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Ikmorous department. A Family Romance.?Jones wonld go out evenings on a little spree, which he endeavored to conceal from his wife. In this he succeeded well for a time, but at last her suspicions became aroused. She watched his movements, when he came home, for three or four evenings, and thus became doubly sure that her suspicions were not without foundation. He would enter the room very cautiously at night, then set himself down on a chair by the bed, and disrobe himself and quietly slip into bed?and all this was done * *1-~ T/vrtAo AAnnln^orl QKQ UTmilf) Ill tUO UII1 1UI? UUUCO VVUV1UUWM UMV 1> VMSVS set a trap for him. She moved all the chairs away from the place he usually sat down, and in the place put a washtub filled with water. She theu retired, and was soon in the land of dreams. Sure enough, at a late hour, Jones came home, and, as usual, attempted to sit down in his accustomed chair, but he landed in the washtub, and after many unsuccessful attempts rolled out of it and upon the floor. The noise awakened Mrs. Jones, who gave a terrible scream, and after calming down asked him what was the matter. The following was his answer: "Carrie?h}c?tidal wave?hie?swim out? hie?you're over your?hie?head. Let's go?hie?on shore f" Jones evidently thought he was ship-wrecked ; but the next morning he and Mrs. J&res were seen taking the pledge and buying a new carpet. He Preferred Water.?A tramp, while on his travels, noticed a small placard in front of a bar-room. It bore the legend, "Free Lunch," and he went in, walked unostentatiously up to a plate, and commenced operations with a sandwich; then the bar-keeper walked up to the cadaverous wretch, and said : "Men who eat here are expected to pay lor a drink." "I know it/' said the tramp. "Well, then, why don't you conform with the rules ?" " 'Cause I go in for health, and don't drii? till I am through eating."* The bar-keeper turned bis back for a moment, and the tramp slipped three sandwiches into his coat pocket and devoured four. Then he walked up to the bar, and huskily whispered : "Gimme a glass o' water, will ye?" "What! water, after four sandwiches ?" bellowed the bar-keeper, angrily. "Yes air, water," replied the tramp. "I've been drinking it nigh onter forty years, and it's just the healthiest stuff agoing." And he hobbled out; but if he bad caught the foot that flew after him, he wouldn't have been satisfled with the "booty" of his visit Happy Thoughtfulness,?Unhappy the man doomed for his sins to dance with a partner whom he doesn't know, dancing including conversing ! He soon exhausts the brief series of conventional phrases: "What?a lovely evening!" "Dreadfully warm^ isn't it?" "Do you like dancing?" and th*e like, and then is reduced to conversational want Of t_ ^ alan/^ov aarnQQm ! course, u ue iins imcuv iu> omuu?i v> be has the resource of criticising the remainder of the company ; but, failing in this, be is condemned to a twenty-oyster-power dumbness. That is, unless he possesses the "Happy Thoughtfulness" of my friend, Anatole Dutremplin. The other evening Anatole Dutremplin found himself at a ball, the partner of a lovely girl of seventeen, blue-eyed, and golden-haired?the very incarnation of innocence and candor. After having vainly racked his brain to find a topic of conversation, the witty cavalier asked: "Any children, miss?" How He Lost His Damages.?Soon after dinner, Thursday, a citizen entered a lawyer's office, and began: "My wife has beeb bitten by a dog." "Good 1" replied the lawyer. "You must claim damages in the sum of five hundred dollars." "Yes; she was bitten three times by the brute," continued the husband, "and of course T want; HnmRiTM." "Well, now, you go home and tell your wife to go to bed and stay there for at least a week. Have her groan and take on, and suffer great pain and distress, and call in her neighbors to witness her sufferings We'll j just make the man who owned that dog get up and howl!" The man left in a joyful frame of mind, and yesterday he came back, looking sorrowful. "No use trying," he said, sadly shaking his head. "My wife waited just long enough to find out that the dog wasn't mad, and then she started out to make twenty-two calls this afternoon, and I guess we haven't got a case." Roots to Soak.?Men who love rum will resort to almost any expedient to obtain it under adverse circumstances. The town of Dedham is under prohibition law, apothecaries alone being permitted to sell alcoholic stimulants. The other day a son of the Emerald Isle entered a drug store there, and, taking a bottle from his pocket, asked for a quart of whiskey. The salesman asked to what use it was to be put, and the reply was "to soak roots in." The order was filled, and the clerk, after handing over the bottle and its contents, inquired, in a conversational manner : "What kind of roots are you going to soak?" Pocketing the bottle, the customer said: "The roots of me tongue, be jabers!" A Catastrophe.?An old lady was going to Stamford, Conn., to visit a daughter, and .--i- i * .v e? COOK nor QCttk ill tuc UCklQ l\Jl bUD Ui3b blUJ^ iU her life. During the ride, the car in which she was seated was thrown down an embankment and demolished. Crawling out from beneath the debris, she spied a man who was held.down in a sitting posture by his legs being fastened. "Is this Stamford ?" she anxiously inquired. The man was from Boston. He was in considerable pain, but he did not lose sight of the fact that he was from Boston, so he said, "Nq, this is a catastrophe." "0," ejaculated the old lady, "then I hadn't oughter got off here." ? Couldn't Account for It.?A promising youth of only seven summers, who had been accused of not always telling the truth, crossexamined his father. "Father did you use to lie when you were a boy ?" "No, my son," said the paternal, who evidently did not recall the past with any distinctness. "Nor mother, either ?'' persisted the young lawyer. "No!? but why ?" "0! because I don't see how two mkn nanar lia onillH hfl.UA A hnv |JCU|J1C TTIJU U?1V4 WV*U M *?V VWW.V. ?? w < that tells as many as I do." + ? ? Blind in One Eye.?"Gentlemen, I can't lie about the horse. He is blind in one eye," said the auctioneer. The horse was soon knocked down to a spectator who had been greatly struck by the auctioneer's honesty. After paying for the horse, he said, "You were honest enough to tell that this animal was blind in one eye?is there any other defect?" "Yes, sir, there is. He is aho blind in the other eye," was the prompt reply. ?