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The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1856-02-16
TIM b L X
Land for Safe.

gAHE Timber land known as tas 'Cursrn.h.
Tiuber.s row for sale, in los r. suli
purchasers Also 40 acres, part PrsErie and
rari Timbe-, two raiiss South ct IIp.on, any
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-04-03
AN INCH OF RAIN.

We have been struck with that passage
of Lieutenant Maury's "Physical Geogra.
ply of the Sea-" in which he computes the
effect of a single inch of rain falling upon
the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic includes
an area of twenty-five millions of square
miles Suppose an inch Of rain to fall up
on only one-6fth of this vast expanse. "It
would weigh" says our author, "three hun
dred and sixty thousand millions of tons ;
and the SALT as water, held in solution in
the sea, and which, when the water was ta-
ken up as vapour, was left behind to dis
turb equilibrium, weighed sixteen millions
more tons, or nearly twice as much as all
the ships in the world could carry at a car
60 each. 1t might fall in day but occu-
py what time it might in falling, this rain
is calculated to exert so much force-which
is inconceivably great-in disturbing the
equilibrium of the ocean. Ifall the waters
discharged by the Mississippi during the
year were taken up in one mighty measure,
and cast into the ocean in one effort, it would
not make a greater disturbance in the equili-
brium Of the sea then would the rain of rain
supposed. And yet so gentle are the op,
orations of nature, that movements so vast
are unperceived."
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-04-03
CURE FOR A FoUNDERED HORSE.

WI IsE SIt - ~ ONDEhGD doftoEi.
AS soon as you find your horse is founder
ed, bleed him in the neck in proportion to
the greatness of the founder. In extreme
cases you may bleed him as long as he can
stand up. Then draw his head up, as is
common in drenching, and with spoon put
on his tongue, give strong salt until you get
him to swallow one pint. Be careful not to
let him drink too much. Then anoint around
the edges of his hoofs with spirits of turpen-
tine, and your horse will be we'll in one
hour.
A founder pervades every part of the
system of horse. The feam arrests it
from the blood, the salt arrests it from the
stomach and bowels, and the spirits of tur-
pentine arrests it from the feet and limbs.
Ionce rode horse ninety-nine miles in
two days, returning home at night the Sec
ond day, and his owner would not have
known that be had been foundered if had
not told him, and his founder was one of the
deepest kind.
lonce, IN travel of seven hundred miles
foundered my horse three times and l do
not think my journey was retarded more
than one day by the misfortune, having in
all cases observed and practised the above
prescription. I have known foundered
horse turned in at night on green food ; in
the morning he would be we'll, having been
purged by the green food All founders
must be atteded to immediately.-,S. "
Farme
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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-04-03

CHEAP AND EXCELLENT CANDLEs.-The
following recipe 7 have tried twice, and find
it all that it is cracked up to be. have no
doubt it would have been worth $50 to me,
if [ had known it twenty years ago. Most
farmers have surplus of stale fat and dirty
grease, which can be made into good candles
at triaing expense.
kept both tallow and lard candles through
the last summer, the lard candles standing
the heat best, and burning quite as we'll, and
giving as good light as the tallow ones. Di-
rections for making good candles from lard ::
d" For twelve pounds of lard, take one pound
of saltpetre and one pound of alum; mix
them and pulverize them dissolve the salt
petre and alum in gill of boiling water !;
pour the compound into the lard before it is
quite all melted, stir the whole until it boils,
skim off what rises, let it simmer until the
water is all boiled out, or till it ceases to
throw off steam, pour off the lard as soon as
it is done, and clean the boiler while it is
hot. If the candles are to be run, you may
commence Immediately; if to be dipped,
let the lard cool first to cake, and then treat
as you would tallow.-Cor. NJ E.. Far
nler
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-04-03
APPEAL TO A JURY.

