Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, October 28, 1880, Image 4
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FIRST-CLASS SNAKE STORIES.
"Do you want some items about snakes?"
asked an agricultural-rural-looking gentleman
of the Eagles city editor the other day.
"If they are fresh and true," responded the
editor.
"Exactly," replied the farmer. "These
items are both. Nobody knows 'em but me.
I got a farm down on the island a piece, and
there's lots of snakes on to it. Near the
house is a pond about six feot deep. A week
ago my little girl jumped into the pond, and
would have drowned if it had not been for a
snake. The snake seen her and went for her
and brought her ashore. The particular
point about this item is the way that he did
it."
"How was it?" asked the city editor.
"It was a black snake thirty feet long, and
he just coiled the middle of himself around
her ueck so she couldn't swallow any water,
and swum ashore with his head and tail. Is
that a good item ?"
"First-class."
"You can spread it out, you know. After
they got ashore the girl patted the SDake on
the head, aud it went off as pleased as Punch.
Ever since he comes to the house regular at
meal times, and she feeds him on pie. Think
you can make anything out of that item?"
"Certainly. Know any more ?"
"Lemme see. You have heard of hoopsnakes
?"
"Yes, often ?"
"Just so. Not long ago we heard a fearful
row in the cellar one night It sounded like
a rock-blast, and then there was a hiss and
things was quiet. When I looked in the
morning the cider barrel had busted. But
we didn't lose much cider."
"How did you save it?"
"It seefas that the staves had busted out,
' but before they could get away four hoopsnakes
coiled around the barrel and tightened
up and held it together until we drew it off
in bottles. That's the way we found 'eih,
and we've kept 'em around the house ever
since. We're training 'em for shawl straps
jow. Does that strike you favorably for an
item ?"
"Enormously," responded the city editor.
"You can fix it up so as to show how quick
they were to get there before the staves were
blown off. You can work in the details."
"Of course. I'll attend to all that. Do
you think of anything more?"
"I don't call any to mind just at present
My wife knows a lot of snake items, but I
forget 'em. By the way, though, I've got a
regular living curiosity down on my place.
One day my eldest boy was sitting on the back
stoop doing his sums, and he couldn't get 'em
right He felt something against his face,
ami there was a little snake coiled up on his
shoulder and looking at the slate. In four
minutes he had done all the sums. We've
tamed him so he keeps all our accounts, and
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lie id uic j igu uiiijgcdi at uj^uica jv u cvci
seen. He'll run up a column eight feet loug
in three seconds. I wouldn't take a reaper
for hira."
"What kind of a snake is he?" inquired
the city editor, curiously.
"The neighbors all call hira an adder."
"Oh, yes, yes," said the city editor, a little
disconcerted. "I've heard of the species."?
Brooklyn Eagle.
A sad looking man went into a Burlington
drug store. "Can you give me," he
asked, "something that will drive from my
mind the thoughts of sorrow and bitter recollections
?" And the druggist nodded and put
hira up a little dose of quinine, and wormwood,
and rhubarb, and epsom salts, and a
dash of castor oil, and gave it tp bim, and
for six months the man couldn't think of anything
in the world except new schemes for
getting the taste out of his mouth.
ffaT The mother of two sons, twins, met one
of the brothers in a field one morning.
"Which of you two boys am I speaking to ?"
asked the mother. "Why do you ask ?" in
quired the lad, prudently. "Because, if it is
your brother, I will box his ears." "It is not
my brother, it is I." "Then your brother is
wearing your coat, for yours had a hole in it."
"No, mother, I am wearing my own coat."
"Good heavens," cried the mother, looking at
him inteutlv. "vou're vour brother, after all!"
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8^, Two grammarians were wrangling the
other day, one contending that it was only
proper to say, "My wages is high," while the
other noisily insisted that the correct thing
was, "My wages are high." Finally, they
stopped a day laborer, and submitted the
question to him. "Which do you say, "Your
wages is high," or "Your wages are high ?"
"Oh ! off wid yer nonsense," he said, re*
upjing his pick, "yer nayther ov ye right;
me wages is low, bad luck to it."
An Englishman says that no other people
in the world,so far as he knows, can equal
the Arkansians in off hand exaggerations.
"Do you see that spriug. over there, stranger
?" said one of them to him. He said he
did, whereupon the settler added: "Well
that's an iron spring, that is, and it's so powerful
that the farmer's horses about here that
drink the water of it never have to be shod.
The shoes just grow on the feet nat'rally."
Recorder.?"You have been behaving
very badly. You not only got drunk, but
you resisted the officer, and used improper
language." Prisoner?"I say, did you ever
get drunk, and then just about the time you
felt tired, and wanted to go to sleep, did you
ever have a policeman paw you about like you
were a green watermelon ? Say!" Recorder?"No;
I was never drunk." Prisoner?
"Then, don't talk."
A market man was mercilessly swindled
in the town of B . His misfortune
gave him a very unfavorable opinion of the
residents, and he expressed his opinion of
them by saying that if the Angel Gabriel
stopped at B* there would be no resur
rectiou. "Why?" asked p listener. "Because
the people would swindle him out of his horn
before he had time to blow a single toot."
A ruralist came into Tallahassee, Fla.,
and finding a news stand, ordered a lot of papers,
which he took from the clerk with profuse
thanks. He was astonished, though,
when the clerk asked payment, as he "never
heard of charging for newspapers before."
He had been reading his neighbors' papers
for nothing, and never know that they cost
money.
t&T An Irish woman called at the grocer's
the other day and asked for a quart of vinegar.
It was measured, and she put it into a
gallon jug. She then asked for another
quart to be put in the same vessel. "And
why not ask for half a gallon, and have done
with it?" said the grocer. "Oh! bless your
little bit of a soul," answered she, "it's for two
persons."
"Bub, did you ever think," said a grocer
recently as he measured out a half-peck
of potatoes, "that these potatoes contain sugar,
water and starch?"?"Noa, I didn't,"
replied the boy, "but I heard mother say you
put peas and beans in your coffee, and about
a pint of water in every quart of milk you
Bold." The subject of natural philosophy
was dropped right there.
aST* "I'll teach you to lie, and steal, and
smoke, and use profane language," said an
irate Galveston parent to his eldest offspring,
at the same time swinging a good sized sapling.
"I'll teach you, you young scamp!"
