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Iftumarou* ?*partm*nt. SOMETHING IN THE BED. Judge Pitman has a habit of slipping his watch under his pillow when he goes to bed. The other night it somehow slipped down, aud, as the judge was restless, it gradually worked its way downward toward the foot of the bed. After a bit, as he was laying awake, his foot touched it, and it felt very cold ; he was surprised and scared, and jumping from the bed he said : "By gracious, Maria! there's a toad or snake, or something under the cover. I touched it with my foot." Mrs. Pitman gave a loud scream and was on the floor in an instant. "Now, don't go to hollering and waking np the neighbors,'' said the judge. "iou go and get me a broom or something, and we'll fix the thing mighty quick." Mrs. Pitman got the broom and gave it to the judge, with the remark that she felt as if snakes were creeping all up and down her legs and back. "Oh I nonsense, Maria. Now you turn down the covers slowly, while I hold the broom and bang it Put a bucket of water alongside the bed, too, so's we can shove it in and drown it." Mrs. Pitman fixed the bucket and gently removed the covers. The judge held the broom uplifted, and as soon as the black ribbon of the watch was revealed, he cracked away three or four times with the broom. Then he pushed the thing into the bucket Then they took the bucket to tbe light to investigate the matter. When the judge saw what it was, he said : "I might've known that Just like you women. Who's going to pay me for that watch? It is utterly ruined." "It was you that made the fuss, not me," said Mrs. Pitman. "You needn't try to put the blame off on me." "Oh ! hush up, and go to bed. I'm tired of hearing your blather. Blame me if I ain't ' - -* _ J? X. )) going to get a divorce ana emigrate. And the judge turned in and growled at Maria until be fell fast asleep. The First Exercise in Boxing.?Last evening there was some extraordinary fun in the gymnasium. A boxing class had been formed, consisting of ten pupils. Some wag, connected with the institution, conceived the idea of getting up a riot in the class. He went about it in a novel and ingenious way. Before the hour for the class meeting, he bored a hole through the ceiling and let down a rope, to the end of which he fastened a canvas bag filled with sand. Above he had a confederate manipulating the rope. When all was in readiness, he remarked: "Now, boys, I'll put you through the first exercise. All get around the bag in a circle and begin to punch with your fists. Each man must try and drive the bag over to the man opposite, and the first man that fails to keep the bag away from him, sets up the beer." This proposal was received with enthn siasra, and the class collected about the bag. At the word they all began to punch with a will, getting more earnest and excited every minute. Just about this time the fellow overhead, who was watching the progress of the game through a bole in the ceiling, suddenly jerked up the bag about a foot above the heads of the excited class. The effect can be easily imagined. Each man bit the opposite man on the nose, and then they began to battle blindly. While the riot went on, the man above occupied his time in pulling the bag up and letting it drop on the heads of the combatants. The way the blood spurted around over the floor would have delighted Wild Bill. They rolled over, got each other's heads in chancery, struck from the shoulder in earnest, and had plenty of e. u_ uri? ?! luii gcuciaujr, it iicu tuujr uuauy gui v^ui^nvu down and began to look for the two men who had put up the job, the parties could not be found.? Virginia City (Nevada) Chronicle. Going to the Country.?"My folks are going to the country to be gone all summer!" enthusiastically exclaimed a little girl, yesterday, as she met another on Cass Avenue. "Your pa must be awful rich," replied the second. "0, no, he isn't; but if you'll never tell anybody, I'll tell you something." "I never will?hope to die if I do." - "Well, then, pa was telling ma that we'd all go out to Uncle John's. Ma, she'll work for her board, pa will work in the Baw mill, I'll pick berries and ride the horse to plow corn, brother Tom will go with a lightningrod man, and while you folks are in the awful heat, we'll be putting on airs and fixing over our clothes for fall. Don't you tell, now, for ma is saying to everybody that she must have the country air to restore her shattered nerves." During the recent unpleasantness in Chicago, a party of roughs called on Robert Law, a rich coal dealer. "You must pay your men $2.00 a day, or we will shut you up," said the spokesman. "And who the deuce are you, sir ?" demanded Robert. "We represent the labor strike, and must be obeyed," imperiously demanded the spokesman. "Well, you want me to pay my men $2.00 a day do you ?" "Yes, and you must do it, too." "I'm much obliged to the labor strikers. I am now paying my men from $3.00 to $4.50 a day, and a reduction to $2.00 will be a good thing for me; but go and see the workmen about it." A True Story.?A good deacon E , a pillar in the church, raised a pair of steers and finally sold them to Mr. Jake, who was terribly deaf and not a church goer. Some time after the sale, the deacon was agreeably surprised to see the buyers of the steers at church, and as services were over, shook his band heartily and asked for the health of his family. The deaf buyer, having the sale chiefly in mind, and thinking the deacon would be chiefly interested in the steers he had raised, answered in a very bluff and loud voice, heard all over the church, "Lousy 1 Lousy! Lousy as the devil!" An Ancient Valet.?A gentleman of Angus had an ancient valet named Gabriel, whose petulance and license of speech went so far as to be almost intolerable. One day, at dinner, Gabriel took the liberty of calling something that was said "a great lee." ...?? < ii ? .t _ i _ ;?j 11 _ J_,1 3 i "Well," saia me lairu, remijr uueiiueu, ?uu rising from the table, "this will do no longer; Gabriel, we must part at last." "Hout, tout, laird/' replied Gabriel, pressing his master again into his chair, "whaur wad your honor be better than in your ain house ?" not conceiving the possibility of his own removal. figy "Doctor," said an old lady to her family physician, "kin ye tell me how it is that some folks are born dumb?" "Why, hem, hem ! certainly madam," replied the doctor; "it is owing