Gentlemen of the Jury, I quote from
Shakespeare, when say to you, "To be or
not to be licked-that's the question" My
client is a national stump machine-he filings
his wrath in pailfuls, and it is dangerous to
run snag against his interest. Let me be
made fodder for fool, and chowder for a
powder mill, if he is guilty, notwithstand-
ing the criminal absurdities alledged against
him. Do you believe that my client is so
destitute of the common principles of hu-
manity-so full of the fog of human nature
so wrapped up in the moral insensibility
of his being, as deliberately to pick up ia.
ter, and throw it at the nasal protuberance OF
the prosecutor? No, not while you can dis
Germ a star in the northern sky-while the
waters of the Ohio roll, and the race Of Buff
faloes nestle on the Rocky Mountains, this
immutable principle will remain-that my
client is gentleman, tater or no tater d!
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-04-03
Selett 4oetrg>
A LOVE MELODY.
BYJoHN cRITcHLEY PRINCE.

BYJoHN CRITCHLEY PRINCE.
In the morning of life, when our feelings are nev
And our pathway is pleasant with sunshine an'
dew;
When many-tcned music pervadeth the air,
And the commonest thing that we look on Is fair
How sweet the first passion, that prompts US II
stay
With one who adds beauty to beautiful May!
While voice seems to steal through the shade o.
the bowers,
Singing, "Love is the odor of heavenly flowers.
When welded, and home groweth bright with the
bride,
An angel to walk through the world by our side,-
When day after day we're enraptured to find
New graces of manner, new treasures OF mlnd,-
Calm temper, clearforesight disdan of all guile
For tho mournful tear, for the mirthful smile,-
How deeply We feel, when such blessings is ours
That "Love is the odor Of heavenly flowers"
Aud, sh when the fond nsme of father We hear,
From young lips and voices, all rosy and clear
When the multiplied charms of the mother are
In the cherub-lke feature, the infantile mien,--
A fountain of joy, undiscovered before,
Opens up in the heart, and runs leNderly o'er;
While expand in the soul fresh affections and pow
ers,-
Such /" Love is the odor of heavenly flowers"
Unto household and kindred, to friend and to man,
If we give all the love that we ought-that we
can,
We lose not, we lack not,-such giving is gain,
AS the earth gets her own e1halations in rain.
Kind words and good Offices 60 to increase,
Come back to us sweetly, and bless us with peace
Let US foster the aith in this rough world of ours,
That "Love is the odor of heavenly flowers"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-04-03

ENGLISH MODE OF FATTENING POULTRY
The food usually selected for fattening
poultry is oatmeal mixed either with scald-
ing milk or water. Cooped fowls should be
supplied with fresh food three times daily
namely, at daybrcak, or as soon after as
possible, at midday, and again at roosting
time; as much as they can cat should be
given them on each occasion, but no more
than can be devoured before the next meal !;
should any be left it should be removed and
given to other fowls, as, if kept, it is apt to
become sour, when the birds will not eat it
freely. The troughsfor the soft meal should
be scalded out daily, which can only be done
conveniently by having supply of spare
ones. In addition to soft food, supply of
fresh clean water must be constantly present,
and little gravel must be given daily, 9th
erwisc the grinding action of the gizzard,
which is necessary to the due digestion of
the food, does not go on satisfactorily; the
supply of little green food will be found
very advantageous to health !; little sliced
cabbage, or some turnip tops, ora green turf
to peck occasionally, being all tina. is requir-
ed A variation in the diet will be found
very conducive to an increased appetite, and
therefore the occasional substitution of a feed
of boiled barley for the slaked oatmeal is de-
sirable. Some feeders have a division in
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-04-03
FOUND AT LAST.

A man who never declines Office on &C.
count of circumstances over which he has
no control"
A merchant who has never said that his
business was "only tolerably good, and money
hard to get these times"
A man who never took the beam out of
his own eye without poking it into somebody
els's.
A creditor who is never very much in
need of money.
A politician who never invited "particu-
lar attention to his public acts" or challen-
ged select investigation without party pre-
judice to his career while representing his
constituents on former occasion.
A statesman who is governed solely by a
desire to benefit the public.
A thinking man who is not disliked by
fools.
Numerous prayers which have been an
swered before they had been forgotten by the
authors-there were prayers made by the
earth for rain!
A host of men who keep the command
ment Glove thy neighbor as thyself; but,
they are women
A tombstone at beggar's grave.
A topper who never had the dropsy.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-04-03
GRAFT YOUR PEACH TREES.

