Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, January 28, 1886, Image 4

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|iumorou5 ftrpartmcnt. \ A Dog Which Caught On.?"Yes, that 'ere dog belongs to ine, I 9'pose," replied a farmer at the market yesterday, when ral- lied in regard to an ungainly cur which was lying under his wagon. "Is he any good ?" "Not the least bit. I've tried to give him away, and I've tried to drive him off, but * it's no go." K "Why don't you lose him here in town?" ? "I've tried it in vain. Lemrae tell ye 1 what I did in September. I brought that J] cur here with me, and I got on the street J cars and rode around for half a day. Away v up Jefferson avenue he got into a row with some other dogs and lost the car, and I went f home feeling that he was done for. Next * morning I went at it with my boys and ^ painted the front fence and the house so he b wouldn't know the place if he came along. * I tied up a calf in the front yard, cut down f .11 1L ~ ~ 3 ? J I au cue weeus auu su cimugeu cue Keuerni looks of things that my neighbors didn't 8 hardly dare come in. On the third day we r saw the cur coming down the road from a town and everybody got inside. He came J up, looked around in great astonishment, ^ and his tail dropped as if somebody had * tied a brick to it. In his bones he felt that y it was the old place, but the painting up sorter paralyzed him. He sat down to think t it over, and all at once he came over the ? fence and began to gambol around as if tick- <led to death. He had got on something a and it was no use trying any longer *to fool F him." 1' ".What did he discover?" ? "Why, there had been three panes of 11 glass out of the garret winder for over two & years and we'd forgot to put 'em in. As } soon as he raised his eyes and saw that win- lf der he knowed the house belonged to me, J and a dozen o' your best lawyers couldn't } have made him believe I'd sold out and 1! moved away. Dogs is no Tools, and don't t you forget it."?Detroit Free Press. | A Lawyer Baffled.?Jim McSuifter ? was being tried in San Antonio for trying r to bribe a colored witness, Sam Johnsing, to l' testify falsely. ? "You say this defendant offered you a v bribe of fifty dollars to testify in his beKolfOM DQi'/l r.oiuvnr rjAiio-o fn fto rn JnhnQintr ^ JICWl CKHU VIVW5V vv vv..w^...0. "Yes, sah." . "Now repeat precisely what he said, usiug c his own words." 11 "He said he would get me fifty dollars if r I-" F "He can't have used those words. He T didn't speak as a third person." ? "No, sah ; he tuck good keer dat dar was ? no third person present. Dar was only us f two. De 'fendant am too smart tar hab * anybody listenin' when he am talkin'about a his own reskelity." r "I know that well enough, but he spoke . to you in the first person, didn't he ?" 11 "I was de fust person, myself." 0 "You don't understand me. When he a was talking to you did he use the words, 'I 1 will pay you fifty dollars ?' " ? "No, boss; he didn't say nuffln' about you payin' me fifty dollars. Yore name wasn't 11 mentioned, 'ceptin' dat he tole me ef eber . P I got inter a scrape dat you was de best law- Y yer in San Antonio to fool de judge and S1 jury." J} "You can step down."? Texas Si/tings. ~ The Lesser of Two Evils.?The rau- " nicipal census taker was around taking 11 names and pulled the bell at Blifstick's, ? and Bliff came to the door. He was put M through the usual formula, and finally the 11 censuser asked the age of his wife. . "Can't tell," responded the husband. "Can't tell?" echoed the questioner. ai "Why? Don't you know?" f1 "Of course I do." " "Then you must tell me. The law says a! you must." ftl "The law! What law?" 9( "The law of the State." 1S "What will they do with me if I don't c'( tell?" a "Put you in jail." J* "All right; put me in jail." ! "Why, man," exclaimed the astonished S official, "you won't go to jail and suffer ai rather than tell your wife's age, will u you ?" u "Well, yes," he said, resignedly; "I've a< never been in jail, and on one occasion I P did tell my wife's age." ^ Providing for a Rainy Day.?One d: rainy morning not long ago a gentleman on a< the north side found a tramp lying down in ?_ - * ei nis nay muw. "What are you doing here?" inquired w the gentleman, forcibly. "Takin' it easy, boss," was the quiet an- tr swer." "i "Well you want to get out in quick time sc you lazy loafer. Why don't you go to work r3 and earn a living?" ^ "I don't have to work." e( "Don't you! It doesn't strike me that of you are a bloated bondholder or monopolist." "Maybe I hain't now, boss, but I will be." tu "Why ain't you at it, then?" vi "That's what I am. Can't you see that la I'm laying up for a rainy day?" tt The gentleman saw, and not only let the n< tramp stay under shelter, but gave him a tt auarter to keep for a nest egg.?Merchant n< Traveler. H fu Ax Old Darky's Reasoning.?Uncle la Isom was whitewashing an old, dilapidated d< house on Whitehall street yesterday. The fii interior had a ghostly appearance, and a fe gentleman said to the old negro: si "Isom, ain't you afraid of ghosts?" T "No, sir; dat I ain't young master," was si the reply, as the old man's face loomed up d( with a smile. CI "You are not?" G "No, sah. Dar ar no ghosts." ei "How do you know?" at "Ca'se, sah, when a person dies dey goes la to heaben or purgatory, one orde udder." Sc "Yes." di "And ef dey goes ter purgatory dey can't la get away ; an' ef dey goes to heaben dey don't want ter get away an' cum back er tt scollopin' round dis world. I'se too ole fer ce to let dat kind er mesmerisin' bizness bod- tt der me."?Atlanta Constitution. ec * * tjThe Value of Common Sense.?"Oh, fa dear!" exclaimed Mrs. F., after vainly en- st deavoring to pour hot water out of the empty teakettle, "how did I forget to till it, ,l( I wonder? I'm getting to be a perfect sim- w pleton! I wish I did have a little common js sense!" "But, my dear," interrupted Fogg, "sup- t'j pose you had. Do you think you'd know 0| what to do with it?" m "Do with it?" echoed Mrs. F., "many things. I might want to be married again, ^ n rt/1 54 tviirvKf coita rv-? n frnm malr_ yvu IVll'J VV , ailUll, ...t nv,... m?a- n, ing a fool of myself a second time."