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|luitt<jNitt;5 ijcpartrantt. CHUBBS THE PHILOSOPHER. BY MAX ADELER. We never knew more than one man who was perfectly satisfied with the weather at all times and under all circumstances. It was Chubb. No matter what the condition of the weather, Chubb was always contented and happy, and willing to affirm that the state of things at any given moment was the very best state that could be devised. In summer, when the thermometer bolted up among the nineties, Chubb would come to the front door with beads of perspiration standing all over his red face, until his head looked like a raspberry, and would look at the sky and say,"Splendid! perfectly splendid! Noble weather for the poor and for the ice companies and the washwomen ! I never saw such magnificent weather for drying clothes. They don't shake up any such climate as this in Italy. Gimme my umbreller, Harriet, while I set out here on the steps and enjoy it." In winter, when the mercury would creep down to fifteen degrees below zero, and the cold was severe enough to freeze the inside of Vesuvius solid to the centre of the globe, Chubb would sit on my fence and exclaim, "By gracious, Adeler, did you ever see such weather as this ? I like an atmosphere that freezes up yer very raarrer. It helps the coal trade, and keeps the snakes quiet. Don't talk of summer time to me. Gimme cold, and gimme it stiff." When there was a drought, Chubb used to meet us in the streets and remark, "No rain yet, I see! Magnificent, isn't it? I want my weather dry. I want it with the dampness left out. Moisture breeds fever and ague, and wets your clothes. If there's anything I despise it's to carry au umbreller. No rain for me, if you please." When it rained for a week and swamped the country, Chubb often dropped in to see us and to observe, "I dunno now you feel about this yer rain, Adeler, but it allers seems to me that the heavens never drop no blessings but when we have a long wet spell. It makes the corn jump, and cleans the sewers, and keeps chewing tobacco from getting dry. I wouldn't give a cent to live in a climate where there is no rain. Put me on the Nile and I'd die in a week. Soak me through and through to the inside of my undershirt, and I feel as if life was bright and beautiful, and sorrow nothing but nonsense." On a showery day, when the sun shone brightly at one moment, and at the next the rain poured in torrents, Chubb used to stand at the window and exclaim, "Harriet, if you'd have asked me how I liked the -i! T>J 1 !J * I weaiuer, l u nave saiu just as it is now. >* xiai I want is weather that is streaked, like a piece of fat and lean bacon?a little shine and a little rain. Mix 'era up and give us plenty of both, and I'm your raau." Chubb was always happy in a thunderstorm, and one day after the lightning had knocked down two of his trees and torn his chimney to pieces, we went over to see him. He was standing by the prostrate trees, and he at once remarked, "Did you ever know of a man having such luck as that ? I was going to chop down them two trees to-morrow, and as that old chimney never drawed well, I had concluded to have it rebuilt. And that gorgeous old storm has fixed things just the way I want 'em. Put me in a thunder storm and let the lightning play around me and I'm at home. I'd rather have one storm that'ud tear the bowels out of the American continent, than a dozen of yer little dribblin' waterin'-pot showers. If I can't have a rippin' and roarin' storm, I don't want none." ?. ?t Brother Higgins's Dog.?It was a great many years ago, at a camp meeting, says Max Adeler, that brother Hi^gins, a good man, but passionately fond ot dogs, came in one day, accompanied by a black-and-tan hound. Somebody asked him to address the congregation, and he mounted the stand for that purpose, while his dog sat down on his haunches immediately in front, looking at his master. In the midst of the discourse, which entertained us very much, another dog came up, and, after a few sociable sniffs at brother Higgin's dog, began to examine the hind leg of the .latter with his teeth, apparently for the purpose of ascertaining if it was tender. An animated contest ensued, and one of the congregation came forward for the purpose of separating the animals. His efforts were not wholly successful. He would snatch at the leg of Higgins's dog, but before he got there the yellow dog would be on that side, and would probably take an incidental and cursory bite at the deacon's hand. Brother Higgins paused in the discourse and watched the deacon. Then he exclaimed : "Spit in his eyes, brother Thompson ; spit in the hound's eyes!" Brother Thompson did so, and the flght ended. "But I just wanted to say," continued Mr. Higgins, "that outside of the sanctuary, that dog of mine can eat up any salmon-colored animal in the State, and then chew up the bones of its ancestors for four generations, without turning a hair! You understand me?" The services proceeded. An old Vermont farmer, up to all methods for making a good bargain, was very ill, and friends were expecting an early demise. His nephew and a man hired for the occasion had butchered a steer which had been fattened ; and when the job was completed the nephew entered the sick room, where a few friends were assembled when, to the astonishment of all, the old man opened his eyes, and turning his head slightly, said in a full voice, drawing out the words : "What have you been doing?" "Killing the steer," was the reply. "What did you do with the hide?" "Left it in the barn ; going to sell it byand-by." "Let the boys drag it around the yard a couple of times, it will make it weigh heavier." And the good old man was gathered unto his fathers. ? fifeT A clerical gentleman, iu examining at Sunday school, asked the class before him if any one could tell him anything about the apostle Peter. A little girl raised her hand, much to the gratification of the examiner. "Come up here, my good little girl," said he; "I am glad you remember your Bible lesson so well. Now, tell the other boys and girls what you know of St. Peter." The girl