Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, January 22, 1874, Image 4

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Humottnts gepitdnifat. j AN OFFICE SEEKER. * President Madison was fond of telling the story of a visit made to him by one of his supporters. After due introductory discussion of the weather and the state of parties, the voter explained to the President that he had called upon him to ask for the office of Chief Justice of the United States. Mr. Madison was a little surprised, but with that ready tact which he had brought j from his diplomatic experience, he concealed j his astonishment. He took down the volume ! which contained the Constitution of the I United States, and explained to the man, Mr. { Sweariugin?if that were his name?that the judges held office on the tenure of good behavior, and that Judge Marshall, then the ornament of the bench, could not be re moved to make place for him. Mr. Swearingin received the announcement quietly ; and after a moment, said he thought; he should like to be Secretary of State. The President said that was undoubtedly a ' place where a man could do good service to j the country; but that Monroe, like Mr. j Swearingin and himself was a Virginian, and j he did not like to remove him. "Then," said Mr. Swearingin, "I will be Secretary of the Treasury." Unfortuuately the President said, the present incumbent was a Pennsylvanian : It was necessary to conciliate Pennsylvania; and he could not remove him. "Then," said Mr. Swearingin, "I think I will go abroad. I should like to go to France." "Dn you speak French," asked the President, kindly. "No, no ; I speak nothing but Old Dominion English?good enough for me, Mr. President. "Yes, yes ; and for me. But I don't think it will do to send you to the Monsieurs unless you can speak their language." n'Pl T> 11 a. T* 1 J ft " i nen 1 11 go 10 .ciugiuuu. "Ah, Mr. Swearingin! that will never do; King George might remember how often your father snapped his rifle at Lord Cornwallis." So Europe was exhausted. And Mr. Swearingin fell back on one and another collectorship, naval office, district-attorneyship; but, for each application, the astute President j had his reply. "I think then, Mr. President, I will be post-1 master at our office at home." Mr. Madison had forgotten where that was; but, learning that it was at Slate Creek, Four Coruers, Botetourt County, Virginia, he sent for the register. Alas! it proved that the office was in the hands of one of Morgan's veterans. Impossible to remove him ! "Truly, Mr. Madison," said Mr. Swearingin, "I am obliged to you for your attention | to my case. I see the difficulties that surround you. Now, seeing you cannot give me the chief-justice's place, nor Mr. Monroe's, nor the Treasury, nor any of these others, don't you think you could give me a pair of old leather breeches?" Mr. Madison thought he could?and did ' b.etter; gave him an order on his tailor for the breeches; and Mr. Swearingin went on his way.?From Old and New for January. A gentleman once charged his servaut, who was setting off for church, to remember the text and reneat it to him on his return home. But when questioned, Sambo's idea of the "text" seemed very vague. "Well, if you can't tell the text, you can surely tell what the sermon was about," said the master. "Oh, yes, massa, I can tell heaps of what it was about," replied Sambo. "It was about when de twelve 'postles was hungry, dere was a mighty miracle worked to feed 'era." "And what was the miracle?" "Why, sah, dah was five thousand loaves of bread aud five thousand small fishes fetched 'long by a boy to feed 'em wid !" "But Sambo," asked the master "if there was so much food where was the miracle?" "Why bress your heart, massa, de miracle was dat de 'postles *te all dat stuff and didn't bust!" toy* Josh Billings thus speaki of a new ag .I/-.H 1? uro 1 imnlomnnt In urfiioli ffip flttpntin* of farmers is invited: "John Rodgers' revolving, expauding, unceremonions, self-adjusting, self-controling, self-greasing and self-righteous hoss rake is now forever offered to the publik. These rakes are as easy to keep in repair as a hitchiu' post, and will rake up a ; paper of pins sowed broad cast in a ten acre field of wheat stubble. These rakes kan be used in winter for a hen roost, or sawed up into stove wood for the kitchen fire. No farmer of good moral character should be without this rake, even if he had tew steal one." A man who had recently been elected a major of militia, and who was not overbur- I dened with brains, took it into his head on the morning of parade, to exercise a little by himself. 9 The field selected for this purpose was his own apartment. Placing himself in a military attitude, with his sword drawn, he exclaimed: "Attention, company! Rear rank, three paces, march !" and he tumbled j down into the cellar. His wife hearing the j racket, came running in, sayiug, "My dear,! have you killed yourself?" "Go about your ; business, woman," said the hero; "what do j you know about war?" 4?