to the fact that they come into the world without the power of speech 1" "La, me!" remarked the old lady ; "nowjess see what it is to have a physical eddication. j I've axed my old man more nor a hundred j times tbat same thing, and all that I could I ever get out of him was jest this, 'Kase they is.'" Thirsty.?A "hard case" was interroga- J ted, the other Sunday, by a friend who had just seen him at church, but whom he now found swallowing a glass of brandy and water at a public bar-room: "I saw you in church this morning listening to a discourse upon righteousness and temperance; how comes it tbat I now see you here drinking?" "I always thirst after righteousness," was the anawer. A negro held a cow while a cross-eyed man was to knock her on the head with an axe. The darkey, observing the man's eyes, in ^^^^^sorae alarm, inquired: "You gwine to hit k^^^Jkhar you look?" "Yes." "Den," said Cuf- j ^ fee, "hold dis cow yourself." I k fUadrag for the Sabbath. CONDUCTED BY REV. ROBERT LATHAN. [Original.] GROW IN GRACE. The proper meaning of the word grace, as used in the Scriptures, is the free, unmerited favor which God bestows upon sinners through the redemption of Jesus Christ. We say this is the proper meaning of the word grace; not because it is the only meaning which the word has, but because it is the meaning which it most frequently has in the New Testament. Not uufrequently we find the word grace used by the inspired writers of the holy Scriptures as synonoraous with piety or religion. Evidently, this is the import of the word where we are exhorted to "grow in grace." To command us to grow in grace, is the same as to command us to increase in piety. There is an importance in this subject which we are liable to overlook. Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinoers. To save sinners, means, in its fullest sense, to rescue them from the condemnation of a violated law and place them in heaven at the right hand of God, where there are pleasures evermore. Before the sinners can be saved, they must have a legal fitness for heaven. Manifestly, God will suffer no one to enter heaven who has no legal right to enter. The sinner's legal right to enter heaven is secured through the doing and dying of the Lord Jesus Christ. The obedience of Christ secures for the believer a justifying righteousness, and bis death takes away the guilt of sin. So soon as the sinner accepts of Jesus Christ, he becomes ? - k ?'aU Tnn.tn PUmIrf f a Loo non a JUlill lieu Vfltu UCSU9 UUllOt iru UKUI w.. This is a great thiDg, but it is not enough to enable us to enter heaven. No man can too highly estimate the favor which God bestows upon the believer, in that he gives him a right to heaven. Still, a legal right to heaven and a personal fitness for heaven, are not the same thing. A son may have a legal right to his father's estate, but be personally unfit to be put in possession of that estate. Most evidently, all who have a legal right to a seat at God's right hand, are not fit for that place. Without holiness, no man shall see the Lord. Without a personal fitness for heaven, no man will be permitted to enter beftven. There is no sin in heaven, and no sinners will be allowed to enter that holy place. Before we will be permitted to enter the realms of bliss, we must have both a title and fitness for the place. We are born into the kingdom of grace as babes. This is the ordinary rule. We are babes at first, and finally grow up to the stature of perfect men in Christ Jesus. The righteousness of Christ gives us a title to heaven, but our own righteousness gives us fitness for heaven. Hence the necessity for personal piety. God has provided means by which we may grow in grace. His word, both preached and read, together with his providence, are admirably fitted to prepare us for heaven. Through the agency of the Holy Spirit, these instrumentalities possess a wonderful power in enlightening the understanding, in purifying the affections, and in subduing the will. In and through the use of these means of divine ap t--i; : j:? J?:I? poiniraeni, uenevers gruw iu gxaue, uic uanj unto sin, and increase in personal piety. In religion, as in every thing else, there is no absolute stand still. The child that is not -growing hj wasting nwwyv--lira rellgloos*TWpect, if we are not growing in piety, we are increasing in sin. We are either maturing for heaven or ripening for perdition. We are at present either morally better or morally worse than we were at any previous period in the past. We are nearer the grave than we ever were before, and, consequently, are nearer our final destiny. We should not be indifferent with regard to the evidences that we are growing in piety. Our growth may be so slow that we may not be able to discover it only by the most careful observation. Some children grow up fast, whilst others mature very slowly. Still, all healthy children grow, and the growth of all children can in some way be certainly discovered. We may specify as general evidences of growth in grace: First: A relish for divine things and a dislike for sinful things. Paul says: "When I was a child I thought as a child; but when I became a man I laid aside childish things." By nature, all men love sin; not the consequences of sin, but the practice of*sin. Now it is an evidence that we are growing in grace, if we discover that we hate sin, simply because it is sin. Second : It is an evidence that we are growing in grace, if we discover in ourselves a growing fondness to use the means which God has appointed for our spiritual growth. If we are conscious that our love of the Bible, of the preached gospel, of the sacraments of the New Testament all grow with our years, this is an evidence that we are growing in fitness for heaven. We may safely conclude that we are growing in piety, if we are diligent in the use of the means which God has provided for such growth. The student who pores over his books, constantly, may possess only moderate endowments ; still, he will become learned. His progress may be slow, but it will be certain. Just so it will be with those who use the means which promote the growth of grace. Their progress may be slow, but it will be sure, and in time plainly discoverable. 4?