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gtumottius Department. THE FIRST MAN. Some repairs were needed on the engine when the train reached Reno, and while most of the passengers were taking a philosophical view of the delay and making themselves as comfortable as possible in the depot, in walked a native. He wasn't a native Indian, nor a native grizzly, but a native Nevadian, and he was rigged out in imperial style. He wore a bearskin coat and cap, buckskin leggings and moccasins, and in his belt a huge knife and two revolvers. There was lightning in his eye, destruction in his walk, and he sauntered up to the red hot stove and scattered tobacco juice over it. Among the travelers was a car painter from Jersey City, and after surveying the native for a moment he coolly inquired: " * J ?? %,n ?*11 J/vmn onrl "Areu l you uiruiu you u ion uvnu hurt yourself with those weapons?" "W?what!" gasped the native in astonishment." "I suppose they sell such outfits as you've got on, at auction, out here, don't they," continued the painter. "W?what d'ye mean?who ar' you?" whispered the native as he walked around the stove and put on a terrible look. "My name is Logwood," was the calm reply, "and I mean that if I was you, I'd crawl out of those old duds, and put on some decent clothes!" "Don't talk that way to me, or you won't live a minit!" exclaimed the native, as he hopped around. "Why, you homesick coyote, I'm Grizzly Dan, the heaviest Indian fighter in the world! I was the first white man to scout for Gen. Crook! I was the first white man in the Black Hills! I was the first white man among the Modocs!" "I don't believe it ?" flatly replied the painter. "You look more like the first white man down to the dining table!" The native drew his knife, put it back a<rain. looked around, and then softly asked: _0 9 r "Stranger, will ye come over the ridge and shoot and slash till this thing is settled ?" "You bet I will 1" replied the man from Jersey, as he rose up. "Just pace right out and I'll follow!" Every man in the room jumped to his feet in wild excitement. The native started for the back door, but when he found the car painter at his heels, with a six-barreled Colt in his hand, he halted and Baid : "Fried, come to think of it, I don't want to kill you and have your widow come on me for damages." "Go right ahead?I'm not a married man !" replied the painter. "But you've got relatives; and I don't wan't no law suits to bother me just as Spring is coming." "I'm an orphan, without a relative in the world !" shouted the Jerseyite. "Well, the law will make me bury you, and it would be a week's work to dig a grave at this season of the year. I think I'll break a rib or two for you, smash your nose, gouge out your left eye, and let it go at that!" "That suits me to a dot!" said the painter." "Gentlemen, please stand back, and some of you shut the door of the ladies' room !" "I was the first man to attack a grizzly lv#r with a bowie knife." remarked the na tive as he looked arouDd. "I was the first man to discover silver in Nevada. I made the first scout up Powder river. I was the first man to make hunting-shirts out of the skin of Pawnee Indians. I don't want to hurt this man as he seems kinder sad and down-hearted, but he must apologize to me." "I won't do it," cried the painter. "Gentlemen, I never fight without taking off my coat, and I don't see any nail here to hang it on," said the native. "I'll hold it?I'll hold it 1" shouted a dozen voices in chorus. "And another thing," softly continued the native. "I neyer fight iu a hot room. I used to do it years ago, but I found it was running me into consumption. I always do my fighting out doors now." "I'll go out with you, you old rabbit killer!" exclaimed the painter, who had his coat off. "Thats another deadly insult, to be wiped out in blood, and I see I must finish you. I never fight around a depot though. I go out on the prairie, where there is a chance to throw myself." "Where is your prairie; lead the way!" howled the crowd. "It wouldu't do any good," replied the native, as he leaned against the wall. "I always hold a ten-dollar gold piece in my mouth when I fight, and I haven't got one today?in fact I'm dead broke." "Here's a gold piece," called a tall man, holding up the metal. "I am a thousand times obleeged," mournfully replied the native, shaking his head. "I never go into a fight without putting red paint on my left ear for luck ; and I haven't any red paint by me, and there isn't a bit in Reno." "Are?you?going?to?fight ?" demanded the car painter, reaching for the bear skin cap. "I took a solemn oath when a boy never to fight without painting my left ear," protested the Indian killer. "You wouldn't want me to go back on my solemn oath, would you ?" "You're a cabbage, a squash, a pumpkin dressed up in leggings !" contemptuously remarked the car painter, as he put on his coat. "Yes, he's a great coward," remarked several others, as they turned away. "I'll give ten thousand dollars for ten drops of red paint !" shrieked the native. "Oh ! why is it that I have no paint for ray ear when here is such a chance to go in and kill!" A big blacksmith from Illinois took him by the neck and run him out, and he was seen no more for an hour. Just before the train started, and after all the passengers had taken their seats, the "first man" was seen on the platform. He had another bowie knife, and had also put a tomahawk in his belt. There was red paint on his left ear, his eyes rolled, and, in a terrible voice, he called out: "Where is that man Logwood ? Let him come out here and meet his doom 1" "Is that you ? Count me in !" replied the car painter, as he opened the window. He rushed for the door, leaped down and was pulling off his overcoat again, when the native began to retreat, calling out: "I'll get my hair cut and be back here in seventeen seconds. I never fight with long hair. I promised my dying mother not to." When the train rolled away he was seen flourishing his tomahawk around his head in the wildest manner. Alexander Pope.?Pope was one evening at Burton's coffee-house, where himself, and Swift and Arbuthnot, with several other scholars, were poring over a manuscript co? -f a riof/M-tknnpq At. Ip.nuth thev ?Jjr vi vice* muwfu.M... o-? j came across a sentence which they could not comprehend, and as, in their perplexity, they attracted the attention of a young officer, who chanced to be in another part of the room, and who approached and begged leave to look at the passage. "Oh ! by all means,"said Pope sarcastically; "Let the young gentleman look at it. We shall have light directly." The young officer took up the manuscript volume, and after a little study and