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jituttaMuis fcparttueut. A TOUGH CUSTOMER. The following story is told of an old time ! "local" of Cincinnati, who has gone to that i undiscovered country from whose bourne no ! local returns any sooner than other people. He had induced a tailor to trust him for a suit I of clothes. After considerable time had elapsed, the tailor called on him and presented the bill for payment. "That bill isn't right," said the local, after glancing at it. "What's the matter with it?" asked the man of tape and shears. "Didn't have any coat?never ordered a | coat. I got a pair of pants and a vest, but no coat." "Certainly, you had a coat. I made you a whole suit all of one piece." "You tailors are all of a piece. I'll pay ; you for vest and pants, but I'll be hanged if I'll pay you for a coat, 'cause I didn't have j one." "Well," said the tailor, glad to get some- j thing ou the bill, "Pay nie for the vest and ' pauts." "Now you're talking sense," said the picker- j up of city items; "come Saturday with the ; bill made out right, and I'll settle it." Saturday came, and with it the tailor, bring- ! ing a bill for vest and pants. Local looked i at it then burst out: "What robbers you tailors are ! Here you've got me charged with vest and pants. Re- i member the vest very well, but you never ; made a pair of pants for me in all your life? at least, I never ordered you to." "Well, confound it, pay me for the vest, j and I'll say no more about it." "All right," said the local; "drop in Wed- j nesday, and I will settle for the vest." The tailor did drop in ou Wednesday with j a bid for the vest. As soon as the local saw him he sprang to his feet with an impatient air, thrust his hand into his vest pocket, < bringing out a small roll of scrip, and ex-| claimed ; "See here, Sam Thomas, tell me j how much that pair of socks was, and I'll pay the bill. I'm tired of having you running here every day for that little account. Tailoring's dull, ain't it?" Sam went away sorrowing, for he was a man ' of great possession?in bills. Woman's Eights.?The following are the ; opening sentences of an address on this sub- j ject by Mrs. Skinner: Miss President, feller wimmeu, and male i trash generally: I am here to-day for the ! purpose of discussing woman's rights, recus-j sing their wrongs, and cussing the men. I believe both sexes were created perfectly equal, with the woman a little more equal than the man. I also believe that the world would be happier to-day if man had never existed. As a success, man is a failure, and I bless the stars that my mother was a woman ! I not only maintain these principles, but maintain a shirtless husband besides. They say that man was created first. Well, s pose fie was. Am t first experiments always failures ? If I was a betting man, I would bet $2.50 they are. The only deceut thing about him was a rib that went to make something better. And then they throw into our face about taking an apple. I'll bet five dollars that Adam boosted her up the tree and only gave her the core. And what did he do when he was found out ? True to his masculine instincts, he sneaked behind Eve's Grecian bend, and said: "'Twasn't me;'twas heraud woman has had to father everything mean and mother it too. What we want is the ballot, aud the ballot we're bound to have, if we let down our back hair and swim iu a sea of sanguinary gore. Two Ancient Families.?A very searching investigation was carried on, a few 'years ago, in the north of England, by two families, who were hunting up their respective ancestry. The strife was great between them, each one being determined to look back in antiquity farther than the other. ()ne of the families, whose name was Spencer, employed an artist to paint an historic scene representing the building of the ark by Noah 1 1 . _ a 1. sitiu ins sons, wun us multitudinous cargo. On the gang-plank leading to the deck of the ark, two men wereseeu rolling up a huge box, on one side of which was painted, in large letters, "Relics, insignia and papers belonging to the Spencer family." This was considered a coup d'etat hard to beat, but the other family, not to be outdone in the antediluvian pretensions of theirname, prepared, at great cost and research, a record of their antiquity. In describing the exploits of one of their ancestors at a very early day, who was represented as a man of great authority, this remarkable passage occurs: "During this year Adam and Eve were driven out of Paradise !" Then* He Wasn't Afraid.?A good story is told of the manner in which the English volunteer artillery practice with an Armstrong gun, by the London Figaro. Having set upon Rye Leach a target a little larger than a man, they stationed about twenty yards j away from it, in a lateral direction, one of llldl ililllJUCl IV HUM II ao XJ ' L \J Haul | away the shrimpers. The first shots ffew | wide of their mark, some of them so ferocious-1 ly near to Bob that he got nervous, and was j about to go away from there, when suddenly, i spang! went a big ball through the centre of | the target. "I'm all right now," said Robert, ! calmly feeling for his pipe; "they've laid ou | another gunner, and the fool is firing at me. j I'll have a good smoke." ?k&~ A youug lady in San Jose, Cal., about ' a month ago, secretly married the man of her choice, and then weut right along attending to her business as though nothing had happened. But the other day the happy couple con- j eluded to publish their marriage in the Mer- j eiiry, and the old man saw it. Showing the I uotice to his daughter, he sternly demanded, j "What does this mean ; is it a joke, Maria Jane, or is it reality?" The daughter raised j her head, her face suffused with blushes, ami answered : "Yes, father, it is a joke?on you!" j The old man weakened. ? a 1'ikckof jmpudknci:.? mis anecuote is as good as it is old : A college professor encouraged his geology class to collect speci-1 mens; and one day they deposited a piece of brick, streaked and stained, with their collections, thinking to impose on the doctor. Tak- j ing up the specimens, the professor remarked, 'This is a piece of baryta from the Cheshire J mines." Holding up another: "This is a piece of feldspar from the Portland quarries. And this," coming to the brick, "is a piece of impudeuce from some member of the class." ? ? - - ? "Too Thin."