was quite willing: "Peter punkin-eater, had a wife and couldn't keep her; he put her in a ," but before she could get a "punkinshell" the school was in a roar. Sold.?A verdant looking Vermonter api j a! /? . n _ _A ?il _ I.. _ . peareu at tne omce or a cneraist wun a jarge bundle in a yellow bandanna, and opening it, exclaimed: "There, doctor, look at that." "Well," said the doctor, "I see it." "What do you call that, doctor ?" "I call it iron pyrites." "What, isn't that gold?" "No," said the doctor, and putting some over the fire, it evaporated. "Well," said the poor fellow, with a woe-begone look, "there's a widder woman up in our town who has a whole hill of that, and I've been and married her." "We do have such fun here," writes a young lady from a female college. "All the girls are made to participate in out-door exercises, and we row Ou the lake, ride horseback, turn hand-springs, run foot races, and have heaps of fun. Belle Hastings can climb a thirty foot smooth pole in two minutes. Nell Vivian (yo remember her) can turn a hand-spring and not make a wrinkle in her dress. I put a beautiful head on Mary Dodge yesterday in the boxing room." A countryman in Savannah observed a gang of negroes at work in the street each wearing a ball and chain. He asked one why that ball was chained to his leg. "To keep people from stealing it," said the darkey. "Heap of thieves about here." | gits r f Uaur o us. ilcadiiu]. From the Norfolk Virginian. WITCHCRAFT. About two miles from the little village of i ; C. is a neighborhood known as Perrytowu, re- j markable for naught save the iguorance and j credulity of the inhabitants. In this coramunity the witch and the wizard have had their firm believers from times "whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary." ! But not in the recollection of the oldest has ' any incident happened so demonstrative of I the demoniacal power of the mystic sisterhood j as this I am about relating, the truthfulness j of which will be vouched for by the most reI ormntoklo n-nnflomon in flio ^AlinftT gciibiguicu iu vuu vvuuvj* Mr. , a man who hitherto has been re- ; garded as a man of sense and sound intelligence, had a difficulty with an old woman iu his neighborhood. The old dame, after lashing him well with her tongue, concluded her eloquence with the menace that "he should j have no more luck with his hogs." Mr. treated the threat with contempt, and thought ! no more of it. But on the following morning, ! going to feed his swine, he found it was even ! as the old woman had said. Two of his hogs were infected with a peculiar distemper, nor could he relieve them or find out the nature of the disease. On returning to the house he related his misfortunes, together with the menace of the oM woman, to his wife who, being an adept, at once divined the cause, and charged her sister conjurer with the crime. Directing her husband to cut off the tails of the infected grunters, and bring them to her that she might dissolve the spell, which she endeavored to do by sticking nine pins in each tail, and other mystic conjurations to us unknown. But instead of this breaking the charm it only served to strengthen it, for, on the ensuing morning, four more were- stricken with a similar distemper, and the two whose tails she had pinned, etc., died. Mr. , losing faith in his wife's skill, goes to an old negro in the neighborhood, who had acquired wide and deserved reputation as a wizard, and relates his woes, entreating his aid. Jake, glad of an opportunity of displaying his skill, and of getting a fee, readily agrees to go. Coming to the pen where the hogs were fed, he examines the stricken rooters, and, like a true philosopher, seeks for the cause, which he succeeds in discovering. He agrees with Mr. that the hogs have been bewitched, and that the spell was on a piece of steel, buried in the pen. The steel was dug for and found. This went far to strengthen Mr. 's belief in the negro's skill, so that he gave himself up entirely to his will. Jake directs Mr. , in order to cure the hogs already infected, to go to the village and buy a suit of clothes for cash. No doubt Jake had his little blackamoors in view here, as he knew they would fall heir to the clothes. After dressing the hogs and removing the fatal steel, the charm was broken and the grunters cured. Jake, elated at his success and the duplicity he had practiced .on Mr. , informed him that if he desired it he would now place the spell on the old woman. Mr. , being delighted at this means of revenge, readily agrees. In a few days the witch was taken fearfully ill with a pain in the foot. The best medical aid was called to her assistance, but to no avail. In her last moments she saw nothing but the ghost of departed grunters, aud fearfully cried, "Drive, drive these hogs from me," and died. These are all facts, Mr. Editor, that can be vouched for; but, fearing the wrath of some diabolical sisterhood, I sign myself as he of shades and shadows?the mighty apparition of the pen, for all may guess, but none can know, who may be Junius. Cotton Worms in Alabama.?The Montgomery Advertiser says: "The worm is more destructive where not checked by Paris green than ever before known. They make a clean sweep of fields in half the time which they have heretofore allowed themselves. No matter how much Paris green may be used the crop in Montgomery, Lowndes aud Bullock, will be short far beyond expectation. We have in our office a stalk of cotton pulled up at random yesterday by a gentleman who was coming into Montgomery from Union Springs. T. i. c.u i c ... a. it was out oi a rcu, auuut ten uincs nuiu iuc city, which averages five or six feet in height. The worms, judging from this specimen, and we are assured it is a fair sample of the entire field, will leave nothing to pick. Every leaf was eaten, and every boll but two. The recent rains have prevented that good from the use of Paris green which might otherwise have been expected. In many instances the poison was washed off, leaving the stalk free for fresh attacks." Put Agreements in Writing.?How many misunderstandings arise from the loose way