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jf UMfMBg fepartmeat. THE COURT COULD DETERMINE. Somewhere about a score of years ago, while Neal Dow's law was io full force, an incident transpired in the court held in Paris, Oxford county, Maine, worth recording. Judge X. (never mind how his name was spelled, as he lives to spell it yet) was on the bench. He was a genial soul in society, but a little inclined to be testy sometimes in judicial harness. The case on trial was the State vs. a hotel-keeper, and the complaint was sale of liquor. One of the principal witnesses was singularly obtuse. He did not like to lie, nor did he seem anxious to tell the whole truth. He confessed to having made a purchase, but he could not tell what he purchased, nor could he remember what he asked for. At length the county attorney asked him: un:j j-i-i ~ c .'i xsiu jruu unutv. aujr ui it i "Not thar." "Well, did you drink it anywhere?" "I mout 'a done it" "How did it taste ?" "I can't say." "Yes, you can say. Certainly you can tell me how it tasted." At this point the court interposed. The question was deemed trifling and out of place. "Why do you press it?" the judge demanded. "Well, your Honor," replied the attorney, "it is very evident that the witness bought liquor of the defendant, and we want to know what description of liquor it was. As the witness refuses to tell what it was, I thought if he would only tell how it tasted, the court might be able to determine for itself." The audible smile that followed, inside and outside the bar, told that the hit was understood and appreciated. Something to Remember.?A story is told of a Yankee who, traveling in the back districts of Georgia, sought shelter from a "northeaster" in the cabin of a "native." He was welcomed to the ample fireside around which were gathered the Georgian with his wife and numerous family. In vain were the gum logs piled upon the hearth, while through open doors and windows came the pitiless blast. The stranger took in the situation at a glance, and soon made every thing fast. As the genial glow spread through the now snug cabin, the cirole around the hearth expanded, and the bewildered but delighted host asked: ? "Say, stranger, how did you do that ?" "I simply closed the doors and windows, as we do at the North," was the reply. "Is that all ? Now, old woman, remember that next time." J&f* Here is still another story concerning the late Mr. Nye: He was once engaged in trying a case at the circuit, in one of the southern tier of counties, the presiding judge being, upfortunately, peevish and irritable, as well as rather dull of comprehension. General Nye had not only cross-examined a witness at great length, but had frequently put the same questions, which the judge bad frequently ruled against as improper. As the patience of the judge was exhausted and he rebuked General Nye for his course, and petulantly asked him, "General Nye, what do you think I am sitting here for?" Nye looka/1 iiw o 4- f Ua and tnifk a ffvatra nniinfo. cu up at tliO ircuV/U) auu nttu a ^iuiv vv/uuw nance, but with a twinkle iD his eye, answered coolly and composedly, "You have got me this time, your honor." A Witty Professor.?A certain witty professor in the Michigan University had always succeeded in having the best of his scholars whenever a practical joke had been attempted at bis expense. One day, however, the students felt convinced that their turn had come at last, for, arriving in the classroom somewhat later than the usual hour, the professor found his chair occupied by a stuffed goose. "I intended," said the professor, addressing the class in his happiest manner, "to apolo gize for ray delay, but no doubt you have been well satisfied, having selected one of your class to fill the chair." He Couldn't Stand It.?The Western boy who didn't get anything in his Christmas stockings explained the matter thus to his comrades: "I'd have been all right, only I couldn't stand sass. I think dad had a pair of skates for rae; but when I went home that night he began to blow around and give me sass for not splitting any wood. I stood it as long as I could, and then I had to go for him. I told him just what I thought of his conduct, and then one of us left the house and hasn't been home since. I'm waiting for him to put a personal in the papers, saying 'Come home, darling; all is forgiven,' and then I'll rush." BSF President Grant has been-telling Senator Gordon this story, which is not the worse for having been told before: "When the three Commissioners met us at Fortress Monroe, Mr. Stephens came swaddled up from top to toe in an enormous overcoat. Lincoln called rae aside as Stephens was disrobing and observed, 'Grant what does that performance of Stephens' remind you of?' I answered, 'Mr. T* ; J X T J - _ -X 1 D..i ...L-i J Zi. jrreatueui, j. uu uot kijow. x>ui wuui uuea it remind yon of?1 With one of his queer winks Lincoln said, 'It reminds me 01 the biggest shucks off of the smallest ear I ever saw in my life.'" Before and After Election.?"The baby has a got a new tooth, but the old lady is laid up with a cold in her head," remarked a gentleman, the other day, to a defeated candidate. "What do I care?" was the reply. "Well," said the gentleman, slowly, "before the election you used to take me to one side, and ask me how my family was coming on, and I've been hunting you all over town to tell you, and that's the way you talk to me. But it don't make any difference, I voted for the other candidate, anyhow." J6F* A gentleman afflicted with an impediment in his speech took dinner at a tavern, and calling to a waiter addressed him thus : "We-w-waiter, g-give me me s-s-some r-r-roast b-b beef." The waiter stammered out in rereply : "W-w-we a-a-ain't g-g-got any." At which the gentleman, highly enraged, supposing the servant was mocking him, sprang from his seat and was proceeding to knock him down, when a third person arrested his arm, and cried to him not to strike, saying : "He st-st-stuttere s-s-same as w-we d-d-do!" 1 ? A bashful young bridegroom, who had ordered his servant not to tell of his recent marriage, noticed that the townspeople stared at him and his wife very hard, and calling the Bervant, he said?"Sam, I hope you have not disobeyed orders, and told people that we are newly married." To which Sam responded with