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gittmflMKS Department. A DIFFERENT KIND OF HOSE. For some time past it has been one of the duties of the police officers of St. Louis to go to the various houses of their respective beats, and ascertain the size, etc., of the hose used in sprinkling the yards and streets. Out on Grand Avenue one of the sturdy peelers had watched a long time at the back yard of an aristocratic mansion to try and obtain the neccessary information from the servant girl. But she didn't appear, and finally, in a fit of desperation, the officer walked around to the front door and rang. A moment later the lady of the house appeared herself and opened the door. This rather staggered the omcer, and without a word 01 preliminary explanation he touched his hat and led off with, "Good-morning, madam ! I called to inquire what kind of hose you use." "Sir?" said the astonished lady, growing about a gaiter heel taller. "Yess'm. Very disagreeable to trouble you, but we have to make these inquiries, mum. Duty, you know." "Duty, indeed, sir! You miscreant?" "Beg pardon, madam. Perhaps you don't use any hose. I'm sorry; but I don't know." "Not use any hose! 0, you villain!" "Well, perhaps it's rubber hose, madam ?" "Rubber hose!" shescreamed. "You abominable wretch ! What do you mean ?" "I mean what kind of hose?" "Well, of all the impudence?" "I ask a thousand pardons, madam ; I see you don't know?" "I don't know." "But here comes the kitchen maid. She can tell me what I want to know." "Susan, if you say one word to this miserable brute, I'll discharge you. She can tell you, indeed, can she ? I should like to see her." And so the officer had to retreat finally without accomplishing his purpose. The lady told her husband, thb husband flew in a rage to the sergeant, the sergeant explained the matter, and they both agreed that it was a great outrage that ought to be kept very quiet. a?" John Philpot Curran and Father O'Leary were great friends, and seemed to have a mutual respect for each other's talents. One day, after dinner, Curran said, "Reverend father, I wish you were St. Peter." "And why would you wish that ?" asked O'Leary. "Because, reverend father, in that case," said Currac,"you would have the keys of Heaven, and you could let me in." "By my honor and conscience," replied the divine, "it would be better for you that I had the keys of the other place, for then I could let you out." Curran enjoyed the joke and admitted there might be a good deal of justice in it. The Sunday Law.?The boys seem to be going down hill in their morals of late. Sunday, one of the legion, who had always been noted for his respectful demeanor toward the great public, observed an old citizen yawning and gaping on a street corner, and said to him "Better not open your mouth too wide." "Why? was the surprised query. "There s a law agin opening a saloon on Sunday," continued the sinful child, as he slid for the middle of the street. An Attractive Mouth.?They had celebrated their tin wedding, and so when he casually remarked that the new waitress had an attractive moqth, she said nothing. But whep he came home that night, and learned that the new waitress had left during the day for California; and that the only person who could be found to take her place was a woman of ninety years old, with two sets of false teeth, and a wen on her chin, he couldn't help wondering. "I'm habbin a heap of trouble wid sleeplessness dese nights," remarked an old darkey the other day. "Ho, ho, I reckons I knows all about dat," said another African near by. "You knows nuffin?dat's what you knows," replied the old man. "Sartin, I do knows suthin'," chuckled the other; "I knows well 'nuff dat you can't sleep of nights, and 'sides, I knows dat your neighbors can't nuther, ef dey's got any chickens!" The Parson's Horse.?A "bumptious" traveler, overtaking an old Presbyterian minister whose nag was much fatigued, quizzed the old gentleman upon his "turnout." "A nice horse yours, doctor; very valuable beast that: but what makes him wag his tail so, doctor ?" "Why, as you have asked me, I will tell you. It is for the same reason that your tongue wags so?a sort of natural weakness." AST We always felt a great deal of confidence in our power to read the mysteries of childhood, but we never can comprehend why it is that a bunch of little boys who find it difficult to spell cat above a whisper in school, can yell loud enough when playing marbles to scare a country dog out of a year's growth. What makes it appear strange to us is because we used to do it ourselves. iSF Ruskin observes that as a rule women have no eye for color. Thia explains why a woman is obliged to spend three-quarters ol a day in getting the exact shade of ribbon to trim a dress, while when, it comes to mending her husband's pantaloons, she seems to think that* yellow cloth is just the thing to match black broadcloth. Four Pounds.?A man dropped into the post-office the other day and wanted to know how much merchandise he could send in one parcel. "Four pounds," was the reply. "Then," he blandly said, "I will send out to Arizona four pounds of those red toy-balloons, ^ inflated." But he had difficulty in getting out of the door in time to dodge a mail-bag. "Look at the old Bay State," screamed a red-nosed stump speaker at a North Carolina barbecue, as he gesticulated with one hand and munched a chunk of beef he held in the other. "Yis, indade!" sung out a disgusted Irishman, pointing to the speaker. "See the ould baste ate!" A young clergyman seems to have compressed the whole body of his sermon on "deceit" in the following: "Oh, my brethren, the onATDinof aKii?fr_Pr?/\n+ mov r?r\n r?oa 1 on onKincr OUV T IVOV OUI1 y AAWAAU U4MJ WUUVMk V* u MVUtUg I bosom, and the stiffest of all rounders encir- ! cle a throat that has many a bitter pill to swallow." ? 