* The faith of Christians being in general so weak, no wonder their love is so weak also. It is the natural consequence of faith that it works by love ; and the greater also is love. When we believe that God really has loved us, and is "just and faithful to forgive our sinswhen we see that he hath already par- | doned them, Christ having borne the punishment due unto them, then our hearts are striving to obey the law, as a covenant of works, and find perpetually that we fall short, no wonder we have hard thoughts of God. We should ever, then, remember that Christ "hath redeemed us from the curse of the law," that we are "justified by faith, without the works of the law." Right and wrong, honor duty and country, benevolence toward men, and responsibility toward the unseen power by which human actions are guided and controlled?rthese are not idle phrases. They are realities which correspond with the deepest wants and feelings of our nature; and no man will feel himself utterly cast down who can say in his heart what the wisest and best of the human race have proclaimed in the whole tenor of their lives. Whether I am happy or unhappy is not my chief affair; what most and first concerns me is to find my work in life, to recognize it, and to do it. There is rest in this world nowhere except in Christ, the manifested love of God. Trust in excellence, and the better you become the keener is the feeling of deficiency. Wrap i up in doubt, and there is a stern voice that will thunder at last out of the wilderness upou | your dream. ! It is certain that nine times out of ten j we are nearer the truth in thinking well of ; persons than ill. Human nature is a tree : bearing good as well as evil, but our ej^es are wide open to the latter and half closed to the former. fgpto?Ibte*M fading. FRUIT GROWING. An Essay Read before the Summer Meeting of the State Grange at Anderson, on Angnst 9, by Col. R. M. Sims, of Colombia, S. C. There are many reasons, growing out of our natural resources and our political and social condition, that require and demand a greater diversity iu our industries. In the rural districts we need variety of employment and relief from the fatigue and dreariness of the one routine of daily physical laborin our cities and towns we need the energy and enterprise that grows out of active and varied cultivation of the soil and the development of water power. The effect of diversifying our employments will be to make occupations for every one. It will make good workers out of many who are now idle, and who either cannot find employment or do not find congenial employment. By giving variety we add intelligence and dignity to labor, and lighten the burden and elevate the character of those who do the rough work ; we encourage better habits and cultivate a higher order of tastes ; we learn to appreciate the relations of cause to effect, of climate and soil to production, and of education and industry to happiness and substantial comfort. Manufacturing, atnclr rfti-micr fruit culture, hea keening and wwvv" t>? ? 1 o poultry and fish raising commend themselves to us as both practicable and profitable, either as independent occupations or to be pursued in conjunction with farming. Of fruit growing we are very ignorant. Our apology for this ignorance is the aggravated subjugation of the last twelve years. Our congratulation is that we have lived through it. Now that an era of peace and honest government has come, we should "take the current as it serves" to iucrease the value and variety of our products, and to diversify our employments and industries, so as to combine and develop the means at our hand for the improvement and elevation of our people and State. Let each person thoughtfully solve the problem as to what is his best interest. In this let him consider his location and soil, his means and his tastes as factors to produce the highest degree of intelligence, refinement, respectability and comfort. Having selected his industries, let him go intelligently and energetically to work to understand bow to succeed. There has beeu so much prejudice against books and book farming by a class, that it has become ridiculous, and fortunately has nearly worn out itself and its followers. There is much good sense aud practical wisdom contained in books, as there is often much nonsense and frivolity; and it is not creditable to the intelligence of a man to say that he cannot learn valuable lessons from books, or that he is injured by reading them. If you undertake fruit raising with some intelligence, whether you get it from books, from your neighbors or from your own observation, your labor will be very much easier and your chances of success proportionately greater. Without it your chances of failure are multiplied. There are books that are standard authorities upon fruit growing, and there are numerous men and fruit growers who are intelligent, honest and trustworthy. If you consult them and profit by their directions, you will succeed ; if, on the contrary, you grope for years in ignorance and inexperience, and consult only with the tree peddlers who bring to your door trifling trees at enormous prices, you will either become disgusted and cease to make efforts to raise fruits, or you will succeed only after years of successive failures. You have in horticulture an industry older than agriculture. You have the experience and observation of intelligent men of all ages and from all parts of the world ; but you have what is more useful to you, the experience and wisdom of the most honest and honorable horticulturists of the United States and of your sister States, Georgia and North Candida; (his experience is in books aud itTmbrtth!? onrt inooUu nprindipula arid in rennrta of I J MUU II VVUIJ J/V* IVWIWMIV mmm the proceedings of horticultural societies. These reports are reviewed and corrected and added to bienially by the American Pomological Society, each State being required to report through the chairman of its fruu committee as to varieties, soil and climate, and semi-annually by (he Georgia Horticultural Society, each section of the State being represented in the discussions. You have a gentleman living less than a hundred miles from here and in sight of the borders of your State, whose name is a synonym of honor and integrity, and whose high intelligence upon fruit culture is authority in England, France, Germany and where Anglo-Saxon civilization exists. You have living in the modest town of Chester, in this State, a gentleman whose labors in the perfection of our fruits by hybridization are better known and appreciated in Australia to-day than they are here. You have just at hand every facility to become intelligent in fruit growing, and you have in your climate and soil and in its variety and capacity to produce almost every kind of fruit, the greatest inducement to become so. You have, besides, the attraction that fruit growing presents as an occupation in beiug refining, elevating, healthful, invigoratingand profitable. Besides, you have not a great deal to learn to be able to succeed, and you will learn it so easily and so pleasautly if you take an interest in it, that it will become directly a pleasant recreation. You must first learn the kind of fruit that suits your climate, soil and location; then what varieties and the time of their ripeuing are best suited to your climate, soil and location, considering their 1 ? 