great unction?"Why, bless you, ? i - /* 11__ _ j 4. master, do ; an wnenever iojks irieu 10 pump me, I jest told 'em as how you wasn't married at all." ? ? Throats.?A youngster being required to write a composition upon some portion of the human body, selected that which unites the head to the body, and expounded as follows : "A throat is convenient to have, especially to roosters and ministers. The former eats the corn, and crows with it; the latter preaches through bis'n, and then ties it up. This is pretty much all I can think of about! necks." Amusing Himself.?An elderly darkey was inquiring of a policeman if he knew anything of bis son Pete. The policeman replied that there was a young darkey in the lock-up for breaking up a prayer-meeting with an axe-bandle. "Dat's him," exclaimed the oveijoyed parent; "he told me he was gwine \ to 'muse hisself." L 1 f&e 4[atm fireside. PREPARATION OF MANURE. , Perhaps the time will never come, when we i can dispense entirely with the use of cummer| cial fertilizers. In Europe and in the Northern States, where the keeping of stock and ! making of barnyard manure have, from time immemorial, beeu regarded as the road to successful farming, the use of commercial fertilizers is rapidly and steadily on the increase. The South, on the other hand, is wisely retrenching in this direction, by utilizing materials on the farm, which mixed with cheap commercial fertilizers, render them equal in value to the most costly. We refer to composts of cotton seed and acid phosphate, which cost very little more than half as much as ammoniated phosphates of the same agricultural value. As another step in the same direction, we suggest that composts of cotton seed and ashes may be made, to diminish still further the purchasing materials ooiainaDie only beyond the limits of the farm. These composts should be made exactly like those with acid phosphate, adding to eight bushels of green cotton seed the same amount of unleaohed ashes?mixing the two thoroughly? wetting and tramping them well, that they may rot slowly and steadily. Rotten cotton seed and decomposed stable manure would be unsuitable for such compoBt?it would be best to use nothing but green seed and ashes. The quantities above named would be a moderate manuring?about equal to that amount of phosphate compost which contains one hundred pounds of acid phosphate. If all the ashes on a farm are carefully husbanded during the whole year, enough can be secured to manure quite a number of acres of land. We would suggest also a bone compost as another home fertilizer. Let all the bones within reach be gathered up, and a pile of alternate layers of wood and bones be made and bred. When large quantities are to be burned, it is best to begin with a moderate sized pile, not more than five or six feet square, and three or four feet high, and as it burns down throw on more bones and wood until all the bones are bnrned. If too great heat is generated and the air is excluded (as it will be in the centre of a large pile) a part of the phosphate of the bones will be vaporized, driven off and lost. After burning, the bones can be readily pulverized or broken iu small pieces ready for composting. In this compost, cotton seed alone and bone may be used, or stable manure in conjunction with the cotton seed. If cotton seed alone are used, mix intimately with eight bushels of seed, one hundred and Ulty puuuua ui uuura, net mo luiavuio uuui oughly and tramp well to insure moderate, steady putrefactive fermeotation. If desired, use four bushels of seed and four of stable manure in place of eight of seed, and proceed in the same manner as above. It is all important that the mass should be thoroughly wet throughout, as the solubility of the bones depends upon the presence of substances which can only be generated by the rotting of the seed of manure. This compost should be made at least two to three months before planting time. Six months would be better still. The quantities named above will manure, moderately, one acre of land. FENCE POSTS TOP END DOWN. A study of vegetable physiology led me to try several experiments, many years ago, to throw light upon this question. The sap of moisture goes up in the sap-wood from the roots to the leaves of trees. I found if the post is butt-end down, the pores are open upward, and water can go up, and thus keep the post moist between wind and water, which must eause a rapid decay. It appeared probable that the pores were *open only upward, and not downward in the tree. To test this, I cut a small maple sapling, two inches through, in May, leaving the limbs all on, and placed the butt-end in a pail of brine. In thirty-six hours the leaves were saturated with this brine, the taste of the salt being strong. At. f.hA Rdmfi time I had another raaDle saD ling cut, aud took off the top branch, leaving the rest of the limbs on. After winding a cloth around the butt-end, to prevent evaporation, I placed the top end in a pail of brine and allowed it to remain several days, but no brine had been absorbed at the top end. It had not penetrated the pores as far as the end was immersed in the brine, for if the bark was scraped, there was not the slightest taste of salt to be found. This being the case in the green tree, how much more must the pores of the dry tree be closed from the top end downward? I have tried many similar experiments, and think the question settled that if a post is placed top end down, no moisture can ascend from the bottom of the hole up the post to rot it; but when the buttend is down, the moisture can ascend the pores rapidly if green, and slowly if dry. Seasoned posts are found to last much longer, because the pores are more or less filled within the seasoned wood. I should also infer that placing the top end down would make more difference in a green than in a dry post. In pursuance of the fact that the pores of green timber have been often saturated with different solutions to preserve it, by immersing the butt-end, freshly cut, in the solution tu be absorbed, it will also be noted that burning or charring the posts only closes the pores and prevents the absorption of water.?E. W. S. in Country Gentleman. Milk instead of Soap.?A lady writing to the New York Times,says: "Without giving any recipes for making soap, I wish to tell all the hard-worked