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Humorous frpartmrut. HIS LOOKS DECEITED HIM. He did not look like a joker, says M. Quad. One to sit and study his face would have said that his soul was lost in melancholy?that he didn't care two cents whether the sun set at noon or staid up until 7 o'clock. He entered the ladies' sitting-room at the Central Deput, walked up to a woman whose husband had left the room about ten minutes previously, and calmly inquired : "Madam, your husband went out to see the river, didn't he ?" "Yes?why?" she asked, turning pale in an instant. "He was a tall man, wasn't he ?" "He was," she replied, rising up and turning still paler. "Had red hair?" "He had?oh ! what has happened ?" "Weighed about one hundred and eighty pounds V "Yes?yes?where is he?where is ray husband ?" she exclaimed. "Couldn't swim, could he ?" "He's drowned?ray husband is drowned !" "Hud a silver watch chain ?" continued the stranger. "Where is ray husband?where is the body ?" she gasped. "Do not get excited, madam. Did your husband have on a gray suit!" "Yes oh! ray Thomas ! my Thomas !" "And stoga boots ?" "Let me see him?let me see him!" she cried. "Come this way, madam, but do not get excited. There, is that your husband across the street at that peanut stand ?" "Why, yes, that's ray husband!" she exclaimed, joyfully. "I thought you said-; he was drowned." "No, madam, I did not. I saw him buying peanuts, and I believe it my duty to say to you that peanuts are not healthy at this season of the year 1" He slid softly out, and she stood there and chewed her parasol and stared after him as if he were a menagerie on wheels. He Knew His Age.?In the times when the political warfare between Whigs and Democrats waxed hot and relentless there was a town out west in which the two parties were so equal in numbers that the variatiou of a siugle vote, one way or the other, might be a matter of most serious consequence. Of course on both sides sharp eyes were open and watchful. A young mau came to the polliug place on electiou day and offered his vote. It was his first appearance in the character of an elector, and he had the independence or audacity to differ politically with his father. His father challenged his vote. "On what grounds?" demanded the presiding officer. iitt. _>x x yy ne am i iweniy-one. "I am twenty-one," asserted the youth. "No you ain't," persisted the father ; "you won't be twenty-one till to morrow." "I say I will!" cried the youth. "I was horn on the 12th day of November. It's down so in the old Bible." "Then it's a dod-rotted mistake," said the old man. "You weren't born till the morning of the 13th of November, I can swear." "How can you swear ?" "How ?" repeated the father, indignantly. "Goodnessgracious! wasn't I thar?" "Well," returned the son, with proud definance, "wasn't I there too ?" The young man voted.?Boston Courier. Poor. Dear Hannah Ann.?It was a great many years ago that the story was first told of Miss Hannah Sterry, an uncommonly mature virgin who had never been persecuted with masculine attentions because of the vigorous manner in which sheshunned the face of man. It was related that Mr. Theophilus Wimblebee, an advanced bachelor of the mildest possible deportment, occupying single quarters in the neighborhood of Hannah Aun's apartments, called on the spinster one after noon to borrow a match. Hannah Aun was not easily fooled. Folding her arms on her level breast, she backed Theophilus Wimblebee into a corner and thus addressed the invader: "Match! Oh, yes! Great match 'tis you want! You don't want no match, and now you know you don't. You've come over to me 'cause I'm all alone?to hug and kiss me?that's what you've come for; but you never shall do it in the world unless you're stronger'n I am"?and then she added in a softened tone, "and the Lord knows you ftlt/v If are. - ? She Had a Plan.?A gaunt woman jumped into the central station yesterday, says the Free Press, bonnet askew and eyes blazing, and a3 she reached the sergeant's desk, she exclaimed: "I'm the widow Coon!" "Ah !" remarked the sergeant. "Aud I want to know if my landlord can raise the rent on me ?" she went on. "I guess so?landlords can do do most anything." "But I'm a widow!" "So you said." "And isn't there a law to protect a widow from having the rent raised ?" "Never heard of one." "Aud I haven't any more rights than a married woman." "Not one." "Very well," she said, shutting her teeth together and strikng the desk; if a widow hasn't any rightt, I'll marry somebody afore sundown?you hear me now !" An Irish weaver, just imported from the sister isle, took to his employer in Kil marnock, the first cloth he had woven since his arrival. His employer detected in the cloth two holes, within half an inch of each other, and told him he must pay a fine of a shilling for each hole. "And plaze," returned Pat, "is it by the number of the holes or by the size of them, that ye puts the fine on us ?" "By the number of holes, to be sure." "And a big hole and a small one is the same price!" * "Yes, a shiling for ever hole, big or little." "Then give me a hould of the piece," requested Pat. Getting the cloth into his hands, he tore the two small holes into one, and exclaimed : "By the Hill of Howth, and that saves me one shilling, any how !" - What the Presbytery did for Adam.? Of all the freaks of the telegraph, this one is the most laughable: A young man, when about to start for his new parish, was unexpectedly delayed by the inability of his Presbytery to ordain him. In order to explain his non-arrival at the appointed time, he sent the following telegram to the deacons of the church : "Presbytery lacked a quorum to ordain." In the course of its journey the message got strangely metamorphosed, and it reached the astonished deacons in this shape; "Presbytery tacked a worm on to Adam." The sober church officers were sorely