Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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giuraowus Department. aQyWhen the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada was completed, in 1860, many of the farmers had never heard of, much less seen, a railway ; but it soon got reported around that passengers could travel by it, and even cattle. A backwoodsman, who ^was indebted to a country merchant, was pushed by the latter for payment of the amount due, and the only means of liquidating the debt was by taking a fat ox to the Quebec market. For this purpose he tied his ox to the back of his cart, and drove to the railway station, a distance of nine miles. On surveying the train, and seeing an iron railing around the platform of the hind car, he concluded that that was the place to tie his ox, which he accordingly did, taking a place in a second-class car himself forward. Presently the train began to move off slowly. The speed increased; quicker and quicker it went. The poor man got ? * 1 1 iMl ! t!l very nagetty.tne speea sua increasing, uutu large drops of sweat became visible on his brow. By this time the conductor had reached his car to collect the tickets. Nearly out of breath, the man ran to him, exclaiming: "My dear conductor, my ox will never be able to keep up with this pace; it is not possible." "Your ox! Keep up to this pace! What do you mean ? I don't understand you. Have you an oxen on board ? "Not on board, of course. I tied him to the railing of the hind car." "You tied your ox to the railing of the hind car ? Who told you to do so ?" "No one; but that is the way we always do in the country." Of course the conductor could not stop his train before reaching the next station, when, it is needless to say, on looking for the ox, they found attached to the rope a pair of horns, with a small portion of the neck. Mr. Bergh could scarcely call this cruelty to animals, as it was not intended. The humane conductor made a collection among the passengers on the spot, realizing a larger amount than the ox would have brought at market, which he presented to the crestfallen farmer, who immediately re turned home, vowing he would never have oxen taken to market by railway again. He has kept his word, and to this day he leads his ox to market behind his own cart. ?. ? * Brother Stone's Feeble Remarks.? Mr. StoDe, a well known and excellent Christian gentleman, belonging to one of the Murray Hill churches in New York city, was up in the country one summer, and learning that an evening prayer meeting was in progress at the village church, walked in and took a seat iu the back part of the room. The brother in the chair conducting the meeting, observing the stranger, left his seat, and coming to Mr. Stone, said to him: "What is your name?" "My name is Stone." "Where are you from ?" "I am from the city of New York." "Are you one of the Lord's people?" "I hope that I am," answered Mr. Stone, with becoming humility. The presiding genius, satisfied with the answer of his catechism, returned to his elevated seat, and at the end of the hymn arose and said : "Will Brother Stone, from New York, favor us with a few remarks?" Mr. Stone, willing to do what he could, made a few practical observations to the best of his ability. No sooner bad he sat down than the presiding elder rose and said: "Will Brother Stone, of New York, ask the Lord to bless his feeble remarks?" Undismayed by this commentary on his speech, Mr. Stone offered prayer, and the meeting proceeded as usual. ? ? How She Taught Him.?A lady hired an old negro woman, named Charlotte, who had the most exalted opinion of her own individuality. Whenever a subject was under discussion in the family, Charlotte would be sure to state her own superior method of proceeding in such matters. On one occasion the lady was talking of sending the children to school, when Charlotte put in her oar as usual: "Lor! missus," she said, "what mek you pay money fur to send de chile to school ? I got one smart boy name Jonus, but I larns hira myself." "But, Aunt Charlotte," replied the lady, "how can you teach your child, when you don't know one letter from another?" "How I teach him ? I jis mek hira tek de book an' set down on de flo, and den I say, Menus, you tek ye eye from dat book, much less leggo him, an' I skins you alive ?' " Tim's Uath.?"lira, tni8 won t ao; you must take warning by the fate of your friend O'Shaugnessey. Only three nights ago he i came home much Boberer than you are, but iu attempting to blow out a candle his breath took fire, and he exploded?blew up?so that his friends in three days have not been able j to scrape enough of him together to hold a wake over." "An' do ye mane to tell me that he bust up?" said Tim. "Indeed I do, upon my honor," replied the doctor. "Biddy," said Tim, "get me the Bible." Biddy got the Bible, and then Tim knelt down and said, "I swear by the blissid Yargin?ye sure, doctor, that he blew up?" "Quite sure," replied the doctor. "Then," replied Tim, "I swear by the blissid Yargin and the Most High, never to blow out a candle when I'm ,1 ). ?? ui UU& a^aiu. ? ^ * "Pass it Over."