* A capital story used to be told of David j Roberts. An art critic, who was his personal ; friend, nublished a sharp attack upou certain ; pictures of his just exhibited. "My dear Roberts," wrote the critic, in a j private letter, "you may have seen my remarks on your pictures; I hope they will I make no difference in our friendship. Yours, | etc., ." "My dear ," wrote the I painter, in reply, "the next time I meet you, J I shall pull your nose. I hope it will make I no difference in our friendship. Yours, etc., ! I). Roberts." "Now, young people," says a Professor : of Natural History to his class, "now then, as [ to hens. A hen has the capacity of laying j just six hundred eggs, and no more, and she j finishes the job in five years. Now, what is to be done with her after that ?" "Cut her head off and sell her for a spring chicken!" exclaimed an urchin whose father dealt in poultry. An Irish domestic, newly engaged, presented to his master, one raoruiug, a pair ofj boots, the leg of one of which was much : longer than the other. "How comes it, you ! rascal, that these boots are not of the same length ?" "I really don't know, sir; but what I nnir rlnwn ctnirs I UUIUCI 9 I|lt5 iUVOb AO bUUV bUV |n?t? WVUM WVM..W | are in the same fix." j ? Bet?" A stingy mau, who pretended to be very fond of his horse, bat kept him nearly ; starved, said to a friend, "You don't know | how much we all think of that horse. I shall i have him stuffed, so as to preserve him, when he dies." ''You'd better stuff him now," retorted his friend, "so as to preserve him liv-1 ing'" A Hartford man who had tarried late at a wine supper, found his wife waiting his , return in a high Btate of nervousness. Said ; she: "Here I've been waiting and rocking in the chair, till my head spins round like a top !" "Jess so, wife, where I've been," responded he. "It's in the atmosphere." , "Paddy, my boy," said a gentleman to an Irishman, whom he observed fishing away at a deep pool, "that must be a favorite stream i for trout." "Faith and sure it must be that same, for I have been standing here these three hours, and not one of them has come out of it." jtor To determine whether a man is drunk -or not, get him to say, "The scenery is truly rural." If he says, "trural rury," you may! put him down as drunk. 1 IpsccHamwis pending. From the Christian Union. "THE PROSTRATE STATE." HENRY WARD BEECHER ON THE FATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. It would be hard to find in the history of modern nations a more saddening or disgustful picture of the wreck and desolation of society than is presented at this moment in South Carolina; and the condition of South Carolina, we suppose, while perhaps more picturesquely miserable, is but a type of the social wretchedness and the political shame which attach to the other States of the far South. These are facts which concern not alone the States immediately immersed in this civic chaos. The nation is a partnership in diseases and disgraces as well as in benefits; with the suffering of one member all the members suffer, and whatever is a blot upon Texas or rjonrrria ctaine tlirniirrli tr> Afwino TliP timp fe > -'?* has fully arrived wheu all citizens who do not believe that "our political system can stand anything and defy anything" should condescend to cast some serious glances upon the hapless circumstances of our friends and brethren of the Southern States. Of this we may be sure; that the present apathy of Northern people upon this subject is largely conditioned on their ignorance of the real state of the case; and the difficulty with us has been that we could not all go to the South to see for ourselves, and that we could not thoroughly confide in the testimony of those who did go. It is greatly to be desired that some Northern men of real ability, and of unquestionable repute among us, could pass through the Southern lands and study the actual situation, and report to us in terms which we could altogether trust. From this point of view, we deem it an event to be particularly mentioned that one such citizen, Mr. James S. Pike, an old abolitionist, a journalist of high standing, and, by appointment of President Lincoln, late minister of the United States at the Hague, took the trouble to go to South Carolina during the last session of its Legislature, and to spend two months at its capital in the study of men and things. He has now made his report, and has embodied it in a little book, just issued by the Appletons, and bearing the gloomy title that stands at the head of this article. The hnnlr is cn email flmf if Mil bp t'PMfl ill nn evening, but it is large enough to give to every American anxious reflection for many a day. Mr. Pike finds society in South Carolina "bottom side up." The people of character and culture, who, in a normal and righteous state of affairs, would give direction and tone to public proceedings, are trampled under foot by a host of voting barbarians?"the most ignorant democracy that mankind ever saw"? "the dregs of the population habilitated in the robes of their intelligent predecessors, and asserting over them the rule of ignorance and corruption through the inexorable maehinery of a majority of numbers." Carpet-bag rule is at an end in South Carolina, for the carpet-baggers were, on the outside at least, white men. Even negroes tainted with white blood, and so unfortunate as to have the noble blackness of the ancestral complexion debilitated into some shade of yellow, are beginning to feel the contemptuous antagonism of the unmixed African, who means to have things all his own way there. By sheer force of superior numbers the ignorant and unprincipled class CO uavu UiCVCil CV/lll^lCbC j/uootooiuu Vi Lit^ ?