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gtoraonittsi JUpartrarnt. "AIN'T GOT NO NAILS 2" We invite the lovers of fun to join us in the hearty laugh we are just now having over the story, told by one of our Northern contemporaries, of a tall, gawky looking countryman, who, during the height of the business season last fall, walked into one of the largest wholesale dry good bouses on Broadway, and entirely disregarding the invitations of the numerous salesmen to inspect the latest patterns, strode into the counting-room, where the heads of the establishment were sitting in close conversation. After taking a cursory glance of the room, and surveying attentively the faces of the occupants he asked with an unctious Yankee nasal twang : "Say, yeou?got any nails ?" "Nails, sir, nails !" repeated the most dig' nified Dombey of the firm. "No, sir, what should we do with nails ?" "Wal, I dunno?thought maybe you mought. Haint you got no nails, eh ?" "Vn air " Dumhov ncmin with an W? 9 -VJ/..VV. ?{3 > emphasis, motioning to the door. The individual iu search of nails took his time about it, and then left the countingroom. In turn, he asked every clerk the same question, and received the information from all, that "nails" formed no part of the stock of the establishment. "Well" said he, going towards the door, "duu't keep nails here, no how !" The principal salesman, whose dignity was hurt by the idea that any one should suppose that an establishment where he had a prominent place, should keep nails, headed the countryman off as he wa3 proceeding towards the entrance, and asked bim abrubtly what he wanted. "Want" said the countryman as cool as a cucumber, "I want to know if you've got any nails ?" "Nails, no sir. You have been told again and again, that we've got no nails?so you'd better go." "Ain't got any nails, eh ? Well, then, just look a here, mister, if you ain't got no nails, what an awful fix you'd be in if you'd happen to have the itch !" COURTING IN THE RIGHT STYLE. "Giteout! yeou nasty puppy?let me alone, or I'll tell yeour mammy!" cried out Sally to her lover, Jake , who sat ten feet from her pulling dirt from the chimney. "I ain't techin' on ye, Sal," said Jake. "Well, p'r'aps yer don't mean tu' nuther? deu yer?" "No, I don't." "'Cause yeou're too tarnal scary, yeou longlegged, lantern-jawed, slab-sided, pigeon-toed, gangie-kneed owl yeou?yeou hain't got a tarnal bit o' sense?git along bum with yer." "Naow, Sal, I love yeou, an' yeou can't help it, an' ef you don't let me stay an' court yeou, my daddy will sue yeourn for that caow he sold him t'other day. By jiugo, he said he'd deu it." "Well, look here, Jake?if yeou want tu court me, yeou'd better deu it as a white man does that thing?not set orf there as though you thortl would pizen yeou." "Haow on airth's that, Sal ?" "Why, sidle right up here, and hug and kiss me as if yeou had some o' ther bone and sinner of a man about yer. Do yeou s'pose a woman's only made ter look at, yer fool yeou? No; they're made for 'practicul results,' as Kossuth says?teu hug, and kiss an' sich like." "Well," said Jake, drawing a long breath, "ef I must I must, for I deu love yeou, Sal and so Jake commenced sidling up to her, like a male porker going to battle. Laying his arm gently upon Sal's shoulder, she was heard to exclaim? "That's the way teu deu it old hoss?that's acting like a white man orter." "Oh! Jerusalem a-n-d pancakes!" exclaimed Jake, "ef this ain't better'n any applesass ever marra made, a darned sight! Cracke e e! buckwheat slapjacks and 'lasses ain't nowhar 'long side 'o yeou, Sal! Oh ! haow I deu love yeou!" Here their lips came together, and the report that followed was like pulling a horse's foot out of the mire. A STUBBORN STRIPLING. "Once upon a time," a big, strapping, awkward youth, fresh from Vermont, entered the Dummer Academy at Bayfield, Mass., for a little share of erudition, which is doled out at this Temple of Minerva at economical prices. At that time?we know not how it is at present?the boys and girls were kept in one apartment, only the middle aisle separating them. One day, this Vermont stripling, who had just been helping one of the . girls through a hard sum?he was cute on cyphering?thought it nothing more than fair that he should take toll for his valuable J services; accordingly he threw his stalwart arm around the rosy damsel and gave her a sly but rousing smack which startled the whole assembly. "Jeredith Tower, come up here !" roared the preceptor. The delinquent appeared, his face glowing with blushes like a red-W warming-pan,? aud looking as silly as a ninny. "Hold out your hand, sir !" said the pedagogue. "I'll teach you not to act thus in this institution." The huge paw was extended in a horizontal line toward the instructor, who surveyed its broad surface with a mathematical eye, calculating how many strokes of bis small ferule it would take to cover the large number of square inches which it contained. "Jeredith," at length he said, "this is the first time that you have been called up for any delinquency ; now, sir, if you will say that you are sorry for what you have done, I will let you off this time without punishment." "Sorry !" exclaimed the youngster, striking an attitude of pride and indignation; "sorry! No sir! I am not. And T will do ipst so agin ef I hev a chance. So, put c?n, old feller, just as hard as you like. By the jumpin' Je-hosiphat! I'd stand here and let you lick rae till kingdom kum, afore I'd be sorry at that?by thunder, I would !" A Huckster Outdone.?Away down in the smart village of Cincinnati, there vegetates a certain hotel keeper, who, for cuteness, is "some," you may depend. Having been frequently imposed upon while supplying his bountiful larder with the article of geese, by the wide awake "Buckeye" hucksters he deemed it high time to try if cheating wasn't a game that two could play at. So one morning, bright and early, he presented himself before one of the numerous farmers' wagons surrounding the market square, with a?"I s-s-say friend, g-g-got any g-geese (The poor fellow has got Charles Lamb's defect of speech.) "Yes, fine lot ." "W-w-well, I've g-g-gotup at my