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Humorous geprtmcut. A CAMPAIGN STORY. How the story got out we can't tell, who originated it we don't know, but we do know it is too devilish good to keep. Here is what "they say:" Dick Wood, the Radical candidate for Congress in this District, while canvassing in the mountains the other day, was compelled at one point to imbibe a good deal of "apple jack," in order to convince the natives that he was not one of those "high-dyers" who think themselves made of superior stuff to the "honest and hardy yeomanry." The consequence was that Dick, after giving orders to be woke up at 3 o'clock in the morn- j iner, in order to be able to reach a distant ap pointraent next d~/, after he retired to rest, was, iu five minutes after he lay down, "as gdod as a dead man." Some scamps procured some lampblack, which they mixed with water and, entering his sleeping apartment, thoroughly blackened his face, to "make him look something like his politics," as they assured the landlord. Next morning, promptly, he was aroused at three o'clock, and was in such a hurry to be off that he did not take time to wash, but bolted his breakfast and rode away at a swift gait. Arrived at his destination, he hunted up a prominent Radical, to whom he had a letter of introduction, and presented his credentials. The gentleman read the letter, alternating the reading with glauces at Dick's face, and then asked : "Are you Major Wood, of Mt. Sterling?" "That's my name, sir," replied Dick. "Why, I thought you was a white man," said the other. Greatly astonished, Dick blurted out, "And so I am !" *? ? 1 1111 ! . /?_ _ _ "Wen, you nave a a?a Diacs skid ior a white man!" "What the h?11 do you mean?" said Dick, angrily. "Do you want to insult me ?" "No, sir. But you had better not attempt to speak here to-day. Our boys won't stand a speech from a nigger!" "A nigger!" cried Dick. "Why, there ain't a drop of nigger blood in ray veins. I'm as white as you or any other man." Seeing a looking glass on the wall, Dick stepped up and looked in it. Starting back with an oath that fairly made the windows rattle, he exclaimed: "Well, if the d?d fools over at ?ville haven't waked up the wrong man, and Wood is over there yet!" Jerking off'his hat, he dropped into a chair and began vigorously to fan himself. The other seeing his straight hair, and noticing that th? back of his neck appeared to be white, smelled a large sized mice, and suggested soap and water. The process of washing his face revealed to Dick the trick that had beeu played on him. Mortified beyond measure, he made the gentlemau pledge himself to secresy, saying that he would not have it to get out for the world, for if Adams (his opponent) got hold of it he (Dick) would never hear the last of it. How it finally got out we have no idea, but suppose Dick's friend must have told the joke to his wife.?Mt. Sterling {Ky.) SentineL ? THE PATENT CAT. The inventor and proprietor of the patent cat exterminator, a young and rising genius living in Ohio, has published in the Cleaveland Leader a lot of complimentary testimonials appreciative of his remarkable invention. We extract the following: "We have been using for a week past a recent invention of a Cleveland mechanic which is nothing more than a sheet iron cat with cylindrical attachments and steel claws and teeth. A bellows inside, swells the tail at will to a belligerent size, and a tremulo attachment causes, at the same time, the patent cat toemifall the noises of which the human cat is capable. When you want fun, wind up your cat and place him on the roof. Every ? * 1 r ; 1 ^ u?? u:~, l.;= UUl ?ituiu or iia.'i tunc licaio unu, giAvio \jii aiio armor and sallies forth. Fortunately, fifty or one hundred attack him at once. No sooner does the patent cat feel the weight of an assailant, than his teeth and claws work with lightning rapidity. Adversaries within six feet are torn to shreds. Fre3h battalions come on to meet a similar fate, and in an hour, several bushels of hair, toe-nails and fiddle-strings alone remained.?Baltimore Sun. "No first-class printing office, with a roof flat enough to afford a battle for infuriated felines, should be without one."?T. Tilton. "It has saved more than $10,000 worth of boot-jacks in this city alone, and a mince pie or can of preserves goes further in my family now than it did before the war."?J. M., Mayor of Chicago. "How my family can do without one any more than a "Dolly Yarden," is a wonder to me."?E. Cady Stanton. "Send me five hundred (500) at once, C. O. D., with extra bellows and powerful tone to participate in the Jubilee."?P. Gilmore. "The roof of our office was covered with cats four ranks deep until we placed two of the "Iron Thomas Cats" in position. Not a cat has been seen since, and we have sold bologna sausage meat enough to buy three fonts of type. Every young man going west should take a few of these cats with him."?H. G., in Tribune editorial. "I have used the patent cat with much success in my family. My mother-in-law has been visiting us for the last six months. Night before last I wound up the patent cat and sat him under her bed. At his first howl she leaped from the couch and yelled 's'cat,' and at the same time stabbing at him with an umbrella. I can hardly write for emotion ; but my dear mother-in-law will not take meals with us for sometime to come. All there is of her has been basted together, but har spirit is broken. Enclosed find the money for twentyfive more cats, and also send new claws for the old one, as the old lady was tough."