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-' VOLUME XXVI. t CAMDEN, S. C., TPIUESDA^ MORNIKG FEBRUARY 20, 1868. NUMBER M
| PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY
" THOMAS W. PEGUES.1
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MISCELLANEOUS.
HOW TO RAISE CARROTS.
A large proportion of American
farmers fail in their efforts to grov.* a
remunerating crop of carrots, * in the
majority of instances from not understanding
how to manage the seed and
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me young piants. mu u?u<u pi notice
is to sow carrot so early in the
growing season that noxious weeds,
six or eight inches high, cover the
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ground before young carrots have attained
sufficient size to enable laborers
to see the rows. The immense
labor requited to weed carrots, tends
to dishearten farmers from attempting
to grow a crop of roots. But if
they were accustomed to manage differently,
a crop of carrots could be
grown at an expense of only a few
cents per bushel. Wc frequently
meet with farmers who aver that their
crop of carrots costs them not over
live or six cents per bushel. As it
is not practicable to follow the directions
required to produce a heavy
crop of roots the present season, we
will do the best wc can under the cir
eumstances. Do not plant the seed
too early. Prepare the ground thororo
uglily, and manure it heavily.?
Let the land be ploughed deep, twice
or thrice, if it is not sod. Then ahout
the twentieth of May, or the
T first of June, scarify the
the purpose of exterminating the
vrced^. If the surface is at all lumpy,
let the. lumps be crushed with a
roller. As the" eids a*eal>rg i no
germinating, they should he sprouted
before they arc planted. Then the
>oung carrots will vegetate rapidly,
and outgrow noxious weeds; and the
] ibor of weeding the rows will be
comparatively light.
Soak the seek in warm water for
twenty hours. Then mingle it with
iin^sand in a vessel that will not hold
water. Keep the sand and seed moist
und warm. As soon as the seed exJtibif
signs of germination, let them
be pjanted in soil just stirred with
some implement. In four or five
days,*if tlic soil be moist and warm,
the c^rofs will appear above ground,
and scarcely a weed will be seen among
the young plants. Unless the
ground is rich and free from weeds,
do not make the drills nearer than
two feet, so that a horse hoe may do
almost the entire weeding. If the
ground be in a poor state of fertility,
a dressing of the pure superphosphate
of liinc, spread in a shallow -drill ori
each side of the rows of carrots and
raked in, will usually produce a bounful
crop of oats. %
When the young plants are two'01
three inches high, let the thinning be
performed with a sharp, broad hoe,
worked across the drills, leaving three
or four plants in a cluster. During
wet and lowery weather, when laborers
cannot work advantageously al
other employment, let the smaller car
rots be pulled up, leaving one in a
place?about six or eight inches apart
Managed in this manner, a crop ol
carrots may be raised with a sirial
expenditure of labor.
Try half an acre, or one fourth of ar
acre. With ordinary cultivation, a:ir
land of only moderate fertility, si:
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hundred bushels 01 carrois may ui
grown 0:1 an acre. For feeding hor
and cows, a bushel of carrots i
worth as much as a busliel ofoats whci
fed in connection with a liberal a
mount of meal.?X. Y. Independent
Four Impossible Things.?Firs
to escape trouble by running aw a;
from duty. Jonah once made th
^experiment; but lie soon found him
-??lf where his imitators in the cm
find themselves. Therefore, manfull
.-meet them and overcome the difficult
v jics and trials to which the post assign
, vfid you by God's providence expose
- ^pou.
jSccond, to become a Christian c
stFongth and maturity without undct
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going severe trials. What fire is t(
gold, that is affliction to the believer
. It hums up the dross and makes the
gold shine forth with unalloyed luss
tre. .
Third, to form an independent character
except when thrown upon thcii
own resources. The oak in the middle
of the forest, if surrounded on
- every side by trees that shelter and
shade it, runs up tall and sickly; bul
f away from its protectors, the first
. blast will overturn it. But the same
3 tree, growing in the open field where
it is continually beat upon by the tern,
pest, becomes its own protector. Sc
I the man who is compelled to rely on
' I his own resources forms an indeperid
enee of character to which lie could
not otherwise have attained.