consideration his countenance brightened. "It is but a slight ommission on the part of the scribe," he said, "it only wants a note of interrogation at this point to make the whole intelligible." Pope saw in an instant that the officer was right; but the thonght of being outdone in Greek translation by a mere youth, and a redcoat at that, piqued him, and with a sharp bitter twang, he cried out: "And pray, young sir, what is a note of interrogation ?" "A note of interrogation," answered the officer, surveying the wizen hunchback poet from head to foot with a contemptuous look, "is a little crooked thing that asks questions!" fleeted foettg. THE EMPTY CRADLE. Sad is the heart of the mother Who sits by the lonely hearth, Where never again the children Shall waken their songs of mirth. And still through the painful silence, She listens for voice and tread, Outside of the heart?there only She knows that they are not dead! Here is the desolate cradle, The pillow so lately pressed, But faraway has thebirdling Flown from its little nest. Crooning the lullabies over That once were her babe's delight, All through the misty spaces She follows its upward flight. * '' Little she thought of a moment So gloomy and sad as this, When close to her heart she gathered Her child for its good-night kiss. She should be tenderly cherished, Never agriefshould'she know, Wealth, and the pride of a princess, These would a mother know. And this is the darling's portion In heaven, where she has fled; By angels securely guarded, By angels securely led. Brooding in sorrowful silence Over the empty nest, Can vou not see through the shadows Why it is all for the best? Better the heavenly kingdom Than richas of earthly crown ; Better the early morning flight Than one when the sun is down ; Better an empty casket Than jewels besmirched with sin ; Safer than those without the fold Are those that have entered in ! IpswlfattMUis gfcadittfl. A Widow with Six Children.?A clergyman, a widower, residing in one of our Vermont rural towns, receutly created a firstclass sensation iu his household, which consists of several grown-up daughters. The reverend gentleman was absent from home for a number of days, visiting in an adjoining town. The daughters received a letter from their father, which stated he had "married a widow with six sprightly children," and that he might be expected home at a certain time. The effect of that news was a great shock to the happy family. The girls, noted for their meekness and amiable temperaments, seemed another set of beings; there was weeping and wailing and tearing of hair, and all manner of naughty things said. The tidy home was neglected, and when the day of arrival came, the house was any thing but inviting. At last the Rev. Mr. came, but he was alone. He greeted his daughters as usual, and as he viewed the neglected parlors there was a merry twinkle in his eye. The daughters were nervous and evidently anxious. At last the eldest mustered courage, and asked : "Where is mother ?" "Iu heaven," says the good man. "But where is the widow with six children, which you wrote you had married?" "Why, I married her to~ another man, ray dears." It is said to have been amusing to see those seven girls set things to right. Southern Diet.?Dr. D. v. iteaoeia, who has been traveling through the South, says: "A physician in North Alabama, having a large practice in the rural districts, and of necessity stopping among his patieuts, tells me that nineteen out of twenty of the meals be sits down to are of fried meat and hot bread. Yet dyspepsia does not follow to the extent one would suppose. He thinks they escape a disease which such a diet would seem to invite, by the outdoor life they lead. This physician says dyspepsia would be an unknown disease in the Southern States if it were not for hot bread and the frying pan. Array life, during the late war, cured more dyspeptics than bullets killed. I asked this physician why it was that in the Eastern States, where hot bread as a steady diet is almost unknown, dyspepsia was even more prevalent than in the Southern States. He said that it was pie and cake which played the mischief in that quarter. Pie and cake worked the same injury to the stomachs of the Eastern people, that hot bread and the frying pan did for the Southerners. If anything, it was worse. He thought he would rather risk his digestion on Southern biscuit than New England pie. The pie was the greater curse, and annually killed more people by slowly breaking down their digestive powers." A correspondent of the Springfield Hepublican writes from Charleston : "Dr. Shepard pointed out to me the position of Gen. Gilraore's "swamp angel" battery, and said that only the other day his workmen dug up one of the unexploded shots in the Medical College yard. It was rather large for a war souvenir, and about as dangerous as a rattlesnake. The cap was perfect, all ready for the light tap that would explode it. No soak- [ ing would ruiu the powder filling, and so after looking it over, he had it carefully and T t ? i 1 ?.? deeply reourieu, ne uopeu, ueyuuu jcouncvtion. A negro, some time ago, found one of them, and thought he would break it up and sell it for old iron. He got a sledge hammer and struck it on the point. It exploded, blew the roof of the house off, and dealt destruction in every direction ; but, strangely, Sambo was not injured beyond being stunned by the concussion. He roused himself, looked wildly around, and exclaimed, "Lordy mas9y, whar's dat iron ?" Parasols Thirty Feet in Circumference.?Umbrellas, or rather parasols, are the badges of royalty in Africa. King Coffee's umbrella was one of the most noted trophies taken by the English in the Abyssinian war. This, however, was a shabby affair in comparison with the handsome and gigantic sun-shades just manufactured to the number of forty by a Glasgow firm. They have been ordered by a mercantile house in the same city, and are intended to be given as preseuts to African chiefs with whom the merchants in question do business. Three of these parasols, or palanquins as they are also called, are about thirty feet in circumference, and the remainder about eighteen feet. They are covered with a rich variegated damask silk, fringed round the edges, ornamented with a gilt ball at the top, and lined with fiuished cloth. The handle, which is of lancewood, is armed with a spike for tenting purposes, and a bayonet joint on one end of the stick renders the whole more portaoie. Sopt Hats.?The soft hat business has grown to enormous proportions in this country. There are in Connecticut, New Jersey and New York, manufactories which, if run at their full capacity, would easily make in j two months all the