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gtomawusi |l?parimcttt. The Yankee in Main Street.?"I calculate I couldn't drive a trade with you today," said a true specimen of a Yankee peddler, as he stood at the door of a merchant in Main street. "I calculate you calculate about right, for j you cannot," was the sneering reply. "Wal, I guess you need'nt get huffy about it. Now here's a dozen real genuine razor strops, worth two dollars and a half?you may have 'em for two dollars." "I tell you, I don't want any of your trash ; so you had better be going?" j "Wal now, I declare! I'll bet you bve dollars if you make rae an offer for them ar strops, we'll have a trade yet." "Done!" replied the merchant, placing the money in the hands of a bystander. The Yankee deposited the like sum?when the merchant offered him a picayune for the strops. "They're yourn," said the Yankee a6 he quietly fobbed the stakes. "But," he added, with great apparent honesty, "I calculate a joke's a joke, and if you don't want them strops, I'll trade them back." The merchant's countenance brightened. "You are not so bad a chap after all; here are your strops, give rae the money." There it is," said the Yankee, as he received the strops and passed over the picayune. "A trade's a trade?and now you're wide awake in airnest. I guess the next time you trade with that pic, you'll do a little better than to buy razor strops." And away walked the peddler with his strops and his wager, amid the shouts of the laughing crowd. - < ? ? Posing a Pedagouge.?"Sa.lly Jones, have you done the sum I set you ?" "No thir, I can't do it. "Can't do it! I am ashamed of you. Why, at your age, I could do any sum that was set me. I hate that word can't! for there is no sura that can't be done, I can tell you." "I think, thir, that I knowth a sum you cant thifer out." "Ha! well, well, Sally, let's hear it." "It ith thith, thir. If one apple cauthed the ruin of the whole human rathe, how many thuch will it take to make a barrel of sweet thider, thir?" "Miss Sally Jones, you may turn to your parsing lesson." "Yeth, thir." The editor of an exchange paper ludicrously illustrates the necessity of a reform in medical nomenclature. Very much confounded, he says, was our friend Mr. Doane, a few years siuce, by a remark of one of his patients. The day previous the Dr. had prescribed that safe, palatable remedy, the syrup of buckthorn, and had left his prescription written in the usual cabalastic characters: Syr. liliam. Cath. On inquiring if the patient had taken the medicine, a thunder cloud darkened her face, ligthening flashed from her eyes, and she roared out: No! I can read your writing, doctor, and I ain't agoin to take the Syrup of Ram-Cats for any body under heaven!" ? ? Conversations.?"Have you got a dollar, Sam ?" "No, I han't, Bill, that's a fact?if it would save your life." "'Cause Jim Thorn wanted me to pay you one, and I've got nothin' smaller than a ftco." "0, ah?well, perhaps I can find just one, come to think of it that I did not spend this morning for wood." Sam searched his wallet, found his dollar, and handed it to Bill. "Well, now, Sam, that's clever?I'll hand you the two the very next time we meet, if I happen to have so much on hand. I've got one towards, it any how." A Quaker Answer.?"Martha, does thee love me ?" asked a quaker youth of one at whnap shrine his heart's holiest feeling had vvv w O been offered up. "Why, Seth," answered she, "we are commanded to love one another, are we not ?" "Ay, Martha ; but does thee regard me with that feeling the world calls love ?" "I hardly know what to tell thee, Seth. I have greatly feared that my heart was an erring one?I have tried to bestow my love on all; but I may have sometimes thought, perhaps, that thee was getting rather more than thy share." Captain Marryatt relates that there were two lawyers in partnership in New York, with the peculiarly happy names of Catchera and Chetum. People having laughed to see these two namess in juxta-position over the door, the two lawyers thought it advisable to separate them by the insertion of their christian names, Isaac and Uriah. The painter, however, finding the board too short to admit their christian names at full length, put only the initials before the surnames, which made the matter still worse, for there now appeared "I Catchem, and U Chetum." ? ? A Cute Boy.?"What's the matter, John ?" I aiu't done nothing, father." "Well, what are you crying for then, you lubber ?" "I was afraid you'd whip me." "What! whip you when you hav'nt done anything? Go away, you booby." John went into the house and his father to his work. Very soon the father came in a rage, and laying a switch over the urchin's back said, did I not tell you to hoe that corn." "Yes, sir, but you told me you wouldn't whip me if I hadn't done nothing." Convenience of a Dish Kettle.?"You want nothing but a dish kettle" said an old house-wife in the back woods, to her daughter, who has just got married. "Why when your father and I commenced, I had nothing but a dish kettle. I used to boil my coffee in it, and pour it into a pitcher; then boiled my potatoes in it, and set them on a warm plate, while I stewed up the meat in it; used to milk in it?and always after a meal, I fed the pigs out of the dish kettle. Sal, if you are only a mind to, you can use it for anything." ^ A Child to Boast Of.?A farmer's wife, in speaking of the smartness, aptness, and intelligence of her son, a lad six years old, to a lady acquaintance, said: "He can read fluently in any part of the