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Iiuraaraus gcpattrartit. MIGHTY SOCIABLE. The following extract is from Mark Twain's new book, entitled "Roughing It In Nevada there used to be current the story of an adventure o'f two of her nabobs, which may or may not have occurred. I give it for what it is worth : Colonel Jim had seen somewhat of the world, and knew more or less of its way; but Colonel Jack was from the back settlements of the States, had led a life of arduous toil, and had never seen a city. These two, blessed with sadden wealth, projected a visit to New York?Colonel Jack to see the sights, and Colonel Jim to guard his unsophistication from misfortune. They reached San Francisco in the night, and sailed in the morning. Arriving in New York, Colonel Jack said: "I've heard tell of carriages all of my life, and now I mean to have a ride in one; I don't care what it costs. Come along." They stepped out on the sidewalk, and Colonel Jinx called a stylish barouche. But Colonel Jack said: " No sir! None of your cheap-John turnouts for me. I'm here to have a good time, and money aint any object I mean to have the noblest rig that's going. Now here comes the very trick. Stop that ysller one with the pictures on it?don't you fret?I'll stand all the expenses myself." So Colonel Jim stopped an empty omnibus, and they got in. Said Colonel Jack: "Ain't it gay, though ? O no, I reckon not! Cushions, an3 windows, and pictures, till you can't rest What would the boys say if they could see us cutting a swell like this in New York ? By George, I wish they could see us." Then he put his head out of the window, and shouted to the driver: "Say, Johnny, this suits me !?suits yours truly, you bet! I want this shebang all day. I'm on it, old man! Let 'em out! Make 'em go! We'll make it all right with you, sonny!" The driver passed his hand through the straphole, and tapped for his fare?it was before the gongs came into common use. Colonel Jack took the hand, and shook it cordially. He said: "You twig me, old pard! All right between gents. Smell of that, and see how you like it And he pat a twenty dollar gold piece into the driver's hand. After a moment, the driver said he could not make change. "Bother the change! Hide it out Put it in your pocket" The omnibus stopped, and a young lady got in. Colonel Jack stared for a moment, then nudged Colonel Jim with his elbow. "Don't say a word," he whispered. "Let her ride if she wants to. Gracious, there's room enough." The young lady got out her port-monnaie, and handed her fare to Colonel Jack. "What's this for ?" said he. "Give it to the driver, please." "Take back your money, madam. We can't allow it You're welcome to ride here as long as you please; but this shebang's chartered; we shan't let you pay a cent." The girl shrunk back into a corner, bewildered. An old lady with a basket climbed in, and proffered her fare. "Excuse me," said Colonel Jack. "You are perfectly welcome here, madam, but we can't allow you to pay. Set right down there, mum, and don't you be the least uneasy. Make yourself as free as if you was in your own turnout" Within two minutes, three gentlemen, two fat women and a couple of children, entered. "Come right along, friends," said Colonel Jack; "don't mind us. This a free blow-out" Then he whispered to Colonel Jim, "New York aint no sociable place, I don't reckon? it aint no name for it." He resisted every effort to pass fares to the driver, and made everybody cordially welcome. The situation dawned on the people, and they pocketed their money, and delivered themselves up to covert enjoyment of the episode. Half a dozen more passengers entered. "O there is plenty of room," said Colonel Jack. "Walk right in and make yourselves at home. A blow-out aint anything as a blow-out, unless a body has company." Then in a whisper to Colonel Jim, "But aint these New Yorkers friendly ? And ain't they cool about it, too ? Icebergs aint anywhere. I reckon they'd tackle a hearse, if it was goihg their way." More passengers got in, more yet, and still more. Both seats were filled, and a file of men were standing up holding on to the cleats overhead. Parties with baskets and bundles were climbing up on the roof. Half-suppress4 ed laughter rippled up from all sides. "Well, for clean, cool, out-and-out cheek, if this don't bang anything that ever I Baw, I'm an Injun," whispered Colonel Jack. A Chinaman crowded his way in. "I weaken," said Colonel Jack. "Hold on, driver! Keep your seats, ladies and gents. Just make yourselves free?everything's paid for. Driver, rustle these folks around iuBt as long as they're a mind to go?friends of ours, you know. Take them every wheres ; and if you want more money, come to the St Nicholas, and we'll make it all right. Pleasant journey to you, ladies and gents; go it just as long as you please?it shan t cost you a cent" The two comrades got out, and Colonel Jack said, "Jimmy, it's the sociablest place I ever saw. The Chinaman waltzed in as comfortable as anybody. If we'd stayed a while I reckon we'd had some niggers. B'George, we'll have to barricade our doors to-night, or some of these ducks will be trying to sleep with^us." "Phairest of the phair," sighed the lover, "phancy my pheelings when I phoresee, the pheerful consequences of our phleeing phrom your phather's phamily. Phew phellows could have phaced the music with so much phortitude as I have; and as phickle phortune phales to smile upon our love, I phind myself phorced to phorego the pleasure of becoming your husband. Phare Phrances, pharewell, phorever." "Hold, Phranklin, hold!" screamed Phrances, "I will phollow you phorever." But Phranklin phled and Phrances phainted. The followingiis the wa^ they call out the figure of a "reel" in Georgia; "Dance to the gal with the yellow shawl; now down outsifta anrl nn t.ha midflla tnmpr frk rnnr narf ~ -r ?