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COUNCIL SWORN IN. ?ayor .Bossard and Associates R?T?lrn' ?ver th* Affairs cf the ' Bp City to tba New Council. g -Tfc? Citjr doondi met at 6 30 Wednesday [^^^?t,5?l<' nw^,'?? t*'0*" e-f especial ?our-1 ^^?^?ttncn as "the oM council compl?tai j KWpiMWQea of a two ye r's admioistratnu jpjF*?d ?urned over the ?ff ii rs of tbe city to toe pT-.?ew?y elected Mayor and Council Hrfrr HpE^Bber of the retiring and incoming council Sc.- 'Mayor Bcsstrd exiled the mee'iog io order ^?:-a?d directed the derk to read the minutes of ?Epe rag* meeting. The Anditing Commit tte BtggirtFd that the monthly, annual and biennial p^'repor'8 cf tte Clerk ?nd Treasurer had b<ea Epljjrx^saioed and found correct. ||g T6e reaigo*tion of Mr. H. B. Bloom, Chief B&f tb* Fire Department was read and nc u Tbe approval of a few billa completed ?be |j^t*??rfc of tba retiring council. B^The Clerk then presented the returns of ! h* me&arers of the municipal election, beldon J^ApKl li th instant, which declared that Hr ^ H F Wilsoo, had been elected M*5or, and Xewra H ?. Purdy, W B Boy ie, J S. ?gangosos, S W. Hnr*!, W. R Delgar, A. G. p flowers, W H Rpperson and L S. Canon bad been elected aldermen for -?be ensuing Latera of two years. I ; Tb* o?Jb of offi.? prescribed by the State V?'"ooatifa'?ioa was administered and the sew .^^Grtincil was formally ind oe ted io lo effice ?nd i:,.:?*8u: ed the control and direction cf be v '. sffwraof tbs city. E:c-May or Boss* rd before yielding the a sat Hw 'ne bead nf the Council tuble, which he jfcad occupied for two years, made a few ap psJf-r?priate remarks, expressing the bone that r i&epreseot Connel will baVe a successful and ; 8*?fei*ctory administration. The retiring v " Coonci? then withdrew from ?hs C^uacil r -t?woVr and Mayor Wilson took the chair. ^J?sa^oke briefly as follows : ?|?Gentlemen of the Council ? We have bt*o I'-'calfi'd to a responsible position by the vote of ? . th? people I have been chosea the bead, and ^fcspeto bave your united and heirty support Jggo desire that each one of 03 sbail fee! free g^at??' oairanmel?ed in oar deliberations ; all ^ifcraMiUty- will be dispensed wi?b, except #0 far as may be necessary for promp t and * S cieoi; work. Oar efforts should be directed ?fong three chief lines, the protection of life, the projection of property, the lirerty a?** ^feappiiess of our people. To these ends we Z tso? have efficient polire end fire depart p^iaeots; we mu3t h*Te such sanitary rezal% . : ?>ooa and conditions as will beet assure ?h? p jj^?ervation of the people's health We f? siost*lbrow ail possible safeguards aron od ?SW? public, treasury, to insure a judicious ex ;> peod?to?eof money. Our duty also will be make such permanent totere?! improre HgBe~i7s ss tbs means at our command ?'iii ^Hnnit. We propce? to divide tbe Cour ci! jflfjjgito three committees: Police and ??re l)e B&*rtmeot, Finance, ?cb!ic improrexcz rs g?;?rTbe?e committees shall, prior io each eeii ?g %ryd Counc?}, prepare the business tobe broojrbt ?? ia foll meen og and no matters will be 133 Bggtgrtained that hare roi been considered by a ?^feo?mit'?e, except by unanimous consent. . No resolution ebon id be effired uules* in Bsvrificg With the adoption of inese rales ??'~and. regulations our meetings will be brief, ss; b*?:,?es3-l?ke ar d satisfactory. Ia order thai may be informed alang sil lines I a k tba' .'.X'-aaiay be m*ds a worktog member of each of l?bese committees. These com o i trees should i?; b*v? weekly meetings at a stated time and *yf*fcce I hope we may work harmonioi. )ly ^ together, and that wbeo our terms of o3ice ? Shalt have expired, we can co ly say, we B rna ve done- the best that could be done. The policy thus outlined was endorsed by '""- the Ald-rmea and ^iV waa agreed that all in . dividual opin i ona Bbo&ld bs merged io 1 be ^- judgment^of tte majority and thus avoid dis . sessions which impair tbs chances of SUCCMJ ?^; committees were then ac s? Po*iee a-?d Pt? Department-R. 0. Purdy,> 1^ " W. H '^pperao? and B F'TPlteou . Pc" Poblie improvements-J. S flugbsoo, W. I *. Deigar, B. Boyle and H F. Wilson. Finance-L S Carson,' A. G Plowers, B. M0?