Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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giumoMUSi fjepartrarut. PREPARED FOR A WHIPPING. This story is told of the old time discipline at Wilbraham (Mass.) Seminary when Dr. Fisk was the presiding officer: "There was one minister's son, now in the New-England Conference, (and a very faithful and useful pastor he has been), a member of a 1 large ministerial family, who in his academic 1 days was as full of mischief as the proverbial minister's son is supposed to be. He taxed the well known elastic patience of Dr. Fisk , to the last degree. Finally, the Doctor said j to him, after a capital act of misconduct: ; 'You must prepare yourself for a severe whipping.' When the appointed time came, the Doctor was on hand, very much more affected, apparently, than the irrepressible mischief maker. After a solemn discourse in that most melting tone of voice that no one can forget who ever heard it, the Doctor drew his r/itfan and laid if with cnnniderable unction upon the boy's back. Nothing but dust followed the blow. The subject of the discipline was entirely at his ease, and evidently .quite unconscious of the stroke. 'Take off your coat, sir,' was the next command, for the Doctor was a little roused. Again whistled the rattan around the boy's shoulders, but with no more effect. 'Take off your vest, sir,' shouted the Doctor. Off went the vest, but there was another under it. 'Off with the other!' and then, to the astonishment of the administrator of justice, he exposed a dried codfish, defending the back of the culprit like a shield, while below there was evidently stretching over other exposed portions of the body, a stout leather apron. 'What does this mean ?' said the Doctor. 'Why,' said the great rogue in a particularly humble and persuasive tone, 'you told me, Doctor, to prepare myself for punishment, and I have done the best I could 1' It was out of the question to pursue the act of punishment any further at that time. And it is doubtful whether it was ever resumed again. A Puzzled Boy.?The young son of a widow, living on Park street, entered the house the other day with excited step, and called to his mother: "You'd better get this house all slicked up, for there is a strange man going to call as soon as he gets through talking with the grocer on the corner!" "Man with the gas bill, I suppose," was her indifferent reply. "Not by a jug full!" continued the boy. "He's tall, dressed in broadcloth, has a big gold watch, looks as if he owned a bank, and he was asking me about you." ' i t j L. u_ ) "is mat possioie ; 1 wouuer wuu it uau ue < What did he ask ?" "He asked if you were as handsome as ever, and if you had grown old very fast, and if i you had married again !" "He did! Gracious, but who can it be ?" "I don't know; he is good-looking and rich, and?and?" "And what did you tell him ?" "I told him you wouldn't marry the best man in the world, and that it wouldn't do him any good to come spooking?" "I'll give you an awful licking if you don't split the rest of that wood ! interrupted the mother, with sudden energy, and he was run into the back yard and given a cud* on the ear as he left the door. He leaned on the axhelve and surveyed the back windows in wonderment, and by and by he mused: "She's alius saying she's going to live for her dear children alone, but if this looks like it, then I don't know the family ! I'll tell the next man that the whole six of us are on the marry for taters in the cellar and posish in , society I"?Detroit Press. 86?* There were five of them, says the Sac- J ramento Bee, and they had assembled in a ( cigar store, near Capital Hotel. The subject was in regard to horse-racing. Said a hackdriver, who was present, "Talk about your fast time! Why, I've seen a horse trot a mile in 1.50." "Impossible !" said the cigar-store proprietor. "It can't be done ! The best time I ever heard of was 2.141." Said the hackman, "I'll bet you five dollars I can prove what I say." Taken by the cigar man, ' coin put up and referee chosen. In a drawl- j ing voice, the hackman explained to the man . of cigars, "Don't you know, you idiot, that J 1.50 is two minutes and thirty seconds." Turning to the stakeholder, the tobacconist | then said, "Give him the money; it's worth five dollars to know what a fool I am." 1 Foe His Wipe's Sake.?A Newark bach- 1 elor dropped in, the other evening, to see a married friend whose wife was absent from j home on a prolonged visit. He found him * . - 1 x i smoking desperately, at a cigar neany a 1001 , long. "Why," asked he, breathlessly, "where on earth did you get such a preposterous cigar as that, Charley?" "Had it built by ' contract," was the response. "You see," continued the smoker, explanitorily, "I promised , ray wife, before she went away, bless her, that , I wouldn't smoke more than six cigars a day. ( Promises to a wife are sacred, you know, and j I mean to keep mine if I have to get cigars j as long as a lamp post." Signs of a Hard Winter.?If signs do J not fail, the coming winter will be the coldest ' experienced in this latitude since the country , was discovered by a man named Mr. Colum- < bus. The squirrels are laying in their winter ? coal, the beavers are putting heaters in the | basement of their lodges, the bees have killed j off all the drones and lined their hives with j sheet iron, the muskrats are flying South, | wild ducks are committing suicide, the goose- , bone is black sixteen inches deep, editors are j soliciting wood in exchange for subscriptions, ] poor families are buying an extra dog, and we have had a new collar put on our overcoat.?Norristovon Herald. , < Kag" The Providence Journal tells this story : j Some months ago the lord bishop of came to this country on a visit to Rev. Dr. of I the Episcopal church in New York. The < doctor instructed a colored boy, in his service, i to knock at the bed-room of the lord bishop, i early in the morning, and say, "My lord, the ' boy." Accordingly, the