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?|UM0?0U$ Jlfpatttttfttt. VIOLIN AND FIDDLE. Half a centuiy ago, or less, the somewhat facetious Dr. Pond dwelt in the quiet and outof-the way village of A . The Doctor's ideas were liberal?much more so than many of his congregation; nevertheless, he kept on the even tenor of his way. He had a son named Enoch, who at an early age manifested a remarkable talent for music, which the father cherished and cultivated with care. In the same village resided an antiquated maiden lady, who, having no cares of her own to oc cupy her time and attention, magnanimously devoted herself to those of her neighbors. One morning she called at the doctor's and requested to see him. When he entered the room where she was seated, he perceived at a glance that something was amiss, and before he had time to extend her the usual "how d'ye do ?" she added: "I think, Dr. Pond, that a man of your age and profession might have had something better to do, when you were in New London, last week, than to buy Enoch a fiddle; all the people are ashamed that our minister should buy his own son a fiddle! Oh ! dear, what is the world coming to, when ministers will do such things!" "Who told you I had a fiddle ?" inquired the Doctor. "Who told me ? Why, everybody says so, and some people have heard him play on it as they passed the door. But ain't it true, Doctor?" "I bought Enoch a violin when I went to New London." "A violin !" what's that?" "Did you ever see one ?" "Never." "Enoch !" said the Doctor, stepping to the door, "bring your violin here." Enoch observed the command, but no sooner had he entered with his instrument than UA s\ls3 ftfAmnn AVAIASIVIA/] I lie uiu nuuiau CALiaiiiJcu "La! now; there, why, it is a fiddle!" "Do not judge rashly," said the Doctor, giving his son a wink; "wait till you hear it." Taking the hint, Enoch played Old Hundred. The lady was completely mystified; it looked like a fiddle, but who had ever heard Old Hundred played on a fiddle ? It could not be. So, rising to depart, she exclaimed, "I am so glad I came in to satisfy myself. La me! just think how some people will lie!" That one Thing.?Uncle Peter who flourishes in the mountains of Vermont as a horse dealer, was called upon the other day by an amateur of "equine," who was in search of something fast. The result is told as follows: "There," said Uncle Peter, pointing to an animal in the meadow below the house, "there, sir, is a mare who would trot her mile in two minutes and seventeen seconds, were it not for one thing." "Indeed !" cried his companion. "Yes," continued Uncle Peter, "she is four years old this spring; is in good condition ; looks well; is a first rate mare; ana sue couia go a mile in two seventeen were it not for one thing." "Well, what is that?" "That mare," resumed the jockey, "is in every way a good piece of property. She has a heavy mane, a switch-tail; trots fair, and yet there is one thing only why she can't go a mile in two seventeen." "What in the old Harry is it, then ?" cried the amateur, impatiently. "The distance is too great for the time!" was the old wag's reply. Startling Discovery.?During the sitting of a court in Connecticut, not long ago, on a very cold evening, a crowd of lawyers had collected around the fire that blazed cheerfully on the hearth in the bar-room, when a traveler entered, benumbed with cold, but no one moved to give him room to warm his shins, so he leaned against the wall in the back part of the room. Presently a smart young limb of the law addressed him, when the following dialogue took place: "You look like a traveler ?" "Wall I suppose I am; I came all the way from Wisconsin a-foot at any rate." "From Wisconsin! What a distance to come on one pair of legs ?" "Wall I done it, anyhow." "Did yon ever pass through h?1 in any of vour travels?" "Yes, sir, I've passed through the outskirts." "I thought likely. Well, what are the manners and customs there? Some of us would like to know." "You'll find them much the same as in this place?the lawyers sit nearest the fire" 5ST A doctor was called in to see a patient whose native land was Ireland, and whose native drink was whisky. Water was prescribed as the only cure. Pat said that it is out of the question ; he could never drink it. Milk was then proposed, and Pat agreed to get well on milk. The doctor was soon summoned again. Near the bed on which the sick man lay was a table, on the table a large bowl, and in the bowl was milk, but flavored strong with whisky. "What have you here?" said the doctor. "Milk, doctor; just what you ordered." "But there's whisky in it; I smell it." "Well doctor," sighed the patient, "there may be whisky, but milk's my object." ' What he Knows of Farming.?The ediitor of the Trenton Sentinel has been telling what he knows of farming, and this is a part of his first PS3ftv ? Caster-oil beans succeed best in the bowels of the earth. They will soon work their way out. In reaping wheat never take it by the beard. It is found to go against the grain. The usual time to put in rye is early in the morning. Some husbandmen, especially those of the city, continue to run it in at intervals of half an hour, until bed-time. The practice is only allowable in