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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-02-06
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Furniture, Hdrdtcnre, &c

Furniture, Hardtoare, &c.
By A. r. PHILLIPS.
THIS Wednesday, MORNING, 10 O'Clock.
VIII sell. at the new brick store opposite
Law Range,
Sundry articles Furniture, consisting on
Wardrobe, Secrctair, Lounge,
Chairs, Rocking Chairs, Tables.
Bedstcads, Wasi-Stands, Dureau.
SIdeboard, Mattresses, Carpets.
Mating, &C., &c.
A variety Of Hardware, consisting Of
Counter Scales, Sad Irons,
shoe Knives, Brushes, Sauce-Pans,
I>ilnd- Brides, HearthBrooms, NaiIs.
l.ookln%- Glasses, Shoe Hammers,
Stcclyards, Saws, &c.
10000 Envelopes, Kearas Cap and Letter
Paper,
fine Double Barrclled Shot Gun,
Pumps for wells,
cases fine Brandy, Catsup.
10000 fine Segars, Plated Castors.
Hats, Spool Thread, Ping,
Travelling Bags,
barrels Picked Beef.
l-ad!cs' handsome Gold watch.
Silver Cups, &c, &c.
N B.-Unlimitcd articles received until :
commencement of salo. Feb 6.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-02-06
II. E. NICHOLS & CO.,
General Insurance Agents. Stock and Exchange Brokers'
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paid
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.LL fHcANG ON NEW 90Hk in sums to suit the
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-02-28

The EVENING BEFORE THE WEDDING. Il will
tell you, continued her aunt to Louisa, two things
which have fully proved The first will go far to-
ward preventing the possibility of any dseord after
marriage; the second the best and surest preserv-
ative Of feminine character.
'Tell me, said Louisa anMously.
'The first is this. Demand of your bridegroom
as soon as the marriage ceremony is over, solemn
VOW, and promise yourself, never even in jest to
dispute or express any disagreement. I tell you
never 2-for what begins in mere bantering will end
in serious earnest. Avoid expressing any irrita-
ton at one another's words. Mutual forbearance
is the one great secret of domestic happiness. If
you have erred, confess it freely, even if confession
costs you some tears. Further, promise faithfully
and solemny never, upon any pretext or excuse, to
have any secrets or conceaments from each other,
but keep your private affairs from father, mother,
brother, sister and the world. Let them be known
only to each other and your God. Remember that
any third person admitted into your confidence be-
comes party to stand between you, and will natu-
rally side with one or the other. Promise to avoid
this, and renew the VOW upon every temptation
1t will preserve that perfect confidence that union
which will indeed make you as one. o, if the
newly married would but practice this spring Of
connubial peace, how many unions would be happy
which are now miserable '-KnickerJocker.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-02-28

TOTAL ABsTINENcE.-A young lady, who was
a firm advocate of total abstinence, when riding
from her fathers country seat to a neighboring
village, met young man on foot, who was carrying
suspicious looking jug. She at once reined in
her horse and asked him what he had in his Jug.
Looking up with comical leer, he simply wink,
ed one eye and smacked his lips, to indicate that
it contained something good.
The young lady, supposing he meant alcohol, i'm
mediately began to talk temperance, but her audi
tor requested the privilege of first asking just one
simple little question.
''What is it?' she inquired.
1T is this" he replied ''Why is my jug like
your side-saddle ?"
She couldn't tell.
'It's because it holds gal-on," said he.
''What trifing?' exclaimed the indignant younG
lady, and then continued: "Young man. do you
not perceive"
"Just one more question" interrupted her au
ditor, 'and then I'm done. Why is my jug also
like the assembly room of a female seminary al
roll-call?'
'I'm sure don't know" petulantly replied the
young lady.
''Wel, it's because it full Glasses, said the in
corrigible auditor
The fair lecturer touched her spirited horse witt
the whip and was soon out Of hearing Of the rude
young mans laughter
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-02-28

