Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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jSumotous fjepartment. Rosy Nokth.?We had to wait for half an hour between Charleston and Savannah for the Waycross train, and during this time a ? black man came up to me and inquired : "Sav, boss, doan you lib up Norf ?" "Yes." "Dat's what I reckoned on. Kin I ax a few qupshuns ?" "You can." "Well, sah, does every cull'd man updar own a brick house wid a cupulo on top ?" "Oh, no." "Does he walk aroun' wid a bag of gold in one han' an1 a bag of silver in the oder ?" "I never sawany of them taking such a walk." "Bo they all own bosses an' kerridges V" "No." "Do dey all have diamonds an' pearls an' velvets V ' ".No." "Say, boss, my names' Jones, an' I lib ober beyond dat pine woods. My ole woman am all de time stirrin' me up to go Norf, an' she really believes if we once git up dar we kin go A. *?aU ??rv o no 11 -Pul 1 a' (JUL ueiure ui^Moat <iu Flv;rL "F a >??"?> " " diamonds. Now, sah tell me de solemn truf' 'bout it! Could we do it?" "No." "Could we pick up a peck ?" "No." "Fo' quarts ?" "No." "Two quarts?" "No." "Pat's nuff, boss?dat settles me ! I reckon if I axed 'bout one quart you'd say yes, but if anybody 'spects I'ze gwine to fool aroun' wid any sich small 'taters as dat dey am sadly tooken in. I'ze kept house long 'nuff to know dat a quart o' diamonds a day wouldn't keep a family in co'n cake an' bacon half de time. 'Bleeged to ye boss. Mebbe I'll git up dat way arier awhile, but I shan't spect to own no brick house wid a cupulo on top 'till I've bin dar a hull week or longer." A Searcher After Information is Gratified.?It was in the smoking car on the New York Central. There was one chap who was blustering a great deal and telling of how many duels he had fought, and behind him sat a small man reading a magazine. "Sir !" said the big man, as he wheeled around, "what would you do if challenged ?" "Refuse," was the quick reply. "Ah ! I thought as much. Refuse and be branded a coward ! What if a gentleman offered you the choice of a duel or a public horsewhipping?then what !" "I'd take the whipping." "Ah ! 1 thougnt so ; tnougnt so irora ine looks of you. Suppose, sir, you had foully slandered, me ?" "I never slander." "Then, sir, suppose I had coolly and deliberately insulted you. What would you do ?" "I'd rise up this way, put down my book this way, and reach over like this, and take him by the nose as I take you, and give it a three-quarter-twist?just so !" When the little man let go of the big man's nose, the man with the white hat on began to crouch down to get away from bullets, but there was no shooting. The big man turned red, then pale, then looked the little man over and remarked : "Certainly?of? fourse?that's it exactly!" "And then the conversation turned on the general prosperity of the country. How the Judge Crossed the Stream. "We were riding along the road one chilly day in November," said General Craig, talking about court business and legal talent, "when we struck a small stream that appeared to be about thirty yards wide. 'Hello,' said Judge Norton, of Missouri, 'this is a new stream to me. How shall we cross it?' Taking advantage of bis ignorance, 1 pretended to survey the situation, and after emerging from the thicket I solemnly inquired : 'Judge, can you swim?' 'l^ike a fish,' he replied, while his eyes twinkled in the expectation of displaying his ability in that direction. 'I can't' said I, 'so sunnose vou striu and swim across, testing the depth as you go, and give me the advantage of your experience. 'All right,' he said dismounting from his horse. Then he removed all his clothes, tied them together, placed them safely between his teeth, and started cautiously into the creek. I choked my handkerchief into my mouth to keep from laughing, while the judge gravely waded across through exactly four inches of water; but you would have died to see his look of unuterble disgust when he reached the opposite bank. His feet were blue with mud, but his ankles were scarcely touched by the water. It was three strait days before bespoke to me again." Why He Laughed in the Pulpit.? "Well, brethren," said a Maine minister to some of his fellow-evangelists, 'I never was guilty of laughing in the pulpit but once. Some years ago I had in my congregation an old man who universally w'ent to sleep in church and snored loudly throughout the entire service. One Sabbath morning, glancing in his direction, I saw him as usual with his head back enjoying a nap, and right above him, in the gallery, a young man was rolling a large quid of tobacco around in his mouth. As I looked he took it out and pressing it into a ball poised it carefully over the open mouth below. I became so interested in the proceeding that I forgot to continue the sermon, but stood watching the young man. With a wicked smile he took careful aim and dropped it squarely into the old man's mouth. With a gulp the sleeper started up with his fsice as red as a beet and rushed from the house. The people no doubt were horrified, but I could not have kept from laughing if a sword had hung over my head ready to fall. The old J;J A. I 1. r .'iJirtii Ultl nut come unth iui aciciiu o<iuuaiiio, and when he did he changed his seat and remained wide awake." The Laws of N atfre.?Cottonseed White, of Glenrose, Texas, in a communication of a scientific nature, addressed to the President, asked as follows : "Did you know that knowledge could be obtained by experience, and that experience is but another name for suffering ? "That about the time we grow wise enough to live we must fail and die V "That the most meritorious actions are often followed by the most disastrous consequences ? "That this universe is governed by passionless, purposeless, inexorable, eternal laws V" "I know all about it," replied the President, with a sad shake of the head. "I've bin right dar. My fust knowledge about a mule was gained by pickin' up one of his hind feet. I have in my kindness of heart lent my shotgun ,to a friend to shoot a crow, an' bin obleged to pay fifteen dollars for de calf he killed. I have not only obsarved dat de universe am governed >?v miaQinnlp?? nnronseless. inexorable an' v 1 r-"r 1 eternal laws, but have diskivered dat de man who goes fishin' on Sunday mus' buck agin de hullbizness. I am