~ ? ?*-v4 w r ner, Isaac Smach, and now to that entire stranger; sachez to'the'rightjand left ; ra de tan, da du de; now to Peter Schwitchall's daughter; turn to your partner, every one; set to the girl with the flaring frillf; balance one and spin about to the girl with the hole in the heel of her stocking!" "Johnny, where is your pa ?" "Gone fishing, sir." "He was a fishing yesterday, was he not?" "Yes, sir." "What did he catch ?" "One catfish, the rheumatism, two eels, the toothache, and some little ones. Ma says he will catch fits to-day; just wait till he gets home!" A Greene county farmer recklessly publishes the following challenge: "I will bel $12.25 that my hired man can take longer to go the harvest field, get back to dinner quicker, eat more, do less and bear down hardei on the panel of the fence, than any othei hired man with fifteen miles of the flag-stafl in Jefferson." fST "My son," said a good mother to hei young hopeful, "did you wish your teacher c happy New Year ?" "No, ma'am," responded the boy. "Well, why not ?" "Because," said the youth, "she isn't happy unless she's whipping some of us boys,"and I was afraid if 1 wished her happiness she'd go for me." Children's jgepartownt. : t " > & > l [Original.] , POLITENESS. There is nothing easier than to contract ; , the habit of rudeness. Some children think that impolite behavior is an evidence of talent and independence. This notion they put into practice by treating, in a rude way, strangers. If a stranger asks them a question, they either answer it impolitely or do not i answer it at all. Some children have a most * loathsome habit of making witty remarks about every one they chance to see or meet, j In fact this most abominable habit is not con- ^ fined to children. Half grown boys, and sometimes even grown men and women, are * guilty of this sin against all decency. Ho one likes to be treated rudely. Even the most rude feel that insult has been heaped upon them by rude treatment On the other hand, every living creature has some kind of appreciation for gentle treatment. The hog and dog appreciate kindness. Impoliteness and rudeness always njakes us enemi^; politeness makes us friends. In 1 every case it is as easy to* be polite as it is to be impolite. It costs us nothing to treat every one kindly. We need no money to make the investment; we can be polite clad in rags as well as arrayed in broadcloth, and a ragged polite boy is a gentleman, whilst an impolite boy clothed in broadcloth is nothing but a vagabond. Why not then be polite ? [Original.] GREAT MEN. Every young man and boy of any spirit looks forward to the day when he will be a great man. The boy who has no ambition to be great, has not the spirit of a man. He maw Viorro tho mnonloc r\f an oy hnt. hin snill . J ? , L is that of the sluggard. There is an am- c bition that is ruinous, and there is an ambi- ? tion without which a man cannot, accomplish anything either good or great. It is interesting to know the origin of great men. History reveals the fact that most of them first saw the light of day amid the scenes of humble life. The farm and the workshops have furnished the civilized world with nearly all its truly illustrious men. The men who have shaped the opinions of the world have generally been the sons of poverty. The contemplation of these facts is encouraging to the plow-boys and young mechanics of our country. Cincinnatus plowed, yet his name is more honorable than any of the Caesars. Bowditch spent his boyhood in the shop of a tallow-chandler. His name to-day is enrolled with those of Newton and Kepler. John Brown, of Haddington, was a poor shepherd boy. Goldsmith, the Irish poet, was miserably poor. Burns, the Scotch poet, was the son of a farmer. The great men of the next generation are now holding the plow handles, or toiling in ' some work shop. The man, who a few om Vionno io fn mnnlrl ftio nnintnno nf fViA t J v?? o uvuvvj <g w Uiuuiu vuv v|/<uivww v* ^ American people, is no doubt to-day a bare- 8 footed boy with freckled face. There is in that boy, whoever he may be, or whatever may be his calling, two things that character- v ize him. He is possessed of a perseverance t which nothing can discourage. He is sober r and industrious. He is a worker. When he cannot plow, he hoes; and when he can do [ neither, he reads. No boy can become great c without labor. The old Greeks were accu9- v tomed to say, "No dust no crown." The 8 meaning of which is that the contestant in the j games who would not submit to be covered ^ with dust in the struggle, could not gain a g crown. No boy will ever become a great j man without sobriety and industry; and any j boy of ordinary talents, by living a sober and t industrious life, can accomplish something both great and good. t [Original.] t THE TURNING POINT. j In the life of a human being, there are a [ multitude of critical periods. Life, in most 8 instances, is made up of an indefinite number j of crises. The turning point, however, in ? every young man's life, is just when he is ( passing from boyhood to manhood. This is c the period when a young man becomes res- f ponsible to society for his words and acts, t During his minorage, his father or guardian, r stood between him and the public. His neigh- t hnra anrl anrmaintanr>oa mav havp sairl f>nn. 8 , -->1 ? ?