farmers' wives how much labor they may save by not using such vast quantities of this article. Fer nearly five years I have used soap only for washing clothes. In all that time 1 have not used one pound of soap for washing dishes and other kitchen purposes. My family has ranged from three to twenty-five. I have used cistern water, limestone water, as hard as possible, and hard water composed of other ingredients beside lime, and I find with all these my plan works equally well. It is this: Have your water quite hot and add a very little milk to it. This softens the water, gives the dishes a fine gloss, and preserves the hands; it removes the grease, even that from beef, and yet no grease is found floating on the water, as when soap is used. The stone vessels I always set on the stove with a little water in them when the victuals are taken from them ; thus they are hot when I am ! ready to wash them, and the grease is easily removed. I find that ray tinware keeps bright longer when cleaned in this way than by using soap or by scouring." How to Treat Insect Stings.?A writer in the London Garden gives the following hints on this subject: "The pain caused by the sting of a plant or insect is the result of ? n rwAiinf nmonn iniaofarl inf/\ a wiwm ".j-v, the blood. The first thing to be done is to press the tube of a small key firmly on the wound, moving the key from side to side to facilitate the expulsion of the sting and its accompanying poison. The sting, if left in the wound, should be carefully extracted, otherwise it will greatly increase the local irritation. The poison of stings being acid, common sense points to the alkalies as the proper means of cure. Among the most easily procured remedies may be mentioned soft soap, liquor of ammonia, (spirits of hartshorn), smelling salts, washing soda, quicklime made into a paste with water, lime water, the juice of an onion, tobacco juice, chewed tobacco, bruised dock leaves, tomato juice, wood ashes, tobacco ashes, and carbonate of soda. Old Fashioned Gingerbread.?Two cupfuls New Orleans molasses, one cupful of melted butter, two eggs, two even table-spoonfuls soda dissolved in hot water, one tablespoonful of ginger, a little salt, and flour sufficient to roll out; bake in two square tins, mark with a knife half an inch apart on the j top. ' Ipsttttanra fUadittg.j " ? PRESIDENTS ON HORSEBACK. , . REMINISCENCES FROM THE TIME OF WASHINGTON DOWN. Washington's state carriages were highly ornamental. The one built in Philadelphia was drawn by six horses. In this, in 1791, he made his long journey to the South, ac- a companied as far as Delaware by. Mr. JefFer- b son and General Knox. The state coach he ? used in New York was built in that city, and a in this, also drawn by six horses, he made bis j journey through New Eugland. Near the end of his life, on the 29th of. May, 1799, he P wrote: "I begin my diurnal course with the a sun and having described his day's business v he proceeds: "By the time I have accora- 1< plished these matters, breakfast (a little after a| 7 o'clock) is ready; this being over, I mount ^ my horse and ride round the farms." , John Adams, President after Washington, was an entirely different character. Al- w though, of course, compelled by the primitive d o * ' t ) m . . .m I condition of the couutry to nse the horse oc- ti casionally, be was so much of a student, echol- * ar and statesman, that his career may have been called a rather secluded one; but his g( wife, Mrs. Adams, had . many fashionable tastes, and was forty-five when summoned from Europe, by the selection of her husband 11 as Vice-President. At that time they lived t< at Bush Hill, near Philadelphia ; and noth- a ing can be more amusing than her letter dee- c: cribing her journey from Philadelphia to 0 Washington, through York and Maryland, when her husband became ChieUMagistrate, and when our national capital was something u like the capital of a new Western territory to-day. Thomas Jefferson, who was eight w years President of the United States, from e< 1801 to 1809, was as much a contrast to Ad- b ams as Adams was to Washington. Not a 0 military man, he was essentially a horseman. When he was a lad be not only played the fiddle, but doubtless took a part in more than one of the rustic races of the neighborhood. w He was a keen hunter; as eagef after a fox si as Washington himself," says a biographer. t< "Swift of foot and sound of wind coming j, fresh and alert after a long day's clambering n hunt." He generally traveled on horseback, . with bis fiddle, and it was a merry house in Hanover county, where be met for the first " time, a jovial blade named Patrick Henry, if Everybody in those primitive days owned or r-?de a horse, and Jefferson, like George ? Wythe, John Marshall, Henry Clay, John a Randolph, and all his contemporaries and successors, was compelled to use this sort of mauly exercise. You remember the story of Cl his inauguration. He went to the cap>?A' s< without parade or ostentation. His son-ih- tl law was completing the purchase of four ? coach horses, price 81,600 with which the rj President elect hoped to contend with the w yellow mud of Washington, but as neither , horse nor coach had arrived, he rode on horseback to the capital without a servant in his 8f train, dismounted without assistance, nitcnea " the bridle of his horse to the palisades, walked in, and was sworn. - t? James Madison almost broke down bis a health by his severe studies, and although j undoubtedly a horseman, as proved by his military services when the British attacked e' Washington doring his administration in w 1814, he was so devoted to books that during V his novitiate at Princeton college in New Ci Jersey, he allowed himself but three hours' w sleep and devoted the day to study. James Q) Monroe, his successor, also serving for eight . years in the Presidency, was a brave soldier in the Revolutionary war, a pupil of Thomas u Jefferson, and although one of the ablest of p the Virginia statesmen, accustomed to the li perils of the field. h And John Quincy Adams, who came after him as Presideut in 1825, austere and cold as ^ he was. was a regular horseman, and swimmer, and ffsherman and pedestrian. After r( Adams came the iron President, old Hickory, g a sinewy wrestler in his youth, the frontier ra pioneer, the fierce Indian warrior, a