Bible, repeat the whole catechism, and weed onions as well as his father." "Yes, mother, added the young hopeful, "and yesterday I licked Ned Rawson.throw'd the cat in the well, and stole old Hinckley's gimblet." Worldly Wisdom.?"Do you take a newspaper?" "Yes." "What one?" Any one I can lay my hands on." The above, though good, is not quite so good as its original. "Take a wife, Tom," said Richard Briusley Sheridan, to his wild son Tom, the father of Mrs. Norton?take a wife and reform." "With all my heart sir," replied Tom, innocently ; "whose wife shall I take?" ?? t&" A young miss having accepted the offer of a youth to a gallant her home, afterwards fearing that jokes might be cracked at her expense if the fact should become public, dismissed him when about half way, enjoining secresy. "Don't be afraid," said she, "of my saying any thing about it, for I feel as much ashamed of it as you do." 4??* An old bachelor having been laughed at by a party of pretty girls, told them they were small potatoes. "We may be small potatoes," replied one of them, but we are sweet ones!" _ Wedding cards in Denver consist of the "Jack of Diamonds" and the "Queen of Hearts," with the names of the contracting parties on each. If the bride's mother-in-law is living the ten of clubs is also inclosed. fUading for tit? JMbath. CONDUCTED BY ItEV. ROBERT LATHAN. [Original.] GREAT EFFORTS. The efforts which produce the mightiest results, are most frequently noiseless. Those who make the greatest ado are not those who accomplish the most. No one'ever heard the sap as it rose from the ground into the trunk of the stately pine or majestic oak. No one ever saw the lightning as it collected in the storm cloud. Who ever heard the blooming of the rose or the ripening of the corn ? Iu church and state, noisy men seldom accomplish much good. Great results are accomplished by a multitude of little efforts. These, when united, constitute one mighty effort. The spray which rises from land and ocean, when collected, pour down in a flood which covers hill and dale. [Original.] TROUBLES. Nearly two thousand years ago, an eminent poet and philosopher asked his friend, "how it happens that no one lives contented with that lot which either reason has bestowed upon him, or fortune cast in his way ?" The same question may be asked to-day. Men are still far from being happy and contented. None are exempt; for all the earth brings forth thorns and thistles in abundance. In the midst of our moments of mirth and revelry, a heavy sigh often escapes from our lips. Many a smiling face has concealed an aching heart. We often look upon the condition of our neighbors as more desirable than our own. We do not know all the conditions by which they are surrounded. Once an ancient king who reigned from India to Ethiopia, over one hundred and twenty-seven provinces, could not sleep. There was a thorn in his pillow. It is no uncommon thing for beds of eider down to become hard and uncomfortable. The palace is often the seat of sore distress. The poor man's hut has no beauty, and but few comforts. His food is coarse and barely sufficient in quantity to sustain life; but we must not conclude that the poor only are miserable, and the rich all are blessed. Such is not the case. Diogenes had fewer troubles than Alexander, notwithstanding the great poverty of the former and the great riches of lilt! ittliei. uuu mis uiaiuuuicu biuuuivo about equally amongst the different members of the human family. In some regions of the country the soil is poor; but in such localities there are generally some favorable circumstances. In such localities there are, usually, a salubrious atmosphere and delicious water. In other, and often adjacent regions, there are rich and fertile lands. Vegetation grows luxuriously, and the labor of the husbandman is rewarded with abundance; but there is nearly always something to counterbalance this. The air is often loaded with disease and death which are generated by the fertility of the soil itself. If it be asked why it is that there is so much trouble in this world, the only satisfactory reason which can be given, is that which is assigned by the Bible. This reason is poetically expressed by Milton in the first sentence of his sublime epic. Sin brought all our troubles upon us, and sin keeps us always in trouble. "In our folly we will not suffer God to lay down his thunderbolts," is the declaration of one of the wisest men the heathen Rome ever produced. We rush headlong into crimes forbidden by both the natural and moral laws of God. Offended at our sin, God withholds from us his blessing of providence and gives us up to be preyed upon by our own morbid lust and passions. The fountain from which flows all our miseries is within ourselves. Our happiness and misery , are effected but little by what is without us. It is not what we have or have not that makes us miserable ; it is what we are. The cure for all human misery is the blood of Jesus? I the sanctifying influence of the Holy Spirit. To be made happy we must be made new creatures in Christ Jesus. + ^ [Original.] JUSTIFICATION. , The most wonderful exhibition of Almighty power and infinite wisdom which God displayed before any of his creatures, is seen in the Gospel. How can the sinner be justified, is a question which finite wisdom is unable to answer. Even the higher order of intelligences desire to look into this thing. Unassisted reason promptly decides that it is impossible for God to be just, and at the same time justify the ungodly. It is like the palpable