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UttWtfMttS apartment. Hard on the Counsel.?The following experience of a Mississippi lawyer was related by himself to the writer many years ago. He said: "I was defending a prisoner for horsestealing, and seeing no other means of defending him, under the circumstances, I set up the plea of insanity. I argued it at length, read many extracts from works on- medical jurisprudence, and had the patient attention of the Court. The prosecuting attorney did not attempt to reply to my argument or controvert my authorities; I seemed to have things my own **?" nrhianorcfl fr\ tho nri<snrlAr that, I WftJ'f auu TTUAU|/VAVU W VHV ...... he needn't be uneasy. Then came the judge's charge, in which he reminded the jury that there was no dispute between counsel as to the facts of the case. Indeed, there could not have been, for several witnesses had sworn positively that they saw my client steal the horse. 'But,' concluded the Court, 'the plea of insanity has been set up, and I charge you, gentlemen of the jury, that it should receivd your very grave and serious deliberation; but I must be allowed to say, gentlemen, that for myself, upon a review of the whole case, I can discover no evidence of insanity on the part of the prisoner, except, perhaps, in the selection of his counsel.' " A Preacher's Case.?In a Georgia city lives a popular divine who is liked by all classes. He is very fond of fishing and hunting, and does not object to telling a side splitting anecdote occasionally. Here is one: Once a party went fishing. There was some snake medicine along, and one or more of the party took too much aboard. In the evening a terrific storm came up. As it was nearing the party, one, more pious than the rest, knelt down at the root of a tree and began to pray for protection. About the same time oue of those who had tapped the jug too often shouted: ^Come ahead, you blasted old cyclone! Tear us all to pieces! Blow us to Halifax! Hurrah for the United States and Kincha foonee!" When he closed, the humble supplicant at the root of the tree raised his horrified face to heaven and cried: "Oh, Lord, don't mind what that confounded crazy fool is saying. He is blind drunk, as you can see for yourself, and he don't belong to the church, noway." Rough on M'Ginnis.?Hostetter McGinnis is engaged to Miss Esmerelda Longcoffln, who is one of the belles of Austin and a great flirt. As Hostetter was coming away from the Longcoffln mansion a few nights ago he was overtaken by Gilhooly, who said: "Why, what makes you come away so early this evening? "Miss Longcoffln is not feeling well." "What's the matter with her?" "She has toothache." "Ha! ha! ha! She tells you that to get rid of you. She probably expects some other gentleman this evening." "Sir, you are insulting." "Come, now, don't get huffy. How can she have toothache when her upper and lower teeth are all false ? I've been there. I was engaged to her myself some years ago. Toothache! Well, that is a good on you!" N. B.?The McGinnis-Longcoffin marriage has been postponed on account of the weather. ? ^ ? The Trap Would be a Safeguard.? "Well, what on earth do you suppose that old lady in room 1,100 wants now? She has just rung again," said a clerk in one of the largest hotels in Saratoga to the senior DroDrietor. who had been several times appealed to to gratify the whim of a notionate old guest. "Well I don't know. What does she want?" "She wants a mouse trap." "Well, get her a mouse trap." "But you know there was never a mouse seen on that floor since the house was built." "What difference does that make?" said the circumspect boniface. "It is not a moose that she wants; it's a mouse trapget her a mousetrap." The clerk sent right out, got a three hole mouse trap for ten cents and the old lady was comfortable in mind for several hours. The Saratogian Changed His Mind.-" William!" said the old gentleman at the breakfast table. "Sir!" "I am not pleased to see you so much in the company of young Johnson. He is a dissipated young man, and he gambles. I should prefer that you avoid his society." "He gambles, father, I suppose. He can afford to. He has just made $100,000 in the wheat corner." "Well?still?you had better be careful." After a little while William rises from the table. "Wflliam!" "Sir!" "If Mr. Johnson is disengaged this evening you can bring him up to dinner. Perhaps a little good example may save him ?and, William, you can just tell him something about the new mining company I am floating."?San Francisco Chronicle. Quite a Crooked Log, Indeed.?We 1 T ITT 1 -.1 near tnai xjuluuii vyuuuwaru s log iui mc old settler's cabin is quite a marvel in its way. H. Crossley says he stretched a tape line along it from end to end. There is a sag or curvature of the spine in the middle that makes a divergence of six feet two inches from a straight line. The tree was cut by the owner because it made the cows in the pasture so cross-eyed to look at it that the butter from their milk made the children tongue-tied. The tree never leafed out till fall, because it took the sap all summer to find its way up to the branches. When Luman put the log on the fairground it immediately began to roll all around the premises, being too crooked to lie still. They had to whip up the team to get away from it.? Genessee (Illinois) News. A Swindled Millionaire.?Mr. Moneybags, who has recently acquired a fortune?"It's a shame and a disgrace the way everybody conspires to rob a rich man." Friend?44 What's the matter now ?" "Well, you see I had a little party at my mansion last night." "So I saw by the papers." "And to amuse my guests I ordered some music." 