. Fourth, to be a growing man when
! you look to your post for influence,
instead of bringing influoncc to vour
i o o '
, post. Therefore, prefer rather tc
. climb up hill with difficulty, than to
| roll down with inglorious case.
AUcvillc (#. C.) Frees.
Tiik New Baptist Ciiurcii.?We
. are pleased to record the fact that
. notwithstanding the'hard times,' and
. and the inability to obtain funds that
> this structure has, by individual cfi!
fort, been so far completed as to enit:
ble the coiigregation to worship with'
in its walls, 'i'his church was open
on Sunday last and the pulpit filled
; hy the new Pastor He v. j. 0. 13.
' Dargan. After the morning service4
j the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper
I was administered, which added to the
: occasion and made it a very solemn
j one. We congratulate this eongregaO
CT ^
(ion in securing the services of tins
j eminent divine?one in every way
j well-fitted for the charge.
Florence Gazette.
Women's Venerations.?If worr^-ngbave
on<f wWHto&s^norc irti"n?art?aldo
tlmn men, it is veneration. They
are*bdfn worshippers?makers of^ilver
shrines f >r some tlivinity or othery
wiuvhrref ecrorsc," 'rimy lotvayi ihink
fell straight* dorrft from heiivGn. The
first step towards falling in love with
an ordinary mortal is generally to
dress him out with all manner of
real or fancied superiority; and, having
made him up, they worship him.
! Now, a truly great man, a man gen'
orally grand and noble in art and inI
tellect, has, this advantage with women,
| that he is an idol ready made to hand.
ar;<l so that very painstaking and ingenious
sex have less labor in getting
! him up, ami can he ready to worship
J him on shorter notice, in particular
is this :the ease where a sacred proj
fession and a moral supremacy arc
j added to the intellectual. Just think
| of the career of celebrated preachers
and divines in all ages. Have they
not stood like the images "Nebuchadnezzar
the king set up," and all woman-kind,
coquettes and flirts not excepted,
been ready to fall down and
worship, even before the sound of
cornet, flute, harp, sacbut, etc. Is
' not the faithful Paula, with her bcau]
iiful face, prostrate in reverence be|
fore poor, old, lean, haggard, dying
1 St. Jerome, in the most splendid
painting of the work'., an emblem and
a sign of woman's external power of
sell sacrafiee to what she deems no
blest in man? Does not old Richard
j Baxter tell us, with delightful singlc,
hearted.icss, how his wife fell in love
' j with him first, in spitcof his long pale
; face; and how she confessed, dear
soul, after many years of married
t life, that she had found him less bit
| tcr and sour than she expected? The
11 fact is, women are burdened with
. I fealty, faith, reverence, more than
f j they know what to do with; they stand
1; like a hedge of sweet peas, throwing
i out fluttering tendrils everywhere
, lor something high and strong to
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} climb up by, and when the find it,
c be it ever.so rough in the bark, they
2 cateh .upon it. And instances ate
. not wanting of those who haveturncd
s away from the flattery of admirers
j to prostrate themselves at the feet ol
. a genuine hero, who never wooed
them, except hy heroic deeds and the
rhetoric of nohle life.
* The Minister 8 Wooing.
y
e Rejoicing in God.?I will enjoy;
- all things in God, arid God in al!
d things, nothing in itself; so shall m\
y joys neither change nor perish. For
> however the things themselves in a}
i- alter or fade, yet He, in whom tlicy
is are mine, is even like Himself, con
stant and everlasting. Surely we an
>f wise for anything but our souls ; ant
- not so wise for the body as foolish fo:
) them. 0 Lord, thy payment i9 sure
. I and who knows how present? Tak<
s the soul that thou hast both mad<
and bought; and let me rather giv<
my life for thy power, than take th<
oflcrs of the world for nothing.