h-h-house the all firedest set of boys for g-g-geese you ever d-did see, and I want to h-h-head 'em off a few with some tough ones?c-cant you p-pick rae out a few old h-hefellers." "W-w-well, I don't know but I might find one or two," and so turning over his pile of poultry, he collects on one side of his wagon some eight or ten geese, whose claim to the title of "old he-fellers" needed no corroborative proof of "Nootka Sound Convention," or "Treaty of Florida," but might justly be pronounced "clear and unquestionable." "Mine host" eyed the progress of separation with evident satisfaction. "Are those all the t-tough ones you've ggot?" "Yes, sir, and I vow I didn't know I had so many." "Well," was the reply, "I g-guess I'll take the other lot!" Ihc anil <f inside. DON'T LEAVE THE FARM. Come, boys, I have something to tell you, Come near, I would whisper it low? You are thinking r leaving the homestead, Don't be in a hu ytogo. The city has many . .ttractions. But tliink of the vices and sins; When once in the vortex of fashion, How soon the course downward begins. You talk of the mines of Australia? They've wealth in gold without doubt; But, ah! there is gold on the farm, boys, If you'll only shovel it out; The mercantile life is a hazard, The goods are first high and then low ; Better risk the old farm a while longer, Don't be in a hurry to go. The great, busy West has inducements, And so has the busiest mart, But wealth is not made in a day, boys, Don't be in a hurry to start. * The bankers and brokers are wealthy, They tako in their thousands or so; Ah ! think of the frauds and deception, Don't be in a hurry to go. The farm is the safest and surest, The orchards arc loaded to-day; You're free as the air of the mouutaius, And monarch of all you survey. Better stay on the farm a while longer, Though* profit eouies-iu rather slow, Remember you've nothing to risk, boys, Don't be in a hurry to go ! CONCERNING CORN. The demand for corn increases every year. Until very recently none was wanted tor exportation and little was used at home for other purposes than food for men and hogs and for the manufacture of whisky. The demand for corn for export is now very large, while its uses at home have multiplied. The glucose manufacturers of the country consume immense quantities of it, and a considerable amount is used in starch factories. More com is now fed to the cattle and sheep than was the case a few years ago. For the production ot fancy beef and mutton, such as is wanted for shipping to England, corn is necessary. Feeding corn to milch cows is a comparatively new thing, but it is practiced by a large number of dairymen in all parts of the country. Attention has lately been called to the somewhat limited area of the country that is adapted to the profitable production of corn. It is true that it can be produced in every State and Territory on this side of the Rocky Mountains, but it is a profitable crop in only a small proportion of them. Except in a few counties in Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee it cannot be produced to much profit south of the Ohio River. The western limit of the profitable production of coru is about two hundred miies west of the Missouri. North of Iowa corn is likely to be killed by frost before it matures, and only the quick growing varieties can be raised. East of the Alleghany Mountains, except in favored localities, corn is only produced at the expense of a large amount of labor and the application of considerable manure. Every year a larger area of land is brought under cultivation, and the productions of wheat, rye, oats, barley, tobacco, cotton and potatoes is extended. But the area of coru land is not increased to any considerable extent. We have new wheat fields in Minnesota, Dakota, California, Oregon and Washington ; new cotton fields in Arkansas, Texas and southern California, and new tobacco fields in almost every part of the country. But the area planted in corn remains restricted. Corn raised in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Iowa goes north, south, east and west. It is wanted in States where large quantities of other breadstuffs are produced and where but little is raised. Some hold that the territory where corn can be profitably produced is becoming more restricted every year. They state that the Indians raised good crops of corn in the extreme northern portions of Minnesota, Michigan and New York, and that climatic or other changes have now rendered its production difficult, if not impossible. They aiso affirm that corn is not profitably raised as far south as it was in the early history of the country.? Chicago Times. Does Her Own Work.?Does her own work, does she ? What of it ? Is it any disgrace ? Is she auy less a true woman, less worthy of respect than one who sits in silks and satins, and is vain of fingers that never labor? We listened to a person the other day, who, speaking of a newly wedded wife, said, sneeringly : "Oh! she does her own Axlf '' T'Urt inriK/In nn/J fkn f ftn A aC /iaa f A rv* n f nuih. jluc nuiua auu tuc iuud ui uuuionjpt in which they were uttered, betokened a narrow, ignoble mind, better fitted for any place than a country whose institutions rest on honored labor as one of the chief corner-stones. They evinced an idea of the true basis of society, of the true womanhood of genuine nobility. They showed the detestable spirit of caste or rauk, which a certain class are trying to establish?a caste whose sole foundation is money, which is the weakest kind of rauk known to civilization. Mind, manners, morals, and all that enters into a good character, are of no account with these social snobs. Position in their stilted ranks is bought with gold, and every additional dollar is another round in the ladder by which elevation is gained in their estsem and society. Vitiated Air.?Dr. Willard Parker, in a lecture before the students of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York, used the following apt words: "If, gentlemen, instead of air, you suppose this room to be filled with pure, clear water, and that instead of air you were exhaling twenty times a minute a pint of milk, you can see how