soft hats that this country I would demand in six months. There are in| Yonkers one factory capable of turning out one thousand dozen hats per day. About New York are several manufactories, in each of which three hundred dozen hats per day | can be made. It is estimated by the best au J th orities that the factories in tne several I Eastern States have capacity for making ! twenty-five hundred dozen of wool hats each working day, which would amount in total, i in the working time of a month, to the enormous number of fourteen million two hundred thousand. We send great quantities of these abroad, our hats being recognized in EuJ rope as the best in materials and most artistic iu style and finish that are made. We also supply bats for South America and Mexico. A Heavy Contract.?The contract awarded by the Turkish government to a single corporation in Rhode Island, is said to involve theenormous sura of$17,000,000. The Providence Tool Company is now employing 2.500 J men, and manufacturing 600 Martini-Henry | rifles a day. A packing-box company at i South Hadley Falls makes 20,000 boxes a year for the Providence corporation, and in : these the rifles are packed for shipment to i Turkey. fteaditnj fat the $ahhath.' CONDUCTED BT REV. ROBERT LATHAN. ? : = ] f Original.] i ARE THE SAVED FEW?-Lnke xili: 23. Perhaps it would be more in accordance with the laws of the Greek language, to trans- i late this sentence as it is in the caption of this > article. The individual, whoever it was, that 1 asked the question, seems to have imbibed 1 the notion which generally prevailed among , the Jews, thut all the seed of Abraham would j be saved in heaven. The current opinion of ( the Jews was that all the Israelites would be J saved, and all the Gentiles lost. In the reply ' made by the Saviour, it will be observed that 1 he does not say whether there will be few or | many saved. He does say, however, that | ? ? ? ...L ^ IM in.1 tf rvAKfi nnrlo tkomQotuOQ luaujr will/ ill 9UI11C nrujr |remuauc uiwuvkw ( that they will be saved, will be lost. < Whatever prompted ttie askings of this question, when taken in connection with the auswer, it presents for our consideration a subject of vital importance. The attentive , reader of the Bible will not be) long in dis- ( covering that God, in providing salvation for ' Adam's race and in offering' salvation to 1 them, treats for and with them not as de- ' 8cendauta of a particular member of Adam's ! family, but as sinners. Jesus died for sinners, , and salvation is offered to men as sinners. J This being the case, we are not to expect to 1 find in the Bible a list of those who will be ? saved, and also a list of those who will be lost j Men are designated not by calling them a particular name; but by assigning them to a ( class on account of certain characteristics, ; which they have or do not have. One class i - ' ? Ml L 1 t J AL . ot the human iamwy win De losiaoa me oui- i er class will be saved. The members of each class are accurately described. When, there- ' fore, we would inquire whether we will be J saved or lost, we are not to inquire whether we are Jews or Gentiles, rich or poor, the descendants of a long line of illustrious ances- .< tors or the offspring of humble and obscure < parents; but have we or do we not have the ' characteristics that God, iu his word, gives of ' a righteous man ? In several places in the Scriptures, God has given us the characteristics of those who will I be saved. We infer that those who want those characteristics will be lost. In other portions of the Scripture, we are given the characteristics of those who will be lost, and we infer , that those who do not have those characteristics will be saved. In a number of places in the Scriptures, it is plainly stated that all that believe in Jesus Christ will be saved ; and that all who reject Jesus Christ, will be lost. This is plain and easily understood, and still it is vague and in- , definite. Every believer will be saved and every unbeliever will be lost. About this declaration there is uo sort of doubt. The difficulty lies in deciphering whether or not we are believers. On this point we are liable'to be deceived. In fact Jesus says, or plainly intimates, that mauy are wicked and will be lost who think they are righteous and will be saved. The believer in Christ Jesus possesses some distinguishing characteristics. These characteristics are stated, among other places, in the i fifteenth Psalm. The unbeliever also has his characteristics. These characteristics we find stated in the sixth chapter of Corinthians, at 1 the 9th and 10th verses. In the fifteenth Psalm, the man who shall abide in God's taj bernacle, is described as being and doing some [ things, and also as not being and not doing i other things. In other words, he is a good man and does good deeds. We take it that the Holy Spirit, in the fifteenth Psalm, is de- J scribing the man who is on his way to heaven. , In the passage in Corinthians to which refer- ( ence has been made, the character of the man I who is on the broad road to perdition, is de- < scribed. Suppose we take either of these i passages and try ourselves by it. Such an , experiment will be attended with profit. In the passage in 1st Corinthians, it is said i that ueither "fornicators, n ir idolaters, nor < effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with 1 mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunk- ' . i. . , - i ards, nor extortioners, snail inneric tne KingHorn of God." It is not said that it takes all the things specified to keep one out of heaven ; i but any single one of them will keep him out. | It may be said that wc are saved by grace. ' This is most certainly true; but then if any f one of the characteristics mentioned are ap- 1 plicable to us, it is an evidence that we have , rejected the grace of God, , It may be said we are members of the visi- 1 ble church. That has nothing to do with the case. We may be professors of religion, and 1 still not believers in Jesus Christ. We may 1 think, and those who know us may think, that J we are believers, and still we may not be be- , lievers. That man who examines carefully ( the fifteenth Psalm and the 9th and 10th i verses of the sixth chapter of 1st Corinth- 1 ians, and is not made serious, is surely very 1 indifferent respecting the eternal destiny of < his immortal soul. Whether there will be few of the human 1 family saved when compared with the multitude that will be lost, we cannot tell. We 1 have no means of knowing with certainty. 