? A few days since a Washington Street tailor hung out a sign, "Thin Coat Makers Wanted." In a short time an exceedingly narrow-chested and cadaverouslooking female applied for the place. Our tailor carefully scanned the applicant, and , took in her entire dimensions at a single glance. "Yes,"says the kuight of the shears, "I want a thin coat maker, but I don't want one so thin as your are. You are too thin." A Young Sportsman.?"Dad, if I were to see a duck on the wing, aud were to shoot it, would you lick me ?" "O, no, my son ; it would show that you were a good marksman, and I would be proud of you." "Well, dad, I peppered our old Muscovy duck as she was flyin' over the fence to-day, and it would have done you good to have seen her drop." te?f* Why was Adam's first day the longest ? Because there was no Eve. When did Absalom sleep five in a bed ? When he slept with his forefathers. Why did Job always sleep cold ? Because he had miserable comforters. Ik- - |?ii5(cH?ne<rtt5 Reading. A WONDERFUL COTTON PLANT. A correspondent of the Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel, who has been traveling in Florida, tells the following wonderful, story oi a liew kind of cotton which he has seen growing in that State, and is destined, he thinks to put all other varieties to Hight, and revolutionize the entire cotton culture : I rode several miles to see a new specimen of cotton, and assure you of my astonishment when I predict an entire revolution in the present growth of that article, growing out of this Asiatic species, now being raised upon a small scale by Mr. Myack Bellyminger, at Soap Floating Springs, in Florida, six miles from the Georgia line. Two years since Mr. Hyaek received, in a letter from his brotherifi.lo iv \r,- Af Clr\ir\i* qiv conrl Tliov II* AUffy AM.VIIIIVI ?>A. OWUI, ^ were obtained in the tar-famed Cashmere Valley,in Central Asia, two years since?this being the third year of cultivation, resulting in ten acres the present season. I at once suggested a name, which was prompted by its similarity to our orange tree, and the owner, being pleased with the same, it will hereafter be known as the Asiatic Orange Cotton. This cotton tree, having now its full growth, is about eight feet high, and will about match in size at the butt end the leg of an old fashioned split bottom chair, tapering gradually to the top, aud is of very enormous strength and elasticity, and which enables it to sustain the heavy weight of fruitage to which it is subjected. It is planted in hills, fifteen feet equi-distaut, to give room for its spreading branches, which run out on all sides six or seven feet. The leaf is the only feature closely resembling our common plant. The balls resemble very much in size and color, a large green orange, only much larger, and are attached to the limbs by a strong stem, from one to two inches in length. When open, it contains at the base of the boll in small cells, four or five seed, which might be mistaken for small buck-shot. The lint, in picking, leaves the seed in the bur, which, ot course, avoids the necessity of ginning, and is thrown, as picked, into packing machines, so that each day's gathering is compressed into r?n ?v-m nirohinrr 'Ph A lintinrc* UUlCd uif aauio cvciiiu^. a. nc ^vjlcwia uau^o pendant from the boll, three to four inches, in rolls, as large as a Bologna sausage, five rolls to the boll. I looked in amazement, and could scarcely believe in the reality of what I saw. I asked how much cotton will these ten acres produce. I was answered promptly, one hundred bales, or a bale to each row of fourteeu stalks. This, he continued, was the average production last year. I continued by desiring to know how much to the hand could be picked in one day?and was informed for grown men 450 lbs. of lint (there beiug no seed,) or one bale, was regarded an easy daily task. Now, gentlemen, if what I have said is true, are we not rapidly approaching a uew epoch in cotton culture? Five years will suffice to spread universally over the cotton area of the South this wonderfully productive species?and if it should prove lasting and not subject (as many new kinds have proven) to deterioration, it would not be unreasonable to estimate the American crop of 1880 at twenty millions of bales?which could be more easily raised and saved than a crop of three millions at the present time. What mighty changes will necessarily follow, I leave for solution to more fertile imaginations than my own. THE TELEGRAPH ON THE BATTLE FIELD. It is just twenty years since, for the first time, the electric telegraph was used in the field, and to the British army belongs the honor of having led the way in its adoption. The treuches and batteries before Sevastopol were traversed and connected by lines of telegraph, and the French soon followed our example and constructed a similar system in their own lines; while later on, a cable laid across the Black sea put the armies in the fieid in direct communication with Paris and London. Since that time a regular telegraph corps has been organized in every European ?*? ** ? A ??/-I f Ua +a1 Ar?rn nK tvoc n^rwl Kir rtliliy. ;XI1U tllC ll^IVA C4J/4I HUO UOV.U UJ the French in Italy in 1859, and iu their campaigns against the Kabyles in Algeria; and, in America, both the federals and confederates made free use of permanent and temporary lines during the war of secession, the southern cavalry in particular displaying great daring and enterprise in ridiug round the flanks of federal armies, seizing their telegraph lines, sending false messages to the northern generals, and then cutting the line and retiring as rapidly and secretly as they came. It was, however, in the Prussian army, and in the great campaigns of 1864, 1865, and 1870-71, that military telegraphy attained its greatest development; and, after the experience of these three wars, the Prussian telegraph corps is probably the most efficient in Europe. We have already seen how well it did its work in the campaign of 1866, and in 1870 it established the net-work of wires over the northeast of France, that enabled Moltke,sitting in his bureau at Versailles, to move his armies as accurately and certainly as pieces on a chessboard ; while round Paris itself a circle of telegraph-wires?that in a moment Hashed information of a sortie, and orders for reinforcement of the threatened point, to every part of the long line of sixty miles, on which the besiegers lay?contributed almost as much toward the reduction of the vast fortress as the circle of steel and iron, of butteries, earthworks, and redoubts, which, without