?Peter Priestly, an English sexton and parish clerk, was noted for many witty sayings. He was once lettering a grave-stone in the church-yard, when the village physician happened by. "Why, Peter," said the doctor, pointing to the half-cut inscription, "you've spelt it wrong." "Have I, doctor ?" answered Peter, sharply. "Then how should it be ?" The doctor told hira how the world should be spelt; but instead of proceeding to correct the blunder, Peter, looking slyly into the physician's face, remarked: "\VA11 moll naja J* nupr flnofru-?rtnaa if over. "I've covered up monny a blot o' yours." ? What He Wanted.?A yellow citizen of this republic approached the clerk of a Tennessee County Court, and, prefacing his remarks with a roll of currency, said, "I's lived froo' dis worl' so fur, 'lone. I'se took it hot an' col'. I'se 'sperienced dese trials in comfort an' out. De frosts has drove dis chile to de wall long 'nough. He 'poses to fortify 'gainst de ills of life. Give dis ere chile papers to unite him on?in dem bounds ob matrimony." ?. How He Took It.?A good repartee is told of a scapegrace whom a mentor reminded that his aunt had paid bis debts, and that he should be more submissive to the wishes of his relative. The young good-for-nothing did not take much heed of the sermon, but when his creditors were mentioned, he said, "Yes, yes, my aunt has paid my creditors, but what has she done for me ?" Powerful Friends.?During a recent thunder storm near Memphis, Tenn., a negro was severely kicked by a vicious mule, and, just as he was picking himself up, a stroke of lightning hit the mule and killed him dead on the spot. "Well, dar!" exclaimed the negro, "ef dis chile hain't got powerful friends to 'venge his insults, den dere's no use tryin' to hab faith in anyting !" Deaf.?Mr. B.?"Good-morning, sir; I j come to tune your piano." Deaf old Gent (on the porch)?"Eh ? didn't understand what j you said." "I come to tune your piano." j "You will have to speak louder; I can't hear what you say." "I come to tune your piano." | "O, you come from Louisiana, do you ? Well, that's good; sit down and tell us all about it." I and fireside. HOW FARMERS' WIVES BREAK DOWN. A woman tells this story to the Boston Cultivator, and we can testify, of our own knowledge, that it is very sadly true: "I can get forty women to marry me, within fifty miles of this village," said a man to m6, the other day, "bat I can't find a woman anywhere who will come and help my wife, and she is breaking down every day." Yes, breaking down 1 Can any one look in her ashy white face, and not read the story, written there, of hard work, in season and out of season ? She has four little girls?the eldest six years, the youngest three months. Her husband keeps six cows, and cultivates a farm of a hundred acres, employing two hired men to aid him. Three meals must be cooked daily for a family of seven, not counting the bahy ; four children dressed and cared for; the milk of six cows attended to, and butter made, while the week's washing and ironing must be accomplished in some way. From 4 o'clock in the morning until 10, and sometimes 11 at night, one pair of hands and one pair of feet perform this labor, and now the tired body rebels and says: "This cannot be endured." Of course extra aid is not to be obtained easily in mid summer, but it might have been procured early in the spring; it doubtless would have been found had it been needed to assist in man's work. Let me tell you of another case : The farmer and his wife have three children, all under eight years. He employs two hired men, boarding them, and keeps eleven cows. A woman comes in to do the washing and ironing, but that is all the assistance the wife receives, excepting the few steps the children can save her. She must rise at four o'clock and prepare breakfast, so that her husband and the "hands" can be in the mowing held by five o'clock. Every other day, however, one of the hired hands remains to do the churning for her; but this favor was not allowed her until she had threatened to call in the doctor, to declare to her husband her inability to do such hard work. Then it was reluctantly conceded, although two forty-pouud firkins of butter were packed each week ; for our farmer prides himself upon bis herd of cows?pure-blood Alderneys?and sells his butter at the highest rates, carefully depositing its proceeds in the bank, and rarely giving his wife as much as a five dollar bill of it. His last iniunction to the "hand" as he de parts to the field is: "John, come just as quick as you can. Don't let Mrs. M. keep you for anything else. Hay can't wait for woman's work." There are dishes to wash, milk to skim, pans to scald, beds to make, children to dress, baby to nurse, rooms to sweep, and dinner to cook over the boiling hot stove?and one woman to do it all! Don't Shoot the Birds.?Too many farmers encourage their sons to shoot birds, generally supposed to be destructive to their crops, such as crows, jays, blackbirds, sparrows ; justifying themselves with the plea that the birds are great marauders in the gardens and orchards. Every one who has paid attention to the matter knows that even crows, jays and blackbirds, are productive of more good than harm, and that the vast and rapid increase of destructive insects is owing almost entirely to the wanton destruction of birds, which are not even legitimate game. The insectivorous, and insect-eating birds, which include nearly all the small oues, appear to have been sent to keep the same balance of power in insect life, which would otherwise multiply to such a degree as to render the agriculturist's toil entirely useless. A farmer keeps a watch dog to guard his premises, and cats to kill rats and mice in his granary and Worn irat tnlroa nn nninn tn oherish and nrft serve the birds that do him more good than a dog or cat, working diligently as they do I from early morning until dark, killing and destroying insects injurious to his crops, which, j if not thus thinued, would eventually multiply to such an extent as to leave him scarcely any crop whatever. There is the jay ; it is said that a single family of jays will consume twenty thousand noxious insects in a season of three months. The poor crow, despised | and persecuted by nearly all, is productive of some good, and is a benefit to the farmer, although he finds in the latter an inveterate enemy. During the winter the crows pick up a scanty subsistence; on the return of spring, the bare earth affords him a supply of grubs and other noxious larvae on which he fares liberally. He also acts, oftentimes, as a selfconstituted sentinel, chasing the thieving hawk from the poultry yard. The cedar bird, for hours together, feeds on the all-despoiling canker-worm. Wrens and bluebirds consume spiders, caterpillars and beetles, a single pair of sparrows will destroy between three and four thousand caterpillars in a