man who bi would fight at the drop of a hat, the general who whipped a trained British army with untrained troops behind cotton bags ; who, so to M, speak, literally rode into the Presidency, and to his last hour preserved his indomitable na- * ture. The turf was a source of profit, as well hi as pleasure to Andrew Jackson. The early a Nashville race course at Clover Bottom, close aj to Jackson's store on Stone river, was the p, scene of many of his exploits. It is just large Anmt/?K Avi. o milfl nnnrjfl anuno frtP anpp. gilUUKII tvi a UlilV W'UIOV^J (VIVU ?v> wuvw tators and their vehicles. Here he tried the Uf paces of his renowned horse Truxton when he first brought hira from Virginia. Here be tu tried his racing colts; here every Spring and ta Autumu he attended the races, the most ea- ?? ger of the motley throng. The ownership of g Truxton, says Parton, from whose splendid biography I gather these facts, rendered Jack- P' son the leader of the turf for many years. After him came William Henry Harrison, hi the hero of Tippecanoe, in his time familiar ai with horses, who died in the first month of J0 hia administration, and was succeeded bv Bf John Tyler, a Virginian, who although much * of a politician, was also a good rider. After hira came James K. Polk, another four years' " President, reared to equestrian sports in Ten- 8C nessee, though, like Tyler, rather a student 1c and more accustomed to ride his circuit and uj to go to political meetings on horseback, than ? to follow the turf. He was succeeded by T Gen. Taylor, the hero of Buena Vista, brave ^ as his own sword, familiar with cavalry and artillery and all the dread mysteries of war, who lived only eighteen months after his li election, and who like Gen. Jackson, we find na on horseback in canvass and in marble all a over the continent. The quiet Millard Fill- g. more filled out his term. Then came Frank , Pierce, soldier and gentleman, one of the most ', striking men that ever sat in a saddle. James Buchanan served out the next four years, tl from 1857 to 1861. In early life he was some- pi thing of a horseman, and used to tell how be- ai fore he was of age he rode through the blue jj, grass of Kentucky. j. Then came the martyred President, Abraham Lincoln, reared among the rough man- ^ ners ana customs or iventucxy, taen trans- " ferred to the equally rugged experiences of tl Illinois. He rode through the unsettled c( prairies of the great State, in whose bosom he p, now sleeps the sleep that knows no human Q) wakening. Of Andrew Johnson's Presiden- , tial interval little need be said. He certainly was not addicted to equestrian feats in w Washington. Last scene of all, comes Ulys- S; ses S. Grant. Like Washington, Jacksou, si Taylor and Pierce, his military experieuce <?< made him a horseman.?Philadelphia Frees. Ql How the Apostles Died.?1. Peter was tl crucified in Rome, and, at his own request, g: with head downward. it 2. Andrew was crucified by being bound to ^ a cross by cords, on which he hung two days, , exhorting the people till he expired. ? 3. St. James the Great was beheaded by ^ order of Herod, at Jerusalem. U1 4. St. James the Less was thrown from a V high pinnacle, then stoned, and finally killed ti with a fuller's club. p] 5. St. Phillip was bound and hanged against a pillar. , 6. St. Bartholomew was flayed to death by ? command of a barbarous king. * 7. St. Matthew was killed with a halbert. u 8. St. Thomas, while at prayer, was shot it with a shower of lances, aud afterward run 18 fknAiiivVi fkn kn/)n txri + K O )anPO DUtUU^ll Wilts UUMJ ntl/U u IMUVWI I ||j 9. St. Simon was crucified. 10. Thaddeuaor Jadas, was cruelly put to death. 8 11. St. Matthias: The manner of his death t? is somewhat doubtful; one says stoned, then , di beheaded ; another says he was crucified. G 12. Judas Iscariot fell, and his bowels gushed out. n, 13. St. John died a natural death. p 14. St. Paul was beheaded by order of j Nero. tl i t t Q ffiaT" How small a portion of our lives is it that we truly enjoy ? In youth we are look- 01 ing forward for things that are to come. In n old age we look back to things that are post. Is leading tax the ^ablatit. CONDUCTED BY, . REV. ROBERT LATHAN. : fOrtgtnal.] DEATH. There are many subjects in which we all re immediately interested, and still we know ut little about them. Death is an event rhich, at no distant period in the future, waits us all. No sane man will call this eclaration in question. About death, we are rone to speculate; but if we lay the Bible side, all our reasoning concerning it is but ague speculation. Some of the ancient phijsophers said death is the twin brother of !eep. Napoleon Bonaparte, if we remember orrectly, said that sleep is a suspension of hose organs or functions of the human body hich are under the control of the will, whilst eath is a suspension of those organs or funcons which are not under the control of the rill. \ r \: f / - \t i : J ( This definition is correct so far as human objrvation extends. In sleep, the five sense#? jeing, hearing, tasting, feeling and smelljg?are suspended. They hrite not ceased > be, but they have ceased, for the time^ to ct. The lungs, heart, liver, stomaeh and seretions all go on discharging their several ffices in sleep as tfheri we are awake, or are nly partially affected. These organs are not nder the control of the will, at least not to le exteut that the five senses are. We may ill to shut our eyes and the act is perfortpi; but we cannot will to stop our heart from eating. It will not, as our eye-lids, obey or mandates. - ? After all, we know very little about death, i^e cannot know scarcely anything if we rely holly upon our own powers. We may ;and over a sick friend and watch, with in;nt anxiety, the process of dying, and when e has drawn his last breath we have made ? ^' ?? TIT.