Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, November 21, 1872, Image 4
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 !"
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"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
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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
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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,
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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.
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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 ?"
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46T William, who is an undersized clerk in
a dry goods store, objects to being referred to
as "that little dry goods Bill."
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CONDUCTED BY
KEV. ROBERT LATHAN.
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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
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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
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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."
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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;
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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.
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"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,
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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
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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
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of a new method of printing, by which pictures of
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"The Unwelcome Visitor.";
THE NINETEE
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We offer FOUR PREMIUMS for the four larg
ing in the aggregate to OVER ONE HUNDRED J
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PLATED FORKS, valued at $31.75; the third, of
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argest club, to the third premium; and the perso
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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
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Monday of March 1873.
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EENTH YEAR of its existence on the 1st of Janve
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CHKUMO.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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
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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
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ay wish to read some other publication, we have
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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
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?ar, 5 50 6 00
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a Steel Engraving Pre
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ar, 6 00 7 00
ir, 5 25 6 00
aper one year, 6 00 7 00
>ne year, 6 00 7 00
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le one year, 4 25 5 00
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names. Subscribers at a distance will receive it
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