1 Leaving the heathen?who have not the gos- , pel?out of consideration, it would seem that , even in Christian lands there are only a few i that will be saved. Perhaps more than onehalf of those in Christian lands are practical- 1 ly rejecting the Lamb of God that takes ' away the sin of the world. Like one of old, I they care nothing for the gospel. Whilst they ] j may not bo grossly wicked, still they are | i flootifnfft nf nietv. Thev claim to be i | nuw.j -- f J - j I Christians on no other ground than that they | were born and live in a Christian land. As 1 I well might they claim to be astronomers or 1 | poets, because they were born and live in a I land in which there are astronomers and po- , | ets. No doubt, some nou-professors will be 1 I saved. Every good man can not but hope 1 so; but it is only hope. It certainly would be a difficult thing to find a pious believer in ' Jesus Christ a non-professor. In the Church , i there are hypocrites?those who are deceiving others?and there are those who are deceiv- j : , ing themselves. Again : there are many in j ( the church who are there from the force of j i circumstances. They have made a profession I < : of religion just because it was in harmony 1 with the manners and customs of the com-, raunity in which they happened to reside. , ( There is another class of professed Christians. We mean those who connect themselves with i the church and still live in the constant prac- i j tice of the most flagrant crimes. Take all : this chaff away from the heap, and does if 1 not seem that there woul(J be but little wheat11 left? A serious consideration of this subject J i should startle every one of us. There will be j I a vast multitude saved by the blood of Jesg3 1 : Christ; but are there a vast multitude now. 1 or at any particular time, on the road to heaven ? The question each of us should ask, is, "Am I on the road to heaven ? Am I , i a child of God?a follower of the Lamb?" I. Mfo Jam audi Jwaidc. LUCERNE. Alfalfa, as it called in Spanish, or English, Lucerne, (Medicago saliva) has been known from the time of Darius. It was transplanted from Persia to Greece about 500 years B. G. It was extensively cultivated in Europe, and especially in the South of France, is a forage plant, but I am persuaded that its ralue is not as fully understood and appreciated as it should be in the South. I have experimented, for the last eight pears, with Red Clover, Orchard Grass, Hungarian grass, (or Germau Millet) and Lucerne. ' I place the latter at the head of all. [t gives the greatest amount of green food or tiay, than any other plant we have, and with the least trouble after the first year. I am tatisfied that Lucerne cannot be excelled for toiling purposes. It has helped me wonder fully ; more than any other grass, tor carrying >ut the plan of soiling, which I adopted sev;ral years ago. It is well relished by all kinds of stock, both green and dry, and is exceedingly nutritious. In some respects it is decidedly superior to red clover, as iu being perennial, and consequently remaining long in the soil, one seed will last for ten years or more, producing good ind profitable crops. When once fully established, it will yield heavy crops, and may be jut, if on rich soil, once a month. I have cut it as often as eight time in one season. Its yield commences much earlier than clover and continues latter iu the season. It stands the winter better than clover. Drought does not ieem to affect it. In the dryest weather, when ill other vegetation is drooping, Lucerne will be fresh aud green. Its effect is to improve the soil rather than * 1 -* * 1 ? lnn.a filfti 1'?K vr\r\t o 3XI1HUHI III, 01UUV Ik gcaug iuj luug iuonui iu i wki into the subsoil. Its roots have been known to reach four feet down in the ground. It is & well known fact that leguminous, broad leaf plants derive also a large portion of their nutriment from the atmosphere, while the luxuriant foliage serves to shade the'soil and thus increase fertility. We would urge every one of our readers, who has a horse, cow or pig, to prepare a small piece of ground and seed down in Lucerne at once. The seed can be had at any of the drug stores in Charlotte. I have ordered some lately for some parties from Wilson & Black, Charlotte, at fifty cent9 per pound. Nine years ago I paid eighty cents per pound. To succeed in growing. Lucerne, a soil neither too light nor too stiff shouldb e selected, very heavily manured, broken up very deep, if possible subsoiled, and rendered mellow by successive plowing and harrowing. Lucerne ma) be sown either in drills or broadcast, with or without grain. Twelve pounds of seed are required for one acre if drilled, and twenty pounds if sown broadcast. I have succeeded best in sowing in thespriug, from the middle to the last of March, in drills At a distance of sixteen inches apart, covering the seeds lightly. The cultivation of .Lucerne is somewhat more than that of any other grass the first year. The plants are very tender the first year, and weeds are very injurious, and crowd out the young plants, which are slow in starting. For this reason sowing in drills is to be recommended, as the hoe or cultivator can then be used. As soon as the young plants are a few inches high, they should be weeded carefully, and the intervals kept clean. This weeding and cleaning should be done several times during the season. Lucerne should be cut as soon as it blooms, since, if left long, the stalks become woody ; if cut much before, it is watery and innutritious. One or two cutings may be obtained the first season on rich soil, thoroughly mellowed, and prepared by careful tillage, cultivated clean until the plants are well set.? Rev. A. L. Stoucih, m the Shelby Banner. water^ptTr STonif. While many farmers understand the necessity of providing an adequate supply of fresh water for his domestic animals, there are many more who do not appreciate its importance. The presence of ruuuing water, or a limpid lake on a farm, is a great blessing, as a supply of good water is thus provided of which auimals can avail themselves at will, if the means of reaching it are afforded. But an hundreds of farms, a natural supply of water does not exist, and the wants of stock in this behalf must be met by artificial means. There are not a few farms, too, where the dependence for water consist of ponds that ire supplied by rainfalls and the melting the snows of winter. This is a poor reliance; besides, the water, in a majority of oases, becomes stagnant and unfit for use, even if it does not fail altogether, as the heat of summer comes on. Observation and experience have taught us that live stock, especially cattle, fall off in general condition, and cannot thrive as they should, when they are deprived of a proper supply of good, pure water. If water is stagnant it is quite as unfit for domestic animals it for human beings ; and it should not be forgotten that the quality as well quantity of milk, and butter and cheese, depends large: ly on fresh, healthful water for the cows. It will not answer to limit the quantity of water that a cow shall drink, if a full flow of milk throughout the season is expected. Nor is it good policy to drive stock a half or quarter of a mile twice a day that they may slake their thirst. Loss of time, liability to accidents, and loss of condition, to some extent, follow - ? !! ?? 