~~~ ?J ? cerning him, that he was a good boy or a rude boy, as the facts in the case justified; ^ but no great importance was attached to his \ acts. Up to the period of manhood, he was <3 looked upon as a kind of irresponsible mem- 1 ber of society. He may have been the idol 1 of doting parents, but his neighbors knew j; . very little about him, and, if possible, cared j. less. So soon, however, as a young man passes out of his minorage, the scene changes, t Every eye in the circle of his acquaintance is v upon him. All his acts are closely examined. ? Every word that drops from his lips is carefully weighed. Old men and old women talk about him around the fireside. In one word j he is now an important member of society, c Not important on account of what he is or has \ done, but on account of what he probably t will be and do. The staunch members of the * community look upon him with that degree ? of interest, with which the farmer watches a his maturing corn. They examine all the c probabilities for his making a useful member of the community, or of his proving a mil- t dew or blast in the community where he v dwells. The manner in which a young man spends the first few years of his life, determines his position in society. If he spends these years soberly, and conducts himcelf uprightly, it will prove to be an investment of incalculable value. If on the contrary, a young man begins wrong, he is very apt to end wrong. If he contracts idle habits in the beginning of his manhood, they will very likely cling to e him for life. Every young man should remember, that although he may repent of bad habits, those who know that he was once guilty of irregularities in conduct, never can forget the fact. The balky horse may become a true drawer; but there is always danger, that in a tight place, he will return to his old bad habits. A drunken and dissolute young man may become sober, but there is a liability that in some unfortunate hour, his dissipated habits may return. It is hard to learn old horses ? new tricks, and much harder to break them ( oi tnose wmcn tney learned wnen young. * Habits become part of our nature. They 1 get beyond the control of our judgment. This ^ is especially true of those habits contracted in f i the early part of our lives. i A mother, who had with her a little < ' daughter, was examining the figure of a j ' horse on a tombstone, and wondering what it s f was an emblem of. There was nothing to ex- | plain it in the inscription. "Mamma," said ] the little one as they moved away, "I should'nt < ' wonder if she died with the nightmare." ; i ? * ( I Profanity never did any man the least | I good. No man is richer, or happier, or wiser for it. It commends no one to society; it is disgusting to the refined, abominable to the < good. < Heading fa* the f afefcath. CONDUCTED BY REV. ROBERT LATHAN, * [Orlginol.] RELIGION NOT GLOOMY. The erroneous notions of men concerning eligion are more numerous and more glaring ;han respecting aDy other subject. In the ninds of a great many persons, the idea of jloom or despondency, is inseparably connect;d with that of religion. Whenever these jersons think of a pious man, they picture to hemselves a man bowed down in spirits. Cheerfulness and piety are, according to these jersons, incompatible. No notion was ever nore erroneous. It is inconsistent with the heory of piety, and is demonstrated to be alse by the lives of good men. Piety and sobriety of thought, of word and >f act, are firmly united; but sobriety and ;loominess are not the same thing. They ire very different in their nature, and are arely if ever found together. The impenitent sinner ought to be gloomy ind depressed in spirits. He is, 011 account >f his sins, exposed to the wrath of God. He mows not the moment that God may visit lim with retributive justice. The impenitent inner is condemned already. The sentence >f condemnation has already been passed, and le is spared only that the purposes of mercy md grace may be fully developed. The day )f his execution is delayed that he may have i full opportunity to accept of the pardon vhich is offered to him through the blood of Fesus Christ. Does the man condemned to lie feel sad and gloomy ? Then the impenient sinner ought to feel sad and gloomy. Te knows not the day, God may, in his -ighteous indignation, hurl him from a world >f mercy, into the lake that burns with fire ind brimstone. * On the other hand, there is no reason why he truly pious man should not be cheerfuj. lis sins, however great in number1, and aggravated in character, have been pardoned, ie has made peace with God by accepting resus Christ as his Saviour. He is no longer esting under the condemnation of a violated aw. By grace he has been made a child of Sod, entitled to all the privileges of a child. 3y the operations of the Holy Spirit, a child's ove has been implanted in his heart. He sails God his father, and God regards and reats him as his child, not simply by creaion, but his child by redemption. Is there inything gloomy in the relation which exists jetween parent and child?. Is it not the nost intimate and endearing relationship on sarth ? The parent pities the child, and the ihild loves the parent. Such is the relationhip which exists between God and all his >eople. God in his mercy and grace loves hem with a love which passes understanding. Fhe arms of his love are ever about them to >rotect, defend and provide for them. As a 3od of providence, he give them what is good tnd withholds from them what is evil. In all this there is nothing gloomy; but everything that is calculated to fill the soul vith exstatic delight. Such do we find to be he history of all pious men. The man who elies upon God's grace for salvation, will ever wear a smiling face, for he carries in his >reast a loving heart. The individual who lepends upon God's providence for a support, ising at the same time the means of divine ippointment to obtain it> will never be des)ondent; for he knows that his daily bread vill be sure. The young lions may be hungry, but the truly pious man will always be jrovided for. Surely there is nothing gloomy n sustaining to God that relation which nakes it certain that he will provide for us. True piety and carnal pleasures are opposed o each other; still this does