1 XT 1 value tor home ana tor mantel. i>eariy every kind of'fruit that grows in the north temperate zone may be grown somewhere in South Carolina. Semi-tropical fruits?as oranges, lemons, limes, bananas?may be raised aloDg the southern Atlantic coast; peaches and grapes grow well on the coast besides. From the coast to the great falls in the rivers nearly all of our native fruits improve in their character; in this region the scuppemong grape is most prolific and excellent. In the middle country the peach, the apple, the pear, grape and the plum grow to great perfection ; in the Piedmont region the apple and the grape doubtless do far better than in the middle and lower country. The pear is so subject to blight, and the intelligence and resources ofhorticulturalists and scientists having failed to find a preventive or remedy for it, it is with fear and trembling that we plant a pear orchard anywhere. The Duchess grows best on dwarf stock and is least liable to blight, and it is one of our largest and best pears. I 1 would say that the great staple fruit crops for the lower country would be figs, grapes, peaches and pears; for the middle country grapes, peaches, figs, pears, apples ; for the Piedmont j country apples, grapes, pears, peaches. Of small fruits, the strawberry will grow well in | each section ; the raspberry well in the raiddie and upper sections. As to varieties, we have an intelligent guide in the recommendations of the American Pomological Society, and a better still in the recommendations of i the Georgia Horticultural Society. But to j make fruit growing easy, successful and permanent, we should have a horticultural society in the State, with subordinate ones in the ! counties. It is only by the means of meeting | together and exhibiting fruit and discussing J its merits in the different sections of the State, I that we can be able to adopt a proper noraen- J clature and a proper list of fruit for each sec- | tion. This is essential, and it involves a l ! knowledge of the adaptability of the various fruits that grow in our State, not only to the j different soils and climates of the different! sections strictly, but also to locations and to , particular local influences of each. There is no better guide to the beginner in selecting varieties than the published lists carefully prepared by the American Pomological Society and the Georgia Horticultural Society. ( The Georgia Horticultural Society recommend the following fruits for the mountain ro- ( gion of Georgia, corresponding very nearly in latitude, spil and climate to the mountain re-, gion of South Carolina: j Apples.?Red Astracan, Buff, Carter's Blue,, 1 Carolina Watson, Cullasaga, Chattahoochee,1 Caraak 8weet, Diabaroon, Early Harvest, Early Red Margaret, Equinetelee, Etowah, Farrar's Summer, Guinea Golden Pippin, Horee, Hocket's Sweet, Horn, Hoover, Julian, Kittageskee, Kentucky Red Streak, Mangum, Never Fail, Nickajack, Romanite, Shockley, Stevenson's Winter, Webb's Winter, White Winter Pearnin, Yates. Peaches.?Arosden, Austin's, Bastion's October, Baldwin's Late, Chinese, Crawford's Early, Crawford's Late, Darley, Early Tillotson, Early Newington, Eaton's Golden, George, Heath White, Lemon Cling, Mountain Rose, Old Mixon Freestone, Old Mixon Clingstone, Piquet's, President Church, Pucellede Malines, Rivers', Stump the World, Susquehannah, Thurber, Tuskena. Pears.?Barlett, Belle Lucrative, Beurre d'Anjou, Beurre Easter, Beurre Gifiart, Beurre Superfine, Duchesse d'Augouleme, Howell, Josephine de Marlines, Onandaga, St. Michael's Archangel, Winter Nelis. Raspberries.?Imperial Cane. Cherries.?Belle Magnifique, Black Heart, (Werder's,) Early Richmond, May Duke, Bauman's May. Orapes.?Delaware, Concord, Goethe, Ives, Norton's Virginia, Perkin's Scuppernong, Merrimack. Best for market?Ives. Dela- | ware, H irtford, Wilder, Diana, Perkins. Best for wine?Jacques, Lenoir, Clinton, Ives, Concord, Norton's Virginia. Plums for all Sections (not Destroyed by Ourculio.)?De Caradeuc, Wild Goose, Newman's. Strawberries for all Sections.?Wilson's Albany. , i BEST FOR THE MIDDLE REGION. Apples.?Red Astracan, Buncombe, Black Warrior, Carolina Greening, Cbattahooche, Early Harvest, Early Red Margaret, Etowah, Equintelee, Farrar's Summer, Gravenstein, Hames' Seedling, Horaony, Hockett's Sweet, Horse, Kittageskee, Mamma, Mangum, Maverick Sweet, Moultrie, Never Fails, Red June, Rhodes' Orange, Schockley, Summer Cheese, Summer Queen, Stevenson's Winter, Sweet Bough, Tauuton, Yopp's Favorite, Yates. i Peaches.?Amsden, Amelia, Austin, Alexander, Barnard, Baldwin's Late, Crawford's Early, Chinese, Darly, Early Tillotson, Early York, Eaton's Golden, Fleitas St. John, Foster, Grosse Mignon, Great Eastern, Heath White, Hale's, Indian Blood Freestone, Indian Blood Clingstone, Late Rareripe Stephen's, Lemon Cling, Mountain Rose, Old Mixon Freestone,Old Mixon Clingstone. President, President Church, Princess of Wales, Rivers', Pucelle de Malines, Susquehannah, Tuskena. Pears.?Belle Lucrative, Beurre d'Anjou, Bartlett, Beurre Dial, Beurre Giffart, Beurre Superfine, Clapp's Favorite, Doyenne d'Ete, Duchess, Howell, Lawrence, St. Michael Archangel, Seckle, Leconte. Strawberries.?Longworth's Prolific, Seth Boyden, Wilson's Albany. Raspberries.?Imperial Red Cane. Mulberries.?Downing's, Hicks' (for poultry.) Orapes.?Devereux, Clinton, Concord, Delaware, Diana, Goethe, Hartford, Ives', Norton's Virginia, Scuppernong, Merrimack. Figs.?Early Lemon, Brown Turkey, Celestial, Green Ischia. Cherries.?Gov. Wood. BEST FOR COAST REGION. Apples.?Red Astracan, Early Harvest, Early Red Margaret, Etowah, Family, Nantahalee, Red