discomposed and mystified, but after grave consultation, concluded that it was the minister's facetious way of announcing that he had been married, and accordingly provided lodgings for two instead of one.?Scotch Paper. gYiE Knows How.?When a Ninth Avenue pared foP .into a Labrosse Street boy, and "Fighting ag&?. he goes home fully prefather. "Well, I']j Se$ f?H?wafter dinner" ' J ""ires the Detroit 4 "Father," replies the boy, tears Kdshed it was that Johnson boy. He came alon, and called me the son of a cross-eyed shee thief; and father, I couldn't stand by an! hear you spoken of in that manner!" The father feels in his vest pocket for l nickle, and nothing further is said about thi woodshed busiot^ J^gricttltofal JSrpartment. | [Original.] TOO MUCH LAND. With a large number of South Carolina farmers, to be the possessor of a large farm is a mania. They seem to estimate the wealth j of an individual by the number of acres he ; owns, without any reference, whatever, to the i income accruing from those acres. No doubt there is something hereditary in this thing, j The old landgraves were made possessors of | forty-eight thousand acres of land, and some men yet seem to have as insatiable desires re. specting land, as the old landgraves. Land, like any other property, may be a . 1 dead expense to its owner. This is the case, ! ?.i : I < j >v ucLi tuc v;udt ui uwuiug anu lutaiwiug it to i ! greater than the income derived from it. It | j is true, to use an old saying, that "land eats | ! and drinks nothing," but because this is true, J j it does not follow that land, in any quantity, j j is a profitable investment. Land, in order to I be profitable, must produce something. A j j crop of some kind must be annually taken j j from it, or it must be so managed that its in- j ; trinsic value is increased. Suppose a man i purchases a farm of onehuudred acres paying j for it one thousand dollars. Suppose he | works only twenty-five acres, and on these i makes good crops. Seventy-five acres, or | three-fourths of the whole investment, is lying j idle or not invested. As a matter of course j some portion of each man's plantation should ' be reserved for firewood, timber, of various ! kinds, and for pasture ; but to invest three- j fourths of a man's capital in land for fire- | wood and pasture, seems to be poor economy. I It is not absolutely correct to say, that "land | eatsand drinks nothiug," that is, that it is no j expense to its owner. The tax may be set down at near two per cent, on its money value. This is a constant drain. Under the present state of farming, land will not increase two per cent, in value in a great many years. If the tendency of lands in South Carolina were to increase in value, as is the , case in some of the other States, then it would be a wise policy in farmers to invest all their capital in land, but such is not the case. There are only a few men who are disposed to improve their lauds, and thus increase their t real value. The multitude of landholders, in our country, are ready to sell out any day ^ and go to some place else. It is a rare thing ] to see children cultivating the lands of their ( father, and still rarer to see them settled on i the lands owned and cultivated by their grand father. Such being the case, land never can increase much in value. One objection to large farms is that they never can be properly improved. On the | contrary, in one way and another, they will { be worn out. Properly cultivated, land will s increase in fertility, and consequently in value, 1 each year. Improperly cultivated, it is soon ruined. It would be certainly more pleasant j to cultivate a few acres like a garden and } reap from it an abundant harvest, than to cultivate, in a hoggish way, a great number t of acres, and reap from them only a scanty subsistence. There is something elevating and cheering in the first mode, and something very depressing in the other. [Original.] t SAVE. Our Southern farmers have never learned j to save. All they think about is gross in* . conies. There is scarcely a family in the s State but can, with absolutely 110 expense and but little trouble, make half enough 1 meat to supply it. About every farm-house, there is, of necessity, a great deal of refuse 1 provisions, such as bread-crusts, bones, dish- 1 water, bran, faulty potatoes, refuse garden veg- ( etables. and many other such thiners, which, if , properly managed, make good hog feed. All a that is necessary to make a good bacon hog is ? to put a pig up in a close pen and feed it on the refuse matter that accumulates about the farm-house. A small family should have but ^ one pig, whilst large families may have two, three, or any other number that can be well fed from the refuse matter that would otherwise collect about the premises. Such a course would be far better than to have a dozen poor hogs strolling about over the old fields, liable to be stolen any day, and far more liable to die with actual poverty. A ! hog is a lazy creature. Give it enough to eat and it will lie down in some cool place and grow. In a pen it will convert all the food that is given to it into bacon and lard. This is one instance in which much might be saved. There are others equally as favorable. It is characteristic of a South Carolinian to be wasteful, and it once was regarded by us as miserly not to be prodigal. Our farmers must change their mode of conduct ing their affairs, or the whole world will get 1 ahead of us. It ought to be a shame for a * farmer to buy corn, or bacon, or any thing ( that can be produced on his plantation. On the contrary, it seems as if it i3 scarcely hon- J orable in the eyes of some men not to buy 6 everything they need. With the present araountof corn that is made in many sections ( of the State, there is really no need for buy- ( ing so much corn if the crop was economically i {managed. There are men in this