?Bos- w ton Transcript. C( ??1 ~ A Rising Market.?A wild specimen of r( the native Virginian entered Staunton the n other day and asked credit for some tobacco and sugar at a grocery, promising to pay in Lc six weeks. D. "On what do you base your expectations ^ of being able to-pay in that time?" asked J, the grocer. "On coon skins," was the prompt reply. s! "But you may not catch any coons." c! "Oh, as to that, I've got seventeen of 'em S1 already plugged up in a holier tree, and am P only waiting for the fur to git prime!" He got the goods.? Wall Street News. g Example of the Force of Habit.? u Turnkey (tocondemned murderer)?"There is a man outside wot wants to see you." Condemned murderer?"Did he give his b name?" "V Turnkey?"He said his name was Smith." ri Condemned murderer?"Yes, it's Smith, g with his confounded tailor bill. Tell him I I'm out." A A colored man, who was hunting a * house to move into, was asked if he had paid his rent to to his former landlord. , *! "Yes, sah," he said, rather hesitatingly.' "Can'tyou get a recommendation?" "Oh,; ? yes, sah; I can get Mr. Smith, my land-1 * lord, to give me a recommendation." How t do you know you can?" "Oh, I know I * can, 'cause he wants me to get out." Very Sweet on the Apostles?Lit- ? tie Johnny Fizzletop was in a candy store p with his mother. She bought some figures made of chocolate. "Here, Johnny, are the three graces for you. * si "O, ma, I'd rather have the twelve apos- h ties. There are more of 'em." o leading fat the Jj>afcktb. j CONDUCTED RY U13V. ROBERT LATHAN. [Original.] PARDON AND FORGIVENESS. One petition which every supplicant at a hrone of grace offers up is that God will ardon or forgive his sins. The word parIon does not, so far as is remembered, occur n the received version of the New Testament, and only twenty timeSin the Old Testament. In the New Testament the [ rord forgive is used as the synonim of parIon. In the Hebrew Scriptures, there are hree words which the translators of the iible rendered by the word pardon, but ach of these words is frequently rendered iy the word forgive. The Hebrew word aphar, which literally means to cover, is endered once (II Chron. 30: IS) pardon and wice (Psalms 78:38, and Jer. 18: 23) by for;ive. The Hebrew word nasa, the literal meaning of which is to lift up, or to lift way, is rendered four times, (Ex. 23:21, Samuel jou 7 : anu ?>iican /: is; iy the English word pardon, and eleven imes by the word forgive. The Hebrew rord salach, the primary meaning of which 3 to send away or to let go, is rendered welve times by the word pardon and seventeen times by the word forgive. The Jreek words which arc translated forgive ,re apoluo, charizomai and aphiemi. The rimary meaning of the first (apoluo) is to oose or part one thing from another; of the econd, (charizomai) the primary meaning 3 to say or do something agreeable to a peron, that is, to show him favor or kindness, ^he primary meaning of the word aphiemi 3 to send forth or to discharge. Apoluo is ound in LukeG: 37, charizomai is found nine imes in the New Testament, and aphiemi 3 rendered, in the New Testament, fortywo times by the word forgive. It is the xact synonym, so far as is possible, of the lebrew word salach. The primary import f both is to send away, and when used in onnection with sin against God, the idea 3 to send away sin from the sinner and thus lischarge from the penalty of sin, the indi-idual who has violated the law of God. Pardon, as it is dispensed by human govrnments, has no existence in the governnent of God, and pardon as it is dispensed >y God can have no-existence in any hu an government. God never pardons sinters as men pardou them, and men cannot tardon sin as God pardons it. Pardon in tuman governments is an admission that tuman legislators are fallible, and that the dministration of human law, no matter tow good the law may be, is sadly defect r* 1 i u.. ru/1 :f, a?n ve. jraruun as ueswweu uy uuu iu an cvr lence that God is not only just, but also nerciful. Pardon in the Scriptural sense of the word 5 one of the two factors of justification?the ther being acceptance, and both pardon and cceptance is a siugle act of God's free grace. Jnder the covenant of works pardon had no xistence, neither could there ever have een such a thing as pardon had the condiion of the covenant of works been, on the art of man, complied. with. In other fords, pardon presupposes the existence of in. Where there is no sin there can be no ardon, but sin may exist, in fact, really oes exist, when there is no pardon. Ac^ptance, the other factor of justification, lay exist, and really does exist, when there 5 no sin, and consequently no pardon is reuired. Acceptance,in that case, however, > not based upon the same foundation that ; is when accompanied with pardon. The benefits which those who aresaving; united to Jesus Christ, enioy in this life rejustification, adoption and sanctification. ti the order of nature, justification is first, ut in the order of time, justification and loption are simultaneous. Sanctification, [though it begins with the new birth,is not implete until the shore of the other world > reached. Justification as already said, insists of two things?pardon and acceptnce. These are never separated. All 'hnm Hnri nnrrtnns he accents, and all that e accepts he has pardonecf. Although iniparably connected, pardon and acceptance re different things. They are not based pon the same foundation. Pardon is based pou the sufferings of Jesus Christ, while iceptance is based on his obedience to the recepts of the law. Pardon is God's freelg the sinner from the condemnation hich is in the law. In this God makes a isplay of his sovereignty, but he does not ^arbitrarily. By the pardon of 9in, which leans the same thing as the forgiveness oi n, the guilt of sin is removed. In other ords, the individual whose sins are parmed is delivered from the guilt of sin, lat is, he is not liable to be punished for is sins. This deliverance is effected by a : tvereign act of God, but not by an arbitrar act. No law or regulation of God is in te least violated or suspended in its right)us operation. On the contrary, the law ' God is magnified. 