week. Therefore, let every farmer and occupier of the soil constitute himself the protector of the birds, which are his chief friends. ? ? A Cheap Hard Soap.?Many housekeepers in the country know how difficult it is to obtain a good article of bar soap. The yellow soap, Bold at stores, cuts as soft as cheese, and rubs away as easily, and unless the housewife orders a box of soap at a time and puts it up in the attic or some dry place, the yearly record will show a good sum paid out for soap purchased by the bar. The followiug receipt will prove a desirable item of economy : Four large bars of yellow soap ; two pounds of sal-soda; three ounces of borax ; one ounce of liquid ammonia. Shave the soap in thin slices, put it into eight quarts of soft water (rain water is the best). When the soap is nearly dissolved, add the borax and sal-soda; stir till all is melted. Pour into a large tub or shallow pan ; when nearly cool add the ammonia slowly, mixing it well. Let it stand a day or two, then cut into cakes or bars, and dry it in a warm place. No better soap can be made to wash white clothes, calicoes, and flannels, and it is excellent for household purposes. It costs three cents per pound aud is made in less than half an hour. This receipt has been sold for five dollars, and will be of ! service to every family.?Southern Farmer. Area of Farms.?According to the census, twelve of the States of the Union have ; farms that average less than 125 acres in exI font Tn anmo nf the States the averacre runs up as high as 500 acres. These twelve States are: Maine, averages 98 acres; New Hampshire, 122; Massachusetts, 103; Connecticut, 93 ; Rhode Island, 94; New York, 103; New Jersey, 98; Pennsylvania, 103; Indiana, 112; Ohio, 111; Michigan, 101; Wisconsin, 114. While the total value of the farms in the United States is put down at $9,262,803,j 361, the value in the above small-farm States j foots up 85,407,587,178, or nearly three-fifths i of the total?and this too while the area of these States is less than one-tenth of the area of the whole country. This proves the superiority of the small-farm system so far as pecuniary results are involved. Japanese Method of Cooking Rice.?A letter from Japan says : "They know how to cook rice here. Only just enough cold water is poured on to prevent the rice from burning to the bottom of the pot, which has a closefitting cover and is set on a moderate fire. The rice is steamed, rather than boiled, until it is nearly done ; then the cover of the pot is taken off, the surplus steam and moisture are allowed to escape, and the rice turns out a mass of snow white kernels, each separate from the other, and as much superior to the soggy mass we usually get in the United States, as a fine mealy potato is to a water-soaked article." How to Kill Lice on Houses, Cows and Hogs.?A practical farmer of Robeson county sends us the following receipt: "Take the water in which Irish potatoes have been boiled and rub it all over the skin. The lice will be dead in two hours and will never multiply again. 1 have used ten kinds of the strongest poison to kill lice, all with effect, but none so perfect as this." Heading fat the $aMrat&. CONDUCTED BY REV. ROBERT LATHAN. TOrlglnal.J THE DIYINITY OF CHRIST. We need not repeat that the union of two natures in one person is a mystery. Our object is not to attempt the solving of mysteries, but simply to learn what the Scriptures teaches on the subject of Christ's divinity. When it is said that Christ was divine, it is the same as if it had been said he was God. Now was Christ God ? What evidence did he give of this fact? We may remark that Christ conUA moo rinrl AA II Q 1 UJlfK Stauiljr UiailiiUU mat HO nao ouu v:\juai ntvu the father iu power and glory. He claimed for himself every attribute that belongs to God. The Scriptures assert that Jesus was without beginning of days or end of years. In other words, he existed from a never beginning eternity and shall continue to exist forever. It is true that men and angels, and, it may be, multitudes of other creatures, or, so far as we know, all creatures, in some form or other, will never cease to be. Still the eternal existence of every created being is a dependent existence. They will exist forever because such is the will of God, their maker. Jesus Christ will live forever, because eternal existence is one attribute of his nature. His existence is liable to no contingencies, and subject to nothing but his own will. The Scriptures ascribe to Jesus Christ creative power; that is, the power to bring something out of nothing. Not simply the ability and skill to fabricate or fashion something out of materials always in existence, but the power to make something out of nothing. By him we are told (John i.) that all thiugs were made, and nothing is but what was made by him. This is the same fact which we learn from Genesis 1. Jesus Christ is said to have done what God is said to have done. Jesus Uhrist demonstrated, by a number 01 well attested miracles, that be possessed perfect control over everything. He turned water into wine. This was bis first miracle, and sufficient of itself to establish his divinity. No being except God can change water into wine. To do this, requires nothing less than Almighty power. Jesus Christ healed the sick and raised the dead by his touch. No long process of administering medicine was resorted to, but he spoke the word and the sick were made well and the dead were made alive. Stinking carcasses were reanimated, and the repulsive leper restored to perfect health. The winds and the waves were subject to his command. He gave the order and the fierce tempest was lulled into a great calm. In no way can the deeds which Jesus Christ performed be accounted for but by admitting that he was God. The man, Jesus Christ, was put to death ; but by his own power he rose from the dead. Now no created power can resurrect a dead body. This is simply an impossibility. God alone can create and God alone can make alive. No historic fact is better