4?" Somebody advertises in the London Times for a servant girl that fears the Lord and can carry one cwt. Hand-maidens that! can successfully wrestle with a hundred; pound weight are not usually the sort o' fe-' males that fear the Lord, or anybody else, for j that matter. ^ ^ I I He was reading to his wife about an accident, and casually remarked, "I dare say there was a woman at the bottom of it," when something trasnpired that made him grasp his head and rub it deliriously as if there had been a woman at the top of it. ? ? ? I?" "Well," said the captain, "before you j can be a sailor you must be able to make three ends of that piece of rope; try it." "All right," said the youngster, "here is one end, here is another, and (chucking it overboard) there is a third." The captain thought he would do. 9&*An old lady was in the habit of talking to her friends in a gloomy, depressing manner, presenting only the sad side of life. "Hang it," said one, after a long and sombre inter-: view, "she wouldn't allow that there was a ' bright side to the moon!" 8S" How are you, this morning ?" said Fawcett to Cooke. "Not at all myself," said the tragedian, "Then, I congratulate you," replied Fawcett, "for, be whoever else you will, you will be a gainer by the bargain." i j^griroltal fcpattmeut. [Original.] HOGS. Those persons who are making an effort to produce their own bacon should begin to feed j their hogs at once. It takes a great deal less food to fatten any animal in warm weather than it does in cold weather. In cold weather much of the food is consumed in keeping up the animal heat. In a close pen much ! less food is required to fatten a hog than is , absolutely necessary when the hog is permitted to range about. There is another reason for penning hogs. . ? I Original.] SOW OATS. The proper season to sow oats, in our country, is in August and September. Practical farmers have discovered that oats require near twelve months to mature properly. It is true that sometimes oats sown in the fall do not make good crops, and it is also true that oats sown in the spring sometimes make fine crops. Generally, however, fall sowed oats ; do best. Scarcely any crop costs so little to make it as an oat crop. Good farmers assert that five acres of fair land, that will produce, with ordinary seasons, twenty bushels of corn per acre, will produce enough of oats to feed j a horse the whole year. To sow fiv< acres of land in oats will not cost more thau to plant the same land in corn. To gather the oats will not cost more than it would cost to gather the fodder produced on the same land. It is clear that there is a vast difference in the cost j of producing the two crops. The corn requires'work from the time it comes up until it is in tassel. All the oats require is to be sown and gathered. [Original.] CORN-CRIBS. That there is a defect in the manner in which most of the corn-cribs of our country are constructed, no one who knows anything about it, will deny. Fully one-tenth of the corn produced in the country is destroyed by rats. On some farms, far more than this; on few farms less. Most farmers depend upon cats to keep down the rats; but unfortunately the dogs usually kill the cats. In some instances we have heard of black snakes being put into the crib to devour the rats. Both cats and snakes, however, are unable to keep the destructive rats within proper bounds. The only remedy is to construct a crib that will be rat-proof. This is a difficult thing to be accomplished, but it is not an impossibility. There are many dwelling-houses which a rat cannot enter, and a crib can be so constructed as to bid defiance to a rat, or even a mouse. There are few things that are so attractive to rats as corn, and hence they will make a greater effort to enter a corn-crib than almost any other house. It is, however, within the range of probabilities to make a rat-proof corn-crib. The construction of such a crib will be attended with more expense than the construction of the ordinary crib in our coun try. The rats and dogs of our country destroy enough of corn on most plantations to pay the tax of the plantation, were the com sold at the market value. Any man of ordinary inventive powers can devise a plan for the construction of a rat-proof corn-crib. It will amply reward any farmer to build such a crib. Fifty dollars will build a rat-proof crib that will-hold five hundred bushels of corn. Such a crib will save enough in one year to pay for itself. If the rats were prevented from entering the grain houses they would leave the plantation. Their principal food, on most plantations is corn. Deprive them of this, and they will leave. HOGS FOR PROFIT. Swine are usually kept for profit. Even the celebrated "Learned Pig" was doubtless profitable to his owners, and it would be difficult to find any other good reason for keeping pigs; still there are various methods of reaching that very desirable point. The Cherokee Agriculturist gives us a Southern and Western view of this question as follows: The majority of our Southern farmers have an lnnrr immirifer? tVip hplipf TpnnpflHCfi WV *VU^ MVWV^VWV* VM V vv?v* ?? ? - ~ ?- ? and other States west of her, were the necessary source of our meat supply, that it is a rare case that we meet a farmer who will admit that it is even profitable to raise his own supply, while we have substantial evidence in the thousands of tierces of imported bacon annually consumed in our section, that they are practicing this suicidal theory. Nothing but ignorance or bad management can justify this state of affairs, for even with the commonest stock of hogs that we have ever seen In Georgia, pork can be raised on the poorest farm for 6 and 7 cents per pound, giving the farmer one-third of that amount for the labor and care necessary to keep them. We do not count the other two-thirds as au actual outlay of capital, but as merely the value of corn fed, as it is of marketable value when gathered. For the benefit of those who will accent reason (and those who read generally do,) we propose an economical