\J V" ernmeut of the State. And what sort of a government have they formed? According to the testimouy'of Mr. Pike, the rule of South Carolina "should not be dignified with the name of a government. It is the installation of a huge system of brigandage. The men who have had it in control, and the meu who now have it in control, are the picked villains of the community. They are the highwaymen of the State. They are professional legislative robbers. They are men who have studied and practiced the art of legalized theft. They are in no sense different from, or better than, the men who fill the prisons and penitentiaries of the world. They are, in fact, of precisely that class, only more (taring and audacious. The sole, base object is to gorge the individual with public plunder. Having done it, they turn around and buy immunity for their acts by sharing their gains with the ignorant, pauperized, besotted crowd who have chosen them to the stations they fill, and which enables them thus to rob and plunder." If it be asked how the corruptions of the South C'aroliua government differ from the exceptional venality of certain Northern Legislatures, this is Mr. Pike's answer: The latter, while less in effrontry and in degree than the former, and springing from different causes, can also "be promptly remedied by exposure anu by an appeal to the intelligence and virtue of the constituency : in the other case. there is no such tribunal to appeal to. It is a moral morass, in which there is neither standing nor holding ground." "So tainted is the atmosphere with corruption, so universally implicated is everybody about the government, of such a character are the ornaments of society at the capital, that there is no such thing as an influential local opinion to be brought against the scamps. They plunder and glory in it. 'How did you get your money ?' was asked of a prominent legislator and lobbyist. 'I stole it', was the prompt reply." The impression made upon us by Mr. Pike's report concerning the prostrate State is that nothing can save society there from utter dissolution but the speedy achievement of rule by the classes who ought always to rule. We regret that Mr. Pike, in announcing an opinion substantially the same as this, seems to us to imply that these classes can be ascertained by color. We know that this cannot be his real meaning, but the force and value of his book are likely to be abated by a certain indiscriminate denunciation of black men because they are black, and an equally indiscriminate commendation of white men because they are white. What is wanted to save South Carolina is not a rally of white people against black people ; but of honest men of all colors against scoundrels of all colors. We must not despair of the Republic, even though that Republic be South Carolina, and even though it has become a den of thieves. And the specific advice which Mr. Pike gives as a suggestion of remedy to the people of that State is, in the main, wise and good. He advises them to hold ou to the faith that the State can be redeemed ; to make a systematic effort to attract foreign immigration to the .State; to get rid of their hereditary prejudice against strangers, and of their old-time intolerance of opposing opinions. It is not a war of races or of colors that should be brought on ; but a calm, resolute, patient increase and combination of the forces of good in society against the forces of evil. Society needs to be turned right side up; and in this effort let all men help who can, whatever be their color. Loafing.?We quote the following from an exchange, and we recommend it to all our readers: "Young man, pay attention. Don't be a loafer ; don't keep a loafer's company ; don't hatig about loafing places. Better work than to sit around day after day, or stand about corners with your hands in your pockets? better for your own 'health and prospects. Bustle about, if you have anything to bustle about for. Many a poor physician has obtained a real patient by riding after an imaginary one. A quire of blank paper tied with a red tape, carried under a lawyer's arm, may procure him his first case and make his fortune. Such is the word?'to him that hath shall be given.' Quit dreaming and complaining ; keep busy airtl mind your chances." Take the above advice and then all will go well. Idleness is the mother of mischief. At Lapeer, Michigan, on Tuesday night of last week, the house of Jacob McManigal was burned, and the entire family, consisting of husband, wife and child, perished in the flames. j Children's fcpartmcnt. \ [Original.] POOR. Perhaps there is more grumbling in this world on account of poverty, than on account J of all other causes combined. At an early ! age, children learn to complain that they o | were born poor. Parents teach their children ii that poverty is a kind of disgrace, by the way h they talk to them about persons. Individuals e arc often spoken of in the presence of their g family, as rich, or poor. The door of the 9) j house is always open to the rich, and the poor u i gain admittance after long knocking. This p state of things argues a morbid and diseased v state of society. It is absolutely no honor to t! a boy to he born rich, and it is no disgrace to w be born poor. Decency and riches have no tl more connection than any two things that are a wholly dissimilar. On the other hand, pover- gi ty and infamy have no inseparable connec- g] tion. Fill an Arnold's purse with diamonds o and he would be a traitor still. All the gems j of Golconda could not take away the mean j soul that was in him. Some, if not the greatest j number, of the most illustrious men that ever ! lived, were born poor, lived poor, and died ti ; poor. Little boy, if the fact that you were j n 1 born poor, is the only reason you have to c | hold down yoyx head, raise it. Gold can v | neither give muscles nor brains. The field is ti open, and you have as fair an opportunity to j h leave your impress upon the world as the son j o of the richest banker on earth. You need not o throw yourself away because you were born i g poor. i I * o [Original] THE STOMACH. c Si The stomach is "a rausculo membranou? reservoir." This is the definition which is given by Webster, and we have no doubt it is in the main as correct as any that could be j given. In shape, the stomach resembles a i .i ! I. ,1 i T. ^ norn, very mica out very snuru n is