44Yes, I heard you ordered a quartette." "Just so, 4and darn my buttons if four singers did'nt crowd into the room and sing and I had to pay all four of them, and mind you, I only ordered one solitary quartette. That's the way I'm swindled." Just as Sis Said.?Mr. De Sickly has called upon Bobby's sister, and is waiting for that young lady to make her appearance. Bobby enters in the meantime. De Sickly, with a grin?How-de-do, Bobby? Don't you know me? Come and tell me what's my name. Bobby?Well, sir, if it ain't just as sis I said. You haven't sense enough to know what your name is. If you'll wait a minute I'll find out for you. Why he Smoked.?44You smoke a great deal, Gus," said a friend to Gus De Smith. "Yes," replied Gus, "particularly after * ? a -- a I L..k!i ~ / dinner, j. nave got so m me u?uu ui smoking after dinner that the dinner j doesn't taste right when I eat it unless I have a smoke afterwards." Psychologically Distant.?Citizen-! Haven't you got any relatives at all? Tramp?Yes, sir; I have one, but he is a ! distant relative. "Who is that?" "It's a brother, sir." "Well, you don't call your brother a distant relative, do you?" "Why, yes, sir; you see he's dead, sir."? Yonker's Statesman. Done Before His Time.?"And now," concluded the clergyman, after a long discourse, "we have seen that millions on ; millions of people have been benefitted by following this Scriptural injunction." Just then Lawyer Stubhs woke up long enough I to say in a sleepy manner, "Move that the J injunction be made permanent."?Judge. 1 V S k Ik Jam and Jmsik. HISTORY OP WHEAT. Asa staple article of food and commerce, wheat has been known from the earliest ages. It is not known to exist in other than a cultivated state. It is supposed to have originated in Central Asia, but recent discoveries have thrown some doubt on that point. M. Fabre, of France, a distinguished naturalist, made the discovery several years ago that the sEgliops ovata, a grass of the region near the Mediterranean, and of the west of Asia, becomes transformed by cultivation into wheat. The possibility of such a transformation has been confirmed by subsequent observations and experiments. Wheat was a chief crop in ancient Egypt and Palestine, and is more frequently mentioned in Scripture than any other kind of grain, where its bountiful yield and its important relations to the sustenance of human life afford atheme for many beautiful lessons. The trranarles of EgvDt and other cen tres of ancient civilization were often of immense size and were conspicuous objects among the public edifices of the time. Grains of wheat have been found in the wrappings of Egyptian mummies which had retained their power of germination through the lapse of centuries. Although the Greeks, and more particularly the Spartans, affected to despise agriculture as a degrading pursuit, they were obliged to devote considerable attention to wheat raising as a means of livelihood. Hesoid, one of the earliest Greek poets, in his,fWorks and Days," makes frequent mention of wheat. xAmong the llomans, wheat-raising, in common with other branches of agriculture, was prosecuted with vigor and success. Koman writers on agriculture gave particular directions in regard to the cultivation of wheat. It is mentioned by Virgil in his "Georgics." Wheat was early introduced into great Britain, but until very recent times its production was so limited that only the wealthier classes could afford to use it as food. Mention was made of the fact that in the eighth century the monks of the abbey of St. Edmund, in England, ate barley-bread because the income of the abbey was not sufficient to admit of their using wheat. In England, down to the close of the seventeenth century, servants and other working people were obliged to content themselves with bread made from the coarser grains. Eden, in his "History of the Poor," (1797) says: "So small was the quantity of wheat used in the county of Cumberland, that it was only a rich family that used a peck of wheat in the * ? ?- ? ? - ? -J fitno noA/1 of course 01 tne year, miu man nno Christmas. The usual treat for a stranger was a thick oat cake (called haver bannock) and butter. One old laborer remarks that when he was a boy he was at Carlisle market with his father, and wishing to indulge himself with a penny loaf made of wheat f*our, he searched for it for some time, but could not procure a piece of wheaten bread at any shop in town." At that period of the Revolution in 1689, the quantity of wheat grown in England was estimated at about 14,000,000 bushels, or about three bushels to each of the population, which was then under five million. In 1880 the product of wheat in England and Scotland was estimated at 100,000,000 bushels. In 1880 the area of wheat growing in the United States was 34,430,333 acres and the yield was 450,483,137 bushels, or 13 bushels to the acre. The value of the crop was estimated at $482,457,293. The increase in production between 1870 and 1880 was nearly sixty per cent. Managing Manures.?Among some farmers there is a complaint that their horse manure "fire fangs," or passes through the heating process which is so intense that the manure is well burned up. This is exceedingly injurious to the manure, and can, and should be prevented. It occurs, or is liable to occur, when the manure is thrown loosely into a pile, and without being disturbed, will commence to generate heart. Horse manure has a stronger tendency in that direction than that of most any other animal, and this * * *l- - 1 # I can oe prevented, ana me vtuue ui mc manure maintained, if attended to as it should be. There is no trouble where, as is sometimes the case, horse manure is cast into the hog pen, as it is then worked over with the hog manure, whereby both are improved. Another method which is equally as effectual in preventing heating, is to cart the same under a shed, where cattle are accustomed to tread or to lie ; when packed thus closely, and wet, as it occasionally must be, by the urine of animals, it is kept moist until wanted for use. The same practice in connection with sheep would be valuable, and equally as effectual. We have always found that any manure that is left to itself, thrown loosely into a pile, was liable to become heated, but when packed tightly under the tread of animals, would be preserved with all its manureal value retained. Sheep manure, while thus kept closely packed, excludes the air, will not heat, but when loosely pitched into a pile will soon heat and expel the valuable elements of fertility. ^ Exhaustive CROPS.