the couuecting link of the telegraphwire, could not have been maintained for a single month. On their side the French displayed uo less energy. The regular telegraph corps was shut up in Metz or lost at .Sedan ; but a fresh corps was orgauized for the armies of the republic, and at Paris the telegraphlines linked together the enceinte, the forts and outworks, and the headquarters of General Trochu. But it was in the second siege of the capital that the French telegraph corps obtained its greatest success. During the fighting in the street of Paris, in May, 1871, the moment a barricade was taken, a telegraph station was established in a ueghhoring house, and when another post was carried the telegraph corps would again move forward with the troops, and thus McMahon was able to watch every turn of the light, and provide for every contingency, in a way that otherwise would have been utterly impossible. For ourselves, we have had no European war since 1854; but our armies have carried the telegraph with them into India and China, and through the ravines and passes of Abyssinia; and now "talkiug wire" stretches from Cape Coast castle through the bush, across the Prah into the heart of western Africa, hanging on the trees, with here and there a few poles, the whole having been erected by Fantee laborers, under the direction of a handful of royal engineers.?English Paper. A Ti-xEscoric View of the Moon.?B) means of a good telescope a very distinct view may be obtaiued of the moon. With a power of 1000 we are, as it were, brought within two hundred and thirty-nine miles of its surface, and on very favorable occasions a powei even higher than this has been applied. Witl: the highest power, however, yet employed, uc < !-i ^ ii i i trace 01 any lnuuuiuuii nas ueeu uisuuvckju though any large town must have been seer did such exist on the visible side. Even tc the naked eye the moon presents the appear auce of a rugged and uneven surface, ant telescopic observations con firm thesame. We find that in many parts of its surface very high mountains exist, and the elevatioi of many of these has been measured by obser ving the shadows cast by them when the sur shines obliquely. At the time of full moot these shadows, that have hitherto been so con spieuous, disappear, as the sun then shines vertically upon them. Very accurate maps j have been drawn of the moon's surface on 8 large scale, and the principal mountains hav< received names, usually those of celebratec astronomers. One peak, named Newton, is found to have an elevation of nearly 24,00C I feet, and several others are very lofty. . jUjwultol Ucjrartment. | | Original. J INTELLIGENT LABOR. . The great hobby of the present day is re-! * form. All parties are crying loudly for a j J change in the management of State affairs. ( This, uo doubt, is a desirable result; but it never can be effected unless the means necessary to secure it are first put into operation. ; The bane of Southern society is ignorance. , i The struggle at present is to prevent the ' country from falling into a state of barbarism. At least one-half of our population are in aj state of gross ignorance. These constitute, ! in the main, the laboring class. Their ignorance keeps them in poverty, and it keeps i the whole country in a state of poverty. They ! have the bone and muscle which enable them ; to endure; but they lack the knowledge to | guide and direct them. To successfully perform any labor, two j kinds of knowledge are requisite. First, the- j oretical knowledge must be possessed ; and i then there must he that mechanical knowl- ! edge or skill which is acquired by repeated i : performance. No amount of physical power j will compensate for the lack of these. The j previous circumstances of the country made j the laborer a kind of senseless machine. The j calculation was always to direct his move- j tnents. The circumstance which allowed that \ labor to be directed has been removed, and ' both the laborer and capitalist are made to i . feel the crushing weight of ignorance. There ' is a sulHeient number of laborers and abundance of capital in the Southern country to dej velop its resources, if these were only intelligently directed. The capital cannot be era; ployed because of the kind of labor. Evidently, we think, that which is most , needed in our Southern country is intelligent labor. Capital without this is like gold in the grouud ; and intelligent labor ! will, in a country like ours, soon accumulate capital. When we say intelligent labor, we i do not mean that every laborer must receive a finished education in the popular sense of that word. All that we mean is, that every i laborer must be educated to that extent which will enable him to successfully dis- j 1 charge the duties of his calling. There '| should be, and always will be, in a civilized country, a reward for skill aud experience, as well as for mere bodily strength. NORTH AND*SOUTH. Mr. Editor: Let me consider again the above subject, and touch upon points not con! sidered in my last. ; The Irish potato is better adapted to the I North than the South ; the sweet potato is ; best adapted to the South. Indian corn and | small grain, everything being equal, is supj posed by many to yield better at the North | than at the South ; I believe it is true as reI gards Indian corn ; but in regard to small I grain I have my doubts, unless iu the territo ries, where corn cannot be profitably grown. At the South we are liable to drouths during the period that corn is maturing, that cuts off the yield. Small grain generally matures before the dry season commences ; therefore it should grow equally as well as at the North. At the South, a pea crop can be grown and matured before frost, after corn is laid by ; the period is not long enough for a pea crop at the North. This would seem to make up tue deficiency in the corn crop, and that we could raise pork as cheap at the South as at the North. But peas are better adapted to cattle than hogs; besides peas can be planted with coru at the North, and as grain does not follow coru, that is the proper way to utilize i peas in that section. At the South small : grain should follow corn, and peas would be I in the way. So at the South, peas should fol| low small grain, and at the North turnips I should follow. At the North, timothy and j herds grass yield heavy crops after early corn j is laid by, giving plenty of time to harvest a large amount before turnips have to be sown. At the