sThere's nine men standin' at the dore and they
all sed they'd take shugar in ther'n. L."
Sich, friends and brethering, was the talk, In
wurdy cents, wunst common in this our alnshunt
land but the dais is gon BY and the SUN runs dry,
and no man can say to his naber, hoo art thou,
man, and will you take any more shugar In your
kaughfey? go
But the words of our tex has difrunt and more
perticklereer meening than this. Thar they stood
at the dore on cold wintur's morning, two Bah,
tiss and two Methodiss and five Lutharians, and
the tother one was publican. And they all with
one vols said they wouldn dirty thir feet in dram
shop, but if the publican would go and git the
drinks they'd pay for 'em. o,,u
And they ali cried out and every man sed, 'I'l
take mine with shugar, for it won't feel good to
drink the stuff without sweetnin." So the publ
kin marched in, and the barkeeper sed, What
want We ?" and he answered and sed "A drink. ., -,
GLOW will We have it?'' "Plane and straight: -
says he; 'or it amt no use wasting shugar to cir
cumsalvate akafortis But there's nine more a
standing at the dore, and they all sed they'd take
shugar in ther' n"
Friends and brethering, it aint only the Ticker Of
sperits that is drunk in this rounderbout and un-
derhand way but it is the ticker OF all sorts OF hu-
man wickednis in like manner. Thar's the licker
Of mails. Chat many of YOU drinks to the drugs but
vure sure to sweeten it with the shugar OF self
justification. Thar's the Ticker Of averis that sum
keeps behind the curtain for constant use but they
always has it well mixed with the sweetnin OF pru-
dence and ekonimy Thar S the Ticker of sef-luy
that some men drinks by the gallon, but they al
ways puts in lots Nv the sugar Nv take keer OF No.
/. And lastly, thar's the ticker Nv extorshun,
which the man sweetens according to clrcumstanl,,
ces IF he's in the -four line, he II say the pore
be better off eatin korn Bread if he's in the cloth
line, why it's good thing to arn em tu make their
cloth at home; # he's in the leather ine it'll larn
em the needcessity of taking better keer Nv shoes
'sAnd thar's nine more a standin at the dore, and
they all sed they'd take shugar in ther'n.
But friends and brethering, -thars time cum
ing and place fixing where thare'n be no stan,
din at the dore to call for 'shugar in ther' m, y
But they'll have to go rite in and take the drink
square up to the front; and the barkeepern Il be old
Satun and nobody else; and he'll give them sugar
in thern you better believe it, and it Il be shu,
gar of ed and red hot led at that, sure as your
names Constance Dodger And you'll be emit
tied to your rashuns three times day, if not more
frequentlier and if you don't like it you'll have te
lump it, and so may the old Nick close down upon
all our silk palverin around the plane ole pools Of
brotherly nv, and ginirosity and fenerteelin, and
fair play Amen.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-02-28

CLERICAL JoKE.-A few years since when Rev
Doct. Hawks, the celebrated Episcopal clergyman
was about leaving New York for the South, he was
waited upon by the vestrymen Of a small church
in Westchester county, and urgently solicited tt
take charge Of the same. The Rev. Doctor gra
ciously received the committee, butrespectfuly de-
clined the proposal urging, as chief objection that
the salary, though large for the parish they repre-
sented, would be inadequate for his expenses hav'
ing considerable family of small children to edu.
cate and provide for. One Of the committee re-
piled:
''The Lord will take care of them he has prom
ised to hear the young ravens when they cry anc
to provide for them. "
Every true" said the reverend gentleman; "but
he has not promised to provide for the young
Hawks "-Meau World
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-02-28

HAPPY FE1Low.-The local editor of the Dan,
vile (Va.) Times is the most contented man we
know of. Hear him:
We are happy in being no more miserable no
wood mo money - snow three inches deep, and
more we fear, coming ink frozen roller ditto
the devil with bad cold, and our heels frost
bitten. We don't care constitutional for the
country; it may sink or swim; the probability now
is, it viii freeze Fact is, we've been out so long
in the cod we are Indifferent, and don It know that
we'd ''stand treat if Uncle Sam would offer to
take us in. We are pretty much in the temper o.
the obstinate urchin who had kicked the cover of
and woke his ''mammy' in the night, crying out
che was cold" "Wel, pull the cover on you
Johnny" said she. 'Shant do it, replied the
youth ''durned if don't freeth furthst!'
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-02-28