soon the water, at first clear and sparkling, would become hazy and finally opaque, the milk diffusing itself rapidly through the water. You will thus be able to appreciate, also, how at each fresh inspiration you would be taking in a fluid that grew momentarily more impure. Were we able to see the air as we are the water, we would at once appreciate how thoroughly we are contaminating it, and that unless there be some vent for the air thus vitiated, and some opening large enough to admit a free supply of this very valuable material, we will be momentarily poisouing ourselves as surely as if we were taking sewage matter into our stomachs." On the Care of the Feet.?A clever writer says that the feet should be given as nice care as the hands, beginning with a bath of fifteen minutes in hot soap aud water, followed by scraping; with an ivory knife, and rubbing with a bail of sandstone. The nails may be left to take care of themselves, with constant bathing aud well-fitting shoes, unless they have begun to grow into the flesh, when all to be done is to scrape a groove lengthwise in each corner of the nail. The whole foot should be anointed with purified olive oil, or oil of sweet almonds, after such a bath. The oil will soak oft' the old skin, and wear away the scaly tissue about the nails, while it renders the sole as soft and pliant as that of a young child. Such treatment persisted in will make the foot as supple and elastic as the Arab's, and helps to realize that highbred ideal figure that so few women ever approach. Be Cautious and Beware.?Be cautious of salves, of plasters aud of eye-waters. Beware of hair-dyes, washes for refining the skin, and of toilet powders. Be careful in the use of scented soaps. Why ? Salves make and keep the skin sore, plasters preveut wounds from healing, eye-waters do often more injury than good, most hair dyes produce sore eyes, beautifying washes are often poisonous, ditto toilet powders, while scented soaps are usually too sharp by the free alkali they contain. English farmers, it is said, have been very successful in growing wheat by the aid of peat charcoal as a fertilizer, using at the rate of six hundred pounds to the acre. fpswUMCiiuis Reading. MACKEY'S VERSION OF HIS SPEECH. [From the Clarendon Enterprise.J In the year 1876, the State of South Carolina was redeemed from long misrule by a supreme effort of her best citizenship, guided under Providence by that wise leader and humane ruler, Wade Hampton. The Republican party, as the dominant organization iu this State, thus passed away from power, but not until all of its distinctive principles were plainly embodied in the platform of the South Carolina Democracy. The declared principles of the Republican party survived its supremacy iu the State. That party, ray friends, did not go down amid some awful convulsion of nature, nor was it blasted by the red lightnings of heaven, but it rotted down! The victory of 1876 has, however, failed to bring the repose that it promised. Every two years the people of this State are marshaled on the line of race in fierce political conflict. In this conflict each race is impelled by fear, the whites sincerely believing that their property and their civilization both de pend upon the event of the struggle, and the colored citizenship, with equal sincerity, feeling that their rights as free citizens depend upon their party success. This ceaseless agitation has brought, and is still bringing, bitter calamity to both races. It has stamped South Carolina as the dead line of American civilization, and capital and immigration have shrunk from it as the land of perpetual unrest. Our great necessity is to create confidence throughout the mighty States of the North in the political methods aud purposes of the now dominant party of this State. * It is due to a want of this confidence that the planter of South Carolina, when forced to borrow, must pay from twelve to eighteen per cent, per annum for money, while the farmer of the North, with a like security borrows readily at four and five per cent. As a South Carolinian, earnestly desiring to advance the common good of the whole people of his State, I propose what, in my best judgment, is the only practical remedy for this constantly recurring evil which bo retards their material prosperity. It must be admitted that according to the Constitution of the State, the majority have the right to rule. This indeed is now held as a fundamental American doctrine. As a consequence it must be conceded that the colored citizenship of South Carolina, with its majority of forty-two thousand voters, have the constitutional right to govern it. But my colored friends, it is not wise always to demand the enforcement of every right to its extreme limit. You must deal with\his grave issue as a practical question of applied politics. The white people of South Carolina pay ninety per cent, of the taxes, and embody in themselves a still greater proportion of its intelligence, and they will rule, either by legal fraud or by physical force. Wherever you plant the Anglo-Saxon, whether upon the banks of the Congaree, the Ohio, the Hudson or the Penobscot River, if he pays ninety per cent, of the taxes, be will either do the most of the voting, or all the counting of the votes. This counting is the silent force that moves the political machinery of the State. In your unwise assertion of the right of the majority to rule by your claiming too much, you have provoked a reaction that has resulted most unjustly in your receiving too little, practically excluding you from any personal or race representation in the government of the State. Concede then the rightful supremacy of the white race in South Carolina, and on that basis demand a fair representation of your owu in its government, State, County and Muuicipal, and I know that a majority of the whites of this State will accede to your just demands, and thus end forever the uurest and political discontent that have so long vexed and harrassed both races upon her soil. The government of the State, it is true, isju3tlyand humanely administered, in the main over both races, and the law is keeping watch and ward to-night