value or deuomlnaton of the stamp
affixed should be made upon the margin or In tha acknowledgment
of the Instrument which is not stamped.
November 23 32
O THE COURT OF ORDINARY,
YORK DISTRICT.
Partition of Real Estate.
R. L. Lindsay, Applicant, sr. John Doster, Elizabeth Doster.
William rinsrpr. Jnmn, Rl.vk and wife. Jane; Ellen
Doster, tjlnah Duster, Robert Doster and Lawrence Duster,
children of Martha floater, deceased; Alcester Doater
John W. Doater, Mary O. Doster, Margaret A. Doater,
G. 11. Doater, Felix Doster, Albert J. Doater, and Randolph
Doster, children of George Doster, deceased; 8.
VV. Koblsou, VV. K. Kobison, C. D. Roblson, JohnRobison,
Mildred Kobison, Kobert K. Roblson, (who has since
died, leaving as his helrvat-law, his father, Clark Roblson,
and his brothers and sisters herein named, David S.
Russell, and wife, Margaret E.; William Drennan and
wife, Martha; children of Margaret A. Roblson, fornnrly
.Margaret A. Doster, helrs-at-law of Enoch Doster, deceased.
11 appearing to my satisfaction that John Doster, Elizabeth
Doster, William Dorter, James Black and wife, Jane; and
W. E. Kobison, defendants in above stated case, reside
without this dtate, it Is, therefore, ordered, that they do np- J
pear and object to the division or sale of the real estate of I
Enoch Doster,deceased, on or before the 9th day of April, a
1806, or their consent will be entered of record.
J. A. BROWN,O. Y. D.
January 4 37 3m