South the yield is meagre in comparison, and interferes with the planting of the pea crop after small grain. This is all right, as hay for winter use is not as necessary with us, or rather, so much is not needed as at the North. We can make a large amount of hay at the South, but it has to be with the legumes that come so early as to interfere with corn i culture, and is better for soiling, making hay inferior to timothy, and perhaps better suited for cattle than horses or mules. Clover does not grow as readily at the South as at the North. At the South the English grasses can 1 be grown and grazed from October until June growing most of the time. At the North they are useless during the greater portion of the winter, but can be grazed later in the spring and earlier in the fall than at the South. At the South, Bermuda grass should be substituted for the English grasses during four mouths of the warm season, or soiling with the legumes resorted to. The freezes at i the North put the soil in a mechanical condition that gives an advantage to that section, and in nothing greater than the culture of corn. Let us hear from others on the subject. I .11.? in ntimit e<imri nf thfi nhnve nsser- I | tions, and ain anxious to know the truth.? j 0. Jonics, in Our Home Journal and Rural I Southland. MANURING LAND. A writer iu Our Home Journal says: There is no farm operation more important than manuring the soil, yet how sadly neglected. If all farmers appreciated the fact that it pays, | they would certainly give it more attention, i The common system is to make one crop after | another, without any restitution, the soil dei teriorating all the while, until finally it is too | poor to make any thing. If farmers would i take into account the loss iu crops while the ! soil is being worn out by degrees, and the I loss (in practice,) of the land after it is worn i out, they would certainly be aroused from j their apathy on the subject of manuring the j soil. There is no better muuure, and as a ! | general rule none cheaper, than barn-yard i : manure which has the elements of fertility, and .no manure will be continuously beneficial , j without them. Lime, as it increases produe' j tion on most soils, when applied alone, would j seem to add fertility to the soil, but it only I renders soluble insoluble elements, and will ; ' finally exhaust. The application of one or ; _ i two elements of fertility, when the soil is nat- j ' I urally, or by cultivation has become deficient ' I ? >- 1 ??tii i... n?| , I 1U UlOSe CICIHCIIIS, will UM ucucuuai, lj u l u uu- | i pended upon too long, other elements will be-1 come deficient, and a contiuued application of; those elements alone would not be beneficial, i Green manuring is always effective in good j ,j results. A growing green crop always rcpre, sents in itself all of the elements of fertility . though not always in sufficient quantity for , some crops. Under some circumstances, it may be cheaper to practice grceu manuring . than to purchase, but the writer thinks it is , often practiced when not the most eeonomi, j cal. The pea is perhaps the best adapted for green manuring in the South ; on thin soils I , | am sure it is. liut I am partial to barnyard j manure, and all farmers should manufacture ; at home unless it pays better to sell the raw I produce and buy manures. ^ i Aitle Wink.?Take sixty pounds of good > U ?.? i\C uiilnliatp nf limp U1UYY11 3U^ai, U1IC Ul v? ?*.wy ' put into pure sweet cider just from the press, ', enough to till a forty gallon barrel. Leave 1 the bung out forty-eight hours, then bung it 1 up and leave a small vent until fermentation " wholly ceases. It should be kept iu a cool 3 place. When it has ceased to ferment it is 3 ready for use. The longer it stauds the bet|; ter it is. 1 ffay It is said that one of the most powerful ? remedies for bots in horses is a strong decoc) tion of sage tea, made very sweet. It dislodges the bots instantly. I GMdmt's IJejm'tmcnt. [Original.] ROGER WILLIAMS. Amongst the early settlers of Massachusetts, was a preacher by the name of Roger j Williams. The puritans were a good peo- i pie; but they hail some strange notions. ! They thought in matters of religion, that: j they were absolutely right, and every one : ( that thought differently was wrong. They ! tried every way to make all they met say 11 that the puritan creed and practice was right, j whether thev believed it riirht or uot. Thev ' . went so far as to make a profession of rclig- \ ion necessary to citizenship. They had been i cruelly persecuted in Eugland, and they in j turn commenced a system of persecution in j America. Several persons were by them ac-1 cased of practicing witchcraft and dragged j before the civil ofiicers and put to death. I Roger Williams seems to have been in ad- j vance of his age, at least he was in advance of j many of his puritan brethren. He had more ; liberal notions, and was opposed to the prac- , ticeof forcing men to subscribe to all that was : contained in the puritan creed and practice, i This liberality, however, brought down upon him the vengeance of his brethren. They determined to send him off; but when the young preacher found that banishment from the colony awaited him, he exiled himself. He left his brethren and went into what is now called the State of Rhode Island. The Indians treated him kindly because he treated them kindly. He exercised a powerful influence over these wild men of the forest. On several occasions he prevented them, by gentle persuasion, irorn ex term mating tne Massachusetts colony. At one time he went 011 a dark night, in the midst of a snow and sleet storm to an Indian war-council, for no t other purpose tliau to persuade them not to combine together for the utter destruction of ^ those who had but recently forced him to { leave them. He must have had a good heart. ? No man would expose his life to the dangers j that Roger Williams did to save his fanatical j enemies, if he were not a good man. The place where this mau and his few fol- } lowers settled, lie called Providence, in com- ; memoration of the kind care and merciful ? providence which God bestowed upon him. t It was not long before many persons left Bos- j t ton aud Salem and joined Williams. The ^ Providence colony grew and flourished. The banishment of Williams from Massa- ? chusetts was very much like the selling of < Joseph into Egypt. Had it not been done, t A ?titaitl/1 iia^ Ka fa ntKnf tf 10 Tr? ./VllieriUU nuuiu UUb uc tu-uoj Iiuab 11 ao* AAA Netherlands, during the reign of Charles V, 50,000 persons were put to death in various ways on accouut of their religious belief. In England, under the Bloody Mary and her successors, many were cruelly persecuted. The puritans, although they had fled from persecution, commenced the system in America. Roger Williams revolutionized the notions of the age respecting religious liberty. After his banishment, Roger Williams become a Baptist. This sect was held in utter detestation by the puritans. But young Williams was now out of their clutches. In process of time Roger Williams grew old and died. There is a curious story told about his grave. Some years ago it was determined to erect a suitable monument to the memory of this great aud good mau. The graves of himself aud wife were opened. The shape of the cofiins could' be traced by the black appearance of the earth. In the graves were found some rusty hinges and nails, a a ? 