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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-09-27
Decorate the Homestead.

Next to W holesome food, home pleasures
are necessary to enliveu our spirits, promote
our good health, and give a zest to rural
life. What can give greater satisfaction to
a family of refined taste than to have the
grounds around the homestead decorated
with the beauties of nature go bountifully
furnished US? The species and varieties of
trees, shrubs, rose, vines, &C., are now so
numerous that a choice selection can be
made to suit every CLINE, soil and exposure,
and to bloom and fruit all the season. See
them tastefully arranged and georgeouslY
dressed with foliage of various colors, and
decked with blooms far transcending the
most costly jewelrY in brilliancy, and per-
fuming the air with their fragrance. In
windy days they gracefully bow, prance,
and whirl around like sprightly youth in the
dance, and the melody of the breeze serves
them for music. How beautiful the picture
and great the enjoyment, to those who can
appreciate it. 1t makes cot palace, and
home paradise; the owner king, and
his wife a queen; it imparts dignity to
the manly graces of sons, and lustre to the
beauties and virtues of daughters. The
passing wayfarer is delighted with the scene,
and sets it down in his mind as the abode
of the great and good in heart, and the vir
tuous and wise in actions
After planting climbing vines to clothe
the veranda, and few deciduous trees
around the house for shade in summer, all
the other trees, shrubs and roses, should be
so arranged over the lawn, that all will be
seen at one view. Set the more dwarf
nearer the house, and the taller farther off,
and they will appear to rise in graceful folds
as they recede from the eye, and the con-
trast of size, form and color, Of the various
individuals will show to greater advantage,
and that will give additional grace to their
charm.-Rural Advertiser.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-09-27
The Death of Infants.

Those who have never lost child are
unable to understand how great void the
death of one little one can make There is,
We think, nothing on earth that can cast
80 long, and wide, and black a shadow as a
small coffin. Iti emphatically the shadow
of death which freezes the parents heart
Small as is an infants tomb, it some
times is capacious enough to hold all the
brightest hopes and dearest joys of whole
family circle. The little child is often the
bright focus where all the rays of gladness
10 a household centre, and from which they
are reflected again over happy hearts, and
when this central light is eclipsed, great
darkness falls upon all.
How many there must be in heaven,
gathered up from all climes, even from
heather shores, who have died so young as
to retain no memory of earth, and to whom
that world of glory seems as their native
land whose souls were washed and regene-
rated so early that no stain of this world
was ever visible upon the soul?
Whatever wound of sin there may have
been, has healed without scar. Their
every thought has been moulded by the So
ciety and scenery Of heaven; aud they
stand continually before the face of the Faith
er. In large sense we may say-"Of such
is the kindom of heaven"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-09-27

A NEW DoDaE.-Two or three days ago
female living in the Western portion of
the city called upon lady residing in Rut.
ledge Avenue, who has always taken an &C.
tive interest in charitable objects, and ap.
pealcd to her for assistance. The appli-
cant appeared overwhelmed with grief, and
stated that her husband, who had been a
Confederate soldier, died the night previous
from a severe attack of typhoid fever, and
that she had not dollar left for bis burial.
The kind hearted lady listened to the ap.
peal, and taking the name and residence OF
the unfortunate widow, told her to 60 and
order coffin, while she would endeavor to
collect some funds for her relief. The lady
Immediately started on her errand of chari-
ty, and after spending most Of the morning
in walking through the hot sun, visiting and
relating the tale of distress, succeeded in
raising between seventy and eighty dollars
She then visited the house of mourning,
and was shown into darkened room, where
the corrse of the deceased was laid out in
a coffin prepared for burial.
After extending her sympathies and en-
deavoring to console the distressed widow,
she took her departure but had not gone
far when she missed her handkerchief, and
remembered leaving it after her in the room
Just left. She Immediately returned and
entered without notice. Her astonishment
may be better immagined than described,
90 seeing the deceased sitting erect in bis
coffin, wrapped in his shroud, counting the
money contributed for bis burial. The Sc
quel need not be told.
1t was afterwards ascertained that the
pretended deceased was carpenter, and
had made his own coffin.
Charleston Courier.
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YORKVII,I,B BWQ QUnRgR.
The Effect of Marriage.