under the stars, a silent but sleepless sentinel over the cabin of the poor and the mansion of the rich, yet the cause that I have pointed out still denies to her whole people the political repose they so much need. It is time that this long discontent should end and that the rights of each should be sacredly respected by all. The great and pure statesman Edmund Burke, speaking of the discontents in England in his time, wisely said, that "all substantial progress in government and every material benefit to the peo pie has been the result of timely compromise ; and barter." A Wicked Sailor.?One day Mr. Brily, the wicked sailor, was going by old Gaffer's, and he found him digging a well, and a boy was pulling up the rocks in a bucket with a windlass. So Jack gave, the boy ten cents and.said: "You go and git some candy, and ; I'll pull up for you till you git back," and | the boy done it. Then Jack put his bull-dog | in the bucket and let it down ; and the dog it I jumped out in the well with Gaffer, who halj loed wild, and the dog too. Then he got old ! Gafferses cat and pitched that down too, and the dog tackled the cat between Gafferses legs, and the cat run up Gaffer like he was a tree, all yellin' like Injens. There wasent never suchafite! After a while Jack he let the bucket down aud hauled old Gaffer up with the winlas, looking mity beat aud his clothes tore. Fore Gaffer cude get his breth, Jack sed : "Tell yer wot, Gaffer, if I hadn't come along yude had a pretty rough time of it, I i ornn r?f?a flint hnv's rrnne for another cat." v,ww ?J - O" ? Parity of Reasoning.?Lately at a distribution of prizes at a German village, a little girl seven years old, whose parents had just been turned out of their lodging, because they had failed to pay their rent, was asked by the rector: "Hare you studied sacred history, my child?" "Yes, sir." "Do you know the history of the creation ?" "I know that God made all." "Why were Adam and Eve turned out of ; Paradise ?" The child hesitated a moment, and then, | fixing her eyes on the examiner, replied? "Probably they were tamed out because they could not pay their rent." S&y A reporter of the Cincinnati Gazette interviewed the divorced wife of .Guiteau while she was on her way to Washington to testify in the trial of her former husband, on Tuesday last. She denies that Guiteau is insane, and says she simply regarded him as of peculiar temperament and exceedingly selfish and irritable, always wanting to have his own way. She said he wa9 very vain and seemed to enjoy any kind of notoriety, and j was not less sane than most other men are. j She had never heard of insanity in Guiteau's I family and all this talk about his being a lu1 natic was entirely a new thing to her. The lady is Mrs. Dunmire, having married a gentleman of that name in Leadville, Colora* ! do, which is her present home. Passenger Cars for Birds.?According ! to a writer in a scientific paper, the small ! birds that are unable to fly the hundred and ! fifty miles across the Mediteranian Sea are carried over on the backs of cranes. In the autumn, many flocks of cranes may be seen flying from the north toward the African coast. Little birds fly up to them and perch upon the backs of the cranes, and are : thus borne across the sea to a warmer climate. The cranes do not seem to mind carrying a load of birds, for they are strong of wing. gUMing iot the Jfcifctfli. CONDUCTED BY REV. ROBERT LATHAN. THE TEACHINGS OF HEATH. Death is at all times, and under all circumstances, a solemn thing for a man to contemplate. The death of a neighbor, even though we may not have had much personal intercourse in his life with the deceased, casts a shade of gloom over our minds. Mirth is hushed at the simple announcement that a fellow-mortal has run his or her course on earth? that the once animated body, with all its wonderful organism, has become a cold, unmoving corpse, aud the spirit which filled it with life and beauty has gone to him who gave it. But when de ith passes on some honored or loved one?when its icy breath strikes and withers some cherished object of our heart's strongest affections?then it is that we feel, in its full and awful import, the universal sentence on our race, "Dust thou art and unto dust shalt thou return. . This is a sentence from which, as material and mortal beings, none of us can escape. To-day it i9 executed on the tender household plant; to-morrow on the strong and vigorous, who rejoiced, but a moment before, in the prospect of many bright and happy days. The young, the beautiful, and the good? those who have had many joys, as well as those who have spent many years of care and sorrow?are alike subject to the inevitable decree. Friends are gone since yesterday's sun declined; we may have followed before to-morrow's sun has risen. Oh ! how void are the things of this life when viewed from the chamber of death. How base and utterly contemptible do all its strifes, its ambitions, its jealousies, and its hatreds appear. If men would reflect on the shortness and uncertainty of life, the nearness and certaiuty of death, surely they would avoid many of those bickerings and contentions?those backbitiugs and slanderings?which constitute so large a portion of life's annoyances and miseries. As the certainty of death teaches us humility, it should also t^ach us the duty of charity. As we expect to be forgiven the many ill deeds done in the bod^ so we should strive to be forgiving to those\ho injure or offend us. If we expect an immortality of the Spirit through the love of Him who is immortal and.eternal, should we not try to live by the laws of love here? If the hope of a never ending life, that is pure and blessed, can alone remove the etiug of death and brighten the path to the tomb, ought we not to cultivate the virtues and be guided by the precepts which are consistent with that hope? What are fleeting earthly honors if gained at the sacrifice of a glory that is imperishable ? What is the wealth of this world, if it be attained by the renunciation of an inheritance that cannot be destroyed ? What is earthly rank or station compared with the exaltation which awaits the pure in heart