1 ?i iVS results 01 mis lUtfUJuu, ajiu muugunui, juuicious stock-breeders, beef-producers and dairymen, do not pursue it. The expenditure of strength twice a day in such journeys is no inconsiderable tax on the vitality of the animal, and this vigor' had better be saved to the growth and improvement of each animal. Besides, there are other factors that enter into the problem which will suggest themselves in each case. We have incidently referred to cattle particularly, but the same facts hold good with all descriptions of live stock. It is an error? and a cruel one?to think that sheep can do without water and not suffer. According to their size they need it quiet as much as Dther kinds of live stock, and he who cares 30 little for his flocks as not to supply them with what water they require, will find out to his cost that he is greviously mistaken when he comes to shear his sheep or turn them into mutton. On every farm where water is not naturally supplied in ample quantity to conduct operations satisfactorily aud to the best advantage, it is a matter of economy, as well as of humanity, to provide it by artificial means, and to supply all the necessary conveniences to keep the supply constant, fresh and available for all the stock on the farm.? Western Rural. LUCERNE. It is siugular that so little attention should be given to this artificial grass, which is so well adapted to early feed for all stock, and is especially adapted to the needs of milch cows. Sown in drills or broad cast in rich, well manured soil earl in the Spring and top dressed yearly with plaster, ashes, or any manure, the profitable duration of the crop may be extended eight or ten years, giving, during that period, on an average, at least three cuttings a season ; the first in May, the second in July or August, and the last late in the Autumn. Cut it just before the appearance of the blossom when it is about a foot high, and feed it to your cows and they will smile all over and answer promptly at the pail. Like other food for soiling, it should be cut over night for use in the morning, and two or three hours before its use at other parts of the day? 1 wilting in the sun for that period being beneficial. The plant is deep rooted apd only attains its maximum of power after four years. Eight pounds weight per day of twenty-four hours is sufficient for the largest cow, and half that quantity in the same grain for a horse. Lucerne is sometimes call French clover, and occasionally Brazilian clover, or Alfalfa. Upon analysis, the stems, etc., of this plaot are proved to contained gypsum, and this is the reason why plaster of Paris applied to the crop caused it to grow luxuriantly. The quantity of seed usually sown to the acre is from fourteen to eighteen pounds if broadcast, and ten if drilled ; but a third more, if the season is at all unfavorable, is Bafer. Cover lightly with the harrow at a depth not exceeding two inches, and roll the ground. As a powerful aid to the maintenance of stock and production of milk in parching Summers, it has no equal, and it comes so early into use, that no dairy farmer can afford to be without an acre or two of it. Put it near the baru where it can be given to the stock night and morniug, and it will help the cows through many a day of short pasture until the sowed corn comes to take its place or supplement it.?N. E. Homestead. ? ? Antidote for Poison.?If a person swallows any poison whatever, says the Forest and Stream, or has fallen into convulsions from having overloaded the stomach, an instantaneous remedy, more efficient and applicable, in a large number of cases, than half-a-dozen medicines we can now think of, is a heaping spoonful of common salt and as much good mustard, stirring rapidly in a teacupful of water, warm or cold, and swallowed instantly. It is scarcely down before it begins to come up, bringing with it the remaining contents of the stomach ; and lest there be any remnant of poison, however small, let the white of an egg, or a teacupful of strong coffee, be swallowed as soon as the stomach is quiet; because these very common articles nullify a larger amount of virulent poisons than any medicine. Greasing Axles.?On the authority of the Carriage Monthly, more injury is done to caron/4 ?BQ?rtna Kir r* roa ai rw* Inn mtioll fhftn i togco auu nnguno i/j gt sugiug i>w uiuvu ? * the reverse. Tallow is the best lubricaut for wood axles, and castor oil for iron. Lard and common grease are apt to penetrate the hub, and work their way out around the tenons of the spokes and spoil the wheel. For common wood axles, just enough grease should he applied to the spindle to give it a light coating. To oil an iron axle, first wipe clean with a cloth wet with turpentine, and tneu apply a few drops of castor oil near the shoulder and end. One teaspoonful is enough for the four wheels. Carriages are sometimes oiled so much that their appearaucais spoiled by having the grease spattered upon their varnished surfaces. pricIes reduced! "THE FAMILY FAVORITE" IMPROVED NEW MODEL MACHINE. Light-Running, Noiseless, No Gears, No Cams, No Springs, New and Elegant Styles of Wood Work. From this date, by the expiration of Patents under which we have been paying royalties, we aer enabled to sell our machines at GREATLY REDUCED PRICES, and as low as those of any first-class machine. Send for Circulars and Price Lists. WEED SEWING MACHINE COMPANY, BALTIMORE, MD? Juno 7 23 tf STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF Y0RK--G0UBT OF FBOBATE. J. Newman McElwee, Sr., Plaintiff, against John Barber, Mary Barber, Sarah L. Barry, Elizabeth Barber, Jane Barber, James R. Barber, and the children and heirs of Samuel Barber, who died in the County of Pope, in the State of Arkansas, whose names are to Plaintiff unknown ; children and heirs of Jane Barber, decensed, Defendants.?Summon# for Belie/. (Complaint not nerved.) To the Defendants above-named. TOU are hereby summoned and required to answer the complaint in this action, which is to-day filed in the office of the Probate Judge, for York county, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said complaint on the subscribers at their office, in Yorkville, South Carolina, within twenty