in which business matters are talked over; and when each party puts his own construction, the matter is dismissed by each with the words, "All right?all right!" Frequently it turns out all wrong, and becomes a question for lawyer and courts. More than threefourths of the litigation of the country would be saved, if people would put down their agreements in writing and sign their names to it. Each word in our language has its peculiar meaning, and memory may, by the change of its position in a sentence, convey an entirely different idea from that intended. When once reduced to writing, ideas are fixed, and expensive law-suits are avoided. Rest in Old Age.?I covet rest neither for my self nor for my friends, so long as we are able to work; but when age or weakness comes on, and hard labor becomes an unendurable burden, then the necessity of work is deeply painful, and it seems to imply an evil state of society wherever such a necessity generally exists. One's old age should be trailAft ftnft'o otiAiilr! Kn r\loirfiil i^uu, ao uuco viiiiuiiuvu ouvuiu ug iJAihJAVtl > headwork at either extremity of human existence seems to me out of place. The morning and the evening should be alike peaceful; at mid-day the sun may burn and men may labor under it.?Dr. Arnold. A correspondent of the Scientific American says: "The best remedy for bleeding at the nose, as given by Dr. Gleason in one of his lectures, is a vigorous motion of the jaws, as if in the act of mastication. In the case of a child a wad of paper should be placed in its month and the child instructed to chew it hard. Of course an adult does not need the paper. It is the motion of the jaws that stops the flow of blood. This remedy is so very simple that many will feel inclined to laugh at it, but it has never been known to fail in a single instance, even hk.very severe cases." BSy "Here we are now, within a quarter of a mile of land," was the joyful announcement made by the captain of an ocean steamer to his grumbling passengers. "Where? Which way is it?" were the eager explanations which followed. "Anywhere down below there," said the captain, pointing toward the bottom of the | sea. "The lead gives us just two hundred | and twenty fathoms of water, and the land comes slap against tne nrine." - - i BST A Baptist paper in Ohio was sent for i ! nine years to a subscriber who never paid a ' cent for it. The other day the newspaper i was returned to the patient long-suffering publisher with the effecting peucil note on its margin: "Gone to a better world." The i editor is a very pious man, but it is reported j | that his faith is terribly shaken in regard to j j the accuracy of the information. JBST Business men should remember that a ! man who is liberal in advertising is liberal in | | trade, and the people prefer to deal with such, j Our advertising patrons are among the most enterprising and reliable men of the country. { j AST During the war a letter written by a rebel soldier to his sweetheart was captured,: wherein the writer said : "We will lick the i yanks twomorrer if godelmity spares our life." I ?luldmi'js Ifcprtmcut. || [Original.] | THE INDIAN. Two hundred and fifty years ago, the coun-1 ~ try, now called the United States, was inhab- | ited by a race of people very different from j its present inhabitants. Christopher Colura- j . bus called them Indians, because he thought, i at first, the country was India. The country i was not India, and the people, with no pro- j \ priety, were called Indians. The name, how- ! ever, still continues, and will, no doubt, con-' tinue to be given to this people, as long . as j g? any of them remain. ,, The Indians now reside only in the far west. ; ^ They are fast becoming extinct. In a few ! ^ years they will be known only as a people ' that once existed. Only a few of the present | inhabitants of the older States ever saw the rp face of a red man. They were a very peculiar people. They rarely forsook a friend or forgot an enemy. In proof of this many facts j could be related. When they had a quarrel with one white man, they regarded every white man as their enemy, and were ready to give vent to their wrath upon the first one i . they met. I. . . ! ic It is related that once an Indian had been i ' : tG driven off by some white people from his | hunting ground. The white men followed j him up and finally he was killed. His wife, ? or squaw, as she was called, took her little ' fi son and went away to the far west, beyond | , the reach, as she thought, of the pale faces, i ^ She took the bones of her husband with her. j q These she burned and placed the ashes iu a . kind of coffin, near by the wigsvam. Year after year rolled on. Her son grew up ' to be a raau. The cruel treatment his mother ^ received from the white men, and the murder ^ of his father, filled his soul with vengeance, j and he determined to kill every white man he put his eye upon. His home was in in the midst of an exteusive forest. No white w man came near his house for years. At last, when his mother was grown old and frail, a white man, an English traveler, came to their ^ home. It was late in the evening. The old woman trembled with fear. Her son, now ^ becoming an old man, was out in the woods ^ hunting deer. The traveller saw the old Indian woman's fears and pushed on to make his way through the unbroken forest. At last night came on. He dismounted and tied his horse to a tree and prepared to spend the night in the woods. He kindled a fire and lay down before it to sleep.' Late in the P1 night, when his fire had burned down and 1? only a few coals remained, he thought he saw h( a man seated on a log near by. He raised & himself up and looked carefully but could see nothing. His mind become agitated. He ai could not sleep. In a short time he saw the ki form of a man standing near the place where ^ he lay. Iu a fright he rose from his bed on V] the ground, seized his pistol and prepared to ^ shoot the intruder. In a raomeut, before he could shoot, the Indian sprang upon him and 01 wrested the pistol out of his hand and crush- j11 1 1 1 * ? 