sad, an' yet we mus' brace up an' keep turning de grindstone." Why Johnson Stayed a Week.?Last August Mr. Johnson with his wife, who had been doing the pleasure resorts for two months, arrived at the quiet town of X., in New Hampshire, where a small hotel, pleasantly situated and very cleanly, offered him hospitality. After supper the landlord walked the piazza, and he was acccsted by Mr. Johnson, when the following dialogue took place : "Where's your sun-set hill ?" "Haven't got any." "Is the Devil's Gulch near here V" "Never heard of it." "How far is it to Lover's Leap ?" "Must be fifty miles; but I don't know." "Is the Silver Cascade running ?" "Don't know; never knew it was around here." "How far is it to the springs ?" "Didn't know we had any hereabout." "The attractions of this place are very few, it appears ?" "Mighty few and getting scarcer." "Wife, this is just the place we have been seeking. There is nothing to see and we will stay here a week.?Boston Journal. The Boy and the Watekmklons.?A Mr. Spiva, of Missouri, has seventy acres in watermelons. They are probably the sweetest seventy acres in the world. Speaking of watermelons, the following story seems apropos : A little colored boy was brought before the j overseer to be whipped. He had been in his j master's watermelon patch. "What were you j there for ?" asked the overseer. "I wasn't stealing your mellions," was the answer, "I was prayin'." "Prayin', were you ? Well, I want to hear you pray now. Down on your knees and get at it. Pray, or you'll get the cowhide." The boy saw he was cornered, but his wit saved him. Kneeling down, he raised his eyes, clasped his hands toward heaven, and offered the following petition : "Lord, dismiss us with thy blessing ?" | HJisttllatteflusi Reading. BOYS AND "BOYS." j It is Charles Dudley Warner, we believe, j who urges that boys should be caught young, j put in a barrel and fed through the bung-hole | until they have arrived at years of discretion. | And yet after many and forcible reasons for i regarding boys as a blessing in disguise, and ; so well disguised as to be mistaken for somej thing quite the contrary, almost everyl>ody will j agree with the eulogy he pronounces upon the | boy. "After all," he says, "there is something I like about a boy." Boys are the terror of cats, their mothers and their elder sisters, but the cats would lead but a dull career without them ; while a mother would scarcely know what life really is if she was freed from the constant anxiety she feels about her boys. What unruffled but ilnprotitj able hours of lazy enjoyment would fall to the lot of elder sisters, were it. not for their younger brothers. Sloth and ease and a mistaken belief that this world is not a world of annoyances and discomforts would enervate their characters. Boys make them feel that we are not put here simply to enjoy ourselves, but to develop our characters. So with teachers. What a monotonous existence would be theirs were it not for boys! A teacher of girls alone would mistake earth for paradise, and so not having any use for Heaven and not believing in any such place as a refuge from earthly miseries would never strive to get there. But a teacher of boys, every week looks forward to a better and brighter world, makes good use of Sunday in fitting himself for it, and in hoping that he will get there sometime, to iiihku up u>r ins uiuis ueie. The asli man who should not get a snowball down his back; the rag i>eddler who never found the wheel of his cart suddenly coming off ; the street car conductor who did not have to drive the boys from the rear platform ; the passerby who did not get a base-ball in his abdomen or a beam in his ear ; the nurse girl and her baby who were not scared out of their wits by the sudden rush of a velocipede upon their heels, would not enjoy their tranquil intervals of existence nor fully know the value of peace and quietness. So that after all boys are of very great use?especially as a discipline and a means of moral improvement; and they are not to be despised, but rather to be cherished and loved, as they are very apt to be as soon as they have passed their eighteenth year. But there are "boys" and boys, "boys" with a quotation mark and boys without. It is the "boys" with these marks that do not deserve much charity, and do get but precious little liking and admiration. It is the "boys" with these marks that frequent drinking saloons, stand on the street corners, become rowdies at an early age, are riotous, foul-mouthed, violent and even bloodthirsty before they are twenty-one. This is the kind of "boys" that are not entitled to the name. They become street roughs, if not burglars and highway robbers ; or are dissipated, vicious, l^wd and going to perdition in droves. It is gangs of this sort in large cities and on the frontiers, who are known as "boys," but who belie the name. A mean but true specimen of them are the Malley "boys"?young men well advanced in manhood, but covering up their debauchery, dissoluteness, and even graver offenses, by pretending to the giddiness and thoughtfulness of boyhood. They have no claim to any such excuse or a^iy such exemption. They are men mature in wickedness and crime, and cannot hide their sins under cover of boyish folly. The same may be said of the "James boys," who long since arrived at mature life, and instead of being pushed into crime by the frolicsome impulsiveness suggested by the word "boy," long since resorted to robhery and murder as the business of life, not as the sport of irrepressible and hot-headed youth. The politicians, too, love to hide their tricks and their games with the public service by pretending in a jocose and lightsome way that it is the "boys" who are really resi>onsible for the evil deeds of caucuses and conventions, of wire-pulling and political deviltry generally. They imagine it softens the offense if they assume that it is the "boys" who must be looked after and looked to for the wrong doing in politics, whereas the majority of these "boys" are gray with the many years they have given to learning and practicing their contemptible political frauds and manceuvres. No; in justice to the real boys, whose youth excuses much because it is "their nature to," the "boys" of the street-corners, the frontier, and the political managers ought to have the