country i j who annually make more than sufficient corn J to supply all their wants, still they buy corn ; every year. How, it may be asked, can this , j be? We answer, the crop is, in oneway and } another, absolutely wasted. The rats of York ] t county, we have no dcubt, destroy more than j sufficient corn each year to feed the white pop- ' | ulation. In the feeding of stock, corn is I * I wasted ; in fact, as long as corn lasts, it is I ; wasted. Some persons never think of saving until it is too late. ? --j A Cure for Bots.?A correspondent of,j the Department of Agriculture at Washing- ^ j ton, writing from Murray county, Georgia, j i says that whilst different writers on the sub- i < ject assert that none knew of any certain i remedy for bots : < "I know of a remedy, that is safe and cer- < tain, discovered in the following way : About! thirty years ago, a friend lost by bots a very j fine horse. He took from the stomach of the | dead horse about a gill of bots and brought 1 ! them to my office to experiment upon. He < ! oiufio nponumtinns of everv remedy he had 1 I J J ... ( i heard of, and put some of them into each. ' Most had no eflect, a few effected them slight- < i ly, but sage-tea more than anything else ; that j killed theiu in fifteen hours. He concluded , he would kill them by putting them in nitric < < acid ; but it had no more effect on them than ! ] water. The third day they were as lively as f when put in. A bunch of tansy was growing : I by my office. He took a handful of that, | j bruised it, added a little water, squeezed out < < the juice, and put some in ; they were dead in one minute. Since then I have had it < given to every horse I have seen affected with 1 bots, and have never kuown it to fail in giv- I ing entire relief. My friend had another f horse affected with bots, several years later. < : He gave him the tansy in the morning and a j & dose of salts in the evening; the next roor- ' 5 i haii-^e took up from the excretions three ' I This 8ta& bets." i The remedy seem^serves general circulation. i j tried. Tansy ought to ^een thoroughly i ' I evet7 farmer, who owns a horse growi?g by , 1 remedy for bots sure enough. ' 'nay he a i CJMdtctt's gejriwtttwttt. WALKING WITH JESUS. Children, let us walk with Jesus, Walk beside Him hand in hand, Let our light shine bright and brighter As we near the heavenly land ; Let our words be kind and gentle, Let our words be always true, For the Saviour watches o'er us, Knowing all we say or do. If we now remember Jesus, If we strive to walk with Him, He will walk with us and lead us, When our eyes are old and dim ; He will guide "us safely, sweetly Tn nni< rojf hovAiul Mio clriou Where no wave of grief can touch us, Where no flower of beauty dies. WORE WONDERFUL THAN TELEGRAPHY. You have heard the people talk about the telegraph ; perhaps you have seen the wires, is they run across the country, stretched on ligh poles by the side of the railroad. What can be more wonderful than the fact .hat a piece of intelligence can be sent from -he city of New York in one instant to the nost distant p irt of our country ? Hundreds )f people have said, "When will wonders tease ?" "Surely, this is the wonder of all vonders." George and Mary Bates had often wished ;o visit the telegraph office. They had heard )f the strange doings of the wonderful marines there. A.. j__ nr 1..J n 1 zl lJ wne uay luary usueii \jreorge now it cuuiu )e that on these wires unseen messages were lassing to and fro. "I do not know how it is," replied George; 'father says it is by means of electricity; and ightning is electricity, and that is the reason lews travels so quickly by the telegraph." One day, after school, these children went nto their father's office and asked him if he vould be so kind as to take them to the railvay station to see the way in which messages ,verc sent along the wires. He took them by the hand, and in a few nomeuts they were by the side of the clerk, ookiug at the performance of the little instrunent that noted down intelligence like a iving thing. They entreated their father to send a mesiage to their uncle iu New York. This he igreed to do, but the little machine was so msy that the clerk could not just then gratify hem. Tic, tic, tic, dot, dot, dot, click, click, click, vent the little pointer. By and by it stopped or an instant, but it soon began again. "That is B for Bradford," said the clerk ; 'we must wait till this message is finished. :Vs soon as that sentence was written, there >vas W for Wakefield, and then an L for Leeds; and George and Mary were almost >ut of patience, as youDg people are apt to be vhen their wishes are not at once gratified. After awhile their turn came. The clerk lurried to put in a Y for York, and "Ay, ly," the reply, to let them know his wish was itteuded to: and then the message was sent. The children took the book which the clerk lad handed them, and looked over the telegraphic alphabet, and George said he was aire it must be a great deal more difficult to eraember than the alphabet of A B C. In the evening the children could talk of lothiug but the wonders of the telegraph. "Is t not the most wonderful thing you ever leard of, father ?" said Mary. "No," replied the father; "1 have heard of ihings more wonderful." "But, father," "said George, "you never leard of any message being sent so quickly is by this means, have you ?" "Yes, I have, my son." "And receive an answer as quickly?" adled George. "Yes, much sooner," replied his father. "Are you in earnest, father ?" said Mary, ooking eagerly in his face. "Is it possible ,hat you kuow of a more wonderful way of lending messages than by telegraph ?" "I never was more in earnest than I am ,vhen I say Yes, to your question." "Well, father," said George, "do tell me vhat it is, and in what respect it is better han the telegraph." "In the first place," said his father, "you lo uot have