method. We first advise a good stock of hogs?the Berkshire are the best?and then by light feeding have your hogs to come up every morning and night, that you may be able to look after them, and keep them in health. If lousy, use coal oil on them. If wormy, give them copperas, ashes and turpentine in their slop. To keep them in good health, give them salt, ashes and turpentine occasionally. Prevention is better than cure. Far mange?with any kind of care, a black hog will not have any such disease. For a permanency, every farmer should have a few acres of clover for grazing purposes, and 110 farmer will do without it. Let the hogs glean the wheat fields, the orchards, the potato patches; it will do them good. - A Remedy for Cheat and Cockle.? Some years ago my wheat was very much "turned" to cheat and cockle. As I had just as much faith in wheat turning to one as to i the other, I resolved to sow no more of the seed of either, and took a screen off an old fan, put a rim around it,^at down by a heap of seed wheat, cockle and cheat or chess; and sieved it so long as any cheat, cockle or small grains of wheat would go through. The re* 1 1 11 il L ? A suit was, scarcely a siaia 01 anytmug out wheat could be found in 45 acres the next harvest, and what few stalks appeared I presume had been in the manure. I treated my seed the same way the next fall. The following spring, in sowing grass seed over 50 acres I found but one stalk of cockle; and in harvesting not one handful of cheat, and no cockle was found, not withstanding the wheat had been badly winter-killed, and one field near the barn had been run on, #amped and eaten by the lambs and chickens very much. Making Leather Fast to Metal.?A method of affixing leather to metal, so that it will split before it can be torn oflj consists in digesting a quantity of nut-galls, reduced to powder, in eight parts of distilled water for ' six hours, and filtering it through a cloth ; then dissolving one part by weight of glue, and allowing it to remain twenty-four hours. ! The leather is to be overlaid with the decoc- J tion of nut-gal, and the solution of glue ap-: plied to the metal, previously roughened and heated. The leather is then laid upon it, and dried under pressure. (jMdtttt's Department. "MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB." There are floating about, in the great ocean of literature, stray chips of song or story, which, from their wit or wisdom, or from some unaccountable reason, become popularized and cherished more carefully than whole navies of world-renowned authors. Their parentage unknown, they come as literary foundlings to our doors, and, once admitted, command their own place in our affections. Among such is the poem, "Mary had a little lamb." There is hardly a child in the land who has not become familiar with the verses; not a college student but has sung them to a dozen different tunes. It has been parodied, paraphrased and translated into the dead languages. And yet, scarce any one knows who is the author, or whether it is fictitious or founded on fact. It is, perhaps, in the truth of the story that the secret of its popularity lies. For it is the true account of an incident that happened sixty-one years aro, not 6fty miles from the Cradle of Liberty. And "Mary," a delightful old lady of three score and ten, still lives and cherishes the memory of the event. The writer, on a recent visit, craved from her own lips the true story of the affair, and will reproduce it as nearly as possible. "It was when I was nine years old," she said, "and we lived up on the farm. I used to go out to the barn every morning with father to see the cows and sheep. They all knew me, and the cows, old "Broad," and "Short-horn," and "Brindle," would low a good-morning when I came to their stables. Oue cold day we found that, during the night, twin lambs had been born. You know that sheep will often disown one of twins, and this morning one poor little lamb was pushed out of the pen into theyard. It was almost starved and almost frozen, and father told me I might have it, if I could make it live. So I took it into the house, wrapped it in a blanket, and fed it on peppermint and milk all day. When night came I could not bear to leave it, for fear it would die, so mother made me up a little bed on the settle, and I nursed the poor a: n _:_i.. c?j;? Idling Ull Liigin, iceutug it vribu a sjjuuu, auu by morning it could stand. After this we brought it up by the hand until it grew to love me very much, and would stay with me wherever I went, unless it was tied. I used, before going to school in the morning, to see that the lamb was all right and securely fastened for the day. Well, one morning, when ray brother Nat and I were all ready, the lamb could not be found, and supposing that it had gone out to pasture with the cows, we started on. I used to be a great singer, and the lamb would follow the sound of my voice. This morning, after we had gone some distance, I began to sing, and the lamb, hearing me, followed on and overtook us before we got to the school-house. As it happened, we were early, so I went in very quietly, took the lamb into my seat, where it went to sleep, and I covered it up with my shawl. When the * 1 J xl x -J* xT. l_1 reacner came, auu one rtm ui one suuumis, they did not notice anything amiss, and all was quiet until my spelling-class was called. I had hardly taken my place before the pattering of little feet was heard coming down the aisle, and the lamb stood beside me ready for its word. Of course, the children all laughed, and the teacher laughed, too, and the poor creature had to be turned out of doors. But it kept coming back, and at last had to be tied in the woodshed till night. Now, that day, there was a young man in school, John Roulston by name, who was on a visit to one of the boys, and came as a spectator. He was a Boston boy, and son of the riding school master, and was fitting for Harvard