1 The proeess, as we learn from the Scrip- 1 ires,is this: Jesus Christ, the God-man Sa- j iour, places himself under the law in the w-room and stead "of the sinner and suffers le penalties of the law incurred by the sin?r. The law proclaims that "The soul lat sinneth shall die." In the stead of sin?rs and on account of sin Jesus Christ died. ! e met the penal demands of the law in ill. He satisfied the penal claims of the w. This no finite being could do. The imand was beyond the capabilities of any 1 lite being. As a surety Jesus Christ sufred. Pie died not simply for the good of nners, but he died in the place of sinners, o change the language, Jesus died as a ibstitute, and as a substitute he conquered eath. This satisfaction rendered by Jesus hrist to the penal demands of the law of j od is the tmmnd of oardon. Itisbvasov- ' eign act of grace imparted to the sinner 1 id by the sinner received by faith. The av and justice of God demand that the ! iul that sinneth shall die. Jesus Christ ied and thus met the requirements-of the ; av. ! In addition to suffering the penalties of te law, Jesus Christ also obeyed the prespts of the law. Thus by his obedience to I le precepts of the law he provided a rightmsness which being by God imparted to le sinner and by the sinner accepted by ;1 .ith, God can in perfect consistency with j rict justice accept the believer. Pardon, in the order of nature, precedes 1 jceptance. Nothing can be done in the ay of acceptance until the guilt of sin, that i, until the liability to be punished for sin, ! removed. This done, the way is open for le acceptance of the sinner. The pardon [ sin does no more than take away the ailt of sin. It does not remove the incli- ! ution to sin, neither does it change the naire of sin so as to take away its offensive- J ess in the sight of God. Pardon, together ith acceptance with which it is always ! i mjoined,changes the sinner's relation with ?gard to the law. The pardoned sinner is : o longer under the law as a covenant of! orks, and, consequently he is delivered, >rever, from its penalties. This must not I e interpreted to mean that the pardoned j nner never violates God's law, or if he j oes violate the law of God he does not | lereby incur God's displeasure. God hates | n, no matter by whom committed. He | hastises his people, that is those whose ; ns are pardoned, for their sins ; but he unishes those whose sins are not pardoned )r their transgressions. With the pardond he deals as a father whose authority has een disregarded by a child, but with the npardoned he deals as an angry judge. teg-Men cling to Christ to-day as if it was ut yesterday that he had died for them. : Vhen all other names carved on the world's ; ecords have become unreadable, like forotten inscriptions on decaying gravestones, lis shall endure forever, deeply graven on eshy tables of heart. His revelation of lod is the highest truth. Till the end of ime men will turn to His life for the ciear st knowledge and happiest certainty of, heir Father in Heaven. There is nothing irnited or local in His character of works, n his meek beauty and gentle perfectness le stands so high above us all, that to-day , he inspiration of His example and the lesonsof his conduct touch us as much as if e had lived in this generation, and will always shine before men as their best and lost blessed law of conduct. Christ will ot he antiquated till He is outgrown, and t will be some time before that happens. Xo man ever sailed over exactly the i line route that another sailed over before ; im. Every man who starts on the ocean j f life arches his sails to an untried breeze.! Ipsttlkiif0it$ fMittg. | J A GEORGIA FARMER. j " Mr. Robert Rood is a young farmer. ! li Thin browned, all fiber, slow and easy of j w motion, self-reliant a..' independent?he is bi a fine type of the young Southern farmer, j G "The earth is a gold mine," he says, "to 01 any man that works it diligently." ti It has certainly proved to be one to Mr. T Rood. In seven years he has made over ce $40,000 in farming?not by speculating?for he has lost $10,000 by that method. Rut by ei the patient tilling of the earth, and the fa slow transmitting of sunshine, rain and w sweat into corn and cotton. The story of re his work is significant, and it may be im- tl proving, so here it is in paragraphs coax- tl ed from his own lips. T "My father said to me about seven years fii ago, 'My son, I'm going to die, and I leave sc *0 01)0 in" honest debts that vou must pay.' cc in six weeks he was dead and I took the sc plantation in Stewart county on the Chatta- SI hoochie River. I mortgaged the place for hi $4,000 and went to work. The first lesson ec I learned was economy. I darned my own it rocks and patched my own clothes as they ti wore out. When I went to Eufaula I put sc a biscuit in my pocket, and when I got to in town tied my horse to a rack and saved ho- al tel bill. I ran a plough myself, leading the M way for my hands. At night I lit up the in forge and' did my own blacksmithing, ol learning as I went. I never left my farm si fo day and slept only six hours a night." tl "That must have brought success ?" "Of course it did, as it would have vi brought it in any other business. In two ei years I had paid my debt and had money pi in bank. I have made in actual money ir over $40,000. This is my poorest year and fr yet I will clear over $3,500. I would not sc give any man $5 to guarantee me $3,000 a a? year on my ten mule farm for the next ten Si years. Farming is the safest business a is man can engage in if he goes at it right." ei "What are the rules by which you sc work ?" ' ei "First, I raise my own provisions. I now ol have 1,000 bushels of corn, 1,100 bushels of ai oats, 8O0 bushels of peas and 400 gallons of m syrup now for sale. I raise much of my pi own meat and would raise it all except tl that my climate is too warm to cure it. I ir never saw a man who did not raise his own lo corn that made money on cotton. I never fa saw a corn raiser that wasn't a prosperous ai farmer. You can often figure out that you se can buy corn cheaper than you can raise it, ti but that is only on paper. Corn-raisers tl prosper?the others fail. My cotton crop is ir always a cash surplus. I make my other la