Binliop Ilall.
the annual report op till
south;car:,lina railroad
Wc publish in another column a
' synopsis of the principal features con,*
taiued in the reports of the Genera'
! Superintendent and Auditor of this
Company, and propose in this plaet
1 to consider those questions of general
! policy and management which art
' j found in the report of the President
and Directors.
The income of the road during the
past year has been good, although it
was not equal to the reasonable c.v
I tions flr?rtnnd hv tlif Tinard at
the commencement of the year. It
was estimated that in 1SG7 the money
market would be easier tlian in 18Gu\
and that largo benefits would be derived
from the completion of the
Mac'on and AugustaRailroad, and a
better system of Western connections.
But none-of these anticipations have
been fully realized. The crop of the
year was sold at uurcmiincrative prices,
and was moved late to market,
thus contributing to increase the rath
of expenses to earnings, not only
by diminishing the means by which
supplies in return could be purchased,
but by requiring transportation at
siciKdus ulii-n if r?mihi nnlv hp iiffir rd
ed by moving empty trains to interior
points. Money became more and more
stringent. Political and social uncertainties
added to the general gloom".
The Macon and Augusta Railroad is
still thirty-five miles from being completed,
and the large outlay of tire
South Carolina Railroad has so far
brought no return. Yet the Board
were not over sanguine. The Central
Railroad reports-Id,000 bales cotton
equal to $1,218,000, as having passed
. hij'ttaau M*coa intfce
past year. " With the* cornpIeThm- of
the Macon Road. theJSouth Carolina
Railroad can fairly and honestly
compete for this enormous business,
and an estimate 'hat the South Carolina
Railroad may look forward "to
securing one-fourth of that business
cannot be called exaggerated.
But in spite of the adverse influences
cf which mention has been made,
the South Carolina Railroad would
ha'e realized a large increase of
earnings hut for the active opposition
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W1HI WHICH lliu UllllillgC-UiCIil- IIil? Hilli
to contend.
At Augusta and Atlanta, and at
Columbia, there has been vigorous
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and bitter competition. This led to
i reduced rates of transportation, and
is the reason why an increase of 52,
786 in the number of tons moved has
worked so small a change in the financial
result. Had the increased
tonnage been charged at the lowest
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comparative figures in 1860, say
i three dollars and fifty cents per ton,
< his increase would have yielded $184,
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Under these tircuhistanees the
Board are justified in declaring that
it is fairly satisfactory to be able to
make the announcement of an amount
of income even in excess of the previous
year. This excess should in
reality he increased about ?30,000,
being tlic sum of amounts due to
the company, which wore first brought
into the accounts for the year 1S66,
hut which were earned in and belonged
to 1865.
The Board have directed their attention
to ensuring of a vigorous economy
i t all the departments of the
company. To thin end, particularly
; of late, their most earnest efforts are
i devoted, and they hope and expect,
i from what they have done and pro!
pose to do, that further important rej
ductions may yet be made.
mi.., <V1 fillnrry nf flu? VPIir sllOV
{ 1 IIU llVb till uin^.i w ^. w j ?
! a fal'ing off, but this falling off has
already been explained anil can le
' made even more clear by referringto
11 the mileage made by the locomoti'es
| of the company. The miles run by
| locomotives in 18G7, exceed the niles
run by locomotives in 1SGG by a iout
j 309,000 miles. This increase ofser
' i vice was performed without a pro1
portionatc increase <.fcompensation,
' but it could not be performed vitliout
? a considerable increase of co?t. Hut
r hero 'economy- and judicious nanage7
incut came into effect, for vliilc the
- increase in the miles run is equal
2 to fifty per cent., the inereise in op1
crating expenses is only three per
r cent.