attested than the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The whole of his work was suspended upon the accomplishment of this one thing. "Destroy" says he, "this temple and I will raise it up in three days." The fact that Jesus Christ is both the son of man and the Son of God, makes him a perfect Saviour. As man he could suffer for sinners and sympathize with sinners. As God, he could give value to his obedience and death. In triumph the prophet shouts out, "Hear, 0, Israel, thy redeemer is thy maker." THE LORD'S PRAYER. Did you ever think, short though it may be, how much there is in it? Oh ! it is beautiful. And like a diamond in the crown of a queen, it unites a thousand gems in one. It teaches all of us, every one of us, to look to God as our parent?"Our Father." It teaches us to raise our thoughts aud our desires above the earth?"Who art in Heav_ if en. It tells us we must reverence our Heavenly Father?"Hallowed be Thy name." It breathes the saint's reward?"Thy Kingdom come." And a submissive and obedient spirit? "Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heav? if en. And a dependent, trusting spirit?"Give us this day our daily bread." And a forgiving spirit?"Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us." And a cautious spirit?"Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil." And, last of all, an adorning spirit?"For thine is the kingdom, and the power and the glory forever. Amen." ? Be Steadfast.?An Eoglish admiral, who rose to his high station by his own steady exertions, used to be fond of relating that, on 6rst leaving an bumble lodging to join his ship as a midshipman, his landlady presented him with a Bible and a guinea, saying, ' rind Klooa wnii and nrnonpr vnil. mv lad ; J? ; r?i? J ? ?j > and, as long as you live, never suffer yourself to be laughed out of your money or prayers." The young sailor carefully followed this advice through life, and had reason to rejoice that he did so; while thousands have regretted, when too late, that they have pursued a different course. Never let your honest convictions be laughed down. Be true to yourself, and in the end you will not only be respected by the world, but have the approval of your own conscience. See to it, that whatever you lose, wueiutJi ib ue iiiuucj, vi yiuw, ui ioputonuu, you do not lose courage, honesty, simplicity, or truthfulness.?Reformed Church Monthly. Men and children are like pebbles. You know how pebbles on the seashore are round* ; ed and made smooth by being rolled against each other. It is so with many men. But now and then we fiud a person who is as crusty as one of the crabs we fiud also on the seashore. The more he is rubbed by others, j the crustier he becomes. So, too, some of the I little stones are made very pointed and do : not get rounded by the others. Let us all (try to have the politeness that comes from obeying the Golden Rule. JteirThe true memories and quick sympal thies of a pure, intuitive soul are a fragmentary revelation of the all-present, all-wise, all lnira nf crlnrv nf fho airV irnc"ui va ^v"~ b?-- ??j | ! reflected in a broken scrap of mirror. The ! pity is that some see the reflection and never j look up to find whence it comes. AST Contentment abides with truth. And ' you will generally suffer for wishing to appear other than you are, whether it be richer, or greater, or more learned. The mask soou | becomes an instrument of torture. "Mortality without relieion is only a kind of dead reckoning?an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the ' distance we have to run, but without any ob-1 ' servatiou of the heavenly bodies. i SSrThe idea of a heaven and an existence hereafter, is no more extraordinary than the fact of an earth and an existence here. t fiST It is not until we have passed through ! the furnace, that we are made to know how i much dross was in our composition. Uliscctlaucous Reading., ROMANCE ON THE OCEAN. 1 SAD FATE OF A WOMAN STOWAWAY?JOINED ( ON THE LONG JOURNEY. The captain of an English ship, just ar- 1 rived in port, relates a singular story which is i worth adding to the already extensive bud- i get of the marvelous tales of the ocean. The I names of Captain and ship are not given, as i sailors are proverbially sensitive about their I veracity, and there is a strong flavor of ro- i raance about the skipper's anecdote. < The official log contains this entry: August 15, latitude ?, longitude ?, Jas. j Colton, a stowaway, fell from the foretopgallaut yard to the deck, and was instantly 1 killed. ' August 16, latitude ?, longitude ?, Wil- j liam Bean, an ordinary seaman, while the funeral service was being read over the body 1 of Colton, jumped from the topgallant rail 1 and sank immediately. Ship hove to at the ' time. A boat was lowered, but no traces of 1 the man were discovered. ' "That," said the captain, "is an entry that 1 gives the key to the yarn I'll spin you," as a Mail reporter sat in his cabin yesterday afternoon, after the noonday meal." "I shipped Bean in Liverpool. He was a tall, good-looking young fellow, and did not appear to be much of a seafaring man by j his appearance, but he had a couple of good discharges and I took him. After he went 1 forward among the men, I did not notice him 1 again until the second day out. The mate 1 came aft lugging along a little bit of a fellow ! with short curly hair and a round face, whom he had found stowed away under the fore 1 hatch. A lot of the men got around to hear what I was going to say about it. " 'What the blazes made you hide away in , my ship ?' I said. He didn't answer a word, * * i i- J iL mi r* ana seemea scarea 10 aeuiu. j.aeu oeuu stepped out and said: ,4I know that young man, Captain; he is an old chum of mine. He wanted to get a passage to California, and had no money." "I swore some at them both, and then sent Colton off in charge of the third mate, who soon got him to work on a broom. He handled the broom pretty well, and took sort of to polishing up the brass work, and seemed so inclined to be