case of a dry season. * ? The morning following a freshet, a celebrated temperance lecturer halted at a spring to refresh himself and hosre. As he did not wish to alight, he asked a boy to pass him a dipper of water. After he had drank, thinking to impress his principles upon the boy, he said: "Water, my boy, is nature's beverage ; it never injured man or beast." "I don't know as it ever did, mister, but it knocked the bottom out of our bridges and roads." * Fear.?A little girl remarked to her mamma, on going to bed:?"I'm not afraid of the dark." "No, of course you are not," replied her mamma. "I was a little afraid once, when I went into the pantry in the dark to get a tart." "What were you afraid of?" asked her mamma. "I was afraid I could not find the tarts." * 56T One evening in company, during conversation, a gentleman quoted the expression that "Man proposes and God disposes." "Yes," said a maiden present, "a man proposed to me once, and I said no, and have never seen him since, so I thought somebody had disposed of hira." B8F A Pittsfield man recently borrowed a neighbor's Sunday hat to wear at his sister's funeral, and after that melancholy occasion, pawned the beaver for sundry drinks, and the lender had to "pay the shot" before he could recover his chapeau. No more mourners need apply for that hat. ?6T A Paris lady abruptly entered her kitchen the other day and saw the cook skimming the soup with a silver spoon. She said to her: "Francoise, I expressly forbade you to use the silver in the kitchen." "But, ma'am, this spoon was dirty!" ? jteaT A noted wag, in a Western college one morning, read a theme of unusual merit. The President being suspicious, asked pointedly if it was original. "Why, yes, sir," was the rereply, "it had original over it in the paper I took it from." fUMiug fat the JMbatlt. CONDUCTED BY UEV. ROBERT LATHAN. lOrlglnnl.] THE INFLUENCE OF CHRISTIANITY. When we contrast the religion of the Bible with the various forms of Paganism, we find in the former something that all other forms of religion lack. Christianity elevates man, but Paganism does not. Many of the ancient Pagans were intellectual giants and prodigies 1 Aft xninrc Kllf TOlfkol fliOV WPfP mAfA.] \J 1 l^aiuiug J UUV HlVUMi I/UVJ u w*v ?.v.*.. dwarfs. The school boy who has enjoyed the advantages of associating with Christians, and attending upon the ordinary public worship of God in a Christian land, has a clearer idea of virtue and vice, or what is right and what is wrong, than the most noted of the heathen sages. Christianity has done for Christian lands what learning and intellect never did do for any Pagan nation. Christianity subdues the passions and controls the i appetites; Paganism never did this. On the contrary, it gave a loose rein to the groveling appetites of human nature. The same thing is true respecting infidelity. It opens the flood 1 gates that a deluge of vice may sweep over society. All those principles and practices which are allowed by infidelity, are injurious to man as a social being; and if they were permitted to be fully carried out, would sap the foundation of the social fabric. A nation, or even a community, in which there is no Christian influence felt, would be a most nla/m Wo QqIt wllA WAlllfl uuu^onauig ^iav?* ir v> wi^mv ??mw ...... select such a locality as a home ? One of the fundamental principles of Christianity is that it teaches love to man as well as love to God. In regulating the social intercourse of men with each other, there is nothing to be compared with the gospel of Jesus Christ. It does more for men in promoting their social welfare than all things else, and cost less than any one of the many means to which men often resort. Even in Christian lands, recourse is had to a multitude of means to secure justice to the several individuals and to promote the general welfare of the whole. We may instance the court house with all its train of accompaniments. We are not speaking disparagingly of human tribunals of justice ; but as an institution for the promotion of peace and harmony in society, the court house with all its appendages of judge and jury and lawyers is greatly inferior to the church, and is infinitely more expensive. The church does more for the present happiness of the human family than all things else, and costs the world comparatively nothing. In everything except Christianity, there is a mixture of good and evil. There was some good things in ancient Paganism, and there is no doubt some good principles advocated and practiced by infidels; but we defy any man to show one tenet of the Christian religion that is not good for man both as a social and as a moral being. When stripped of all that i i _ a ~ll man nas id nis iony uppeuueu to it, auu an that he has in his presumption detracted from it, Christianity stands forth the very embodiment of perfection. Its benign influence is felt on every member of society. Even the dumb brutes are made participants of a bet[ ter state of things. The Christian is merciful, (kind and gentle to his domestic animals. Christianity promotes all that is virtuous and manly, and discountenances all that is vicious and undignified. It converts the forest into fields. It beats the spear of the savage