June. Cherries are worthless in this region. Peaches.?Alexander, Arosden, Hale's Early, Amelia, Mountain Rose, Rivers', Old Mixon Clingstone. Mulberries.?Downing's, Hicks' (prolific.) Pears.?Bartlett, Duchess, St. Michael, Archangel, Leconte. . Strawberries.?Wilson's Albany. Figs.?Brunswick, Black Genoa, Celestial, Brown Turkey, Green Ischia, Lemon, Nerii. Graves.?Concord. Delaware. Flowers, Ives', L/enoir, JNorton's Virginia, Scuppernong, Thomas', Warren. Plant in November or December, one year old healthy trees. By no means plant scions and stubs from the orchard and fence corners; they are short lived, unhealthy and are continually putting up suckers. Plant the seed from well-ripened and healthy fruit, and bud or graft on this stock ; or buy your trees from a reliable nurseryman. Lay off your land by cross furrows, with a plow, fifteen to eighteen feet apart for standard pears and peaches, and twenty feet apart for apples. Dig the holes at the intersection of the furrows three feet wide and fifteen inches deep; before setting the tree put in the bottom some of the top soil. Set the tree erect in the midde of the hole and fill up with the top soil, packing the dirt well around the roots aud leaving the tree buried about half an inch deeper than it grew in the nursery, and standing in the centre of a slightly depressed basin. If you are planting oue year old trees, cut every limb off, and if peach, plum, cherry or apricot, cut the stem off* the height of your knee from the ground ; if an apple or standard pear cut the stem off two aud a half feet above the ground. If you are planting older trees trim in the limbs aud trim off the leader, leaving the lower limbs the longest. CULTIVATION. Plant the land, in cotton, peas or potatoes for several years, manuring the crops well each year, gradually leaving a space not plowed around the trees as they grow older. You cannot plow too close to peach trees, if you do not plow too deep, and do not injure them by skinning the body or limbs. The after culture of the orchard should be close but shallow plowing; once in raid winter across the summer plowing, and throwing the dirt from the trees, and two or three plowiDgs during the spring and summer, throwing the dirt to the trees. As soon as frosts are over, manure your trees by scattering broadcast, wood ashes and lime, or phosphate of lime and potash under the trees as far as the limbs extend, and give immediately the first spring plowing. Grass and weeds should be kept from under the trees. A spading fork can be used here to great advantage. The first of May hill the dirt up to the peach trees and destroy any egeria that may be near the roots. In November go over this again and scrape this dirt away well, leaving the collar of the trees entirely exposed and destroy all egeria, Never sow small grain of any kind in an orchard. Keep bogs in it after fruit ripens; they eat the wormy fruit and thereby stop the reproduction of the curculio, so destructive to stone fruits. It is often well to sow broadcast cow peas at the first plowing in May, to be turned under at the second plowing in July. PRUNING. Prune whenever your trees need it, and you have a sharp knife. Don't allow an excessive and ugly growth to continue so long as to require a hatchet or saw. Start your trees right, make them head low to the ground, trim them so as to assume a well-balanced nn() a nvramiilnl fnrm ftnH thfiV will nnfc grow one-sided, bend over or require a Btake. Make the branches shade the body of the tree so as not to allow the stem to be exposed to the sun, nor allow any one limb to outgrow the others. Avoid having a double leader and a distinct fork or crotch in the tree. GATHERING AND 8HIPPING. Gather early in the morning whilst the I fruit is cool. Never gather it for market1 when it is wet. Pick the fruit from the tree carefully with the hand ; do not bruise it by throwing it into the baskets nor by pressing the thumb nail into it. Pack in boxes hold-1 ing one-third to one-half of a bushel, remembering that 2,156 cubic inches make a bushel;' you can easily regulate the size. The neatest1 and best boxes for shipping are twenty-two ' inches long and have octagonal ends, (with a ! corresponding middle piece,) the axes of, which are 9x51 inches. The most successful j shippers in Georgia pack in live moss or cot-' toq, the fruit touching laterally. These boxes bring from $2 to $4 in New York, according to the quality of the fruit and its condi? tion upon arrival. Its costs from any point on the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad three cents per poand (express) to deliver peaches in New York. A bushel crate j filled with peaches weighs fifty pounds. The secret of packing is to pack as tightly as possible so as to leave no room for jostling. To succeed in selling send to an honest dealer, in good condition ; make small, neat, light and strong crates. The crates will cost from eight to twelve cents, according to size and care in making them. I use three quarters thick and six inches wide plank for ends and middle piece and sawed plastering laths for all the sides. I have shipped with satisfaction to J. R. jHelfrich, New York ; Burbage & Co., Philadelphia ; W. G. Dandridge & Co., Richmond, and W. M. Hale, Charleston. SURPLUS FRUIT. A serious question to solve and too extensive to discuss in this paper, is the utilization of our surplus fruits, domestic and wild. The appearance now is that the process of evaporating fruit by patented evaporators as practiced extensively and successfully in New Jersey and Delaware,will prove most economical and remunerative. The great enemies to fruit trees are cows, sheep and goats; keep them out of the orchard at all times and seasons. When you plant ao orchard instill at the same time in your heart some fondness for its beauty and growth, and hope for its success. As no one can manage children without first loving them, so no one is apt to succeed in horticulture or floriculture without a fondness for it. "Even a heart full of love sometimes has to make room for a great deal of sorrow over blunders and failures." tgm* ici/ui|uuu? TERMS ITST ADVANCE s One copy, one year. $ 3 00 One copy, six months, 1 50 One copy, three months, 1 00 Single copy, JO Two copies, one year, 5 00 1 Ten copies, one year, 25 00 To persons who make up clnbs of ten or more names, an extra copy of the paper will be . famished one year, free or charge. j YORKVILLE