crops carry the farm. 81 "Next to raising my own corn, I count rc personal attention to business. I sow ev- te ery bushel of oats myself, because I never sc found a hand that could doit right. This | ec fall I worked eleven hours a day with a si three peck basket on my arm and sowed oats i t ahead of twelve plows until the ends of my m fingers were bleeding. In making syrup I <u got along with four hours sleep in twentyfour, and the result is perfect syrup. I superintend every detail of my farming as this. Every back strap of my harness has a bag of moss sowed under the leather to protect the mule's back. Thread wouldn't 1' do for that sort of sewfng, as it would rot. Iron wire wouldn't for it would rust. So a* every pad is sewed with copper wire. I *r never had scald back or a piece of broken skin on a mule since I've been farming. "Next to a personal supervision is econ- T omy. Nothing is wasted on my farm. I ei have 120 tons of home-made manure com- ni posted now, and one ton of composted man- a| ure is worth three tons of guano. Not a 0< blade of grass is burned on my place. That with the refuse of my sugar cane even is 'a turned under and enriches the ground. It a{ is small things that make or ruin the farmer. My neighbors use two or three sets of plow- hl lines a year?mine last me two or three be years. Every night I oil every wagon on ?? my place using cotton seed oil. Once a m month I have every axle cleaned and the a old oil rubbed off. This saves my wagons. P1 My stock and crops are all protected the same way. The poorest house on my place is the house I live in." cc "How about your labor ?" ar "Better than slaves. I pay them $9 a W month, half in cash every Saturday night, m one ration and allow each hand a half acre ai for potatoes and an acre for corn and allow b( them every Saturday afternoon. They cc work because they know I know it when tli they shirk. They began stealing from me. w I slept on the ground every night for three to weeks, bagged three of the thieves and te now I am safe. When they are well I make or them work and when they are sick I give v< them medicine from my own hand. In te short they know I watch them and they ur 1. ?> " in WUItV. "You find the life a happy one?" ar "The freest, happiest, most independent life in the world. I have not been sick a *h day in eleven years. When I lie down J ri( sleep. I ask no man any odds. My broad m acres are there and they are exhaustless. V? The best bank a farmer can have is his land. J?( Every dollar he puts there is safe and will 'a pay him interest and principal. Many th farmers sell their cotton seed. That is rob- ,n bing their land. I buy cotton seed, for with p acid phosphate and stable manure it makes ')C the best fertilizer. The farmer is the one p independent man." J.ft "I can not understand," Mr. Rood went 'a on to say, "why a young fellow will stay in *y the city and clerk at a small salary with no th future when a farmer's life is open to him. Xb man could have had a much worse start than I did. Now, in spite of markets, to weather or anything else, I can live a free isl man's life, with health, open air, exercise, it and at the end of every year put from pi 53,500 to $5,000 in the bank. This is not ha chance. It is certainty. And there is noth- be ing in me except hard work, attention and pi a little common sense. If fifty young clerks in were to go to Stewart county to-day and th farm just as I do, each one would reach the dt same result. It is no experiment. It is li< the most certain of certain things." hi And away the young farmer went with a lej gang of friends who had called for him. ar Why may not he prove to be a type? Why ry may not there follow in his foot-steps a race of i)f young farmers, sturdy and self-reliant, la with smooth brows, clear eyes and strong ra arms? Why may they not come to the res- cli cue of our section from the domination of he western smoke-house and cribs, and win th for the South amid their corn rows a fuller ai: and better experience than their fathers re fought for twenty-five years ago ? There sn is plenty of land and more to come. Mr. re Rood started with 2,000 acres which he has already cut down to 1,200. He contracts his arable once every year. "Intensive w< farming," says he, "is the policy of the m future. There is one war cry under which pS the .South can command the situation, qt That is a bale to the acre, full corncribs, <it a big compost heap and home on the farm !" se Erank-lv now hasn't this broad shouldered th young farmer, with his steel-like sinews, re this untroubled sleep, come nearer to solv- f0 ingthe problem than thoseof us who, aim- ar ing at glittering heights, are fighting and j be stumbling along the uneven way.?Atlanta j iej Constitution. j it' + + + ; be EDUCATION' IN THE SOUTH. j re The reconstruction policy that followed j the late civil war extended suffrage to a mil- j lion or more of freedmen who were entirely j . uneducated as a class and entirely untrain-! j' ed in any of the responsible duties of citi- /. zenship. There was every reason why the I ? Southern States should deny education to a 1 servile race, as education could only endan- j gerthe tranquility of slavery, and it is not j surprising that the poorer class of whites in I u the South present a larger percentage of illiteracy than is found in the North, where j. free schools have been established for half | a century. It is too late to inquire into the j wisdom of enfranchising the colored men ; who were freed from bondnge and clothed | cli with all the prerogatives of citizenship, j co That has been done and it will not be un-; te done. There is a special force in the argu-! at ment,now that the passions of sectional strife fn have perished, that suffrage should have w been limited to the standard of intelligence, ! at but it is too late. The South has the power pi to practically disfranchise the colored citi-! ar zens, but it will not be done, because the' at limitation of voters would be followed by ! ar a corresponding limitation in representa-! pu tive power in the popular branch of Con-! sti gress and in the Electoral College. T1 Universal suffrage, regardless of race, ar condition or property, is now the