- ? ? Any Question He Liked.?A prisoner, unrepresented by counsel, was in the dock, charged with a misdemeanor. After the complaining witness had given his testimony, the judge asked the prisoner if he wished to question the witness. "What shall I ask him ?" inquired the prisoner. "You may ask any thing you like." "Then, with your Honor's permission," said the prisoner, "I will ask the witness to lend me five dollars." A Cobbler's Last Words.?"I feel that I wax weaker each succeeding day, and that I am fast approaching my end; a few more stitches and all will be over; and I shall go where there is rest for the weary sole, and every sorrow will be heeled." Having said awl he wished, he calmly breathed his last. vvv^xuxvwwxwv* wvwv ?&e (fatra and',|itfside. | About Scarecrows.?Now that the plantiog season is at hand, we have no doubt but that many a farmer'will rummage through his = garret to find the cast off" garments, which, stuffed with straw, are to beset up in the cornfield to warn off the marauding crows. We have never had much faith in this article. ? Crows are possessed of much more wisdom hi than is generally credited to them, and while ai an immovable bundle of rags may drive them 0j away for a short time, we believe that eventually they discover the humbug, as we have ^ seen the birds complacently picking up young corn almost within the shadow of as elaborate la a stuffed scarecrow as ever was erected. We, "however, have heard suggested a couple of in plans which are calculate to intimidate even th the boldest of these birds, and as they are m easily carried out, perhaps our farmer readers cn may make use of them. The first and best is a susDended lookiner-elass. Take two small, cheap mirrors, fasten them back to back, at- eti tach a cord to one angle, and hang them to an th elastic pole. When the glass swings in the bj wind, the sun's rays are reflected all over the h( field, even if it be a large one, and even the ^ oldest and bravest of crows will depart pre- ^ cipitately should one of its lightning flashes fall on him. The second plan, although a terror to crows, is especially well suited to y( fields subjected to the inroads of small birds be and even ehickens. It involves an artificial qi hawk made from a big potato, and long goose and turkey feathers. The maker can exercise his imitative skill in sticking the feathers into the potato so that they resemble the ar spread wings and tail of the hawk. It is astonishing what a ferocious looking bird of di prey can be constructed from the above sim- fu pie material. It only remaius to hang the bt object from a tall bent pole, and the wind will do the rest. The bird will make swoops and ^ dashes in the most headlong and threatening manner. Even the most inquisitive of vener- P2 able hens have been known to hurry from its to dangerous vicinity, while to small birds it sa carries unmixed dismay?Scientific American, w The Value of Turf?Very few farmers are aware of the quantity of actual decom- G posable vegetable mattercontained in a square pi yard of turf taken from the surface of well8et-sward land. Accurate experiments have shown that not less than thirty tons exist in an acre, most of which are roots ana nores, a small portion only of the mass being above the surface. It will hence be seen that by ^ inverting the sward of uplands and meadows, G and allowing it to decompose undisturbed, a m most important humus of the soil will be secured, and at a small expense. This, even were no other dressing used, would, of itself, be an invaluable acquisition to the fertility 8t of any soil, and it is replete with juices and c? other principles that not only favor, but in- ui sure a speedy decomposition. The advant- 8f ages resulting to the farmer from frequently 8j inverting his sward lands?where circum- ^ stances require it?are-far greater than we should be induced to suppose. Many are inclined to the opinion that when lands in rl grass are broken up, the mere addition of the tl vegetable matter?roots, grass, etc., contained m in it is of little or no importance; but allow- h ingthe quantity of organic matter to be only fifteen tons to the acre?one-half the quantity contained in an acre of good sward land? . it will be seen that a great benefit must be ir derived froth its presence and action. tl tl Protecting Farm Implements.?A care ^ ful, thoughtful farmer never allows his plows, harrows, cultivators, mowing and reaping ma- a chines, hay-tedders, and other implements and machinery, to be exposed to the weather, tl or where they can be damaged by fowls or T stock. He provides a covered place for them tr all where the rains and snows cannot pene- n, trate, with either board flooring or placed upon scantling to raise them from the ground. , Such portions of the iron as is likely to rust, should be painted over slightly with any P1 cheap oil-paint, and it would add to the ap- lo pearance of all implements, and machinery n< | especially, if the wood-work is also painted. When this is iDcoDveoient, the iron should he Q| cleansed of dirt and greased with pieces of fat pork. They should also be put in good f repair in Winter, in order to be ready for op- 81 erating when needed in Spring. Leaving o! this repairing until another season, frequently L causes damaging delays, which should always be provided against. There is nothing like being always ready with these things for any emergency. ^ S&~ The best implement on the farm is J11 brains. The best fertilizer is hard thinking. '8 The winter, with its enforced leisure, is the time to plan the summer's labors. Talking is a good, and reading is good, but thinking is best of all. The mistakes of the past should be profitable lessons for the future if well 81 studied. The divisions of the farm, the kinds w of crops to be raised, the method and time of ni cultivation, the quality of seed to be used, all 01 want careful consideration. The number, 8t kind and condition of the live stock, and jl what is best to do with each beast, the place 8f of the garden and the orchard, the improve- ^ raents of farm buildings, the supply of water, ttl the fences, all need attention now, when there is time to examine every item in detail and to 8t consider each with due reference to its bear- CJ ing upon all the rest. C1 p Nail in a Horse's Foot.?A neighbor of e: mine recently informed me that he had lost as a most valuable horse by a casualty by no ir means uncommon. A knowledge of a simple e< remedy would have prevented this loss. The e: horse trod upon a nail which entered his foot, e: Lameness followed, the nail was extracted, but lockjaw supervened, resulting in death, aj An unfailing remedy in such cases is muriat- g ic acid. If, when a nail is withdrawn from a I| horse's foot, the foot should be held up and ci some muriatic acid be poured in the wound, t( neither lameness nor lockjaw need be feared. Why the iron should have the effect which it ol frequently has, and the rationale of the above d remedy, I am unable to explain ; but of the o certainty of counteraction of disease by tjiis ti perfectly safe application, I am well con- T