11 n i 1 11 _ knot of wood and a iock or Draiueu nair. c Every thing else had disappeared. The body s of the founder of Rhode Island had wholly s returned to dust. \ Near by the graves grew an apple tree. s From this tree two main roots pushed their j way down into the ground. The larger of 5 these descended to the spot where the head of t Roger Williams had lain. It then took a } horizontal direction, following the direction f of his body until it came to the hips, and then f it forked, one prong taking the direction of \ one leg, and the other prong the direction of I the other leg. One of these prongs made a c slight crook at the kuee, which is said to have ^ made the whole present, in a very striking t manner, the general shape of a human skele- c ton. If this be true, and we have no good \ reason to doubt its truthfulness, Roger Wil- r liarns not only saved his enemies from the 1 vengeance of the Ked men during his nie, i but fed their children and grand-children f after death on apples. v j Queer Friends.?Toby was a big ox. 8 He had grown too old to work; so he used to stay all the time in the barnyard, and had a J stall under a shed in the warm corner. * Peep was a poor motherless chicken, with I not enough feathers on to keep the cold off. c He had to hunt up his own victuals, for no- t body thought of feeding hina ; so he used to c peck meal in Toby's feed-box, and Toby never refused to let him. ^ Sometimes Peep sat on Toby's horn; and j when it grew colder, he roosted on Toby's j r broad, warm back. When Toby got sleepy j1 in the daytime, he would low for Peep to s come and sit on his horn while he took a nap. By and by a little brown pig, seeing how \ happy Toby and Peep were together, left all j his kinsfolk, and went to live in the shed with . them. Piggy slept in the straw close by To- j J by's side; and the good old ox would low, |1 whenever he was fed, till Peep and Piggy : f came to eat with him. jj At last the butcher came and took Toby j ^ away ; and poor Peep and Piggy were left to I { mourn for their dear old friend. But they I j loved each other all the better, and slept side by side in the straw. :1 Whenever you saw one, you were sure to j1 see the other. If Peep found anything to i eat, he was sure to divide it with Piggy ; and, \ though both were homely fellows, it was a j pretty sight to see them together. i To-Day and To-Morrow.?To-day we ' gather bright and beautiful flowers ; to-mor-; 1 row they are faded and dead. j f To-day a wealth of leaves shades us; to- i I morrow, scar and fallen, they crumble under I our tread. J < To-day the earth is covered with a carpet | j of green ; to-morrow it is brown with the with- j y cred grass. , i To-day the vigorous stalks only bend before < the gale; to-morrow leafless, sapless, a child ' y may break the brittle stone. y To-day we see the ripening fruit and waviug grain; to-morrow the land is taking its rest after the toil. j 1 To-day we hear sweet songsters of meadows I and forest, the buzz and hum of myriad in- j i sects; to-morrow breathes softly?all nature ; < is hushed and silent. 1 To-day a stately edifice complete in finish j J and surroundings, attracts the passer-by ; to-1 i morrow a heap of ruins mark the site. j 1 To-day there are cattle on on a thousand < hills; to-morrow they fall in slaughter. j1 The fashion of the world passeth away, i But let Christ dwell within in us, and though we may pass away like the faded leaf and sap- [ < less stalk, we shall "arise to newness of life?" < "Where everlasting spring abides t ' And never withering flowers." 1 855"" It is well for us often to ask ourselves ' in the midst of trials, will this thing much af- 1 feet me a month or a year hence ? What i will I think of it in a dying day ? i leading foe the $?ahhath. I tJONDUCTKD BY KEV. ROBERT LATHAN. i [OrlKinnl.l | GOD'S SOVEREIGNTY. We are apt to conclude that because God i rules the world according to the couusel of, lis own will, that he is an arbitrary sovereign, ! loing many things just because he has the ; lower to do them. God is a sovereign. He, J md he alone, governs the world. Every | ireature in the universe, animate and inaui- -j nate, is subject to his control. He does his J itoooni'o iii ?Iip Mrmift.4 of heaven over the an- f relic hosts, and amongst the inhabitants of Jr sarth. Still, in all that he has done, is doing, s tnd ever will do, his own glory and the good ? >f his creatures is plainly visible. When he h inished the work of creation, he said all was ^ rery good, and his dealings with his ereatures n is a God of Providence is always good, and us a God of grace in providing salvation for I ost sinners, his goodness astonishes angels. ^ in creation, providence, and grace, God is a lovereign, but his love is more conspicuous I ,han his sovereignty. To suppose that God J ifflicts his people just because he has the power I o do so, is, we conceive, an unscriptural no- j iou. "Whoever perished being innocent, or I vhen were the righteous cut ofl'?" Job 4:7. E God's people may be nfHicted, aud impeni- E ent sinners may, yes, will be cut off', but not ^ jecause God is a sovereign, -but because of C heir sins and iniquities. Wicked men often yranioally exercise their short lived power. jrod never, even when he inflicts vengeauce ipon his incorrigible enemies. ? [Original.] WHY DIE? The words, life and death, have an opposite neaning. In Scripture language, to live neaus to eniov the favor of God, now and brever; hence, to die, means to rest under the lisapprobation of