to wait to send your message vhile others are attended to ; for your meslage cau go with thousands of others, without my interruption or hindrance." "Yes, that is an improvement," said George; 'or we had to wait for some time, you know." "And in the next place," continued his ather, "there is no need of wires or electriciy, or any machinery. And what is more vonderful than all this is the fact that you leed not always even express in words the lature of your message, though it is quite lecessary that you truly and sincerely desire i favorable rep'y to your request." "Besides all this, the mode of which I i ipeak is better than all others, from the fact ;hat you need not go to any particular place ,o seud your request. In the lonely desert, in the wide sea, in the crowded city, on the nrmntnin fnn htr nifrVit nr hv dnv in oinlrnooa "J "J t ? md in health, in trouble and affliction, the ivay is open to all. And the applicants can lever be so numerous that the simplest deiires of the feeblest child, properly presented, shall not meet with attention." "Is there any account published of this vonderful matter?" asked George. "Yes, there is, my son ; and I hope your nterest will uot be diminished when I tell fou it is found in the Bible." "In the Bible, father?" cried both the diildren. "Certainly; and if you will both get your liibles I will tell you where to find the passage confirming what I have said. The children opened their Bibles, and iound, as their father directed them, the swenty-fourth verse of the sixty-fifth chapter )f Isaiah, which Mary read as follows: "And t shall come to pass that before they call I ,vill answer, and while they are yet speaking [ will hear." Next George found and read the ninth ;erse of the fifty-eighth chapter of Isaiah : 'Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall inswer; thou shalt cry, and lie shall say 'Here r ? ^ * ? L am. "Now turn," said their father, "to Daniel, linth chapter, twentieth, twenty-first, second, ind third verses." "And whilst I was speaking, and praying, ind confessing my sin, and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the Lord my God?yea, while I was speaking in prayer?even the man Gabriel, oeing caused to fly swiftly, touched me about ;he time of the evening oblation. And he nformed me and said, 0, Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee skill aud understand-1 ng. At the beginning of thy supplications j die commandment came forth, and I am come i to show thee," etc. "I see, father, from these passages," said I Mary, "that you mean prayer." "Yes,"said Mr. Bates; and I am sure you ! ivill both agree with me, that this mode of j communication with heaven is more wondermi than any other; for, by this means, if we mil upon God, with faith in our Lord Jesus ! L'hrist, we shall receive an answer. A Cure for Anger.?Two little sisters, j )ne seven and the other five years old, were : playing together, when a little difference ' irose between them. Lucy, the elder, feeling that anger was rising, said : j "I am getting angry ; I had better go out )f the room for a few minutes." She went out and soon returned with all the angry feelings gone. How she spent the few minutes I think most of our readers will know. Lucy had not read her Bible in vain, ihe knew the meaning of those sweet and mcouraging words: "Ask, and it shall be j iven." And many times had she found them \ true when fighting against her naturally hasty ! temper. j JG??>"" Do not pride yourself upon your wealth, j for riches have wings; if there is anything upon which you have a right to be proud of, it is your good conduct and your readiness to jxtend. goatling ?0* the jiflbbatlt CONDUCTED BY REY. ROBERT LATHAN. [Original.] PRACTICAL PIETY. The Christian world is divided and subd vided into a vast multitude of sects and d( nominations. Some say, like the Corinthia church of old, that they are of Paul, other claim to be of Apollos, whilst another clas say they are of Cephas. This state of thing is to be deplored. It is a pity that the house hold of Jesus has been divided. It give the enemy occasion to speak disparaging!; concerning the great plan of salvation. Nol withstanding ali the divisions that exist ii the church of God, and the seeming oppositioi between the creeds of Christians, there is real lir nnt oq mnnK onfiiol diffiirerpa nmnncri LJ b~ God's people as might be expected. Th practical piety of all truly godly men is th same all over Christendom. Not only so, bu the Christian experience of all Christians i the same. Those who follow Jesus neve differ about vital godliness, however muc] they may wrangle about creeds. Such beinj the case, how much more becoming would i be in Christians who differ in creeds to agre to disagree on these minor points since the are one in all the esseutials. [Original.] TAKE HEED. "Wherefore let him that thinketh he stanc eth take heed lest he fall." 1 Cor. 10: 12. The advice contained in these few word should be carefully memorized by us all ani reduced to daily practice. We are all liabl to come to the conclusion that we are stand ing on a sure foundation, and that it matter not who may fall, we are safe. The most c us have far more confidence in our own powe to resist temptation than we have in the bloo of Jesus to save us. We are prone to thin! we are standing and in danger of falling When we hear of some one in an evil hou faIIinrr into snmn sin. wfi rrv to nnrHplvns "i * fc> ?v? ?? ?J ? ' that individual had done as I do, he woul not have been overtaken in a fault." No small number of the human famil feel confident that they will never be the pei petrators of a vast multitude of transgression! They feel that they are above doing som things. To be guilty of some things the think is beneath their dignity. They ar ready to say, "Am I a dog that I would d such things." So thought one of old. H trusted to his own strength, and was