-VSsjrtt ?md H. F. Wilsoa. I ? The committees arranged their weekly meet* V Police sod Fire Depart men , at office of ll. \m& Pardy every Friday at 6 p. ?a H"" Fi a* nee, at-First National Baok every ^ Jtonday ats pm ? Pattie Improvements, at Dr J S Hugli sooV office every Tuesday, at 6 p. m j. The regular meetings of Council were 6x< >j ^ for the seen ol and fourth Wednesdays of each Tbe election of/Clerk and Treasurer, Po 3 IteeaMfi. aod all other officers was poetponod s u itit tbe first meetioz io Slay, except City jp Attorney. The immediate election of an at I:: moey wasdeexsd necessary ou account ot' p - tending litigation under tbe License" O.-di ij^.nasce. Judge Fraser was unanimously ?" eiseted. I Dr 8. C. Btker appeared before Council ?_ aa President of tbe Board of Health and iai.d pf before them the small pox situation ; the ne I eessity of police and finan?ai aid. By reso t lutton of Gouacil, $100 was appropriated for ? pressot needs, and further appropriatioo I' promised when necessary. ^ The C.'erk was directed to request Mr. J2 I R. Moses to act as Chief of tbs fire Depart ?L went outil that office can be regularly filkd ^ by election *A word to tte wise is sufficient" and a Hp*o*d from the wise should be sufficient, but ^--joa ask, who are the wiae ? Those who ?' know. The oft repeated experience of trust i - ^worthy persons may be taken for knowledge. | f:: Ut W. M. Terry says Chamberlain's Oooj.b .. Remedy gives better satisfaction than ar y j ?- other in the market. He bas bees ts the dreg %. hssiness at SIktoo, Ky , for twslve years ; ^ftas sold hundreds of bottles of this remedy siftftd nearly all otber cough medicines nana ^fwtared, which shows eonclasively that ^Chamberlain's is the most satisfactory to the poop's, and ts tbs best. For sals by Br. ii. ?9. Cniaa. The Sore La Grippe Core. There is no use suffering from this dreadful iy, if yon will only g?t the right remedy, are having psis all through your body. ?or liver is out of order, have no appetite, no or ambition, have a bad cold, in fact are -completely used up. Electric Bitters is the ?ly remedy that will give you prompt and ire relief They act directly on Liver, f iom acb a sd Eidneye, tone np ibe whole system and make you feel like a new being. They a -e iran teed to cure or price refunded. For sale J. F. W. De Lo rm e's Drug Store, only i?0 >ts per bf ttle 1 BUCKLEN'S ARNICA SALVE. Tb? best Salve in tbe world for Oatt Bruise??, Sor's, Uleer#,SaIt Rheum, Fever, re Tetter, Chapped Hands,Chilblains,Corm all Skin Eruptions, and positively cure 'ilet or no pay required It is guaranteed tc ive perfect satisfaction, or money r?:unde<i 25 couts per boz. For sale by Dr J V DeLorme. South Carolina's Tea Crop. The measure of ridicule which, froos time to time, has beet) visited upoo the project for high grade tea cultivation in the Soa'h is rapidly giving way to s^ri ona consideration, bated opon a demo fi? ltration of possibilities. As eiose news? paper readers will recaii, the assertion that snob cultivation was practicable is I at Us?t twenty years old. The earliest converts to tba belief that the United States embraces both climate and soil j adapted to favorable results were io o ioed to believe the amount of high ? grade tea that might be grown woold > probably b-? so limited ss to suppj i only a private market, and in no sen eible degree affect imports. from the Orient. It is plain, however, that more pretentious achievement ii pos sibl?. with willing capital and the use of soi) now devoted to other purposes This is convincingly set forth in a paper oo the Sooth Carolina experiment, writ? ten by La Fayette I. Parks and pub? lished in the current number of the Cosmopolitan 0 : the tea plantation established near Sommerville. Dr Charles U. Shepard bas succeeded in demonstrating, to his ow i satisfaction and that of others, that there is really a respectable future for fc.-a co hi vatio o io this country. From the smallest beginnings, he advanced to a crop of 1,100 pounds last year, for which high prices were secured without difficulty This year he estimates hie crop at 2.000 poa ods ; and this, it shou'd be remembered, is exclusively high grade. N ? other is attempted be? cause it has been shown that no other co ni J be made profitable ; while with increased skill and a redaction in the cs: of labor through the ose of machi? nery, Dr. Shepard is confident of the ,4no%c flittering resal?s.. Thc point of chief interest to Amer; oana in this matter is the contention that wc are seldom abls to secure by im portatfoo such tea as is consumed by .