absurdity of declaring that a thing is and is not at the same time. In the Bible there is made known to us a plan of salvation. It is there revealed that God is just, and yet he does justify sinners. This grand and glorious truth is above reason ; but not contrary to reason. It can be discovered neither from the works of creation nor providence. Without the Bible we are like men in a region where all light is excluded. They have eyes, but cannot see. So soon as light is admitted they are able to discern any object which be fore lay totally concealed. The doctrine of justification is of paramount importance. In the language of Martin Luther, it is the article of a standing or falling church. Important as it is, there is no great difficulty in understanding it, if we are free from prejudices. Justification is opposed to condemnation. That is, it means the very reverse of condemnation. In its proper acceptation, condemnation means the act of condemning ; justification is consequently the act of justifying. Both, justification and condemnation, are forensic words, and simply mean to pronounce an iudividual guilty or innocent. The ground of justification is obedience; the ground of condemnation is disobedience. When a judge and jury declare an individual guilty, it is evident that they do not make him guilty; but simply declare that in accordance with the evidence such is the case. If the verdict is "not guilty," nothing more is meant by it than that there is not sufficient evidence to convict. Before the bar of God we are condemned because we are sinners. Condemnation passed upon all men, because all sinned, is the sweeping conclusion of the apostle. TUa r?i./-ninr1 r\P ? not ifion tinn ia rinrlitonnanoaa ? UV givuuu VI ju?m?vi.wivu IV Iigiivvvus/wvwu, and obedience to the law of God. But all have disobeyed the law of God ; how, then, can any be justified ? Christ, as the sinner's substitute, obeyed the law of God and suffered its penalties. This active and passive obedience of Christ is the ground, and the only ground, of our justification. The formal act of pronouncing the sinner just, does not take place until the sinner believes. The Holy Spirit regenerates the soul dead in tresspasses and sins, and thus prepares it to take hold of Jesus. Christ, by his obedience and suffering, has provided all that the justice of God demands. So soon as the sinner accepts of this provision, he is justified, not on account of anything he has done, is doing or will do, but simply on account of the perfect rightousness of Christ Jesus. This we conceive to be the Bible doctrine of justification. ' Children's fJqrnrtmcnt. ! DRESSED FOR MEETIND. See my pretty ruffled dress! See my tee'nty locket ? 'Speets I'm most a Indy now, 'Cause I got a pocket. These down here are ;ny blue shoes, That I walks my feet in ; Course it wouldn't do to wear Copper toes to meetin'. See my pictured handker/?.st Sunday days I has it: I can blow a noise in church, Most like papa does it. Papa's hitchin' Jack and Cray, And they keep a pranoin'; Horses don't wear Sunday clothes, They don't know they're dancin'. Grandpa used to go with us, Now he's gone to heaven ; Guess he's at the angel church, Up where God is livin". I don't take no cake along, Never think of eatin' ; Don't you want a nice, clean kiss, 'Fore we go to meetin' ? [Original.] I WON'T. Jane Benton was a beautiful little girl of nearly eight years old. Her cheeks were rosy and her eyes a bright blue. She was the picture of health. Usually, Jane was a good and sweet child, hut sometimes she cot desper ately out of humor. When this was the case, she said some very ugly things and did some very naughty acts. She was the only child aud was petted by both parents. One eveuing Jane was out in the back yard playing with the windlass of the well. The bucket was sitting on the edge of the platform full of water. Jane kept turning the windlass backward and forward. Every time she turned it forward the rope became tight and moved the bucket. Whilst thus eugaged she was discovered by her mother. "You must not turn the windlass, my daughter," said the mother. Jane paid no attention. "Come into the house my pet." "I won't," was the only reply made by Jane. "Let us go and see the calves, my daughter." "I won't," was the reply again. "Let me take the bucket off, lest it fall into the well and kill you," said the mother. "I won't," was the prompt reply. The mother made an approach towards the well. Jane became furious, and repeated, "I won't, I won't," in an angry tone, and at the same time pulled the windlass with all her power. The bucket fell into the well and down it went, jerking the handle out of Jane's hand and striking her on the face with tremendous force. The little girl was knocked down and lay on the ground, the blood streaming from mouth and nose. All her front teeth were gone, and her tongue cut nearly off. The frightened mother screamed and seized her daughter and carried her into the house. She called her child often, but not a word did she speak. She was for the moment dead. For days Jane lay in an insensible state. After a long period of intense suffering, which caused great grief to the parents, Jane recovered; but not wholly. Her sweet face was spoiled for life, and the tongue, which was so nimble, never was able to articulate plainly any word again. All this came from disobedience. Jane is now a middle aged lady and a mother, and often does she relate the little circumstance which disfigured her face and stiffened her tongue. A NOBLE *FISHER BOY. The 9th of