#* AAitnnt ^/vll tlifl nmrnont O uusuuvery. t? o unuuub ten tuo uiuiubuv ie vital spark went out, or whither the spirit ed. We saw nothing that gave us any sat'factory notion of death. The idea of death, which we get from the lible is, that it is a separation of the sonl nd the body. This idea is confirmed by hat we observe. We do not, because we mnot, see the soul leave the body ; but we ie by the great change which takes place, lat the body has been deprived of something hich it once possessed. The limbs become gid and a*strange coldness settles over the hole body. Hence the saying "cold as eath." Death changes the countenance and ;nds us away, is the accurate description of ie scene given in the Bible. Solemn and important as is the scene which ikes place when the soul and body of a hutan being are separated, it is far from being ie most important thing connected with that rent. What will now become of the parts hich once constituted the living man? thither has the soul fled, and what will beDme of the body ? With regard to the body, e are permitted to speak with a good degree F certainty. If it be the body of some hurale and unhonored peasant, it will be wrapped p in very coarse clothing, aud after being laced in a rude coffin, will be deposited, with ttle ceremony, in the grave and by the living e soon forgotten. If, on the contrary, it be anrtk'fl rvroaf AflOC if XXIill IC UUMJ Ui OUIUU VI vt?l bU o> giwMv vuvwy ? 0 washed in costly perfumes, clad in princely )bes, decked with rich jewels, placed in a ilded casket, and then, with pompous cerelony, deposited in the grave and over it will 3 erected a marble monument. All this, however, is out-Bide show, or the ant of show. It never touches the question, What becomes of the body after death ?" o this, in many respects important question, 3th the Bible and our own observation give positive answer. The Bible declares that "ter death the body returns to dust. It first utrifies and then crumbles back to its orlgiil dust. The fiat of our God, as revealed to ) concerning our bodies, individually, is: Dust thou art and unto dust shalt thou reiru." Gen. 3:19. We pass through a certin stage, or as we say live, then die and lee corruption." Acts 13 : 36. Between the ible and our observation there is, on this 3int, perfect harmony. Before the last reath has fled from our bodies, corruption is commenced. That which was once lovely id beautiful, now is nothing but a mass of lathsorae corruption. In a few years, in >ite of all human skill, corruption will have jeyed the mandates of Almighty God, and a ttle dust will alone remain of us. With irae modification in the sentiment, the folding lines from Pope might be inscribed pon all our tomb-stones : flow loved, how valued onee, avails thee not, o whom related, or by whom begot, heap of dust alone remains of thee ; 'is all thou art! And all thePBouD shall be. If we restrict the meaning of the first three ues to the body, it is painfully true. We ay walk among the graves of Westminister hbey and all that remains of the bodies of le great men who found a burying place lere, is a heap of dust. So far as human iscernment goes, it may be said concerning le bodies that for generations have, with Dmpand splendor, been deposited there, they j e no more. With regard to the bodies of1 te human family, we can truthfully say, lat after death they rot. It is, by all intelligent inviduals, admitted lat the soul is of greater importance than le body. Hence, to inquire what will be>me of our souls after death, is of more ira^rtance than to inquire what will become of jr bodies. With regard to this aspect of le subject, we are confined to the revelations hich God has made to us in his Word. peculations on this, as on every other similar | ibject, may be flattering to our vain con iits, but they are not profitable. We can ! ot follow the soul into eternity, as we can le body to the grave. We may open the old rave and find that the body once deposited i it is not there now. Nothing remains of it ut dust. In our inquiries about the destiny F the soul, we can not follow this process, luring the period that the soul and body are ited, we know very little about the soul. fe are not permitted to know in what parcular part of the body it has its dwelling lace. All that we can say, certainly, is that e have a soul. For the certain knowledge F this fact, we are indebted to the Bible, hose deprived of a revelation, can only speclate concerning the existence and iramortaly of the soul. If we know so little by obirvation with regard to the soul during its 1 nion with the body, it is not to be wondered j t that we can learn nothing about it by ob- i irvation after its separation from the body | ikes place. All beyond the grave is total arkness, only so far as we are enlightened by rod's word. There is a line beyond which mortals canot pass, only as they are led by the light of ; rod's word. It is wicked to attempt such a , ling. There are some things about which rod has made for us no revelation; about; there he has revealed very little. God has isde no revelation to us as to what particu- j ir individuals will be saved or what individ uala will be lost He tails us plainly* what class of the human family will be saved and what class will be lost. The frhole class of believers in Jesus Christ will be saved, and all who do not believe, will be lost. With regard to the revelation which has been given us concerning the eternal joys of believers, and the endless torments of unbelievers, we may say, "we know not what they shall be." In all our inquiries concerning this class of subjects, it becomes os to be , modest, and instead of attempting to display learning and mental power, to stick close to God's revealed word. Whenever we go beyond this we commence floundering. Keeping this principle constantly in mind, it may be remarked that the human family are susceptible, in a moral aspect, of but one division. This made, and we find all Adam's descendants included in two olasses. The one, God calls the righteous, because they have believed in Jesus Christ. The other he calls the wicked, because they have violated his law. ThO questions to be answered are, "what becomes of the souls of the righteous when they die? and what becomes of the souls of the wicked'after death V' Reason gives no reply to this hxjuhy, farther than that some distinction will be made. In this world, that is, during the union of soul and body, we see that all mankind are, in some respects, treated alike; but in other respects, God, in his providence, treats some as be does not treat jothera. At last, we can only answer this momentous question by inquiring what the Bible teaches on this subject. It is admitted that God has been; pleased not to reveal raueh about the subject, but that little is plain, and it is all that we know or can