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^tumorous Department. John Dennis and Gen. Floyd?? Early in the late civil war, John Dennis, a full negro, believing himself fired with patriotic zeal, and able to serve his country, besought his master, a Georgian, and obtained permission to accompany a regiment from that State which was soon placed under the command of General Floyd. The history of that campaign is well known. On the retreat John became homesick, and was allowed to depart. He had become well known to General Floyd and all his command. On his departure he went to take leave of the General, when the following dialogue was had : General Floyd?"Well, John, you are going to leave us, eh ?" John?"Yes, Mars Floyd ; it 'pears like I could do more good at home now dan bein' here ; so I thought I'd go home and 'courage up our people to hold on." General F.?"That's right, John. But are you going to tell 'em that you left us when running from the Yankees ?" John?"No. sir: no. Mars Flovd. dat I ain't. You may 'pend upon my not tellin' nothing to 'moralize dem people." General F.?"But how will you get around -telling them, John ?" Jolm?"Easy enough, Mars Floyd. It won't do to 'moralize dem people. I'm goin' tell 'em dis?dat when I left de army it was in firstrate sperrits, and dat, owin' to de situation of de country and de way de land lay, we was aadvancin' back'ards, and de Yankees was aretreatin' on to us." The Staying Powek of Wind.?"Why, you don't call this windy, do you ?" asked Judge Jones. "While I was down in Cheyenne yesterday I saw on empty flour barrel stuck up against the side of a brick house, with nothing to hold it in that position but the wind. It had been up there five days. Yes, sir. The wind hadn't let up enough during that time to let it drop." An old and well-dressed gentleman who had been standing near, and had heard the Judge's statement, replied: "Pardon me, sir, but I cannot believe that. I have lived in Cheyenne twelve years and I have never known the wind to hold an empty barrel against the side of a house longer than four days." This started a general conversation on the subject of Wyoming winds in general ana Cheyenne winds in particular, and a man who looked as though he might be a liar from somewhere near Red Butte or Sherman, said that some time last spring, while in Cheyenne, the wind blew the sign off a dry goods store and carried it across the street and up against a harness shop, and held it there for three weeks. Just then the train came thundering in and the wind question was adjourned.?Liirumie Boomerang. Out I Come.?In the days gone by a Det roit Sheriff, who had made a close shave of being elected, had the ill luck to lose a prisoner from jail. The fellow made his escape to the country, but the sheriff overhauled him about eight miles out, and drove him under a barn. The prisoner was captured and yet he was not. If he could not get out the sheriff could not get in, and threats had no effect on him. In this emergency the officer called out: "Say, Jim." "Yes." "You know I had a mighty close shave getting this office ?" "You did that." "Well, I'm laying my pipes for a second term. If I lose you I might as well hang up. The opposition will hold it up in letters four feet high, and hundreds of men in my own party will slip my name. Do you hear me ?" "I do." "Well, I ask you to come out, not exactly as a prisoner going back to jail, but more as a patriot bound to stand by his party. "Come, t:?v* fj nil. "I'll be hanged if I don't," replied the prisoner. "The judge was agin me, my sentence was unjust, and I hate your jail, but if it's going to help the party and crush the hydraheaded opposition, out I come !" Redeeming a Note.?TheOkoloma (Miss.) Netcs tells the following story: "Old P. is well known in some parts as one who never pays a debt if it can be avoided ; has plenty of money, and is a jolly, rollicking old chap; gets pretty drunk occasionally, when, of course, some friend takes care of him. A few days since he fell into the hands of a friend who held his note for a sum of money, and, as it was the last chance, the friend dived into old P's. wallet, took out the amount of the note, and put the note where the money had been. When he awoke to consciousness, as was his wont, he took out his wallet to count how much money he was out. Finding his purse almost depleted, he thundered : "How in the deuce did I spend so much money V" "You paid off that note'I held," answered the friend. "Well," muttered old P., quietly stowing away his wallet, "I must have been very drunk." -cL oJlALL UUS( ? t OIi Ills luUi Jb. x .?-A Missouri paj>er, to illustrate a hopeful feeling that some men have when they are in debt, tells of a farmer who owed Walt Perkins twenty-five dollars, and had owed him for years. One day he met Walt and said, "Don't be uneasy, Walt, 1 have the thing all fixed by which I can pay you." Walt asked him how he had got it fixed, and the old granger said, "Well, Walt, if nothing happens, next year I hope to raise a good crop of corn and I intend to trade some of the corn for a yoke of oxen, and I know an old man in St. Charles county that owns an old mare and he wants to trade her for a yoke of oxen. Now, Walt, when I raise the corn and get the oxen I will make the trade for the old mare and then I will bring her home and raise mule colts?and Walt, the very first mule colt I sell you shall have the money." Miss Sophronsby Waddlesworth, aged 35, was reading the fashion notes, and when she struck the paragraph, "Babies are fashionable this season," she fainted dead away, and remained unconscious fifteen minutes. It was all the fault of the intelligent compositor. The item should have read: "Rubies are fashionable this season." Something of a difference, you will observe, though both are dear little tilings. W 'T m proud of this town," said a little mail sitting behind the stove, with a pipe in his mouth. "Proud of it," repeated the stranger at the bar, who turned around as he heard the words, and looked at the speaker with a look of infinite contempt. "What are you proud of it for V" "That's an easy one," returned the little man. "There are four cemeteries here, and I've got a wife in every one of 'em."