College. He was very much pleased over what he saw in our school, and a few days after gave us the first three verses of the song. How or when it got into print I don't know." Thus she ran on, telling of the care she be stowed on her pet until it grew to be a sheep, and she would curl its long wool over a stick; and it bore lambs until there was a flock of five all her own; and finally, how it was killed by an angry cow. Then she brought out a pair of her little girl's stockings, knitted of yarn spun from the lamb's wool, the heels of which had been raveled out and given away by piecemeal as mementos. No one can doubt that she, whose youth was rendered famous by love for an unfortunate animal, has lived a life of beneficence and charity. With a heart overflowing with love toward all God's creatures, she has indeed lived to care for the needy and destitute, and be a mother to the motherless. And now, in a green old age, she is surrounded by those whom her warm heart long since taught to cling to her and follow as the lamb in her youth. When at last she shall cross the river, she will find an eternal home in the green pastures and beside the still waters, where the Good Shepherd feeds His lambs. John Roulston died before entering college. What the world lost in him who wove into verse that immortalized them both, the story of Mary and the lamb, no one mott oott?WriTTnr R Sawvut? in rnrinn. field Republican. NO MOTHER. The other day, when a stern and dignified judge ordered a prisoner to stand up and offer objections, if he had any, to being sentenced to prison for a long term of years, the prisoner rose and said: "I never had a mother to shed tears over me!" His words entered every heart in the court room. He was a rough, bad man, in the middle age of life, and he had been convicted of burglary, but every heart softened toward him as his lips uttered the words. He felt what he said, and tears rolled down his cheeks as he continued: "If I had had a mother's love and a mother's tears?some one to plead with me and pray with me?I should not now be what I am !" Ah! that's it! There is a power in a mother's love, in her tears, pleadings and prayers, whose influence is hardly to be realized. God pity the lad who has no home to go to?no mother to whom he can tell his troubles and his griefs?no mother to put her arms around his neck and beseech Heaven to keep him in right paths! There is no heart like a mother's. Her child may wound it again and again, yea, pierce it with a sword, and its last pulsations will still beat with love for the ingrate. It is the first to excuse his faults, the last to condemn. There is no love like a mother's?none so enduring, so tender, so farreaching. It is lavished upon the child in the cradle, and it follows the boy over the ocean. It calls up the wanderer the first thing in the morning, and it remains with him until sleep closes the eyes. When a mother's love for her offspring dies out, it is a certain sign that he has become a being too atrocious to longer live among men. There are no tear9 like a mother's. Nothing can so lighten the sorrow of a child?nothing so restrain a mind from wandering into evil paths. The man who looks back over his childhood and youth regrets nothing so much as that he has brought tears of sorrow and sadness to a fond mother's eyes. Every tear a mother sheds over a wayward child is recorded in the great book, and he shall answer for it. "I never had a mother to shed tears over me!" The sorrowful words of that burglar might be the words of many evil-doers. "No mother" means aching hearts, burdened minds, deadly woes, and paths which lead down to ruin. Heaven be kind to the lad who mu9t j battle through the world without a mother's i tears, a mother's prayers, and a mother's boundless love to give him hope, strength ancl j courage! 86T Infinite toil would not enable you to j sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little, j you may often look over it altogether. So it J is with our moral improvement; we wrestle I fiercely with a vicious habit, which would ! have no hold upon us if we ascended into a ! higher moral atmosphere. fUading fan the lafobatb. CONDUCTED BT REV. ROBERT LATHAN. f Original.] THE JUDGMENT. Multitudes of the human family seem to think that at the general judgment, Jesus ChriBt will take his seat, and with awful solemnity proceed to condemn the wicked, and justify the righteous. No such thing as this will take place. All Adam's race were condemned when Adam eat the forbidden fruit. We may not be able to state to the satisfaction of all, how the whole race became involved in condemnation by the sin of one; but with regard to the fact we need have no difficulty. In some way or other sin entered into our world by Adam, and death by sin, and death passed upon all men because all have sinned, Romans 5th. The teachings of the Scriptures and the experience and observation of all men entirely agree. The sentence of condemnation was passed upon Adam the moment he eat the forbidden fruit. No interval of time elapsed between the act and the pronouncing of the sentence. His race and himself were a unit in the act, and a unit in the eye of God when he pronounced the sentence upon Adam. Our Saviour says to the Jews, ye are condemned already. On the other hand, the sentence is revoked the moment the sinner believes in Christ. There is no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus. The moment any individual believes in Jesus, his sins are pardoned and his iniquities forgiven. In other words, the believer is justified. At the judgment the sentence of condemnation will be fully executed in the presence of an assembled universe, and the wicked shall receive the reward of his hands. The wicked will not be condemned because they have rejected Christ the Saviour; but they are now condemned because they are sinners, and at the judgment the sentence of condemnation will be executed because they would not accept