October, 1857, will be long remembered among the Labrador fishermen. On that day an awful hurricane raged along the coast. One of the fishing vessels with a large number of men, women and children on board, was caught in the storm, and tried hard to ride out of the hurricane. After a few hours of terrible suspense, she dragged her anchors and was driven ashore. With great difficulty, all on board were safely landed. Drenched with rain, blinded by the snow-drifs, shivering in the cutting blasts, they found themselves on an uninhabited part of the coast, the nearest hut being five miles distant. The gloomy night closed in as the last of them was dragged ashore from the wreck. Their only hope lay in endeavoring to reach the distant huts, and in the darkness and storm they staggered on through the trackless wilderness. Who can picture that night of suffering to this forlorn band ? When the morning sun shone out, nineteen of them lay dead along the shore. A group of three women and two children, clasped in one another's arms, and half buried in mud, n i _ii ^? j : was iounu an ami anu siara m nit: my embrace of death. During the darkness and confusion of lauding, a family of four young children were separated from their parents, who sought for them in vain, and at length gave them up for lost. A boy of fourteen, hearing the cries of these poor little ones, and finding they had no guide or protector, resolved to do what he could to save their lives. To reach the huts with them being impossible, he made the shivering children lie down locked in each other's arms; then he set to work resolutely collecting moss, of which, fortunately, there was a large quantity about, and piling this around them, layer upon layer, he at length succeeded in excluding partially the piercing cold. Fortunately, too, he found on the beach the fragment of an old sail, which he spread over all, and collecting more moss, he increased the rude covering until the poor little sufferers, ceasing to cry with the bitter cold, declared themselves more comfortable. Through all the dreary hours of that awful night, that heroic boy stood alone by these children, replacing the covering when the wind scattered it, and cheering them with words of hope. He might have tried to esj cape with the others, but he would not leave ! his helpless charge. I At length day dawned, and then he turned i his tottering steps toward the settlement to J seek for aid. When about half way, he met j the parents of the lost children, wild with i grief, coming to search for their dead bodies, : as they had no expectation of finding them j alive. The young hero told them what he had ! done to save them, and by his directions they ! soon found the spot where they lay. On re i moving the covering of moss, they found the j little ones snug and warm, and in refreshing i sleep. j What words could picture the wild joy of i father and mother at that sight ? But, alas! I on their way back, near the spot where they : had parted with him, they found the noble 1 boy who had saved their children's lives at the i expense of his own, lying dead. Nature was i exhausted after the fatigue and exposure of j the night, and unable to reach friendly shelter, he sank down and expired.? Young Folks' I \T A civs. j A True Lai>y.?I was once walking a short distance behind a very handsomely dressed young girl, and thinking, as I looked at her beautiful clothes, "I wondered if she takes half as much pains with her heart as she does with her body ?" A poor old man was coming up the walk with a loaded wheelbarrow, and just before he reached us he had I made two attempts to go into the yard of the house; but the gate was heavy, and would j swing back before he could get in.- "Wait," said the young girl, springing forward, "I'll I hold the gate open." And she held the gate j until he had passed in, and received his thanks j with a plensant smile as she passed on. "She ! . deserves to have beautiful clothes," I thought, j ' "for a beautiful spirit dwells in her breast." Good Rules for Your Mouth.?Never j i speak evil one of another. Guard against low and vulgar language, j Eat with thankfulness what is set before you. 1 Never smoke, nor drink any intoxicating i drinks. I Agricultural cgartmcut. j From the Rural Camlinlnu. LABOR CONTRACTS. Negro labor, since the emancipation of our slaves, has not been profitable with many of, our farmers and planters. This is owing, first to the natural indolence and repugnance to ! work of the negro. Secondly, to a want, on the part of the employer, of tact in the man- j agement of his employes. The exercise of a little more discretion and a more careful in- j sight into the character of Cuffee will supply I this deficiency. Thirdly, to the want of a ; proper control of the time and services of his j freedmen, without which freed labor will con-; tinue to be unprofitable until the last sound ofj Gabriel's trump. I This want of control is owing to the defective nature of the systems of contract in general use, prominent among which are the share and time systems. The remedy fortius j evil is the wages system. We have given the I three fair tests, and can, therefore, speak from { experience. Besides being the only system i that will afford the employer the requisite j control and management of his freedmen, it; is a superior system of contract in every other j respect. All to whom we have ever advo- j cated it, readily admit of its superiority, but, say they, there is too much risk in it; after j paying off our hands, we fear we will have j but