next morning, the I boy, somewhat dazed by so much grandeur, 1 knocked at the bishop's door, who called out, f "Who is there?" The boy responded, "The ' Lord, my boy." Will Happen in the Best Regulated Families.?"It not unfrequently happens," ' says the Hawkeye, "in this world of mistakes ' and thoughtlessness, that a man, even the best of men, may once or twice, during a long and otherwise faultless life, kiss his hired girl, by mistake, for his wife. But no man, of ages I past, or of to-day, was ever known to kiss his ! wife under the erroneous impression that she ' was the hired girl." fiST There is much importance displayed in the manly tread of the police, there is much pride shown in the looks of a darkey with a white-ribboned hat, there is much lightness in the gait of a prize pig; but for a conglome- 1 ration of all these, give us a little boy after a 1 summer day's fishing, with a sixteen-foot pole iu one hand and a three-inch sun-fish in the other. A Danbury boy asked his father, the < other day, what was a philosopher. "A phi- i losopber, my son ? Why, a philosopher is a man who reasons." "Is that so?" said the i boy, dejectedly, "I thought it was a man who ? didn't let things bother him." The father si- 1 lently patted his son's head.?Danbury News. jJSaT "Johnny," said a sporting Third ward ) father, "Johnny, what have you got in your j fist ?" "Two pears," said Johnny. "Good i hand," said the absent-minded father, "take | the pot?" Then he blushed, and pointing to ; i a brass kettle, he added, "to your mother." j; What is better than a promising young j i man ? A paying one. 11 ?he <farm and fireside. Rules of Table Etiquette.?Do not keep others waiting for you either at the beginning or the close of a meal. Don't sip soup from the tip, but from the side of a spoon. Be careful not to spill or drop anything on the table cloth. Keep your plate clean ; do not heap all sorts of food on it at once. In passing your plate to be refilled, retain your knife and fork. When asked for a dish, do not shove but hand it. While drinking, do not look around. Instruct the servant to hand the <ftip at the left side, so that it may be received with the right hand. Do not drink your tea or coffee without first removing the teaspoon from the cup to the saucer. Use the knife for cutting only; never rmf if frt the lins nr the mouth. Break vour r"" - ? ? ?x bread into small pieces aud rest them on your plate while spreading. Do Dot eat too fast; besides giving one the appearance of greed, it is not healthy. If you fiud anything unpleasant in your food, put it aside as quietly as possible, without drawing the attention of others to it Do not open the lips or make any unnecessary noise in chewing. Do not touch the head. Do not rest the elbows on the table. Be thoughtful of and attentive to the wants of those about you. Converse on pleasant subjects with those sitting Dear you. Do not say anything not intended for all present to hear. Leave your plate with the knife and fork lyiDg parallel, the handles poiuting to the right. Never leave the table before others, without asking the lady or gentleman who presides to excuse you. ?. ? Plain Diet.?This is what children ought on every account, to be accustomed to from the very first; it is worth vastly more for their present health and comfort than the little nice things with which fond parents are so often apt to vitiate their appetites, and it will save them a deal of mortification in after life. If you make it a point to give them the best of everything; to pamper them with rich cakes, sweet-meats and sugar-plums; if you allow them to say with a scowl, "I don't like this or that," "I can't eat that," and then go away aDd make them a little toast, or kill a chicken for their daiDty palates?depend upon it, you are doiDg a great injury, not only on the scone of denying a full muscle and rosy cheek, but of forming one of the most inconvenient habits that they can carry along with them in after life. When they come to leave you, they will not, half the time, find anything they can eat?and thus you will pre pare them to go chafing and grumbling through life, the veriest slaves in the world. ? 1 * ' * i J tLn iviotners, listen ana oewarueu iu time, mo uujc will come when you will repent?seeing your sons and daughters make their homes miserable by complaint, and raising them up in the same way. Weaning Colts.?A correspondent of a Canada paper makes the following suggestions on the subject of weaning colts : Put the colt and its mother in a stable; tie both side by side in a manger in a wide stall; have nothing between them ; give them an adequate supply of nutritious aliment for a few days, and the thing is accomplished. I prefer this way, because it prevents fretting, on the part of both the mare and the colt, and as an Irishman expressed it, about two pigs in the same pen, the one encourages the other to eat; so that the colt is not reduced iu condition, as is too often the case during the weaning process. This mode of treatment helps to halter-break the colt, too, if it has not previously been done. Another plan I have sometimes adopted, when I did not want to stable the colt?that is, started the old folks away on a visiting tour, for a week or so, with the mare, leaving the colt in the paBture-field with other colts ; thus the two are out of hearing distance oi each other, until the young one forgets its baby uotions. Forest Leaves.?"Last fall I gathered forest leaves," writes a correspondent of the Vermont Farmer, "and used them as bedding for stock. I selected a damp misty day, in which to gather them, and found that I could pack a good load in the wagon. I gathered principally from a part of my woods where ;he trees were scattering, raked them together in piles, and two of us hauled in and stored :en loads in a day. I had what I thought an tbundance, and I bedded ray hogs altogether with them. They are the best thing for the purpose I ever tried. The hogs would root ind