days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the complaint within the time aforesaid, the plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the complaint. Dated June 4th, A. D., 1877. HART A HART, Plaintiff's Attorneys. [l. a.] J. A. McLean Probate Judge. ORDER IN ABOVE CAUSE. Complaint to Sell Land to Pay Debts. ON motion of Hart A Hart, it is Ordered: That the creditors of JANE BARBER, deceased, do establish their demands against her estate, before me, on or before the Srtth dayof July, 1877. That this Order be published in the "YorkVIUjE EnquWEB" for five suooessive weeks. June 21st, 1877. [l. 8.] J. A. McLEAN, Probate Judge, Y. C. June 7 23 6t ETTENGER & EDMOND, RICHMOND, VA. , MANUFACTURERS of Portable and Stationary Engines, Bollersof all kinds, CIRCULAR SAW MILLS, Grist Mills, Mill Gearing, Shafting, Pulleys, <fee., American Turbine WATER, WHEELS, and Cameron's Special Steam Pump. Send for Catalogue.. WM. ETTENGER. H. P. EDMOND. Novomber2 44 ly SmDFOR CAT^GlfJS^ April ft 14 ly* I. D. WITHERSPOON. 0. E. SPENCER WITHERSPOON & SPENCER. attorneys at ijaw, YORKVILLE, S. C. Office in rear of Court House. WILL practice In the Courts of the State and the United States. Special attention given to the settlement of estates in the Probate Court. January 25 4 ly W. P. GOOD, ATTORNEY -A.T TiA W, YORKVILLE, S. C., **7"ILL practice in all the Courts of the Stato. TT Prompt attention given to business. Terms modern to. l[8jr Office over the Store-room of T. M. Dobson & Co. April 19 16 tf NOTICE. 1 RESPECTFULLY inform the public that I am prepared to sharpen razors, scissors, shears an:l other line-edged instruments. Prices?for honing and sharpening razors, 25 cents, and for sharpening scissors or shears, 1ft cents each, and satisfaction guaranteed or no charge. TOM BA LLARD, Barber. November 30 48 tf WRAPPING PAPER. OLD Newspapers, of large size, suitable for wrapping, for sale at 50 cents per hundred, I at the ENQUIRER OFFICE. March 9 5 ly | AGRICULTURAL LIENS, MORTGAGES of Real Estate, and Titles to Real Estate. For sale at the l ENQUIRER OFFICE. OUR PREMIUM OFFERS. CLUB BOOKS YET OPEN ! WITH the view of accommodating a ntimber of club-makers, whose clubs for the current volume of the ENQUIRER are not as large as they desire, as well also as to extend to all who may desire it the opportunity of obtaining the paper at club rates, we have decided to keep open our club books until the FIRST MONDAY OF NOVEMBER NEXT. Until that date, subscribers will be received through club-makers, who obtained lists under our previous offer?the clubmakers being duly accredited with all names thev may return under the present proposition, which names will be added to their former lists. New clubs will also be received from those who may desire to obtain any of the elegant Premiums we offer for such service. In this connection we would again invite attention to our LIST OF PREMIUMS, The articles comprising which have been adopted by us with special reference to securing only articles of value, and which will prove serviceable to those procuring them. The regular retail price is given with each, and they are just as good as so ranch cash to those who receive them. All the articles are put down in our schedule at manufacturers' regular retail prices, and cannot be bought with cash any lower than the prices here given. PremiumsNos. 1,2and3will bedelivered through the mails, to persons entitled to receive them, free of cost. The other Premiums will be delivered at the expense for freight charges, of those receiving them. In cases where Premiums can be delivered at our publication office, arrangements may be perfected for reducing the freight charges on small articles to a nominal amount. The charges for freight on the Silver Ware and Cutlery Premiums will be from New York ; on the Cooking Stoves from Greensboro, N. C.; and on the Sewing Machines from Baltimore. Md. I OUR LIBERAL OFFERS. No. 1.?For a club of 4 subscribers, at $2.50 each, we will give a treble silver-plated BUTTER KNIFE, worth $1.00. No. 2.?For a club of 8 subscribers, at $2.50 each, we will give one copy of the family edition (cloth binding) of SMITH'S ABRIDGED BIBLE DICTIONARY, the publisher's price of which is $3.50 per copy. Or for $4.50 we will give a copy of the Bible Dictionary and send the Enquirer one year to any single subscriber not in a club. No. 3.?For a club of 10 subscribers, at $2.50 each, we will give a copy of the ENQUTRER one year, or a set of six treble silver-plated TEA SPOONS, worth $3.00. W?"> *?I<V?i* a nf IK mihsorihers. at $2.50 each, we will give one set?six of each?Hard Rubber-Handle TABLE KNIVES AND FORKS, the manufacturer's price of which is 95.00. No. 5.?For a club of 16 subscribers, at $2.50 each, we will give either a treble silver-plated SYRUP CUP. worth $6.00; or a set of six treble silver-plated TABLE SPOONS, worth $6.00. No. 6.?For a club of 18 subscribers, at $2.50 each, we will give a treble silver-plated BUTTER DISH, worth $8.00. No. 7.?For a club of 20 subscribers, at $2.50 each, we will give one set of six solid cast steel oval-handle TABLE KNIVES, and one set of six treble silver-plated TABLE FORK8, the manufacturer's price of which articles is $10.00. No. 8.?For a club of 30 subscribers, at $2.50 each, we will give a full set of extra superfine, full oval ivory-handle TABLE KNIVE8, with silverplated blades, and a full set of treble silver-plated TABLE FORKS, the manufacturer's price of which articles is $15.00. No. 9.?For a club of 40 subscribers, at $2.50 each, we will give one No. 8 TROPIC COOKING STOVE, with pipeand a full set of fixtures, the manufacturer's price of which is $30.00. No. 10.?For a club of 40 subscribers, at $2.50 each, we will give one three-quart, treble silverplated COMMUNION SERVICE, consisting of SIX pieces, worth $40. No. 19.?For a club of 55 subscribers, at $2.50 each, we will give a WEED SEWING MACHINE, Walnut Plain Half-Case, with two Drawers and Drop Leaf, the manufacturer's price of which is $75. Specimens of the Sewing Machines, and nearly all the other articles included in the above premium list, can be seen and examined at our publication office; and in all cases we guarantee that the Premiums furnished to those entitled to receive them, will be equal to the specimens shown TERMS AND CONDITIONS. It Is not necessary that the names of a clnb should all be at the same post office. Names mav be taken at any number of places If they are all returned by the same Clnb Agent. One name for two years, will be equivalent to two names for one year each. The time for completing olnbs under the above offer is limited to the FIRST MONDAY OF NOVEMBER. 