1 j I 1 i 1Q ed him to tne ground, ano wun uis strong arms held him firmly there. Not a word was spo- ,0' ken. Each thought the other ignorant of his language. At last the Indian said, in w broken English, "you kill my father." The P1 traveler felt now that there was little, if any tl hope for him. He declared his innocence D( and begged for his life. So soon as the In- " dian discovered that he had no other weapons, T he permitted him to rise. He was ordered to bi mount his horse and follow the Indian through di the pathless forest. At a lata hour in tho H night they reached the wigwam. The white hi man was taken in and shown a pile of skins on which he could sit down. So soon as k morning came the Indian pointed out to the fs traveller a number of scalps which he had ai cut from the heads of persons he had killed, gi Some of them were apparently from the heads ai of old men, others from old women, and oth- le ers again seemed to be the scalps of small ai children. These the savage had hung up in w his rude house as ornaments, just as civilized cc people hang up pictures on the walls of their is parlors. Led by an overruling Providence, A' the Indian, after giving to the traveler the w evidence of his success in avenging the mur- tf der of his father, fed him and permitted him pi to depart, in no other way injured except sa that his pistol was taken from him and his li. life had been nearly frightened out of him. tl RAINING GOLD. 1 m Little Harry was looking out of the window, ? watching the rain as it pattered down on the green grass, and bent the flower heads, dancing away over the gravel, and making little pools wherever there was the least pretence fa of a basin. It is a pleasant thing to sit snug lij in your comfortable room and watch the rain; but Harry's brain was busy with an- r other speculation. "0, Aunt Susan," he said, his bright eyes crmrlr 1 inrr "hnw T wish it would rain onld ?b, ...... ? D ? coins iqstead of rain drops! Wouldn't we be rich ?" . r? "What if it should rain gold instead of , water-drops all summer ?" "Why, we could have everything in the " world we wished for then. I would buy a & little carriage and harness for Carlo, and ai Anuie should have the paint box she wants w so much, and mother would not need to work a, a bit, and I would get her a sewing machine, o 0, how nice it would be, auntie!" "But what would you get to eat? Nothing C( can grow without water." tt "0, we would buy our food; we should cc have money enough." al "Yes, but if it rained gold all over the cj world no one would havelany to sell. All the* fields would be parched and baked. The grass would shrink and crumble to dust. The ni grain could not grow under golden rain. ct These beautiful shady trees would parch, and ni wither up, and die. There would be no fruit ai nor vegetables in any one's garden. The w little streams, and many of the wells that afford refreshment to thousands, would all be dried up, and men and animals would perish 01 with thirst as well as hunger. Robinson F Crusoe thought little of the gold he found in ^ the sea-chest washed ashore on his island, for ir he could buy nothing with it. Besides, if gold were as plentiful as pebbles we should value it no higher. Money is of no use ex- . cept for what it will bring us of the comforts of life. Some one has estimated that every tl summer shower is really worth in money many tl hundreds, and sometimes thousands of dol- ci lars. It produces what will bring that w amount. We shall always find, dear Harry, the more we reflect on it, that our Creator has P ordered everything more wisely and beuevo- 131 leutly than we could." ft > ti Don's Honesty.?Don is a large dog, with a good appetite, and for desert goes about j. getting bits at his neighbors. j18 Une lady irieua 01 nis, icic m uer aucu u. ? wooden pail, with odd bits, so that he could ai help himself as he pleased. One extremely tl cold morning last winter, in pokiDg his nose n therein, the pail fell to pieces. The lady ; 8f stood by the window watching him, and saw i him walk slowly round the broken pail and j then away toward his home. In less than i a half an hour he returned, bringing another j C old pail, which he placed near the first; then . h carried away aud hid every piece of the first [ ir so successfully that no one could find a single ; f( fragment. I ? . j J?"" Men talk about the idle wind, but the ei wind is always busy ; and like the cheerful sc farmer, whistles at his work. it fading fcv the fabbath. CONDUCTED BY REV. ROUEIIT LATHAN. [Original.] INGRATITUDE. Men generally pretend to have an instincve hatred for ingratitude ; but in the great lajority of cases, it is nothing more than retense. Brutus, Judas Iscariot, and Frans Bacon, have been stigmatized as the three leanest. men the world ever Droduced. The I rst, because he forsook Julius Crnsar; the icond because he betrayed Jesus Christ into le hands of his enemies ; and the last because 3 took bribes, and in several instances acted ngratefully towards his former friends. The uth is, men are generally ungrateful toard each other, and always toward God. he sun does not shine on more ungrateful eatures than men, universally. God beows his blessings upon us every day. His iving kindnesses are fresh every morning id renewed every night. Yet we throw irselves down upon our beds as unthankful 5 the dog throws himself upon his straw, and se up in the morning with as little gratitude i our hearts. This has always been characristic of man. The children of Israel, for horn God did so much, were not only unrateful, but they were a tribe of murmurers id coraplainers. With a strong hand and 1 outstretched arm, God brought them out Egypt and led them through the wilder2ss. During all their stay in the desert, od was visibly present with them in. a vaety of ways. The shielding cloud was over leraby day, and the illuminating pillar of fire as above and around them by night. God fed mm angels with angel's food and gave them rink from the flinty stone. Notwithstanding 1 these manifestations of love and tender reird, the children of Israel were ungrateful, i ic is still. Sin has filled the soul of man ith ingratitude, and