?Brooklyn Eagle. Anything to Beat Down.?A queer locking character went into one of our dry goods stores and inquired the price of a yard of ribbon. The clerk informed him that the price was six cents. "Sixteen cents, I'll give you fifteen." "I did not say sixteen, I said six cents," said the clerk. "Oh ! six cents, well I'll give you five," was the reply. ^ "Your mind is in a twilight state," observed the good man. "You cannot differentiate the grains of mistrust from the molecules of a reasonable confidence. You are traveling the border land, the frontier between the paradise of faith and the Arctic regions of incredulity. You are an agnostic." "Divil a a bit," said Pat, with mingled amazement and indignation. "I'm a Dymmycrat ivery inch o' me." A man of tact always manages to get out of difficulty. The clerk of a parish, whose business was to read the "first lesson," came across the chapter in David, in which the names Shadrack, Meshach and Abednego occur 12 times, and finding it extremely difficult to pronounce these names, he went through the chapter referring to them as "the aforesaid gentlemen." Fights shy of patent pills : Sam .Johnsing felt very much aggrieved because an Austin ,7ustice fined him So for disturbing the peace. "Mr. Johnsing," said the Justice, "you can take an api?al ; you have a legal remedy." "I knows all about dern remedies, sail ; dey am werry much like dem udder remedies you gets at de drug store. I)e mo' ob 'em ver takes de sicker y?r gits." lite ^aittt and Jiresidt. SALT AND ASHES FOR ANIMALS. This subject has been frequently discussed hitherto, especially the use of salt for farm stock. That all domestic animals do better where they are constantly supplied with salt, I am perfectly satisfied, from experience and long observation. The only case where it seems to do injury is where cattle have been long without it, and then giving them all they are inclined to consume. I am willing to own that it is temporarily injurious, not because the article is of itself bad, but because of taking too much at one dose. The proper way to feed salt is to place it where the stock can get at it as they please, and take what they are inclined to eat. Never mix it with their food, so that they are compelled to take it whether they want it or not. More and better butter can be made from the milk of a cow when she has a full supply of salt than from one entirely deprived of it, and having an irregular supply, and it also takes less time to clmrn the cream. Nature requires salt as an aid in preserving health. It assists in digestion, as well as in many other ways, which I need not here mention. For cattle at pasture lumps may be laid in any convenient place where a board can be fixed to shelter from the rain, and still allow, the stock free access. At the barn the lumps can be placed under the shed, or in some other convenient snot. But often times stock seem lo require an alkali as well, and that is most conveniently supplied with wood ashes, which horses, cattle, sheep and swine will greedily devour, when they have an opportunity. These should also be supplied where the stock can have access to them as desired. The ashes should be from good sound wood and kept dry. When desirable to keep cattle at pasture, and there is no shed to shelter the ashes and salt, a convenient trough may be fastened between two posts, on top of which are fastened two planks or boards as a roof to shelter from rain. The posts should be long enough so that the trough may be eighteen or twenty inches above the ground, and there must be room above, between it and the roof, to allow free access to the salt and ashes. This answers for all stock except sheep and swine, which can have the troughs lower. I believe that if a constant supply of salt and ashes is provided where all kinds of stock can have access to them, very much less disease would be known among farm stock. 1 have never known bots, colic or worms in horses where ashes and salt were thus furnished. Sowing Seeds.?The time will soon arrive for general seed sowing, and a hint or two in regard to it may not be out of place. Much that is sown never appears, and the seedman is charged with selling old or poor seeds. Sometimes this may be so, but very often it is the sower's own fault. There is much more art in sowing seeds successfully than people suppose, and yet it is very simple when understood. Many seeds are sown too deep, and yet if not deep enough they will dry up and not grow at all. The depth must be determined by the size of the seed and the character of the soil. If the soil be light and sandy, there is not so much clanger or the seeds rolling irom deep sowing as if the soil be stilf ; and even in stiff soil the depth will have to be determined by the condition of the soil. Suppose we are to sow a piece of oats, in land that is liable to become clotty, and this is the distinction between light aiid heavy land. If we can roll the land after sowing it would not matter much about sowing deep ; but the seed would have to be harrowed in pretty well if left in a clotty condition unrolled. Indeed, if the seed were sown on ground simply first harrowed and then rolled, in such land as we have described, many more seeds would do well then if harrowed before rolling. In other words, shallow sowing, if the ground is well pulverized and pressed firm, is more favorable than deep planting with a rough surface. Finely pulverized soil, with a well-pressed surface, is indeed the very best conditions for success with all seeds : and the shallowest kind of sowing, so that the seeds be firmly imbedded in the soil, is the essence of good seed-sowing.?Germantown Telegraph. How Farmers May Save.?A distinguished railroad man of Georgia says that the farmers of that State have it absolutely in thenpower to reduce the earnings of the railroads if they would raise what they consume on their own farms. This statement contains enough substantial truth to attract the attention of every intelligent fanner in this State. It is evident to every man of common sense that a very large proportion of the earnings of railroads in this State have been derived from the heavy shipments to our fanners of provisions, fertilizers, fanning utensils, machinery and many other articles of like character, most of which could undoubtedly be provided by the farmers themselves if they would only determine to do so. lly our system of farming, however, our planters have gotten in the habit of importing nearly everything they use, thus