little left, but if we adopt the share or i time system we cannot lose anything even if we make a short crop. This, at best, is but poor logic. Besides showing what might be termed over prudence, to ufowfl tKan inr\ litfln nr I n UIV/U YVl J \J * tVii Aid n vi Vimu wwvr *?vwvy vt none at all, affords the highest evidence of a want of energy and determination to win, indispensable to the success of the planter. Nothing is better calculated to make, what the writer would term a slack twisted farmer, than a feeling of security against loss in the event of a failure of his crop. On the other hand, the danger of losing, if only a short crop is made, is the highest incentive to effort, and particularly in the whole scope of his planting interest; such effort and attention to business as will seldom fail to insure an income sufficient to leave him a handsome profit after all expenses are defrayed. The true policy in hiring freedraen is to contract to give fair wages and good and full rations. Poor labor and discontentment will almost certainly be the result of low wages and poor rations. Remunerative wages and good and full rations, produce an opposite effect. In hiring, too, the qualities of a hand should be considered as well as his physical capacity, and a good faithful laborer should always be given higher wages than an inferior one. This is but fair, and besides has the effect of stimulating the latter to follow the example of the former. Reduce the agreement to writing as soon as it is made, and let it be so plainly expressed as to be readily understood by all interested. The contract should be binding on both parties, and the employer, while discharging in good faith his part of it, should hold his employes strictly to the performance of theirs. The want of firmness on his part, whenever occasion requires the exercise of it, will prove a fatal error. When necessary to reprove an employ^ do it privately and in such a way as to increase rather than diminish his regard for, and attachment to you. Little favors, when deserved, in the shape of vegetables, fruit, etc., and little things they may not have in time of sickness, never fail to produce a decidedly good effect. A little plain talk too, to Sambo, in the right way, as soon as the bargain is made, as to the course of conduct by which the employer expects to be governed, and what he expects of him, is also productive of good. Our plan is to tell him that besides giving him good wages and a plenty to eat, we will treat nim with kindness and consideration as long as he conducts himself properly, and that we expect all orders to be promptly and cheerfully obeyed; and that if we tell him to peel a long, tall, sleek, slim pine sapling, grease it with tallow and climb it feet foremost, we will expect him to make a faithful effort to accomplish the undertaking, and that if he fails after a faithful trial, we will be satisfied. The first of last year we hired a freedraan for the year without knowing anything of his previous character. A few days afterward, several friends who had long known him, hearing what we had done, said they were afraid we had made a poor bargain, as he had long borne a very bad character ; that he was not only very unreliable as a laborer, never remaining longer than a few weeks at one place, and had the reputation of a rogue. By the treatment above indicated, he has made an excellent servant, being both obedient aud faithful, and, we believe, honest. HILL-SIDE. St. Matthews, November, 1872. WHAT A FARMElTsHOIJLD NOT DO. A farmer should never break up more land than he can cultivate thoroughly. Half-tilled land is always growing poorer, while well-tillprl lnnrl is constantly imDrovinir. A thriftv J t r O ?r 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," and 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 s?ock 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 any thing he wishes to sell. I have known men to refuse six shillings for a bushel of corn, j and after keeping it six months they were | glad to get four shillings for 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 di- j lapidated-looking fences on his farm, so as to j tempt his cattle to become unruly and destroy ! his crops, while he has plenty of opportunities ! or material to make or keep them in repair. | May's Guide to Farming in New Zealand. To Prevent Sows from Eatino their i Youno.?The monthly report of the Department of Agriculture contains the following: "It is well known that sows not unfrequently attack and devour their own young; or if prevented from this, will not let down their milk,; so that the young pigs necessarily die for i want of nourishment. When this state of1 things is not caused by a diseased condition of i the uterus, it is said that the sow can be ! brought to terms by pouring a mixture of ten ! or twenty grains of spirits of camphor with , one to three of tincture of opium into the ear. j The sow will immediately lie down on the side , of the ear to which the application was made, j and remain quiet for several hours in this position without interfering with her pigs ; and on recovery from her stupor will have lost I her irritability in regard to them. The experiment has been tried in Germany hundreds of times, according to one of the agricultural journals without any injurious effects. It is also said that the eating of pigs by the parent sow can be readily prevented by rubbing them all over with brandy, and making the same application about the nose of the sow herself. TERMS?IN ADVANCE x One Copy, oneyear, 