Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, January 30, 1868, Image 4
?fotn0V0tt$ Department.
HEAT IT HOT, SAM.
A correspondent sends us the following
good story:
Col. McHatten came from Virginia to
this State (Illinois) in the early settlement
of the country, when roadside inns were
unknown, and every dweller in the wilderness
kept a sort of traveller's home. The
Colonel, by a luoky investment in wild
land, became, in time, a rich man; but he
DftCK.
"I don't mind the pain so much, he continued,
"but it is so inconvenient. I have
been recommended to try a "poor man's plaster,
and if you will excuse me I will have it
put on. Sam ! Samuel! Samuel McHatten!"
"Here, father," said the lad before mentioned,
hastily swallowing a huge piece of
mince pie which he had been quietly enj?yi?g
"Here, Sam, my boy, heat this plaster
for me and put it on my back. Heat it
Sam."
Saying which, he handed the plaster to
his son, and seating himself astride his
chair, with his back to the fire, threw his
suspenders baek and his shirt over his
head. "Now, Sam," said the Colonel, if
the poor man's plaster is hot, you may put
it on ; but you may wait a little; I'm afraid
its not hot enough. Heat it hot, Sam;
heat it hot. Can you tell," he continued,
turning to the traveler, who was seated in
the corner, "can you tell why this is called
the poor man's plaster?sometimes the
poor man's friends?eh ? Give it up ?
laughing to himself?because it sticketh closer
than a brother, eh ?"
Poor Sam, who had been watching his
chance to speak without interrupting his
father, now ventured to say :
"I guess its hot enough now, father."
"What do you know about it ?" said the
old man testily. "I say heat it hot, Sam,
heat it hot."
Sam, whose face was at a red heat, had
held the plaster to the fire till it ran and
dripped down on the hearth, and he made
no reply"Well,"
said the old man, looking around,
"maybe it will do now, Sam. Clap
it on."
Sam, armed with the plaster approached
him, and, if my word can be taken, did
clap it on. The old man gave one yell,
like a wild Indian, and jumped clear over
the back of his chair, kicking his old-fashioned
breeches off his feet, dancing around
with pain. The traveler laughed until he
cried, and the more mine host roared, the
? morr ire laughed: ?When agony
was over the Colonel began to swear, and
our traveller thought it would be prudent
for him to retire, lest he should share
wrath with Sam, who he observed was making
good his distance.
The next morning, when leaving, he
handed the Colonel five dollars, saying,
with a twinkling of his eye:
"I don't want any change. It is cheap
at that." After he was seated upon his
horse, and out of range, he called :
"Heat it hot, Sam, heat it hot. It sticketh
closer than a brother, eh ?"
A SABLE PHILOSOPHER.
The correspondent of one of the Northern
newspapers, in a letter published during
the war, thus humorously describes his interview
with a straggler from a negro
regiment of the Federal army, with whom
he was remonstrating for having shown the
white feather in battle:
"Were you in the fight ?"
"Had a little taste of it, sa."
"Stood your ground, did you?"
"No, sa, I runs!"
"Run at the first fire, did you?"
"Yes, sa, and would have run soona had
r i i tt ,
l Kooaa n war coming.
"Why, that wasn't very creditable to
your courage."
"Dat isn't in my line, sa?cookin's my
profeshun!"
"Well, but have you no regard for your
reputation?"
"Reputation's nofin by the side of life."
"Do you consider your life worth more
than other people's ?"
"It's worth more to me, sa."
"Then you must value it very highly."
"Yes, sa, I does, more dan all dis world,
more dan a million ob dollas, sa; for what
would dat be wuth to a man wid the bref out
of him? Self preserbashum am the first
law wid me."
"But why should you act upon a different
rule from other men ?"
"Because different men set different values
upon dar lives?mine is not in the market."
"But if you lost it, you would have the
satisfaction of knowing that you died for
your country."
"What satisfaction would dat be to me
when de power of feelin' was gone ?"
Then patiotism and honor are nothing to
you V*_
Nuffin whatever, sa; 1 regard them as
among dem vanities ?"
If our soldiers were like you, traitors
might have broken up the government without
resistance."