placing upon themselves the double burden of first purchasing what they need at ruinous prices abroad, and then paying freight rates to the roads both on what they send out from their farms and on what they must import, and there is no doubt but that this double drain upon them must work disastrously to the farming interests of the State. The only certain remedy for this state of affairs is to be found in our fr mers producing a diversity of crops, instead of concentrating all their energies noon one or two leading articles, and pay ing more attention to the "home supply" department of the farm. If Our farmers will adopt this system of farming they will soon cut off at least one-half of their present freight excuses, and will vastly increase their own independence. Corn* vs. Cotton.?A writer in the Southern Farmers' Monthly says: "In my vicinity planters are paying one dollar a bushel for corn on a credit payable out of the next fall crop. If cotton should sell at 7 cents net it will require 14 *2-7 pounds of cotton to pay for one bushel of corn. If a man can exchange his 2,000 bushels of corn for cotton at these figures he willl get 14,570 pounds of cotton for his crop of corn, or about 30 bales of cotton ; in other words, we send 30 bales of cotton up North to pay for the corn that one man can make. Is it any wonder that we are as a poor as a church mouse ? And Bill Arp is about right when he says: 'I am afeerd we are a nation of fools.' There has long been an impression up North and even in the South, that we cannot raise stock to profit; that we have no grass; can't feed stock; that the flies are I +r>rt l,rwl fVi.if U7Q have tnn mnnv dispjiqps' wV'V UHU ^ UIKiV/ ?? V HUI V ww \*?vwmwwm ^ while the fact is we have more and better grasses than the North has. "We can raise hogs, cattle sheep, mules and horses for onehalf the cost it requires up North. And to fatten stock for market it can be done with peas even on the poor land of Georgia for less money than it can done in the North ; and, while we are raising stock, we are improving our lands instead of wearing them out. I am well aware there is a strange fascination in planting cotton. "We see in the spring $40 a bale, and ten bales of cotton to the hand, but from some cause we can't see the expense attending the making of the crop." To Keep Seven Cows on an Acre.? Science and practice are inseparable for successful farming. No matter how much practical skill one possesses, it can never supply the want of scientific knowledge in farming. Without science the farmer is like a blind man walking on strange ground, trusting to chance for results. But a few years ago outmost progressive farmer would have considered the product of one acre of land hardly sufticent for the wintering of one cow. To-day I am wintering seven cows from a single acre of land, feeding no more grain than I fed under the old system of farming, with the best of long fodder. This is a practical experience. Scientists can prove, upon the basis of theoretical chemistry, that ensilage .is of uncertain value. The practical experience of intelligent farmers proves to us that the product of our land, can, by the ensilage system of curing our crops., be increased in value more than 000 per centum.? JV. 1'. Sun. Oatmeal Cakes.?Into a quart of cold water stir oatmeal enough to make it about as thick as hasty pudding. Be sure-that the i meal is sprinkled in slowly, and that the stir- ; ring is so active that the mush will have no lumps in it. Now put it on the buttered pan, where it can be spread out to half the thick- ] ness of a common cracker, and smooth it down with a case knife. Run a sharp knife i across it, so as to divide it into the sized pieces i you wish, and then place it in a warm oven 1 and bake slowly, being careful not to brown it. 1 Jtlecteil foetfg. TO MY MOTHER. LINES BY A CONVICT IN THE OHIO PENITENTIARY. I've wandered far from thee, mother, \ Far from my happy home; I've left the land that gave me birth, In other climes to roam ; And time, since then, has roll'd its years And marked them on my brow ; Yet, I have often thought of thee? I'm thinking of thee now. I'm thinking of the day, mother, When, at my tender side, You watch'd the dawing of my youth, And kiss'd me in your pride; Then brightly was my heart lit up With hopes of future joy, While .your bright fancy honors wove To deck thy darling boy. I'm thinking of the day, mother, When, with such anxious care, You lifted up your heart to Heaven? Your hope, your trust, was there ; Fond memory brings thy parting words, While tears roll'd down your cheek ; Thy long, last, loving look told more Than ever words could speak. I'm faraway from thee, mother; No friend is near mo now, To soothe ine with a tender word Or cool my burning brow; The dearest ties affection wove Are all now torn from me; They left me when the trouble came: They do not love like thee. I'm lonely and forsaken now, Unpitied and unblest; Yet still I would not have thee know How sorely I'm distress'd. I know you would not chide, mother, You would not give me blame; But soothe ine with your tender words, And bid me hope again. I would not have thee know, mother, How brightest hones deeav ; The tempter with his baleful cup Has dashed them all away; And shatne has left its venom sting, To rack with anguish wildYet, still I would not have thee know The sorrows of thy child. Oh ! I have wander'd far, mother, Since I deserted thee, And left thy trusting heart to break, Beyond the deep blue sea. Oh! mother, still I love thee well, And long to hear thee speak, And feel again thy balmy breath Upon my careworn cheek. But, ah ! there is a thought, mother, Pervades my beating breast, That thy freed spirit may have flown To its" eternal rest; And while I wipe the tear away, There whispers in my earA voice, that speaks of Heaven and thee, And bids me'seek thee there. Hpsccllimeoitf Reading. SPOTS AND FUTURES. A Humorous View of Cotton Speculation. When the heart is full and the brain teems with sorrows there is nothing so soothing as cotton. Its chief recommendation is that it is as clear as noonday. There is no painful figuring about it. Railroad stocks, mortgages, income bonds, construction company shares, wheat, pork, lard, and other real and transferable things are too complicated for pleasure and too uncertain for business, unless one gives his