not imply that here is anything gloomy or sad in piety, yi carnal pleasure is sinful, apd all sin is fitter in its final consequences. It drives the oul from communion with God. This is sad ndeed ; but it is the work of carnal pleasure, lot of true religion. Religion binds us to rod, in the bonds of an everlasting covenant; iftrnftl nWsnre Rfinn.rflt.es us from God. The orraer fills our souls with love and gratitude; he latter, with bitter regrets and consuming emorse. If this world is full of sadness it is >ecause it is full of sin. Where there is no in there is no sorrow. Saved from the Fire.?Dr. Chalmers ells us of a poor old lady id his congregation vho could not use her hands and feet. A laughter took care of her, but was obliged to eave her every day and work in the cotton nill. She always made her old mother as iomfortable as she could before she left, and milt up a good fire of "mill refuse," which rnrned slowly, and kept her warm all day. One day the good minister set out to visit his old lady; but on the way he met a man pith whom he wished to talk. So they sat lown on a bank, and talked a long time. \.gain and again a feeling came into the good nan's heart that he ought to go on; but sevsral times he put it aside. Finally, the feeing was so strong he could not resist it; so >f a sudden he started up and hastened toward her cottage. As he opened the door here sat the poor helpless woman, surrounded >y fire. The wall of fuel had fallen down, md was creeping slowly, steadily up. It had draost touched her dress, when the minister prang forward, and caught up her and her hair, and bore her to a place of safety. Was it a chance that he came there just at hat moment? Ah, no! You all know it pas God in heaven who watched over the >oor woman, and brought her help in her ime of danger. I do not doubt but she praysd him to send some one to her help. You sannot be in so great peril but God can help rou. He has the whole world at his comnand, and all the people in it. Often they ire led to work his will when they have the east idea of doing so. We are always safe vhen we put our trust in Him. The Old Man and the Youth.?Geron, in old man of eighty years, was one day siting before the door of his rustic dwelling enoying the bright and cheerful autumn mornng. His eye rested now upon the blue hills n the distance, from whose tops the mist was tealing upward like the smoke of burnt offerngs, and now upon his mirthfuj grandchilIren, who were sporting around him. A youth rom the city approached the old man, and sntered into discourse with him. When the routh heard the number of his years from his >wn lips, he wondered at his vigorous age and lis ruddy countenance; whereupon he asked he old man whence it came that he enjoyed uch strength and cheerfulness in the late auumn of life ? Geron answered: "My son, hese, like every other good thing, are gifts vhich come to us from above, the merit of vhich we cannot claim to ourselves, and still ,ve can do something here below to obtain hem." Having uttered these words, the old nan arose and led the stranger into his orchard md showed him the tall and noble trees covired with delicious fruit, the sight of which gladdened the heart. Then the old man ipoke: "Canst thou wonder that I now enjoy ;ne fruit of these trees? See, my son, I ^lonto/l tViom in mtr imnfvi tVinn Vmsf. tViA HA. I/1MUVVU bUVIU 1U ? * * J J vuvu VUVM MMWV WMW ww 3ret of my happy and fruitful old age." The pouth cast a look full of meaning upon the )ld man, for he understood his words, and Measured them up in his heart?Krummacher. 1ST Help, Lord; for the godly man ceas5th ; for the faithful fail from among the chilIren of men. Ps. xii: 9. jtrtsr flf th* i ? fc OFFICIAL. t , . , , , ?i- r AN ACT C To grant, renew and amend the charter of the s village of Rock Hill in the county of York. ? Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and t . House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same: That from and after the passage of u this Act, all citizens of this State, having a resided twelve months within the State, and sixty days in the village of Rock Hill, shall ^ be (leemed, and are hereby declared to be, a , body politic and corporate, and the said vil- ? lage shall be called and known by the name of Rock Hill, and its corporate limits shall P extend over an area of a square, each side r< whp.rpnf is one mile, and the centre whereof 0 is "Gordon's Hotel." ri Sec. 2. That the said village shall be govern- 8< ed by an Intendant and four Wardens, who 81 shall be citizens of the United States, and .. who shall have resided in this State twelve } months, and shall have been residents of the ^ said village sixty dr.ys immediately preceding ^ their election, and who shall be elected the second Monday of January, 1873, and on the same day in each year thereafter, ten days' j? public notice thereof being previously given; ^ and that all male inhabitants of the age of ^ twenty-one years, citizens of the State, and . who shall have resided within the State twelve montns, ana in tne saiu village sixty aays 1m mediately preceding their election, shall be , entitled to vote for said Intendant and War- t| dens, paupers and persons under disabilities r< of crime excepted. Sec. 3. The said election shall be held at some convenient public place in the said vil- rjlage, from 10 o'clock in the morning, until 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and when the polls tj shall be closed, the Managers shall forthwith ^ count the votes and declare the election; and give notice thereof in writing, to the Intendant therein being, who shall, within two days thereafter, give notice, or cause the same to ? be given, to the persons duly elected. The Intendant and Wardens, before entering on the duties of their office, shall, respectively, ^ take