AN APT ILLUSTRATION, Hon, A. H. Ward,
of Kentucky, ina speech before Congress, narrated
the following as an illustration of what condition
the Southern States would be after they shall have
passed through the course of sprouts prepared
for them by the radical party:
There was man once came to my neighborhood
and preached what he called the doctrine of resto-
ration in reference to higher and better world.
He said that all sinners would finally be restored
to walk the streets of the New Jerusalem; but he
said they would rst have to 60 to the place Of per-
dition, the pit that burns with fire and birthstone,
and stay there until they had expiated all their
sins. An old man who was present and heard him,
one who was noted more for his STRAIGHTFORWARD
and blunt language than for his piety, got up and
said: "Why, brother, after have been in that
sulphur and fire burning long enough to have my ny
a id pretty SINCE cat to 60 to Heaven?', [Great
laughter. And that is what the gentleman is
pleased to call perfection of the Republic
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-02-28

ROTATION OF Crops. The physiology of plants
is such, says the Rural Ne,o Yorker, that scarcely
any two of them take from the ground or the at
mosphere the samekind of nutriment in equal pro-
portions. Hence it follows that in continuous
ping, of the same product, much of the prodq1c:'
tive power of the soil and Of the fertilizers combl
ned with it is lost or remains inert This loss may
be retrieved by judicious system of rotation, by
which means all the elements Of growth are brought
into successive action and rendered available tol
farm products. :,
Perhaps the order of the crops is not Of specia
importance. One might begin system Of roots
follow with cereals, peas, and BEANS and then pas
ture or meadow, according to the tastes or necess
ties of the farmer. Some lands will do well in pas
ture for series of years So Of the meadow, but
as general rule, the best results are attained 6y
changes every three or four years at the most. L
oftener made, the chances of remuneration are be-
lieved to be improved, while the soilisreeyedfro1
the thousand noxious plants which impair Its vital
ity without returning anything Of value by way o.
recOmpenSe.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-02-28
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
York District.

WHEREAS, THOMAS WHITEsIDES hasap-
w piled to me for Letters of Administration,
on all and singular, the goods and chattels rights
and credits of THOS. L. WHITESIDES, late OF
the District aforesaid, deceased.
These are, therefore, to citeand admonish all and
singular the kindred and creditors Of the said de-
ceased, to be and appear before me at our next
Ordnarys Court for the said District to be holden
at York Court House on the TWENTY-SEV-
ENTH DAY OF FEBRUARY inst, to shew cause,
if any, why the said Administration should not be
granted.
Given under my hand and Seal, this 18th day of
February, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-seven, and in the 9lst
year of the Independence of the United States OF
America. +. e. HARRlS, U. I. d.
February q 43 2t
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-02-28

IMPOSSIBLE The word impossible" was
hateful to Chatham as it is to all vigorous natures
who recognize the talent, the reserved power in
men and nations. "Never let me hear that fool
ish word again, said Mrabeau. impossible -
it is not French said Napoleon. My Lord An
son, at the Admiralty, sends word to Chatham,
then confined to his chamber by one of his most
violent attacks of the gout that it is impossible fol
him to fit out naval expedition within the period
to which he is limited, "Impossible," cried
Chatham, glaring at the messenger; "who talks to
me of fimpossibe?'' Then starting to his feet, and
forcing out great drops of agony from. his brow
with the excruciatng torment Of the effort, he ex-
claimed 'Tell Lord Anson that he serves under
Minister who treads upon impossibilities. 4" One
of his contemporaries calls all this ranting Lord
Chatham's rants, he says ''are amazing But
a statesman who indulgedi in such fnerants as Que
bee and Minden, who ranted France out of Ger
many America and India, and ranted England into
power of the first Glass; is q ranter infinitely to
be preferred to those cool and tasteful politicians
who ruin the country they govern with so much
dccorous duncery and grave and dgnfed feebleness.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-02-28
SMlisfellameuns Artitles.
IMPERTINENCE.

Some writer, who is evidently an unpardoned
REBEL in letter to the Richmond Dispatch, thus
uncharitaby refers to the loyal citizens who have
been elevated to positions of honor and trust by the
legal voters of this county. He writes from Shep-
herdstown, that SUPERFICIAL town, which has now
the honor of being the county seat Ct Jefferson:
'aThe Senator from this district was engaged du.
ring the war in smuggling whiskey and other goods
to the rebels, and while revenue officer he gave
permits to known rebels to buy goods and carry
them through the lines yet he took the iron-clad
oath, though it must be said he always ran away
when any Confederate soldiers visited this region,
and on one occasion was seen making for the other
side of Jordan with his wife's unmentionables on,
which he had seized in his haste.
The delegate voo from this county, sold, by con-
tract, corn hay and bacon to the rebel government
and hauled them twenty-five miles to deliver them,
and would have continued to do so if the money
had kept good; yet he has taken the ironcad oath:
One of our magistrates made boots and shoes all
through the war for rebel soldiers, and on one oc-
casion shouldered his musket to prevent the Yam
KEGS from capturing wagon carrying provisions
to rebel soldiers; yet he has taken the iron-clad
OATH Yet these are the men that voted to deprive
honest men of citizenship Of the franchise, Of the
right to collect money due them to serve as guar
dians, judiciaries, and administrators
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-02-28