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; A'i 'Jfeady state d the gross income of
; tho-ic'^pipany was 81, 316,000, and
j the nel earnings $613,777. fi'ho corn;
party paid out for interest on foreign
3 and dt^hcstic debt $2-17,146, for damages
miul stock killed $13,017, for
resorption of property $330,626, for
construction rf cars $70,623, for ad?
old claims $99,339, and
fbr.tofids and tools $14,260; making
L a jtptpl of $784,002. or?less thai
anjfnjiiit realized from the sale of old
|. i^jeijlals?an excess of payments
i hjglj? receipts amounting to $70,/
which amoutit the balance
I oiwqebtcdness has been increased.
^Jiji cliange-s in the debt account
bein^ifully set forth in the report of
thefluditor, the Board have only
mo/trm f?nmnnriaAn nf tlinilphfc ntfliis
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. time with the debt in 1865. This
statement shows that the increase of
. debtsyrom January 1, 1866, to December
31, 1867, was $1,026,887.?
' This i mount is balanced by interest,
dan^i ;cs, restoration of property,
tools, adjustments of claims, &c.,
amou iting?less net earnings and
sale# of old material?to $316,252;
deerb ,sc of debt amounting to $367,580,
and increase of assets amounting
to $343,054,
A jpart of the increase in bonds of
the cduipany is accounted for by the
subscription of 125,000 by the companj'
to the New York and Charleston
Line. This investment has, in its
benefits to the company, proved itself
to be a wise one, and with a revival
of trade will be dircctlv and indirectly
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a source of great profit.
In'conciuding their report thePrcsi- i
j dcntaiid Directors express ther be- j
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I 1101 COH wiui :i uusincss ior iiiu vu?reut'jfoear
equal to that of 1807, with
a consequent decrease ici the floating
debt, arid with such an arrangement
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of the bond debt,.as will permit it to
be safely and readily handled, thev
will be able to resume the payment
ofdiwdends. The stockholders ask for
a di&lend. ?s au evidence jtjiat their
raad- 'ii "progressing, as-well" aa^ for
TTi'6" pecuniary relief that it might give
Tdmfc, They would not desire that a
dividend should he declared if its declaration
would pi ovo r. source of cmrassment
and danger to the company
and they may rest satisfied that they
will speedily receive an honestly'earn-j
cd dividend, if economy, prudence,;
judgment and long experience on the
part of this Board can accomplish so
desirable an end;
"Daily News. \
'THE ERUPTION OF VE3UVIU3.
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Bayard Taylor paid a visit to Mt.;!
Vesuvius on the 7th ultimo, and thus
describes' what he saw on the inoun- i
tain on that day, iu a letter to the
Tribanc :
The double stream of lava from ;
the crater wns-poup/ig its fluid, in.can-:
descent rock into the valley, and-the!
| burning mass, constantly pushed from i
j behind, had .already entered the ra- j
j vine vhieli we had crossed a little dis
tanco below, moving downward over ,
the distorted Java beds of 1858, There '
was much smoke, but little flame ; at
times, the roaring, rattling noise was
heard, but I noticed no tremor or os- <
dilation in the earth, either then or!
later. At the edge of the old lava,1
which here took the shape of loose
stones, wc left our horses and went on
foot. Thei# was a trodden path at
first, but iy "soon disappeared, and our
pngrcs-; over the rolling and sliding
j heaps," which had the sharp grit of,
i giound glass, was rather painful.?
We had already passed the lower \
point of the lava current and reached
it at a point where the larger eruption ;
of the previous night had come down, j
The heat and.smoke increased with J
every step; the rattling noise was'
continuous, and lines of creeping fire
became visible. There appeared to
be two streams, both moving in,the
same manner?that is only partly
upon the surface of the old lava, but
] burrowing under its loose crust, splitI
ting and upheaving it, and mixing
| its materials with the new mass. The
j noise of the flow was thus produced.
| The fire was silent and irresistible;
i there was no hiss or sputtering of the
molten elements, but. the stream lift|
ed and threw off solid masses, even
! tons in weight, without the least npj
parent force or check. I had always
i imagined a thick sluggish stream,
with a tolerably smooth surface, like
the flow from a smelting furnace?
but here were moving mounds, rough
| and shapeless, the chief power of
; which lay in their bases, hidden from
! sight?strange creeping, mining for|
?oSj moving forward with a horrible,
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| piLiless certainty in their manner of
lo ;omotion.