into a scythe, and the bowie-knife and dagger into the hoe and rake. ' [Original.] FAMILY GOVERNMENT. A family is a nation in miniature. All the nations of the earth are made up of families, and the whole partakes of the general complexion of the several individuals. Every individual, who in the providence of God has been made the ruler of a household, is aware that to discharge his duty properly is no easy matter. As a rule, children carry out the practices which their parents taught them in infancy and childhood. The precepts which parents endeavor to instill into their offspring fkn monnnr in I arc gcuciaujr gwu , iuv wuuuvi mu?v4a VuVj choose to impress these good precepts upon the minds of their children is often wrong. Parents often teach their children to do what is right and proper whilst they themselves do what the children know to be wrong. In every such case the practice is followed by the children and the precept disregarded. This is natural. It is only what we would expect. The profane father need not" give his children lessons on the sin of profanity. His lessons will never be learned; at least they will never be practiced. The child under such circumstances may very properly reply to the parent, "Thou that teacheat, thou shalt shalt not swear, dost thou swear ?" But parents often err in me manner in which they teach precepts which they themselves practice. Some are too lenient, and others are too harsh. Some, like Eli of old, say "It is no good report I hear of you, my children," and there the matter ends. Others again take the opposite extreme. They are harsh and cruel. The child is treated more like a vicious beast of prey than a human being. From tender infancy until the period when its minority ceases, the child is abused and censured for every little fault and beaten, often unmercifully, for every wrong act. The result is fearful. What it may be was designed for good, becomes in the very nature of things a terrible evil. The whole nature of the child is changed. It becomes vicious in nature and worthless in all its habits. Like a caged tiger it longs to get away from the father's house that it may give full vent to its pent up passions and appetites. It hates home, hates its father; in fact hates itself, and apparently, does every thing to bring ruin upon itself and infamy upon its parents. These are no imaginary cases. It would be a good thing for the world if they were. There are many young persons whose parents are ruining them both for time and eternity by kindness; and perhaps an equally great number who are destined ultimately to be driven to desperation by a wickedly cruel family government. It is evident that the right course lies between the two extremes. Every parent should first learn to govern himself. It is j useless to attempt the government of others until we are able to control ourselves. Par| ents should be prudent. If there is any one I thing that the human family need more than i another, after the grace of God, it is prudence. ! In fact, one of the legitimate works of the ' ? in mnl.n mnn lvriirlorif A grUCC Ul UUU, is LU uiaive uivu i^iuuvun I graceless parent will generally fail to govern | his family for the good of society and the the glory of God. Nothing but the grace of prudence will keep parents from running headlong into extremes. We might conclude this article by saying that the most deformed i thing in the universe is a badly-governed i family. There is a moral and social deformij ty in it, which beggars description. ; J6T* It is a great virtue to take the trials of ' life, not merely with patience and fortitude, : but pleasantly, as though we looked beyond I them. Ucparttuent. [Original.] SMOKE. Steam and smoke, in appearance, resemble each other very much; but they are very different from each other in their nature. Steam is water or other liquid rarified by heat. Smoke is produced by consuming wood, or some other inflammable substance, in fire. It is an evidence of imperfect combustion. If you turn up the wick of a lamp too high it will smoke, because all the oil is not con"? * . nrt 1 _ TP sumeci, ana it passes on m smose. n you will place some flat substance over the top of the lamp chimney, the lamp will smoke. When a tallow candle is blown out, a considerable steam of smoke issues from it. If a match, or flame of any kind, is held near the stream of smoke, it will instantly take fire and the flame will dart back to the wick of the candle and relight it. It is the unconsumed oil that is carried off by the heat of the candle, that takes fire. When anything is held over a burning pine knotit soon becomes black with what we call soot. All these little experiments show that smoke is an evidence of imperfect combustion. In other words, smoke is a part of the substance which is burning. Some years ago, some one in some of those large European cities?London, I think?where fuel is very scarce and very dear, attempted to catch, in some way, the smoke, as it issued from the chimneys, and compress the unconsumed material it contained, and refit it for being burned again. I never learned whether or not he succeeded. I would suppose he found that the expenses were greater than the profits, and quit his scientific experiments _:.i o l-? i l Willi BLUU&tt. Qlliune UUS BULLIC UOC1U1 tieB. If you will hang a piece of fresh meat up and smoke it well, it will not spoil. It will have a peculiar taste, by no means palatable. If you happen to have a chimney that draws badly, the smoke will make your eyes red ; and if there be much smoke the tears will flow freely from your eyes. Such is not the case, when a room is filled with steam. You may become completely enveloped in steam, and, although it will not be pleasant, still your eyes will not run water as they do when smoke is blown into them. Neither will steam save meat. I should suppose that it would hasten its decomposition. The same reason that smoke saves meat, is the reason that it makes the tears flow from your eyes. In smoke there is a peculiar substance, I suppose I may call it, which is generally known by the name of creosote. It is this creosote which is in the smoke that saves the meat from spoiling and makes our eyes water. In steam there is no creosote, and it does not produce either of the effects snoken of. r ? It is evident that in smoking meat, as is done by almost everybody, care should be taken to select a kind of wood that will not burn into a blaze readily, and which has naturally no unpleasant taste. Pine wood will not answer the purpose, because it would impart to the meat a turpentine taste, which is, to most persons, very unpleasant. It is, also, clear that a smoky house is not only very disagreeable but very unhealthy. The creosote must be injurious both to the eyes and lungs. [Original.] SNOW. There is nothing so white as snow, and there is nothing more grandly beautiful than a snow storm. It changes up the whole appearance of nature. Some time during the approaching winter, it is probable we may have one of * * . i .1 n / a1 those lovely sights, when tne suriace 01 me earth will be covered with a sheet of fine, spotless snow. Some curious lad may ask the questions, "What is snow ?" Where does it come from." We once heard of a native of a tropical region who removed to a cold latitude. When he first witnessed a snow storm he concluded that the snow was fine white feathers, and that some one was picking geese up in the sky. This may sound strange, but we have no doubt that an individual who had never seen snow falling, and who had never read of such a thing, would be at a great loss to account for such an occurrence on first witnessing it. It is hard to tell what conclusions such a one would come to. He would be greatly frightened, and might conclude that the world was drawing to a close. But we cannot be profited by such speculations. What, it may be asked, is snow ? We, in this country, have all seen it; and although it is very cold, we are not frightened by its appearance. From the clouds we are accustomed to the falling of three things, viz: Rain, snow and sleet The former is pure water, and the two latter, when melted, are nothing but pure water. Hence, we conclude that rain, snow and sleet, are the same thing, under different forms. By the heat of the sun, the water on the surface of the earth and ocean are rarified, and small nnrtirms are onnstantlv carried UD and held in the atmosphere. This water is, in the atmosphere, in the form of a thin, invisible vapor. So soon as a warm strata, or current of air, comes in contact with a cold I strata, the vapors of the warm strata are condensed and formed into drops which fall to the ground, and we call it rain. If a glass is filled with cold water in a warm day, and permitted to stand for a few moments, the outside of the glass will be covered with water. The reason of this is, the moisture which is in the atmosphere is condensed by the cold glass. If we blow our breath on a pane of glass in the window, the glass will soon be covered with water. This takes place on the same principle. In the same way rain is formed in the upper regions of the atmosphere. When the watery vapors which float in the air are frozen, it is what we call snow. >v nen raindrops in falling, pass through a freezing strata of air, they are frozen, and we call it hail or sleet. Sometimes it takes place when a cold current of air is suddenly let into a warm, close room in which several persons have been for some time; the vapors which are floating in the room are frozen and there is a snow storm on a small scale. The difference between rain, snow and hail or sleet is simply this. Rain is the vapors of the atmosphere condensed and collected into drops; snow is the same watery vapors frozen before the rain drop9 are formed; and hail is j the rain drops frozen whilst falling from the1 clouds. It is said that snow possesses some peculiar fertilizing properties which is highly beneficial to wheat and other small grains. I do not j I see how there can be any thing in snow that i is not in rain. I do not think there is. The only good that snow does small grain is simply this. It forms a protection to it; literally covering it up and keeping it warm during the excessive cold of the winter. This is all the good that the snow does wheat above what is done for it by rain. IgyThe little things which you may do for those about you will fall back upon your heart as the summer dews fall upon the vineyards. What if