nothing but the regeuating and sanctifying grace of God can reove it. Philosophy may make men polite ward each other, but it cannot make them ateful to God, the giver of all good. Only le regenerated heart is grateful. Oh! for lat grace that would fill our hearts with ratitude and love. ? - * [Original.] THE CHURCH. To the true child of God the church is a ame. In it he feels as if he were under the irental roof, and surrounded by kind and ving friends. Out of it his heart is sad, and 3 feels as the child feels when separated from ,ther and mother, brothers and sisters, and laced in the midst of strangers, whose faces re unfamiliar, and whose language is unnown. The longing of his soul is to return, ike the prodigal in the parable of our Saiour, he resolves to go home. So it is with le good man?the man who has been made ive in Christ Jesus. He cannot be kept it of the church. It is a difficult matter to eep the graceless man in the church, and it just as difficult to keep the good man out f it. The bad man is out of place in the lurch; and the good man is out of place hen separated from it and deprived of its rivileges. If the question be asked why are lere so many in Christian lands who have sver made a public profession of religion, le answer is they have not been born agaiu. o this there are no doubt some exceptions ; at not many. The church on earth is the Dor that opens into the church in Heaven. 7 there is any other door, God, in his word, as not revealed it. Many persons give as a reason for not raaing a profession of religion, the faults and T *1 !_ il mures or proiessors. in mis no uuuui mcj re honest; but the true reason is a want of race. If we would live in a perfect world, ad associate with perfect beings, we must ave this world. There are no perfect men ad women on earth?all are sinners?all do rong. Professed Christians are not an exjption to the rule ; still the church militant the home of saints, and the people of God ock to it whilst they remain in the flesh, ith as much certainty as those ransomed by le blood of Jesus, flock to the church triumhant in Heaven after death. This is not tying that all who make a profession of region will be saved. No doubt there are in le church many deceivers and deceived, he counterfeit proves that there is some muine coin. That which has no reality inuot be counterfeited. If there were no x>d people in the church, there could be no iceivers nor deceived. Notwithstanding the ict that many who make a profession of region, are very different from what they ought i be, still all the devoutly pious are memjrs of the church. [Original.] ATONEMENT. It is very important that all of the human ice have a clear and correct knowledge of le doctrine of the atonement as taught in le sacred Scriptures. It would be regarded i disgraceful for any one in this age of light, ad in this country of privileges, not to know ho is the President of these United States, id not to know something of his duties, uch ignorance is of minor importance when v .v-i maJ tm'fU irtnnronno aP TaQMQ (Hifiof QTld /LlJjJOlCU TT i bll iguv/lmiii/u vi vvbuo vimwv ie object of his mission into our world. Our >rafort, for a few years, may be materially ffected by our ignorance of our nation's lief; but our eternal destiny will be fixed by lr ignorance of Jesus. The Saviour of siners is God. In the fullness of time he beime man. He left the right hand of the iajesty on high, and in his humility dwelt aiong men, a man of sorrow and acquainted ith grief. If it is asked : Why did Christ come into ir world ? we answer to make an atonement, or this he obeyed the law of God and sufired -its penalties. The ultimate end he had l view was the glory of God and the salvaon of sinners. An atonement is that which makes reparaon for a wrong. The parties concerned in ie atonement made by Jesus Christ, are God, ie creator of all things, and man, one of his features, constituted the lord of the lower orld. The majesty of God's law was desised, and God insulted. The offender was lan. The necessity of an atonement arose om the very nature of the case. God's jusee demanded that complete satisfaction be mdered to his law. Sin, in the sight of God, hatelui. uuut ana punisnmem are maep-, rable. The law demands perfect obedience,! nd threatens death?eternal punishment?in J le event it is not obeyed. Man did sin. God ; lust be just. The claims of his law must be ! itisfied. There was no way by which this j )uld be done but by a vicarious obedience j ud death. No mere creature could do this, j hrist Jesus, the second person of the God- j ead, became man, and in human nature! lade an atonement for sin. The just died | >r the unjust, the lawmaker placed himself nder the law and obeyed it for the disobediat. The obedience and death of Christ lives a problem in morals which no finite lind can solve. Without the atonement made by Christ, and the question, "How can God be just and yet justify the ungodly," cannot be answered. God caunot justify the ungodly without an atonement made for thera. Hence, the Apostle says, God forbid that I should glory save in the cross of Christ. Those who hope to escape the wrath of God, due for sin without an atonement made for sin, will one day discover that they are expecting an impossibility to take place. ?0rMle inquirer. TERMS?1IV ADVANCE : | flnflflnnv miAvniir 9 3 00 One C?py, Six months, 1 50 One Copy, Three months, 1 00 ! Single Copy, 10 i Two Copies, one year, 5 00 Ton Copies. " " 25 00 ^9-'to persons who make up elulis of ten or 1 more names, an extra copy of the paper will he furnished oneyear, free of charge. it D VERT18EMENT8 Will he inserted at One Dollar and Fifty Cents per square for the lirst, and Seventy-fivo Cents per square for each subsequent insertion-less than three mouths. A square consists of the spaco occupied by ten lines of this size type, or one inch. No advertisement considered less than a square. Semi-Monthly, Monthly, or Quarterly Advertisements, will tiecharged Two Dollars per square for each insertion. 