the pei petrator of crimes too abominable to menlioi "When I am weak I am strong, and when am strong I am weak," is the deliberate cor elusion of an iuspired Apostle. To say the when we are weak we are strong, and whe we are strong we are weak, is a seeming cor tradiction. The Apostle means that when h was weak in himself, and had great conf dence in the Lord, then he was strong ; bu when he had little confidence in God, an relied much upon himself, then he was reall weak. Whenever we think we stand w never think of asking God not to lead us int temptation, and then is the time we are bese on the right hand and on the left, and fall a ea*y prey to the devil the world and the flesl The strength of the good man consists in constant distrust of self, and an unwaverin reliance upon the redeeming, regeneratin, aud sanctifying grace of God. It is this thn makes the good man. He that relies upo himself is self-deceived, and is liable at an moment to commit the most abominable sin: Many a poor mortal has been covered witl infamy and shame by thinkiug he was stand ing, when in reality he was falling head-Ion; into sin and shame. it t> t? tt?? v^., . " r OK THE JT KUftlJSK 13 UiN lU X UU AHU i< Your Children."?Two questions in refer ence to this passage deserve consideration First, what is the promise ? Second, who ar meant by children ? Mr. Barnes says tha the promise is the promise of the Holy Spiri alluded to by Peter just before, and tha children here may mean posterity. But think that his interpretation is incorrecl Peter in his next address in Acts iii. 25, says " Ye are the children of the prophets aud ofth covenant which God made with our fathers saying unto Abraham : In thy seed shall al the kindreds of the earth be blessed." A the covenant here meant that made witl Abraham and his seed, so I have no doub the promise mentioned is that of God t Abraham to be a God to him aud his see* after him. The word children here doubtles means the infaut offspring the Jews had then and those they might have afterwards. Thos who deny that Peter refers to infants, mak the meaning to be this: The promise is to yoi if you believe, and to your children if the; believe. That is, not because they are you children, or sustain any more relation to yoi thau the children of pagans; but if they be come believers, then the promise will be fo T* * I . .1 _ them as for you. reter aoes not, say me pre mise is or will he to your children when the; become adults, hut is now, both to parent and children. And notice that Peter con nects baptism with the promise just as circum cision was before. The believer was circum cised in token of the covenant and the pro mise. And as the same covenant and pro mise included the child, therefore it was cir cumcised in token of that fact. When, therefore, Peter says: "Repen and be baptized," and the believing Jew ask why, the answer is : because the promise is t you and your children. If you believe, yoi have the promise that God will be your God and must be baptized. If you believe, th promise is also to your child, and it must bi baptized. A Jew who had been accustomei to the circumcision of infants as a token o their being members of the Church of God would not suppose Peter meant only adult when he referred to the promise. The argument for infant baptism derive< from this text is that the Jews were accus tomed to consider children bound up in th same covenant with their parents, and th language of Peter here is only an inspire* transfer and reassertiou of the Jewish famil; i /ii. AJ4? meas.? unrusuan imeuigeiwxr. The Religion we Want.?We want i religion that bears heavily, not only on thi " exceeding sinfulness of sin," but on the ex ceeding rascality of lying and stealing; a re ligion that banishes small measures from thi counters, pebbles from the cotton-bags, claj from the paper, sand from the sugar, chick ory from the coffee, alum from the bread, an< water from the milk cans. The religion tha is to save the world will not put all the bij strawberries at the top and all the little one at the bottom. It will not make one half i pair of shoes of good leather, so that the firs shall redound to the maker's credit and thi second to his cash. It will not put Jouviu' stamp ou Jeukin's kid gloves; nor maki Paris bonnets in the back room of a Bostoi milliner shop; nor let a piece of velvet tha professes to measure twelve yards, come to ai untimely end in the tenth. It does not pu bricks at five dollars a thousand into chim neys it contracts to build with seven-dolla material; nor smuggle white pine into floor that jh^ve paid for hard pine; nor leavi yawning cracks in closets where board ought to join. The religion that is going t< sanctify the world, pays its debts. It doe not consider that forty cents returned fron one hundred cents given, is according to thi gospel, though it may be according to thi law. It looks ou a man who has failed ii trade, and who continues to live in luxury, a a thief.? The Christian. . THE YORKVILLE ENQUIRER z NEW PREMIUMS FOR CLUBS! -I UNPRECEDENTED OFFERS! BY a very liberal contract just entered into witl the Weed Manufacturing Companj', weari i- enabled to offer greater inducements to club ?. makers than ever heretofore. | READ OUR PROPOSITIONS! , Weed Sewing Machine, No. 1.?Price* 665. For a club of 40 subscribers, at 82..10 each, we wil S give a Weed Sewing Machine of the abovcstyle t! the cash price of which is sixty-five dollars. k Weed Sowing Machine, No. 2?Price, $70. J. For a club of 45 subscribers, at $2.50 each, we wil r give a Weed Sewing Machine of the above style ^ the cash price of which is seventy dollars. Weed Sewing Maclilnr, No. 3.?Price, $73. e For aclu b of 50 subscri bers, at $2.50 each, we wil give a Weed Sewing Machine of the above style i- the cash price of which is seventy-five dollars. It _?2f-The reputation of the Wee:l Sewing Ma ^ chine is equal to that of any other first-class ma chine in the market, and of its merits we cai y speak advisedly?having had one in constant us e in our ovm family since 1860, during all of whicl 0 time it has never failed to work in the most sat , isfactory manner. !t n OUR LIBERAL OFFERS. 