it is nothing but a kind word to a school-boy crying in the street! It dries his tears, and the aching Leart grows light and glad again. j^wcitRttral frpartratnt. WHAT A FARMER SHOULD NOT DO. A farmer should never break up more land than he can cultivate thoroughly?half-tilled land is always growing poorer, while welltilled land is constantly improving. A thrifty and prudent farmer will not devote his sole attention to the improvement of certain fields on his farm, because the land is "easy to work at," let other portions of his premises go uncultivated, and grow nothing but brush, bogs, briars, and stones. A farmer should never have more cattle, horses, or other live stock than he can keep in good order. An animal in good order at the beginning of winter is already half wintered. Nor should he let his cattle endure the chilling storms of winter in an open yard or field, whilst a few shillings expended in providing comfortable stables would amply repay him in saving of fodder, and afford a greater quantity of milk. A farmer should never depend too much on his neighbor for what he can, by careful management, produce on his own land. He should not make it a common practice to either buy or beg fruit while he can plant trees and cultivate them on his own ground?nor annoy his neighbors by borrowing tools to work with while he can make or buy them. "The borrower is a servant to the lender." A farmer should never be so immersed in political matters as to neglect doing his various kinds of work in due season, and to tidy up matters and things for the winter?nor should he be so inattentive to politics as to remain ignorant of those great questions of national and state policy which will always agitate more or less a free people. A farmer should never refuse a fair price for anything he wishes to sell. I have known men to refuse six shillings for a bushel of corn, and after keeping it five or six months they wprp crlnd tn cretfnnr shillinrrfi fnr it. "A bird in hand is worth two in the bush." A farmer should not let his buildings go to decay while he can afford the means to keep them in repair?nor should he allow tattered clothes to be stuffed in broken windows to take the place of glass. If he does, he will soon acquire the reputation of a man who tarries long in the gin-shop. A farmer should not be contented with dilapidated-looking fences on his farm, so as to tempt his cattle to become unruly and destroy his crops, while he has plenty of opportunities and material to make or keep them in repair. May'a Guide to Farming in New Zealand. AGRICULTURAL PAPERS. The following sensible remarks of a correspondent in the Valley Farmer, we submit to our readers for their perusal and careful thought. Most every profession has papers and magazines devoted to their interests, wherein new ideas and inventions are heralded, which must redound to the advancement and progress of individuals as well as the general improvement of agriculture and its kinJ J : TT? . ureu acicuucs. julxj on jo "Is not the subject one of sufficient importance to interest you ? Is not the practical experience of other farmers of value ? Have you attained that degree cf perfection in farming that you cannot further improve by your own or the experience of others? You answer these questions, except the last, in the affirmative; but you say, "I have no time; if I get time to read the current news of the day, I think I do well." But is not agriculture of sufficient importance, compared with politics and passing events, so as to give it at least one-thirtieth of your reading time?? When my boy comes from the post office with the newspapers, I sit down and read the agricultural newspapers first, and for the following reasons: "First, etiquette requires it. If you have two or more visitors, one only able to call weekly and the others daily; the former able to give you practical advice in your business, whereas the others are only able to instruct? if these Mr. Dailies are men of sense, they will excuse you for showing preference for the conversation of Mr. Weekly, knowing that when he is absent you give them your undivided attention. a ? "Secondly, interest requires it, because you may get a practical idea that you can in your business improve by even the next day; whereas if a train of cars has run off the track, a steamboat or building destroyed by fire through the carelessnes of others, you could not help it; it may to certain parties be a great calamity, out tne Knowledge 01 it to others is only valuable as one of those lessons of experience by which we may profit. "Thirdly, labor is saved by it. A thrifty farmer has labor daily of a two-fold character to perform?mental, to plan ; physical, to accomplish. His success depends as much on the former as the latter. In a practical agricultural journal ideas can be gleaned to save much of the former, and occasionally much of the latter. "Lastly, success requires it. The great secret of success coupled with energy, is : first, understand your business; second, mind your business." SMUT IN WHEAT. Many people are afraid of sowing wheat, because they think it is an uncertain crop, liable to be destroyed by smut or rust. I have crown wheat for many years, and though I have sometimes