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EDGEFIELD ADVERTISER
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FeEs, CHs a NgPlONsS

VEGETABLE, ANTI-BILI0US, ANTt-DYSPEP-
TIC PURIFYING AND CArnART1c PILLS.
Possessing four important properties, for the
cure Of diseases, carefully and correctly confined
one article to assist The effect Of another, for tho
benefit ofthe health of mankind.
This medicine is recommended to the atten-
ton of those afflicted with Liver Complaint,
Dyspepsia, Dropsy. Bilious habits, Costve-
ness, Cholera morbus, Rheumatism, Scroiula,
foul Stomach, ,hepraveda appetite, Worms, Con.
dialgea, (which is known by a sinking sensa-
ton al the pit of the stomach, Jaundce, Head
che aud sick stomach, palp.tation of the heart,
DarhGa Dysentery, or huX, Nervous alice.
ton Heart burn, White swelling, and all
those diseases arising from impure blood.
Price IS cts per box, and for sale by
FRAZIER & ADDISON,
Edgefeld c. H., S. c.
RISLEY tS CO. Hamburg, S. e.
HAVLLAND, RISLEY, IL co.
augusta, Geo.
Also in nearly all OF the towns and villages,
and by numerous country agents in all the
Western and Southern States.
June 2S 6in ~
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WM. MoNTAGuE, SEN.
From the Southern Cultiuator.
PEARIneE. Harris Co., Ga, I
March 3, 1874.

Mr.. Edior-t nutced in one of the
February Nos. Of ynur valuable paper, a
letter from W.. w. Bales, of Eulaula,
Barber county, Alabama, in which he
s,ales that many hogs and cattle have been
lost in his ueishburhoutl. during last fall
aud win'e', by turning them into pea
fields. aud asks remedy through the
columns of the Gullivalor.
have been engaged in the pleasant bu
siness offnrnling FOR The last four or i've
years, curing which time / have raised
four crops of peas, which | consider a
very Important article of food for hogs.
My practice is to feed my stock hounti-
fully fu three or -four days previous TO
turning them upon peas, wifi heavy feed
just ashley are turned in the field, where
they r.main until The peas are destroyed,
havin; a free access of water aud a plenty
Of sal and ashes during their stay. Lam
happy TO say. have yet 10 loose my first
hos II horse from eating peas. have
neve suffered my callle@lo he ;urned.apon
rresl pea fields.
l am, sir, yours, &c..
Thomas II. BENTON.
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AGRICULTURAL. q
From the HeSierh Farmer and Gurde 4
WATER WITCHES.

The follawing letter has been handed 10
Us by gentleman, too we'll known in this
vicinity as an old aud respectable early
settler in Kentucky, and preacher of the
Word, 10 require our saying more, than
tba, implicit reliance may be placed on all
his statements. He is since deceased.
We have no doubt lie will find lew beiev-
crs in the "wilchery" of the matter; bui
we can assure our readers that ii is gener
ally aelieved in these parts-indeed, we
can name individuals. well known all over
the West, who are thorough believers.
For ourselves we say nothing. E. j. III.
Messrs. Editors 81 am about to give
you few remarks of my experience, on a
subject oil which. have no doubt. YOUR
self and most Of your readers will be as
incrcdulous us was at one time. You
shall have The facts as | myself Witnessed
theui, or knew them TO take place. /
will not pretend 10 assign any cause, or
give q reason why such things are, but
leave every one to do so for himself. My
subject is that of certain Individuals being
able to frd and point oul the exact spot
WlleIe dl. uIIucI I-SuIIelll vi wafer lIuWSt dS
The best point for digging We'll and OF
their also being able sometimes to state The
precise depth at which the water will be
found. Such persons are generally known
and spoken Of in kentucky as "Wa!er
WilctIes.'
The first instance OF which will speak
is this. As early as lS40. when salt, as il
is well known, WAS scarce aud high in this
.hen.new country, len or twelve neishbors
of us entered into all agreement TO send
for Il ''wncr witch" who had already he
come noted ON the. south side Of the ken-
lucky river-by name, David Cook-and
have him search for aspiring of salt wa
ter on our respective lands, and wherever
he should determine as hc best spot there
we were 10 dig al our joint expense, and
divide the sall we should make. had no
faith whatever in any thing of the kind
though some of the others had. Cook
came; he lived 100 miles from my place
All The company met nj my house, AND
after Cook had prepared his 'div'ting rod,
we went out. This rod was forked peacl
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Ne0 and Important Inuention.-It is
stated that citizen of Ladiesburg, Fred.
erick county, Nd, has completed the work.
ing model Of machine which is consider
cd by many 10 be the grentest discovery
of the age. Fl isihe application of the
power. Uf the screw 10 w6eelamachinery,
where by the gain Of power is SO great that
with screw weighing from oneto one and
half tons, man would be5able to. propel
a train ofcars on railroad with as much
force and velocity as is now attained by The
locomotive. A citizen of:Massachuserts
has invented: power loom for the manu-
fac,ure Of Marseilles quilts with as much
facility as The common brown shecling
which costs nine censa yard. These quilts
are constructed in Europe by hand looms,
and arc greatly priced by the opulent.
The result ofthis invention will be to bring
the price within the means Of almost all.
The same, person has invented a power
loom for weaving carpets with the same
rapidity that the looms Of our factories turn
out the plainest aud coarsest fabrics. A
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@oetie Gefsss :
A CROP OF GIN.