?Brigham Young. We might extend these testimonials but it is useless. The manufacture of cats will soon be one of the most valuable additions to the business interests of the growing city. In the mean time, strangers passing through Cleveland, and all who are interested in the extermination of the cat tribe, are invited to examine into the merits of this great discovery. fifetF" A Jersey paper tells a very interesting story of a little boy in that State. He was climbing an apple-tree, and when upon the topmost limb he slipped and fell to the ground. He was picked up and carried into the house in an insensible condition. After watching by his bedside through many weary hours, Viio mrvfhor nnrnnicinrna mtnrninrr r?nn U.O IUVW.VI V. iVKUili.U& vww sciousness. Leaning over him, she asked if there was anything she could do for him, now that he began to feel better. Should she bathe his forehead, or change his pillow, or fan him ? Was there anything that he wanted ? Opening his eyes languidly, and looking at her, the little sufferer said : "Yes; I want a pair of pants with a pocket behind." He got them. - 1 " In the fall of '71 I was traveling in Missouri. While sitting at the table at the Pickett House, Butler Bates, a hog drover, stalked in and took his seat. He sat there awhile without saying anything, and finally asked the girl in waiting if she had any baldheaded butter. The girl was astonished, and said, in a tone that indicated that she was angry: "What do you mean by bald-headed butter ?" "I mean," replied the drover, "butter without hair in it." The table came near upsetting with the roars of laughter. US?* A railway car in which were a bright little maiden and her mother came rushing into the Central Depot, New York city, the other day, and there engines were tooting hideously, hackmen howling, and small boys, j of a dirty and fiendish aspect, were shouting j "'Morning Papers!" Is it any wonder that i the little girl huddled up to her mother and inquired with terrified awe : "Mamma, is this hell ?" - 46T William, who is an undersized clerk in a dry goods store, objects to being referred to as "that little dry goods Bill." I finding for the jPabfcatb. j CONDUCTED BY KEV. ROBERT LATHAN. [Original.] SAUL'S DISEASE. I After the disobedience of Saul, as manifested in not utterly destroying the Amalekites, he became involved in great and lasting troubles. When Samuel delivered the bitter rebuke that God commanded him to administer to Saul, and had hewed Agag the king of the Amalekites in pieces, he turned away from Saul. This act of Samuel betokened no good to Saul, and he took hold of the skirt of Samuel's mantle and it rent. This was indicative of Saul's future history. Samuel at once understood what was portended by this apparently trivial event. He then delivered the bitter prophecy that God had rent the kiugdora of Israel from Saul and given it to his neighbor. It does not appear that Samuel, at that time, knew who that neighbor was. Samuel went to Ram ah, and in due time God sent him to the house of Jesse, a member of the tribe of Judah, and a resident of Bethlehem, a town in the northern part of the territory belonging to the tribe of Judah, and but a short distance south of Jerusalem. David, the eighth son of Jesse, was pointed out by God as the proper successor of Saul. It is probable that but a short period of time elapsed from the interview of Samuel with Saul after the battle with the Amalekties and the anointing of David. As soon as David was anointed king, the spirit of the Lord came upon him and departed from Saul. David was not only chosen to be the successor of Saul, but was also endowed with qualities of mind which eminenty fitted him for his future position. All those kingly qualities of mind which Saul once possessed, were taken away from him and given to David. Saul was not only deprived of everything that fitted him for his position, but an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him. It is not easy to tell what we are to understand by | the expression, "evil spirit from God." Sometimes Saul acted like a man laboring under mental derangement; and at other times his I acts were more like those of a fiend of despair, | than of any other creature. We may suppose that Saul experienced all the misery that is conveyed to the mma oy tne woras regret, remorse and despair. He regretted that he had so acted as to forfeit his claim to the kingdom, and his soul was filled with indescribable remorse on account of a sense of his guilt in not strictly obeying the commands of God; and he, no doubt, despaired of ever being able to again secure the favor of either God or the people of Israel. It is more than probable that this state of things was in the providence of God brought about in what we are accustomed to call a natural way. His health failed. He became weak and feeble. His stomach became deranged and the nervous system disorganized. He grew first peevish, then jealous, and finally devilish. But there seems to have been soraethiug more than all this wrong with Saul. At certaiu times he seems literally to have been possessed of a devil, or rather to have been possessed lw tlio dpvil Tn various nnrt.ions of the New "J --- ? I Testament, we read of persons possessed with devils or demons. There are many reasons for believing