Christ. The ground of our condemnation is not, as many suppose, rejecting Jesus Christ. Sin, and sin alone, is the only ground of our condemnation. All men are condemned because all are sinners; but those who have believed in Christ have passed from under the condemnation of the law because they are no longer under law, but under grace. At the judgment, in the presence of an assembled universe, all believers will receive the blessings which Christ purchased for them with bis own precious blood. The day of judgment will be a great day, because the Lion of the tribe of Judah will reward all justly. He will not punish the unbeliever more than he deserves, nor reward the believer less than the blood of Jesus, who is both redeemer and judge, deserves. No one, then, will be dissatisfied with the conduct of King Immanuel. Both, believer and unbeliever, will pronounce the judge holy and just. * * [Original.] EXCUSES. Every human being that readB the Bible, or hears it read, is convinced that it teaches Borne facts that can be learned only partially from other sources, and that it teaches many things that can be learned from no other source. No sensible man ever thought that paganism is better, or even equal, to the religion of the Bible. Some men have taid that paganism was as good as Christianity; but no one, ever for one moment, believed that those who said this believed it. A Roman King once.said tbat when his soldiers struck their shields with their spears the noise thus produced was louder than thunder ; but no one, not even the soldiers themselves, believed what the boasting King had said. In one sense, it may be said all men who know anything aDout tne jsirne Deneve it. They give it the assent' of their intellects. They regard its history as true. They give an intellectual assent to the moral law as just and good. There is not a sensible man on earth who thinks that it ^ould be either morally, socially or politically injurious to obey any one, or all of the ten commandments. If there be in any civilized country on the face of the globe an individual who thinks it right for children to disobey their parents, or that murder is right, or that adultery is no crime, or that it is right to steal, that falsehood is as advantageous to society as truth, or that cov* etousness is a virtue, then we say that such an individual is, by the common consent of all who know him, branded as a worthless vagabond and excluded from the pale of decent society. The oath of such a man would not be admitted in any court of justice. The moral law is the base of all the wise enactments tff every civilized nation on earth. In one sense, it may be said that civilized men believe the Bible. They believe that it con tains a good code of laws; but, in another sense, they reject it. Whenever, in the Bible, the sinner is commanded to believe in Christ Jesus that he may be saved from his sins, many begin to make excuses. Perhaps it would be impossible to find a human being in a Christian land who does not know that it is his duty to give his heart to God by believing on Jesus Christ, his son ; but still there are multitudes who will not come to Jesus. It would be a most difficult task to undertake to find an individual who never expects to believe in Christ. There may be some persons who are willing to live and die without an interest in Christ Jesus ; U..J. iL. ? In wnanCl nroqt Plffflru UUl> tUC UULUUC1 13 U J iiU lUoauo gtuuvi *-* * v? j infidel who says hard things against Jesus Christ and his gospel, does not give utterance to the thoughts of his heart. He is only playing moral braggart. The excuses which men devise to keep themselves aloof from Jesus are usually silly. One says he has bought a farm or a yoke of oxen; another says he has married a wife. The deception is so transparent that any one can see through it at a glance. If takes for granted that a man cannot be a follower of Christ and at the same time make provisions for the body. Dean Swift once said that a falsehood is as foolish as it is wicked. The idea is this: Falsehood is both wicked and stupid. No man will dare, at the last day, when the affairs of this world are wound up, to say to the judge that the reasons which he gave whilst on earth, for not accepting Jesus Christ were good and valid. No. Every rejector of Jesus will be like the roan who was found without a wedding garment, at the marriage supper of the King's son. He will be speechless. It is an awful thing for a human being to pride himself in his honesty toward bis fellow beings, but at the same time to act dishonestly toward the God that made him, and gave his son to redeem him. A traitor in every land is despised. Must not he be despised who refuses, for trivial exouses, to worship God? YORKVILLE ENQUIRER. VOLUME 2S.?1870. THE YORKVILLE ENQUIRER is now in its twenty-second volume, and is a large twentyeight column newspaper, handsomely printed on clear, legible type, and devoted to the Political, Social, A griculthral and Commercial Interests of the South. We are enabled to promise increased attractions in all the different departments of the paper, conspicuous among them being the SERIAL STORIESj written expressly for its columns. As a non-partisan, independent family newspaper, the future editorial conduct of the Enquirer can be as well judged by the past as by any prom i8e which we might now feel disposed to make. An experience of thirty-five-years in the newspaper business?of which time at least one-lialf has been unremittingly devoted to the management of the Enquirer?fully convinces the proprietor that the plan he adopted on assuming control of the paper, is the correct modo of journalism in the present day. The true mission of the newspaper is to place before the public facts as they may exist, unbiased by partisan feelings or sinister motives; and the propriety of this course is fully attested, not only by the success of the Enquirer, which can truthfully claim the largest