the oath prescribed by the constitution ( of the State, and also the following oath, to q wit: "As Intendant (or Warden) of the village of Rock Hill, I will equally and impar- ^ tially, to the best of my ability, execute the trust reposed in me, and will use my best en- 8} deavors to preserve the peace and carry into ^ effect, according to law, the purposes for gl which I have been elected. So help me God." And, if any person, upon being elected Intendant or Warden, shall refuse to act as ^ such, he shall forfeit and pay to the Council ^ the sum of twenty dollars for the use of the 8J said village: Provided that no person who has attained the age of sixty years shall be * compelled to serve in either of said offices; j( nor shall any other person be compelled to serve, either as an Intendant or Warden more ^ than one vear in anv term of three vears. The Intendant and Wardens for the time being, shall always appoint one or more boards ? of Managers, [three Managers for each board] ^ to conduct the election, who, before they tj open the polls, shall take an oath fairly and impartially to conduct the same. Sec. 5. That in case a vacancy should occur in the office of Intendant, or any of the jj Wardens, by death, resignation, removal, or j. otherwise, an election to fill such vacancy ^ shall be held by order of the Intendant and ^ Wardens, or a majority of the same, ten days' ^ public notice being previously given; and in ^ case of sickness or temporary absence of the ^ Intendant, the Wardens, forming the Coun- t cil, shall be empowered to elect one of the t| number to act as Intendant during the time. ^ Sec. 6. That the Intendant and Wardens g duly elected and qualified shall, during their ^ term of office, severally and respectively be vested with all the powers of Trial Justices or ? Justices of the Peace, as the case may be, in j( this State, within the limits of said village, r exceDt for the trial of small and mean cases, _ and the Intendant shall and may, as often as " is necessary, summon the Wardens to meet j? in council, any three of whom, with the In- j tendant, shall constitute a quorum to transact . business; and they shall be known as the , Town Council of Kock Hill: and they, and their successors in office, hereafter to be elect- , ed, may have a common seal, which shall be affixed to all their ordinances, may sue and be sued, may plead and be impleaded in any court of law or justice in this State, and purchase, hold, possess and enjoy to them and ^ their successors, in perpetuity, or for any term ( of years, any estate, real or personal, or mixed, ^ and sell, alien and convey the same; Provided, The same shall not exceed at any one time q the sum of ten thousand dollars; and the . said Town Council shall have authority to appoint from time to time, as they may see fit, such and so many proper persons to act Jj as Marshals or Constables of said village, as 1 said Council may deem necessary and expe- ? dient for the preservation of the peace, good , order and police thereof, which persons so appointed, shall, within the. corporate limits of said village, have the power and privileges, and be subject to all the obligations n provided by law for the office of constable; tUiU blitUl UC ilttUlC IAJ UC ACUiUVCU AV bUC sure of said Town Council; and the said s Town Council shall have power to establish, g or authorize the establisment of a market house in said village; also, to authorize the establishment of a guard house, and to prescribe suitable rules and regulations for keep- . ing and governing the same; and the said Town Council, or the said Intendant and Wardens, in person, any one or more of ^ them, may authorize and require any Marshal of the town, or any Constable especially appointed for that purpose, to arrest ana P commit to the said guard house, for a term ^ not exceeding twenty-four hours, any person or persons who, within the corporate limits of said town, may be engaged in any breach of g the peace, riotous or disorderly conduct, open ^ obscenity, public drunkenness, or any conduct* ^ grossly indecent or dangerous to the citizens g of said town or any of them; and it shall be the duty of the Town Marshal or Constable to arrest and commit all such offenders, when ; required to do so ; and who shall have power gi to call to their assistance the posse commitatua g, if need be, to aid in making such arrests; and upon the failure of such officers to per torm such duty as required, tney snail sever- , ally be subject to such fines and penalties as the Town Council may impose upon them; and all persons so imprisoned shall pay the 0 costs and expenses incident to their imprison- ? ment, which said costs and expenses shall be * collected in the same manner as is provi- r' ded fcr the collection of fines imposed for the 0 violation of ordinances, rules and regulations; 8< Provided, that such imprisonment shall not n exempt the party from the payment of any P fine the Council may impose for the offense which he, she or they may have committed; ? and the said Town Council shall have full j power and authority, under their corporate seal, to make all such rules and regulations, by-laws and ordinances, respecting the streets, e roads and business thereof, as well as the po- 81 lice system of the said town, as shall appear to them necessary and proper for the security, welfare and convenience of the inhabitants of said town, and for preserving health, order and good government within tne said town; and the said Town Council may impose fines for offenses against their by-laws, rules, regulations and ordinances, and appropriate the s< same to the public use of said town ; and the P said Town Council shall have the same power that trial justices or justices of the peace now j3 have, or may hereafter have, to compel the at- " tendance of