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Eli Gregg, Marion. G. T. Scott, W. G. Mayes, Newberry. B. H. Rutledge, D. Ravenel, Jr., Henry Buist, Charleston. Gen. Samuel MoGowan, Abbcrille. BRANCHES IN SOUTH CAROLINA : Location. Local Ass't Cashiers. Charleston, D. RAVENEL, Jr. Orangeburg, J. H. FOWLES. Sumter, J. W. DARGAN. Spartanburg, GEORGE COFTELD. Newberry T. S. DUNCAN. Laurens, Dr. JOHN W. SIMPSON. Greenville, J. J. BLACKWOOD. Abbeville, Hon. D. L. WARDLAW. Camden, W. D. MoDOWELL. Unionville, E. R. WALLACE Yorkville W. B. METTS. FINANCE COMMITTEE AT YORKVILLE. B. T. WHEELER, J. H. ADAMS, L. M. GRIST. fid* 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. $33r Stocks, Bonds, Gold and Silver bought and sold. JJG3- Mutilated Currency purchased at a small discount. W. B. METTS, Assistant Cashier at Yorkville. Januarv 30 5 ly Dr. Crook's Wine of Tar. a 10 YEARS ggt PUBLIC TEST Dr. Crook's wine TAR ] To liave more ,Vl 1. /? w,. merit than ?uy similar preparation ever offered the public. Tt is rich in the medicinal qualities ofTar, and unequnled for diseases ol" the Throat and Lungs, performing the most remarkable cures. Coughs, Colds, Cliouic Coughs. It effectually cures them all. Asthma and llronclitis. Has cured so many cases it lias 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 lias no equal. Jt is also a superior Tonic, Restores the Appetite, Strengthens the System, * Restores the Weak and Debilitated, Causes the Food to Digest, Removes Dyspepsia and Indigestion, Prevents Malarious Fevers. Gives tone to your System.^ Try Pr.Crook *s Wine oI'Tar October 3 40 ly THE NORTH CAROLINA FOUNDRY MACHINE AND AGRICULTURAL WORKS ; MANUFACTURE Saw Mills, Horse Powers, j Hay Presses, Spoke and Handle Lathes; all i kinds of Plows, Sub-Soils, Harrows, Cultivators, | Straw Cutters, Ac ; Mill, Mine and Bridge Cast- | ings, COOK AND HEATING STOVES, , And Castings of every description. SERGEANT & McCAUJLEY, Proprietors, Greensboro, N. C. , :o: 1 COOKING STOVES. We wish to call special attention to onr COOKING STOVES, of which there are several hundred in use, and giving entire satisfaction. We are the first MANUFACTURERS OF STOVES in North Carolina, and as we sell them for less than they can be delivered from the North, we claim the patronago of those in need. You can save the freight from the northern cities to this place, which is no small item, by buying of us, I and at the same time get a STOVE THAT IS MORE DURABLE, as tho plates are much heavier than those of northern make. The following are our prices, delivered at depot in this place: No. 8, with 10 pieces ware and 8 feet pipe, $30 00 n y n ic it n a a u 26 00 1 Address, SERGEANT A McCAULEY, Greensboro, N. C. L. M. GRIST, the proprietor of the Enquirer, will receive and forward orders for the above Stoves. January 30 5 ly gTeo. s. hacker, DOOR, SASH AND DLIND 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 lino in Charleston. Send for price list. Address, GEO. S. HACKER, Post-Office box 170, Charleston, S. C. Factory and Warerooins on King street, opposite Cannon street, on line of City Railway. December 5 40 lv NOWIS THE TIME; IF you want a good "PHIZ" taken, come ahead, for YOUNG SOL is "running the Machine" now, and will take your PHOTOGRAPH, or sell you an "American Sowing Machine," cheap. J. R. SCHORB & SON. July 31 31 2t < AGRICULTURAL LIENS, i CONVEYANCES ofReal Estate and Mortgages . for sale at the ENQUIRER OFFICE. ROSE'S HOTEL, (FORMERLY HUNT'S HOTEL.) THIS HOUSE is ill the centre of the city, convenient to all the Public Offices and business Houses, located 011 the south-west corner of the Stato House Square, has been recently re-opened and renovaieu, ana win now cnnipnie tuvuiauiy 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 32.50 per day. \V. E. ROSE, Proprietor. fool's HoisoMi Mali ?n original. first-claw, Dollnr Monthly. I? Is H O fresh ana sprightly, ami will Interest tin- entire household, Including lovers ami maidens, hus- w O hands and wives, parents and children. Jtaug- P pests the Importance of securing a union of p n heart* and purpose* In life, before there shall t lie a union of hand*. It licllcvcs that, while It Xj S i* woman'* privilege to purify and comfort and ^ H adorn. It ahould be man'* pleasure to provide *3 for, cherish, and protect. It would have chll- ft Odrcn treated a* feeling, thinking and growing creature*?perfectly created,but not full grown. T II Yet in advocating tlioc doctrine*, the M*ga- u * zinc doe* not employ doctrinal sermons?long JJ S and dreary disquisitions which do not Interest O Earn! therefore do not profit the reader. On the p contrary. It would rather preach a* though It g, |J nrcachcd not?an lnterc*tlng story .for Instance, P *J being made to servo the purpose of a long dls- m. O course by giving the reader something real, lu- Ot tercstlng and profitable to think about. J 1> The worst as well as the best feature of the D Magazine b Its price. The Idea of getting a U raally ftfwt oUw rtww itottar a year, V M seem* absurd to most people. Y'et It employs % A some of the best contributors In the country? H Including Gail Hamilton, Its leading editor, Cwho receives a salary of three thousand dolA lars, equivalent to about ten dollars per day. P Each number contain* nearly eight nundrcd Z dollars' worth of matter, which coets the sub- ? sctiber about eight cents. At I Hope and Joy?two bcanllfully tinted crayon ( portraits worth Four Dollars?will be mailed J N fteo to every subscriber to the Magazine at $150 ft E Specimen* free. Agents wanted. Address 8. 