whole mind to them. They are like chess? not a recreation but a wearying labor. The dolcefar niente of speculation is to be found in cotton. Nothing could be simpler. Two minutes with your broker does it. The unit is one hundred bales, just as in stocks it is one hundred shares. You take a hundred, say, of "September." It may be 11.83 or 11.89, or anywhere along there?that doesn't matter?the main thing is to get in at something. The "margin" is $2 a bale, and your broker's charges, say, $23. The "ante," then, to borrow a convenient term from a kindred diversion, is $225. At this point the sport begins. You have nothing to do but watch the tape, the morning and evening papers through all their editions and extras, the bulletins and reports of the Department of Agriculture, the bulletins from all the Cotton Exchanges in the country, the shipping movements, ocean freights, Surats, mill takings, the weather, the cotton worm, the guano trade. Of course, you must be already familiar with the condition of each of these things for every day of the past five seasons. The game is based almost wholly on comparisons, and to be a master of the data implies imcomplete preparation. This technique is petty, of course, but essential. Before going into cotton one ought to be able to take the worm and guano statistics, acreage, condition, forward movement, port receipts and any good estimate of the probable size of the "city crop," at a glance, in the twinkling of an eye, unerringly foretell the number of bales in the year's crop; and incidentally it may be added that the ability to foretell next year's crop with equal precison is a gift of no mean value. Leave "hammering" to the Cotton Exchange folks and the professional speculators. It is their business to magnify or minimize the crop as their interests dictate. A speculator who has sold half a dozen coming months is certain that the top crop and late pickings will show the season's yield to be not only abundant but excessive, while the gentleman who buys is secretly confident that unprecedented takings for Liverpool and the Continent, coupled with an enormous demand for the New England mills, will practically exhaust a crop that is at the very least a million bales short. But the indecent lust for gain is the ruling passion. Let the amateur speculator be content to take the fruit as it drops into his lap. What can he, with his puny one hundred bales, do to affect the market ? He would be outlied at every point, and in these matters a sense of inferiority is humiliating. Hundred bale men should have some regard for their moral natures and confine themselves to the innocent watching of the tai>e, the bulletins, port receipts, &c. The perfect ease with which the profit or loss resulting from the market fluctuations is computed is the supreme charm of cotton speculation. The changes are registered in cents and hundredths of a cent per pound. The hundredths are called "points," and on a hundred bale investment each one of these points represents ?450. For instance, some East Haddam or Glastonbury gentleman, with a litttle money and plenty of leisure, reads this article and comes down to take a hand in the pleasing diversion. lie buys, not one hundred, but five hundred bales, and takes a seat by the "ticker." It happens to be the afternoon on whicli the discovery is made that the cotton crop has been bought four or five times over by the speculators, and about 2:30 o'clock there is a sudden tumble of say 2(3 joints. The Connecticut amateur hastily does something of this kind on the back of an envelope : $4 50x5 is $22 50x20 is ?505. Now, as a matter of strict mathematics, this is ten dollars out of the way, but the nervous cipherer is never quite respectful toward the multiplication table ; besides, this particular Connecticut gentleman is probably in some worry lest he may miss the last train fnr East Haddam. This Durelv imacri nary example illustrates the astonishing ease with which losses on cotton futures may be reckoned. Another winning feature of this fascinating recreation is the delightful uncertainty about the cotton you are buying, supposing, 'of course, that you leave vulgar "spots" to men who want cotton to make bags or shirts of, and confine yourself to the idyllic "futures." It is easy to imagine that one bale of the hundred may be on an East river wharf, another in the hold of a coasting steamer. Another in the ponderous jaws of a giant compress, another in an Alabama gin house in the seed, and others in the baskets of bent old black men all the way from Currituck to the Rio Grande. As a matter of fact, the cotton is nowhere?except for the unlucky last buyer who is pinned for delivery. There are more Southern than Northern speculators in "futures," and it is said that the South loses in this way the annual sum of thirty million dollars. A very good ride, so cool headed "operators" say, is to find out what the Southerners are doing, and then do just the other thing. There is no law to prevent any East Iladdam gentleman from trying the experiment.?Arctc York Times. Making Flour by Electiucty.?Flour ; was formerly made by simply grinding wheat 1 at one operation to the finest posssible Hour, 1 and then separating by sieves the Hour from the bran, necessarily grinding in much of the bran with the flour and discoloring it, while i much of the very best material was separated 1 with the bran and lost. The latter common | < method is to grind very coarsely the wheat 11 several times, using strong blasts of air be-,! I ween each grinding to separate the bran from j 1 the granulated interior portion, and at last ' 1 crush it to flour, relieved of all the bran. The ' new electric method consists in passing the middlings under revolving hard-rubber cylinders, electrified by contact with sheepskin. The particles of bran fly up to meet the rubber, from which they are tnrned off in a side channel, the purified middling, freed from bran, passing through the rollers to become fine flour, j "STOVEPIPE"* JOHNSON. How the Kentucky General Captured an Arsenal. j In fifteen days his squad had increased to i twenty-seven men. Then he put into execu- ] tion a movement that stands for audacity un- I rivaled in that or any other war. At Newburg, Warrick county, Indiana, a town of about one j thousand people, twelve miles above Evansville, on the Ohio river, was a