name taken from them.?Detroit Free Press. Tiie Crimea.?Many officers, and above all, General Scarlett himself were conspicuous for their skillful and intrepid conduct during this ill-matched struggle, and if only one or two brilliant instances of gallantry are here described1, it is because it would be needless to repeat the whole of the oft told tales of British bravery in the Crimea. It is surely excusable to single out the incidents connected with those whose dangers, toils, hardships and privations one has witnessed more frequently. With that apology I may relate how, at the first onset, Lieutenant Elliott, of the Fifth Dragoon Guards, saved the life of General Scarlett by his admirable devotedness. A tall Russian officer, ]>erceiving that the officer lon/1it\rr fl*n nKnerro mnot Ln nf LirrL ranlr iinorl ICttUillK I'UU Vliai^UUlUOk VX lll^u uma, |/It?vv \? himself so as to cut him down when he should reach the column. General Scarlett, being extremely short-sighted, was not prepared to guard his left. Elliott, who was riding close behind him as his aide-de-camp, gave his horse the spur, and dashing past him just as the Russian had raised his arm to strike, ran the latter through the body with such force that the thrust went home to the hilt. The Russian was turned quite round in his saddle before the sabre could be disengaged, and then he fell dead to the ground. Elliott had seen much active service in one of the East India company's lancer regiments. Wishing to enter the Queen's army, he purchased a cornet's commission. Though an old officer, he was thus still a subaltern. General Scarlett recommended him for promotion and for the Victoria Cross on account of his distinguished conduct in this charge of the Heavy Brigade, but neither of the applications were entertained by the Horse Guards, for what reason no mortal man can tell. This beau sabreur, as he was dubbed by many of his friends, received no less than fourteen wounds on that illfated day. After the battle oneof his brother officers went into his tent and found him standing before a looking-glass. "Halloa, Elliott. Beautyfying, are you ?" "Yes," was the answer, "I am sticking on my nose." It had l>een slashed nearly off his face in the melee. He was a most agreeable and kind-hearted companion and a very able cavalry officer, but his modesty never permitted him to talk of his services. When General Scarlett's two recommendations were negatived, Elliott said that he could not expect to lie rewarded for j having done only his duty and nothing more [ than any other English officer would have (lone.? Jivipie our. A Bro Bluff.?It was a pleasant fall night ! in Savannah, Ga., when a party of five gentle- i men met by agreement in one of the private j parlors of the Screven Ilonse, to have a little i "draw," which, by the aforesaid agreement, j was to be no child's play, but a game for all j that was in it. Three of the gentlemen were j large cotton merchants ; one was an extensive ! manufacturer of fertilizers, and the fifth was a genial hotel proprietor, who was blessed with a superabundance of wealth. The whole five . were "solid men," whose bank checks were good for any amount, and often during the game the same checks were piled up, when all j ready money and the ivories were staked on a ; hand. One of the players, generally a hard man to ' j beat on account of his i>erfect coolness and i unbounded pluck, seemed to be unusually un- J ; lucky on this occasion, and before the game ! had become fairly "hot," he was loser some- 1 thing over $10,000. Biding his time, the "Major" waited until several stiff "antes" had been made, and when it came his turn to put j j up, he laughingly remarked : "Gentlemen, this | game is going a little slow. I'll make it $1,! iw? i-a nisiv ' Three of the others saw it. and when his turn came the Major raised the blind $1,000. This was also "seen" by the others, {' I and, on the draw for cards, he drew one card J for a flush and made a pair of deuces; the sec- 1 ond man drew three cards; the third one card, < and the fourth two cards. Each of the others i bet a "chip," and the Major bet 55,000. The j second ami third man dropped, but the fourth, i 1 remarking, "Major, you can't bluff me," raised I him $5,000. Without moving a muscle of his face, the Major drew his book, and writing a i check for $25,000, threw it on the pile, saying: \ "If you think J am bluffing, come and see i that." This was too much for the fertilizer i gentleman, and he laid down three kings, i while the Major scooped in the $42,000. < ? j" Reading fat the Sahhath. conducted BT rev. kolieitt latham. "Live ok the Gospel."?"Even so hath the Lord ordained, that they which preach the gospel shall live of the gospel." This principle is usually accepted so far as to justify.the minister of the gospel in accepting his pecuniary support from those whom he serves in the gospel, and as devolving upon those to whom he ministers in "spiritual things" the Iiuiy UL UlllliaitTl mj; UI III1M III i/aiimi But the whole history of the church shows a constant effort on the part of both the ministersof religion and of those served by them, to gft away from the requirements of this law. The people have been too willing to be relieved from their duty, and the ministers have been equally earnest to be assured of their maintenance by other methods than the voluntary contributions of the people. Out of this state of the case arose the scheme of supporting the church from the public funds, and to effect that end the church allied itself to the state, and so brought on the blighting cause of such an unholy wedlock; and to that cause more than to any other, must be charged the secularly, the vicious chicanery and the spiritual dead*ness of all state churches from the time of C'onstautine till to-day. The j>eople want a "free" gospel (in the worst possible sense of freedom), and the ministers desire a more certain anu abundant, support than is assured to them by the "voluntary principle." The Scripture method is available only in a living church, in which the several "members" realize their duties and resj>onsibilities, and each and all confess and readily accept theirproper obligations to the whole system. And in proportion as the church lacks vitality there is a disposition to evade its duties and responsibilities.?Daniel