"Never mind, father, I know all them branches
already."
fiST" A saloon keeper, having started business
in a place where trunks had been made,
asked a friend what he had better do with
the oldaign, "Trunk Factory," "0," said the
friend, "just change the T to D, and it will
auit you exactly."
i Jaw and f irwifle.
HOW TO CHOOSE A COW. '
Some persons have a sort of intuitive discrimination
in judging a cow. This is the result
of experience as well as of a peculiar in'
describable sense of fitness ; for a general apj
i>earance of a good cow carries with it to
I the mind a very complete sense of the fitness
; of things. The chief points about a cow are
! the uddef and the teats ; for the former sej
cretes'the milk and the latter convey it to the
! pail. The udder should, then, be capacious,
j and the teats of convenient size, well shaped
j and well placed for the use of the milker. The
most capacious udder is one that has large extent
at the juncture with the cow's body ; it
should be broad and extend far behind, and
should be broad and come well to the front. It
should not hang down and come to a point, but
should be squarely formed and of a Hattish,
spheroid sliape on the under part.
The udder of an animal is supplied with the
blood from which the milk is secreted by the
branches of the posterior, abdominal or mammary
artery, which emerges from the external
pudic trunk, one of the most important arteries
of the system. The veins which complete
the very highly developed circulatory system
of the udder, $ass on to the abdominal subcutaneous
yein, which is prolonged forward on
the wall of the abdomen, and has an enormous
volume in the cow. This vein is known as the
milk vein, and its volume is one of the common
tests by which a cow is judged. It passes
from the front of the udder to near the brisket
or chest, where it passes through to join the
external thoracic vein. The importance of the
circulatory arrangement of the udder justly
entitles the development of the milk vein to be
considered as a te3t of great value in selecting
a good cow.
As the blood from which the milk is formed
is supplied by the digestive apparatus, the next
point to consider is the form and capacity of
the abdomen. A capacious stomach is consistent
with the habit of a generous feeder, and
the development of the abdomen, with the resulting
wedge-like form of the body, is the
third point of promise in a good cow. At the
same time, the food consumed should be well
digested and tlioioughly assimilated, and the
other digestive organs should be equally developed
as the stomach, otherwise a paunchy appearance
would b~ given which would indicate
a gross feeder r ther than a hearty, healthy
and profitable one Therefore, the whole form
should be well balanced ; the chest wide between
the ribs behind the shoulders, to give
ample room for the lungs and heart, and the
back broad and straight. As the whole force
of the system should have been educated to
expand itself in the production of milk and
butter, the carcass should be finely built, the
bones fine, the muscular portions?as the legs,
head and neck?should be fine and thin and no
waste material in bone, flesh and fat should be
found in the carcass.
The extremities should be delicately formed,
the tail long and thin except at its root, which
should be large and strong ; the muzzle should
be fine; the head long, flat and thin, but broad
across the eyes, to give room for a large brain,
which is the foundation for a highly developed
and active nervous system ; the horns fine, thin
and neatly curved; the eye bright and active,
agreeing with the active brain, but calm, quiet
and mild in expression, significant of a quiet,
contented disposition, arid one not readily disturbed
or worried. As the secretions of the
body all come from the blood, and as a rich,
yellow color is desirejJ in the butter, so the
skin should be filled with a yellow pigment,
and the inside of the ears anil the thighs anil
other places where the hair is light and the
skin plainly visible, should be of a rich orange
color ; so the scales of ear wax should be of
the same color. The hair should be fine, silky
and smooth, and, in short, the whole appearance
should be satisfying to the eye, and consistent,
one part with another, and well balanced.
Some persons lay great stress upon the escutcheon
as a distinguishing feature of a good
cow. This is the growth of hair upon the
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The hair is reversed in position, and grows upward
instead of downward, with various curls
here and there. Upon the peculiar shape and
extent of this varied growth of hair and the
position of the curls, the advocates of this
test base their opinions of the character of the
cow. A well formed escutcheon, .broad, well
defined at the edges, with distinct curves on"
the lower part of the rear of the hams, is. supposed
to denote a large capacity for milk and a
persistent habit of milking up to the next
calving. An ill-formed or defective escutcheon
is held to denote t'"* reverse. It may be that
this test is a good ji.e. I do not believe in it
further than this, i.amely ; that a calf with a
well-formed escutcheon, inherited with other
favorable characteristics from a similarly well
marked and good cow, will, in all probability,
inherit the good qualities of its dam, as it inherits
all lierlnarks. But if the dam is a poor
cow, I don't believe an escutcheon, however
perfect it may be, will make a good calf. I
have had poor cows, and have seen poor cows,
that had most excellent escutcheons, and have
had good cows that have produced calves as
good or better than themselves, that hav^iad
no escutcheons worthy of notice except for
their inferiority.
As to color, a good cow may be of any color.
I had one remarkably good cow that was black
and without horns, but in form and figure, she
was otherwise without a fault and was a model;
but usually black cows do not turn out well;
neither do white ones. Color depends somewhat
on the breed, for color is a distinguishing part
of some breeds, and this point will be explained
further on. But a cow of 110 particular
breed, and that has a desirable form and other
good points, may be chosen as regards color according
to the following scale, namely, first,
brindle (yellowish brown ground with black
stripes intermingled and gradually shaded
down), then yellowish* brown ; light red and
white patched; light red ; and darker red last.
It is rarely that a dark red, solid-colored cow,
holds 011 to her milk for a long time, for she
has the general failing of the Devon race, from
which she inherits her color.?Henry Stewart
in Itural Hew Yorker.
DRINKS FOITTHE SICK.
The sick, especially those afflicted with fever,
often suffer from intense thirst. The quenching
of this without injuring the patient is a
matter which requires knowledge and good
judgment. Dr. II. II. Kane says that plain
water, when taken beyond a certain amount,
is very apt to disorder the stomach and bowels,
especially in levers, where much fluid ana out
little solid food is taken. Enough water to
quench the thirst would certainly be enough,
in most cases, to disorder digestion, or rather
further disorder it, and so important is the little
that remains of this function that we cannot
afford to abuse it.
Small pieces of ice held in the mouth and
allowed to dissolve, sometimes answers the purpose,
but hot in the majority of cases.
Up to a certain point, the action of water
taken internally, in fevers, is excellent. Aside
from allaying irritation by quenching thirst,
it flushes the kidneys, carrying off much of
the effete material produced by the high temperature.
It has been found that the addition of certain
substances to water greatly increases its
powers to quench thirst.