8. WOOD A CO., Ncwburgh, N. Y. T EopiiJrttiiJi U United Voice of the Preaa.?Wood's Ul JJ magazine b one of the monuments of business ** O enterprise which mark the age.?XrihaUM Hmne ft P Journal, PhilA., Pa. ... .As its title promises. It Is devoted to the Instruction and entertainment w t or tne iamny circic,anu,in oruur lopuiuc n WIU4- q &iu the means of readers In moderate clrcum- ? stances,It la furnished at a remarkably low rate ft J In proportion to tho interest of Its contents.? If. , , Or.Trtbune. ..It is essentially a home magazine, M and la Just the thing that one would most desire Y to place In the hands of Ills wife and little ones, V ij or that a man of business would himself take |J al up for the employment of a leisure hour.? Pott Ji Q Wilmington, N. C Were we out of our 9 JJ chair editorial, as a "private citizen," cut off v> V* from our exchange list and all that, one of the b P drat magazines to which wo should subscribe U g would bo Wood's Household.?KrjiMrr, Hart- " OC ford, Ct. It la an Intellectual and moral ft .T educator, highly prized by all who become ac- , JL qualnted with 1L?Christian Adcomte If L Q popular writers are, therefore, good writers ft Yand If high prices prove the merit of literary wares, then Mr. Wood's magazine la a good M H one.?The Indepautmt, New York Its artl- V Ocles breathe a spirit of economy, morality and A virtue which Is highly refreshing In this age of p fashionable folly ana extravagance.?Sentinel, Vi EEdlna, Mo It la undoubtedly one of the A freshest, liveliest journals we have examined. {5 St ?Remrd, Springfield, Tenn The articles X J are short, piquant, and of snch unquestioned excellence, that this periodical onght to be both * Q familiar and welcome In very many houseY holds. Wood's la a marvel or chcapnem and m llrst-class quality combined.?A'rie York Time*. b Ms Eistii mail Jteiua mtit (Jnariffc CHARLESTON, S. C. Established 1803.) THE BEST Aim BRIGHTEST NEWSPAPEJt iy THE SOUTH. A Journal for the Merchant, the Planter and the Family. It now has a largo and constantly increasing number of readers, with a popularity and business firmly established. Discussing, with independence and brevity, all tho current topics of the day. Containing the latest news in each issue by cable, telegraph and the mails. Condensing the news, so as to give all desiruble in omoltruif vwiaoihlo onu/vi Giving aU the religious news of every denomination. Recording such movements in social life as will provo entertaining in the family circle. Carefully excluding all matters calculated to offend the most refined taste. Employing a corps of trained and wide-awake correspondents at all points of interest. More reading matter is given in each issue than is to be found in any other daily journal in the Cotton States. The current local news of the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida is made a specialty; the commercial piquant. Neat in typography, convenient in sixi, containing reading matter on every page, The News and Coubieb enjoys the reputation of being the moat sprightly and attractive journal in the South. Subscription, Always In Advance. DAILY EDITION, one year, $8; six months, $4: three months, $0.50. TRI-WEEKLY EDITION, published on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, one yctiT, $4; six months, $2.50. THE WEEKLY NEWS. The Weeklt News is a large, neatly printed, carefully-edited journal, each issue containing an average of Thirty Columns of Reading Matter, and is made up with great care and discrimination, and contains the cream of the Daily Edition of The News and Coubier. Its extremely low price, its careful make-up, and the large and varied amount of reading matter which it contains, commend it to all who desire a first-class family * newspaper. RATE8 OF SUBSCRIPTION: One year, $2; six months, $1.25. Six copies, $10. Ten copies to one address, $12. The cash must always accompany the order. Specimen copies scut free on application. Address RIORDAN, DAWSON & CO., Cha&leszon, S. C. Subscriptions received by W. L. GRIST, General News Agent, Yorkville, S. C. July 24 30 tf J I UxIderilLrd'ware and,'SmilhjJ/oaSmgr, \ \ J "J1 t BridehfleweURiiLBdlii^sJfaGnadi, \ W X ( SLite and. MirbkM3jdIa;FloQrmU)rw\ ft H 8 TtliAjTjWhiteI^etWdImiExjyLaaiay \ J? y 0 LxbuidlBdkersRu Woodj.&. c. \ V y 5 AUWorhWarrantei, \ h| y J LOWEST PRICES. \ r 3 | SeiulfifPriceLUt* ? "* i LH. HALL& CO.! \ Ihnufittartr* & Brtlerr, ' \ Si 2,4.0,8,10.MarAet Street* ?e i|j 223.225,EdjtB<iy) 1 I jjjjj] CHA RLESTON, S. 0. ||| riils Cut entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, by I. H. Mali. 2c Co., in tlx; office of theLibmrlnn of Congicss, at Washington. July 3 27 ly - ? --fj r jffsaa?s=-DOORS, SASH AND BLINDS, MOULDINGS, Brackets, Stair Fixtures, builders' Furnishing Hardware, Drain Pipe, Floor Tiles, Wire ! Guards, Terra Cotta Ware, Marble and Slate Mantle Pieces. WINDOW GLASS A SPECIALTY, i Circulars and Price Lists sent free ' | on application, P. P. TOALE, 20 Ilayno and 33 Pinckney streets, Charleston, S. C. Orders received by mv Agents, ! Messrs. JEFFERYS& METTS.atthe Citizen'sSavings Bank,Yorkville,S.C. ' &- Whito Pino Lumber for Sale. Octobers -10 ly TO Agents wanted! 0lj JpAA) All classes of working people of oither 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 ??* Co., Portland, Maine. October 3 40 ly THE TRUE SOUTHRON, (FORMERLY THE SUMTER NEWS.) ESTABLISHED IN 1866. STRICTLY A WHITE MAN'S PAPER. :o: An Independent and fearless Journal, Devoted to the Interests of the Good and True People of the Country. FROM the growing popularity and demand abroad, for our paper, which after more than seven years of unremitting labor and effort we have the proud satisfaction of seeing tirmly established, upon a business basis, we are convinced of the propriety of imparting to it a broader character, and making it a more general exponent of the sentiments and interests of the country at large, and representative of its intelligence anu welfare, but more especially of the South and OUR OWN SOUTHERN PEOPLE. We have, therefore, determined, to the best of our ability, to occupy tbis higher and wider plane of usefulness, ana as a first step toward doing so, we abandon the name of the Sumter Ncios, which smacks too much of localism, for that of THE TRUE SOUTHRON. We shall continue, as heretofore, to stand firmly and squarely upon our principles, maintain our independence, and to battle for right and truth against official corruption, venality and fraud?not swerving from the right through motives of crooked policy or fallacious and shortsighted expediency. VVe receive no Government pap, to help us along; but look to the men whose rights and interests we wr.tch and defend, by dav and by night, to sustain us, by a cordial and liberal support. We ask all friends of HONESTY AND GOOD GOVERNMENT To interest themselves in extending our circulation, and thereby aid us in our battle against the corruption and villainy of the Party in Power, which is fast destroying the liberties of our people and the resources of the country. W. G. KENNEDY, Editor. Single copies $3.00; two copies $5.00. Address, DAKR <fe OSTEEN, Sumter, S. C. August 21 34 tf PIEDMONT AIR-LINE EAILWAY. Richmond and danville, Richmond and Danville R. W., N. c. Division, and North-Western N. c. Railway.' CONDENSED TIME-TABLE, In effect on and after Sunday, June 15th, 1873. GOING NORTH. STATIONS^ pMAILT ACCOMMODATION. Leave Charlotte 2.50 P. M. " Salixbury 5.02 " { " Greensboro 8.15 " Danville 11.17 " ! 