vinced.?Rural Home. s< 1 Surgery for Domestic Animals.?Far- ^ mere should know that a broken bone may beset and the iujury cured in a dumb animal, c as well, considering their different natures, as in a human being. I once saved a young jg horse which got well after his hind leg was j, broken : and not loug ago I had a year-old heifer which got her hind leg broken above the hock joint. The steer that broke it g) chased her over the bare, and the broken bone n projected through the skin some inches. I ^ got her into a pen well provided with litter, ! and set the bone as well as the circumstances y would admit, and splinted and bandaged it up, and in six weeks it was apparently as well as ever, with the exception of a small callus where the leg was broken.?Maine Farmer. ? c' Moss on Young Trees.?We hear the * ' inquiry many times a year, "What shall we do to prevent moss growing on our young " fruit trees ?" It may be removed by washing with weak lye, or thin lime whitewash, or ? strong soapsuds ; or it may simply be scraped !' off, if thick, and the bark then washed with 11 soapsuds. Moss is more apt to grow on fee- ri ble, stunted trees, with rough bark, than on 0 thrifty smooth ones, and hence good cultiva- c I tion and vigor are best to prevent it. Some-1 | times it is the result only of the trees being j & | much shaded, in which case it is not to be re- '' : garded as a formidable evil in itself. 0 r , ! S?~ An excellent liniment to apply to sores li | on horses' backs, legs or elsewhere, can be d ! made as follows: Take inner bark of the or- c ! dina^y white oak boiled down in an iron ket- c tie until it as black as ink ; while boiling drop e in a piece of alum about the size of a hen's 1; egg. Never use a brass kettle to boil it in. c This liniment is to be applied with a sponge, " and, indeed, it is good for any sore or bruise, ! 1 It is a safe thing to keep in any one's barn j n ready to use when occasion requires. I a tt\W\\W WWWSWWW WxVA^wwvvwv wwwwmmmv fading fat the JWath. CONDUCTED BY j, REV. ROBERT LATHAN. 5 [Original.] SUFFERING, "Man that is born of woman is of few days id full of evil." The days of those of the iraan family, who attain the greatest age, e comparatively few. The life of the oldest 7 Adam's race is but a span. Our days fly vay like a shadow. Short as are our lives, ey are full of trouble. We violate God's ws and sutfer the penalty. We might suppose that since Christ came to the world to save sinners, those who put eir trust in him would be exempt from the 8 of life. We forget that Christ did not ime into the world to destroy the law, but to 1CI1 !i. T^L ? r nin l a /-J no fr V* on/1 UlKlU 1LUI lb. X tic wages Ui OIU IO Uttaui, uuu nuu -er sins must suffer. Believers are kept in is world for the purpose of being prepared, j the providence and grace of God, for saven. It is a part of the plan of salvation at they be made perfect through suffering, ne of the graces which is bestowed upon era, is the power to suffer for Christ. "To ju," says the apostle, "it is given not only to slieve, but also to suffer." More grace is relired in order to suffer for Christ, than, to ilieve in Christ. 4 ' Because individuals are sorely afflicted, we e not to conclude that they are not children ' God. The gold must be purged of the 'oss. To effect this, both are cast into the rnace. The hot flames consume the dross, it the gold remains. As a father, God afflicts his erring people iat they, like the wandering prodigal in the irable, may "come to themselves" and return their father's house. "It was good for me," id the Psalmist, "that I was afflicted." He as thereby taught an important lesson. So is, and ever will be, in this world with all od's people. Sickness enables them to put a oner estimate udou the blessing of health.' ? - A w [Original.] LOVED FIRST. We are apt to conclude that God loves us jcause we love him. This is not the case. Jq love him because he first loved us. If od would refrain from loviug all of the huan family until they, as individuals, first ived him, then he would never luve any of j. So long as we remain in our natural ate, we must continue to hate God. "The irnal mind is enmity against God." Never, Qtil changed by the power of God's holy >irit, can the carnal mind, or man in his uful state, love God, or anything that is uly. The love of God is as wonderful and gloous as his power or his wisdom. To love tose who love us, is characteristic of human ature; but God loves his enemies. He ates sin and loves the sinner. The human lind is incapable of viewing an individual 9 distinct from bis act. We love or hate idividuals rather on account of their acta, tan on account of their persons. God, on le contrary, loves the sinner whilst he hates is sins, and by the power of his grace he takes a saint out of a sinner. Many suppose that the reason God loves le sinner, is because Christ died for sinners, his is another mistake. The Scripture docine on this point is that Christ died for sin* ers because God loved them. "God so loved le world that be gave his only begotton sod, tat whosoever believeth in him should Dot erish, but have eternal life." Astounding >ve! God gave his own son to die for sinsrs. % Gratitude demands that the ransomed sinjr devote all the energies of his being to the irvice of his redeemer. Bought not with lver or gold, but with the blood of the son ? God, what shall the sinner return unto the ord his God ? [Original.] CONSCIENCE. It is much easier to understand the import f some word3, than it is to give a clear aod nmistakable definition of them. Conscience often, by good writers, called the "moral iculty." This can scarcely be regarded as definition; for we may ask what is the moral faculty ?" Noah Webster, an authory rarely called in question, thus defines con:ience : "The faculty, power or priuciple hich decides on the lawfulness or unlawfuless of our acts or affections, and approves r condemns them." Worcester, another andard author, says it is "the faculty of idging of one's conduct with reference to >ine standard of right and wrong." The efinitions given by these lexicographers a;ree in the main. It seems needless to inquire whether con sience is an endowment bestowed by the reator upon the ere iture, or is the result of Tcumstances. To say that conscience is caable of being educated, so that it becomes tquisitely delicate, or obtuse and feelingless, i a piece of flesh when seared with a hot on, does not prove that it is a creature of lucation, any more than because constant sercise strengthens the muscles proves that sercise creates muscle. The old school men were accustomed to ly "nothing produces nothing." If we bein with nothing, we must end with nothing, f we have no moral faculty, we cannot eduite it. Nothing can be more absurd than > attempt to draw out or develop nothing. It is not denied