This is esi>ecially the case with acids. One
drachm.of hydrociiloric acid added to a quart
of water, will give it sufficient acidity to accomplish
the desired purpose, while at the same
time, it adds to its pleasantness, and sometimes
relieves nausea.
The use of acids in fevers is highly commended
by some authors, and this is, I think, the
best way in which to administer them. The
same amount of sulphurous acid may be added
to a quart of water when the bowels are loose,
or there is a tendency that way.
In these cases acidulated barley-water is
pleasant and nourishing. The same may be
said of toast-water.
In constipation, oatmeal water may be used ;
in the same manner. A few tamarinds added !
to a glass of water will often assuage thirst |
and open the bowels gently.
Theory and experience both show that drinks j
made slightly bitter and somewhat acid, slake i
thirst most effectually.
A weak infusion of cascarilla or orange peel, !
acidulated slightly with hydrochloric acid, was
with Graves, of Dublin, a favorite thirst-allay- \
ing drink for fever patients.
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rvaspuerry viucgcu id a uomu uuuu.
ing ice is very grateful.
Sweet fruits, although at first agreeable and
refreshing, must be taken with care and moderation,
for they often give rise to a disagreeable
taste, and are apt to produce Hatuleuce and
diarrhea.
Citre for Ear ache.?Take a tobacco pipe,
pla^e a wad of cotton in the bowl, drop eight
or ten drops of chloroform and cover with ,
more cotton, place the stem to the afflicted
ear and blow in the bowl.
Sore Throat.?Dissolve one drachm of
chlorate of potash in half a pint of water, and
gargle the throat therewith; a few applications
will allay inilammation. i
fUafottg fat the fatitratb.
CONDUCTED BT
KEV. ROBERT LATH AN.
PERSONAL RELIGION.
There is a tendency to substitute the religion
of the church for personal piety. Multitudes
have no other religion than that of
loyalty to the creed and punctilious attendance
upon the public services of some church.
It would be a mistake to assume that they
attend and support their church merely because
it is fashionable and respectable to do
so. To them it is a serious business, often a
cross, to attend public worship twice a day and
give what they are required to give for its
support. They consider it a duty incumbent
upon every man to go to church and support
the Gospel. And they are right in this. Their
error is in regarding the performance of this
(luty us payment 111 uui ui an religious uuugations,
and supposing that it will somehow be
placed to their credit as a substitute for the
religion of the heart and life. They look upon
the church as a sort of reservoir of salvation in
which they have a paid-up share that will accrue
to them in the day of final account.
Unquestionably, the work of the Gospel requires
the existence of the church. Nor do
the Scriptures recognize as a Christian any
one who refuses to identfy himself publicly
with some branch of the Church of Christ.
The Church is needful and valuable, perhaps
indispensable, as the means of inspiring men
with a sense of their need of personal religion
and helping them to work out their own salvation.
But it is not an insurance company
to guarantee salvation and supercede personal
responsibility, by relieving men from the necessity
of finding out God for themselves and
opening their hearts to the direct influences
of the Holy Spirit.
Religion, to be of any value, must be a personal
matter. The gospel of Christ makes its
appeal to the individual. All its commands
are addressed to each soul as personally accountable
for the manner in which he treats
them. "So then," says Paul, "every one of us
must give an account of himself to God." If
we do not repent, believe and be converted,
each one of us for himself, the church can do
nothing for us either here or hereafter. We
shall l>e judged at last according to our character,
and not by our church relations.
Each human soul is created for personal
union and communion with God. It is his
privilege to have direct access to God, to have
intercourse with him and receive law from his
mouth without the intervention of church or
priest. This intercourse is necessary to the
life and normal growth of the soul as food is
to the sustenance of the body. No loyalty to
creeds,zeal for church or punctilious observance
of its services, can take the place of this life
of faith and piety. The very effort to find a
substitute for it is an affront to God, an impious
attempt to evade a sacred and solemn
responsibilty. It is a sort of imposture and
self-deception, which seeks to get rid of religion
by something that seems to be religious; which,
instead of seeking to awaken and nourish the
spirit of faith und penitence by the use of prayers,
hymns, sermons and other services of the
church, invests these performances with a
superstitious virtue, satisfies the conscience
with something short of holiness, and fixes
the heart on some sanctimonious machinery
instead of Christ.?The Methodist.
A Mother's Power.?A moment's work on
clay tells more than an hour's labor on brick.
So work on hearts should be done before they
harden. During the first six or eight years of
child-life, mothers have full sway ; and this is
the time to make the deepest and most enduring
impressions on the human mind.
The examples of maternal influences are
countless. Solomon himself records the Words
of wisdom that fell from a mother's lips ; and
Timothy was taught the Scriptures from a
child by his mother and grand mother.
John Randolph, of Roanoke, used to say : I
would have been a French atheist were it not
for the recollection of the time when my departed
mother used to take my little hands in
hers, and-make me say on my bended knee,
"Our Father who art in Heaven."
"I have found out what made you the man
you are," said a gentleman one morning to
President Adams. "I have been reading your
mother's letters to her son."
\v asmngcon s motner trained ner uoy to
'truthfulness and virtue, and when his messenger
called to tell her that her son was raised
to the highest station in the nation's gift, she
could say, "George always was a good boy."
A mother's tears dropped on the head of
her little boy one evening as he sat in the door
way and listened while she spoke of Christ and
His salvation. "Those tears made me a missionary,"
said he when he had given his manhood's
prime to the Lord.
Some one asked Napoleon what was the
great need of the French nation. "Mothers,"
was the significant answer.
The Seven Biw.es of the World.?The
seven Bibles of the world are the Koran of the
Mohammedans, the Eddas of the Scandinavians,
the Try Pitikes of the Buddhists, the
Five Kings of the Chinese, the three Wedas of
the Hindoos, the Zendavesta, and the Scriptures
of the Christians. The Koran is the
most recent of these seven Bibles, and not
older than the seventh century of our era. It
is a compound of quotations from the Old and
New Testaments, the Talmud, and the Gospel
of St. Barnabas. The Eddas of the Scandinavians
were first published in the fourteenth
century. The Pitikes of the Buddhists contain
sublime morals and pure aspirations, but
their author lived and died in the sixth century
before Christ." There is nothing of excellence
in these sacred books not found in the Bible.
The sacred writings of the Chinese are called
the Five Kings, "king" meaning web of cloth
or the warp that keeps the threads in their
place. They contain the best sayings of the
best sages 011 the ethico-political duties of life.