circulation of any country newspaper in the South, but also by many other of the most popular and widely circulated papers of the day. The course thus indicated we shall continue to pursue, aiming to publish a LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER, whieh shall be a welcome visitor to the Home Circle, and acceptable alike to all classes of readers. Hence, the news department of Ihe Enquirer, whether of matters at home or abroad?political or otherwise?will be conducted with the utmost care, and only facts as they seem to exist, will be presented, free from soctional or party bias. LITERARY DEPARTMENT. The original Serial Stories are an attractive feature of the paper, being from the *pens of the most sprightly and.entertaining story writers of the day, and abound with dramatic plot and stirring incident. HISTORICAL SKETCHES. The Historical Sketches of the Early History of South Carolina will constitute an important feature of the volume. These Sketches are written by Rev. Robert Lathan, and commencing with the earliest settlement of the State in colonial times, gradually trace its rise and progress. To the writing and compilation of these Sketches the author has devoted much thought and extensive research. Besides the colonial history, thev will contain the stirring scenes and important events, the anecdotes and incidents?legendary and authentic?which have never before been fully published, connected with the Revolutionary history of the State. Much of the material of these Sketches being traditional?many of the events portrayed having never been in print? and written in Mr. Latiian's easy, familiarstyle, they will be read with peculiar satisfaction, not only in our own State, but by every one having a just appreciation of the history of a noble ancestry in their struggle forliberty and independence. CHESTER CORRESPONDENCE. To meet the demands of our increasing circulation in Chester county, we have engaged the services of Brainerd McLure, Esq., who will connf /vMrrAnnnndftncfl from Chester liL I UUbU U lovw*. v? vw? regularly each week. These letters are devoted entirely to Chester affairs?to the interests of the town and county?and written in the racy and graphic style peculiar to Mr. McLure, they cannot fail to be of interest to pur readers in Chester, as well as elsewhere in the"State. THE OTHER DEPARTMENTS. In addition to the above features, Rev. Mr. La>than will continue his regular contributions to the "Sabbath Reading," and the "Children's Department," which, under his management for the past six years, have been an importantattraction; and with the usual melange of Miscellaneous Reading adapted to all tastes; the Agricultural Department, containing practical and useful information for the farmer and house-wife; a column of Humorous Reading every week; "Scraps and Facts,"embracing light current topics; acumpend of the News Abroad and at Home; Correspondence ; Commercial and Market Reports; Editorial Articles upon appropriate subjects, intended t/> nrnmote the prosperity and welfare of our people, we hope to make the Enquirer replete as an entertaining and instructive Family Journal. Terms of Subscrption?Free of Postage.? Single copy one year, $3.00. In clubs, each subscriber, per year, $2.50. Money may be forwarded at our risk by draft, post-office order or registered letter?otherwise we will assume no risk. Write names plainly, giving post-office, county and State. Address all letters to L. M. GRIST, Publisher, Yorkville, S. C. PREMIUMS FOR CLUBS. By a favorable arrangement with the different manufacturers, we are enabled to make the following liberal and unprecedented offers of Premiums for Clubs. These Premiums have been adopted by us with special reference to securing only articles of value, and which will prove serviceable to those procuring them. The regular retail price is given with each and they are just as good as so much cash to those who receive them. All the articles are put down in our schedule at manufacturers' regular retail prices, and cannot be bought with cash any lower than the prices here . ? T??Won 1 O and 9 will harlaliirarad given, rreuiiuuia nuo. * uuU ? ..... ?v?. v.v? through the mails, to persons entitled to receive them, free of cost. The other Premiums will be delivered a.f. the expense for freight charges, of those receiving them. In cases where Premiums can be delivered at our publication office, arrangements may be perfected for reducing the freight charges on .small articles to a nominal amount. The charges for freight on the Silver WarePremi- J urns will be from New York ; on Webster's Dictionaries from Philadelphia; on the Cooking Stoves from Greensboro, N. C.; and on the Sewing Machines from Baltimore, Md. No. 1.?For a club of 4 subscribers, at 82.50 each, we will give a treble silver-plated BUTTER KNIFE, worth 81.00. No. 2.?For a club of 8 subscribers, at 82.50 each, we will give one copy of the family edition (cloth binding) of SMITH'S ABRIDGED BIBLE DICTIONARY, the publisher's price of which is $3.50 per copy. Or for 84.50 we will give a copy of the Bible Dictionary and send the Enquirer "toe year. \o. 3.?For a club of 10 subscribers, at $2.50 eaciVw0 will give a treble silver-plated CHILD'S GILTXJJP, worth $3.00. No. 4^*For a club of 15 subscribers, at $2.50 each, we twll give one set?six of each?Hard Rubber, solid oval-handle TABLE KNIVES AND FORKSMhe manufacturer's price of which is $5.00. \ No. 5.?For a \>lub of 15 subscribers, at $2.50 each, we will give taie copy of the latest editioti of WEBSTER'S ATlONAL PICTORIAL DICTIONARY, containing 1,040 pages and 600 illustrations. Publisher's price $5.00. No. 6.?For a club oj 17 subscribers, at $2.50 each, we will give one dofcn treble silver-plated TEA-SPOONS, worth $6.00. No. 7.?For a club of 17 subscribers, at $2.50 each, we will give a treble siVer-plated SYRUP CUP, worth $6.00. v No. 8.?For a club of 20 subscribers, at $2.50 each, we will give a treble silver-plated BUTTER DISH, worth $S.OO. N No. 9.?For a club of 20 subscribers, at $2.50 each, we will give one dozen solid cast steel ovalhandle TABLE KNIVES, valued at $5L00. No. 10.?For a club of 23 subscribers'; at $2.50 each, we will give a treble silver-plated CASTOR AND FIVE-BOTTLES, worth $9.00. No. 11.?For a club of 26 subscribers, at $2.50 each, we will give one dozen treble silver-plated TABLE SPOONS, worth $12.00. No. 12.?For a club of 26 subscribersg at $2.50 each, we will give one dozen treble silver-plated TABLE FORKS, worth $12.00. No. 13.?For a club of 26 subscribers, at $2.50 each, we will give one treble silver-plated CAKE BASKET, worth $12jjfl. No. 14.?For a cluWn 30 subscribers, at $2.50 each, we will give one copy of the latest edition of WEBSTER'S UNABRIDGED PICTORIAL DICTIONARY, containing 1,840 pages, with 3,000 ... 