1, In addition to the attractions of the Enquirer we invite attention to our terms of subscription and tho liberal ofters we make to those who imv & be disposed to form clubs. P TERMS?FREE OF POSTAGE. ,t I Single copy, ono year, $3 0 Two years to tho same address 5 (X 1 I Til rtlnliu antwcrihcr. nilfl Vfiar 2 51 y PREMIUMS FOR CLUBS. 3. To those willing to form clubs for the Enquirei h we make the following liberal offers: I 1. For 40 subscribers, at S2.50 each, we will giv< a No. 1 Weed Sewing Machine, worth ?65. S? 2. For 45 subscribers, at ?2.50 each, wo will giv< a No. 2 Weed Sewing Machine, worth ?70. 3. For 50 subscribers, at ?2.50 each, we will giv< 3 a No. 3 Weed Sowing Machine, worth ?75. The engravings given above in this column rep ! resent the styloofthe different machines. No. 1 i: g black walnut, oiled, plain table. No. 2 is blacl walnut, oiled, half case. No. 3 is black walnut oiled, half case, with two side drawers, and witl ' or without drop-leaf, as may be preferred, t These offers are not confined to a single club I nor is there any competition invited as to wh< shall procure the largest club. Each and ever} I, club of 40, 45 or 50 names will be entitled to thi e designated premium. , The machines will be shipped from the neares j branch office of the Weed Machine Company t< the persons entitled to receive them, transporta , tion charges, which will rarely exceed ?5, if sen by freight line, to be paid by the person receivinj ' the machine. ^ The offer made in this prospectus will be bind 1 ing upon the proprietor of the Enquirer unti 8 the 15th day of October, 1875; and persons wh< i, may commence making clubs, can forward names e as rapidly as procured, in every case to bo paid ir g advance, having until the above-mentioned dab j in which to complete their lists. It is not required that subscribers shall all', re ^ cei ve their papers at the same post-office; but sub r scriptions must be for a term not less than on< J year. One subscriber for two years will bi equivalent, in making up lists, to two name! r for one year each. Subscriptions may commence with any num on/I tVio nunof will bo sont for a full veai 7 from the time liie subscription begins. 8 Each club-maker "will be credited with name.' . as they shall bo received ; and should any fail t< secure either premium by the 15th of October, 1875 but should procure ten or more subscribers, ai i- extra copy of the paper will be given for the tei names thus procured, and for a'.! subscriptions ir excess of ten, a cash com miss:"" of t\vcnty-fiv< * cents will be given on each name. Tun Enquirer is sent Free of Postage tc alt. Subscribers. . Remittances may he made at our risk, by draft 1 post-office order, or in registered letter; if madi 8 otherwise, we will assume no risk. 0 Write names plainly, giving post-office, countj and State. 1 Specimen copies of the Enquirer will be sent ; to any address on application. 3 ANOTHER SPLENDID OFFER, j I'KPi.MlU.US lUni^Ulid f For the advantage of those who are inaccessible i by a club-maker, but may yet wish to avail ? themselves of our liberal oilers to subscribers S we have made arrangements with the publish ors of Smith's Bible Dictionary by which w< j are enabled to oifor that valuable work as a premium to subscribers, at a cost to the subscribe! ' for the book and the Enquirer, of little niort e than the publisher's price of the book. Smith'i e Bible Dictionary is a standard work, and indis, pensablv necessary to every student of the Bible, * or to every person who desires to read the sacred j i volume intelligibly. The Dictionary is the work j of Dr. William Smith, of the University of London, and the most eminent lexicographer in the j world, who, in its preparation associated witli a I himselfovor seventy distinguished divines and a I authors, of both Europe and this country, in the j great task of preparing a comprehensive Diction* [ ary of the Bible, and supplying a want long felt - bj' the religious public. The result of these lae I lw>rs appeared in threo large and very costly vol! umes, a wonderful monument of learning. Au f abridgement of this great work, for popular use, - made by Dr. Smith himsolf, is the one we have j ; arranged to furnish our subscribers. The book | contains every name in the Bible respecting which ' | anything can be said. It embraces the results ol y ' historic research, antiquarian investigation, the a j study of languages and dialects, and the diseovei rics of the modern travelers and explorers in the 1 j Holy Land?Robinson, Rawlinson, Ferguson, A I T 1 Cfnnlnif b i Uttvunij unci t aim OWIIIUJ e ! The lx>ok is printed from new stereotype plates, on good paper, and is appropriately illustrated s | with over 125 Engravings of beautiful Scenes, e j Ancient Cities, and Memorable Places of the j , Holy Land, descriptive Figures and valuable . j Maps. Tt contains nearly 800 closely-printed, c ' double-column, octavo pages, including 24 ele1 cant full-page, Steel and Wood Engravings. It 1j is printed in type of a heavy, distinct, and very 1 legible face. " I The publisher's price of Smith's Bible Dietionr arv is $3.50. Wo will furnish a copy of the work, 8 I substantially bound in cloth, and a copy of the j Enquirer one year for 84.50. Or for a club ol B i five subscribers at ?2.50 each, we will furnish a S copy of the Dictionary to the getter up of the club. 3 j The book will be mailed, free of postage, to the person entitled to receive it, direct from the office s of publication. 