-Farmers frequently speak of this or that crop as being an "exhaustive crop." Can they tell what they mean by an exhaustive crop? All crops require a certain quanity of organic and inorganic elements for their development, and all crops require the same elements only in different combinations. If crops?any crops?are grown in the soil without the application of any of the elements of their growth, the drain must be wholly from the soil or atmosphere, and if wholly removed, have exhausted the soil to the extent of the amount required in their growth; but to mention any particular crop as being an exhaustive crop is indefinite in its meaning. In nature there is nothing that is lost or of which it is exhausted; the element may assume different combinations, but they exist just the same though changed in form. The operations of the farm are all calculated to change the form of the mineral elements into such forms as to be ! available in the development of animal ! life, and he who can do this in the best j manner and in a way to leave his farm still best adapted to continue the operation, is looked upon as the best farmer. How to Tell a House's Age.?At two years old, colt sheds two centre nippers; at three years, colt sheds adjoining teeth ; at four years old, colt sheds outer or corner teeth ; at five years old, bridle tooth is up; and at six years old cups leave two centre teeth below; at seven years old, cups leave adjoining teeth ; at eight years old, cups leave outer corner teeth; at niue years old, cups leave two centre nippers above ; at ten years old, cups leave adjoining teeth ; at eleven years old, cups leave corner up- I per teeth; at twelve years or past, groove j inside the bridle tooth disappears in horse, j Mares very seldom have them. When | they do, no criterion to be guided by. Salt for Manure Piles.?Salt is one j of the best materials to put on manure heaps in winter. It will keep them from j freezing during very cold weather, and ; when it is warmer will keep the heap j moist and prevent fire-fanging. Salt in j connection with carbonic acid gas is an excellent solvent, and is a good fertilizer ; for land containing a large amount of vegetable matter. Of course where salt is applied on manure piles it should be where it will not be long exposed to rains, as its power to make fertilizers soluble will then i cause loss. But if the manure is to be at j once drawn on the field there is little dan- ! ger from this, as the fertility will be absorbed by the soil. To Take the Heat Out of Burns.? Carron oil has been found very much better lor this purpose than any other application. It is made of equal parts of olive oil and lime water. A bottle of it should be kept, ready for use, in every kitchen. To make the lime water, put one pill of; good lime in a quart of water, in a tall bottle, and let it stand where it will not be jarred. The lime should be slaked before putting it into the bottle. When the lime settles use the clear water above it. The water will hold only a certain quantity of the lime in solution, and as it j is used, fresh water may be poured in on i the lime until the latter is nearly used up. ' HJisttllatwottS Reading. CURE FOR TYPHOID FEVER. Mr. John R. Cox, a citizen of Baltimore, publishes the following communication in the Baltimore American, of that city: "Some time since a gentleman informed me that he knew of several persons who had been cured of typhoid fever, by the application of mashed raw onions to the feet. Two patients were so ill that they were not expected to live over a few hours. Six large onions were pounded to pulp and applied to the feet of the first patient. He was relieved in ivshort time and got it rnUn naOTliifna n fpvv TVPPks WClI. X 1IC actUHU wwy ituu .. .... later and the result was'equally satisfactory. The first opportunity I had I tried it upon a colored boy during one of my visits to the house of reformation for colored children. He was very ill with typhoid fever. 1 named the matter to General Horn, who immediately ordered the application. In a few hours he got to sleep; rested well and recovered. The next opportunity was that of a son of a friend of mine in our city. I called to see him on business when he informed me his son was very ill with typhoid pneumonia. He had been delirious for a week or more, and required constant watching for fear he might do himself harm. I advised him to try the onions. He did so and thus speaks of it: "Immediately on its application he began to improve and continued until he finally recovered." Perhaps they might be efficacious in other forms. The remedy is simple and safe, and a trial in any case can do no harm. They have cured dropsy. Mr. Ralph Brunt, a very respectable reliable gentleman, informed me that his wife had suffered for a long time with dropsy. She was swelled from her head to her feet. She was attended by different physicians, who finally gaid : 4Mr. Brunt we can do no more; your wife cannot live. We can give temporary relief by tapping her.' His wife declined the operation, as it would but prolong her * A nffnnfiAn Tiro a sunenn^b. Ai una uuic ins duwiwwu ?tuo called to a paragraph in a newspaper in which a gentleman made the statement that he had been cured of dropsy by eating onions. His physicians had told him that he could not live. One day he wanted to eat some raw onions and did so. After eating them he felt better and tried some more. He then made it a rule to eat six a day, and in a few weeks he was well. He felt it his duty to publish it for the benefit of others. Thus Mr. Brunt knew of it. He called the attention of his wife to it. She was willing to try it; did so, and at the end of one week discharged her nurse, attended to her household duties, and was so reduced in size that her friends could scarcely recognize her at first sight. She lived for more than thirty years afterward, and died some two years ago over eighty years of age. If the foregoing prove the means of benefitting any one, the only regret I will feel, will be that I did not attend to the