that the persons referred to in these cases were not simply under the influence of demons ; but that the demons were in some way in them. Christ sometimes, as in Luke, 4: 33-44, addresses the demons as well as the person possessed with them. In the case just referred to, the demon seems to have been possessed both with the power of speech and the gift of reasoning. The unclean spirit cried out and asked if Jesus had come to destroy the demons. We know of no mode of interpretation which will warrant us to take these passages in Luke, and in many other places of the New Testament, in any other than a literal sense. I do not pretend to be able to understaud how the thing can be; but the fact I dare not deny. Now, although it is highly probable that cases of persons possessed with devils or demons, were more common during the time of our Saviour's human residence on earth than they were before or have been since, we are persuaded in our mind that Borne persons, prior to the coming of our Saviour, were possessed with devils, and we think there are i 1J?? many men in me present periuu ui me wunu o history that may, with eminent propriety and with great truthfulness, be said to be possessed with demons; in some cases dumb, in others deaf; in some cases hundred tongued devils, and others with demons unclean and maj licious. Saul, we think, besides his mental malady, was also possessed with a demon, as J was the individual spoken of in Luke, 4 : 33. God went out of Saul and the devil immediately entered into him. It is said that the evil spirit was from God. This expression means that God permitted an evil spirit to do what it did do. God abandoned him and the devil commenced his reign. This is the way God always has done and always will do. Saul's case was no exception to the general rule. The plainly expressed rule by which God always acts is this: When men do not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gives them over to a reprobate mind, (Rom. 1: 28) and sends them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie. 2 Thessalonians, 2 : 11. No sane man can reflect upon the terrible consequences which followed the disobedience of Saul, and not tremble. The thought of being abandoned by God and sent forth into the world, a raving maniac, with all the natural affections blotted out and a spirit of malice and hatred implanted in the heart and fostered by every passing event, is intolerable. Death in any shape and form is ten thousand times more desirable. To be torn in pieces, limb by limb, would be a blessing compared with such a state. Who does not shudder when he thinks what may be the consequences of disobeying the commands of God ? To be abandoned by friends is a great calamity; but who can tell what it is to be abandoned by God Almighty. We do not say God eternally abandoned Saul. We know nothing about the final and eternal destiny of Saul. This is known to none but God, and it is presumption in any man to say any thing about the final doom of any man. One thing is clear, God did, during all time, abandon Saul ever after the i battle with the Amalekites. From this time j on his life is a wreck, and will remain through i all time an awful warning to the transgressor. J As a rule, those who enjoy great privi-: lege3, but despise the commands of God, be-! come the most God-abandoned creatures in j the universe. Hence it often comes to pass I that those who have been blessed with gospel j privileges, do things from which the heathen ' turn away in disgust. Bap" Mr. Kuskin calls upon workmen to j promise these things: "1. To do their own j work well, whether it be for life or death. 2. j To help other people to do theirs when they can, and seek to avenge no injury. 3. To be sure they can obey good laws before they seek , to alter bad ones." (flWWwn's gcjiadmcut. RAGAMUFFIN. Ragamuffin was a boy, He was born to be a joy; But he always tore his clothes; How he did it gracious knows ! Dress him in a bran new suit, Give him good advice to boot, Tell him to beware of nails, Broken walls and jagged rails. Not to grub upon his knees, Bnt to mind his Q's and P's? No improvement came of it; Very soon there was a slit. Or a great piece hanging loose; Jacket-sleeve not fit"for use; Or his trouser-knee wasrinnod; Or a button off was stripped! By his friends (at this appalled) Ragamuffin he was called; What they meant was to express Nothing but his raggednoss. But when he went out to play It did on his feelings weigh To be called by such a name, For he did not like the same. \f ?.T ?>n liA?\n flint tli!?j will end in impressing on our friend That he should not tear his clothes ? (How he does it gracious knows.) When he next is called upon Nice made, new attire to don, If a week away should roll And he has not torn a hole, We will look for better days, Otherwise this sad disgrace Must continue still, and he Ragamuffin named must bo. ' [Original.] MISTAKES. It often happens that one wrong deed leads to many others. When we tell ODe falsehood, we find that we are almost obliged to tell another to prevent being caught; and then another and another until the thing becomes very troublesome. We are obliged to falsify to nearly every one we meet. To illustrate what we mean, we will narrate a little circumstance which once took place. A father sent two of his sons and a servant boy to put a mare and colt and a couple of mules into a pasture but a short distance from the house. The mules