work them over, mixing them thoroughly with their manure, and the consequence was? ;he be9t lot of hog manure I ever had. I ilao bedded my horses and cattle uutil the eaves were used up. I believe I gained fully en loads of manure, altogether, by using ten oads of leaves; not that much in bulk, but in increased value by absorbing the liquids which would have escaped. Wife.?What do you think the beautiful word "wife" comes from ? It is the word in ivhicb the English and Latin language conquered the French and Greek. I hope the French and Greek will some day get a word For it instead of that dreadful word "femme." But what do you think it comes from ? The great value of Saxon words is that they mean something. The word wife means "weaver." iTou must either be housewives or housemoths ; remember that. Wherever a true wife comes, home is always around her. The stars may be over her head, the glow-worm in :he night-cold grass may be the fire at her Feet; but home is where she is; and for a aoble woman it stretches far around her, better than houses ceiled with cedar and painted with vermilion, shedding its quiet light far For those who else are homeless. This I believe to be the woman's true place and power. Ruskin. The Bots.?The following is said, by an old Georgia farmer, to be worth its weight in gold: After losing a valuable horse, he took from ;be stomach a gill of bots and proceeded to jxperiraent upon them. He tried nitric acid, n which, at the end of three days they were is lively as ever, and various other prescriptions, without effect, though sage tea killed them in fifteen hours. He then took a handFul of tansy, bruised it, added a little water, squeezed out the juice, and put some bots in? they were dead in one minute, and he says : "Since then I have given it to many horses, iind never knew it to fail to afford entire relief. A friend, who afterwards had a horse with bots, gave him tansy in the morning and salts at night, and next morning took from the experiment three half pints of bots." For transplanting, the directions are | given by one who evidently knows whereof he affirms: "Dig wide holes?cut off all broken or marred roots, spread out the roots in a natural position, set the tree a little above its previous depth, fill in with good soil, (no ma- i cure) work it between the roots, with the j hand, do not pull the tree up and down, and j finally press the earth firmly down ; if there I is a likelihood of dry weather, spread a mulch ; ? * 1? ?? T)<rvo?i i n minrl fKof nlonto 1 over me nuimue. uhum ^iuuiu f are injured if the roots are exposed to sun and j wind for even a few minutes. A Remedy for Cougii and InflammA- i riON of the Lungs.?One ounce hoarhound, i one ounce boneset, one teacupful flaxseed, j one pint molasses, one gallon water, boil to [ three quarts or less, strain off, and keep it i cool. Drink a half teacupful at a time, six,, eight or more times a day. When there is a tickling in the throat, ten drops of laudanum j may be added to the last dose at night. This simple remedy has relieved many who had j very little hope of recovery. Remedy for Bronchitis.?Take dried leaves of the common mullen plant, powder and smoke them in a new clay pipe ; be care-1 ful that no tobacco has been in the pipe.! Draw the smoke well into the throat, occasion-1 ally swallowing some. Use three or four times daily. i IpswlktiMUSi ?tcading. THE BANK OF ENGLAND. Few visitors go inside the Bank, or pass beyond its interior portals. Yet the Bank contains a mine of wondrous information, and j its vast stores of money make impecunious fingers tingle. Here are machines weighing | with the nicety of a hair; machines that auj tomatically separate the good coins from i those of short weight; printing machines of exquisite finish, for making the notes ; electro plates from which the notes are printed, and curious mechanisms for constructing the cloths by which the very effective water mark is put in the Bank note paper, which is the main reliance in preventing counterfeiting and forgery. You are shown great stores of gold and notes, and for once you are made rich by being permitted to hold in your hand, at one time, 85,000,000, though the vanity of earthly riches is at the same time taught by the celerity with which all these millions slip through your fingers?and back into the vault. You are shown great rooms full of money, with gold a perfect drug?piled up in ingots, hauled around on trucks, carted about in kegs, and shoveled from one place to another, like so much coal. My eyes were al* . v i - _ r dftA lowed to Jook upon an accumuiuuuu ui cau,000,000 of gold coin and bullion, but I could not carry any of it off. I was offered, a sack if I could lift it, but it seemed fastened to the floor. Picking up a little twenty-pouud ingot, I was told to beware lest it fall, and an attendant who was limping about in a slipper said that one of them, of equal value to his next year's salary, had, the day before, almost mashed his toe. There were cart loads of silver in bricks, most of it, like the gold, coming from America, but there was not in all thiB great store a single Bland dollar?a famous coin at home, but which does not flourish in London as yet. The Bank does all its own note printing, and also all the assorting of light-weight coins. It is the great corrector of the British coinage, returning to the mint for the melting pot all the light-weight, defective and defaced coins that come into it. By this means it keeps the coinage up to the stand ard, as only the good ones are allowed to go into circulation again. The loss on the silver coinage the Government bears, but- the depositors have to bear the loss on the gold i coiuage. Every coin that comes in on deposit or otherwise is weighed, aud the light ones are immediately cut almost in two, by an ingenious little machine that works with grent celerity. For every short-weight sovereign the depositor is charged a uniform discount of eight cents, which covers the average Iobs