Doubtless you have remarked with satls'
faction how the little oddities of men who
marry rather late in life are pruned away
speedily after their marriage. You have
found man who used to be shabbily and
carelessly dressed, with huge shirt.collar
fray at the edges, and glaring yellow silk
ket.handkercihef, broken of these things,
and become a pattern of neatness. You
have seen man whose hair and whiskers
were ridiulously cut, speedily become like
other human beings. You have seen a
clergyman who wore long beard, in o lit.
tie while appear without one. You have
seen man who used to sing ridiculously
sentimental songs leave them off, You
have seen man who took snuff, copiously,
and who generally bad his breast covered
with snuff, abandon the vile habit.
A wife is the grand wielder of the moral
pruning.knife. If Johnson's wife had liv.
ed, there would have been no boarding up
bits Of orange peel; no touching all the posts
in walking along the street; no eating
and drinking with disgusting voracity.
If Oliver Goldsmith had been married, be
would never worn that memorable and ridi.
culous coat. Whenever you find a man
whom you know little about oddly dressed,
or talking ridiculously, or exhibiting any
eccentricity Of manner, you may be tolera-
bly, sure that he is not married man.
For the little corners are rounded of, the
little shoots are pruned away, in married
men. Wives generally have much more
sense than their husbands, especially when
the husbands are clever men. The wife's
advices are like the ballast that keeps the
ship steady. They are like the wholesome,
though painful shears, shipping off little
growths of self-conceit and folly.
Fraser's Magazine
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-09-27

A WORD FOR LITTLE GIRLs.-Who is
lovely? 1t is the little girl who drops sweet
words, kind remarks, and pleasant smiles
as she passes along; who has kind word
of sympathy for every little boy or girl she
meets in trouble, and kind hand to help
her companions out of difficulties; who new
er scolds, never contends, never teases her
mother, nor seeks in any way to diminish
but always to increase her happiness
Would it not please you to pick up string
of pearls, drops of gold, diamonds of pre-:
cious stones, as you pass along the street {?
But these are the precious stones which can
never be lost. Take the hand of the friend.
less. Smile on the sad and detected p
Sympathize with those in trouble. Strive
everywhere to diffuse around you sunshine
and joy. If you do this you will sure to be
loved.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-09-27
Gallantry of the Horse.

We extract the following paragraph from
an extended article on the horse, printed in
the New York Commercial Advertiser:
An English lady of rank and wealth,
writing from Egypt in 1862, said: 81 fear
YOU deem me rather boastful of my horse
manship, when tell you two Arab horses
which threw their cavaliers did not throw
me. The same, however, was not in my
skill, but in the very remarkable prediction
which these Intelligent animals feel towards
the weaker sex Let the widest and fer
cest Arabian be mounted by woman, and
you will see him grow mild and gentle as a
lamb. I have had plenty of opportunities
to make the experiment, and in my own
stable their is beautiful gray Arab, which
nobody but myself dare ride. He knows
me, anticipates my wishes, and judiciously
calculates the fatigue 1 can bear without
inconvenience. 1t is curious to see how be
manages to quicken his pace without shak.
ing me, and the different sort of steps he
has invented to reconcile contradictory pur.
poses. Horses being as liable to forgetful-
ness as other organized beings, my iucom-
parable gray would allow his natural ambi-
ton to overcome his gallantry, and if an
other horse happened to pass him would
start off with the speed of a whirlwind.-
Woe to me if under such circumstances l
were To trust to the strength of nv arm or
the power of the bride. Leaving my hand
loose, and abandoning all thoughts of COM
pulsion, l would pat him on the neck, call
him by his name, beg him to be quiet, and
deserve the piece of sugar waiting for him
at home. Never did these gentle means
fail. Instantly be would sacken his pace,
prick up his ears as if fully comprehending
his error, and come back to soft amble,
gently neighiug, as if to crave pardon for
his momentary offence"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-09-27
A HOME COMPANION,
June
Office National IntelligenCer,
WASHINGTON, October 1866