that conscience is capable f being educated. It is the faculty which ecides upon the lawfulness or unlawfulness f acts or affections, not by instinct or intui on, but with reference to some standard, 'here are some kinds of acts upon which conjience is never called to give a decision, 'hese are acts to which the idea of right or 'rong does, in no way, attach. The acts upn which conscience is called to render a deisiou, are moral acts. The standard with jference to which conscience always decides, i the moral precepts in which we have been jstructed. The code out of which we have ;arned right and wrong, may be the veriest jolishness?it may be full of absurdities; till, if we know no other law, what it coralands, our consciences approve as right; and 'bat it lorDias, tney couuemu as-wrung. This being true, it is evident that an indiidual may do the most abominably wicked cts, and still his conscience approve of his ourse. It is a dangerous delusion to conlude that we are doing right because our onsciences do not condemn us. It is true hat we do wrong when we do not follow the ictates of conscience; but we may do wrong y doing what conscience decides is right. Conscience is a guide that we must follow r do wrong, and yet conscience is a very falble guide, and we often do wrong in followjg it. All depends upon the standard with eference to which it makes its decision. The uly source from which the human family an learn what is right and what is wrong in he sight of God, is the Bible. With the reatest propriety is the Bible said to be a iw unto us, a light to out feet and a lamp to ur path. What God approves is right; rhat he condemns is wrong. How can we 2arn what God approves or what he conemns except from his Word ? We are acustomed to place great stress upon what are ailed scruples of conscience. All this is well nough. It may prevent some evil, but harder accomplish much good. Our scruples of onscierice may amount to no more than straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel." 'he first and most important thing for every 3an to do, is "Search the scriptures." They re the standard of right and wrong. ipscellanwttsi fUadrog. HOG-RAISING AND PORK PACKING. It is worth a visit, at this season of the year, to one of the Northwestern pork-packing houses, to see them kill the hogs and convert them into pork. The killing is usually done in the fifth story of a building, and in a few hours the meat is rolled out from the lower story as clear rib sides, dry salted, or smoked bacon. The hogs are driven up a winding inclined plane from the lot to the upper story, where they are forced or crowded, by twenties and thirties, into small pens communicating with each other by trap or sliding doors. As soon as the pens are fyll, a chap, with a rope in his hand, steps up to an opening in the side of the pen, quickly thrusts a clamp, that is attached to the end of the rope or chain, arouud , the hind leg of a hog. In an instant the nope is tightened by machinery, and the great grunting porker is suspended by his bind leg in the air. The pulley from which he hangs rune along on a track to the end of the building, where, in an instant, a butcher-knife is forced into his -throat until it touches his heart, and, before the first is dead, a second comes rolling along; and thus one after another they are hitched to the clamps, dragged from the pen. and swung along through the air to the man in an oil suit who bleeds theto, on an average of four to the minute all day long. After be finishes with them, they are shoved along, suspended from the miniature railway, until they come to the long scaldiug trough, into which they are dropped, frequently before life is extinct, and, sooner than we can tell it, they are swept through the scalding water to the end of the trough, aud denuded of all their hair and bristles, are again suspended by a gambrell, and shoved upon another railroad track till they come to parties who, in a second almost, wash them clean and torn them over to the most dexterous butcher in the establishment. The man we saw "gutting" these hogs, disemboweled about four to the minute, and said he "had cleaued of their entrails as many as seven in one minute." As soon as the hog is divested of its hair, the head is cut off at a single stroke, almost as quickly the entrails are token out, and the beheaded carcasses are then rolled along on the track to the cooling room, to be bung in solid column by the gambrell for perhaps twenty-four hours for the meat to get thoroughly cold. The little railroad tracks upon which the suspended hogs are shoved along, have regular switches as they approach the rooms, so that just so many may be suspended on ^one track and so many on another until the room i6 full. When perfectly cold, the carcasses are lowered to another story, where they are cut up almost at a single stroke, the lard and sausage meat taken out and the feet cut off*. All these various duties are performed by a different set of men, and each having his specific work to perform, does it in less time thun an inexperienced hand would begin to do it, and it all seemed to be done most dexterously. At a single blow the haras are cut from middlings of all the hogs. The shoulders are taken only from the large ones. The shoulder blades are taken from the shoulders of the smaller bogs in a most ingenious manner. With a very keen knife the meat is cut loose from the bone on one side, and then similarly treated on the under side, when a small cord is attached to the bone and to a collar around the man's neck, and with both hands pressing on the shoulder, he raises or draws himself back and the bone slips out from the shoulder. This entire piece of meat is then sold as middling meat and called "long sides." Thns you see the farmer who buys "long sides" pays as much for shoulders as he does for middlings, though he gets nothing but meat in thoshoulder, as the bone has been extracted. On a still lower floor, these pieces of green meat are salted and lowered to the packing room. When the visitor reaches the lower story, he seos in the hogshead, box or cask, or in barrels of lard, the veritable parts of the live hog he had seen in the fifth story suspended by his hough. / This butchering and packing is carried on | all the summer, the temperature of the rooms being Kept almost to a rreezing point uv tuus of ice that are packed away overhead and around the rooms on all sides. Pork-packing is now so skillfully done that the art has become a real science. Where so many dirty rooters are butchered so rapidly, so much blood spilled, and so much liquid waste handled, one would suppose that there was a great degree of filth in the establishment. But not so. In the house we visited, where several thousands are butchered daily, there is less filth than would be around the