If the scene was less grand in its
features than one would expect, it
was at least diabolically impressive.
It expressed only destruction, and of
the cold-blooded, deliberate kind.?
The main stream had raised a long
ridge, some twenty feet in height,
apparently cold on the surface, until
some squirming movement in advance
shook of the crust in scales, and
showed fangs and throats ofintensest
fire. The front of this ridge was constantly
hurling huge masses, some of
them red hot, down the gorge. The
nearer stream was not more than
four feet in height, and allowed us to
approach near enough to poke its
glowing sides with a stick. All along
its edge hoys were roasting eggs for
nr imlreilrliiiiy rrvins in tfw?
. . w,...., fluid
lava, which they snatched oat
of the mass and twisted off, very much
as I have seen children manage molasses
eandv. The heat, even at a
hundred yards distance,was uncomfortable,
and I could not stand beside
the moving lava tor more than a
few seconds at a time. Wc could
distinctly sec the new crater, just under
the summit of the cone.
It was not in violent action, and
an enterprising person might have
climbed to within a short distance of
it. I was not strong enough to undertake
the ascent nor did 1 feci sure
that the fatigue would be repaid.?
Such an amount of steam issued from
the opening and rose from the lava,
as it overran the lower rim, and I
doubt whether much else could have
been seen. I was much interested
in observing the manner in which the
lava shoved itself forward, and the
possibility of its cooling in such irregular
forms was now explained. It is
not likely that tiie present llow win
reach the lower parts of the mountain,
as the old fields over which it must
pass will interpose greater obstacles
to its movement. Tho smoke of the
eruption, however^ finflmg ffs waythrough
subterranean crevices, alrea.d,v
issues from all parts of these old
fields. aruI7 at tlie present rate oT ait-~
vanee, I he road to the Hermitage will
be cut oft* in two or three days more.
On descending the mountains we
constantly met parties of travellers
on-their way up. There were at least
fifty in all, a goodly portion of them
Americans. The stock of horses in
llesina seemed -to be exhausted, for
many of .them were mounted on donkeys.
Though" |atc in the day, the
incomparable weather was their luck,
.as. it had been oui"3. In the suburbs
of the town we found other parties
.waiting for animals, and, 0:1 arriving
at Cozaolini's ofiiee, our own tired
horses wcro. immediately turned over
to a party which, that moment had
arrived from .Naples.
January 8.?My glass shows me
that the left hand stream of lava has
descended considerably since yesterday.
Tho other branch toward Torrd
del Greco has entirely ceased to
How. The flood from the crater is
'evidently narrower and more languid
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than heretofore, which would seem to
indicate that the eruption had spent
its chief force.
Tiie Christian Gentleman.?
lie is above a mean thing. lie cannot
stoop lo a fraud. He invades no
secrets in the keeping ofanother. lie
betrays no secrets confided to his own
keeping. He never struts in borrow- j
cd plumage. lie takes selfish advantage
of no man's mistakes. lie uses
r.o ignoble weapons in controversy.?
lie never stabs in the dark. lie is
ashamed of inuendos. lie is not one
thing to a man's face and another behind
his hack. If by accident he
comes into possession of his neighbor's
counsels, he passes upon tlicni
an act of instant oblivion. Jle bears
sealed packages without tampering
with the wax. Papers not meant for
his eye, whether they flutter at his
windnv.v r.r 1 ir> nrinn ltr?fr?vn lilm it.
' -unguarded
exposure, are sacred to
him. lie professes no privacy of
others, however the sentry sh?cp3.?
Bolts and bars, locks and keys^iedges
and pickets, bonds and securities,
notices to trespassers, arc none of
them for him. lie may be trusted,
himself out ofsight.?near the thinnest
partition?anywhere. He buys no
office, he sells none, he intrigues for
none. He would rather fail of his
rights than win them through dishonor.