uuiiiposed of three coats. The outside one is 0 called the serous coat, and is tough and strong; the middle coat is denominated the muscular ^ coat, and is composed of two sets of muscles, K I the one set arranged lengthwise and the other 11 ! in a circle. The inside coat is called the ^ mucus coat, and is arranged in folds so as to present a wriukled appearance. The stomach is called a reservoir, because Si it is designed to receive all the food that is ^ taken into the mouth ; it is also, with propriety, called * reservoir, because from it every other part of the body receives supplies to keep the animal organism in existence. ^ In an old fable there is related a convcrsa- t] tion which purports to have taken place be- a tween the other members of the body and the ]( stomach. The hands and feet determined ]( that since they had all the work to do, and c the stomach did nothing, that they would a withhold from the stomach the fruits of their t( toil. The result was very different from t| what the other members of the body expect- n ed. The limbs became weak, the body ema- f ciatcd, and it was evident that death would soon ensue unless they gave the idle stomach, ^ as they had called it, a supply of food. tl Generally speaking, the stomach gets but A little credit for what it does. It is often \\ abused for being an idle consumer; but when s< the truth is known, it does more work than G any other member of the animal. The food ti which supports every part of the body, is ft taken into the mouth, chewed and then passes tl down a membranous tube which pierces the w diaphragm. By this tube the food is emptied h into the stomach, and then it undergoes most C wonderful changes. When the food reaches ft the stomach, it goes to work to dissolve all ei the solids and reduce them to a fluid state, e' All that will make flesh afid bone is separa- ir ted, and that which will subserve no purpose, ft is cast off as waste material. The solids are w converted into a fluid state by a powerful I solvent, called gastric-juice. The muscular a coat of the stomach contracts and changes b the position of all solids within it, so as to o bring them in direct contact with this juice, n When anything that is poisonous enters the G stomach, an effort is made to throw it off?to ti vomit, and there is a valve connected with tl the stomach that will not let any solid pass ti through until it is dissolved, or imbeded in ti something else that has been dissolved. p All this may seem curious, and it is so; b but the most wonderful thing is the chemical t( powers of the stomach. The stomach of every g living animal is a great laboratory, in which 1) wonderful chemical combinations and forma- tl tions are daily and hourly going on. ' C We turn a calf and a pig into a grass-lot and both grow fat. Both eat the same food, tl i and drink out of the same spring. In the Ql green grass we can detect n^fatty matter, no flesh, 110 bones; yet the stomachs of the calf and pig convert a part of this green grass into hi fat, a part into llesh and a part into bones. 0:1 We do not say that all this is done by the A stomach alone. It has assistants; but the main part of tlie work depends upon the di- hi rect agency of the stomach. That must be a C wonderful piece of mechanism that can take N a sprig of crab-grass or a bunch of red clover cc j and convert it into blood and bones. Not si i only is the stomach a powerful worker, but it K I is also a delicate worker. We give a child a G I nioop. of bread. It eats it. Nothing more is w I* ! thought of it. The stomach goes to work, tl ! and out of that piece of bread it continues the b' | work of repairing and building up a body tl j that is beautiful in form and graceful in move- ai , racnt. The rose that blooms upom the cheek ti i of a blushing maid, may for aught we kuow, cl j have been made out of Irish potatoes and tl j buttermilk. The same material may have is j been all that was given the stomach to make ci j the muscles of the giant. The stomach of an al j ostrich will grind up an old shoe sole. Yet p 1 out of this ugly material it will make, or help ai | to make, those beautiful feathers which deck k ' the heads of princes. It has great power, but tl | exquisite delicacy. If the question be asked, j where does the stomach get those delicate oi j colors which often decorate and beautify tl ' the plumage of birds ? We can only say no w i one certainly knows. No one knows where rr J the rose bush gets the delicate tints that beau- t* I tify the bloom. One of the wonders of na- it : ture is how the stomachs of different animals n make different things out of the same mate- ci rial. By the stomach. of both the cow and j hog, grass is made into fat. By the stomach I b ! of the cow it is made into tallow, and by the ! a | stomach of the hog it is made into lard, j v Tallow and lard are both grease; but they i t( are so different that any child can tell the j tl ? rr<i l _l_ 4. I ? one from the other, iney iook. uujerem,, u taste different, smell different and feel differ-, T cut. The stomach is h master builder. 