hog-pen of a country farmer who had just butchered his winter's supply of a half-dozen home-raised pigs. Single houses in Chicago will average ten thousand bogs in a day, from early fall till late in the spring, for there will be several sets of hands performing the labors we have been describing, in two or three parts of the building at the same time. The capacity of the City of Chicago is about fifty thousand hogs daily, throughout the packing season, and these hogs average nearly two hundred and fifty pounds. The laborers never seem to know the day of the week, for they are as busy on Sunday as in the middle of the week. What plea there can be for this gross violation of the Sabbath, we could not discover. There was, to our mind, no more necessity tor tnat sacrilege than for the ordinary farmer to have his ploughs and hoes at work. But all mammoth concerns, such as these pork-packing houses, iron furnaces, railroads and the like, can commit acts or crimes that silence the condemnation of the world, if they do not receive its commendation, whereas if a private individual were to do the same or similar deeds on a small scale, he would be denounced far and near. So also with great thefts in these degenerate times. They coramknd the very admiration of the world because of their daring and stupendous criminality. Petty larceny is handled by petit juries, and they both seem petty indeed by the side of these mighty adventurers. All the oflTal of these houses are utilized by a manufactory of fertilizers near by, who use everything profitably except perhaps the livers and lights. These are bulky, and almost valueless. It takes nineteen livers to make the bulk of one liver after the nineteen are dried. Much of the offal is desiccated and pressed, and then shipped to Eastern cities to ammoniate the phosphate rocks sent from South Carolina to those Eastern cities to be converted into commercial fertilizers, and sent back here to be bought at a big price by the cotton planters.?D. Wyatt Aiken, in Charles; ton News and Courier. Bogy on the Commission.?During the discussion in the Senate on Saturday, in which mutual fraud was charged by the members of both parties, Senator Bogy, of Missouri, delivered the following broadside at the ElecJ toral Commission : Mr. Bogy referred to the proceedings before the Electoral Commission, and said the Corai mission, in the case of Florida, laid down two rules for its guidance?First, that they would not investigate anything which had transpired before or preceding the return made by : the Governor, excepting in relation to the ; eligibility of the electors. Their decision left ' i that question open for investigation by a vote ! of 8 to 7. It was, of course, believed by the whole country that the same rule would be applied to Louisiana. Who on earth would have doubted the propriety of the application of that rule when it had beeo enforced in the case of the State of Florida ? Yet we know | that but yesterday that decision was reversed. ! We know that a member of that Commission j but yesterday changed his position upon that ; subject, and while it was competent in the : : State of Florida to go behind the returns to j | examine whether electors were or were not j i eligible under the Constitution of the United I States, when the motion was made by the Senator from Delawarp, Mr. Bayard, to apply the same rule to Louisiana, the decision was reversed. The case had been made so plain by counsel, so irrefutable, that such an examination could not take place without proving, beyond the possibility of doubt, that more than one elector from that State was not entitled to the position of elector because he was not eligible, and this decision was changed by this Commission. Sir, the names of Jeffreys and Marlborough have come down to us for ages past covered with disgrace and shame, because they were corrupt Judges, and the name of that man who changed his vote upon that Commission (Justice Bradley) will go down to after agep disgraced. His name will be associated with Marlborough and Jeffreys, and it never will be pronounced without a hiss from all good men in this country. WEED! WEED! WEED! PRE-EMINENTLY AT THE HEAD! AND SO RECOGNIZED. Read the complimentary award of the Centennial Commissioners. * U. STATES CENTENNIAL COMMISSION,) International Exhibition, } Philadelphia, 1876. J The United States Centennial Commission announce the following report as the basis of an award to the WEED SEWING MACHINE COMPANY, Hartford, Conn., for SHUTTLE SEWIN6 MACHINES. REPORT. The new Weed Sewing Machine, employing a straight needle and needle-bar, connected by a link with a crank on the end of a horizontal shaft in the overhanging arm. The needle-bar operating shaft is connected by a link with, and has a rocking motion imparted to it by means of. a crank on the lower rotating shaft. The shuttle sustained in a carrier, is reciprocated in the direction of the feed by a crank and link connected with the rotating shaft, and the four-motioned feed is moved positively. FOB THE FOLLOWING REASONS, VIZ. : An excellent Shuttle Machine, possessing originality and simplicity of constructive detail, for fine quality of workmanship and materials, and for great adaptability to both cloth and leather stitching. A. T. GOSHORN, Director-General. J. R. HAWLEY, President. Attest: Myer Asch, Asst. Secretary. ^ ANALYSIS. An excellent Shuttle Machine?meaning a machine possessed of great merit, the under thread of which is carried in a Shuttle, universally admitted to be the only practicable and durable method. Possessing originality and simplicity of constructive detail?that is, embodying the requisite number of the most improved mechanical devices found in any Sewing Machine, free from complication, consequently readilv understood and easily managed. For fine quality of workmanship and materials. All parts being made in duplicate by improved machinery, thus being interchangeable, making it easy to replace any parts which may become worn or broken. All wearing parts being provided with means of adjustment. Substituting drop-forged wroughtiron and steel in place .of cast and malleable iron. And for great adaptability to both cloth and leather stitching?being free from sharp angled cams or grinding gears, having substituted simple crank movements, devoid of friction or noise, drawing both upper and under thread at precisely the same time, finishing each stitch independently, a necessity on fine leather work. Lightrunning, well-balanced parts, admitting of the highest rate of speed attainable in machine sewing, which is indispensable in cloth stitching. It will be observed that in no other award are these important points?so necessary to perfect stitching machine?combined, viz.: "Simplicity of Constructive detail," "Fine Quality of Workmanship and Materials." "Great