This standard Journal founded than half century
since has been re-organzed with able and active corps
of editors reporters and correspondents II Is OF enlarged
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commerce, SCIENCE and literature The intimate inter-
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and those who represented the extremes OF opinions
which have eliminated In the late war; prove the modera-
ton and integrity which have ever marked It's course Inns
intercourse respect embraced Webster Calhoun, Clay
and Benton. II had received the confidence OF them ALL
The National Integence is conducted scrupuousy upon
the principles which have guided It. II has lived TO
feel the value of moderation and national fraternity and
rejoice perceive that the American people respect them
likewise.
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favor such provision for the legal and social protection
the emanclpaed negro the several States may deem
and proper. Qualified by location and sentiment to ned
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Selett&b Mistellang,
From the Marion Star.
Meteoric Showers.

Meteoric Showers.
Mr. Editor: Knowing you to be a
"Star" man, and consequently interested
in the spread of astronomy, 1 presume you
will be pleased to publish the following me-.
teoric paragraphs for the information of
any of your readers who may be uuacquaint.
ed with all the sublime truths taught by
astronomy:
A statement is going the rounds of the
newspapers, that a great meteoric shower of
"falling of the stars" may be expected
about the 18th or 14th of November next.
Now, if such shower as was witnessed in
North America in 1888 be understood, the
statement is probably incorrect - being
one year sooner than We are led BY observa.
tions of the past to expect. The grand Pc.
riod of such showers has been fixed by the
greatest astronomers at about 81 years
There have been within the memory of
the living, two showers, one occurring in
November 1799, and the last in November
1888; consequently, We may not reasonably
expect a return until 1867.
That meteors, in considerable numbers,
will be visible during the nights of the 18th,
18th and 18th of November next, may be
expected, as that is the time of the annual
return - the annual November period
There are other annual returns, say about
the 18th to the 18th of August; also one
in April, but the appearance presented in
November excels all the others. At these
various certain periods greater number of
meteors may be counted in an hour than at
other times.
Should there be grand shower this year
or next, it may be expected to prove most
brilliant between midnight and daylight on
one of the nights specified, as it is during
those hours we seem to be nearest the re-.
sort or position of erolites in the Earth's
orbit. Many meteors, at least, are more
tangible than most persons suppose. Many
have found Judgement upon the surface OF
the earth; some have been weighed and
measured; some chemically analysed, and
some have done much injury by taking
their route through populated countries
Chemically examined, they have been found
to contain pure iron, which is found in no
rock or elsewhere upon our globe in state
of natural purity. Hence we must con-
cude that these bodies have had an exist
ence outside and far beyond our earth -
that they wauder in one fixed part of our
solar system through which our plannet
travels once every year; at which time, we
are treated with the sublime display of
heavenly pyrotecbnics. Occasionally, per-
haps, even the revolution of our planet
around the sun is threatened to be inter.
rupted by the near approach of some huge
arolite or shooting star.
From observations made by some of the
most distinguished physicists, it is render
ed pretty certain that these meteors, or
shooting stars, do not become luminous till
they strike the earth's atmosphere, when
by their great velocity, passing through tue
resisting medium of the air, they are heat
ed and rendered incandescent or luminous.
ASTER.
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Ynnrprpus &eaalng.
A Hoosier in the Engine Room.