These sayings cannot be traced to a period higher
than the eleventh century B. C. The three
Vedas are the most ancient books of the Hindoos,
and it is the opinion of MaxMuller, Wilson,
Johnson and Whitney that they are not
older than eleven centuries B. C. The Zendavesta
of the Persians is the grandestof all the
sacred books next to our Bible. Zoroaster,
whose sayings it contains, was born in the 12th
century B. C. Moses lived and wrote his Pentateuch
fifteen centuries B. C., and, therefore,
has a clear margin of J00 years older than the
most ancient of the other sacred writings.
How to Do It at Home.?"Doctor," said
a gentleman to his pastor, "how can I best
train up my boy in the way that he should go ?"
"By going that way yourself," blandly responded
the pastor.
No sounder advice could liAve been given.
Sound instruction is excellent. Education in
morals and correct theories of living are not
by any means to be neglected. But those families
where the quiet influence of pure and noble
example are found are most likely to be
the ones where childhood is most successfully
trained. In nothing is the influence of little
things more important than in the family
circle. Parents naturally and properly live
a free and unrestrained life in the presence of
their own families. If they are cross, petulant,
fault-finding, it is idle to expect that the
children, who are hourly witnesses.to this
petty ill temper, will be of sunny disposition
or unselfish in life. But if home life be filled
with little deeds of kindness, with gentle, lov
ing helpfulness, the "small, sweet courtesies,"
of hourly intercourse, they will descend from
father to son and from mother to daughter.
Home will borrow a radiance that is the best
foretaste of the blessedness of the heavenly
world, and children that are reared in such an
atmosphere are likely to fulfill the expectations
of those who are interested in their welfare.
Tjie Dear Ord Mother.?Honor the dear
old mother. Time has scattered the snowy
Hakes on her brow, plowed deep furrows on
her cheeks, but she is not sweet and beautiful
now! The lips are thin and shrunken, but
those are the lips which have kissed many a
hot tear from the childish cheek ; and they are
the sweetest lips in the world. The eye is dim,
yet it glows with the soft radiance of holy love
which can never fade. Ah yes, she is a dear
old mother! the sands of her life have nearly j
run out, but feeble as she is, she will go fur- i
ther and reach down lower for you than any j
other upon earth. You cannot walk into aj
midnight where she cannot see you; you can- j
not enter a prison whose bars will keep her j
out; you cannot mount a scaffold too high
for her to reach, that she may kiss and bless j
you in evidence of her deathless love. When
the world shall despise and forsake you, when
it leaves you to die by the wayside unnoticed,
the dear old mother will gather you up in her i
feeble arms and carry you home and tell you of
all your virtues until you almost forget that
your soul is disfigured by vices. Dove her
tenderly, and cheer her declining years with :
holy devotion.
Dr. Waugh tells us of a converted Hindoo,
who, when too weak to kneel and pray, said:,
"I cannot pray, but X feeep up a talking with j
Jesus in my heart." '
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DISCOVERIES MADE BY ACCIDENT.
Valuable discoveries have been made, and
valuable inventions suggested, by the veriest
accidents.
An alchemist, while seeking to discover a
mixture of earths that would make the most
durable crucibles, one day found that he bad
made porcelain.
The power of lenses, as*applied to the telescope,
was discovered by a watchmaker's apprentice.
While holding spectacle-glasses between
his thumb and finger, he was startled
at the sudden-enlarged appearance of a neighboring
church spire.
The art of etching upon glass was discovered
by a Nuremburg glass-cutter. By accident,
a few drops of aqua fortis fell upon his
spectacles. He noticed that the glass became
corroded aud softened where the acid had
touched it. That was hint enough. He drew
figures upon glass with varnish, applied' the
corroding fluid, then cut away the glass
around the drawing. When the varnish was
removed, the figures appeared raised upon a
dark ground.
Mezzotinto owed its invention to the simple
accident of the gun-barrel of a sentry becom
ing rusted with dew.
The swaying to aud fro of a chandelier in
a cathedral suggested to Galileo the application
of the pendulum.
The art of lithographing wa9 perfected
through suggestions made by accident. A
poor^ musician waacurious to know whether
music could not be etched upon stone as well
a9 upon copper. After he had prepared his
slab, his mother asked>iiim to make a memorandum
of such clothes as she proposed to
send away to be washed. Not having pen,
ink and paper convenient, he wrote the list
on the stone with the etching preparation, intending
to make a copy of it at leisure. A
few days later, when about to clean the stone,
he wondered what effect aqua fortis would
have upou it. He applied the acid, and iu a
few minutes saw the writing standing out in
relief. The next step necessary was simply
to ink the stone and take off an impression.
The composition of which printing-rollers
are made, was discovered by a Salopian printer.
Not being able to find the pelt-ball, he
inked the type with a piece of soft glue which
had fallen out of a glue pot. It was such an
excellent substitute that, after mixing molas
ses with the glue, to give the mass proper
consistency, the old pelt ball was entirely discarded.
The shop of a Dublin tobacconist, by the
name of Lundyfoot, was destroyed by fire.
While he was gazing dolefully into the smouldering
ruins, he noticed that his poorer neighbors
were gathering the snuff from the canisters.
He tested the snuff for himself, and
discovered that the fire had largely improved
its pungency and aroma. It was a hint worth
profiting by. He secured another shop, built
a lot of ovens, subjected the snuff to a heating
process, gave the brand a particular name,
and in a few years became rich, through an
accident which he at first thought had completely
ruined him.
The process of whitening sugar was discovered
in a curious way. A hen that had
gone through a clay puddle went with her
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luuutiy leei iiilu a sugHr-uuuae. one icii nei
tracks on a pile of sugar. It was noticed
that wherever her tracks were, the sugar was
whitened. Experiments were instituted, and
the result was that wet clay came to be used
in refining sugar.
The origin of the blue-tinted paper came
about by a mere slip of the hand. The wife
of Wi liara East, an English paper-maker,
accidently let a blue bag fall into one of the
vats of pulp. The workmen were astonished
when they saw the peculiar color of the paper,
while Mr. Enst whs highly incensed over
what he considered a grave pecuniary loss.
His wife was so much frightened that she
would not confess b$r agency in the matter.
After storing the damaged paper for four
years, Mr. East sent it to his agent in London,
with instructions to sell it for what it would
bring. The paper was accepted as a "purposed
novelty," aud was disposed of at quite
an advance over market price. Mr. East
was astonished at receiving an order from his
agent for another large invoice of the paper.