suffered from rust, until I hit upon changing my seed every year, I have never had a particle of smut, and no one need have any if he will only take proper precautions. I always soak my seed in strong brine, not blue-stone water, which I believe is good, too, but I prefer the brine, because I know it to be good. I put the seed in a big barrel or hogshead, half full of the strongest brine I can make, and I stir it with a stick until every grain becomes saturated. I then skim off all the light grains and foreign seeds which float upon the surface, leaving nothing but the heavy sound wheat. I then pour off the brine and put it into a barrel fixed on legs like a lye-barrel, with holes in the bottom covered with a strong net, which will keep in the wheat and allow the water to run out. I then pour into the barrel a sufficient quantity of thin whitewash, (lime and water,) which runs through and gives every kernel a coating of the white-wash. After this is done I spread out the seed to dry, and then it is ready for the sower. Since I have done this I have never had a smutty ear in my wheat, and those of my neighbors who have adopted my plan have had a similar experience. Since I have been in the habit of changing > .1 . J 1 1.4 my seea every year, mat is, using seeu uruugui from a distance, I escaped the rust. I cannot explain the reason of this. I can only state the fact.? O. Darby, in Southern Farm and Home. 4 ? ?"What is a Suitable Clover Soil?? Rev. C. W. Howard, in answer to this question in The Southern Farm and Home, says that it must contain a large percentage of clay. Our extremely sandy lands on or near the coast, he thinks, will not grow clover successfully. On them the pea must be the substitute for clover, but where the surface is sandy and the sub-soil clay, the clay may be brought to the surface and manured ; clover will then thrive upon it. Generally a good wheat soil, and every farmer knows what that is, is a good soil. The richer the soil, the TTTJ 11 fVia nlrtTTflr ffrnm Tt. 1Q tlfYlA iuuic lautkij Tixii buv uvvu gtvu* ?v ?>.MV thrown away to sow clover seed on land that will not bring ten or fifteen bushels of wheat to the acre, or its equivalent in other grains. Clover thrives on bottom lands thoroughly drained. To Drive away Bed-Bugs.?An exchange gives the following as a sure way to drive away bed-bugs from old beds: Take green tomato vines, put them in a basin or tray, pound them to pieces as finely as possible, then stain the bedstead which they inhabit with the juice, fill the crevices with pieces of vines, and lay leaves under the ends of the slats. If this is practiced twice a year, not a bug will remain in the bedstead. 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M. GRIST. ^3?- SIGHT DRAFTS drawn on all the Branches of the Bank in this State, and also on all the prominent places in the United States and Europe. pS" Stocks, Bonds, Gold and Silver bought and sold. Mutilated Currency purchased at a small discount. W. B. METTS, Assistant Cashier at Yorkville. January 25 4 ly ESTABLISHED 1857. L. H. MILLER, MILLER'S SAFE AND IRON WORKS, BALTIMORE, MD. SALESROOM: 265 BALTIMORE STREET, (One Door above Hanover,) FACTORY: Square bounded by Henrietta, Claret, Fremont and Warner Streets. PtrorYr wariottr nf fLo Fir? and Burcrlar Proo Safes, Bankers' Chests, Improved Combination Locks, Bank Vaults and Doors. Send for Illustrated Catalogue and Price List. 12,000 IN USE?TESTED IN 200 FIRES. Near References:?National Bank, Chester, Smith and Melton, Chester; John Agnew <fe Son, Columbia, S. C. Sep tember 12 87 tf Dr. Crook's Wine of Tar. i 10 TEARS PUBLIC TEST jjjgmgL Dr. Crook's WINE TAR I To have more iii IflAdii merit than any &aaMMK| similar preparetlon ever offered the public. It in rich in the medicinal qualities Of Tar. and unequaled for diseases of the Throat and Lungs, performing the most remarkable cures. Coughs, Colds, Chonic Coughs. It effectually cures them all. Asthma and Bronchtis. Has cured so many cases it has been pronounced a specific for these complaints. For Dains in Breast, Side or Back, Gravel or Kidney Disease, Diseases of the Urinary Organs, Jaundice or any Liver Complaint, It has no equal. It is also a superior Tonic, Restores the Appetite, Strengthens the System, Restores the Weak and Debilitated, Causes the Food to Digest, Removes Dyspepsia and Indigestion, Prevents Malarious Fevers. Gives tone to your System. Try Dr.Crook's Wine of Tar October 3 40 ly METALIC BURIAL CASES AND CASKETS. I HAVE just received a full supply of FISK'S METALIC BURIAL CASES, of all sizes. Also a few of those beautiful full glass BURIAL /s . ? 