from this cause. For gold bullion and foreign gold coius, the Bank pays up weight, at the rate of 77 shilliugs and 9 pence per ounce of gold. The Bank transacts all the Government busiuess in connection with the Government debt, and, so far as this department is concerned, it acts similarly to the Treasury at Washington in paying interest and making transfers. The debt is all registered stock, however, and separate accounts are kept with every holder. There are about 250,000 of these debt accounts, some being in very large amounts. I was shown a signature of Glyn & Co., where they had just received interest on nearly ?2,100,000 of one class of the debt. The business of the Bank is divided into three great departments?the Government Debt, the Issue (bank notes), and the Private nnnnoifo Vn/ili nf tkooc ia apnnrnfolv r?nn. l/ot XJUVU vr* vnvwv iw uv^/wim*v<j www ducted, and the deposits aggregate about $130,000,000. I told some of the Bank officials that this sum possibly was not all the deposits, as several of my countrymen, in Camden and elsewhere, were inquiring about 150 or 160 millions on deposit in the Bank for the Jennings estate, but they did not seem to be aware of any such deposits, but they were very sure that the total actual deposits footed up what I have named. There are among the great curiosities of the Bank, its method of tracing the history of every note it has issued, done with great labor by means of ingenious indexes. The smallest note is for five pounds and the largest for one thousand pounds. In their collection of redeemed notes, all of which are kept, is a redeemed note that had gone through the Chicago fire. This note had been burnt to a crisp, yet it had been carefully opened out and the charred remains spread upon a glass plate, so that all was restored excepting a small portion. There in the ashes, can be read the language of the note, its number and date. This note, which was for teu pounds, the Bank promptly redeemed, and it is now carefully preserved as a great curiosity. There is a case that shows the gradual progress of the Bank in making these notes, by exhibiting specimens. The earliest notes were written with a pen, and it waB customary to change their amounts by erasures and interliueatious. From these they improved step by step to the almost square white pieces of paper of to-day, printed in bold German text, and whilst being twice the size, yet as unlike the American note us it is possible for two bank notes to be. Another curious collection contains specimens of attempted forgeries, alterations, and counterfeiting of notes. Some of these are by photographing, others by pasting and raising, some being clever and others poor imitations. But whilst the priut lug ib uiJiittieu, tucic uas uccu uu even approximately successful attempt to imitate the water-marked paper, wherein the Bank places its main reliance for the safety of the note. In one case the attempt was made to print upon stolen genuine paper, gotten surreptitiously from the mill, but the checks are so admirable that it was at once detected and the fraud suppressed before the notes had got into circulation. The Bank is a wonderful place, and not the least famous part is the Directors' Room, looking out upon a pretty little garden, for, even in the heart of busy London, land is not so valuable that a little cannot be spared for grass and flowers. Iu this Bank Parlor the Directors meet and sit around a large oblong, circular table every Thursday. Here they raise and lower the discount rate, and thus give official quotation, as it were, to the fluctuations of the London money market, to which all others bear tribute. But though the enormous money power concentrates here, the Directors who wield it are, nevertheless, true Englishmen. Whatever else they do, they do not forget the inner man, for here smoked sundry joints of juicy beef and mutton, and other savory viands, showing that, even in the Bank of; England, as elsewhere, the stomach still ruled i the roast.?Philadelphia Ledger. An English Officers Troubles.?An j English officer, sent on a special mission by j the War Office, included in his accounts an I item of 1 shilling for "porter." The War Office seut him a formidable letter by return of post to inform him that the Government did not pay for his beer. He explained that the shilling was for the man who carried his luggage, and then received another note advising him that he should have charged for "porterage." When he next made up his accounts the official charged 1 shilling 6 pence for "cabbage," considering that that was the proper way to set down a charge for cab hire, j but he promptly received another wigging ; for making unauthorized investments in vegetables. \\T tt a rn P attopq TvuiTATn Pl.'VRR?-Tllfl ! H I1A1 va UQfA? A x i ii \y a, jls * United States Coo9ul at Bristol, England, re-' ports a severe outbreak of enteric (typhoid) j fever, at Clifton, near that place, which had been traced to the use of milk from a farm where the pump is five yards from the privy j vault. Previous to the outbreak a young lady had been carried to the farm house, to com- j plete her convalesceuce from enteric fever. A wholesome lesson is given in the action of the medical officer of health, who notified the ! farmer that if he let any member of his fami- j ly use the contaminated pump water and dis-! ease arose from it, or if he sold any milk and , disease arose from it, he would lay informa-, tion against him of having committed man-! slaughter." i Steading for t'Jic Sabbath. CONDUCTED BY REV. ROBERT LATHAN. ADVERSITY. If none wore sick and none were sad, What service could we render? I think if we were always glad We scarcely could bo tender. Did our beloved never need Our patient ministration, Earth would grow cold, and miss, indeed, Its sweetest consolation. If sorrow never claimed our heart, And every wish wore granted, Patience would die and nope depart? Life would be disenchanted. The Ecclesiastical Grumbler.?Isn't