irrevoca-j pi ble policy of the Republic, and that com- co pels us to look squarely in the face theap I Ta ailing fact that ninety per cent, of the! hole colored vote of the south cannot read le ballots they vote, and twenty-four per mt. of the white voters of the same seeon are equally ignorant. In South Carona more than one-half of all the voters, hite and black united, cannot read their allots, and in Mississippi, Louisiana and eorgia, only a small fraction more than le-halfof all the voters can tell, from their ckets, for whom they cast their votes.! hese statistics are furnished by the official >nsus reports of 1880. It must not be assumed that the South n States have been remiss in enlarging cilities for popular education since the nr. On the contrary, considering their (sources and their extreme- necessities, ley have greatly surpassed the North in leir efforts for the education of both races, he good work was hindered by the proigacy of carpet-bag rule, that collected hool taxes and promised education to the >1r?ro/-l rnrio hilt \iroetnJ nr ctnlp mrwt. nf the hool revenues. Since the reconstructed j iates have been allowed home rule they i we made marvellous strides in popular lucation. South Carolina, where war left s legacies in direst vengeance and desolaon, pays nearly half as much for free hools as does Pennsylvania, and employs lore colored teachers than are employed in I the Northern States combined, while [ississippi, the only other Southern State i which the colored race predominates, Ters better advantages to colored pupils r higher education at the cost of the State inn does Pennsylvania. The plain duty of the nation is to give its oters, with whom are lodged the sovergn powers of the Government, the highest Dssible standard of intelligence, for only i intelligence and virtue is there safety for ee government. How the problem is to be lived; how education can be so diffused 5 to rescue the supreme power of great tates from the domination of ignorance, a question of the gravest moment. Earn>t men have proposed a comprehensive :heme of education by the General Gov nment, but the country halts at the scores * millions necessary to carry it into effect, id many hesitate at any system of governlental power in the South that could be rostituted to partisan ends; but the facts mt a full million and a quarter of voters i the South are unable to read their baits; that the whole nation has pledged its ith to the improvement of the freedmen, id that every intelligent citizen of every 'if I %?-? to i rv-i tvtnrl Jo tnlxr info^oofo/1 in -V.HUI1 1D IlliUJCUHUVIJ ilJlUiV<OlV/U ill viv 1 i> ng the standard of intelligence amonp lose who may control the destiny of our istitutions, speak trumpet-tongued for enrged educational facilities in the Southern tates. They have done their part gene>usly, and will doubtless multiply and exnd their schools as rapidly as their re?urces shall be increased ; but they are unjual to the great work, and'the nation lould extend a helping hand in justice to self as the exemplar of popular governent among the peoples of the earth.?Philfefphia Timew HOW IT WORKS. [IE PRACTICAL EFFECTS OF THE PRIORITV LIEN LAW. Orangeburg, Jan. 19, Cor. News and Courier.] Our streets wear as stagnant an appearlce as if it were a prolonged holiday. In le last two months seven merchants and ?alers have voluntarily closed or were reed to do so by stress of dull times, here is now idle on the Main street prop ty to the value of $25,000. An unusual jmber of clerks are out of employment, id rents must necessarily fall. The effect tinkering on' the lien law has already nt several sturdy men, who do not own nd, out of the county. The laborers are ; sea what to do, and the merchant is jliged to be cautious. Several families ive gone to Florida in the vain hope of ?ttering themselves. At the next session the Assembly unusual statesmanship ust bs manifested, or the people will make change. High taxes and unremunerative operty do not promote contentment. [Pee Dee Index, Jan. 20.] The predictions heretofore made in these ilumns in reference to theeffectof this law, e beginning already to be realized. Iiite and colored tenants seem to be very uch demoralized, and many of the latter e leaving for the west, hoping thereby to itter their fortunes. One of the great diftiilties with the southern farmers has been ie large bodies of land owned by them, hich could not be worked by hired labor advantage. Heretofore the tenant sysm has enabled them to get a fair interest i the assessed value of their lands, but as )ry few farmers are able to supply meir nants, and are unwilling on account of the icertainty of crops and seasons, to become ible for the supplies furnished their tenits, this system will be badly crippled, urther, the uncertainty consequent upon is change in a basis of credit, affects injuDusly the mercantile credit of the business en of the country. In conversations with irious merchants and farmers, we have )t met one who thinks the law will operate vorably upon the agricultural interests of e country. On the contrary, they picture, ost graphically, the disastrous consciences, such as fields growing up, negro lasers leaving the country, and litigation owing out of the construction of this new w. In our opinion it would have been r better to repeal the lien law in its entirethan to have placed this monstrosity on e statute books of the State. [Marlboro Chronicle.] At the most inoportune period in the hisry of the South Carolina lien law the leglature has tampered with the law and left in a much worse condition for those peoe who derive benefit from it, than if it id been entirely repealed. There has not ;en a season since the war when our peoe needed more the assistance of merchants securing their supplies than the present? e beginning of the year 1886. It was in>ed a bad day for South Carolina when a )ii law was first enacted, almost as terrible is been the recent action of our present gislature in its partial repeal of the law, id leaving it in the onesided unsatisfactoshape it now assumes. IIow the matter the adjustment for advances between ndlord, tenant and merchant can be arnged remains to be explained. No merlant will