The peach is the best fruit of the kind
our soil produces, but the trees are liable to
early decay on account of the worms which
infect the root. Many plans have been de-
vised to destroy the troublesome grub, but
all that we have tried have proved complete
failures. The only efectual remedy against
moth and grub is to graft or 'bud your varie-
ties of the peach on common plum stocks
which we all know are not liable to die, as
most of our old fields will attest. The grub
will not trouble the plum root; and We are
told by friend at our elbow that the plan
has been entirely successful in Virginia.-
Any quantity of plum stocks may be obtain
cd in every locality, and in this way the best
varieties of the peach may be grown at very
little trouble and no expense whatever. Try
it farmers, and save your time lost in doctor
ing trees and killing grubs.-S. g. Tenn.
Standard.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-04-03
To Work THE WORST SPOILED HoRs

To Work THE WoRsr SPOILED HORSE.
Place gear on the horse, the backband as
far back as his kidneys, the bellyband at the
usual place. Have the traces short, that the
singletree can only pass the root of the hor-
ses tail, and stop 6 or s inches above his
hooks. The gear should be strong, and we'll
secured at all points. 1t is best to have the
horse secured in his stall for day or two
before leading him out that he may become
used to the gear, and less liable to kick
The beauty of the thing is, the singletree
binds so close TO his hams, that it prevents
the play of his heels. When you discover
your horse will bear the touch of the single
tree and gear, you may then attach plow lines
with gear and place drag, and practice
him until he will bear the plow or wagon.
I have adopted this plan for more than
twenty years without single failure to gen.
tie the worst runaway animals I ever knew,
in fact, they cease to kick and become gen.
tie at once. Yours truly,
BIRD SAFFoLD
Seguine, Guadalupe Co., Texas, 1855.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-04-03
A MODEL CLERK.

Orc of the biggest wags iu this city is the
principal salesman in Wiley's book establish
meut on Broadway. We refer to Mr. J. w.
Bouton, young gentleman who travels
slightly on his shape, and sells goods with
success only cquallcd by that Of Smith,
the peripatetic operator in razor strops.
Last Monday au old lady entered the store
aud inquired for y Treatise on Angels. -
She made the inquiry Of a boy, and was told
they hadn't got no such book
This remark caught Mr.. Bouton's car, and
as he always sells something to everybody
who enters the store, he stepped forward and
addressed the old lady:
Were Just out Of the book you're in
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-04-03
search of, ma'am, but we've got Fox's Book
of Martyrs, crammed full Of pictures-splen,

search of, ma'am, but we've got Fox's Book
of Martyrs, crammed full Of pictures-splen-
did book for present!
claw sakes dew tell !'' exclaimed the
customer, examining the book; 'why here's
a picture of a chap drinking pizen, and here's
lot of men saving poor fellows head
offw
THAT gentleman there, ma'am, exclaim'
ed the salesman, elucidating the picture, 'is
taking melted lead sangaree; and the other
individual is about to be perforated in the
intestines with patent manure fork. guess
you'd like it better than work on angels.
sWal, now, that is better book, l guess,
than any thing else. What mought the
price be?'
Twenty shillings, ma'am--very cheap
book, that
sWal, dew it up. My daughters jest got
married, and I calkelate to make her pre-
sent. She wanted sumthin about angels,
but I was no great hand for angels, no how. ,
The lady handed him out four parcels,
each containing fifty coppers, and completed
the amount by adding three battered shil-
lings and dubious looking sixpence, the
wholesavoring powerfully of maccaboy snuff.
The sale completed, and the customer
gone, Mr.. B. called up the boy. Sonny
said he, ssee here; when you're asked for a
thing which you haven't got always show the
nearest article like it thatyou have
The urchin looked reflective; and was
about to ask the resemblance between elves
of the Angels and Fox's Book of Martyrs;
but he didn't.-Neao York Paper.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-04-03
THE LAW OF NEWSPAPERS.