1 : j? ill,,,,. UlUStrUMlHlH, utvtiura i?ui ui wiuiv/u >1.u.itrations showing the Arms of the States and Territories, tho Arms of various Nations, the Flags of various Nations, United States Naval Flags, etc., the publisher's price of which is $12.00. No. 15.?For a club of 40 subscribers, at $2.50 each, we will give one dozen extra superfine, full oval ivory-handle TABLE KNIVES, with silver-plated blades, valued at $17.00. No. 16.?For a club of 55 subscribers, at $2.50 each, we will give one No. 8 TROPIC COOKING STOVE, including a full set of fixtures and cooking implements. Manufacturers' price $30.00 No. 17.?For a club of 60 subscribers, at $2.50 each, we will give one three-quart, treble silverplated COMMUNION SERVICE, consisting ot SIX pieces, worth $40. No. 18.?for a club of 65 subscribers, at $2.50 each, we will give a treble silver-plated TEA SET, consisting of SIX pieces, viz.: 1 Coffee Pot, 2 Tea Pots, 1 Creamer, 1 Sugar Bowl and 1 Slop Bowl, the maker's price of which is $50. No. 19.?For a club of 70 subscribers, at $2.50 each, we will give a WEED SEWING MACHINE, Walnut Plain Half-Case, with two Drawers and Drop Leaf, manufacturer's price, $75. OA per day at home. Samples worth 91 free. 1 u Stinbon 8c Co., Portland, Maine. 19 ly PIAI> OS J?JS Grreat Closii MUST BE SOLD BEFOR Fifty New Pianos, Twenty-five Second Ha .Second Hand Organs, must be closed out befor< Tbey are to be sold at a LARGE SACRIFICE, an< desired. No family need now be without a Pianc rent, and either one or two years rental will be apj crowded with elegant Instruments. Come early a gain now than ever before. Try it. Catalogues ma LUDDEN & BATES' SOI SAVANNAH, August 3 ! THE COOKING STOVES manufactured atoui 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 the market, and consequently will the longer withstand heat and hard usage. They are of hand some pattern and neat finish, and warranted equal in every other respect to any Cooking Stove sold in the United States, while it is 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 because it is a home production, but on account of its intrinsic merits as an article of household economy, do we ask the patronage of home purchasers. More than ONE THOUSAND of these Stoves are now in use. and among many .others having 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 Herndon, 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 samo time pet 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 14 7 44 44 14 44 44 44 44 26 00 Address, SERGEANT & McCAULEY, DrPAflQViAfA AT P T. M. DOBSON <fc CO., Agents, Yorkville," S. *C. JOHN R. LONDON, Agent, Rock Hill, S. C. A. F. LINDSAY, Agent, Lowrysville, Chester county, S. C. J. L. CARROLL, Agent at Chester, S. C. RICHMOND ADVERTISEMENTSr TALBOTT & SONS. SHOCKOE MACHINE WORKS, RICHMOND, VA.| MANUFACTURERS OF STEAM ENGINES, BOILERS, AGRICULTURAL ENGINES, CIRCULAR SAW MILLS, GRIST, BARK AND PLASTER MILLS, SHAFTING8, HANGER8 AND PULLETS, IMPROVED TURBINE WATER WHEELS. October 14 41 ly WM. ETTENGER. H. P. KDMOND ETTENGER& EDMOND, Richmond, Va., MANUFACTTJrtKRS OF PORTABLE AND STATlUflAK* Lrujiniss, BOILERS OF ALL KINDS, CIRCULAR SAW MILLS, GRIST MILLS, MILL GEABING, SHAFTING, PULLETS, AO. , AMERICAN TURBINE WATER WHEELS, CAMERON'S SPECIAL STEAM PUMP. Send, for Catalogue, October 14 41 ly GEORGE WOODS & CO.'S I PARLOR. ORGANS ^ gj *2 ijj ?5 "* ^ "* ^ y, zj ^ These remarkable Instruments possess capacities for musical effects and expression never before ! attained. Adapted for Amateur and Professional, . and an ornament in any parlor. Beautiful . New Styles now ready. GEO. WOODS & CO., Cambridgeport, Mass. \ WAREROOMS: 608 Washington St., Boston ; < 170 State St., Chicago ; 28 Ludgate Hill, London. THE VOX HUMANA. A leading Musical Journal of selected music and valuable reading matter. By mail for $1 per ' year, or ten cents a number. Each number contains from $2 to $3 worth of the finest selected ; music. GEO. WOODS <fc CO.. Publishers, Cambridgeport, Mass. . January 20 3 tf ~THE CHESTER ! JEWELRY STORE, i mHE Store of the undersigned is supplied with , X a large and elegant assortment of ~ WATCHES, CLOCKS. ] JEWELRY, SILVER AND PLATED-WARE, ] and all articles usually found in a Jewelry estab lishment. Moreover, I keep ?u hand MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, ' among which is the celebrated ORGAN, made by ] George Woods & Co., Cambridge, Mass. . i R. BRANDT, Proprietor. 1 March 9 5 ly ] JAMES P. HART. G. W. S. HART. * HART & HART, , ATTORNEYS AT YOftKVILLE, S. C., WILL practioe in the State and United States t Courts. Spech^ attention given to Account- ings and causes m tlie-.Probate Courts. Willnn- ( dertake for collections and legal business in all ' parts of the United States, through reliable business agencies. January 1 1 ly < AGRICULTURAL^ LIENS^ J MORTGAGES of Real Estate, and Titles to f Real Estate. For sale at the [ ENQUIRER OFFICE. ' (til O a day at home. Agent, wanted. Outfit and tornm free. 1 it)J.a TRUE 8c CO., Augusta, Maine. \ 19 ly 1 \ D ORGANS. tig Out Sal?? ?) E OCTOBER 1ST, NEXT. md Pianos, Fifty New Organs, Twenty-fire 3 we remove to our new Store on Whitaker Street, d on long time, with small monthly payments, if or Organ. Those who cannot .purchase now can >lied on purchase of same. Our Piano Rooms are nd make a selection. You can make a better bardied. Mention where you saw this advertisement, JTHERN MUSIC HOUSE, , GEORGIA. 