beyond the tomb ? Death Is a solemn monitor to whose warnings we should give heed. We need not mar our enjoyment in this world by keepiug con sta^tly in view that this is not our abiding place. The good are the happiest in life, and happy in the contemplation of death. The motive to all true virtue is, that its best reward comes after this life is ended. The nobleness of man does not consist in his being lord of the lower creation, but in the immortal essence which links his existence to that of the Creator of the Universe. He should care, therefore, more for the immortal spirit than for the mortal body, and live here as the heir of a kingdom which has no end.?New York Sun. - - What is Success ??Let us beware how we use the word "success" in connection with spiritual things. It is not an arithmetical term. A man is not failing because his pews are empty ; a minister is not necessarily a failure because there may not be numerical additions to the visible church. A man is not necessarily succeeding because his pews are crowded and because thousands enroll themselves on the register of the visible fellowship. We have nothing to do with either failure or success ; we are called to sow the seed, and to do the work, to suffer and endure and wait and hope, and God giveth the increase. Poor father and mother, you think you have no reward in your family. Cheer up, you will have good harvest yet. You have planted and sown and watered. Yes. God giveth the increase, thou canst not tell how or when, or which way ; leave it, dear honored parent, and it will be well with the child. Ministers of Christ, you say that you have cried your very eyes out, and worked until your heart has beeu sore, and ached with great agonies, and no good seems to have come of your labor. Wait. In the morning sow thy seed, in the evening withhold not thine hand, for thou knowest not which will prosper, or whether both shall be alike good. Cast thy bread upon the waters, and after many days thou shalt find it. God is not mocked : Whatsoever a mansoweth that shall he also reap. Labor more abundantly and more hopefully, and leave the harvest to God, as he has left the seed time to you. The Sabbath.?In idackstone's Commentaries on the Law of England, B. IV., Ch. IV. Sec. 9, the doctrine of the common law in relation to the Sabbath is thus set forth : Profanation of the Lord's day, vulgarly (but improperly) called Sabbath-breaking, is an offense against God and against religion, punished by the municipal law of England. For, besides the notorious indecency and scandal of permitting any secular business to bo publicly transacted on that day, in a country professing Christianity, and the corruption of morals which usually follows its profanation, the keeping one day in the seven holy, as a time of relaxation and refreshment as well as for public worship, is of admirable service to a State, considered merely as a civil institution. It humanizes, by tbe help of conversation and society, the manners of the lower classes, which would otherwise degen erate into a sordid ferocity and seinsnness orspirit. It enables the industrious workman to pursue his occupations in the ensuing week with health and cheerfulness ; it imprints on the minds of the people that sense of their duty to God, so necessary to make them good citizens, but which yet would be worn out and defaced by an unremitted continuance of labor without any stated times of recalling them to the worship of their Maker. Religion and Business.?The man who neglects his lawful and necessary business on the plea of religion, or because be thinks himself too holy and heavenly-minded to attend to it in a proper manner, gives sad evidence that his religion is not that of the Bible, or else that it is very imperfectly or disproportionately developed. Hia views are very un! scriptural and erroneous. Religion does not consist altogether in going to meeting. There can be too much of this as well as too little; but there cannot be too much religion-, provided it is of the right kind. It is not a thing for the Sabbath only, but for the week. It takes hold upon the every day affairs of life. A slovenly farmer, or a lazy mechanic, is al-! most as much a sinner in the sight of God as j is a careless preacher or a dishonest merchant.! Alas! we shall never know the value of time till it has slipped from us and left us i in eternity. Eternity is the only preceptor that can rightly teach the science of using j time. Dearest Lord! will it leave us then j with thee ? There is a beautiful precept which he who has received an injury, or thinks he has, would, for his own sake, do well to follow : "Excuse half and forgive the rest." THE YORKVILLEENQUIRER. PROSPECTUS FOR 1882. IN issuing our prospectus for 1882, we deem it only necessary to announce that the leading features which have characterized the editorial conduct of the Yorkville Enquirer for the past quarter of a century will be retained, and what it has been in the past will be an assurance of v hat it shall be in the future. The leading departments of the paper will be retained as lieretotore, and they will be conducted with the same labor and care that have marked our efforts in the past. 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It is adapted to all the wants of family sewing; can be readily comprehended by any one; runs easily; is always ready ; will do any and all kinds of sewing with Jess changing and fewer extra attachments; is self-adjusting; is a two-thread Machine, making an elastic lockstitch ; and stands solid and firm. The Stoves are made by the Sergeant Manufacturing Company, of Greensboro N. C. They are made of the best Scotch pig metal, with heavier and thicker plate than any other Stove in the market, and consequently will the longer withstand heat and hard usage. They are of a handsome pattern and neat finish, and warranted equal in points of appearance, durability and superior cooking qualities, to any stove manufactured in the Union. Thousands of thein are in use in Virginia, North and South Carolina, and they give universal satisfaction. The above Premiums will bo delivered to the successful competitors at the Enquirer