industrious, that I took him out of the mate's watch and gave him odd jobs about the cabin, lending the steward a hand and so on. He had all night in and better grub than they got in the forecastle, but he used to always slip some of it forward to Bean. Those two were a good deal together on Bean's watch, and Colton would sometimes stay up all night with him. Then he got to like going aloft, and used to handle the royals as well as any ordinary seaman on board. One day the mate said to me, 'I heard those two men, Bean and Colton, talking together last night, sir, and there was something queer about it. Bean was telling him that his mother and brothers would nev- I er forgive him, and the best thing to do when j he got to Sau Francisco would be to write to I some friends at home, but not let his people < know where he was. Colton was crying, and i seemed to feel very bad. Then he saw me ] and shut up. I think Bean has made that < boy Colton run away from school or some- < thing of that sort.' i "I told the mate to make work as light as I he could for him, and once, when he brought me a cup of tea on the poop, I asked him if his friends knew that he had started for Cali- ' fornia. ,r\t t_ ft 1 - at a. T 1 J a 4 " "un i no, ne sain ; uui x count uut gei along well at home, and I thought it best to go away.' "'You kDew Bean well at home, didn't 1 you ?" I asked. "'Yes, sir/said he, and looked up red and confused. " 'Did he induce you to run away ?" " 'No, no, sir,' said he; 'hut he told me he was coming in this ship.' That was all I said about it then. A week or so afterward, when he was cleaning up my cabin, he got hold of the photograph of my wife, which an artist in Liverpool had undertaken to color and bad made a botch of it." ' " 'Did you ever do any painting?' I asked. rr I? IJ ?_ K??l_ T . ? ne said OB (JOUIU ptwut a little, auu x gut a box of water-color paiuts from the third mate and some brushes, and gave him a few photographs to color. You see how well be did it. He surprised me." Then the Captain opened his album and showed the reporter some photographs, which ; were very skillfully and artistically retouched. "I saw him once," continued the Captain, "painting the photograph of a fine-looking old lady. He told me it was Bean's mother, i Well, to come to the day the accident occurred. I was on deck at the time, and Bean < and Colton were sitting forward. I was just going to call the young chap aft to help the sail-maker, who was working on the poop, ( when a squall came aloug. The mate sung ( ' ? t i i 1.1 i i out, the royal naiyarns were lei go, auu mutton jumped into the fore rigging to get aloft and stow the foreroyal, for it was darkening j up to wiudward. Bean also got into the rig- ( ging, and seemed to want to get up, but Colton got ahead of him. , "He laid out on the yard, got hold of the j canvas, and the next thing we knew some- i thing came whirling down on the deck with a j thud that made me shudder. The first one < at the poor fellow's side was Bean. He turn- i ed him over, for the face was toward the deck, ( and then he fell down in a fit, and the boat- t swain attended to him. The watch carried i Colton's body aft. His neck was broken. I | pulled off the shirt, and then I knew the whole I story," and the skipper took a glass of sherry, i and his eyes were moist. I "What was the mystery?" asked the reporter. ( "Well," said the Captain, "just this. Col- i ton did not belong to our side of the deck, i The body that was sewed up and launched into the deep was a young woman, and she was Bean's wife, for I found the marriage 1 certificate in Bean's trunk with some letters j that partially explained the matter. But 1 I'll tell you about that afterward. As soon as Bean cot richt he came aft. looking like a O - - o W ghost,* and he knew by my face that I had discovered the secret. ,l 'Captain,' said he, taking off his hat, 'would you have any objection to letting me j stay alone with it to-night?" "I let hira stay all night by the body, and ! I can imagine what the poor fellow suffered. 1 I never saw such a despairing face on a man ( mhinh rVkA* ma IvKoM T AnOn. ^ 1U lliy liic as Lilac to u IV/u uiou IUV nuwu V|/vM edthecibin door and the hands were summoned for the funeral service. He stood by ! until the last moment, and when the body -1 slipped off into the sea, and the shot carried it down, down into the depths, he watched it ' until it disappeared. Then he jumped on the j topgallant rail, and before any one could grab him, he was gone." ' "And the letters ?" 1 "I hunted through his trunk," said the skipper, "and found a bundle of letters which I am going to enclose to his friends at home. < From what I could learn from them it ap- , pears that Bean (which was an assumed name) , was a young fellow of good family, but very ( wild. The girl's people were also well off ( and reputable. She knew him from a boy, j and ran away with him, and they were mar- ( ried. He went to sea after that, and she went j back to school. When he returned, they tried , to make it up with the old folks, but they , would not have it. So the young folks, with- , our, a six pence to bless themselves with, came ( on board my ship. Sounds like a novel, but ( * - of* T ?