'Yes, sa, dar would have been no help
for it. I wouldn't put my head in de scale
'gainst no gobernment dateber existed; for
no gobernment could replace de loss to me."
Do you think any of your company would
have missed you if you had been killed ?"
"May be not, sa; a dead white man in't
much to dese sogers, let lone a dead nigga.
But I'd miss myself, and dat was de pint
wid me."
It is safe to say that the dusky corpse of
that African will never darken the field of
carnage.?The Gray Jackets.
fig?* "My dear Amelia," said a dandy, "I
have long wished for this opportunity, but
hardly dare speak now, for fear you will reject
mc; but I love you; say you will be
mine! Your smiles would shed,"?and then
he came to a pause; "your smiles would
shed,"?and he paused again. "Never mind
the wood shed," replied Amelia, go on with
the pretty talk."
kept up his habits of hospitality, and if the
guest was well to do in the world, did not
object to turning &n honest penny in that
way.
One cold, blustering, winter evening, a
horseman drew up to the house and asked accommodation
for the night. A half-grown
lad answered in the affimative, and ushered
him into the sitting room, where the great
wood fire, of itself, gave him a cordial welcome.
After supper the landlord made his
appearance for the first time. He was
hearty and hale and rosy as any Boniface
should be, but he was bent and crippled in
the gait. He explained by saying that he
had taken a cold which had settled in his
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BRAIN FARMING.
It is to be lamented that so much of our
farming is mainly a matter of muscle. The
routine farmer uses about as little mind in
the cultivation of his fields as the ox that he
drives. His team always goes in the ruts
made by his fathers. He nas no well-devised
system embracing many years of improvement
for his farm. His object seems
to be to get through the year as easily as
possible, and get a subsistence from the soil.
Now we want something better than this,
and are beginning to have it. So much
more productive is brain than muscle, in
manipulating the soil, that we know of instances
of first-rate farming by men who
never put hand to the plow. It is undoubtedly
more satisfactory to a man to give his
whole attention to husbandry, and ordinarily
this is the law of success. But so great
is the need of more capital and more mind
in this business, that we welcome from any
quarter the men who can show us how to
make farming profitable. The best cultivators
that we have found in the country
are men bred to other pursuits; professional
men, mechanics, merchants and bankers,
diverted temporarily from their chosen pursuits
to husbandry, or adding this to their
other business. We have seen so many cases
of eminent success in this kind of farming.
that we think favorably of it, and do
not hesitate to recommend it to any man
who has capital and a taste for husbandry.
Men of this class, generally have abundant
capital, and are not afraid to invest it
in this business. They bring the mental
discipline and tact of the town on the farm,
and work with as much faith in the field as
they once did in the shop or counting-room. 1
Their skill, trained in otner schools, tells in
the field. 'The shoe-maker turns his attention
from taps to tap-roots, and turns out
such crops of beets, carrots, and turnips, as
are the envy of the neighborhood. The :
lawyer pleads his case with the soil, and
wins such verdicts as he never obtained 1
from juries. The physician medicates the 1
barren field, and infuses into it such health
and productiveness that all the old fogies 1
wonder what sort of manure the doctor uses. 1
The minister tills his glebe with so much J
skill that he brings both the butcher and 1
the grocer in debt to him at the close of the '
year. The banker runs a farm as skilfully
as a bank, and makes it pay surer dividends, j
It is not necessary that a man should live
upon his farm, in order to make it pay. It 1
is desirable that it should be near his resi- '
dence, that he should see it every week, and 1
lay out the work for the foreman. But very I
good farming is done even without this, if a '
man will give his attention to it. Washing- <
ton planned his farm crops and rotations '
with his campaigns in the the fields of war, '
during the dark years of the Revolution. 1
Webster, at Washington, dictated the plan, '
and most of the details of his farming, at 1
Marshfield, and that was certainly quite rc- ]
spectable. Professional men in villages and cities
often have farms in the suburbs that <
they cultivate with great satisfaction and 1
profit. Sometimes the foreman is a part- 1
ner in the business, and takes the farm at 1
halves, furnishing half the stock, tools, seed, *
etc., and taking half the crops. But this i
does not always work well. If the land- 1
owner nas liberatnetions of improvement, I
it works quite ill; for lie looks to the permanent
benefit of his phce, while the foreman
very naturally looks for large receipts
at the close of the year. The best method
is for the landholder to hire a competent
foreman with a family, on a salary, and if
he wishes still further -to stimulate his endeavors,
give him a small share in the profits
of the business. It should be stipulated
that h? should board what laborers are needed,
at a given price, so that the crops may
not suffer for want of working at the critical
time. This will save all disputes about
the application of manures, rotation, sale of
crops, and other details. With a good foreman
capable of directing labor, a man of
capital in the village or city can carry on a
farm, and make it pay. But he will not
find it a sinecure. If his time is already
fully occupied, or if he i3 averse to the business,
he should not attempt it. But if he
has a taste in that direction, and is willing
to plan, and labor with his brain, he can
find a great deal of pleasure and sure profits
in cultivating the soil. The amount of the
dividends will depend a good deal upon the
skill of the operator, the seasons, the facilities
for marketing, and the contingencies
which affect all other industries. Farms
located near cities and villages usually rise
in value, and this consideration often determines
capitalists to these enterprises.