there somebody in your church that is always talking about the coldneeB of the brethren, the divisions that abound, the low state of piety, the conformity to the world, etc.; in other words, who is continually confessing other people's sins instead of his own. My word for it, that man is the cause of much of the evil that he complains of, and magnifies it by his complaining. (Those who choose can put she and her in this last sentence instead of "he" and "his.") Tell such grumblers the fable of "Bell Clapper." The bell in which it was hung was cracked, and the clapper was cracked, and the clapper was always complaining of its sad fate in being hung in such a bell. A good many unsophisticated people pitied the clapper, and condoled with its sad lot. At length the spirit of Diogenes, the old cynic, who could not endure shams of any kind, came along. He beard of the clapper's complaint, and said : "Before you make any more fuss about the bell, remember two things. First, you cracked it, and, second, nobody would know that it was cracked if you did not tell them." The moral is obvious, but those who need to ponder it will be the last to see it.?Herald and Presbyter. I Did Steal that Sheep.?A writer in a Baptist weekly tells a story of a circumstance 1 ihlll nn/1 TTT ul/iu illno. WlllUU UUCUIICU at vawc^u, auu nuivu aiiuotrated the practical shrewdness of an old minister named Amassa Brown. A member of the church charged another with stealing a sheep. The culprit denied the charge. Both were men of influence. The church was divided. The council was called, and Mr. Brown was there. There were no wituesses except as to character. It was the word of one man against another. One was a slanderer, or the other a thief. Elder Brown suggested a most extraordinary measure. He called the two men to the rostrum before the pulpit, and directed the man who made the charge to engage in prayer?and requested the councilor and audience to look him in the face while praying. He made an earnest prayer. He appealed to the Lord as one who knew the charge was true. Then the other was called upon to follow. He made a regular prayer for the church, the pastor, etc., aud then said: "As touching this matter of the sheep, O Lord-a-hura?as to touching?touching this-ah'?when he sprang to his feet, and exclaimed, "Brethren, I cannot pray. I did steal that sheep 1" So the matter was settled. Convincing Evidence.?A certain backwoods preacher, years ago, was before the Conference Committee for examination. He was Dot a book man, nor a theologian, in the technical sense of that term ; but he knew salvation as God teaches it to believing and loving hearts. "Brother," said one of the gentlemen of the Committee, "will jou please name some of the evidences of the Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ ?" The bushwhacking preacher looked a little vacant. "What makes you think Christ was Divine ?" again asked the Committee man. The plain man roused himself. "How do I know that He is Diviue?" said he. "Yes." His eyes at once filled with tears. He started to his feet, and stretching out his great brawny arras ard hands, exclaimed, with a true Methodist hallelujah ring, "Why, bless you,"said he,"He's saved my soul I" It is a religious duty to sleep, and to sleep enough; and he who does not may be sure he is breaking the sixth commandment, which requireth all lawful endeavors to preserve our own life as well as the lives of others. There is scarcely a better health meter for men who think much than this. Hard mental work is beginning to kill when it interferes with sleep, and he who plies his brain with ever so much energy eight or ten hours a day, prays and plays five or six, and sleeps seven or eight will never die of overwork. But he must make a business of it. Brainwork, food, exercise in the open air, culture of the soul, social relaxation and sleep? these are the constituents of good living, and they will be attended by health, wealth, usefulness and happiness. If anything else is wanting, it will be added thereunto.?Dr. Prime. "But as Thou Wilt.''?Should any man say, "I asked for a blessing that was plaiuly promised, but did not obtain it," I should then say, Are you equally clear that the obtaining of it would be for your good ? "Yes," say you, "it would make me comfortable." Just so; but is it for your good to be comfortable? "And it would get me out of my difficulty." But may it not be for your lasting good to be in the difficulty, and may there not be something in the world a great deal higher for you and for me than merely to be comfortable 1 and to get out of difficulty? "Not as I will, but as thou wilt," was the prayer of the man who had more power in prayer than all of us put together?"Not as I will, but as thou wilt." We must always put that in.?Spur j geon. Humble Htm.?A story is told of a High Church Episcopal Bishop in England, who was very much opposed to any one praying J without a book. As he was riding out on a i certain day, his horse took fright, ran away, broke the sulky and broke the Bishop's leg. The Bishop was in great pain and in fear of dying, and called for some one to pray with him. There was an honest Christian man?one John Rodgers?who lived near by, who was sent for, and as he saw the situation of the prelate, he was deeply affected. The burden of his prayer was as follows: "Seeing you have taken the Bishop in hand to humble him, 0, Lord, make thorough work. If breaking one leg won't answer, 0., Lord, break t'other, too." S&" The rules of politeness are never at va- ! riance with the principles of morality. Whatever is really impolite is really immoral. 