know. It is admitted by all who take the Bible for their guide, that the final home of the righteous will be heaven, and the ultimate abode of the wicked will be hell. The aues- ? tion then, to be answered, is, "When do the i souls of the righteous go to heaven, and when I do the souls of the wicked go to hell 7" As I intimated before, it is vain?it is wicked?to { speculate on this subject If we can find no t answer to the question in the Bible, it is our c duty to put a stop to our inquiries. Such a 5 course may be humiliating, but it is safe. The i Bible, however, is not sileut on this subject t * At death, the souls of the believers go im- t mediately to heaven, and the souls of the \ wicked go immediately to hell. This statement, unless it can be proven by the express | declarations of the scriptures, is not worth t anything. What then do the scriptures say ? t No attempt will be made to gather up all the c passages of scripture which have a direct, or t indirect, bearing on the subject. The first quotation will be found in the twenty-third chapter of the gospel, as recorded by Luke, at the forty-third verse. The penitent thief I asked the dying Saviour to rememoer Dim wheo he came into his kingdom. To this , request the 8aviour replied, "Verily, I say unto thee, to-day shalt thou be with me io paradise." The only thing in this passage about which there can be any contention, is -i concerning the import of the word "paradise." J Literally, the word so translated means a t garden, a park or enclosure filled with beau- c tiful and valuable products of the earth In the New Testament, it is found besides, in the ( passage quoted only in 2nd Corinthians, 12:4, t and in Revelations, 2:7. In 2nd Corinthians, it seems to be in apposition with "third heav- en," in the second verse of the same chapter. Christ tells the dying thief that he would be with hiin in paradise. After Christ's sufferings ended, he entered into glory. This f seems to be plain from Luke, 24:26?"Ought s not Christ to suffer these things and enter into glory." The moment the penitent thief c died, he entered into glory. In 2nd Corinth- \ ians, 5:2, Paul says: "We know, that if our I earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolv- 1 cd, wo have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." j( Phiilipians, 1: 23: "I am in a strait betwixt ( two, having a desire to depart and be with I Christ," Ac. In Ephesiana, 4:10, we are told that Christ "has ascended up far above F all heavens." Several other passages of ; Scripture might be quoted, but the above will suffice, especially as there are no passages that seem to teach a different doctrine. ' With regard to the souls of the wicked after death, the Scripture doctrine is that they ^ go immediately to hell. In the parable of j the rich man and Lazarus, Luke 16:19-31, we find these words: "The rich man died and was buried ; and in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torments." It may be said that the word hell sometimes means the state of the dead. Admit it, and still the position taken ; is not weakened, for it is added, "being in tor- ' ments." He began to suffer as soon as be died, it makes no matter where it was. Farther, the rich man said, "I am tormented in this flame." Hell, in the Scriptures, is described as a lake that bornetb with fire and ] brimstone. This was the flame by which the 1 rich man was tormented. Other proof texts, c as Acts, 1: 25; Jude 6 and 7; 1st Peter 3:19, might be examined, but it is deemed unnecessary. * g Some teach that from death to the final ~ judgment, the souls of both the righteous and the wicked remain in an unconscious state. J This is nothing but speculation. There is not * a sentence in the Bible that favors such a no- ? tion, and, besides, it is opposed to all our no- ? tions of the soul. Others advocate what a they call an intermediate slate; while others ? claim that between death and the general g judgment, there is a purgatorial state. All p these are theories as wicked as they are foolish 1< and absurd. If the soul is unconscious from _ death to the final judgment no man knows it, for God, in his word, has not uttered one syllable that favors such a theory. In the Bible we find nothing said about purgatory and an intermediate state. In this world the condi- f tion of all is either in Christ by faith, or out y of him by wicked works. So soon as we die we will all either be in heaven with Jesus, j "safe to sin no more," or in hell, where God p offers no pardon and hope never comes. A difficulty, that at times, arises in the rmi'n^o r\f ?nniP mftV he thus Stated. If the souls of the wicked go to hell so soon as soul l and body are separated, some souls will be in J hell many thousand years lunger than others, h This does not, they say, seem to be consistent with strict justice. In one of the parables of our Lord (Matt _ 21,) we have a solution of this difficulty. A J house-holder went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. Some were hired soon in the morning; some at the third 1 hour; some at the sixth hour; some at the 9 ninth hour, and some at the eleventh hour.>' All labored, but not an equal length of tin^, and all were rewarded equally. Those who labored but one hour, received a penny; and J those who labored all day receivecLtio more. Every believer will be saved fn Heaven. The thief who repented on the/cross and believed only in the agonies of death, was saved; i and this is all that we are warranted to say a about any of the redeemed in^Heaven. Tbia will satisfy the longings of thie immortal soul, d Take the opposite view. IJjvery unbeliever _ will be cast into the lake th.pt burueth with jjj I \ / ire and brimstone. Time will ceaae when sterility begins, and the wicked will be ponshed according to the deeds done in the body. Ho one of ns need give ourselves the least ineasiness. The righteous will not receive ess than the blood of Jesus bought for hem, and the wicked will not be punished nore than their sins deserve. In the governnentof God, there are many things that we ire not allowed . to understand, but of one hing we may rest assured, the God of all the earth will do right. . ; It may be asked, will all believers be equaly blessed, and will all unbelievers be equally niserable ? All that the scriptures warrant is in saying, respecting