8 3 00 One Copy, Six'months, 1 50 OneCopy, Three months I 00 Single Copy, 10 Two Copies, one year, 5 00 Ten Copies, " " " 25 00 ^9-To persons who make up clubs of ten or more names, an extra copy oftho paper will be furnished oneyear, free of charge. ADVEHTI8EMENT8 Will be inserted at One Dollar and Fifty Cents per square for the lirst, and Sevcntv-fivo Cents per square for each subsequent insertion-less than three months. A square consists of the space occupied by ten lines of this size type, or one inch. No advertisement considered less than a square. Semi-Monthly, Monthly, or Quarterly Advortisemonts, will bo charged Two Dollars per square for each insertion. Quarterly, Somi-Annual or Yearly contracts will bo made on liberal terms?the contract, however, must inall cases be confined to the immediate business of the firm or individual contracting. Obituary Notices and Tributes of Respect, rated a? advertisements. Announcements of Marriages and Deaths,and notices ofa religious character, inserted gratis, and solicited. jfcd- Personal Communications, when admissable; Communications of limited or individual interest, or recommendations of Candidates for offices of honor, profit or trust, will bo charged for as advertisements. Dr. Crook's Wine of Tar. i 10 TEARS PU8LIC TEST Has proved Dr. Crook's -gjp WINE "^r TAR | To have more ^ujyLi merit than any similar prepara^aSiiP! tion ever offered the pnblic. < It is rich in the medicinal qualities of Tar, and unequaled for diseases of the Throat and Iamgs, performing the most remarkable cures. Coughs, Colds, Chonic Coughs. It effectually cures them all. Asthma and Broiiclitis. 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 Tonie, Restores the Appetite, Strengthens the System, Restores the Weak and Debilitated, Causes the Food to Digest, ftAinnvAQ Bvsucnsia and Indigestion, Prevents Malarious Fevers. Gives tone to your System. Try Dr.Crook's Wine of Tar October 3 40 ly ~ THE HOME SHUTTLE SEWING MACHINE. TIIE best Cheap Machine in the Market. If the number sold is a criterion of merit, it is tl t BEST MACHINE in use, as there have been m^.o HOME SHUTTLE MACHINES sold in the State during tho last twelve months than all other Sewing Machines combined. You can buy a HOME SHUTTLE MACHINE for about? half the money you willhaveto pay for a first-class Machine, "so-called." W. L. GRIST, Agent. ^ DOOORS, SASH AND BLINDS, MOULDINGS, Brackets, Stair Fixtures, builders'Furnishing Hard- : ware, Drain Pipe, Floor Tiles, Wire Guards, Terra Cotta Ware, Marble and ! 1 Slate Mantle Pieces. WINDOW GLASS A SPECIALTY. , Circulars and Price Lists sent free ' on application, bv J P. P. TO ALE, | 20 Hayne and 33 FiucKney streets, Charleston, S. C. I I Orders received by mv Agents, ! Messrs. JEFFERYS & METT8, at the ' , Citizen's Savings Bank,Yorkville,S.C. October 3 40 ly GEO. S. HACKERr DOOR, SASH AND BLIND FACTORY, CHARLESTON, S. C. THIS is as large and complete a Factory as there is in the South. All work manufactured at the Factory in this city. The only house owned and managed by a Carolinian in this line in Charleston. Send for price list. Address, GEO. S. HACKER, Post-Office box 170, Charleston, S. C. Factory and Warerooms on King street, opposite Cannon street, 011 lino of City Railway. December 5 40 ly METALIC BURIAL CASES AND CASKETS. 1 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 CASKETS, surpassing in beauty anything of the kind ever offered here. J. E. SMITH, Agent. figf* WOOD COFFINS, of anv quality, made to order. * J. E. SMITH. March 14 11 ly APPLICATION FOR DISCHARGE. NOTICE is hereby given that the undersigned, Administrator" of the estate of JESSE N. MOORE, deceased, will make a linal settlement with the Judge of Probate of York County, on I the 24th day of February next, when ho will j make application for a linal dischargo as Admin istrator of said estate. J. L. MOORE, Administrator. January 23 4 5t* A rrPTltM may learn something greatly ; to their advantago and obtain | specimens and full particulars free, by addressing ; WOOD'S LITERARY AND ART AGENCY, Newbiirgh, N. Y. ' TRIUMPHANT! THE CAROLINA FERTILIZER WILL BE SOLD AS FOLLOWS: CASH PRICE. $48 PER TON OF 2000 LBS. TIME PRICE. $53 PER TON OF 2000 LBS. PAYABLE NOVEMBER 1, 1873, FREE OF INTERK8T. FREIGHT AND DRAYAGE To be added, ITS SUCCESS IS UNPARALLELED, AND ITS STANDARD IS a. ]sro. 1. CALL ON AGENTS FOR ALMANACS AND CERTIFICATES. GEO. W. WILLIAMS & CO., CHARLESTON, S. C. CARROLL, CLARK & CO., AGENTS AT YORKVILLE, S. C. WYLIE, RODDEY & AGUES, AGENTS AT ROCK HILL, S. 0. December 19 .51 4 m S7 TIMS unrlvnled Medicine is warranted not to contain a single particle of Mercury, or any injurious mineral subKtance, but is PURELY VEGETABLE. For FORTY YEARS It lias proved its great value in all diseases of the Liver, Bowels and Kidneys. Thousands of the good and great in nil parts of the country vouch for its wonderful and peculiar power in purifying the Blood, stimulating the torpid Livir and Bowels, and Imparting new Life and Vigor to the whole system. SIMMONS' LIVER REGULATOR Is acknowledged to have no equal as a LIVER MEDICINE. It contains four medical elements, never united In the same happy proportion in any other preparation, viz : a gentle Cathartic, a wonderful Tonic, an unexceptionable Alterative and a certain Corrective of all impurities of the body. Such signal sue' cess has attended its use, tlint it Is now regarded as the GREAT UNFAILING SPECIFIC For Liver Complaint and the painful offspring thereof, to wit: DYSPEPSIA, CONSTIPATION, Jaundice, Bilious attacks, SICK