God, iu time and eternity. The cause of death is sin. Were there no sin here would be 110 death. If sin could be banshed from this world, it would be full of life ind joy and peace. There is no death in leaven, because there is no sin there. There 8 no sorrow, 110 tears, no sighs there, because ^ iin has been removed from the inhabitants of tl hat blessed abode. In perdition, there is {' lothiug but sin and misery. The hollow si jroans of the lost are mingled with bitter cur- ^ iings, and the smoke of their torments which ^ isceud forever and ever, has its origin in sin. a That dreadful place we call the pit of perdi- JP ,ion, will never cease to be a receptacle for g mman beings until men cease to sin. The * nisery which is in this world, and the indes- n iribable agony which the lost suffer in the lext world, have all been brought into exis- e ence by the rebellion of the creature against " he Creator. Although it is true that siu has worked luch wide-spread and deep ruin, still none leed rest under the disapprobation of God. _ Ele who brought all things into existence, ind against whom all sin is perpetrated, has nade ample provision by which all men may )e saved if they will only comply with the :onditious. God devised a plan of salvation dike honorable to himself, and sufficient to 1 neet, in every respect, the exigencies of the J :oudemned sinner. Jesus Christ took the e: inner's place. He is the propitiatiou for the ? ins of the whole world. No sinner can say !i hat he must die because 110 atonement has ^ )een made for him. Christ died for the A vorld. In other words, such was the object ' - . * .1 - .. J. 1 ?L. mil intern or tne atonement inaue u_y me A leath of Christ Jesus, that whosoever will L iccept it, will be forever freed from the dis- a ipprobation of God, and made the object of ? lis approval?in the language of Jesus himelf, he "shall never perish but have everlast- * ug life." John 3: 16. The language of the Scriptures respecting the atonement made by he Saviour is peculiarly striking. It is said \ le was made sin for us. He redeemed us A rom the curse of the law, being made a curse A or us. Now all that God requires of us that A ve may be saved forever from his disappro>ation, is to belive in Jesus Christ. To unlerstand what is meant by accepting Christ C resus, the following may serve as an illustraion : An individual becomes involved in lebt. He owes more thau his property is vorth. His creditors are implacable and denand payment in full. The papers requiring lis ejectment from his home, have been placed n the hands of the proper officer. Only a 4 ew days' respite are allowed him, and then vith his wife and children, he must go forth ? nto the world poor and friendless. If we {* uppose the individual to be a cripple, totally n inable to provide for himself, much less for a lis household, the picture is complete. >Sup- u lose at this critical juncture, some kind friend ai :omes to the poor crippled bankrupt and says ^ ? 4,T Koim Kno r\f trniir /liaf fPStiilirr f?ir- S u iiiuiy jl nave ugaiu vi jvui uiuvtvwwM^ v.. ^ mrastances, and now I aro willing to relieve rou. I will settle all claims against you, and ^ will restore to you all your possessions, and ti nake them sure to you forever. The only jj :ouditions I ask is that you receive it all as r< 'gift" . ti This serves in part to illustrate the provis- ft ous of the atonement. Christ found us spirtual bankrupts, and met the claims of divine ustice against us, aud now iu the plenitude >f his love and mercy, ofTers all pardon and a' brgiveuess through his peace-speaking blood. ^ ill that he asks of us is to accept. If the rilest sinner on earth will accept of the atoneueut made by Jesus Christ, God will save lim with an everlasting salvation, aud he ;annot save any who will not accept of this itonement. The reason, and the only reason vhy any die, that is, rest and continue to rest inder the frowus of God's righteous disapprobation, is they will not accept of the Saviour. Drowning men, it is said, will catch at straws, j jut spiritual dead and eternally dying men, ! vill not catch hold of the strong arm of Jems, stretched out to save them. Down into ' ;hat deep pit where God has forever forgot-1 ;en to be gracious, they will, so soou as the ! lays of their merciful visitation are past, j - rink, never again to rise. Tlie proclamation tfhich God makes to the world is in these ? itrong words; "As I live, saith the Lord in jrod, I have no pleasure in the death of the : J wicked, but that the wicked turn from his n way and live." Ezek. 33: 11. j tl ?. I o 4eaT You are au immortal creature; a being f jorn for eternity ; a creature that will never I a jo out of existence. Millions of ages, as nu- j nerous as the sands upon the shore, and the h Irops of the ocean, and the leaves of all the a; forests on the globe, will not shorten the du-; *ation of your being; eternity, vast eternity, s before you. Every day brings you nearer ;o everlasting torments or felicity. You may lie any moment, and you are as near to heaven or hell as you are to death. Never can we take possession of the i iternal inheritance which Christ has pur- 2 chased for us with his own blood, unless we r i)e restored to that likeness of Jehovah in j J ivhich our first parents were created. WithDut holiness "no man shall see the Lord." 'There shall in no wise enter into it anything that deBleth, neither whatsoever worketh j " iboraination, or maketh a lie, but they which 1 ire written iu the Lamb's Book of Life." i ] ST <a? k"TT? A 1? 