6.15 A.M. " Burkville 344 A.M., 11.40 " Arrive at Richmond....| 6.35 " [ 2.55 P.M. GOING SOUTH. STATIONS f MAIL, j ACCOMMODATION. Leave Richmond 1.05 P. M. 9.45 A. M. " Burkcvillc I 4.10 " j 1.20 P. M. " Danville ' 8.45 " Arrive 6.10 ? " Greensboro j 11.38 " I " Salisbury, ] 2.03A. M., Arrive at Charlotte | 4.05 " | EAST AND WEST | GOING EAST. | GOING WEST. STATIONS. I MAIL. I MAIL. Leave Greensboro ! 2 8.20 P. M. j Arrive 10.48 P. M. " Company Shops., j s. 10.00 " j ? 9.30 " " Hlllsboro |?. 11.10 " 3 7.47 " " Raleigh I 1.40 A.M. 5.26 " ' Arrive at Goldsboro | p 4.30 " | ? Leave 2.30 P. M. NORTH-WESTERN N. C. RAILROAD. (SALEM BRANCH.) Leave Greensboro 3.40 P. M. Arrive at Kernersvllle, 5.10 P. M. Leave Kernersvllle, 9.00 A.M. Arrive at Greensboro 10.30 A.M. Mail trains daily both ways over entire length of roads. Accommodation daily between Danville and Richmond. (Sundays excepted.) On Sundays Lvnchburg Accommodation leaves Richmond at 8.25 A. M.; arrives at Burkeville 11.28 A. M.; leaves Burkeville 1.10 P. M.; arrives at Richmond 4.17 P. M. Pullman Palace Cars on all night trains between Charlotte and Richmond, (without change.) For further information, address S. E. ALLEN, General Ticket Agent, T. M. R. TALCOTT, Greensboro, N. C. Engr. and Gen. Supt. CHERAW AND DARLINGTON ?. ROAD. SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE,") Chkraw <fc J)arlington Railroad Co., > Cheraw, S. C., July 1, 1873. J SPHF.DTTT.'p fThrraw nnH TV,rlirm*oii RailronA, commencing July 1,1873. DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAYS. IV Down Train. Up Train. Lenvc Cheraw 8.30, A. M. Leave Florence...J1.40, A. M Leave Caah'a 8.50, A. M. Leave Palmetto,.. 13..., M. Leave Society Hill.9.15, A. M. Leave Darlington. 12.20, P. M. Leave Dove'n 9.45,A.M. Leave Dove' 13.50, P.M. Leave Darlington.. 10.30, A.M. Leave Society Hill. 1.20, P. M. Leave Palmetto... 10.40, A. M. Leave Caah'a 1.50, P.M. Arrive at Florence. 11.00, A. M. Arrive at Cheraw..3.10, P. M. The Freight Train will leave Florence, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, at about 7 a. m.; and Cheraw on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, at about 7 a. m.; making the through run in from 4 to 5 hours, according to the freight, and taking care to be out of the way of the passenger train, by standing on the proper turn out at least 15 minutes before the train is due. B. D. TOWNSEND, President and Superintendent. July 31 31 tf CHARLOTTE, COL. AND AUGUSTA E. R. SUPERINTENDENTS OFFICE, 1 Columbia, S. C., June 13,1873. j THE following Passenger Schedule will be run over this road on ana after MONDAY, 16th instant: going south. Train No. 1. Train No. 2. Leave Charlotte, 4.20 A. M. Arrive at Columbia,...9.30 A. M. Leave Columbia 9.45 A. M. 3.15 A. M. Arrive at Augusta, 2.00 P. M. 8.20 A. M. going north. Leave Augusta 3.52 A. M. 5.50 P. M. | Arrive at Columbia,...8.27 A. M. 10.47 P. M. Leave Columbia 8.42 A. M. Arrive at Charlotte.... 2.00 P. M. Standard time ten minutes slower than Washington ; six minutes ahead of Columbia. No. 1 Train daily. No.>2 Train daily, Sundays excepted. Both trains make close connection to all points North, South and West. Through tickets sold and baggage checked to all principal points. JAMES ANDERSON, General Sup't. E. B. Dorsey, Gen. Freight and Ticket Agent. June 19 25 tf ATLANTA AND RICHMOND AIR-LINE RAILWAY. SCHEDULE PllO take effect JULY 23, on the Eastern Divis1 ion ATLANTA AND RICHMOND AIRLINE RAILWAY?day passenger and freight trains. GOING WEST.?Leave I GOING EAST.-Leave Charloue 8.25 A. M. Greenville, 5.00 A. M. Gaatonla, 10.18 " Spartanburg 7.40 " Klng'a Mountain*.. 11.25 ? Gaffney'e 9JO " Whitaker'8, 12.07 P.M. Black'*, 10.08 " lllack'8 12.37 ? Wliltaker'a, 10.38 " Gaffney's, 1.25 " King's Mountain*.. 11.20 " Spartanburg, 3.10 " Gaatonla, 12.32 P.M. Greenville, Arrive,...5.35 " Charlotte, Arrive,... 2.10 " Trains pass. These trains have the absolute right to the track over all others, not of the same class, except by special orders from this office. Fare by these trains, five cents per mile. By all other trains, ten cents per mile. B. Y. SAGE, Engineer and Sup't. 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 and Augusta Railroad: Leave Yorkville, promptly, at 4o'clock, A.M. Arrive at Chester at 6 o'clock, A. M. Leave Chester at 2 o'clock, P. M. Arrive at Yorkvilleat 4 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. ttp. who Drovides not for his own family, is il worse than a heathen. Necessaries and conveniences should lirst be provided. A good SEWING MACHINE has become a necessary in every family. The "AMERICAN" IS THE BEST AND CHEAPEST; containing within itself all the latest improvements. Therefore I will go at once and buy one of J. R. SCHORB & SON, Agents for York County. UNION-HERALD. 1AM agent for this spriglitlv daily, published at the Capital of the State. It contains the latest telegrams, market reports and general news, and reaches Yorkville on the day or publication. Subscriptions received for twelve, three and six months. Terms: Oneyear, $7; six months, $3.50; three months, $1.75. W. L. GRIST, News Agent. A crpiittt may learn something greatly ? to their advantage and obtain specimens and full particulars free, byaddressing WOOD'S LITERARY AND ART AGENCY, Newburgh, N. Y.RAGS WANTED^ a /"irk/"* POUNDS of clean cotton and lin1LLUUIJ en Rags wanted, for which 2 cents per pound will be paid, at the "ENQUIRER" OFFICE.