l. Subscribers who do not give express notice
to the contrary, are considered as wishing to con-
tinuether subscription
2. If subscribers order the discontinuance oi
their papers, the publisher can continue to send
them until oil arrearages are paid.
8. If subscribers neglect or refuse to take their
papers from the Office to which they are directed
they are held responsible till they settle their bill
and order the paper discontinued.
4. If any subscriber removes to another place
without informing the publisher, and their paper
issent to the former direction, they are held re.
sponsible.
s. The Court has decided that refusing to take
Newspaper from the office, or removing and leav.
ing it uncaled for, is prima yfacie evidence of on
intentional fraud
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-04-03
THE HARD SHELL BAPTISTS"

Are wcll-known sect in the South and
Southwest. They arc not related, that we
know of, to the Hard Shell Democrats in
this State, though their christcin name is the
same. They 60 dead against all Bible, tenn
perance, and education societies; hate mis-
sions to the heather, and all modern schemes
for converting the rest of mankind. Of
course they are opposed to learning, and
speak as they are suddenly moved. A Geor-
gia correspondent writes to the Drawer, and
relates the following of Hard Shell Bap-
tist preacher:
"Two of them were in the same pulpit
together. While one was preaching he hap
pened to say, when Abraham built the ark.
"The one behind him strovc to correct his
blupder by saying out aloud, abraham
acorn't thar
"But the speaker pushed Oh needless of
the interruption, and only took occasion
shortly to repeat still more decidedly, Il say,
when Abraham built the ark"
"And say cried out the other, t4Jra-
ham avaru't Mar.'
"The Hard Shell was too hard to be bea-
ten down in this way, and addressing the
people, exclaimed, with great indignation, Il
say Abraham was thar, or thar ABoUTsv
To the same Southern correspondent We
are indebted for another reading Of pas,
sage which has been variously construed. 1t
will be recollected that in our July number
we told the story of the preacher who under
stood the passage, as he heard it read, 'Now
these eight did Milcah BEAR to mean, 'Now
these eight did milk bear Our friend
saws:
This brought to mind the story of a good
old dame who was plying her distaff, and lis,
tening devoutly to her daughter reading the
Bible at her side. She was reading in the
book of Genesis, and being not yet perfect
in the art she would now and then miscall q
word So chanced that she read, stammer-
ingly, these words: 'Now these eight did
Micah bore
"What, what's that?' said the old lady,
'read that again
"The good daughter complied, and, look.
ing more carefully, read, did Milcah bear
"Ah, that will do,' said the old mother,
'they might milk bear, but to milk boar.
my daughter, is simpossible.'
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-04-03
MIR. CAIHoUN,s DoGMAs.

A large portion of the petty politicians of
South Carolina when they find themselves
without argument or reason for their faith,
appeal to the authority of Mr.. Calhoun. In
order to satisfy the Southern people that the
Northern Democracy are uutrustworthy, in
spite of the coble stand taken in the heat
of battle for Southern rights, by such gene
zous and manly spirits as Pierce, Douglass,
Buchanan, Dickinson, and thousand 9TH
ers, this school have recently put forth again
the famous expression that "the farthest man
from US in the South is nearer to us than the
nearest man in the North" In other words
that Bolts, Black Republican of Virginia,
and Houston, an anti-Nebraska and Kansas
man of Texas, are truer to the South than
Pierce, a New Hampshire President, who
has so nobly vindicated the South, her Con-
stitutional rights and honor; or Douglass,
an Illinois Senator, who introduced, and,
by his wonderful powers and ability, passed
the Nebraska and Kansas Bill In this
passage of the law, repeating the odious and
unconstitutional Missouri restriction on Sou
thern rights and interest, tbs notorious that
Douglass was truer to the South and her in
stitutions than Mr.. Calhoun himself, who
assented to that Compromise as member Of
Mr.. Monroe's Cabinet. No there are thou
sands, and hundreds of thousands of Nor
thern men truer to the best interests of the
South, her institutions, her Constitutional
rights and honor, than they who are preach
ing the absurd dogmas of Mr.. Calhoun, and
his most unwise and unstatesmanlike section
alism and State seclusion.-Er. paper.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-04-03
9musi1g 8&aamg.
MRS. PART1NaToN ON KANSAS