promptings of duty sooner." SENATOR BUTLER'AND THE RAILROADS. A Washington correspondent writes: Senator Butler, of South Carolina, is here for a few days. He is still an rdmirerof President Cleveland, and spent over an hour at the White House to-day. He thinks both Cleveland and Blaine will be re-nominated and Cleveland will be reelected. Senator Butler intends to offer an amendtneni to the Inter-State commerce bill, for the protection of railroad travelers. In an interview to-day he said there were several causes for the recent railroad accidents. "In the first place," he remarked, "there is too much red tape in the so-called system management. The responsible management is too far removed from the operations, and have not sufficient familiarity with the employees or conditions. In the second place, the railroad companies, many of them, work their employees to death on inadequate pay. Some plan ought to be devised which would prevent any company from working its employees more than twelve hours consecutively. Some of them, I learn, run the engineers, firemen and conductors sixteen or seventeen hours consecutively, without intermission for resting. Human nature can't stand it. rne result IS IllC puur umu guca lu siccjs kjla duty, and when an accident occurs is made the scapegoat. It is inhuman and wrong, and the railroad authorities ought to be held to a stricter accountability." "What remedy would you suggest ?" "I have not thought of one. I opposed and voted against the Inter-State commerce bill, because, among other reasons, I thought, and still think, Congress has no jurisdiction. But if we are to have the law it might as well be made useful and of some benefit, and I am not sure if an amendment to that law might not be framed which would accomplish great good by simply making it a penal offence for any railroad company to require more than ten or twelve hours consecutive work from any employees engaged in running trains. Too many lives are at stake to allow such parsimoniousness towards those operatives who have their lives in their keeping. Of course railroad accidents are unavoidable in many cases." Senator Butler is very emphatic in the opinion that the Inter-State law should be so amended as to protect the traveling public against the reckless and careless management of the railroads. "The Goverment," he said, "regulates steamboat travel, prescribing how many passengers a vessel may carry and other regulations, and as long as we have the Inter-State law we might as well make it protect the passengers of railroads." A PLUCKY WOMAN'. A correspondent of the Williamsburg Star and Herald, writes as follows from Scranton, in that county : On Wednesday, the 10th of August, Mr. W. N. Royall, Assistant Superintendent, Mr. George B. Newcomb, R. M., of the Northeastern Railroad, and Sheriff Brockinton, of our county, came here with two material trains and a full force of hands, for the purpose of getting some railroad iron rails that the N. E. R. R. Company had rented to Mr. T. C. Willoughby. Mr. Willoughby was in Philadelphia at the a? rn i 1 1 ilr\? U nine, ine uuuve uauieu geiiiieiueu, nun one train and all the hands, went out to the extreme end of Mr. Willoughby's tramroad, and began taking up the rails as they returned. After nearly all day's work, the train was loaded and ordered to be run out on the Northeastern line. Before it reached the line, it was stopped by Mrs. Willoughby, who placed herself on the tramroad in front of it, and declared that she would remain there until her husband's return. She had her rocking chair and sofa brought her, and remained there through the night. Next morning (Thursday, 11th), Mr. Thos. M. Gilland, railroad attorney, arrived at the scene, but failed in persuading Mrs. Willoughby to vacate her position. Late in the afternoon a compromise was effected, providing that if Mrs. Willoughby would vacate her position that night (Thursday) and let the engine put, it would be put back in the same position next morning, and remain there until she secured counsel. This agreement was carried out and Friday morning Messrs. Johnson, of Marion, and Townsend, of Florence, were both here to represent Mr. Willoughby. The three lawyers held a consultation, after which Mr. Gilland told the railroaders to come out with the iron. Strong efforts were made by the other lawyers to keep them from coming out. The cry was made to tear up the track. A few spikes were drawn, but the railroad hands drove them again, and the train was moving out. At this juncture Mrs. Willoughby came up and resumed her position on the track fronting the ad varicing engine. *_,ne? were ujuuu uuuut the same time by Mrs. W's men for guns and pistols, but only one gun was brought out?a sixteen shot rifle. In this time the engine neared Mrs. W., but she kept her stand unflinchingly, until Mr. W. N. Royal took her off the track. Mrs. Willoughby is a native of Kentucky. The Medical Virtues op Onions.?A mother writes : '-'Once a week invariably, and generally when we had cold meat minced, I gave the children a dinner which was hailed with delight and looked forward to; this was a dish of boiled onions. The little things knew not that they were taking the best medicine for expelling what most children suffer from?worms. Mine were kept free by this remedy alone. Not only boiled onions for dinner, but chives also were they encouraged to eat with their bread and butter, and for this purpose they had tufts of chives in their little gardens. It was a medical man who taught me to eat boiled onions as a specific for a cold in the chest. He did not know at the time, till I told him, that they were good for anything else." The above appeared in the Lancastar (Penn.) New Era, and having fallen under the eye of an experienced physician of that county, he writes as follows: ^The above ought to be published in letters of gold and hung up beside the table, so that the children could read it and remind their parents that no family ought to be without onions the whole year round. Plant old onions in the fall, and they will come up at least three weeks