1 p The benefactor always retains some af- b lection for the person whom hejias benefited, j h No extent of ingratitude succeeds in utterly , w effacing this kindly feeling on the part of the j b benefactor. ! ri ? . i ' r l&jr Write it on the heart that every day is , the best day in the year. No man has learned , " j anything rightly till he knows that every day | n 1 is doomsday. ' w leading foe the ?ahhaib.j 00 N DUCTEI) BY KEV. ROMEUT LATHAN. [Original.] DETECTIVES. Some people in this world are continually n the look out for some notorious sin. Nothig seems to give them more delight than to ear of some poor, unfortunate creature, in an vil hour, and under strong temptation, pinning into heinous crimes. These persons sarch for sin as men search for hidden treasres. It is a little strange that this class of ersons rarely search themselves. They reigh everybody else in the scales, but suffer licmselves to go unweighed. They, as a rhole, are a set of notorious sinners, blind to heir own sins, and keen-sighted to the faults nd failures of others. Their morality conists in detecting how far others fail and come hort of doing their duty. They arc a kind f religious detectives, who conceal their own lults by making public the faults of others. [ Original.] GUILT. There is, probably, nothing so uimcuit as d conceal guilt. A guilty conscience will ot let us rest. It makes us suspicious. We an, in the most positive terms, declare that ,-e are innocent; but we find it no easy mat2r to look and act innocent. Sometimes we car persons saying that they are suspected f being guilty of such and such a crime. No ne, they say, has ever said that they are uilty; but they know they are suspected, n nine cases out of ten, this itself is evidence f guilt. Often, individuals come to the conlusion that the minister of the gospel is peroual in his public discourses. They get mad nd flare up, and often say hard things about he poor preacher who, in all probability, did ot know the individual was in the house, n ninety-nine cases out of every hundred, fhen a person gets mad at the denunciation f any sin, he is guilty of that sin. Guilt aakes a brave man a coward, and he flees ,'hen no man pursues him. The guilty man s afraid of his own shadow. He thinks every inn is about to treat him as he has treated ""a Ha/1 ortf o r%-\ n t'lr nnnn floni tllP JllitJ uuu. \J|uu obi a. uiui u u^vu ?? w rst murderer, and every murderer siuce }ain, has had a mark set upou him tkat reeals the fact to the observer. A guilty consience often makes a beautiful face look disirted. [Original.J LABORERS WITH GOD. In the church at Corinth, there sprung up ivisions amongst the members. Some of lem claimed to be the followers of Paul, nd others declared that they were the foliwers of Apollos. Between Paul and Apol)s there existed no doctrinal difference. The reed of both Was the same. Their hearers, s the members of modern congregations ofiu do, lost sight of the gospel preached by lese ministers, and became followers of the len, aud not of Christ, whom they preached. 11 the 9th verse of the 3d chapter of 1st Corlthians, we find these words: "We are laorers together with God." It is evident lat the translators thought that the idea the ipostle had in view when using these words, 'us that ministers of the gospel, as lie 111mjlf and Apollos were, are joint laborers with rod in the salvation of the sinner. This is :ue, as we propose to show ; but it is doubtj1 whether this was the prominent idea in le mind of the Apostle when using these ords. From the context, it would seem that e designed impressing upon the minds of the Jorinthian church, that he and Apollos, so ir from being divided, were laboring togethr in the same good work of preaching the verlasting gospel to sinners. Thus would he npress it upon their miuds that those who dlowed Paul, followed also Apollos. The ords themselves admit of this construction, t is, however, true, that Paul and Apollos, nd all other ministers of the gospel, are laorers together with God in the great work f Christianizing the world. Not only are linistersof the gospel laborers together with rod in this work of salvation, but all Chrisans are chosen of God to work with him in le evangelizing of the world. The redempon of the world is the exclusive work of the lune-Uod. Christ lurmshea tue ransom rice of the sinner. With this no created eing had anything to do. It was all of God ) man, an unmerited gift, and hence all of race. Salvation and redemption, technicalr, are not the same. Redemption means, in le proper sense, ransom by the blood of hrist from the penalties of God's violated iw. Man became a sinner by transgressing le law of God. So soon as he became a siner, he became liable to the penalties of the lw which he violated. This penalty was eath. Christ redeemed him by dying for im. Salvatiou, in its theological sense, leans the deliverauce from the reigning inuence of sin, and preparation for heaven. In this work of preparing the sinner for eaven, ministers of the gospel, and professed hristians, are workers together with God. o one can accomplish anything, either in the mviction, conversion or sanctification of the ; ' # | nner, without the direct operation of the [oly Spirit upon the sinner; but commonly, od uses men as instruments for effecting the ork of saving siuners. Not only is it true, iat a Paul may plant and an Apollos water, Lit unless God effects a change of heart,! lere will be no increase, We find something i nalogous to this in nature. God furnishes I le soil, the rain, the suushine, and the mus- ' es of the man; but unless the man labor 1 lere will be no harvest. The husbandman a laborer together with God in making a > *op. The increase of the field depends most I < bsolutely upon God, and yet it seems to de end wholly upon the tiller of the soil. God : nd the husbandman labor together in ma- : ing the bread which feeds the household of ie latter. In the work of salvation everything is well rdered. Every one has a work .to do, and ! lere is work enough for all. The command i hich all indiscriminately receive is, go into i iv vinevard and work. The man of one J ~ J ilent is not permitted to spend the day in | lleness on account of his poverty, and the lan who has ten talents is not excused be-; iuse he has been blessed with much. In a practical point of view, a large num- i er of professed Christians think, or at least j ct, as if they had nothing to do with the salation of the world. Their Christianity ex- j jnds no farther than self. In opposition to lis theory, God holds each one of us accountble to him for the salvation of some one. j 'here is a sense in which every man is a ' reacher of the gospel. He is set apart, not y laying on of the hands of bishops or presyters ; but by the ordinance of the king and ead of the church. The poor ma*n, as he orks at his daily labor, must preach Christ; e must work with God and under God's disction for the salvation of his fellow mortals.' 