1 Subscribers whose terms of subscription have 2 not expired, by forwarding the money, will receive a copy of the Bible Dictionary, and have their subscription to the Enquirer extended one 3 year. The cash must accompany all orders. s L. M. GRIST, Proprietor, Yorkville, S. G. . I A. WIL.LJFORD, ROCK HILL, S. C. MORE YOUNG HORSES. I NOW have on hand, at my Stable in Rook 1 Hill, S. C., ?j SIXTY HEAD * i of young and fat Kentucky Mules and Horses? 1 among them some good saddle and harness anii mals, which I will sell ON TIME, payable lirstof j October, 1875, the payments to be satisfactorily secured ; or I will exchange them for old ones, on ' reasonauie terms. , ! A. WIL.L.IFORD. NOTICE. ALL persona indebted to nje for Horses or Mules purchased in 1874 and due in that year, are I requested to pay up at once and save cost. A fail! ure to comply may injure their credit with me j during the present year. A. WILLIFORD. CORN WANTED. ONE THOUSAND BUSHELS CORN wanted, for which I will pav the highest cash price, i A. WILLIFORD. j FODDER WANTED. 1WISH to buy 10,000 pounds GOOD FODDER, for which I will pay 31.50 per hundred pounds. A. WILLIFORD. "The sweetest, most powerful and durable now in use." ] BL00MFIELD & OTIS, 'iNEW SCALE PIANOS, 209 EAST 19TH ST., NEW YORK. EMBRACING new and most valuable Patents, giving a greatly improved treble; also, by a new manner of stringing and a new method of inserting sound board, the most important results have been obtained. "The tone is full and sonorous, with a sweetness and delieaey of touch that cannot l>e surpassed. I have tested them as I would a Grand, for points of delicacy and strength, and they have stood the test in every way. In many respects they are superior to any manufactured in America. Charles Fradel." (The eminent and favorite Composer and Pianist to His Royal Highness, the Luc Gustave of Sax Weimar of Eisenach.) (Rochester Musical Times.) "The firm of Bloomfield <fc Otis have lately made several important improvements in their pianos, placing them in the front rank of American manufacturers." (Toledo, O., Blade.) . "Bloomfield ife Otis, of New York, carry away 1 the first premiums at the Ohio State Fair as they > did at the Fair of the American Institute. Considering the fact that they met in competition all the established favorites,such as the Knabe, Dunham, Lightc, Bradbury, and inanv others, which were skilfully handlcn, this is certainly a high compliment, authctcsts worcthorough and critical. (Brooklyn, N. Y. Eagle.) "The Music Committee of the Board of Education, Brooklyn, together with tho local committees, after examining and thoroughly testing allthe principal instruments manufactured, havo purchased Blooinlieldtfe Otis' celebrated Patent Treble Pianos for the use of tho schools." These Pianos aro warranted for seven vcars. Responsible and energetic AGENTS WANTED everywhere. Send for Circular and mention the name of the paper in which you saw this advertisement. January 28 4 tf The above is a reduced copy or Ilic TITLE PAGE of the RUt UAL CAROL IVI AN. THE publishers have determined to change the commencement of the Volumes of the 3 RURAL CAROLINIAN From October to January. 3 THE RURAL CAROLINIAN is the leading Agricultural Journal of the South. Publishers " and Editors are all Southern men, and it is devos ted exclusively to the interests of Southern Agrii culture. While it is not the paid organ of the Patrons of Husbandry, or of any society or set of ' men, it has been tho most powerful advocate for the establishment of Oranges in the South, and its inlluenee has contributed greatly to the present , prosperity of the Order. j r D. H. JACQUES, Esq., of Charleston, S. C., 3 Editor-in-Chief. CHARLES H. DODGE, Esq., of tlie Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., Ento1 mologieal Editor. ) " Regular Contributors. 1 Col. D. WYATT AIKEN, Washington. D. C. S HENRY W. RAVENEL, Esq., Aiken, S. C. Rkv. C. W. HOWARD, Kingston, Georgia. - Cor,. N. H. DAVIS, Greenville, S. C. 1 RURAL CAROLINIAN?f2 PER ANNUM. I Address WALKER, EVANS <fe COGSWELL, Publishers, Charleston, S. C. 1 The Rural Carolinian and the "Yorkville En' quirer" will be furnished at $4 per annum. January 28 4 tf Nos. 3 Broad Street and 109 East Bay Street, > CHARLESTON, S. C. ; statiosebs @*bnfo^5js i , First-Class Work ; OUR SPECIALTY, ? YET, BY VfilNT. CHEAPER CRAPES OF STOCK. WE CAS KI RSISII WORK AT LOWEST LIVING PRICES. :| fine fashionablfstatioiiery, ! I I _ Piries Paper and Envelopes. s IRedding and (Ball invitations ON THE BEST STOCK ANO PRINTED IN THE > LATEST STYLE. : | i < September 10 37 tf [ J. S. R. THOMSON. C. U. SPKNOKR. THOMSON & SPENCER, 1 Solicitors in Bankruptcy YORKVILLE, S. C. I CJPECIAL attention given to lilingjof petitions, j 1 j ^ to the prosecution of claims in bankruptc}', j I and the collection and forwarding of Dividends to J 1 Creditors. February 4 5 tf | rTTSHBWPSHWiETfll I J iM|IJ4yJyy\t%\ iJ nrasiinn jlSSGEffl j June 4 23 tf ! RAGS WANTED. 1 a r\ POUNDS of clean cotton and lin' i ?n Raps wanted, for which 2 cents i ,! per prund will be paid, at the , "ENQUIRER" OFFICE. ! I April 15 15 tf | ! j " AUCTIONEERING. , ' rpHR undersigned takes this method to notify ] 1 the public: that he will give prompt attention to AUCTIONEERING in York and the adjoining ! counties. Communications may be addressed to I | him at Yorkville, S. C. S. ?. DROWN. I March 5 10 tf ' THE COOKING STOVES manufactured atour works in Greensboro, N. C., give universal satisfaction wherever introduced. They are made of the BEST SCOTCH PIG METAL, with heavier and thicker plate than any other Stove in tho 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 confidently claimed 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 are never changed. Should a piece get accidentally broken at any time, we can replace it at the mere cost of casting. Not simply oecause it is a home production, buton accountof 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 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. Ilrown, 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 no small item, bv 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. 