Adaptability to both Cloth and Leather Stitching." We claim to produce the best Leather and Cloth Sewing Machines now offered to the public, and shall be pleased to substantiate this at any of our Branch Offices in the principal cities, or agencies throughout the United States. " WEEDSEWING MACHINE CO., Hartford, Conn. BRANCH OFFICE: 51 and 53 North Charles Street, Baltimore, Md., Masonic Temple. H. S. DAWLEY, Manager. February 22 8 3m "THE TROPIC STOVE, NSBOttO. X. C. THE COOKING STOVES manufactured at our works in Greensboro, N. C., give universal satisfaction wherever introduced. They are made T?Tn Ikl Y7^m A T !iU of the BEST swivn rm ma lAii, njtu iicmv j ier and thicker plate than any other Stove in tinmarket, 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, buton accountof its intrinsic merits as an article of household economy, do we ask the patrpnage 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. Quthrie, D. M. Campbell, M. H. Currence, York county; Mrs. Elizabeth J. Wylie, Chester; D. A. Gordon, Guthriesville; Jehn A. Brown, Rock Hill ;.B. P. Boyd, Josoph Herndon, L. M. Grist, Yorkville. You can save the freight from the northern oitles and the dealer's profit, which is no small item, by buying of us, and at the same time get a STOVfe 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 7 44 44 44 ' 44 44 44 44 26 00 Address, SERGEANT & McCAULEY, Greensboro, N. C. T. M. DOBSON & CO., Agents, Yorkville, S. C. JOHN R. LONDON, Agent, Rock Hill, S. C. A. F. LINDSAY, Agent, McConnellsville, York county, S. C. J. L. CARROLL, Agent at Chester, 8. C. CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL 18 PUBLISHED DAILY, TBI-WEEKLY A WEEKLY, AT AUGUSTA, OA.. By WALSH & Wttiuirr, jrrupneiuro. FULL Telegraphic Dispatches from all Points. Latest and most accurate Market Reports. Interesting and Reliable Correspondence from all parts of Georgia, South Carolina and Washington City. Georgia and Carolina News a Specialty. DAILY: TRI-WEEKLY: I WEEKLY: One year....$10 One year, $5 00 One year $2 Six months, 5 Six Months, 2 60 j Six Months, 1 December 7 49 tf WRAPPING PAPER. OLD Newspapers, of large size, suitable for wrapping, for sale at 60 cent* per hundred, at the ENQUIRER OFFICE. March 9 5 ly 6 K. t r? 6 9A P*:r <lny Rt home. Samples worth ft free. ?pO u 8tin?on k Co., Portland, Maine. 19 ly (hi f) a day at home. Apenig wanted. Outfit and term* free. .ct TKUE k CO., Aunusta, Maine. 19 ly fbe ?flnbuiUe (SNquiw. TWRMS-.IN ADVANCE I One oopy, one year, $ 3 00 One oopy, six months, 1 50 One oopv, three months, 1 00 Single oopy, 10 Two copies, one year, 5 00 Ten copies, one year, 25 00 #39* To persons who make up clubs often or more names, an extra oopy of the paper will be furnished one year, free of charge. I YORK MARBLE YARD. THE undersigned is still conducting the Marble Business in Yorkville, and would re- . spectfully inform the public that be can supply j those in want of MONUMENTS or HEADSTONES with anything in his line, and at the lowest cash prices. w Monuments designed and finished in the most elaborate style, and in point of workmanship and material warranted equal to the work of any establishment in the country. Head and Footstones, in various styles, from plain to highly-carved work, furnished at short T notice, and satisfaction guaranteed. X_ Specimens usually on hand, to an inspection of in which, those in want of marble work are respect- to fully invited. of Estimates and any other desired information ( cheerfully given at any time. ' 1 Work delivered at any point on the Chester Cc and Lenoir Narrow Qauge Railroad, between * Chester and Dallas, or at any place between tw Rock Hill and Winnsboro, on the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad, free of charge for transportation. Thankful for the patronage heretofore bestowed npon my establishment, my determination is to ^ merit a continuance of the same. I F. HAPPERFIELD. _J January 4 .1 ly TJ $250 REWARD. : ? riiHE National Board of Fire Underwriters here- hi: I hvnffflm arnwarH of TWO HUNDRED AND sil fT'fTY DOLLARS, for the detection, conviction an and punishment of the party or parties, charged with the crime of Arson, in firing the premises sitnate near Yorkville, S. C., being the DWELL- ? ING OF J. T. LOWRY, on April 22d, 1876. Said reward will be paid only on due proof being T farfiished the Executive Committee of the con- J_ viction and actual punishment of said criminals, an By order of Executive Committee. he GEO. T. HOPE, Chairman. sh New York, May 8, 1876. 20 tf sa NOTICE 18 hereby given that application will be made to ? the Legislature of this State at its approaching session, to amend the Charter of the Town of T Yorkville. X November 16 46 tf 84 YORKVILLE ENOt ORIGINAL SER] Y ALU ABLE PREMI CBMPETIBfll BFHIim HI FI1 IN issuing our prospectus for the year 1877, we y< would announce that we shall spare no pains and- 81 relax no efforts to render the ENQUIRER as attractive and interesting a journal ps it has been in ea the past. t R LITERARY DEPARTMENT. 00 We have already in hand a number of original g, SERIAL STORIES, which will form an attract- jj ive feature of the new volume. These stories are Af aolrnAnrl/ulrva^ morif an/1 WA nflfl uy vrnvojio ui m/t%nvvriv^*gv\i u?v> ??| ? ?> > w safely promise thAt in this department, the ENQUIRER will prove an entertaining companion to the lover of fiction. M CHESTER CORRESPONDENCE. J* tr< To meet the demands of our numerous readers fa in Chester county, we bare continued our engagement of Braiwerd MoLure, Esq., who will cod- ea tribute a letter of corrrespondence from Chaster 01 regularly each week. These letters are devoted pi entirely to Chester affairs?to the interests of the T. town and county?and written in the racy and w' graphic style peculiar to Mr. McLure, they cannot fail to be of interest to onr reader* in Chester, ea as well as elsewhere in the State. >' , SI AUTHENTIC NEWS. Afl Particular attention is given to collating and I condensing the news of tbo day, and tbia depart- n, ment of the ENQUIRER, whether treating of matters at home or abroad?political or other- M wise?will be conducted with the utmost care, and only facts as they seem to exist, will be prp- er sen tod, free from sectional or party bias. The Other Departments. nc In addition to the above features, Rev. Mr. Li- Pr than will continue .his regular contributions to P* the "Sabbath Reading," and the "Children's De- ^ partment," which, under his management for the past seven years, have been an important attrac- ah tion. Mr. Lathan will also continue his contributions of Historical Sketches, which, with the usual melange of Miscellaneous Reading adapted to all tastes; the Agricultural Department^ containing practical and usefbl information for gh the farmer and house-wife; a column of Humor- be ous Reading every week; "Scraps