*Ait on/1 Koro aro fliA It 10 JU91 ttO X IU1U JUU, uuu uvtv *? v iiuw | i proofs." ( "Have you any objection to ray giving the name of the ship ?" asked the reporter. "Well," said the skipper, "I don't like that i sort of sensation, and the owners don't want 11 these sort of things about the ship in the pa-11 pers. Here is the boat alongside," said the (1 Captain, and the reporter took a seat in the i stern sheets and was soon at the landing.? i San Francisco Mail. 1 The Porgy Fishery.?The process of matching porgies, carried oq by a large numser of steamers on this coast, is an exceedingly interesting and novel sight. When a school is sighted, small boats go out with the Irag nets and surround it. The nets are then gradually drawn in till the whole school, which at first occupies several acres, is massed in a space of 20 or 30 feet. Then the steamer runs alongside, a part of the net iB taken on board, and the dip net set in motion. This is shaped like a bucket, and holds five or six barrels. It is attached to a tackle and fall, and works similar to the apparatus used for unloading coal. It is operated by steam, and with remarkable swiftness scoops up the fish and transfers them to the hold of the steamer. Ihe net is emptied and filled three times per minute, and in an hour the steamer can be completely loaded. When the hold is filled, the hatches are put on and the deck loaded. The fish are white, and as they are poured into the hold, glittering in the sun, all alive md squirming, they present a singular and beautiful appearance. Some mackerel are found mixed with them, as porgiea are frequently found in schools of mackerel. 8ome of the steamers have chartered schooners, to which their fish are transferred as fast as they are filled up. The principal porgy factories in this State are at Bristol and Boothbay. The fish are put into large tanks and steamed, which reduces them to pulp, when the oil is pressed out. The oil is obtained in much better shape, as well as more thoroughly, by Lhis method than could be done by pressing the raw fish. The chum, as that which remains after the oil is extracted is called, is sold for 8 fertilizer. It is much improved by being mixed with ground bones. The porgy fisheries are very useful.?Rockland (Maine) Opinion. ATramp'8 Terrible Ride.?A tramp who irrived in Cheyenne a few days ago from the West, gives his experience in dead-heading it over the Union Pacific from Cheyenne to Gtreen River, on one of the express trains, by climbing upon the roof of the coach. He >aysthat from Cheyenne to Sherman he rather enjoyed the ride, but that between Sherman ana ijreen iwver nis experience was uue never to be forgotten. The rapid movement of the traiu and the rocking of the coach forced him to wind hisarm8 and legs around a stove-pipe and hang on for dear life. His bat flew off sarly in the ordeal, and after the train left this city he was discovered by the engineer, who began throwing a heavy shower of cinders ; but so rapid was the movement of the train, that the heaviest ones merely cut through his clothes like bullets, while the lighter sparks passed above him. His coat tails flapped so hard that he realized that he must part with them, but he dare not loosen i hand to tuck them under him, and they were soon torn off to blow away. Although be managed to keep his face behind the pipe nearly all the time, he was frequently struck in the face by flying cinders, so that when he reached Green River his face and neck were badly cut and scratched. So great was the poor tramp's fear of being thrown off and killed, that this, added to the terrible strain sf hanging to the pipe by main strength for jo long a distance, and the intense suffering from the wounds inflicted by the cinders, caused bis hair to turn gray, and when he climbed down at Green River, he looked like % man who had seen fifty instead of twentytwo summers. Artemas Ward.?No more amusing anecdote is told of Artemas Ward than the following: One day, while travelling in the cars and min/vonklit eri/4 innr fn Ko lOCUUg liJ IDUI auij y auu ua UUUnig ?u ww wiwi by strangers, a man took a seat beside him and presently said: "Did you bear the last thing on Horace Greeley ?" "Greeley ? Greeley ?" said Artemas. "Horace Greeley? Who is he?" The man was quiet about five minutes. Pretty soon he said : "George Francis Train is kicking op a good deal of a row over in England. Do you think they will put him in the Bastile?" "Train ? Train ??George Francis Train ?" 3aid Artemas, solemnly. "I never heard of him." This ignorance kept the man quiet for fifteen minutes ; then he said : What do you think about General Grant's chances for the Presidency ?" Do you think they will run him ?" "Grant? Grant? Hang it, man," said Artemas. "you appear to know more strangers than any man I ever saw." The man was furious; he walked up the car, but at last came back and said : "You confounded ignoramus, did you ever hear of Adam ?" Artemas looked up and said, "What was his other name?" What is it that Kills??Within a hundred years persons have died at nearly two centuries of age. St. Monagh, of Kentigen, lived to 185; the Countess of Desmond to 145; Thomas Parr to 152, and Henry Jenkins to 169. Within our own time Humboldt died at 99; Lord Brougham at 95; Peter Wright, of Philadelphia, at about the same age. During the last year forty persons died in New York, aged 90, and only a few years ago a clergyman, aged 114, preached a sound and sensible sermon. We have Earl Russell writing books at 84. All these men were active workers in their lives, who either possessed an iron constitution, or strictly observed the laws of health. Brougham, when a young man, was considered the hardest drinker of his set, but then in later years he regulated his appetites to suit his work. Men of genius and ability, who drank deep or lived high, bave generally died comparatively young. Witness Pitt, Fox, Poe, Coleridge, Byron, Campbell, and many others. Indolence kills more men than intemperance, and worry than intellectual effort. Fond of the Family.?Claiborne F. Jackson, a native of Kentucky, was once Governor of the State of Missouri. He joined the Southern Confederacy, and died, during his term, at a farm-house opposite the city of Little Rock, among strangers, with no kind band of affection near to soothe his pain and rob the death-bed of half its anguish. The most remarkable fact connected with the history of his life is, perhaps, the statement that be married 6ve sisters in one of the most respectable, wealthy and distinguished families in the State; that as soon as one wife would die he would go and marry her sister, in a reasonable time, of course. Some of them were widows when he married them. In connection with the marriages, there was a standing ioke told at the expense of the Governor, which was that when he came to ask the old gentleman's consent to marry the last one, the venerable father is reported to have said : 'Yes, Claib., you can have her. You have got them all. For goodness' sake don't ask me for the old woman."