He was without the secret, and found himself
in a dilemma. Upon mentioning it to his wife,
she told him about the accident. He kept
the secret, and the demand for the novel tint
far exceeded his ability to supply it.
A Brighton stationer took a fancy for
dressing his show window with piles of writing
paper, rising gradually from the largest
to the smallest size in use ; and, to finish his
pyramids off nicely, he cut cards to bring
them to a point. Taking these cards for
diminutive note paper, lady customers were
continually wanting some of "that lovely little
paper," and the stationer found it advantageous
to cut the paper to the desired pattern.
As there was no space for addressiug the
uotelets after they were folded, he, after much
thought, invented the envelope, which he cut
by the aid of metal plates made for the purpose.
The sale increased so rapidly that he
was unable to produce the envelopes fast
enough, so he commissioned a dozen houses to
make them for him, and thus set going an
important branch of the manufacturing stationery
trade.
A RIGHT HAND SERVANT.
Asa and Ira were brothers whose farms
lay side by side. When the young corn, the
oats, and the barley were springing up, the
weeds took advantage of the rich soil and came
with them.
"Do you see," said Asa, "what a hold the
weeds are taking ? There is danger of their
choking out the crops entirely."
"We must be resigned," said Ira. "Weeds
as well as grain was a part of the Creator's
plan."
"I can only be resigned to what I cannot
help," said Asa. So he went to work and
hoed until the fields were clear of w.eeds.
The army worm is in the neighborhood,"
said Asa to Ira one day, "and is fast moving
toward us."
"Ah!" exclaimed Ira, "it will surely destroy
what the weeds have not choked out.
I will immediately retire to pray that its
course may be stopped."
But Asa replied : "I pray every morning
for atreugth to do the work of the day." And
he hastened to dig a trench around his land
which the army worm could not pass, while
Ira returned from his prayers only in season
to save a portion of his crop from its ravages.
"Do yon see, Ira ?" said Asa another morning,
"the river is risiug, and our farms will be
overflowed."
"Alas!" it is a judgment upon us for our
sins ; and what can we do ?" said Ira.
"There are no judgments so severe as those
which our own sloth brings upon us," said
Asa ; and he went quickly and hired workmen,
and then raised an embankment that
withstood the flood, while Ira witnessed the
destruction of all his wealth.
"There is one consolation said he; "my
children are left me."
But while Asa's sons grew up to be strong
and virtuous men, among Ira's son's there was
a drunkard a gambler, and a suicide.
"The ways of the Lord are not equal,'" said
Ira to his brother. "Why are you always
prospering, while I am afflicted and dis- j
graced ?" !
"I only know this," replied Asa, "that
heaven always helped me to meet my chil- j
dren's faults as I meet the weeds, the caterpillars,
and the floods; and I never sent a
petition upward without making Toil, my
right hand servant the messenger of my prayers.
Work and pray."?Exchange.
Evading a Fare.?The stealing of a pin
is apparently a slight offense. Yet it may
reveal character as clearly as the theft of $100.
Some years ago there lived in New York a
shrewd old merchant named Aymar. He
used to receive cargoes of mahogany and
logwood, which were sold at auction.
On one occasion a cargo was to be sold at
Jersey City, and all hands started from the
auctioneer's store to cross the ferry. When
they were going through the gate, Mr. Aymar
noticed one of the largest buyers slip through
without paying the 5 cents fare. He told the
auctioneer not to take a bid from that man.
"Why," said the auctioneer, with an expression
of surprise, "I thought he was good."
"So did I," answered Mr. Aymar; "but
I have changed my mind, and I will not trust
hira for $1."
A few months proved the accuracy of the
judgment of Mr. Aymar, for the slippery
merchant failed, and did not pay 5 cents ou
the dollar. It does not by any means follow
that business disasters will come as a retribution
to a dishonest trader; but this is certain,
that a nan who will steal even so trifling a
sura as would pay his fare in the horse car or
the ferry boat, will cheat you out of a larger
sum if he fiuds a safe opportunity.
How to Preserve a Piano.?It is evident
that if the piano is to remain in good order for
many years, good care must be taken of it.
The instrument should be closed when not in
use, in order to prevent the collection of dust,
pins, etc., on the sounding board. However,
it must not be left closed for a period of several
months or longer, but be opened occasionally,
and daylight allowed to strike the keys,
or else the ivory may turn yellow. Any hard
substance, no matter how small, dropped inSide
the piano, will cause a rattling, jarring
noise. It is in every case desirable that an
india-rubber or cloth cover should protect the
instrument from bruises and scratches. The
piano should not be placed in a damp room,
or left'open in a draft of air. Dampness is
its most dangerous enemy, causing the strings
and tuning-pins to rust, the clotli used in the
construction of the keys and action to swell,
whereby the mechanism will move sluggishly,
or often stick altogether. This occurs chiefly
in the rainy season ; and the best pianos,
made of the most thoroughly seasoned material,
are necessarily affected by dampness, the
absorption being rapid. Extreme heat is
scarcely less injurious. The piano should not
be placed very near to an open fire or heated
stove, nor over-close to the hot air furnaces
now in general use. Moths are very destructive
to the cloth and felt used in the
pianos, and may be kept out of it by placing a
lump of camphor, wrapped in soft paper, in
the inside corner, care being taken to renew
it from time to tiirae. Many persons are unaware
of the great importance of having their
pianos kept in order, and only tuned by a cpmpetent
tuner. A new piano should be tuned
at least once every two or three months during
the first year, and at longer intervals after
ward. To preserve the polish, dust the piano
daily with a brush of soft uncut feathers. Do
not use any furniture polishes, but sooner employ
the services of a professional piano-case
polisher, if your instrument needs polishing,
as the process requires great skill. The bluish
haze which sometimes appears on a polished
rosewood surface, and which is nothing but
the mark left by moisture which has settled
upon the piano, will disappear after polishing.
The piano should always be kept carefully
covered when not in use.
What Not to Do for Sick People.?
Don't make a fuss. Don't bustle, don't fidget,
don't prognosticate. Don't hold consultations
in or about the patient's room, recounting
all your own and your neighbor's experiences
in what you suppose to have been like
cases. Don't meddle, and advise and experiment.