witnesses, and requiring them to give evidence upon the trial Wore them, of | any person or persons for a violation of any * of their ordinances, by-laws, rules or regulations ; but no fine above the sum of twenty- 0 five dollars shall be collected by said Council, ? except by suits in the proper courts of justice g in this State; andjalso that nothing*herein T contained shall authorize said Council to T make any ordinance or by-laws inconsistent n with or repugnant to the laws of the State, ft Sec. 6. That the said Intendant and Warlens, or a: majority of them, shall'have potfei o abate and; remove all nuisances in said own; and it shall be their duty to keep all oads, ways, bridges and streets within the orporale limits of said town open and* in ood repair, and for that purpose they are inested with all the powers of county commisInn/wfl an/1 tt?it bin thn limlfa g\4 IUUCID, iui auu nuuiu bug tuipiaw UIUIW ui he said town; and they may lay out new treets, close up, alter or widen those now in se; and shall have full power to classify nd arrange the inhabitants or citizens of the lid town liable to street, road, or public duty herein, and to force the performance of such uty under such penalties, as are now, or hall hereafter be, prescribed by law: and hey shall have power to compound with all ersons liable to work the streets, ways and Dads in said town, upon such terms as their rdinance9 or by-laws may establish, or their ules and regulations may require; the money d received to be appliea to the public use of lid town; and all persons refusing to labor, r failing to pay such commutation, shall be able to such fine, not exceeding ten dollars >r any one year, as the said Town Council lay impose; and they shall have the power ) enforce the payment of such fine in the ime manner as is now, or may be hereafter rovided for the collection of county taxes, ind the said Town Council shall have power, ith the consent of the adjacent land-owners, ) close all such roads, streets and ways, with1 the said town, as they mav deem necessay, by the sale of the freehold therein, either t private or public sale, as they may judge est for the interest of the said town; apd ley shall keep in repair all such new streets, lads and ways as they may from time to me, deem necessary for the improvement nd convenience of said town. Provided, "hat no street, road or way shall be opened rithout first having obtained the consent oi le land owner or owners thereof, through -hose premises any such new street, road oi 'ay may pass. l : .;; < Sec. 7. The said Town Council may have ower and authority to require all persons wning a lot or lots in said town to close in, nd to make and keep in good repair, sidewalks in front of said lot or lots, whenever lie same shall front oi; adjoin any public treet of said town, if, in the judgment of tlje Jouncil, such sidewalk shall oe necessary, the udth thereof, and the manner of construcon, to be designated and regulated by the lid Town Council; and for default or refttil, after reasonable notice, to make and keep : good repair such side walks, and to close iich lots, the Town Council may cause the ime to be made and put in repair, and retire the owner to pay the price of making r repairing; and the said Town Council art ereby empowered to sue for and recover the ime by action of debt in any court of cometent jurisdiction; Provided, That such codract for making and repairing is let to the )west bidder. The cemeteries and public raveyards are also placed under the jurisdio ion of the Town Council. Sec. 8. The Intendant and Wardens of the lid town, or a majority of them, shall have ill power to grant or refuse license to keep iverns or to retail spirituous liquors within be corporate limits of the said town, upon ach conditions, and under such circumstances; s to them shall seem proper and right; Proided that in no instance shall the price of s icense to keep a tavern or to retail spirituoue iquors, be less than the amount that is esablished by the State; and all moneys paid ir licenses and for fines and forfeitures, shall e appropriated for the public use of the said r* ? i l mi .1. xi _ t a. J x ] 3WD; jrroviaeu, Anas me Anseuuaus auu Vardens, duly elected, shall not have powei o grant any license to keep tavern or to re ail spirituous liquors, to extend beyond the erm for which they have been elected. The} hall have power to regulate sales at auctior rithin the corporate limits of said town, anc rant licenses to auctioneers, itinerant traders 0 keepers of hotels and livery stables, and tc 2vy a tax on all drays, carts, wagons, car iaees, omnibuses, buggies, horses, mares, oi lules, kept for hire or used for public pur oses, in said town; and they shall have the nil and only power to impose a tax on al] hows or exhibitions for gain or reward, with1 the corporate limits of said town. They ball have the power to impose a tax not exeeding twentv cents on every hundred dolire of the value of all the real and persona] roperty lying within the corporate limits oi he town, real and personal property of school nd college associations and churches exceptd. That an ordinance declaring the rates oi he annual taxation upon property and othei ubjects of annual taxation for the year, shall e published at least three weeks daring the lonth of January in each year; Provided, 'hat the said Town Council shall have powei a levy a tax for this year under the same ule as is above stated, immediately after the assage of this act; and that all person* able to taxation under the same shall make ath of their taxable property within said swn, and make payment of their taxes tc he clerk or treasurer of said corporation, oi uch other person as they may be ordered oi equired to do during the succeeding month fter publication, and upon the failure tc lake such return