Curry, D. J). Everyday Faith.?Faith should be an everyday thing with us. In the life of Abraham how few acts are mentioned of outward religion, of long retirements, fasts, public services, sacraments, and so forth, but how clear it is that his daily secular and domestic life was living unto God as a pilgrim and a sojourner with Him. There is no visible line between secular and sacred in this patriarch's life ; it was all sacred. It is an evil distinction which saith so far is spiritual and so far is secular. My brethren, your whole lives must l>e spiritual lives, there must be faith in God about your home, your families, and your neighbors. Some look upon faith as a kind of Sunday grace to be laid up in the ark of the covenant with Aaron's rod ; but indeed it is an everyday faculty, a grace for the table, a grace for the cupboard, a grace for the i>ocket, a grace for the market, a grace for the nursery, and a grace for the sick-bed. The life of God's people is not to be lived within the four narrow walls of a meeting-house. It is lived wherever they are, for in every place the just shall live by faith. The religion of a Christian is to be "the whole of his life, and faith is to run through it like a thread through a necklace of coral. We are to believe God as much when He saith, "Thy bread shall be given thee and thy water shall be sure," as when He saith, "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved." Oh, for more household faith, more everyday faith !?C. H. Spurgeon. Where Shall It Begin ??Where shall it begin V What ? Why the revival. We pray for it in our closets. We are looking, though not very hopefully, to see whether our prayers are to be answered. Where shall it begin ? Some of us watch our pastor to see if he preaches with some directness and power, if lit feels what he says, if his eyes moisten or iiis lips tremble. Some watch the Wednesday evening meeting; we count those who are there, and our faith rises or falls with the counting. We watch Deacon A. to see how he feels and talks, and wish he were a little more active. And so through the prayer meeting and church, eacli is looking at the other to see if we are to have a revival. We all wish the young people would be ini-pro?f-p(i mul fioniK to Christ. We look for the sign of His coining. Where shall it begin V What if each of our churches should say, 'Lord, I want a revival. Let it begin in me. Give me the earnestness, faith and tenderness that I am looking for in others. Make me such a devoted worker as I think my minister or brother or sister ought to be. Let the revival begin in me, and begin now. Lord, what wilt thou have me do ?" We should have a revival if each of our one hundred church members would begin t h us.?Conijregat lo na list. Irreverence.?Unbelief comes oftener from irreverent associations than intelectual doubt. The .sneer of a Voltaire has killed more than all his arguments. A jesting tone of talk on religious truths, a habit of reckless criticism on religious things, is to take the name of God in vain as truly as the vulgar oath ; and when I hear him who calls himself a Christian or a gentleman, indulging burlesques of this sort, I at once recognize some moral defect in him. Intellect without reverence is the head of a man joined to a beast. There are many who think it a proof of wit; but it is the cheapest sort of wit, and shows ? * ? (is iuuc11 jcic*K Ui UlillllS (IS Ul I11UK11 itciMij,, I would say it with emphasis to each Christian who hears roe, never indulge that habit, never allow sacred things to be jested at without rebuke; but keep tliern as you would the miniature of your mother, for no vulgar hands to touch. There is an anecdote of Boyle that he never pronounced the name of God without an audible pause ; and whatever you think, 1 recognize in it the delicate act of a wise heart. We need this reverence in the air of our social life, and its neglect will palsy our piety.?Tier. Dr. Wushburn. Workyino.?Every mortal has burdens and discomforts. By picking the burden up lifty times a day and weighing it, it becomes no lighter, but rather produces an increased sense or heaviness. By worrying over the discomforts they become none the more comfortable, but are harder to endure and give cause for more and more worry and complaint. To ignore them may be impossible. We are not called upon to do that. But by turning the sunlight upon them and greeting them with the merriest laugh we can raise we can lighten them and melt them as cakes of ice are melted in the noonday sun, so that when we look for them we find they are gone and wonder who has carried them away. Blessed be the sunshine that comes with its benediction to the weary and lightens the burden of the heavy heart. How People Die.?Rev. Henry Ward Beecher in one of his sermons says : "I think the great majority of people die very much as a leaf does. Its supply of juice grows less and less, and the stem is less and less nourished, and it gradually retracts and shrinks within itself, and hangs on the branch; and some day when the wind blows in very gentle puffs the leaf is lifted a little and the connection breaks, and it wavers and wavers through the air and settles without a sound upon the ground. I suppose that the majority are as unconscious of the phenomenon of dying as children are of going to sleep ; it is so like it that it is called in Scripture "falling asleep"?only there the , figure is sweetened and made more beautiful, in that we fall asleep in Jesus, or in His ; arms." Kini> "Words.?"Kind words can neverdie." But if this were not equally true of unkind ' words, our world would be far happier. Kind ] words are like the oil and the wine of the good ; Samaritan; unkind words areio the soul as | i i : | ' mine HU1U lU UUII. lUUSt uimuiu nuiuo aucti i ] ;it least two souls ; the one uttering them, and 11 the one hearing them. With the former rests { ( their most withering and dwarfing effect. A 1 ' thousand times better to be the one for whom ' harsh words were intended than the one ut- j tering them. lie who can restrain his anger ! and control his tongue under severe provoca- > tion is a hero. "You may tame the wild beast j, or check the wildest conflagration in the Amer-'; ican forest, but you can never arrest the pro- ; ] gress of that cruel word which you uttered ' this morning.'' [' Depend