n
A specimen of the genius "Hoosire,"
was found by Captain -, of the steam
err, in the engine room of his boat,
while lying at Louisville one fine morning.
The Captain enquired, "What was he doing
there r "Hsve you seen Captain Perry /"
was the interrogative response. "Don't
know him and can't tell what that has to
do with your being in my engine room,"
replied the Captain, angrily. "Hold; that's
Just what I was getting at You see, Cap
tain Perry asked me to drink, and so l
did; I knew that I wanted to drink, or 1
wouldn't have been so very dry. So Cap
tain Perry and I went to the ball; Captain
Perry was putting iu some extras on one
toe. l sung out, "Go it, Captain Perry, if
you bust your biler." With that a man
steps up to me, says he 'see here stranger,
you must leave Says 1, what must l
leave fur ? Says he, you are making too
much noise.' Says I, 'Pve been in bigger
crowds than this and made more noise,
and didn't leave, nuther.' With this be
took me by the nap of the neck and the
seat of the breeches and-I left. As l was
shoven down street, met lady. knew
she was lady by remark she made.--
Says she, "Young man, reckon you'll go
home with me?" Politeuess wouldn't let
me refuse, and so went. I'd been in the
house but minute when I heard consider
able knocking at the door. l know'd the
chap wanted to get in, whoever be was, or
be wouldn't have kept up such tremen.
dous racket By-and.by says a voice, "Ef
you don't open, I'll burst open the door"
And so he did. I put on bold face, and
says 1, "Stranger does this woman belong
to you? Says he, "She does" "Then,"
says 1, "she's lady, I think, from all that
7 have seen of her" With that he came at
me with pistol in one hand and bowie.
knife in the other, and being a little press
ed for room, jumped through the window,
leaving the bigger portion of my coat-tail.
As I was streaking it down street, with
fragment Autterin to the breeze, l met
friend. 1 knew he was a friend bya remark
he made. Says he, $50 it, bob-tail /; he's
gaining on you" An that's the way got
into your engine room Pm good swim
mer Captain, but do excuse me, if you
please, from taking the water"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-09-27

LOST BY NOT TAKING A COUNTY Pa
pER.-Generally speaking but little impor-
tance is attached to the taking of county
newspaper. This neglect and Indifference
had its practical reward the other day.
Some tiu ago gentleman in this town
was appointed an auditor to distribute the
funds in the hands of an administrator
araopgst the creditors. Notice of the au-
ditor was published in two of the county
papers.
1t so happened that few creditors resi-
ding in certain portion of the county who
had collectively claims to the amount of
seven or eight hundred dollars, from the
neglect of taking county paper never heard
of the audit until after the report of the au
ditor had been confirmed by the court
They then came into town to enquire about
the likelihood of securing their claims; call
ed upon an attorney who examined into the
matter, and informed them that they had
forever lost their money, and We presume
charged them five dollars for the informa-
ton. All this resulted in being too penurious
or too careless to subscribe for county pa
per
These geutlmeu have learned lesson
that will last them the balance oftheir lives,
and serve as warning to others who from the
same motives fail to take their county pa
per.
There is scarcely man in the commnni-
ty who will not be caught up some day on
legal notice, that does not take pa
per, unless he clandestinely reads his neigh
boris, and every gentleman should beaboVe
literary pilfering like this, so says an ez-
change.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-09-27