AGENCYOF AUIML ill OTHIB H&CHIIE8Y. 1AM prepared to furnish, at short notice, and on liberal terms, all kinds of AORICULTURAL MACHINERY, consisting of Engines for Oinning Cotton, Engines and Saw Mills, Horse-Powers, Sweepstake Thrashers, Eureka Smultere, ' BOLTING CLOTHS, &G. ; I have on hand and in Warehouse, Winship < Gins, Hall's Self-feeding Gins, Needle Gins, Gin Feeders, Gin Condensers, CENTENNIAL COTTON PRESSES, j Sherrer Cotton Presses. Prairie Corn 8hellers, I the best at only $0 50. SASH, DOORS AND BLINDS, j Avery and Cook Plows. Also, the celebrated and muoh admired STONE PUMP. Over forty of these Pumps are now in use in this , county, giving entire satisfaction. Also, THE FOUNTAIN PUMP, ' j A good safeguard against fires. Every Dwelling j ana Gin House should be furnished with one of i them. Price onlv 810.00. All articles soldi by me, are at the MANUFACTURERS' LOWEST PRICES, with freight added. !j T. S. JEFFERYS, Agent. ' BLANK BOOK MANUFACTORY , STATIONERY. AND BOOK BINDERY. THANKING the public for liberal past patron- ( age, I now invite attention to my complete , stock of i STAPLE AND FANCY STATIONERY, In pntt, uf Flat FftpGrS, AHOlttxn, Ftr lio Post, Demy, Letter and Note. Blank Books, of every variety; Envelopes, Slates, Ink, Ac, Fancy Stationery, Gold Pens and Pencils, PenKnives, Writing Desks, Ac. Also, BOOK BINDING DONE, in all its various branches. Sheet Music, Periodicals, Law Books, Ac., bound in any style desired. I Old Books rebound and repaired. PRIFTED BILL AID LETTER HEADS A SPECIALTY Orders promptly attended to, at lowest cash prices. * E. R. STOKES, 155 Main Street Columbia, S. C. August 16 33 tf CHEER YOUR HOMES WITH MUSIC. I HAVE made such arrangements with that enterprising and reliable Southern Wholesale House, Ludden and Bates, of Savannah, that I can supply, on short notice, the Mason A Hamlin Organs, Pianosof the most celebrated manufactories, Sheet Music, or any other kind of Musical Merchandize, at the lowest factory prices, 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, enablas me to offer great inducements to purchasers. Call at my Photo-Gallery for further particulars. J. R. SCHORB. December 21 51 tf ETTENGER & EDMOND, RICHMOND, VA. MANUFACTURERS of Portable and Stationary Engines, Boilersof all kinds, CIRCULAR SAW MILLS, Grist Mills, Mill Gearing, Shafting, Pulleys, (fee., , American Turbine WATER WHEELS, J and Cameron's Special Steam Pump. < Send Tor Catalogue. WM. ETTENGER. H. P. EDMOND. November 2 44 ly "BARNES* FOOT POWER MACHINERY. m THIRTEEN 1 J&s, different machines with which i jmAj Builders, Cabinet Makers, Wag- I I T on Makers, and Jobbers in Mis- I cellaneous Work can compeu I B QUALITY AND PRICE, ! with Steam Power Manufacturing; also, Amateurs' Supplies, Saw Blades, j Fancy Woods and Dasigns. Say where you read j this and send for Catalogue and Prices. W. F. A JOHN BARNES, 1 Rockford, Winnebago County, 111. June 7 23 10m < i April 5 14 ly* _____ ^ I RESPECTFULLY inform the public that I am prepared to sharpen razors, scissors, shears i and other fine-edged instruments. Prices?for | honing and sharpening razors, 25 cents, and for i sharpening scissors or shears, 10 cents each, and 1 satisfaction guaranteed or no charge. I TOM BALLARD, Barber. 1 November 30 48 tf 1 SERGEANT& GREEffSBOl MAN UFAUTUJttUiKS ur "TROPIC" COO] T. M. DOBSON & CO., Agenta JOHN R. LONDON, Agent, F A. F. LINDSAY, Agent, McCc J. L. CARROLL, Agent, Chest August 2 PRICES REDUCED. "THE FAMILY FAVORITE" ' IMPROVED NEW MODEL MACHINE. Light-Running, Noiseless, No Gears, No Cams, No Springs, New and Elegant atyies or wooa wora. From this date, by tbe expiration of Patents inder wbicb we bave been paying royalties, we ler enabled to sell onr machines at 6REATLV REDUCED PRICES, and as low as those of any first-class machine. Send for Circulars and Price Lists. SFEED SEWING MACHINE COMPANY, BALTIMORE. MD. rHE COLUMBIA REGISTER, PUBLISHED DAILY, TRI-WEEKLY AND WEEKLY, at COLUMBIA, S. CM by HOYT, EMLYN & M'DMIEL. JAMES A. HOYT, Editor. HHE DAILY REGISTER contains the latest I. newa of the day, all commercial, political ind other matter sent by telegraph, full local reports, editorials upon all current topics, and 3RANGE AND AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENTS. The Daily has a circulation extending to all parts of the State, is circulated in nearly every state in the Union, and is constantly increasing ; therefore as .v*. advertising medium it cannot besurpassed.v ; i THE TRI-WEEKLY REGISTER la issued avery 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, embracing the oream of the news of each week. This paper is within the reach of every family, ind we are pleased to state the fact that its large circulation is rapidly increasing. THE REGI8TER is now the Organ of the Stale Grange, and all matters of interest to the Patrons >f Husbandry will be treated in their appropriate lepartment, The Agricultural and Grange articles will appear in each of onr publicationsDaily, Tri-Weekly and Weekly. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. daily register. 3ne year, $7.00 3ix months, 3.50 rhree months, 1.75 tri-weekly register. Dne year 5.00 at 9 fiO 3IA IIIUIUIU},. ?... Three months 1.26 WEEKLY REGISTER. Dne year, 2 00 Six months, 1 00 Three months, ' SO May 31 22 tf TAKE THETJESTT lsrr-r?. H COBOIICLE AID COIftlTSlIM. CONSOLIDATED MARCH 17TH, 1877, is the Oldest and Best Newspapers published in the South. It is the only Newspaper published In the City of Augusta?the leading Railway and Manufacturing centre of the South?and the only Newspaper published in Eastern Georgia. The Chronicle and Constitutionalist has a very large ind daily increasing circulation In the States of Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina, and reaches every class of readers?merchants, farmars, professional men and working men, and is a most valuable advertising medium. The DAILY Chronicle and Constitutionalist publishes all the current news of the day, receives ill the reports of the Associated Press, and special dispatches from Washington, Atlanta, Columbia, ana all other points of interest, supplement3d by correspondence. It gives Aill commercial reports of domestic and foreign markets, of all local and Southern matters, and editorial comment upon public affairs. Terms: $10 for 12 months, $5 for 6, $2.50 for 3, and $1 for 1 month, postage paid by us. The TRI-WEEKLY Chronicle and Constitutionalist