and Facts," re embracing light current topics; a compend of foi the News Abroad and at Home; Correspon- OE dence; Commercial and Market Reports; Edito- > rial Articles upon appropriate subjects, intended ofl to promote the prosperity and welfare of our M people, we hope to make the Enquirer replete ?a as an entertaining and instructive Family Journal, us Terms op Subscription?Free op Postage.? an Single copy one year, |3.00. In clubs, each sub- ?d scriber, per year, |2.50. Money may be forward- re ed at our risic oy a ran, post-omce oruer or registered letter?otherwise we will assume no risk. 0f Write names plainly, giving post-office, county tei and State. Address all letters to - po L. M. GRIST, Publisher, Yorkville, S. 0, bj mm* ev PREMIUMS FOR CLUBS. By a favorable arrangement with the different . manufacturers, we are enabled to make the fol- ^ lowing liberal and unprecedented offers of Premiurns for Clubs. These Premiums have been adopt- P1 ed by us with special reference to securing only ' articles of value, and which will prove services- ! ble to those procuring them. The regular retail ' price is given with each, and they are just as good as so muob cash to those who receive them, the articles are put down ki our schedule at m^nt ufacturers' regular retail prices, and cannot be DH boughtwith cash any lower than the prices here given. Premiums Nos. 1,2 and 3 will bedelivered through the mails, to persons entitled to receive them, free of cost. The other Premiums will be P* delivered at the expense for freight charges, of those receiving them. In cases where Premiums * can be delivered *t our publication office, arrangements may be perfected for reducing the freight 881 charges on small articles to a nominal amount. The charges for freight on the Silver Ware and j Cutlery Premiums will be from New York ; on the Cooking Stoves from Greensboro, N. C.; and on the Sewing Machines from Baltimore, Md. ( READ THE LIST. pr< No. 1.?For a clpb of 4 subscribers, at $2.60 as *" 1 M DTTOVntUD /VVI each, yre win give atreote snvur-piuicu u u J. 4.ju1v i \JMJ KNIFE, worth $1.00. nu No. 2.?For a club of 8 subscribers, at $2.50 each, off we will giveonecopy of the family edition (cloth evi binding) of SMITH'S ABRIDGED BIBLE DIC- FI TIONARY, the publisher's price of which is dai $3.50 per copy. Or for $4.50 we will give a copy be of the Bible Dictionary and send the Enquirer pri one year to any single subscriber not in a club. as No. 3.?For a club of 10 subscribers, at $2.50 Pr each, we will give a copy of the ENQUIRER one | nu DESCRIPTION OF P Oar Cooking Stove Preminm. I rem The elegant Cooking Stove* which we offer a* Premium*, I fyjj, are manufactured by Mmn. Sergeant k McCauley, nt Grrena- 0\? boro, N. C. Theae Stoves are made of the bent Scotch pig met- iuei nl, with heavier and thicker plate than any other itove In the va|, market, and comequenUy will the longer wlthitnnd heat and co|l hard umtge. They are or a handiome pattern and neat flnlah, yy0 and warranted equal In point* of appearance, durability and ?u- I ver perior cooking qnalllief, to any Stove manufactured in the m i Union. Tlteatove we have aelected to give a* a Premium 1* the largeat *ixe mnde by the manufacturer*, and with each one will be furnished, without charge, three joint* and one elbow of pipe, and all the nece?rary cooking iiteiivllf, vis.: one ham boiler, one bulge pot and cover, one tea kettle, one round frying pan, one c long frying pan, one round griddle, one pair waffle iron*,two aheet t"* iron bread pan*, one ncroper and one lifter. Over rtva thou- suP sand of these itove* are In uie In Virginia and North and South "* Carolina, and they give UBlveraal *ati?ft?ctIon. The itove* will ,,et he ihlpped to thoie entitled to receive them a* Premium*, direct ^ from the manufactory In Greemhoro, n. C. v'e< ben ? the Sewing Machine Preminm. con The auDcrior Sewing Machine we offer n* a Premium, I* the well-known Weed Machine and Is manufactured Dy tne' Weed Sewing Machine Compnny, Hartford, Conn. It U adapt- y ed to all the wants of family sewing; It can be readily coirrpre- bea hended by any one; ft runs easily; la always ready; will do any ery and all kinds of sewing with less changing and fewer extra at- i^j tnchments; Is self-adjusting; Is a two-thread Machine, making ,vl an Elastic Lock-Stllch; stands solid and firm, with long and u? | roomy folding table, mid has the convenience of two drawers. jqe, Several of these Machines, during the past year, have been delivered to persons who have returned the requisite number ot names. \ Smith'a Bible Dictionary. ' Pre This Dictionary Is the work of Dr. William Smith, of the by' University of London, and the most eminent lexicographer in the the world, who, in Its preparation associated with himself over we seventy distinguished divines and authors, of both Europe and tee this country, In the greattask of preparing a comprehensive Dictionary of ihe Bible, and supplying a want long felt by the religious public. The result of these labors appeared In three large and very costly volumes, a wonderful monument of learning. An abridgement of this great work, for popular use, made by Dr. F Smith himself, Is Ihe one we have arranged to furnish our sub- clul scribers. The hook contains every name In the Bible respecting the which anything can be said. It embraces the results of historic seq research, antiquarian investigation, the study of languages and 1 affc dialects, and the discoveries of the modern travelers asd expio any HAMPTON AND REFORM I FURNITURE AND LOW PRICES AT THE iEWFURNITURE STORE, Opposite the Cotton Hotel, CHESTER, S. C. 0N6 experience, and having to buy for the 4 house of MARKS A REID of Rock Hill, connection with my own, enables me to bny superior advantage; and owing to the low prioe cottoH, I am , SELLING AT ALMOST COST. ~ me and see for yourselves. " Gioods DELIVERED FREE to all points beeen Gastonia and Winnsboro.8. K. MARKS. December 7 49 ' '1 tf BARBER SHOP. 1HOSE in want of an EASY SHAVE, a fashl ionable and stylish cut of hair, or a pleasant d luxurious Shampoo, are reminded that 308. BALLARD, Professor of the Art Tonsoil. is still in business, in his old Shop next door the Enquirer building, where it will afford * tn great pleasure to wait upon ail WHO may ne'e his services. Rasore boned and sharpened, d any other work of that kind promptly done. THOMASBALLARD. December 21 61 tf NOTICE. r RESPECTFULLY inform the public that J am prepared to sharpen rasors, scissors, shears id other fine-edged instruments. Prices?for mlng and sharpening rasors, 25 cents, and for 4 arpening scissors or shears, 10 cents each, and tiafaction guaranteed or no charge. TOM BALLARD, Barber. A November 3d 48 tf TRIAL JUSTICE'S BLANKS. ^ I ECOGNIZANCES, Warrants of Arrest, 9om? mons in civil action, and Executions. For - E" M riRER FOR 1877. 