HEADACHE. Colic,Depression of Spirits, SOUR STOMACH, Heart Burn, &c.,&c. Regulate the Liver and prevent CHILLS AND FEVER. SIMMONS' LIVER REGULATOR Is harmless, Is no drastic violent medicine, Is sure to cure if taken regularly, Is no intoxicating beverage, Is a faultless family medicine, Is the cheapest family medicine In the world, Is given with safety and the happiest results to the most delicate Infant, Does not interfere with business, Does not disarrange the system, Takes the place of Quinine and Bitters of every kind, Contains the simplest and best remedies. SIMMONS' LIVER REGULATOR, THE GREAT FAMILY MEDICINE, Is manufactured only by J. H. ZEILIN k CO., Macon, Ga., and Philadelphia. Prion ?1.00 per package; sent by mail, postage paid, <$1.04. Prepared ready, for use In bottles, ?1.50. ?OLD DY ALL DRTTGGI8TS. Beware of all Counterfeits and Imitations.-?u) December 12 50 6tn Ms iistli Mezi Is an original, flrst-clasn. Dollar Monthly. It Is H O fresh and sprightly, and will Interest the entire household, including lovers and maidens, hus- wj O hands and wives, parents and children. It sag- p pests the importance of securing n union of ft hearts and purposes In life, before there shall l>o a union of hands. It believes that, while It A S Is woman's privilege to purify and comfort and | H adorn, It should be man's pleasure to provide ?J for, cherish, and protect It would have chll- Q Odren treated as feeling, thinking und growing 32 creatures?perfectly created,but not fuli grown. T (J Yet In advocating these doctrines, the Maga- |j JZ zlne does not employ doctrinal sermons?long JJ 5 and dreary disquisitions which do not interest O Eand therefore do not profit the reader. On the q contrary, it would rather preach as though It ? U preached not?an interesting story,for Instance, F " being made to serve the purpose of a long dls- m, Q course by giving the reader somcihlng real, In- Ot Ltcrestlng and profitable to think about. J The worst as well as tho best feature of the D Magazine is its price. Tho Idea of getting a U ? really first-lass Magazine atone dollar a year, V M seems absurd to most people. Yet It employs A A some of the best contributors In the country? H Including Gail IIahiltok, Its leading editor, ft Cwho receives a salary of three thousand dol- Jj Alars, equivalent to about ten dollars per day. P Each number contains nearly eight hundred p wm dollars' worth of matter, which coets the sub- ? JL scrlber about eight cents. A I Hope and Joy?two beautifully tinted crayon portraits worth Four Dollars?will be mailed ?l N finee to every subscriber to the Magazine at $1 SO ft E Specimens free. Agents wanted. Address 8. 52 a WOOD A CO., Newburgh, S. Y. Y Hope aiifl Joy-Hope anfl Joy U United Voice of the Preu.?Wood's Uf magazine Is one of the monuments of business O enterprise which mark the age.? MdhaliM Him* ft P Journal, Fhlla., Pa As Its title promises, It ^ Is devoted to the Instruction and entertainment %J E of the family circle,and.In order to place it with- q j9. In the means of readers In moderate clrcum- * OC stnnces,lt Is furnished at a remarkably low rate A J in proportion to the interest of Its contents.? jY. m 1*. Tribune. ..It Is essentially a home magazine, H w and Is just the thing that one wouldmost desire Y to place In the hands of his wife and little ones, w m or that a man of business would himself take II H up for the employment of a leisure hour.?Pod jjJ ft Wilmington, a*. C Were we out of our 5 if chair editorial, as a "private citizen," cutoff r from our exchnngc list and all that, one of the t I? first magazines to which we should subscribe U *T would be Wood's Household.?B<ytWer, Hart- 2 <X ford, Ct It is an Intellectual atul moral ft Y educator, highly prized by all who become ac- , W mi 11, toil with It?Ch rirlinn Adrnmt* If L O Jiopulnr writers are, therefore, good writers n Yarnl if high prices prove tlie merit of literary ** wares, then Mr. wood's uiaguzlno is a good M H one.?The Imleprwtnit, New York Its artl- V Ocles breathe a spirit of economy, morality and A virtue which Is highly refreshing In this ngo of g\ P fashionable folly and extravagance.?Senrtrvef, W EEdlna, Mo It Is undoubtedly one of the A freshest, liveliest journals we have examined. Zm A ? Remril, Springfield, Tenn The articles Z J nrc stiort, piquant, and of such unquestioned | excellence, that this periodical ought to be both Q familiar and welcome in very many house- ft J/ holds. Wood's is a marvel or cheapness and *> T first-class quality combined.?Mis i'ork Timet. Kt Wood's EonseMd Magazine j January 9 2 ly | /JHEPARKER CUN. | PARKER BRtfS WEST MERIDEN,Ci. WRAPPING PAPER. A LOT of TIDDY'S largo-sized WRAPPING PAPKR on hand and for sale, by W. L. GRIST, Agent. ' STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF CHESTER-OOURT OF COMMON FLEAS. | C. C. Macoy, as Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas lor Chester county, Plaintiff, against Obadiah M. Cornwell, Defendant.?Summon* for Relief. A | To tho Defendant, Obadiah if. Cornwell: m YOU are hereby summoned and required to an- < swer the complaint in this action, which has this day been filed in the office of the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for tho said county, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said complaint on the subscribers, at their office, in the town of Chester, South Carolina, within twenty days after the service of this summons 011 you, exclusive of the day of such service ; and if you fail to answer this complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the