?Tcxarkana (Arlc) Democrat. One Way to Get Rich.?Nothing is more >asy than to grow rich. It is only to trust nobody?to befriend none?to get all you can, ind save all you get?to stint yourself and jverybody belonging to you?to be the friend jf no man and have no man for your friend? to heap interest upon interest, cent upon sent?to be mean, miserable and despised for some twenty or thirty years?and riches will come as sure as disease and disappoint roent. And when pretty nearly enough wealth is collected, by a disregard of all charities of the human heart, aud at the expeuse afevery enjoyment, death comes to finish the work?the body is buried in a hole, the heirs iauce over it, and the spirit goes?where ? ? Bukns.?Place the injurek skin in water it once; if it cannet be immersed, keep wet bandages upou it, and if alum is dissolved in hot water and applied immediately it will keep the skin from blistering. Kerosine is also a desiradle application; fill a cup with it if the fingers are burned, and hold them in it j half an hour, until the pain is gone. SERGEANT& GREENSBO MANUFACTURERS OF "TROPIC" COO] T. M. DOBSON & CO., Agent JOHN R. LONDON, Agent, I A. F. LINDSAY, Agent, McC J. L. CARROLL, Agent, Chea AagQHt 2 PRICES 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 are 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. May 31 22 tf STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, OOTJHTY OP YOBK?OCUBT OP OOMlfOB PLEAS, John W. A. Hartness, Plaintiff, against James G. Dover, Defendant.?Summons for Money Demand?Complaint Served. To JAMES G. DOVER, Defendentin this Action. wrrvTT ..a harahv cm m monad and rrninlrfld to an X swer the complaint in this action, of which a copy is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your answer on the subscriber at bis office, within twenty days after the service of this summons on you, exclusive of the day of service. If you fail to answer this complaint within the time aforesaid, the plaintiff will apply to the Court for judgment against you fortne sum of one hundred and forty-one dollars and eighteen cents, with interest at the rate of seven per centum, from the 16th day of July, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, and costs. Dated July 16th, A. D? 1877. J. C. CHAMBERS, Plaintiff's Attorney. J. F. Wallace, C. C. Pls. To the Defendant, James G. Dover : Take notice that the summons and complaint in this action, was filed in the office of the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, for York county, on the 16th day of July, 1877. J. C. CHAMBERS, Plaintiff's Attorney. October 11 41 6t STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. COUNTY OP YOBK?OOCBT OF COMMON PLEA8. Ann A. Garisou and J. Martin Swann, Plaintiffs, against J. Bender Poag; Jane A. Smith, Rosa 8. Swann, Ellen Swann, and others, whose names are to Plaintiffs unknown, children and heirs of H. Lorraine Swann, deceased, Defendants.?Summons for Relief.?Complaint not Served. To the Defendants above named and described: YOU are hereby summoned and required to answer the complaint in this action, whioh is to-day filed in the office of the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, for the said county, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said complaint tk. uiihcmrlhnra of. thflir nfflee. in Yorkville. South Carolina, within twenty days after the service hereof,exclusive of the cfay of such service; and if you fail to answer the complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plain tiffs in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the complaint. Dated October 25th, A. D., 1877. HART & HART, Plaintiffs' Attorneys. [L. S.] J. P. Wallace, C. C. C. Pis. November 1 44 6t 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 FANCY STATIONERY, consisting, in part, of Fiat Papers, Midium, Folio Post, Demy, Letter and Note. Blank Books, of every variety; Envelopes, Slates, Ink, Ac, Fancy Stationery, Gold Pens and Pencils, Penw_; -ixrTWilru Alan AU1YC9, TTlUllJg WV. ? , BOOK BINDING DONE, in all its various branches. Sheet Music, Periodicals, Law Books, Ac., bound in any style desired. Ola Books rebound and repaired. PBIHTED BILL AND LETTER HEADS A SPECIALTY Orders promptly attended to, at lowest cash prices. E. R. STOKES, 155 Main Street Columbia, S. C. ETTENGER & EDMOND. RICHMOND, VA. MANUFACTURERS of Portable and Stationary Engines, Boiiersof all kinds, CIRCULAR SAW MILLS, Grist Mills, Mill Gearing, Shafting, Pulleys, Ac., American Turbine WATER WHEELS, and Cameron's Special Steam fump. Send for Catalogue. WM. ETTENGER. H. P. EDMOND. November 2 44 ly BARNES' FOOT POWER MACHINERY. A THIRTEEN different machines with which (MA 1 Builders, Cabinet Makers, Wag| j&Br] on Makers, and Jobbers in Mis1 cellaneous Work can compete ijgj|| QUALITY AND PRICE, with %team Power Manufacturing; also, Amateurs' Supplies, Saw Blades, Fancy Woods and Designs. Say where you read this and send for Catalogue and Prices. W. F. & JOHN BARNES, Rockford, Winnebago County, 111. June 7 23 10m BARBER SHOP. THOSE in want of an EASY SHAVE, a fashionable and stylish cut of hair, or a pleasant 1 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 t_I urdU n riAM all U/llA ITIftV HA I mill KTCiU piUJMUID IAJ naiv upv/u U.. ft MW mmm?J j sire his services. Razors honed and sharpened, ' and any other work of that kind promptly done. THOMAS BALLARD. August 16 33 tf April 5 14 ly* WRAPPING PAPER. OLD Newspapers, of large size, suitable for wrapping, for sale at 50 cents per hundred, at the ENQUIRER OFFICE. October 18 42 It z McCAULEY, RO. Ha Cat 1 THE CELEBRATED KING STOVES! PRICE GREATLY REDUCE? on Cooking and Heating Stoves, Hollow Ware, And-Irons, and Castings of all kinds. Also, on PLANTER'S PRIDE' PLOWS and Plow Castings, STRAW CUTTERS, Corn