"Ho for Kansasp' exclaimed Mrs. Par
tington, taking her pipe from her mouth,
resting her elbow on her knee, and patting
her foot vigorously, as she glanced sternly
over her spectacles at Ike, who was reading
an "appeal for aid' in the last number Of
othe Buncomb Gultrap, and Herald of De-
mocracy." "Ho for Kansas! Why only a
little while ago it was fight for Kansas -
Well, I'm as ready as anybody to help my
neighbors when they're in the grass, but
Kansas amt no neighbor of niue, and if he
wants any hoeing done he'll have to bring
it along, or do it himself. There's that rot
ten lazy varmont Bill Singers, has been
high up for Kansas ever since he found out
there want nothing more dangerous than
hoeing to be done says I to him tother day,
Bill, if you feel any more like work this year
than you did last, you'd better hoe that little
goober patch of your'n, before you 60 a hoe
ing for Kansas, you know that's the only
crap you ever plant, and all you have to count
on to buy powder and shot, and whiskey and
fish hooks and other necessaries of life, and
youlet it run to grass so last year you couldn't
find the goobers, when you went to dig them"
Bill swelled up and turned as red as a
gobler. Says he, "Madam, you don't un-
derstand the interests of the South," and
he left, slamming the door so that heap Of
dsubing fell out of the house, but I put my
head out of the window and hollered at him,
"I understand tho" says I, Its every
body's interest to mind their own business"
"May be, though"-and bright thought
seemed suddenly to strike the old lady
"May be there going to fight with hoes
Well, hoes is bad thing to fight with, but
not nigh so bad as them sharp rifles and bag
comets and sich like, they are much more
specific weapon, and folks is not half so likely
to commit suicide on each other with en-
They better take it fist and skull-butlet US
see how that is. Read on, sonny!
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-04-03
farm&r's department
9@sH
HAcSREh
AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL.

Why, and how is it that many States of
the Union have we'll endowed Agricultural
Colleges in successful operation, while we of
South Carolina seem to think that our people
arc to become good and great by intuition
Is it that farmers like poets are to be born
and not made? Or is it important or neces-
sary for a farmer to have any sense at all?
The State at much laudable expense and
fostering care, has nobly done much, on her
part, for taking care of the gentlemen of
South Carolina, alias the students of South
Carolina College. How these gentlemen have
repaid her both principle and interest, it is
not ours to enquire. But, because the State
in her pride, cannot manufacture all boys in
to gentlemen, is no reason why our farmer
boys, plow or clodhopper boys, should be so
negligently cast off, to learn the great science
of Agriculture by intuition alone or an occa-
sional visit to a Sunday school.
We deem it work of the merest super
errogation to say, that South Carolina should
have well endowed Agricultural school
1--WE prefer the term school to College, 1t
is a self evident proposition and appeals
loudly to our Legislators and statesmen for
support. Let US have school of tie highest
order Of endoument in both money and a
full and large corps of Professors, with an
experimental farm, and also botanical gar
den attached-while we have a school for
gentlemen and one for soldiers and one for
doctors, and some for divines, and many for
wives, let US have one for farmers, the most
useful class of our entire population. 1t is
to be hoped, that the State Agricultural So
ciety, with the mental energies of her Pres
ident, shall feel itself bound to effect, and
to address itself Immediately to the delight
full task.-Edgefeld Advertiser.