1877, bv which time the names with the cash, should be returned to the office, though names may be returned at any time between this and the above date. No premium will be delivered until the requisite number of names has been returned, and the full amount due for them paid. All subscriptions must be forwarded to us at the expense of those sending them. In sending names, write plainly, giving county, post-office and State. All subscriptions will be discontinued at the expiration of the time paid for. All subscribers to the Enquirer will receive the paper free of postage. Persons entitled to receive Premiums, mnst rive fnll directions as to whom and how they shall be delivered. A separate list will be kept for each club-maker, who will be credited with every name sent, so that the number returned by any person can be ascertained at a moment's notice THE TIME OF CLOSING. Club-makers, and those who may wish to form clubs, should bear in mind that the offers we here present do not invite competition for Premiums, as in the case of working to secure the largest club. Each club-maker sending the requisite number of subscribers will obtain the Premium offered for the specified number. The time, however. for completing a club is limited, under the present offer, until the FIRST Monday upNOVEMBER, 1877. Names ma.v be sent In at any time prior to the above date. Send the names as fast as obtained, accompanied with the cash, and the Premium will be delivered when the requisite number of names has been returned. DESCRIPTIVE LIST. Our Cooking Stove Premium. The elegant Cooking Stove* which we offer a* Premium?, are manufactured by Messrs. Serjeant fc McCauley, at Greensboro, N. C. These Stoves are made of the best 8coteh plj metal, with heavier and thicker plate than any other sjove In the market, and consequently will the longer withstand heat and hard usage. They are of a handsome pattern and neat finish, and warranted equal In points of appearance, durability and superior cooking qualities, to any Stove manufactured In the Union. The stove we have selected to give a* a Premium Is the largest size made by the manufacturers, and with ench one will he furnished, without charge, three joints and one elbow of pipe, and all the necessary cooking utensils, viz.: one ham boiler, one hnlge pot and cover, one tea kettle, one round frying pan, one Inne frying pan. one round griddle, one pair waffle Irons, two sheet iron bread pans, one scraper and one tiller. Over rive thousand of these stoves are in use In Virginia nnd North and South Carolina, and they give universal satisfaction. The stoves will he shipped to those entitled to receive them as Premiums, direct from the manufactory In Greensboro N. C. Sewing Machine Premium. The superior Sewing Mnehlne we offer as a Premium, Is the well-known Weed Machine and Is manufactured by the Weed Sewing Machine Company, Hartford, Conn. It is adapt cd to all the want* of family sewing; It can be rendily comprehended by anyone; it ninsenslly; Is always ready; will dn any and all kinds of sewing with less changing and fewer extra attachments; is self-adjusting; Is a two-thread Machine, making nn Elastic Lock-Stitch; stands solid and firm, with long and roomy folding table, and has the convenience of two drawers. Several of these Machines, during the past year, have been delivered to persons who have returned the requisite number of names. Smith's Bible Dictionary. This Tllrtlnnnrv Is the work of Dr. William Smith, of the Pnlverslty of London, and the moot eminent lexicographer In the world, who, In its preparation associated with himself over seventy distinguished divines and authors, of both Europe and this country, In the great task of preparing a comprehensive Dictionary of the Bible, nnd 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. Smith himself, Is the one we have arranged to ftunlsh our subscribers. The book contains every nnme In the Bible respecting whichanythlngcnn be said. It embraces the results of historic research, antiqunrlnn investigation, the study of languages and dialects, and the discoveries of the modern travelers nnd explo rers In the Holy Land?Robinson, Rnwllnson, Ferguson, Lay nrd, Oflert and Stanley. The hook is printed from new stereotype plntes, on good paper, nnd Is appropriately Illustrated with over 125 Engravings of beautlftil Scenes, Ancient Pities, and Memorable Places of the Holy Land, descriptive Figures and valuable Mnps. It contains nearly 800 closely-printed, double-column, octavo pages, Including 24 elegant tall-page, Steel and Wood Engravings. It (sprinted In type of a heavy, distinct, and verv legible face. The publisher's price of the Dictionary is 03.50. Three-Quart Communion Set. Churches unsupplled with a Communion 8et appropriate to the requirements of the sacred rite of administering the Lord's Supper, can, by our Premium arrangement, secure a fine, treble silver-plated three-quart Communion Set or six pieces, with little trouble, and, comparatively, at no cost. The number of subscribers required in order to secure this valuable and elegant Service can be procured In almost any congregation; and the metn bers who may be thus called upon to contribute their share ol the expense, will receive In return more than the value of their contribution In a year's subscription to the paper. Our Silver Ware and Cutlery Premiums. With the very liberal offer which we are enabled to make, a beautifully furnished table is now within the reach of almost every house-keeper; and here is an opportunity, of which, If the ladles avail themselves, they may secure, with but little trouble, a valuable set of Silver or Cutlery. Those articles are made for us bv the Lucius Hart Manufacturing Coni|>any,22 Fulton street New York, and are warranted to be or Uic bent material. Value of our Premiums. We would Impres* upon every one the fact that all of our Premiums nrt first-claw goods, and the price* attached to them In our Hits are the regular retail price* at which the article* sell by all dealer* and the nmnufasturers themselves. It 1? only by the most advantageous terms given us by the manufacturers that we are enabled to make the liberal ofiers we do, and we guarantee every article to be exactly as represented. A Club and an Extra Copy. For a club of ten subscribers paid In ndvance at the regular club rates, we will give, instead of a Premium, an extra copy of the paper to any who may prefer that arrangement; bat In consequence ofthe liberal Premiums we are now offering, we cannot afford to give an extra copy to the club-maker who receives any Premiums enumerated on our list. Terras of Su|}sppiption-?Free of Postage. Single copy one year, $3.00. In clubs, es^cb subscriber, per year, $2.50. Mqney may be forwarded at our risk by