Shelters, HORSE POWERS, Saw Mills, Ac. s, Yorkville, S. C. Jock Hill, York county, S. C. onnellsville, York county, S. C. ter, S. C. 31 tf THE COLUMBIA REGISTER, PUBLISHED DAILY, TRI-WEEX1Y AHD WEEKLY, at COLUMBIA, S. CM by HOYT, EMLYN& M'DANIEL. JAHES A. HOYT, Kditor. THE DAILY REGISTER contains the latest news of the day, all commercial, political and other matter sent by telegraph, full local re- , ports, editorials upon all current topics, and A GRANGE AND AGRICULTURAL DEPART- 1 MENTS. j 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 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 WEEK.L<X KEU1STEK is an luxurnx PAGE paper, containing forty-eight columns, embracing toe cream of toe news of each week. Thi9 paper is within the reach of every family, and we are pleased to state the fact that its large circulation Is rapidly increasing. THE REGISTER is now the Organ of the State Orange, 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. One year, |7.00 Six months. 3.50 Three months 1.75 TRI-WEEKLY REGISTER. One year 5.00 Six months, 2.50 Three months - 1.25 WEEKLY REGI8TEB. One year, - 2 00 _ Six months. - 1 00 Three months, ~ 50 TAKE THE BEST! 1877-78. TH HIE ill C0ISTITWM, CONSOLIDATED MARCH 17TH. 1877, is the Oldest and Best Newspapers published in the South. It is tho 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 and daily increasing circulation in the States of Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina, and reaches every class of readers?merchants, farmers, professional men and working men, and is a most valuable advertising medium. The DAILY Chronicle and Constitutionalist ' ?as a. I ? Aftkaylan auwil *T/MI pUDIlSnes ail lottcurnmbiiiin* ui uiounj, !???><? all the reports of the Associated Press, and special dispatches from Washington, Atlanta, Columbia, ana all other points of interest, supplemented by correspondence. It gives foil commercial reports of domestic and foreign markets, of all local and Southern matters, and editorial oomment upon public affairs. Terms: $10 for 12 months, $5 for 6, $2.50 for 3, and $1 for 1 month, postagej>aid bv 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 by us. The WEEKLY Chronicle and Constitutionalist is a mammoth sheet, and the largest and handsomest Weekly published in the South. It oontains all the news of the week?telegraphic, local, editorial, miscellaneous?and carefully prepared reviews of the market. This edition Is gotten up for circulation among planters and others living in the country. Terms: $2 for 12 months, $1 for 0, postage paid by us. The Chronicle and Constitutional 1st 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 femily circle. Specimen copies sent free. Address, WALSH 4 WRIGHT, Managers, Augusta, Ga. TOOSPFnTTTS. HISTORY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, BY REV. R. LATH AN. SO soon as a sufficient number of subscribers are secured to warrant the enterprise, I propose publishing a HISTORY OF SOUTH CAROLINA. The work will embrace a COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE 8TATE from the first discovery of the soil; the settlement of the territory at different periods; the history of the State under the Proprietary Government; under the Royal Government, and through the Revolutionary period, or to the close of the Revolutionary war. The movements of the several whig military chiefe are accurately traced, and the several battles fought during the Revolution are minutely described. The whole will make a book of more than 700 ^ pages of the size of Stephens' History of the UniJ -J T* Kc rvrlnto^ on (ffVVj nflnAP wlttl tea otutcj. 11 nin w o-?,?-?, clear type, and bound in substantia] cloth. To subscribers the book will be delivered for FOUR DOLLARS per copy. Persons desiring to canvass for the work are requested to communicate with the authorat Yorkville, S. C., for terms, Ac. R. LATHAN. j&B- Persons desiring to subscribe for the book, can leave their namee at the Enquires Office. October 18 42 tf YORK MARBLE YARD. THE undersigned is still conducting the Marble Business in Yorkville, and would respectfully inform the public that he can supply tnnxe in want of MONUMENTS or HEADSTONES with anything in his line, and at the lowest ca*h prices. Monuments designed and finished in the most elaborate style, ana in point of workmanship and material warranted equal to the work of any establishment in the country. WaaH and Footstones. In various styles, from plain to highly-carved work, furnished at short notice, and satisfaction guaranteed. Specimens usually on hand, to an inspection of which, those in want of marble work are respectfully invited. Estimates and any other desired information cheerfully given at any time. Work delivered at any point on the Cheater and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad, between Chester and Dallas, or at any place between Rock Hill and Winnsboro, on the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad, free of charge for transportation. Thankful for the patronage heretofore bestowed upon my establishment, my determination is to merit a continuance of tne same. F. HAPPBRFIELD. March 9 5 ly STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OP YORK?COURT OP OOKXOff PLEAS. William L. Sandifer, Plaintiff, against Robert Patterson, Defendant.?(Summons for Relxtf. To the Defendant ROBERT PATTERSON: YOU are hereby summoned and required to answer the complaint in this action, which has been filed in the office of the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, for the said countv, and to serve a copy of vour answer on the subscriber, at hia office in Yorkville, South Carolina, within twenty days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day or such service; and if you fail to answer this complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the complaint. Dated Yorkville, S. C., September 10th, A. D., 1877. W. I. CLAWSON, Plaintiff's Attorney. October 4 40 6t 1 be ? otbuiUe inquirer. 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