We all need a great deal more letting
alone than we get, and when we are sick it is
one of our prime needs. If mortuary lists
were honestly tabulated, we should find that
more people have been bored to death than
have died from neglect. The pest of the sickroom
is the inevitable friend who drops in to
"cheer up" the patient, the glistening eyes
and flushed cheek which such ministrations
evoke being hailed as evidences of success by
the well-meaning persecutor.
Don't tease the patient with questions about
food or drink, but present the'proper quantity
at suitable intervals, and if one article is found
to be disagreeable, quietly substitute another
without remark; don't think, because the
patient declines nourishment, that it becomes
less necessary to administer it. By quiet,
firm, methodical persistence in presenting
food at stated periods, objection will income
feeble and cease, in self-defence. Soi.d food
need not be insisted upon unless by special
direction of the physician, but milk and beeftea
should never be omitted.
Don't shut out the pure air and sunshine.
The physician will exercise his skill in vain if
wholesome food, pure air and peace do not
abet his effort.?Home Quardiatj.
Curious and Interesting?Henry, upon
being asked how many boys were in his Sabbath
school clas9 said : "If you multiply the
number of Jacob's sons by the number of
times which the Israelites compassed Jericho,
and add the product to the number of raeas
ures of barley which Boaz gave Ruth ; divide
this by the uumber of Haman's sons ; sub
tract the number of each kind of clean beasts
that went into the ark ; multiply by the number
of men who went to seek Elijah after he
was taken to heaven ; subtract this from Joseph's
age at the time when he stood before
Pharaoh ; add the number of stones in David's
bag when he killed Goliah ; subtract the
number of furlongs that Bethany wa3 distant
from Jerusalem ; divide by the number of anchors
cast out at the time of Paul's shipwreck ;
subtract the number of people saved in the
ark, and the remainder will be the number
of boys in the class." How many were there?
lite ^orferiUe inquirer.
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION!
Single copy for one year, 92 50
For six months, 125
For three months, 75
Two copies one year, 4 00
Ten copies one year, 20 00
And an extra copy for a club of ten.
ADVERTISING RATES.
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,
iff?-Contracts will be made at reduced rates
for advertising space to be used for three, six,
or twelve months.
ROBERT J. HERNDONr
Late Student of Boston Conservatory of Music,
TEACHER OF BRASS BANDS,
AND THE CORNET. Music arranged to order
for any number of Instruments. Terms
moderate.
Agent for all kinds of first-class BAND INSTRUMENTS.
April 22 17 ly
NOTICE.
THE time has arrived for settling, and all persons
indebted to me, either FOR SUPPLIES
OR GUANOS, are earnestly requested to bring
in their cotton and settle at once. Those indebted
to me.by NOTE, or of long STANDING ACCOUNTS,
will do well to call and arrange a settlement,
as my business must be settled up.
J. W. P. HOPE.
October 14 42 3t
rR. SCHORB'S PHOTO-GALLERr,
1ST HOUSE EAST OF THE JAIL.
A SUPERIOR Skylight, a gallery with every
convenience, and a determination to do my
' - a. A? ? a _
| best, enables me to promise sausiacuon to an ju
j want of correct and nattering likenesses. Cloudy
! weather is as good or better than sunshine for aU
j subjects, except email children.
| August 5 32 tf
NOTICE.
I RESPECTFULLY inform the public that I
am prepared to sharpen razors, scissors, shears
' and other fine-edged instruments. Prices?for
1 honing and sharpening razors, 25 cents, and for
, sharpening scissors or shears, 10 cents each, and
satisfaction guaranteed or no charge.
TOM BALLARD, Barber.
September 9 37 3t
| IRON SAFE FOR SALE.
THE undersigned offers for sale one No. 2
IRON SAFE, manufactured by Mosler, Bahman
A Co., of Cincinnati. This safe has a combination
lock, and for all practical purposes is
equal to a new one. It is offered for sale for no
reason except that it is too small for my purposes.
L. M. GRIST.
!~ NOTICE.
APPLICATION will be made to the Clerk of
the Cf ori the 23RD DAY OF OCTOBER,
next, for a Charter for HOWELL SALEM
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, in York county,
South Carolina.
September 23 39 5t
OLDNE WSPAPERST"
OF large size, suitable for wrapping, for sale
at one cent each, at the
. ENQUIRER OFFICE.
NOTICE.
I AM still Agent for the,,American"becauseitis
the best and cheapest Sewing Machine made.
J. R. SCHORB.
August 19 34 tf
THE FAVORITE OF THE WORLD.
TFjE Family Favorite Improved Weed. These
Machines have been remodeled and Improved
until they are almost perfect in all respects. The
parts are all of Steel and Wrought Iron Forging*.
Every Machine sold by us will be fully warran
.
Prices as low as any First-Class Machine, either
for Cash or on Time until the first of November
next. W. G. REID A CO.,
Furniture Dealers, Rock Hill, S. C.
LATIMER A HEMPHILL, Agents at Yorkvllle,
S. C*
NOW IS THE OPPGRTimiTir!
AVAIL YOURSELF OF IT!
PRESERVE YOUR BOOKS,
PERIODICALS,
NEWSPAPERS AND MUSIC.
??
ALL families have old Books, Periodicals,
Newspapers, Music, Ac., which they desire
to transmit to their posterity. Then
HAVE THEM REBOUND!
Which will preserve them and make them look
almost as well as new.
Old Books, Ac., should not only be rebound,
but Biocurrent literature of the present day should
be put in a durable form for preservation as well.
This can be done in the shortest possible time,
with tlie best material, in the most handsome and
durable style, and at prices which cannot be duplicated
anywhere, by
E. R. STOKES,
Stationer, Book Binder and Blank Book Manufacturer,
No.' 155 Main Street,
COLUMBIA, S. C.
Send in orders at once.
THE BICKFORD
AUTOMATIC FAMILY KNITTER.
Knits all sizes of work, narrows and widens it
shapes all sizes complete. Knits over 50 different
garments, Socks, Stockings, Mittens, Leggins,
Wristlets, Gloves, etc. It knits every possible
variety of plain or fancy stitch. 75 per cent,
profit in manufacturing knit noods. Farmerscar
treble the value of their wool, by converting it
into knit goods.
Agents wanted in every State, County, City and
Town, to whom very low prices will be made.
For full particulars and lowest prices for the
best Family Machine, send to
BICKFORD KNITTING MACHINE MFG. CO.,
Brattleboro, Vt.
February 26 9 ly
COTTON FOR GUANO.