1 We have no right to offend people with our manner of conversation. We have no right to ' deal with or be influenced by gossip about the , people we meet. Their private affairs are none of our business. If we believe a man to be unfit company for us, we must not invite him ; but if we meet him where he has been i invited by others, we must treat him with civility. i 5^" While it may be conceded that many j highly respectable and estimable persons ] dance, we have never known a young per- > son to become fascinated with dancing whose 1 interest in religion did not diminish just in proportion as the love for the dance increased. The significance of this fact need not be urged upon any person whose religious welfare is with himself or herself the chief thing. . Make a note of this, young friends. fiST The garden is a teacher. There Na- , ture is ever at work, producing her most beau-1 tiful forms and transformations. No man j can witness attentively the germination of j the seed, the uprising of the blade, the un-1 folding of the flower, the maturing of the i fruit, without at the same time becoming ' : wiser, nobler and better. Keep your boys at home after dark. I The card table, the dance, the dice box and the drinking saloon will speedily unsettle their notions of right and send tbera headlong to ruin, ibe ?0*fevil!U fainim. TERMS?IN ADVANCE : One copy, one year. $ 3 00 One copy, six months, 1 50 One copy, three months, 75 Single copy, 10 Two copies, one year, 5 00 Ton copies, one year, 25 00 To persons who make up clubs of ten or more names, an extra copy of the paper will be furnished one year, free of charge. j?3S" Advertisements inserted at One Dollar per square, for the first insertion, and fifty cents per square, for each subsequent insertion. A square consists of the space occupied by seven lines of this size type. Contracts can be made for three, six or twelve months, and a reduction obtained from the regular transient rates. A. WILLI FORD, PEED AND SALE STABLES. ROCK HILL, 8. C. PAY XJJP. 1 LL persons knowing themselves indebted to me for Stock bought in 1877, will be sued after the 1ST OF OCTOBER, 1878. Also, persons knowing that they bought stock and their notes will fall duo on the FIRST OF OCTOBER, had better pay up, or I will force collection. I mean business. A. WILLIFORD. F0j)DER THE undersigned will pay the highest Cash Price for TEN THOUSAND POUNDS OF GOOD FODDER, delivered at his Feed and Sale 8tables, at Rock Hill. A. WILLIFORD. DROVERS. I AM prepared to keep Drovers on the MOST REASONABLE TERMS, as I have good outside Sheds and water in the lot. A. WILLIFORD. WAGONS. Just received twenty WAGONS. One, two and three-horse WAGONS. Warranted the best and cheapest WAGONS Ever offered for sale in South Carolina. i ALSO, I A large assortment of t CARRIAGES AND BUGGIES, ~ With a variety of SECOND-HAND VEHICLES, Very cheap. j. . ALSO, 200 Bushels of that same white May GALLAGER WHEAT that has proved itself to be the best wheat ever harvested in York county. For sale by B. T. WHEELER. HO! THE FARMER. HAVING secured the control of the sale of the celebrated AVERY PLOWS, For the territory of York county, I am enabled , fi/vll iknnA nlsxiarci 1/\WAf ni>i/iau fKan tKoxr havh * LW HCII IIIO^O WiW rr o av tuiiui pt ivoa kiiuii ?mvj Mw*v ever been sold in this locality, In addition to my STOCK ON HAND, I will receive in a few days, a large lot, consisting of C. 0., B. 0., and Pony Steel Turn Plows, ana Nos. 1 and 2 Cast Plows; one and two-horse ^ Hill Sidle Flows. 5 Also, a full supply of Steel and Cast Points and point bolts. I am prepared to furnish the SULKY OR RIDING PLOW 4 And Walking Cultivator, Gang PIowb, and in fact, every variety of the Avery Plow that may be wanted. i Having met with so much encouragement in J the sale of these Plows, I propose to furnish the HOME AND FARM, A journal published by B. F. Avery <fe Sons, gratuitously for one year, to every person who may buy, or may have bought an Avery Plow from me. Call and examine my stock. T. 8. JEFFERYS. DAILY EXCURSION! 1 THE leader of low prices are still in existence, a and are offering ^ THE GREATEST BARGAINS ? that have ever been known. We are closing out v the entire stock of Summer Goods t NOW OTV HAND, " c At and below Cost. We call the attention of every one to our large stock of Clothing, Cassimeres " ind Pants Goods of all kinds, WHICH WE ARE CLOSING OUT. t b We call the attention of the ladies to our stock ot ^ Dress Goods, bleached and unbleached goods, 11 Parasols, Kid Gloves at 25 cents, AND AGBEATMANI OTHER GOODS, ? All of which must be sold. We hope all of our a friends will call and be convinced. A. FRIEDHAM & BRO., s Rock Hill, S. C. I July 4 27 tf I JAMES A. GLENN, D7D7 8., g SURGEON AND MECHANICAL DENTIST, i OFFERS his profession..! services ? to the citizens of this section. When desired, he will visit the residences of patrons. Teeth extracted without pain by tho use of nitrous oxide gas. Letters addressed to Crowder's Creek, N. C., will meet with _ prompt attention. Terms moderate. November 1 44 tf BARBER SHOP. c THOSE in want of an EASY SHAYE, a fashionable and stylish cut of hair, or a pleasant ?nd luxurious Shampoo, are reminded that r THOS. BALLARD, Professor of the ArtTonso- , rial, is still in business, in his old Shop next door " to the Enquirer building, where it will afford ? bim great pleasure to wait upon all who may deaire his services. Razors honed and sharpened, J' jnd any other work of that kind promptly done. " THOMAS BALLARD. a J. R. SCHORB'S PHOTO-GALLERY, ! 1ST HOUSE EAST OF THE JAIL. A SUPERIOR Skylight, a gallery with every ^ convenience, and a determination to do my best, enables me to promise satisfaction to all in u want of correot and fluttering likenesses. Cloudy F weather is as good or better than sunshine for all subjects, except small children. ^ application"for discharge! I NOTICE is hereby given that the undersigned, _ Executorof tho estate of WILLIAM WALLACE, deceased, will make a final settlement -j with tho Judge of Probate for York county, on the J Kith day of November next, when he will make a ipplieation for a final discharge from liability as j ^ Executor of said estate. 