He will eat honest bread. He
insults no man. If he have rebuke
for another, he is straightforward,
open and manly. Ho canimt descend
J
to scurrility. Billingsgate don't lio
in his track. From all profane and
wanton words his lips are chastened.
Of woman -and to her, he speaks with
decency and respect. In short, whatever
he judges honorable, he practices
towards every man. -
Never Satisfied?"Johnny, coroo
, here," said Dr. Fry to his jittlc boy,
who was playing on the carpet in the
dining room, "here is an apple for
you."
It was so large that he could hardly
grasp it. Dr. Fry then gave him
I another apple which filled the other
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" Here is another," said he giving
the child a third.
Little Johnny tried hard to hold it
between the other two, but could not
not succeed; it rolled away across
the floor; on seeing this he burst into
tears.
" See," said Dr. Fry to a lady who
was present, " here is a child with
inore than he can enjoy, and yet not
satisfied. My child is a fair representative
of us all: We are ever seeking
more and more of this world's
treasures, and yet arenever satisfied.
Oh that we were equally in earnest in
grasping the promises of the gospel."
Fraud in Utah?Apt Imitators.
One William McGrorty, a Gentile,
became a candidate for Congress in
TT1. i.1.- o-i- 1 ?
u win uuiuug uie ouuus, aim scums
to have fared as badly as a chicken
in a hawk's nest. His opponent was
Brother William H. Hooper, a Saint.
When the votes were counted, it appeared
that McGrbrty had 105 and J
Hooper had 15,068 votes! McGrorty
is not at all satisfied at this,
and brings strong charges against the
Mormon bishops and other church officers,-alleging
that they cast the
votes of persons absent, and that the
voters hardly- ever indicated' their
way of voting: but their names "were
throwo by the bishops into gagged ,,
"hopper. ' One would think that
McGrorty was a great fool (Gentile,
as he is,) to run for office among the
Saints; but the New York Tribune.
comes to his assistance, and denounces
the Saints for their treatment of
the injured McGrdrty.-' It sharply
passes sentence upon them in this
wise: "Indeed, the Mormons seem
to labor under the- impression that
the laws of the United States are subject
to the will of the Saints, instead
of the faithful being subject to the
laws of the United States."'But
ought not Grecly to deal affectionately
with thera, since they are but imitating
the example set them by the
Saints of the Atlantic States ? When
did Saints more clearly subject the
laws to their will than do now tho
Saints of the Radical Chtrrdh ?
a Jiickmond Dispatch.
An Irishman called on a lady and'
gentleman, in whose employ he was,
for the purpose of getting some tea
and tobacco, v
' I had a drame last night, ycr honor."
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' What was it, Pat ?"; i "
Why, I dramed that your honorr
made a present Mi plug of tobacco,
and her ladyship there?Heaven
bless her 1?gave me some tea for tho
good wife."
"Ah! Pat, dreams go by contraries,
as you well, know?"
"Faith and thev do that," said
j Pat, without the least hesitation, "so
, yer ladyship is to give rne the tobacJ
co, and his honor the tay."
Wanting Friends.?"I wish that
I had some good friends to help mo
on in life
"Good friends! "Why you have
ten," replied his master.
"I'm sure I haven't half so many,
and those I have arc too poor to help
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inc.
"Count your fingers my boy."
Dennis looked at his large strong
hand.
"Count thumbs and all."
"I have, there arc ten," said tko
lad.
"Then never say you have not ten
good friends able to help you on in
life. Try what those true friends
can do before you begin grumbling
and fretting because you do not get
any help from others."
"Ariel's" real name is said to be
McMahon. His mother, wo are told,
was a Miy Harris, of Richmond,
whoso first husband was Dr. Wood,
or Woods, of Alberniarle. Sho afterwards
married a Mr. McMahon, aijd
rnorvyd to Xa^hvill*.
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