the blessedness of the ighteous in eternity, is that every one of Idam's race who, in this life, accepts of Jeus Christ as the Saviour will be perfectly ilessed in the life beyond the grave. Believers are, by the miraculous love of God, made he sons of God, and it doth not appear what bey. shall_ he but they . know. _ that_ jiheD Christ shall aDDear. thev shall be like him; or they shall see bim as ho is: 1st John, 3:2. David says: "As for me, I will behold thy ace in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, then I awake with thy likeness." Psalm .7:15. With regard to the rejectors of the gospel, >ur Saviour tells us (Matthew, 10:15,) "it ball be more tolerable for the cities of Sodom md Gomorrah than for tbem." Again, we tear bim (Matthew 11:21, 22, 23,) pronounnog a grievous woe upon Ghorazin, Betbsaida ind Capernaum, because they repented not With regard to the inhabitants of those cities, le positively declares that, in the day of judgnent, it will be more tolerable for the inbabtaots of Tyre, Sido'n and Sodom, than for ;hem. From these and many other passages of icripture which might be quoted, we feel safe n inferring that whilst all unbelievers will >e cast into the lake that burns with fire and irimstone, the torments of some will be much greater than those of others. Every one? he righteous and the wicked?will be blessed >r punished "according to their ways." See tod Chronicles, 12:30; Psalm, 62 :12, and various other places both in the Old and in he New Testament. Here we find an incenive to the believer to work for Jesus. He fill be blessed according to his works. The fact that the souls of the righteous >ass immediately into glory robs death of its errors; and, on the contrary, the fact that he souls of the wicked are, immediately after leath, "tormented in a flame,'' makes death ruly fearful to the unbeliever. Hampton and reform i FURNITURE AND LOW PRICES AT THE NEW FURNITURE STORE, Opposite the Cotton Hotel, CHESTER, S. C. LONG experience, and having to buy for the house of M ARKS A REID, of Rock Hill, * awm onoKino mo KlIV U UUIIIIO\;iilUII fTlUl U1J VTlUf vnwwioo *mv m? wuj o superior advantage; and owing to tbe low price if cotton, I am SELLING AT ALMOST COST. 3ome and see for yourselves. Goods DELIVERED FREE to all points beween Gastonia and Winnsboro. S. K. MARKS. December 7 49 tf BLANK BOOK MANUFACTORY STATIONERY. AND BOOK BINDERY. rHANKING the public, for liberal past patronage, I now invite attention to my complete tock of STAPLE AND FANCY STATIONERY, onsisting, in part, of Flat Papers, Midinnr, FoioPost, Demy, Letter and Note. Blank Books, f every variety; Envelopes,. Slates, Ink, Ac, ?ancy Stationery, Gold Pens and Pencils, Penknives, Writing Desks, Ac. Also, BOOK BINDING DONE, n all its various branches. Sheet Music, Periodcars, Law Books, Ac., bound in any style desired. >la Books rebound and repaired. 'EDITED BILL AND LETTER HEADS A SPECIALTY Orders promptly attended to, at lowest cash .rices. E. R. STOKES, 166 Main Street Columbia, 8. C. ETTENGER & EDMOND, RICHMOND, VA. if ANUFACTURERSof Portable and Station.Ti. ary Engines, Boilers of all kinds, CIRCULAR SAW MILLS, Jrist Mills, Mill Gearing, Shafting, Pulleys, Ac., Lmerican Turbine WATER WHEELS, ? 1 if . and Cameron's Special Steam Pump. Send, for Catalogue. WM. ETTENGER. H. P. EDMOND. November 2 44 ly JHEOETOLE AmrrjpTim 18 PUBLI8HED DAILY, TBI-WEEKLY & WEEKLY, A.T AUGUSTA, GA? By WALSH & WRIGHT, Proprietors. j / FULL Telegraphic Dispatches from ,all Points. T,atest and most accurate Market Reports, nterestingand Reliable Correspondence from all arts of Georgia, South Carolina and Washington lity. Georgia and Carolina News a Specialty. DAILY: I TRI-WEEKLY: I WEEKLY: >ne year....$10 | One year,.....$5 00 | Onej7ear,;...|2 ix months, 5 | Six Months, 2 5U | six Montns, i CHEER YOUR HOMES WITH MUSIC. [HAVE made such arrangements with that enterprising and reliable Southern Wholesale louse, Ludaen and Bates, of Savannah, that I can upply, oti short notice, the Mason A Hamlin Orans, Pianosof the most celebrated manufactories, beet Music, or any other kind of Musical Merhandize, at the lowest factory prices, and at prices dapted to these hard times. A settled determineion to sell nothing I cannot reootqmend, and a ractical acquaintance of many years with such oods, enables me to offer great inducements lo urchasers. Call at my Photo-Gallery for further particuirs. J. R, SCHORB. December 21 51 tf RAILROAD NOTICE. jm**m I1J M- Brw W rHE passenger train of the Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad, when necessary, dll stop for passengers at the following places : Falls' Store, Glenn's Store, Sidney Hill's, Cloer, J. J. Wilson's, Limestone Road, Yorkville, 'hiladelphia, Guthrfesville, McConnellsville, listrict Line, Sandy River Road, Lowrysville, Imith's and Poor House, i EDWARD THOMAS, Superintendent. February 8 /6 tf NOTICE. r RESPECTFULLY inform the public that I |_ am prepared to sharpen razors, scissors, shears n:1 otner fine-edgod instruments. Prices?for oningand sharpening razors, 25 cents, and for harponing scissors or shears, 10 cents each, and atisfaction guaranteed or no charge. TOM BALLARD, Barber. Nnvemher SO 48 tf I, R. SCHORR'S PHOTO-GALLERY, 1ST HOUSE EAST OE THE JAIL. A SUPERIOR Skylight, a gallery with every \ .Convenience, and a determination to do my eat, enables me to promise satisfaction to all in rant of correct and flattering likenesses. Cloudy reather is as good or better than sunshine for all ubjects, except small children., s ; AGRICULTURAL LIENS, k M ORTGAGES of Real Estate, and Titles to I Real Estate. For sale at the ENQUIRER OFFICE. March 9 5 ly WRAPPING PAPER. r\LD Newspapers, of large size, suitable for 1 wrapping, for sale at 50 cent? per hundred, t the ENQUIRER OFFICE. December 7 49 tf U 6QA per day at home.' Sample* worth SI (Tee. )0TO*?" STiaaoR kCo., Portland, Maine. 19 ly 11 n a day at home. Agent* wanted. Outfit and tenia Om. >14 TttUE k CO., Augaata, Maine. 19 ly THE TROPIO STOVE, '"J '.*iiI ivfrUi. tf.ie *.&' >'* . ' ? 