Gin! Gin drop Of Gini
What magnified monsters circle therein
Ragged. and stained wtll filth and mud,
Some plagne:sp0iIed, and some with blood!
Shapes OF Misery. Shame and Sin!
Figures that make us luathe and tremble,
Creatures scarce human, that more resemble
Broods Of diabollcaI kin, 49,.
Ghoule and Vampire, Demon and Gin
Gin! Gin! Drop fGin! :.
The dream Of Satan! the liquor OF SIM
Distribution the fell
Aleubics Of Hell,
b. GULL anI Death, his own brother and Twin
That man lniSs":.. full
Still lower than all
The neanest creatures will scale and fin.
But hold-we are neither Barebones nor Prynue
Who lash with such rage
The sins CT the age
Then, instead of making TOO much din,
Let Anger BIZ mute.
And sweet mercy dilute,
With Drop of Pity, The Drop Of Gin
Gin Gin! Drop of Gin!
When darkly Adversity's days sci in,
And the friends and peers
Oi earlier years
Prove warm Without but cold within.
And cannot retrace
A familiar face
THAT'S steep'd in poverty up to the chin;
But snub. Neglect, cold shoulder and cut
The ragged pauper, mistorlune's butt
Hardly acknowledge by kith and kin,
Because pour rat!
He has no cravat:
A seedy coat. and hole in that
Nor change Of Iinen-except his skin,
No gl"ves-no vest,
Either second or best;
And what is worse than all the rest,
No llgh heart tho his breeches ure tllin,-
w bile lime eIopes
With all golden hopes
And even with those Of pewter and lin,-
Thebrightest dreams.
And The best Of schemes,
All knocked down, like a wicker by Mynn,-
Each castle in air
Seized by Giant Despair, -
No prospect in life worth mlnikin pin
No credit-no cash,
No cold mutton TO hash,
No bread-not even potatoes 10 mash;
No coal in the cellar, no wine in the bnn.-
Smaslid, broken 10 bits,
With Judgments and wits,
Bonds. bills, and cognovits distracting his wits.
In the webs that the spiders of Chancery spin,-
Till weary of life, its worry and strife;
Black visions are life ola razor, a kuiie {;
OF poison-a rope" loupins over linn."
Gin Gin! a Drop Of I
Oh then lis tremendous temptations begin,
To take, alas!
TO fatal GLASS;
And happy The wretch that does not win
70 change the black hue
OF lis ruin To blue
While Angels sorrow, and Demons grin
And lose the rheumatic
Chill Of his attic
BY pIungng into the palace Of GIN!
London Charirari.-
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BECoNOMY! ECoNoMY!!.n
THE SOUTHERN MEDICAL
PO OC K E n B Cd % K .