1 .Y all ilicntiQOQ nriirmatA f'rnm Tiulitrf" 31 tion and Torpidity of tlio Liver, and reliei i Iways anxiously sought after. If the Liver i legulated in its action, health is almost invarii ily secured. Want of action in the Liver cause leadache, Constipation, Jaundice, Pain in tli boulders, Cough, Chills, Dizziness, Sour Ston eh, bad taste in the mouth, bilious attacks, palp ition of the heart, depression of spirits, or tli ilues, and "a hundred other symptoms, for whic IMMONS' LIVER REGULATOR is the be; emedy that lias ever been discovered. It acl lildly, effectually, and being a simple vegetabl otnpound, can do no injury in any quantitie liat it maj' betaken. Itis harmless in every waj t has been used for 40 years, and hundreds of th ood and great from all parts of the country \vi ouch for its being the purest and best. Simmons' Liver Regulator, or Medicine, s harmless, s no drastic violent medicine, s sure to cure if taken regularly, s no intoxicating beverage, s a faultless family medicine, s the cheapest medicine in the world, s given with safety and the happiest results t the mostdelicate infant, loes not interfere with business, >oes not disarrange the system, 'akes the place of Quinine and Bitters of ever, kind, ontains the simplest and best remedies. For sale by all Druggists. March 26 13 ly* rHE attention of planters and others is agai called to the above old and reliable make c otton Gins. They are furnished this year greal f improved, and nothing which an experience < lirty years in their manufacture could sugges as lieen loft undone to make them the most relic le and perfect Cotton (Jin in nTarket. As the r< ult of our efforts we need only refer to their es iblishcd reputation and wide-spread popularity 'or Perfection of Workmanship, Strength, Dun ility, Light Running, and quantity and qualit f lint produced, we'cliallenge competition. W re prepared to warrant to any reasonableexter erfect satisfaction to every planter or operatoi 'he Gins arc sold at the lowest possible prices fc ood machines, and on reasonable terms. We ir itc examination of the samples in the hands < ur local agents who will give all desired infoi lation and furnish applicants with circulars an opiesof commendatory letters from paVties usin lie Gins in all sections of the cotton plantin ountry. Circulars, Price Lists, and other infoi lation, may bo obtained of our agents or by ac ressiug THE BROWN COTTON GIN CO., New London, Conn. ALLEN Sc BARBER, Agents, Rock Hill, S. C. May 14 20 27t NOTICE^ OFFICE CHARLOTTE, COL. <fe AUG. R. I Columbia, S. C., July HI, 1874. [1 Y recent changes in the schedules of Charloth IB Columbia and Augusta, and Atlanta an Richmond Air Lino Railroads, arranged forth special accommodation of the traveling publii lose connections are now made via CJiarlotto t partanhurg, Greenville and all points along tb ne of the A. A R. A. L. Railway and via A., 1 ; O. and Carolina Central Railroads, for Cherrj ille, Ijincolnton, Statesville, Hickory Taverr shoville, Ac. See schedule below: going north. leave Columbia, 4 00 A. M .rrive at Charlotte, 2 20 P. M leave Charlotte, via A. A R. A. L. R. Road, 3 13 P. N .rrive at Spartanburg, 8 24 P. M arrive at Greenville, 10 42 P. M leave Charlotte, via Carolina Central for Cherry ville, Ac., 3 00 P. M leave Charlotte, via A-., T. A O. R. R. for Statesville, Hickory Tavern, etcetera, 3 25 P. M going south. leave Greenville, 2 0(1 A. M leave Spartanburg 4 03 A. M .rrive at Charlotte, 8 0(5 A. M leave Charlotte, 8 30 A. ft irrive at Columbia, 2 42 P. M .rrive at Augusta, 8 05 P. M Sleeping cars on all Night Trains. A. POPE, Gen'l Pas. A Ticket Agent. August 6 32 . tf HERAW AND DARLINGTON R. R0AI PRESIDENT'S OFFICE, Chkraw A Darlington Railroad Co., Society Hill,S. C., October 10, 1873. OIIA1VGH3 OF1 SCHEDULE. 3N aud after MONDAY, 13th of October, tb passenger train will run as follows: Dotvu Train. Up Train. envcClivraw 8.00, A. M. | Leave Florciicc....3.00, P. A enve Cash's 8.20, A. M. Leave Palmetto,. ...3.20, P. A eave Society Hill.8.45, A. M. Leave Darlington...3.40,P. A cave Dove's 9.15, A. M. Leave Dove's 4.15, P. A eave Darlington..9.50, A. M. Leave Society Hill.4.45, P. A enve Palmetto.. .10.10, A. M. Leave Cash's 5.10, P. A rrive at Florence. 10.30, A. M. Arrive at Clteraw..5.30, P. A The Freight Train will continue for thepreser )|run as heretofore, except to adapt its riinnin nd stoppages to the changed schedule of the pas jnger trains. IT ATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA Columbia, April 24th, 1873. rHE YORKVILLE ENQUIRER is hereb, designated as tlie nowxpapcr for the publics on of all Legal Notices and Oflieial Advertise lents for the county of York, under the Act ap roved February 22nd, 1870, entitled "An Act t jgulate the publication of all Legal and pnbli otiees, and the order heretofore issued designu ngthe "Carolina New Era" as the official pape >r the county of York is hereby rescinded. By order of the Board. H. K. IIAYNE, Secretary of State, and Secretary ot the Board. I, HENRY E. HAYNE, Secretary of Stat< ml Secretary of the Board, do hereby certif; lat the foregoing is a true copy of the Original oi le in my office. H. E. HAYNE, Secretary of State. Iron in the Blood #TTTE PERUVIAN SYRUP Vitalizes and Enriches tlio Blood, Toiu\s up tho System,Builds up tlio Broken-down, Cures Female Complaints, Propsv, Debility,Humors, l)ys|>epsiii, AcThousands have been clumped by tho uso of this remedy from weak, sickly, suffering creatures, to strong, healthy, and happy men and women; ami Invalids catinot reasonably hesltato togivo it a trial, Caution.?Bo euro yoil get tlio right article. 8eo that "Peruvian Syrup" Is blown In tho glass. Pamphlets freo. Send for one. SET1I W. FOTVLE tt SONS, Proprietors, Boston, Mass. For sale by druggists generally. October 2 40 Jy THE HOME SHUTTLE 5EW1JX Cr Jii, rHE best Cheap Machine in the Market. If th number sold is a criterion of merit, it is th EST MACHINE in use, as there have beei lore HOME SHUTTLE MACHINES sold ii le State during the last twelve months than al ther Sowing Machines combined. You can buy a HOME SHUTTLE MACHIN1 >r about half tho money you will have to pay fo first-class Machine. 9- Home Shuttle Needles kept constantly 01 and. Any Homo Shuttle Attachment furnishei t short notice. VV. L. GRIST, Agent. JlY/lNl|rRAirO?8jlDL^ 'HE LEADING INSTITUTION IN THE U. ? rHERE are no Vacations. Send for Catalogu and College Documents. For Splendid Spet liens of Penmanship, enclose two P. O. Stamps .ddress W. H. SADLER, President, Nos. (><fe 8 N. Charles St., Baltimore, Md. January 1 1 tf RIBBONS. A LOT of Ribbons, at reduced prices, can b X seen a* M. STRAUSS & SON'S. ! SPECIFIC MEDICINES. PREPARED expressly for and adapted to the Southern Climate, j "COMPOUND EXTRACT CORYDALIS" Is the most powerful andetllcient alterative and blood-purilier known. Prepared expressly for I 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, Spasms and Convulsions which arise from irritation of the nerve centres. I In Epilepsy, it often stops the tits from tho first i day's use even when they have existed for years. . } "MEDICATED HONEY," The creat remedv for Asthma. Bronchitis. Couohs. | Colds, Croup, Sore-Throat and all diseases of the ! air passages and lungs. It does not sicken the i patient, is pleasant to take, prompt in its action . I and does not injure the appetite or impair diges- t tion, sis most Expectorants do. is OUR "NEURALGIA SPECIFIC" i- Is a perfect specific for Neuralgia, Sciatica, is Rheumatism and all muscular or nervous pains, ie wherever situated. l- These medicines are prepared with great care i- from perfectly reliable drugs, and for the especial ie classes of diseases named on each bottle. No one h of them is claimed as a "cure all." They are st identically the same that we have used in our ts private practice for years, and in thus presenting le them to the public we know whereof we affirm. >s They are safe, reliable and efficient, acting quickr. ly and thoroughly. Try tliem, and you will want ie no others. Ask your Druggist for them. 11 For sale by J. C. KUYKENDAL, Yorkville, S C. Prepared only by Dlts. 