GRAND ROYAL ARCH CHAPTER OF MAsoNs-
At the regular annual convocation Of the Grand
Royal Arch Chapter of Masons of South Carolina,
held in this city, the following officers were elected
and installed
NJ. T.. R. S. Bruins, Grand High Priest,
Charleston.
NJ, E., B, Rush Campbell, Deputy Grand High
Priest, Laurens.
r.. E.. Montgomery Moses, Grand King, Sum-
R.. E.. G. NJ. Miller, Grand Scribe Laurens
r.. E.. c. F. jackson, Grand Treasurer, Co.
lumbia
E.. Ebenezer Thayer, Grand Secretary, Charles.
ton.
NJ. Rev. Thomas P. Rayzor, Grand Chaplain,
Rranchville.
E.. Il. d. Miller, Grand Captain of Host,
Charleston.
E.. Geo. P. Wood, Grand Royal Arch Captain,
Charleston
E.. Thos. Allison, Sentinel, Charleston.
Resolutions wereadopted to present Bro. A. q.
Mackey suitable testimonial for past services, and
also to present testimonial to Bro. R. S. Bruins
for his able and elaborate report on Foreign Cores
pondence also resolutions of respect to the memo
ry of Bro. David Ramsay. Charleston Courier.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-02-28
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
York District.

WHEREAS, A. A. BARNETT has applied tG
w me for Letters Of Administration on all anc
singular the goods and chattels, rights and credits
of WIN. S. BARNETT, late of the District afore'
said, deceased. :,
These are, therefore, to cite and admonish al
and singular the kindred and creditors OF the sao
Ordinary's Court for the said District, to be hold
en- at York Court House on the SIXTH DAY OF
MARCH next, to shew cause, if any, why the
said Administration should not be granted.
Given under my hand and Seal, this 10th day o.
February, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-seven, and in the 9ls1
year of the Independence Of the United States
of America. F. G. HARRlS, Y. Y. D.
February 81 43 Zt
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-02-28
The Murkpille &naairer.
TERMS---IN ADVANCE.

~~Io persons VINO make up ciups OF tSn OF
more names, an extra copy of the paper Will be
furnished one year, free Of charge.
ADvERTISEME
Will be inserted at One Dollar and Fifty Cents
per square for the first, and Seventy-fve Cents
per square for each subsequent than
three months A square consists Of the space oc-
cupied by ten lines Of this size type, or one inch
No advertisement considered less than square.
Semi-Monthly, Monthly, or Quarterly Adver-
tsements will be charged Two Dollars per square
for each insertion.
Quarterly, Semi-Annual or Yearly contracts
will be made on liberal terms-the contract, how
ever, must in all cases be confined to the immedi-
ate business of the firm or individual contracting.
Obituary Notices and Tributes Of Respect, rated
as advertisements. Announcements Of Marriages
and Deaths and notices of religious character, in
serted gratis, and solicited.
~ Personal Communications, when admissa-
BILE; Communications of limited or indivual inter-
est, or recommendations Of Candidates for offices
of honor profit trust, will be charged for as ad-
vertisements.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-02-28
IMPROVED FARMING IMPLEMENTS.