THE Notes given for Fertilizers sold by me
have been sent to me
FOR- COLLECTION.
I have made arrangements with Capt. J. R.
GARDNER to
WEIGH AND GRADE THE COTTON.
He will enter the weight and grade on a slip of
paper which must be brought to me
FOR SETTLEMENT.
I would urge my customers to deliver as
RAPIDLY AS POSSIBLE,
As the price is good and cotton green. I will
pay
THE MARKET PRICE
For any excess.
T. S. JEFFERYS, Agent.
September 23 30 tf
ANNUAL MEETING.
THE ANNUAL MEETING of the Board of
County Commissioners of York County, will
be held at Yorkville, on TUESDAY. THE 2ND
DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1880. Al! persons holding
bills, accounts, or demands of any kind
against the county, which have not been before
presented to the Board", will deposit the same with
the Clerk, on or before the FIRST DAY OF NOVEMBER,
1880, so that they mav be examined
and ordered to be paid on the 2nd of November.
Trial Justices will exhibit with their accounts,
all original papers, in each case in which costs
have accrued.
By order of the Board.
JAMES SCOGGINS, Chairman.
September 30 40 5t
FRESH MEATS.
THE undersigned respectfully in- MM|
forms the citizens of \ orkville and jPfll
vicinity, that he -will have for Rale, in , /i ff.
the building immediately South of the Banking
Office of T.S. Jefferys, FRESH MEATS, of good
quality, on TUESDAY, THURSDAY and SATURDAY
MORNINGS of each week. Every effort
will be made to keep the market supplied
with meats of the best quality that cau be procured
in this section.
pS* The highest market price will be paid for
FAT BEEF CATTLE, SHEEP, GOATS and
HOGS. Poor cattle, sheep, goats or hogs are not
wanted. J. N. ROBERTS.
September 33 40 . tf
DR. J. B. PATRICK, JR.,
CHARLESTON, S. C.,
SURGEON DENTIST,
WILL make his regular visit to
YORKVILLE IN JANUARY,
with all the most improved instruments
and appliances known to the profession ot
Dentistry.
Teeth extracted by the aid of nitrons oxide.
ARTIFICIAL TEETH supplied. All Dental
operations performed and satisfaction guaranteed
at as reasonable rates as can be done by any firstclass
Dentist.
August 12 33 ly
SUBSCRIBE
FOR THE WEEKLY PALMETTO YEOMAN,
COLUMBIA, S. C.
IT is an 8 page paper, designed for the people,
filled with interesting matter?Family Reading,
News, Markets, <fec. Subscription: One
year, $1.50; Seven months, $1.00; Three months,
50 cents?payable in advance. Forsix names and
nine dollars, an extra copy for one year. Specimens
furnished. The DAILY YEOMAN", an afternoon
paper, is $4 a pear.
C. M^ MeJUNKIN, Editor and Publisher.
September 30 40 tf
ROSE'S HOTEL,
YOKKVILLE, S. C.
4 THIS HOUSE has been thorougbly
renovated from cellar to
garret, and newly furnished, inff!Lr"aT"
eluding GRAFTON'S PATENT
SPRING BEDS. In view of the times, our motto
is a full House at a moderate price.
TERMS?$1.50 PER DAY, OR 50c. PER MEAL.
Sample Rooms reserved especially forCommercial
travelers. HENRY W. SMITH.
June 17 25 tf
GARRY IRON ROOFING CO.,
* MiinnfiiMiirfirs )
and Cement.
79 and 81 Columbus Street,
CljJjV MT? A TVTP, OHIO.
Send for circulars and price lists.
February 26 9 ly 1
REMOVAL. 1
WE have moved into our NEW BUILDING, ! j
opposite the old Stand, where we will keep
A FULL LINE OF GENERAL MERCIIAN- j
DISEcontinually on hand. 1
A. FRIEDHEIM & BRO. i
Rock Hill, S. C., Auk. 26, 1880. 35 tf
NOTICE.
A PPLICATION will be made to the Clerk of <
/V the Court for York county, on the 30th day '
ofOotober, 1880, for a charter for BLUE BRANCH <
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, in York county. 1
8. C. ?
September 30 40 5t*
JOB PRINTING. ,
OWING to our superior facilities with the best
machine presses, an -abundance of type and
first-class appointments throughout our office,
we are prepared to execute ALL MANNER OF
JOB PRINTING in superior style, and at prices
that will compare with New York or Philadelphia
charges for the same quality of work and materials.
We have recently made a reduction in
prices for the following classes of work, to which
we invite the attention of business men :
1IILL HEADS.
For 500 For I COO
Half-sheet Bill Heads, |3.00 $5.0)
Fourth-sheet Bill Heads, 2.2.5 3.50
Sixth-sheet Bill Heads, 2.0(1 3.03
Monthly statements at same price of sixth-sheet
bill heads. We will fill an order for bill heads,
giving any desired number of either size of
sheet at proportionate prices.
LETTER HEADS.
rur duu i wi luvu
Commercial Note" $2.15 $3.25
Packet Note, 2.25 3.50
Letter (large size) 3.00 5.00
For the above work we use a superior quality
of paper, and guarantee entire satisfaction in every
instanee.
We also give special attention to the printingof
Briefe, Arguments and Points and AutBoritins, 3j
which we famish strictly according to the require- J
ments of the Justices o'f the Supreme Court, and
in proof reading exercise the utmost care to ensure
accuracy.
We are prepared to furnish all other kinds of
printing, from a visiting card to a large volume, j|
and will be pleased to furnish estimates for any ^
style of work desired. Address,
L. M. GRIST. Yorkville, S. C.
C. & L. NARROW GAUGE BAILB0AD.
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
SUPERINTENDENTS OFFICE, 1
Yobkville, S. C? July 22,1880. J
THE following Schedule of the Mail and Passenger
Trains took effect at 6 o'clock, a. m.,
on the 20th of July; 1880.
GOING SOUTH.
Leave Dallas at .'. 6.00 A. M.
Arrive at Gastonia at 6.20 A. M.
Leave Gastonia at 6 40 A. M,.
Leave Pleasant Ridge at ..7.00 A. M.
Leave Crowder's Creek at 7.15 A. M.
Leave Bowling Green at 7.25 A. M.
Leave Clover at 7.40 A. M.
Arrive at Yorkvilleat ..8.20 A. M.
Leave forkville at.- ?.8.S0 A. M.
Leave Guthriesvillo at. 9.05 A. M.