were to be put into one field and the mare and colt into an adjoining one. The reason of this seperation was simply because the mules were known to j be vicious, and'it was feared they would kill the colt. Between the two fields there was a | high and strong fence. The boys did as they were directed in every particular except one.' They neglected to shut the gate. The boys started home, but had not gone far until they 1 heard a noise in the pasture. At once it occurred to them all that the gate was left unfastened. Back they ran with all possible speed, but too late to correct the mistake. The mules had crippled the colt and the mare had broken a leg of one of the mules. All this resulted from neglecting to shut a gate. So it is all along the journey of life. Neglecting to do a little thing which would not require three seconds of time, will in the end often cost us hundreds of dollars. It is a grand mistake to leave undone what ought to be done, or to do things which ought not to be done. A rabbit and a snail once, we are told, ran a race. The rabbit treated the snail with great contempt. He darted off at a brisk gait at first, and soon was out of sight of the creeping snail. So the rabbit thought he would etop and crop some grass and satisfy his huncrrv aDDetite. Then he felt drowsy, and so he thought he would lie dowu aud take a nap. The snail kept creeping along, and without making any noise, passed by the nimble rabbit whilst enjoying his nap. When the rabbit woke up he found that the snail was at the end of the race course. The rabbit made a grand mistake in stopping. If he had been a wise rabbit he would have run to the end of the race and then eat and slept. Little boys and girls are sometimes guilty of the same mistake which the fabulous rabbit made. They begin in a great hurry to do something, and before it is half done stop to play. Bill Prodigal and Sam Careful were of the same age to a day. Bill's father Vas rich and Sam's was poor. Bill was fed on the fat of the earth. He had candy and nuts and toys whenever he desired them. Poor Sam could aaa?*aa1?t rrof onAll (inorou fnnr? fn p.it. C^ai VUUUgU V/A WWMtWV *WVV? ?,w ?? Things thus went on until the boys grew to be men. Bill came into possession of a large estate with a slendid mansion. Sam lived on rented land. Bill went on in the old way, buying everything he thought he needed; Sara worked hard and saved all he made. Before Bill and Sara were forty years old, the sheriff sold Bill Prodigal out, bag and baggage, and Sam Careful was the purchaser. Bill made a grand mistake in making nothiug and spending a great deal. Two young men worked hard one whole week in preparing and planting a piece of rich bottom. They finished and congratulated themselves that they had done their work well. The public highway ran along the side of the field. In order to prevent the water from the roacf from overflowing the bottom, a ditch had been cut. The opening made by the ditch was usually stopped by driving some stakes in the mouth of the ditch. These stakes had, during the winter, been removed. As the young men rode home, the one said to the other, "that ditch must be stopped." It would not have taken five minutes to have done all that was required. The ditch was not stopped, and soon some hungry hogs found it out and entered the field and literally destroyed the work of a week. It was a grand mistake not to stop the hog hole as soon as it was discovered. It cost the young men not only the loss of a week's hard work, but the loss, in all probability, of a good crop of com. Little mistake usually result in great losses. 4 I Cannot Pray for Father any More. A child knelt at the accustomed time to thank God for the mercies of the day, and pray for his care through the coming night. Then, as usual, came the "God bless dear mother and 1) But the prayer was stilled, the little hands unclasped, and a look of sadness and wonder met the mother's eye as the words of hopeless sorrow came from the lips of the kneeling child, "I cannot pray for father any more." Since her little lips had been able to form the dear name, she had prayed for a blessing upon it. It had followed close after mother's name. But now he was dead. I waited for some moments and then urged her to go on. Her pleading eyes met mine, and with a voice that faltered, she said: "0, mother! I cannot leave him all out; ' . <T>I L ril.i T J ? J let me Bay, "jliiuiik. uuu mill ? uau a ucui father once; so I can still go on and keep him in my prayers.'" And so she still continues to do, and my heart learned a lesson from the loving ingenuity of my child. Remember to thank God for mercies past as well as to ask blessings for the future.? The Christian. . "Little boy, can I go through this gate to the river?" politely inquired a fashionably dressed lady. "Perhaps so; a load of hay went through this morning," was the horrid reply. An Irish housemaid who was sent to call a gentleman to dinner, found him engaged in using a tooth-brush. "Well, is he coming?" asked the lady. "Yes, ma'am, directly ; he's sharpening Lis teeth." J^jricultal gqnuimeut. SENSIBLE REMARKS. From the address of Hon. Horace Greeley at the Maryland Agricultural Fair on the 10th ult., we make the following extracts: "I protest against the current notiou that poor men must grow poor crops, unless they have taken some monkish vow to remain poor forever. Here is one who has inherited or somehow acquired a cot and a few