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 Asheyille, N. C. December 18 33 ly THE COOKING STOVES manufactured at our works in Greensboro, N. C., give universal it satisfaction wherever introduced. They are made i- of the BEST SCOTCH PIG METAL, with heavier and thicker plate than any other Stove in tiro i- market, and consequently will the longer withr. stand heat and hard usage. They are of hand i- some pattern and neat finish, and warranted equal y in every other respect to any Cooking Stove sold o in the United States, while it is confidently claimed it that they are the CHEAPEST. All the usual r. pieces oi ware and cooking utensils are furnished >r with each Stove. An important consideration i- with purchasers is the fact that our patterns and >f sizes are never changed. Should a piece get acci - dentally broken at any time, we can replace it at d the mere cost of casting. Not simply because it g is a home production, but on account of its intrinB sic merits as an article of household economy, do r- we ask the patronage of home purchasers. More I- than ONE THOUSAND of these Stoves are now in use, and among many others having them we respectfully refer to the following: R. E.Guthrie, D. M. Campbell, M. H. Currence, York county; Mrs. Elizabeth J. Wylie, Chester; D. A. Gordon, Guthriesville; John A. Brown, Rock Hill; B. P. Boyd, Joseph Horndon, L. M. Grist, Yorkville. - You can save the freight from the northern cities and the dealer's profit, which is no small item, by buying of us, and at the same time get a STOVE THAT IS MORE DURABLE than those of northern make. The following are our prices, delivered at depot in Greensboro: . No. 3, with 10 pieces ware and 8 feet pipe, $30 00 14 y It 14 ?4 44 44 14 44 26 00 Address, SERGEANT & McCAULEY, Greensboro, N. C. T. C. DUNLAP, Agent, Yorkville,S. C. f JOHN R. LONDON, Agent, Rock Hill, S. C. I I MR jmjl I HH GRAND, SQUARE, AND UPRIGHT [* T>T A XT A C! X X XX XX W kX r* "TTAVE received upwards of FIFTY FIRST r' Jx PREMIUMS, and are among the best now made. Every instrument is fuUy warranted for r five years. Prices as low as the"exclusive use of ' the very best materials and the most thorough workmanship will permit. The principal pianists r and composers and the piano-purchasing public, of the South especially, unite in the unanimous verdict of the superiority of the STIEFF PIANO. C. The DURABILITY of our instruments is fully [. established by over [; SIXTY SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES, [] in the South, using over 300 of our Pianos. [. Sole Wholesale Agents for several of the principal manufacturers of Cabinet and ParlorOrgans. Prices from $50 to $600. A liberal discount to Clergymen and Sabbath Schools. - A Targe assortment of second-hand Pianos, at ). prices ranging from $75 to $300, always on band. Send for Illustrated Catalogue, containing the names of over 2000 Southerners who have bought and are using the Stieft' Piano. CHAS. M. STIEFF, ] Warerooms, No. 9 North Liberty Street, } BALTIMORE, MD. Factories, 84 and 86 Camden St., and 45 and 47 Perry St. ie May 21 21 ly ^ THE SHORT LINE SCHEDULE. 1. IrllARLOTTJs, OULUMISIA ABU AUUUSiA I>. x\. \j*J; 1' Columbia, S. C., July 19, 1874. I rilHK following Passenger Schedule will be opJ[ crated on and after this date: going north. Tiain No. 2. Train No. 4. - Leave Augusta, 6.30 a. m. 4.15 p. in. Graniteville, *7.33 a. in. 5.11 p. in. C'ol'bia Junct'n,.. 11.38 a. m. ffl.05 p. in. Arrive Columbia, 11.48 a.m. 9.17 p. ni. f Leave Columbia, 11.58 a. m. Winnsboro, 2.0(5 p. m. Chester, J4.06 p. in. ^ Arrive Charlotte, fO.45 p.m. c No. 2 Train makes close connection, via Charlotte and Richmond, to all points No#h, arriving r at New York at 6.05 a. m. No. 4 Train makes close connection, via Wilmington and Richmond to all points North, arriving at New York at 5.15 p. m. going south. Train No. 1. Train No. 3. Leav ?Charlotte, 8.30 a. in. >, Chester, 11.02 a. ni. y Winnsboro, 12.38 p. ni. n Arrive at Columbia, 2.42 p.m. Leave Columbia, 2.52 p. m. 3.40 a. m. Col'bia Junction, 3.17 p. m. 4.15 a. m. Graniteville, 7.15 p. m. *7.48 a. m. Arrive at Augusta, 8.05 p. m. 8.45 a. ill. * Breakfast. \ Dinner, f Supper. South bound Trains connect at Augusta for all points South and West. Through tickets sold ! and baggage checked to all principal points, j pfr- Sleeping cars on all Night Trnins. JAMES ANDERSON, General Sup't. A. Porn,Gen. Passenger and Ticket Agent. I August 6 32 tf - ! June 4 23 tf ; ike fwMlf e ! TERMS?IJV ADVANCE i II One copy, one year, .' $ 3 00 ; One copy, six months, 1 50 1 ; One copy, three months, 1 00 ,; Single copy, 10 ,J ' Two copies, one year, 5 00 r : Ten copies, ono year, 25 00 1 VrZTa t?l./x ..M A|..Un 4am /xm 1U WI1U Hldh.U up UUUO U1 ICU ux 11 more names, an extra copy of the paper will be ^ furnished one year, free of charge. ADVERTISEMENTS Will be inserted at fifteen cents per line (this . size type) for the first, and seven-and-a-half cents per line for each subsequent insertion?less than three months. No advertisement considered less than five lines, j Semi-Monthly, Monthly, or Quarterly Adveri tisements, will be charged twenty cents per line for each insertion. Quarterly, Semi-Annual or Yearly contracts will bo made on liberal terms?the contract, j however, must, in all cases, be confined to the immediate business of the firm or individual cone trading. , Obituary Notices and Tributes of Respect, rated i. asadvertisements. Announcements of Marriages and Deaths, and noticesof a Religious character, inserted gratis, and solicited. ! #33- Personal Communications, when admissa~ b'lo; Communications of limited or individual interest, of recommendations of Candidates for e | offices of honor, profit or trust, will be charged 1 for as advertisements.