1 IAL STORIES. MS FOR CLUBS. ' I -. ' 1ST HHOAY OF HUCE : - I ?r. or a set of six treble silver-elated TEA P00N8, worth $3.00. No. 4.?For a dab of IS subscribers, at $2.50 cb, we will give one set?six of each?Hard bber-Handle TABLE KNIVES AND FORKS, e manufactorer's price of which is $5.00. No. S.?For a club of 16 subscribers, at 12.60 cb, we will give either a treble silver-plated STRUT CUP, worth $6.00; or a set of six treble Iver-plated TABLE SPOONS, worth $6.00. No. 6.?For a club of 18 subscribers, at $2;60 ch, we will give a treble silver-plated BUTTER ' rSH, worth $8.00. < .. , , No. 7.?For a club of 20 subscribers, at $2.60 ch, we will give one set of six solid cast steel al-handle TABLE KNIVES, and one set of six J able silver-plated TABLE FORKS, the manusturer's price of which articles is $10.00. , No. 8.?For a club of 30 subscribers, at $2^0 ch, we will give a full set of extra superfine', full ral ivory-handle TABLE KNIVE8, with eiiverated blades, and a full set of treble silver-plated ABLE FORKS, the manufacturer's price of bich articles is $15.00. No. 9.?Fors dub of 40 subscribers, at $2JJ0 cb, we will give one No. 8 TROPIC COOKING rOVE, with pipe and a full set of fixtures, the anufacturer's price of which is $80.00. No. 10.?For a club of 60 subscribers, at $2.60 cb, we will give one three-quart, treble silvera ted COMMUNION SERVICE, consisting of [X pieces, worth $40. No. 19.?For a club of 55 subscribers, at $2.60 cb, we will give a WEED SEWING MARINE, Walnut Plain Half-Case, with two Draws and Drop Leaf, the manufacturer's price of bieh_is.$Z5 .. par Specimens of the Sewing Machines, and larly all theoiher articles included in the above viuiuin nut, can oe awn snu ex ami ilea n our ibllcntion office; and in all cases we guarantee at the Premiums furnished to those entitled receive them, will be equal to the specimens own. NOTICE TO CLUR-MAKERS. It is not necessary that the names of a dub J ould all be at the same post office. Names may * taken at any number of places if they are all turned by the same Club Agent. One name r two years, will be equivalent to two names for le year each.y ---- - ?rThe time for completing olubs under the above fer is limited to the FIRST MONDAY OF ARCH, 1877, by which time the names with the sh, should be returned to the office, though imes maybe returned at anytime between; this d the above date. No premium will be'deliveruntil the requisite number of names has been turned, and the ftill amount due for them paid. We will be responsible for the safe transmission money only when sent by draft, registered letr, or money order drawn on the Yorkville st-offlce. We prefer that no money be sent ns ' express nnless the amonnt exceeds 925, and in ery case the express charges must be prepaid. All subscriptions must be forwarded to ua at a ornonsn r\f fhnnn onni)lniv fkom v V*[^UOV V* ~* " '* ? WMU*Uf VMVUJ| [n Bending names, write plainly, giving ooun, post-office and State. All subscriptions will be discontinued at the exration of the time paid for. All subscribers to the Enquires will receive a paper free of postage. Persons entitled to receive Premiums, norast re full directions as to wty>m and how they all be delivered. f The club-maker may commence sending in mes at any time and subsequently determine ton the Premium, or Premiums he will select; t ne Premium will be delivered unless the reisite number of names be sent, which must be id for in advance. A. separate list will be kept for each club-maker, 10 will be credited with every name sent, so it the number returned by any person can be pertained at a moment's notice. After names shall have been entered on our lb-books to the credit of any club-maker, they 11 not be transferred to the list of another. THE TIME OF CLOSING. [Hub-makers, and those who may wish to fbrm ibs, should bear in mind that the offers we here asentdo not invite competition for Premiums, in the case of working to secure the largest ob. Each club-maker sending the requisite mber of subscribers will obtain the Premium ered for the specified number. The time, bower, for completing a club is limited until the | RST MONDAY OP MARCH, 1877, by which te the names, with the subscription price, should forwarded. Names may be sent in at any time or to the above date. Send the names as fast obtained, accompanied with the cash, and the emium will be delivered when the requisite 1 ;.j mber of names has been returned. REMICTMS, ETC. i In the Holy Land?Robinson, Rawllnson, Ferguson, Lay, OfTertand 8tanley. The book U printed from new itert?c plates, on good paper, and la appropriately illnatnued with J*g r 195 Engravings of beaurifal Scene*, Ancient CUie*, and morable Place* of the Holy Land, deacrtpdre Fifnrea and table Map*. It containa nearly 800 cloaely-printed, dmhleiinn, octavo page*. Including 94 elegant fall-page, steel and od Engraving*. It la printed In type of a heavy, distinct, and f legible face. The publisher's price of the Dictionary la 50. | Three-Quart Communion 8et. \ burches umupplled with a Communion 8et appropriate to requirement* of the sacred rite of administering the Lord** iper, can, by our Premium irmufement, secure a floe, treble er-plated three quart Communion 8et of alz piece*, with litrouble, and, comparatively,at no cost. The number of tub. ber* required in order to secure this valuable and decant Sen 3 can be procured In almoet any congrc^itlon; and.the mem> who may be thut called upon to contribute their ahare of ezpenae, will receive 1b return more than the value of their trlbution In a year's subscription to the paper. Oar Silver Ware and Cutlery Premiums. Iflth the very liberal offer which we are enabled to make, a utlAilly furnlshi d table la now within the reach of almoet evhouse-keeper; and here 1* an opportunity, of which,If the lea avail themselves, they may secure, with but little trouble, duable set of Silver pr Cutlery. Those articles are made for >y the Lucius Hart Manutacturlnj Company, SB Pulton street, A rr York, and are .warranted to be of the best material. ^ Valtfe of oar Premiums. Ve would Impress upon every one the ffcet that all of our ulums are flrst-clasa goods, and the prices attached to them mr lists are the tegular retail prices at which the articles sell all dealers and the mnnufasturers themselves. It Is only by A most advantageous terms given us by the manufacturers that are enabled to make the liberal offers we de, and we guanme very article to be exactly as represented. ms?i A Club and an Extra Copy? or a club of Tan subscribers paid in advance at tile regular b rates, we will give, Instead of a Premium*, an extra eopy of paper to any who may prefer that arrangement; bat in conuence of the liberal Premiums we are aow offering, we caanot ird to give an extra copy to the ?lab-maker who receive* ' Premium* enumerated on our ttt> 5