garrison com- , posed of a part of an Indiana regiment, alto- 1 gether about one hundred and eighty men. On the Kentucky side of the river and immediately opposite the town, one lovely morning in the early part of July, 1862, might have been seen a very formidable three-gun battery, as observed from Newburg, but in reality three harmless stovepipes mounted on wheels. The pipes were manned by about a dozen citizens, who, through curiosity, had followed the daring "twenty-seven" to see the effect of the ruse. Sending Lieutenant Martin, afterward Colonel of the Tenth Kentucky cavalry, with twenty-four men to cross the river a mile above, Johnston, with only three men, entered a skiff and pulled directly across to the town. Leaving one man at each of the principal streets, he advanced alone to the arsenal, hoping to find it vacated and abandoned. Reaching the door at the foot of the long spiral stairway and pushing it open there stood eighty-nine federal soldiers with their rifles bearing on his breast, their fingers nervously pressing the triggers and each waiting for the signal. Here was a situation to test a man's bravery. To retreat was certain death ; to hesitate was also dangerous. He advanced and with his doublebarreled shot gun pushed up the first file of rifles bearing on him, and in a clear, steady command ordered the guard to stack arms and "surrender at the peril of their lives." Dumbfounded, the entire guard came down stairs, stacked their arms and were marched into a room, at the door of which Johnston planted himself until Martin, with his twenty-four men, arrived. Martin coming, paroling 164 prisoners, and securing over 200 stand of arms and ammunition, medicine chest, &c., were hurriedly gone through with, to prevent an attack from the gun-boat Alert, then ascending the river from Evansville. Reaching the Kentucky shore safely with his captured aims, I Johnston did not protract his stay there in order to test the unique battery of stovepipes. But for all that this artillery that never fired a shot, gave the inventor the soubriquet "Stovepipe1' Johnston, and by which he was familiarly known all over the Confederacy.? Oscar M. Barbour in Philadelphia Weekly Times. Dreams and Their Conditions.?Dreams are night-thoughts, unchecked by the judgment and uncontrolled by the will. It is not true that we do not reason in dreams, that the exercise of the judgment is wholly suspended, and that the will is entirely powerless and ceases to act. These faculties are not altogether in abeyance, but they doze while the subordinate powers of the mind?those which play the part of picture carriers and record finders?ransack the treasures of memory and mingle together in direst confusion, old things and new. Imagination is not active, but it remains just enough awake to supply the connecting links which give seeming continuity to those parts of the phantasmagora which we chance to remember on recovering perfect self-consciousness, and which, being remembered, we call "dreams." No one remembers more than one dream, unless he has roused from sleep more than once. This experience has led to the inference that dreams only occur at the moment or in the act of awaking. Thopt? ?vo rlren ma whifh t.sikfi nlare in the nrn cess of returning,to consciousness?for example, those instantaneous scenes and spectacles which are suggested by the sound or feeling that rouses the dreamer ; but, in result of a long and close study of the subject with a view to discover the nature of dreams, and the laws of dreaming, for medical purposes, in connection with the treatment of sleeplessness, I am persuaded that dreams occur in the course of sleep and are wholly forgotten. That they do not and can not take place in deep sleep is probable, because deep sleep is general sleep, and when this state prevails the subordinate faculties are sleeping, and the pictures and records, which compose dreams, are not disturbed. To understand dreams, we must understand sleep, and it is because the two phenomena have not hitherto been studied together that so little is generally known about either. Learning Versus Money.?A writer in Our Continent maintains in a pleasant way that there is no conflict between the love of books and business success. lie writes : "For all that, many a man, chary of. his business -reputation, would almost as soon have it reported that he is given to secret gambling, as that he occasionally reads metaphysics, or still worse, drops into poetry. That great moralist, Dr. Johnson, gives us several explanations of the improvidence of poets, and like the oft quoted menagerie lecturer, leaves his readers to take their choice. He suggests that the confidence begotten by unusual capacities leads them to neglect the maxims of prudence ; that as their inspirations come like a gift of chance this imparts a recklessness to their tempers, or that their tendency to gloom urges them to live in the present and shun thought of the future. Sweeter is the reason offered by Cervantes, that the gods having bestowed on the poet the gift of song, had already endowed him immeasurably, and scorned to add the petty passion of money saving. But it is evident that in the general march of progress the gods too nave grown wiser, ior a inouern puei, raieij fails to reap a golden harvest from his seedfield of songs. The knowledge of books does not obscure the insight into men and their motives, and the trained mind can follow the fine frenzies of the poet without forgetting how many cents make a dollar." The Boomerang.?This curious weapon, peculiar to the native of Australia, has often proved a puzzle to men of science. It is a piece of carved wood nearly in the form of a crescent, from thirty to forty inches long, pointed at both ends, and the corner quite sharp. The mode of using it is as singular as the weapon. Ask a black to throw it so as to let it fall at his feet, and away it goes forty yards from him, skimming along the surface at three or four feet from the ground ; when it will suddenly rise in the air forty or sixty feet, describing a curve, and finally dropping at the feet of the thrower. During its course it revolves with great rapidity on a pivot, with a whizzing noise. It is wonderful so barbarous a people have invented so singul# a weapon, which sets the laws of progress at defiance. It is very dangerous for a European to project