American Agriculturist.
Elevating Ideas and Ennobling Sentiments.?There
are products, however,
more important to the farmer than wheat
or corn, or choice animals or delicious fruit
age?these are elevating Ideas and ennobling
Sentiments?products which can be
grown through every month in the year,
uninjured by cold or heat, or rain or drouth.
Ordinary business is but secondary to the
growth of the higher faculties. The man
is more important than his occupation, and
should not be merged in it. Manhood, in
its true nobility, is above professional success
and eminence. The purpose of labor
should be something above itself, some noble
end of which work is but the means,
something lasting and exalted, as the
growth of the higher life. The farm is for
the farmer, not the farmer for the farm,
just as the hat is for the head, not the head
for the hat. Constant physical exertion
exhausts the brain, and leaves little energy
for thought and study. Many a farmer
permits his brain to be absorbed in a routine
of drudgery, when he should keep it
invigorated for higher uses. He has a
mind to be nourished while he performs his
manual labors.
The grand mission of the many laborsaving
machines and scientific discoveries
for Agriculture, is to relieve the farmer
from over toil, emancipate him from drudgery,
and raise him to the diginity of his
employment. The farmer ought to live the
grandest life, among the inspiring scenes of
Nature, and the cheering facts of Science.
Standing in the vast Temple of the firmament,
surrounded by the natural agents as
' his ministers, and producing food for the
world, he seems sublimely invested with
creative power, next to the Diety, and entitled
to the first rank in honor and happiness.?A.
S. Miller, Transactions N. Y.
State Ag't Sec.
To Broil Chickens without Burning
Them.?Remove occasionally from the fire,
oywI Knofft trifle n r???n vtT nmnflroH fnlloWR *
UUOWV null U? U(TJ vv. ?- ?
Simmer together one-half cup of vinegar, a
piece of butter the size of an egg, and salt
and pepper to the taste. Keep it hot to use.
fusing.
Prom (be Southern Cultivator.
GENES MUNRO ON THE SITUATION.
Mississippi Territory, Dec. 1867.
Uditurs Southern KuUivator: "Just a
leetle spinning kotton," saidRhocy one day,
when old Miss Morrow axeddier "how much
? ^ 1
kotton does the (Join xpect ter maxe. now,
whether she saw like a prophit the future
purduce, or knowd I were goin ter plant a
big krap, and wanted ter surprise the folks
when gethering time kome, it don't behooveth
her husband ter say. Howsever, I can
trust ter say this much. Rhody ar a truthful
woman, and more than frequently does
shosays ter me, when things turns outrong,
says she, "Gemes, I told you so," and this
latter sayin has got ter be a kontinual, household,
everyday sayin, fur things ar been
turning out rong all the year round, and
winds up now, shore nuff, with only a "lettle
spinnin kotton," and Rhody still saying, "I
told you so, Gemes," and I told Miss Morrow
so too." Rhody always takes the black
side of the picter, and has hit the nail on
the head ever since the surrender. History,
true to her instink, ar repeatin herself;
that is ter say, is winding up 1807 just like
1866?only a little more so. It bergan rainin
last April?we had a flood in July, and
it ar a drizzlin now. Well, agrikulture ar
diseased?yes, sir, a defunct perfession, and
like Jonah's goard, only somthin you read
about?taint hardly in the memry of man.