office, free of eharces for freiuht. CONDITIONS. The four Premiums mentioned above will be awarded on the following conditions: The person getting up the largest club of yearly subscribers to the Enquirer, at 32 00 per annum, for each subscriber, will t>e entitled to the first choice of one of the above Premiums ; the person getting up the second largest club, at the same price, totne second choice; the person getting up 1 the third largest club, to the third choice; and the person getting up the fourth ^largest club, to the fourth choice. The time for completing clubs under the above Offer is limited to 1 o'clock P. M., on the FIRST MONDAY OF MARCH, 1882. Competitors may begin to secure subscribers at once?the time of subscription to commence whenever the name is handed in. The money for each subscriber is expected to be paid at the time the name is entered on our books, and no name will be counted in competition for a premium until the subscription price has been paid. To persons who make up Clubs of ten or more names, but who may fail to obtain a premium, we will send the Enquirer one year free of charge; and to those who send a Club of twenty or more names, but who may fail to get a premium, we will forward a copy of the Enquirer one year free of charge, and a copy, one year, of any weekly newspaper or monthly magazine published in the United States, the publication to be selected by the person entitled to receive it. It is npt necessary that the names of a club should all be at the same post office. Names may be taken at any number of places. One name for two years will be equivalent to two names for one year each. All subscriptions must be forwarded to us at the expense of those sending them. We will be responsible for the safe transmission of money only when sent by draft, registered letter, or money order drawn on the Yorkville post-office. In sending names, write plainly, giving counA A ~ m ,1 cti.u ly, pu?i uiuutj nnu ouiip. All subscriptions will be discontinued at tbe expiration of the time paid for. A separate list will be kept for each club-maker, who will be credited with eyery name sent, so that the number returned by any person can be ascertained at a moment's notice. Persons who commence making clubs, will not be permitted, after the names have been entered upon our books, to transfer the names to another club-maker's list. The time in which additions may be made to clubs, under this proposition, will expire on the FIRST MONDAY OF MARCH, 1882. Therefore, persons who desire the benefit of club rates, must subscribe and pay for the paper before that date, as after the expiration of that time, it will not be furnished for less than $2.50 unless new clubs are formed. All letters should be addressed to L. M, GRIST, Yorkville, S. C. November 17, 1881. 46 tf THE NEWS AND COURIER. HAVING taken theazency of the CHARLESTON DAILY NEWS AND COURIER for Yorkville and vicinity, I would respectfully inform the citizens that I will promptly deliver that paper EVERY AFTERNOON At TWENTY CENTS per week. This places subscribers in Yorkville on the same footing of subscribers in the city of Charleston. THE NEWS AND COURIER is received in Yorkville on the afternoon of THE DAY OF PULiTCATION. I will also receive subscriptions for the TRIWEEKLY NEWS, the WEEKLY NEWS, and the SUNDAY NEWS. Subscriptions for these papers to be paid in advance, and weekly subscriptions to the daily to be paid at the end of each week. SAM M. GRIST. September 1 35 tf LOOKOUT! ALL persons indebted to the undersigned, and failing to pay up by tbo FIRST OF DECEMBER, will find their notes in the hands of an officer for collection. We will not carry over any beyond that date. Either the money due must be paid or the stock for which tbo notes aro given returned, with the difference in value. All notes due at Yorkville, will be found in the hands of Maj. J. H. BARRY, until the 1st of December. A. WILLIFORD & CO. November 3 44 tf ~P7C. WILSON, DEALER IN BUGGIES) CARRIAGES, PHOTONS, SPRING- WAGONS, &C., CHARLOTTE, N. C. , OPEN BUGGIES $55, STEEL BOW TOP $65. August 11 32 tj J. R. SGHORB'S PHOTO-GALLERY, 1ST HOUSE EAST OF THE JAIL. A SUPERIOR Skvlight, a gallery with every j convenience, and a determination to do my best, enables me to promise satisfaction to all In i want of correct and nattering likenesses. Cloudy ' weather is as good or better than sunshine for all j . subjects, except small children. J. W. BAUMAN, \\ PRACTICAL BARBER AND HAIR DRE88ER. [ ] SHOP in SPRINGS MOORE building, on first : floor, in the rear of Withers Adiokes' store. Easy shaving, fashionable hair-cutting and dress- j ing and polite attention to all customers. Call and give him a trial. t Also dealer in CIGARS and TOBACCO. ' September 15 25 tf W. P. HOBBS. AGENT. = I NEW GOODS j RECEIVING aud for sale at tlie lowest Cash ' Prices, ( i AT THE SMITH CORNER. ! l'n the stock ^nay be enumerated : Coffee, different qualities and prices ; Smoking and Chewing Tobacco; Cigars, Ralph's Scotch Snuff; Soda and Starch; Lion and Patapsco Baking Powders; CANNED GOODS , And Extracts; Shoe Brushes and Blacking; | Candies, Candles; Green and Black Teas ; the best Broom in town; good Apple Vinegar; Soda and Lemon Crackers; Columbia River Salmon Concentrated Lye; Black Pepper in tin boxes. Try my ARIOSA ROASTED COFFEE. Old need Tick Conee at 0 pounds for 51. Call and ( examine my goods and prices. ( W. P. H0B3S, Agent. LIYERY AND FEED STABLE, i : THE undersigned would respectfully inform the public that he has opened a LIVERY STABLE On his lot, near the Court House, and is amply prepared with HORSES, CARRIAGES, BUGGIES and WAGONS, to attend to any calls that may be made upon him by the traveling public. Special attention given to conveying TRAVELING SALESMEN to any point desired, in comfortable vehicles, and with careful drivers. Horses and vehicles to hire at reasonable prices. FEED STABLES. In connection with the Livery business, I am also prepared to furnish feed and stabling for horses, by the meal, day, week or month. My long experience in the Livery Business warrants ine in ensuring satisfaction to all who may favor me with their patronage. A few secona-band Buggies