*ho best classes in the population nf Cums aod J ?pan. I: is held, oo relia b'e autboritty, that.the very highest grades of Oriental tea are largely oon earned by the domestic demand io these countries, ind that what is not s > coo {turned goes chiefly to Russia, which uses au enormous amouot of tea, while the bataneo is cakes by one or two other countries.ot Europe If Dr Shepard is right ic his declara ! ?i to that the aristocracy of China and Japan would cot deign to touch most ci ?oe toa maiketed in *be United States, and if, a1? he aisn asserts. South Caro lina u capable ot producing an article equal to me best io eisner CJUIU.y, *beo t&ere shou'd indeed be ?tvelope? a na tiou~l interest ib the effort to ??ive the native prod act a conspicuous place upon the Aaoeiicau table We may yet see Uncle Sam annually crossing bis tea, even if be be too care less toUjt hrs ?.!."-N. Y. Mail and Express. THE BEST SEED CORN. Owe Cause of Poor Quality In Seed Cotta Selecting Seed From the Bin. That tbe success or failure of the oom crop is every year much more largely dependent on the seed planted than on any other one factor is affirmed by The American Cultivator, which es presses the following opinions in regard to the best seed corn : Last year was not reckoned a good one for corn over a large part of tbs country. It has been found that in ev? ery year of general com failure is apt to be followed by a second year of at least partial failure on account of tbs poor quality of seed corn, which the de? ficient crop always produces. This ii more noticeable in the western states, where the slow maturing-Dent varieties of corn are mostly grown. Dent, ox horse tooth corn, is slow to dry out, even when its seed is matured. Its seed is apt to be still quite damp when the freezing of winter opens the cells in the germ of the grain and diminishes, if it does not entirely destroy, its vitality. The Flint varieties of corn ripen earlier, and as the grains are also much smaller, they can dry out thoroughly before freezing weather sets in. Where Dent corn is grown in the east farmers understand that its large ears and thick cob take a long time to dry out, so they give it extra care, and tbil corn herewith such treatment is as sure to grow as any. We grew a western Dent corn several years in a northern ?tate, and never found a season when any of it failed to grow. The best time to cut corn for seed is as soon after all its grain has glazed aa possible. All that the root will give te the stalk or grain bas then been stored in one or the other. If cut from the root, the stalk will furnish the starch to the ear quite as well as if it still was on the root, and there is no danger that an early frost will injure the leaves and stafce, and thereby injure the grain. After a few days standing on the stalk in 8tooks the ears may be stripped off and hung up by the husks to dry. The warmer the air up to 120 degrees that these partly husked ears are exposed to the better and quicker the seed grain will dry out There is nothing better than fruit evaporators for this purpose, rnn at a temperature of 100 to 120 de? grees and exposed to a free current o? air. So far as possible seed corn should be used which has been subjected to soma of this treatment. Avoid corn that was left in the field until -winter, and there exposed to much cold and wet. If yon aro obliged to take seed cern from a biD, take some part where it bas been dri? est, and where the ears havo not been exposed to rains or to be covered by snows. Even if well dried out, seed coru when exposed to wet will absorb enough to injure tbe seed if severe freezing comes afterward. How to Prepare* Codfish Toast. Half a pcrand of cold ced, 1 >? ounces bntter, three eggs, three tablespoons milk or cream, a half teaspoon lemon juice, three rounds of buttered toast, salt, pepper. Separate the fish into small pieces, free from skin and bone. Beat the eggs to a light froth. Add to them the fish, milk, lemon juice and season* ing. Mix wei;.. Melt the butter in a clean, bright pan. When it bubbles, pour in the eggs, etc. Stir with a wood? en spoon over a slow fire till the mix? ture is soft a ad creamy. Take it off at once and beap upon the buttered toast, which must be very hot. Serve at once. How to Hake Picked Codfish. Pick the fish into flakes and