When the year begun, kotton was 80 cents
per lb. Every body went crazy, and I
mong em?hired a heap er niggers, rented
land, bot pervissions and planted hugely of
kotton. We all walked on stilts?lkould
see over any man's head. Truth is I went
to town and bot me a money chist, and give
way all my geans klothes, and bergun chawin
manufactured terbacker. Well, Paul
planted and Pollus poured down rain periusely?then
bone, muscle sweat and hope
were all brot to bare?but the increase, it
ar turning to ashes on our expectations, and
each farmer feels like one who were all alone
in some banquit hall deserted?that is
ter say, when he walks in his gin-house or
feels in his pocket. Yes, sir, the floods
kome and descended upon the kraps?then
the "Military bills" with territories, taxes,
bayonets ana other terrorems, then whining
Rad speakers, hipperkrittical preachers ana
infamous teachers, tergether with hellish
Loyal Leagues, boll worm, army worm, craw
Bsh, kotton lice and registering?in short,
ill the akursed kalamitus kalumities that an
xvengin yanky spirit kould konjure up, to
krush a kotton krap, kome altogether kombined
agin it, and the harvest ar a fruitless,
cheerless, mock holiday?just nothin?"only
a leetle spinnin kotton," shore nuff, and
:<didn't I tell you so, Gemes," still ringing
like a tinklin simblin or a sounding brass ;
md my aforesaid money chist, it ar bekome
i cupboard for krokery, an old par of slippers
in one of the pigeon holes. Jarusalem !
[ wish my name war moss kivered, in some
)ld dylappidatcd monastery, where monks
ive without concern, and Yanky's never
iome. I'll be dad-rabbed if I wouldn't like
;o see Andy Jackson rise from the Hermit- <
ige, and git in the President's cheer, 'bout .
low. Talk about impeachin him ! "By 1
;hc eternal," he'd take a fazzled hickory i
n-ootrnmd'ffwecp Kongrlss so eican, you '
night see your face in the floor. Whoopee !
Wouldn't Thad git over them sick spells, 1
iing a doxology to his pack and curl up in !
lis kennel, quick; that thar Beast (Ben
Beast the butler) who is branded with a i
mnnn n.nd looks so much like the butt cut '
)f a board tree, wouldn't be big enuff for a
single rail cut. Yes, sir, and that Constitution
we used to have, would be snatched
)ut of the dead letter office, and the people
made free again. Talk about your Nationil
Banks?States having no reserved rights;
jetting up an absolute consolidated Government,
without limitation of powers?freedmen's
franchise and bureau's?these here
things wouldn't be norrated, confidentially,
in Gath, nor whispered in the corporation
of Askalon. No, sir ! a thunderbolt fulminated
by Jackson's will, out of the Constitution,
would crash Radical ranks so rapid,
there wouldn't be a detail left, to put head
boards over the hellish crew. All creation
would cry out "so mote it be," and Rhody ;
well, she'd just say, "I told you so, Gemes."
Do you think the Spirit of Liberty will
hold up these Rads like the Graccian mother
of anchien t days, and say these are my jewels
?" No sir, but shakin her torn, tattered
bloody locks in disgust, will say, "depart
from me despoilers of human rights, I give
you over "to believe a lie" Dr. Slop's
Katalogue of kurses he heaped all over poor
Obediah, will be a christian's evening's
chant, beside what will follow. "My people
down South war an hungered for their rights
under the Constitution, and you give em
bullets, blood, and burnt their korn ; they
were poor and naked, and you took their
spoons and dishes, and stole the remaning
shred of their poverty, and when from sheer
xaustion they broke down in manly open
combat, you promised if they would lay
down their arms, to tie up the hounds of
war, and respect person and property.