sterile acres, but has no money, no team, no fertilizers ; what shall he do ? I answer: What ever he may do, let him not cultivate one acre more than he can so feed and till as to give reasonable assurance of a good crop. Far better work out by the day or month than to waste our time and strength on cultivation to no purpose. Let him have one acre plowed and subsoiled thoroughly, fertilize it amply, set a few fruit trees along its north side, and make each square rod do its best in the production of roots, vegetables and Indian com, while working out by the day four or five days in each week and six days during the hurry and high wages of the summer harvest, I mtJII r+r\? nhfln/1 mnoll fflQfoP fKfln VlV anvi iic mil auuau iuuvu half tilling ten or fifteen half-plowed, niggard, uninanured acres, and thus growing what will range, according to the season, from scanty half crops to no crops at all. The Fence Law.?One of the first elements of successful renovation is a law such as we have in New York, compelling every man to take care that his animals do not injure his neighbor's crops?in other words, that we must thoroughly fence our respective cattleyards and pastures, not our whole farms. The saving in fences tTius effected is immense; but that is only one of its blessings. I value above this the liberty accorded to each of us to grow wood on our own lands wherever we will, without being obliged to fence out our neighbor's cattle, especially while roaming in ravenous pursuit of food in early spring. If you mean to renovate your farm, begin by throwing out the acres you cannot fertilize some some years ahead, and cover these with wood as soon as you may. The very first step in renovation to the average farmer is to limit the area on which labor and capital must be bestowed. Deep Plowing.?If I insist on deep tillage as essential to good farming, you will understand that this, like every sweeping rule, is liable to exceptions. For, 1. There is much land too rocky, too precipitous, or too sterile, to be cultivated at all; and, 2. There is good land so full of stumps or strong tree-roots that it should be got into grass as speedily and cheaply as possible thus to remain till it may be thoroughly pulverized without injury to team or plow. But any field that is to be cultivated henceforth, continuously, or by frequent alternations of grain with grass, ought to be plowed deeply and thoroughly, by surface and subsoil, as a preparation for profitable tillage. Mind that I say subsoiled, which means pulverizing the subsoil and leaving it subsoil, not turning it up to the surface and leaving it there. I think I have seen even this done with profit, especially where the subsoil is clay, with several inches of sandy loam above it; butsubsoiling is quite another nrnpoco?nnt> copv fronornlltr ronnire/l TOhilp V?IV 1 V4J gvuv.Mttj , " ?"?) up to this hour, not one acre in each hundred under cultivation in this country has ever been subjected to it. Manures.?As to fertilizers, I place gypsum or plaster first on the list, without supposing it to be of equal value everywhere, or even of any value under all conceivable circumstances. And yet I doubt if a hill or dry plain can be found ten miles inland, on which a first application of plaster to the extent of two hundred pounds per acre, would not be repaid in the very next crop, more especially if that crop were clover. Wherever ground plaster may be had for less than $20 per ton (as it can in most parts of the Union), I hold that each farmer who has not yet tried it should buy at least one toiTJ" applying it to ten acres, in strips of two rods' width, alternating with a like breadth left unsown, and carefully watch the result. If no benefit is realized, he may safely conclude, not that plaster is a humbug, but his land does not need it, or that he has not known how and when to apply it. In my own case, I judge that I have bought no other fertilizer that has paid so amply and speedily as plaster. As to lime. I am not so confident. In any district where it is burned, so that the refuse from the kilns may be bought unslacked and scarcely yet cold, for a few cents per bushel, ' there I cannot doubt the profit of its application on almost any dry soil, but especially one well supplied with vegetable matter?a drained bog or swamp for example. The English apply it profusely to heavy clays to break them up and render them friable; and they would not persist in so doing without a reason, Wherever the spontaneous growth of sorrel and other acid plants indicate a deficiency of alkali, there I judge that lime would prove serviceable. If unleached wood ashes could be had as cheaply, I would much ] prefer them, especially on sandy or gravelly soils; but as no sensible cultivator of such soils ever sold his ashes, they are rarely to be had in considerable quantities, except in the immediate vicinity of one of the few cities or larger villages which still relies mainly on wood for its fuel. Plants need lime, feed upon it, thrive by it, and I have known large crops of wheat grown successively on a field whereof the soil for at least two feet downward was at least nine-tenths broken limestone, resting on a solid bed rock of the same. I apprehend that lime is destined to play a very important part in the renovation of our worn out farms, though it may never be used so bountifully Korn na in "Rlnorland. Thfi lfttft Prnf. Manes calculated that, since mineral particles