u]>on it in the midst of all the wience about the world and "its ways, and all the ignorance of God and His greatness, the 1 man or woman who can say, "Thy will be ' Jone," with the true lumrt of giving up, is learer the secret of things than the geologist f >r theologian. ' r Ihe Jaiw and Jireistdc.j PERMANENT PASTURE. It is singular that the notion should be so widely prevalent, even among those who give some thought to their grazing lands, that a pasture will take care of itself, and all the manure made on a farm or bought may be put on the tilled lands. This idea is as wrong as it is to suppose that wheat or com can be raised on the same soil year after year without any manure. Milch cows occupy our pasture lands as often as any other stock ; and in their milk, phosphates are carried off from the soil of the pasture, to such an extent as to lead, sooner or later, to certain exhaustion, just as surely as the continued cultivation of wheat i on tiiled land. The effect of the exhaustion | is plainer to the eye in the diminished crops | of the wheat fields than on the pasture, which i may perhaps continue to look green and tlirif- j ty, while poorer grasses are all the while creep- j ing in and displacing the finer kinds, which require a richer soil. The pasture must be treated j with its share of the available manure of the j farm, or else it will run down. With favorable | climatic conditions, it is undoubtedly cheaper ' to keep a pasture once well made, in good heart j for a number of years, than let it run out for j want of food, and then make it over again, j Dr. Lawcs' doctrine, the result of his own ex- j periments and observations, is that pasture ! land must be well stocked with nitrogen and j potash, and that phosphate must be supplied ; from time to time, as well as the other two important plant nutrients, to replace what is carried off in the produce sold. Ilence top dressing of fine bone meal is likely to prove beneficial, although there are cases where the use of phosphate has done but little good. Nitrate of soda is oftentised with good effect, at the rate of from 100 to,150 lbs. j>er acre in the course of the year; and the statement is very emphatically made by those who speak from experience, that frequent dressings of manure in small doses, produce better grass than when the whole quantity for the year is applied at once. Plaster has sometimes produced excellent results on pastures by bringing in that most desirable forage plant, white clover, and wood ashes have also produced a similar effect. There can be no safer dressing than rotted manure put on in the spring, when the plant will soon be ready to take it up ; but if all the available stock of this manure is wanted for the tilled land, then artificial manure should be used.?Prof. Caldwell, in July American Agriculturist. Washing Woolen Goods.?Thirty years' experience enables me to say that the great seeret in washing blankets or flannels is a plentiful supply of hot water and soap, and quick movements. Melt your soap in the water, but in 110 case let it boii, as that hardens the water and separates the soap. Have your suds as hot as you can bear the hand in. Plunge in your blankets, but do not crowd too many in, work them well in the suds, not using a washboard nor rubbing the soap on. I3e sure you have the new suds ready before wringing out the old, wring tightly, shake, examine and if there are any spots rub a little soap before putting into the second tub. If very dirty they require three suds, and new blankets take more soap than old ones. Finish with a clean hot rinse, and a little blue well mixed in it, wring tightly out, shake well and stretch into shape before putting on the line ; bring in, in the evening, fold very evenly, and put under a weight. Next day hang out in the sun for a few hours and yon will have sweet, clean blankets to put away. rianueis 1 neat 111 uie same " *??, "mj i" bring them in before they are quite dry, and iron at once, as you cannot damp flannel over. Always wash flannels by themselves as the fluff off cotton thickens them up. If washed and dried in two hours so much the better.? Cor. Montreal Witness. A Cheap Way to Dissolve Bones.?This can be easily done without the use of sulphuric acid. Strong lye, from hard wood ashes, will do the work, and if you have a large iron pot, or boiler, you can have them ready for use in a short time. Throw in ashes and bones together for an hour or two. Set aside and let cool. The l)ones will now be found to be in a soft and brittle state, and may be readily crushed under slight pressure. The contents of the boiler?lye, ashes, and bones?are all excellent material for the compost heap. But, perhaps, economical housekeepers will prefer to utilize the bones for soap-making, in the first place. It is a good idea, as the bones, waste lye, and other refuse, after the soap is made can be carried to the compost heap, as before. Never throw away a bone, but put all away in a safe place till you have enough for a good boiling. I would stop by the roadside, even though ten miles from home, to pick up a bone. They contain some of the richest elements of plant food, and are, therefore, invaluable as fertilizers. Geese.?The London News says : "Of all poultry breeding the rearing of the goose in favorable situations is said to be the least troublesome and the most profitable. It is not surprising, therefore, that the trade has of late years been enormously developed. They will live and to a certain extent thrive on the coarsest of grasses ; though, of course, if birds are to be brought to market in good condition they must be treated to something more than coarse grass. The fattening of geese has now become an established industry in some parts of the country." The goose is to the English * 1 1 ? ' i i- i- -c i ... : tauie wnai cue uiraey is lo mat ui aiuuhuci. It is bred in the northern parts of England and kept in large flocks. In the fall of the year the farmers of Lancashire and 1'orkshire buy them to turn upon the stubbles after the grain is harvested, where they fatten rapidly. It is quite common in the fall to see a large flock of geese driven like sheep along the roads from the breeding grounds where they have been raised, to the st ubbles where they are to be fattened. Worms and Bugs.?The Farm and Garden says in