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Wedding Days. There are favored days in the week for marriages, as well as fa vored months in the year. Satur day, Sunday and Monday are the most in esteem-Sunday in the ru ral districts and Saturday in the towns. 'It appears, however, that Sunday weddings are generally less numerous than they were, while Saturday weddings are on the increase. Friday is deemed an unlucky day for marriage, as for most other undertakings. In the county of Gloucester there were but 20 Friday marriages in 1881, to 213 on Saturday, 211 on Men (lay and 203 on Sunday. In the city of Manchester much the same proportion holds out. The Friday wNeddings were but 24 to 287 on Saturday, 221 on Sunday, and 1781 on Monday. In Scotland, on the other hand, Friday is the great (lay for marrying ; nearly half the weddings for a given year are cel ebrated on thaL day. Sunday in Scotland is practically a dies non' for matrimanial purposes ; and the Saturday weddings are exceeding ly few. The English prejudice a gainst Friday marriages in gener al does not extend to Good Friday -at least in certain town district ;I for whereas the average of Friday marriages in Manchqster was in 1881 but 218, on Good Friday there were celebrated as many as 36. There are no figures, however, to show that this is a common state of things. The one day in the year on which more marriages are cele brated in Scotland than on any oth er is December 31, which is doubt less explained by the fact. that New Year's (lay i observed there as a general holiday. In England not one day is in the same position; hut the favorite wedding days are Christmas day, Easter Monday, WVhitsun Monday, and the days p)receding and following them, and then the August bank-holiday. O0LcANO OR GEYSER. - On Mr. Nicholas Colvin's place. at Halseli ville county, has been heard for sometime a roaring noise, and it wvas not till the last few days that the place from whence this sound' came was found. A short dlistane from his residence is the main roadl, and following the fence for about a quarter of a mile, parallel with the road, you arrive at the place where thiis noise issues forth from the ground. Smoke ariees in dense columns and for a distance of tw en ty yards of this ap~arent bole the ground 1' ih a heated condition. The jyeople aroun~d about tliere, es peeially the negroes, a'e in -tle wildest state of terror, thinking as usual that thojudgenient day is ai hand. Th ighites, also, are at F loss to explain the phenomenon, On last Tuesday a. party assemblec at this threatening volcano witi spades, shovels, &c., prepared tc dig for the mystery. We were in formed by two of the participapte in the affair that a depth of eight feet was reached, when by the smoke, heat arid threatening explo sion, as they thought, it was founc iimpractical to dig further. So th( mystery remains still unsolved. Some think that it is indeed a vol eano and others that it is a geysei from the vapor which arise and thc moistened state of the earth sur rounding it. The country is hilly and rolling--sone of the hillh reaching almost the pr'opoirtions ol a mountain. The soil is of igneous formation. We have as our infor mants our former Representativc in the State Legislature, Mr. Johui B. Cornwell, and Mr. Sam McA fe( both relia ible and res)ectable men. -Chester Bulletin. -Rev. J. A. Register, pastor of Cential M. E. Church South. Baltimore, arose in conlference or, Monday, and after Incsnting th( report of the operations of his con gregation during the ycar, brief 1y proceeded to announce hi change to the lProtestant Episco pal Churcn. I is remarks created most intense excitenient, and hi fellow-clergymen came pre.ug a round hiin, eagerly ur-ing hiin t( be not hastyv. WVith tears in his eyes the reverend gentlerian, whos ('on gregation is one of the weaIMt. iest in the city, stated that he ha( thought well over the subject, al though he had neve' given an in timnation of'his intention to a living being until he had informed th< conference. At the conclusion ol his remarks there was a solemr quietness in the conference. Thei Mr'. Register again rose, and tak ing up his hat, walkedl down th< aisle with bowed headl and sorrow. f'ul mien. As he p~assed along sev eral hands were ouitst. etched tc take a farewell. --A nourishishing andl pleasant drink for a sick perIson is mTade of parched rice. Erown the rice thc same as you do coffee, then pour boilinig water' with a little salt in it over the rice. Let, it boil until it is tendler, thien add sugar or' cream tc it. It may he strained or not, ac cordling to taste. -Young mani, never marry the girl who will elope with you. TJh( woman who has s'ufficient will to e lope generally has the determina tionf that will make her' head of the family. fJrofessionl ~frds. M. F. ANSEL, J. H. ZqEWTON Grcenville, S. C. Pickens S. 0. ANSEL & NEWTON, .Attorneys at Law, PICKENS C. H., S. C fe b 29-tf C. E. ROBINSON, Pickeus, S. C. J. T. NIX, J.J NIX, Greenville. S. C. Hampton, S.C. Nix, Robinson & Nix, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law. PICKENS C. H1., S. C. Will practice in all the Courts of the State, ald of the United States. All business shall receive prompt: iattenltionl. - Janl 25-1 GE. W. TAYLOR. JAMES P. CARY. TAYLOR & CARY, .s ttorney,5s at M..a,7 PICKENS C. H., S. C. ADAM C. WELBORN, ATTORNEY AND Counisellor at Law, GCE10NVIIJ P, I. C. Trac/cesi n the State and U. S. C'ourt.. Olijee in Clevelan(1 BIlock, over I -aac Weil's Clothinllouse Nov INly A BLrIlE. WV. D. MfAYFE v .11 ) BL YTHE & MAYFIELD ATTO1NEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW, (UIEENV[LLE, S. C. wre/icesV in /estate arnd' ('. .S. C'our/.. Prompt nitentfion to all business. '2b Oflice inl Law 1ange. "W-" Nov 30-1v J. A. COOK, DEALER IN Stoves, 111inW are, J'U:RNISI.ING GOOS, AC., AC., OREENVILLEI, S. C. Call on me and exam'ne the " Excelsior Cook Stove " bxafore you byelsewhiei'e. nishng Groods at short-crop?/ pvrices.4 At W~holesale, (CheapIeri thtan the OEIEAPESS'. Nov' 30-ly Lime! Lime! Lime ! CA N BE BOiTG II'I' Ol' Easley, S. U., Either ini Car Load Lots or b~y the single barrell at very CHEAP PATES. Oct 12--tf W. M. Iagood. & Co. wVill sell the balance of their 11 I T I I PReciced (3ood1 L ot Supp1flies ON HIAND) W. 1Vt. +tSA gOO& Go, Ra First Class Livery and Sale Stable in cone. tion withI thleir buIsine'ss, and will t'inish~ REST TENOT forget them whenC~ in Easley. Jan 11 --.-n