'he mother, as she attends to her household uties, must preach Christ. She, too, has been lade a laborer, together with God, in this 'ork of saving sinners. iltc fmlmllc (ttiquutt. 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Announcements of Marriages anil Deaths,and notices of a roligionsciiaracter, inserted gratis, and solicited. fr.iT Personal Communications, when admissable; Communications of limited or individual interest, or recommendations of Candidates for offices of honor, prolit or trust, will be charged for as advertisements. J. H. ADAMS. FALL AND WINTER GOODS ! In announcing the receipt of my purchases for the FALL TEADE, it affords me pleasure to inform my customers and the public generally that in point of elegance, my stock is QT iTE COMPLETE. I am enabled to offer unprecedented attractions both in quality of Goods and* prices. Tlio Ladies will find full and complete lines of DRESS GOODS AND TRIMMINGS, including all the Novelties / of the season. GENT'S CLOTHING AND FURNISHING GOODS, of the best grades and MOST FASHIONABLE STYLES. HATS, CAPS, ROOTS AND SHOES, with the % usual assortment and variety kept IN A FIRST-CLASS HOUSE. Thankful for past patronage, and being determined to merit a continuance of the same, I respeetfnllysolicit AN EXAMINATION OF GOODS AND PRICES. JOHN H. ADAMS. ana?????? ?? STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF YORK-COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. William E. Erwin and George J. Steele, Administrators of the estate and effects of George Steele, Plaintiffs, against James M. Erwin, Defendant.?Copy Summon# for Money Demand. TO JAMES M. ERWIN, Defendant in this action. "VTOU are hereby summoned and required to anX swer the complaint in this action, which was this day filed in the oflice of the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for York County, and to serve a cony of your answer 011 the subscriber, at his office, in Yorkville, South Carolina, within twenty days after the service of this summons on you,* exclusive of the day of sucli service. If you fail to answer this complaint within the time aforesaid, the plaintiff in this action will take judgment against you for the sum of two hundred and twenty-four dollars and ninety-six cents, with annual interest at the rate of seven percent, per annum, from the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, less one hundred and fifty dollars paid Juno 18th,*1800, as also costs. Dated Yorkville, S. C., December loth, IST.'l. JAMES F. IIAllT, Plaintiffs'Attorney. January 1 1 6t ROSE'S HOTEL; (FORMERLY HUNT'S HOTEL.) COLUMBIA, S. O. TIIIS HOUSE is in the centre of the city, convenient to all the Public Ollices 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 tirst-class Carriage for the accommodation of ladies. TRANSIENT BOARD $2.50 per day. W. E. ROSE, Proprietor. September 18 38 tf BOOT AND SIIOE3IAKI\TG. THE undersigned respectfully announces to his friends and the public in general, that he is prepared with A FINE STOCK OF MATERIAL, in his line, suitable to the wants of every customer, who may give him a call. They may not only obtain an article of good quality AT A REASONABLE PRICE, but are also certain to secure what is equally as desirable, a good lit and fashionable style. These are advantages which should not be overlooked. Special attention is called to the celebrated cloth top Congress Gaiter and the Congress Shoe FOR SPRING AND SUMMER WEAR. Also, on liaml, a good stock of light and heavy BROtlANS and OXFORD TIES, which are warranted to give entire satisfaction for tlie price paid. piir Special and prompt attention is given to repairing. l'\ CJIRISTMAN, Agent. March 28 13 tf THE HOME SHUTTLE SEWING MACHINE. HE host Cheap Machine in the Market. If the number sold is a criterion of merit, it is the REST MACHINE in* use, as there have been more 1IOME SHUTTLE MACHINES sold in the State during the last twelve months than all other Sewing Machines combined. You can buy a 1IOME SHUTTLE MACHINE for about half the money you will have to pay for a lirst-olass Machine. Home Shuttle Needles kept constantly on hand. Any Home Shuttle Attachment furnished at short notice. Repairing promptlv attended to, W. L. GRIST, Agent. November (i 45 tf WORKERS WANTED] FOR WOOD'S HOUSEHOLD MAGAZINE, WHICH, with its Premiums, is one of the most attractive in tho country. Price of .Magazine, ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. Commissions liberal, ottering a lucrative ami agreeable business to tlioso willing to give it the proper attention. VOL. XIII BEGINS WITH JULY, 1873. Examine our Clubbing and Premium Lists. Two first-class periodicals for the price of one. For specimen Magazine, and further infornia- j lion, address WOOD'S HOUSEHOLD MAGAZINE, S. E. Siiittks, Publisher. Ncwburg, N. Y. January 1 1 tf TIIE BEST PRESENT THAT a husband can give to his wife is a re-i ceipt for a year's subscription ( ? ">.00) to the! CHRISTIAN OBSERVER, of Louisville, one of the largest and best of family religious newspapers, Presbyterian, but not! sectarian, eontainingarlieles on