contains two days' news of the Daily. Terms : $5 for 12 months, $2.50 for 6, postage paid tw nn. The WEEKLY Chronicle and Constitutionalist is a mammoth sheet, and the largest and handsomest Weekly published in the South. It contains all the news of the week?telegraphic, local, editorial, miscellaneous?and carefully prepared reviews of the market This edition is gotten np for circulation among planters and others living in the country. Terms: $2 for 12 months, $1 for ?, postage paid by us. The Chronicle and Constitutionalist is the paper for the merchant, the planter, the lawyer, the mechanic, the politician. It is a paper for the office, the counting-room and the family circle. Specimen copies sent free. Address, WALSH & WRIGHT, Managers, Augusta, Ga. August 30 35 tf YORK MARBLE YARD. THE undersigned is still conducting the Marble Business in Yorkville, and would rejpeetfully inform the public that he can supply ;hose in want of MONUMENTS or HEADSTONES with anything in his line, and at the lowest cash prices. Monuments designed and finished in the most elaborate style, and in point of workmanship and material warranted equal to the work of any establishments the country. Head and Footstones, in various styles, from olain to highly-carved work, furnished at short riotice, and satisfaction guaranteed. Specimens usnally on band, to an inspection of which, those in want of marble work are respectTally invited. Estimates and any other desired information cheerfully given at any time. Work delivered at any point on the Chester ind Lenoir Narrow Oauge Railroad, between Chester and Dallas, or at any place between Rock Hill and Winnsboro, on the Charlotte, Coumbia and Augusta Railroad, free of charge for xansportation. Thankful for the patronage heretofore bestowed ipon my establishment, my determination is to merit a continuance of the same. F. HAPPERFIELD. March 9 6 ly CLEANSING AND REPAIRING. THE undersigned would respectfully inform the public that he is prepared to cleanse garments of any fabric whatever, rendering them perfectly clean, and if unfaded, restoring them to ;he original brightness and lustre of the goods. Do not throw away your old clothes, but have ;hem cleaned and made to look as well as new. Work promptly done, and at the most reasonable prices. THOMAS BALLARD. McCAULEY, ; RO. N? C., I THE CELEBRATED K.1NG STOVES! PRICE GREATLY REDUCED : _ ^ 1 on Cooking ana Heating stoves, Hollow Ware, And-Irons, and Castings of all kinds. Also, on 'PLANTER'S PRIDE'PLOWS { i and Plow Castings, J STRAW CUTTERS. Corn Shellers, , HORSE POWERS, j I Saw Mills, Ac. i, Yorkville, S. C. lock Hill, York county, S. C. innellsville, York county, S. C. er, 8. C. 81 tf OUR PREMIUM OFFERS. > ' . j CIUB BOOKS YET OPEN! WITH the view of accommodating a number of clab-makers, whose clabe for the carrent volume of the ENQUIRER are not as large as they desire, as well also as to extend to all wno may desire it the opportunity of obtaining the J paper at club rates, we have decided to keep open oar club books until the FIRST MONDAY OF i NOVEMBER NEXT. Until that date, subscri- ] bers will be received through club-makere, who I obtained lists nnder our previous offer?the club- m makers being duly accredited with all names thev may return under the present proposition, which W names will be added to their former lists. New 1 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 aa good as so much cash to those who receive them. All the articles are put down In our schedule at manufacturers' regular retail prices, and cannot be bonght with cash any lower than theprioes here given. Premiums .nos. lianaswm oeaeuverea 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 offioe, 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. OUR LIBERAL OFFERS. No. 1.?For a club of 4 subscribers, at $2.60 each, we will give a treble silver-plated BUTTER KNIFE, worth $1.00. No. 2.?For a olnb of 8 subscribers, at $2.60 each, we will giveonecopy of the family edition (cloth binding) of SMITH'S ABRIDGED BIBLE DIC- - _ TIONARY, 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 Enqci&b* 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. No. 4.?For a club of 15 subscribers, 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 $5.00. 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 8POON8, worth $6.00. No. 6.?For a club of 18 subscribers, at $2.60 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 east steel oval-handle TABLE KNIVES, and one set of six treble silver-plated TABLE FORKS, the manufacturer's price of which articles is $10.00. No. 8.?For a olub of 30 subscribers, at $2.50 eaoh, we will give a full set of extra superfine, full oval ivory-handle TABLE KNIVE8,with silverSlated blades, and a foil set of treble silver- plated ABLE FORKS, the manufacturer's price of which articles is $15.00. No. 9.?For a clnb of 40 subscribers, at $2.60 each, we will give one No. 8 TROPIC COOKING STOVE, with pipe and a foil set of fixtures, the manufactnrer's price of which is $30.00. . No. 10.?For a club of 40 subscribers, at $2JS8 each, we will give one three-quart, treble silver- kv ' plated COMMUNION 8ERVTCE, consisting of SIX Dieces. worth $40. No." 19.?For a club of 55 subscribers, at 92.60 each, we will give a WEED 8EWING MACHINE, Walnut Plain Half-Case, with two Drawera and Drop Lea? the manufkofarer's price of which is $75. . ftf Specimens of the Sewing Machines, and nearly all the other article* included in the above premium list, can be seen and examined at onr publication office; and in all casee we guarantee that the Premiums furnished to those entitled to receive them, will be eqnal to the specimens shown TERMS AND CONDITIONS. It is not necessary that the names of a dob should all be at the same post office. Names may be taken at any number of places if they are all returned by the same Club Agent One name for two years, will be equivalent to two names for one year each. The time for completing clubs under the above offer is limited to the FIRST MONDAY OF NOVEMBER, 1877, by which time the names with the cash, should be returned to the office, though names* msv he returned at anytime lietween this ? and W abbveHRte. "Nirprefflirnirwrmne delivered until the requisite number of namex has been returned, and the fall amount due for them paid. All subscriptions must be fnrwardedto us at the expense of those sending them. In sending names, write plainly, giving