relation to the attacks of worms and bugs: To save all sorts of vines from the attacks of bugs and worms requires constant watchfulness and a timely use of remedies. There is no use in trying to drive the vellow-striped cucumber bug off after it has injured half the plants in your patch. Prevent it coming on by changing the natural scent of the vines. Sprinkle your vines frequently, and just as soon as they appear above ground, with water in which a little kerosene oil has been mixed, or with a weak solution of carbolic acid, or with plaster scented with kerosene, or with a real rank-smelling manure water. Either of the above, if applied daily, will generally keep the bugs off. The large, black squash bug must be hunted up every day from among your vines and killed. These bugs like to seek shelter under some chips, little pieces of boards, shingles, etc., which 1 you may place among your vines, so you will know where to look for the pest. About Watering Plants.?Unless one has an abundant supply of water, so that its use, when once begun, can be continued, it is better, as a general thing, to not water at all. In the drouth, which we so generally have this month, a mere sprinkling of the leaves is worse than 110 watering at all. Still, we all may have in the vegetable as well as in the | flower garden certain plants that we would I, like to favor. In such cases, instead of water- j < ing the plant, the water should be applied 1 , to the soil; draw the earth away from the J ( plants, forming a sort of basin around them;', pour 011 water gradually, and let it soak in ,, around the roots. Afterwards return the re-;! moved dry earth to its place, and this will act as a mulch to keep the roots moist. Keeping Wheat and other Grain.? Difference of climate has a good deal to do with ! ( thrashing and selling grain immediately after j harvest. In England more than half the grain i i remains in the straw unthrashed till the next 11 spring. Oats are never put in barns at harvest; j! they are stacked, very neatly and carefully j thatched by a professional laboring thatcher. ?orbvilU , TERMS OF SUBHCUIPTION: | j Single copy for one year, f2 50 t For six months, .*. 1 25 j For three months, 75 t fwo copies one year, 4 00 i Fen copies one year, 20 00 \ And an extra copy for a club of ten. ADVERTISING RATES. ONE DOLLAR per square, for the firm inser-i ion, and FIFTY CENTS per square, for each ( subsequent insertion. A square consists of the i space occupied by seven lines of this size type. J #?? Contracts will be made at reduced rates i or advertising space to he used for three, six, a >r twelve months. CIRCULAR. rj OFFICE OF GENERAL MANAGER,) I Richmond, Va., June 21st, 1882, j TO further promote the interests of its patrons t and the development of the material resources and industries of the regions of country served j by itssj'stem of railroads, the Richmond A Dan- I ville Railroad Company will again incur the I labor and expense of making an illustrative Ex- I hi hit this Fall. The Now England Manufacturers and Mechan- ' Ic's Institute will hold its Second Exposition in ' Boston, Mass., on the Oth of September. It has I cordially invited the Richmond A Danville Rail- j road Co. to display its Exhibits in its magnificent ' Building. The invitation has boen accepted. Such an opportunity for a practical and wide ; reaching adverti-ement of the subjects which ; compose the material wealth of oursection of the i South and of the manifold advantages and in - ! ducements it offers for the investment of North- j em, and especially New England capital, and for New England immigration, has never before been j presented to our people. It should not be neg- j lecied. i All persons throughout the groat Piedmont, j Mountain and other regions embraced in the Richmond A Danville system of railroads in any way interested in material development and enterprises?owners of Mineral Lands and Mines, Timber Lands, Manufacturing Establishments and Water Powers are invited to avail themselves of the benefit of this Exhibit. Cant. C. 0. McPhaii, Chief of Bureau of Mines and Manufae.u'es, has charge of all matters of detail, connected with the Ex hi bit to be made ill.! Boston. Mass., on the fith of September. All persons desiring information and to make contribn- _ tions of Materials and Specimens are requested to correspond with him. T. M. R. TALOOTT, General Manager. July !.*{ 28 tf STA TE OF SOUTH "C A MOLINA. COUNT! OF YORK-COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Arnold Friedheim and Julius Friedheim. Partners in Trade, under the firm name of A. rneuili'im re nrowiur, i inniiiin, n^nni^i. John VV. Si in ri 1. Defendant.?Summons for Money Demand?Complaint not Served. To JOHN W. SI NIHIL, Defendant in this action: YOU are hereby summoned and required to answer the complaint in this action, which has this day been herewith filed in the office of the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the said county, and to serve a copy of your answer on the subscribers, at their office, in Yorkville, South Carolina, within twenty days after the service of this summons on y?>u, exclusive of the day of such service: and if you fail to answer the complaint within tlie time aforesaid, the Plaintiff will apply to the Court for judgment against you for the sum of five hundrcdand ninety-eight dollars and 24 cents, together with interest on the sum of sixty dollars thereof from the 30th day of January one thousand eight hundred and eightyone, and on the sum of one hundred and seventynine dollars and ninety-nine cents, from the 29th day of March, 1881, and on the sum of one hundred and cightvtwo dollars and tilty four cents, from the (1th day of January, 1882, and costs. Dated May 23rd, A. P., 1882. Original Summons and Complaint in this ac- * tion are filed in mv Office, of date May 23rd, 18.82 [L. S.i JOS. F. VV AI j I < VCK. <\ ('. Pis. WILSON A* WILSON, Plaintiff's Attorneys. June 15 24 tit ~ TAX RETURi\S FOR 1882." AUDITOR'S OFFICE,) Youkvillb, S. C., May 4th, 18S2. j "VTOTICE is hereby given that on and after l>i THURSDAY, THE FIRST DAY OF JUNK, 1882, the books of the County Auditor of York county, will be open for the purpose of receiving returnsofall PERSONAL PROPERTY owned by (he several tax-payers in said county, on the 1st day of June, 1882, and liable to taxation. The