it at any object, as it may return and strike himself. In a native's hand it is a formidable weapon, striking without the projector being seen. It was invented to strike the kangaroo, which is killed with certainty. The old grouping of the States into New England, middle, southern and western has become so inconvenient from the growth of the West that a variety of new arbitrary di? - * 1 J U.r visions nave ueen auupteu uy. gcugi<wiijmakers. but Harry Gannet, the geographer of ' the 10th census, proposes a comprehensive plan based on the natural configuration of j the country which may well take the place of ] all others. Taking the three great natural i divisions, the Atlantic slope, the Mississippi i basin and the Pacific sloi>e, he cuts the two j first 011 Mason and Dixon's line and has the north Atlantic, the south Atlantic, the north and south central and the western groups. The four Atlantic and central groups, it happens, are somewhere nearly equal in area and ^ population. - ? - - * Presence of Mind.?When an Austin school master entered his temple of learning a few mornings ago, he read on the black-board ; j the touching legend: "Our teacher is a don- j key." The pupils expected there would be a ' t combined cyclone and earthquake, but the r philosophic i>edagogue contented himself with ! adding the word "driver" to the legend, and 8 opened the school with prayer as usual. fiT Recently one of the almshouse boys was adopted by a worthy big hearted couple who ' J have no children of their own. At the little S chap's first appearance at Sunday-school the r teacher questioned him as to where he lived. , J He replied: "I used to be at the almshouse, j but now I live at Mr. J.'s., where they don't born their own children." I THE YORK YILLE ENQUIRER. I 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 af what it shall be in the future. The leading departments of the paper will be retained as heretofore, and they will be conducted with the same labor and care that have marked our efforts in the past. While the Literary and Miscellaneous features of the Enquirer will be kept up to the standard which has given the pape. a distinctive character, careful attention will also be given to the News department, which will embrace a record of the leading events at the State and National Capitals; Congressional and Legislative Proceedings; "Scraps and Facts," being a hotchpotch of light current topics; a compend of the Sews Abroad and at Home;,General Correspondence; Market Reports; Local County and State News; Editorial Articles upon appropriate subjects intended to promote the welfare and prosperity of our State and people, which will, we trust, continue to render the Enquirer a welcome and entertaining Familv Journal Terms of Subscription-'Free of Postage. Single copy, one year, $2 50 TWO copies, one year, t One copy two years 4 00 PREMIUMS TO CLUB-MAKERS. To club-makers, for the approaching volume, we offer FOUR PREMIUMS for the four largest clubs, as follows: For the largest club, one Weed Sewing Machine, fancy half-case, with drop leaf and two side drawers, valued at $35. For the second largest club, one Weed Sewing Machine, half-case and one drawer, valued at $30. For the third largest club, one No. 8 Tropic Cooking Stove, and fixtures complete, valued at $23.75. For the fourth largest club, one No. 7 Tropic Cooking Stove and fixtures complete, valued at $20. The superior Sewing Machine we offer as a Premium is the well-known and Justly celebrated Weed Machine, manufactured by the Weed Sewing Machine Company, at Hartford, Connecticut. 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 less 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 Man ufacturing 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, ana 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 them are in use in "Virginia, North and South Carolina, and they give universal satisfaction. The above Premiums will be delivered to the successful competitors at the Enquirer office, free of charges for freight. 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 $2 00 per annum, for each subscriber, will be entitled to the first choice of one of the above Premiums; the person getting up the second largest club, at the same price, to too second choice; the person getting up the third largest club, to the third choice; and the person getting up the fourth largest club, to the fourth choice. ? - - - i-i? J? a, All subscriptions will ha discontinued at the expiration ot the time paid for. A separate list will be kept for each club-maker, who will be credited with every name sent, so thatthe number returned by any person can be ascertained at a moment's notice. Persons who commence making clulm, will not be permitted,, after the names have been entered upon our books, to transfer the names to another club-maker's list. $39* The time in which additions may be made to clubs, nnder this proposition, will expire on the FIR8T 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 unloss new clubs are formed. All letters should be addressed to L. M. GRIST, Yorkville, S. C. November 17.1881. 40 tf attention! BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS. B. M. SPRATT & CO. KEEP on hand a large lot of D00ES, SASH AND BLINDS, LUMBER, LIME AND LATHS, Dressed, Tongued and Grooved flooring and ceiling. MOLDINGS, PINE AND CYPRESS SHINGLES, &C. LUMBER YARD at C. A L. N. G. Depot. DOOR, SASH AND BLIND WAREHOUSE, next door to Court House. TpS* Prompt and careful attention given to shipping. Complete Bills for Dwellings or Store Rooms furnished at short notice. For prices Ac., address B. M. SPRATT A CO., Chester, S. C. February 2 5 3ui "yorkville omnibusT THE undersigned would remind the public that his LIVERY STABLES, on his lot, near the Court House, are in operation, and thar.he is amply prepared with HORSES, CARRIAGES, BUGGtESand WAGONS, to attend toall calls that nay be made upon him by the traveling public. Special attention given to conveying TRAVELING SALESMEN^) any point desired, in comfortable vehicles, and with careful drivers. Horses and vehicles to hire at reasonable prices. HIS NEW OMNIBUS Vfakes regular trips to and from the trains, and will convey passengers to any part of the town. FEED STABLES. In connection with the Livery business, I am duo prepared to furnish feed and stabling for lorses, by the meal, day, week