for sale at a bargain. F. E. SMITH. April 7 14 ly STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY or YOEK?COUNT OF COMMON PLEAS. William Z. Kell, J. T. Kell, S. A. Kell, Sarah Hayes, John D. Kell, Elmore Kell, Jason J. Kell, Lucius Lindsay, and Elizabeth Lindsay, a minor, by her guardian, ad lilem, Lucius Lindsay, Plaintiffs, against Banks Kell, Hugh Kell, and S. G. Hemphill, Administrator cum tcstamcnto anncxo of John G. Kell, deceased, Defendants.?Summons for Relief?Complaint not Served. To the Defendants. YOU are hereby summoned and required to answer the complaint in this action, of which a copy is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said complaint on the subscribers, at their office, in Yorkville, South Carolina, within twenty days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the complaint within the time aforesaid, the plaintiffs in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the complaint. Dated November 23rd, 1881. WILSON <fe WILSON, Plaintiffs' Attorneys. [L. S.] Jos. F. Wallace, C. C. C. Pleas. To the Defendants, Banks Kell and Hugh Kell.? Please take notice that the summons and complaint in the above entitled action was filed in the office of the Clerk of Common Pleas for the County of York, in the State of South Carolina, on the 16th day of November, A. 1)., 1881. WILSON & WILSON, Plaintiffs' Attorneys. November 24 47 6t J. N. ROBSON & SOX, COMMISSION MERCHANTS AND DEALERS IN FERTILIZERS, 68 EAST BAY. Charleston, November 9,1881. AT the commencement of another business year we acknowledge with pleasure the patrouage and confidence of our planting friends. Robson's Cotton and Corn Fertilizer, Robson's Compound Acid Phosphate, have given very gratifying satisfaction. Our Cotton and Corn Fertilizer is of the highest standard. It contains among other valuable ingredients 3 per cent. of Ammonia, 1J per cent, of Potash, 16 per cent, of available Phosphate. Hay ing been amongtne nrst to introduce uuano in this State, we can confidently refer to our plant- | ing friends that during the series of years we have sold them Manures we have always given a pure article. Everj'Manure is tested. We offer the above fertilizers for cash, time or cotton. Planters ordering immediately will be allowed to the 1st of April to decide which they prefer, cash or time. An order for a car-load often tons will besont free of drayage, for a less amount $1 per ton will be charged. November 24 47 3m LOOK SHARP! FT1HE first of NOVEMBER has passed, and eveJ_ ry one who bought Guano from me and has not delivered the Cotton, is i LIABLE TO BE SUED For the face of their notes, which will add about $10.00 per ton to the debt. I cannot hold the Notes beyond the order of the Companies, and | 1 may be ordered, at any time, to turn the claims over to an OFFICER FOR COLLECTION. You can settle with me on betterterms than you can with an officer, or even with the Company. It is to YOUR INTEREST TO DO SO. And it will save me, as well as yourself, the mortification of I SENDING FOR THE COTTON. We have always been friends; let us continue so. i A word to the wise is sufficient. < T. S. JEFFERYS, Agent. t TURBINE WATER WHEEL, j WE have one 18-inch RIGHT HAND TURW BINE WHEEL, as a sample of Farrar's Invention. We are working a 131-inch Wheel ! nt the same kind, and there is no better Water , Wheel made for the same money. Those who contemplate using a Turbine Wheel can do no hotter than to gel one of these Wheels. We have ' Circulars giving all the details in regard to the working of it, and with the sale you have the privilege of trying the Wheel, and if it does not do as represented, the money will be refunded. Come and see the sample 18-inch R. H. Turbine , Wheel, Manufactured bv theSERGEANT MAN- ' UFACTURING COMPANY, Greensboro, N. C. HERNDON BROS., Agents, Yorkville, S. C. February 10 47 tf DENTAL SURGERY. . ? Dr. J. B. PATRICK, J of Charleston, ( SURGEON DENTIST, ( MTVSSSK WILL visit Yorkville, profession- 1 ally, in January next, when he will . be pleased to wait upon all who may , require the services of a DENTIST. Being amply prepared with the best instruments arid all the improved appliances, he feels warranted in assuring perfect satisfaction. . Ladies waited on at their residence. Rooms at the Rawlitison House. 5 September 22 38 ly j ~ GARRY IRON ROO^ ind Cement. t 79 and 81 Columbus Street, CUE VELiANTD, OHIO. " Send for circulars and price lists. \ February 26 9 ly ' HOUSE AND LOT FOE SALE. THE undersigned offers for sale, the Lot in S Yorkville, known as the "'Meek Place." It * s situated near the Methodist Church, and con- * ,ains TWO ACRES, more or less. On the lot is 1 i two-story Dwelling House, containing SIX 1 LARGE ROOMS AND A BASEMENT, a lum- ^ ser house, corn-crib and stable. Terms will be made easy. L. M. GRIST. t OLD NEWSPAPERS, " t OF large size, suitable for wrapping, for sale at one cent each, at the fi ENQUIRER OFFICE. o JOB PRINTING. OWING to our superior facilities with the best machine presses, an abundance of type and irst-cluss appointments throughout our office, we are prepared to execute ALL MANNER OP JOB PRINTING in superior style, and at prices ;hat will compare with New York or Philadelphia iharges for the same quality of work and materials. We have recently made a reduction in prices for the following classes of work, to which wo invite the attention of business men: KILL HEADS. For 500 For 1000 Half-sheet Bill Heads $3.00 $5.00 Fourth-sheet Bill Heads, 2.25 3.50 Sixth-sheet Bill Heads 2.00 3.00 Monthly statements atsame price of sixth-sheet bill heads. We will fill an order for bill heads, " giving any desired number of either size of iheet at proportionate prices. LETTER HEADS. For 500 For 1000 Commercial Note, $2.15 $3.25 Packet Note, 2.25 3.50 , Letter (large size) 3.00 5.0C For the above work we use a superior quality jf paper, and guarantee entire satisfaction in evary instance. We also give special attention to the printingof Briefs, Arguments and -Points and Authorities, ...U t ?L C.. Jftk ft* ???ft*1 ? AAAAM^tnr* frv tkn { nn. WlJHJJl wo lurilinil ?CI lutijr nu,viuiug iaj iuo io^unvmeats of the Justices of the Supreme Court, and in proof