Auditor will meet the tax payers at the following times and places: At Yorkville, from Motiday, 3rd of July, to Wednesday, 20thof July, inclusive. All transfers of real estate made since last return, and all new buildings erected, must be reported. All inaies oeiwuHd uitj :igt:s hi -i uiui uu yearn are liable to poll tax, and must make returns accordingly. All returns must be filed in this office, on or before WEDNESDAY, Til E TWENTIETH DAY OF JULY, next, otherwise, fifty per ceut. penalty will attach. This will be absolute. The tax-payers will please notice that during the time that the Auditor is at his appointments throughout the county, the boots will not be open at Yorkville, as heretofore. Tax payers will save themselves trouble bv making their returns at the appointment nearest their place of a residence. W. B. WILLIAMS, County Auditor. May 4 IS tf "tTsTefperfs, Dealer in all kinds of AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY mANNER Engines, I. OZER Engines, I Hall's FeedingUins, VVinship Feeding Gins, Valentine Feeding Gins, Clark Seed Cotton Cleaners, ? Traveling Cotton Press, y Gin House Cotton Press. These Presses are manufactured by us, and are without an equal in power, speed and durability, y Buck-Eye Reapers are still ahead. The demand . for them has exceeded our most sanguine expectations. The GelxerSeparator is the best Machine forour rough country. They are built light and compact, and do good work. I sold, this and last sea son, a number of these Machines. I am introducing a new Leather Brush for C'ottnn Gins. Said to have considerable advantage over the old Leather Brush. Every Gin owner should supply himself with the Seed Cotton Cleaner and one of my new Cotton Presses. Call and get Cirnalars and inform yourselves. T. S. JEFFBRYS. YORKVILLE LIVERY AND FEED STABLES, NEAR THE COURT HOUSE, ARE now open and will bo kept in first class style with comfortable vehicles of all kinds, good horses and careful drivers. IF YOU WANT A nice Horse and Buggy, or A nice pair of Horses and Buggy, or The Yorkville Omnibus, or If you want your horses fed for 25 cents per meal, go to SMITH'S Livery and Feed Stables. ^ CINCINNATI BUGGIES. Just receivfd, 6 nice Cincinnati Buggies, for sale at 8t>o eacli for top, and $.">5 each for onen. Also a good second-hand Carriage, and one double-seat Spring Wagon for sale cheap. Call and T examine them. WANTED. '* v 300 dozen bundles good sheaf Oats and 300 bushels Rod and White Oats, for which I will pay the o market price, if delivered at my stables soon. v\ * F. E. SMITH. p REASSESSMENT OF REAL PROPERTY, G OFFICE OF COUNTY AUDITOR, P York Cot'stv, Yorkvillk, s. C.t May 28th, 1882. I AM instructed to REASSESS REAL PROPERTY at the same time that tiie assessment of PERSONAL PROPERTY is made this year. Real Property must, therefore, be RELISTED FOR TAXATION, otherwise he liable to penalty. Persons having charge of real estate exemptions. such as churches, public school houses, cemeteries, Ac., are required to report the same; it being my duty to keep a list of all exempted property in the county. XT W. B. WILLIAMS, N Auditor York County. j June 1 22 7t ! DENTAL SURGERY. - l)r. J. B. PATRICK, | P] of Charleston, j ^LLULf SURGEON DENTIST, j Will be iu ROCK HILL for the practice of his ! profession from the 1ST TO THE 18TH OF j JULY, and will visit Yorkville on tlm 2-1TH I OF JULY, where he will remain for THREE j H WEI* KS. During his stay in these places ho will i be pleased to wait upon all who may require the ' ' nervices of a DENTIST. Doing amply prepared j . with the best instruments ami all the improved i J" appliances, he feels warranted in assuring perfect ! , satisfaction. | ? Ladies waited on at their residence. j ,:l1 Rooms in Yorkville, at the Rawlinson House. | May 27 38 ly J house and lot for sale! THE undersigned otters for sale, the Lot in j Yorkville, known as the "Meek Place." It is situated near the Methodist Church, and con- Dj :ains TWO ACRES, more or less. On the lot is Ti t two-story Dwelling House, containing SIX \\ LARGE ROOMS AND A BASEMENT, a lumuer house, corn-criband stable. Terms will be made easy. - j _ L. M. GRIST. cleansing' and repairing. rHE undersigned would respect ully inform the public that lie is prepared to cleanse garnents of any fabric whatever, rendering them i perfectly clean, and if unladed, restoring them to he original brightness and lustre of the goods. A Do not throw away your okj cioines, uut u<ivu ? liein cleaned and made to look as well as new. , tVork promptly done, and at the most reasons- j an ile prices. THOMAS BALLARD. \ J. W. BATMAN, PRACTICAL BARBER AND HAIR DRESSER. CiHOP in SPRINGS MOORE building, on first j ] 5 tloor, in the reur of Withers Adiokes' store, j ? i&sy shaving:, fashionable liair-cutting and dress- < ng and polite attention fo all customers. Call .nd givo him a trial. I Also dealer in CIGARS and TOBACCO. I if TOM A cm CII Ij TI ' *^r' rilE MOST E A X THE MOST DUE NOW II SEND FOR PRICE LIST TO T. S. JEFFEKYS, Agent, Yorferllle, S. C. Maroh 1(5 1 THE 1 |l HARTFORD j! i t Sewing >Iachine. i! w ! I i \ JUST PERFECTED.! || The Largest under Arm. j. Tlie Lightest and Quietest. i ( THE MOST LAVISHLY DECORATED, j! Tlie Least Vibration of any. j A Galaxy of Now Patents. Ball-Bearing Balance Wheel. Knife edge Treadle-bearing. Newest and most Elegant Designs in Stands ; . nd Woodwork. |, Positive take up. Perfect Stitch. 11 I The well-known and popular I i "FAMILY FAVORITE." j i s also manufactured by us. For finely illustrated descriptions apply to j V. C. LATIMER Yorkville, S. C. | V. G. RE ID & CO., Rock Hill, S. C. j FEED SEWING MACHINE COMPANY, | I HARTFORD, CONN. j i April 6 14 tf J "Tt stands at the HEAD" ! ITf I'"ifi ! jggjjgtf ! THE LIGHT RUNNING DOMESTIC, j j rllE best material ; will do any and all kinds * of work; complete in every respect; the ^ trgestarm ; the lightest running:; most beautiful * k'ood work. Folly warranted for five 3'ears. ' Call at my PHOTO GALLERY, one door east A f tho jail and examine Machines and work. It A fill he to your advantage to call on me before) ^ tirchasing a SEWING MACHINE. I am prepared to d" any work in the PHOTO- | RAPH LINE to satisfaction, and at reasonable1 rices. J. R. SCHORB. I THE OLD RELIABLE! \\ .- ?- - i a * ONE OF |A THE BEST NEWSPAPERS | J I3NT THE SOUTH. 