connty, post-office and State. All subscription8wUl be discontinued at the expiration of the time paid for. All subscribers to the Ehqutrer will receive the psper free of postage. Persons entitled to receive Premiums, give full directions as to whom and how tHSy"" shall be delivered. A separate list will be kept for each clnb-maker, who will be credited with every name sent, so that the nnmber returned by any person can be ascertained at a moment's notice THE TIME OF CLOSING. Club-makers, and those who may wlab to form clubs, should bear in mind that the offers we here present do not invite competition fbr Premiums, as in the case of working to secnre the largest club. Each clnb-maker sending the requisite nnmber of subecribers will obtain the Premium offered fbr the specified number. The time, however, for completing a olnb is limited, under the present offer, until the FIRST MONDAY OF NOVEMBER, 1877. Names may be sent fn 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. Oar Cooking Stove Premium. The elegant Cooking Store* which we offer u Premium*, are manufactured by Mean*. Sergeant It MeCauley, at Greensboro, N. 0. These Stores are made of the beat Scotch pig 'metal, with bearier and thicker plate than any othex. store in the market, and consequently will the longer -withstand beat and hard usage. They are or a handsome pattern and neat finish, and warranted equal in points of appearance, durability and so pertor cooking qualities, to any move manufactured ta tn? Union. The itove we have (elected to give u a Premium l( the largest size made by the manufacturers, and wfth each one will be furnished, without charge, three joints and one elbow of ftpe, and all the necessary cooking utensils, viz.: one ham boiler, one bulge pot and cover, one tea kettle, one round Dying pan, one long (Vying pan, one round griddle, one pair waffle irons, two sbeet^^^^^K Iron bread pans, one scraper and one lifter. Over Srva rnoo-^ j sard of these stoves are In use In Virginia and North and Booth 1 Carolina, and they give universal satisfaction. The stoves will < be shipped to those entitled to receive them as Premiums, direct from the manufactory In Greensboro N.C. Sewing Machine Premium. The superior Sewing Machine we offer as a Premium, Is Ihe well-known Weed Machine and Is manufactured by the Weed Sewing Machine Company, Hartford, Conn. It Is adapted to all the wants of family sewing; it can be readily comprehended by anyone; It runs easily; is always ready; will do any and all kinds of sewing with less changing and fewer extra attachments; is self-adjusting; Is a two-thread Machine, making an Elastic Lock-Btltch; stands solid and Arm, with long and roomy folding table, and has the convenience of two drawers. Several of these Machines, daring the past year, have been delivered to persons who have returned the requisite number of names. Smith's Bible Dictionary. This Dictionary Is the work of Dr. William Smith, of the University of London, and the moat eminent lexicographer in the world, who, In Its preparation associated with himself over seventy distinguished divine* and author*, of both Europe and Oil* country, in the great task of preparing a comprehensive Dictionary of the Bible, and supplying a want long felt by the rellglotis public. The result of these labor* appeared in three targe and very costly volume*, a wonderful monument of learning. An abridgement of thia great work, for popular u*e, made by Dr. Smith himself, Is the one we have arranged to tarnish our subscribers. The book contain* every name in the Bible respecting which anything can be said. It embrace* the results of blstorie research, antiquarian Investigation, the stndy of language* and dialect*, and the discoveries of the modem traveler* and explo rers In the Holy Land?Robinson, Rawllnson, Ferguson, Lay ard, Offert and Stanley. The hook I* printed from new stereotype plates, on good paper, and is appropriately Illustrated with over 133 Engravings of beautlfal Scenes, Ancient Titles, and Memorable Place* of the Holy Lnnd, descriptive Figures and valuable Map*. It contains nearly 800 closely-printed, doublecolumn, octavo pages, Including 94 elegant ftill-pagc, Steel and Wood Engravings. It is printed in type of a heavy, distinct, and verv legible (bee. The publisher*! price of the Dictionary la $3.50. Three-Quart Communion Set. Churches unsupplled with a Communion Set appropriate tn "" the requirements of the sacred rite of administering the Lord1* Supper, can, by our Premium arrangement, secure a flue, treble silver-plated three-quart Communion Set of six pieces, with lltilotmiihlp. *nrf. romnaratlvelv.at no ?M. The number rvf.tih. norther* required In order to secure thU valuable and elegant Service can be procured in almost any congregation; and the mem ber* who may be tliu* called upon to contribute their share ot the expense, will receive In return more than the value of their contribution In a year's subscription to the paper. Oar 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 ladle* avail themselves, they may secure, with but little trouble, a valuable set of Silver or Catlerv. Those articles are made for us by the Lucius Hart Manufacturing Company, 9i Pulton street New York, and are warranted to be of tbe best materia). Value of our Premiums. We would Impress upon every one tbe fact that all of our Prentluma are first-class goods, and the prices attached tn them In our lists are the regular retail prices at which the articles sell by all dealers and the manufhsturers themselves. It Is only by the most advantageous terms given us by the manufacturers that we are enabled to make the liberal offers we do, and we guarantee every article to be exactly as represented. A Club and an Extra Copy. For a club of ran subscribers paid in advance at the regular club rates, we will give, instead of a Premium, an extra copy of the paper tn any who may preftr that arrangement; bat in consequence of the liberal Premiums we are now offering, we cannot nnora in give an extra copy to uie ciuu-raaaer woo receives nny Premiums enumerated on our list. Terms of Subscription?Tree of Postage. Single copy one year, $3.00. In clabe, eaoh subscriber, per year, $2.50. Money may be forwarded at onr risk by draft, post-office order or registored letter?otherwise we will assume no risk. Write names plainly, giving post-office, oounty And State. Address ail letters to L. M. GRIST, Publisher, Yorkville, 8, C.