and payment as required, he parties so in default shall be subject to the enalties provided by law for failures to pay ha orPAAral State and nnuntv tax. to be en Dreed by the orders of the Intendant and Vardens, or a majority of them, for the use f the said town, except in such cases thai xecutions to enforce the payment of such axes shall be issued under the seal of the orporation, and may be directed to the towi] larshal, or other person appointed by the 'own Council to levy, collect and receive the ame, with costs, as in such cases made and rovided by law; and all property upon rhich such tax shall be levied and assessed is ereby declared and made liable for the paylent thereof, in preference to all other debts, xcept debts due to the State, which shall be rst paid; and that all other taxes imposed y the the Intendant or Wardens, or a major;y of them, shall be liable for the same, as 1 manner and form just before stated. Sec. 9. The Intendant and Wardens elect, Dgether with clerk and treasurer, shall, duing their term of office, be exempt from treet and police duty. Each To'vn Council hall, within one month after the expiration f their term of office, make out ana return d their successors in office a full account oi heir receipts and expenditures during their 2rm. which account shall be published in one r more papers of the town, and shall pay ver all moneys in their possession belonging 5 the corporation, and deliver up all books, ecords and other papers incident to theii ffice to their successors; and on failure to do :>, they shall be liable to be fined in a sum ot exceeding $500, to be collected by any roper action of the Town Council. Sec. 10. That all ordinances or by-laws, assed by the Town Council of Rock Hill ball be binding upon the citizens of said town le same as the laws of the State. Sec. 11. All acts or parts of acts inconsistot with, or supplied by this act, be, and the ime are hereby repealed. Sec. 12. This act shall be deemed a public ct, and continue in force for the term oi jurteen years, and until the end of the legisiture thereof. Approved March 4th, 1872. I?" The Chinese manufacture dwarfi by tunting the growth of children. A heavy, eculiar vase is placed over them so as to save only the^head free. It is removed at ight^but replaced daily4till the body ceases d grow. Kite ?0tMIe ^uphrr. TERMS?IIV ADVANCE t >ne Copy, one year, f 3 OC >ne C?py, Six months - 1 50 ?ne Copy, Three months, 1 00 ingle Copy, 10 Vo Copies, one year, 5 Ofl 'en Copies, " " 35 00 To persons who make up clubs of ten oi tore names, an extra copy of the paper will bt irnlshed one year, free of charge. PACTS ARE STC FIGURES FOIi ! . ! UNIVERSAL LIFE See the amounts of Insurance that can be panies in this Country, and I Knickerbocker, : Globe Mutual, St. Louis Mutual, Carolina Life, ' Northwestern Mutual, 1 Southern Life, Life Association of America, , New York Life, Mound City, , Equitable, Piedmont and Arlington, Connecticut Mutual, 1 Missouri Valley, .Etna Life, , Brooklyn, Cotton States, I UNIVERSAL. ? OE AN AVERAGE OF 30l?ER CEN Participation in the Profits is Guarante ALL POLICIES NO And Surrender Value, after any numl i Please examine the feature of this Company, wl payments, the Policy is not lost; but days of grw force and effect. The following table shows apprt , (It should be remembered that this feature is writ , an Agent.) , TERM OF YEARS AND DAY8 FOR WE NUMBER AOE 25 AQE36~ OF YEARS. YEARS. DAY8. YEARS. E 3 1 109 2 I 4 1 328 2 : '5 2 219 3 ! 16 3 140 4 7 4 109 6 i 8 5 000 6 9 5 255 7 ' 10 6 140 ^ 8 i RATIO OF ASSETS TO I I i . " : Gen's M. W February 22 ) r I TOZER'S: PORTABl I (FROM THE SCIENTIFIC WE illustrate, in the accompanying engraving medals were awarded by the South Carolii > embraces in its design many features of merit tha . are generally applied. The cylinder Is cast in the center of the steam do hole is cut in the top of the boiler, which admits 8 to entirely surround the cylinder an d steam chest, > tion therein. I A valve on the side of the steam chest admits I both dome and steam chest. The guides are cast in front of the dome, and bo 1 " * * " ?* n IU1 ' ah parrs or rne engine are easuy Hccewuuie, uuu It is stated to operate with great economy, and, in its guides. The engine was designed by R. Tozer, of Colun [ of from four to twenty horse power, and from whc p February 22 f I. Walsh. Proprietor. R.H. McDoeald ACa.drnrrlataand Geo. Ae'ts, San Frsoclsco. Cat., and 31 and 34 Commerce at. N.Y. [ MILLIONS Bear Teotimony to their Wonderful . Curative Effect*. They are not a rile Fancy Drink, | made of Poor Ram, WhUkey, Proof Splxlto and Re ' fase Liquors doctored, spiced and sweetened to please the L taste, called "Tonics," "Appetizers," "Bestoroi*," Ac., that lead the tippler on to drunkenness and ruin, but are a true Medicine, mode from the Native Roots and Herbs of California, 1 free from all Alcoholic Stimulants. Tbey are the ; GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER and A LIFE GIVING PRINCIPLE, a perfect Renovator and Invlgorator of ! the System, carrying off all poisonous matter and restoring the 1 blood to a healthy condition. No person can take these Bitters I according to directions and remain long-unwell, provided their bonos are not destroyed by mineral poisons or other means, and ' the vital organs wasted beyond the point of repair. Tbey are a Gentle Purgative as well as a Tonic, possessing, also, the peculiar merit of acting as a powerful ' ngent in relieving Congestion or Inflammation of the Liver, ' and of all the Visceral Organs. [ FOR FEMALE COMPLAINTS, whether in young or old, married or single, at the dawn of womanhood or at tho turn of life, theao Tonic Bitters have no equal. 