practical religion from some of the ablest ministers in the South, j, able editorials, stories for the young, religious ) news from all tho other denominations, miscella- ! ncous, scientific, fanning and literary depart- | incuts, general intelligence, wholesale markets. | For specimen copies (sent free to any address), > containing list of premiums, write to ! A. ? F. B. CONVERSE, Publishers, I Louisville, Ky. | January 1 1 tf I TRIUMPHANT! THE CAROLINA FERTILIZER WILL UK SOLD AS FOLLOWS Cash Price, $50 PER TON OF 2000 LBS. Time Price. $55 PER TON OF 2000 LBS. PAYABLE NOVEMBER I, 1874, FREE OF INTEREST, Freight and Dravage to bo added. ITS SUCCESS IS UNPARALLELED, AND ITS STANDARD IS A. jSTO. 1. ACID PHOSPHATE WILL J)E SOLD AS FOLLOWS: Cash Price, $33 PER TON OF 2000 LBS. Time Price, $38 PER TON OF 2000 LBS. * PAYABLE NOVEMBER 1, 1874, FREE OF INTEREST, Freight and Dravage to ho added. FOR SALE BY CARROLL, CLARK & CO., YORKVILLE. S. C. GEORGE W. WILLIAMS & CO., General Agents, at Charleston, S. C. January 15 3 4m TilE ('()C)KING S'il)VKS manufactured at our works in Greensboro, N. C., give universal satisfaction wherever introduced. Tliev are made of the BUST SCOTCH PIG METAL, with heavier and thicker plate than any other Stove in the market, and consequently will the longer withstand heat and hard usage. They are of hand some pattern and neat finish, and warranted equal in every other respect to any Cooking Stove sold in the United States, while it'is contidentlyclaimcd that they are the CHEAPEST. All the usual pieces of ware and cooking utensils are furnished with each Stove. An important consideration with purchasers is the fact that our patterns and sizes arc never changed. Should a piece get accidentally broken at any time, we can replace it at the mere cost of casting. Not simply because it is a home production, but on account of its intrinsic merits as an article of household economy, do we ask the patronage of home purchasers. More than ONE THOUSAND of these"Stoves are now in use, and among many others having their, we respectfully refer to the following: R. K.Guthrie, D. M. Campbell, M. II. Currence, York county; Mrs. Elizabeth J. Wylic, Chester; I). A. Gordon, Gnthriesville; John A. Brown, Rock Hill; B. P. Boyd, Joseph Herndon, L. M. Grist, Yorkville. You can save the freight from the northern cities and the dealer's profit, which is 110 small item, 1 1 ' ??* oAttin Unifl r?nf o l)y DUVHlj^ CM US, illlil ill tui; ^ujiiG iiiiio u STOVE THAT IS MORE DURABLE than those of northern make. The following arc our prices, delivered at depot in Greensboro: No. 8, with 10 pieces wareaud 8 feet pipe, $30 00 <? 7 ? w u u n it it 26 00 Address, SERGEANT McCAULEY, Greensboro, N. C. L. M. GRIST, the proprietor of the Enquirkr, will receive and forward orders for the above Stoves. September 18 38 ly ^ i BmMmJBrimvmSSnppliaMaul&p, \ U iT. iBraj&dsJfemls RdiZBdkj&rsiWuv GmixL, \ H A SktejjdMirile2wdks;FloorandJ)riui \ fT Cm n Tiltyp White Bine, WilmtEjuyLmnioy \ 2 H \ USinrtMiAmfiieWbodt&.Ck \ v k b . . AUWorhWdrranted. \ ^ fa \ LOWEST PRICES. \ r H ! SendftrTriceLtifc \ " Slh.hall&co.S j Jfam/iefarm tcJJrtUrh K a HtjA.G, dJD.Zferkzt Street, fZ jM 223.225,-EntBay)' ; |jj CHARLESTON, This Cut entered areorilingto Act of Congress, in the year 1873, by 1. II. Ham. & Co., in tilt* office of the Librarian of Congifss,at Washington. July.'} '27 ly vCOUGnS,SOP.E ^CMKV.'nk THP.OAT.INELUENZA, WII001?Ato^Lsflh^NnLk iNO couon, A^/iHKkj YtTA Croup, Brosciut?S# \^\ >8< Asthma, and . I ^"-5 439^8Hp M over)' affection ??f Ifll 1,10 R"ATal"' li|CUEST\ a,ro manently cured by ^f/j^TTn'^r tho uso of Dr. Wistar's Balsam or i Wild C ii e it ky, which does not dry up a cough and leave tho cause behind, but loosens it, cleanses tho lungs and allays Irritation, thus removing the cauao of tho complaint CONSUMPTION CAN BE CUBED by a timely resort to this standard i^medy, as is proved hv Hundreds of testimonials it has received. Tho aenuine is signed "/. Butt*" on the wrapper, SETJI W. FOWl.K <fc SONS, Proprietors, Boston, Mass. Sold by dealers generally. October 2 40 ly J. S. R. THOMSON, SOLICITOR IN BANKRUPTCY, YORKV1LLE, S. O. Special attention given to the filing of Pe- i titions. i SPECIFIC MEDICINES. | PREPARED expressly for and adapted to the I Southern Climate, 'COMPOUND EXTRACT CORY DA LIS" 1 | Is the most powerful and efficient alterative and x I hlood-puritier known. Prepared expressly for ! Scrofula, Eruptions of the Skin and all diseases ; which are produced by bad or unhealthy blood. "DR. GREENE'S FIT CURE" ; Cures all kinds of Fits, Spawns and Convulsions \ which arise from irritation of the nerve centres. | In Epilepsy, it often stops the fits from tho first I day's use even when they haveoxisted for years. "MEDICATED HONEY," : The great remedy for Asthma, Bronchitis, Coughs, I Colds, Croup, Sore-Throat and all diseases of the i air passages and lungs. It does not sicken the I patient, is pleasant to hike, prompt in its action * and does not injure the appetite or impair digestion, as most Expectorants do. OUR "NEURALGIA SPECIFIC" ^ Is a perfect specific for Neuralgia, Sciatica, v llhcuniatism and all muscular or nervous pains, ' ^ wherever situated. These medicines are prepared wjiu great care i from perfectly reliable drugs, and for the especial ( lasses of diseases named on each bottle. No one | of them is claimed as a "cure all." They are identically the same that we have used in our private practice for years, and in thus presenting them to the public we know whereof we affirm. They are safe, reliable and efficient, acting nuickly and thoroughly. Try them, and you will want no others. Ask your Druggist for tnein. For sale by J. C. KUYKENDAL, Yorkville, S C. Prepared only by DKS. GREENE, LINDLEY & BENTLEY, Charlotte, N^C. ^ N. B.?Cancers, Tumors and Ulcers treated as heretofore by "Kline's Great Cancer Antidotes" at Charlotte, Goldsboro and Ashcyille, N. C. Decombor 18 33 ly PIEDMONT AIR-LINE EAIIWAY 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, October 12th, 1873. GOING NORTH" STATIONS. r MAIL. EXPRESS. Leave Charlotte 10.00 P. M. 8.15 A. M. " Air-Line Junct'n,T0.IJ6 " 8.30 " " Salisbury | 1.06 A.M. 10.21 ? ? Greensboro I 3.30 " 12.45 P. M. " Danville ! 