There is great deal of force in what the Angus
IA (Ga.) Chronicle and Sentinel says upon very
important subject to farmers and planters. Now
that the negroes can no longer be forced to do a
moderate days work, says that paper, the agrlcul-
tural interest of the South must suffer tor the want
of proper, persisting and patient toll, unless the
evil can be remedied by the introduction OF cheap,
simple and durable mechanical contrlvapces, which 1
will enable the Southern planters to accomplish the
necessary amount of work to cultivate and prepare
for market the crops which, in former years, were
produced by the compulsory labor Of slaves,
We confess that we have not very strong taltn ID
the willingness of the negroes to perform their
work with such efficiency as will secure large, re-
suits. We think that we should begin to look a.
bout for such mechanical aids as will enable us to
cultivate the usual number of acres without the Ia
bor which we have formerly bestowed upon them,
We want ploughing machines, grubbing machines,
improved cultivators, and all the modern appliances
of mechanical skill which are used in Europe and
in the Northern and Western States. The old
styles of onehorse ploughing, by which an acre or
an acre and half were scratched over IN one day'
must give way to the gang plough or sulky cultlva
tor. with which from ten to twelve acres are thor
ougbly prepared for the seed, or the young crop
cultivated.
The farmers of the Western States have already
discovered that their lands can be made ten tunes
more valuable by the introduction and use Of these
modern appliances for cultivating a CROP They
are already far in advance of the Yankees, in their
invention and use of farm implements, Indeed, the
Western farmer does now nearly the whole OF his
farm work with those new machines: -,
What machinery has thus done for the Westi it will
do for the South now that free labor is substituted
for that of slaves. We see no reason why the cot
ton and sugar fields of a great part Of the South
should not be titled by machinery; The slaves, lg
norant and careless because they had no interest in
the work, used only the rudest dclumsiest tools
but in the hands Of intelligent freedmen, the rotary
spader, or steam plow, or cultivator can be used
to great advantage on level ground devoid Of rocks
roots and stumps.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-02-28

CH1LDREN's FEET. - Lifelong discomfort, dis
ease and death often come to children through the
nattention or carelessness of the parents. child
should never be allowed to 60 to sleep with cold feet;
the thing to be last attended to- see that the feet
are dry and warm neglect of this has often result
ed in dangerous attack of Group, diptheria or ia
tai sore throat. Always on coming from school, on
entering the house from visit or errand in rainy,
muddy, or thawing weather. the child's shoes
should be removed, and the mother should herself
ascertain if the stockings are the least damp, and
if so, they should be taken off, the feet held be-
fore the fire and rubbed with the hand till perfectly
dry and another pair of stockings and another pair
of shoes be put on, and the other shoes and stock
ngs should be placed where they can be well dried,
so as to be ready for future use at moments no
tice.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-02-28

The BApT1sTs IN THE UNITED STATES There
are in the United States and in the territories -,
CTS Baptist churches, with 1,O4S,64l members,
and S,03S ordained ministers: These figures arc
from returns made i'll 1865, with the exception Of
twelve of the Southern States in which the statis
tics are for 1860 Of the States making returns in
1865, New York stands highest, the numbers being
1926 churches, with S9,lO7 members and 745 or
dained ministers The SIX New England States
have an aggregate Of se7 churches, with s7,O7l
members, and 799 ministers; There are 29 col
The oldest of these is Brown University, founded
in 1894 and the youngest is at Chicago, founded
in 1859. There are l3 Baptist theological institu-
tions.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-02-28

EFFICACY OF ON1oNs.-A writer says: 'sWe
are troubled often with severe coughs the result Of
colds of standing, which may turn to consumption
or premature death. Hard coughs cause sleepess
nights by constant irritation in the throat, and
lungs. The remedy 1 propose has been tried by
me. and recommended by me with good result,
which is simply to lake into the stomach before re-
firing for the night piece of raw onion after chew
ing. This esculent in an uncooked state is very
heating, and collects the waters from the lungs and
throat, causing immediate relief to the patient.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-02-28
A VINE NEAR THE DooR-The Massaehuset

A VINE NEAR THE DooR-The Massachusetts
Plougltn,an well says that traveller over country
road would instinctively have his eye caught and
his thoughts somewhat tangled up by fine vine
growing vigorously near the door Of "a home 1t
does not matter how small or humble that home
may be, it is raised in esteem of any observing
passer-by holding up the suggestive shelter Of a
vine It expresses love in the house, thoughtful
ness for what is at once graceful and appropriate,
pure and healthy domestic sentiment, and spirit pr
Of contented happiness which many one goes the
world over to find, and looks for in vain. Such a
simple home ornament as this is token for all
men to see, that the dwellers beneath the roof it
adds expression to- arc persons of feeling for what
is true and lovely, for native refinement and quiet
happiness. There should not be farmhouse in
the land without vine some where contiguous.