Now that they are at your mercy, you are
fixin up plans for konfiskatin property, and
makin menials of their person, ye are they
who under the cant and hipperkritical whine
of restoring the Union, ar disgorging whole
venimous volumes of dislcord and disunion
the land over. Look out; somebody else
may have ter be whipped hack into the Union."
Yes, sir ! Liberty will say a heap
er hard thing, and she ought ter. After
we had stopped shooting and stacked arms,
see them loud mouthed Bob Akerses, whose
kourage had leaked out er their fingers,
jumps up in the loft of skurity, agin bullits
and bumshells, while they war flying, and
lay down flatter than a lizzard on the floor;
see em now, when thar aint no powder buriining,
drap out er that aforesaid loft?yes,
sir, kome rattling down like post oak akorns
in Oktober. The bar is dead, and who's
afeard. See em buckle on the saber, santer
forth, rob us of millions of property?
kick the Stautes of Ten States higher than
Haman, inter pi, and light em up with the
glare of despotic bayonits. Shame has truly
an unblushing marble face, and down
right lying become Kongessionally, kronically,
konstitutionally national. If this be
treason, then brand the signers of the deklaration
of independence and Gemes Munro
as traitors, and "let em rip"?that is ter
say, means must be given the latter ter
".ripfur from short kraps and konfiscation
in the way of taxes, he aint able to run
away, even Kongriss may knock the tax
off kotton now; but its too late. Kotton
has abdicated, tuck all the money, pernounced
a benediction over the nigger, and
gone to Egypt. King Korn bread ar the
mighty monark the Southern stomak ar wor
shipin now; and that aforesaid nigger ar in j
a gloomy and pakuliar kondition. He did i
not bring it on hisself, and are to be pittied. 1
His friekds made him free, and like a hun- 1
gry steer, turned loose in a full pea-field, i
he fed too high; and the Koroner's verdic i
war, he "busted from too much peas." The
nigger ar now feedin on freedom mighty
high, and when he gets inter these here
Konventipns aforesaid, the verdic will be,
that he too busted, and not only busted, but (
bespattered his friends, all over. 'Thou <
kanst not say I did it.' No sir, Mr. Rad, J
fur I found him whar the Bible put him ; j
took kare of him, clothed and fed him; '
made him behave hisself, and live by the r
sweat of his brow, and when he died I put *
him in a decent grave, dropped a tear thar,
and had his funeral preached. Now, he
ar turned loose to graze on the kommons, j
whar deadly weeds do grotf; and I'll be dad- 1
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preach his funeral, afore he is dead. Well,
to sum up: kotton ar dead, the nigger are f
dying, and the Government standin out in
the cold, thout konstitutional kivering?ar ]
got the gallapin konsumption, and "Bates- a
man's Draps" would't save hit, thout amirakle
from the Dimakratic party North; a
which latter are the only leaven that kan 8
now swell tip the lump to a livin level. t
Finally, to my kolaborers of the soil, let e
me Bay, kome worship at the foot of korn? cy
stay at home?work with your own hands? .
say your prayers every night, and thank
God you are not damned. Git up in the
morning before the sun, and go to makin
more korn?then all these other good
things?i e. bacon, peace, and a good konscience,
will be added unto you.
Hoping fur better times, I am your'n,
GEMES MUNRO.
ANECDOTE OF~JEFF. DAVIS.
A citizen of Lafayette township, in this,
county, relates to us the following anecdote
: While Jeff. Davis was a Lieutenant
of dragoons in the United States army,
Mr. Patrick H. Coleman, nephew of John
Coleman, Esq., of this county, well known
and universally esteemed, was a private in
the same regiment. The portion of the
regiment to which* Davis and Coleman belonged
was stationed on the frontier, and r
was much distressed for the want of subsistence.