be safe in making advances as a-etofore, and it does appear to us that e so called amendment is destined to open i avenue of endless litigation, and finally suit in the overthrow of the tenant and tall farm system. We can only await the suit. [Charleston News and Courier, Jan. 21.] There will be great trouble and distress, e apprehend, on account of the amendent of the lien law. The signs of it are linfully apparent. Being denied adeuite security, the merchant will not make Ivances to the tenant farmer, and, in conquence, the land-owner, who, by law, has e first lien on the crop, will be unable to nt his land. Both land-owners and their rmer tenants will be hurt in this way, id nobody will gain. There has rarely sen, in our judgment, a more mischievous Ejislative act than the passage of the priory bill. The consequences of it can hardly ! counted as yet, but we hope that the ill suits will be published far and near. It a clear case of killing the goose that laid e golden egg. The tenant system, which as objected to as making labor scarce, and encouraging thriftless farming, gave the rge land-owners an enormous rental for eir land in proportion to its value. The rmer tenants, findincr that they can no nger obtain credit, because of the law hicli gives the land-owners the first claim i the crop, must either hire themselves it as laborers, or leave the State. Wheththey go or stay, both the former landrds and the mercantile class must be seously injured. German War Suits.?The new ironid, Oldenburg, will be of entirely novel nstruction. It is a broadside ship with n ten-inch guns?five on each side, two ove and three below deck, but the whole ,*e can be concentrated on the same point ith sufficient force, it is estimated, to disile even the strongest iron-clad. The disacement of the Oldenburg is 5,200 tons, id her engines, 3,900 horse-power, ending her to steam eleven English miles i i hour. The German Government are apirantly not well satisfied with the connection of the torpedo boats at Stettin, ley have ordered new ones in England id refuse to accept six that have been cometed. Ilerr Sehwarzkops, of Berlin, has mpleted his thousandth torpedo.?Berlin dter. Toombs and Hale.?While a member of the United States Senate Robert Toombs' ! style of oratory and arguments is repre- J sented to have been such that his opponents were wary in in attacking him. 'lhe late! Hon. John. P. Hale, of New Hampshire, who is reputed to have possessed the facul- ; ty of apt and good-natured repartee, on one occasion entered the lists with the Southern Senator, and certainly was not worsted by the encounter. Soon after Hale's admission to the the Senate he delivered a speech on the slavery question, and was answered by Mr. Toombs, who said that, "judging from the tenor of speech of the gentleman from New Hampshire, he must be the character of whom Shakspeare spoke? 'Hail! horrors hail !' " "However this might be," replied Hale, j "there was no question but the gentleman I from Georgia was the one to whom Watts refers when he says? 'Hark! from the Toombs a doleful sound, Mine ears attend the cry.' " j ? l)rr, OtffTVi tixa iva fhn mil oiuro.? l iic migt'SL amp hi uic wunu ; is the Great Eastern, which is 679 feet in ; length, 42 feet beam and 48 feet depth, i measuring 18,916 tons gross. The City of \ lirr.ne is the next largest steamship afloat, : with a length of 546 feet, breadth 52 feet, j and a gross registered tonnage of 8,415, and | net tonnage of 5,538, according to official figures. The largest American steamships are the City of Peking, Pacific Mail Steamship Company, 6,000 tons, 423 feet long, 48 feet broad ; the Liguiria, Pacific Steam Navigation Company, 4,820 tons, 460 feet long, 45 feet broad ; the Britannic, White Star Line, 4,700 tons, 455 feet long, 45 feet broad ; the City of Richmond, Inman Line, 4,600 tons, 453J feet long, 43 feet broad, and the Bothnia, C'unard Line, 4,500 tons, 425 feet long, and 421 feet broad. Dahlias in Mexico.?'The forests are full of wild"dahlias, growing about three feet high and producing only single blossoms of pale yellow. They are perennial in Mexico, and from this.country were first carried across the sea. The double flowers, with their lOOtintsand varieties, have been produced by cultivation, and many a wealthy Mexican who imports his garden dahlias from Europe at great expense has not the remotest idea that the plant is idigenous to his own soil. Dahlia roots are a staple article of food among the Indians, who eat them boiled and salted. Though somewhat insipid to the taste, they are decidedly preferable to the wild potatoes; and perhaps the day is coming when these bulbs, made succulent by horticulture, will furnish our tables with a new delicacy. Qui en sahe ? Mexican Silver Money.?San Francisco, it is believed, is the only city in the United States in which the exchange of Mexican dollars is extensively conducted, and is one of the only two cities in the WUIIll WIIC1C IIIC UU31IJU33 13 llanoacted?the other being London. The Mexican dollar is an ugly ill-stamped, badlymilled silver disk of grains, but it has been accepted as the standard coin of China for nearly thirty years and has steadily grown in use and favor, notwithstanding the amusing episode of the trade dollar, with its 420 grains and English die-sinker. Temperance in the South.?Among the encouraging signs of the times is the rapidly-increasing interest in the cause of temperance of late in the Southern States. The State of Georgia leads the way, but in nearly all the Southern States there exists an active and rapidly-extending agitation for the suppreasion of the liquor traffic. A rural population and the absence of large breweries and distilleries are features of the situation in the South which explain in large part the relatively more rapid progress in that part of the country. YORKVILLE ENQUIRER. Prospectu.n for 1886. A BUGGY AND TWO CASH PREMIUMS ! IN issuing our prospectus for 188(5, we deem it only necessary to announce that the leading features which have characterized the editorial conduct of the Yorkville Enquirer for more than a quarter of a century will be retained, and what it has been in the past will be an assurance of what it shall be in the future. The leading departments of the paper will bo retained as heretofore, and they will be conducted with the same labor and care that have marked our efforts in the past. The Sabbath Department, which, under the control of Rev. Dr. Lathan, has been an interesting feature of the Enquirer for seventeen years, will be continued. 