reading exercise the utmost care to enjure accuracy. We are prepared to furnish all other kinds ol printing, from a visiting card to a large volume, ind will be pleased to furnish estimates for any Jtyle of work desired. Address, L. M. GRIST. Yorkville. S. C. September 9 37 tf narrow gauge railroad. aKmrnamm SCHEDULE of Mail and Passenger Trains, taking effect at 3.30 o'clock, P. M., November 21, 1881: GOING SOUTH. Leave Lincolnton, 7.00 A. M. Leave Hardin's 7.25 A. M. Leave Dallas 7.50 A. M. Arrive at Gastonia* 8.10 A. M. Leave Gastonia 8 30 A. M. Leave Pleasant Ridge 8.50 A. M. Leave Crowder's Creek - 9.00 A. M. * Leave Bowling Green 9.10 A. M. Leave Clover 9.25 A. M. Arrive at Yorkville ..10.00 A. M. Leave Yorkville 10.10 A. M. Leave Guthriesville 10.35 A. M. Leave McConnellsville 10.50 A. M. Leave Lowrysville ....11.10 A. M. Arrive at Chester 11.40 A. M. Breakfast. GOING NORTH. Leave Chester 3.30 P. M. Leave Lowrysville 4.00 P. M. Leave McConnellsville 4.20 P. M Leave Guthriesville 4.30 P. M. Arrive at Yorkville 4.55 P. M. Leave Yorkville 5.05 P. M. Leave Clover 5.45 P. M. Leave Bowling Green 5.55 P. M. Leave Crowder's Creek 6.05 P. M. Leave Pleasant Ridge 6.15 P. M. Leave Gastonia 8.45 P. M. Leave Dallas 7.05 P. M. Leave Hardin's 7.30 P. M. Arrive at Lincolnton 8.00 P. M. JAMES MASON, Superintendent. November 24 47 tf richmond and dan ville railroad. change of schedule. ON and after Sunday, November 20th, 1881. Passenger Train Service on the Atlanta ana Charlotte Air-Line division of this road will be as follows: U. S. Fast Mall. Express. U. S. Mall. EASTWARD. I No. 55. No. 51. No. 53. I.eave Atlanta....! 3.15 P.M. 5.30 A.M. Arr. Gainesville,.., 5.31 P.M.' 7 42 A.M. ? Toccna 7.05 P. M. L'v8 00 P. M. 8.10 A. M. " Seneca 8.36 P. M. Arr.9.17 P. MJ 10.47 A. M. "Greenville.... lf .02 P. M. 10.54 P. M. 112.15 P.M. ? Spartnnb'g.... 11.17 P. M. 12.15A.M. 1.38 P.M. " Gaxionla 1.29 A. M. 2.50 A. M.l 4.04 P. M. " Charlotte 2.30 A. M. 3.52 A. M.| 5.00 P. M. WESTWARD. KT "no.^"' L've Charlotte.... 12.10 A. M. 10.25 P. M. 12J# P. M. Arr. Gastonia 1.01 A.M. 11.20 P. M. 1.24P.M. " Spurtaob'g... 2.57 A.M. 1.50 P.M. 3.45 P.M. " Greenville... 4 16 A. M. 3.30 P. M. 5.03 P. M. " Seneca 5.44 A.M. 5.19 P.M. 6.50 P.M. " Toccoa 1 0 aO A. m. o.su r. jn. o.w r. m. ? Lula 8.14 A.M. 9.14 P.M. " Oaineuvllle.. 8.42 A.M. 9.45 P.M. " Atlanta 11.00 A. M. 12.05A. M. T. M. R. TALCOTT, General Manager. I. Y. SAGE, Superintendent. A. POPE, General Passenger Agent. December 8 49 tf THE YORK MARBLE YA-RD. THE undersigned would respectfully announce to the public that his MARBLE YARD, near the Railroad depot, is in full operation, and that be is now well prepared to furnish anything in his line of business at the LOWEST CASH PRICES. Tombstones for children furnished for from $3.90 upward ; for adults from $8.00 u pward. jfSir Monuments and Tomb Stones designed and finished in the most elaborate style, and in point of workmanship and material, equal 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 Rnelr 14111 anH Winnshoro. on the Charlotte. Co lumbia and Augusta Railroad," free of charge for transportation. Thankful for the patronage heretofore bestowed upbn my establishment, my determination is to merit a continuance of the same. F. HAPPERFIELD. January 6 1 ly TO THE PEOPLE OF THE SOUTH. KING'S MOUNTAIN AND ITS HEROE8. A HISTORY of the Battle, Oct. 7,1780, and the events which let! to it, after two years spent in preparation, is now published and ready for delivery. The author, Lyman C. Draper, LL. D. has spent ") years in gathering materials for this work, which abounds in stirring recitals of adventures and hair-breadth escapes, alike interesting to old and young. The descendants of such men as Campbell, Shelby, Sevier, Cleveland, Lacey, Williams, Hambright, McDowell, Windon, Hammond, and their officers, now living by the thousands throughout the South, will welcome this permanent record of that glorious event which turned the tide of the Revolution, rhe work contains 612 pages, on fine paper, beautifully bound, with seven steel portraits of the Heroes, and numerous wood cuts, with index of 3,000 references, f rice, 94, sent postpaid on receipt of price, or may be bad of Agents in every jounty. PETER G THOMSON, Publisher, No. 179 Vine Street, Cincinnati, O. Agents Wanted for nnassigned territory. Send for terms, circulars and sample copy. November 24 47 4t* IF YOU WANT. [F you want one of the best and most entertaining magazines published in the United States or anywhere else, subscribe for Harper's Monthly Magazine or Scribner's Monthly. The jrice for either is only $4.00 a year. If you want a splendid magazine for your chiliren, subscribe for St. Nicholas. It is acknowlidged to be the best juvenile magazine published n the world. Price $3.00 a year. If you want the best lady's magazine, subscribe or Demorest's Magazine, Gody's Lady's Book or Peterson's Magazine and you will get what you vant. The price for either of these publications is mly $2.00 a year. If you want a first-class story paper, subscribe or Saturday Night. Price $3.00 a year. If you want any magazine or paper published n the United States, 1 will order it for you at jublisher's price. SAM M. GRIST. CLEANSING AND REPAIRING. rHE undersigned would respectfully inform the public that he is prepared to cleanse garnents of any fabric whatever, rendering thera >erfectly clean, and if unfaded, restoring them to he original brightness and lustre of the goods. )o not throw away your old clothes, but have hem cleaned and made to look as well as new. York promptlv done, and at the most reasona>le prices. " THOMAS BALLARD. March 10 10 tf fetlmlic (frttquim. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: iingle copy for one year, 92 50 ^or six months, 125 ^or three months, 75 .'wo copies one year, 4 OO 'en copies one year, 20 00 ind an extra copy for a club of ten. ADVERTISING RATES. ONE DOLLAR per square, for the first inserion, and FIFTY CENTS per square, for each ubsequent insertion. A square consists of the pace occupied by seven lines of this size type. Contracts will be made at reduced rates or advertising space to be used for three, six, r twelve months.