or month. My ong experience in the Livery Business warrants ne in ensuring satisfaction to all who may favor ne with their patronage. A few secona-hand Buggies for sale at a burfain. F. E. SMITH. February 2 14 ly "application for discharge. , I^TOTICE is hereby given that the undersign[N ed? Administrator of the estate of DEMP1EY COOK, deceased, will make a final settlenent with the Judge of Probate for York county, i >n the 17th day of March next, when he wfll j nake application for a final dischargo from all 1 iability as Administrator of the said estate. J. R. COOK, Administrator, February 9 tJ 5t* AHEAD AGAII REPORTS from all Sections of North and Sot claim that the WILCOX, GIBBS & CO.'S Is the BEST, MOST RELIABLE AND CHE. WILCOX, GIBBS & CO. Which we put out for the first time last Season, has on the Marlcet. It is not necessary for us to say anything abont tl tained from our agents or ourselves, cover the whol We will have a moderate supply of each, which < ton next Fall. If there is no Agent at your Railro WIL( January 2C THE OLD RELIABLE! rne time lor completing ?iuus unuor mo nmve offer is limited to 1 o'clock P. M., on the FIRST MONDAY OF MARCH, 188*2. Competitors may begin to secure subscribers at once?ine nine 01 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 ol 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 not necessary that the names of a club should all be at the same post office. Names may betaken at any number of places. One name for two yeara 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 bo 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 countv nost office and State. Uflfi UK THE BEST NEWSPAPERS Hff THE SOUTH. NO SENSATIONALISM, NO IMMORALITY. AUGUSTA imjiiDUinM SUBSCRIBEFOR IT! THE Chronicle and Constitutionalist is the oldest newspaper in the South, and perhaps the oldest in the United States, having been established in 1985. While thoroughly Democratic in principle, it is liberal, progressive and tolerant. The CHRONICLE contains the latest news from all parts of the world, and is recognized as a firstclass paper. As an advertising medium, it covers the country in Georgia and South Carolina tributary to Augusta. We endeavor to exclude sensationalism. We publish no articles of an immoral character. TKRM81 Daily, one year, 810 00 Tri-Weekly, one year, 5 00 Weekly, one year, 2 00 Address WALSH & WRIGHT, Augusta, Ga. January 26 4 tf C. & L. NARROW GAUGE RAILROAD. SCHEDULE of Mail and Passenger Trains, from Chester, S. C., to lincolnton, N. C., taking effect at 3.15 o'clock, P. M., December 19, 1881: GOING NORTH. Leave Chester 3.15 P. M. Leave Lowrysville 3.45 P. M. Leave McConnellsville 4.05 P. M. Leave Guthriesville 4.15 P. M. Arrive at Yorkville 4.40 P. M. Leave Yorkville 4.50 P. M. Leave Clover 5.30 P. M. Leave Bowling Green 5.40 P. M. Leave Crowder's Creek 5.50 P. M Leave Pleasant Ridge 6.00 P. M. Leave Gastonia 6.30 P. M. Leave Dallas 6.50 P. M. Leave Hardin's 7.15 P. M. Arrive at Lincolnton 7.45 P. M. GOING 80DTH. 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 8.60 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. Breakfajt. JAMES MASON, Superintendent. December 22 y 51 . tf RICHMOND AND DANVILLE RAILROAD PASSENGER DEPARTMENT. ON and after February 19th, 1882, Passenger Train Service on the Atlanta and Charlotte Air-Line division of this road will be as follows: EASTWARD, Mail and Express. Mail. No. 51. No. 53. Leave Atlanta, 2.15 P. M. 6.00 A. M. Arrive at Gainesville, 4.54 P. M. 8.45 A. M. Arrive at Lula, 5.26 P. M. 9.19 A. M. ~ ? on -n 1A All A \M Arrive at Toceoa, /.uo jr. 1U, jv.iv n. M. Arrive at Seneca, 8.24 P. M. 12.04 P. M. Arrive at Greenville,....10.08 P. M. 2.10 P. M. Arrive at Spartanburg,11.40 P. M. 3.50 P. M. Arrive at Gastonia, 2.06 A. M. 6.07 P. M. Arrive at Charlotte, 3.15 A. M. 7.00 P. M. WK8TWAR13. Mail and Express. Mail. No. 50. No. 62. Leave Charlotte 12.40 A. M. 11.05 A. M. Arrive at Gastonia 1.35 A. M. 12.02 P. M. Arrive at Spartanburg, 4.04 A. M. 2.35 P. M. Arrive at Greenville,... 5.32 A. M. 4.09 P. M. Arrive at Seneca, 7.15 A. M. 5.54 P. M. Arrive at Toccoa 8.28 A. M. 7.05 P. M. j Arrive at Lula, 10.18 A. M. 8.43 P. M. Arrive at Gainesville,..10.51 A. M. 9.15 P. M. Arrive at Atlanta, 1.40 P. M. 12.05 A. M. T. M. R. TALCOTT, General Manager. I. Y. SAGE, Superintendent. A. POPE, General Passenger Agent. February 23 8 tf CHEEAW AND CHESTER EAILEOAD. PRESIDENT AND SUP'T'S OFFICE, 1 Chester, S. C., Nov. 28, 1881. j ON and after November 28, 1881, the following schedule will be run on this road daily, Sundays excepted: Leave Lancaster Depot 8.00 A. M. Leave Miller's Station 8.10 A. M. Leave Waxhaw Station 8.20 A. M. Leave River Depot.....' 9.00 A. M. Leave Fort Lawn 9.15 A. M. Leave Cedar Shoal Factory 9.25 A. M. Leave Howze's Station 9.45 A. M. ? ' l/l no A M Leave rticnourg Leave McDaniel's Crossing 10.10 A. M. I.oave Knox's Station 10.20 A. M. Arrive at Chester 11.00 A. M. Leave Chester : 3 50 P. M. Arrive at Lancaster Depot 6.50 P. M. Passengers will buy tickets at all stations where sold. WM. H. HARDIN, President. January 19 3 tf GERMAN KAINIT, (Direct importation.) PERUVIAN GUANO, Direct from the Agent of the Peruvian Government. FISH GUANO, C to 8 per cent. Ammonia. NOVA SCOTIA LAND PLASTER. South Carolina GROUND PHOSPHATE, Fine Ground and High Grade. For sale by HERMANN BULWINKLE, Kerr's Wharf, Charleston, S. C. December 15 50 3m "GARRY IRON ROOFING CO. \ and Cement. ' 79 and 81 Columbus Street, OLBVEIjANrD, OHIO. Send for circulars and price lists. * February 26 9 ly ! CLEANS! NGAND REPAIRING. < THE undersigned would respectfully inform \ the public that he is prepared to cleanse garments of any fabric whatever, rendering them perfectly clean, and If unfaded, restoring them to the original brightness and lustre of the goods, t Do not throw away your old clothes, but have s them cleaned and made to look as well as new. s Work promptly done, and at the most reasonable prices. THOMAS BALLARD. f February 23 8 tf e NASUSUAL! itb Carolina, Georgia and Alabama, snatain onr MANIPULATED GUANO 4 APEST FERTILIZER In nae, and that the 10 orrDr-DDunoDiTATr O OUi JJlW. lAVJOi. llXXXXIj i proved unexcelled by any ACID PHOSPHATE hese Fertilizers, as the reports, which may be obe subject, and will amply repay perusal, can be obtained from our Agents, payable in Cotad Depot, get your jnerchant to order it :OX, GIBBS & CO., Savannah, Ga., and Charleston, S. C. 4 2in J OBPRIN TUNG. * 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: BILL HEADS. For 500 For 1000 Half-sheet Bill Heads, $3.50 $6.00 Fourth-sheet Bill Heads, 2.25 3.50 Sixth-sheet Bill Heads, 2.00 3.00 Monthly statements at same price of sixth-sheet bill heads. We will fill an order for bill beads, giving any desired number of either size of sheet at proportionate prices. LETTER HEADS. For 500 For 1000 Commercial Note $2.15 $3.25 Packet Note, ? 