1 A i.1. : V (JASKJUTS, surpassing m uettuiy auyiujiig ui tuo kind ever offered here. J. E. SMITH, Agent. ttsr WOOD COFFINS, of any quality, made to order. J. E. SMITH. March 14 11 ly THE PARKE RCUH. SEND STAMP FOR CIRCULAR PARKER BRrfS WEST MER1DEN,CT. APPLICATION FOE DISCHARGE. NOTICE is hereby given that the undersigned, Administrator ofthe estate of ESTHER McNEEL, deceased, will make a final settlement with the Judge of Probate of York county. on the 11th day of November next, when he will make application for a final discharge as Administrator of the said estate. J. M. KIRKPATRICK, Administrator. October 10 41 St* YORKVILLE ENQU GREAT ATTRACTIONS P A SPLENDID CHR( THE VALUE OF $6.00 ORIGINAL SEE] tlOO IN PREMIU1 RATES FOR CLUBBING WITI] The ENQUIRER will enter upon the NINETEE uary next, and in issuing our annual prospectus we a perity of the paper at the present time that we are eni newspaper at the South, and to promise the public a n issued. ELEGANT In order that the circulation of the ENQUIRER mined to furnish, free of charge, to every subscriber i for the year 1873, an elegant Oil Chromo entitled THE UNWELCC This beautiful picture, the size of which is 131 by 171 matic printing, and is a perlect fac simile, both in coloi ing after which it is copied, and is equal in all resj FIFTEEN DOLLARS, under which price ittaould not of a new method of printing, by which pictures of thi old plan of lithographing. This is a new feature in Southern journalism, and Union; but as the usefulness and attractions of the El to the increase of its circulation, the proprietor has del inducement, whereby every subscriber receives THE VALUE OF $6.0< The following illustration of our Chromo gives of the picture, which, however, is printed in colors distinguished from an oil painting costing hundreds < "The Unwelcome Yisitok."?E THE NINETEEN It is the aim of the proprietor to make the ENQU PAPER, acceptable alike to all classes of readers and t by party, creed or section; and the features which ha curing for it a circulation attained by no other secula ORIGINAL We take pleasure in announcing for the new volun for the ENQUIRER. With the opening of the new 1 thrillingand exciting original story from the pen oft! DEAS, entitled THE MYSTERY OF MOSS GROVE: A STOE which will run through several numbers of the papei detail, is one of the most entertaining serials which h ful pen. This story will be followed by a vivid L: FLORIMOND; OR DIVOI and another charming story, abounding in humor, JOHN'S These will be followed by other stories during the v contributions to the "Sabbath Reading" and "Child adapted to all tastes ; the Agricultural Department, c< the farmer and house wife; a column of Humorous R cing light current topics; together with a compend of abroad, in which tne sparkling letters of our RE "Nemo," will be a prominent feature; Commercial i appropriate subjects, will, we feel assured, render i readers. PREMIUMS I Wo offer FOUR PREMIUMS for the four largest ing in the aggregate to OYER ONE HUNDRED DO] SILVER TEA SET, valued at $50.00; the second, of PLATED FORKS, valued at $31.75; the third, of on< $13.00; and the fourth, of one dozen SILVER TEA S The person procuring the largest club of subscri {rerson procuring the second largest club, to the sec argest club, to the third premium; and the person ] premium. Competitors may begin to procure subsci whenever the name is received, or on the 1st of Jai for each subscriber is expected to be paid whenever I will be counted in competition until it is paid for. DESCRIPTION O The articles which we have adopted for premium surpassing beauty, but their intrinsic value as well, in tne above schedule are enumerated at the manuf pieces?a Coffee Pot, two Tea Pots, Creamer, Sugar ai new style, with raised or embossed figure work. TL but the best tripple plate, the foundation being white silver coating may cnance to be worn off in any spo Lucius Hart Manufacturing Company, and sold by tl selected from the best goods manufactured by the N have acquired a world-wide reputation in being the their goods being acknowledged equal to any of Arm Persons subscribing in clubs will be entitled t< WITHOUT THE PREMIUM CHROMO, or by ELEGANT PICTURE, in addition to the paper, for ( not interfere with the arrangements of any club-m person, either at $3.00 for the paper and the Chromo, < To persons who make up clubs often or more na or at $3.00 for it and the Chromo, (or both as the case n cash premiums, we will send the ENQUIRER one y of twenty or more names, but who may fail to get a QUIRER one year free of charge, and a copy of eithei which we offer to club. The premiums will be awarded to the successful c Monday of March 1873. TERMS OF SET To all subscribers receiving the Chromo, whether in < Two copies one year, without the Chromo, One copy to the same subscriber two years, without t Ten copies, one year, with an extra to the person mal CLUBBING WITH OTH For the convenience of our subscribers who may made arrangements with the following* leading Lit whereby they can be secured at a reduced price by cli wo extend to all who may desire to avail themselves < be selected, which, with the ENQUIRER, will be fur Price," and for One Dollar in addition, our Oil Chrom* ENQUIRER and Southern Cultivator one year " " Carolina Farmer one year, '< (1 D,i*a1 novAlinian nno VDOF ivuiat vaiUiiit*Hu wuv j 44 44 American Agriculturist one 3 44 " Southern Farmer one year,... 44 44 American Farmer's Advocate 44 44 Maryland Farmer one year,.. 44 44 Rural New Yorker one year, 44 44 Scientific American one year, 44 44 Godey's Lady's Book one yea 44 44 Peterson's Magazine one yea 44 44 Arthur's Magazine, with a ! mium, one year, 41 44 Arthur's Children's Hour om 44 44 Harper's Magazine one year,, 44 44 Harper's Bazar one year, 44 44 Harper's Weeklv one year,.... 