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To club-makers for the approaching volume, we oiler THREE PREMIUMS for the three largest clubs, as follows : For the largest club, ONE BREWSTER SIDE-BAR PIANO-BOX BODY TOP BUGGY, with leather quarters, leather cushions, full leather trimmings, silver rail around seat, double perch and well ironed. The Buggy is of standard grade, of the latest style and is valued at 875.00. For the second largest club, a Cash Premium of TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS. For the third largest club, a Cash Premium of FIFTEEN DOLLARS. The Buggy premium will be delivered to the successful competitor, at the Enquirer office, free of charge for freight. CONDITIONS. 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AXXI AL RETURNS. .i X.ECUTORS, Administrators, Guardians and Jjj others acting in a fiduciary capacity, are noticed that their RETURNS MUST RE PILED in my office during this present month and February next. J. BEATTY WILLIAMS, Probate J inlge. January til tit GARRY IRON RO Manufacturers of all kinds of IRON ROOFING CRIMPED AM) CORRUGATED SIDING, Iron Tile or Shingle, -/ / FIREPROOF DOORS, SHUTTERS 4C? THE LARGEST MANUFACTURERS 0 May 10 J ED. JEFFERYS.J *.'f riTni'iTiTUE1 kinrrkxti^ ?W M'J WW M' mj MWfXW m. m. wj mw an kj ml -%.w mwm * DISSOLUTION OF COPARTNERSHIP. THK copartnership heretofore existing be-; twcen the undersigned is this day dissolved j by mutual consent. All persons indebted to the late linn are here- j by requested to make payment on or before the i 1st of FEBItUA RY, 188l>, as the business must be settled up by that time. We hope that you will respond promptly, and save costs. .1. ED. JEFFERYS, " | JOHN It. ASHE. January 1st, lssii. I NEW FIRM. The undersigned thanks his friends for the liberal patronage bestowed upon the old firm in the past, and respectfully asks a share of the same in the future, at the old stand, in the Howry Building. J. EI). JEFFKRYS. FOUNDRY AND l IVXaeliiiie Sliop/ ' ? ^ I I THE undersigned would respectfully inform the public that he now has in operation, on his lot on King's Mountain Street, a FOUNDRY AND MACHINE SHOP, in which he is prepared to do all manner of work in light iron and brass castings, and general machine work. REPAIRraO, Of all kinds, promptly done on short notice. Steam Engines, and agricultural machinery of any kind overhauled and repaired. Besides, any class of work that may be wanted in his shop, he will attend any call for repairing stationary engines, doing the work on the premises, thus obviating the necessity of moving the engine. Prices reasonable. Terms, cash on completion of the work. EDWARD THOMAS. TO REDUCE STOCK. TO reduce my large stock of WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY, SILVER-PLATED WARE and FANCY GOODS, before the dull season, I will offer my large stock of the above goods, For The Next Sixty Days, At less than they can be bought for in any market. A great many articles at and below cost. Now is your time to buy goods cheap. Call Noon and Secure Bargains. I have entirely too many goods on hands for the dull times is my reason for closing out as many as possible whfle there is something in the country. I have a large stock of SILVER WHITE, For cleaning Silver and Plated Ware, the best preparation ever offered for the purpose, 10 cents a box?worth 25. Jewelry Soap, Jewelry Cleaning Caskets, Ac.* All at low prices tor cash. Old Silver taken in exchange for goods at cash prices. Call at JOHN F. SPECK'S Jewelry Store, at the Sign of the Rig Watch. TO THE CAROLINA STOVE TRADE. 1 RESPECTFULLY inform Stove Ruyers all over the State that I carry in stock, for Fall and Winter trade, 550 Cooking and Heating Stoves & Ranges. By actual count, requiring Store and Warehouse room, 25 by 200 feet to contain the stock, and can till orders promptly. COOKING STOVES FROM $8.00 UP, , Warranted to give satisfaction. Best Box Heating Stoves from $2.50 Up. The goods are bought from .parties who sell large jobbing trade only, and challenge a comparison of quality and prices of Stoves w; th any market North, South, East or West. Write for circulars giving prices and a full description of Goods, and SAVE MONEY. I am very anxious to get a sample Stove sold in everv neighborhood in the State. 'TERMS CASH ON DELIVERY. J. 1). RATTERREE, Chester, S. C. October 15 31 12m The Howe Machine Company's LIGHT RUNNING. HIGH ARM, "New Howe " WHICHBEST SEWING MACHINE EVER MADE. r\ t f t 1 ..Hohtinn tr\ tlio follnwilH? ffia- ! 1WY..1, a^aua ... 0 .... til res : Tiie NEW HOWE is ;i new machine through- | nit, differing in every point from the machines i heretofore manufactured by the company. The needle is self-setting. It has the most room unler the arm; the perfect Howe stitch; no holes to thread, except the needle; the easiest shuttle to thread ; the most perfect take up ; the loose balance-wheel; the largest bobbin; absolutely ;io vibration; the most perfect tension. It is i the lightest running; noiseless, and the most | pleasing in appearance. Prices within the reach of all. Call and get a | descriptive circular, and see the machine, which j is always on exhibition at my Photographic liallcry. PHOTOGRAPHY. I would inform the public that I am yet mak- I ing PHOTOGRAPHS in all the various styles, j .Vlso, Ferrotypes and other cheaper styles of i pictures. Pictures by the photographic process | enlarged, and all work done in the best style of | ;he art at reasonable prices. Gallery on West Liberty street, near the jail. J. R. SCHORR, j MSnnvaxj? iPvWkroR ]886 i2mt* Will b< milled FREE to ill applicant! and to cuitomeri of lift Jtir without ordering it. It contilni about ISO pagoe, * 000 illDitritioDl, pricee, accurate dtecrlptloni and valuable direction! for planting all varietlea of VEGETABLE and FLOWER SEEDS, BULBS, etc. Invaluable to all, eipectallj to Market Gardenrre. Send for It. D? Me FERRY dt CO., Detroit, Michigan. December 10 50 :hn OFING COMPANY, jjR I RON ORE PAINT {^jKMBrav And Cement. 