Leave McConnellsville at 9.20 A. M.
Leave Lowrysvllleat... 9.40 A. M.
Arrive at Chester at 10.10 A. M.
GOING NORTH.
Leave Chester at 2.45 P. M.
Leave Lowrysville at 3.20 P. M. .
Leave McConnellsville at 3.40 F. M. ^
Leave Guthriesvillo at 3.50 F. M.
Arrive at Yorkville at 4.20 P. M.
Leave Yorkville at 4.25 P. M.
Leave Clover at 5.05 F. M.
Leave Bowling Green at 5.15 P. M. ^
Leave CrowdeFs Creek at 5.25 P. M.
Leave Pleasant Ridge at 5.35 P. M.
Arrive at Gastonia at..... 5.65 P. M.
Leave Gastonia at 6.10 P. M.
Arrive at Dallas at 6.30 P. M.
JAMES MA80N, Superintendent.
July 22 . 30 tf
ATLANTA AND CHARLOTTE AIR-1INB
RAILWAY.
PASSENGER DEPARTMENT.
Atlanta, Ga., May 20,1880.
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
ON and after May 23rd, 1880, trains will run
on this road as follows:
DAY PAS8ENGER TRAIN.
(eastward.)
Arrive at Gastonia, 2.16, P. M. Leave 2.17, P. M.
(westward.)
Arrive at Gastonia, 11.37, A. M. Leave 11.38, A. M.
NIGHT PASSENGER TRAIN.
(eastward.)
Arrive at Gastonia, 2.16, A. M., Leave 2.17, A. M.
(we8tward.)
Arrive at Gastonia, 1.08, A. M., Leave 1.09, A. M.
LOCAL FREIGHT TRAIN.
(eastward.)
Arrive at Gastonia, 4.33, P. M., Leave 5.02, P. M
(we tward.)
Arrive at Gastonia, 7.43, A. M., Leave 8.03, A. M.
THROUGH FREIGHT TRAIN.
(eastward.) ^
Arrive at Gastonia, 5.55, A%M., Leaye 5.55, A. M.
(westward.)
Arrive at Gastonia, 5 00, P. M., Leave 5.00, P. M.
Connecting at Atlanta for all points West and
Southwest. . 9
Connecting at Charlotte for all Eastern points.
Through Tickets on sale at Greenville and Spartanburg
to all points East and West.
_ G. J. FOREACRE, Gen'l Manager.
W. J. Houston, lien'i rasa. <e j icsei Agent.
June 10 25 If
REMOVAL.
THE YORK MARBLE YARD.
I WOULD respectfully announce that I have
REMOVED MY MARBLE WORKS to the
new building South of Wheeler's Coach Factory,
on ray own premises, and near the Railroad depot,
where I shall hereafter be better, than ever heretofore
prepared to ftirnish MONUMENTS, TOMB
STONES, or ANYTHING IN MY LINE, as
low as the lowest. As an evidence of this, I can
furnish Tomb Stones for CHILI-REN from $3.00
upward ; for ADULT8, from $8.00 upwird.
Monuments and Tomb Stones designed and
finished in the most elaborate stylo, andin point
of workmanship and material, eqnal to the work
of any establishment in the country.
Specimens always on hand, to an inspection of
which, those in want of marble work are respectfully
invited.
Estimates and other information furnished on
application.
Work delivered at any point on the Chester "
and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad, between
Chester and Dallas, or at any place between
Rock Hill and Winnsboro, on 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 the same.
F. HAPPE RFIELD.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
COUNTY OF YORK.
WHEREAS J. F. WALLACE, C. C. C. Fleas,
has applied to me for Letters of Administration,
with the Will annexed, on all and singular,
the goods and chattels, rights and credits
of JOSHUA HOLMES, late of the county aforesaid,deceased.
These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all
and singular, the kindred and creditors of the said
deceased, to b? and appear at our next Judge o."
Probate's Court, for York County, to be holden
at York Court House, on the 6TH DAY OF
NOVEMBER,, next, to shew cause, if any, why
the said Administration should not be granted.
Given under my hand and seal, this 30th day of
September, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and eighty, and in the 105th
year of thelndepcndenceof the United States of
America. J. A. McLEAN,
Judge of Probate.
ri 4. 1 OA Af\ flfc
cwpiciiiuer ou w v.
NEW STORE! NEW STOCK!
HAVING erected a new and commodious Store
on the site of our Old stand, our facilities for
conducting the Foreign and Domestic Fruit trade
are now unsurpassed in the Southern Country.
The attention of our friends, and dealers generally
is called to this fact, and also to our fresh
supplies arriving to-day.
100 barrels of Northern Apples.
50 boxes Messina Lemons.
25 barrels and half barrels of Pears.
15 packages Delaware and Concord Grapes. -*
200 barrels Early Rose Potatoes.
25 barrels Onions.
100 barrels Northern Cabbages.
Peaches and Grapes fresh every morning by
Express. C. BART A CO.,
55, 57 and 59 Mhrket street.,
Charleston S. C.
September 23 , 39 4m
~ GEORGE T. SCHORB,
PH0T0GEAPHER.
CHESTER, 8. CAROLINA.
PICTURES taken in all kinds of weather, and
pains taken to please every customer.
Old Pictures COPIED AND ENLARGED, as
low as can be done in any city, North or South.
Have on hand a fine selection of CHURCH
AND PARLOR ORGANS, which are offered
very cheap. Instruments guaranteed to be flrstilass.
Call and seo for yourselves, at the PHOTOSALLERY,
opposite the "Cotton Hotel."
Also, authorized agent to receive Subscriptions,
Advertisements and orders for Job Work for the
Yorkville Enquirer.
GEORGE T. SCHORB.1
February 13 7 tf
CLEANSING AND REPAIRING. '
THE undersigned would respectfully iDfarm
the public that ne is prepared to cleanse garments
of any fabric whatever, rendering them
perfectly clean, and if unfaded, restoring them to
he original brightness and lustre of the goods.
Do not throw away your old clothes, but ha*?e
hem cleaned and made to look as well as new.
Work promptly done, and at the most reasonaale
prices. THOMAS BALLARD.
August 12 29 tt
NOTICE.
CREDITORS OF WALTER B. METTS, deceased,
are hereby notified to present their
lemands to me, duly authenticated, on or before
he 22ND OF OCTOBER next.
JOS. F. WALLACE Administrator.
September 23 39 5t
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