44 44 Scrinner's Monthly one year,, 44 44 Hearth and Home one year,.. 44 44 Leslie's Illustrated Newspape 44 44 Leslie's Chimney Corner one 44 44 Leslie's Lady's Journal one 3 44 44 Leslie's Boy's and Girl's Wee 44 44 Leslie's Lady's Magazine one 44 44 Lippincott's Magazine one y< 44 44 New York Weekly World or 44 44 New York Weekly Tribune c gST Specimens of the above publications can be 1 lections may be made. jpST The Chromo Premium will be delivered to a it is possible to do so, after the reception of their na by mail post paid, securely wrapped 111 boards to pre\ be supplied, (unless otherwise directed,) through tt How to Remit.?Money may be forwarded at ou ed letters?otherwise we will assume no risk. ptr Write names plainly, giving post-office, cor Specimen copies of the ENQUIRER will be all letters to L. M. < IRER FOR 18737 OR THE NEW MR! )MO PREMIUM! FOE ONLY $3.00! LA.L STORIES ! IS FOR CLUBS! [ OTHER PUBLICATIONS! .. :.j , . NTH YEAR of its existence on the 1st of Jan,re gratified to announce that such Is-the prosibled to offer attractions unprecedented by any lore entertaining paper than we have heretofore OHROMO. may be still further increased, we have detervho pays THREE DOLLARS IN ADVANCE )ME VISITOR. inches, is finished in the highest style of chroming and expression, of the celebrated oil paintpects to pictures which until recently sold for now be afforded, but for the recent introduction s class are more rapidly produced than by the i an offer made by very few newspapers in the NQUIRER can only be enhanced in proportion nrmined to offer to the public this unparalleled 0 FOB ONLY $3.00. a general idea of the subject and composition 1 true to nature, and when framed oannot be of dollars. >m\ inquirer Premium Chromo. fTH VOLUME. IRER A LITERARY AND FAMILY NEW& l welcome visitor to the Home Circle, unwarped ,ve so greatly contributed to its popularity?ser weekly in the State?will remain unchanged. STORIES. io three Original Serial Stories, written expressly year we will commence the publication of a tie favorite California authoress, Mrs. HENRY LY OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY,,' *, and in point of thrilling plot and Interesting as yet appeared in our columns from her graceife Sketch, entitled iron np i\rn ruvnRnp. V 1 pathos and the marvelous, entitled WIFE. olume, which, with Mr. LATHAN'S regular ren's Departments;" Miscellaneous Reading, mtaining practical and useful information for eading every week; "Scraps and Facts," embrathe News of the Day; Correspondence from IGULAR TRAVELING CORRESPONDENT, md Market Reports, and Editorial Articles on the ENQUIRER an acceptable visitor to all its i'OE CETJBS. I I Clubs of Subscribers, for the year 1873, amonntLLARS. The first premium consists of a heavy one dozen PLATED KNIVES and one dozenj dozen SILVER TABLE SPOONS, valued at POONS, valued at $6.75. bers will be entitled to the first premium;; the ond premium; the person procuring the third jrocuring the fourth largest club, to the fourth ibers at once?the time of subscription to begin iuary, 1873, as may be preferred. The money the name is enterea on our books, and no name P PREMIUMS. shave been selected not only on account of their They are guaranteed to be as represented, and acturers' prices. The Tea Set consists of six id Slop Bowl?all of beautiful, uniform pattern, ley are not the common silver-washed articles, > metal, so as not to show even when the heavy t by long, hard usage. They are made by the hem at $50.00 per set. The other premiums are [eriden Cutlery Company, of New York, who exclusive manufacturers of fine table cutlery, irican or foreign manufacture. > receive the ENQUIRER one year for $2.50 paying $3.00 will be entitled to receive the me year. But the option of the subscriber will aker, as names may be received by the same ir $2.50 for the paper alone. mes, either at $2.50 for the ENQUIRER only, lay fee) but who may fail to obtain either of tne ear free of charge; and to those who send a club premium, we will forward a copy of the ENr of the publications enumerated below, with ompetitorsat one o'clock, p. m., on the first tSCRIPTION: clubs or singly, $3 00 5 00 heChromo, 5 00 ting the club, exclusive of Chromos, 25 00 ER PUBLICATIONS. wish to read some other publication, we have erary, Scientific and Agricultural Magazines lbbing with the ENQUIRER?a benefit which of the opportunity. Any of the following may nishedatthe prices named under bead of'"Club 3 will also be furnished. Club Price. Regular Price. , $4 50 $5 00 " 4 00 5 00 4 50 5 00 fear, 4 00 4 50 4 50 5 00 > one year, 4 50 4 00 3 75 4 50 5 00 5 50 5 50 6 00 ir 5 25 6 00 r, 4 40 5 00 Steel Engraving Pre 5 00 5 00 9 year, 4 00 4 50 6 25 7 00 6 25 7 00 6 25 7 00 6 00 7 00 5 25 6 00 ir one year. 6 00 7 00 year, 6 00 7 00 fear, 6 00 7 00 ikly one year, 5 00 5 50 year 5 80 6 50 3ar, 6 00 7 00 le year 4 25 5 00 >ne year, 4 25 5 00 3een at our office at any time, from which sell subscribers entitled to receive it as rapidly as mes. Subscribers at a distance will receive it rent injury, and those subscribing in clubs will icir respective club-makers, r risk by draft, post-office order, or in registerinty and State. sent to any address on application. Address GRIST, Proprietor, Yorkville, S. C.