'iWi :':,i ' ?p M pBwSfcJfiSil BHPBj GREENSBORO. N. C. ! i ? mn /./\/\ rr T\rn oimvVB ?tnnr r nn?i lAA/HUlU OIV ? JUW wwmwu ?VV?H JL 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 beat and bard usage. They are of band some pattern and neat finish, and warranted equal in every other respect to any Cooking Stove aold in the United States, while it is confidently claimed that tbev are the CHEAPEST. All tne usual pieces or ware and cooking utensils are furnished with each Stove. An important consideration with purchasers is the feet that ohr 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. Hot simply oecause it is a home production, buton aocountof its intrinsic merits as an article of household economy, do-v_^ we ask the patronage of home purchasers. More -? than ONE THOU8AND of these 8tovea are now in use, and among many others having, them we respectfully refer to the following: R. E. Guthrie, D. M. Campbell, M. H. Cnrrenoe, York pennty; Mrs. Elizabeth J. Wylie, Chester; D. A. Gordon, Guthriesvillti; JshU 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, whioh Is no small item, by buying -of us, and the same time get a STOVE THAT 18 MORE DURABLE than tboae of northern make. The following are our prices delivered at depot in Greensboro: No. 8, with 10 pieces ware and 8 feet pipe, |80 00 II Y 2 44 U 44 40 41 44 'ft 26 00 Address, > SERGEANT A McCAULEYt . Greensboro, N. C. T. M. DOBSON A CO., Agents, Yorkville; B. C. JOHN R. LONDON. Agent, Rock Hill, ft' C. A. F. LINDSAY, Agent, McConnellsville, York county, 8. C. J. L. CARROLL, Agent at Chester, ft C. WEED! WEED! WEED! PRE-EMINENTLY AT THE HEAD! AND SO RECOGNIZED. ' 1 i; * Read the complimentary award of the Centennial Commissioners. ' t U. STATES CENTENNIAL COMMISSION,) ; International Exhibition, v Philadelphia,^ J The United States Centennial Commission announce the following report as the bvn of an award to the WEED 8EWING MACHINE COMPANY, Hartford, Conn., for ' ?' SHUTTLE SEWINQ MACHINES. REPORT. The new Weed Sewing Machine, employing a straight needle and needle-bar, connected by a link with a crauk oh the end of a horizontal shaft In the overhanging arm. The needle-bar operating A aft is connected by a link with, and has a rocking motion imparted to it by means of, a crank on the lower rotating abaft. The shuttle sustained in a carrier, in 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. t An excellent Shuttle Machine, possessing originality find simplicity ofjconstruct!vedetafj,for fine quality of workmanship and materials, and for great adaptability to both cloth and leather stitching. ... ; . , A. T. G OS HORN, Director-General. J. R. HAWLEY, President. AH6SC miKK Aw;ti AWb onvrewrjr, ANALYSIS. , . ; An excellent Shuttle Machine?meaning a machine possessed of great merit, the nndertbread of whlob is carried in a Shuttle, universally admitted to be the only practicable and durable method. Possessing originality and simplicity of M constructive detail?that is, embodying the, requisite number of the most improved medlutnicel devices found in any Sewing Machine, free from complication, consequently readily understood and easily managed. For fine quality of workinanshipand materials. Alt parts being made in duplicate by improved machinery, thud being interchangeable, making it easy to replace any parts which may become worn or broken. Ail wearing parts being provided With means (it kdjnstment. Substituting drop-forged wrongtitIron and steel in place of cast and malleable iron. And for great adaptability to both cloth and leather stitching?being free from sharp angled earns or grinding gears, having substituted alfopie crank movements, devoid of friction or nouie, drawing both npperand under thread at precisely the same time, finishing each stitch Independently, a necessity on fine leather work'.'7 Lightrunning, well-balanced parts; admitting of the highest rate of speed attainable in machine sewing, which is indispensable In clotjh stitching. It will be observed that In no other award are these important points?so necessary to perfect stitching machine?combined, via.: UQI.nnlUUif a/ nAttoftHiAHwA ^nioil ft OlllipUVylVJ V#l, VUWIVi U^WTQ UUMI|| , ? t; "Fine Quality of Workmanship and Materials." "Great. Adaptability to both ClothandLeatber Stitching." i... . We clAim to produce the best Leatherahd Cloth Sewing Machines now offered to the public, and shall be pleased to so baton tiate this at any of oar Rranch Offices in the principal cities, or agencies throughout the United States. WEED SEWING MACHINE C0.r i Hartford, CtyMb BRANCH OFFICE l 51 and A3 North Charles Street^ Baltimore, Md., Masonic Temple. <_ll. H. S. DAWLEY, Manager. February 22 8 ^ 8m YORK MARBLE YARD* THE undersigned is still conducting the Marble Business in Yorkville, and would respectfully inform the public that he can supply those in want of MONUMENTS or HEADSTONES with anything in his . line, and . at.the lowest cash prices. Monuments designed and finished in tbe mbst 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, fttrnfshea at short notice, and satisfaction guaranteed. . I \ Specimens usually on band, to an inspeo^on of which, those in want of marble work are respect#nl1?r . ? ? i.L? IUIIJ iiiribw* ? Estimates and any other desired information cheerfully given at any time. Work delivered at any point on the Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad, between Chester and Dallas, or at any place between Rock Hill and Winnsboro, on tne 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. P. HAPPERFIELD. January 4 1 ly $250 REWARD. % j| THE National Board of Fire Underwriters herebv offers a reward of TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY D0LLAR8, for the detection* conviction and punishment of the party or parties, charged with the crime of Arson, in firing the premises situate near Yorkville, S. C., being the DWELI*ING OF J. T. LOWRY, on April 22d, 1876. Said reward will be paid only on aueproof being furnished the Executive Committee of the conviction and actual punishment of said criminals. By order of Executive Committee. GEO. T. HOPE, Chairman. N?w York. Mav 8. 1876- 20 t.f BARBER SHOP. THOSE in want of an EASY SHAVE, a (fashionable and stylish cut of hair, or a pleasant and luxurious Shampoo, are reminded that THOS. BALLARD, Professor of the ArtTonsorial, is still in business, in his old Shop next door to the Enquirer building, where it will afford him great pleasure to wait upon all who may desire his services. Razors honed and sharpened, and any other work of that kind promptly done. THOMAS BALLARD. 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