draft, post-office order or registered letter?otherwise we will assume no rislf. Write names plainly, giving post-office, county and State. Address all letters to L, M. GRIST, Publisher, Yorkvllle, 8. C. THE TROPIC STOVE, GREENSBORO. N. C. THE COOKING STOVES manufactured aiour . works in Greensboro, N. C., give universal ' satisfaction wherever introduced. They are made . . . TkWim n/lAmon T>rn tlvmiT kaau. 01 iae flJBaSl' swiva riu IBXIIAU, mui uwnier and thicker plate than any other Stove in tho market, and consequently will the longer withstand beat and hard usage. They are of band, some pattern and neat finish, and warranted equal in every other respect to any Cooking 8tove sold in the United States, while it is confidently claimed that they are the CHEAPEST. All ?he usual pieces or ware and cooking utensils are furnished with each Stove. An important ooBsideration I with purchasers is the fact that our patterns and sizes are never changed. Should a piece get accidentally broken at any time, we can replace it at the mere cost of casting. Not simply because it is a home production, but on account of its intrinsic merits as an article of household economy, do m we ask the patronage of home purchasers. More M than ONE THOUSAND of these 8toves are now in use, and among many others having them we respectfully refer to the following: R.E.Guthrie, D. M. Campbell, M..H. Currence, Tork county; Mrs. Elisabeth J. Wylie, Chester; D. A. Gordon, Gutbriesville; John A. Brown, Rock Hill; B. P. Boyd, Joseph Herndon, L. M. Grist, Yorkville. You can save the freight from the northern cities and the dealer's profit, which is no small item, by buying of us, and at the same time get a STOVE THAT IS MORE DURABLE than those of northern make. The following are our prices delivered at depot in Greensboro: No. 8, with 10 pieces ware and 8 feet pipe, $80 00 ? 7 u ?? <1 41 14 44 fi 26 00 Address, SERGEANT A McCAULEY, Greensboro, N. C. T. M. DOBSON A CO., Agents, Yorkville, S. C. JOHN R. LONDON, Agent, Rock Hill, 8. C. A. F. LINDSAY, Agent, McConnellaviUe, York county, 8. C. J. L. CARROLL Agent at Chester. 8. C. THE COLUMBIA KEUI8TISK, published DAILY, TRI-WEEKLY AHD WEEKLY, | at ^ COLUMBIA, S. C., by HOYT, EMLYN & M'DANIEL. JAMES A. HOYT, Editor. ^ THE DAILY REGISTER contains the latest news of the day, all commercial, political and other matter sent by telegraph, fkill local reports, editorials upon all current topics, and GRANGE AND AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENTS. 1 The Daily has a circulation extending to all parts of the State, is circulated in nearly every State in the Union, and is cobatantly increasing ; therefore as an advertising medium it cannot be surpassed. THE TRI-WEEKLY REGISTER is Issued every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday morning, and contains all the news of two days in one issue. THE WEEKLY REGISTER is an EIGHT PAGE paper, containing forty-eight columns, em- 4 bracing the cream of the news of each week. This paper is within the reach of every fhmily, and we are pleased to state the fact that its large circulation is rapidly increasing. THE REGISTER is now the Organ of the State Grange, and all matters of interest to the Patrons of Husbandry will be treated in their appropriate department,'The Agricultural and Grange articles will appear in each oi our publications? Daily, Tri-Weekly and Weekly. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. daily register. a - - aw.aa une year Six months, 3.50 Three months 1.75 TRI-WEEKLY REOI8TER, One year 5.00 Six months .... 2.50 Three months 1.25"?"WEEKLY REGISTER. One year 2 00 Six months 1 00 t Three months 50 May 31 . 22 tf BLANK BOOK MANUFACTORY STATIONERY. AND BOOK BINDERY. THANKING the public for liberal past patronage. I now invite attention to my complete stock of STAPLE AND PANCY STATIONERY, consisting, in part, of Flat Papers, Mldium, Folio Post, Demy, Letter and Note. Blank Books, of every variety; Envelopes, Slates, Ink, Ac, Fancy Stationary, Gold Pens and Pencils, PenKnives, Writing Desks, Ac. Also, BOOK BINDING DONE, in all its various branches. Sheet Music, Periodicals, Law Books, Ac., bound in any style desired. Ola Books rebonnd and repaired. PRIHTED BILL AHD LETTER HEADS A SPECIALTY Orders promptly attended to, at lowest cash prices. E. R. STOKES, 155 Main Street Columbia, S. C. BARNES* FOOT POWER MACHINERY. A THIRTEEN different machines with which I Builders, Cabinet Makers, Wagi i ' on Makers, and Jobbers in Miscellaneous Work can compete quality and price, with Steam Power Manufacturing; also, Amateurs' Supplies, Saw Blades. Fancy Woods and Designs. Say where you read this and send for Catalogue and Prices. W. F. 4 JOHN BARNES, Rockford, Winnebago County, 111. June 7 23 10m # ^ CHEER YOUR HOMES WITH MTJSICT" T HAVE mode such arrangements with thatenI_ terprising and reliable Southern Wholesale House, Ludden and Bates, of Savannah, that-I can supplv, on short notice, the Mason & Hamlin Organs, Pianos of the most celebrated manufactories, Sheet Music, or any other kind of Musical Mer- * ehandize, at the lowest factory prioes, and at prices adapted to these hard times. A settled determination to sell nothing I cannot recommend, and a practical acquaintance of many years with such goods, enables me to offer great inducements to purchasers. Call at my Photo-Gallery for further particulars. J. R. SCHORB. December 21 51 tf BARBER SHOP. THOSE in want of an EASY SHAVE, a fashionable and stylish cut of hair, or a pleasant 0 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. -J THOMAS BALLARD. 1 December 21 51 tf CLEANSING AND REPAIRING. THE undersigned would respectfully in farm the public that he is prepared to cleanse garments of any fabric whatever, rendering them perfectly clean, and if unfaded, restoring them to the original brightness and lustre of the goods. Do not throw away your old clothes, but have them cleaned and made to look as well as new. Work promptly done, and at the most reasonable prices. THOMAS BALLARD. .% March 29 13 tf i n AAiinnniA BUATA.A1IICDV Ji lli dununD'd rnuiu-aHLLcnij 1ST HOUSE EAST OF THE JAIL. A SUPERIOR Skylight, a galleiw with every convenience, ana a determination to do my < best, enables me to promise satisfaction to all in want of correct and nattering likenesses. Cloudyweather is as good or better than sunshine for all subjects, except small children. * lite futMle TKRM8?IN ADVANCE i' One copy, one year. - $ 3 00 Qne copy, six months, I ?0 "" Ope copy, three iponths...... 1 00 Single copy, 10 T^yo copies, one year,....,., 5 00 Ten copies, one year, 26 00 ifSt* To persons who make up clubs often or more names, an extra oopv of the paper will be furnished one year, free of charge.