1 For Inflammatory and Chronic Rhenmntlsm and Gont, Dyspepsia or Indigestion, Billons, Remit* tent nnd Intermittent Fevers, Diseases of the 1 Blood, Liver, Kidneys and Bladder, these Bitters have been most successful. Such Diseases aro caused by [ Vitiated Blood, which is generally produced by derangeI mont of the Digestive Organs. 1 DYSPEPSIA OR INDIGESTION, Headache, Pain i in the Shonldere, Coughs, Tightness of the Chest, Dizziness, I Sour Eructations of tho Stomach, Bad taste in the Mouth, Bllf lous Attacks, Palpitation of tho Heart, Inflammation of the Lungs, Pain in the regions of the Kidneys, and a hundred ' other painful symptoms, are the offsprings of Dyspepsia j Tliey Invigorate the Htomacb ana sumuiaM tue torpia uver and bowel*, which render them of unequalled efficacy In cleansing the blood of til Imparities, and Imparting new life and vigor to the whale system.' . FOR SKIN DI8XAHS81 Ernptlona, Tetter, Salt Rheum, Blotches, Spots, Plstplea, Pustules,Bolls, Carbuncle*, Ring-Worms, Boald-Head. Bore Eyes, Bxysfpgla* gab, Scurfs, > Dlscoloratlcmt of tlieWin, Humors and Diseases oftti Skin, of whatever name or nature, are literally dug np and carried out of the system In a short time by the use of these Bitters. One bottle in such cases will convince the most incredulous of their curative effects. Cleanse the Vitiated Blood whenever you find its impurities 1 bursting through the skin in Pimples, Eruptions or Sores; cleanse it when you find it obstructed or sluggish in the veins; I cleanse it vAen it is foul, and your feelings will tell you when. Keep the blood pure and the health of the system will follow. PIN, TAPE, and other WORMS, lurking In the system of so msnr thousands, are effectually destroyed and removed, for full directions, read carefully the circular around each ' bottle, printed in four languages?English, German, French and Spanish. Old prejudices are dying out. New facts arc killing them. The idea that invalids, weakened by disease, can be re? Keyed by prostrating them with destructive drugs, Is no longer entertained except by monomaniac*. Ever since the lntrodactlonof Da. Walxir's Vixioar Bitters, it ha* been obvious that their regulating and invigorating properties ore all-iufflclentfor the core of chronic indigestion, rheumatism, constipation, diarrhoea, nervous affection* and malarious fevers, and they are now the standard remedy for these complaints in every section of the Union. BOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS AND DEALERS, J. Walkbr, Proprietor. It. H. McDonald it Co., Druggists and Gen. Ants.. San Francisco. Col.,and !M Commerce St.. N.X. July 6 27 ly ! KINGiS MOUNTAIN R. ROAD. HEREAFTER the trains over the KING'S MOUNTAIN RAIL ROAD-on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays?will run as follows, making close connections on the above mentioned days, with trains on the Charlotte and > South Carolina Railroad: > Leave Yorkville, promptly, at 7 o'clock, A. M. Arrive at Chester at 9 o'clock, A. M. > Leave Chester at 2 o'clock, P. M. Arrive at Yorkville at 4 o'clock, P. M. i All Freights mnst be delivered at the Depot by 4 o'clock, P. M., on the evenings previous to the i departure of the train. E. M. LAW, President. BBOBN THINGS! . THE PEOPLE I ^Insurance co. o: bought iu the Principal Life Insurance ComAARK THE CONTRAST! AT AGE OF 20 AT AGE 0* 30 Ai AG*, U* 40 8150 $200 $260 WILLBUY WILL BUY WILL BUY Tsfi6950 * 7,869 10 ?499 89 8,688 07 7,878 97 8 841 36 8 841 73 7,916 40 8 503 41 8 841 73 7,916 40 8 670 61 8 688 09 7,918 92 8 615 73 8 877 55 8,936 50 8^ 46 ?|810 07 7,^7 22 7 541 47 8,810 00 7,987 22 8 455 46 8,810 57 7,987 22 7 541 47 8 810 57 7,987 22 8 465 46 8 810 57 7,987 22 8 503 41 8 833 92 8,001 68 8 455 57 8 810 57 8,01*82 $426 90 8J98 94 8,108 10 8,875 73 9,250 63 8,389 27 8 455 46 8,810 57 10,94890 11,396 01 10,266 09 T. IN FAVOR OF THE UNIVERSAL. ed in the Policy by the UNIVERSAL. N-FOBFEITABLE ! berof payments, is stated in the Policy. aereby, even though parties can make no further ue are allowed, the Policy being all the time in full >ximatelv the time during which Policies are good, ten in the Policy, and is not merely the promise of [ICH NEW POLICIES WILL BE ISSUED. - % ~ AGE 45 AOK 65 AYS. YEARS. DAYS. YEARS. DAYS. ??????? 900 2 146 p 2 36 292 3 109 2 192 292 4 73 3 182 328 5 36 4 000 000 8 000 4 lira 255 6 210 4 219 146 7 30 4 292 000 7 109 5 000 lABILITIES, 140 TO 100. . GARY and M. C. BUTLER, State Agents. J. F. WALLACE, Agent at Yorkvllle, S. C. 8 3m ? , iE STEAM ENGINE. AMERICAN, NOV. 25, 1871.) f, R. Tozer's Portable Steam Engine, to which gold 1a Agricultural and Mechanical Society, and which it well adapt it to the uses to which portable engines me, thus avoiding the use of an induction pipe. A iteam to the dome, the live steam being thus made keeping the cylinder hot and preventing condensa:he steam to the cylinder, and a plain cover covers red out with the cylinder. it is very neat and compact in appearance. having a long connecting rod, it works very easily abia, S. C., who manufactures engines of this class, im further information may be obtained. | OLL1 THE CELEBRATED FEBTILIZEBs/ ARE FOR SALE BY WILCOX, GIBBS & CO., Importers and Dealers In Qnanos, 148 BAY STREET, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA. 151 EAST BAY, CHARLESTON, SO. CA. For further information apply or address as above for Almanac for 1872. BRATTON, MASON <fe WITHERS, Agents at Yorkville, S. C. .Tarmftr^r 1ft ft ftm UUiiUUV m CAROLINA FERTILIZER. We are offering tbis SUPERIOR MANURE AT >45 CASH, -with expenses added, and $50 ON TIME, AT 7 PER CENT. INTEREST, with expenses also added. This Guano is Manufactured from THE CHARLESTON PHOSPHATES, and its standard is guaranteed by MESSRS. GEORGE W. WILLIAMS & CO. Call and examine certificates at our Store. CARROLL, CLARK & CO., Agents at Yorkville, S. C. February 15 7 3m BLASTING POWDER. 6 KEGS of Blasting Powder for sale at DOBSON'S.