act on vegetation only by their service, and our limes is many times finer than the British, an application of fifty bushels per acre here was equivalent to one of the 250 bushels of that burned from the coarser chalk of the British Isles. I have a very high opinion of salt as a fertilizer. It may not be wanted near the coast, where a saline spray is often driven inland for miles; but I estimate its value at twentyfive cents per bushel on my place, which is some twenty miles from Long Island Sound and nearly twice as far from the broad ocean. That is to say, I consider ten bushels of salt per acre, applied to my fields, one-half in each of two consecutive years, about the best $2.50 worth of plaut food that money will buy me. And almost any farmer can obtain refuse salt from importers, manufacturers, tanners, repackers, or grocers and dealers who buy salt meats or fish by the barrel and sell them out by retail, if he will but inquire and be patient. The prominence given to phospates, and to phosphatic substances, in our day, is fully justified. In rude ages, when cultivation was desultory and crops scanty and capricious, while animals decayed where they died, and bones were thrown anywhere so that they should not be in the way, there was little need of applying phosphates to the farmers' fields and no call for them. At length, all is changed. For half a century England quiet| ly bought up the bones of all animals that died on or near our sea-board and applied them to the fertilization of her fields, while our farms, through the sale of milk and of j living or slaughtered animals, were steadily I losing all that hers were gaining. When we, at' j length, awoke to the suicidal madness of this j display of ignorance and heedlessness on our j I part, we had to recover the leeway thus made; and I have no doubt that we had, and still have meadows and pastures which would still give fair crops of grass, but on which a soundboned, strong ox could with difficulty be I reared. Hence the policy and necessity of applying phosphates, in some form, to the well worn fields of our older States?a necessity which is not at all felt in newer regions and on virgin soils. i 8SF* Be very careful to keep your trees clean ( and free from worms, borers and rough bark,. if you ever expect to make anything from your I orchard, and no branch of farming is of more profit than the fruit portion, if well managed.' ! CABiLiiA m mrni COMPABY, MEMPHIS, TENN. Branch Office, - Baltimore, Maryland. ASSETS, $1,100,000. Hon. JEFFERSON DAVIS, President. Gen. WADE HAMPTON, Pres. Baltimore Board. J. D. KENNEDY, State Agent. W. B. SADLER, Yorkville Special Agent. Juno 27 26 ly TTO^TT^TT (FORMERLY HUNT'S HOTEL.) COLUMBIA, S. C. THIS HOUSE is in the centre of the city, convenient to all the Public Offices and Business Houses, located on the south-west corner of the State House Square, has been recently re-opened and renovated, and will now compare favorably with any Hotel at the South. ROSE'S OMNIBUS will convey passengers to and from every train, free of charge. Also, a first-class Carriage for the accommodation of ladies. TRANSIENT BOARD 82.50 per day. W. E. ROSE, Proprietor. September 12 37 tf THE YOEKVILLE BRANCH OF THE CITIZEB'S SAYIiES BABK OF SO. CABflLDil Banking Office Opposite the Store of J. H. Adams. Deposits of $1 and Upwards Received. Interest allowed at the rate of 7 per cent, per annnm on Certificates of Deposit, and 6 per cent, compounded every six months on accounts. PRINCIPAL OFFICE - - COLUMBIA, S. C. WM. MARTIN, President. JOHN B. PALMER, Vice-President. A. G. BRENIZER Cashier. J. H. SAWYER, Ass't Cashier in general charge. JOHN C. B. SMITH, Local Assistant Cashier. Directors.?Wnde Hampton, William Martin, A. C. Haskell, F. W. McMaster, E. H. Heinitsh, John B. Palmer, Thos. E. Gregg, Columbia. J. Eli Gregg, Marion. G. T. Scott, W. G. Mayes, Newberry. B. H. Rutledge, D. Raveuel, Jr., Charleston. BRANCHES IN SOUTH CAROLINA : Location. Local Astft Cashiers. Charleston D. RAVENEL, Jr. Orangeburg, J. H. FOWLES. Sumter J. W. DARGAN. Spartanburg, JOEL FOSTER. Newberry, T. S. DUNCAN. Laurens, JOHN KYLE. Abbeville, Hon. D. L. WARDLAW. Camden, W. D. McDOWELL. Unionville, E. R. WALLACE Yorkville, W. B. METTS. FINANCE COMMITTEE AT YORKVILLE. B. T. WHEELER, J. H. ADAMS, L. M. GRIST. 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. .?9- 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. II. MILLER, SALESROOM: 265 BALTIMORE STREET, (One Door above Hanover,) FACTORY: Square bounded by Henrietta, Claret, Fremont and Warner Streets. Every variety of the Best Fire and Burglar Proo Safes, Bankers' Chests, Improved Combination Locks, Banlc 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. September 12 37 tf Dr. Crook's Wine of Tar. i 10 TEARS PUBLIC TEST Has proved Dr. Crook's WTTIE *Y TAR I To have more ? bLa^. merit than any similar prepara^agWlLP! tion ever offered the public. It!? 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 pains 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. Sives tone to your System. TryDr.Crook's WIneol'Tar October 3 40 ly METAIIC BURIAL CASES AND CASKETS. I IT AVE just received a full supply of FISK'S METALIC BURIAL CASES, of all sizes. ! Also a few of those beautiful full glass BURIAL CASKETS, surpassing in beauty anything of the kind ever offered here. J. E. SMITH, Agent. WOOD COFFINS, of any quality, made to order. J. E. fcMITH. March 14 11 ly THE PARKER GUN. PARKER BRtfS WEST MERIDEN,CT. APPLICATION FOE DISCHARGE. NOTICE is hereby given that the undersigned, Administrator of the estate' of JANE ! STORY, deceased, will make a final settlement I of said estate, with the Judge of Probate of York I county, on the Gth day of December, next, when j ho will apply for a final discharge from liability | as Administrator of the said estate. R. T. BROWN, Administrator. November? 