2.26 3.50 Letter (large size) 3.00 5.0C For the above work we use a superior quality of paper, and guarantee entire satisfaction in every instance. We also give special attention to the printingof Briefs, Arguments and Points and Authorities, which we furnish strictlyaccordingtotbereqnirements of the Justices or the Supreme Court, and in proof reading exercise the utmoet care to ensure accuracy. We are prepared to famish all other kinds of printing, from a visiting card to a large volume, and will be pleased to famish estimates for any style of work desired. Address, L. M. GRIST. Yorkville. S. C. September 9 87 tf STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 00UITY OF YORK?COURT OF 00XX0I FLEAS. Joseph A. McLean, as Trustee for the heire-atlaw of John H. Adams, deceased, Plaintiff, \ against Martha B. Lowry, John T, Lowry and Agnes B. Harris, Defendants.?Summonn jor llGblOy %, IK/i. wc/ c/tu To the Defendants above named. YOU are hereby summoned and reqnired to answer the complaint in this action, which Is this day herewith filed in the office of the Clerk ofCommon Pleas, for the said connty, 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 yon fail to answer the complAint within the time aforesaid, the plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the complaint. Dated Yorkville, 8. C., February 1, A. D., 1882. Summons and complaint endorsed: Filed February 1,1882. JOS. F. WALLACE, C. 0. Pis. WITHERSPOON ASPENCER, Plaintiffs Attorneys. [L. 8.] Jos. F. Wallace, C. C. Pleas. February 96 8t STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF Y0BX-00UBT OF OOMXOB PLEA8. L. A. Johnson. Administrator, de bonis now, of W. J. Good, deceased, Plaintiff, against A. M. Henry, Defendant.?Summons for Relief? Complaint not Served. To the Defendant above named: V <JU are nereoy sammonea ana requireu to anX awer the complaint in this action, which is this day hied in tbeofflceof the Clerk of Common Pleas, for the said oonnty, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said complaint.on the subscriber, at his office, in Yorkville, South Carolina, within twenty daya alter the service hereof exclusive of the day of such service; and ir you fail to answer the complaint within the timeaforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the complaint. Dated January 24tb, A. D., 1882. [L. S.] JOS. F. WALLACE, C. C. Pis. W. P. GOOD, Plaintiff's Attorney. January 26 4 6t STATE OF SOUTH CAROLIJTA, YOBK OOOHTY?CJOUBT OP OOMXOH PLEAS. James F. Hart, Plaintiff, against John R. Gardner, as Administrator of Louisa E. Lowry, deceased, and others, Defendants.?OomplatrU to Marshal Estate. BY virtue of an order of said Court, made in the above entitled cause, notice is hereby given to all and singular the creditors of Mrs. Louisa E. Lowry, deceased, to establish their claims before me, at a Reference to be held in the Clerk's Office, at York Court House, on THURSDAY, the 16th day of MARCH next, at 10, A. M., or be barred from any benefit to be had under the final decree herein, touching the settlement of her estate. January 81, 1882. J. BEATTY WILLIAMS, 8pecial Referee. WithekspoonA Spencer, Plaintiff's Attorneys. James L. Wilson, Attorney for Estate. . February 2 5 fit TURBINE WATER WHEEL. WE haveoue 18-inch RIGHT HAND TURBINE WHEEL, as a sample of Ferrer's Invention. We are working a 13i-inoh Wheel of 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 better than to get one of these Wheels. We have Circulars giving all the details in regard to the working of it, and with the sale yon nave me privilege of trying the Wheel, and if it doea not ao as represented, the money will be reftmded. Come and see the sample 18-inch R. H. Turbine Wheel, Manufactured by theSERGEANT MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Greensboro, N. 0. HERNDON BROS., Agents, Yorkville, S. C. February 10 47 tf J. W. BAITMAN, PRACTICAL BALAER AND HAIR DRE88ER. SHOP in SPRINGS MOORE building, on first floor, in the rear of Withers Adickes' store. Easy shaving, fashionable hair-cutting and dressing and polite attention to all customers. Call and give him a trial. Also dealer in CIGARS and TOBACCO. September 15 25 tf HOUSE AND LOT FOB SALE. THE undersigned offers for sale, the Lot in Yorkville, known as the "Meek Place." It is situated near the Methodist Church, and contains TWO ACRES, more or less. On the lot is a two-story Dwelling House, containing SIX LARGE ROOMS AND A BASEMENT, a lumber house, corn-crib and stable. Terms will be made easy. L. M. GRIST. J. R. SCHORB'S PHOTO-GALLERY, 1ST HOUSE EAST OE THE JAIL. A SUPERIOR Skylight, a gallery with every convenience, and a determination to do my best, enables me to promise satisfaction to all in want of correct and flattering likenesses. Cloudy weather is as good or better than sunshine for all subjects, except small children. March 10 10 tf NOTICE. PERSONS living along the pest routes from Yorkville to Bullock's Creek, and fr< m York ville to Clark's Fork via Bethany, desiring to subscribe for the Enquirer, and to whom it is inconvenient to receive their papers at a post office, will have their papers delivered to them FREE OF CHARGE for carrying, by putting their names on my club. J. N. ROBERTS. December 22 51 tf NOTICE. Subscribers to the yorkville enquirer. not regularly served by mail, on the postal route between Yorkville, s. C., and Charlotte, n. C., are hereby informed that i will deliver their papers along the route free of charge, provided they enter their names on my Club, C. A. DORSETT/v ^ December 1 48 ylf (The ffltMIe tfnqnim. 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 \.ud an extra copy for a club of ten. ADVERTISING RATES. ONE DOLLAR per square, for the first inserion, and FIFTY CENTO per square, for each lubsequent insertion. A square consists of the ipace 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.