earlier in the spring than by spring planting. Give children of all ages a few of them raw, as soon as they are fit to be eaten ; do not miss treating them with a mess of raw onions three or four times a week. When they get too large, or too strong to be eaten raw, then boil or roast them. During unhealthy seasons, when diphtheria and like contagious diseases prevail, onions ought to be eaten in the spring of the year at least once a week. Onions are invigorating and prophylactic beyond description. Further, I challenge the medical fraternity, or any mother to point out a place where children have died from diphtheria or scarlatina, angonisa, etc., where onions were freely used." THE JONES* CASE. Commenting upon the termination of the case of Jones, the Edgefield triple murderer, the Winnsboio News makes the tot. >wing interpretation of the statutes: Ti e theory of Jones' counsel is without the foundation of law. The statute provides that "if any person committed for treason or felony, etc., upon his prayer or petition in open Court on the first week of the term to be brought to trial, shall not be indicted sometime in tne next term aiter such commitment, shall, upon motion, etc., be set at liberty upon bail unless it appear to the Court upon oath that the witnesses for the State could not be produced the same term; and if any person committed as aforesaid, upon his prayer or petition in open Court, the first week of the term, to be brought to trial, shall not be indicted and tried the second term after his commitment, or upon his trial shall be acquitted, he shall be discharged from his imprisonment." This section of the habeas corpus act was intended simply to prevent the indefinite imprisonment of parties charged with non-bailable offences. To be entitled to the benefit of this section the accused must have exhibited the diligence which the section imposes. If, for. example, he neglects at the first term to exhibit his petition to be brought to trial, he will not be entitled to his absolute discharge at the second term, nor will he be entitled to this if the continuance at the first term is had on account of the absence of the State's witnesses?for a more powerful reason, he will not be entitled to it if the continuance is had on his own motion at either terra. Before the accused shall be entitled to this absolute discharge, he must have exhibited his petition to be brought to trial at two successive terms of the Court after his incarceration, and the law imposes upon the judge the imperative duty of discharging him unless it appears upon oath, etc., that "the witnesses for the State could not be produced at the same term." This interpretation is borne out by the following section of the Act, which provides?"that if the accused shall neglect for two terms to apply for his enlargement, that he shall not be entitled to the writ in vacation time." In order to entitle the accused to his discharge on account of delay in bringing the trial the State must be at fault?Hurd on Habeas Corpus, p. 425; 2 Bay, 563. The striking of the cases irom ine aocaei does not amount to anything; they may be restored, or he may be indicted again. Even if an order has been passed discharging thedefehdantin these casesit is no bar. The facts of Jones' case do not entitle him to the extraordinary remedy which the law provides. LOCKJAW. The medical name for lockjaw is tetanus. Sometimes it is only, or mainly, the muscles of the jaws that are affected in the disease, but commonly the rigid condition is much more extensive, often reaching to most of the muscles of the body. In its severer form it is one of the most terrible of diseases. The mind generally remains clear to the last, unless it is blunted by opiates. The disease begins by a pinched look of the face. In a few hours the muscles of the jaw, neck, back and chest become rigid, and the rigidity at length extends to the iimbs. This rigidity is permanent, and sometimes is so great that the body could be taken up like a stick of timber, or it may rest its weight on its head and feet. From time to time spasms occur, lasting a few seconds or several minutes. The seat of the trouble is in the nerves, and hence a spasm may be brought on by a slight noise, a touch, or even a breath of air. As the muscles of respiration are usually affected, the breathing is greatly impeded, and often, for the time, rendered wholly impossible, the chest being held as in a vi3e. Death frequently results from this cause, the system being previously exhausted by pain and lack of sleep and nourishment. If the patient survives beyond the twelfth day, he is likely to recover; but no known medicine is able to do more than promote sleep and benumb the sensibilities. The cause is unknown. It may follow wounds, or be independent of wounds, the latter being the most hopeful cases. The wounds may be either seyere or slight, but most wounds are not followed by tetanus. It is probable that, in persons of a peculiar nervous susceptibility, and under certain not well understood conditions, a poison is developed within the system. Hence, the only hope of a cure is to sustain the patient with stimulants, nourishment and sleep, until the system can eliminate the poison. In case of a severe wound, especially in the neighborhood of nerve centres, great I care should be exercised in dressing the injury, so as to bring the parts well together, and the parts should be kept clean with a mild carbolic acid solution, or some other good antiseptic wash.