YHYHE Subscriber having anticipated the
n publication Of his MEDICAL POCK-
EFT BOOK, prepared expressly for The South.
ern States, but, being disappointed in publish.
ing it as book, now proposes TO issue the
work in sheets, twice month, until the whole
work shall be completed. Each number will
comprise 80 duodecimo pages, on excellen,
paper making, when completed, about 300 or
$50 pages. This method has been adopted
because ii is the cheapest aud safest mode by
which the work can be delivered 10 subscribers.
The principles of Medicine, Disease, prac-
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remedies, are full and comprehensive In fact,
the Medical Pocket Book is so arranged as TO
render every man. or head Of family qualified
10 act as their ewn physician.
In urging the POCKET BOOK upon the
pubic, he deems it only necessary to state, that
mot as heretofore.) the work will be FREQ from
mysterious Technicalities-and, that all the
light within the reach or comprehension ofthe
writer, has been plainly set forth. Disease
with the various treatments. preparations for,
and application to. are rendered so easy no one
who reads can fail TO comprehend. This course
has been pursued in all the divisions oil the
work, particularly in Anatomy, which is COLI
densed from volumes of seven and eight hum
dred pages, down to compass of, perhaps, be-
tween thirty and fifty pages-embraclng the
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found TO answer the purpose for which it is
designed, and its adaptation to all classes ages
and sexes-and will prove to be companion
10 all who may consult its pages either ,hco.
retical or'practcai.
The following is the order in which the sew
cral parts of the work will appear. and the
different subjects that will be therein contained:
viz.
/. Preface, History and Theory of the Bo-
tanic Practice.
9. Practice of Medicine
8. Botanical Materia Medca.
a. Compendious Anatomy.
5. Obstetrics, abridged.
6. Dispensatory.
a. Popular and valuable Recipes, between
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9. Comprehensive Glossary.
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letters containing money for, publication of
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The work, when completed can be bound
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lumns for few weeks. The numbers of the
Pocket Boot will be sent to all who publish as
requested.
March 27 IF 9
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From The Augusta ConSiituiionclisL.
Mr.. Gmeu-Will insert the enclosed in
his useful paper, and oblige perhaps a
score OF subscribers.
Cancer.-The following article is copied
from an Edinburgh paper:
While was at Smyrna, there was a
girl afflicted with The Cancer in her lip,
and tie gum was effected. The European
physicians consulted ON the measures TO
be taken, and agreed that they saw no
other method than 10 cut ii out; and the
girl had already submitted herselflo thai
decision. By an accident OF that nature
which nen cannot account for, an old
Armenian came 10 them just in time TO
prevent the appIcationof the knife.
DO nothing" said the Armenian, 81
will cure her." and when he had pledged
himself strongly, the physicians consented.
"He procured copper vessel, newly
rinnetih The inside ian essential concur.
rence,) and having poured quantity Of
olive oil into il, he made it boil over a
small FIRE, sufficiently % keepit gently ag-
tated, and SO for three times in "a hours.
With this, the oil resolved. itself to the
consistency Of all ointment, and by con-
slanlly rubbing The par, affected, he cured
her in n days. Nothing olse was done.
The physicians supposed that The oil
received its virtue from the tin, aud lha, it
was communicated by its long boiling over
the fire. ~
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DALLAS Co., Ala, April 4, 1S43.

DALLAS Co., AIa., April 4, 1913.
Dir. Champion:-Dear sir,-Of the pills
which received from you, have found sale
for a considerable quantity. | think that it
will be sickly here in consequence of the wei
spring Your pills give such general sntisiac.
ton here, that am persuaded by my neigh
bors to write to you for alarge supply Of both
kinds. It is now known that keep them,
and people will come 30 or DO miles for them.
Please send them soon, as expect to sell all
that have written for by the time your agent
is around in July.
Yours with much respect,
BENAIJAH KING.
Each box contains "a pills, II of which are
sufficient 10 cure any ordinary case of Chils
aud Fever. Price 81 25, and
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mo. H.