45 5t 1 YORKVILLE EM GREAT ATTRACTIONS A SPLENDID CHI THE VALUE OF $6.( ORIGINAL SEI #100IJV PREMIl RATES FOR CLUBBING WI' The ENQUIRER will enter upon the NINET uary next, and in issuing our annual prospectus v peritv of the paper at the present time that we are newspaper at the South, and to promise the public issued. ELEGANT In order that the circulation of the ENQUIRI mined to furnish, free of charge, to every subscrib for the year 1873, an elegant Oil Chromo entitled THE UNAVELC This beautiful picture, the size of which Is 131 by ] maticprinting, and is a perlect fac simile, both in c< ing after which it is copied, and is oqual in all : FIFTEEN DOLLARS, under which price it'could of a new method of printing, by which pictures of old plan of lithographing. This is a new feature in Southern journalism,: Union; but as the usefulness and attractions of the to the increase of its circulation, the proprietor has inducement, whereby every subscriber receives THE VALUE OF $6.< The following illustration of our Chromo gi' of the picture, which, however, is printed in co distinguished from an oil painting costing hundre iili^ "The Unwelcome Visitor."; THE NINETEE It ia thoaim of the proprietor to make the EN< PAPER, acceptable alike to all classes of readers an by party, creed or section ; and the features which curing for it a circulation attained by no other sec ORIGINAL We take pleasure in announcing for the new vol for the ENQUIRER. With the opening of the ne thrillingand exciting original story from the pen c DEAS, entitled THE MYSTERY OF MOSS GROVE: A ST which will run through several numbers of the pa detail, is one of the most entertaining serials whic ful pen. This story will be followed by a vivid FLORIMOND; OR DIV( and another charming story, abounding in huir JOHN'S These will be followed by other stories during the contributions to the "Sabbath Reading" and "CI adapted to all tastes ; the Agricultural Departmenl thelarmer and house wife; a column of Humorou cinglightcurronttopics; together with a compend abroad, in which the sparkling letters of our "Nemo," will be a prominent feature; Commerci appropriate subjects, will, we feel assured, rend' readers. PREMIUMS We offer FOUR PREMIUMS for the four larg ing in the aggregate to OVER ONE HUNDRED J SILVER TEA SET, valued at $50.00; the second PLATED FORKS, valued at $31.75; the third, of $13.00; aud the fourth, of one dozen SILVER TEj The person procuring the largest club of sub! fjerson procuring the second largest club, to the argest club, to the third premium; and the perso premium. Competitors may begin to procure sut whenevor the name is received, or on the 1st of for each subscriber is expected to be paid whenev will be counted in competition until it is paid f< DESCRIPTION The articles which we have adopted for premii surpassing beauty, but their intrinsic value as we] in the above schedule are enumerated at the mai pieces?a Coffee Pot, two Tea Pots, Creamer, Suga new style, with raised or embossed figure work, but the best tripple plate, the foundation being wl silver coating may chance to be worn off in any i Lucius Hart Manufacturing Company, and sold b selected from the best goods manufactured by th( have acquired a world-wide reputation in being t their goods being acknowledged equal to any of A Persons subscribing in clubs will bo entitlei WITHOUT THE PREMIUM CHROMO, or 1 ELEGANT PICTURE, in addition to the paper, f( not interfere with the arrangements of any club person, either at $3.00 for the paper and the Chrom To persons who make up clubs of ten or more or at $3.00 for it and the Chromo, (or both as the cas cash premiums, we will send ttle ENQUIRER on< of twentv or more names, but who may fail to get QUIRER one year free of charge, and a copy of eit which we offer to club. The premiumswill be awarded to the successfi Monday of March 1873. TERMS OF SI To nil subscribers receiving the Chrorno, whether Two copies one year, without the Chrorno,....; One copv to the same subscriber two years, withoi Ten copies, one year, with an extra to the person r CLUBBING WITH OT For the convenience of our subscribers who m made arrangements with the following leading whereby they can be secured ata reduced price by wo extend to all who may desire to avail tnemsel\ be selected, which, with the ENQUIRER, will be Price," ana for One Dollar in addition, our Oil Chrc ENQUIRER and Southern Cultivator one y " 44 Carolina Farmer one year, 44 44 Rural Carolinian one year, 44 44 American Agriculturist oi 44 44 Southern Farmer one year 44 44 American Farmer's Advo< 44 44 Maryland Farmer one yea 44 44 Rural Now Yorker one ye 44 44 Scientific American one ye 44 44 Godey's Ladv's Book one; 44 44 Peterson's Afagazine one [ 44 44 Arthur's Magazine, with' mium, one year, 44 44 Arthur's Children's Hour 44 44 Harper's Magazine one ye 44 44 Harper's Bazar one year,.. 