-Youth's Companion. With the Large Majority.?The Louisiana Lottery prints almost every month in the newspapers of the country long stories of the sudden rise of ticketholders from poverty to wealth. But Cashier Bartlett, of Sumter, represents the great majority of the patrons of the game, and their story is never told over the signatures of Gen. Beauregard and Gen. Early. If some of the newspapers that print the eloquent descriptions of how a colored hostler or a white laborer suddenly became possessed of $15,000 would tell how Mr. Bartlett and many like him suddenly fell from honored positions and comfort to ruin, disgrace and flight, they would get I the subject before the public fairly.?Charleston Sun. The Big Suit at Shelby.?The Superior Court of Cleveland county was occuDied all of last week in trying the McKee Davenport case from Gaston. Over 100 witnesses were examined?about 30 for Davenport and the balance for McKee. After about 24 hours consultation, the Jury rendered a verdict in favor of Davenport. Another appeal to the Supreme Court was taken, this time by McKee. The cost amounts to three or four times the amount of principal involved, which principal is about SI,700. Davenport was the County Treasurer, and McKee was the Sheriff. McKee held a receipt for county funds, which Davenport pronounced a forgery.?Charlotte Democrat. S?"* Itoad-building and road-reparingare a science, and an important science, too; and it is ridiculous that work of such practical importance should be so largely intrusted to men who, however skilled and successful they may be in their own department of industry, know little of the principles of surveying or scientific roadmaking, and whose only idea of repairing a roadway until it becomes a ridge of soil, along the narrow surface of which teams have to pick their way. jj " 'AKlH1* POWDER Absolutely Pure. This powder never varies. A marvel of purity, strength and wholesomencss. More economical than the ordinary klnds,and cannot be sold in competition with the multitude of low test, short weight alum or phosphate powders. Soi.d only is cars. ROYAL RAKING POWDER CO., 106 Wall St., N. Y. 00- At wholesale by LINDSAY St MOORE, Yorkville S. C. March 2 9 ly LATTA BROTHERS. ON HAND AND TO ARRIVE THIS WEEK. SUGAR, Coffee, Tea, Buckwheat Flour, Maccaroni, Cheese, Canned Fruits and Vegetables, Swinbone's Gelatine, Leggett's Tiger Brand Roasted Coffee, etc. A full stock of New Orleans Molasses. A large stock of Chewing Tobacco, Cigars and Snnff. ONE CAR LOAD OF CORN. All Grades of Floor. HAMS, BACON, LARD. i HARDWARE. LATTA BROTHERS. 1887. WEST LIBERTY STREET. 1887. Yorkville Livery and Feed Stables ARE still on a boom, and the year 1887 finds me with some of the finest Vehicles ever _ shown in the Livery business in Yorkville, and r surpassed by none. Everything will be kept J in the best style. Give me a trial and be con- ? vinced. * Cincinnati and Columbus Buggies ai Of every description will be kept. Spring Wagons, Phcotons, &c., of the best make, al ways on hand. FOR FUNERALS g, I have a fine Queen City Hearse and a Clarence ai Coach, which will be sent to any part of the ai county at short notice. Terms reasonable. si A Big Bargain. si I have a Jumpseat Plireton and some Bug- ei gies on hand that I will give a big bargain in, if sold soon to make room for my new stock. P HAVE YOUR HORSES FED At the Yorkville Livery and Feed Stables ?~ '11 ViAof of+nnfm n WliertJ lUOJ Will ICUCiVC buo ucou avvouvivui ? F. E. SMITH. F. HAPP?BFI?LD. REMEMBER THE DEAD. ; I WOULD invite special attention to mj' ? present stock of MONUMENTS AND ^ TOMBSTONES, among which are several n/ beautiful SCOTCH GRANITE AND ITAL- ~ IAN MONUMENTS. Also a full supply of TOMBSTONES. Prices as low, to responsible ' parties, as anywhere else, either for cash or on time. GROCERIES. o ei My stock of STAPLE AND FANCY GRO- J CERIES is full. Also, Tobacco, Cigars, Boots 1 and Shoes, Hardware, Ac. All of which is ai offered low for Cash, or on time to responsible parties. F. HAPPERFIELD. ?! April 33 15 tf ? ? S DUE WEST FEMALE COLLEGE. C Dne West. Abbeville Co., S. C. J ti TWENTY-SEVENTH YEAR. ti I # OPENS FIRST MONDAY IN jj OCTOBER. First-class teachers. Courso thorough and standard high. Rooms comfortably furnished. Art a" department an attraction. Special a] attention given to Music. Pupils made to feel at home. Moral tone of the school good. Board and regular tuition, including Latin, $165 for m the year. For Catalogue, giving full particulars, apply to the Principals, Mrs. L. M. BONNER, H. E. BONNER. July 13 38 12t THE GEORGIA SCHOOL OF LANGUAGE, SCIENCE AND ART. M ONE of the best Business and Nor- fl inul Schools South, and only one J having a separate Female Depart- sji ^WJwt ment, oilers a select, unsectarian, hi tier Christian home, to young men and I young ladies, providing Tuition and Board, in- in eluding Washing, Fuel, Lights, etc., for only ct ?12 per month each ! Penmanship, Book-keep- w ing, Shorthand, Tvpe-writing and Music thor- sj oughly taught. Full Business, Normal, Col- A legiate and Irregular courses of study. Supe- 01 rior Preparatory Department. Healthfulness tt unsurpassed. Over 200 students past year. d< 16th year begins in September. Early applica- g< tion is necessary to secure a place. For cata- tt logue, address at once, \v TERKELL E. SIMMONS, President, gi Norcross, Ga. pj July 13 28 9t w .tlcCONNELLSYTLLE HIGH SCHOOL, McConnellsville. S. C., PREPARES GIRLS OR BOYS . for COLLEGE OR BUSINESS. In- ~ struction thorough; surroundings p pleasant. Quiet, orderlv, Christian community. Pupils find home with the Principal, or in private families convenient- I ly located. High and healthy section. Rates -jj of tuition, instruction on the Piano and board ' reasonable. No extras. The next term be- , gins MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1887. For fur- (l< ther information, address J. II. WILSON, Principal. C July 27 30 tf I SOUTH CAROLINA COLLEGE. SIXTEEN Instructors; 5Scientift Jtji* ic, ;t Literary degree Courses, b Shorter Courses, Post-Graduate and Law Courses. Tuition ?40, Matriculation ?10, Rooms Free, Tabic JJourd ?11 and ?12.50 per month. Expenses about ?190. Tuition free by Law to applicants tiling with College treasurer a certificate of inability to tii pay, signed by himself and guardian or parent, al with opinion of County Commissioners or Judge of Probate, or Clerk of the Court, that ni the statement is true. For further particulars ju j apply to Pkesioknt J. M. McBRYDE, ? Columbia, S. C. I August 24 34 4t ADM I N ISTR tTOR'S"NOTICE. A LL persons indebted to the estate of JOHN J\_ BAltRON, deceased, are hereby notified | to make immediate payment to the