certain rich capitals, at the eastward, has
expended we are:told eighty lhousanddol-
lars, in assisting The einyen'or 10 his various
experiments tobring il to perfection, which
he; has at length succeeded in doing. The
inventor has been offered eighty thousand
pounds for bis patent right in Eng land.
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MISCELLANEOUS.
From Noah's Messenger.
T iN5Is SHE DID Skct,

A word in general use and Of very sig-
ni6cant import.
A young girl who had passed three
years in boarding school, gathered SUI
per6cial knowledge Of her own language
and The French: acquired profound
knowledge Of the art of dancing, with a
fashionable knowledge of music, is said TO
be finished-lhat is, ready for husband.
A student who has passed four years in
college, learned TO rob hen roosts, drink
rum, smoke cigars, play al games of
chance, aud spend the liberal allowance of
kind pafenlin every species of unworthy
excess-makes common place speech,
receives his sdiploma, aud is finished. That
is, ready for the devil. &.
The prodigaL who wastes at the gaming
table and in rue haunts of debauchery, a
spendid palrimony, and then blows out his
brains in fit Of despair, is said by those
uninterrupted him to lis ruin to be finished.
Ii is flushed, exclaims the man of fash
ion as he surveys the completion Of all es-
sentials of splendid entertainment, which
he is about 10 give FIVE hundred men and
women, who, far from indulsing a friendly
feeling for tteir; host, will laugh at him in
their sleeves, as they sip his costly wines,
and imprudently crilicise his person and
air, while they are wasting and devouring
his substance. So
1t is finished as the poor widow whis-
pers. while her sunken eyes dilate,s and
light up with Gnournful joyi.as she. folds
the garment, The making of which wilt
give .to herself aud falherless ones, the
course and scanty loaf for anolher,s days.
subsistence. - z
1t is finished, the needy, pale, and ema.;
cialed author murmurs, as with trembling
fingers he'guthers page after page ofthe
work which he hopes will give food, famee
he looks not for, 10 the young wife at his
side, and lhe little babies tha, cluster at
his knee. 81:
II is finished, with despairihg violence,
shouts he homeless Nanderer. as the sIeet:
descends ON his unprotected head, and the
icy blasts congeals the currents of.life,
aud he lays him down, untared for by his.
brother man,
1t is finished, gasps OUT the man OF blood;
and violence, as he lays. bis head on the
scalf"ld, and pays TO the society he has
walred upon, the forfeit of mis- crimes. y. 5,
Finished! is The life Journeys; what
joys are expressed in this one word, what
doubts made certain, what hopes realized,
what forebodings confirmed. -
Finished say The fond parents, as the.
realization Of all their PRAYERS sleeps
sweel!y in the cradle they are bending
over. asG
Finished! CALCULATES the Weeping qwo-
man dropping over the tomb.
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Management Of Pork.-Iu Europe, the
Russian rerk bears a high price, aud lis
quality is supposed to be owing TO The pic
kIe in which it is preserved. This is cal
led ''the Empress of Russia's brine" and
is prepared as follows: '.Boil together,
over gentle FIRE, six pounds of common
salt, Chat in common use in Russia is rock
SALTY two pounds Of powdered loaf sugar,
three ounces Of sallpelre, and.three gallons
of spring or pure water. Skim it while
boiling and when quite cold pour it over
The meat, every pan of which must be
covered with The brine. Small pork may
be sufficiently cured in four or five days
hams intended for drying, two weeks, un'
less they are very large. This pickle may
he used again and again, il il be fresh boil
ed up with small addition to the insre-
dients. Before putting tho meat into the
brine, wash in water, press out the blood
and wipe it clean. Picking tubs should
be larger at the bottom than at the top,
by which means, when well packed, the
pork still retain its place until the las
layer is exhausted. When the pork is
cool, it may be cut up; the hams and
shoulders reserved for bacon, and the re.
mander sailed. Cover The bottom of the
tub or barrel with rock salt, and OH il place
a layer Of meat, and so on ill the tub i:
filled. Use the salt literally, and fill the
barrel with strong brine, boiled and skim
med, and then cooled.
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a Novel Dirorces Case was broug AT be-
fore the New jersey Legislature on We'd;
nesday. Peter G.. Obert Of NewiBronc-s
wick, represents by petition, that having;
once petilioned the Legislature for a d.
vorce from his wife, and being informed
That a bill was passed, he5mafried another,
woman, aud he now learns 20 his surprise
that he was misinformed, and begsIhat
the, Legislature will relieve biln by nulli-
flying his first marriage. and thus save
him from the penalty Of the law. 't5sssss
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Temperance and sls- -Fruits.-In visit
to one ofthe penitenliaries in Philadelphia;
The other days. a gentleman asked the war;
den, how many prisoners were in confne..
ment:: "Three hundred and fory,'"'s he
replied. "Whatis the largest number you.
have ever had at once ?'' inquired the.
stranger. "Four Hundred andsixiy, a,;saids
the warden. why that's a graal falling;
off--one hundred and twenty less! whaS
has occasoned il % III think, . said the
warden, "thatitis owing chiefly to the,
Temperance Reformation. w.
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Amusement.-'I have brought yon,,bis:
bill until | am fairlysick aud tired .ol it,
said colIectotro. a creditor, upon whom
he called at least forty times.
"You are, eh. ?" cody rejoiued thecredi-:
tor.
Yes am" was the response. 4,
"Wcll, then, you had better not present,
itasain:-There ll;be two ofus pleased
if you do not. for 10 tell the plain truth z
am sick and tiredfof seeing that indentical:
billmyself.; = - ~.
This was pretty fair but not so good as.
the reply Of Sheridan TO a dun who had
repeatedly called upon him for small
amount. The bill had been so oftenspre-
sented TO the mad wag that the collector:
complained of lis soiled aud ta,tered stale.
and said he was asilamedofit: ..I,llteii.
yeu what I'D advise yon TO do with il, my
friend," said Sheridan s.lake.it home and,
write it upon parchment. . a::,s..-.z
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am, sir, yours, &c..
THOMAS II. BENTON.