152 TO 158 MERWIN STREET Cleveland, O. ^ p3f~ Send for Circular and Price F IRON ROOFING IN THE WORLD. 9 iy C.& L. NARROW GAUGE RAILROAD. OC'HEDULE of Mail and Passenger Trains iof from Newton, N. C., to Chester, S. C'., taking effect at 12 o'clock, Noon, Sunday, November 8th, 1885. GOING SOUTH. Leave Newton 7.00 A. M1 Arrive at Maiden,* 7.35 A. M. Arrive at Lincolnton, 8.15 A. M. Arrive at Hardin's* 8.53 A. M. * 0 09 A \f at i/ana.-j, *? **? Arrive at Gastonia, 9.42 A. M. Leave Gastonia 10.05 A. M. Arrive at Pleasant Ridge,? 10.22 A. M. Arrive at Crowder's Creek,? 10.32 A. M. Arrive at Rowling Green,? 10.45 A. M. Arrive at Clover, 11.05 A. M. * Arrive at Yorkville, 11.52 A. M. [Leaye Yorkville, .....12.10 P. M. Arrive at Philadelphia,? 12.24 P. M. Arrive at Gnthriesville,? 12.37 P. M. Arrive at MeConnellsville,? 12.53 P. M. Arrive at Lowrysville,? 1.18 P. M. Arrive at Chester 2.00 P. M. OOINO NORTH. Leave Chester, 4.30 P. M. Arrive at Lowrysville, 5.04 P. M.. Arrive at MeConnellsville, 5.27 P. M. Arrive at Guthriesville, 5.37 P. M. Arrive at Philadelphia, 5.50 P. M. Arrive at Yorkville, 0.05 P. M. .t Leave Yorkville 0.20 P. M. Arrive at Clover, 7.00 P. M. Arrive at Bowling Green, 7.19 P. M. Arrive at Crowder's Creek 7.31 P. M. | Arrive at Pleasant Ridge, 7.40 P. M. i Arrive at Gastonia, 8.00 P. M. Leave Gastonia, 8.20 P. M. | Arrive at Dallas, 8.37 P. M. Arrive at Hardin's, 9.08 P. M. Arrive at Lineolnton, 9.40 P. M. Arrive at Maiden, 10.28 P. M. Arrive at Newton, 11.10 P. M. ? Flag Station. G. R. TALt'OTT, Superintendent. November 19 47 tf JOB PRINTING. OWING to our superior facilities with the best machine presses. an abundance of type and first-class appointments throughout our office, we are prepared to execute all manner of JOB PRINTING in superior style, and at prices that will compare with New York or Philadelphia charges for the same quality of work and materials. We have recently made a reduction in prices for the following classes of work, to which wo invite the attention of business men : KILL HEADS. For 500 For loot Half-sheet Bill Heads, $3.50 $<5.00 Fourth-sheet Bill Heads, 2.25 3.50 Sixth-sheet Bill Heads 2.00 3.00 Monthly statementsat samepriceof sixth-sheet Dill heads. We will till an order for bill heads, giving any desired number of either size of sheet at proportionate prices. LETTER HEADS. For 500 For 1001' Commercial Note, $2.15 $3,25 Packet Note, 2.25 3.50 Letter (large size) 3.00 5.00 For the above work we use a superior quality of paper, and guarantee entire satisfaction in every instance. We also give special attention to the printing of Briefs, Arguments and Points and Authorities, which we furnish strictly according to the requirements of the Justices of the Supreme Court, and in proof reading exercise the utmost care to ensure accuracy. We are prepared to furnish all other kinds of printing, from a visiting card to a large volume, and will be pleased to furnish estimates for any style of work desired. Address, L. M. GRIST, Yorkville, S. C, TAX RETURNS FOR | OFFICE OF COUNTY AUDITOR,) York County. > Yorkviiae, S. C., November30th, 1885. J IN compliance with law, the TAX BOOKS OF YORK COUNTY, for fiscal year 1885-6, will open on the FIRST DAY OF JANUARY, 1886, and CLOSE ON THE 20TII OF FEBRUARY, 1886, after which time a penalty-of fifty per cent, will be added to the property of such tax-payers who fail to make returns in the time prescribed above. This applies as well to REAL ESTATE as to PERSONAL PROPERTY. There will be a RE-ASSESSMENT of real property by the township boards. For the convenience of taxpayers I will attend at the following places and the times stated, for the purpose of receiving | nil* ifumi^ui taA-^ajcia . At Rock Hill, on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, January 25th, 26th, 27th, 28th and 29th, 1886. At Coates' Tavern, on Saturday, January 30th, 1886. At Fort Mill, on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, February 1st, 2nd and 3rd, 1886. And at Yorkville, from February 4th to February 20th, 1886, inclusive. I request tax-pavers to meet me in their respective townships* and thus avoid the usual rush at the office in Yorkville. W. B. WILLIAMS, Auditor York County. December,3 49 tf MARSHALL HOUSE, Chester, S. C. ? THE undersigned takes pleasure in informing the people of ChesAuxEuM ter county a?d the traveling publie that he has taken charge of the MARSHALL HOUSE, and is now prepared to receive both PERMANENT AND TRANSIENT BOARDERS. The building has just been repainted and put in first rate condition throughout. The table will be supplied with the best that the local and neighboring markets afford, and no pains will be spared to insure the comfort of guests. A SAMPLE ROOM is provided, conveniently arranged for the use of Commercial Travelers. TERMS REASONABLE. A share of the public patronage is respectfully solicited. JAMES K. MARSHALL, Proprietor. NOTICE ~" IS hereby given to all whom it may concern ; to all and singular the creditors of WESLEY G. GRAHAM, deceased, and toT. G. Gulp, Administrator of his estate: That S. Elmina Graham, widow, and JohnH., Minnie B., Elder and Wm. A. Graham, children, of Wesley G. Graham, deceased, late of the county of York, State of South Carolina, have applied to have a Homestead in the real estate, and the homestead exemption out of the personal estate, of said Wesley (4. Graham, deceased, set apart and assigned to them as the family of said deceased. York C. II., S. C.,*Dec. 31, 1885. JOS. F. WALLACE, G. G. C. Pis. and G. S. January 7 1 4t - NOTICE. | LL NOTES, ACCOUNTS AND UNFINx\ ISHED BUSINESS of the estate of R. L. HOPE, deceased, not settled by the FIRST MONDAY IN FEBRUARY, will be turned over to an Attorney for settlement. J. W. P. HOPE, Administrator. January 14 - 3t the ?0tHi?iHc (inquirer. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Single copy for one year, $1 2 50 For six months, 1 25 For three months, 75 Two copies one year, 4 00 Ten copies one year 20 00 And an extra copy for a club of ten. 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