6.20 ? 3.12 " 1 " Rurkville.....J...'11.35 " 7.36 " Arrive nt Richmond....! 2.17 I\ M. 10.17 " ^ ~~ GOING SOUTH. STATfONs! j MAIL. I EXPRESS. Leave Richmond 1.28 P. M. 6.00 A.M. " Bnrkevillo : 4.45 ' j 8.29 " " Danville....!....' 3.18 " ' 12.45 P.M. " Greensboro j 12.20 A.M.1 3.50 " " Salisbury, .j 2.38 " j 6.06 " Air-i.inejuncrn.j i.m i o.iu Arrive at Charlotte j 4.35 " | 8.15 " > "EAST AND WEST | GOING EAST. | GOING WEST. STATIONS. I MAIL. I MAIL. ' S3 Leave Greensboro I g 3.05 A. M. ' ArTive 12.20 A. M. " Company Shops., i c. 4.45 " jo. 9.35 " ? Iilllsboro .... ? 1 = 7.47 " " Raleigh :? 8.35 " |?j 5.26 ? Arrive at Goldsboro | s 11.15 ? | g Leave 2.30 P. M. NORTH-WESTERN N. C. RAILROAD. (SALEM BRANCH.) . * Leave Greensboro 4.30 P. M. Arrive at Kernersville,.., 5.26 P. M. Leave Kernersville, 8.00 A.M. Arrive at Greensboro 10.00 A. M. _ Mail trains daily both ways. On Sundays Lynchbnrg Accommodation leaves Richmond at 9.42 A. M.; arrives at Burkeville T* 12.45 P. M.; leaves Burkeville 5.35 A. M.; arrives at Richmond 8.44 P. M. Pullman Palace Cars on all night trains between ? Charlotte and Richmond, (without change.) For furthor information, address J i S. E. ALLEN, General Ticket Agent, T. M. R. TALCOTT. Greensboro, N. C. Engr. and Gen. Supt. THE SHORT LINE SCHEDULE. CHARLOTTE, COL. & AUGUSTA R. R. CO.,) Columbia, S. C., October24,1873. J atTV r/illnn-ino Pomon crnr S/'hoH 111 will he Min r | niiii n/nw?. iiih * ... X over tins road on and after SUNDAY, 26th instant: ? going north. .. j Train No. 2. Train No. 4. Leave Augusta 6.30 A. M. 4.15 P. M. " Graniteville,...*7.33 A. M. 5.11 P. M. " Batesvillc 9.43 A. M. fl.22 P. M. " Columbia 11.58 A. M. 9.37 P. M. " Chester, J4.28 P. M. 2.28 A. M. Arrive at Charlotte...f7.08 P. M. *5.15 A. M. No. 2 Train makes close connection, via Rich- .J mond, to all points North, arriving at New York at 6.40 A. M.; also, via Raleigh ana Old Bay Line, arriving at New York at 4.25 P. M. No. 4 Train makes close connection, via Richmond, to all ^ points North, arriving at New York at 4.25 P. M. ^ going south. Train No. 1. Train No. 3. Leave Charlotte, *7.00 A. M. 8.30 P. M. J " Chester 9.54 A. M. 10.58 P. M. " Columbia +2.48 P. M. 3.40 A. M. " Batesville 4.57 P. M. 5.43 A. M. " Graniteville,...f7.15 P. M. *7.48 A. M. Arrive at Augusta 8.05 P. M. 8.45 A. M. "Breakfast. ^Dinner. fSuppor. South bound Trains connect at Augusta for all points South and West. Through tickets sold and baggage checked to all principal points. Sleeping cars on all Night Trains. JAMES ANDERSON, General Sup't. E. R. Doiusky, Gen. Passenger and Ticket Agent. CHERAW AND DARLINGTON R. E0AD. j PRESIDENT'S OFFICE,) Cheraw & Darlington Railroad Co.; V Society Hill, S. C., October 10, 1873. J j CIIAXGE OF SCHEDULE, . 1 ON and after MONDAY, 13th of October, the jd passenger train will run as follows: 'i Down Train. Up Train. ' Leave Clieraw 8.00, A. M. Leave Florence.,..3.00, P. M. Leave Cach'a 8.20, A. M. Leave Palmetto,....3.20, P. M. Leave Society Hill.8.45, A. M. Leave Darlington...3.40,P. M. Leave Dove's 9.15, A. M. Leave Dove's 4.15, P.M. , Leave Dnrlington. .9.50, A. M. Leave Society Hill.4.45, P. M. Leave Palmetto... 10.10, A. M. Leave Cash's 5.10, P.M. Arrive at Florence. 10.30, A. M. Arrive at Clieraw..5.30, P. M\ I' The Freight Train will continue for the present to run as heretofore, except to adapt its running and stoppages to the changed schedule of the passenger train.. B. D. TOWNSEND, President. J KING'S MOUNTAIN R. ROAD. CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. 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 7o'clock, A.M. Arrive at Chester at (To'clock, A. M. Leave Chester at 41 o'clock, P. M. Arrive at Yorkvilleat 61 o'clock, P. M. i All Freights must be delivered at the Depot by j 4 o'clock, P. M., on the evenings previous to the I departure of the train. * """ GEORGE W.'MELTON, President. Cooking- and Heating Stoves at Retail. Pictnres of* each, with fall descriptions, as well as prices and lists of furniture for Cook Stoves, will be promptly sent on application. william shepherd & co., Charleston, S. C. September 4 * 36 6m a sensTble man's logic. HE who provides not for his own family, is worse than a heathen. Necessaries and c<fnveniences should first 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 goat once and buy one of J. R. SCHORB & SON, Agents for York County. OUR PARTNERSHIP WITHHOLD SOL'' | STILL continues, and we are prepared, better than ever, to execute PHOTOGRAPHIC PICTURES of every style, at our gallery in the "Adickes' Building." A lot of nice ALBUMS always on hand. Also, Stereoscopes and Views. J. R. SCHORB <fe SON. December 5 49 lv ; . . . . ? J MISSOURI TRIPOLI. U JUST received a lot of Missouri Tripoli, espe- i eiully adapted to housekeeps for polishing Plated-ware, Brass, Steel, Glass, or any materia, where a brilliant lustre is required. Full directions accompany each package. For sale by W. L. GRIST, Agent. August 14 33 3m RAGS WANTED. * A POUNDS of clean cotton and linlvf.'lUIl en Rags wanted, for which 2 cents per pound will be paid, at the -4 "ENQUIRER" OFFICE. * MACHINE NEEDLES. A LOT OF HOME SHUTTLE MACHINE NEEDLES justnrrivedand 4>r sale by W. L. GRIST, Agent.