origin of the term Cauindish Iobac-
co.-'rhere lived in the cnunty of Neck
lcrburs, and Colony Of Virginia, some Sc
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To care Snake bite:-A, wriier 10 lhe.
Raleigh Register, says that common salt,.
moistened with water and bound upon the
wound. will cure the bite ofthe mos, ven,
omous snake.
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Eagehela ourt Mouse, s. c., april 40, 1874.

| vedly and five years ago, Colonel Cab.
anis, successful planter, and prosperous
gentleman" Now, in those ancient days
OF Virginia, the habit was to export the
tobacco grown in the Colony to the mo.
ther country, 10 be manufactured, aud
thence to be re-exported TO Virginia, there
to be mas,icated and spirited upon its ma.
tive soil.
Our worthy Colonel was the first 10
Start domestic manufactures in the South,
on his own hook, by the erection Of a pri-
vale establishment for the manufacture oil
chewing tobacco on small scale. And q
prime article was turned out from this
infant, and we may say, isolated manu(ac-
tory ofthe olden time. And the good
Colonel, who was member Of the House
of Burgesses, would at every annual visit
to Williamsburg, put into his saddle bags
choice twist for each of his brother mem.
bers aud ctlewcrs of the House and anx-
iously indeed, was his advent, or rather
thai Of his saddle-bags, looked for, while
many smackius of lips, as we'll as sha-
king of hands, greeted the arrival Of the
manufacturer OF Mecklenburs Capital.
Now the Cabanis twist beat all compe-
tilion it had taste, the twang, the real
game flavor, and many and earnest were
the inquiries as 10 the modus operandi by
which such an exquisite article was pro.
duced At length the Colonel diyulged
The mighty secret. He always pressed his
prime the real Cabanis, in an old Bee
Gum Il
Gentle readers, who are masticators of
the weed, rejoice! After the lapse Of
three quarters Of a century. the truth. the
mighty truth, is out al last. So lie, US hear
no more Of Cavendish Tobacco, but of
Cabanis, No. l, real Bee Gum, aud no mis-
lake.