8, with 10 pieces ware and 8 feet pipe, $30 00 44 y 44 44 44 44 4 4 44 44 Q0 a CVT3CV1VT At M/.P A TTT W AUUIVOO) x ww , Greensboro, N. C. T. M. DOBSON & CO., Agents, Yorkville, 8. C. JOHN R. LONDON, Agent, Rock Hill, S. C. A. F. LINDSAY, Agent, Lowrysville, Chester county, 8. C. YORK MARBLE YARDL 3m THE undert ly announces tliaSs to a costly m on lithe art, with the very best materials, and^at as low prices as the same class of work can be furnished anywhere in the United States. Orders from a distance promptly filled, and the same attention given to work ordered by mail as if the parties were present in person. From this date work will be delivered at any point on the Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad, between Yorkville and Chester, or at any place between Rock Hill and Winnsboro, on the Oharlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad, free of charge for transportation. Thankful for the patronage heretofore bestowed upon my establishment, my determination is to merit a continuance of the same. r u 4 DDrDvrrr n 1' liill X UiVI AAUUI/* January 14 2 ly F g( FRISCHEIS, HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTER, YORKVILLE.8. C., RESPECTFULLY offers his services to the citizens of Yorkvillcand vicinity. All manner of HOUSE PAINTING, including Graining, Marbling and Calcimining executed in the best style of the art. By the process of CALCIMINING, plastered walls which have become soiled and discolored, can be made to look as fresh and clean as new, and of any desired tint or shade of color, which will not rub oft'. Old Furniture will be re-varnished or re-painted and varnished in imitation of the various kinds of woods and made to look as well as new. Where there is enough of this class of work to justify me in so doing, I will visit the houses for that purpose, thus avoiding the necessity of moving the Furniture. Roofs painted in the most durable manner, either with granite or slate roofing paint, and the work warranted. Estimates furnished, and all work promptly executed at the lowest cash prices commensurate with durable and artistic painting. All communications promptly answered. Address F. S. FRISCHEIS, Va.k.m'Ha c n 1UIAVU1C) O. V. April 1 111 ly MUSIC HATH CHARMS. &c7~ WITH pleasure I inform all who desire to give their children a chance for a musical education, but whose means are very limited, that 1 have made arrangements with the celebrated "Mason <fc Hamlin Organ Co.," to supply persons with their unrivaled instrument, either at lowest factory prices, for cash, or on monthly or quarterly payments, upon whatis called the lease principle. Thus any one by paying only a moderate sum for the use of the instrument, can, at any time,give it up or become purchaser; the amount already paid being applied to the purchase. Or a person having paid the rent for four years, becomes the owner of the Organ without further payment. Call and enquire for particulars and see the new styles, at my Photo gallery, in the Adickes' building, where I may be found during all business hours, either to show you a sample or to wait upon you if you want anything in the Photographic line as heretofore. J. R. SCHORB. P. S.?Notwithstanding all the misrepresentations and "gab" of smart agents of the "Ring" companies, I still insist that I have the best and cheapest Sewing Machine (the American) to offer, and I am readv to prove my words to all who seek for the truth in the matter. J. R. 8. REMOVAL. _ - I HAVE removed my C&tin SHOP to the resiWQk dence of Mr. WILLIAM iiWsH "ll^Sgphr* AIKEN,six miles South i WjjmmnBto of Yorkville, and two miles East of Philadelffuajss* phia Church, where I W will be prepared, at all times, to MANUFAC' TURE AND REPAIR TIN WARE, at short notice. STOVE PIPE made to order cheap, for the cash. Address J. M. ADAMS, (luthriesville, S. C. June 3 22 tf TIIE J AS. EEFFEL Double Turbine Water Wheel, iilonulactorcd by ; POOLE & HUHT, i Baltimore, Hd. 7,<K)0 AO IF 12f VSEt Simple, Strong, Durable, always reliable and eatlsManufacturers.also, of j , Portable A Stationary , Engines, Steam Boilers, Saw & Grist Mills.. Mining Machinery,Gearing for Cotton Mills, Floor, P^int. White Lead and Oil Mill Machinery, Hydrauho and other Presses,4-c. Shifting,Pulleys and Hangers a specialty Machine made Gearing; accnate and of very best finish. Send for Circular*. March 25 12 (5m BARBER SHOP. THOSE in want of an EASY SHAVE, a fashionable and stylish cut of hair, or a pleasant and luxurious Shampoo, are reminded that THOS. BALLARD, Professor of the ArtTonsorial, is still in business, in his old Shop next door to the Enquirkr building, where it will afford liirn great pleasure to wait upon all who may de > =? T> ? ? ?.l Sirt; III? services* iWiUi a uuncu mm oum^cuui, and any other work of that kind promptly done. He may be found at the Shop on Sunday mornings from 7 to 10 o'clock. THOMAS BALLARD. June 11 25 ly FINE BEEF. OUR BEEF MARKET is now open, in rear of the old Masonic Hall, and we are prepared to furnish FINE FRESH BEEF every day. We will keep the best auality of Beef that this market can supply, ana will sell it at the lowest prices at which it can be afforded. Customers will be served at any hour of the day. We are in the market for the purchase of good BEEF CATTLE, and those having any for sale are invited to give us a call. McCONNELL & SNIDER. April 29 15 tf rfhB* . PER Day atliome. Termsfree. Addrens G. Stinbon k Co., Portland, Me. 3 ly* ibe fotb'iUc (frttquiw. TEIIM8?IN ADVANCE : One copy, one year. $ 8 00 One copy, six months, 1 50 One copy, three months, 2 50 Single copy, 10 Two copies, one year, 5 00 Ten copies, one year, 25 00 ^sa^To person's who make up clubs often or more names, an extra copy of the paper will be furnished one year, free of charge.