8; W. B. ALLISON, Executor. a, October 17 42 5t CHATTEL MORTGAGES, "j MORTGAGES of Real Estate, and Titles to 1 Real Estate. For sale at the ft ENQUIRER OFFICE. SERGEANTA GREENSBO MANUFACTURERS OF "TROPIC" COO] T. M. DOBSON <fe CO., Agenti JOHN R. LONDON, Agent, I i ti t r\Trvn 4 -*t i , n a. r. jl/iin ijoa i, Agent, mcu J. L. CARROLL, Agelit, Chesl August 2 i The Beet Family! The "NEW AMERICAN" it easily leame more work with less labor than any other rr application. AGENTS \ J. S. POVEY Manager, GJ Agent tor Yorkville and icinity, July 18 . , f: * ANEW AND INTERESTING FEATURE ~ OF THE EDGEFIELD ADVERTISER. A BOUT the first of July, the Advertiser will j i /V begin the publication of a series of Biograph- | cal Sketches, giving, in synopsis, the lives of many prominent and distinguished sons, dead ind living, of South Carolina. In connection with these, there will appear in our columns each week, a portrait of the individual whose life is ketcbed, done iu the highest style of modern photographic art.' From the great and good men 1 n ine past, sucn selections nave Deen maae as Fohn C. Calhoun, George McDufile, Judge A. P. ' Sutler, Chancellor F. H. Wardlaw, Governors Pickens, father and son ; Gov. P. M. Butler, Colo- I lei of the Palmetto Regiment; Senator Louie T. ] Wigfall, Judge O'Neal, Gen. Waddy Thompson, 5en. James Jones, Edmund Bacon, Esq;, alias 'Ned Brace," of the "Georgia Scenes," Major 1 Fack Jeter, Hon. Preston Brooks, Gov. S. D. Miler, and others, whose names we have not space ( o mention just now. Later we will take up such men as Hon. J. P. j Carroll, Gov. M. L. Bonham, Gen. Abner Perrin, j Sen. M. W. Gary, Gen. R. G. M. Dunovant, Gen- j irals Kershaw j Kennedy, Logan, Connor, Wal- j ace, McGowan, Hagood" and Bee; Col. Thos. G. ' Jacon, Col. Thos. G. Lamar, Col. Joseph Abney, 3ol. W. C. Moragne, Speaker John C. Sheppard, 1 ?ol. Arthur Simkins, Gen. James Chesnut, Hon. 1 iV. D. Simpson and others, whose names shall ocur to us in the future. Subscription Price, $2.50, per annum, in adrance. Address: ADVERTISER, .i - Edgefield, S. C. Jnne 27 "26 tf "THE SUNDAY "TIMES. | L STRAIGHT-OUT DEMOCRATIC PAPER ! < ? Published every Sunday Morning at the TIMES OFFICE, ] No. 5 State Street, Charleston, S. C. j Containing all the latest news by mail ami tele- * ;ranh, up to two o'clock every Sunday morning, jesides a summary of the events of the week, together with original stories. . ' 1 " t A Paper for the Home and the Fireside ! j 8 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. J One year, in advance, ......'. $2 50 ai? 4.1 - J ? 1 en \ IX KlltJIllpljn, III HUVBIIUJ, X uu Three months, In advance, 75 e Single Copy, Five Cents. 8 JNO. A. MOROSO, Editor. < October 8 40 - ' 11 8 IN THE VALLEY, 1 CHESTER, S. C. ? THE subscriber is bet-' :*> ter prepared, than ever ' rt3?p|J|h kinds 'of JOB WORK, c Jsuch as Turning, Scroll 8 Sawing, Repairing, Ac. ? Also, FURNITURE I MADE TO ORDER, 1 from common to the [ Valnut Chamber Suits, j] FRENCH WALNUT SUITS, TRIMMED, e . specialty. ^ Just received, another lot of METALIC BU- [ IIAL CASES, among them some fine CASKETS. 1 Uso, WOOD COFFINS AND CASKETS. All if which will be sold as cheap as can be afforded. J I HAVE A HANDSOME NEW HEARSE, n yhieh can be had at funerals free of charge, in J own ; and in the country at a moderate charge, * ccording to distance. You can find me at MORRISON'S OLD STAND ] n Depot street, one door west of Aiken's Cotton J rin Shop. J. M. PARISH. May 9 19 6m MILLS AND HILL MACHINERY. 1 rHE undersigned take this method of informing the public, that under the firm name of VELLS BROTHERS, they are engaged in the 1ILLWRIGHT BUSINESS, and are prepared r o enter into contracts for the building or repairag of MILLS and MILL MACHINERY of ev- 8 ry description, from the largest and most compete Flouring Mill, to an ordinary Cotton Screw. Each member of the firm is a skilfull workman c nd has had the benefitof a number of years' expe- lj ience. We are, therefore, prepared to guarantee o bat all work entrusted to us, will be executed in I workmanlike manner. J By permission, we refer to the following peroti8, for whom we have worked: W. J. Rainey, llairsville, S. C.; J. B. <fe R. M. Whitesides, j, lickory Grove, S. C.; Major T. P. Whitesides, j( t. N. McElwee and Elias Ramsay, Yorkville, c I. C.; W. D. Lessley, Clover, S. C. We are also agents for the sale of "Excelsior * initinn Plotlio " and imnrnved Mill Machinery f every description. Our post office address is p Lntioch, York county, S- C. W. S. WELLS, M. R. WELLS, J. W. WELLS. September 26 39 ly* I SOUTH CAROLINA-YORK COUNTY. 2 IN THE PROBATE COURT. ,'lawson A Spencer, Executors, vs. Mary Marshall, and others, Defendants.?Decree for Sale, <tc. 1 rHE creditors of W. I. CLAWSON, deceased, ~ except those who have heretofore proved their ^ emands before the Executors, (which I shall * onsider an established already) are hereby noti- ? ed to establish the same before me, on or before d be 5th day of DECEMBER, 1878. The Execuirs to have the privilege, upon ten days' person1 notice to any creditor, to contest his claim acording to law. J. A. McLEAN, P. J. Y. C. j October 24 43 6t J CLEANSING AND REPAIRING". d rHE undersigned would respectful ly inform P the public that he is prepared to cleanse gar- v lents of any fabric whatever, rendering them * erfectly clean, and if unfaded, restoring them to * iio original brightness and lustre of the goods. P >o not throw away your old clothes, but have n bem cleaned and made to look as well as new. Vork promptly done, and at the most reasonale prices. THOMAS BALLARD. NOTICE. [" RESPECTFULLY inform the public that I L am prepared to sharpen razors, scissors, shears nd other fine-edged instruments. Prices?for , oningand sharpening razors, 25 cents, and for j barpening scissors or shears, 10 cents each, and * atisfaction guaranteed or no charge. 8 TOM BALLARD, Barber. t< IfPTUTC U you want to MAKE ; 1 LUrTjil IS MONEY pleasantly and ist, address Finley, Harvey A Co., Atlanta, Ga. c October 17 42 ly z McCAULEY, RO. N? C., ' the celebrated KING STOVES I PRICE GREATLY REDUCED on Cooking and Heating Stoves, Hollow Ware And-Irons, and Castings of al. ainds, Also, on 'PLANTER'S PRIDE' PLOWS STRAW CUTTERS, HORSE P0WER8, Saw Mills, Ac. a, Yorkville, S. C. lock Hill, York county, S. C. snnellsville, York county, S. C. ter, 8. C. 31 tf Buy only the ^ NEW W AMERICAN iT 18 TUB j?