44 44 Harper's Weekly one year 44 44 Scribner's Monthly one ye 44 44 Hearth and Homo one yea 44 44 Leslie's Illustrated Newsp 44 44 Leslie's Chimney Corner c 44 44 Leslie's Lady's Journal oi 44 44 Leslie's Boy's and Girl's \ 44 44 Leslie's Lady'H Magazine < 44 44 Lippincott's Magazine one 44 44 Now York Weekly World 44 44 New York Weekly Tribni pSS* Specimens of the above publications can lections may be made. The Chrorno Premium will be delivered I it is possible to do so, after the reception of their by mail post paid, securely wrapped in boards to p be supplied, (unless otherwise directed,) througl How to Remit.?Money may be forwarded al ed letters?otherwise we will assume no risk. p.if Write names plainly, giving post-office, J&r Specimen copies of the ENQUIRER will all lettors to I,. M UIRERFOR" 1873"! FOR THE NEW YEAR! tOMO PREMIUM) )0 FOR ONLY $3.00! ?,TATi STORIES ! FMS FOR ClrUBS! rH OTHER PUBLICATIONS! EENTH YEAR of its existence on the 1st of Janve are gratified to announce that such is the prosenabled to offer attractions unprecedented by any a more entertaining paper than we have heretofore CHKUMO. 2R may be still further increased, we have deterer who pays THREE DOLLARS IN ADVANCE OME "VISITOR. 171 inches, is finished in the highest style of chrorfioring and expression, of the celebrated oil paintrespects to pictures which until recently sold for not now be afforded, but for the recent introduction this class are more rapidly produced than by the and an offer made by very few newspapers In the ? ENQUIRER can only be enhanced in proportion determined to offer to the public this unparalleled 00 FOR ONLY $3.00. ve* a general idea of the subject and composition lors true to nature, and when framed cannot be ds of dollars. ?Enquirer Premium unromo. NTH VOLUME. iUIRER A LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSid a welcome visitor to the Home Circle, unwarped i have so greatly contributed to its popularity?seular weekly in the State?will remain unchanged. STORIES. lume three Original Serial Stories, written expressly w year we will commence the publication of a )f the favorite California authoress, Mrs. HENRY 'ORT OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, iper, and in point of thrilling plot and interesting h has yet appeared in our columns from her graoeL Life Sketch, entitled DRCE OR NO DIVORCE, tor, pathos and the marvelous, entitled 5 "W"IFE. i volume, which, with Mr. LATHAN'S regular lildren's DepartmentsMiscellaneous Reading, ;, containing practical and useful information for s Reading every week; "Scraps and Facts," embra* 1 of the News of the Day; Correspondence from REGULAR TRAVELING CORRESPONDENT, al and Market Reports, and Editorial Articles on er the ENQUIRER an acceptable visitor to all its FOR CLUBS. est Clubs of Subscribers, for the year 1873, amountDOLLARS. The first premium consists of a heavy . of one dozen PLATED KNIVES and one dozen one dozen SILVER TABLE SPOONS, valued at I SPOONS, valued at $6.76. scribers will be entitled to the first premium; the second premium ; the person procuring the third >n procuring the fourth largest club, to the fourth >scribers at once?the time of subscription to begin January, 1873, as may be preferred. The money er the name is eriterea on our books, and no name jr. OP PREMIUMS. urns have been selected not only on account of their 11. They are guaranteed to be as represented, and uufacturers' prices. The Tea Set consists or six r and Slop Bowl?all of beautiful, uniform pattern, They are not the common silver-washed articles, aite metal, so as not to show even when the heavy spot by long, har<^ usage. They are made by the y them at $50.00 per set. The other premiums are > Meriden Cutlery Company, of New York, who he exclusive manufacturers of fine table cutlery, .merican or foreign manufacture, i to receive the ENQUIRER one year for $2.50 jy paying $3.00 will be entitled to receive the ur one year. But the option of the subscriber will -maker, as names may be received by the same o, or $2.50 for the paper alone, names, either at $2.50 for the ENQUIRER only, to may be) but who may fail to obtain either of the j year free of charge; and to those who send a club , a premium, we will forward a copy of the EN;her of the publications enumerated below, with II competitors at one o'clock, p. m., on the pibst BSCRIPTION: in clubs or singly, $3 00 6 00 it the Chromo 5 00 naking the ciuo, exclusive or unromos, 25 00 HER PUBLICATIONS. ay wish to read some other publication, we have Literary, Scientific and Agricultural Magazines clubbing with the ENQUIRER?a benefit which es of the opportunity. Any of the following may furnishedatthe prices named under head of "CIud >mo will also be furnished. Club Price. Regular Price. ear, $4 60 $5 00 4 00 6 00 4 60 5 00 le year, 4 00 4 50 ', 4 50 6 00 ;ate one year, 3 50 4 00 r, 3 75 4 50 sar, 6 00 5 50 ?ar, 5 50 6 00 year 5 25 6 00 year, 4 40 5 00 a Steel Engraving Pre 5 00 5 00 one year, 4 00 4 50 Of rt OK f AA V 4AJ I W 6 25 7 00 6 25 7 00 ar, 6 00 7 00 ir, 5 25 6 00 aper one year, 6 00 7 00 >ne year, 6 00 7 00 ie year 6 00 7 00 Veekly one year, 5 00 5 50 me year, 5 80 6 50 ? year, 6 00 7 00 1 one year 4 25 5 00 le one year, 4 25 5 00 be seen at our office at any time, from which se0 all subscribers entitled to receive it as rapidly as names. Subscribers at a distance will receive it revent injury, and those subscribing in clubs will 1 their respective club-makers. ; our risk by draft, post-office order, or in registercounty and State. , be sent to any address on application. Address ^ . GRIST, Proprietor, Yorkville, 8. C.