0 SENSATIONALISM, NO IMMORALITY. I ? - j < AUGUSTA ClIiBlSMIffllld SUBSCRIBE FOR IT! " .?? - - - : / rHE Chronicle and Constitutionalist is the j T; oldest newspaper in the South, and perhaps i e oldest in the United States, having been es- I L hlislie.l iu H)S">. While thoroughly Democratic | principle, it is liberal, progressive and tolerant. ! B lie Oil RONICLE contains tho latest news from j 1 parts of the world, and is recognized as a first- ! L ass paper. ; L As an advertising medium, it covers the coun- L .. n,,,! Kmttli f'nwdimi frihiitarv to 1 L j ? j . ugusta. {-1 We endeavor to exclude sensationalism. We | 1 ihlish no articles of an immoral character. j S TKRMM: I ^ lily, one year, $10 00 | ri-weekly, one year, 5 00 s< 'eeklv, one year, 2 00 ' Address WALSH & WRIGHT, |Augusta, Ga. GARlmRWi ^ d Cement. ! ^ 79 and 81 Columbus Street, i V\ OIiEVE3jAl\rr>, OHIO. ! 1 Send for circulars and price lists. February 2<> 9 ly (-~ CHATTEL ~MO~lRT GALES s M 0RTC* A(iES of Real Estate; and Titles to V 'I Real Kstate. For . ale at the ENQUIRER OFFIOF. IRAL STBAM ENGINE. 1CONOMICAL i) ABLE ENGINE <r use. THE MANUFACTURERS, TOZER & DIAL, Columbia, S. C. 1 6m JOB PRINTING. WING to our superior facilities with the best machine presses, an abundance of type and irst-class appointments throughout our office, veare prepared to execute ALL MANNER OF FOB PRINTING in superior style, and at prices hat will compare with New York or Philadelphia . barges for the same quality of work and mate ials. We have recently made a reduction in jrices for the following classes of work, to which j ve invite the attention of business men : HIED 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 >il! heads. We will fill an order for bill heads, jiving any desired number of either size of dieet at Dronortionate prices. LETTER ITEADS. For S0? For lWlo Commercial Note, $2.15 $3.25 Packet Note, 2.25 3.50 Letter (largasize) 3.00 5.0C For the above work we use a superior quality >f paper, and guarantee entire satisfaction in evjry instance. We also give special attention to the printing of Briefs, Arguments and P> ints and Authorities, which we furnish strictly according to the requirements ot the Justicas of the Supreme Court, and n proof reading exercise the utmost care to ensure accuracy. We are prepared to furnish all other kinds of printing, from a visiting card to a lnrgo volume, ind will he pleased to lurnish estimates for any itvle of work desired. Address, L. M. GRIST. Yorkville. S. C. April 27 17 tf "a&^rNARfiOW GAUGE R AILROADT SCHEDULE of Mail and Passenger Trains, . from Chester, S. C., to T. incolnton, N. C.( M aking elfect at 2.45 o'clock, P. M., May 2, 1882: GOINO NORTH. heave Chester 2.45 P. M. Leave Lowrysville 3.15 P. M, Leave McConnellsville 3.35 P. M, [.eave Guthriesville 3.45 P. M. Arrive at Yorkville 4.10 P. M. Leave Yorkville 4.20 P. M. Leave Clover 5.00 P. M. Leave Bowling Green 5.10 P. M. Leave Crowder's Creek 5.20 P. M. Leave Pleasant Ridge 5.30 P. M. Leave Gaston ia 0.00 P. M. [.eave Dallas 0.20 P. M. [.eave Hardin's 0.45 P. M. ? ? ir r? \f \rnvoat lAiicointon /.to r. m. GOING SOUTH. Leave Lineolntnn, ...7.00 A. M. Leave Hardin's.. 7.25 A. M. .eave Dallas, 7.50 A. M. Arrive at Gaston ia* 8.10 A. M. Leave Gastonia 8 30 A. M. .eave Pleasatit Kidge 8.50 A. M. Leave Crowder's Creek 0.00 A. M. Leave Bowling Green 9.10 A. M. ^eave Clover 0.25 A. M. Arrive at Yorkville 10.00 A. M. .oavo Yorkville 10.10 A. M. ..eave Guthriesville 10.35 A. M. .eave McCoimeilsville 10.50 A. M. -.eave Lowrysville 11.10 A. M. Arrive at Chester 11.40 A. M. * Break fast. JAMES MASON, Superintendent. May 4 18 tf IICHMOND AND DAS VILLER AILEOAIX PASSENGER DEPARTMENT. rvN and after April' 30th, 18S2, Passenger md Lf Train Service on the Atlanta and Charlotte Ur-Line division of this road will be as follows: KASTWARD. " Mail and Express. Mail. No. 51. No. 53. ..eave Atlanta, 2.15 P. M. 4.00 A. M. irrive at Gainesville, 4.54 P. M. 0 19 A. M. irrive at Lula, 5.22 P. M. 0.50 A. M. irrive at Rabun Gap June 5.47 P. M. 7.41 A. M. irrive at Toccoa, 6.40 P. M. 8.17 A. M. K O/t p \f o -m A M. irrivnat Greenville, 10.06 P. M. 11.03 A. M. irrivoat Spartanburg,...11.40 P. M. 12.24 P. M. irrive at Gallonia, 2.06 A. M. 2.50 P. M. irriveat Charlotte, 3.15 A. M. 4.00 P. M. WKSTWAR II. Mail and Express. Mail. No. 50. No. 52. aiave Charlotte, 1.00 A. M. 12.40 P. M. .rriveat Gastonm, 2.02 A. M. 1.47 P. M. .rrive atSpartnnburg, 4.31 A. M. 4.06 P. M. .rriveat Greenville, 5.59 A. M. 5.29 P. M. .rriveat Seneca, 7.43 A. M. 7.03 P. M. rriveat Toccoa, 9.18 A. M. 8.30 P. M. rriveat Rab'n Gap June 10.00 A. M. 9 10 P. M. rriveat Lula, 10.37 A. M. 9 46 P. M. rriveat Gainesville, ll.tfi A. M. 10.15 P. M, .rriveat Atlanta, 1.30 P. M. 12.40 A. M. T. M. R. TA I.COTT, General Manager. I. Y. SAGE, Superintendent. A. POPE, General Passenger Agent. May 25 21 tf CHE RAW AN D CHESTER RATLYOAD? PRESIDENT AND SUP'T'S OFFICE,) Chester, S. C., Nov. 28, 1881. f )N and after November 28, 1881, the following schedule will he run on this road daily, Sunavs excepted: eavo Lancaster Depot 8.00 A. M. eavo Miller's Station ?8.10 A. M. eave Wax haw Station 8.20 A. M. cave River Depot 9.00 A. M. eavo Fort Lawn 9.15 A. M. eave Cedar Shoal Factory 9.25 A. M. eave Howze's Station 9.45 A. M. eave Rirhburg 10.00 A. M. eavo Mc Dan id's Crossing 10 10 A. M. eave Knox's Station 10.20 A. M. rriveat Chester... 11.00 A. M. eavo Chester 3 50 P. M. rrive at Lancaster Depot (5 5U P. M. Passengers will huv tickelsxt all stations where >ld. WM.* H. HARDIN, President. January 1!) 3 tf turbixeWater wheel." 'JLTE have one 18-inch RIGHT HAND TUHF T RINK WHEEL, as a sample of Farrar's ivention. We are working a 13J inch Wheel the same kind, and there is no better Water -'heel made for the same money. Those who mtemplate using a Turbine Wheel can do no utter than to get one of these Wheels. We have irculars giving all the details in regard to the orking of it, and with the salo you have the rivilege of trying the Wheel, and if it does not > as represented, the money will be refunded, one and see the sample IS in<h R. H. Turbine 'heel, Manufactured by theSEROEANT MANFACTORING COMPANY, Greensboro, N. C. HERN DON BROS., Agents, Yorkville, S. C. February 10 17 tf old newspapers, )F large size, suitable for wrapping, for sale at one cent each, at the ENQUTREP. OFFICE. September hi 25 tf