Being far removed from civilization,
it was necessary when a soldier be 11
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came so 111 mat ne coma not sit on ms
horse, and the probabilities were that he
would die, to place him at the foot of a tree,
chop a limb partially off, so that it would
hang down and serve the double
purpose of shading him from the sun while
he lived, and of marking his grave "when
he was dead. Young Coleman was taken
very sick, and found himself in this predicament,
abandoned by his comrades to }
die, with nothing left him but his blanket
and pistol, as was the custom. Being destitute
of provisions, the men then scattered !
through the woods to gather berries for .
their meal. Upon returning to the spot 1
preparatory to taking their final departure,
Lt. Davis look in upon Coleman through
the limbs of the tree, and remarked to him,
"So, my poor fellow, you are going to
die?" Coleman replied, *'I suppose so."
Davis then put his hand in his pocket,
pulled out the handful of berries he had
gathered for his iwn subsistence, and laid
ehetn down "Neman's?stor, saying,
"Here, take these. You will need them
more than I do." The soldiers left the
place, but had been gone but a few minutes
when a large wolf came to the spot and
gazed in upon the prostrate soldier, evidently
familiar with such scenes, and willing
to wait till the man was dead, feeling '
that he was sooner or later, sure of his i
prey. Mr. Coleman raised the pistol and \
pointed it at the brute?which did not *
change its position?fired and killed it. i
Coleman now gathered all his energies, de- c
termined to leave the living tomb and join b
his companions, if possible. They were j
compelled to make a detour round a high t
bluff, ahd he made his way to the crest of ?
the hill for the purpose of endeavoring to j
attract their attention while passing. He e
was successful, but some of the more super- 1
stitious believed that it was not Coleman,
but his ghost. Others, however, went to 1
his rescue, carried him into the midst of
his command, strapped him to his horse,
and cared for him until they reached the
settlements, where with care and nursing, *
he recovered, and is still alive. Mr Coleman
now resides in western Kentucky.
tt ?t :u_
ne ennsteu m uuuiBvuie in u. lumaunv/
freak, being engaged at the time as a clerk i
or book-keeper, in a large mercantile house. '
The story is a strange one, but there is no
reason to doubt that the facts, as here re- j
lated, are entirely true.
N. Albany Ledger.
CURIOUS CALCULATIONS.
What a noisy creature would a man be
were his voice in proportion to his weight,
as loud as that of a locust! A locust can be
heard at the distance of one sixteenth of a <
mile. The golden wren is said to weigh
but half an ounce, so that a middling sized
man would weigh down not short of four
thousand of them; and it must be strange
if a golden wren would not out weigh four
of our locusts. Supposing, therefore, that
a common man weighs as much as sixteen
thousand of our locusts, and that the note 1
of a locust can be heard one sixteenth of a
mile, a man of common dimensions, pretty
sound in wind and limb, ought to be able
to make himself heard at the distance of
one thousand and six hundred miles; and ,
when he sneezed his house ought to fall about
his ears! Supposing a Ilea to weigh (
one grain, although it is more than its actual
weight, and to jump one and a halfyards,
a common man of one hundred and ;
fifty pounds, jumping powers in proportion j
could jump twelve thousand eight hundred
miles, or about the distance from New York (
to Cochin, China. i
The Secret of Warm Feet.?Many of
the colds which people are said to catch
commence at the feet. To keep these extremities
warm, therefore, is to effect an i
insurance against the almost interminable 1
list of disorders which spring out of a 1
"slight cold." First, never be tightly shod. 1
Boots or shoes, when they fit closely, press
~nninot +Vin fr\r\f (itiH nravonf thofraa i
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lation of the blood. When, on the contra- ,
ry, they do not embrace the foot so tighly, i
the blood gets fair play, and the spaces left
between the leather and the stocking are
filled with a comfortable supply of warm
air. The second rule is, never sit in damp
shoes. It is often imagined that, unless
they are positively wet, it is not necessay ,
to change them while the feet are at rest.
This is a fallacy; for when the dampness is J
absorbed into the sole, it is attracted farther
to the foot itself by its own heat, and thus
perspiration is dangerously checked. Any
person may prove this by trying the expe
riment of neglecting the .rule, and his fee
will become cold and damp after a few mo
mentS) although, on taking off the shoe an<
examining it, it will appear quite dry.