undersign- | ed. Persons having claims against the said estate will present them, duly authenticated, | within the time prescribed by law. ULYSSES ADKINS, Administrator. I August 24 34 3t DWELLING HOUSE FOR RENT. THE undersigned offers FOR RENT for "| the year 1887, a one-story DWELLING J HOUSE, containing four rooms. For particu- F lars, apply to L. M. GRIST. July 20 29 tf GARRY IRON RO Manufacturers of all kinds of _ IRON ROOFING IIMPED AND CORRUGATED SIDING, Iron Tile or Shingle, RE PROOF DOORS, SHUTTERS AC., THE LARGEST MANUFACTURERS 0 ^sfir Orders received by L. M. GRIST. May 10 ONE LIVED, THE OTHER DIED. A woman formerly our slave Is now our cook. About eighteen months ago she became sickly and had a cough and was confined to bed, and It was thought that she had consumption. The treatment by physicinus failed to give relief. In December, 188-1, a node or knot the size of a goose egg formed just above the pit of the stomach, which when lanced discharged matter for 8 or 9 months. One of these also formed under her arm, and three on her back, which discharged matter for a considerable time. For six months of tills time she wns confined to the house and most of thct Ime In bed. The stomnch often refused food, by rejecting what she had euten. She used a great deal of medicine, but failed to be cured. I bought one bottle of your B. B. B. (made in Atlanta, Ga.) and gave It to her and she commenced to improve. I then bought and gave to her three bottles more, and she continued to improve and In twoinonths' time her cough had censed, her constitution strengthened', appetite and digestion good, all discharges ceased, nodes or know disappeared and she went to work apparently healthy and fattened up greatly. This woman had n married sister of near same age who was affected In precisely the same way and about the same time. 8he had node or knot on pit of stomach, back, etc. She did not take any B. B. B. and the node on her stomnch ate through to the cavity. She continued to decline and wasted away, and finally died. These were two terrible cases of blood poison?one used B. B. B. and was speedily cured?the other did not use it and died. It is most assuredly a wonderful blood purifier. I refer to merchants in this town. Yours truly, W. T. ROBINSON. Tlshabee, Ala., May 1,1886. A SHERIFF RELEASED. For a period of sixteen years I have been afflicted with catarrh of the head which baffled the use of all medicines used. Seeing the advertisement of B. B. B., I purchased and used six or seven bottles, and nlthough used irregularly have received great relief, and recommend it as a good blood purifier. [Signed] J. K. HOLCOMBE, Jr., Sheriff of Harralson county, Ga. AH who desire full information about the cause and cure of Blood Poisons, Scrofula and Scrofulous Swellings, Ulcers, Sores, Rheumatism, Kidney Cotnplalnts, Catarrh, etc., can secure a copy of our .12page 1 ustrated Hook of Wonders, filled with the inosi wondcnui ana startling prooi ever Deiure kuuwii by calling on MAY St MAY, Wholesale dealers of B. B. B., Yorkville, S. C. September" 9 ly FOUNDRY AND Machine Shop. rHE undersigned would respectfully inform the public that he now has in operation, on is lot on King's Mountain Street, a FOUND,Y AND MACHINE SHOP, in which he is repared to do all manner of work in light iron id brass castings, and general machine work. BEPAIBim f all kinds, promptly done on short notice, team Engines, and agricultural machinery of ly kind overhauled and repaired. Besides, ly class of work that may be wanted in his lop, he will attend any call for repairing staonery engines, doing the work on thepremi23, thus obviating the necessity of moyingthe igiue. Prices reasonable. Terms, cash on the comletionof the work. EDWARD THOMAS. C. G. PARISH. THE SPRING TRADE. [N anticipation of a prosperous year, despite L the present complaint of hard times, we are laking preparations for a brisk Spring Trade, nd are now receiving fresh goods almost daily, ur stock of General Merchandise, including ?ry Goods, Hats, Boots and Shoes, Ladies' iress Goods and Gents' Furnishing Goods, is amplete as to quantity and quality and of ;yles adapted to the season, and will be sold at rices defying competition. Special Bargains. Having just bought a line of elegant samples f one of the largest Now York houses, we are nabled to sell them lower than they can bo ought at wholesale in the New York market, his line embraces a variety of Fancy Goods nd Notions, Ladies' Dusters, Ladies' Under'ear. Hosiery, Towels, Ladies' Satchels, fancy iyles in Half-Hose, the finest line of Gents' 'eckwear ever seen in this market. Gents' and ladies' Silk and Linen Handkerchiefs, Ladies' ilk and Lisle Thread Gloves, Fans at all prices, orsets in great variety and at all prices, French 'ercale Shirts, White Shirts, laundried and unlundried, and solid color French Linen Shirts, re latest style. Cuft'and Sleeve Buttons of the nest quality, Suspenders, Linen Collars, Ac. n this enumeration of articles, we are enabled ) offer splendid inducements and unexampled argains, of which a call and inspection of the Qods will convince you. Mr. W. H. Colcock is still at this House, ad will be pleased to see his old friends, guaruteeing to serve them right. C. G. PARISH. T. S. JEFFEBYS. THE CYCLONE EXTINGUISHER. Tirzah, S. C., March 10, 1887. [kssrs. Jeffkrys & Hokk, Gents: rHE Cyclone Spark Extinguisher put on my engine a few months ago is giving entire itisfaction. Before it was put on, my ginause several times caught fire from sparks, so had to quit running while the wind was blowig in the direction of the gin-house. Now I in gin and saw with perfect safety, no matter hich way the wind blows. Haven't seen a uve )ark from the engine since I have been using it. nd another good thing about it is, itcan'twear . burnout. Will last as long as the engine. I link it a great invention, and wouldn't take suble the cost of mine if it was so I couldn't 3t another one. I think you ought to reduce ie present high rate of insurance on gin-houses here these extinguishers are used on the ennes, or, at least, recommend such to the commies you represent, because I see no risk hatever from the engine. Very respectfully, llENRY MASSEY. 