This Journal will be devoted TO literature, morality and
general intelligence, and the PRONUNCIATION Of the occuen-
ces of the day-poitcal and geneal-which may be Of
interest TO the people.
No pains or expense will be spared by the proprietor to
render his paper acceptable TO all classes OF readers he
confidently refers to his long experience of & years. In
the past journalist secure for him the patronage OF
the people of bis District.
He congratulaes himself that he select for the In
auguraon of his enterprise no better occasion than ne
present At the termination OF long and bloody
In which the principles of free Deen over
ridden and the Constitution tTamped under roo-in WHICH
all the angry passions of a and eng human nature nave
been excited and exerclsed-the Angel OF Peace now
about to unfold her wings over all sections OF our COM
mon country and again TO gather around ner he
goodness the strength and the magnitude OF the American
Union. At such time this, he can have no Detter
landmarks by which, for the good Of his country TO direct
his course than the Onion the Constitution and the Pres
dent Of the United Sates and he pledges himself TO sus
ain far he Is able, the purity and Integrity OF the one
and the mness and the patriotism and the craftsmanship
of the other.
To the people of Sumter District he confidently appeals
for their sympathy and patronage.
Identified he has been with them and their In
eres In the past he asks TO be allowed tbe same privilege
in the future He expects build up for them District
paper, the Of which will be consistent prudent and
patriotic, and one which he hopes will not be wanting In
Its influence the education and training of the rising
generation. -
The services of able and talented editor have been
secured, who will devote his time and abilities 10 the
terainment and instruction Of his patrons and who will
take pleasure In secondlng the efforts Of the undersigned,
and support Of discriminating public.
For further information as to terms, &, address me- at
Sumter, s. C. II. l.. DARR.
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Artificial Legs and Arms.

DERSONS. who have unfortunately
Ios, ,be,r NATURAL LIMBS can be fitted with AR
TiCIAL ones OF superior woIkmanshiP and finish by call
Ing at the YORK DRUG STORE ana having their meas
70 ,be manuiacurcrs'. model may be at the Store,
and the following gentlemen who wearing Limbs,
INV be confidently referred to:
Major j. F. Hart and w. H. Smith, Yorkvle, s. c.. J.
w. Spearcs, Goudeysve, p O., Union Dist, s. c., and
]. C. Witherspoon, Lancaster, c. H., S. G..
DR.JOHN MAY, Yorkvllle, s. c., Agent.
For Richard Clement Philadelphia; Weston, New York;
Southern Leg and Arm Company Columbia, s. c.
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AND CLEANSING
wooTENG GOODS,

MRS J. E. GRIST respectfully informs the citizens Of
Yorkve and vicinity, tatshe is prepared to RENOVATE
AND CLEAN Gentlemcns Goats, Pants and Vests, and
Ladies' Cloaks. REPAIRING DONE IF NECESSARY.
Satisfaction Guaranteed If the garments not TOO much
WORN or FADED.
RErrRs TO: Capt. l. D. Wltherspoon, G. r. Ratchord,
SON, H. NJ. Asher T. R. May, J. II. Witherspoon, Walter
Rawlinson, and E. E. McCatery.
Articles left at the Printing Office will be attendedto
December ID IS
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To MAKE GOOD PAsTE.-Dissolve al

To MAKE GOOD PAsTE.-DissolVe an
ouIce of alum in quart of warm water;
when cold, aid as much -four as will make
it the consistency of cream then streW In
to it as much powdered rosin as will stand
on a dime, and two or three cloves; boil it
to cousistence, stirring all the time
When dry, it may be softened with water.
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CAROLINA-YORK DIS

OI11V 111@'--
- TRICT-Whereas, w. B. METTS, C. E. Y. D., has
annlied 10 me for Letters of Administration all and sim
gar the goods and chattes, rights and credits OF WILL
LIAM E. MURPHY, late of the District aforesaid, de-
ceased
These are therefore to cite and admonish all and singular
the kindred and creditors the said deceased TO be and
appear before next Ordnarys Court for ne saa
Dsrric 10 be holden at York Court House the NINE
TEENTH DAY OF OCTOBER, NEXT, TO shew cause,
if any, why the said Administration should not be grant,
cd. .,-
Given under my hand and Sea this 18th day Of Septem-
ber In the year Of Lord one thousand eight nun
dred and sixty six and in the ninety first year oi tie III
dependence of the United States of America. -
JOHN A. BROWN, .. Y. d.
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S@ A few nights since, some young men,
going from New York to Albany in the
cars, were getting rather noisy and profaue,
when gentleman in white cravat tapped
one of them upon the shoulder with the
remark, "Young man, do you know you
are on the road to perdition p That's just
my luck said the young man; Il took a
ticket for Albany, and I've got on the
wrong train