|fi Only Sewing Machin<which Has a |tif-|hrcadiitfl|hu)iii It us Self Setting Needle. ?iHS Never Breaks the Threai k BBfflSi Never Skips Stitches. KgHW Is the Lightest Banning. The Simplest, the Most Durable, and in Every Respect Sewing Machine! d. does not get out of order, and will do iachine Illustrated Circular furnished on (TANTED. . Charles Street, Baltimore, tfd* J. IV. ROBERTS, !9 Jy YORKMARBLE YAfiST TTTF. nn^orolnm/ul ia stillo)nducting"ttieMarville, and would respectix? 'hat he 08118 f^M l^08e MENTS' OR HEAD-ST0NE3 with anything in his line, and at the a lowest casn prices. Monuments designed and i finished in the most elaborate style, and in point B of workmanship and material warranted equal c io the work of any establishment in the country. 1 Head and Footstones, in various styles, from ' plain to highly-carved work, furnished at short hotioe, 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 jheerfally given at any time. Work delivered at any point on the Chester ind Leuofl- Narrow Gange Railroad, between Chester and Dallas, or at any place between Rock Hill and Winnsboro, on the Charlotte, Coil mbia and Augusta Railroad, free of charge for xansportation. Thankful for the patronage heretofore bestowed lpon my establishment, my determination Is to nerit a continuance of the same. F. HAPPERFIELD. Januarv 3 1 lv PAY UP ! fi" ffPx m _ THE undersigned, proAtarf/V/ prietors of the Yorkville [If SALE AND FEED STAW* BLES, would respectfully remind those who have bought stock from them m time, that their notes will begin to fall due at in early day, and PROMPT PAYMENT will be expected by all who have been favored. L^t none forget their obligation* to us, thereby )lacing us under the disagreeable necessity of orcing collections, which we will be compelled 0 do,If payments be not promptly made. V FEEDING AND GROOMING. 1 We wonld also call attention to the fact that we 1 ire well prepared to BOARD horses or mules by ' he day, week, month or single meal. Animals >laced in our care will be well fed and well treated, it the LOWEST PRICES. Persons coming in rom the country and leaving their horses at onr 1 tables can have the satisfaction of knowing that vbile they will be properly cared for, they will ilso be more secure than when hitched op in iome back lot, liable to break loose and stray off, >r be stolen. Give us a trial, and we guarantee atisfaction. Stables near old Masonic Hall. We wish to buy Corn and Fodder, for which he highest cash prices will be paid at onr stables, WHITAKER A WILLIFORD. September 19 2 ly HOUSE PAINTING. IlHE undersigned would respectfully Inform the public that he has resumed the business >f HOUSE PAINTING in all its departments? i trade to which he has served a regular appreniceship, under a firet-olass painter,and in which te has had several years' experience. Work done n the most durable manner, and at the lowest irices at which it can be afforded. MARBLING. DRAINING in imitation of different woods, ana ill kinds of FINE INTERIOR PAINTING lone in as good style as can be done by any paintr in this section of the country. 1 can be seen ?r addressed at Yorkville, ana will cheerfblly nake estimates on work in any part of YQrk, or he ariioinina counties. References;?As to my skill as a workman, I " espectfully refer to the following gentlemen: j. M. Grist, W. A. Moore, Hon. I. D. Witberpoon, A. W. Ingold, J. F. Wallace, Lawson Jenlins, Col. W. H. McCorkle, Dr. H. G. Jackson, )r. J. F. Lindsay, James L. Clark, James E. imith, Hon. A. 8. Wallace, Yorkville; J. 8. R. Thomson, Spartanburg; R. M. Wilson, Gaston; '. A. Brice, Fairfield; J. Harvey 8mitb, Chester. . .... NELSON DA VIES. July 11 28 ly 3LANK BOOK MANUFACTORY STATIONERY. AND BOOK BINDERY. rHANKING the public for liberal past patronage, I now invite attention to my complete took of STABLE AND FANCY STATIONERY. onsistin'.', in part, of Flat Papers, Midium, Foio Post, Demy, Letter and Note. Blank BcokB, f every variety; Envelopes, Slates, Ink, Ao, '"ancy Stationery, Gold Pens and Pencils, Penknives, Writing Desks, Ac. Also, BOOK BINDING DONE, a all its various branches. Sheet Music, Periodjais.Law Books, Ac., bound in any style desired. >la Books rebound and repaired. BIN TED BILL AND LETTEB HEADS A 8PE0IALTY Orders promptly attended to, at lowest cash rices. * E. R. STOKES, 155 Main Street Columbia S. C. July 18 29 tf IN BANKRUPTCY. i n the District Court of the United 8tates for the . District of South Carolina. Zxparte J. P. Moore, Assignee, In Re. Benson F. Hardin, Bankrupt.?Petition Jor Sale and to call in Lien Creditors. A LL creditors claiming to hold liens against the \ estate of this bankrupt, are hereby required 3 establish the same before me, at my office in rnrkville* 8. f!.. on or hoforn Hi a 14th Hnv of November, 1878, or they will be barred all interst in the final decree to be made herein. By orer of Court. C. E. 8PENCER, Register. October 24 43 3t SHARPEN YOUR GINS. I HAVE several IMPROVED FILING MAL CHINES, in the hands of good workmen, bat are giving the very best satisfaction. Parties esiring their GINS FILED, can have it done Tomptly by leaving their orders with me. I rill send an operator to the GIN HOUSE who rill file the Gin without removing the Saw Shaft. 'he work of filing, by these machines, is far suerior to that done by straight Files. It leaves o shoulders cut in the blade to nap the cotton. T. S. JEFFERYS. September 12 37 tf ROSE'S HOTEL, YORKVILLE, S. C. THIS HOUSE has been tboroughly renovated from cellar to * garret, and newly fbrnished, in" eluding GRAFTON'S PATENT iPRING BEDS. In view of the times, our moto is a full House at a moderate price. ?ERMS?$1.50 PER DAY, OR 50c. PER MEAL. Sample Rooms reserved especially for Com merial travelers. HENRY W. SMITn. August 30 34 tf