complaint. Dated January 7th, 1873. McLURE McLURE, Plaintiff's Attorneys. To tho Defendant, Obadiah M. Cornwell : You will take notice that a summons in this action, of which the foregoing is a true copy, was filed in the office of tho Clerk of said County, at Chester Court House, in the County and State aforesaid, on the 7th day of January, A. D., 1873. and that if you fail to answer as required in said summons, the Plaintiff will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the complaint. McLURE ?fc McLURE, Plaintiff's Attorneys. January 9 2 6t STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. * York County. Chas. Boyd, against Juliet K. Drennan, James A. Tlnvn. John Bovd. Robert S. Rnvri. minor children of Davfd L. Boyd, deceased, (names unknown) and Agnes E. Gardner, legal representatives of David Boyd, deceased; William Boyd, John Boyd, Elizabeth Boyd, Rachel Boyd and Agnes Hardin, children of Wm. Boyd, deceased; William J. L. Boyd, Charles Boyd, Margaret Burris, and Joseph Boyd, children of John Boyd, deceased; Randolph Kelsey, Rhett Kelsey, Lonny Kelsey, Sallie Kelsey, Minnie Kelsey, Lizzie Kelsey, and Agnes Kelsey, grand children of John Boyd, deceased, and all other unknown legal heirs and representatives of Charles Boyd, senior, deceased. YOU are hereby required to appear at the Court of Probate, to bo holden at York Court ? House, for York county, on the 4th day of March, A. D. 1873, to shew cause, if any you can, why the real estate of CHARLES BOYD, Sr., deceased, situate in said county, bounding lands of Wm. S. Moore, James C. Poag, Lewis McElwee, and others, and containing one hundred and ninety acres, more or less, should not be sold, allotting to the said Charles Boyd, Petitioner, the onefourth part thereof and to the legal representatives of David Boyd, Wm. Boyd, and John Boyd each. , (per stirpes) the remaining three-fourths in equal portions, Given under my hand and seal this 14th day of January, A. D., 1873. JOSEPH A. McLEAN, Judge of Probate. January 16 3 6t ESTABLISHED 1857. L. II. 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. Everv varletv of the RasI Kirn and Rnpfflar Prno 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 <fc Son, Columbia. S. C. September 12 37 tf PACIFIC GUANO COMPANY'S (CAPITAL $100,000) SOLUBLE PACIFIC' GUANO. THIS GUANO is now so well known in all the Southern States for its remarkable effects as an agency for increasing the products of labor, as not to require special recommendation from us. Its use for seven years past has established its character for reliable excellence. The large fixed M capital invested by the Company in this trade affords the surest guarantee of the continued excellence of this Guano. The supplies put into the market this season are, as heretofore, prepared under the personal superintendence of Dr. ST. JULIEN RAVENEL, Chemist of the Company, at Charleston, S. C., hence planters may rest assured that its quality and composition is precisely the same as that heretofore sold. J. N. BOBSON, Selling Agent, Charleston, S. C. J NO. S. REESE & CO.. General Agents, Baltimore, Md. Terms?$48 cash ; $53 time, without interest. To accommodate planters, they can order now and have until the 1st of April to decide as to whether they will take at the time or cash price. When delivered from the Factory by the carload no dravage will be charged. W. H. McCORKLE, Agent at Yorkville, S. C. November28 48 3m ROSE'S HOTEL, (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 $2.50 per day. W. E. ROSE, Proprietor. September 12 37 tf THE MORNING START DAILY EDITION: THOUGH only five years old, has the largest Daily Circulation of any newspaper in the State, and a circulation in Wilmington fifty per cent, larger than that of any other paper. WREKLY EDITION: Now combined with the CAROLINA FARMER, making one of the best Family Newspapers in tho South. Circulation very large and rapidly increasing. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: Daily Star, 1 year, $7 00 44 44 6 months, 3 50 14 " 3 months 2 00 Weekly Star, 1 year, 2 00 44 44 6 months, 1 00 44 '' 3 months, 50 It may be safely asserted that no newspaper ever established in North Carolina has made such rapid progress as THE MORNING STAR. Send for Specimen copies. 'Address, WM. H. BERNARD, Wilmington, N. C. January 16 3 tf KING'S MOUNTAIN R. ROAD. DAILY TRAIN. HEREAFTER the trains over the KING'S MOUNTAIN RAIL ROAD will run daily, (Sundays excepted) as follows, making close connection with trains on the Charlotte, Columbia aud Augusta Railroad: Leave Yorkville, promptly, at 7i o'clock, A.M. Arrive at Chester at 9i o* clock, A. M. Leave Chester at 4 o'clock, P. M. Arrive at Yorkville at 6 o'clock, P. M. All Freights must be delivered at the Depot by ^ 4 o'clock, P. M., on the evenings previous to the departure of the train. GEORGE W. MELTON, President. A SENSIBLE MAN'S LOGIC. HE who provides not for his own family, is worse tnan a heathen. Necessaries and conveniences should first be provided. A good SEWING MACHINE has become a necessary in every family. The "AMERICAN" IS THE BESf AND CHEAPEST; containing within itself all the latest improvements. Therefore I will go at once and buy one of J. R. SCHORB A SON, Agents for York County. October31 44 tt (ft r rri-k PER day! A8enta wanted! (pD ?KJ JpsCVJ All classes of working people of either sex, young or old, make more money at work for us in their spare moments, or all the time, than at anything else. Particulars free. AddressG. Stinson A Co., Portland, Maine. October 8 40 ly