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September 26 22 6m
JUSTRECEIVED
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GROCERY AND
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a lot of fine
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a well selected lot of
SUGARS, COFFEE, MOLASSES
Spices, Jellies, Pickles, Teas, Vermicelli,
Maccaroni,
MACKEREL, SHAD
100 SACKS SALT,
And other articles too numerous to mention.[am
daily receiving supplies of Groceries ofevon
description, which
I WILL SELL LOWER FOR CASH,
than those who pretend
To Sell at Cost!
W. E. ROSE.
September 26 22 tf
TO PRINTERS.
THE undersigned offers for sale the Printini
Material mentioned below: cheap for Cash.24
lbs Leads?cut to 14 ems Pica.
150 Advertising Rules?cut 14 ems Pica.
47 Brass Dashes?cut 14 ems Pica.
23 Parallel Cross Rules?cut 14 ems Pica.
13DoubleCross Rules?cut 14 ems Pica.
8 "short" and 6 "long" Column Rules. Also
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rer."
One36-inch roller mould, in good order, and sev
oralbookt newspaper and Tob chases. Tho rolle
mould will be sola for $15.
Also, one 3-inch Screw Standing Press with 30
paper and 10 wooden boards. Tho Press, <fec., i
in good order, and will be sold as it stands?for on
hundred dollars in cash. Cost $140 previous to th
war.
Also, 350 lbs Nonpareil?but little used?at 4
cents per pound. L. M. GRIST.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
Yorlc District.
Lewis M. Grist, vs. Seth W. Fowle & Co.?In thi
Common Plf.as.?Attachment.
WHEREAS, the Plaintiff did, on tho 9tli da:
of February, 1867, file his declaration agains
*" 1 a 1 ja i co nkonnf
tiie DGienuant, WHO, it in nuiu; io auouiiv uuk
and withoutthe limits of this State, and has nei
ther wife nor Attorney known within the limits o
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tion might be served. It is, therefore, ordered
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Declaration filed against him, on or before the 3<
day of March, which will be in the year of ou
Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight
otherwise final and absolute judgment will b
given against him.
J. F. WALLACE, c. c. c. P. a a. s.
Clerk's Office, York District, S. C.
March 7 45 lyq
PARISH AND LATIMORE,
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MANUFACTURERS and Dealers in NEW am
SECOND HAND FURNITURE, Looking
Olass Plates for Bureaus, Ac.
Constantly on hand COFFIN MATERIAL, c
the beet quality. They are prepared to furnisl
COFFIN a at a-fow hours' notice, Cane-Seat Chair
Re-Bottomed.
Shop and Ware-Room in the old Thespiai
Hall, over Hey man'a Store.
November 29 82 tf
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. Mr. JAS. WOOD DAVIDSON will continue S
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ie above Company, and is now prepared to issue
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rminated.
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o shudders as his mental gaze looks within the
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iendless, thorny paths of public charity] Yet,
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mfort, if spent In a Life Insurance Policy. Ren? ,
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of the unseen trials you bequeath those yoh
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e place of a fond father, yet we do assert, what
m biow to be true?money will prove their beet
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ave them this certain friend now while you are
ring.
Cta you?will you refuse it ?
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ho do not insure their goods and houses against
re. Now, your house may never be burned?it .
ay stand ahundred years; bat your life cannot -. :i
st so long?your "lamp of life" must born otit M
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e firsts but assart the greater wisdom and necc*-"
ty for the last. Ask yourself the question, are
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iar in mind?now, this moment may be your last.
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the sighing hearts yon took care of while
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aforo you begin to loiter in sad sickness on the
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id physically living?can you obtain a Life Insnin
ce Policy. Life Is a vast battle-field?death is
ways the final victor?and while we do not urge
ds process will disarm bim of his sting, (for rell- . i
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bosom to know you have provided for your
mily before that trying hour comes. By having
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ie wail of suffering from some lone widow, while
le examines the merits of this business, as her
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y for bread: "Oh 1 that my husband had insuri
his life I If he could have foreseen my lomenble
state he would have done bo. He was kind
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isured bis life, its benefits would have continued
i us now." Do not say'this is a fancy sketch, for
inny such a scene has really existed. A
R. ALLEN is the Agent of the a- , A
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