'HOTOCRAPH GALLERY. rHOROUGHLY fitted up with new backgrounds, accessories, Ac., and with a fine cy-light, I am prepared to take a picture in ly style of the art, as well executed as can be Dne elsewhere. HILDREN'S PICTURES A SPECIALTY. By the dry plate process I can take them inantly ; makes no difference about fair or oudy weather. I do all my own printing and finishing, and icre is very little delay in delivery. ENLARGED WORK. Pictures copied and enlarged and finished in ie highest stylo to be had, and prices reasonjle. Give me a call and see specimens of work, at iy Gallery on West Liberty Street, near the il. J. R. SCHORB. coo- WHY HOT!-000 ~j ATTEND DUNSMORE'SBostesC Y\y0(u Incorporatcdby theLegislaturcof V)\\V\y?. Vb., and indorsed by leading busf. ^ ^ ness men and State officials. Indlvidual Instruction. Teaching by Theory and Actual practice what others teach by theory unty. Catalogue containing full Information and testimonials free. Address J. G. DUNSMOUE, M.A.,President, Staunton, Va August 17 !$3 4t FARM LOANS, "N ANY AMOUNT from $500 to 810,000, upon _ six years' time. Interest payable annually, or further particulars, apply to C. K. SPENCER, Attorney at Law. January 5 1 tl* OFING COMPANY, IRON ORE PAINT And Cement. 152 TO 158 MERWIN ST. Cleveland., O. taffiur/ XjjjtL '"jT Send for Circular and TFI I pric0 Ligt Nq 75 iF IRON ROOFING IN THE WORLD. 9 ly Piedmont Air-Line, RICHMOND AND DANVILLE R. R., South Carolina Division. CO^DE^SED 8CHEDILE In ?(Tecti AuguHt 14, 1887, (Trains run by 75thMeridian time.) NORTH BOUND. No. 58. No. 51. Leave Augusta 9.33 A. M. 5.55 P. M. Arrive Columbia H.M1* 1,18 P. M. 10.00 P. M. Leave Columbia 11.00 A. M* 1U.10P. M. Arrive Alston 11.59 A. M- 11.10 P. MArrive Union 4.15 P. M-12.50 A. M. Arrive Spartanburg 6.45 P. M* 2.12 A. M. Arrive Tryon I 4.07 A.M. Arrive Saluda ! 4.57 A. M. Arrive Flat Rock 5.37 A.M. Arrive Hendersonvllle 5.53 A.M. Arrive Ashevllle 7.00 A.M. Arrive Hot Springs 9.00 A.M. Leave Columbia 1.40 P.M. li.40A. M. Arrive Charlotte 6.15 P. M. 4.25 P. M. Arrive Salisbury 8.01 P. M. Arrive Greensboro' 9.40 P. M. Arrive Richmond 6.15 A. M. Arrive Washington 8.10 A. M. Arrive Baltimore 10.03 A. M. ' Arrive Philadelphia 12.35 P. M. Arrive New York. 3.20 P.M. SOUTH BOUND. No. 52. No. 50. Leave New York 4.30 P. M. Leave Philadelphia 6.57 p. m. Lenvc Baltimore 9.42 p. M. Leave Washington 11.00 P. M. Leave Richmond 2.30 A. M. ^ea.ve Charlotte 1.00 p. M. 4.35 A. M. Arrive Columbia 5.23 P.M. 3.55 P. M. Leave Hot Springs 7.00 P. MLeave Asheville 9.49 P. M. Leave Hendersonvllle Il.t7 P. M. Leave Flat Rock 11.23 P. M. Leave Saluda 11.53 P. M. Leave Tryon 12.39 A. M. Leave Spartanburg 6.00 A. M. 2.12 A- M. Arrive Columbia 3.10 p. M. 6.30 A. M. Leave Columbia .7.... 5.45 P. M.| 6.55 A. M. Arrive Augusta 9.20 P. M. 110.30 A. M. Arrive Charlestiou, via. S.C. R'way. 9.45 P. M. 10.35 A. M. Arrive Savannah, via. Central Ga.... 6.15 A. M. Arrive Charleston, via A. C. L 9.45 P. M'lll.20 A. M. Arrive Savannah, via C.andS...... i 6.53 P. M. THROUGH CAR SERVICE. On Trains Nos. 52 and 53, Pullman Buffet Sleepers between Washington and Augusta, via Danville. On Trains Nos. 51 and 50, Pullman Sleepers between Savan nah and Hot Springs, N. C., via. Charleston, A. C. L., Columbia and Spartanburg. Through Passenger Coach between Charleston and Morristown, viat S. C. Railway, Columbia and Spartanburg. Tickets on sale at Principal Stations to all Points. . JAS. L. TAYLOR, D. CARDWELL, SOL.HASS, Gen'l Pass. Agent. Ass't Gen'l Pass. Agent, Traffic Manager. Columbia, S. C. August 31 8 tf C. & L. NABR0W GAUGE RAILROAD. SCHEDULE of Mail and Passenger Trains from Lenoir, N. C., to Chester, S. C.,taking effect at 6.40 A. M. Sunday, August 14,1887: GOING SOUTH. Leave Lenoir 8.00 A. M. Leave at Hickory 9.03 A. M. Leave Newton 9.36 A. M. Arrive at Lincolnton, 10.30 A. M. Leave Lincolnton 10.35 A. M. Arrive at Dallas, 11.22 A. M. Arrive at Gastonia, 11.38 A. M. Leave Gastonia 11.40 A. M. Arrive at Clover, 12.22 P. M. Arrive at Yorkville, 12.53 P. M. Leaye Yorkville, 12.55 P. M. Arrive at Guthriesville, 1.20 P. M. Arrive at Lowrysville 1.47 P. M. Arrive at Chester 2.15 P. M. GOING NORTH. Leave Chester, 4.37 P. M. Arrive at Lowrysville, 5.02 P. M. Arrive at Guthriesville, 5.27 P. M. Arrive at Yorkville, 5.50 P. M. Leave Yorkville 5.52 P. M. Arrive at Clover, 6.22 P. M. Arrive at Gastonia, 7.00 P. M. Leave Gastonia, 7.15 P. M. Arrive at Dallas, 7.30 P. M. Arrive at Lincolnton,... 8.18 P. M. Arrive at Newton, 9.11 P. M. Arrive at Hickory, 9.44 P. M. Arrive at Lenoir, 10.50 P. M. No. 19 will run Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays only, arriving at Yorkville atll.08and leaving at 11.20, A. M., goiug North. No. 20 will run Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays only, arriving at Yorkville at 2.25 and leaving at 2.40 P. M., goingSouth. G. R. TALCOTT, Superintendent. August 17 33 tf ROADS AND BRIDGES. To the SaperviNors of Roads and Bridge* in York County. YOU are hereby directed to put the roads and bridges of your respective highway districts in good order. The Board of County Commissioners require that the road hands of each and every district be called out and at least twelve days' work, for the year 1887, be done, if necessary. All dead trees and hanging limbs on the roadsides must be removed, all loose rocks thrown from the roadbed, and mile posts lying on the ground replaced in position. The law makes it the duty of superintendents of highways to cause all roads in their respective districts to be posted and numbered, and a pointer placed at each fork of said roads, declaring the direction of said roads. The following abstract of the road law is published for the information of all concerned: All able-bodied males between the ages of sixteen and fifty are liable annually to work the roads not less than six nor more than twelve days, under direction ot the road overseer, or pay one dollar per day in lieu of such labor. 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