31 5t HEALTH, HAPPINESS. CONVENIENCE AND COMFORT I Not anything conduces more to good health than good, pure water. Such is famished by the DOUBLE-ACTING STONE FORCE PUMP! T. S. JEFFREYS, Agent, YORKVILLE, SO. CA. A T the start it brings the waterpure, fresh and cool, as it is in your well. No slime or filth collects on or in it. No snails or worms from , wooden piping. Is free from rust or other impnj rities, and discharges the water much fSuter than any other Pump. It works with ease?a small . child can operate it. It is of stone, glazed on inside and outside like glass, and cannot wear out or decay. Thoroughly ventilates your well, airs the water, and makes it living, moving water. Improves the water more than if there was no Pump in the well. With a hose attached, it becomes a Fire Engine, ever ready at your door, reducine the risk from fire and thenreminm on insurance. Is easy to keep in repair, and works with TWO-THIRDS the POWER required by any other Pump of the same capacity, and can tie used in very deep or very shallow wells. It gives entire satisfaction, as will be attested by the following persons now using them witn success, to-wit: Dr. W. M. WALKER, T. M. DOBSON, Col. J. A. McLEAN, J. W. DOBSON, Capt. L. M. GRIST, B. T. WHEELER, Dr. A. I. BARRON, P. B. DARWIN. Maj. W. B. METTS, GEORGE L. RIDDLE, H. F. ADICKES, Sr., ROBT. R. McCORKLE, H. F. ADICKES, Jr., J. B. WHITESIDES, CLARK BROTHERS, T. K. MICKLE. J. U. ZURCHER, June 15 24 tf BLANK BOOK MANUFACTORY STATIONERY, AND BOOK BINDERY. THANKING the public for liberal past patronage, I now invite attention to my oomplete stock of STAPLE AND FANCY STATIONERY, consisting, in part, of Flat Papers, Midium, Folio Post, Demy, Letter and Note. Blank Books, of every variety; Envelopes, Slates, Ink, Ac, Fancy Stationery, Gold Pens and Pencils, PenKnives, Writing Desks, Ac. Also, BOOK BINDING DONE, in all its various branches. Sheet Mnaic-,."Period- . icais. Law Books, Ac., bound-Tn aby styledeslr6d. Ola Books rebound and repaired. PRIBTED BILL ARB LETTER HEAD8 A SPECIALTY Orders promptly attended to, at lowest cash ? prices. E. R. STOKES, 155 Main Street Columbia. S. C. FINE LIQUORS. I HAVE for sale at my Store near the railroad depot, THE BEST QUALITY OF SPIRITS ever offered for sale in the city of Yorkville. Call and get some FOR MEDICAL PURPOSES. All my liquors are pure, and consist of Apple Brandy, Madeira Wine, Ginger Branay, Malaga Wine, Peach Brandy, Port Wine, Cherry Branay, Sherry Wine, Old French Brandy, Scuppernong Wine, Old Cognac Brandy, Red Rye Whisky, Old Holland Gin. White Rye Whisky, Old London Dock Gin, Bourbon Whisky, Eagle Gin, Georgia Corn Whisky, Claret Wine, N. C. Corn Whisky, Robertson county (Tenn.l Corn Whisky. My Whiskies are all pare, and are worth from $2.00 TO $6.00 PER GALLON. Champagne by the bottle. A large stock of Cigars of line and medium brands. Call and see ror yourselves. J. A. CAKBOLL. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, YORK COUNTY. WHEREA8 J. F. WALLACE, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, has applied to me for Letters of Administration on all and singular, the goods and chattels, rights and credits of LEONIDAS McNEEL, late of the county aforesaid deceased. These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular, the kindred and creditors of the said deceased, to be and appear before me at oar next Judge or Probate's Court, for the said County, to be holden at York Court House, on the 22ND DAY OF AUGUST, next, to shew cause, if any, why the said Administration should not be granted. Given under my hand and seal, this 13th day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, and in the 101st year of the Independence of the United States of America. JOSEPH A. McLEAN, Judge of Probate. no a*. juiy 10 ui> YORK MARBLE YARD. THE undersigned respectfully Announces that be is still conducting the above business in Yorkville, and is prepared to furnish anything in the MARBLE LINE from a plain slan to a mostly monument, executed in the best style ot the 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 Charlotte, 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. F. HAPPERFIELD. SKY LIGHT, A.ND NO MORE CLIMBING UP-STAIRS ! 1TAKE pleasure to inform all in want of PHOTOGRAPHIC PICTURES, that I have Just taken possession of my NEW GALLERY, built with fine sky and side-lights,near my residencefirst house east of the jail, and only a few hunired yards from the Court House corner. An axperience of 28 years and every convenience for ousiness, will enable me now to do better work ,nan ever ueiure. Frames and Photo-Albums, Stereoscopes and Views always on hand. I am also prepared to sell you a MASON A HAMLIN ORGAN, or an AMERICAN SEWING MACHINE, for cash or on time. J. R. 8CHORB. I $250 REWARD. ' ' *HE National Board of Fire Underwriters hereby offers a reward of TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS, for the detection, oonviction ind punishment of the party or parties, charged vith the crime of Arson, in firing the premises lituate near Yorkville, S. C., being the DWELL[NG OF J. T. LOWRY, on April 22d. 1876. Said reward will be paid only on due proof being 'urnished the Executive Committee of the con-v fiction and actual punishment of said criminals.' By order of Executive Committee. GEO. T. HOPE, Chairman. New York, May 8,1876. 20 tf ifae ? otftvilb (Nquim. TERMS?IN ADVANCE t Dne copy, one year. $ 3 00 3ne conv. six months, 1 60 )ne copy| three months, 1 00 Jingle copy, 10 rwo copies, one year, 6 00 ren copies, one year, ?... 25 00 To persons who make up clubs of ten or nore names, an extra copy of the paper will be "urnished one year, free of charge.