wash re? peatedly until it is no longer salt, then put it into a pan of cold water and let it come gradually to the boiling point. It must remain this way for at least 20 minutes, and it is important to remem? ber that the water should not really boil. An excellent sauce is made by measuring a pint of rich milk for each pint of codfish and stirring into'it a ta? blespoonful of flour which has pre? viously been mixed in an equal meas? ure of butter. The sance must simmer slowly, the bubbles rising only at the sides. When the water on the fish is at last allowed to boil, turn it off and put the drained fish into the cream sauce. Let it boil up for two minutes, then draw it to the back of the stove. Season with a little white pepper and add two eggs which have been previously beaten with a little of the hot cream sance. The cod may stand in the sauce for three or four minutes, but it must not boil Prepare three delicate slices of brown toast, lay them on a hot platter and pour the picked cod over. Three ta? blespoonfuls of cream, stirred in when the eggs are beaten, will be found to be an improvement. How to Polish Braaawork. The simplest means of brightening brass is to cover it with a solution of oxalic acid in soft water, made in pro? portions of an onnco of acid to a pint of water. When the metal is well covered with the fluid, polish it briskly with a wash leather. It must be noted that this oxalic acid preparation is a poison and very strong in its effect upon the brass, so I do not advise that it should be used too often or be kept where irre? sponsible people could reach it The bottle should be labeled "Poison." How to Make Pumpkin Sonp. For ingredients take pumpkin cooked down to a -cupful ; butter, size half an egg; flour, a large tablespoonful; milk, a quart; pepper and salt to taste. Boil or steam suf?cient pumpkin to make a cupful when passed through a sieve, draining off all superfluous water before pressing. Put the butter in a double boiler. When it is melted, put in the flour, mix into a smooth paste, then add the hot milk gradually, turning contin? uously until the liquid is as thin as sin? gle cream. Season to taste with pepper and salt. Cover the kettle and let the ingredients cook until the flour loses its raw taste. Three-quarters of an hour before serving add the pumpkin and the remainder of the milk. Serve *~;th or without croutons. A. ciew lae?. "Grant that nursery trees are cheaper and better than home grown, are they always true to name? What greater misfortune than tu plant and give ten years' care to a tree, only to find its fruit different from what you intended! Why not send the nurseryman scions ot what yon want and know what you are planting? Let him send you the trees, grown from your own varieties. If they cost more, they will be cheaper in the end. " This idea cf a ?uralKew Yorker correspondent deserves consideration. How to Make Pein Perdue. Cut delicate bread into "fiugers" an inch wide, three inches long and a half inch thick. Spread with butter and a rich jam or jelly. Fit two together. Dip in beaten egg and fry a golden brown. Serve with powdered sugar and quar? ters of lemon. T to which thc Expectant Mother is exposed and the foreboding and dread with which she looks for? ward to the hour of woman's severest trial is appreciated by but few. All effort should be made to smooth these rugged places in life's pathway for her, ere she presses to her bosom her babe. OTHER'S FRIEND allays Nervousness, and so assists Nature that the change goes for? ward in an easy manner, without such violent protest in the way of Nausea, Headache, Etc. Gloomy forebodings yield to cheerful and hopeful anticipations-she passes through the ordeal quickly and without pain-is left strong and vigorous and enabled to joyously perform the high and holy duties now devolved upon her. Safety to life of both is assured by the use of "Mother's Friend," and the time of recovery shortened. "I know one lady, the mother of three children, who suffered greatly in the birth of each, who obtained a bottle of 'Mother's Friend' of me before her fourth confinement, and was relieved quickly and easily. All a^rree that their labor was shorter and less painful." JOHN G. POLHILL, Macon, Ga. 51.00 PER BOTTLE at all Drug-Stores, or cent by mail on receipt of price. 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